So the point is still the comparison isn't entirely fair. Covering 60% of the population of the US requires a great deal more than covering that small chunk of Canada.
Most of it is empty. The rest of the population is crammed almost as tight as the other countries. "Neighbors to the North" is right; over half of their population lives fairly close to their southern border.
Shamelessly stolen reference link from someone else: Canada's Population Density Reading the caption reveals that 60% of their population lives in a tiny fraction of their land -- "a thin belt of land representing 2.2% of the land between Windsor, Ontario and Quebec City."
For me, the appeal to Kevin Smith is that he looks at Hollywood with an intentional sell out point of view. I feel that his art is that he can "sell out" to such an extent that he manages to lampoon all of Hollywood, internet and pop culture, as well as deep stereotypes all at once.
I think he has that Python-esque talent of taking a joke too far, then taking farther and farther until it finally wraps around to funny again. An example is the profanity of Jay. He's SO profane I think you start to realize it's just words and the words don't mean anything once they are so over-used. Additionally, the inside Hollywood pandering is evident in all his films, taken to extremes just for the fans in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. I think the humor works because he KNOWS he's being shameless. It's raw, unpretentious, lamblasting.
To quote Homer, "It's true. It's true, it's funny because it's true!"
Sigh, from the quote above, highlighted for your viewing pleasure:
Kennedy did not report the incident for 10 hours. Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended sentence.
Flamebait eh? More like AC bait. By his own version of events he is responsible for her death. Quoteth the Wiki:
After a party on Chappaquiddick Island on July 18, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy drove his 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88 off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger and aide, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. Kennedy did not report the incident for 10 hours. Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended sentence. This incident has haunted his reputation for the 35 years since its transpiring. Senator Kennedy's driver's license had expired on February 22, 1969 and had not been renewed. Although driving with an expired license was only a misdemeanor, it did provide the evidence of negligence needed to prove a manslaughter charge in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
It's not particularly shocking that someone would believe that manslaughter with a suspended sentence is too light of a punishment for someone driving drunk without a license who let's a friend drown while he sleeps it off to avoid being charged with a DUI.
Why's that? Because they refused to let a known murderer on the plane? Sounds to me like Homeland Security is doing what the Justice Department should have done a long, long time ago.
Well that's not very useful is it. So your Windows doesn't come with IE and a calculator, or your distro didn't come with a couple application CDs? Didn't your Mac come with all the applications that are holy and rightous in the eyes of Apple?
I think you'll find a large chunk of us install our OS and a good set of applications as part of one process, even if technically the OS is a half a tick of a progress bar before the application install really begins.
While I appreciate your sentiment (I've been dying for a Wrong: -1), let me remind you of another applicable quote for you: "Never bray back at a jackass, lest people be unable to tell the difference."
If it's a real allergy, allergy injections are highly effective, and were just the focus of a 20+ year that showed they maintain their effectiveness for a very long time.
I bet you're one of those that reboots your computer every time the tech support guy tells you, aren't you?
You do have a point in that not everything is known about the human body, but the perception that he's being intellectually lazy isn't fair based on the circumstances presented. The simple fact of the matter is that people very rarely know exactly what is wrong with them until it's PROPERLY diagnosed by a physician and they recognize the symptoms again in the future.
Case in point (n=1, so salt.amount="grain"):
My wife has lived her whole life with migraines. Her family history is that her mother has severe allergies to flowers and plants. My wife tends to get migraines more often in her time of the month. She has been on birth control because of various problems. When she gets the headaches they are connected with severe congestion with colored discharges from her nasal and sinus passages. A cat scan revealed she has an unusually narrow (forgive me for not knowin the correct label) upper nose passage. Initial diagnosis: Sinus infections caused by allergens collecting in her nasal passages. Treatment with migraine medicine reduces the effect.
Sounds like a good diagnosis right? It was an acceptable one, except the REAL answer turned out to be secret option "D": She had undiagnosed bipolar disorder(2). Treatment with anticonvulsants and antipsychotics for the bipolar almost completely removed all her headaches and associated flulike symptoms and she hasn't had a sinus infection for over a year. Adding a small amount of Allegra for her known dog allergies fixed her problem entirely.
