Kucinich at #1, 100%. Probably because of the War on Drugs question. It's amazing what this reveals about just how bad the last election was.
24. Gore (47%)
25. Bradley (39%) 26. Buchanan (36%) 27. McCain (26%) 28. Bush (26%)
Now that's just sad. It's one thing to have the sneaking suspicion that all the candidates are the same, but to have it spelled out in the numbers like that... I mean, fuck. I hate Libertarians so much I frequently have to fight down the uge to beat them to death with balloons filled with their own hot air, and even they're at 53%.
Well, Green's at 96% and Dean's at 95%. I still think I like Dean better than Kucinich, but it's not like I'll be complaining if either takes down Bush. Now I just have to go get out the Chlorox and wash off whatever opinion I have that put Buchanan over McCain.
Really? What's wrong with it? Maybe it's just that I agreed with him on everything except a few of his comments about the death penalty and when he made fun of Kerry, but I didn't see where he looked cringeworthy. Tim does make a halfassed attept to pull a "world leader quiz"-esque kind of thing about the number of guys in Iraq, but Dean got it right anyway. That's the only thing I can catch where he looks like anything other than somebody ridiculously better at this than Tim Russert.
Could somebody who's a Reagan fan please give me a quick run-down of their personality? Even if it's just something like "one word that describes you", it ought to be interesting.
Haven't we tried to get you guys to name something after him yet? I'm sure we'll get around to it. It's our national pastime. Airports, streets, ships, it doesn't really matter what it is, just so long as Reagan's name is attached to another object he had nothing whatsoever to do with. Unfortunately, we have laws against putting him on some things while he's still alive, but once he bites it, we can start retooling all those Soviet factories that used to churn out crap with Lennin on it. Universally Reagan-centered currency, entire cities laid out with nothing but numbered Reagan Streets and Reagan Avenues, it will be a beautiful thing, especially when we conquer Syria and rename it to Ronald Reagan.
Scariest thought: Reagan's Secret Service guy agrees with Reagan, they drive back to the White House with an explosive bullet in the President's heart, he dies, we go 3 years without a president because George Bush doesn't want to raise doubts about Reagan's competence by following the 25th ammendment.
Oh, while I was looking up which ammendment it was, I found GWB's medical history. Main problems seem to be choking on pretzels, crying, and colonic polyps. This is the greatest site ever. Check out Reagan too. "impossible: How can a 70 year old man have a full head of hair with no gray?"
John "Bill" Goodwin? Yeah. Like Jesse "Walter" Ventura. What the hell was so wrong with John Goodwin that he actually came up with another, blander name for himself? Spike Goodwin. Bubba Goodwin. Shit, Pooh-Bear Goodwin would be better than "Bill". Marriage must've drained his nickname creativity well.
The lack of control thing is really just because nobody bothers to try. It's like building a helicopter rotor and engine and just turning it on. It'll flip all the fuck over unless you tie it down or something. I'm guessing if you put little stablizer lifters on the sides of your big lifter you get lighting going in between them or other bad things, but if you did something like that, I can't see this being any more unstable than any other kind of propulsion.
BTW, if the Nebechunezzar runs on lifters, why does it need an EMP? Anything more conductive than a petrified Carrie-Anne Moss ought to be attracting ridiculous arcs by the time it gets within tense music distance, no?
Has anybody ever done anything with these things besides levitation? I remember years ago, the last time I heard about these things, thinking that somebody ought to turn one sideways and staple it to a matchbox car or something. It seems kinda boring to just keep floating something a foot off a table over and over.
Come on now, what gets us closer to a Martian colony than throwing old white guys to weather balloon height in the safest and least expensive possible way over and over and over again?
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Yes, they have cross-gender sleeving. They might just imply it, actually, but it's implied pretty solidly. Particularly when you're getting out of jail and they just put you in whatever body they have handy.
No, no, that would be tight, yo. You just have to be all enlightened and shit. Then you reincarnate your way up to the bacteria that gets blasted into space by a meteorite, then you get sucked into the black hole, and then you can worry about worm-holing your way into the universe of perpetual friday afternoon on Mediteranean nude beaches. What's earth got? Nirvana? I'll take the hot chicks with the Latin word order and no tan lines over the unintelligible manic-depressive getting chased around by confused Persian guys with rocket lanchers.
The idea that there might not be any other life out there isn't sticking your head in the sand, it's a valid theory, just working from a different philosophy. Since there's no evidence that life has formed from scratch more than once, it's not impossible that it was a incredible, once-in-a-thousand-universe chance. If we knew exactly how it happened the first time, then you could figure out how likely something like that would be, but we have basically no information about any of this, on so many different levels. We have a reasonable bet that what happens once happens again, but if you're not willing to jump on that in every situation, you want some evidence.
