>> ^Doc_M: You get what you pay for. Try a few brand names... real ones.
I have. Calvin Klein is the same crap as generic Target underwear, but with fancier graphics and an even thicker waistband.
All they have to do is put 1/10 as many elastic fibers in the waistband, to weaken the elastic by a factor of 10. Why should I have to pay more for less? Likewise for food that is produced without massive amounts of artificial colors/flavors/preservatives.
BSG is a clusterfuck of gratuitous violence, unrealistically evil characters, and woo-woo nonsense. Interesting, yes. But it is utterly incoherent. Brother Cavil is an even less realistic character than Lord Voldemort. Most of the characters in BSG are fucking insane.
If I had to rank the Star Trek series: 1. DS9 seasons 1-6 and TNG seasons 2-7 2. DS9 season 7 3. Voyager 4. TNG season 1 5. TOS and Enterprise
Prequels are almost always bad because knowing the future in too much detail kills creativity.
Just tax the fuck out of fossil fuels, and the market will take care of the rest. You won't have any counterproductive volunteerist bullshit like somebody driving 20 miles to get 1 pound of local food and thus actually using more fuel per pound of food than globally sourced food that is shipped in mass through an efficient distribution network.
Defense contractors get public money Defense contractors buy political influence Political influence puts more public money into Defense Contractors' hands Defense contractors buy political influence Political influence puts more public money into Defense Contractors' hands Defense contractors buy political influence Political influence puts more public money into Defense Contractors' hands Defense contractors buy political influence Political influence puts more public money into Defense Contractors' hands
And so on. That's why our military spending is outrageously inefficient and excessive, and we keep fighting wars that are irrelevant or counterproductive to our national security. No-bid contracts and cost-plus contracts should be explicitly forbidden by the constitution. The military should stop privatizing essential components of their operation and paying orders of magnitude more than it would cost to do in-house.
I am the fifth meatball of the apocalypse. You must repent of your low-carb ways, for dinner is nigh. His Noodliness will descend to the table and offer himself to each of you.
Now let us all join hands in prayer...
Our Pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever, Ramen.
Of course, god (as the textual sockpuppet of the clergy) exhorts the sheep to multiply so that the clergy have a larger flock to exploit. Large religions acquire 95% of their adherents by having lots of children and brainwashing the children. Conversion of adults is relatively rare.
Possession of certain bit sequences is a strict liability in the US. Ergo, if some spammer decided to spam it to everyone in the US, then everyone in the US would be a felon.
OP takes Einstein so far out of context that OP completely misunderstands him. Einstein was an agnostic, a pantheist, and a humanist. By that particular quote, he meant "Without 'ethical culture' there is no salvation for humanity." Everybody recognizes the need for ethics. But the structure of most religion-based morality, that something is right just because an invisible tyrant says so, is a recipe for tyranny and disaster.
Morality should be a rational protocol for the mutual benefit of all, not fiats of authors.
If the right is right without an authority figure ordering it, then we have no use for fiction authors ordering us around with imagined words of god. The same epistemic pathway that makes them suceptible to religion is abused by advertisers, nationalistic tyrants, politicians, etc, causing all sorts of mischief. People just need to stop being so gullible and start asking the right questions.
Religious freedom in most of the middle east is slightly ahead of what Europe had 600 years ago... maybe in a few centuries they'll get on board with the disestablishment of state religion.
Sizing (Blog Entry by jwray)
You get what you pay for. Try a few brand names... real ones.
I have. Calvin Klein is the same crap as generic Target underwear, but with fancier graphics and an even thicker waistband.
All they have to do is put 1/10 as many elastic fibers in the waistband, to weaken the elastic by a factor of 10. Why should I have to pay more for less? Likewise for food that is produced without massive amounts of artificial colors/flavors/preservatives.
Why Star Trek: Enterprise failed (Blog Entry by jwray)
If I had to rank the Star Trek series:
1. DS9 seasons 1-6 and TNG seasons 2-7
2. DS9 season 7
3. Voyager
4. TNG season 1
5. TOS and Enterprise
Prequels are almost always bad because knowing the future in too much detail kills creativity.
Paper airplane demonstration of thrust and drag
Before he was Cookie Monster he was Computer Monster
99 Problems But a Cookie Ain't One
Family Guy - Cookie Monster in Rehab
The House of C'Mons
Home is Where the Food Is.
Rep. Alan Grayson Quotes Sun Tzu in light of Escalation
Defense contractors buy political influence
Political influence puts more public money into Defense Contractors' hands
Defense contractors buy political influence
Political influence puts more public money into Defense Contractors' hands
Defense contractors buy political influence
Political influence puts more public money into Defense Contractors' hands
Defense contractors buy political influence
Political influence puts more public money into Defense Contractors' hands
And so on. That's why our military spending is outrageously inefficient and excessive, and we keep fighting wars that are irrelevant or counterproductive to our national security. No-bid contracts and cost-plus contracts should be explicitly forbidden by the constitution. The military should stop privatizing essential components of their operation and paying orders of magnitude more than it would cost to do in-house.
IF YOU USE CONDOMS YOU WILL NOT BE RAPTURED
Now let us all join hands in prayer...
Our Pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever, Ramen.
IF YOU USE CONDOMS YOU WILL NOT BE RAPTURED
'Accidental' Download Sending Guy To Prison
Ergo, if some spammer decided to spam it to everyone in the US, then everyone in the US would be a felon.
Cookie Monster w/moustache, medallion, & 70s shirt sings
Nein!
Many sifters are extremists when talking about religion (Religion Talk Post)
Morality should be a rational protocol for the mutual benefit of all, not fiats of authors.
If the right is right without an authority figure ordering it, then we have no use for fiction authors ordering us around with imagined words of god. The same epistemic pathway that makes them suceptible to religion is abused by advertisers, nationalistic tyrants, politicians, etc, causing all sorts of mischief. People just need to stop being so gullible and start asking the right questions.
Star Trek Lip Dub - Happy in Paraguay
Nein!
Robin Williams Talking About Getting Owned in COD
4-way Auto-Mario: Queen (Don't Stop Me Now)
My Religion is True, Yours a Mistake!