I find myself completely disagreeing with him on this. I think that this diversity may have sold more tomato sauce for the firms who embraced it, but has not made us notably happier. I couldn't tell you what type of tomato sauce makes me happier, and I just choose whatever is in front of me when I'm in the store.

Our obsession with choice has led us to the mistaken conclusion that choice equals happiness, when in reality it just means more choice and greater market share for larger companies who can diversify further.

Next time you go to the supermarket, look at the toothpaste and toothbrushes. There are hundreds of them. Do you seriously think they are marketing to different tastes? Rubbish - they're owned by the same two companies who diversify like crazy to stop any new firms from cutting into their market and convincing us morons that we need ridges on the back of our toothbrush to scrub our tongues.

In fact, I'm sure I've seen studies that show we prefer a choice of up to five options, and beyond that we get confused by the range and just make an arbitrary choice.

I'm trying to figure out your troll angle here.

Does a troll-angle have three sides? My right to comment is as valid as yours.

Are you saying that having faith in general is sacrosanct? I always took you for a conservative Christian, not a panentheist.

I am not a Christian; I believe Christianity is a legitimate pathway to God-Consciousness, as are many others.

I find it hypocritical to accuse only religion of influencing science while ignoring the politics that gave us junk science resulting in imaginary polar bear genocide, man-made global warming, and tobacco smoke that would have already killed most of the human race by now were it as lethal as claimed. What fueled the ban of DDT? Politically motivated junk science. Well, that self-righteous attitude and Rachel Carson's lies are now responsible for needless deaths in the millions from the resurgence of malaria. How often blind faith and modern junk science share the same toothbrush.

Atheism will never catch fire because humans are not logical, or robots.
Humans are creatures of imagination and emotion, and listening to Dawkins talk about DNA, while interesting, will never replace religious storytelling. I understand the beef with fundamentalists, but they are small in number in most religions.

Fraudbama is a perfect example of how the power of myth trumps logic. He's gotten this far appealing only to imagination (a bright future) and emotion (hope) with only vague hints and promises of what he'll do.

As a former atheist, I'm not asking anyone to convert. I'm (occasionally) requesting atheists to consider the utilitarian usefulness of faith, and lose the bigotry long enough to grudgingly admit religion's done more good than harm.

dupe

http://www.videosift.com/video/Angry-Kitty-vs-SuperSonic-Toothbrush

*discard

^nah Blankfist, Kronos is the cutie in PJs coming in the door w/ the toothbrush and kaboodle

*happytime collective bargaining

signed up at their site.
my toothbrush is looking a little worn.

While the Miley jokes were mildly amusing, this gets the upvote for the final comment about Etchisketchistan. Oh and for the Crawl!

"Oral-B recalls combination toothbrush and razor following string of horrific injuries"

"Report: US Metabolism falls to 5 year low"

"New York Police Department reports supervillain who fell from building into river certainly dead"

"Sports Update: Michael Pelfrey throws 1000mph pitch thanks to performance enhancing typo"

"News from Montana: Newly discovered cluster of dinosaur bones suggest existence of a 200-million-year-old natural history museum"

" 'The idea of Portland' tops Time Magazine's list of "America's best cities" "

" McDonalds adds employee benefits to dollar menu"

"Plans for invasion of Iran canceled after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accidentally CC'ed on Pentagon E-mail"

"News from Uganda: Last Remaining Mountain Gorilla just wants to be left alone"

"Crayola Crayon Factory named nation's most miserable place to work"


Love the Onion...

Got this feeling that today doesn't like me
Oh, the air tastes like flowers and paint.
There's a sink full of bottles and cutlery
And the car has got a list of complaints.
I just wish I were a toothbrush or a solder gun
Make me something somebody can use.

We can wish on the pop of a lightbulb
Or those photos lying yellowed and curled
Loose in boxes near abandoned electronics
In the corners of the basements of the world.
Guess our wishes don't do dishes or brake repairs
Make them something somebody can use.

Got a face full of ominous weather
Smirking smile of a high pressure ridge
Got more faults than the state of California
And the heart is a badly built bridge
Seems the most I have to offer doesn't offer much
Make it something somebody can use.

Make this
Something somebody
Can use.

So, there are people I've been arguing with around the traps about the Phoenix mission to mars, and how it was a waste of money at $450 odd million dollars... so for that money we get to land a spacecraft on a planet millions of kilometers away and possibly find out if there is/was life there. They say 'Well, we should be spending that money on our problems here at home' (you know, as if it's all mutually exclusive, if you send something to mars you can't possibly be spending money on anything else)...

