> I know that's a little facetious but in practice it does alleviate anarchy.
A bit of a nitpick here, but...
It does not alleviate anarchy... Having the "ruling force" is the opposite of anarchy. That's like saying not having any symptoms alleviates SARS.
Also, just because Ghandi says something does not make it right or even insightful. If the whole world acted upon "eye for an eye" we wouldn't have an overpopulation problem. If everyone actually feared retribution for anything they did, they would be less likely to do those things. Therefore, the first generation may become blind, but the undesireables would be gone. So, eye for an eye, IMO is a very valid philosophy, assuming equality of punishment for crime and not lashing out radically.
What if the liberals also created that book to ensnare the hard-working conservatives?
So, since I am at work and have nothing better to do, I'll argue against posts that I agree with:)
With reference to that link: > and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars What are these eleven stars? Are there supposed to be 11 total, or just 11 important ones. Maybe when the liberals made the moon they also put all those little dots of light up to make it more believable.
>when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them Isn't worshipping anything other than God( 0, God) supposed to be "bad"/"evil" whatever? So are sun-worshippers okay with Judeo-Christians (sury f I mispealt "Judeo"), as long as they believe in God too?
> And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded And then, wouldn't that be in direct opposition to the previous? Or did I misread one of the two?
>and for the precious things put forth by the moon Only thing I can think of is the tides, but would they know that back then?
I'll stop there, since no one will probably even read this far. I post for my own amusement.
> I would hope at least some tree hugging liberal could tell the difference between them at a 1 meter resolution in the moonlight.
I'm a god-hating conservative (AKA libertarian) -- and I support gun ownership rights -- but I couldn't tell the difference from a foot away in full sunlight. Unless, of course, it was engraved into the gun.
Okay, this is redundant, since a few others have basically pointed out the same thing, but they were all very rude about it, so I'll be "The Nice Guy" (tm).
Yes, there is oxygen in water as well as hydrogen. The problem is this: Oxygen-based explosions (glorified phrase for "lots of fire real fast") use the oxygen as a fuel for fire. Water is basically the byproduct of burnt (oxygenized) hydrogen. Since the oxygen was already used as fuel to create the water, it cannot be extracted from the hydrogen & used as a fuel on the fly like you are suggesting.
I will add that I am a computer geek, not a chemical engineer, so my explanation is probably full of technical inaccuracies, but it gets the point across.
> I'm not going to go out and shoot Catholics on sight.
I will, but apart from Cathoholics, I still agree with your point, especially about the buddhists, as I hadn't explored that line of thinking before.
-- "All people are [NOT] created equal" --
I think the point was that under the watchful eyes -- or heavy hand, depending on your attitude -- of a government or public entity that those things should make no difference. Real life, as you point out, is entirely different and you have to assume that people are not the same as you. If we always said and practiced seeing everyone as completely equal, there'd be a lot of pissed off people yelling about how unique they are (not that they don't now. Which brings up my last offtopic point: How can parents and educators teach us that we are all equal, and then turn around and say we are all unique? We are equal in our uniqueness? Hardly.
But, now that your IQ has wavered a bit (not necessarily for the positive) I shall digress.
and I'm hoping natural selection takes out assholes like you who think correcting grammar is a valid rebuttal. I accidentally put an apostrophe once, oh my fucking god the world is going to end! Are you going to sue me because that was a runon sentence? get a fucking life.
> Easy. Do what porn sites do: ask for a credit card info
And if I don't feel like being assraped by a bank -- and every other fucker that the bank sells my info to -- I can't do anything. What, you don't have a credit card? You must be a criminal. Or a kid.
I don't currently have a credit card, and don't ever want one again, but just because every other stupid ass in the world has one, it makes my life 100X more difficult. I hate all of you! (unless you are without credit)
Before trying to summarize the article, try reading it. It is NOT about Amazon getting the Child's information, it is about the stupid-assed kids who post their personal address in REVIEWS OF PRODUCTS. If a kid is smart enough to post reviews, but dumb enough to put his friggin address there, maybe natural selection will kick in and do it's job (with the help of some psycho-maniacs, of course).
> I just looked at the picture and saw an unwarranted (and stupid) attack on "Strawberry Shortcake".
I read the comics, but have never read a word from the forums on PA. If you see that as an attack on American Greetings then you don't know who American McGee is. Just because you don't understand the joke doesn't make it slanderous. It just means you missed an important part of it, which is not your fault.
Also, if you consider it as an attack on Strawberry Shortcake you may need to reevaluate your sense of humor.
