Logic designed to be easy for right wing types to follow and nod along in agreement with, but not meant to be studied on a course in Logic.

>> ^Hive13:
HAHA that is awesome. If you did this here in America, you probably get your ass kicked or wind up getting the cops called on you.


The advantages of living in a country not ruled by fear and guns. It means people can have fun without an overruling fear of strangers.

>> ^Psychologic:
The thing I hate most about all Republicans is how broad their generalizations are.


Got to agree there. I hate everyone who uses generalizations they're all the fucking same. Grouping people into the same box. Absolutely disgusts me. Round them all up and shoot them.

>> ^Diogenes:
>> ^jwray:
Our Pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever, Ramen.

heh heh, excellent... but you really should have used quotation marks



Why? When I state our Noodly Lord's prayer I am not quoting.
It is a validation of my beliefs and a reassertion of those beliefs - not a quote.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Train-Knocks-Man-s-Shoe-Off
"A Dangerous Way To Remove One's Show" or Shoe?
I've tried reading it the former way and really can't quite get the context in which it makes sense to place show in there.
I've just spent 7 hours squinting at that sentence and visualising myself in that situation. I've got through a whole jar of coffee doing so and I'm finding it difficult to type. I'll feel stupid if it's just because of a typo. Especially as the coffee money was the last part of my money and supposed to be for paying for my tea bags.
Also when I finally came to the realisation that it might be a typo I went through every letter of the alphabet before finally getting to 'e' and the penny dropped. I mean actually it's ridiculous I tried all the letters, but get this:
What the fuck is a 'shop'?

The problem is the contradiction and the dogmatism combined.
If you can make people vehemently stand by an idea and defend it to the death, and even use it as a means to justify causing death then you have something very powerful.
If you can make people defend something to the death which at times contradicts itself and/or does not follow clear, separable, easily understandable logical ideas then you have something even more formidable and powerful than almost anything else we have known.
Allow people to truly let go of reason and you own their souls.
Thing is that none of this was initiated or created with that kind of intent.
This evolved. So it's not a benevolent or vindictive ruler that thought this stuff up to help or control the people. No individual person (or god) created religion. Religion evolved. It's a horrible, controlling set of interlocking memes that eats people's souls and tells them to do horrendous things. All because it has at some point been socially or culturally beneficial for billions of people to replicate these memes.
What a horrifying irony.
And then the best that can come of it is that people are nice to each other, and gain satisfaction that they are the select few who will be rewarded at the end after they have died.
I don't think religion pays it way in the whole balance of right and wrong. It owes us humans a massive ethical and moral debt. The whole system has loaned out imaginary values to the morally bankrupt who then go on to misspend and abuse them and they've promised to repay everyone when we're all dead.

No don't think he noticed his shoe go missing. I always wonder why is it that you occasionally see just one shoe on its own and now I think I have the answer.
I mean I can kind of understand it with gloves - you drop one and don't notice it, or you lose one and try to find it or you're in too much of a hurry and a glove is not that important.
But who are these people who don't notice their shoes?
It's these insensitive mother fuckers who don't give two shits about their feet or their shoes. That guy just kept on running and over that fence.
He didn't even have the decency to fucking limp.
Now that really pisses me off.
Can people please learn that you do not have the right to just walk all over your feet or your shoes?
"One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you"
Although that's technically boots and I don't think anyone truly has empathy for boots, but I read that lyric metaphorically to mean something more like shoes/feet than actual boots. I don't think the song writer was being literal in this case and actually meaning boots. I do like the way that certain songs can have meanings that go a little deeper than the literal reading of the lyrics. Anyway I don't really think that it would be boots or feet that would come back to haunt us. It's really going to be the shoes exacting their revenge.

Another thing is I don't really like the title "Train Knocks Man's Shoe Off". How is this the train's fault? I mean the train was present and doing what trains do, and it's pretty indisputable that it must have been the train's contact with the shoe that resulted in it's removal, but really if anyone is to blame, it's the man. You could be pretty awful and blame the shoe, but really I can't imagine you'd do that.
"Man Removes Shoe using Train" might be more accurate at least in terms of apportioning blame appropriately, I don't think it accurately portrays the man's callousness though so maybe something along the lines of "Man Tries to Kill His Own Shoe using Train"
would express some of my rage at the incident, but maybe there's a more balanced way of expressing it.

