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http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/04/20/buckyball_longevity_theres_a_problem.php

At first I misread, and imagined that the legislature was going to conspire to breach a mutually beneficial contract.  That would have been fun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference

That, or the Facebook ToS was a coercive contract, and holds no water.

I am enjoying Bill Cosby.

FLAWLESS VICTORY

Could we have a link to the article it's from?  Nice infographic, but its text is really necessary too.

[MAKE UP YOUR OWN AND CHECK 'EM FOR AVAILABILITY OR SEARCH A MASSIVE LIST OF SUGGESTIONS.]

MAKE UP YOUR OWN AND CHECK 'EM FOR AVAILABILITY OR SEARCH A MASSIVE LIST OF SUGGESTIONS.

Page is empty now.  Totally empty.

There is a not-at-all insignificant difference between "alternative currencies" and "changing the currency", though. By not-insignificant, I mean that they are actually completely different things.

This; imagine the difference between "We also accept Flax Shequels!" and "Dollars?  I guess I could accept dollars.  Let me get a quote on Flax Shequels for Dollars..."

An undercover operation in Texas to arrest a group of traffickers at the moment of delivery of the drugs ended in a shootout ended in the death of a civilian assisting authorities which also left an injured officer

130kg of pot; presumed Zetas, very bold.

Near my Houston, even.  I was guessing El Paso or somesuch

Right!  It's like our arbitrary dating system is somehow supposed to have real numerological significance. 

On the contrary.

HAS
real numerological significance.

LACKS
real numerological significance.  Or at least, objective significance.  11/11/11 was a pretty damn cool date.

College is for job training, not sitting around thinking.
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The issues addressed in this article resonated with me. When I enrolled in college, I was interested in someday becoming an astrophysicist but I wasn't sure. I took an introductory astronomy class - and it was the most boring, tedious thing I ever endured. I thought we would be observing the heavens through telescopes, not slogging through obscure information about celestial spheres and such. I decided that while science is a fun hobby, I didn't want to do something this boring for a living, so I switched to studio art. If I can't make some sort of positive impact on society, if I'm just slogging away for years on tedious tasks, then why waste my time doing it?

I am baffled by that attitude, because how the hell did they think they were supposed to understand/interpret/learn something new by looking through telescopes, if they have no idea what they're looking at?



People are fucking stupid. In order to be able to SCIENCE! you have to have a grasp of what people have learned in the field before you. Otherwise, you're just playing pretend. Yay! Let's make-believe laboratory!

I just realized how heavily the underlying tedium in astrophysical discovery could be pounded in.  Try looking at years (and years (and more years)) of photographs, to identify objects' movement, and location in space.

Sounds like commenter wanted nonstop pretty, and probably has it now.

I love that the US government can't make a website that works.

Site Maintenance. 

Does psilocybin cause changes in personality? Maybe, but not so fast

(also their methodology seems to have been ... questionable. their "placebo" control was ... Ritalin ?!)

Seems almost OK.  Might've wanted a convincing high to make the control work better.  Best to use a third group, then, though, that actually had nothing special that day.

Question:  How is an IED - a simple bomb - now a "weapon of mass destruction"?

Apparently, the definition now is any weapon that destroys mass.

Oh well hell, that includes every weapon made as I don't know of anything one would use a weapon on that doesn't have mass.

See now that doesn't even look right to me..... 

No weapon destroys mass-energy.  It's the conservation law.

Atomic weapons convert mass to energy, seeming to destroy matter.

Never admit to knowledge of Jury nullification.

You're telling me this is the first time you've seen a school public-service message pamphlet with "furry" characters?

It's at least as old as McGruff the Crime Dog

http://slatest.slate.com/id/2273690/entry/11/

Your link rotted already.  Now it says that Ozzy Osbourne is a mutant.

Two replacements --
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700078840/Oklahoma-lawsuit-filed-against-amendment-banning-Islamic-law.html
http://www.examiner.com/populist-in-national/oklahoma-voters-may-have-accidentally-outlawed-the-10-commandments