there's nothing funny about threatening violence against another human being.

That's the point - he didn't. He said he was kidding immediately afterwards. He explicitly said he was not going to shoot up a school.

I'm going to shoot up a school.... jk. Should I be arrested now? Because if the answer is no, you're applying the law differently.

Besides, threatening violence can be funny. There's loads of comedy based around violence.

I'm really confused by this... Europe is constantly being lambasted by some in America about the consumer protection laws restricting free capitalism. These kind of laws seem the antithesis of free capitalism - they're designed to keep the local rich rich. I don't see their purpose, at all.

This kind of law wouldn't last 5 minutes in the UK, let alone the rest of Europe. The salt tax on India is getting on for a century since it was repealed, prior to independence.

Robo-Rally gamers unite!

I think that the ultimate reality IS relationships, especially between people, especially between people and their creator, a God who loves them.

I also think people are spurred to mystical nonsense, or belie into believing in government as an all-good, all-powerful god, ,by fooling themselves into thinking that they don't have to believe in God or what He has said and done.

The ultimate delusion, if you will.

I'm sorry, I neither deify suchess, or the rigorous method. I would argue that Moses and Ysua mosioch had far more success than any modern scientist in dealing with reality.

But humanities are not about doing drugs and floating in the blue: ultimately, they are trying to help the student deal with reality. Picasso and Rembrandt, and Robert Frost had enormously different methods, but all were excellent at communication and sales, both. They were well grounded in reality.

I don't disdain the Humanities; I just don't agree with the original article's reasoning.

Any engineering course worth its weight DOES NOT say this is the way the world is; it DOES teach a healthy skepticism.

In my first aero course, a quarter of the credit was for identifying weather an answer looked possible, or looked like malarky.

Other courses pointed out the variances from theideal gas law, and where they come from, and how they can be approximated.

Other courses pointed out non-newtonian behavior. Other courses dealt with the practical limitations of our understanding of structures, and disasters that have sometimes resulted.

The key here, though, is that all this healthy skepticism is based in reality. No tinfoil hat.

The Humanities, admittedly, also attempt to base their skepticism in reality. However, not having had a rigorous proving method, they have less success.

Making a video of your gameplay can be very useful for beta testing. Fraps is a little crap at doing things like that sometimes.

Nvidia is one of the few brands I have loyalty to. I think most of this loyalty comes from the ti4200 I bought back in the day, which was complete awesome, for many years.

I went to the 8800GT, then the 460gtx. Neither of these have impressed me as much, but they've been very good.

My next upgrade is a complete system - I'm still running a (quick) core 2 duo on an old motherboard, with that 460gtx. It was already about the quickest gfx card you could slot in the PCI express on the motherboard a few years ago.

I haven't hit a game which is a problem yet.... and I know my system is a hell of a lot better than most consumer systems sold today.

But chablis IS terrible wine that comes in big glass jugs.

For good wine, I'd say go for the red muscadine from North Carolina. But the muscdine is an American grape that grows singly, not in clusters.

Obviously, some people just have no taste.

Jesus fully accepted his death, and did not run away. The point about the betrayal was not that he was tricked, but that a friend betrayed him--itself an enormously painful event.

Amusingly Indians (from India, not native Americans) believe the exact same thing.

Proof here.

Adecco registered the phrase "Around the world in 80 jobs" with the uspto, and a trademark was granted on April 13th. It will be expensive and time consuming for Barr to fight them -- if he ends up tens or hundreds of thousands in debt, he loses. That said, this story is in the process of going viral, and it will make Adecco look like thieving toads. That still won't help Turner much.

Two men were arrested in New York, on charges of attempted terrorism, for trying to get Jewish organizations to pay for an xray that would be mounted in a truck, aimed at Muslims, and used to make them sick or kill them.

The Jewish organizations turned them down, and contacted the FBI.

Unfortunately, there may be those who actually NEED to be charged with terrorism when dealing with Xrays like this.

"pretty cool stuff"?

How may Kelvin, and how many degrees of freedom does that represent?

Plea bargains can help those who are 100% guilty of the offense but are being given a chance for a lighter sentence. This can lighten the caseload of the prosecutors office which in turn also saves the court money. If the person is innocent then by all means plead your case in front of a jury.

So... plea bargains only help the guilty, and those who are convicted in a court deserve more jail time than those who accept plea bargains?