Short answer is they're regions that are officially part of the US, but not a state (Puerto Rico is the usual example).

Long answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States

Also, the woman who said "Philippines" would've been right if the question had been asked 80 years ago. The girl who said "Louisiana" would've been right if the question had been asked 200 years ago.
>> ^Yogi:

I got everything but US Territory...isn't that just a state or something? What do they mean by Territory?

It's a shame that every statement is measured in the votes they may cost.. why can't politicias just say what they mean and do shit they think is right. Cards on the table, fuckers!

I got everything but US Territory...isn't that just a state or something? What do they mean by Territory?

Don't they mean "Clash of Kings"?

The last few hurry-up's are funnier if you know what they mean:

Libera il vialetto - free the path!
Libera la macchina! - free the car!
Domani devi lavorare! - You have to work tomorrow!
Spala sul tetto - shovelling on the roof? (I think, not sure)

Do they mean millimetres?

So that's what they mean by hydraulic lunch...

definitely the best video on SOPA I've seen, and I've watched a lot of them. Some of the other ones are delivered better, or more uniquely, and some provide a better glimpse of the overall effects of the bill (e.g. guilty until proven innocent ramifications). However this is the best at explaining the specific parts of the act that are so damaging, as well as what they mean, which is what is the most important in my view.

>> ^bareboards2:

I always take that stuff metaphorically, symbolically, whether they mean it or not (and they hate when I do it.)
The guy has a relationship with SOMETHING that gives him peace, center, balance. He calls it God. So what. He has peace, center, balance and isn't out being an asshole, gangbanging, getting into trouble, and making himself and others miserable.
Works for me!
And yeah, when he breaks a leg, which I think is highly likely, the holes in his philosophy will be abundantly clear.

>> ^Deano:
Scouser with vaguely defined "relationship with God" metaphysics can stick all that up his arse for all I care. When he breaks a leg he might sing another tune.



While I agree mostly with your "live and let live" policy..."Relationship" to me implies that God is communicating back to him. Sorry but that's a crazy person. He believes, that's all he should say.

I always take that stuff metaphorically, symbolically, whether they mean it or not (and they hate when I do it.)

The guy has a relationship with SOMETHING that gives him peace, center, balance. He calls it God. So what. He has peace, center, balance and isn't out being an asshole, gangbanging, getting into trouble, and making himself and others miserable.

Works for me!

And yeah, when he breaks a leg, which I think is highly likely, the holes in his philosophy will be abundantly clear.


>> ^Deano:

Scouser with vaguely defined "relationship with God" metaphysics can stick all that up his arse for all I care. When he breaks a leg he might sing another tune.

@A10anis

Agnosticism is an epistemological position of the uncertainty of knowledge of things. In other words, the nature of knowledge about God, or knowledge in general really, as many above have pointed out (I'm taking it you did read the nice chart above!). Theism or Atheism is a position, either knowingly or unknowing rejecting or accepting the idea of God; one can be explicitly or implicitly atheist (like all children not exposed to the idea are implicitly atheist). Agnostic Atheist is the most common position, but few people have complete understanding of all the concepts involved, or have their own private understandings of what they mean; making any unilateral criticism troublesome. As to the foundations of science and Mathematics, Kurt Gödel had had a great role to play in the destruction of what most peoples concept of certain systems are. And the o so smart Karl Popper ideas on falsifiability has thrown the antique notion of certain truth from science against the wall, in which modern Philosophers of Science, like Hilary Putnam have found intractable to solve, except to say that very little separates, currently, the foundations of science form the foundations of any other dabble of the imagination. Einstein talked about this as well, that wonderment is really the pursuit of all great scientists...not certainty.

As to my original claim, that science has truths it can not rectify, I leave it to better minds to explain the problems of induction. David Hume, Nelson Goodman, and Kurt Gödel drastically changed any view of certain knowledge from science and maths that I had. The untenable nature of the empirical evaluation of reality is just as uncertain as Abrahamic codifications being real.

