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Comment on Will It Take Off? (2006-12-15 20:38:03)
This may be fun! It will of course take off, even assuming the treadmill is the size of a real landing strip (which is part of the original supposition). The wheels do not move the plane, nor create lift. They are incidental to the aircraft's takeoff. The propellers or jet engines create the forward force. Other than spinning madly (or not moving at all, depending on how the question is worded), it will have no effect on the takeoff, which would occur normally.
Comment on Please Help Jack Off The Horse (2006-12-15 09:48:34)
Alright, folks, let's slow down a sec and remember Photoshop exists. "Jack off the horse?" "Jack McGurkin?" "Pastor Bates?" I'm gonna say maybe, just maybe, someone may have digitally manipulated this.
Comment on And God Said... (2006-12-14 12:07:17)
Alright, I'll agree that y'all is the more "correct" term. Well done, stoner! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y'all
Comment on And God Said... (2006-12-14 09:55:55)
Pretty sure ya'll y'all are missing the point.
Comment on Dubai In Ten Years (2006-12-13 18:15:04)
Strangerthanfiction: "Quite a few of that number" is an exaggeration. Of their 1,321,453 population, approximately 1,000,000 of them are non-citizens. There are approximately 100,000 Western ex-pats, which I agree are likly to be treated well, and some of those are indeed business owners there as well. But of those 900,000 other people, many imported and unskilled, "Most of these workers are forced to give up their passports upon entering Dubai, making it very difficult to return home" (Wikipedia). Check out the report by NPR as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai I have no problem with immigrants being on the bottom of the economic scale. But importing indentured servants and keeping them in bondage is not ethical. And while we're on it... "oil account for only 6% of its gross domestic product".  So they already have a post oil economy.
Comment on Natalie Portman Grassy Wallpaper (2006-12-13 11:02:09)
My personal fav: "An angel on earth, everything that is good and pure lies within her soul."
Comment on Dubai In Ten Years (2006-12-13 09:52:19)
To follow up Robster, it should be noted that 80% of the population is expatriates and alien workers, and that there is no way for anyone to become a citizen (you must be born there). There has been plenty written on this. There was actually a riot earlier in the year there (I think March) due to poor conditions of the indentured foreign workers.
Comment on Servitor Looking Dude (2006-12-13 09:42:05)
The artist is Justin "Coro" Kaufman. http://www.conceptart.org/?artist=el+coro
Comment on Dubai In Ten Years (2006-12-12 20:26:49)
Not sure the majority of the country which is very poor would agree with the "investing in the future". And as for the House of Saud, I think I'd rather have a few trillion in my investment portfolio than an artificial island shaped like a palm tree.
Comment on Dead Battlestar Captain (2006-12-12 15:34:33)
Wow, I never made the connection! Crazy!
Comment on Servitor Looking Dude (2006-12-12 15:32:05)
I don't know, I found the woman prostrating herself before the robot wearing a thong to be rather amusing.
Comment on Servitor Looking Dude (2006-12-12 12:20:12)
Very interesting! No luck on the actual artist yet. Looks almost like a crazy fable or something. For those looking, there appears to be a marking in the bottom left hand corner that may be the artist's signature. Looks kinda like a capital 'A' in a circle to me.
Comment on You Can Click, But You Can't Hide (2006-12-12 11:55:27)
Nice PS Magnus!
Comment on Natalie Portman Grassy Wallpaper (2006-12-12 11:47:53)
Looks likes a fake PS'd sun to me.
Comment on Dead Battlestar Captain (2006-12-12 11:46:45)
She's an Admiral, too (or was). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Cain