Maybe they took a look at how we treat the rest of the planet's people.
We don't help the thousands of people dying of thirst in Africa. Unemployed drug addicts are put in prison instead of rehab. We'll dump our waste where our kids will find it. We use slave labour to make our toys.
Then they decided that our overall planetary mores are to not help, and they are respecting the wishes of our species.
Or maybe we're the equivalent of goldfish, except not as cute and we can't be housebroken.
I'm just waiting for China to announce a permanent moonbase.
Then we'll suddenly be really fucking interested in going back real fucking fast.
Until then, Russia can gum-flap all they want, there's no political ($$$) motivation to go back. Sure, it'll pay off, but not before the next election cycle, so who gives a rat's ass? I mean, yeah, everybody but the people holding the purse strings.
Episode I: "So who is this pilot, master?" "His name is Skywalker. He's an ace for the Republic, amassing an incredible array of kills. We're to award him a medal." "Sending two Jedi is a great honour."
Then the two Jedi meet the adult Anakin, realize he's force sensitive and off the charts, so they start training him in secret. Darth Maul kills Liam Neeson.
Episode II: Anakin falls in love, Jedi council encourages the marriage. Padme gets assassinated and then Anakin finds out there's a Sith way to bring people back. He goes to Korriban, learns from the Sith there, and brings Padme back.
They have two kids, the Jedi have to kill Padme and the kids because they're all Sithy. Obi-wan fakes the kids deaths instead.
I've been married for almost 14 years now. The interesting thing about marriage is this:
The entire ceremony -- all of it, the food, the tables, the dresses, the rings, the suits, the flowers, the guests, the vows -- means absolutely nothing at all. Nothing.
The actual marriage is when you sign the certificate and it gets countersigned and witnessed.
So the whole kerfuffle boils down to "we don't want gays to sign a piece of paper".
In regards to your signature: There are somewhere between 12 and 27 million slaves right now. China, an ostensibly Communist country, has over a billion inhabitants.
The Nazis and American independence, those are valid points... except for the increasingly fascist rules the US keeps passing and forcing on other countries at the behest of corporations.
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Okay, those of us who know how to build explosives will leave you to your zombie-infested future.
I'm shaking in my boots over this.
You see, I'm a military contractor and I know the ins and outs of several weapons systems.
Maybe they took a look at how we treat the rest of the planet's people.
We don't help the thousands of people dying of thirst in Africa. Unemployed drug addicts are put in prison instead of rehab. We'll dump our waste where our kids will find it. We use slave labour to make our toys.
Then they decided that our overall planetary mores are to not help, and they are respecting the wishes of our species.
Or maybe we're the equivalent of goldfish, except not as cute and we can't be housebroken.
I meant breast implants.
Still cheaper than HP's price on cyan.
I will get surgery and wear a wig if I get to live on a moon base.
I'm just waiting for China to announce a permanent moonbase.
Then we'll suddenly be really fucking interested in going back real fucking fast.
Until then, Russia can gum-flap all they want, there's no political ($$$) motivation to go back. Sure, it'll pay off, but not before the next election cycle, so who gives a rat's ass? I mean, yeah, everybody but the people holding the purse strings.
Episode I:
"So who is this pilot, master?"
"His name is Skywalker. He's an ace for the Republic, amassing an incredible array of kills. We're to award him a medal."
"Sending two Jedi is a great honour."
Then the two Jedi meet the adult Anakin, realize he's force sensitive and off the charts, so they start training him in secret. Darth Maul kills Liam Neeson.
Episode II:
Anakin falls in love, Jedi council encourages the marriage. Padme gets assassinated and then Anakin finds out there's a Sith way to bring people back. He goes to Korriban, learns from the Sith there, and brings Padme back.
They have two kids, the Jedi have to kill Padme and the kids because they're all Sithy. Obi-wan fakes the kids deaths instead.
Episode III:
Darth Vader goes on a Jedi-hunt.
My wife keeps asking the same question.
I've been married for almost 14 years now. The interesting thing about marriage is this:
The entire ceremony -- all of it, the food, the tables, the dresses, the rings, the suits, the flowers, the guests, the vows -- means absolutely nothing at all. Nothing.
The actual marriage is when you sign the certificate and it gets countersigned and witnessed.
So the whole kerfuffle boils down to "we don't want gays to sign a piece of paper".
Lamarkable.
TERRORISTS, you America-hating asshole.
I mean, fuck, if everyone on the planes had a handgun, 9/11 wouldn't have happened.
There'd be no TSA. No PATRIOT act. No erosion of the constitution by paranoiacs or despots cashing in on fear.
No Americans would have died in Iraq or Afghanistan. Take another trillion dollars off the debt.
Mythbusters showed -- despite what the movies love to show -- a plane won't go into explosive decompression via a bullet hole.
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Netflix doesn't have porn.
In regards to your signature:
There are somewhere between 12 and 27 million slaves right now.
China, an ostensibly Communist country, has over a billion inhabitants.
The Nazis and American independence, those are valid points... except for the increasingly fascist rules the US keeps passing and forcing on other countries at the behest of corporations.
If the UPC starts with 9, it's organic.
If it starts with 8, it's GM.
If there's another number, it's conventionally farmed.
For once, lazy programming helps slashdotters.
That's okay, everybody hates themselves at least part of the time.
Do you want a hug or some whiskey?
Pfft, hating M$ and F-UB are SO mainstream.
I hate slashdot.
Also, they didn't want it took look like a Democrat saved the Internet.
Heh, I can totally tell you're posting from work and you're afraid the IT department will rat you out on your next review.
It's not a superfluous apostrophe, it's an exoplanet.
This bill needs to be decimated, and the best way to do that is to take the circus and free bread away from the plebs.
You want them to take out every tenth word? 0_o
Maybe Prometheus' Challenge had nothing to do with atomics. Maybe all along it's been how we can stop ourselves from roasting the planet to a cinder.
Fucking Carnot cycle, how does it work?
Fuck that waiting, I'm going to play it right...
now.