Who the hell does that? Jesus that's freaky. So, I mean, if somebody says it's 5:00 you have to turn that into a little hand at 150 degrees and big hand at 0 degrees before you can figure out that it's time to go home? Christ. Maybe it's just that I was born post-digital watches but when I see 5:00 I just think it's five o'clock. No floating brain-angles for me, thank you.
NASA: "So, wait, were we supposed to be using meters for what we type in here, or was that just for the memos?" ION ENGINE: "MEEP ERROR" FRANCE: "Putain de merde! NASA you bastards! On est foutu! Aieeeee!"
At what point do we decide that we've done our best to look for it, but that life just never existed on Mars?
Probably whenever we decide that we've done our best to look for it, but that life just never existed on Mars.
Seriously, what did you think the point of the article was? They looked at what they'd done so far, decided that they hadn't done their best yet, decided what else they needed to do to have done their best, and then made a pretty little graphic to illustrate it for us.
What kinda idiot thinks Bush is the same as Hitler? We're trying to warn you that he's been posessed by Hitler's ghost. Bush=Hitler. Jesus, do we have to spell everything out for you?
...if they sell my viewing habits and realize that Firefly and Farscape are more watched than My Big Sweaty Boyfriend...
"Sir, Tivo says My Big Sweaty Boyfriend beat out Firefly, Farscape, and the State of the Union Address!" "Cancel the crap, fire the President! Order more Big Sweaty Boyfriends!"
But what do you use any of it for? Like, the camera. What do you do with it? Do you actually just shove rodents down your friend's pants and then send pictures to your parents, or is there some point the commercials don't point out?
See, that's your problem right there. I worked a Best Buy one summer, and so help me if those customers weren't the stupidest goddamn motherfuckers on earth. And not even "how many megahertz of hard drive do I need" stupid. I mean "does this 52" projection TV take double A batteries or triple As" stupid. Walking out the front door with display items because they "couldn't find the cash register" stupid.
I'm sure they're excited by camera phones, but they get just about as excited if you jingle your keys at them.
they might not have worried about it one way or another.
They wouldn't have. This is the 70s CIA we're talking about, the one that hired based on "better the evil we know". I mean, when Carter fired most of these guys they just stole some high explosives from the marines and started terrorist training camps in Lybia. I'm sure they give a shit about nuclear fallout.
God, I can't wait for that crazy motherfucker to go away.
Most of what he says there is reasonably accurate, but he also does a good job of leaving out most of the actual problems DDT has. He does a nicely comprehensive job documenting the predictably hysterical behavior of pop-scientists and the inefficacy of committees in doing anything useful, but jumping from there to advocating unbanning DDT is kinda insane.
DDT is poison. This is the whole point. It's also fat-soluable. One of the many things that Junky doesn't talk about is DDT's effect of bats. Bats were hit pretty damn hard by DDT, because bats migrate, and when bats migrate, they first load up on fat, which is full of DDT, so when they start burning their fat in migration season, the DDT level in their blood suddenly goes through the roof and they all die and end up all over your back yard.
Same thing happens to people. Like most fat-soluable chemicals, DDT is cumulative. In an environment saturated with DDT, like the US in 1970, you take in more than you pass. The.0026mg/kg body weight Junky mentions as a safe dose just means that it takes about 5 years of eating fish, vegetables, etc. for you to build up enough DDT in your fat to give you the effects of a good stroke. The trick to avoiding that is to never lose weight.
Based on just the numbers Junky has, you take a 250lb farmer who's been ingesting 17, 18mg/day of DDT on the farm, have him work hard for 25 years, have a heart attack when he hits 50, decide to try and come down to 180, succeed, and then suddenly he drops dead because he's been flooding his system with backed-up DDT at 400mg/day as he burns off the fat.
Regardless, the millions of lives are being saved anyway. We push DDT all over the 3rd world, it's not like Ghana's banned the stuff. The sad thing is we give them the same old shit that mosquitos have been selected to avoid and tolerate since facism was still cool instead of the vastly more effective, safer, and more stable products we've come up with in the intervening 1-1/4 centuries.
