History is filled with well-equipped selfish assholes who discover, too late, that you can't ever equip yourself against an angry mob.

Wrong. This is one of the most widely debunked myths in modern politics. The IRS was investigating a wide range of new 501(c)(4) organizations that cropped up following the formation of the tea-party movement. 501(c)(4) organizations are tax-exempt nonprofits, and as such they are obligated to avoid being used for political purposes. Political organizations are supposed to be taxed. So of course, like any responsible agency should, the IRS took time to carefully examine the sudden influx of obvious right-wing political organizations seeking tax-exempt status. Even so, not a single one of those organizations was ever denied 501(c)(4) status.

At the same time, the IRS was giving similar scrutiny toward more liberal leaning organizations. They went through the same process as the rightwinger political organizations, but unlike the rightwingers, the IRS decided to go ahead and deny status to a number of seemingly-liberal organizations. Of course, this didn't particularly matter to the rightwing media when the story broke. They proceeded to lie, scream incoherently and flood the airwaves with manufactured outrage. It was part of the ongoing effort by the right to paint themselves as victims, and they still won't shut up about it no matter how often it's been debunked. As we've seen again and again, if the evidence for wrongdoing never surfaces, the right will just turn a non-scandal into a conspiracy theory. See: Benghazi, Obama's birth certificates, etc.

The Basic Rules are still quite free. There's a link in the summary.

Turns out the voices in your head come from Tamriel.

How in he hell is the garbage rated Score:5, Interesting? Are people blind? This idiot starts out his post with this moronic assertion that it's somehow hypocritical to be intolerant of intolerance! As if all stupid ideas and terrible opinions are equally valid, and that every piece of hate-filled dribble that people utter should be treated with equal respect and gravitas.

Even if they're completely wrong, as is the case right here. Guess what, you dumb fucker? Homosexuality is not wrong, and we have the science to back it up. Countless studies have demonstrated that people don't "choose" to become gay. It's not some kind of "lifestyle" or "fetish" that people are trying on. It's not even a disease of some sort that people are somehow infected by. It's a normal, healthy expression of human sexuality, and if you have a problem with that? FUCK YOU.

And don't even get me started on this "heterophobia" bullshit. How many people do we see calling for a ban on straight marriage? How many people get bullied in school for being straight? How many people are harassed for walking down the street holding hands with someone of the opposite gender? How many people are beaten to a bloody pulp an left wheezing in a ditch until they die just because they were straight? Take your "heterophobia" hyperbole and shove it straight up your ass, Zaurus.

You know why people attack you? It's because of your stupid, hateful, backwards beliefs. And when people point out what a shitwit you are, you scream persecution, because how dare those uppity faggots and dykes demand to be treated like actual human beings. You know what's really damaging to the nation? People like you. Not the gays and lesbians.

And shame on everyone who upvoted this jackass.

That's simply not true. In Mass Effect 3, the online component is completely optional. You can use the multiplayer component or the iPhone game to get the better ending if you want, but it's entirely possible to get the best ending in the game entirely through single player, without ever touching the online components. Furthermore, the multiplayer is cooperative, not PvP. In fact, there is no PvP option in ME3 that I'm aware of. I'm not EA's biggest fan by any means, but at least get the facts right.

I'm sorry, sir, I'm afraid it might be terminal. ;-)

Just so you know, your post make you sound like the Lord of All Hipsters.

I wish there were some way to mod you "Funny, but Mostly Sad".

His fatal mistake is to assume that creationists care about evidence.

Many of the authors you listed there, such as Tolstoy and Twain, certainly deserve high praise for their literary accomplishments. But Capek's R.U.R. was absolute dreck, to be quite frank. It was nothing but overacting, gaping plot-holes and general absurdity. The characters seemed like bizarre inhuman caricatures who engage in nonsensical behavior.

Readers are introduced to "Helena" at the beginning of the play, who all the male characters immediately fall in love with at first sight. In Capek's surreal vision of the world, this is not even a source of any drama, and all the men are perfectly happy to let her pass them over in favor of Domin, who she marries. From there, the play jumps immediately into a robot uprising several years later, most of which occurs off-stage, and ends with the off-stage eradication of humanity. The robots discover that they cannot reproduce without the aid of their human creators, but this dilemma is solved when two robots fall in love with one another. A ham-fisted reference to Adam and Eve glosses over the unsolved reproductive issue, and all the robots presumably live happily ever after.

I cannot speak for the rest of Capek's work, or whether these issues were merely a result of a poor translation, but I cannot call R.U.R. a great piece of literature from my own personal experience.

The title lead me to believe that the Nightmare Corpse-City of R'lyeh had finally been brought to light through the use of your pitiful mortal computer-machines. You got my entire Eldritch Order excited for nothing, Slashdot. May the tainted stars blast you.

...And sometimes the same sex!

Clearly you've never been subjected to pony fans.