re:"A tale of altered reality, drug use, and the meaning of identity"
Which book of his WASN'T a tale of "altered reality, drug use, and the meaning of identity"? Seriously? Guy had as much variety as Mexican food.
What's a burrito? A tortilla, meat, beans, cheese. What's a taco? A tortilla, meat, beans, cheese. What's an enchilada? A tortilla, meat, beans, cheese. What's a tostada? A tortilla, meat, beans, cheese.
I think a cult of personality pretty much matches religious zeal rather well.
We're talking about people who become openly emotional just seeing a statue of their leader. A STATUE. And we're not talking about some pantheon memorial like the Lincoln memorial that represents more things to more people than just a president's visage, it's just a life-size dummy in a viewing room.
re:"Based on all those insults and harsh language you used I have a feeling that I mean far more to you then you will ever mean to me. I hope that thought will keep you warm tonight."
Any prick who says "ta-ta" is not only narcissistic to the point of requiring a double helping of H1N1, but usually has to get the last word. In other news, Palin's mayoral and city council was for a town that had no public services. No post-office, no police, no fire. I chalk that up to being on a board of trustees whose political experience = Dick. A very small dick in fact. Like the dick attached to someone who likes getting the last word in while projecting their twisted world views on others as fact like a run-of-the-mill talking points Foxtard.
Let's watch those fingers start to itch Hannity-wannity-be. And the real reason for the "ta-ta"? You can't say full words while talking with a mouthful Murdoch's cock.
Last words from historical revisionist motherfucker in...3....2....1
re: Reagan's case they even get elected as officials WITHOUT ANY REAL POLITICAL EXPERIENCE
Explain. Reagan had a shitload of political experience. You know who doesn't? Palin. That's why she got tossed out on her ass by the national electorate.
But, please continue to project your tiny little worldview on the rest of us and make us see things your micro-cosmic infantile uneducated way. 5 year olds have more perspective than you.
Or - better idea - get Swine Flu and make sure any children you've managed to create get a double dose and get your fucking genes off this planet.
Good to see another fucking inbred show their lack of reading comprehension.
"- 3 planeloads of people let 5 men armed with hand tools take over airplanes - because that's what they've been told to do. As soon as the 4th planeload of people find out how they've been lied to, they take action and save many more lives."
That actually sounds like a response attributed to bravery to me. In contrast to your other examples. This means you posted some piece of shit email babble-spam that came into your redneck email box.
Fuck you and fuck off moron - and in other news - your fucking party lost. Get your fringe lunatic hat on cunto the clown, your soundbite moment awaits you on Fox.
What do you expect from a couple of GOP stooges from redneck Colorado?
Libertarian my ass. "Team America - we'll lampoon American military misadventures! What about George Bush, nah, I rub one out to him every night - let's do celebrities instead since they obviously have more to do with GeoPoltics".
Fuck the cowtown douchefags. They call it flyover country for a reason.
That's why I freelanced for so long and have convenient excuses to not show at (all of the boring) company social functions. People who give that waste-of-time value have a rod stuck up their ass on a permanent basis.
Or you're a UKtwat who gives such crap the utmost of importance rather than - oh I dunno - living your life (what little of it you have left). I swear it must be a European charter that they can't be happy unless they're making "sacrifices" and otherwise being miserable. Might have something to do with the weather.
Here's a thought - if you do what makes you happy, you're chances of being an asshole to those around you diminishes. What a concept. Forced smiles aren't fooling anyone.
re:"Keep going until the SRBs are detached, flip over, fire main engines and head back to Kennedy"
I've heard of these too but I've always been a little "foggy" on the whole "flip over" part. How the hell do you do this at those speeds without Vmax'ing the spacecraft (or for that matter the occupants *splat*) you're going to tumble the shuttle at what speed - when it's still AIRspeed?
In other news - I, for-one - would like to see it done just to see if the planners of such a maneuver (a) had it right (b) if it looks anywhere near as batshit cool as it sounds.
"Hey capcom, tell the Cape we have a crazy idea - we saw it in the contingency manual and want to try it out - woooohhhhhaaaaaaa!"
Then they'll know how is babby fucking formed. Typo - usually means I typed one letter out of place - like kat. Leaving out entire bits of a complete sentence? GOPriceless.
The first eInk I saw during it's earliest development, was at Monsanto in 1990 - and was tested on paper and plastic card stock. Not glass.
So why "must" it be on glass? Oh never mind - your reality is always right. It's your world with 3 billion of your closest imaginary friends. And unicorns. And elves. And fairies. And hybrid unicorn-elves that spit fairies.
re:"Casinos have the right to eject you and ban you from a casino for any reason."
