You went to Free Republic? You're unclean. Are you contagious? Have you been inoculated? You can catch the super-hyper-flying-fucktarded over there.

Christ.... I shouldn't even be here. I'll be a mongoloid by 7 a.m. thanks to you, you asshole. I have a sudden urge to go buy a copy of Examiner. Great.

I'm assuming you're simply ignorant of the details, rather than actually as stupid as that comment sounds.

I'm assuming your brain is the size of a dehydrated Lima bean. I'm also assuming that you channel your impotent rage at your stunted mental abilities into senseless vitriol on the internet and that's what led you to make that incredibly angry and unjustifiably stupid post over a video game.

Or, you could just be a desperately lonely asshole who thinks that if he's a big enough dick to other people they'll notice and acknowledge him. In which case I guess you win. Sort of.

Frankly, I'm completely burned out on WoW. Since October '06 I've paid a total of 13 months, so I probably played about 12, and I got one character to 80, no raiding. Ever. And since I was a Warlock, my entire existance in PvP basically boiled down to blowing up a whole bunch of Ally as destro until someone noticed I was tearing huge holes in the group, at which point I became a sitting duck for whichever OP melee class decided it was time for me to die. Booooring.

However, I do enjoy the events Blizzard adds to the game now and then, so I'm kind of interested in going back for one more month before Cataclysm actually is released. I'll take part in the pre-release event, then just cancel when the game launches.

And, I'm sorry... but D3 and SC2? Same game as the ones I already own from the series, it looks to me.

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It's really just common sense. Two competent and of-age human beings should be able to enter into any legitimate, legally binding contract they want. I don't care if 100 men all want to enter into a contract that gives them the same legal rights as a "traditionally" married couple. So be it.

Take marriage out of the state entirely. If churches want to discriminate, fine, just so long as their discrimination has absolutely no legal recognition what-so-ever. You can marry whoever you want, and not marry whoever you don't want, just don't try to make the rest of us play by your rules.

See... here's the trouble. They book that all these factions pull their beliefs from was, at some point, written by a bunch of mysognstic goat herders wandering around in the desert having divine hallucinations. If you believe that they're conveying the word of an all-loving (yet genocidal), all-knowing (yet he bothered to put us all in Eden knowing we'd get kicked out anyway), all powerful (but he lets all life on Earth suffer mightily just for the sake of it) god, you don't really get to pick and choose which parts of it you like.

Either the book is the divine word of the lord, or it's something a bunch of people we know next to nothing about wrote in an alcove while they waited out a sandstorm. If it's the former, you're kind of screwed about the parts you don't like (and the parts that don't make sense, and the parts that contradict the other parts and....). If it's the latter, and you're just going to listen to humans for an explanation as to how the universe works, you may as well just go ahead and drop the religion thing altogether.

I'm with Bill Dog. Either take the whole part and parcel - including the mysognism, bigotry, violence, and racism - or drop the pretenses and just go secular.

P.S.: I was raised Lutheran too... by a bunch of weathered, racist, homophobic, angry rednecks. Not a good introduction to religion.... as you may have noticed.

WoW is pretty much dead as a game ... I played through Ulduar...

And so did ten million other nerds with nothing better to do with their time, and ten million nerds will do it again with Cataclysm, which is exactly why it's not dead and exactly why Cataclysm will continue to suck the cash out of people's pockets for another year or two.

Absolutely. It's really just a matter of picking a set of starting assumptions that everybody is comfortable with.

Even if you believe in a creator granting it, and you believe that this creator will punish people who deny such rights, it's still not a part of the universe's rules. Since religion is an entirely human construct, and the rules that go with religion are relevant only to humanity, all consequences of the acknowledgment of free speech are strictly contained within the bounds of human experience.

In other words, the rules of the universe shape the universe's behavior and evolution. Human free speech existing or not has nothing to do with how the universe functions, so it's not a rule of the universe. Gravity will continue to function the same either way, as will light, thermodynamics, etc.

It's an entirely human concept, and some people believe that, like free speech, people have a right to live and that in a just society we should be using our resources to uphold that right just as we expend resources upholding our right to free speech. It's an arguable point, but I don't think it's arguable that either of those things exists as an inherent rule of nature.

So if you try to gain control of the gun, and fail, then its not possession, but you did try so its attempted. That could explain the law on the books. How that relates to somone shooting themselves? Yeah, can't help you there!

Well, he shot himself by mistake while it was in his pants, so he didn't really have "control" of it, so you have a technicality there....

I think suppressing political expression is not cool

I agree. I think the image itself and its supposed "message" is stupid, but I still think the image takedown was unjustified and that it should be put back up. I also think, however, the idea that this was done for political reasons, as a number of people are trying to argue, rather than as a "Cover Your Ass" sort of thing over a potential copyright fight, is absurd.