Yeah, they're just a member of ARIA instead. Same thing penis-faced bastards, different letter order. I don't think ARIA's sued anybody itself, but FOX has sued Scour and a couple other programs on it's own from time to time. Sorry for the crushing intrusion of reality, but FOX owns it's own legion of crappy pop cutouts, they're not going to try and bring anybody down. Since Direct TV being what it is didn't turn down FOX's hard-on to merge with them, I think I can continue burning effigies of Rupert in my bathroom without feeling guilty.
Probably just some new border crap that makes it easier to get banned. Canada does it too, I just think they haven't boosted the sensitivity recently. A friend of mine got banned from Quebec for awhile for trying to cross with a bong in his trunk.
No, it just proves the work of God consists largely of getting drunk and subjecting everyone in the room to progressively more hideous puns about friction.
What exactly is nuclear agriculture? I mean, I guess you could build a gigantic nuclear combine or something. I suspect spraying plutonium on your farm doesn't really let you grow candy corn. Is this just the new word the young folks use for dropping acid and chasing the chickens around?
Well, all the information on how to build a helicopter is in the public domain too, but if I want to try and build one without testing a prototype first, I'm gonna want to talk to somebody who's built one before.
All you have to do is replace fuel rods once in a while and you get emission-free, clean power. There is the issue of disposing nuclear waste, but I'm confident that issue will also be dealt with as technology advances.
Thank you, 1950's Boy! Is the 1975 Lincoln Continental still going to have Hover-mode and Robot-drive standard, or will that be an option?
Well, we'll certaintly have useful space-based solar power collectors before we figure out how to magically transmogrify nuclear waste into cotton candy.
Well, completely pretending I didn't even read your second paragraph, I think the reason you don't have toilets in cities is because they've been getting on with bars charging a drink for the toilets for 300 years or so just fine. It seems weird once the government starts building rest areas on the highways, but cities have been holding bladders for ransom for as long as they've been around. Maybe drugs and bombs factor in on the negative whenever they bring up installing a few, but I think it's more important that there's just no critical need. If you get to pick between hiring a new cop or building a bathroom, I think you go with the cop. The wildlife'll make the sidewalk smell like piss anyway.
The "enemy... blah... friend" thing isn't inherently bad, most of the problem is that the polititians don't want to deal with that sort of thing personally and leave it to the CIA. So you have a semi-autonomous agency dealing ONLY with assholes that we like right now, and as such is treating them as friends without having to recognize the fact that they're assholes the rest of the time. So the CIA goes in handing out presents without thinking about long-term consequences, because by the time the consequences kick in they're someone else and the old assholes are the State Department's problem again.
Nobody can stop the CIA. The president only gets their attention when he tries to fuck with their funding. Even then they have a good degree of freedom based on the fact that they're employing the top 100 worst potential terrorists in the world at any given time. Just threaten to fire some of the field operatives and they've got the funding back plus a bonus. That's what happened when Carter tried to fuck with them. Unfortunately he didn't cave fast enough and they fired a few guys that started up the hijacker training camps in Libya.
What the CIA does is organization. They go on the ground a lot too, as I believe they did in Chile, but when we say organization that's what we mean. They fly around in cargo jets listening to everybody's phones and hook up people that wouldn't ordinarially meet. Then they hand out West Point course material and radio down intelligence if anybody gets stuck.
It's a good plan. If you had people flying over the United States with total access to all communication, it wouldn't be hard for them to hook together enough random loons, militias and disgruntled generals to pull off a substantial coup.
Is anybody else getting desensitized to all this torture-your-own-citizens crap? Everybody tortures and kills their own citizens. Even the ones that pretend not to, like England and France. I admit I used to be pissed about it too, but now I just don't care. Fuck the poor bastards. Not my damn problem. It's like the skeleton-babies in Africa. I probably used to feel like I should help them, but when you keep bringing them up every 10 minutes during Insomniac, I just start trying to rationalize the whole thing. Maybe the little bastards deserve to die a torturous death from malnutrition. Do I know? If we let them live past 12 they'd probably just get all angsty and start composing shitty poetry anyway.
I'll tell you what, I'll get upset about Libya (the wife and daughter of the dictator of which the CIA also "organised" the deaths of) being on the human rights council if you buy me HBO so I can forget all about what it is I'm upset about.
Well, you COULD stuff your coke shipment in a $100,000 robot, OR you could have a dozen Mexican kids do it for $5 apiece, or just in exchange for not beating the fuck out of their mothers. And if you're Al Qaeda, I think it's a fuck of a lot easier to just recruit the dozen or so of those kids that get picked up while they're in prison.
You don't have to keep it static to teach people how to write well. You can write in crappy, unclear "written English" and flowing, articulate "spoken English". No matter what variation of the rules you work with, knowing how to write well is still extremely important in getting people to listen to you.
The SATs don't necisarially keep the language static either. Vocabulary is good no matter which direction you think the language ought to go.
Neither. The point of high school should be to make you a functional citizen. Once you're capable of making choices that won't destroy the country if you vote, then we can work on adding you to the workforce. At this point, we count on idiots being to disinterested to muck things up by voting. I think we're better off erring on the side of caution and making them potentially responsible voters.
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They taped the moth to the page? Were they saving it in case they had to stick it back in there sometime?
Yeah, they're just a member of ARIA instead. Same thing penis-faced bastards, different letter order. I don't think ARIA's sued anybody itself, but FOX has sued Scour and a couple other programs on it's own from time to time. Sorry for the crushing intrusion of reality, but FOX owns it's own legion of crappy pop cutouts, they're not going to try and bring anybody down. Since Direct TV being what it is didn't turn down FOX's hard-on to merge with them, I think I can continue burning effigies of Rupert in my bathroom without feeling guilty.
