Darth InSidious
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6/10. Reasonable satire on the average American teen gamer, but a little lacking in polish.
On the off-chance you're serious, you live in an imperfect world. If you really want things to change, you can start by seeking to embody that change.
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Power over nature? Power to bend the rules occasionally, more like.
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Oh, dear. Another thread bogged down in positivistic reductionism.
Have a quote from Marx:
A few days ago I received a letter from little Meyen, whose favourite category is, most appropriately, what ought to be. In this letter I am taken to task over my attitude 1) to you and Herwegh, 2) to -
Most major religions accept evolution so far as I know.
If you came to Salem, MA during Oct and listened to the born agains, baptists and catholics you'd change your tune pretty quick on that statement. Putting aside the 'you are all going to burn in hell for celebrating Halloween' and when they are not fighting among themselves (very entertaining seeing the born agains rag on the baptists who in turn rag on the catholics who rag on the born agains.. rinse and repeat) you will see all 3 groups all do agree that evolution is fake and the world is only ~6000 yrs old.
This may be the case in Salem, MA, but it is not quite the same everywhere, and I would submit that Catholics in Salem who were putting forward this position are considerably out of step with the Vatican. It mgiht be worth pointing them in the direction of Pius XII's bull Humani Generis, and indeed the then-Cardinal Ratzinger's 1995 book In the Beginning: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall, and indeed, the 2008 book Creation and Evolution: A Conference With Pope Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo. There are a few among other relevant pieces. You might also like to point out to them that the celebration of All Hallowe's Eve is an old Catholic tradition.
On the story itself, it's interesting, but I'm not seeing many consequences of it, to be honest. That neanderthals were capable of a degree of complex activity like house-building, etc., does not seem to contradict that they were of lower intelligence than homo sapiens and may have died out as a result of inability to adapt. A single example seems to indicate an anomaly or exception to the rule rather than a new norm, IMO. But evo/anth and prehistory aren't really my thing.
Oh, and I do consider people who smugly copypasta the same little witticisms as every other Dawkins/Hitchens fanboy to be people, I generally number them among those too stupid to bother with - much like creationists.
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Boring, c**troversialist franchise is boring.
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Isn't much of this information kept in limited circulation precisely because if it were in wider circulation it would be open to abuse?
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Show us your wares, O vendor of gilded winds, and we shall proclaim the glories of your tomorrow.
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The phrase "Republic of Minerva" springs to mind...
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The British secondary education system - public or private - now pretty much exclusively teaches to the exam. Independent thought, or, horror of horrors, research, is if not actively discouraged then at least considered unnecessary and unwanted.
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I have a really nauseous sense of deja-vu here. Also, it took me about 10 minutes to work out you people 3D, not... uh, 3D.
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You do have a sense of humor Wals.
Snide people would say that to be relaxed in the presence of someone you nuked would add insult to injury.
Good manners are never bad form, old boy. Being English, one understands these things.
*thinks*
OBAMA IS ENGLISH! IT@S ALL A LIE!!!!!!!!!
Pretty sure Lyndon Larouche has already come up with that one.
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Because you can trust a capitalist to be guided by certain principles....
But you can only trust a politician to be a politician.
You do realise both sentences come to the same thing, right?
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wOW that really is a s.hit newspaper.
You think that's bad? You haven't seen the Express.
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Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham now have riots, too.
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Just finished a playthrough of PS:T I started ages ago. Got the 'optimal' ending this time; see why people prefer it.
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Rest of world fails to care about Russia.
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Lets get down to whats really important; are all your newspapers still peppered with topless models?
No - some of them are just full of fat, immigrant, benefits-abusing celebrities and houses that look like Hitler.
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So, just to be clear: Who was it who thought lending imaginary money would be a good idea?
Well to put it in perspective.. Isn't there only about $500 of real, printed money per person in the USA?
I have absolutely no idea, because I'm not American.
But the point is not so much about real, printed money so much as the amount of money going around vs. the value of assets in a nation.
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So, just to be clear: Who was it who thought lending imaginary money would be a good idea?
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{I read the Torygraph, so I this is one occasion where I don't look like so much of a fascist}
Correction: You used to read the Torygraph. Now you read the Daily Mail under a different name, with longer articles and fewer silly sub-headings.
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Yes, it would be 'willy nilly'. I think a major fine and jail time for those directly involved would be enough punishment.
Again, FOX isn't going off the air so get that nonsense out of your head.
Who the HELL said it was in my head numbskull? You're the one pushing that I'm saying they WILL be when I said it was a possibility.
JESUS can you READ?
Why are you trying to argue with Volourn? Seriously, have you not learnt yet that the guy is a troll?
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Who wrote the plot/dialogue for DS3?
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So Bioware have announced that if you pre-order Star Wars The Old Republic.. a limited number will gain early access to the game.
Also that they have a Collectors Edition of the game. Which retails in the ?125 / $175 range. Now that's getting a little bit silly to my mind.
I mean, let's see, you get a galaxy map, game discs in a metal case, the soundtrack, the "diary" of Master Ghost-Dural, a Darth Malgus figurine...about half a dozen in-game items (such as a holographic dancer, and an in-game holocam to record events), and an exclusive in-game vendor...
What? That's obscene. I don't care if it comes with a free 3kg sample of premium-grade heroin for that money. Particularly given they're charging a monthly fee for this thing. Oh, and that thing about being able to play multiplayer? Not so much.
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Isn't the New York Post NewsCorp, too? Advice to Americans: Don't let Murdoch buy any more. Don't let yourselves get into the position we're in over here.
The joys of the falklands..
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Personally, I reckon we should use the same sort of illogic that the Argentines do to lay claim to Argentina. It would, at least, put an end to their endless posturing about the Falklands, and Sean Penn could stop looking so stupid.