Well, if you have a, say, rectangular lawn, and you start making a circle -- imagine the Japanese flag with the inner circle being bigger and touching the edges -- what then? How can you cut the four remaining separate (and very awkwardly shaped) corner bits while still coming out ahead?

Or maybe not a literal circle was meant, but more like going from the outside to the inside, in a spiraling fashion, with 90Â degree turns instead of the regular ones?

The 44% are the better (near) half of Twitter, keeping hope alive ^^

No, it means both.

I started imagining this Route 66 of the future where technology jumps out of the computer screen and becomes part of us.

You took too much, man...

"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."

Now here I go,
Hope I don't break down,
I won't take anything, I don't need anything,
Don't want to exist, I can't persist,
Please stop before I do it again,
Just talk about nothing, let's talk about nothing,
Let's talk about no one, please talk about no one, someone, anyone

You and me have a disease,
You affect me, you infect me,
I'm afflicted, you're addicted,
You and me, you and me

*sings*

Heh.

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

15 months after the massacre in Du'jail for which Saddam was eventually hanged in 2006, Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle East, Donald Rumsfeld is in Iraq is shaking Saddam Hussein's hand and pledging our support in his war against Iran.

Date: Dec 20, 1983.

If killing people and attacking countries is enough for you to call for invasion and hanging, I assume you would be fine with the US being invaded and roughly a gazillion people being finally tried for their crimes?

And why stop with Saddam? There are so many way more brutal dictators around the world, so what gives? Are you unaware that the US govt actively supported worse than him, or are you just chosing to ignore it? Don't even pretend: his crime wasn't that he "invaded his neighboring country", but that he did so on his own accord, disobeying the US. That's what made him an enemy, not the gassing or being a dictator. And then there is the fact that the US was always keen on controlling the oil in that region... so either you play along or you get replaced, that is all; how brutal you are doesn't play into it other than that you get lauded for it while you follow orders, and demonized otherwise. Saddam was an asshole, but that doesn't make the US govt less of a war profiteering, hypocritical BS expedition, or you less of an useful idiot, who essentially gets to pay big money to have blood on your hands. Sorry, I know nobody wants to hear something like that, but step one to fix things is to stop pretending you're not being played like a piano.

Thou shalt chill, not shill.

I know I didn't say I was comin down,
I know you didn't know I was here in town,
But bay-yay-yaby you can tell me if anyone can,
Baby, can you dig your man?
He's a righteous man,
Tell me baby, can you dig your man?

For Eich, there were plenty of great reasons for him to be CEO of Mozilla, clue wise. But what does Rice have to do with anything here? Does she have some 'putar expertise she did not let on during her time of accompliceship with war profiteering?

Not to pick on just her, I wonder generally: What's with these random politicians on the boards of random corporations? Do they just get paid for having connections? Are they actually doing anything?

Awww, sorry to hear that. It's hard to love someone who doesn't believe they are worthy to be loved by you. So don't do that next time, it's not your call who loves you and why :)

I'd say whenever a person digs you, you're "in their league", at least the way I meant it. It was a shitty phrase to use, I didn't mean to imply a linear ranking of better or worse. At least for me, how attractive I consider a person is not *purely* a function of their health, youth, symmetry of features or whatever.

sex with a cute person who is actually into you > sex with a disinterested "exceptionally attractive" one

You can buy and steal a lot of things, but not the most fun bit of sex.. and you don't need to either, women are just as horny as men. It's just that you can't buy genuine sex outside of your actual league :P It's not about morality, it's just not possible.

Nowadays, all you do is hear the media's description of what the candidate is saying, and one of the strange things about it is that politics is now presented in terms of politicians and not politics. I don't think the media is interested in politics, they're interested in politicians, which is a wholly different subject... who's doing this, about their private life, about their background, about what they must be thinking, might be thinking when they said something, why did they say it; but what they say is very, very hard to hear. And I think this is, in a sense, indeed quite deliberately, destroying the genuine democratic base on which people are elected.

-- Tony Benn (in "Orwell Rolls in his Grave", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... )

It is 20 million times more profitable to finance weapon industries by going to war and preparing for attacks, than it is to encourage people to jog daily, except in very hot weather.

Yeah, empires never fade, and always get replaced by bigger ones.

So don't look at dinosaurs, and the tiny mammals that survived them, and surely not at entropy, which is breaking everything down to energy and then smearing that around, slowly, patiently, irreversibly. Do not realize that the universe is a joke at the cost of anyone who likes (to keep) power, that having lots of materials and commanding people around or killing them does not constitute power more than a fart constitutes a solid object, and is but a compensation price born out of delusion. Ignore that a chain binds the master more than the slave, and while it kills the master in an instant, it kills the slave much later or never.

The KGB, the NSA, the Russian Oligarchy, and so on -- all of them already lost, they are but empty husks propped up by smaller empty husks, all life and all reward is taking place in the blind spots, in the wrinkles and niches. The all seeing eye is utterly blind, it does not see the wood for the trees. It will take up last to the joke, and until then it attracts greedy, sadistic, and impotent people, acting as a sinkhole for the weakest humanity has to offer. It's always been thus. Powermongers never experience greatness themselves, but sometimes force their subjects into it. It's a joke at their expense on more than one level.

What you consider cheaper is basically just offloading the costs to future generations. Using fossil fuels, out of which you can also MAKE things, too, for energy which you could get via a million other ways, at a rate much higher than fossil fuels are generated = not a viable plan, and fuck whatever you think in your short-term instant gratification bubble. We also still don't have a way to really deal with nuclear waste for good, which also might incure huge costs at some point down the road (or even "just" maintaining storage for ten thousands of years.. that adds up, and you can't just dismiss this as irrelevant because we don't know the costs yet.. that's a way to be junkies, not stewards of a biosphere).