NEVADA casinos. Not in New Jersey. Rather famous court case about it actually - but they don't mention that in movies about counters in Vegas. Makes it seem rebellious. It's about as rebellious as crossing the street at the corner crosswalk in Atlantic city. You cannot be barred for using your head counting cards period.
re:"What I fail to understand is what process occurs in the mind of a religious person when [s]he reads this. I would expect something along the lines of "Omg! you're right. You've opened my eyes! *falls down and worships you etc..*" but experience has taught me that this never happens. - Why?"
Ego as a defense mechanism prevents it.
In this case you've got a worldview that's presented as a fundamental (funny how often that word comes up eh?) core belief in reality expressed as a pile of unarguable and barely intelligible mandates and stories that supersede - or are attributed to being higher than - all laws, and are the basis for many other laws that are still around (particularly in theocratic states).
Hell of an absolute eh? Now - when presented with something in direct conflict with some belief systems from "evolution" to "bacon is yummy", the response will flip from intellectual to emotional. Most just flee the "heathens", or announce that they don't want to participate anymore. I recall depressing the hell out of a mathematician professor in Minnesota who was in the fundie camp by directing him to the writings of Bertrand Russell - who was a mathematician among other things. Since that was his super-peer I figured he would open up to the possibility of no-god (in response to the old and retarded as fuck "prove he doesn't exist" argument aka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot).
Nope - his defenses kicked in and he sulked off in a huff declaring that the board was "wasting his time".
How much time he was wasting before didn't seem to be an issue before that - so obviously, his emotions kicked in. So he left the forum for a time (he came back later tho). Some people leave forums. Others will walk off in a huff. Some fly airliners into skyscrapers in lower Manhattan and build car bombs. Like racists, I tend to stay the fuck away from fundies as much as possible. I may have to live with them - but I don't have to associate with them.
He's not a moron. He's an asshole who should be put to death in front of his immediate family. He needs his mug of smug of the day otherwise he can't fulfill his OCD obligations of pointing out people wrong on the internet without doing basic fact checking. He's also probably one of the "towers imploded" cunts.
I'd like to free up some jobs in America by implementing a federal extermination program of these inbred conspiracy wackos and historical revisionists. It's good for the country - it's good for the economy.
1. 34% of Utahns voted for Obama. (nearly 70% voted for McCain)
2. The district with the least percent voting Obama still had about 1/7th of the vote going for him. (Do you know more than 7 Utahns? odds are at least one of them voted Obama...) (1 out of 7 sounds smaller than 70% - which we won't mention again)
3. Utah has a Democrat for a congressman (Jim Matheson, who won with 63% of the vote). (Without knowing the background of the race - was there even a GOP candidate? Did he die during the election? Or is this the lone token democrat? Sounds nice tho. One single Dem. In a sea of religious fanatical GOPers. Marching. In uniforms.)
4. I know of quite a few mormons that voted for Obama, and I (yes, I'm a Utah mormon) did favor him over McCain....(especially early in the election, though I voted McCain because I knew that my vote wouldn't change anything and I didn't want Obama to think he had a mandate) (I know of a few Mormons that voted for Obama = I have many Jewish / Black / Insert-minority-here friends and I'm not racist/like them/condescending )
5. I consider myself conservative...but I find the post below starting with "I'm a conservative from Utah" to be "naive." Good ideas are good ideas. It doesn't matter which side of the aisle they come from. Unfortunately...adding more to the national debt (eg, the current stimulus package) can't be a good thing. Which reminds me of the following (taken from a friends gtalk status):
(re: Good ideas are good ideas. It doesn't matter which side of the aisle they come from: unless it's a vote for a stimulus package that is time-dependent. Then you hope Obama fails and will not let a single vote go across that often spoken about aisle while planning that next post-bailout party in Vegas - Go Wells Fargo - wooooo! Taxes are for the little people!).
Video games never made me want to kill another (real) person. Jack Thompson on the other hand makes me want to kill - someone, possibly named Jack - every time I hear from Mr. Thompson.
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re:"A tale of altered reality, drug use, and the meaning of identity"
Which book of his WASN'T a tale of "altered reality, drug use, and the meaning of identity"? Seriously? Guy had as much variety as Mexican food.
What's a burrito? A tortilla, meat, beans, cheese. What's a taco? A tortilla, meat, beans, cheese. What's an enchilada? A tortilla, meat, beans, cheese. What's a tostada? A tortilla, meat, beans, cheese.
Citations provided - dick.
re:"Mr. Doctorow: "I really feel like my problem isn't piracy. It's obscurity.""
I think his real problem is he can't write. Might explain the obscurity.
Religious fanatics?
I think a cult of personality pretty much matches religious zeal rather well.
