Got to disagree with you there Chingy.

I bought my sister an Air and it's a lovely piece of design and build. In the hand it feels better than any PC laptop I've ever owned.

And MacOS has a lot going for it. And it's free! Along with the productivity software.

Really it's just a matter of preference, money issues aside. I got a barely second-hand one for £150 off and with 256GB. It's a vast improvement on the overheating, noisy old Acer she had.

I'm still a Windows boy for work and the fact I'm just so used to it. But an Air dual-booting with Windows? I can see that happening.

I think I upvoted the idea more than the execution.

It was a fairly straight cover that didn't really explore the possibilities of a "guitar orchestra".

I suppose I was hoping for something clever using guitars to mimic the drums and bass, and maybe some kind of dual harmonic lead.

I always wondered why German ambulances had remotely-operated dual 50 cal. guns on their roofs...

... now I know.

Your video, Dual Driver Big Rig, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Stock-up on 22-LR-One can do wonders with a scope and some varmint shot.22-Calibre rounds serve the dual-fold purpose of filling the pot for dinner and eliminating would-be assailants from long distances.

...and as always, Play More With Claymore!!

I live in Japan. Married with kids. My wife works though, so we don't have time for this kind of thing. As @HugeJerk said it can be competitive--there are definitely neighborhood housewives who are trying to one-up each other. However, I think a lot of them are just looking for some kind of creative outlet.

As @deathcow and @oritteropo noted, the number of dual income families is much lower compared to many western countries (though with Japan's economic downturn lasting for so long the number has been steadily increasing).

There's always been a social expectation here that women will give up their careers (and basically their lives) to raise kids. To be honest, many women (like my sister-in-law who is getting married this weekend) want to quit their careers--glass ceilings very much exist in many major Japanese companies and you will very rarely find women in high-level positions, so why fight the current, right? Even those that do make it (we have a female family friend who is a CEO) face condescending attitudes from their male peers. The CEO friend, being the only female in the room at a business meeting one time, was expected to make and serve the tea to everyone else.

So on the one hand, I think it's cool that Japanese moms make these cool-looking bentos, but on the other hand I find it really sad that for many women doing things like this is really their only creative outlet because societal demands and pressures limit other possible avenues of expression.

And Japanese government officials wonder why Japan continues to have a decreasing birth rate...

Not a lot of dual working families I take it...

I was so furious when i saw this road first time; i just had an epiphany two weeks prior when going thru a bridge that had two sized metalgrates and thus two pitches... I thought i had an original idea... then i saw one these videos... All though i still believe that using metal makes better waveforms, a bit more clearly defined tones.. Well i always have my dual tone version in mind..

Violence, death and danger raises the stakes of a narrative and triggers the production of adrenaline in the minds of the viewer. Our ancient ancestors got the same rush by outrunning a grizzly bear. Luckily, we can tap into this brain narcotic with much less risk.

There are films that do seem to pointlessly revel in gore and suffering, most notably Saw 1-26, but Quentin certainly isn't guilty of this kind of torture porn. Steven Spielberg killed at least as many Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark as Quentin killed racist confederates in Django, but Spielberg never gets criticized for it. The violence in both films serve the dual purposes of making the bad guys really bad, and making the catharsis of revenge in the end really good.

Violence in media is a reflection of violence in culture, not the other way around. Quentin didn't dream up slavery, lynchings, torture, mutilation and the other types of racial violence in his film. That stuff really happened.

And to Spike Lee: Django blowing racists to hell with TNT is how Tarrentino deals with race in cinema. Mookie tossing a garbage can through the front window of Sal's pizzaria is how you deal with race in cinema. Both are great films with the same perspective on race done in completely different styles. Get over yourself. If you want to criticize a film about race directed by a white guy, do 'Crash', that movie was a patronizing pile of shit.

What are you talking about, both the penis' behind the wheels of these vehicles are probably American. Someone just fucking hates America(n).
Outmatched vehicles:
553 ft.-lbs. of torque at 2000 rpm and 310 HP (18:1 comp ratio w/dual-turbo chargers) with the Toureg

520 lb-ft @ 1,800 RPM- 6.6 liter w/300 hp @ 3100 rpm with bouncy there-

While both seem matched, the VW's the real piece of work.
Engineering be damned, the Germans pretty much extended their penises farther than any country with their fucking master -race shit.
Got to hand it to the insect-like attention to details, though....after WW2, a shitload of their engineers came to the U.S.

So, buy a Mercedes Benz and enjoy it....great car, until you need repairs...Ka-Chiniig!!

My progression was.....
Commodore 64 (1983),
Atari520ST (1987),
Atari 1040ST (1987), (Hard drive!)
IBM PC/AT (1988),
Macintosh 2 (1990),
80486 66DX2, (1992),
Pentium overdrive for the 486DX2 (1995),
Dual Pentium MMX 166 (1996) ,
Pentium-2 333mhz (1998), (Dual voodoo-2)
Pentium-3 800mhz (2000),
Pentium D 2.8gz ( 2006),
Core i7-920 ( 2009),
Core i7-970 (2011).

