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Should I lie, then, to appease some foul-mouthed Canadian's belief that everyone in the world feels exactly the same way that he does? Would that make you feel better?

[Ghetto Edit] Paying or otherwise encouraging, that is.

I would not. An innocent person should not be forced to suffer for my benefit. I know that if the positions were reversed, I would never forgive the person who was paying people to attack innocent people and steal their organs.

Wow, you must be ignorant AND retarded. Speed bumps enforce a SPEED LIMIT which means that if you're traveling at the speed limit they really have no effect on you. Not all vehicles are identical, are they? Different vehicles will have different speeds at which they can cross the speed bumps withou...

You can use the "So you want to be able to speed in areas where kids will be in danger if you do?" attack on them and if they complain that that's not what they meant, you can then ask them "So what's wrong with the speed limit being enforced through speed bumps?" Speed bumps ca...

Glocksman wrote:So he did a Kerry and married it.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Where in the fuck did McCain get all that money from? He's been in the military or a politician for almost his entire adult life. Frankly unless he married the money, the idea of a Senator whose family (his Dad was an Admiral, not a multimillionaire) wasn't rich being worth $40 million raises a few...

Just because the repulsor beams can exert enough force to fly with doesn't mean that they are capable of penetrating armour. It would be like the difference between a push and a punch: for anti-armour use, the maximum force is more important than the ability to apply force continously.

Why? You expect a reasonable parent to let a kid keep a car when either he/she lies about drinking in it or does not moderate what comes into his/her car? This just stinks of teenage self-entitlement to me. He didn't own the car, didn't pay for it, and didn't follow the rules set forth for him to u...

Assuming that it was still her car, she has every legal right to do so, but she seems rather petty if she'd remove her permission for him to use her car and publicly embarrass him, just because someone else had an unopened bottle of alcohol in the vehicle. I know that I wouldn't have expected a &quo...

Duchess: I was thinking along similar lines, though not necessarily so drastic. With incontrovertible proof of God's existence and proof that God's an asshole, I could see the study of the supernatural being considered a science. When the cost of failure is eternal torment, I think many people would...

Well, thats ass-backward. Sauron HATED direct confrontation, and not just because he lost in every single one he was in. On the other hand, he was exceedingly charismatic up until his downfall in Numenor, and was able to charm everyone with the exception of the super Wise uber Elves. After forging ...

Stark wrote:Let's just spam pet wank characters!

Sounds good to me.

Worst case scenario: Totentanz dies of old age, Mr. Immortal respawns.

Speaking only for the first two: I think that Palpatine would have more success than Sauron. Sauron is practically a god of combat, but I think he'd have a hard time recruiting minions. On the other hand, Palpatine is practically Vetinari with Force Lightning and a lightsaber. He'd have more chance ...

How long can he remain invisible? How close does he have to be before he can start draining "power-juice"? Does he have any flight capability?

Is it too late to kick them back out?

I'm surprised that gay men were found to be more in the woman group. One wouldn't think that sexual orientation would have that much effect on brain wiring or whatever makes for these differences. Aren't you putting the cart before the horse? Wouldn't the brain wiring affect both sexual orientation...

Those guys already claim the government is ripping them off. People like that honestly don't understand why you can't simultaneously demand lower taxes and massively increased program spending on stuff you happen to use. You can't tailor social policy to these idiots; one might as well ask what the...

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Actually, it wouldn't be too bad if you publicised the forumula for the total tax vs. income instead of the deriviative of total tax vs. income (as is currently the case), but I'd imagine you'd get more mathematically-ignorant kooks claiming that the government is ripping them off.

If you make $250,000 or more, your income is taxed at 40%. That means that, if you make $250,000 per year, you owe the government $100,000 in taxes. Period. No bullshit deductions or fancy accounting. You owe that much. This is not how income tax works, and for good reason. For your example the mar...

Okay, scratch that point...

How about we get rid of mandatory driver's licenses, and you repeat that remark. How well would it fly in that discussion? 1. A reasonable but untrained person cannot be expected to reliably operate a motor vehicle on a public road without significant risk of harm to others. Training received and t...

Now for some real news in the same vein: Link. US to turn off power-hungry light bulbs Fresh from its last-minute acceptance of a global climate deal last month in Bali, the US underlined its green credentials by flicking the switch on the power-hungry incandescent light bulb. The Energy Independen...

he would be loathe to admit that his only redeeming trait is one that he happens to share with secular left-wing liberals. Oh no. I'm sure he'd admit to it. I'm sure he'd follow it up with a jesus quote saying as much as "We all have our faults and in time I will come over these." :P Huck...

sketerpot wrote:How about "forced sterilization after you make an unlicensed baby"?

How about you stop talking about giving the government more power like it's a good thing?