I actually lifted 90% of that from Cat and Girl as an excuse to link to a funny picture of Joseph Beuys, but it's nice to know how good I am at this pseudo-coherent art-babble stuff. They tell me my philosophy student impression's pretty good too.
Anyway, hate is a subjective qantity. What is hate? Are we using hate in the metaphysical sense? In that case, assuming even so much as to say that mankind is even capable of true hate is patently ridiculous. Even if we stick to common usage, hate would have to change depending on it's source. The hate a peaceful man might have for someone tagging his house is an entirely different thing from the hate of someone who's already hate-filled at the outset. Can you really compare the two in any real sense?
Then they just need to say "from the makers of Toy Story(TM) and Finding Nemo(TM) *Toy Story and Finding Nemo are registered trademarks of the Walt Disney Corporation".
It's the title of a movie, you can't control how people refer to your products. George Lucas has a trademark on everything from Alderaan to wookie but he still can't sue Kevin Smith for having his characters talk about Star Wars.
Isn't Johnny playing Lex Luthor in the Superman they're making? It feels like they have him making like 6 movies a year these days.
Incidentally, I can't find where it was I saw that, but searching for "johnny depp lex luthor" gets you just about the funniest article I've ever seen. Apparently Superman, Johnny Depp, Alec Baldwin, and Larry Flynt are all communists now.
Jesus fucking God, you are a genius. That's the funniest thing I've seen on the internet in forever. Fuck, I think I fractured my fucking sternum I'm laughing so damn hard. Bacon, Jesus. Christ, I'm still laughing.
The only reason for projecting objectivity onto a subjective phenomenon is human insecurity. The Tipherian so caught up in the worship of his own flawed mind he takes death over reality. The mindless chauvinism of elevating artifacts of thought to the level of mathematics reveals the absurdity of the whole exercise.
Johnny Depp's always good, but you have to admit that all he really did with the pirate was Raul Duke with an accent and more "savvy"s. With Bill Murray, this is the first time he's actually gotten arround to playing somebody other than Bill Murray. You have to give him points for effort.
I still want Johnny to win though, if only because finally somebody figured out that 1700s sea captains did not have perfect bleached white teeth! It's like that Val Kilmer movie where he's killing crazy zombie-lions in India or Africa or whatever. He's supposed to be an 1800s British construction worker and his teeth are actually fluorescing a little bit of a blue haze they're so white. They do a long shot from a mile off and you can still pick him out from the lens flare coming off his teeth.
You've got $2 billion, you have a house, a ranch, a stained glass window worth more than most people's lives, and your own naval base. What the hell else are you going to spend it on besides wrapping extras in green plastic and paying Samuel L. Jackson to beat them mercilessly with a purple broomstick?
I'm not happy about this "within our lifetime" shit. It always strikes me as a bad sign when world leaders start planning their schedules around my death.
The point of his reference was that the Reichstag was set on fire by (maybe) an anti-Hitler terrorist shortly after Hitler was named Chancellor. Since the terrorist (arrested on the scene, looking severely underdressed, beat-on and rather dazed, hence the maybe*) was a Communist party member, they used the fire as an excuse to arrest the entire party leadership and expell the Communist Reichstag members from office. Then the Reichstag Fire Decree suspended the German equivailent to the Bill of Rights and the rest is Gleichschaltung, as they say.
So, you know, Hitler=Ashcroft, US Department of Homeland Security=Nazi Department of Homeland Security, Bush=von Hindenberg or some crap like that.
The Nazis never used the Reichstag once they got into the swing of things, but it was used as a sort of last stand by some SS guys when the Russians showed up. The choice was pretty arbitrary, but Hitler's bunker did have an entrance nearby, and they did burn him up against the outside wall of it, so it's not entirely pure.
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Who the hell does that? Jesus that's freaky. So, I mean, if somebody says it's 5:00 you have to turn that into a little hand at 150 degrees and big hand at 0 degrees before you can figure out that it's time to go home? Christ. Maybe it's just that I was born post-digital watches but when I see 5:00 I just think it's five o'clock. No floating brain-angles for me, thank you.
