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Way I see it - it's humans' one and only chance to get revenge on the pigeons. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

Since, for the deniers, the politics is more important than the actual science, I figured I would use a political site to counter this argument: Factcheck You guys always use this in the political debates, so you must respect their opinion. Here's what they say: Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

Much cheaper than the real thing. Of course, if you want to take her on vacation with her, she needs to go in the checked baggage, which would be an additional $30 + $50 more for it being over 50 pounds. Anyway, I doubt her physical movements are that sophisticated, which is why they never show video of her moving. But it seems like cell phones took about 25 years to go from really crappy to pretty darn good, and that was with a huge, worldwide user base. It'll probably be another 100 years before these things get any good. After that, in the words of Scott Adams, humanity is doomed. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

Yeah, food for thought. I have a wealthy cousin that paid 30K for each of two Chinese girls that they adopted. That was 10 years ago. I have a friend that adopted a Chinese girl last year - over $50K total. Multiply by 15 kids ... a fair amount of money, even if you only pocket half of that. In this case, the Haitian government did the correct thing. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

Well, you may not have loved her, but chances are you love some of the people that did love her. For those people, you just gotta lie and say nice things. It makes them feel a little better. It's a game, yes, but no different than any of the other games we play when interacting with people. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

Dude, you have some pretty amazing stories. I know it takes time to write them, so thanks for sharing, and I hope you keep 'em coming. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

They may not have been knowingly involved. Trafficker gets a group of empathetic volunteers to do his trafficking for him. They think they're doing a good thing, the kids eventually end up on the market. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

I went with a memory-foam knock-off. It cost $800 for a King size, including two steel-framed support boxframes. It has holes in it to allow air to flow through and keep it from heating up, and a temperfoam pillow top. Its a great bed, free delivery, no tax, made in the USA. I don't think you need to spend several thousand on Tempurpedic, there's a reason they have stores everywhere that carry them - way too much markup. But I recommend a temperfoam, rather than any boxspring mattress. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

The Peek has been around a while, but it's struggling to find a market. http://www.getpeek.com/ It's a nice keyboard, but it's a lot to carry around for just one function (email or twitter). Most people are willing to sacrifice a bit of keyboard space for the multi-function devices. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

Last I checked, there is a hell of a lot more going on in the US than our wars. And last I checked, the average American thinks the economy is the biggest issue. He gave the military 7% of his speech time - it was appropriate, IMO, given our other issues. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

Like I said: That's more truth that I've seen from any politician in the last decade. Better than the last lying pathetic administration, for sure. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

I've worked with NASA. They wouldn't make it as a private organization. Not a company I'd give money to. What's really a shame is that we have no problem spending trillions of dollars on subjects that frighten us (terrorism, war, HIV), but we don't want to spend even a fraction of that on subjects that excite us (space exploration). We are a fear-based society. The only way that we will explore space is if there's something really scary out there. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

I think some people consider the US as being a "Christian" nation because the people that came here, running away from other Christians that wanted to kill them, then took away the land of the Native Americans and killed most of them, then decided they didn't like their tea to be taxed, so killed a lot of other Christians from their former empire, then started their own country so they could steal the land, and made it a representative Republic, while lying to the populace about how it was just like a "democracy" ... those people where mostly Christians (but not all of them). No one ever said they were good Christians Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

The only way that could be true is if it is a brand new religion created today, and according to our current moral beliefs. Approximately half of what happened in the old testament, both by men and God, are considered evil and immoral by today's standards. Even then, this fictional religion would have to be flexible enough to change with the changing moral standards as we continue to evolve. It's possible that in another 100 years, people will consider killing animals as a barbaric act. It's equally possible that we will consider abortion a barbaric act. The religion would have to change with those things. When the old testament was written, procedural abortion that is safe for the woman wasn't even an idea that was conceived of. Now, we have to find a way to temper that into our morals, since it's not covered in the Good Book. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

