Ok then the question becomes if you are out picking flowers one day (work with me here) and there IS a fairy under one of the flowers, do you crush it and pretend it never happened, or does it totally blow your mind and you fall to the ground drooling and saying "but they aren't real, right?! THEY AREN'T REAL!"

Obviously, I'm joking. And I don't find myself disagreeing with anything you said. Touche. ;)

Well first off I'm not religious at all. If anything, I'm more "atheist" than "agnostic" when it comes to actual religion and talk of "god". But those other things? We can be relatively sure they don't exist. Which is the same way I approach the god question. Myself? I don't think any of that shit is real, and I think ALL religion is bad. But can you ever really say with 100% certainty that there isn't some creature or being out there with crazy powers that could be interpreted as "all powerful? Any Sci-fi fan knows you need to keep an open mind about this. To think that you can know something like that with 100% certainty reeks of arrogance. Religion only tricks you into THINKING you know for sure. And tricking yourself into thinking you know 100% the opposite way is almost as bad IMO.

Wow, you did a good job copying from the opening paragraph of the wikipedia entry for the Federal Reserve, but it is still a mostly privately owned and operated bank. Just because it has public portions doesn't mean it is Federal. Also, the Congress can only oversee it. If it wanted, "it's decisions do not have to be ratified by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branch of government". That means it is NOT federal. It is only "federal" by name. This is why all money is loaned at interest TO the government. Why would the government loan money to itself at interest and keep the entire population in a state of perpetual debt if it was a federally owned and operated public bank? The answer is, it wouldn't. It is a private bank that is out to do EXACTLY what other private banks do: make money off it's customers.

Really? Someone might want to tell Atheists that then. lol

But...3 out of those 4 things are 100% FOR SURE not real. Santa Claus is your parents, and so is the tooth fairy. And the idea of "Free Lunch" if false because somewhere, somebody is paying for that lunch. Whether through man power and labor or strictly outright gov't payment (like the Free Lunch program at schools). Bigfoot? No hard evidence either way yet. ;)

This is just because corporations don't like second-hand goods. Why? Because corporations can't make money on second-hand goods. If people were not allowed to sell items to each other directly, or buy second-hand, it would force the people who buy used things to buy new, which would make more money for the blood sucking corporations, and by extension anyone who works for or with them which includes politicians and lobbyists.

Religious people claim to KNOW there is a "god". Atheists clam to KNOW there is NOT a "god". To truly rebel against religion and superstition, you have to be an Agnostic, those of whom say "I DO NOT KNOW if there is a god or there isn't, but neither of you know for sure so shut the fuck up"....

Legislators who were elected by the people who live in that state. Sooo....more than the actions of a few legislators. Unless Louisiana seceded recently and have set up their own totalitarian government with no election process?

I wonder how that works, since the government doesn't actually own that money. It is legal tender, provided by the Federal Reserve (which isn't "federal" at all, it's a private bank). It is loaned, at interest, to the government and, by extension, everyone who lives in the USA.

...are idiots.

If you dislike Pandora, try Grooveshark.

Before we start talking about space flight and getting us all excited, lets get that whole living to 150 years old thing figured out first so we can all enjoy the awesomeness of space travel before we die of over population!

While I generally agree with you, if they did that ALL the time, we wouldn't have stuff from them like the Xbox (and even though I am not a console gamer, I understand the value and contribution to gaming that Microsoft has given by providing an alternative to Sony's once-monopoly on the high-end console market). A lot of people were skeptical and predicted the XBOX would fail when they first announced it, and could have easily turned into a money-pit.

I honestly don't get why anybody would still use Yahoo. The only thing I know people still use it for is fantasy baseball/football/etc. Other than that, there really isn't a reason to stay with them. I have 1 friend who refuses to leave yahoo mail, when infinitely better web based mail solutions exist. Also, Bing and Google have the search market on lockdown. Why would you not use one of those? Any listing from another lesser search engine is going to just get you less complete and/or reliable results.

Say what you will, but I think Yahoo should just slip into the history books along with AOL and Netscape. Even in 2008, I laughed when I saw that Microsoft was going to pay $44Billion for a slowly dying search engine with mediocre webmail. Now since they didn't buy them, they get to laugh all the way to the bank. $44Billion spent on Yahoo would have most likely spelled trouble for even Microsoft, unless they could have somehow turned Yahoo into a money maker (which judging by Steve Ballmer's comments, they wouldn't have).

The real cause of death was that he found an old Dorito 3D chip behind his couch and, like all Dorito's 3D's, it cut the crap out of his mouth and throat and he bled to death.

Agreed. But it also doesn't mean "go get wasted at the bar with the new prototype and then leave it there...AGAIN". UNLESS they are doing it on purpose. Hence, my initial comment.