what are you swiss?

oh wait, no you're not a grave robber.

so i can't waive my right to state provided legal counsel?

for some rights you can definitely sign away your claim to them.

You have the right to lie to people, but apparently you lose that right if you sign an affidavit.

If you are coerced into signing something, yes, you might have a point. but this is a term of employment, judged for the most part fair by our courts.

you mean anglo saxons vs the gauls?

we all had to start somewhere, and PA was my gateway drug too :).

you're talking about the hardest of hard sci-fi. in most context, good sci-fi, readable sci-fi, i guess good fiction in general needs to have relatability.

Culture changes, norms change, but people don't.

the beast with two backs, mortality, gender relations, the relationship between society and the individual, they're all pretty timeless.

People who lived so long ago were just people who lived in shittier times, they weren't aliens, their humor wasn't any different than ours, they lived their own lives of quiet desperation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

jawohl

who wants to attack the US right now? islamists... lucky for us they're too busy killing each other, you know because they're basically brothers and sisters... and you know must therefore hate the fuck out of each other.

take US involvement out of WW2, we'd probably all be speaking german or russian or japanese.
and there'd be peace in the middle east... because why bother fighting over glass?

... civil war.

so cold all you can do is stay inside
and drink and eat
falling asleep well before you can watch news of any kind.

you'd rather mix politics and crack rocks :)

you're too far apart for their to be hot-button topics of any kind. Also, you have a homogeneous population which probably doesn't disagree on anything.

there are good and bad points to diversity.

you must kill them and eat their hearts to make you stronger... noob.

shoulda too

give it another 50 years. "should of" will probably become acceptable usage.

fruit vs poultry. I will eat the loser.

:), yeah, there it is.

habitual drunk driving does not mean you don't stop after the first offense. driving under the influence is still driving under the influence even if you make it home safe without getting stopped by the police...

hell, i'd imagine in that scenario someone would be selling a great deal of replica guillotines for the kiddies too, they'd celebrate guillotine day every year. also, the french revolution.