Well, of course not. There are only two people up there. Manpower and air leaks never permit.
NASA: "So, wait, were we supposed to be using meters for what we type in here, or was that just for the memos?"
ION ENGINE: "MEEP ERROR"
FRANCE: "Putain de merde! NASA you bastards! On est foutu! Aieeeee!"
Now, now, be patient. Gotta wait for the Republican Convention.
At what point do we decide that we've done our best to look for it, but that life just never existed on Mars?
Probably whenever we decide that we've done our best to look for it, but that life just never existed on Mars.
Seriously, what did you think the point of the article was? They looked at what they'd done so far, decided that they hadn't done their best yet, decided what else they needed to do to have done their best, and then made a pretty little graphic to illustrate it for us.
Yes, but relying on those very, very stupid ppl will doom the colony to a history of mediocrity and poor leadership. You know, like Australia.
But the pilgrims were just a bunch of pathetic dorks that everyone hated, and... oh, right. Forget I said anything.
What kinda idiot thinks Bush is the same as Hitler? We're trying to warn you that he's been posessed by Hitler's ghost. Bush=Hitler. Jesus, do we have to spell everything out for you?
...if they sell my viewing habits and realize that Firefly and Farscape are more watched than My Big Sweaty Boyfriend...
"Sir, Tivo says My Big Sweaty Boyfriend beat out Firefly, Farscape, and the State of the Union Address!"
"Cancel the crap, fire the President! Order more Big Sweaty Boyfriends!"
But what do you use any of it for? Like, the camera. What do you do with it? Do you actually just shove rodents down your friend's pants and then send pictures to your parents, or is there some point the commercials don't point out?
I work at Best Buy...
See, that's your problem right there. I worked a Best Buy one summer, and so help me if those customers weren't the stupidest goddamn motherfuckers on earth. And not even "how many megahertz of hard drive do I need" stupid. I mean "does this 52" projection TV take double A batteries or triple As" stupid. Walking out the front door with display items because they "couldn't find the cash register" stupid.
I'm sure they're excited by camera phones, but they get just about as excited if you jingle your keys at them.
they might not have worried about it one way or another.
They wouldn't have. This is the 70s CIA we're talking about, the one that hired based on "better the evil we know". I mean, when Carter fired most of these guys they just stole some high explosives from the marines and started terrorist training camps in Lybia. I'm sure they give a shit about nuclear fallout.
God, I can't wait for that crazy motherfucker to go away.
.0026mg/kg body weight Junky mentions as a safe dose just means that it takes about 5 years of eating fish, vegetables, etc. for you to build up enough DDT in your fat to give you the effects of a good stroke. The trick to avoiding that is to never lose weight.
Most of what he says there is reasonably accurate, but he also does a good job of leaving out most of the actual problems DDT has. He does a nicely comprehensive job documenting the predictably hysterical behavior of pop-scientists and the inefficacy of committees in doing anything useful, but jumping from there to advocating unbanning DDT is kinda insane.
DDT is poison. This is the whole point. It's also fat-soluable. One of the many things that Junky doesn't talk about is DDT's effect of bats. Bats were hit pretty damn hard by DDT, because bats migrate, and when bats migrate, they first load up on fat, which is full of DDT, so when they start burning their fat in migration season, the DDT level in their blood suddenly goes through the roof and they all die and end up all over your back yard.
Same thing happens to people. Like most fat-soluable chemicals, DDT is cumulative. In an environment saturated with DDT, like the US in 1970, you take in more than you pass. The
Based on just the numbers Junky has, you take a 250lb farmer who's been ingesting 17, 18mg/day of DDT on the farm, have him work hard for 25 years, have a heart attack when he hits 50, decide to try and come down to 180, succeed, and then suddenly he drops dead because he's been flooding his system with backed-up DDT at 400mg/day as he burns off the fat.
Regardless, the millions of lives are being saved anyway. We push DDT all over the 3rd world, it's not like Ghana's banned the stuff. The sad thing is we give them the same old shit that mosquitos have been selected to avoid and tolerate since facism was still cool instead of the vastly more effective, safer, and more stable products we've come up with in the intervening 1-1/4 centuries.