My point is we both KNEW she allergies and they were causing her headaches. She KNEW how to self diagnose a sinus infection. What we couldn't possibly identify ourselves was the allergies were aggravated by an underlying mental problem, and it wasn't until she took her doctor's advice to see a p-doc that we were able to actually fix them.
It's a long way of saying you can BOTH be right. One doctor is often not enough, so trust your doctor's referrals to psychiatric care.
They won't need to. You should have been in Philadelphia in 2000. The PD there was the best anyone could have asked for. Like many protests, it started out peaceful and ended up violent or stupid. The fact of the matter is republican or democrat doesn't matter much in a mob; getting that many agitated people who tend to be younger and probably easily impressionable and it's a magnet for trouble.
It is, perhaps, a stereotype that most protests are filled with people between the ages of 18 to 25, but from what I've seen it's largely true, with older people leading them. It makes sense though, that's the group of people who have the time to leave their lives for a couple weeks, go accross the country, and protest. They are also the ones willing to live in the streets for a bit and have the energy to keep up that kind of passion. They are also the least likely to actually vote, and the most likely to make an uninformed decision without listening to the rationale on both sides.
Whether or not you agree with me, it's these perceptions developed largely by actually being forced to live in an area where protests were supposed to be "sticking up for me" that automatically makes me label protestors as idiots, no matter what they are out protesting. Republican, Democrat, Antiabortion, prochoice, environmentalist, antiwar, -- all of it is better served by discussion, not screaming. There are few instances I can think of where a protest would do more good than a well written letter.
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Now THAT is an excellent question.
So the point is still the comparison isn't entirely fair. Covering 60% of the population of the US requires a great deal more than covering that small chunk of Canada.
Most of it is empty. The rest of the population is crammed almost as tight as the other countries. "Neighbors to the North" is right; over half of their population lives fairly close to their southern border.
Shamelessly stolen reference link from someone else: Canada's Population Density Reading the caption reveals that 60% of their population lives in a tiny fraction of their land -- "a thin belt of land representing 2.2% of the land between Windsor, Ontario and Quebec City."
equal-opportunity despite
Despite what? Oddly appropriate that your sig is Why can't we moderate posts "incoherent"?
It boggles my mind that you consider this equivalent to sticking a new pair of AAAs in a handy slot in on the back of a device.
Don't let your mother catch you playing 'Super Turkey Turbo Puncher'. She'll tell you it'll make you go blind.
Self-conflagration is easier to remember later. It gives you more memory bang for your buck.
So how much does it weigh?
For me, the appeal to Kevin Smith is that he looks at Hollywood with an intentional sell out point of view. I feel that his art is that he can "sell out" to such an extent that he manages to lampoon all of Hollywood, internet and pop culture, as well as deep stereotypes all at once.
I think he has that Python-esque talent of taking a joke too far, then taking farther and farther until it finally wraps around to funny again. An example is the profanity of Jay. He's SO profane I think you start to realize it's just words and the words don't mean anything once they are so over-used. Additionally, the inside Hollywood pandering is evident in all his films, taken to extremes just for the fans in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. I think the humor works because he KNOWS he's being shameless. It's raw, unpretentious, lamblasting.
To quote Homer, "It's true. It's true, it's funny because it's true!"
Sigh, from the quote above, highlighted for your viewing pleasure:
Kennedy did not report the incident for 10 hours. Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended sentence.
Doesn't that count as his version to you?
Flamebait eh? More like AC bait. By his own version of events he is responsible for her death. Quoteth the Wiki:
After a party on Chappaquiddick Island on July 18, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy drove his 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88 off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger and aide, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. Kennedy did not report the incident for 10 hours. Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident and received a suspended sentence. This incident has haunted his reputation for the 35 years since its transpiring. Senator Kennedy's driver's license had expired on February 22, 1969 and had not been renewed. Although driving with an expired license was only a misdemeanor, it did provide the evidence of negligence needed to prove a manslaughter charge in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
It's not particularly shocking that someone would believe that manslaughter with a suspended sentence is too light of a punishment for someone driving drunk without a license who let's a friend drown while he sleeps it off to avoid being charged with a DUI.
