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  1. Not sure about "stoner", but he's certainly admitted he inhaled...
    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10...

  2. Alas there is a very clear double standard which our media helps enforce.

    Great point. They go out of their way to create drama...without it, nobody pays attention.

  3. Intense scrutiny doesn't, and criticism doesn't require disrespect, or hateful language. Foulmouthed tweets and posts don't convince anyone who wasn't already in your camp. Point to evidence, explain your position, debate w/o a chip on your shoulder. Then you (not you specifically JCR) might be able to sway some opinions. I have several friends who I disagree with politically, and we have lively discussions, but at the end of the day, we can still be friends and respect each other because we're civil.

  4. BuzzFeed can suck the shit directly from my asshole. I don't care what the subject is, it's BuzzFeed.

    They're waiting for you to dislodge your head first.

  5. Evidence? on Venus May Have Been Habitable, Says NASA (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there any evidence to indicate that the surface temps were ever below the boiling point? If not, then the claim of oceans evaporating, um, evaporates, and the H2O was always in gas form.

  6. Re:Any time the FBI gives you something... on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    DVD?...that's so 2010. I was thinking of looking in my basement...might have it on VHS or Beta...I still have working machines of both types.

  7. Re:Any time the FBI gives you something... on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No luck with Cox On Demand, or Amazon Prime. I'll have to find it elsewhere.

  8. Re:While It Sucks... on FCC Loses Court Battle To Let Cities Build their Own Broadband (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Try reading Title 47 of the US Code. The FCC was already given this authority by Congress.

  9. Re:While It Sucks... on FCC Loses Court Battle To Let Cities Build their Own Broadband (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm generally as fan of states rights. However, the FCC was given this charter by federal law, which trumps state law...
    The Federal Communications Commission regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.

    In this case, I'd argue that we don't want 50+ different sets of rules for the internet. And, allowing individual ISPs to have singular control of an area is anti-competitive, monopolistic behavior. Competition improves service...monopolies don't.

  10. Thanks, jackass.

  11. Re:Any time the FBI gives you something... on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I had to google to figure out that you were referencing Blade Runner. I'm going to have to go back and watch it since I only saw it once back when it first came out...and sheesh, that was in '82!?!

  12. Re:Why you WILL vote for Hillary on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you've got her campaign's talking points down pat. Whenever they've done something wrong, it's always been a "vast right wing conspiracy" or some such bullshit. It's always somebody else's fault, and even when the FBI director says she screwed up, she can't admit it. But go ahead and believe that they were flat broke when they left the White House, and that she was shot at in Bosnia, and named after Sir Edmund Hillary. Sure those are mostly little fibs, but it's a congenital pattern with her.

  13. Re: Any time the FBI gives you something... on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Settle down, I wasn't disputing your statement, only pointing out the record and the bird that set it.

  14. If I can't afford a car I will live in an area where I don't need one. And incidentally, that is probably an urban area where there is likely to be lots of free wifi and lots of places to obtain affordable laptops and tablets.

    No, you'll live right where you always did because you can't afford to fucking move. And there's no a lot of free wifi in the slums, but clearly you don't know.

  15. Re:What would happen... on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hint: Riot != Organized Civil Rights Movement

    There were ongoing riots, and curfews imposed.

  16. Re: If they only use for serious crime investigati on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Law enforcement is around the 40th most dangerous job...

    Meanwhile being a barber is way way more dangerous

    Is that what they mean by "buzz kill"?

  17. Re: Sombrero party time on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There are issues that I might want to protest that go against the beliefs of my boss/employer. So, should I risk losing my job? What's wrong with allowing anonymous peaceful protests?

  18. Re:Frighteningly easy? on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps identifying his supporters so that we know who's too stupid to be allowed a vote.

    That's simple, just don't allow ACs.

  19. Re:FBI in big letters on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Flowers by Irene

    Female Body Inspector

  20. Re:When you are outside people can see you on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well written Houghi. This reminds me of when I was a kid ('60s), and the school teachers used to try to scare us about how doing bad things would go on our "permanent record". At the time, there was no such thing, and just a scare tactic. Not so much anymore.

  21. Re: Any time the FBI gives you something... on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    On 28 July 1976, SR-71 serial number 61-7962, broke the world record: an "absolute altitude record" of 85,069 feet (25,929 m).

  22. Re:Any time the FBI gives you something... on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You've never seen evidence of this because none exists outside of the movies.

  23. Re:Why you WILL vote for Hillary on FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    And the stupid Republicans have been baying at her heels for twenty-five years and haven't been able to pin shit on her.

    Not a fan of Drumpf here, but....

    If you believe they can't pin shit on her, than you're either ignorant of the facts, or a shill. But then you're simply spewing the spin that her campaign has been floating. In the meantime, she just completely lied about her own lying, and what the FBI said about her, but I'm sure you'll ignore that as well.

  24. Re:"Take that Mom and Dad!" on Positive Link Between Video Games and Academic Performance, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    ... which I yelled from my dimly lit basement bedroom in their house that I've been living at for 35 years.

    Because you flunked out of college and can't hold a job due to the World of Warcrack addiction.

    Just a data point, I know this is the stereotype, and maybe I'm an exception, but I've played WOW since it was in beta, and still manage to have a family, and a job managing ~50 engineers. But then, I probably average a couple hrs./night....not much different from someone who watches that much TV.

  25. Cheap is relative. If I can't afford a car, I'm not likely to buy a laptop, or internet service. In 2013, approximately 25% of the U.S. didn't even have internet service at home.