> you should be mad at the spineless cocksuckers at Penny Arcade for capitulating to American Greetings' demands
I really like Penny Arcade, but I agree with you 100%. People don't stand up for their rights -- that is why they are being taken away. Instead of standing tall (or at least, as tall as you can agaist a beheomoth company) people whimper and back off. F&#% that.
The cost of lawyers' fees to write up the C&D letter, which is a pretty sizeable sum, unless of course you are a large corporation with plenty of money to buy the law.
If a company wrongly sends a Cease & Desist letter, and they are found to be wrong, they should be penalized. But, of course, that would only hurt the "Evil" corporations, which would be a bad thing...?
Because "redundant" is a stupid moderation. Most people load the story page once and read all (maybe not ALL...) of the comments on that page without hitting reload, so by the time they respond to something halfway through, others may have posted the same thing, but you can't see it because the page you are reading is 10 minutes old. That and the fact that the same argument can be used in many different places in the comment threads.
> Why does everything have to be designed for cell phones?
It's not necessarily that it has to be used on phones, it's just that they are so common that it is easier to imagine it there instead of something like industrial air conditioning.
Unless you use the whole battery during 1 call, I would think that it would add talk time, since the power used during a call would be recharged to full strength while being carried.
Unfortunately though, the constant charging and discharging would probably make battery die (I mean dead as in "will not work", not dead as in "run out of power") a lot faster.
Granted, I don't know much about recent rechargable battery Tech.
Been said before, but air ducts usually have a good bit of dust flying through them that can clog the motor, which is difficult to get to, making it cost-ineffective to replace/fix.
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> I know that's a little facetious but in practice it does alleviate anarchy.
A bit of a nitpick here, but...
It does not alleviate anarchy... Having the "ruling force" is the opposite of anarchy. That's like saying not having any symptoms alleviates SARS.
Also, just because Ghandi says something does not make it right or even insightful. If the whole world acted upon "eye for an eye" we wouldn't have an overpopulation problem. If everyone actually feared retribution for anything they did, they would be less likely to do those things. Therefore, the first generation may become blind, but the undesireables would be gone. So, eye for an eye, IMO is a very valid philosophy, assuming equality of punishment for crime and not lashing out radically.
Plus the whole world is blind.
What if we made a Beowulf Cluster... err.. Hmmm... ...or not.
In Soviet Russia... uh...
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4. Profit!
> God( 0, God)
There should be a a copyright symbol after the opening parentheses. *sigh* I can't even pull off a lame contextual joke well.
What if the liberals also created that book to ensnare the hard-working conservatives?
:)
So, since I am at work and have nothing better to do, I'll argue against posts that I agree with
With reference to that link:
> and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars
What are these eleven stars? Are there supposed to be 11 total, or just 11 important ones. Maybe when the liberals made the moon they also put all those little dots of light up to make it more believable.
>when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them
Isn't worshipping anything other than God( 0, God) supposed to be "bad"/"evil" whatever? So are sun-worshippers okay with Judeo-Christians (sury f I mispealt "Judeo"), as long as they believe in God too?
> And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded
And then, wouldn't that be in direct opposition to the previous? Or did I misread one of the two?
>and for the precious things put forth by the moon
Only thing I can think of is the tides, but would they know that back then?
I'll stop there, since no one will probably even read this far. I post for my own amusement.
> I would hope at least some tree hugging liberal could tell the difference between them at a 1 meter resolution in the moonlight.
I'm a god-hating conservative (AKA libertarian) -- and I support gun ownership rights -- but I couldn't tell the difference from a foot away in full sunlight. Unless, of course, it was engraved into the gun.
Okay, this is redundant, since a few others have basically pointed out the same thing, but they were all very rude about it, so I'll be "The Nice Guy" (tm).
Yes, there is oxygen in water as well as hydrogen. The problem is this: Oxygen-based explosions (glorified phrase for "lots of fire real fast") use the oxygen as a fuel for fire. Water is basically the byproduct of burnt (oxygenized) hydrogen. Since the oxygen was already used as fuel to create the water, it cannot be extracted from the hydrogen & used as a fuel on the fly like you are suggesting.
I will add that I am a computer geek, not a chemical engineer, so my explanation is probably full of technical inaccuracies, but it gets the point across.
Very good point. So, instead, from now on I'll attack the company :)
> Two letters to change your life forever:
> SJ
Hmmm, I think you meant BJ. Easy mistake.
Suck/Blow... One of lifes greatest mysteries.
> I'm not going to go out and shoot Catholics on sight.