Yeah, Iowa doesn't get much lift.
Why's that? Because they refused to let a known murderer on the plane? Sounds to me like Homeland Security is doing what the Justice Department should have done a long, long time ago.
Actually yes. Look here: and set Funny to -6. Just keep in mind some stuff that's interesting get's modded Funny and you won't see it.
Well that's not very useful is it. So your Windows doesn't come with IE and a calculator, or your distro didn't come with a couple application CDs? Didn't your Mac come with all the applications that are holy and rightous in the eyes of Apple?
I think you'll find a large chunk of us install our OS and a good set of applications as part of one process, even if technically the OS is a half a tick of a progress bar before the application install really begins.
While I appreciate your sentiment (I've been dying for a Wrong: -1), let me remind you of another applicable quote for you: "Never bray back at a jackass, lest people be unable to tell the difference."
If it's a real allergy, allergy injections are highly effective, and were just the focus of a 20+ year that showed they maintain their effectiveness for a very long time.
I bet you're one of those that reboots your computer every time the tech support guy tells you, aren't you?
You do have a point in that not everything is known about the human body, but the perception that he's being intellectually lazy isn't fair based on the circumstances presented. The simple fact of the matter is that people very rarely know exactly what is wrong with them until it's PROPERLY diagnosed by a physician and they recognize the symptoms again in the future.
Case in point (n=1, so salt.amount="grain"):
My wife has lived her whole life with migraines. Her family history is that her mother has severe allergies to flowers and plants. My wife tends to get migraines more often in her time of the month. She has been on birth control because of various problems. When she gets the headaches they are connected with severe congestion with colored discharges from her nasal and sinus passages. A cat scan revealed she has an unusually narrow (forgive me for not knowin the correct label) upper nose passage. Initial diagnosis: Sinus infections caused by allergens collecting in her nasal passages. Treatment with migraine medicine reduces the effect.
Sounds like a good diagnosis right? It was an acceptable one, except the REAL answer turned out to be secret option "D": She had undiagnosed bipolar disorder(2). Treatment with anticonvulsants and antipsychotics for the bipolar almost completely removed all her headaches and associated flulike symptoms and she hasn't had a sinus infection for over a year. Adding a small amount of Allegra for her known dog allergies fixed her problem entirely.
My point is we both KNEW she allergies and they were causing her headaches. She KNEW how to self diagnose a sinus infection. What we couldn't possibly identify ourselves was the allergies were aggravated by an underlying mental problem, and it wasn't until she took her doctor's advice to see a p-doc that we were able to actually fix them.
It's a long way of saying you can BOTH be right. One doctor is often not enough, so trust your doctor's referrals to psychiatric care.
Try bringing a bucket of cat.
Oh well, better to go along with it. After all, you know what they say: The proof is in the pudding.
Is that supposed to make it better, or worse?
I'd be more worried about most people here needing to replace their keyboards after watching something like that.
They won't need to. You should have been in Philadelphia in 2000. The PD there was the best anyone could have asked for. Like many protests, it started out peaceful and ended up violent or stupid. The fact of the matter is republican or democrat doesn't matter much in a mob; getting that many agitated people who tend to be younger and probably easily impressionable and it's a magnet for trouble.
It is, perhaps, a stereotype that most protests are filled with people between the ages of 18 to 25, but from what I've seen it's largely true, with older people leading them. It makes sense though, that's the group of people who have the time to leave their lives for a couple weeks, go accross the country, and protest. They are also the ones willing to live in the streets for a bit and have the energy to keep up that kind of passion. They are also the least likely to actually vote, and the most likely to make an uninformed decision without listening to the rationale on both sides.
Whether or not you agree with me, it's these perceptions developed largely by actually being forced to live in an area where protests were supposed to be "sticking up for me" that automatically makes me label protestors as idiots, no matter what they are out protesting. Republican, Democrat, Antiabortion, prochoice, environmentalist, antiwar, -- all of it is better served by discussion, not screaming. There are few instances I can think of where a protest would do more good than a well written letter.
One sentence? Must be some of that new math.
Lameness filter killed my attempt at Shakespeare in Perl. How rude.
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