The thing that would really matter with life on Mars is if you could prove that it started entirely independent from earth. If you just find something that gets to a common getentic root with earth bacteria 2 billion years ago, then you proved cross-pollenation between planets, which is cool, but if you find somthing else, that would be enough for me to feel pretty confident of us finding a green guy within a few dozen light years. I just don't feel confident making assumtions based on a statistical sample of one.
Actually, they've recently reinstated those Letters of Marque things that they used during the US revolution to encourage piracy (no pun intended) against British civilian ships. I dunno if they've issued any to anybody yet, but if you get one, you should be allowed to steal as many of Osama's CDs and rape as many of his girlfriends as you like. Actually, if the RIAA manages to get Kazaa kiddies declared terrorists anytime soon, maybe one of those will let you get free mp3s too.
AC must work for an IP law firm! After all, it's not the firm's fault if they have to listen to a year and a half's worth of mp3s to make sure they're not just random noise.
There was every chance of confusion. I'm sorry to see Freecraft go, but it really was a stupid name. FreeCiv is fine because the Civilization people don't have a consistent naming pattern along the lines of WarCiv, StarCiv, etc. If you walked up to some random gamer kid and said "Freecraft" he'd be thinking of a new Blizzard game, maybe sligtly put off by the prefix being "Free", but not much.
It sounds like he just started getting goons calling him a loser and got annoyed. I can understand that, every so often there's one of those Something Awful awful link-of-the-day things that isn't all that bad, and I kinda feel sorry for the flood of "UR teh geyh!" shit that's gonna burn up their guestbook/email whatever.
It sounds like the reporter changed the target of his story once he started writing, which isn't terribly unusual, especially for a human interest thing like this. Deacon was expecting an impersonal sort of thing that focused on the game, the Times prefered the personal angle, and Deacon didn't like the way his life came out when it was boiled down to a few hundred words. He'll get over it. I was misquoted as a random man-on-the-street in the NY Daily News a year or two ago, (seriously, not just my bad memory, they changed 5 or so words to a rambling paragraph on a tangentially-related subject) made me sound like a fucking illiterate baboon, but that's the way it goes. This is a bit worse, but it's not like he came across as THAT much of a loser in the article. Computer guy, got pinched by the bust, filled in free time with games. That's about 3/4 of/. for fuck's sake. I think the 13 year olds just got to him.
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Well, Green's at 96% and Dean's at 95%. I still think I like Dean better than Kucinich, but it's not like I'll be complaining if either takes down Bush. Now I just have to go get out the Chlorox and wash off whatever opinion I have that put Buchanan over McCain.
Really? What's wrong with it? Maybe it's just that I agreed with him on everything except a few of his comments about the death penalty and when he made fun of Kerry, but I didn't see where he looked cringeworthy. Tim does make a halfassed attept to pull a "world leader quiz"-esque kind of thing about the number of guys in Iraq, but Dean got it right anyway. That's the only thing I can catch where he looks like anything other than somebody ridiculously better at this than Tim Russert.
"...put all those children back in prison..."
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That wasn't so much a prison as it was an orphanage.
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Try to keep up, buddy.
Could somebody who's a Reagan fan please give me a quick run-down of their personality? Even if it's just something like "one word that describes you", it ought to be interesting.
Haven't we tried to get you guys to name something after him yet? I'm sure we'll get around to it. It's our national pastime. Airports, streets, ships, it doesn't really matter what it is, just so long as Reagan's name is attached to another object he had nothing whatsoever to do with. Unfortunately, we have laws against putting him on some things while he's still alive, but once he bites it, we can start retooling all those Soviet factories that used to churn out crap with Lennin on it. Universally Reagan-centered currency, entire cities laid out with nothing but numbered Reagan Streets and Reagan Avenues, it will be a beautiful thing, especially when we conquer Syria and rename it to Ronald Reagan.
Scariest thought: Reagan's Secret Service guy agrees with Reagan, they drive back to the White House with an explosive bullet in the President's heart, he dies, we go 3 years without a president because George Bush doesn't want to raise doubts about Reagan's competence by following the 25th ammendment.
Oh, while I was looking up which ammendment it was, I found GWB's medical history. Main problems seem to be choking on pretzels, crying, and colonic polyps. This is the greatest site ever. Check out Reagan too. "impossible: How can a 70 year old man have a full head of hair with no gray?"
John "Bill" Goodwin? Yeah. Like Jesse "Walter" Ventura. What the hell was so wrong with John Goodwin that he actually came up with another, blander name for himself? Spike Goodwin. Bubba Goodwin. Shit, Pooh-Bear Goodwin would be better than "Bill". Marriage must've drained his nickname creativity well.
The lack of control thing is really just because nobody bothers to try. It's like building a helicopter rotor and engine and just turning it on. It'll flip all the fuck over unless you tie it down or something. I'm guessing if you put little stablizer lifters on the sides of your big lifter you get lighting going in between them or other bad things, but if you did something like that, I can't see this being any more unstable than any other kind of propulsion.
