Bartimaeus

I stopped watching after the Redskins turned it over in...the beginning of the fourth quarter, was it? Wasn't exactly what I'd call a fantastic game.

I don't disagree: my point was that this is how humans have behaved since time immemorial, and that it's unlikely to change anytime soon. We look after ourselves and the ones we love first...and then others second, and then the latter group to a much different (i.e. lesser) degree than the former. No, that was hyperbole in response to 213374U's "it is wrong to leave people to die to protect your living standards". I mean, we literally all do that all of the time...we could all decide to live places less nice than where we are, or do without certain amenities, or decide to work more so that we can donate more of our money to saving other people's lives...very, very scant few of us actually want to or really can live that way, though - the people we're trying to save included, because humans, regardless of station of life, simply aren't really capable of doing that day in and day out. It's physically possible, if we had iron wills with a bent towards caring about anyone and everyone...but almost all of us are simply human, just as our ancestors were.

In that case, we're all morally compromised, as every single one of us could give up and sell at least some of our non-vital possessions (such as the devices we use to access these forums, for example) to instead put that money towards saving the lives of others. If you want to make the argument that the vast, vast (>99.9%, likely) majority of people throughout history are selfish (i.e. human) to some degree, well, you won't get any argument here.

That's funny. I've gotten a "your password was reset" email from twitter like a half-dozen times over the past two years or so. I've never even used it (honestly, I don't even remember signing up, but I guess I could've for some reason or another), so presumably it was hacked or something, but whoever hacked it hasn't actually done anything with it or anything, so I really just don't give a crap.

Colts defense bad, Colts offensive line bad, Jets defense good, Jets win. Whomever their GM is, they don't appear to be all that great at building a well-balanced team around Luck...wonder if it's the same GM from Peyton's days - wouldn't really surprise me, considering it's basically the same crap he had to go through for forever.

Yeah, sounds about right. I should proooobably work on that...

Switch to BBCode Mode (light switch button at the very top left of the posting prompt) when you want actual full control over what you're posting...particularly if you're dealing with quotes. It still really quite displeases me that you can't use BBCode Mode full-time, because it arbitrarily disables all other buttons for literally no reason - a million other forums allow everything else to still work while in BBCode Mode - but if you want greater control of the raw text, that's the way to do it. Ah, I have extremely weak achilles tendons because of the unusual way I walk (my heels never touch the ground: people call it "walking on your toes", but really, it's walking more on the "palms" of your feet - or whatever you would call the area of your feet that would be the equivalent location of the palms of your hands)...so walking for long durations becomes extremely uncomfortable for me. Biking is fun and super easy, though.

Yeah, see, the long, cold winter nights would be great, but the long summer days would be what drive me to lunacy. Summers in the north U.S. are already too much for me. Face-to-face communication is a very different beast from interface-to-interface communication.

In my experience, it's not so much the temperature that matters, but rather the wind conditions: air is a terrible, terrible conductor of heat...except when it's moving. I'd rather take -30F (-34C) or maybe even -40F (-40C) with no wind than even 0F (-18C) with even moderate wind conditions. I love the cold...the less sunlight, the better, and I hate small talk. I should move to Scandinavia. Although Scandinavia has really long summer days, too, doesn't it? Stupid Earth tilting and all that.

Do you do that by bicycle? Doing it at night sounds pretty nice, actually...as long as there are no harsh winters to deal with. @Enoch: that page won't even load for me.

Well...yeah, besides winning, no, it wasn't a great day. Packers' RT is gonna be out for more like 4-6 weeks than just one, Cobb is pretty beat up, Davante Adams got pretty beat up, Lacy is hurt (possibly sprained an ankle: no official word yet), Boyd got hurt, Nelson is still out for the season... But hey, the Seahawks start out 0-2, and the Packers start out 2-0. I mean...heck, that's pretty great. Oh yeah, and so many flags. Seriously...I saw SO MANY flags today.

TODAY WAS A GREAT DAY. Except for the Cowboys having lost Romo in addition to Bryant now as well as Witten spraining both his ankles. Sorry about that, Cowboy fans. Otherwise, Raiders hilariously beat the Ravens, Jaguars hilariously beat the Dolphins, and Packers won by 10, ruining the Seahawks' record right before they could beat the previous the previous holders'.

Why do the Packers get a major offensive injury every time we play the Seahawks? Yeesh. RT, Bryan Baluga, out this week with an MCL sprain.

Yeah, I'm getting a ridiculous amount of pressure to see him by my family before the surgery...but it's like...I'm not seeing him because I WANT him to see him again...just after the surgery actually happens. And I absolutely don't want to endanger anyone else there. So if things go wrong...well, that's that. They could've gone horribly wrong already: that's life. Thanks for the blessings. That's rough that nobody told you anything. My mom had that happen to her with her grandma...her health had been failing for months, but she only got the news after it was already too late to see her again. Just seems so inconsiderate...but in reality, most of the time, people are just more concerned with the person actually dying than the feelings of others who want to see them for one last time. Sucks...but that's how it goes, I guess.

My condolences as well, Azdeus. My grandpa is in for heart surgery on Monday, and they have to stop his heart for a short while while they do the procedure, and there's always the chance of him not waking up...so I'd like to see him before that, but I have the flu, and there's no way I'm taking the chance of bringing the flu into a VA clinic and possibly killing a bunch of old veterans. Praying everything turns out for the best...

It might be wise to spoiler that and put the text ABOVE it, not below it. Some people are rather squeamish about these things.

mfw the broncos actually win (and without even going into overtime)

It may be because I am an immeasurably huge prude, but I'd rather see it be made illegal (or socially unacceptable, depending on the legality of your locale) for men to do the same than for women to get the right. If we're striving for equality, let's make not seeing people's disgustingly unclad bodies equal for both genders, I say. ...but hardly anybody seems to want that, so little chance of it happening, it seems.

As far as I know, it's pretty normal for stuff like that to not be perfectly symmetrical. My ribs are also slightly misaligned, with one rib in particular jutting out a bit more than the one on the other side does...and it's been that way for quite some time, as far as I can remember. ...Hey, let me know if I should also go to the doctor, O.K.? If stuff like that actually has a high tendency for like tumors or something, RIP myself, as I probably have some late stage cancer or something that I'll discover soon, . No, seriously, do let us know what happens. lol

This reminds me very much of the claim that the (Eastern) Roman Empire was actually called the Byzantine Empire in the time of the Empire...that the Romans started calling themselves "Byzantines" at some point...even though there is zero text that was written during the actual time of the Roman Empire that suggests such, and though modern translations of older works do often have the translator change "Roman" to "Byzantine", deliberate mistranslations for the sake of readability for modern audiences does not make the Empire Byzantine still. Some people will nevertheless argue until they're blue in the face that it was indeed the Byzantine Empire. A pox upon such miscreants and all that.

His father didn't even have the support to pull off winning the primary!

So...to recap for the Corps: 3 Divisions 18 Regiments 72 Batallions 360 Companies 1440 Platoons 4320 Squads 17280 Marines (plus whatever the reserve adds) So...not much illumination as to what she meant when she said "brigade".

http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/draftkings-and-fanduel-need-to-jump-off-a-bridge/

From what I'm reading about Ibrahim, his work is almost entirely lost, and only exists in small excerpts referenced by later works. Do you have any specific proof that we can see that suggests what you're saying?

I am not really sure what you mean their ?