As I hate republicans and everything they stand for, I can clearly demonstrate that grass is not green by showing you a blade of brown grass from my dry back yard. You cannot argue with this, this is fact. This is why republicans are dangerously insane, probably shouldn't be allowed to vote, and should be castrated to be kept from breeding. Because they are all completely wrong about everything, and because Sarah Palin, Fox News, religion, guns, and the bible.
They need to be forced at gunpoint to attend Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity."
And if you find a political blog that does not allow comments (moderated or not) it's always a conservative site?
You have some interesting thoughts, but I feel compelled to address this one: I had a "conservative leaning" website for about a decade, and I had to disable comments because it was targeted for attack by the "Democratic Underground," a very left-leaning website. I was getting DOSed, host was getting hacked, and it was 2 or 3 injection attacks a day. I couldn't keep up, so I changed hosts and disabled comments. Then the phone calls to my home started. I was so disgusted by the whole experience I pretty much list the will to blog, so my site has been dead for years now... there is just a little forum I have locked down for use by me and my friends. For the record, I was never abusive or caustic, I just didn't think W was all that bad a President, and I got on their radar.
The locked down comments on my particular site aren't due to a stifling of free speech, it because of the aggression I experienced from so-called peace and free speech loving liberals. It isn't hard for me to suspect I am not the only site to get hit like that.
...and then are surprised when stuff wants to eat it? If only there was some alternative to food-based insulation that was long lasting and nothing wanted to ingest it. If I can figure it out and patent it it would be a huge leap forward in technology and human advancement. We'll no longer be stuck using food as insulation.
I researched this long and hard. I wanted what is known as a "Networked Media Tank," but I didn't have the bucks to make a poor decision and try again.
I just plugged the PS3 into the receiver I already had, plugged it into the network, and pointed it at the folder on the server which had all of my music/photos/movies. On the server I installed "PS3 Media Server," which is freeware, pointed it at my media folder, and that, literally, was all it took.
Plus the PS3 will play your Blu Rays, and as it is Sony, the firmware updates for new releases will always be available... unlike with the dedicated BD player I had from Samsung.
Over a year later and I have never regretted the decision.
Let's see; when you give kids a trophy for just showing up to the game, and high school kids make 'A' grades for minimal effort... kids today are conditioned to believe that life is easy, and they are 'super-duper'. This is the post accomplishment era we live in. Their actual test scores are among the lowest of civilized nations, yet their confidence levels are among the highest. What does this tell us?
It tells me that in the global economy foreign kids will be the worker bees getting things done, and American kids are going to be management.
Someone please tell me where I can by tectonic-shift credits to offset my crust-rendering lifestyle! I will gladly pay, and use my vote to make others pay, to ensure nothing ever changes on this planet!
You say that sarcastically, but I certainly wouldn't want a local school knocked down for christian vegan lesbian holistic bomb-making camps by any kind of immigrant, Polish of otherwise.
"So you have no problem with your kids watching a dozen planets and billions of people being annihilated in a nuclear holocaust, people being left behind to die of radiation sickness, starvation and the like, people being executed, committing suicide - but don't nobody go killing babies?"
The baby scene was much more visceral for many of us... because those of us with kids worry about something happening to our babies pretty much all the time. It is hard for most of us on this forum to feel any kind of tangible fear from the idea of our planets getting nuked, and genocide from robots. But worrying about our kids is something ingrained.
I am absolutely NOT saying it wasn't a good element of the miniseries... I am just explaining why that scene was also the most disturbing to me, also. But hell yes, bring on more adult sci fi. Please.
The tree didn't "grow barbs" to protect itself from a predator, that isn't how evolution works. In fact, it isn't even the correct usage of the true definition of the word "evolution" (a change in a population over time). The tree just happened to mutate to have thorny trees, which just happened to be a good defense against predators, and natural selection favored that configuration of tree over other close versions of it.
How about instead we reduce/eliminate the sales taxes instead of stifling free trade favoring one class of business over another? I know I'd shop locally, more, if the government wasn't getting their taste. Oh right, politicians got to get paid. And Amazon doesn't get to vote in RI elections.