Lesser machines along the way... a Macintosh SE I cant place on the timeline. My biggest regret was sticking with the Pentium-3 for so long. Wasn't so interested though.

130 years ago, the assumption in the Western world (where all the science was getting done) was the the Bible was correct. There was no geological scientific evidence either way. Then geological evidence started coming out that the biblical number was way, way wrong. That evidence was challenged and yet survived, so the accepted value of the age of the Earth changed. That's how science works; you change your mind in the face of evidence. That's how intelligence works, in fact.

It's the same evidence. There isn't creationist evidence and secular scientist evidence. They're both looking at the same evidence and interpreting it different. And there is plenty of geologic evidence of the flood. Recently, scientists have started to embrace catastrophism over uniformitarian because the evidence of a worldwide disaster is undeniable.

The evidence that was initially advanced for long ages by Charles Lyell was based on either misinterpretation or outright fraud. He claimed that Niagra Falls was eroding at the rate of one foot per year. He then made the leap that since the gorge was 35,000 feet long it was 35,000 years old. Very scientific. It has been confirmed however that the gorge erodes at 4 to 5 feet per year which means it is most likely under 7 thousand years old.

The "evidence" is obtained by making assumptions about the past that can't be proven, and you can't date the rocks without these assumptions. If you change the assumptions then you come up with much different dates.

It's like quantum physics. Everybody just assumed that all matter was made of solid matter that has definite speed and location, but it turns out that all matter is made up of things with probabilities only. No matter how much Einstein wanted to believe that all matter was solid all the way down, he had to agree that the evidence for quantum physics was undeniably accurate and that matter is composed of chancy waveforms. Anyone who studies it will have to come to the same conclusion. Same goes for what we're talking about.

Everyone who studies it does not come to that conclusion. The hard evidence you have for quantum physics does not exist for deep time. You can test quantum physics; you can't test deep time. All there is a pile of circumstantial evidence all based on the same unprovable assumptions.

"Any evidence...discarded" is misleading. If there's a single outlier result once, it may get some attention or it may be ignored. If there's repeatable experimentation that yields the same contradictory results again and again (dual slit experiment), or a theory that fits all evidence better than current models (quantum physics), it will stir controversy and get a lot of attention. Again, that's how science works.

Every time they measure the age of the rocks they get a range of dates, and then they discard the ones that don't agree with their assumptions as "anomalous". I think I've said this before..bif the evidence were there I would believe it. I used to believe it, but when I found out the extremely flimsy and weaknature of the evidence and realized I would have to put more faith in the scientists than I would the bible, so I decided to believe the bible instead. The whole thing stinks to high heaven but this is a religious proposition to many people. To them, they are satisfied with its explanation of reality and use it as an excuse to deny God. Take note of the awe and reverence and love people pay to the Cosmos and "mother Earth" because it is a religious experience you are witnessing They are seeing Gods glory in creation but they make naturalism their religion instead of acknowledging Him, and worship the creature rather than the Creator.

Psalm 19:1-2


The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

130 years ago, the assumption in the Western world (where all the science was getting done) was the the Bible was correct. There was no geological scientific evidence either way. Then geological evidence started coming out that the biblical number was way, way wrong. That evidence was challenged and yet survived, so the accepted value of the age of the Earth changed. That's how science works; you change your mind in the face of evidence. That's how intelligence works, in fact.

It's like quantum physics. Everybody just assumed that all matter was made of solid matter that has definite speed and location, but it turns out that all matter is made up of things with probabilities only. No matter how much Einstein wanted to believe that all matter was solid all the way down, he had to agree that the evidence for quantum physics was undeniably accurate and that matter is composed of chancy waveforms. Anyone who studies it will have to come to the same conclusion. Same goes for what we're talking about.

"Any evidence...discarded" is misleading. If there's a single outlier result once, it may get some attention or it may be ignored. If there's repeatable experimentation that yields the same contradictory results again and again (dual slit experiment), or a theory that fits all evidence better than current models (quantum physics), it will stir controversy and get a lot of attention. Again, that's how science works.

Every time I see the term "Koch Brothers" I have a vision of the Mario Brothers dressed like the Monopoly guy, grinning maniacally as they dual one another with their insanely giant penises. Anybody care to photoshop that up for me?

MTV used to make money by running advertisements non stop, they just called them music videos. Now that music video programming is entertainment, they had to switch to a model that made more money. CD sales really make no difference, as they replaced by digital music sales. And piracy? Please, my older siblings in the tape generation stole more music than I ever did with a dual cassette deck stereo. Not one of them ever paid for a music cassette when they could just wait til their friends bought the cassette and copy it.