I am an American who wants to have children - but for different reasons than those already stated. Making a baby begins with the carnal pleasure of injecting one's baby batter in a woman and watching her become voluptuous, carrying you inside her for 9 months. I want to recklessly impregnate all the women I can, then blow my head off when the authorities hit me up for child support.
Nurturing men like you will step up and help the mothers raise my children. My sons and daughters will fatten off the disposable income gleaned from your science and engineering degrees and become alphas as I am. You will settle for those women because they will be good-looking and ignore your lack of social skills if you have a decent paycheck.
My offspring may not like you, but that's okay. Just pony up for their private schools and tutors. A good job is its own reward, and you will feel the satisfaction of having successfully raised my children. Hang in there. And don't forget to buy the mother of my children those Gucci shoes she's been wantin'.
My older laptop with the same amount of memory runs with no glitches and lagging because I don't feel the need to upgrade to the latest and bloatiest version of everything, including Firefox and the Linux operating system on which it runs.
ide fe with a monochrome dumb terminal, hamster wheel, vibrating dildo, and espresso machine, ridiculously large 35" Sony-made SGI-branded CRT monitor with 20 instances of Doom, all connected and performing flawlessly.
OOh, look at your pretty little Quadro 6000! My motherfucking Impact was fatter than yours and didn't need no pussy fans way back in '95. Dig those LSI chips, man. Same shit you'll find on military-grade cards.
Well, maybe Lulzsec really didn't want to attack Nintendo. Perhaps their goal was the indirect humiliation of Sony. Adding insult to injury and whatnot.
Here's another message for you and your parent - GO LULZSEC!
Our best salesman also happens to the the only one who volunteered to spend time in the repair department with the technicians, actually helping to fix the products and learn their limitations.
Man some geeks are so full of themselves they've gone 180 to stupid.
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Okay, I'll reply to the parent - it's not collective arrogance, it's a bunch of desperate starving dogs gathering around to hustle and fight over a soup bone*
* In case you didn't get the analogy, It means that many I.T. guys are unemployed and have been without work for months, or even years, and are will take anything they can get.
Unfortunately in this economy, as another poster said above, keeping a job will depend on stonewalling and obfuscation; but the irony is that to be valuable enough to keep your job, you will also have to be just inexpensive enough.
They are doing a war act and the universities if they are us should be ad risk of losing alot I say start at must give up all clams / must pay off any student loan debt and maybe even not being accredited any more. The people sent from there need to go into POW better then gitmo but with the risk of going to place like that if they don't give up there intel.
He does have a point, dude. North Korea's posturing with `ping -f usa.usa.usa.usa' over 9600 baud modems and Estes-quality nukes ain't got shit on Joe Seung-Hui.
So it's just a matter of time before the southern states of the US get a whole bunch of northern migrants.
You have it all backwards. This is to prevent Americans fleeing to Canada when the drafts are reinstated and the persecution of political enemies reaches Krystallnacht proportions.
Corrupt politico puppets and a security apparatus financed by the corporations, as well as a profoundly apathetic public, have enabled the critical mass of a police state.
I liken home-schooling parents to the type of douchebags who would push athletic or acting dreams on their children, depriving said children of socialization and normal lives.
Those kids will grow up to be out of touch with reality, thinking they're the center of their tiny universe while being hopeless at everything other than their field of speciality. The ones who don't have a string of failed relationships will have to settle for some cold, Eastern-European, money-grubbing trophy spouse. The ones who are home-schooled for religious reasons suffer the worst fate of all.
Home-schooling is one of the cancers that is killing America's youth. Man up and live in the real world, or strive to be a bed-wetting momma's boy for the rest of your life. It's your call.
And, they chose to fabricate a story about Tupac "Elvis" Shakur to get their point across?
Why not? It's every bit as believable as the Bin Laden death - look at Obama's cartoonishly exaggerated facial expression(right out of a Spongebob or Spumco show) with Hillary's dainty "Oh, no!" pose. That bitch has bigger balls than the entire pentagon.
Osama was killed by a guy named Obama. Even the worst Hollywood hack writer could do a better job than that. All this from the same mouthpiece that tells us that we will win the war on terror by being afraid of everything.
Here's a real-life example - despite the objection of many retired veterans and other anti-mercenary citizens living in the area, the county government crookedly rubber-stamped a new facility of a Blackwater shell corporation, Wind-Zero. Yeah, look at that again - You have a racetrack, hotel, and an artillery range...a noisy, dirty Disneyland for law enforcement(artillery and helicopter noise pollution affecting vets who chose to retire in what they thought were gonna be quiet neighborhoods, and lead pollution affecting the wilderness and water table) Another method to funnel tax dollars for law enforcement "training" into corrupt private hands.
They say it will bring jobs. All of us know that's bullshit. They will bring in specialists from other counties, states, and countries. The expendables will be hired from nearby Mexicali(local businesses, especially agriculture, also choose to hire from Mexicali despite the county's ~30% unemployment rate), at minimum wage.
If you concerned citizens of America want to know where your country's headed, look no further than California's Imperial Valley. The most jobless county in the blingiest state.
#1 I prefer women who are not fat or even weighty -- I like to be able to pick them up, carry them around, make a sandwich and continue on.
Disgustingly fat women are nasty, but chubbies are the best. If you can't pick up a chubby then you are a 90-pound weakling and want a woman who looks like you.
And no, I would not expect women to be turned on by gay romance! The idea sickens me in ways that I cannot easily describe. I'm not a homophobe -- I have gay friends even. But for me, the idea of touching a guy in places...? "doing things"?
A few of my girlfriends regularly watch gay porn. Frank discussions with them revealed that the porn was all about connection rather than simply shooting one's nut off. I find gay porn to be disgusting, but to be fair, connection transcends penises and vaginas.
Look, I won't even do a woman in the butt -- it's just not a place for a penis to go!!
You do have half a good point there - people often forget that shit comes out of that hole. The prostate orgasm may have been part of a male-male social bonding mechanism frequently seen in nature, and so it makes sense in homosexual male sex. Reasons for penetrating a woman anally include domination, humiliation, and friction; but there are other, cleaner ways to achieve those.
Then again, maybe you're right and I've just not "been around." I like "normal stuff." Perhaps by most standards, it's boring stuff. But I'm fine with it.
Now is a good time to experiment in the privacy of your own home. Common household items like sheets and pillowcases can be used to bind your partner to the bed. Whipped cream and cherries can make a tasty treat. Slapping doesn't leave marks. Schoolgirl and nurse outfits can be easily hidden. Candles can be innocent until nightfall. Skinny people can work really well in the confined space of a bathtub or shower. Make her call you "daddy," or call her "mommy." Dress up in animal costumes. It can be a trial-and-error process, but knowing yourself and your partner better makes it all worth it.
Yeah, as the saying goes, "If I wanted to fuck a woman that looked like a 12 year-old boy, I'd fuck a 12 year-old boy."
Unfortunately, there's an unfortunate trend towards androgyny where men(especially emos) are trying look like girls and women are trying look like boys.
The youth and cheerleader stuff is no surprise either. I think its funny how people consider cheerleading to be a sport. The scientists say that young women bear healthier offpring, but I think that the girlie/cheerleader thing is simply because younger women are friendlier, dumber, and (pardon me) have tighter vaginas. They're still idealistic and optimistic, with a bunch of daddy's money to spend, and haven't yet realized that they're gonna end up choosing between settling for an ugly fat bastard(like one of us) or having to fuck their boss to put food on the table. I read on 4chan that there may be a scientific basis for sexualizing people at an early age - the earlier they mate, the more they will mate later and the more offspring they will presumably bear. The recent authoritarian crackdown on "too small breasts" and other underage sex is no accident - the youth-related fetishes are so widespread that everybody is guilty.
About the cuckoldry - There is a popular theory about our penises being designed to displace another suitor's semen from the target vagina. Cuckoldry makes sense because, if you see a woman who is mating(or has just been mated with), we feel sexually attracted because we are biologically motivated to displace her partner's semen and replace it with our own. Sloppy seconds - what else would explain arousal at the prospect of an act most disgusting?
