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I have never moaned, and I never hope to. I just don't get it. Heavy breathing, maybe - but why would you make noise? It's just.. odd.

Just to clarify: Stukie does abuse. Topic closed IMO.

Why would we donate to see a polka video, if only the highest giver gets that? I've got something over a thousand, but I have no chance in !@#$%^&* of competing with, say, Sama or Polix. Maybe if you simply promised to post the vid as long as we got you to a certain number of points?

I keep wondering how Cerium can get so much content into his posts while still making them dreadfully amusing. But I agree.

I watched that movie on an adult-humor site like 4 months ago. But still good.

The problem with this is that these same arguments were spread around in very advanced form as early as the 60s, and nobody did anything "because it was too difficult to enforce." And besides, the US has never made an actual effort to control guns. In the past, the laws were entirely at local or state levels, and it was easy to get around them by simply shipping in guns from outside. If a federal-level gun control program were implemented, it would be possible to actually obtain success, even though there are more guns out there now than there used to be. Additionally, most people just think of the "can't defend yourself from armed criminals" argument - the other side of the coin is that anyone carrying an illegal weapon is up for prosecution, and, aside from people who insisted on keeping guns "just because," that would make prosecuting criminals a heck of a lot easier. Conservatives always complain about how criminals "get a free ride" - if guns are used in so many violent crimes, then being able to cut through the red tape would be a big boost to law enforcement efforts.

rofl dark, made a new topic over in WD before I saw this.

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Sui, have you played any of Yahtzee's games? Pretty fun, IMO. He looks weird, though.

Bleh, I always heard that criticism just bounces off of fat people. Don't see why X goes after root nonstop, and don't see why root reacts like it's the end of the world every time (yet another) topic shows up. Seems sorta Lindsay Lohanish to me.

Relevant in what way? Stupidity factor? I could point out that many people accuse McCain of collaborating with the DRVN..

Let's take a moment to remember that although most of these cases are laughable, there are some in which little kids get worked up and don't know what to do. This looks like it might be mainstreaming "mean girl" abuse tactics. Odd. Sex equality after all?

A lot of those games are buggy, actually. Was playing Breakout earlier and the ball was flying through the edge of the paddle. Nothing like Bananoids or Steve Moraff's version.

God, you're a re!@#$%^&*. That isn't a riddle, that's an obscure brain-teaser made by an illiterate nut. edit - I sounded pretty harsh, didn't I?

Only some of those articles are funny, other ones are just weird and violent. Plus, he only does one update every 3 months or so nowadays.

So, did you actually notice any extensive side-effects before you read about it, or might this just be some minor side-effects that you're mentally inflating?

So that's why you had the hangman avatar all those years.

Does anyone even want to try this riddle? I could spoil it if nobody wants to.... I'll give a day to hear back from people then I'll just post the answer if nobody wants to try. You call that a riddle? It's pure idiocy. Well, 99.99% pure, anyway.

Why would we donate to a middle-aged man who claims to have scarlet feces? Edit - Oh, and by the way, are you trying to streak the lotto again?

Please elaborate. When has something that was illegal become legal because a company says it would help the consumer? Not even going to bother to cite this one, because virtually every corporate privacy violation over the years has been happily attributed to "ease of purchase" and "enhancing convenience." Spend 5 minutes looking through old laws and lobbying arguments - it's quite depressing. Also elaborate on this corporate/government beast you're so certain is coming. That's really a matter for another topic, but, I suppose I should briefly touch on it. Consider this - the top 10 corporations in the world each had income of more than $170 billion in 2006. These (and other) corporations have invested massive sums into lobbying (for laws that benefit them, naturally), dealing with poor and autocratic states (thus enhancing influence and ensuring long-term profit flows) and often have personal representatives who can heavily influence the votes of politicians. The borders between finance and government have been heavily broken down, and within a decade or so they'll probably have collapsed altogether. On the government side, dozens (or hundreds) of government leaders have taken advantages of the services of foreign corporations to enhance internal security, provide services that they refuse to give to their own people, and help them put a brighter face on tyranny. You've got two different groups, steadily working closer together, and, by its nature, this system is non-democratic. And yet, we're supposed to encourage it, because these are the most compe!@#$%^&*ive corporations under the free market. Cool, huh? Which have been chopped at for the last 8 (or, some would say, 16) years, and which, to my (and many others') disappointment shows no sign of stopping after Obama crushes McCain in November. At the very most, he'll prevent a "hostile takeover" of the Supreme Court, which would turn it from its present stay-the-course-support-the-Executive pattern to a let's-!@#$%^&*-the-people program.

Silly me, Veg, you're right. Why would I think that having your name, address, phone number, social security number, purchasing habits, and internet record tossed around to various companies, and being filmed everywhere you go (with no regulations on film disposal) might be kinda, well, invasive? And corporate accountability? Corporate accountability is where if somebody does something illegal, they actually get in trouble - or, in our current situation, things that are illegal stay illegal, instead of being made legal while companies talk about "efficiency" or "helping the consumer." And.. As for the totalitarian part? What's your first thought when you think of the old Soviet bloc or China? Everywhere you go, they're watching - step out of line, you get in trouble. That can't completely happen here until corporations and government become indistinguishable (by 2020 or so), but in the meantime, it's rather disturbing that the government uses corporations to abuse loopholes, while corporations beg government for more access into our lives. If the government (or the corporate-government en!@#$%^&*y of the future) decides to actually crack down, then suddenly we'll go from a rapid decay of privacy to a complete lack of privacy and freedom. I'd call that totalitarian. In this case, no, the camel is not completely under the tent - but we're a long way past the nose.

Thank you. Thank you. How I have longed to see someone admit it. The USA doesn't have a government camera on every corner, but we do have dozens of security cameras in every store (I remember a 50-year old business my father worked in - small grocery store - that had 8 of them), complete internet logging, and nonexistent corporate accountability (Bush set a jolly precedent with the spying telecoms, didn't he?). Have you ever looked at this? (For those too lazy to click, it's a chart showing the best and worst privacy respecting nations in the world - The USA ranks all the way up with China, Russia, and Taiwan. Nice to see that we're as good as nations that we routinely denounce for being totalitarian, isn't it?)

I'd disagree, Dav. There are a lot of reASSS out there (Sea Shepherd, anyone?), but a lot of ecological ideas that are extremely logical and self consistent have been dismissed as "insane" or "the radical left's plans to subvert our children" (I'm not kidding here), while the only ones which get serious scrutiny are generally the ones that are inconsistent or ridiculously difficult to implement. If you actually read through some of the proposals, most of them are well thought out and would have tangible benefits. The most famous of these would be "saving the X endangered animal X" for tourism boosting, but there are also a lot more of them. Things like restricting rain forest destruction but giving government aid to farmers to help them get by on the land they have, etc. And @ Aileron - Entropy is a very misleading principle. Besides, anyone who actually wants to acknowledge its domination should be embracing "renewable energy" and focusing on a clean-industry / localized production renaissance, and trying to stretch out our resources as long as possible. Either that or playing God and terraforming planets before abandoning our descendants there. Of course, we can't do that, because we decided to double the Pentagon's budget, instead of increasing NASA's budget twenty-fold.

Hoch, that might be the way it works in Europe, but that isn't the way it works here. They'd have to be completely nuts to found a "support group" based on pregnancy. Anyone who considered doing that for 5 minutes, let alone the length of time it takes to get pregnant and then get discovered, would see how stupid it is. So - Single woman in Europe having child for aid - Possible Multiple women in America having children for support group / aid - No way

So what happens if you try to have "wild angry sex" and then it turns out that she gets you arrested for rape?