I now have a stronger case of Orientenvy than I did a moment ago. My parents raised me telling me I couldn't sing or tell notes- I used to half-blame them for my utter lack of ability, but since they started before I was a toddler, I now blame them fully and seriously. Sheesh.

Taku-san, could you reference me to this 'perfect pitch' lie? I disbelieve. (And Google has failed me.)

At least my wrist is making a very funny noise when i rotate it. Was playing Isaac Albeniz on guitar while absent mindedly perusing BB. Not cool.

That's the new excuse? Clever.`

Monoface is addictively entertaining.

Don't bother trying to interpret Taku-san. He operates on a different level than the rest of us (an eccentric one).

The illustrations are great, though.

Though Vodun practitioners would probably use the skull for something more important and venerate it appropriately, of course.

These aren't satanists. They're christians. That's the fine moral upbringing of home-schooling at work....It's only surprising that more christians aren't caught doing this.

Is this sarcasm? Would you say the same of Muslims? Or Jews? Or Vodun practitioners (okay, the last is granted)...

It's not the Christianity leading to this. It's them being effing stupid.

It's immaterial. They don't care whether the great tits cope with warming or not, because they are enlightened. They might individually cope well with warming, but as a race, they've transcended.

Nobody I can recall. We avoid saying 'schizo' unless we mean it medically, though, and that's similar I guess. One of my friend's stepdad killed himself because of schiz-hallucinations.

Downloaded this morning, only had the chance to listen now- this is amazing! Will tell all friends etc. Wow.

Taku-san,
In theory for me the phrase 'retarded' shouldn't be used so carelessly, and sometimes I feel a little barb as well. It feels inescapable, though, but you're certainly not being a foolish little prickly pickle.

Once, after only about 2 days, I was treated to the sight of very realistic (but see-through) leprechauns, about 10-12 inches high, Irish dancing on the armrest of the chair I was sitting in, and laughing at me - really. All the while I was describing exactly what I was clearly seeing, to my flat mate, who was a little freaked out, but enjoyed the descriptions none-the-less.

I read a story with that once. I can't recall who it was by. Might have been a Poe.

Seven days? Really? Man. Three nearly killed me.

Sorry for botching the link.

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2008/5/8/346720.html?title=Rare+condition+doesn't+let+St.+Petersburg+kid+sleep++

Right.

To Do List:
Post to Basement Tapes CR Criminal Documentary
Post pictures of that AWESOME unsupervised party on Myspace (don't forget that cool one with me, Jamie, and the four foot bong!)
Profit?

">Bay News Article
Apparently, it is effecting him badly with symptoms similar to autism.

Chiari Malformation

Chiari malformations (CMs) are structural defects in the cerebellum, the part of the brain that controls balance. When the indented bony space at the lower rear of the skull is smaller than normal, the cerebellum and brainstem can be pushed downward. The resulting pressure on the cerebellum can block the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (the liquid that surrounds and protects the brain and spinal cord) and can cause a range of symptoms including dizziness, muscle weakness, numbness, vision problems, headache, and problems with balance and coordination. There are three primary types of CM. The most common is Type I, which may not cause symptoms and is often found by accident during an examination for another condition. Type II (also called Arnold-Chiari malformation) is usually accompanied by a myelomeningocele-a form of spina bifida that occurs when the spinal canal and backbone do not close before birth, causing the spinal cord to protrude through an opening in the back. This can cause partial or complete paralysis below the spinal opening. Type III is the most serious form of CM, and causes severe neurological defects. Other conditions sometimes associated with CM include hydrocephalus, syringomyelia, and spinal curvature.

So it's a pretty nasty disorder. Pity.

Lucky you! I need to get the series. What's your opinion on Hannibal Rising? It lacks the amazing Mister Hopkins, of course, and destroys the batshit crazy man with no past figure... But as a seperate movie, I quite like it.

Why, thankee Jake. What with the 'Never give you up,' Tak-kun was just inviting it. Yeah, my grandma's got the Crohn's and my uncle's got the IBS and my aunt's got the IBS so. It's not just hot & spicy, so I'm pretty sure it's something or other. Thanks for the optimism though, with luck you'll be right.

No love like hawt sauce love. By the way, Dave's is good tasting stuff. I've met some of the representatives and tasted various product and I quite like them. I like Tabasco for most stuff, but Dave's has a special flavor. There's also a brand that comes to the market at my school, I can't recall the name but they make a mean habanero sauce. They had a couple of whole ones at the table and the maker offered one to this guy next to me who was posturing about hot sauces, and he was like no way man, so I challenged the maker to see who could get it down fast enough. Lost, I'm afraid. And I wonder why I have stomach problems.

The Golem?

Don't be such a stiff, Kyle.

Well, duh, you are wrong. Sister Y decreed it, she did.

Enemy Mine isn't older than mine, Ark. Tak, I kept trying to remember the movie that had 'Invisible' in it and wasn't 'Invisible Man'. I vindictively hope you are wrong.

"wrapped unenbalmed and buried under a cemetery garden tree."

Always a good idea. But not only my organs! I plan to have my deorganified body given to investigatory sorts so they can play Where's Waldo version Tenn.

Taku-san, I'm not morbid! Death holds no horror for me. After AP exams, I've experienced the ninth circle of hell. Speaking of which, I think I passed the History one. I'd discuss it, but they implied summary execution for violators of the secrecy pact.

Well, yes, I can see the relatives having issue with it. Graverobbing should be prevented because of that. Boners mean little to me, though, and I plan to have my corpse donated. Cremation causes so much pollution. My mother takes offense to my choice and so I'm going to have to write up a will (and a living one) as soon as I hit eighteen.)

I'm glad, Jake. That may discourage some of you humanoids from the deep. From hunting some of us human women.

I have hygiene issues with this concept, but does it speak poorly of me that I don't see why it matters? Child's grave or not?

I'm, er, ashamed to know the title, but, uh, -cough- Humanoids from the Deep?

Round to Taku-san!

I look about as much like Halle as I imagine you do. I'm more of a Shadowcat. (But not the one in the movies.) Or maybe a shorter, non white haired rogue.

I don't doubt that, Ark. Fact remains that I am a cunning linguist in this instance. The winner will be one as well, no doubt.

Since when can a private organization or business impose legislature.

That's what I've always wondered. How is it that the RIAA gets away with all these lawsuits? Can't a judge just look at the charges, say, "3,000 dollars per song? Are you nuts? Case dismissed."

A perfect one?

Hint- Antinous, you can be a cunning LINGUIST too.

I'm right on that Instructable. It'll be great if I can get the room to use it at the club. Looks amazing, thanks for this!

One day, Mitch, one day I will read the words 'British East India Company' in association with something honorable. One day. That day is not today. Or any of the days we went over it in history this year. Or tomorrow, most like.