They lost me at Serious Sam 2. I and my friends all picked it up soon after release to co-op through it, and the multiplayer was SERIOUSly unfinished. You couldn't even password protect a game, so any random person could jump into our group and start griefing us. I mean, it's one thing to have a few glitches here and there on odd hardware, but no private multi games? When I brought up this issue on their forums, their mods/admins were rude to the point of personal insults, and I was directed to appreciate what they chose to give me. They'll not get any more of my money.
In the future history of Star Trek, mankind was only able to evolve beyond petty political correctness with the Zephram Cochrane's 2nd most famous invention: anti-wadding panties. When no one was able to get their panties in a wad, everyone was finally able to relax and stop being personally wounded by silly words.
See also: Zephram Cochrane's business rival, the invention of Skin Thickiner. Never made it to market because the FDA wouldn't approve over the counter DNA therapy. Some say Cochrane used a portion of his crazy warp-drive money to bribe FDA officials. We may never know.
I survived a serious disease a few years ago IN SPITE of the specialists I had studying my case. You can't know the frustration of being told "oh, you just have stress" when your own immune system is destroying your nervous system, and being prescribed Valium. In the time that was wasted before I got the correct treatment, I forever lost my ability to walk. I no longer have any respect for doctors. If there isn't a bone sticking out, they don't have a clue.
"the games didn't push the envelope or really add much to the genre yet it seems like there are a ton of people that are like "OMG Duke Nukem!" "
You never played Duke Nukem 3D, did you.
DN3D absolutely pushed the envelope for interactivity in games. At least on the PC... I never bothered with the ports.
Anyone remember the pool table?
I'd like to see Wikipedia publicly announce that newspapers are no longer considered to be accurate sources of information, and are no longer allowed as citations.
Whoa whoa whoa... I'm just hearing of this.
He was given dental care, clean underwear, and snack foods? What a frakkin nightmare. Bush and co. really need to be indicted for SOMETHING, especially since all of that was apparently captured on film by some brave freedom fighter.
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As I hate republicans and everything they stand for, I can clearly demonstrate that grass is not green by showing you a blade of brown grass from my dry back yard. You cannot argue with this, this is fact. This is why republicans are dangerously insane, probably shouldn't be allowed to vote, and should be castrated to be kept from breeding. Because they are all completely wrong about everything, and because Sarah Palin, Fox News, religion, guns, and the bible. They need to be forced at gunpoint to attend Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity."
And if you find a political blog that does not allow comments (moderated or not) it's always a conservative site?
You have some interesting thoughts, but I feel compelled to address this one: I had a "conservative leaning" website for about a decade, and I had to disable comments because it was targeted for attack by the "Democratic Underground," a very left-leaning website. I was getting DOSed, host was getting hacked, and it was 2 or 3 injection attacks a day. I couldn't keep up, so I changed hosts and disabled comments. Then the phone calls to my home started. I was so disgusted by the whole experience I pretty much list the will to blog, so my site has been dead for years now... there is just a little forum I have locked down for use by me and my friends. For the record, I was never abusive or caustic, I just didn't think W was all that bad a President, and I got on their radar.
The locked down comments on my particular site aren't due to a stifling of free speech, it because of the aggression I experienced from so-called peace and free speech loving liberals. It isn't hard for me to suspect I am not the only site to get hit like that.
...and then are surprised when stuff wants to eat it? If only there was some alternative to food-based insulation that was long lasting and nothing wanted to ingest it. If I can figure it out and patent it it would be a huge leap forward in technology and human advancement. We'll no longer be stuck using food as insulation.
...when I think "internet censorship." Interesting.
I researched this long and hard. I wanted what is known as a "Networked Media Tank," but I didn't have the bucks to make a poor decision and try again. I just plugged the PS3 into the receiver I already had, plugged it into the network, and pointed it at the folder on the server which had all of my music/photos/movies. On the server I installed "PS3 Media Server," which is freeware, pointed it at my media folder, and that, literally, was all it took. Plus the PS3 will play your Blu Rays, and as it is Sony, the firmware updates for new releases will always be available... unlike with the dedicated BD player I had from Samsung. Over a year later and I have never regretted the decision.
Let's see; when you give kids a trophy for just showing up to the game, and high school kids make 'A' grades for minimal effort... kids today are conditioned to believe that life is easy, and they are 'super-duper'. This is the post accomplishment era we live in. Their actual test scores are among the lowest of civilized nations, yet their confidence levels are among the highest. What does this tell us?
It tells me that in the global economy foreign kids will be the worker bees getting things done, and American kids are going to be management.
You know why the government would never actually offer that "opt out" option? Because the majority of people would take it.
Someone please tell me where I can by tectonic-shift credits to offset my crust-rendering lifestyle! I will gladly pay, and use my vote to make others pay, to ensure nothing ever changes on this planet!
You say that sarcastically, but I certainly wouldn't want a local school knocked down for christian vegan lesbian holistic bomb-making camps by any kind of immigrant, Polish of otherwise.
You can almost respect them for destroying someone elses car? Then you just barely have morals.
Right. Just leave your hand on that burner, then, and tell us how pain doesn't serve any useful function.
"So you have no problem with your kids watching a dozen planets and billions of people being annihilated in a nuclear holocaust, people being left behind to die of radiation sickness, starvation and the like, people being executed, committing suicide - but don't nobody go killing babies?" The baby scene was much more visceral for many of us... because those of us with kids worry about something happening to our babies pretty much all the time. It is hard for most of us on this forum to feel any kind of tangible fear from the idea of our planets getting nuked, and genocide from robots. But worrying about our kids is something ingrained. I am absolutely NOT saying it wasn't a good element of the miniseries... I am just explaining why that scene was also the most disturbing to me, also. But hell yes, bring on more adult sci fi. Please.
The tree didn't "grow barbs" to protect itself from a predator, that isn't how evolution works. In fact, it isn't even the correct usage of the true definition of the word "evolution" (a change in a population over time). The tree just happened to mutate to have thorny trees, which just happened to be a good defense against predators, and natural selection favored that configuration of tree over other close versions of it.
How about instead we reduce/eliminate the sales taxes instead of stifling free trade favoring one class of business over another? I know I'd shop locally, more, if the government wasn't getting their taste. Oh right, politicians got to get paid. And Amazon doesn't get to vote in RI elections.
They lost me at Serious Sam 2. I and my friends all picked it up soon after release to co-op through it, and the multiplayer was SERIOUSly unfinished. You couldn't even password protect a game, so any random person could jump into our group and start griefing us. I mean, it's one thing to have a few glitches here and there on odd hardware, but no private multi games? When I brought up this issue on their forums, their mods/admins were rude to the point of personal insults, and I was directed to appreciate what they chose to give me. They'll not get any more of my money.
In the future history of Star Trek, mankind was only able to evolve beyond petty political correctness with the Zephram Cochrane's 2nd most famous invention: anti-wadding panties. When no one was able to get their panties in a wad, everyone was finally able to relax and stop being personally wounded by silly words. See also: Zephram Cochrane's business rival, the invention of Skin Thickiner. Never made it to market because the FDA wouldn't approve over the counter DNA therapy. Some say Cochrane used a portion of his crazy warp-drive money to bribe FDA officials. We may never know.
"If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it's free."
I survived a serious disease a few years ago IN SPITE of the specialists I had studying my case. You can't know the frustration of being told "oh, you just have stress" when your own immune system is destroying your nervous system, and being prescribed Valium. In the time that was wasted before I got the correct treatment, I forever lost my ability to walk. I no longer have any respect for doctors. If there isn't a bone sticking out, they don't have a clue.
"Look up HL:GoTY Edition and ripoff and you will see Valve burned a LOT of folks. " Funny... the first hit I got on Google was this thread.
So all those people who for 8 years were terribly angry and bitter about our Commander in Chief... they officially had a mental problem?
"the games didn't push the envelope or really add much to the genre yet it seems like there are a ton of people that are like "OMG Duke Nukem!" " You never played Duke Nukem 3D, did you. DN3D absolutely pushed the envelope for interactivity in games. At least on the PC... I never bothered with the ports. Anyone remember the pool table?
I'd like to see Wikipedia publicly announce that newspapers are no longer considered to be accurate sources of information, and are no longer allowed as citations.
And this is why I hate hippies.
Whoa whoa whoa... I'm just hearing of this. He was given dental care, clean underwear, and snack foods? What a frakkin nightmare. Bush and co. really need to be indicted for SOMETHING, especially since all of that was apparently captured on film by some brave freedom fighter.
That candidate could run on a "hope and change" platform.