I actually lifted 90% of that from Cat and Girl as an excuse to link to a funny picture of Joseph Beuys, but it's nice to know how good I am at this pseudo-coherent art-babble stuff. They tell me my philosophy student impression's pretty good too.
Anyway, hate is a subjective qantity. What is hate? Are we using hate in the metaphysical sense? In that case, assuming even so much as to say that mankind is even capable of true hate is patently ridiculous. Even if we stick to common usage, hate would have to change depending on it's source. The hate a peaceful man might have for someone tagging his house is an entirely different thing from the hate of someone who's already hate-filled at the outset. Can you really compare the two in any real sense?
Then they just need to say "from the makers of Toy Story(TM) and Finding Nemo(TM) *Toy Story and Finding Nemo are registered trademarks of the Walt Disney Corporation".
It's the title of a movie, you can't control how people refer to your products. George Lucas has a trademark on everything from Alderaan to wookie but he still can't sue Kevin Smith for having his characters talk about Star Wars.
Isn't Johnny playing Lex Luthor in the Superman they're making? It feels like they have him making like 6 movies a year these days.
Incidentally, I can't find where it was I saw that, but searching for "johnny depp lex luthor" gets you just about the funniest article I've ever seen. Apparently Superman, Johnny Depp, Alec Baldwin, and Larry Flynt are all communists now.
Jesus fucking God, you are a genius. That's the funniest thing I've seen on the internet in forever. Fuck, I think I fractured my fucking sternum I'm laughing so damn hard. Bacon, Jesus. Christ, I'm still laughing.
Four cables. Two on top, two on the bottom. Won't solve the wind problem completely, but it'll make it slightly less catostrophic.
There are no experts in art, only failed artists.
The only reason for projecting objectivity onto a subjective phenomenon is human insecurity. The Tipherian so caught up in the worship of his own flawed mind he takes death over reality. The mindless chauvinism of elevating artifacts of thought to the level of mathematics reveals the absurdity of the whole exercise.
Besides, you're not really and expert on something until you can explain it to roadkill.
Now that's Jerk City dialogue if I've ever heard it.
Johnny Depp's always good, but you have to admit that all he really did with the pirate was Raul Duke with an accent and more "savvy"s. With Bill Murray, this is the first time he's actually gotten arround to playing somebody other than Bill Murray. You have to give him points for effort.
I still want Johnny to win though, if only because finally somebody figured out that 1700s sea captains did not have perfect bleached white teeth! It's like that Val Kilmer movie where he's killing crazy zombie-lions in India or Africa or whatever. He's supposed to be an 1800s British construction worker and his teeth are actually fluorescing a little bit of a blue haze they're so white. They do a long shot from a mile off and you can still pick him out from the lens flare coming off his teeth.
So Grandpa's got an H2?
You've got $2 billion, you have a house, a ranch, a stained glass window worth more than most people's lives, and your own naval base. What the hell else are you going to spend it on besides wrapping extras in green plastic and paying Samuel L. Jackson to beat them mercilessly with a purple broomstick?
I'm not happy about this "within our lifetime" shit. It always strikes me as a bad sign when world leaders start planning their schedules around my death.
The point of his reference was that the Reichstag was set on fire by (maybe) an anti-Hitler terrorist shortly after Hitler was named Chancellor. Since the terrorist (arrested on the scene, looking severely underdressed, beat-on and rather dazed, hence the maybe*) was a Communist party member, they used the fire as an excuse to arrest the entire party leadership and expell the Communist Reichstag members from office. Then the Reichstag Fire Decree suspended the German equivailent to the Bill of Rights and the rest is Gleichschaltung, as they say.
So, you know, Hitler=Ashcroft, US Department of Homeland Security=Nazi Department of Homeland Security, Bush=von Hindenberg or some crap like that.
The Nazis never used the Reichstag once they got into the swing of things, but it was used as a sort of last stand by some SS guys when the Russians showed up. The choice was pretty arbitrary, but Hitler's bunker did have an entrance nearby, and they did burn him up against the outside wall of it, so it's not entirely pure.
*yeah, ok, the Nazis did it