It horrifies me kind of on the same level as the whole Silence of the Lambs scene where what's his name from Goodfellas has the top of his head cut off and a part of his brain fried and served to him.
That's from the sequel, Hannibal. The best part about the "brain scene" is how Hannibal prepares the brain for consumption. In classical cooking, brains are chilled overnight so that they don't fall apart into mush at dinnertime. Hannibal sliced off portions of Krendler's brain and poached them in lemon juice, kinda like shrimp in a ceviche, denaturing the proteins and stiffening the appetizer to make it fit for instant consumption. Here's a quote from that novel, which pertains to the father of the meatpacking antagonist, that is relevant to this discussion:
Molson Verger...adulterated the pigs' diet with hog hair meal, mealed chicken feathers and manure to an extent considered daring at the time. He was regarded as a reckless visionary in the 1940's when he first took away the pigs' fresh drinking water and had them drink ditch liquor, made of fermented animal waste, to hasten weight gain. The laughter stopped when his profits rolled in, and his competitors hurried to copy him.
If you're going to be racist, then please be appropriately racist. The problem, as it pertains to this discussion, is not Africans. The problem is the ever-increasing numbers of Indians, Chinese, and Middle-eastern visa hires with fraudulent paperwork and checkered pasts; who retain loyalty to their budding superpower motherlands.
A high-value target like the American military industrial complex gets what it deserves when it's willing to hire Jihad Jims and Stinky Shivs rather than pony up the extra pennies to hire real blonde-haired, blue-eyed, red-blooded Americans.
But, people who require being connected to the internet at all times by their mobile gadgets, especially on their own personal time, are generally considered to be friendless idiots anyway.
It's gonna be illegal anyway, because only a terrorist or pedophile would use the technology, probably to plan out the shortest paths to bomb government buildings or rape kids at the parks.
Even worse, the so-called "hobbyist" could use the data to make a 3-D video game about bombing government buildings or raping kids and release it under that Marxist GPL license, which would inflame tensions in the Middle East and provoke Iran into destroying Israel.
If it seems hard or even impossible to defend the American way on the merits, that's probably because it emerged from aesthetic, not logical, considerations.
Maybe, but there's something more important. When spoken, the period is part of the final word. It is kinda like an accent that us to tonally lower the pitch of the word so as to signal the sentence's end. Since the period is part of the final word, it only makes sense to encapsulate the entire word with quotation marks. Treat the period as any other accent mark connected to a letter.
Imagine Jane Austen starting a book today with the sentence, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Her editor would take both commas out.
Those extra commas are not illogical because speech and the written word are intimately tied. Without the commas, you would envision some monotonous, pedantic drone speaking the line. With the commas in, it just sounds more, well, profound, man*!
Pedants - yeah, I use way too many commas illegally. Typing as if speaking is often more effective than being grammatically correct. It's called "style."
IE - in many parts of the US, there are many roads where 'everyone speeds'. Because 'everyone knows' cops won't pull you over until you are going some arbitrary speed faster.
From the Wikipedia, and I know its true because I live there. Quote-mined for clarity:
In California...Drivers moving slower than the general flow of traffic are required to stay in the right-most lanes (by California Vehicle Code (CVC) 21654) to keep the way clear for faster vehicles and thus speed up traffic. However, faster drivers may legally pass in the slower lanes if conditions allow (by CVC 21754). But the CVC also requires trucks to stay in the right lane, or in the right two lanes if the roadway has four or more lanes going in their direction. The oldest freeways in California, and some freeway interchanges, often have ramps on the left, making signs like "TRUCKS OK ON LEFT LANE" or "TRUCKS MAY USE ALL LANES" necessary to override the default rule. Lane splitting, or riding motorcycles in the space between cars in traffic, is permitted as long as it is done in a safe and prudent manner.[2]
As long as you are an average driver, you can abide by the choice phrase "flow of traffic" and that's the easiest way to cope with it. Otherwise the whole thing looks like a group of nested if-else statements gone horribly wrong.
Australia has no concept of an illegal search or seizure. Evidence cannot be excluded for these kinds of reasons.