Three separate links to this article in the last few hours! From two friends and now Mister Frauenfelder.

Obviously everyone I associate with has the same brand of humor- just as juvenile as mine!

Bwahahaha. Is 'tits' a common slang in Britain?

My friend Christian had a human skull in his room. We played catch with it once.

No, no, and no.

I'm sure there are some cunning linguists among you who can figure this out.

Knock Knock.
Who's there?
Orange.
Orange who?
Orange you glad I'm here?

Yeh.. but that's only because you were in algebra class yesterday :p

Geologically, maybe. As-the-earth-turns, preCal. I -wish- I was still in Algebra.

3d? Eh? What're you going to college for?

Night, Xopher. Sleep tight! Don't let the VC bite.

-Offers Arkizzle a handkerchief- S' okay, man. I love you. I- I love you all. The world, you guys- it's so beautiful.

That's because you don't have Java 1.4 Xopher. Maybe this will work for you- Java 1.1 version

Click here. No excuses, now.

You too, Takuan. IRC channel.

Antinous, Xopher, how come I've never seen you in the IRC channel? Come now. Join the party. I know I've invited you -multiple- times, Ant. You've never even responded.

Xopher, look at the standards. I made the cut. Assuredly you do too.

Algebra is -so- yesterday.

My pleasure.

Well, Brainpicker, being as it was posted today I don't think looking earlier would have helped. Unless your Google Reader is capable of much more impressive things than mine- and in which case, where's the plugin?

It's cool, Greg. Really. We all get verbose here. (Check out the Ben Stein thread. Seriously.)

I think he meant to direct you here.

If a phone's to my ear, I can tell whether it's on or not without sound or light. There's a small humming.

Sister, you ain't Asperger's. I thought it was flip and funny!

True, Sister. I was reading roadkill right after this and I was all alight with love for humanity. Humility is a beautiful thing.

I've already started. I'll see if Taku-san wants any. I'll just limit you to white russians and the like.

Antinous, does this mean I need to start pouring you stiffer drinks? Perhaps arrange a flask which you can tuck into your belt alongside the tin badge and taser?

That's ace. I like.

Hi again, Greg! Nice to meet you!

Citizen's Committee, huh, Mom? That sounds fancy. Don't apologize for being scarce. You've had issues. I don't know the full scope of those issues, but I know -anything- that would prevent your attention on these threads has to be pretty difficult.

I hear ya, Sister.

Phoenix, you don't have to worry until you find hundreds of other people also listening to Lightfoot. You may develop some telepathic and telekinetic senses if you continue, so it really depends. Would you like to be supernatural at the expense of musical taste and the ability to communicate verbally? If so, continue with your habits.

Stay the hell away from me, though. I'm going to Nunavut.

Pipenta-
Chivas isn't what it used to be? Man, I like it now. The idea of better chivas makes me drool. I don't know crack about whiskey or scotch or anything, but I know what I like! (Which is what I get tastes of from unnamed family members.)

I can always make money at the blackjack tables!

I'm ill again and my parents just left for four days. I was feeling well enough to attend by 12, but I would have had to walk and while well enough to attend I wasn't well enough to not pass out on the way.

Might as well give up on my junior year.

Antinous, sure you can. The only trouble is they're all running on hot air.

I think it's brilliant; useful for the wedding night. Easy access and clean up all in one.

Careful, Evidence. I'm going to start pulling phrases about war and God making his chosen tribes proficient at it, about dashing infants on stones, and other things in a moment.

He picks on Christians because he's Western.

Still, I'm sure they charge the patient for the marrow itself, why not take out the fees from that?

Because the typing has to happen before the patient pays, because not everyone typed is used. The costs would be prohibitive because a relatively small percentage of those who are typed actually end up being useful. Therefore all marrow-recipients would see a rise in their costs disproportionate to how many people actually -donated- marrow.

Mr. King was right! Do they lead to uncontrollable rage and a desire for easy listening?

If this guy at least wanted to show he was brave and not just irreverent he would say he was Allah.

He's not showing bravery. He's participating in humor that's funny to some (admittedly me.) So you wouldn't be offended if he said he was Allah?

Have you ever been at a party with someone you've just met and you're having a conversation, and they continuously find some way to make the topic all about them? Or they make the most convoluted connection about a topic to lead back to them?

Except it's not. Because the person in the party is only talking about himself. Cory's telling us when / where we can get Little Brother related stuff, how we can help give copies to the world, and maybe where we can see him on tour (except for the neglected South -cough-).

I read LB because of a post- the ebook post. The updates on LB are helpful information.

And you guys, I checked my RSS search. Typed in the terms "little brother". Got 35 results.

Typed in "boingboing". Got thousands.

What does this mean? Perhaps that proportionally there are NOT that many Little Brother posts. A lot less than steampunk. It's just- once you start focusing on the fact they exist, it seems like there are millions of them. There aren't.

BoingBoing handles my obsession with anatomy and ancient work on it most spectacularly. It's great to read this place.

That said, the ear jutting on this one looks like Hannibal left something behind.

I dunno, guys. Tha' one on tha' right shore looks like oneathem terrists ta me. Lookit tha mongol brow ridge. He's callin' the shots, shore is.

wouldn't leaving an ice cube in that contraption for a few minutes raise the temp so much that any increase in melting time due to the shape would be lost?

Not to mention that the cube's metal and will readily accept the ice's coldness. The little bit of melting water coating it will negate the temperature increase because the melting water is almost the temperature of the ice... there's a way to explain this eloquently but I'm not finding it.

In before someone starts complaining about promotion.

Now I've gotta read this. You just jumped onto my list of favorite authors.

Finished it.

Amazing.

Bravo, Cory. Bravo.

What about Texas? Dallas. Come on.

You give them this, put it in a larger box for them to open, and they'll play with the packaging first and forget about your carefully crafted box playhouse.

Apology accepted and appreciated. Hope to talk to you with less of a rift at some point in the future.

Hear Hear, superhuman.

74 decibels? That's quieter than my cafeteria.

HAIL EFF AND ACLU.

Hail them.

The $52.00 that you would normally pay goes towards the tissue typing we do on all of our newly recruited donors. This allows us to help patients search our pool of donors so that they can find a potential match. Other typing costs and any transplant-related expenses are paid for by the patient.

Processing, Agent. Other services get monetary donations that handle the paperwork and labwork. Marrow doesn't, I imagine.

It's pretty clear at this point that you, skullhunter, and antinous have already, all of you, completely made up your minds.

I think you could at least accept that I am speaking respectfully to you and draw from my conversation with Karney that I'm not at all going out of my way to 'slam the military.'

Jesus, man. I'm in JROTC and would still join the Army as I had been planning for seven years if I wasn't afraid of where my Commander in Chief would send me.

