Societies go through periods of peace and conflict. The Na'vi were in a time of peace, but Neytiri's grandfather helped end a massive civil war. That's what? 30-70 years ago? I think the last massive human civil war was about 60 years ago, seems realistic.

If I walked up to you with a partially loaded revolver, spun the chamber, and pulled the trigger, am I committing a crime if the gun doesn't fire a bullet? I say yes. You seem to be saying no. I believe in reckless endangerment. People who DUI are gambling with my life, so they can go fuck themselves.

Texans actually... They are very social people. Antisocial people wouldn't waste their time with this because they already hate people. People who interact (and potentially gossip) will subscribe to this to see who they knows who gets caught.

Too many women says there are girls who should be going into computing who aren't for some reason. Too many men says there are men who shouldn't be going into computing who are for some reason. It's possible for both of these to exist at the same time, or only one. Let's pretend that all of the girls who should be in software are in software. It's not a fix to pull that girl over there who's into teaching into software, where she does a bad job. Now let's pretend that there are some guys in software who don't belong here. Okay, so put that guy over there into theater. Tada. The world is better now because we got rid of a man, not because we increased the girls (which would have made things worse).

Yup, that's what he said. Most of the bands lost between nothing and next to nothing, so no big deal. Not what I said, I was just clarifying for icebraining. I'm kinda neutral on this.

BadAnalogyGuy was suggested that people DIDN'T buy their music. That they maybe sold $10 of music or less.

Your advice sucks. I rarely interject myself into conversation and yet I am still a chronic eaves dropper. I already view many conversations as annoying distractions. I still can't block them out. My brain is simply not mapped that way. I also can't sleep with conversation going on. I can sleep with music. Brains are complicated and different. You shouldn't assume that a technique that works for you would work for everyone.

Instrumentals with a good beat built energy and momentum IMO. This is why they are better than silence.

What I believe they did was make it so you can't put your name without a picture or location in the searches. This is actually a GOOD change. If you want to keep your location and picture secret, do so. But it's a great frustration to search for someone and get back 10 people with the same name. Who knows which one is the right one, none of them have pictures or locations! Take those people out of the searches (which is what they've done).

Except for the number of sex offenders who slept with their 15 year old gf when they were 17. If sex offender status is going to be taken seriously we need to stop throwing the status at young couples. Until then, it's a mark that says "I might have done something bad." but so is being human.

This isn't police state, this is police corporation. In my experience people who make comments about the big government tend to vote in politicians that don't like regulating businesses. Regulating businesses is the only way to stop police corporations. This is the opposite of a police state, this is a free state that lets the corporations do whatever they want.

Where the heck do you live so I can stay away?

I doubt they were thinking...

Silly people, put it as a background if you don't want people to read it! (apparently HTML table tags and slashdot aren't friends though. :-(