PffffHAAAAAW! You know what "probable cause" is in America? It's wearing the wrong color tie or momentarily glancing to the downward left corner with your eyes while being questioned during a routing traffic stop. Cavity searches, drive-by infared scans of your house, and rubber-stamp subpoena-ing and monitoring of all your internet traffic will follow.
The purpose of a constitution is to protect the rights of the folks who are less capable of protecting their own.
Oh, those quaint things. Ignored outright or easily circumvented with judicial misinterpretations ("Hey, look what we can do!"). They're on a roll, with their fusion centers and readily willing proto-Gestapo HUMINT masquerading as first-responders. Nothing short of an armed rebellion will stop 'em, and it will be too late when the public-at-large finally realizes that.
Which raises an important question - is the revelation becoming, consciously or unconsciously, a self-fulfilling prophecy by the Christian-dominated leadership of America, Australia, and many other countries?
The self-destruction of the world's Christian superpowers is occuring at an increasing rate and becoming ever more violent and oppressive towards itself and others. The impatience in the wait for the rapture is rapidly manifesting itself as desperate violence which will ultimately result in a suicide, like that of Harris and Klebold or Futurama's Roberto.
Here's a quote from the novel Silence of the Lambs:
"Sammie is intensely religious. He's simply disappointed because Jesus is so late. May I tell Clarice why you're here, Sammie?" Sammie grabbed the lower part of his face and halted its movement. "Please?" Dr. Lecter said. "Eaaah," Sammie said between his fingers. "Sammie put his mother's head in the collection plate at the Highway Baptist Church in Trune. They were singing 'Give of Your Best to the Master' and it was the nicest thing he had.
The people who attempt to make the rules of reality-based fantasy may or may not be surprised, and prepared, that those same rules are often ignored and easily subverted in real life:)
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I am an American who wants to have children - but for different reasons than those already stated. Making a baby begins with the carnal pleasure of injecting one's baby batter in a woman and watching her become voluptuous, carrying you inside her for 9 months. I want to recklessly impregnate all the women I can, then blow my head off when the authorities hit me up for child support.
Nurturing men like you will step up and help the mothers raise my children. My sons and daughters will fatten off the disposable income gleaned from your science and engineering degrees and become alphas as I am. You will settle for those women because they will be good-looking and ignore your lack of social skills if you have a decent paycheck.
My offspring may not like you, but that's okay. Just pony up for their private schools and tutors. A good job is its own reward, and you will feel the satisfaction of having successfully raised my children. Hang in there. And don't forget to buy the mother of my children those Gucci shoes she's been wantin'.
That's strange, the guys from the Union Park basketball court
So the majority of them are black guys with huge penises? Shit, man, how can a lil' ol' white guy compete with that?
Back on-topic - Monkey Shines is a very relevant B-horror film with a great quadriplegic sex scene. See it now courtesy of Netflix' shitty new UI.
Or how about a jam with the disabled physicist Stephen Hawking.
My older laptop with the same amount of memory runs with no glitches and lagging because I don't feel the need to upgrade to the latest and bloatiest version of everything, including Firefox and the Linux operating system on which it runs.
IRIX fan, bitch.
ide fe with a monochrome dumb terminal, hamster wheel, vibrating dildo, and espresso machine, ridiculously large 35" Sony-made SGI-branded CRT monitor with 20 instances of Doom, all connected and performing flawlessly.
OOh, look at your pretty little Quadro 6000! My motherfucking Impact was fatter than yours and didn't need no pussy fans way back in '95. Dig those LSI chips, man. Same shit you'll find on military-grade cards.
Or suck Linus' uncircumsized cock and swallow his chewy pecker snot.
Gobble gobble, dribble dribble.
Well, maybe Lulzsec really didn't want to attack Nintendo. Perhaps their goal was the indirect humiliation of Sony. Adding insult to injury and whatnot.
Here's another message for you and your parent - GO LULZSEC!
Our best salesman also happens to the the only one who volunteered to spend time in the repair department with the technicians, actually helping to fix the products and learn their limitations.
Man some geeks are so full of themselves they've gone 180 to stupid.
