Frankly, if the whole point of the USA is now simply to promote its own survival and prosperity, maybe it should leave the Earth.
Hey, many of us would like to. We're not all born again Christians here, ya know. And as impatient as we get with our own woo-woos, the brain challeneged masses of the rest of the world are even more wearying, especially those who *think* they are smart and informed. Oh, for pity's sake, if only there were a way to make you holier-than-thou types around the globe realize what contemptable ignoramuses you are. You'd ritualistically kill yourselves in utter despair and disbelief that you could have been so mindless.
If I could leave for Space Colony "John Galt" I wouldn't hesitate, look back or shed a tear when this smelly dungheap finally consumes itself in ideological death and self-mongrelization. Have fun returning to the Bronze Age would be my final message to the Earth.
I'd like to believe that Kerry administration would have taken a different approach...
Kerry: Hey, guys, we need to build a basic ICBM defense system now that Iran, North Korea, Syria, Palestine, Madagascar, The Vatican, Greenland and Shanklin Isle Of Wight all have nuclear tipped missiles as a result of me being the presidential equivalent of a wet noodle.
France: No. If we refuse you, Al-Queda has generously offered to man our nuclear plants after the last nationwide strike for twenty-seven more weeks of vacation time.
Kerry: Oh, c'mon guys! I'm very sensitive in my war on terror. I made a personal apology to Osama for the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the state of Pennsylvania getting in the way of those planes his associates borrowed.
Germany: No. The terror factions promise to kill only weak men, ugly women and retarted children if we oppose you on this. The Fatherland will be pure again. I'm sorry, did I say that last bit out loud?
Kerry: Pleeeeeeeeeese?
Spain: No. Islamists are holding my precious pet dog Pepito hostage. I must comply with their wishes. They also promise to only enslave 20,000 children a year if we capitulate.
Kerry: Oh, poopie!
UN Secretary General Saddam Hussein: For such a vulgar outburst, Presibitch Kerry, you will nuke another one of your own cities in penance, and you will wear that pink lacy number tonight when I sodomize you.
Kerry: Oh, all right. Horseknickers!
Hussein: Oops! That's two cities now, and the six inch heels.
When you can't even fly to your space station on your own.
Non sequitur. Space based weapons will be, for the most part, unmanned, and we seem to have that type of flight pretty well figured out.
It's time for Russians to renew their anti-satellite program. Yeah, the one that they've developed back in the "Star Wars" day to shoot satellites down using a high-intensity military laser sitting on the ground.
I think you're still fighting the last war, there, General.
This reminds me of that joke about NASA developing a ball pen that would function in the state of weightlessnes. Three years and a hundred million dollars later they've developed such a pen. In the meanwhile Russians used pencils.
It's also urban myth. A guy named Paul Fisher developed a pen like that on his own, and sold them to NASA for about $3 each. Pencils were used on the Mercury and Gemini flights. The pens were used afterward because [1] they are more relable and [2] you don't get bits of pencil lead floating around in zero-gee.
Why does root beer foam up a whole lot when you initially pour it over ice, but then subesequent pourings don't foam as much, even though it's fresh root beer hitting the same ice?
See, I don't get that claim. I keep hearing about how it's de facto illegal to criticize Bush (as some people describe it), but I turn on the political talkies, and I hear endless criticism of Bush. I see endless web site devoted to every anti-Bush idea, from valid criticism to woo-woo conspiracies. Oddly, those site utterly fail to mysteriously vanish. Nobody has made anything off limits. Did you watch the Democratic convention? Has Michael Moore been sent to Gitmo?
What I see is a bunch of ideological wonk who appear to have this burning need to live under an oppressive regime and be heroic subversives. It's like some bizarre variation of Munchausen By Proxy Syndrome, except the imagine the country is sick instead of a child or relative.
And, again, this is coming from a Kerry voter (although I'm an independnet). This "oh, Bush is the incarnation of evil and his voters are troglodytes" approach IS NOT GOING TO WORK!!! You people keep it up and you'll be even more marginalized in 2008.
Honest criticism is American and wholesome and apple pie and all that.
But too many people these days are just making shit up out of the vacuum, and stuff that is so obviously stupid you can't help but start to question their motives and, in some cases, their sanity. This applies equally to the woo-woos who think Bush planned 9/11 and the hoo-hahs who think Clinton had dozens of people whacked in Arkansas.
Personally, I think they are just trapped in ideological singularities that they have constructed in their minds as an alternative to dealing wth the true complexity of the world, but, hey, that's just me.
The mark of a good game is when funny things happen that were unplanned. The funniest moment for me in Simpson's H&R (and I realize this is subjective) was when, playing as Marge, I ran right over the little schoolgirl at full speed and sent the kid scraping along the road for hundreds of feet, and Marge just said, "Oops!"
