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I'm going to be in Cincinnati at some point this summer, even.

So are headphones. It's all about blaring your tinny phone speakers on the bus nowadays.

I bet I could find that somewhere. It's too bad I'm probably in the opposite corner of the country. Then again, I hear it's about an hour walk from south boarder to north coast... :)

I've recently completed steps 1) and 3) myself. Sadly, the British Wal-mart (actually found one called Wal-mart and not ASDA!) doesn't have girl scouts camped out front. And I know what you'll say...what's the point of being in Holland without cookies?

Ha. Do you really? What system?

Ha ha ha ha ha...well. I don't even remember how voting works with this, but you're definitely getting some of mine after that. :thumbsup:

Heh. Is this a response to this thread? I'm voting taxes.

I concur! Eh. Traffic congestion's never nice...

For me, I just go with number two: I really only vote for folks I see posting somewhat regularly, outside of self-promotion. Nothing wrong with self-promotion, mind; there are some OCSMs that are fairly active, but this activity is almost always self-promoting. It's good business, but it doesn't...

No joke. Now, if only there were ways to reduce the number of **** being born to single parents... This remains one of religion's lesser-spoken-of evils: the repression of human sexuality. You know, the second strongest biological drive after self-preservation. It's a pretty simple concept...

Well, as you probably know, iso's are basically CDs, virtually. So first thing's first, you'll need something to mount them - Daemon Tools works quite well, and is free for personal use. Then it depends on the iso's; if it's an iso of a DVD, you just grab any number of...

An elected Santorum's assault on social liberties would be - I don't want to say unprecedented as I'm simply not thoroughly educated enough to weigh that - scary, let's say. Anybody who values the founding ideals of American should be worried about such a candidate. This '****** man' bullshit...

Ha! Amazing.

This would certainly help with the US' predisposition for school shootings. :(

This is a pretty succinct summary of the issue. I would, however, caution that word 'know' in the fourth line. I'm pro-choice, but I recognize that '******' is whatever we define it to be and a 'person' is whatever we define it to be (and in some cases, we stretch that definition pretty...

If you look at the OCSM list by join date, Ginger Jolie was first in June '03. But I suppose that's just when they started doing the OCSM business.

Go to Amsterdam, or Hamburg. Absolutely stunning pornstar-attractive women. Less than €100. I never once considered paying for sex until I went there (still haven't done, but man...next time I've got a spare €50 in the right city...).

You know, I've debated putting him on ignore many a time, but I think this thread's finally pushed me over to do it. I was talking in another thread about the human ability to distort reality to amazing lengths and added some examples, but really: just look at what Will posts. I know to expect...

Amalgam was the middle and spin-off of the one I'd read, yeah; the fights, though, were pretty cool: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_vs._DC

I fully agree. I only disagree with one bit that you made in a previous post, which I'm not even sure you really meant (my emphasis added): I vote we stop giving any special preferences.

There was a Marvel VS DC comic miniseries where they mashed up the superheroes in the middle - one of the mash-ups being Batman/Wolverine (as in, combined into one).

Why, thanks. Always was one of my favorites! I'm referring to any of the following: the Crusades, the frequent religious ******** that breaks out in modern times in Africa, the Middle East, and elsewhere, the Spanish conquistadors with their arrival to the Americas, etc. Basically, open up a...

In this case, Judaism. But there's plenty to be found in the other big two - all three, after all, are the same story regurgitated. Hell, even Buddhism - the idea of karmic reincarnation creatures an environment where somebody born with a disfigurement/disability is shown great disdain because...

Given what I know about the brain's ability to distort reality to incredible lengths, I wouldn't believe in God even if I did see one with my own two eyes. Still wouldn't change the logical conclusion of the matter. Ironically, I find this to be the opposite more often than not. Put it this...

From what I've seen, the logical arguments for whether God(s) exist (for that's the only real realm one can debate such an existence because, as you say, no evidence exists) all point to deism for as far as their logic holds (which admittedly, isn't that far). No logical argument I've seen makes...

It's one of the nuttiest things about the USA; you can drive at 15/16, own guns at 18, ***** at 21. Now, put those in the order that ***** the most people (on their own, not mixing!). Anybody seeing it backwards? As for the punishment...the key point for me is that his license was already...