Reply to This Parent
Okay, I'll reply to the parent - it's not collective arrogance, it's a bunch of desperate starving dogs gathering around to hustle and fight over a soup bone*
* In case you didn't get the analogy, It means that many I.T. guys are unemployed and have been without work for months, or even years, and are will take anything they can get.
Unfortunately in this economy, as another poster said above, keeping a job will depend on stonewalling and obfuscation; but the irony is that to be valuable enough to keep your job, you will also have to be just inexpensive enough.
They are doing a war act and the universities if they are us should be ad risk of losing alot I say start at must give up all clams / must pay off any student loan debt and maybe even not being accredited any more. The people sent from there need to go into POW better then gitmo but with the risk of going to place like that if they don't give up there intel.
He does have a point, dude. North Korea's posturing with `ping -f usa.usa.usa.usa' over 9600 baud modems and Estes-quality nukes ain't got shit on Joe Seung-Hui.
So it's just a matter of time before the southern states of the US get a whole bunch of northern migrants.
You have it all backwards. This is to prevent Americans fleeing to Canada when the drafts are reinstated and the persecution of political enemies reaches Krystallnacht proportions.
Corrupt politico puppets and a security apparatus financed by the corporations, as well as a profoundly apathetic public, have enabled the critical mass of a police state.
I liken home-schooling parents to the type of douchebags who would push athletic or acting dreams on their children, depriving said children of socialization and normal lives.
Those kids will grow up to be out of touch with reality, thinking they're the center of their tiny universe while being hopeless at everything other than their field of speciality. The ones who don't have a string of failed relationships will have to settle for some cold, Eastern-European, money-grubbing trophy spouse. The ones who are home-schooled for religious reasons suffer the worst fate of all.
Home-schooling is one of the cancers that is killing America's youth. Man up and live in the real world, or strive to be a bed-wetting momma's boy for the rest of your life. It's your call.
And, they chose to fabricate a story about Tupac "Elvis" Shakur to get their point across?
Why not? It's every bit as believable as the Bin Laden death - look at Obama's cartoonishly exaggerated facial expression(right out of a Spongebob or Spumco show) with Hillary's dainty "Oh, no!" pose. That bitch has bigger balls than the entire pentagon.
Osama was killed by a guy named Obama. Even the worst Hollywood hack writer could do a better job than that. All this from the same mouthpiece that tells us that we will win the war on terror by being afraid of everything.
Here's a real-life example - despite the objection of many retired veterans and other anti-mercenary citizens living in the area, the county government crookedly rubber-stamped a new facility of a Blackwater shell corporation, Wind-Zero. Yeah, look at that again - You have a racetrack, hotel, and an artillery range...a noisy, dirty Disneyland for law enforcement(artillery and helicopter noise pollution affecting vets who chose to retire in what they thought were gonna be quiet neighborhoods, and lead pollution affecting the wilderness and water table) Another method to funnel tax dollars for law enforcement "training" into corrupt private hands.
They say it will bring jobs. All of us know that's bullshit. They will bring in specialists from other counties, states, and countries. The expendables will be hired from nearby Mexicali(local businesses, especially agriculture, also choose to hire from Mexicali despite the county's ~30% unemployment rate), at minimum wage.
If you concerned citizens of America want to know where your country's headed, look no further than California's Imperial Valley. The most jobless county in the blingiest state.
The article:
Prineville (pop. 10,000, unemployment rate 17 percent)
See above, we have 167,000 population with ~30% unemployment.
#1 I prefer women who are not fat or even weighty -- I like to be able to pick them up, carry them around, make a sandwich and continue on.
Disgustingly fat women are nasty, but chubbies are the best. If you can't pick up a chubby then you are a 90-pound weakling and want a woman who looks like you.
And no, I would not expect women to be turned on by gay romance! The idea sickens me in ways that I cannot easily describe. I'm not a homophobe -- I have gay friends even. But for me, the idea of touching a guy in places...? "doing things"?
A few of my girlfriends regularly watch gay porn. Frank discussions with them revealed that the porn was all about connection rather than simply shooting one's nut off. I find gay porn to be disgusting, but to be fair, connection transcends penises and vaginas.
Look, I won't even do a woman in the butt -- it's just not a place for a penis to go!!
