Sure, that sucks more than usual, but again padlocks aren't for locking up valuable things. They prevent opportunistic casual theft. They're one step above luggage locks--only better than a nylon zip-tie because they can be reused.

If you use this with the intention of keeping out the class of people who might know this trick or bring tools along for their burgling, (like say a $20 bolt cutter that will do for most any padlock) you're doing it wrong.

See, here's the difference between you and me: you need to be told but I have to know.
While you march wherever you religious leader tells you to ("Looking at those horrible gays! And pay no attention to the man behind the curtain or what he does with the altarboy."), I just ask myself how I'd feel if somebody treated me like I treat others. It's call empathy.
Of course you don't need that, you have somebody to tell you when it's ok to stone someone to death or how to treat your slaves. I actually have to think about that, consider my actions and try to understand how their consequences affect others. Sometimes I even have to be reminded I am an asshole and have to deal with the fallout of making the wrong choices but you don't have to fear that. You have a book that is several hundert years old written by various people who lived at a time where a Walkman would've been considered witchcraft. And since it has been translated and edited a couple of times, it got only better, especially in the expanded universe fan-fiction edition that you consider canon today. How dare those heathens to question you?
It must be great if everything is so clear cut, so black (phew, nearly typed a nasty word...) and white. I actually have to fear backlash if I mistreat the human beings around me. You on the other hand only have to fear that a man (of course, a man), who really, really loves you, condemns you to eternal torture because you kissed a boy and liked it.
You and your damned, old book. Your standard of morality is no better than that of the Quran.
I have to know I did the right thing, you just need to be told you did good. That's the difference between our morality. That's the difference between relying on your faith or relying on your humanity. That's why I refuse to tell a gay kid it's broken and needs fixing or strapping a bomb to my chest, because that shit is wrong and I just know it. No matter what somebody like you tells me.
Get the fuck out with your claims of morality and go clean your temple from the child molesters.

I've only seen half the telecast... it was shown in the middle of the night, so I taped it. The part of the race I've seen, and all the reports, were excellent. This one race should have put the haters back in their box... there was plenty of racing, plenty of action, and all it needed was someone to be excluded and have an appeal pending for the final outcome and it would be exactly like the F1 of old Only better!

Actually, given that Dan Ricciardo's appeal for 2nd place from Melbourne is still outstanding, I think we can even take that.

it's only "better explained by a creator" if you are to dumb to grasp the explanation.

There's a review here - http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2011/12/22/the-voyagers/

It says everything I was going to say before I found it, only better

So I use Legos to do what Rokenboks already do (only better). Big whoop.

I'm as geeky as you -- I knew it wasn't an adjective, until you get to "slothful." But I only had so many spaces.

Grammar geeks unite!

>> ^messenger:

Sloth isn't an adjective. It's a noun only. Better title would be, "How sloth became a mortal sin." But this is getting duped anyway, so I guess I'm just being pedantic.

Sloth isn't an adjective. It's a noun only. Better title would be, "How sloth became a mortal sin." But this is getting duped anyway, so I guess I'm just being pedantic.

I could do the same thing only better if I only had a yoyo!

>> ^qualm:
MilkmanDan: "There's no way to oppose a tyrannical corporation? What happened to getting your goods or services from a competing corporation that offers a better product, fewer restrictions, or better service; or more cynically how about a competing corporation that is only better in that it is less tyrannical than another option?"
^Yes, that's brilliant. Fight TyrannicalCorporation-A by throwing your support behind TyrannicalCorporation-B. This method also works at election time!


I detect sarcasm, but that's the general idea, yes. Particularly if TyrannicalCorporation-B is at least slightly less tyrannical than A. If enough people give a damn and follow suit, it encourages A to recognize that they are losing customers/profits to B due to tyrannical practices, and makes them more likely to make slow evolutionary changes in the direction of B's policies. Again, I would acknowledge that this functions better at a micro rather than macro scale, but it doesn't just suddenly cease to work at all in macro terms.