BTW, if the Nebechunezzar runs on lifters, why does it need an EMP? Anything more conductive than a petrified Carrie-Anne Moss ought to be attracting ridiculous arcs by the time it gets within tense music distance, no?
Has anybody ever done anything with these things besides levitation? I remember years ago, the last time I heard about these things, thinking that somebody ought to turn one sideways and staple it to a matchbox car or something. It seems kinda boring to just keep floating something a foot off a table over and over.
The man is a philosopher!
Actually, he doe=, but only ==nce he =pooged on h== keyboard.
Haven't we seen enough of Joe Billionare's ass already?
Calm down, honey. He's just a Republican, he doesn't know any better.
Come on now, what gets us closer to a Martian colony than throwing old white guys to weather balloon height in the safest and least expensive possible way over and over and over again?
Yes, they have cross-gender sleeving. They might just imply it, actually, but it's implied pretty solidly. Particularly when you're getting out of jail and they just put you in whatever body they have handy.
No, no, that would be tight, yo. You just have to be all enlightened and shit. Then you reincarnate your way up to the bacteria that gets blasted into space by a meteorite, then you get sucked into the black hole, and then you can worry about worm-holing your way into the universe of perpetual friday afternoon on Mediteranean nude beaches. What's earth got? Nirvana? I'll take the hot chicks with the Latin word order and no tan lines over the unintelligible manic-depressive getting chased around by confused Persian guys with rocket lanchers.
The idea that there might not be any other life out there isn't sticking your head in the sand, it's a valid theory, just working from a different philosophy. Since there's no evidence that life has formed from scratch more than once, it's not impossible that it was a incredible, once-in-a-thousand-universe chance. If we knew exactly how it happened the first time, then you could figure out how likely something like that would be, but we have basically no information about any of this, on so many different levels. We have a reasonable bet that what happens once happens again, but if you're not willing to jump on that in every situation, you want some evidence.
The thing that would really matter with life on Mars is if you could prove that it started entirely independent from earth. If you just find something that gets to a common getentic root with earth bacteria 2 billion years ago, then you proved cross-pollenation between planets, which is cool, but if you find somthing else, that would be enough for me to feel pretty confident of us finding a green guy within a few dozen light years. I just don't feel confident making assumtions based on a statistical sample of one.
Actually, they've recently reinstated those Letters of Marque things that they used during the US revolution to encourage piracy (no pun intended) against British civilian ships. I dunno if they've issued any to anybody yet, but if you get one, you should be allowed to steal as many of Osama's CDs and rape as many of his girlfriends as you like. Actually, if the RIAA manages to get Kazaa kiddies declared terrorists anytime soon, maybe one of those will let you get free mp3s too.
700gigs...
~1-3 MB/min...
~$100-$200/billable hour...
AC must work for an IP law firm! After all, it's not the firm's fault if they have to listen to a year and a half's worth of mp3s to make sure they're not just random noise.
I'd assume to say that people need cars more than they need guns.
Clearly you haven't spent enough time around the NRA folks.
I had a number once that had paired numbers, I think it was 887-7332. I felt so lucky...
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Me: Yeah, it's 88-77-33-2.
Guy: Wait, what?
Me: 88. 77. 33. 2.
Guy: That's too many numbers!
Me:
I ended up just forgetting the nice easy-to-remember convenience of it and saying it normal after a few of those.
There was every chance of confusion. I'm sorry to see Freecraft go, but it really was a stupid name. FreeCiv is fine because the Civilization people don't have a consistent naming pattern along the lines of WarCiv, StarCiv, etc. If you walked up to some random gamer kid and said "Freecraft" he'd be thinking of a new Blizzard game, maybe sligtly put off by the prefix being "Free", but not much.
It sounds like he just started getting goons calling him a loser and got annoyed. I can understand that, every so often there's one of those Something Awful awful link-of-the-day things that isn't all that bad, and I kinda feel sorry for the flood of "UR teh geyh!" shit that's gonna burn up their guestbook/email whatever.
/. for fuck's sake. I think the 13 year olds just got to him.
It sounds like the reporter changed the target of his story once he started writing, which isn't terribly unusual, especially for a human interest thing like this. Deacon was expecting an impersonal sort of thing that focused on the game, the Times prefered the personal angle, and Deacon didn't like the way his life came out when it was boiled down to a few hundred words. He'll get over it. I was misquoted as a random man-on-the-street in the NY Daily News a year or two ago, (seriously, not just my bad memory, they changed 5 or so words to a rambling paragraph on a tangentially-related subject) made me sound like a fucking illiterate baboon, but that's the way it goes. This is a bit worse, but it's not like he came across as THAT much of a loser in the article. Computer guy, got pinched by the bust, filled in free time with games. That's about 3/4 of
I think Jim's head looks like a penis. If he takes offense to people saying his head looks like a penis, it confirms this too.
That's not making a point about judging people or anything, I just like to type penis. Penis, penis, penis, penis, penis, penis, penis, PENIS.
Everybody now...
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