And the other night in GTA:San Andreas when I was trying to escape the po-leece, and I drove off a cliff.:-)
I had a similar reaction. It looked cool from the poster and some quick snippets early on when you couldn't tell what it was about. My mind leaped ahead and imagined an alternate Earth story about some mad genius/millionaire bent on running a rail line over the North Pole. The kid's an orphan hired to shovel coal. Maybe they disturb some under-ice civilization of Lovecraftian monsters. Work the Tunguska event into it somewhere.
Then I saw it was a fucking kid's movie about Santa fucking Claus with fucking underpants gnones running around. Shit.:-(
Sky Captain had the correct idea, even if the execution wasn't perfect (I can forgive it for being a pioneer).
Real human actors. CGI everything else.
Oddly, an effective example of this is Drew Carrey's Green Screen Show. They do some improv skits, and then animate around it in post production. It works much better than I expected it to, and is a good example of the above rule. They actually animate clothing onto the people.
Earth's glaciers are not melting. They are migrating to Mars and repowering the rovers by sculpting The Big Valley starring Linda Evans as Audra Barkley.
Yes. I've learned that I'm a man and sometimes want hot, wet, sloppy, screaming monkey sex on kitchen tabletops and over the hood of a car without having to deal with "you men just don't understand women" or "do I look fat in this?" bullshit. Sorry, ladies, but I didn't draw the wiring diagram for the male brain.
That fact that I cannot purchase hot monkey sex as a side order to my fillet-o-fish at any food outlet in the country proves to me conclusively that men DO NOT run this world.
I have a personal corollary to Clarke's theorem: any sufficiently advanced hooker robot would be indistinguishable from a real prostitute.
Hey, fuckable hooker robots wouldn't be as bad as a holodeck that people would walk into and never be seen again. It's like Scott Adams said in "The Dilbert Future". The holodeck will be mankind's final invention.
Build a gun that only shoots robots and not humans, and we can construct Westworld!
Well, we need fuckable hooker robots, too, but, hey, they're just around the corner.
Or they would be if the techno-wizzes of the world would stop mucking about with tablet computers and first-person shooter game engines, and deliver to the world what it really wants.
It beats me why stores in the United States do not offer free length alterations when you buy a pair of pants. Since I am not too tall, it is almost impossible for me to find jeans that fit my length - chopping off a couple of inches would make all the difference.
I really doubt any store in the US will start chopping bits off their customers to make the clothes fit. There just *HAS* to be a libility issue in there somewhere.
I'm curious. Would you chop off a couple inches from your head or your feet?
Nice to see the EU is pushing back the boundaries of grand unified theories of which sitcom or reality show is the the most popular. I'll bet CERN is involved with those high precision set-top timewasting detecto-widgets, eh? Hey, maybe the ESA can stop that useless science exploration and launch a quantum satellite that will link every teevee together in the EU and provide INSTANT FEEDBACK as to how many people are watching the World Wrestling Federation on TNT-Europe before the show actually airs! Now that's progress, people!
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Edna! Whip up a batch of poppycorn. Dis here is gonna be a good one, yesiree bob!
Hey, many of us would like to. We're not all born again Christians here, ya know. And as impatient as we get with our own woo-woos, the brain challeneged masses of the rest of the world are even more wearying, especially those who *think* they are smart and informed. Oh, for pity's sake, if only there were a way to make you holier-than-thou types around the globe realize what contemptable ignoramuses you are. You'd ritualistically kill yourselves in utter despair and disbelief that you could have been so mindless.
If I could leave for Space Colony "John Galt" I wouldn't hesitate, look back or shed a tear when this smelly dungheap finally consumes itself in ideological death and self-mongrelization. Have fun returning to the Bronze Age would be my final message to the Earth.
Yes, I did, but people joke about it as thought it happened. They make a joke of what they think was a real event.
Given some people's opinion of Bush voters, I can't decide of that's a typo or not. :-)
Kerry: Hey, guys, we need to build a basic ICBM defense system now that Iran, North Korea, Syria, Palestine, Madagascar, The Vatican, Greenland and Shanklin Isle Of Wight all have nuclear tipped missiles as a result of me being the presidential equivalent of a wet noodle.
France: No. If we refuse you, Al-Queda has generously offered to man our nuclear plants after the last nationwide strike for twenty-seven more weeks of vacation time.
Kerry: Oh, c'mon guys! I'm very sensitive in my war on terror. I made a personal apology to Osama for the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the state of Pennsylvania getting in the way of those planes his associates borrowed.
Germany: No. The terror factions promise to kill only weak men, ugly women and retarted children if we oppose you on this. The Fatherland will be pure again. I'm sorry, did I say that last bit out loud?
Kerry: Pleeeeeeeeeese?
Spain: No. Islamists are holding my precious pet dog Pepito hostage. I must comply with their wishes. They also promise to only enslave 20,000 children a year if we capitulate.
Kerry: Oh, poopie!
UN Secretary General Saddam Hussein: For such a vulgar outburst, Presibitch Kerry, you will nuke another one of your own cities in penance, and you will wear that pink lacy number tonight when I sodomize you.