I close with this, some of the greatest minds in the history of science and philosophy had no problem, nay, drew power from the deep richness they gathered from their faith. It drove them to the limits of the thoughts of their day, René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, Blaise Pascal, Alan Turing (who kept some vestibules of faith even after what happened to him), Georg Cantor, and countless others all had some "irrational" faith was more than just a ideal system of commands by some dead people, it drove them to greatness, and in many cases to rejection and madness of their "rational" peers. Georg Cantor, the father of the REAL infinite, died in a mental institution only to have his ideas lite a fire in the minds of the next generation of mathematicians.

It is my believe that we all want to have issue with x number of people, and make peace with y number. We elevate the slightest difference, or conversely, ignore a great flaw to peg this mark just right for us. Perhaps my y is just bigger than your x, or most peoples x as I find this debate I have is a common one; for tolerance, peace, and consideration. If you still think what I am saying is non-sense, then I guess we have nothing more to say to one another. I hope I cleared up my thoughts a bit more, I am not very good at communicating things that are more than just the average amount of esoteric.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

M'eh - I'll say it again. The OWS guys are angry at the wrong target. They are like a guy who blames his apartment's supervisor for the policies of his landlord.
As I am the most brilliant person I know, I'll just quote myself...
"The FED jacked around the rates. The FED changed Glass-Steagall. The FED told banks they would back ARMs. So in the year 2000, some doofus who earned only 30K a year could walk into a bank to find a literal smorgasboard of million dollar loans he legally qualified which would have laughed him out of the bank in 1995.
Some banks acted conservatively in the bubble and many others chose to do the risky (but still legal) loans. Just like how there were borrowers who behaved conservatively during the bubble, and others who took the risky (but legal) option. The problem was that the number of conservative players was a lot smaller than the risk-takers.
The banks were stupid to take so many risks. People were stupid to take out so many loans. But it was GOVERNMENT that engineered the whole mess. They are the primary offender in this picture. The Federal Government. If government had not interfered in the market, then the whole mess would never have happened."
Cain hit the nail on the head when he said the protesters should be at the White House. The problem is that the OWS crowd is primarily composed of a bunch of fringe, left-wing dupes and they only go where their prog-lib pipers order them to go.


@winston_pennypacker
LOL..awesome.
wait..you are being serious?
duuuuude.
check your facts brother.
who "owns" the FED?
ill give ya a hint..it aint the federal government.
and look into WHO lobbied for class steagal to be recinded/revised.

i find it interesting how tea party folks say that OWS is angry at the wrong people.that they should be angry at the government.
i can agree with that ..in part.
but to ignore the massive influence,corruption and outright theft of our political system by the corporate elite is JUST as naive.
for 30 years both have built a relationship that has become so entwined and entrenched that BOTH need a serious enema.
a plutocracy that has become a machine that enables each other to perpetuate the status quo.

the tea partiers,the original tea party,not the corporate sponsored koch brother bullshit machine,and OWS are both correct in their anger.
wall street for their BLATANT disregard for the law and outright LIES and FRAUD which has been swept under the rug by a government THEY (meaning wall street) PAID for.

the tea party should head down to every occupy protest,join hands with those folks and REALLY start making the whores we call "politicians" start peeing their pants.
because NOTHING gets a government,crown,leader or grand poo-ba crapping himself than a few thousand really pissed of citizens.

but that aint gonna happen because my country still has a majority of retards who buy in to the whole "rightwing nutbag","neo-lib socialist"..blah blah blah.

bullshit fed to the masses in an easy to swallow diatribe broadcast on a media that was bought by the very people fucking you in the ass for 3 decades.

americas propaganda machine is by far one of the most effective.
/rant off

I guess I meant to have an early start but leave space. For me an early start is more than likely going to consist of coffee to wake up and get amped. I find the most daunting and uncreative times in life are when I wake up twenty minutes before work and get into that terrible habit.

>> ^nanrod:

I agree with most of these but...drink coffee?? If I drink coffee the only creativity resulting from it is the Jackson Pollock-like splatter of my vomit. Ill assume they mean drink stimulating beverage of your choice.

I agree with most of these but...drink coffee?? If I drink coffee the only creativity resulting from it is the Jackson Pollock-like splatter of my vomit. Ill assume they mean drink stimulating beverage of your choice.