You do have half a good point there - people often forget that shit comes out of that hole. The prostate orgasm may have been part of a male-male social bonding mechanism frequently seen in nature, and so it makes sense in homosexual male sex. Reasons for penetrating a woman anally include domination, humiliation, and friction; but there are other, cleaner ways to achieve those.
Then again, maybe you're right and I've just not "been around." I like "normal stuff." Perhaps by most standards, it's boring stuff. But I'm fine with it.
Now is a good time to experiment in the privacy of your own home. Common household items like sheets and pillowcases can be used to bind your partner to the bed. Whipped cream and cherries can make a tasty treat. Slapping doesn't leave marks. Schoolgirl and nurse outfits can be easily hidden. Candles can be innocent until nightfall. Skinny people can work really well in the confined space of a bathtub or shower. Make her call you "daddy," or call her "mommy." Dress up in animal costumes. It can be a trial-and-error process, but knowing yourself and your partner better makes it all worth it.
Yeah, as the saying goes, "If I wanted to fuck a woman that looked like a 12 year-old boy, I'd fuck a 12 year-old boy."
Unfortunately, there's an unfortunate trend towards androgyny where men(especially emos) are trying look like girls and women are trying look like boys.
The youth and cheerleader stuff is no surprise either. I think its funny how people consider cheerleading to be a sport. The scientists say that young women bear healthier offpring, but I think that the girlie/cheerleader thing is simply because younger women are friendlier, dumber, and (pardon me) have tighter vaginas. They're still idealistic and optimistic, with a bunch of daddy's money to spend, and haven't yet realized that they're gonna end up choosing between settling for an ugly fat bastard(like one of us) or having to fuck their boss to put food on the table. I read on 4chan that there may be a scientific basis for sexualizing people at an early age - the earlier they mate, the more they will mate later and the more offspring they will presumably bear. The recent authoritarian crackdown on "too small breasts" and other underage sex is no accident - the youth-related fetishes are so widespread that everybody is guilty.
About the cuckoldry - There is a popular theory about our penises being designed to displace another suitor's semen from the target vagina. Cuckoldry makes sense because, if you see a woman who is mating(or has just been mated with), we feel sexually attracted because we are biologically motivated to displace her partner's semen and replace it with our own. Sloppy seconds - what else would explain arousal at the prospect of an act most disgusting?
It horrifies me kind of on the same level as the whole Silence of the Lambs scene where what's his name from Goodfellas has the top of his head cut off and a part of his brain fried and served to him.
That's from the sequel, Hannibal. The best part about the "brain scene" is how Hannibal prepares the brain for consumption. In classical cooking, brains are chilled overnight so that they don't fall apart into mush at dinnertime. Hannibal sliced off portions of Krendler's brain and poached them in lemon juice, kinda like shrimp in a ceviche, denaturing the proteins and stiffening the appetizer to make it fit for instant consumption. Here's a quote from that novel, which pertains to the father of the meatpacking antagonist, that is relevant to this discussion:
Molson Verger...adulterated the pigs' diet with hog hair meal, mealed chicken feathers and manure to an extent considered daring at the time. He was regarded as a reckless visionary in the 1940's when he first took away the pigs' fresh drinking water and had them drink ditch liquor, made of fermented animal waste, to hasten weight gain. The laughter stopped when his profits rolled in, and his competitors hurried to copy him.
If you're going to be racist, then please be appropriately racist. The problem, as it pertains to this discussion, is not Africans. The problem is the ever-increasing numbers of Indians, Chinese, and Middle-eastern visa hires with fraudulent paperwork and checkered pasts; who retain loyalty to their budding superpower motherlands.
A high-value target like the American military industrial complex gets what it deserves when it's willing to hire Jihad Jims and Stinky Shivs rather than pony up the extra pennies to hire real blonde-haired, blue-eyed, red-blooded Americans.
Yup.
But, people who require being connected to the internet at all times by their mobile gadgets, especially on their own personal time, are generally considered to be friendless idiots anyway.
Film at eleven.
Slavery, fuck yeah!
Oh, wait. They make 23 cents an hour. Guess those Chinese do have it tough.
