Yes.

Joe ate 10 pounds of apples.

Actually, the crate is only 10 pounds. There is another 40 pounds for the weight of the cart that the crate was sitting on, and the remaining 140 pounds is Joe, the guy they had deliver the crate.

Sea kittens are delicious. However, you have to prepare them properly.

Still, why would you use an authentication system that relies on a password that is copied every time you touch something? You leave copies of your fingerprints everywhere. Heck, the majority of thinkpad users probably have a copy in the middle of their screen.

Then you would want a treadmill desk. You can walk for 8 hours at your desk.

Chaos Theory allows God a place in evolution.

If you believe that God is truly omniscient, then creating the universe as it exists (or as it will exist) is trivial via evolution. One well placed fart & the entire universe would spring into being (over millions of years - insignificant to a being that is infinite). It's the butterfly effect taken to the ultimate extreme. There wouldn't have to be any fingerprints, because the initiating action is so far removed from the results we can see that there is no hope of us ever being able to detect the cause. However, there could still be far reaching intent, if the being initiating the process could truly know everything.

This is incompatible with a fundamentalist view of God. However, so is just about everything else. The fundamentalist's God is a stupid, stupid being. Incapable of using metaphor to communicate...individually hand crafting every single life form from scratch...then wasting time planting fake evidence to disprove his own existence...just doesn't make any sense.





...and yes, if God created the universe, I believe it started with a cosmic fart. It makes sense to me.

I never took the pillar of salt thing to be a punishment for looking, but rather merely the consequence of looking. It would be as if the angels said, "Whatever you do, don't touch the hot stove with your hand or your hand will be burned." Lot's wife wasn't being punished. That's just what happens when you look directly into the wrath of God.

At least, that's how I read it.

Now, if you want an example of God's pettiness, read Job.

It's basically the movie "Trading Places", only with God & Satan making the $1 bet about whether Job would turn from God if God turned his life to shit. God's response when Job calls him on it, "where were you when I created the universe", seems like a bullshit response to me. God should have said, "yeah, sorry, I was an ass, but I'm God, so suck it." It would have been more honest.

No no no! You've got it all wrong.

A fetus becomes a viable human life when it gets a job and moves out of its parent's house. Before that it's just a cluster of cells.

Abortion should be legal up to the 79th trimester.

It isn't a question of arms. In the U.S., Pennsylvania alone has enough privately held weapons to overthrow the government. It's people that matter. Everyone always brings up the violent overthrow of the government as the next step in the U.S. Despite everything that's wrong with the U.S. (and the U.K., and every other "true democracy"), we don't need an armed rebellion to change things. All we need is the will of the majority of the population.

So, it isn't that we're good people who just can't change the government that is forced on us. We're apathetic people who could change everything at the next election if we cared enough to do it.

Don't deny the guilt of the populace. It bothers me when people say they like Americans, but hate our government. No matter how much it might feel better to deny it, our government is still "of the people and by the people", and if it is no longer "for the people", that's our own fault.

Until we stop pretending we have no power, we never will. We have the power, we just don't have the unified will to use it. If 90% of Americans wrote a letter to their representatives demanding something (disbanding TSA, ending PATRIOT act, patent reform, whatever) it would happen THE VERY NEXT DAY! We just don't care.

I was removing a glued-on cork board from a door in my attic on Saturday & the friction of the paint scraper against the adhesive was making a loud, low-pitched squeaking sound. It sounded just like a small dog's bark. Sure enough, the dog across the street started barking her head off. She was standing in her yard staring up at the attic windows & losing her mind.

Not sure what I was saying to her.

Your link references a recall from May of 2010. That's not what the article is talking about.

The CPSC is no longer concerned about the labeling. Instead, they've decided the label doesn't matter. The American people are too dumb to be trusted, so the magnets are too dangerous to be sold.

Truth is, they should ban stupid parents, but I guess that isn't going to be happening any time soon.

Just repackage them & call them DEATHBALLS! Market them as pest control.

If there was enough support for a successful violent revolution in the U.S., then there would be more than enough support to change everything without shedding any blood. The truth is, almost no one cares about changing anything.

Stop talking about the revolution. It isn't going to happen. If you can't convince people to vote* for change, why do you think they'll give their lives for change.

* Of course, voting isn't enough. You also need people to run for election. Unfortunately, anyone who would be good at the job wouldn't want it.

I bought one of these openers years ago:

http://www.myopenx.com/home.htm

We keep it in the gadget drawer in the kitchen. Makes opening clamshell packaging real easy.

Mars will need lawyers & politicians. I suggest we start by sending them.

Second, Obama isn't spineless; he just acts that way so he can blame the Republicans for everything that's going wrong.

I read that as, "Obama isn't spineless; he's just spineless."