We're talking about people who become openly emotional just seeing a statue of their leader. A STATUE. And we're not talking about some pantheon memorial like the Lincoln memorial that represents more things to more people than just a president's visage, it's just a life-size dummy in a viewing room.
re:"Based on all those insults and harsh language you used I have a feeling that I mean far more to you then you will ever mean to me.
I hope that thought will keep you warm tonight."
Any prick who says "ta-ta" is not only narcissistic to the point of requiring a double helping of H1N1, but usually has to get the last word. In other news, Palin's mayoral and city council was for a town that had no public services. No post-office, no police, no fire. I chalk that up to being on a board of trustees whose political experience = Dick. A very small dick in fact. Like the dick attached to someone who likes getting the last word in while projecting their twisted world views on others as fact like a run-of-the-mill talking points Foxtard.
Let's watch those fingers start to itch Hannity-wannity-be. And the real reason for the "ta-ta"? You can't say full words while talking with a mouthful Murdoch's cock.
Last words from historical revisionist motherfucker in...3....2....1
re: Reagan's case they even get elected as officials WITHOUT ANY REAL POLITICAL EXPERIENCE
Explain. Reagan had a shitload of political experience. You know who doesn't? Palin. That's why she got tossed out on her ass by the national electorate.
But, please continue to project your tiny little worldview on the rest of us and make us see things your micro-cosmic infantile uneducated way. 5 year olds have more perspective than you.
Or - better idea - get Swine Flu and make sure any children you've managed to create get a double dose and get your fucking genes off this planet.
Good to see another fucking inbred show their lack of reading comprehension.
"- 3 planeloads of people let 5 men armed with hand tools take over airplanes - because that's what they've been told to do. As soon as the 4th planeload of people find out how they've been lied to, they take action and save many more lives."
That actually sounds like a response attributed to bravery to me. In contrast to your other examples. This means you posted some piece of shit email babble-spam that came into your redneck email box.
Fuck you and fuck off moron - and in other news - your fucking party lost. Get your fringe lunatic hat on cunto the clown, your soundbite moment awaits you on Fox.
I hope your family dies of swine flu.
Hilarious. That's so deep. Did you clear your bong rip when you typed that fucking trite shit?
Tell your brain to grow a pair or please - for the love of Darwin - kill yourself.
What do you expect from a couple of GOP stooges from redneck Colorado?
Libertarian my ass. "Team America - we'll lampoon American military misadventures! What about George Bush, nah, I rub one out to him every night - let's do celebrities instead since they obviously have more to do with GeoPoltics".
Fuck the cowtown douchefags. They call it flyover country for a reason.
Perhaps they were the wrong region discs. That'd be amusing for the tabloids. Ponce gives Prime 50 movies he can't play.
Otherwise it's the Uk media being fucking twats - aka - business as usual.
That's why I freelanced for so long and have convenient excuses to not show at (all of the boring) company social functions. People who give that waste-of-time value have a rod stuck up their ass on a permanent basis.
Or you're a UKtwat who gives such crap the utmost of importance rather than - oh I dunno - living your life (what little of it you have left). I swear it must be a European charter that they can't be happy unless they're making "sacrifices" and otherwise being miserable. Might have something to do with the weather.
Here's a thought - if you do what makes you happy, you're chances of being an asshole to those around you diminishes. What a concept. Forced smiles aren't fooling anyone.
re:"Keep going until the SRBs are detached, flip over, fire main engines and head back to Kennedy"
I've heard of these too but I've always been a little "foggy" on the whole "flip over" part. How the hell do you do this at those speeds without Vmax'ing the spacecraft (or for that matter the occupants *splat*) you're going to tumble the shuttle at what speed - when it's still AIRspeed?
In other news - I, for-one - would like to see it done just to see if the planners of such a maneuver (a) had it right (b) if it looks anywhere near as batshit cool as it sounds.
"Hey capcom, tell the Cape we have a crazy idea - we saw it in the contingency manual and want to try it out - woooohhhhhaaaaaaa!"
Then they'll know how is babby fucking formed. Typo - usually means I typed one letter out of place - like kat. Leaving out entire bits of a complete sentence? GOPriceless.
you tube link - and no I don't Rick Roll - that's how I roll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSFDrOxWCXY
http://xkcd.com/382/
Squirrels are more fun to zap.
Either that or you can finally have an excuse for a non-convenient boner. It's my PHONE! Really!
e-ink requires glass backing? Uh - nope.
The first eInk I saw during it's earliest development, was at Monsanto in 1990 - and was tested on paper and plastic card stock. Not glass.