Did we watch the same speech? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om1Luc26S_M I saw a full five minutes on national defense, military support and our objectives, beginning at 4:40, and going to the end of the clip. Five minutes out of a 69-minute speech is more than a footnote. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

Looking at the site: Mostly True Half True True True Barely True Mostly True False Half-True Mostly True Full Flop That's more truth that I've seen from any politician in the last decade. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

Well, I don't think ALL republicans are guilty of that. Just the loudest ones Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

If you already know you're going to hate it, before you even start listening, why watch? Personally, I wasn't looking forward to hearing the President say "the state of the union is strong", when it's obviously not. But so far, I haven't heard that. In fact, nearly everything said is something I agree with. Sorry you thought that all the roads and bridges in America were going to be rebuilt in a year - I'm guessing your education isn't in civil engineering. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

You would think that if they take JD so seriously, they would send summons' as registered mail, with signature required. One time, they sent one for me while I was in college, my mom got it, and being my mom, promptly forgot about it, ended up behind the sofa, and she gave it to me five months later. Now, I live in the city, and I get about half of my mail. That's why I have a third-party mailbox, and there I get all of it, but that's not where they send a Jury Summons. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmyoTCF0LMc A direct link to the same video, so you don't get routed through Failbook. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

Autonomy is a very important word in this information. Current drones and other remote vehicles require a remote pilot to operate and authorize a kill. That may seem menacing, but to me it's just another abstraction in the technology of warfare. For the last 100 years, people have been fighting wars with guns, which require someone to aim and pull the trigger - the bullets do the real work of killing, but that doesn't make them sinister. When I worked at LM Astronautics, the company was working on semi-autonomous vehicles, which still required remote piloting, but the vehicle itself was capable of making some small decisions itself, based on whether it lost contact with the remote pilot, or even to simplify the job (for instance, you tell it to drive straight, but it decides to drive in a curved path to avoid an obstacle). Sci-Fi is replete with stories of fully-autonomous robots that decide when to kill and the best way to do it. From a technology perspective, we are further away from creating machines like that, then we are of seeing flying cars. Theoretically it's all possible, but the A.I. required to do that sort of job - it's just not feasible. Humans have trouble deciding when to kill, and we're nowhere near getting A.I. to be as good as a human. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

My first thought was, "Where did the money come from?" Her profession is listed as "California-based actress and writer". But she wasn't popular enough for anyone to know who she was prior to this stunt. So I doubt she had a quarter-million dollars just lying around to spend on a spurned-lover ad campaign. On the other hand, if a quasi-scandalous affair makes the President of the US look bad because of a secondary or tertiary relationship, I think there are plenty of people with enough money to spend on that endeavor. They even squeezed Obama right into the title of the article. YaVaughnie Wilkins - who? sex scandal - interesting ... Charles Phillips - who? Obama aide - oh, Obama friend illicit sex! And with some 2010 election campaigns getting underway, the timing is perfect. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

One of my customers had myundies.com as a client for about six months during the Internet hey-day. myundies.com went out of business. My client had the list of all the users' emails, so they spammed them all with sales emails. I guess it worked, because they got some clients out of that. I'm not convinced that there's real profit selling used underwear on the Internet, but maybe I'm wrong. If you ask the people that do it, they might say there's a lot of money in it. But would you trust the people that do that to tell the truth? Let us know if it works. Of course, if you do it, I wouldn't trust you to tell the truth about it Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

From the futurecam: January 22, 2032 - AP In the face of struggling profits, Burger King unveils plans to require workers to serve food topless. 'After Hooters started serving chicken wings with waitresses fully naked, we were forced to do something to compete,' exclaimed Charles McBrazen, 19-year old CEO of parent company Bad Eats, Inc. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

I'm not convinced the average small aircraft pilot is all that smarter than the average driver. The training and the test is harder, sure. They have more money, no doubt. The only reason there aren't more accidents in the sky is because there are far, far fewer aircraft than automobiles, and they have a lot more space to work with. Hopefully, this time around, the technology will significantly reduce the human error from the equation. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD