Now if only someone could have came up with a reason I needed to know the actual dates of historical events I'd be all set. I mean sure it's important to know what happened in the past, but is it really necessary to know it happened Tuesday 24, February 1903? What's the point of memorizing dates when the point of history is to know what happened and the sequence of events that lead to it. Yet there it was on every history test "What days and year did Jean Carteaux fight against the rebels during the french revolution?", WHO FUCKING CARES!? It's not enough to know who he is and what he did when you don't even care about the French revolution in the first place!? What possible application does knowing he defeated a small royalist ProvenÃal rebel force July 16, 1793 have?
why there are all these sanctions against Iran. OK: I know that the government does not always treat its citizens nicely, but there are plenty of other countries that act in much the same way and they are ignored; they have a nuclear programme, but so have many other countries and some of these other countries have admitted to producing or using bombs (eg USA); they have interfered in other countries and helped to support ''rebels'', but so have others (eg USA, UK).
So if they are not doing worse than other countries including us, then what is it all about ? I do note that they are sitting on plenty of oil, so are they the next Iraq ? Better ask Cheney I suppose!
They humiliated the U.S. 33 years ago.
Oh, and that whole threatening to destroy Israel thing. Strangely, the Jews take threats of genocide against them very seriously.
Exhibit A apparently the Earth's magnetic field traps anti-protons from the Sun. We just have to go collect them. If you can't be bothered to get up off your collective asses, well, you deserve to go extinct. Oh, and they're a renewable resource (at least for a few billion years) since they are constantly replenished from the Sun.
Exhibit B and Exhibit C -- harvest solar power, generate more antimatter. Yeah, kind of wasteful, but you fucking monkeys aren't fully utilizing Sol's bounty anyhow. I'm sure you'll figure out ways to improve efficiency with experience.
Honestly, you're all a bunch of lazy whiners, content to prey upon each other with arbitrage rather than applying yourself to actual productive work that would generate real wealth. The galaxy doesn't need the likes of you.
Nobody has time to read all that lawyer-spewn horseshit, not even lawyers. And the lawyers only look at it when they decide they want a way to weasel out of whatever they "agreed" to. EULAs, along with forcing everybody to accept arbitration just goes to show how rotten our system has become. If you're going to rob me, at least have the courtesy of sticking a gun in my face so I have reasonable cause to remove you from the gene pool.
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The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep.
You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum.
You say Dingos, and I say "AAAAHAHHG WILD DOGS ARE EATING OFF MY FACE!!!"
who's really going to believe an American dictionary on the proper plural form of an Austrailailailain word?!
You're not fooling anybody. That is obviously the unholy spawn of one of the elder things.
Now if only someone could have came up with a reason I needed to know the actual dates of historical events I'd be all set. I mean sure it's important to know what happened in the past, but is it really necessary to know it happened Tuesday 24, February 1903? What's the point of memorizing dates when the point of history is to know what happened and the sequence of events that lead to it. Yet there it was on every history test "What days and year did Jean Carteaux fight against the rebels during the french revolution?", WHO FUCKING CARES!? It's not enough to know who he is and what he did when you don't even care about the French revolution in the first place!? What possible application does knowing he defeated a small royalist ProvenÃal rebel force July 16, 1793 have?
James Burke wants a word with you after class.
I blame Neil Degrasse Tyson for all this.
why there are all these sanctions against Iran. OK: I know that the government does not always treat its citizens nicely, but there are plenty of other countries that act in much the same way and they are ignored; they have a nuclear programme, but so have many other countries and some of these other countries have admitted to producing or using bombs (eg USA); they have interfered in other countries and helped to support ''rebels'', but so have others (eg USA, UK).
So if they are not doing worse than other countries including us, then what is it all about ? I do note that they are sitting on plenty of oil, so are they the next Iraq ? Better ask Cheney I suppose!
They humiliated the U.S. 33 years ago.
Oh, and that whole threatening to destroy Israel thing. Strangely, the Jews take threats of genocide against them very seriously.
[citation provided], although the article points out some recent doubts about the issue.
yeah, come back and tell me you feel the same way after some sleep-deprived grad student overlooks a rogue asteroid that flattens your state.
I say sequester carbon in plankton. Then salmon can sequester the plankton. Then sequester that there salmon to my plate, forthwith!
"How to steal a spaceshuttle"?!
How to Kill a Mockingbird seems more plausible.
Meanwhile some feller with the ludicrously unlikely name of Elon Musk is building ICBMs right in plain sight.
Watch out, Apple.. we have a FILE SYSTEM!!!
You know who else had a filesystem?...
Exhibit A apparently the Earth's magnetic field traps anti-protons from the Sun. We just have to go collect them. If you can't be bothered to get up off your collective asses, well, you deserve to go extinct. Oh, and they're a renewable resource (at least for a few billion years) since they are constantly replenished from the Sun.
Exhibit B and Exhibit C -- harvest solar power, generate more antimatter. Yeah, kind of wasteful, but you fucking monkeys aren't fully utilizing Sol's bounty anyhow. I'm sure you'll figure out ways to improve efficiency with experience.
Honestly, you're all a bunch of lazy whiners, content to prey upon each other with arbitrage rather than applying yourself to actual productive work that would generate real wealth. The galaxy doesn't need the likes of you.
I don't see why her being a MMORPG player is a big deal.
We just recently survived having Leroy Jenkins as Commander in Chief. How much worse could she be?
Against Stupidity, even the gods themselves labor in vain.
lets see how many mods perceive the relevance to the reference
Dyson doesn't have spheres, Dyson has balls !
But nothing sucks like an Elecrolux.
oh wow, a low,low UID of 125, and he doesn't seem to know Scott Adams was writing adventure game s way before Douglas Adams wrote his game.
/., way to fail at HTML, just jamming random spaces into things.
goddamnit
to think that somehow the US deserves seats on the Soyuz because we helped build the ISS.
You didn't build that.
The number of manned space stations launched by the USA alone is 1, the number by Russia/USSR is 7, and China 1 (so far)
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Who the hell is so stupid that they would just do what a random person calling them tells them to do?
Apparently an alarming number of fast food restaurant managers.
scammers - total idiots are our best customers
They buy Nokia, and now they think they're Google?!
There have been cases where large scale drug rings have used MMO's for communication in the past, its not that far fetched.
Ohhhh, that's why Walter keeps Jesse around.
that, and killing people.
Yes, why not build spacecraft there? Because we don't have a trillion dollars to spare? That might be it.
really?!
Nobody has time to read all that lawyer-spewn horseshit, not even lawyers. And the lawyers only look at it when they decide they want a way to weasel out of whatever they "agreed" to.
EULAs, along with forcing everybody to accept arbitration just goes to show how rotten our system has become. If you're going to rob me, at least have the courtesy of sticking a gun in my face so I have reasonable cause to remove you from the gene pool.