Evil Genius

Gads this stuff frustrates me. First let's get some definitions out of the way. I generally avoid Wikipedia on some of these because it can be rather politicized itself, but at least the first sentence of the Fascism article seems on point: Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally t...

Yea, busy is a good word for it. I've been writing a lot of stuff but it has mostly been for Newsvine. Psi used to tell me to cross-post stuff here but now that we're no longer in the same office :( that's no longer a possibility. Those of you that have profs that are interested in Newsvine -- pleas...

The demo is massive on a level that I can't describe. 1.8 Gigs is absurd. That said - it's also fairly amazing. There are some things that piss me off -- HDR or not, Bioshock's mind-blowing visuals and glorious lighting effects result in scenes that are so engrossing and amazing that it becomes very...

I may have impregnated a girl.

Girl? So she's what? 9? 11?

Gummy Bears scream in agony when you drop them in potassium chlorate

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I don't know about that.... China seems to have done fairly well for itself, though it tends to slide in and out of "superstate" status -- moreso in its ancient period than today of course. Of course superstates lack real National legitimacy and are all destined for either assimilation or ...

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Ok, not all New Yorkers... but these New Yorkers are.

Right -- but since Zombies eat people (and thus presumably Soylent Green, but that's neither here nor there) we can assume that, once the human population is gone and they're out of food they'll.... what? Starve? Even if they don't starve they'll relocate since they pretty much do nothing else but s...

For some reason this amuses the crap out of me. Probably something to do with my repressed childhood.

Ok -- first, on the disease angle: If Zombification is a disease than we can expect it to spread like other diseases with a human vector. TB is a good example. Ye need look no further than last weeks headlines to see that idiots with drug-resistant TB can get on aircraft these days... so flying to H...

Turns out this was a hoax to raise awareness of organ needs.

Oh well... I don't mind falling for a well-intentioned hoax.

Via Newsvine STEP aside Big Brother housemates - three dying contestants competing for a donated kidney will plunge reality television to fresh lows this week. A terminally ill cancer patient will gift one of her kidneys to one of three recipients chosen by a television audience, in a bizarre Dutch...

I am presently trying to talk Psi into letting me build a generalized solution to this problem that will do this sort of replacement on all hotlinked images say.... 10% of the time.

This mall has everything!

I seeded this to Newsvine, but Psi mentioned that yall might get a kick out of it too. Dawkins has recently reposted a fabulous satire of Coulter's "Godless" under the title "The Coulter Hoax" In the summer of 2006, I heard that a new book called Godless presented an insightful a...

Stalin doesn't say the flavor text in english, he speaks russian! duh! I hate you You missed a period at the end of the flavor text. I hate you The artilary piece is actually american made Davy Crockett. No. And I hate you. The piece isn't a Davy Crocket (this one is much larger than the D.C.) but ...

Sadly I no longer have that program installed though I'll look around for an extra copy somewhere.

Bonus points to whomever can tell me what's wrong with that card.

Historically the US goes through periods of extreme corporatism and extreme-anticorporatism. Guess what period we're in right now? In a few years time the pendulum will swing the other way -- it may have already started with the 2006 election. Sherman will rumble to life (the anti-trust act, not the...

Park Service Psi -- Dpt of the Interior runs the Park Service. Dpt of Agriculture runs the forest service.

English Motherfucker! Do you speak it?

Well... yea Brainpiercing. All I'm addressing is the doctrine that allows Christians to kill in war without invoking the wrath of their God. Does Christian dogma allow a Christian to kill in battle and remain pure? Yes. Want proof? Look at David. I'm by no means addressing any notion of ultimate mor...

Hold on.... why is the military question hard to answer? Can someone be "True" in the eyes of God if they've killed on the battlefield? Sure... why not? Lemme whip out 1st Samuel here... chapter 17 reads... 45Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spe...

A'ight, now I'm going to weigh in on the theological side of this. First, some context: Romans 3:10 (KJV) As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one Romans 3:23 (KJV) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God There seems to be a thrust here that there is something intrinsic...

Killfile made a great point but this means at the very most you can be agnostic and still be a true Communist. Is that not true? You can practice Communism and still think there might be a greater power in the universe but will never pursue it. Furthur more you have to be either agnostic or atheist...

Ok - first off, I'm going to post this without reading any of the thread. Psi has related some of the substance of it to me and I could honestly care less as to who said what. I'm not trying to be a jerk - just busy. This isn't my opinion; this is how it is. Communism isn't the same thing as Bolshev...