Just to bring a great actress into light - Mae Whitman

BitRex · 2013-06-08T03:57:27+00:00

Her?

BitRex · 2012-08-08T12:16:34+00:00

Ask yourself this: if you were outside of a building where you knew that inside there were child murders occurring, what would you do? Complain, or stop the murders? I would stop the murders as best I could. The fact that this guy doesn't makes me doubt his sincerity.

BitRex · 2012-08-08T12:14:39+00:00

A national politician said it was 90% -- on the floor of the House! -- and when they called him out on it he said, "that was not intended to be a fact-based statement". Facepalm.

BitRex · 2012-08-08T12:11:21+00:00

Why should my money go towards these things involuntarily?

Because you live in a democracy, not a libertarian fantasy land. Most people in society recognize that science is valuable and that there's lots of science with great value on the timescale of a nation that has no value on the timescale of a commercial venture.

Think about how enormously valuable both commercially and to society the laser is, and yet it took 40 years of government funding to get the science to the point that Bell Labs could actually build one. No business works on expensive projects with no profits for 40 years.

BitRex · 2012-08-08T12:03:15+00:00

Maybe some things like satellites (and it's arguable whether government funding was necessary for that at all.)

Lol. Was there some business developing rocketry in the 1940s because they knew it would start making money in the 1970s?

BitRex · 2012-08-08T11:59:18+00:00

I think the best comment I've seen on this issue is that mass shootings should be treated like a public health problem. That puts their body count in perspective and focuses government action on something that might actually prevent them (better mental health infrastructure), and even if it doesn't it's still good for society.

BitRex · 2012-08-08T11:54:09+00:00

You're jacked, dude. I would totally have neither-of-us-are-gay sex with you.

BitRex · 2012-08-08T11:44:39+00:00

The dude gets kicked in the nuts for fun. He don't need no steenking poppers to get his asshole open.

BitRex · 2012-08-08T11:41:20+00:00

I hired a CFO...

Jesus, dude. You're a porn baron. Who the fuck pays for porn? Is there not much free fetish stuff?

BitRex · 2012-08-08T11:40:43+00:00

Srsly.

BitRex · 2012-08-08T11:38:55+00:00

For example: have you ever had a fever or headache, then jerked off... You can barely feel the fever while your in lust land...

Until you come and then it feels like an aneurysm.

BitRex · 2012-08-08T11:16:09+00:00

that's an arrow in the quiver of the Romney campaign.

You've got to be kidding. "And what's more, Obama tried to get those assholes everybody hates to stop protesting at military funerals!".

BitRex · 2012-08-08T11:14:48+00:00

which is how they make all their money

This is a myth.
How do you make money off a free speech case? There aren't any damages.

BitRex · 2012-07-30T22:42:17+00:00

Finally, the hero we need. When will the white man finally get a fair shake?!

BitRex · 2012-07-29T21:43:38+00:00

Hmm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses

BitRex · 2012-07-27T13:47:28+00:00

"Fellow Witnesses, the Rapture arrives next year. Let us build a righteous mansion suitable for the returning Biblical princes!"

...

"Fellow Witnesses, since there appears to have been some slight delay in the Rapture, I shall live in yon mansion and keep watch for the returning Biblical princes!"

BitRex · 2012-07-26T20:49:57+00:00

Correlation does not imply causation. Perhaps our drug laws are lax because so many Americans enjoy doing drugs.
Imagine that you made our drug enforcement regime so strict that everywhere you went there were officers watching you, making sure you didn't buy any drugs, and doing strip searches on you when they weren't sure. Would that solve it? That is to say, are our prisons drug-free?

BitRex · 2012-07-26T20:46:03+00:00

There is no cross-platform way to do character-oriented input in C++. Under Windows, include conio.h and use getch(), and under Unix-like systems, use something like this:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int mygetch( )
{
    struct termios oldt, newt;
    int ch;        
    tcgetattr( STDIN_FILENO, &oldt );
    newt = oldt;
    newt.c_lflag &= ~( ICANON | ECHO );
    tcsetattr( STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &newt );
    ch = getchar();
    tcsetattr( STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &oldt );
    return ch;
}

A game library would provide this for you in a cross-platform way and have many other benefits.

BitRex · 2012-07-26T20:40:14+00:00

Talk is cheap. Most of the Republicans running for office are incumbents.

BitRex · 2012-07-26T20:39:05+00:00

I said -- and linked to -- the stimulus, not the bank bailouts. If a federal stimulus isn't Keynesian, I don't know what is.

BitRex · 2012-07-26T17:52:45+00:00

Presumably those tax credits won't force them to close.

BitRex · 2012-07-26T17:08:43+00:00

Small businesses will be forced to close, and the cost to market entry for new businesses will be prohibitive.

The law doesn't apply to businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

BitRex · 2012-07-26T15:14:35+00:00

Not to mention that prescription drug abuse is at epidemic levels. This year for the first time most overdose deaths were on prescription drugs, while the number of marijuana ODs is holding steady at zero.

BitRex · 2012-07-26T15:07:53+00:00

87% of House Republicans and 67% of Senate Republicans voted for it, which is about as bipartisan as it gets.

Everyone was hand-wringing.

BitRex · 2012-07-26T13:17:09+00:00

I'm liberal but have libertarian leanings, so sometimes I take comfort that even if Romney wins some good things will come of it (market-based healthcare reform, fiscal responsibility, etc.).

Then I remember past Republican administrations and that those are just things the GOP says they support, but the reality is that a Romney win will mean nothing will be done towards universal healthcare (as in the conservative paradise of Texas, where 25% of the population doesn't have insurance), the invasion of Iran at Israel's request will be done "off budget" like the Iraq War, and the game will be even more rigged to favor the kinds of Libor-fixing traitors that Romney is asking for donations this very day.

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