Is this just a setup for the upcoming Asylum film "2012: Ice Age"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxbiNWSNPTk

Double Tap. That's most of what you need to know.

It helps to already have the cardio. (knowing that rule doesn't help so much unless you knew for a while and prepared.)

We can hear the idiots inside but they don't seem to be able to hear us.

The 5 letter swear word.

I'd gladly pay someone to stream the titles that Netflix still has on disc only. It's 2011 and when I decide I want to watch something I should be able to watch it NOW. When Netflix offered a lower rate to go streaming only I dumped the disc faster than you can say "Why would anyone wait for the postal service?".

I hope that this lights a fire under Netflix's collective butts to get more of their library available for streaming.

And until it does, I'd be glad to send money to someone that will stream these titles to me.

when you inhale it?

They'll get their karmic reward for the narrative depth theft by no one buying the game.

Beer (& Whiskey) open the way for civilization!

There was a recent discovery channel program called "How Beer Saved the World" and in Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain wrote

"How solemn and beautiful is the thought that the earliest pioneer of civilization, the van-leader of civilization, is never the steamboat, never the railroad, never the newspaper, never the Sabbath-school, never the missionary -- but always whiskey! Such is the case. Look history over; you will see. The missionary comes after the whiskey -- I mean he arrives after the whiskey has arrived; next comes the poor immigrant, with ax and hoe and rifle; next, the trader; next, the miscellaneous rush; next, the gambler, the desperado, the highwayman, and all their kindred in sin of both sexes; and next, the smart chap who has bought up an old grant that covers all the land; this brings the lawyer tribe; the vigilance committee brings the undertaker. All these interests bring the newspaper; the newspaper starts up politics and a railroad; all hands turn to and build a church and a jail -- and behold! civilization is established forever in the land. But whiskey, you see, was the van-leader in this beneficent work. It always is. It was like a foreigner -- and excusable in a foreigner -- to be ignorant of this great truth, and wander off into astronomy to borrow a symbol. But if he had been conversant with the facts, he would have said: Westward the Jug of Empire takes its way. "

It wasn't long after those Fortran, Pascal, and COBOL classes that we were administering said DEC VAX computers. I think I can still find a record of one of my DECUS program submissions ("MCLS" #V00200) out there somewhere. That was back when we called "open source" by the name "public domain".

So really no big deal then?

"I want to live in a world where *everything* that makes me uncomfortable or might cause pain or conflict is excised from history."

Then your utopia is to be dead. All persons present potential for pain or conflict, even yourself.

"a lot of people have improved their lives greatly with a little self-delusion"

What's the evidence that delusion is the cause of someone improving their life? Some folks have improved their lives in spite of their delusions, but it was likely a resolution to improve that did it for them.

No one told you "shit like this" was going on because you were three years old. The Good Old Days when everyone treated everyone else and their property with respect haven't happened yet. Temporal proximity to events tends to lead to exaggeration regarding their severity but it has always been this way. There are wonders and horrors aplenty in this world. Be thankful many of the old horrors have been vanquished, strive to remove those that remain, and enjoy.

That, was Brilliant!

The other WoW geeks (former player myself) are still laughing since I read it aloud to them.

Mars is a very bleak and lonely place and all those anti-depressant pills aren't going to take themselves. It's a market colony.

I mean, how long can it take before clippy lets us know that we might be in the market for a new couch, or in need of a pizza?

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