It's gonna be illegal anyway, because only a terrorist or pedophile would use the technology, probably to plan out the shortest paths to bomb government buildings or rape kids at the parks.
Even worse, the so-called "hobbyist" could use the data to make a 3-D video game about bombing government buildings or raping kids and release it under that Marxist GPL license, which would inflame tensions in the Middle East and provoke Iran into destroying Israel.
If it seems hard or even impossible to defend the American way on the merits, that's probably because it emerged from aesthetic, not logical, considerations.
Maybe, but there's something more important. When spoken, the period is part of the final word. It is kinda like an accent that us to tonally lower the pitch of the word so as to signal the sentence's end. Since the period is part of the final word, it only makes sense to encapsulate the entire word with quotation marks. Treat the period as any other accent mark connected to a letter.
Imagine Jane Austen starting a book today with the sentence, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Her editor would take both commas out.
Those extra commas are not illogical because speech and the written word are intimately tied. Without the commas, you would envision some monotonous, pedantic drone speaking the line. With the commas in, it just sounds more, well, profound, man*!
Pedants - yeah, I use way too many commas illegally. Typing as if speaking is often more effective than being grammatically correct. It's called "style."
IE - in many parts of the US, there are many roads where 'everyone speeds'. Because 'everyone knows' cops won't pull you over until you are going some arbitrary speed faster.
From the Wikipedia, and I know its true because I live there. Quote-mined for clarity:
In California...Drivers moving slower than the general flow of traffic are required to stay in the right-most lanes (by California Vehicle Code (CVC) 21654) to keep the way clear for faster vehicles and thus speed up traffic. However, faster drivers may legally pass in the slower lanes if conditions allow (by CVC 21754). But the CVC also requires trucks to stay in the right lane, or in the right two lanes if the roadway has four or more lanes going in their direction. The oldest freeways in California, and some freeway interchanges, often have ramps on the left, making signs like "TRUCKS OK ON LEFT LANE" or "TRUCKS MAY USE ALL LANES" necessary to override the default rule. Lane splitting, or riding motorcycles in the space between cars in traffic, is permitted as long as it is done in a safe and prudent manner.[2]
As long as you are an average driver, you can abide by the choice phrase "flow of traffic" and that's the easiest way to cope with it. Otherwise the whole thing looks like a group of nested if-else statements gone horribly wrong.
Man, if there's one thing that the more boring states got right, it's the Texas turnaround and the Michigan left.
Australia has no concept of an illegal search or seizure. Evidence cannot be excluded for these kinds of reasons.
PffffHAAAAAW! You know what "probable cause" is in America? It's wearing the wrong color tie or momentarily glancing to the downward left corner with your eyes while being questioned during a routing traffic stop. Cavity searches, drive-by infared scans of your house, and rubber-stamp subpoena-ing and monitoring of all your internet traffic will follow.
The purpose of a constitution is to protect the rights of the folks who are less capable of protecting their own.
Oh, those quaint things. Ignored outright or easily circumvented with judicial misinterpretations ("Hey, look what we can do!"). They're on a roll, with their fusion centers and readily willing proto-Gestapo HUMINT masquerading as first-responders. Nothing short of an armed rebellion will stop 'em, and it will be too late when the public-at-large finally realizes that.
The self-destruction of the world's Christian superpowers is occuring at an increasing rate and becoming ever more violent and oppressive towards itself and others. The impatience in the wait for the rapture is rapidly manifesting itself as desperate violence which will ultimately result in a suicide, like that of Harris and Klebold or Futurama's Roberto.
Here's a quote from the novel Silence of the Lambs:
"Sammie is intensely religious. He's simply disappointed because Jesus is so late. May I tell Clarice why you're here, Sammie?" Sammie grabbed the lower part of his face and halted its movement. "Please?" Dr. Lecter said. "Eaaah," Sammie said between his fingers. "Sammie put his mother's head in the collection plate at the Highway Baptist Church in Trune. They were singing 'Give of Your Best to the Master' and it was the nicest thing he had.
The people who attempt to make the rules of reality-based fantasy may or may not be surprised, and prepared, that those same rules are often ignored and easily subverted in real life :)