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Isn't it about time someone bumped this fread again?

Maybe it is?

Are we also allowed to start spagging up the haiku thread again?

I'm going to have to reread this a couple of times, but, as far as what you mention about already making a decision before you made it, you had to make that decision some how. That decision was reached by what makes you you. Just because you made the decision before you became consciously aware of the decision doesn't mean you didn't make the decision based on what you would have done anyway.

Maybe I'm not making sense. I have my doubts, since, at the moment, Nerinamakani seems to be lucid and actually contributing intelligibly to the conversation for a change.

hello what the hell is this place?!

What kind of place do you think this is?

GA-I've always found the arguments on either side moot. I don't think that humans are clever enough to create machines smart enough to pose the problem in the first place. I think that I read somewhere that our machines have the equivalent brainpower to cockroaches, but that cockroaches do it better and more efficiently. Secondly, our intelligence is fed by consuming other life forms. Intelligent machines would have to feed off of the energy we create ourselves, through methods that are not currently sustainable for our own purposes, let alone a machine race capable of threatening humanity.

Unless we're talking about robots from Iceland, of course.

Ah know, let's build a giant lightning rod and
encase it in flammable material, for Jesus.
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               \
    Aw shit, it gone burned the fuck down,
    let's rebuild it!

I guess Thor or Zeus had the final word on that.

Dok, as an FYI- I have three roommates, so if I don't in someways acknowledge receipt of mail after a week, give me a heads up

Sorry to hear it Hawk. Don't know what to say. Hope all is well.

If you hear tornado sirens and grab a beer and a lawn chair to sit outside.........You might be a redneck.

If a tornado blows through your neighborhood and does 1 million dollars worth of improvements....You might be a redneck.

Wow, that thing was made out of styrofoam? No wonder it lit the fuck up. Rather tacky. And funny considering that it is from the "Solid Rock Church"

I show orc the internet in all of its attention sucking glory with laptop.

So we go from haning horse thieves to electing horse fuckers? 

Why not?   

At least they're amusing, which is really all I expect from elected officials.

This is very true, the irony just struck me a bit.... 

Well it was his mule. Maybe that's where Thomas Granger went wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Granger

Actually, that wouldn't surprise me.  Most pubs, especially independent ones, are having a really rough time right now.  If I was at one with a reputation for haunting, I'd try and fake some paranormal activity to bring the punters in.

Especially in Gloucester, which is full of New Age hippies and psychics.

NOTE: havent seen the video, as my connection is too slow.  Just suggesting a likely scenario.

The video is not very good quality so you can't really get a good sense of what's happening. Though it does have an earmark or two of a set-up.

Fido.

Nobody names their dog Fido anymore, and that's kind of sad.

True. A friend of ours suggested Spot for the same reason.

They're still around, just hard to spot.



I always liked Spot as a dog name.

But then, the dog's gotta have a spot somewhere, otherwise it makes no sense.

But that might be kinda fun. Well, maybe at first when introducing the dog to someone.

The idea sounds genius!
Only problem is that stuff is really toxic, they don't want the public near it without proper protection, it's making people sick.

Oh, did you hear that they were telling the clean up crews not to wear their protective gear because they didn't want to frighten the public? They didn't want people to know just how dangerous this crap is so they told em, wear the suits and you're fired. Nice, huh?

GO BP!

Hmmm. Put your own workers at risk and keep the public ignorant. Nice.

And panic occurs at the drop of a hat.
Hurricane? Shit, better go buy some canned goods. Lots of them. So many of them that there won't be enough for everyone else.
Blizzard? Shit better go buy some canned goods. Lots of them. The electricity might go out and all the food in the fridge will spoil. It won't occur to me to just put it all on the porch.
Contaminated water? Shit, I better buy a fuck ton of water. I never drink it, really. But there isn't any water and that means I need it. More than I need. So much that there isn't enough to go around for anyone else. Not like I could drink beer or milk or gatorade.

People love panic. Panic is funny.

Panic on that scale is just good business.  Why do you think every news outlet spends all day scaring the shit out of people with "Special Reports"?

The panic I'm talking about is the panic that happens when the lights go out and never come back on.

Yeah, I probably didn't put it across well enough. I was trying to illustrate how easily panic occurs over small things to show what it would be like on a large scale. Especially where the city dweller will always take more than they need or will use, which prevents a more even distribution of food. Their freak out and last minute stocking lead to deprivation in their fellow citizens, which makes the problem worse quicker.