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Comment on Nice party II (2011-06-11 17:16:29)
The first sign this isn't in American dollars should be that they're using commas instead of decimal points.
Comment on Troops (2011-06-03 19:24:59)
From what I can tell, it mean you get a yellow ribbon sticker for your SUV, then vote for people who cut veterans' benefits.
Comment on Troops (2011-06-03 17:11:53)
I support the troops by opposing useless wars.
Comment on *UC* Society (2011-06-03 01:27:21)
The woman in those pictures literally doesn't exist. She's about as real as the cat people from Avatar. It's vaguely based on a real woman, but the real woman is a bag of bones, with liposuction scars and a permanent smell of the guy from Full House.
Comment on *UC* Society (2011-06-02 20:07:56)
Why make a strawman argument? I don't think anyone would disagree. I don't even know who the second picture is.
Comment on Sports (2011-06-01 01:25:28)
"I'm a nerd and I use that as an excuse to be ignorant about everything besides computers and math". - all xkcd that's not directly about computers and math
Comment on Nice Party (2011-05-31 23:19:32)
I love people like this. They made it cheap for me to go to college in Nevada.
Comment on Nice Party (2011-05-31 23:17:10)
Haters gonna hate.
Comment on Despite The Mormons, A Majority Approves (2011-05-30 06:51:38)
I think the compromise should be just to ban all marriage.
Comment on one set of footprints (2011-05-29 15:09:52)
Which is weird, because if you actually read the New Testament, Jesus never promises to help you in this life. You're supposed to help other people, so you can have a good time in the next life.
Comment on do not set yourself on fire (2011-05-27 22:12:24)
This is rule number one that I write on the board when I teach chem lab. Rule number two is do not set anyone else on fire.
Comment on evolutionary tree (2011-05-27 05:00:38)
EVOLUtION iZ a LYE!!!
Comment on so long as there are leaders there will be war (2011-05-27 04:56:27)
Sure. Price of a resource is based on supply and demand, but that itself is a simplified model, right? You could easily take that into account by pricing the resource just below the point where invading your country is a plausible alternative. That's wouldn't be violating the principle of supply and demand, merely extending the model. Also, trade was a critical component to the Crusade. The Muslim conquest of the Byzantine Empire was cutting off trade between Europe and Asia. Losing the Crusades was the whole reason Europeans was motivated to look for a sea route to Asia, which indirectly lead to the discovery of America!
Comment on so long as there are leaders there will be war (2011-05-27 03:11:11)
You're not doing very good at this. Would you like some help? Really, the way to shatter my argument would be come up with more than just one weak example. Something where, even after the war was decisively one, the victors didn't gain any territory. World War I: that might be a good example. Everyone knew that no matter who won, they wouldn't be able to hold any territory gained. The causes of WWI could be described almost completely in terms of social between friction between a monarchy mindset and the realities of industrial warfare. But don't actually use that example, you should come up your own instead.
Comment on so long as there are leaders there will be war (2011-05-27 01:46:16)
"They were a direct cause of the war." Literally, L. O. L. "The war", as in the series of conflicts over who controls Central Asia, has been going on for about two hundred years now. The prize is a trillion dollars worth of mineral resources and an strategic foothold between the Middle East and the Far East. With regards to my original theory, the obstacle to free trade is that the region has never developed a stable government of its own, so its one of the few cases on Earth where the cost of invading and taking what you want is a less than the cost of negotiating trade with the native people.