These same people, where's the outcry at 1.3 BILLION DOLLARS on this absolute puritanical BULLSHIT!

It scares and saddens me that so much money is spent on an OBVIOUS folly. It's OBVIOUS they way to handle teens and sexuality isn't just to bring out the dirty toothbrush and say 'Don't do it or you'll be a whore'... it's OBVIOUS to ANYONE with at least half a functional brain hemisphere that teach kids all there is about sex, teach them the dangers, teach them the EMOTIONAL impact it can have, and you're going to have kids who either then CHOOSE not to have sex, or do so in a FAR, FAR safer way.

I weep for you USA, I weep for you and your sexually repressed ways.

Of course Australia is right behind you, we too follow your lead of treating sex as being far worse than violence, as every good, white, Christian country should... nothing wrong with blowing the heads off each other, but giving head... well that's just not right.

Hey! The video ends before we find out who emerges victorious from that battle. My money's on the toothbrush.

It's like musical electric toothbrushes for big babies.

Norway and Sweeden have banned amalgam fillings for both environmental and health reasons. These countries are not to be ignored, since both have better standards of living than the USA This is not just some fringe conspiracy theory, this is a serious scientific controversy. Rembar is being dogmatic and not even reading the references to the contrary.

"The World Health Organization notes that exposure can be greatly increased by personal habits such as bruxism or gum-chewing, and cites a report which found a 5.3 fold increase in mercury levels after chewing, eating, or toothbrushing. They report that amalgam is estimated to contribute 50% of mercury exposure in adults. In the studies the WHO reviews, daily mercury exposure estimates range from 3 μg/day to 9 μg/day.[11] Separately the World Health Organization reports that "there may be no level of mercury at which some adverse effects do not occur", that mercury from amalgam and laboratory devices accounts for 53% of total mercury emissions, and that one-third of the mercury in the sewage system comes from dental amalgam.[12]"

"A Swedish study of autopsies examined the mercury levels in brains and kidneys and found a strong correlation with the number of amalgam fillings.[15]"

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yeah, i know. five playlists is a little much, even for me.

told ya' i was a little ocd. heh. no, i don't count toothbrush strokes or flip the doorlock back and forth 5 times. we all have our eccentricities. i like organizing things.

It's amazing to me how clueless the audience (and the leadership, and the system, and the...) is as to how easily this can be accomplished today. When he mentions that code in a module can erase itself (basically: a computer program can do just about anything you can imagine, duh), the crowd actually gasps. Time to get with the 21st century, dinosaurs.

Edit: To clarify my sentiment a bit: I realize that those not in technology fields, and often simply those of older generations, will not be very informed with regard to, for instance, today's computer technology, but c'mon folks. This isn't about a toothbrush with a microchip; this type of technology is shaping your world. Get involved, read, and learn. In the meantime, we really need to put a lot more tech-savvy people in positions where their knowledge can help.

*gasp!* You mean, someone can use a computer to do bad things?! *facepalm*

One more, she came crying to me, that she had been forgotten-I told her she was better off asking her long-eared pal for some props, but she promised never to post another vidoe, about her mid-life crush, so anything for no more BillShatner.

Swampgirl lives in N.Carolina. I don't know too much about the place, cept' that they were the last state to discover toothbrushes. she was kind enough to send me a questionnaire, that all her state's residents are required to complete, prior to being granted a driver's license...

Last name: ________________

First name: (Check appropriate box)
(_) Billy-Bob
(_) Billy-Joe
(_) Billy-Ray
(_) Billy-Sue
(_) Billy-Mae
(_) Billy-Jack

elationship with spouse: (Check appropriate box)
(_) Sister
(_) Brother
(_) Aunt
(_) Uncle
(_) Cousin
(_) Mother
(_) Father
(_) Son
(_) Daughter
(_) Pet ...it goes on and on like this, she sent me a copy that had more than 3 boxes checked on each question, to confuse me. She has other dogs besides the one floppy-eared one http://www.jibjab.com/view/86835 but she won't let it in the house....her husband got tired of sharing the only upper-bridge toothbrush. in the house. You can't ever be, too sweet if you are swampgirl, who would rather let her house burn down, than to bother the volunteer firemen during supper....her idea of confrontation, is blinking both eyes at once, something she has sworn never to do again, for the sake of her forehead. Love ya swampy, hope you recover, soon.