You must be off questing for the Fork of Horripilation.

On the one hand I kinda see Santorum's point: if a person has a bunch of optional expenses then they shouldn't really be complaining about a necessary expense.

But we don't really know what this woman's situation is. I think having a basic phone is pretty necessary in today's society, but the cost would be a minor fraction of paying for those prescriptions. OTOH, if she's forking over $200 a month for a cell phone, but complaining about $200 a month for prescriptions, then that doesn't add up.

But for a lot of people, $2400/year for prescriptions is a big expense and can make it tough to make ends meet.

Haha, I remember when I was in second grade I had a boombox and probably a Vanilla Ice or Michael Jackson tape on hand. But, I wanted an extension cord so I could have the boombox on the otherside of the room, so I grabbed some wire stuck in one end of the power cord for the boombox and then plugged the cord in the wall. Fireballs. Fucking FIREBALLS. It was awesome. I'll never do it again.


>> ^ghark:

I remember standing in front of an electrical outlet when I was about 3-4 with a fork, thinking man, I'm so tempted to see what would happen if I poke this fork into these little holes.
Ahh, the good old days, before it became politically correct to safe'ify one's house for the chillun's.

You did that at 34?

Man, you lucky.


>> ^ghark:

I remember standing in front of an electrical outlet when I was about 3-4 with a fork, thinking man, I'm so tempted to see what would happen if I poke this fork into these little holes.
Ahh, the good old days, before it became politically correct to safe'ify one's house for the chillun's.

I remember standing in front of an electrical outlet when I was about 3-4 with a fork, thinking man, I'm so tempted to see what would happen if I poke this fork into these little holes.

Ahh, the good old days, before it became politically correct to safe'ify one's house for the chillun's.

Nooooooooooooooooo. I'm saying Leno allowed NBC to have their way with them after he, Leno, forked Conan.

>> ^MaxWilder:

>> ^deadgoon:
Would you be relaxed if your caboose was dilated to 9cm courtesy of NBC? You can't fork people over without getting forked in return.

>> ^MaxWilder:
Ya know, most of the time when people talk about how much Leno sucks, I kinda shrug and think "He's not that bad."
This video shows exactly how bad he is. He cannot even keep up with Louis. I mean, you can't match a guy who is in mid-rant, but you could do better than push to your next scripted question, or repeating the last two words of his last sentence.
Leno just looks so awkward doing a job he's been doing for almost 20 years. You'd think he could relax and go with the flow after all this time. Maybe that's the problem. He's incapable of relaxing when the guest takes temporary control of the show.


Whaaa? You're saying Leno was screwed over by NBC? I think you are confusing him with Conan. NBC treated Leno like a prince.

>> ^deadgoon:

Would you be relaxed if your caboose was dilated to 9cm courtesy of NBC? You can't fork people over without getting forked in return.

>> ^MaxWilder:
Ya know, most of the time when people talk about how much Leno sucks, I kinda shrug and think "He's not that bad."
This video shows exactly how bad he is. He cannot even keep up with Louis. I mean, you can't match a guy who is in mid-rant, but you could do better than push to your next scripted question, or repeating the last two words of his last sentence.
Leno just looks so awkward doing a job he's been doing for almost 20 years. You'd think he could relax and go with the flow after all this time. Maybe that's the problem. He's incapable of relaxing when the guest takes temporary control of the show.



Whaaa? You're saying Leno was screwed over by NBC? I think you are confusing him with Conan. NBC treated Leno like a prince.

Would you be relaxed if your caboose was dilated to 9cm courtesy of NBC? You can't fork people over without getting forked in return.


>> ^MaxWilder:

Ya know, most of the time when people talk about how much Leno sucks, I kinda shrug and think "He's not that bad."
This video shows exactly how bad he is. He cannot even keep up with Louis. I mean, you can't match a guy who is in mid-rant, but you could do better than push to your next scripted question, or repeating the last two words of his last sentence.
Leno just looks so awkward doing a job he's been doing for almost 20 years. You'd think he could relax and go with the flow after all this time. Maybe that's the problem. He's incapable of relaxing when the guest takes temporary control of the show.