I will, but apart from Cathoholics, I still agree with your point, especially about the buddhists, as I hadn't explored that line of thinking before.
-- "All people are [NOT] created equal" --
I think the point was that under the watchful eyes -- or heavy hand, depending on your attitude -- of a government or public entity that those things should make no difference. Real life, as you point out, is entirely different and you have to assume that people are not the same as you. If we always said and practiced seeing everyone as completely equal, there'd be a lot of pissed off people yelling about how unique they are (not that they don't now.
Which brings up my last offtopic point: How can parents and educators teach us that we are all equal, and then turn around and say we are all unique? We are equal in our uniqueness? Hardly.
But, now that your IQ has wavered a bit (not necessarily for the positive) I shall digress.
and I'm hoping natural selection takes out assholes like you who think correcting grammar is a valid rebuttal. I accidentally put an apostrophe once, oh my fucking god the world is going to end! Are you going to sue me because that was a runon sentence? get a fucking life.
> But as soon as you reply, the website has dissolved itself of responsibility
I highly doubt that would stand up if something truly dangerous happened. Never underestimate stupidity.
> Easy. Do what porn sites do: ask for a credit card info
And if I don't feel like being assraped by a bank -- and every other fucker that the bank sells my info to -- I can't do anything. What, you don't have a credit card? You must be a criminal. Or a kid.
I don't currently have a credit card, and don't ever want one again, but just because every other stupid ass in the world has one, it makes my life 100X more difficult. I hate all of you! (unless you are without credit)
Before trying to summarize the article, try reading it. It is NOT about Amazon getting the Child's information, it is about the stupid-assed kids who post their personal address in REVIEWS OF PRODUCTS. If a kid is smart enough to post reviews, but dumb enough to put his friggin address there, maybe natural selection will kick in and do it's job (with the help of some psycho-maniacs, of course).
Meta-imaginary-Mod +2, (Ain't that the friggin' truth)
> I just looked at the picture and saw an unwarranted (and stupid) attack on "Strawberry Shortcake".
I read the comics, but have never read a word from the forums on PA. If you see that as an attack on American Greetings then you don't know who American McGee is. Just because you don't understand the joke doesn't make it slanderous. It just means you missed an important part of it, which is not your fault.
Also, if you consider it as an attack on Strawberry Shortcake you may need to reevaluate your sense of humor.
> you should be mad at the spineless cocksuckers at Penny Arcade for capitulating to American Greetings' demands
I really like Penny Arcade, but I agree with you 100%. People don't stand up for their rights -- that is why they are being taken away. Instead of standing tall (or at least, as tall as you can agaist a beheomoth company) people whimper and back off. F&#% that.
> If it didn't work, then what have they lost?
The cost of lawyers' fees to write up the C&D letter, which is a pretty sizeable sum, unless of course you are a large corporation with plenty of money to buy the law.
If a company wrongly sends a Cease & Desist letter, and they are found to be wrong, they should be penalized. But, of course, that would only hurt the "Evil" corporations, which would be a bad thing...?
> 17 of them should be moded "Redundant"
Because "redundant" is a stupid moderation. Most people load the story page once and read all (maybe not ALL...) of the comments on that page without hitting reload, so by the time they respond to something halfway through, others may have posted the same thing, but you can't see it because the page you are reading is 10 minutes old. That and the fact that the same argument can be used in many different places in the comment threads.
> > about a misdemeanor "sealed" arrest
> he was accused propositioned sex from an underage girl
I don't have any first-hand knowledge of such laws, but I would think that that would be more than a misdemeanor, no? I would hope it is at least.
> You see the people in control now are experts at creating fear and panic. Its in their best interests to make you feel insecure
Ummm... Both sides do that, the right-wing zealots and the left-wing whackos.
He was hiding in his basement.... he knows everything.
> Why does everything have to be designed for cell phones?
It's not necessarily that it has to be used on phones, it's just that they are so common that it is easier to imagine it there instead of something like industrial air conditioning.
> wouldn't really add much talk time
Unless you use the whole battery during 1 call, I would think that it would add talk time, since the power used during a call would be recharged to full strength while being carried.
Unfortunately though, the constant charging and discharging would probably make battery die (I mean dead as in "will not work", not dead as in "run out of power") a lot faster.
Granted, I don't know much about recent rechargable battery Tech.
Been said before, but air ducts usually have a good bit of dust flying through them that can clog the motor, which is difficult to get to, making it cost-ineffective to replace/fix.
Always, as long as there is a remote possibility of it applying to the subject. Sometimes even that isn't a necessity.