Can someone put this in context for me? Who cares if a store looks shit, the shelves are empty and blah, blah...
Can't you choose not to go there? Am I missing something? Isn't retail just soulless and shit anyway? Isn't this more amusingly bad than some kind of humanitarian crisis?
I mean Jesus, if these are your problems.
"Oh no. There's no snow storms of the statue of liberty on display. And someone has left a Starbucks empty coffee cup on the shelves - I think I'm going to die."
It's not like Zimbabwe where they queue all day for bread only to find that at the end of the day the price has quadrupled and there isn't any left anyway.
It's true that the more people have, the more they expect, but really someone just needs to slap some sense into people sometimes. Appreciate what you do have, or go somewhere else rather than feel the travesty of this despicable mismanagement.

Yes snow in England is a big deal. Our climate is pretty mild. Very changeable weather as in we often get all types of weather within a 20 minute period, but very mild compared to the rest of the world. Sometimes snow may fall for a few minutes and then that's all you see in a year. The rest of the world laughs at us when we have to cancel trains and shut schools and universities after 3 or 4 inches of snow. But apparently we don't have the infrastructure to deal with it. The last time I can remember snow like this is more than 10 years ago.
We're running out of salt/grit to put on the roads and the whole of London's bus services were down on Monday or Tuesday.
Anyway, it's just a park (in London) and yes people are out because of the snow.

This guy is amazing. I've seen him. He lives in Bristol in the UK but he's Australian originally

Isn't it just the full length videos that are blocked?
I'm in the UK and normally I can't get the full length Daily Show but I can always watch the shorter ones.

>> ^dgandhi:
The two forces which drive computer hardware are porn and video games.
Since this does not help porn or video games, I don't really see this being important unless it enables the construction of currently unexplored logical models.
For instance if this allows us to build systems modeled after brain cells (but orders of magnitude faster), then I think we are looking at a potential AI breakthrough, otherwise it's just the next iteration of flashRAM.


Err. It does help both of those things. How about a game without limitations on storage /size. Without having to wait for it to load. You don't need to even think about creating games in the same way. Say goodbye to polygons, we don't need to replicate scenes and add textures to them you can just use full video kind of like playing a game in google street view or something.
If you remove some of these physical constraints then whole avenues of new ways to be creative can suddenly open up.
And the freed processing power? Put that towards building decent AI or anything else the games designers and developers can think of.

^xxovercastxx
I'd have to pretty much agree with everything you're saying. There's no right on either side, there's no entitlement as such, and perhaps it is only through complete conquest and domination of either side that the fighting will stop.
Somehow, though I doubt it.
Although maybe the Northern Ireland situation could be a reasonable model for peace.
I'm not religious myself, but it seems that they mostly resolved their differences through talking about what shared beliefs they do have in common.
I'm not saying that situation has completely healed, but with comparative economic prosperity and sharing of power and shared beliefs a lot of the wounds have healed.
Maybe some day in the distant future talks between leaders of two Abrahamic religions talking about what they do have in common could bring more peace to the area.
So sad that these groups of people kill each other because of some beliefs about the greater good.

>> ^dcmisha:
lol!, "wish you were here"
She needs to convert that one into a postcard.


It already is one!

In twenty years time there's going to be a generation of young adults messed up by all the stuff that remains as footprints of their digital childhood their whole lives.
"Steve? Yeah, I know him. He's the poo kid isn't he?"
"Yeah well he's been trying to put it all behind him. He's kicked the drugs and got himself a job in the call centre in the McDonald-Starbucks at GoogleYahoocrosoft."
"Damn that's a low point"
"Yeah apparently they still sometimes catch him doing inexplicable but visually fascinating tricks with other peoples poo in the toilets"
"He was always pretty good at that"