Kerry: Oh, all right. Horseknickers!
Hussein: Oops! That's two cities now, and the six inch heels.
Ooo, but I'm a nasty SOB. :-)
Non sequitur. Space based weapons will be, for the most part, unmanned, and we seem to have that type of flight pretty well figured out.
It's time for Russians to renew their anti-satellite program. Yeah, the one that they've developed back in the "Star Wars" day to shoot satellites down using a high-intensity military laser sitting on the ground.
I think you're still fighting the last war, there, General.
This reminds me of that joke about NASA developing a ball pen that would function in the state of weightlessnes. Three years and a hundred million dollars later they've developed such a pen. In the meanwhile Russians used pencils.
It's also urban myth. A guy named Paul Fisher developed a pen like that on his own, and sold them to NASA for about $3 each. Pencils were used on the Mercury and Gemini flights. The pens were used afterward because [1] they are more relable and [2] you don't get bits of pencil lead floating around in zero-gee.
You preach on, gelfling!
Why does root beer foam up a whole lot when you initially pour it over ice, but then subesequent pourings don't foam as much, even though it's fresh root beer hitting the same ice?
What I see is a bunch of ideological wonk who appear to have this burning need to live under an oppressive regime and be heroic subversives. It's like some bizarre variation of Munchausen By Proxy Syndrome, except the imagine the country is sick instead of a child or relative.
And, again, this is coming from a Kerry voter (although I'm an independnet). This "oh, Bush is the incarnation of evil and his voters are troglodytes" approach IS NOT GOING TO WORK!!! You people keep it up and you'll be even more marginalized in 2008.
Hope this helps.
But too many people these days are just making shit up out of the vacuum, and stuff that is so obviously stupid you can't help but start to question their motives and, in some cases, their sanity. This applies equally to the woo-woos who think Bush planned 9/11 and the hoo-hahs who think Clinton had dozens of people whacked in Arkansas.
Personally, I think they are just trapped in ideological singularities that they have constructed in their minds as an alternative to dealing wth the true complexity of the world, but, hey, that's just me.
Ideology and politics. It's easier than thinking.
Or another case of paranoia by a wannebe oppressed rebel in his own mind? Just another idea to consider.
Here. Maybe this chart will help.
http://zapatopi.net/blackhelicopters/bhchart.png
Did they sing Kumbaya, too?
Now squeal like a pig!
That's OK. They'll come out with a special Eurepean version where you run over Jews. It'll be a big seller in France.
Go ahead. Accuse me of generalizing about whole nations based on the bigoted words of a few. I dare you.
And the other night in GTA:San Andreas when I was trying to escape the po-leece, and I drove off a cliff. :-)
Then I saw it was a fucking kid's movie about Santa fucking Claus with fucking underpants gnones running around. Shit. :-(
Real human actors. CGI everything else.
Oddly, an effective example of this is Drew Carrey's Green Screen Show. They do some improv skits, and then animate around it in post production. It works much better than I expected it to, and is a good example of the above rule. They actually animate clothing onto the people.
So it's a must see, eh?
Man, it's Friday, isn't it?
Yes. I've learned that I'm a man and sometimes want hot, wet, sloppy, screaming monkey sex on kitchen tabletops and over the hood of a car without having to deal with "you men just don't understand women" or "do I look fat in this?" bullshit. Sorry, ladies, but I didn't draw the wiring diagram for the male brain.
That fact that I cannot purchase hot monkey sex as a side order to my fillet-o-fish at any food outlet in the country proves to me conclusively that men DO NOT run this world.
I have a personal corollary to Clarke's theorem: any sufficiently advanced hooker robot would be indistinguishable from a real prostitute.
Hey, fuckable hooker robots wouldn't be as bad as a holodeck that people would walk into and never be seen again. It's like Scott Adams said in "The Dilbert Future". The holodeck will be mankind's final invention.
Well, we need fuckable hooker robots, too, but, hey, they're just around the corner.
Or they would be if the techno-wizzes of the world would stop mucking about with tablet computers and first-person shooter game engines, and deliver to the world what it really wants.
Because I was addressing a specific set of posts here on slashdot, not all Kerry supporters. I *voted* for Kerry.
Christ on a cracker, is it that hard for you to understand this?
I really doubt any store in the US will start chopping bits off their customers to make the clothes fit. There just *HAS* to be a libility issue in there somewhere.
I'm curious. Would you chop off a couple inches from your head or your feet?
Nice to see the EU is pushing back the boundaries of grand unified theories of which sitcom or reality show is the the most popular. I'll bet CERN is involved with those high precision set-top timewasting detecto-widgets, eh? Hey, maybe the ESA can stop that useless science exploration and launch a quantum satellite that will link every teevee together in the EU and provide INSTANT FEEDBACK as to how many people are watching the World Wrestling Federation on TNT-Europe before the show actually airs! Now that's progress, people!