I don't agree with Antinous' comment you quoted. I'd verbally spank him too if he hadn't already shut up. I am fond of military men. I am not fond of military training.

Ta, Greg.

It looks a bit more than a child's craft project- all the metally ness- but yeah, 15$ for a pair is a bit much on my budget. I think we've all gotten used to mass production from China, though, and factories pumping these things out by the dozens, which is why the price is horrifying.

I like, though. The swine would go perfectly in my Orwell / Doctorow / Huxley collection.

Taku-san-sensei,

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

is trained
is trained
is trained.

Not 'resolves conflicts through use of physical force', not 'accepts orders to use that force', not 'believe their country does no wrong'.

TRAINED. They are trained.

Oh my gosh, Alek, my little brother had those Hulk Hands. Endless entertainment. And bruises.

Guten Nacht, Antinous!

Yeah, I figured that. It's why I'm considering not attending college (grades might kill me even if I wanted to) and simply hopping from state to state, living on my own, working small jobs and just- absorbing culture.

I might be essentially forced into surgery, though- my grandma insists on me taking her pills to rectify the situation (as I haven't been given any yet) and is the sort to push antibiotics on me at the slightest sign of a cold. I'm pretty good at palming things, though I take the acid reflux pill since it seems to help. I'm always nervous about takings something I'm not prescribed, though. I don't think insisting on surgery would be beyond her at all. With luck I'll be kicked out by then.

How in the hell can Antinous say they don't train military people to think and not be an attack on the character of anyone who's been in teh military?

They DON'T teach military men to think. I've had four people enlist in their high school years (three on the delayed entry program, going to boot camp their junior summer), one just this last year, another in ROTC at the college level to be an officer, another in the Naval Academy.

That is not an attack. It is a statement of fact that all the friends I have in the military would echo. Andrew, a Marine, came back from basic training and turned his back on his best friend. Why? Because she was planning to go to the Army. He screamed obscenities at our drill team and behaved basically like Sergeant Simms- whose PT has always been killer. Not that I am against PT. I like working out, and hard; the fact remains that the other drillers were not used to that treatment and the Andrew who had not been in basic had known that. He shouted phrases like 'raghead' with no sense of irony.

A few months after his return mellowed him out. But the fact remains that his service changed him. It made him reactive.

And that's the way they all are. In varying degrees. Andrew got the worst of it because the Marine Corps is more grueling. They're a little bit more proud, a little bit less thoughtful than they used to be. And only Andrew's actually been in Iraq. The others haven't gone through AIT or shipped out yet.

Skullhunter attacked an entire group of people. Yes. I think that's wrong. Antinous gave you the impression that he did the same, but I interpret his comments more faulting their training than them.

But you're calling people yahoos and being sarcastic and condescending and rude, and you're not furthering the conversation at all by doing this. If you wanted to prove a point, you'd do it without personal attacks. Nobody's going to listen to you the way you're going about it.

Sister Y- I'll pretend your extra helping is meant to console me rather than tout your healthy innards. Suuuureeee. Just wait until you're gumming your food. I'll have extra servings of the crunchiest things I can find.

I guess I value my group (JROTC teams) from 'suffering'. My Color Guard had to learn to do everything in less than a week more or less on our own, and we've always been the ones to get yelled at most by our Sergeant. The group pushups and workouts have made us one, I guess. That and with Sergeant Simms, I felt pretty 'groupy' with the other people who fell over and vomited from sheer exhaustion.

Symptoms.

Stabbing pains. Twisting pains. (Abdominal region) Nausea, fever (usually when I don't eat in order to avoid the pain), black outs, lethargy. Insomnia because of the pain. It's worse when I eat something that interferes- citrus, spice, salt, soda, energy drinks, school food, red meat. Anything delightful (with the exception of the school food.)

I have a family history of Crohn's disease, colitis, stomach cancer, chronic ulcers, and various other ailments. That's just on my mother's side.

Your words are scalpel, hammer, blasphemy, caress and sacred oath. My example is contemptible and cautionary. Be better than me. It's easy and takes work.

Your words are confusing. I'm lost.

Dankeschoen fuer der Hilfe, Ant. What is 'Uncle'? It would amuse me to call you Uncle Ant. I could give you the German (Onkel Ameise, if I really wanted to be longwinded).

The problem is, Greg, that what could have been discussion became simply attack on character.

Oh god, I've got troll spit all over me.
You wound me, sir, with your razor sharp pixels. See how I bleed?

Mostly from you.

Wow, tilt at the wrong windmill and some folks just get all kinds of hostile.
Your keen, incisive wit has seen through to the truth of me; I'm just putting up a false front of not caring if I'm liked so that people will end up liking me.

I guess you can blame Skullhunter equally, though really the only sin he's committed is the oversimplification and elitism you and Karney have accused him of. He hasn't been deliberately abrasive- and even where he was with the "I DON'T CARE, PIXELS" bit, he's backed off now.

At any rate, Skullhunter gave it up and Antinous did not say; Skullhunter, YOU are clever but don't talk about it here, Greg's just a meanie, he told both of you to can it. I think that's neutrality, that's equal parts STFU.

That's insanely cool. I watched it like a cat watches drapes.

I need to create a musical instrument for scratch for my physics class. I wish this could help. More physics, plz.

Taku-san! Come on, explanations and clarifications, on the double. Or you're losing 'san'. :D Antinous, what's O-, -dono, and -ue? I don't trust the internet on Japanese.

Wasn't left handedness still a sin in 1927?

I usually do. Except when it interferes with the chocolate mini bundt cake I was just enjoying. Emphasis on the 'just'.

Isn't hazing voluntary, too, Sister? I know if I was in a club that asked me to demean or endanger myself I'd tell them to go burn. I suppose the whole group mentality thing I always blame is at fault, though.

Stupid human herd beasts.

You guys are pissing me off. Talking about chiles, making plans for misters, mentioning your wonderful sounding sauces-

and I can't have any of it. At all. I've been banned by the gastrologist. I hope he cuts me up and figures out what's wrong (shoving a camera down my throat next Thursday- hush Antinous) and if they don't figure out what's wrong with me I'm going to kill myself with cayenne and habanero.

Woohoo!

Except... won't this mean that soon both Americans and Chinese will be griping about outsourcing while swimming through the air and walking on the water?

I was just considering a post here, Jake. Say, any books you're interested in lately?

Antinous; telepathic aptitude increasing in subject ten or subject zero-seven-four-eight?

Wait- I didn't say that! You didn't hear anything! I know nothing, I swear!

Taku-san, then. I did investigate and came to believe 'san' was a term of respect? Chan is the child diminuitive, I know that much, and kun as well, right? I thought 'san' rather more appropriate for the little tyke that I am. Also intended to give you the respect and honor your age commands! :D

The Googling I'm doing for 'takusan' as an adjective tells me it's an adverb, and I keep getting junk about bonfires. Enlighten me?

