Aerik

So far I've only managed to get one OR person on my Friends list, but I always feel rude just inviting myself into people's games (yup, I'm even socially awkward online). People who aren't in a 'real' clan should put ORDN in their clan tag, so others can recognize you without having to dig up the Gamertag thread on here. Anyway, I was on a bunch yesterday and last night, but I was having an 'off' night, and got ridiculously WTFPWNED pretty regularly.

Win.

Okay, Link, I think I understand now... Also, am I the only one who has difficulty deciding what part of this picture to look at? But, in the end, Samus wins. Unless there's a room full of Princess Leia's having a half-nekkid pillow fight... Oh, well then.

I want one, dammit!!!

I'd be in. I'm finally getting reasonably good at the game.

Essentially, evolution is adaptation, mutation, and specialization carried out over huge periods of time (except when we steer or accelerate it in a laboratory). And the truth is that there's essentially no evidence to support or disprove the idea of some kind of higher being-- it's just a fairly improbable explanation for things we haven't figured out yet. My biggest problem with organized religions (aside from all the awful things they can make people do) is the way they say, "We don't have any evidence to explain or disprove things, so it MUST be this specific deity who thinks this way and did these specific things according to this book we wrote." It's like saying, "I can't see what's inside the apartment next door, so it MUST be twenty penguins and a polar bear, eating spaghetti out of a giant football helmet." It's basically reaching an awfully detailed and specific conclusion based on absolutely no evidence, just the premise that we don't understand everything. I can freely admit that we haven't learned everything about everything yet, but I'd have to be an idiot to go making up a concrete explanation without any evidence. Each level of detail that we add without any evidence greatly reduces the likelihood of our guesses being correct. "Some kind of supreme being?" Maybe possible, kind of improbable. "Supreme being who made us in its image?" Well, ok, might be possible, but there's no evidence to support going that far. "Supreme being who made us in its image and then impregnated a human woman so she could bear a son so we could kill him and he could resurrect himself so the supreme being could forgive us doing things it doesn't like?" Hmm... might be going a bit far, at least until we get more solid info.

Pretty little fuckers. I'll take two, please!

Right, because most of them weren't christians-- they were Deists. Remember, our country was founded at the tail end of the Age of Enlightenment.

Ugh. Seriously, kids, it's 2010 already. If we're going to require our politicians to still pay lip service to some form of deity, can we at least get them some of the cool ones? http://news.aol.com/article/nc-constitution-no-god-no-city-council/813431 I'd be thrilled if some city council candidate came out and said, "By Odin's beard, if you elect me, we'll fix the city budget by plundering the next town over, then we'll feast and drink mead by the gallon in our new great-hall! Wenches, bring me my axe!" Way better than having them kneel to kiss the ass of some white-shoes-wearing, bigoted, puritanical, Jaguar-driving megachurch 'preacher'.

Give it time.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Sorry, but this is America. We have a Constitution to protect me from people like you (no matter what religion they're trying to force on their countrymen), as well as to protect your right to practice your beliefs (provided you don't hurt anyone) from people like me. We each have the right to freedom of religion, but not the right to force our beliefs on others. Freedom of religion means you have the right to believe and practice as you wish, but in order for it to exist, the government must remain neutral. I would no sooner want my government enforcing christianity (or any organized religion) on me than you would want it enforcing islam on you. Far too many people think it would be great if the government supported their religion, but noone wants to imagine what it would be like if it supported someone else's. Once the government takes a step to support or enforce any one religion, our freedom to choose, to make our own decisions and form our own conclusions about what we believe, has been destroyed. In the long run, that's unhealthy for both the government and the religion; their ties to each other eventually warp both in a political symbiosis. For example, look at Saudi Arabia or Iran.

Damn, if I hadn't just been forced to replace my exploded projector, I'd totally be on that. Good luck with sale.

That's pretty damned win. Ghost rep for you!

Well, they have to learn somehow, if they're gonna keep up.

So I suppose I'm probably a bit of a bastard-- I use xmas (non-capitalized) for the sole purpose of trolling thin-skinned religious zealots. The real meaning or origin of a word often has nothing to do with the fucking hilarious responses you can provoke with it.

Smashweights, I'm pretty sure I saw you in Ground War once. I remember the gamertag because of this:

Shit yeah, I love the Boondocks. Huey's my hero.

Our quickie prank in the electronics lab is to sneak up on someone's workstation and use CTRL + ALT + Arrow keys to rotate their desktop sideways. Well, usually the same four people or so, because they're the only ones who haven't figured out how to turn it back yet.

Some win from TotallyLooksLike.com--

Me as well, 65 points. Rode out to school to try and help a friend with a lab project, then puttered around town from coffee to coffee.

I did alright, I stopped about every 45 minutes to get coffee and regain feeling in my fingers. I'm thinking about getting some of those ATV Mitts that go over the bars, to get a little extra coverage on my hands. Has anyone tried them on a streetbike?

I'm planning to go ride here in a few (as soon as I'm done updating playlists on my iProduct). The trick on days like this is to leave lots of room in front and beside you, to dodge ugly spots. Also, try to stay within a few miles of civilization (any place that serves coffee, even a gas station), and pay attention to your body-- when your fingers get past numb and start burning, take a break, warm up, and move on. At stop lights, lift your goggles up (or crack your facemask, if you wear a helmet) to help prevent fogging. Oh yeah, and wear lots of layers-- I'm rocking a Winter Underarmor shirt, a mil-surp sweater, and my jacket with the liner in. Jeans and long johns, thermal socks, all good stuff. The only downside is that you'll pretty much insta-sweat if you go indoors with all that gear on.

This, but with money.

In high school I had a stack of little xeroxed tickets that said, "In your heart, you know it's flat!" that I'd pass out/ glue to the walls/ randomly leave everywhere. I think I actually got the idea from the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson. Kallisti, bizzles!

It's cool, but dodging Decepticon attacks would get old after awhile.