yeah, he probably though you were talking about rugger.

do you have a link? I'd be fine with a youtube or ted link or something.. at least something with a citation. I'm no HIV/AIDS expert but to my knowledge AIDS appeared in humans around the late 1960s approx. granted, it could have been transferred via indigenous cultures, that still hunt as their primary source of food.

I'm stil weary though.

yeah sorry buddy, you're gonna have to look it up.. :-)

epoch fail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX-_mSBHDTE != hamster dance. check the replies to the GP

funny vid. next time dont give away the punchline though, please.

agreed!
lately, I've been coming back around to an old thought; IT technology is advancing too quickly for us. The movies Terminator, matrix, etc.are foreboding. Not in a sense, that zombie machines are going to eat my brain, but that we create something with technology that we cannot or do not want to control anymore.

the average user enjoys the benefits of a nice gui, social networking, simple searches, etc. and is oblivious to the actual problems arising with it. we have the same principle of the creeping islamisation of europe and the world financial crisis. people asleep and not realising the disaster looming.

I agree. with ever more worry do I watch google develop into some megacorp gaining more and more influence and data over people.
I don't know how long we can still "trust" them - it's not like we ever really could.

I am/was an avid user of gmail and their search engine, but I'm growing ever more weary of them and considering using bing and maybe even moving away from gmail.
yes, you heard right; after all the shit apple and google have recently pulled, ms seems like a viable alternative!
now aint that a fscking bombshell.

generally you do have a point, but the mentality of just throwing more mem and cpu at inefficient programs is wasteful.
microsoft went that way with vista - just stuff everything in there, lads! people'll just buy more ram. but this backfired badly, as vista came out just before the big netbook and smaller-is-better hype.

we shouldnt need a fracking beowulf cluster of powerhouse PCs to run a browser or some other everyday app.

not in the long run.

dito. I'm not looking forward to goatse in 3D though. it's bad enough without depth-perception of that bottomless pit.

some more info on the matter of birthrates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbO5SNDXio&feature=related

-1 disinformative
that's what the hash checks are for.

I totally agree, but when we look at the big economic picture, essentially what this practice does is transfer the cost of bandwidth / traffic from the companies offering the downloads to the isps.
many isps, especially in the states, can't do their one single job properly; transfering data. they dont want to put money into upgrading their infrastructure, they want to make the net a one-way street and they want to get paid handsomely for it.
isps having to pick up their own slack and actually doing properly what they're paid to do is one of the arguments against net-neutrality.

it makes sense for companies offering updates. I can only imagine they don't want to use torrent tech because of the "bad" image it has in the public - thanks to the lying and misleading media.

mod parent down for not understanding the difference between cultural gestures and evolutionary psychological bodylanguage.
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1474090&cid=30391496

Actually some letter-combinations are in fact banned:
SS (Schutzstaffel), SA (Sturmabteilung), AH (Adolf Hitler), HH, 88 (Heil Hitler), NSDAP and others. Obviously, youre not going to get charged for scribbling them on some paper, but you won't be able to get a personalized number-plate (for instance) with those abbreviations (on that note, the Brits also ban certain number-plates. usually not in connection with the second WW, though.).

makes sense, iran has always been a price hawk when it came to oil, trying to convince the oecd to raise prices.
doesn't mean they're not building bombs too though.