You're predictable, Antinous. It spares both of us the juvenile innuendo war though.

Come on, old man. Live in the present. Plenty of people to piss you off today and tomorrow and the day after that!

Then again, I imagine they do.

Breathe in, breathe out, man. Takusan's got a tunnel to the liquor store, hasn't he? Doesn't he share?

I loved the Hoboes project and the Skulladay. I think it's what a lot more artists should do, Chris- consistently producing forces creativity and learning. The brain's a muscle like any other, and the muse needs to be worked just like a mule. Else both start getting lazy.

Sigh. I don't understand bulimia either. It might be because I have no gag reflex and can barely retch even when I'm ill. (No insinuations!)

Science fiction, sir!

Antinous- Let me guess. Tiresias, right? You see yourself in him. Well. As well as you can, being as you're a blind prophet. I'm right, aren't I.

Suggestion on mine- Get your head out of Attica.

I've avoided this meme entirely except for a few unfortunate OH SHIT (pun not intended) stills-stumbles. Like back in the Tubgirl / Goatse days.

Really though. Good on all of you for recognizing security issues and the willingness of these people to debase themselves for 12 bucks and some crack but what the real issue is here is this;

WHAT IN HELL IS WRONG WITH HUMANITY?

That is all.

So Takusan, are you a Brown or a black
eagle?

Or would you like some fava beans and a nice Chianti? I can arrange that, you know. As the drinks server.

There's a kid with pretty hardcore juicer muscles at my school. I used to like to watch Skinny Brandon rip him apart in any sort of fight because, despite the fact that Brandon probably weighs less than -me-, and whose wrists you can encircle with a hand and have space left over, Brandon would have him tapping out in moments.

What is the -reason- for muscling up like this? It doesn't make you more capable of anything, except for having to hire a hygenist to wipe your ass when you finally can't reach anymore.

Also- steroids. Injections. IMPOTENCE? Testosterone issues? Does this not matter to these men? Well... beings.

NobodySpecial,

I did apologize for the way my words were taken. I make a point of attempting politesse everywhere I go, and the fact is, the only thing I was even remotely'rude' to you was in the name calling; which you obviously didn't seem to have a problem with, based on your language. Which gave me the impression that that is how you conduct conversations and that it would hardly bother you. (This is not meant as condescension but honesty; in verbal situations I use insults in conversation and they're simply a part of my behavior with others.)

I did attempt friendly advice; the suggestion of the golden rule.

Nevertheless, as you still seem to feel I have wronged you in some way, I apologize for saying you were behaving as a troglodyte as well.

You're welcome in this forum, you know. This concept that we're all unfair is taken from a single experience that was not pleasant from any side and is much the result of miscommunication and quick reactions from everyone in this thread. Which is not to blame Antinous, Arkizzle, Takuan, or any of the others who sought to inform you on how to rectify your behavior.

I am willing to forgive and forget and treat you again as a new commenter in another thread.

Please don't insult Mom though. It's her prerogative to delete posts or simply disemvowel as she sees it. She works very hard and doesn't deserve antagonism from anyone on BoingBoing; it is her consistent efforts that keep this place from becoming another Fark, or the BB it was last time there was commenting.

I agree with Xopher. It's a one-time situation that I will not judge you on; first impressions are often wrong. Again. I'm extending the olive branch. Return again another day and another place, and maybe we'll all get along.

I close with famous words of War.

"WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS? WHY CAN'T WEEE BE FRIENDS?!"

Skramble, we here at BoingBoing respect your choice and request pictures. You know, to support you. We laugh with you. Not at you.

Da, impotence?!

Agent 86, Antinous, keep heading in the sequels direction. You're still wrong.

Nein, Agent 86. Any other takers?

Where am I? Where am I Takusan? School. Not doing my homework. You know. The usual.

Agent86, you think strangely. I hate you.

Yeah guys, I know they number in the millions, I was just making an effort at a poor pun. Can I blame sleep deprivation?

Still a sci-fi movie.

For yours, probably wrong as it is abstract- Serenity?

I respect you, Terry. And I understand; not well enough to know war, not well enough to know what you know, but enough to respect and believe you based on your experiences, which are doubtless unpleasant.

I'm glad you weren't offended. I'm glad to know we agree.

I'm going to go over what I found on Google on you this weekend. I would earlier, but it seems like it's going to be some in depth reading on our military practices, and as I've got 2 college exams in the coming 2 weeks, I'd rather give both school the attention it deserves and your information the respect it deserves. I'm sure we here at BoingBoing would like to hear what you know about what's going on.

Aw, cheer up boys. Ark, you were on the right track with waves! I'm simply obscure, that's all.

And because I know you don't want to go comatose and you're all just whining, the next clue is, Christ redux.

Come on, I want something to solve!

Terry,

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification on Abu Ghraib. It was a quick two word reply meant to convey the idea that the military is not infallible, and that ethics teachings often fail, as you explain, less than remarking on ROE at Abu Ghraib. I by no means disapprove of the military. I have many friends who are enlisted men and women, and I at one time (very recently) considered it a path for myself.

I simply believe it's very hard to police any institution like this, and when you have loyalty inbuilt to children, that there is likely to be less objection to a travesty such as Abu Ghraib.

When I have more time, I will analyze what you've said more clearly; I much appreciate the information and will be sure to reevaluate my stand on the prison scandal.

There are behavioral constraints built into the program, and the ROE are pounded into everyone.

Abu Ghraib.

That's CREEPY Arkizzle.

Your comment wasn't posted when I- well, you know. -Rustlewhispercanandstringtelephoneplot-

Thank you, Arkizzle. I was wondering if anyone saw my joke as what it was. Being as you were the subject of the joke, maybe it was still cryptic. Amd of course they're in cahoots. We are, too. Haven't you been issued your -whisperwhisper- string and can yet? Drop by Babies later on and we'll issue them to you with the proper ceremony.

NobodySpecial, I apologize if you took it as deliberate rude commentary on your 'loyalty' to BB. I'm sure you've been here as long as I have been, and that's not the point I was intending to make.

Leavinghalfway, I'm offended by your not including me in the list of elite little club owners. What am I, chopped liver? Your form is refused.

Wait, I just serve the drinks, don't I guys? Damnit. Do I get a promotion any time soon? I -did- cremate Arkizzle. And you all enjoyed my riddle, you know you did. I think it's time for me to graduate from the kiddy table.

I want to go! That's an amazing picture. Seems to me that they're just piling up by the dozens, David. (My apologies as well.)

Have you been following the military's refusal to allow aid after the tsunami?

Did so. My apologies. I forgot.

What an incestuous little Peyton Place this joint SEEMS TO BE for people like William, Arkizzle and Avram.

Arkizzle just died for BoingBoing in the other thread. When you've been so loyal, you can talk.

Which is to say, don't have such a potty mouth if you want to have your opinions respected. If you want respect, you have to earn it here just like anywhere else, and when you come off abrasive before anyone knows you, nobody really -wants- to know you. No wonder people jumped on you- you're behaving like a troglodyte and we happen to be defensive of each other in these parts. Don't like it, don't comment. If you'd be a little nicer about voicing your dissent, it would get heard more clearly.

Antinous,

That's the most entertaining and odd fetish I've ever heard of. And as a raver, I come across some interesting people.

If Antinous is wrong about Tenn's, then I guess this.

-Toddles in, the little tyke-

Sorry dears. Prom and the other threads distracted me! Have meant to be coming back all day!

Anyway, the round goes to Agent86.

-Slumps, weight seemingly doubling with Arkizzle's passing-

Aaaaaaaaaaark!

Stop all the clocks! Arkizzle is dead!

-Mourns, stumbling back from the onset of VC-

No. No. I'm not going to let this happen. I'm sorry, Ark. Your body- I'm- I'm sorry.

-Lights sulfur match-

Back, beasts! Away from me with your Scripture! Away!

-Sets shirt afire, stumbles back, harsh cry of the birds echoing to Adagio in my head- Back! I will not let you profane his noble death!

Takuan,

Myanmar nee Burma is doing just fine on its own. Fine being relative.

and all you want to do is take that elitist point of view that unless you were "smart" enough to go straight to a higher education, you're too dumb to be anything but a pawn or a tool

I don't see how any thing I wrote correlates to elitism. Excuse me, but your assertions on my character are unfounded and unwelcomed. I am currently considering dropping out and getting a GED for the simple sake that I could make more money doing what I know than going to school in unnecessary classes that I am currently struggling in - failing, even.

At least at a school like this, you can pick a career and they'll help you get there.

I support schools that do that. I do not support schools that make it possible for children to practice military tactics at young ages. It's never worked out. Ever. Sparta, Africa, and Germany have taught us this. Children are children. I'm a member of JROTC, which is as far as it should go. You learn leadership there but we're strictly kept from learning actual military tactics beyond first aid and marching. We target shoot. SWAT tactics are something else entirely. Busting in doors and effective invasion of buildings in dangerous situations does not equal a necessary pre-job training. You can get those skills at the job.

"Crappy on the job training?" That's for things that don't have Military Police Academies. I should hope our SWAT officers aren't getting thirty minutes of instructional videos- which they aren't.

If you're going to make off-topic comments like how you have no atrocities on your record, and imply that everyone who has been in the military is an unstable brute looking for a fight, you better be able to back it up.

Being as you initiated the comments which led to his 'off-topic comments', I think this is a case of pot and kettle. Hurrah, you.

I am friends with and work with people who were lucky if they graduated from public school.

I'm going to one. Your 'well I have friends who are -----' argument is trumped by my daily experience, I'm afraid. I see these kids every day. Whether you're 'elitist' or someone I apparently perceive as dumb (which, for the record, I don't, thanks), you're still subject to the social pressures that are going to make these schools dangerous.

Yes, options are needed. No, this is not that option. Vocational school, yes. I'd fully support this- minus the military aspect.

I've had flames appear on BoingBoing. Not troll flames, but literal ones accompanied with ads.

Will, people do say that. I don't think the original theocracy was good. I don't think this is good. I think boycotting China would help rather than harm- what has 'engaging' them done? Making the bully be nicer by giving him a friend only works on the micro scale, and then not well.

Suggestions? I might be more amenable to your position if I was certain more of what it was, rather than only knowing that you like Parenti and think both iterations of the government are bad.

Tamu,

But madam doesn't have quite the same ring to it!

Women? On the internets? UNPOSSIBLE.

I'll be eighteen by spring break next year. Let's do it, Ark. That's plenty of time to learn to count four decks at once.

Is that YOU wearing them Ant, or doing 'things' wearing them? I had issues with my four inch stilettos. Though they came in handy as a threat (I want to make a pair with real stilettos embedded in the heels.)

Thanks Cory. I make it a practice of reading books online and if I can't bear to keep it electronic, going out and buying them (or if I just love it enough to want a copy.)

From all the positive reviews, I imagine I'm going to be shelling out some lunch money. :D

Amnesty videos make me ill. Not because they're bad, just because they're pretty blunt. The screams at the end of this were disturbing.

Nevertheless, they accomplish what they set out to do. Too bad people insist that Tibet's current situation is preferable to its earlier one, and because the earlier one was so bad nobody should make efforts to rectify the current.

It's like saying, "Okay, well, you were enslaved in Africa by your enemy tribe, but they sold you to American plantation owners and really, you're much better off."

you can still RECEIVE.

I hope that was the pun I took it as. If so, I applaud you sir.

Well, I for one don't want gay marrow. Didn't you hear about the woman who started acting like a man when she got his heart? Yeah? Well what if all our men got gay marrow! We'd die out as a race! Gays shouldn't be allowed to donate blood or marrow or anything except to other gays. Contain the infestation, it's policy for all other diseases, why not this one?! Any gay man or woman who thinks they're going to give -me- their dirty marrow has another think coming.

Oh shit, I kissed a chick. It's got me! Go on, guys, before you breathe my air! You'll get it too!

Not my country; not my problem.

You start making other countries' problems your own and you end up with Vietnams and Iraqs.

I hope you're joking.

Not my country, not my problem. Not my state, not my problem. Not my town, not my problem. Not my family, not my problem. Not me, not my problem.

This 'the world can burn, I'm alright' policy is selfish and juvenile and way too prominent.

China's got some problems. My country's got some problems. Whichever can be fixed should be fixed, and I don't effing care if it's something happening in Iceland. Iraq is not a good example. We did not go to help Iraq, no matter what the media declares. Vietnam? It was handled poorly, the Tet Offensive started it all. Yet- Communism was a major threat to democracy. The USSR was taking nation by nation. Killing and destroying freedoms. Don't believe it?

Well, take a look at China, North Korea, and Cuba.

I am more than poptimistic. I'll watch for the colors.

POTimistic?

We will not survive as a culture if we are weak.

"We Germans are armed against weakness and decay, and the blows and misfortunes of the war only give us additional strength, firm resolve, and a spiritual and fighting activity to overcome difficulties and barriers with revolutionary elan."

Since Godwin's law has already been invoked and all.

Go tell someone who is proud to be serve their country how they have been trained to be good little Nazis and see what kind of response you get.

There IS a difference, WeightedCompanionCube.

These are children. 14-18 year olds. You want a group of people who will be subsumed into the war machine with no protest whatsoever and indeed delight and pride? Take the teenagers. We're so desperate to fit in, to be a part of something better than ourselves, to have the group approve, that we'll hurt ourselves and others doing it. Without a second thought.

And continue doing it for the rest of our lives.

Also- this high school will set a precedent. It'll make a middle school reasonable. And then elementary.

Rescue tactics, fine. Professional demolition and SWAT tactics? Why in hell for? Why can't those things be learned as an adult, when you're searching for those jobs? Rescue tactics are fantastic- they will help any civilian. SWAT tactics will only provide an opening for militarization of people too young to not mouth off in D-Hall. They'll also allow the kid who thinks he knows everything since he took a few classes in school to try to be a hero in a situation the real SWAT should handle, and get himself and someone else killed.

She was convinced that she would be murdered. She even said that she would never commit suicide; if it appeared that she had, it meant that someone had gotten to her.

Bears repeating, Antinous.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong as I'm a naive young girl, but what is the difference in selling your body and going out to bars and waking up in hotels without the slightest clue of your partner's name or age or anything?

I personally have issues with contact; as I'm not even into kissing for several dates and certainly go no farther (which is appropriate but more and more less common in my age group)- I wouldn't participate. But why not decriminalize? Women can sell pictures of their bodies. They can sell displays of their bodies in erotic situations, performances. They can even sell touching of their bodies in certain gentleman's clubs.

Prostitutes -are- at high risk for sex crimes.

If they were able to report those, they would be less so in danger. I don't believe rape of random individuals would decrease- as Mom said, First, if they're deterred by not wanting to break the laws against prostitution, they should be deterred even more by the far greater illegality of sexual assault. However, violence against prostitutes could well decrease when men didn't have the idea in head that the prostitute wasn't going to go to the cops for fear of jail. Or they could end up being murdered.

Still - it's going to happen anyway. Put it out in the open and at least those who abuse will stand a chance of being prosecuted, and those who use their capabilities to turn a profit will be less stigmatized.

Damnit! I'm too young!

I'll have to wait and pay the fee in 9 months.

As I'm legally an adult in my home state (17, I am independent if I choose to be and I can donate blood), this annoys me. Not as much as it may annoy anybody who's a match, I'd suppose...

Pretty. I want one. I'll never have one, but it'd still be -cool-. And really, $135 for a clock is not extraordinarily insane. Better than that steel cube a few posts back- and this glows!

Don't you see guys? You don't need to be able to see, you just need to be dry. It's not like the 'cell phone jockey who must always be charging down the street, thumbs a T9 blur as he texts' is ever looking where he's going -anyway-.

Awesome.

Would have been good when I was popping in and out of hospitals with asthma. Will do a lot to tone down the fear factor!

Also, props on the sickBox live. Maybe it'll keep the profanity down. (Maybe.)

I concur with Ross. I'm not even a contractor (my dad is) and I'd still have one of these crying for mercy in a day. Maybe it's designed for those home improvement types. You know, the home improvement types who would actually find it a bother to take a pencil and scratch their measurement down on the piece of wood they're measuring.

No, Arkizzle! Man, what'll I tell your family? I promised them, man! I promised them to bring you back! Damnit, hold on!

- Struggling into the fray, lifts into fireman's carry, struggling over the broken landscape as grenade shatters the VC behind us, shrapnel flying-

Hold on, man, you can't die on me. If you die on me I gotta leave you behind, there're too many! If I don't carry your corpse home to your 'mama like I promised, you know what'll happen then, Ark?

You KNOW! They'll give you the Last Rites! Just a little farther, just a little. The bunker's right over there, it's collapsed but there's enough room. Just enough...

TAKUSAN! HELP!

"Which is more important, something God inspired men to write, or something God wrote with His own hand?" Then you explain that nature was (in their view) written by God's own hand, and thus more His word than the Bible could ever be. And only science can read that word.

Xopher for President?

-Wins at losing to Xopher. Winning at losing- oh hell, now I'm the Democratic party.-

How does a question about a date named Neville lead into discussion of the British political system's failings?

This could be an internet rule. All things British lead to Parliament. (Or... Tories... you know, I'm checking out a book on the Britgov (Minitruth?) on soonest occasion. Be warned, I'll be asking a lot of questions of you folk.

The date was not named Neville. His sister rented a limo. He was about as socially able as Neville. I opened my own doors, got my own drink and his, etc. (Which I fully and totally support, and which would not bother me if I hadn't been in difficult shoes. I usually split tasks with my date at dances, I hardly believe chivalry -need- be, but seriously. Jamie was lacking.)

At Project Celebration (post event to deter getting drunk high or laid,) they had a mock casino set up with funny money. I made 10,000 off 1,000 in blackjack.

'Invisible Tsunami'

Hint: One word.

Thanks, Arkizzle. The design is not my own.

:D I like Jimmy's too. The purple wasn't as intense as I'd wanted, so that's like three layers and also having to mix some. I hope he likes it! See you on the morrow! Or the morrow after that, being as tomorrow will be very busy indeed.

Similar to how humans who drink gallons of milk at once will vomit (and potentially suffer worse illness) because of the PH of their blood being raised by the base of the milk?

Sweet! Thanks for the clarification.

Oh and in regards to the last post, I was trying to make the point of- when is it not going to be simply imitation, but real sensation?

Poor Pleo.

I killed a caterpillar by accident once while collecting specimens for my biosphere. I was about seven. That whole summer, every time I saw a caterpillar I would flinch, and it seemed I was stepping on a lot more of them, like they were lining up to be slaughtered. (They were -everywhere-.) Later on I realized they weren't caterpillars, but webworms, and the periodic infestation we have.

I still remember that awful horror when I squished it with a cup on the fence while trying to retrieve it. After that- I stopped riding my scooter, because it was impossible to without killing one of them.

It was capable of feeling the pain though. The Pleo imitates it. I can watch that video without feeling bad. It reminds me of the boy in Artificial Intelligence though- how all the robots are made to be aware of pain so that they do not go into the fire or something, but the boy is different from the others, and his human 'brother' enjoys inflicting pain on him and making him bear it.

Gute Nacht.

Syphilitic spirochetes, perhaps?

Sleep well, Takusan. I think I should also leave. Ta!

Also... how did a sentence in that comment lose all of its vowels?!

Disemvowelling. It's mom's clever alternative to full censorship. It happens when there's something said that is considered inappropriate by the moderators or Boingers.

It was the style at the time?

I've been to a few formals. This is the most expensive by far. Military Ball was half the price, but hopefully this will be better food and DJing.

The whole point of this is to urge you towards IRC. Come now, Takusan! It's practically children's hour, we need someone with an onion on their belt.

Danke. Yes, of course. Lovely bronze heels with matching earrings.

...

And a burnt orange dress which coordinates with the copper on the sun-mask. I am sun, my date is moon.

@59,

I think what he's saying is that the standards foreigners are held to are arbitrary and oftentimes ridiculous.

Prom Masques!

nay. think more scientifically.

It's the weekend Takusan. I don't start homework 'til 11 PM Sunday.

Besides! Prom! Mask making! I'm going to take some photos now and redirect you to them, just to show off my fledgling 'art'.

But my standardized tests are done. I finished today's 65 question evaluation of my abilities in twenty minutes. What significant event occurred in 1776? What document did the Magna Carta influence? Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War?

What color is the sky?

Neener neener neener, take that Oregon. If you don't behave, I'm telling mom.

Takusan,

Luuuucyyyy, I'm home!

Bus - to bus tables - to clear tables. It took me a moment.

However, Antinous- Scifi? How so, sir?

Posed:

invisible tsunami

This one may be rather indirect.

Tenn: sleep well. My only question is one of politesse; is there a reason you spell my name "Carny", because if there is, I might enjoy it.

But, as my name isn't spelled that way, absent a reason, it's jarring.

It may still be jarring even when you know the reason. You may have seen it spelled 'carnie' in the past, but I prefer 'carny' since it follows your name a bit more phonetically (and I imagine in pronunciation?)

Carny

A carny is a carnival ride operator. You are nothing like one, far too well-spoken, but I can always pretend to myself you wear suspenders with Billy Bob Teeth and cheat small children out of their money in real life. Have you never had that joke? It's a good thing I wasn't around when you were in grade school. I'd have personally ensured you never live it down.

Anyway, if it's still jarring, I'll be glad to stop!

She's asking you to clarify how fish who needed salted water; of a specific osmotic pressure, survived when it was so greatly changed. The flip-side question for fresh-water fish is also unanswered.

Thank you for addressing that. Not that it will ever go answered. I really hope it's a valid scientific concept, since I reached the conclusion on my own. I was going to avoid mentioning that lest Evidence say I am not a scientist and do not have the proof of that, but being as it will never be addressed anyway I think it's safe to say.

Does anyone know if it is a correct evaluation?

Seriously Xopher, if all that came out of this marathon, was the words you wrote about your conversation with god, then it was all worth it.

Indeed. I'm printing them out and sticking them on my wall. I think the thread was worth it, though, especially for me personally. I've never participated in a debate or conversation like this before and I'd like to imagine my limited input was helpful to someone somewhere. It helped me. I know that reading your responses, reasoning things out, searching proofs, and evaluating Evidence's charges has made me a steadfast evolutionist, and made me certain of why I am. Evidence said he hoped he was not pushing any of us away from God. I would not say that he pushed me away, but that my own findings cemented me in evolution theory, because now I understand it better than I did before. I will be able to respond when I'm confronted with creationism. How delightful!

Really? That cost you a job?

You probably didn't want to be working there anyway.

Tak-kun, poetry is the sweet embrace of Morpheus awaiting me.

Guten nacht, alles!

I know I said I've left, but it draws me.

Care to explain the fishes, Evidence?

"I did not trust them,

Brilliantly, eloquently put, Xopher.

a planet which is comprised of the bones of dead stars

Ah, the poets come out tonight, Carny. This is the wonder I have with the world; it is beautiful. Every day is beautiful, for all the Earth has pressed past and for all its variety, for the smallest singing insect to humanity itself. As you said, "What wonder, and joy, and magnificence there is in that."

equilibrium?

Antinous, it means he's going to poison himself through alcohol because you're a cruel brute.

Do you get automatically kicked out if you register with a suspicious name?

Mr. Stein, please kindly stop driving, taking medicine, eating processed foods, going to / taking relatives to hospital, watching television, using the internet, using the telephone, and anything else science has brought you.

Which makes sense, being as you said not I am getting married but she is, but as it was late my neuro processes were slowing. Don't question yourself- my first boyfriend is bisexual now, but we get along quite well discussing various male assets. I broke up with him after he insulted my friend with a sweatshop joke, I insulted him multiple times, and he accused me of being mean. My parting line (which disproves the other thread which calls me humble and otherwise makes me sound like a nice person) was "I'm not mean, you're just a *****, and I'm not a lesbian." Now, though, he's cut the racism jokes and he's a much nicer person (as am I, doubtless, but only from sheer luck and some sort of intervention.)

I am looking forward to the Megababe Metamorphosis.

I have BestBuy Insignia bluetooth headphones. 50 bucks, can be purchased with adapter for nonBluetooth devices. They pair with my phone and have easily used controls on the earpiece to access the call (which interrupts music so I know I'm receiving one.) The sound is exceptionally clear and the range is good. It's A2DP and they work well with my LG CU500V- can't say how well on others. They're headphones, not earbuds, that fit around the back of the head.

I love them, have had them since Christmas, no problem.

Is it two words or are we making faulty assumptions here?

I'm sleeeepy. Good night. Will puzzle over it during standardized testing tomorrow.

Romantic comedy would be horror. I'm going with someone purely for the convenience of being able to go to senior Prom as a junior, as most of my friends are seniors (taking their own dates, or I would have used them.) It's okay, though, it's convenience on his part too- he didn't want to be the loser without a date.

Time does fly. This last year I've been ill and missing a lot of school and struggling to make up, and it just seems like yesterday the year was starting. I can't wait to get out of high school, though. Now is this your ex-girlfriend, or current girlfriend? I'm a fair bit confused.

Good night and fare thee well!

... Ignore that last guess. I missed your qualifier. Spielberg has 2 movies, I swear! Only 2. Really. It's true.

I think these are poignant. Greta, heal well and good blogging.

Two days ago, crossing the street at a crosswalk leaving my school, one of my cadets was hit by a car. She was crossing at the appropriate time, but the light was nearing a change; she was still in the street when some mother, with her high school student in the car, decided that she simply could not miss that green light, and the little girl in the way was simply going to have to deal with her several broken bones and battered limbs.

She's at the hospital still.

Tak-kun, my liege! I stand to your aid!

Minority Report?

Interesting, Scott. I'll pick it up after exams.

Your inability to read fiction after an english degree is exactly why I'm going to forgo the liberal arts entirely, no matter how interesting they may sound. Huxley's writing is much different from Orwell's, but in a way, I rather like it.

Yeah, all of Orwell was commentary on the current climate. What I found intriguing about Huxley was the fact that Mustapha Mond, the Big Brother character, was fleshed out and reasonable. That, and the idea that there was no happy medium, that even Savagery was not better than being engineered.

In the scintillating news that is the life of a teenage girl, I have Prom this Saturday. Dear me.

Animal Man? Haven't, Scott. What's it about?

I just finished Brave New World. The last scene is particularly gripping- I'd post it here but I wouldn't want to ruin it for anyone. It's eloquent and simple, almost more Orwellian than Orwell.

This is ridiculous. I'm all for state's rights, being southern and a relic of the confederacy, but this can't at all be lawful. Or if it is, it shouldn't be.

My pleasure, Cowicide. My pleasure.

There's the post, Mark, I thought you were going to hold out on us! I'm using these on my RSS and they're gorgeous.

-reads above posts, calibrates monitor, rereads disbelievingly-

Clearly, my internet persona is much more affable than my in-life persona.

Takuan's also far more eccentric than me and more of a cosmopolite than I'll ever be. The eccentricity may come when I reach that advanced, advanced age.

-rereads-

Humility? I'm sorry, someone must have stolen my handle and used it behind my back to create such an impression. My apologies for the confusion.

Have you considered human growth hormone?

Was too young even if I was six feet tall. No ID.

I get handed the children's menu at restaurants still and called son. Despite the fact that my figure is anything but masculine. I'm only 5'0, though HGH IS out of the question now- too old- I could possibly invest in a medieval rack.

Any BBers out there with a torture fetish? I need longer limbs!

-waves wildly to Kaphin-
I have no issue with it! I'm a woman! If I played GTA, I'd be a woman-killing-woman! But don't you see that we're -both- wrong because it's so more demeaning to simulate crimes against women, because, those kinds of crimes are worse than murder!

Fah. I'm fully against violence and am a calm sort who never willingly hurts anyone, but in video games for mature audiences, who cares? If anything, it's a sedative.

Then again I do have an instinctive reaction when snuck up on and stolen from (having my book taken out of my hands when my spatial sense is decreased because I'm listening to music in class) is to punch the perpetrator in the face. Maybe it's the games.

the gravest assault upon children in this country

Children can buy this?

Damn, a year ago I was denied Doom 3 at a games store. I must ask these children where they're getting their games from, being as it's labeled MATURE and only purchasable by ADULTS.

What are ten year olds doing on an unsupervised Internet anyway?

That glassware is illegal?

My chemistry classroom is in -big- trouble then. Until two days ago, it was -all- on the counters and dusty. McKnight has organization issues. Just the other day we walked in and nearly fainted because the lab was entirely neat.

I had a chemistry set when I was a kid. It was lame. About two milliliters of things like phenolpthalein (an indicator) and very little 'real' things at all. No glassware.

I think this is brilliant. I would have liked it to come out a year early- I'm in that AP Chemistry class he mentions, and we do a good few amount of labs, but independent ones as well as the information it provides would have been a great aid.

All the fish adapted to the water they found themselves living in. Thats good design.

...

No.

Freshwater and saltwater fish follow entirely different biological processes. For a freshwater to survive in saltwater, or vice versa (with notable exceptions as salmon which still suffer from the change), they would have to evolve. Saltwater fish absorb through osmosis salty water and cast out through diffusion the salts and minerals to regulate their PH. Freshwater absorb through osmosis fresh water and cast out through urination the excess water.

They do not have the same systems in place to handle the change in environment; it is why they DIE in the wrong one.

To handle the change in the environment, they would have to evolve, which you deny. There is no other way- you say adaptation is the limit, but saltwater fish do not adapt to fresh waters. They die. So too do freshwater fish die in salt waters.

If a fresh water fish spawned a fish less prone to accepting the salt and minerals... or with membranes that worked equally well to diffuse after osmosis... then you might see a change. But that's evolution.

I too take my leave of this conversation. Good day, all!

Evidence, don't start saying that the Bible makes correct claims about science. The Quran does the same.

most Americans will think you've mis-spelled "draft" and start protesting.

I may be missing a clever joke here, but I'd like to point out that its the whole entire world that has idiots, not just America.

Maybe fish are lower in the strata because they were buried first (closer to the bottom). Maybe birds are last because they could fly longer before succumbing to the flood and are on top with other creature in between sorted as they drowned and were buried?

No. Fish would have survived longer than birds, actually (except for the fact that they would have choked on the brine or vice versa). The only bird that could even survive a little while would be an albatross, and at any rate, even the longest flying albatross would sink to the water. The corpses would not begin to fossilize until reaching the bottom of the flood zone, and with a whole world full of water, that would have taken a while (because currents would have kept everything from settling, unlike in a pond.)

If that were true, then EVERYTHING would be on the same strata, which also disproves the idea of a global flood- since everything's not on the same strata.

Read me at #414, please, and discuss.

Carny,

Is it just me, or is such labelling worrying? I mean, sure, huffing and arson is bad- but what if, say, I found that Lysol was a perfect bug killer (it does a fair job.)

Jaan, I envy you. These are gorgeous!

What in hell is wrong with us.

I can't count the Presidents who are turning in their graves.

Dear God that is time.

But it sounds fun. If I'm ever disabled and can only move my hands. Or if I haven't got homework or Boing Boing.

I've got http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabeza_de_Baca_Family

but none of the land to show for it.

Antinous, never become a spy. Your jargon is transparent.

Your mother sounds frightening.

Mom, I think I saw Tak-kun and Ant doing it. I'm this close to naming Antinous Uncle Ant, since I've stolen his diminuitive for Takuan and I've begun calling Karney Carny. Within time, no one will know when Tenn is speaking to them, because she has a habit of nicknames.

To be entirely honest, I have more correctly never touched a substance illegally than an illegal substance. But I think I have done both of the two (but getting high on Lysol today does not count. That was pyromania that got out of hand.)

Sister Y,
Not so, if it was so easy!

Short Circuit, Antinous? Probably not.

Takuan, Antinous.

To IRC with you! Channel #boingboing. Obviously.

Carny,

I had the insight to actually look at your site better after I sent that. I checked your flickr. You're not half bad (and read half bad as damn good).

Oh, much of my life is sweet and blessed. I'm quite straightedge as youngin's call it. I have an aversion to not being in control of my own mind, and that puts most entertaining diversions out of my reach.

Thank God, Kenahoo. Now you can tell us-

What in hell is that?

Get with the program.

Rehab?

"Certainty? In this world
nothing is certain but death and taxes."

Benjamin Franklin

I am prepared to argue some of these imprisoned organism may indeed not be "human".

Genetic humanity and moral humanity and intellectual humanity are three separate things.

That sounded convincing.

I am an angel who has never touched an illegal substance in her sweet blessed life, Antinous.

they did disregard the recipient's humanity

Thank you, RJ. That's concise and explains what I could not express.

Fare thee well, Ill Lich. You're a good fellow debator. Peace.

Oh, and by the way Noen that was an invite to the illustrious halls of BB IRC.

Fare thee well, Ill Lich. You're a good fellow debator. Peace.

Oh, and by the way Noen that was an invite to the illustrious halls of BB IRC.

In IRC, you never have to shut up! A lease agreement sans alcohol? Sounds different.

Well, I said a drink and didn't specify! We'll get cokes. I'm not legally allowed to drink anyhow.