also agree. try jewish and israeli culture. there are words and phrases in hebrew that have no translation to anything in english. this ac is hopelessly clueless. also, what kind of interest do you think you have in a culture when you don't care to learn the language? if you love japanese culture you don't just read manga and play jrpgs.

my sister loves the japanese culture and besides learning to draw anime she took kendo sword fighting classes, japanese history classes, learned to speak japanese (and speaks it around her house, even though she knows you can't understand her), learned to write kanji and katakana, and is saving up for a trip to visit. she has a real interest, not a fleeting ADD version of "ooh shiny culture, what's tha-- oooh shiny culture over here too"

let it go, man. just...just let it go...

we have a bunch of trained pilots sitting on their ass in guantanamo. they just need to finish their landing training. i don't think they need 6 figures either, i bet 73 virgins would do it.

not true. using a versioning system does not necessitate testing. just to be clear, testing is always necessary, and not enforced by any versioning system. you can use svn or git or cvs to keep versions of your files so when you do your testing on the production environment (shame on you) you won't have a stack of the same files with extensions like .bak, .bak.bak, .old, .delete, .undo, etc. sitting on your server.

test because it's the right thing, the proper thing, to do. not because you think some tech you choose to use is forcing you. you should be forcing you.

fair use includes educational purposes. why doesn't that apply here? because the school is private?

this guy's not crazy, or sick. check for the blue meth.

i think the root of the problem is forgiveness. let's take that mass murderer in norway. anyone feel like he deserves forgiveness? do a majority? is there hope for reform? do we believe in the salvation of his soul and attribute value to that in our corporeal society, or his he ultimately dead weight? it doesn't really do any good (objectively) to have the death penalty, we've studied that and learned from it. but we feel like they deserve it, right? a guy rapes and kills a dozen kids, you don't let that guy live, right? who forgives? that's why we have the death penalty. there are some things most of us can't forgive. the death penalty is legalized vengeance.

what? come on. kids drink lots of soda, kids get fat, it's obviously the bpa lining the can. after all, we never did obesity studies during the time before we added bpa to the can, sooo ... wait a second ... i know what makes kids fat! it's the obesity studies! like quantum mechanics, just stop observing the kids get fat and they'll stop being fat. i'm going to start ignoring the obese for a healthier world in which we all can live (in a van, down by the river).

so i could go to the click and drag episode, find your mario bros tile, look up the png name in the developer toolbar, then take the png and drag it into a google image search and presto, there you are.

don't mark that guy a troll, i would totally do flo too. god, she is hot in a really weird way that i can't quite describe. put a gun in her hand and it's porn.

like if they start enforcing RTFA through cookies and google analytics event tracking. there'd be a worldwide riot

right, i misread your post as an implication that the football reference was to its size. i understand your example though.

it never said football-sized. it said football-shaped. like stewie or hey arnold. there's not enough information in the article to make any useful assumptions about how much energy it would take.

i think they mean the space-time outside the craft's bubble. you could travel through space by pulling the fabric of time around you toward you -- but space is inseparable from time, so you could theoretically pull yourself toward the past or (relatively) distant future.

i'm afraid my chinese import tablet will be made with lead-coated buttons covered in cyanide powder, or i'd buy one. natch.