So why "must" it be on glass? Oh never mind - your reality is always right. It's your world with 3 billion of your closest imaginary friends. And unicorns. And elves. And fairies. And hybrid unicorn-elves that spit fairies.
re:"Casinos have the right to eject you and ban you from a casino for any reason."
NEVADA casinos. Not in New Jersey. Rather famous court case about it actually - but they don't mention that in movies about counters in Vegas. Makes it seem rebellious. It's about as rebellious as crossing the street at the corner crosswalk in Atlantic city. You cannot be barred for using your head counting cards period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_counting#Legal_status_of_card_counting
re:"I believe that there is no God"
meh - what a blowhard wimp. Try Douglas fucking Adams:
He stated that his views had nothing to do with belief, and stated that "I am convinced there is no God"
There - suck on those semantics bitch!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams
Beliefs - what a pussy.
re:"What I fail to understand is what process occurs in the mind of a religious person when [s]he reads this. I would expect something along the lines of "Omg! you're right. You've opened my eyes! *falls down and worships you etc..*" but experience has taught me that this never happens. - Why?"
Ego as a defense mechanism prevents it.
In this case you've got a worldview that's presented as a fundamental (funny how often that word comes up eh?) core belief in reality expressed as a pile of unarguable and barely intelligible mandates and stories that supersede - or are attributed to being higher than - all laws, and are the basis for many other laws that are still around (particularly in theocratic states).
Hell of an absolute eh? Now - when presented with something in direct conflict with some belief systems from "evolution" to "bacon is yummy", the response will flip from intellectual to emotional. Most just flee the "heathens", or announce that they don't want to participate anymore. I recall depressing the hell out of a mathematician professor in Minnesota who was in the fundie camp by directing him to the writings of Bertrand Russell - who was a mathematician among other things. Since that was his super-peer I figured he would open up to the possibility of no-god (in response to the old and retarded as fuck "prove he doesn't exist" argument aka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot).
Nope - his defenses kicked in and he sulked off in a huff declaring that the board was "wasting his time".
How much time he was wasting before didn't seem to be an issue before that - so obviously, his emotions kicked in. So he left the forum for a time (he came back later tho). Some people leave forums. Others will walk off in a huff. Some fly airliners into skyscrapers in lower Manhattan and build car bombs. Like racists, I tend to stay the fuck away from fundies as much as possible. I may have to live with them - but I don't have to associate with them.
He's not a moron. He's an asshole who should be put to death in front of his immediate family. He needs his mug of smug of the day otherwise he can't fulfill his OCD obligations of pointing out people wrong on the internet without doing basic fact checking. He's also probably one of the "towers imploded" cunts.
I'd like to free up some jobs in America by implementing a federal extermination program of these inbred conspiracy wackos and historical revisionists. It's good for the country - it's good for the economy.
You're missing the subtext:
1. 34% of Utahns voted for Obama. (nearly 70% voted for McCain)
2. The district with the least percent voting Obama still had about 1/7th of the vote going for him. (Do you know more than 7 Utahns? odds are at least one of them voted Obama...) (1 out of 7 sounds smaller than 70% - which we won't mention again)
3. Utah has a Democrat for a congressman (Jim Matheson, who won with 63% of the vote). (Without knowing the background of the race - was there even a GOP candidate? Did he die during the election? Or is this the lone token democrat? Sounds nice tho. One single Dem. In a sea of religious fanatical GOPers. Marching. In uniforms.)
4. I know of quite a few mormons that voted for Obama, and I (yes, I'm a Utah mormon) did favor him over McCain....(especially early in the election, though I voted McCain because I knew that my vote wouldn't change anything and I didn't want Obama to think he had a mandate) (I know of a few Mormons that voted for Obama = I have many Jewish / Black / Insert-minority-here friends and I'm not racist/like them/condescending )
5. I consider myself conservative...but I find the post below starting with "I'm a conservative from Utah" to be "naive." Good ideas are good ideas. It doesn't matter which side of the aisle they come from. Unfortunately...adding more to the national debt (eg, the current stimulus package) can't be a good thing. Which reminds me of the following (taken from a friends gtalk status):
(re: Good ideas are good ideas. It doesn't matter which side of the aisle they come from: unless it's a vote for a stimulus package that is time-dependent. Then you hope Obama fails and will not let a single vote go across that often spoken about aisle while planning that next post-bailout party in Vegas - Go Wells Fargo - wooooo! Taxes are for the little people!).
Video games never made me want to kill another (real) person. Jack Thompson on the other hand makes me want to kill - someone, possibly named Jack - every time I hear from Mr. Thompson.
psst - I was referring to you as the PR apologist douchefag. Gosh you're so fucking smart. As smart as a PR apologist in fact.
"What the hell are these? TAP SHOES!!!???"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSeZxjLhxV4