why they need to build such a huge building to hold a cloud. Surely they could have condensed it?

Best one today! +1 Hilarious

You're going to get f*cked, and no it cannot be avoided. The only question is who's face you want to see in the mirror...

Well said!! Keep up the good work!

Blasphemer!!!!

Keep posting!!! Maybe one day it will sink in. We can only hope...

but wouldn't the Japanese miss them?

You deserve many more mod points... good post.

a snarky, snide, sarcastic comment such as this just fills my face with grin. Thanks!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/24/national.opt.out.day/index.html?hpt=C1

"And I'm not the smartest cookie in the jar"

Just how does one go about measuring the intelligence level of imprisoned baked dough slices?

"It's probably the largest single employer of non-HS graduates outside of Walmart."

Dolling out welfare checks, or putting them to work in the hope that 1:1000000 nabs a terrorist?

Something to think about anyhow...

I would argue that neither yourself, nor the GP quite hit the proverbial nail on the head, though each is squarely swinging the hammer in the proper direction, with the proper velocity.

I think if you were to accept the notion that we as a species are limited in our ability to comprehend complex subject matter, and adjoin that with the truism that we are becoming increasingly specialized along with increasingly busy, we can arrive at a more perfect truth.

People are not necessarily, in your words, "actively choosing not to". Nor are they in the GP's words "Cave men beating on a nuclear reactor with rocks to find out what it is.".

Rather I think that while the capacity to understand exists, the lifestyle most often employed today offers little opportunity to digest the volume of information sufficiently to make informed choices, while simultaneously caring for oneself and one's family/friends.

To generalize, the western civilizations are largely too busy to keep up with all the needs Maslow has defined. Self-actualization is taking a back seat to the lower order needs. This is understandable to a degree, but no less troublesome.

Society is going to have to evolve in such a way so as to allow the individual(s) to provide for all lower order needs and ALSO attain self-actualization for there to be any real solution to the problem we all see as at the root of our current troubles.

Do I have a practical answer? No, not really. But I would offer that less work time, more incentive to continuous learning, and ensuring that the work level contributed, and subsequent compensation for, is adequately addressing the low order needs for the individual(s) is where the solution for this deficit is going to need to spring from.

"If we want to control the environment then the easiest solution is to adjust the portion of CO2 that is generated by man."

Why would you say that? CO2 extraction is not that complicated...

Cats suck. Dogs rule. Next!