There is a certain resemblance...
I think they represent the Pope, actually. I think it's Vivendi that sells some of his masses on CD.
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He also might have tried to cross to go to a protest. That gets you banned like a motherfucker.
Probably just some new border crap that makes it easier to get banned. Canada does it too, I just think they haven't boosted the sensitivity recently. A friend of mine got banned from Quebec for awhile for trying to cross with a bong in his trunk.
No, it just proves the work of God consists largely of getting drunk and subjecting everyone in the room to progressively more hideous puns about friction.
New rule: from now on, all bad /. analogies about file sharing must be at least as surreal as this one.
Does their amnesty extend to people who sent them dog poop? I'm woried they might find out that one last month was me.
What exactly is nuclear agriculture? I mean, I guess you could build a gigantic nuclear combine or something. I suspect spraying plutonium on your farm doesn't really let you grow candy corn. Is this just the new word the young folks use for dropping acid and chasing the chickens around?
Well, all the information on how to build a helicopter is in the public domain too, but if I want to try and build one without testing a prototype first, I'm gonna want to talk to somebody who's built one before.
All you have to do is replace fuel rods once in a while and you get emission-free, clean power. There is the issue of disposing nuclear waste, but I'm confident that issue will also be dealt with as technology advances.
Thank you, 1950's Boy! Is the 1975 Lincoln Continental still going to have Hover-mode and Robot-drive standard, or will that be an option?
Well, at least until it hits the wrong kind of rock, groundwater, gas, or oil and blasts itself into the stratosphere.
Well, we'll certaintly have useful space-based solar power collectors before we figure out how to magically transmogrify nuclear waste into cotton candy.
Well, it's not so much every single one of Bush's nominations as it is 3 out of 100 or so of Bush's nominations. Close, though.
Well, completely pretending I didn't even read your second paragraph, I think the reason you don't have toilets in cities is because they've been getting on with bars charging a drink for the toilets for 300 years or so just fine. It seems weird once the government starts building rest areas on the highways, but cities have been holding bladders for ransom for as long as they've been around. Maybe drugs and bombs factor in on the negative whenever they bring up installing a few, but I think it's more important that there's just no critical need. If you get to pick between hiring a new cop or building a bathroom, I think you go with the cop. The wildlife'll make the sidewalk smell like piss anyway.
To which we say, "Eh."
The "enemy... blah... friend" thing isn't inherently bad, most of the problem is that the polititians don't want to deal with that sort of thing personally and leave it to the CIA. So you have a semi-autonomous agency dealing ONLY with assholes that we like right now, and as such is treating them as friends without having to recognize the fact that they're assholes the rest of the time. So the CIA goes in handing out presents without thinking about long-term consequences, because by the time the consequences kick in they're someone else and the old assholes are the State Department's problem again.
Nobody can stop the CIA. The president only gets their attention when he tries to fuck with their funding. Even then they have a good degree of freedom based on the fact that they're employing the top 100 worst potential terrorists in the world at any given time. Just threaten to fire some of the field operatives and they've got the funding back plus a bonus. That's what happened when Carter tried to fuck with them. Unfortunately he didn't cave fast enough and they fired a few guys that started up the hijacker training camps in Libya.
What the CIA does is organization. They go on the ground a lot too, as I believe they did in Chile, but when we say organization that's what we mean. They fly around in cargo jets listening to everybody's phones and hook up people that wouldn't ordinarially meet. Then they hand out West Point course material and radio down intelligence if anybody gets stuck.
It's a good plan. If you had people flying over the United States with total access to all communication, it wouldn't be hard for them to hook together enough random loons, militias and disgruntled generals to pull off a substantial coup.
Is anybody else getting desensitized to all this torture-your-own-citizens crap? Everybody tortures and kills their own citizens. Even the ones that pretend not to, like England and France. I admit I used to be pissed about it too, but now I just don't care. Fuck the poor bastards. Not my damn problem. It's like the skeleton-babies in Africa. I probably used to feel like I should help them, but when you keep bringing them up every 10 minutes during Insomniac, I just start trying to rationalize the whole thing. Maybe the little bastards deserve to die a torturous death from malnutrition. Do I know? If we let them live past 12 they'd probably just get all angsty and start composing shitty poetry anyway.
I'll tell you what, I'll get upset about Libya (the wife and daughter of the dictator of which the CIA also "organised" the deaths of) being on the human rights council if you buy me HBO so I can forget all about what it is I'm upset about.
Sure you can, these days they sue you at least a dozen times for each time you piss them off.
I'm 19 and I've only ever heard of Taxi from that list. Guess I don't watch enough Nick at Nite.
Well, you COULD stuff your coke shipment in a $100,000 robot, OR you could have a dozen Mexican kids do it for $5 apiece, or just in exchange for not beating the fuck out of their mothers. And if you're Al Qaeda, I think it's a fuck of a lot easier to just recruit the dozen or so of those kids that get picked up while they're in prison.
You don't have to keep it static to teach people how to write well. You can write in crappy, unclear "written English" and flowing, articulate "spoken English". No matter what variation of the rules you work with, knowing how to write well is still extremely important in getting people to listen to you.
The SATs don't necisarially keep the language static either. Vocabulary is good no matter which direction you think the language ought to go.
Neither. The point of high school should be to make you a functional citizen. Once you're capable of making choices that won't destroy the country if you vote, then we can work on adding you to the workforce. At this point, we count on idiots being to disinterested to muck things up by voting. I think we're better off erring on the side of caution and making them potentially responsible voters.
Yeah, but if they're working for military contractors, they've got PEs. They're lazy, but hopefully not complete idiots.