That's because any religion that doesn't aim to (1) convert others and (2) kill those who won't be converted is not going to make it in the long run. Over 2000 years, "I'm ok, your ok." looses to "I'm ok, you aren't, it's your kneecaps or my religion."

Nice plan until Apple decides which songs can be downloaded onto their hardware. Try again.

No. But I have considered a career in psychology--and it seems I might be pretty damn good at it.

I had to scroll through 250 posts before someone actually gave an intelligent criticism of one of these things.

What is your favorite video game? Zork wasn't good enough for you?

Get back in your base...oh you never left.

I see your insightful post and raise you a "why the hell was this modded troll"?

Umm, it's slow? It's unpleasant. You have to dodge assholes who run red lights. It's not intense enough for a workout. It does not work your entire body.

Do you need more reasons?

I row 10,000 m five days a week on an indoor rower and I use mechanized transportation to and from work every day. The 10,000 m on the rower would just about cover my round trip *in a rowboat*. An equivalent amount of energy on a bicycle or walking would get me to work and back twice at least. I don't walk for the reasons I mentioned. I don't run because I don't like to show up to work sweaty and I have too many injuries from the knees down to do it for more than a week without crippling myself. I don't ride a bike because I live in LA and I LIKE LIVING!

If I didn't think some jackass in a car would try to nail me on a yike bike just because he didn't like the way I looked, I'd probably get one. Instead, I savor the thought of the thousands of pounds of metal around my body as I commute to and from work.

The antagonism towards segways and yike bikes even on the hyper liberal /. drives me away from these environmental alternatives because I know the attitude you and others show here is expressed as dangerous aggression on the road. I'd rather mother earth burn up in a stew of CO2 than make myself a target for drivers who are insecure about their own masculinity and aim their SUVs at everything that doesn't have four wheels.

I'm from the Humor Assistance League. I'm here to help.

Parent wants us to imagine Fred Flintstone's legs under his car running, like he does at the intro of every show. Parent may also want us to contrast more primitive technologies with present and future technology and the impact these technologies have on our lives and perspectives.

Please call 555-I-SUBTLE if you continue to get modded inappropriately.

Do I need to use the sarcasm tags when I say the following or is the absurdity enough of a hint?

Yes, this really has worked well for southern California.

Estanislao, you need to turn yourself into the authorities because it is not inconceivable that you will commit a heinous crime of wanton murder if you choose to do so. Your guilty of thinking that.

Sounds like a childhood friend of mine. He was struggling with a lot of issues that any adult might consider trivial. Ended up "failing ultimate" and not being very much fun to be around after that. I don't know the guaranteed way to off one's self, but firearms pose the risk of a very humiliating and challenging existence if one doesn't succeed.

While taking his own life is his own damn decision in my opinion, there is such a thing as having just a little consideration for your fellow man.

Kids, don't leave a mess. It's just not cool.

Bravery /bray-ver-ee/ (N): being a perfectly healthy twit who passes judgment on the actions of other people.

Used in a sentence: CannonballHead was a twit who never knew what it was like to face a terminal disease and had the turd-like gall to question the bravery of another human who was confronted with a choice between lingering suffering followed by a humiliating demise and deciding the course of his irremediable destiny.

Does that work for you?

That's what I do. You should play me at chess.

We agree on that. I don't know what the function of the BBC because I'm American, but as long as the BBC is not controlled by the government, I don't see why it would be at a disadvantage to commercial news sources in terms of reducing bias.

Prisoners need to cost the state money. Society should be penalized for producing prisoners. The idea is that the cost for incarcerating people should be a force against knee-jerk incarceration. We should only put those people in prison that we need to be safe (i.e. violent criminals) and not those who merely perform actions that do not agree with our ideologies (i.e. marijuana users, producers, and dealers).

If prisoners are profitable or even pay for themselves then it becomes easier and perhaps more profitable to lock people up rather than carefully evaluate the laws that put them there. If society pays a full penalty for each and every prisoner, then it serves as to check an uncontrolled prison population.

For an example of an uncontrolled prison population, look at California. California is failing and irresponsible imprisonment is one of the reasons for the failure.