It is said that the dead decompose far slower these days than in the past. Manufactured food induced mummification rules!

>> ^KnivesOut:
On-topic: I let my dog shit wherever she wants, and I don't clean it up. Yes, I'm an anarchist!
But seriously, what's better for the environment, my dog's little turds going into the ground, or a plastic bag full of turds going into a land-fill, to -never- decompose.

erm
the bags are biodegradable
they'll disappear in no time

>> ^KnivesOut:
On-topic: I let my dog shit wherever she wants, and I don't clean it up. Yes, I'm an anarchist!
But seriously, what's better for the environment, my dog's little turds going into the ground, or a plastic bag full of turds going into a land-fill, to -never- decompose.


Depends where you live. http://www.edmonton.ca/for_residents/garbage-recycling.aspx

"Through recycling and composting, Edmonton is diverting 60% of residential waste from landfill."

My city has been doing this for many years. We can't compost all trash sent to the landfill, but we do compost the majority of it.

On-topic: I let my dog shit wherever she wants, and I don't clean it up. Yes, I'm an anarchist!

But seriously, what's better for the environment, my dog's little turds going into the ground, or a plastic bag full of turds going into a land-fill, to -never- decompose.

That neighbourhood is a real shithole.

The caption at 0:56 made me lol =D Emily Guist, who knew this was going to be your 15 seconds of fame? Last time I checked, dog shit decomposes... just not fast enough. Oh, did I mention how much I enjoyed you sharing your fantasies involving placing dog shit in beds. Yeesh.

Really though, some dog owners are lazy as (dog) shit.

>> ^Razor:
>> ^deathcow:
Notice the holes are pre-drilled. Do you think they pumped that melon full of something combustible? I guess they are pretty wet inside (I've never American Pie'd one or anything.)

I'd take the guess that such a large amount of direct current caused the water in the watermelon to decompose rapidly to hydrogen and oxygen. Both would expand rapidly, being partial cause to the explosion as pressure inside increased. Additionally, the combination of gases is highly combustible, and any spark generated between the electrodes would be enough to cause them to ignite, causing an additional pressure increase and explosion.


I think the electricity made it explode.

>> ^deathcow:
Notice the holes are pre-drilled. Do you think they pumped that melon full of something combustible? I guess they are pretty wet inside (I've never American Pie'd one or anything.)


I'd take the guess that such a large amount of direct current caused the water in the watermelon to decompose rapidly to hydrogen and oxygen. Both would expand rapidly, being partial cause to the explosion as pressure inside increased. Additionally, the combination of gases is highly combustible, and any spark generated between the electrodes would be enough to cause them to ignite, causing an additional pressure increase and explosion.

Here lies Michael Jackson,
his music was fantastic.
At least he won't decompose,
he's mostly made of plastic.

Eh again, I wouldn't have minded the changes but when i can tell it's CGI (easily) it makes me feel like im watching a cartoon instead of a movie. With puppets at least it's something on screen that looks like it can be 'touched' by the audience. I see that CGI and start thinking about how the actors are interacting with nothing and it pulls me out of my 'movie experience' mode.

On the 7,000 years thing, no I don't think it would need some kind of preservative because animals err sand monsters (lol) like this one would probably be classified as decomposers. Decomposers can break down just about anything but this one would probably use a combination of bacteria and weak enzymes (sort of like a big stomach) to get the job done.

nerdstomp!

eh, there's a very strong odor of negligence that would not be there if not for the plaintiffs overpresentation of their lack of guilt.

so what if the girl took the keys, when the boy didnt discourage it at all, which came as a result of his mom's already lax attitude about driving the car unlicensed.

the whole situation could have been prevented by one lady: the mother who was watching the minor kids.

ultimate responsibility falls with the driver, but morally the plaintiff is wrong.


Judge Judy has it down.

And yea that kid looks healthy ... she's just saying. He could look decomposing like the other kid. It's a comparison designed to drive home the point of what is really important...

For anyone who was interested like me but didn't want to watch 10 minutes of video, like me, here's a quote from wikipedia who quotes trent reznor:

He's filming a music video where reznor in the video pretends to fall off a building and die in the street.

"There was a scene were I was lying on the ground, appearing to be dead, in a Lodger-esque pose and we had a camera with a big weather balloon filled with helium hooked up to it... the first one we did, we started the film, I was laying on the ground and the ropes that were holding the balloon snapped, the camera just took off into the atmosphere... the camera landed two hundred miles away in a farmer's field somewhere. He finds it and takes it to the police, thinking that it's a surveillance camera for marijuana, they develop the film and think that it's some sort of snuff film of a murder, give it to the FBI and have pathologists looking at the body saying, 'yeah, he's rotting,' (I had corn starch on me, right) 'he's been decomposing for 3 weeks.' You could see the other members of the band walking away and they had these weird outfits on, and they thought it was some kind of gang slaying."

>> ^imstellar28:

I think that's an interesting idea, but how is that different from just taking the current left-right definition (all about the size of government) and making it a 3rd axis?

Why can't that axis really be decomposed into a vector of the social and economic axes?

Positive values on the social axis call for more government involvement, and less on the economic. Perhaps they should just flip the x-axis around, and say positive values correlate to more government involvement (though that would destroy the natural left-right order it has now).

Adding the 3rd axis leads to weird combinations; is it really possible to be economicly collectivist, socially conservative, and politically libertarian?

It seems like you're just trying to superimpose your view of the left-right axis onto the system. In fairness, I think that's because you generally view your positions on economic and social issues as being derived from your political philosophy, whereas I generally feel like my political philosophy is derived from my views on economic and social issues.

The chart is more about measuring the kinds of concrete goals you have for the way society should work, than about the means you think it will take to get society there. Maybe it's a weakness in the system's ability to discern political party sympathies, but people in the 4th quadrant are pretty much all going to self-identify as libertarian or "independent". At least, in the US.

The preponderence of the evidence suggests that consciousness is the action of the brain. You only need to study the psychological effects of various physical circumstances, drugs, and brain damages to see so. A corrolary of this is that when the brain decomposes, the last remnant and hope of regaining consciousness is destroyed, unless the data constituting the hardware and software of the brain has been preserved by some other means. Since no such means are yet known, there is probably no afterlife.

Perhaps one of the reasons Islam forbids the use of alcohol is that the knowledge of any mind-altering substance undermines dualism, and dualism is a scaffold for belief in an afterlife.

Congratulations! Now don't let it go to your blood-caked, decomposing zombie head.

It reminds me of the opening of 2001. A bunch of primates living in a very dry barren world. What did those proto-humans eat before they learned to bludgeon neighboring family groups with decomposing femurs? What do those baboons eat without bludgeoning each other to death?