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Comment on dooey is wide eyed - wallpaper (2010-10-13 01:34:33)
Beautiful eyes.
Comment on ole' smokey - cost per rider (2010-07-23 04:11:02)
Now that is depressing.
Comment on largest crafts in the world (2010-07-14 04:07:12)
ENGINEERING FUCK YEAH
Comment on batman's utility belt (2010-07-14 04:06:04)
I know, each gets more ridiculous as you go to the right. I was expecting a machine gun, a spare Batmobile, a portable fully functional and staffed court and jury, one of those big novelty blimps shaped like Godzilla, an entire suburb of Gotham City, and Neptune.
Comment on Otto Preminger as Mr. Freeze, Batman (1966) (2010-07-12 04:07:00)
Majestic eyebrows!
Comment on Sun & Milky Way (2010-07-05 04:50:55)
If you're going to have a coordinate system for the entire galaxy, wouldn't it make more sense to have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A* at the origin?
Comment on What it's like to own an Apple product (2010-07-02 17:47:27)
Futurama nailed this theme, plus all the rest of the social networking fluff.
Comment on Marvel Girl sucks rope (2009-03-23 01:32:47)
Reminds me of the rape trees in Something Positive: http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05012002.shtml
Comment on Pay a computer to pray for you (2009-03-21 19:25:35)
@the3g_ipwn: What makes you think that societies without religion are more likely to fall apart? "I know you would argue that, without religion, there would be no wars or conflict. I agree. Because there would be no society. We would still be aimlessly wandering the plains, struggling for survival." Wrong. Studies have been done on societies across the world in a variety of different religious and societal states, and it turns out the exact opposite is true - the less religious a society is, the more prosperous it is. Link: http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html Money quote: "The least theistic secular developed democracies such as Japan, France, and Scandinavia have been most successful in these regards. The non-religious, pro-evolution democracies contradict the dictum that a society cannot enjoy good conditions unless most citizens ardently believe in a moral creator. The widely held fear that a Godless citizenry must experience societal disaster is therefore refuted." "Look we all know that god played a huge role in laws of civilization. From the first civilization to our own. Why you would dispute this is beyond me." Simple. No-one's disputing that the people of these civilizations thought that God was playing a role. People here are questioning whether or not God actually did, rather than whether people thought this.
Comment on Christian World Conquest (2008-11-20 22:01:34)
@thelotuseater725: "Because if one crazy nutbag says so that means every single practitioner of the faith believes it." Nah, I doubt it's their intention to claim every single last Christian believes in the ramblings of above nutjob. I'm an atheist, and I sure as hell don't. That said, it would be nice if more moderate, liberal Christians spoke out a little more loudly against fundamentalist idiocy, because if there's one thing the fundamentalists are good at, it's shouting extremely loudly about how they and their worldview couldn't possibly be wrong, and more to the point, how their worldview represents "true" Christianity.
Comment on Dubai Taking Shape (2008-11-14 01:00:34)
Wow. I looked at this for a bit and thought it was a drawing you'd find on an ancient clay pot or something. It was over a minute before I realised it was a satellite photo. I suspect many of the more ... disparaging comments about the construction going on here are founded at least partly on jealousy. That said, it takes one to know one. Here in Wellington, NZ, the tallest buildings are only about 30 storeys - any higher would be a huge earthquake risk, as Wellington's built on about a million billion faultlines, but kilometre-high towers would at least be cool to look at as they catastrophically plunge towards the ground.
Comment on USS Enterprise NCC-1704J (2008-11-13 02:07:39)
Is it just me, or have successive Enterprises (in the order of their appearance on TV, rather than chronologically) become flatter and flatter? The first few Enterprises were fairly stocky, solid ships, but the last couple, this and the NX-01, are basically flying pancakes.
Comment on Independence for Christian Schools (2008-11-09 16:30:08)
@Tyger42: Definitely. I'm an atheist myself, but a lot of my friends are Christians, and if I was to tell them that this Gary North person represented the average Christian, they'd be well within their rights to tar and feather me.
Comment on Independence for Christian Schools (2008-11-09 00:56:41)
*sigh* That's religious fundamentalism for you. Just how cut off from the real world do you have to be to find such fluff plausible?
Comment on Bad Window Framing (2008-10-27 21:13:01)
@casemods: Good point, getting curtains to look like brickwork would be difficult. The solution is clearly to paint the outside wall to look like curtains.