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Scientific fact! Putting the word 'hilarious' in your title makes it twice as funny.

Follow up fact! Putting 'hilarious' in all caps makes it doubly so.

... I don't like smilies but I want to express that I don't mean to be an ass and my sarcasm was lighthearted.

>> ^imstellar28:
when a company loses money, often the first person to receive blame is the CEO. by accepting a low salary, he becomes popular with the workers and gains support which helps him keep his job. this makes it for a board of directors to fire him, when it might have been a better for the company (and thus for the workers) to take on a new, better CEO. put it on the local news, and just try and fire him.
nobody turns down $1,000,0000 for the "sake of the company" when the ink runs red, they are doing it for the sake of their own job. he will wait it out and happily take the $5,000,000 a year again when the ink turns black. show me a CEO at the height of profit margins who accepts a lower salary than offered, and i'll point you to a "humanitarian". once again, by looking at everything skin-deep, the whole point was missed and a typical, "selfish", CEO is being praised as the next mother teresa.
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I can't show you a CEO who has turned down high pay when a company was in the black, but we do have an abundance ... an overabundance of CEOs who have padded themselves in luxury while their companies fell into ruin.

For now he is doing the right thing, which many others have not. We should look upon him favorably for it.

Really, even in our heavily flawed world there's such a thing as being too cynical.

Real time log of my reaction
Start: Part 1 was a bit dull, optimistic due to the "my parents were incinerated comment. Hertzfeldt may pull this one off if he goes for his usual unsettling style...

3:00 I like the interpretation of TV. Still not much going for it. 3:26 to go ... expectations lowering.

3:30 Puffy face ... expectations rising.

4:50 Get back to the funny.

End result ... not his best. Never really got going.

Come on everyone, we can get this 360 votes. I know we can!

It is so pointless. It takes something that people do naturally, and adds an extra layer of complication to it. That is the most human thing I think I've ever seen.

We may laugh now, but in fifty years I can see someone telling his bud from across the street "I'm sorry, I can't come over right now. My mobile treadmill is busted."

>> ^RedSky:
Assuming straight marriages and gay civil unions have the same legal protection, which I'm not saying you can as it is because of the subtle nuances of law, then really it's an argument over semantics. Once it is, really both sides are just being petty.


I disagree, it is semantics but it is important. By giving it a separate name you imply, very strongly, that civil unions are inferior. Separate but equal is not equal.

I usually agree with Richard Dawkins, I too disdain the idea of committing completely to a conclusion without evidence. If I interpreted what he is saying correctly I do not agree with him here.

There is an important dividing line between religion and fantasy. People are often made happy by both, but most relatively rational people will only make serious decisions based on the former. I don't recall anyone ever justifying a war by quoting the Brothers Grimm.

While some obsessive people may take it too far, fantasy can be a good thing. People use fantasy to explore ideas in ways that their experience or environment is not suited for. People do use fantasy for escape, and that is not always a bad thing in this imperfect world.

As long as children are taught that fantasy is NOT real and they should make decisions based on what they can observe, I don't think fantasy is in any way harmful.

If you're backing Barack, don't get cocky. Get out and vote, it's never a sure thing and your vote does matter.

If you're a McCain man ... I'm sure he'll win. Don't worry about it, grab a beer, sit down, I'm sure the traffic will be crazy and you deserve a chance to rest. Don't worry about it, it's not like one vote will make a difference.

As much flack as they have received, mostly deservedly, I have to sympathize with the No Mutants Allowed crowd.

Back in the nineties, western RPGs were epic, in depth interactive stories. They didn't have much to impress people with, so they poured their effort into the story and dialog.

As a result, I connected with those blurry, distant 2d figures. I can remember the names of every character I traveled with in Fallout 2, BG 1 & 2 and Planescape Torment. Yet, I can't remember a single character from Morrowind or Oblivion, and I played them far more recently.

Hopefully they'll find a way to combine the open worlds of today and brilliant writing of the nineties. Unfortunately I don't see that happening any time soon.

All interviews should be done with the subject steadily getting drunker throughout. Debates too.

I approve of this so thoroughly, I watched it all the way through. Thumbs up.

It's kool-aid everyone, with a K and a hyphen.

It's amazing how they just happened to select four things that blacks are stereotyped as loving. I mean, out of all the food that exists out there, this stamp was four for four. Mind boggling.

I think we've all missed the important point of this video. CNN is employing robotic anchors ... and they are malfunctioning.

>> ^zomgunicorns:
so what happens when Obama wins and turns America around for the better.. do these people's heads explode or something?


God, I hope so. There would be a big mess to clean up, but it would be so worth it.

As a resident and native to Ohio I can verify that these people are not the majority. There may be a lot of them and they may be louder than everyone else, but they're still not the majority.