The way I see it, we've got a few choices:

If we really need item X good/service, get it from whatever source is the least tyrannical / evil / obnoxious.

If we don't really need item X, or we don't need it enough to tolerate imperfect / tyrannical / evil sources for it, then don't buy it.

If we feel frustrated by this, bitch about it on the internet, and prepare for the whole situation to magically get better!

MilkmanDan: "There's no way to oppose a tyrannical corporation? What happened to getting your goods or services from a competing corporation that offers a better product, fewer restrictions, or better service; or more cynically how about a competing corporation that is only better in that it is less tyrannical than another option?"

^Yes, that's brilliant. Fight TyrannicalCorporation-A by throwing your support behind TyrannicalCorporation-B. This method also works at election time!

There's no way to oppose a tyrannical corporation? What happened to getting your goods or services from a competing corporation that offers a better product, fewer restrictions, or better service; or more cynically how about a competing corporation that is only better in that it is less tyrannical than another option?

I believe that solution can and frequently does work, particularly in microeconomics. In macroeconomics, yes we need some (hopefully small) level of government monitoring and intervention to prevent collusion and foster competition.

I was going along, listening and agreeing with most of what he had to say until that particular remark though.

Technology will never make our lives worse, only better. When low-level jobs are destroyed, high-level jobs open up. That's what technology is supposed to do.

I'm bout to hit you wit that tradional style of cold rockin
Givin options for head knockin non stoppin
Tip-toppin lyrics we droppin but styles can be forgotten
so we bring back the raw hip-hoppin
Just like the records and tapes you be coppin
Cop some breakdancin, boogie poppin, and lockin
Tic tockin, guaranteed to have you clockin
We only get better and only better we have gotten
This type of flow don't even think about stoppin
Beware, the length of the rhyme flow can be shockin
All music lovers in the place right now
That never understood the way that KRS got down
Yo I'm strictly about skills and dope lyrical coastin
Relying on talent, not marketing and promotion
If a dope lyrical flow is a must
You gots to go with a name you can quickly trust
I'm not sayin I'm number one, uhh I'm sorry, I lied
I'm number one, two, three, four and five
Stop wastin your money on marketing schemes
and pretty packages pushin dreams to the beams
A dope MC is a dope MC
With or witout a record deal, all can see
And that's who KRS be son
I'm not the run of mill, cause for the mill I don't run

Yes yes y'all, ya don't stop, KRS-One, rock on!
Yes yes y'all, ya don't stop, KRS-One, rock on!

Yeah, yeah
Everybody on the mic in the party sound alike
until I recite, in black and white what's right
Let me take flight, my style is TIGHT AN GOOD
TIGHT AN GOOD, come is it TIGHT AN GOOD
Old styles I pass dat, slow down on fast rap
All in yo' ass crack, old King go Blast dat
Conjure to ask dat, hyper type of flashback
I publish like ASCAP lyrics for hand clap
No past rappin, youth trackin, talent lackin
MC's more worried about their financial backin
Steady packin a gat as if something's gonna happen
But it doesn't, they wind up shootin they cousin, they buggin
I appear everywhere and nowhere at once
I know my style is bumpin, even though some people front
It's the God of rap, you heard of it
The one that rhymes toward the sky givin airplanes mad turbulence
In rap tournaments, I reign permanent
Don't you think by now the number one spot I'm not concerned with it
The course of rap I'm turnin it
Back to that good old fashioned way of getting cash money by earning it
No bogus hocus pocus, I bring back to focus
Skills if you notice my position is lotus
Now quote this, MC's are just hopeless
Thinkin record sales make them the dopest

Nice story, though i much prefer asimov's version, he told this story much better.

Check out his better version - "The Last Question". It's like, this story, only better.












Did i mention that this guy stole asimov's story and made it worse and put it to music?

Just checkin' that i covered it.