Funny what emotional trauma does to critical thought, no? Fortunately, we have many scientific examples and explanations for things like that. Though really, you don't even need all that to explain deathbed conversions. There's a very simple explanation to that: fear. Fear of what? Death. I'll...

It is a damn shame Jenkum had to post this, as it was obvious before I even clicked on it everybody would get hung up on Jenkum and not the story; the story itself is another example of the perils of an archaic and outdated practice by a dark ages belief structure that I think has no place in...

As Jane says, there are side effects, benefits and harms from most medications from person to person; which is to say, this is not an argument that makes contraception any less deserving to be offered up by health insurance than any other medication. This is a key point - Obama's action requires...

Ha. Beat to it...

I wondered who this song was about... I ran Petra through a Google image search, and filtering out the obvious (super models and stone structures), this was the first potential hit I came up with: http://kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com/you-are-here/jordan/images/petra-donkey.jpg

Thanks a bunch for the shout!

You're dehumanizing a great body of people and feeding into our military industrial complex, my friend. Most people everywhere just want to get on with their lives - peacefully. Given no good reason to do otherwise, that's what they'll do. Flip it around - do we **** the Chinese, simply because...

First off, thanks for the reasoned and well-written reply. Second, I haven't much to say about the events in east Asia, as I simply haven't done much reading on them (all I know is the surface stuff regarding tensions in the US and Russia blooming in these places). Concerning the middle east...

Duly expected, noted, and disregarded. I've read at the periphery about a 'God-gene' (or whatever it's being called) that's hypothesized to instill humans into believing in something; something like that would certainly explain how, as in your example, almost every civilization came up with...

Things are going a bit slow, so... :stir: Has anybody read Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World, Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion, and/or Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great? I'd be curious to gather any opinions, if any, on these three and how they might go together as a platform.

I hear this a lot. I'm going to ask some key - and serious - questions to some of your points: Why? Why do they have the motivation? Why? And what role might have the US played in creating our own peril? Religious extremism is incredibly dangerous, no doubt; it isn't, however, the main...

...I can't read the article without registering which I'm not wont to do, but I have read a number of books on the food industry both in the States and here in Europe, and all point to pretty damning environmental impacts. This seems to me to be simply a function of the demand for meat, however...

As this seems to be the most concentrated thread for this topic, here's a quote from an article I came across today:

I agree with the top comment made about this article (on the article): Now that's out of the way: As Mayhem puts it, In a country where sexual repression is so prevalent, I think it's less about the $1.50 and more about going to the store and buying condoms - quite a potentially...

Jenkum...you should see somebody about your obsession with Israel. It's unhealthy. That side, I only recently discovered this show and found it to be a breath of fresh air. The clip in the OP only reinforces something I've said a couple of times now: a vote for Obama or any of the leading...

I got to hear about this quite a bit during my stay in Berlin the other week. This should make some of my German friends happy.

Now if only it was spent on actually defending us, instead of these wars of aggression...

I want a choice that's good for the country, not for the Democrats or the Republicans.

I couldn't agree more if someone paid me to. Don't worry, all that car exhaust fresh from the exhaust pipe will probably get us sooner or later. Though I hear all that sedentary driving around is a lot worse for your health. Fortunately, there's a solution! :1orglaugh

I was born and raised on the west coast of the United States, my friend - my expat status is only a couple years old. I'm not nearly knowledgeable on the subjects of economics to defend or condemn Europe one way or the other, and even though I'm no longer a fan of the UK where I currently live...

Any critical assessment of the Abrahamic texts or the logical arguments made in their defense shows it's all no more real than any of today's modern fairy tales. Even the prominent, classical arguments for the existence of God point to nothing resembling a Christian/Jewish/Muslim one. They point...

The person is crazy when they believe, above all else, in a 2000 year-old fairy tale enough to promise to legislate from it. I don't and didn't see Obama doing that. Then again, maybe I just missed it; hard to prove a negative, after all. I have, however, seen Santorum do just that. That's...

I don't know about 'douche', but 'dangerously religious-fundamentalist' certainly fits. Have you seen clips of him discussing where our rights come from, and how God's law should be held above...well, actual laws? I find his beliefs incredibly dangerous to have in any position of power. He's a...

There's also the idea of predetermination; that if all the variables are known, you'd be able to map everything somebody 'chooses'. It's an attractive idea logically, but there are two things which make predetermination moot: the first is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle which effectively...