Moonlapse

Logic vs Mysticism... you can't reason and win against those who hold faith above rational thought. Luigi Cascioli will burn in hell.

Hmmm... thats not the impression I get when I go to WalMart...

Heh, that was some good ol' fashioned Invision forum goodness. With these upgrades, nothing is ever as good as it first seems. I must be a masochist. BTW YAFU stands for another thing, synonymous with forum upgrade.

Its mostly bug/security fixes.

The forum has been upgraded, there *shouldn't* be any horrible carnage since it only afftected files, not skins or the database... but as always, let me know if you see anything funky.

If this were true, North Korea would not exist. Ahhh but what if one of these lessons of unified understanding is that a totalitarian disctatorship can violate intellectual property rights of individuals in a free market, use slave labor to produce the results and then sell it back to them at a smashing profit? LOL sorry, off topic

You get the 'My Posts per Day are more than double that of anyone in the Patrician group' award.

A few book/movies I enjoy... Dune (some might rightly argue that the movie is utterly horrible, but I like it), Fight Club, American Psycho.

I go by what I see and the people I deal with on a daily basis. It's all the proof I need. Reliability surveys vary incredibly from organization to organization. Guess where Toyota is opening up its new plants?

The Chevy Equinox is assembled in Canada with a Chinese engine and a Japanese transmission. The Saturn Vue uses a Honda V6, and Honda V6's happen to be built in Ohio. However GM has closed plants in the US to open new ones in China and Mexico. Honda is opening an automatic transmission plant in Georgia, an expansion of its transmission plant in Ohio, and an expansion of its engine production plant in Alabama. How exactly do Americans go about giving a hoot about supporting American companies? GM is investing 3 billion dollars to produce vehicles in China. Aside from that, I would never buy a vehicle from GM/Ford/Mopar based on what I've seen working in auto repair... like a Chevy V6 with a Chinese made camshaft that was just a hollow tube with lobes pressed on (comming loose and making a lot of noise) instead of a forged or cast unit.

I think most corporations don't look ahead far enough. While I feel that what they do is their own business, it almost seems that they don't realize that practices like outsourcing have immediate benefits, but once so many local jobs are gone who will they be selling services to? I say let it backlash, and perhaps we'll learn... Don't just put a bandaid over it by bloating government control. If people want a middle class, they can help create it. Not enough people are motivated to achieve or make a difference on their own. P.S. - Every person I know who is motivated and uses their head, would be considered at least middle class. Every person I know who is on welfare or government support neglects to plan ahead or take an active role in determining the course of their life. This isn't exclusively true, but in my personal experience it is.

Yes, the way that it was put into action was the stupid part, and just the thought that all those people followed like sheep.

I'm sure there are a lot of people who have a hard time putting food on the table who would LOVE to work the jobs that the stikers find unacceptable. My wife works for a government contractor and it is also illegal for them to strike. The people she works with are some of most lazy and jaded people I've ever seen. The people she deals with at work appall me on a daily basis, but hey its about 10 times better than her old job. Just my own personal bias, but really... I've worked some crappy jobs and when I was dissatisfied, I found a different one.

Its great that they are starting to be able to quantify how much of the Celtic and proto-Celtic influence on neolithic Europe was caused by a cultural shift as opposed to an actual influx of foreigners.

I'd love a site that focused on human history prior to ~2000 BC. *stars in eyes*

Congratulations!

LOL! I've noticed that when some people try to make friends with you at work, they expect you to make special exceptions for them.

Man by the name of W. J. Lewis Abbott, involved in the Piltdown-man hoax, also found flints in the Cromer Forest Bed. Its 'fairly' established that the forest bed dates to the Middle Pleistocene, due to the fact that is underneath glacial beds formed by the Late Pleistocene.

The criminal justice system here in the U.S. seems more like a Criminal University. But... I don't have time to start ranting.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051213/en_nm/...khstan_borat_dc You know, the best thing I've ever heard about Borat is that the suit he wears hasn't been washed in an extremely long time and it emanates a powerfully disgusting odor.

wow that is scarey then! Did they sneak out and repair your alarm clock at night?Or trade your dishwasher for a droid? No, I was always trying to find somewhere to hide when they all filed in to go to sleep, but one would alway see me with those creepy eyes.

No, I can't say that I did.

Look at the things that make you happy, then look at the things that make them 'happy'. Now look about 15 years down each road... the joke is on them.

I used to have recurring nightmares about Jawas when I was a child. They lived in an underground colony and slept on cots in a big room.

"There is 2 dollars in the managers pocket. 27 plus 2 equals 29" The false assumption that the $2 is not already included in the $27 is a distraction. The $2 dollars in the waiter's pocket is a part of the $27 that the hotel now posesses ($25 for the room, plus the $2 kept by the waiter = $27). Trying to differentiate the $2 from the $27 is illogical, only the $3 given back to the three men is different from the $27.