I think no matter how good my broadband its always not quite good enough. ONE DROPPED PACKET OUT OF 10,000.

Really I don't care much about bandwidth, its latency and the quality and reliability of the connection I am after. I would be happy on like, 1mb if its got good routing, pings well to the rest of europe and doesn't drop packets or fluctuate wildly. Videogames don't really require that much bandwidth

I'm on BE Broadband atm, and honestly I'm super impressed with the quality considering its built on aging telecom infrastructure. Very affordable too. When I was living in student digs I forked out for fibre optic cable because the alternatives were awful and while the bandwidth was great it was extremely unreliable. Headaches of new tech or just a bad business...

I think it would have been awesome if the lego SUV had slipped off the fork-lift and exploded.>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

This video would be so much better if he just lost it and started punching in the windows.

That's just depressingly pedantic, rryjkyjdhu..

Omniscience is the capacity to know everything. Deliberately limiting Himself does not reduce that capacity. God is not the combination of every possible state of being. God is only good and not evil, for instance. God is not a combination of the two, he is just wholly good. Perfection is the overriding attribute here. Because it is more perfect to be wholly good instead of good and evil, He is just wholly good. Just as it is more perfect for God to limit Himself to give us free will than to not limit Himself and have puppets.



>> ^Ryjkyj:
>> ^shinyblurry:
"I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins"
This is a key passage about Gods omniscience. He can choose to limit Himself.
Genesis 2:15-17
And the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
God gave Adam and Eve permission to eat from any tree in the garden. That was their free will choice. He then told them not to eat of the tree of knowledge. That was His command. He also explained what would happen if they did eat it.
Now, a way He could limit His knowledge here and still know what He was doing is this.. Imagine that you're at fork in the road. For either of those two choices, God knows every possible outcome and how to handle it. He is prepared for your choice, but doesn't know which one you will choose. Is it because He couldn't know? No. It's because He set it up so we had a real choice, so He chose to limit Himself in some way which allows for our free choice. He is prepared for every possible outcome, but as to what it will be, He allows us to write the next chapter.
Ultimately, God wants us to obey Him because He knows what is best for us. He knows which road is the best while we don't. Unless we obey God, we may choose the worst path. Though we only obey God according to how much we love Him. Love is an act of will, so obedience is a free choice. It all comes down to love.
God wants to mold us from the ground up. He wants us to follow the best path every time. But we have to love and trust God first. We have to sit at His feet and learn because we don't know any better. That's why it is written:
Matthew 8:13
And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
This is a very indepth issue..not easy to see all the angles. Yet, there is a cohesive explanation which is rooted in love. Of all the details, love is the most important one.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
If God is omniscient, then he knew exactly every action humankind would take from the time they were conceived until the end of eternity.
There is no free will if God is omniscient.


That's great, but if there's something that God doesn't know, even if he chooses not to know it, then by definition he is not omniscient.

>> ^shinyblurry:

"I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins"
This is a key passage about Gods omniscience. He can choose to limit Himself.
Genesis 2:15-17
And the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
God gave Adam and Eve permission to eat from any tree in the garden. That was their free will choice. He then told them not to eat of the tree of knowledge. That was His command. He also explained what would happen if they did eat it.
Now, a way He could limit His knowledge here and still know what He was doing is this.. Imagine that you're at fork in the road. For either of those two choices, God knows every possible outcome and how to handle it. He is prepared for your choice, but doesn't know which one you will choose. Is it because He couldn't know? No. It's because He set it up so we had a real choice, so He chose to limit Himself in some way which allows for our free choice. He is prepared for every possible outcome, but as to what it will be, He allows us to write the next chapter.
Ultimately, God wants us to obey Him because He knows what is best for us. He knows which road is the best while we don't. Unless we obey God, we may choose the worst path. Though we only obey God according to how much we love Him. Love is an act of will, so obedience is a free choice. It all comes down to love.
God wants to mold us from the ground up. He wants us to follow the best path every time. But we have to love and trust God first. We have to sit at His feet and learn because we don't know any better. That's why it is written:
Matthew 8:13
And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
This is a very indepth issue..not easy to see all the angles. Yet, there is a cohesive explanation which is rooted in love. Of all the details, love is the most important one.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
If God is omniscient, then he knew exactly every action humankind would take from the time they were conceived until the end of eternity.
There is no free will if God is omniscient.



That's great, but if there's something that God doesn't know, even if he chooses not to know it, then by definition he is not omniscient.

"I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins"

This is a key passage about Gods omniscience. He can choose to limit Himself.

Genesis 2:15-17

And the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”

God gave Adam and Eve permission to eat from any tree in the garden. That was their free will choice. He then told them not to eat of the tree of knowledge. That was His command. He also explained what would happen if they did eat it.

Now, a way He could limit His knowledge here and still know what He was doing is this.. Imagine that you're at fork in the road. For either of those two choices, God knows every possible outcome and how to handle it. He is prepared for your choice, but doesn't know which one you will choose. Is it because He couldn't know? No. It's because He set it up so we had a real choice, so He chose to limit Himself in some way which allows for our free choice. He is prepared for every possible outcome, but as to what it will be, He allows us to write the next chapter.

Ultimately, God wants us to obey Him because He knows what is best for us. He knows which road is the best while we don't. Unless we obey God, we may choose the worst path. Though we only obey God according to how much we love Him. Love is an act of will, so obedience is a free choice. It all comes down to love.

God wants to mold us from the ground up. He wants us to follow the best path every time. But we have to love and trust God first. We have to sit at His feet and learn because we don't know any better. That's why it is written:

Matthew 8:13

And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

This is a very indepth issue..not easy to see all the angles. Yet, there is a cohesive explanation which is rooted in love. Of all the details, love is the most important one.

>> ^Ryjkyj:
If God is omniscient, then he knew exactly every action humankind would take from the time they were conceived until the end of eternity.
There is no free will if God is omniscient.

>> ^rottenseed:

>> ^mxxcon:
>> ^rottenseed:
My theory is correct...NY is full of a bunch of cunts

NYC's theory is correct...You are full of shit

Here, I'm every cunt from NY: "The people here are so fake. In New York people are more 'real'".
My interpretation: Everybody in NY are a bunch of loud mouthed cunts.
Don't get me started on how sick I am hearing about their dumb pizzas...
got a little pizza envy eh?


don't tell me you doublestack it and eat it w/ a fork?

>> ^BansheeX:

I see little difference between this and dollars. Who is behind its issuance? Who will be behind it 100 years from now? What ensures that a company or a government doesn't take it over and issue bitcoins for themselves without labor while everyone else has to labor?<


The system actually does not allow this. The "mint" as well as the "bank" are a massively peer to peer system. The coins are scarce, because the system only generates coins at a fixed rate. Because the system auto adjusts, each coin is cryptographically more difficult to generate then the one before. these coins are awarded to miners based on real cryptographic, unfakable, work that they do to generate the coins. The history of each coin is tracked collectively by the p2p system, and any coin that has broken its rules is considered invalid.

The only significant hacks on the system require having more processing power than the entire existing BitCoin network, and only allows you to either:

1) reverse your own transactions, thereby double spending, and committing easily traceable fraud.
2) deviate from the systems rules, making all your coins invalid, getting barred from interacting with peers using the official client, and end up with a fork of the network, which generates and processes coins that nobody on the official network will accept. (Note: official in this context refers to adhering to the standard, not the approval of any central body)