Fatherpeteus

That bit made me LMAO... Just because it was so perfectly descriptive!

241 and "In top shape" - Good to go 2/3 of the way through Sunwell - Woot! lol

I'm in love! Even though it's a fake for a Gatorade ad...

Cool site! I hadn't seen that before... (I guess Father would score better if I hadn't logged out in Shadow resist gear, with Riding Crop on and Ruby Slippers for hearthing - heh) I'm the last person who will complain about people interested in gearing their alts up (having 5x 70s, 4 of them full-epic)... But yeah, like I said, as long as the group has the firepower and experience to down all of the bosses we attempt with 1 wipe or less it's cool. Obviously your mage is geared enough for SSC, as are 3 of my alts. So don't take anything personal - I'm just saying my main goal for T5 runs would be to quickly get Vashj and Kael down so I can go get my Hyjal Exalted rep ring, so of course that would go better if people are on their mains that they are used to 25-man raiding with. Wiping all night on Morogrim or something wouldn't do anything for me, but someone else might be interested in getting a chance at the cool weapons he drops. That's all!

Father still needs Vashj and Kael (and Fathom-Lord) for my MH ring and BT neck quests. We won't get those guys down if we take alts though, and I'm not so interested in wiping in T5 instances.

A lesson learned during an office outing to the paintball range - Being nice and offering to let someone surrender is full of fail! So I have this friend of a co-worker pinned down behind a little rail fence. I sneak towards him while shooting every couple of seconds to keep his head down. Step over the fence straddling him, point the gun at his back and yell "Surrender bitch!" (or something along those lines). My surprised prey reflexively flopped over, pointed up, and shot me right in the tip of my junk from about 2" range. The poor thing was purple for two days.

That's awesome GG - God bless! <3

Yes, 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. It's also my baseball jersey number. Which of those factoids is more relevant, I leave for the reader to decide. LA to Paris wouldn't take you through the centre of the earth, so you wouldn't be falling straight down the tube - You'd be rolling down one side of it. You would gather some momentum on your way to the midpoint, but your battered corpse would probably stop rolling before you even got halfway. If you made the tunnel walls perfectly smooth, replaced the tumbling corpse with a vehicle with frictionless wheels, and evacuated all air from the tunnel to eliminate wind resistance, you might stop just as you reached the far end. Murphy's Law would dictate that the exit of the tunnel would probably turn out to be at a few feet higher altitude than the entry end, causing you to stop just before the end and roll all the way back to the start. In any case there is no such thing as "frictionless", so a real vehicle would end up stuck at the midpoint, awaiting certain death as the next test car was sent hurtling towards you to see how you were doing.

I have a sudden urge to take up ski jumping!

Google: Paintball <your city> It's hella fun!

L2Canada. ^^

Uncontrolled P2P is unsustainable imo. Technology is becoming more and more accessible (our grandparents using email and facebook now, etc). Compression, bandwidth, hard drive size increasing... Eventually, when a major Hollywood release comes out, one dude will be sitting in the theatre with a camcorder on opening night, wireless streaming it to the rest of the world. $200 million to make a movie that one guy will pay $10 to see in theatre and nobody will rent? So yeah - Unsustainable.

I suppose we'll have to sit through the credits after Hulk 2 to see if there's another Avengers easter egg...

lol fo sho at the slow-mo instant replay!

I just got around to watching the first movie this week. Loved it! The big battle scene at the end was pretty right on, and isn't that what it's all about? Also, Megan Fox's contributions should not be underestimated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqK7HckuUvE

Facebook is actually kindof useful - I have a group for the ball league I run that lets me get news out to the players, a friend just used it to send out invites for a birthday party... Besides being convenient for him, it lets me see who is coming and so forth... Which brings me to the real point of Facebook - Perving the cutiez!

That made me lol... Non-english-speaking fast food employees much?

I'm with Lemontree - Facebook ftw(er)!

Wow, that's a lotta clay! WTB some to mix into the sand on my ball diamond...

I don't think anyone even claims that humans have no effect. Look at a smokestack, watch the crap spewing out of it, and ask yourself "Do I think that has a good, bad, or neutral effect on the environment?" The debate, as I understand it, is really about whether the effects that we do have are serious enough to be worried about. But nobody seems willing to quantify where that line is, so the whole debate is impossible because either side can be right and wrong at the same time. If the global temperature rose 10 degrees, the icecaps completely melted and Florida and California were mostly underwater... Well, I live inland in Canada. I'd have to stay inside a little more in August, I could play golf until Christmas instead of October, and the value of the farm my parents own would skyrocket. So why would I care, right?

Unfortunately humankind is incapable of progress without either a carrot or a stick being involved. We are just far to fractious and greedy a species to make any change that doesn't either pad our pockets or save us from imminent harm. Governments are vastly imperfect, but they do by and large keep the civilized world civil. Take away the regulations, rules, sanctions and taxes (a fair summary of what government is), and the machetes come out. We need that stuff to protect us from ourselves. Without them, there can be no progress towards anything that isn't an extremely short-term need. I'm personally a strong proponent of environmental progress, so I'm all in favour of diverting some of our resources in that direction. I just love walking through the trees, sunning and swimming at the beach - And nobody our age can debate that we are rapidly eroding those simple pleasures through polution and depletion of resources, right? I remember when we could go for a swim without getting sick and broiled. More taxes on heavy poluters, more encouragement for people to curb their SUV and bike to work - I'm all for that kind of legislation, applied intelligently so as to guide the public and businesses to the resonsible decisions we need them to make. The very best point that Gore makes in "An Inconvenient Truth" imo was that the conflicting stories we are getting about Global Warming today are strikingly similar to the debate about smoking as of just a few years ago. At the time smokers made the same complaints - "I have the right to smoke wherever I want", and "We can find scientists who say that the link between second-hand smoke and cancer can't be proven", etc. Honestly, none of the charts from the documentary (some of which were misused and provided easy ammo to the No side) or dramatic pictures of drowning polar bears had nearly as much impact on me. We are a species of convenience, way too resistant to believing... inconvenient truths! Heaven help us from a world run by big corporations who care about nothing that doesn't provide short-term profits! I worked with upper management in one for 10 years, and it wasn't pretty. Environmental lobbyists lie and exaggerate too, absolutely - But in our world they are a necessary counterbalance to the self-serving propaganda being fed to us by powerful industrialists. All this crazy dance of lying lobbyists does seem to make things work, although it's hard to comprehend how exactly!

So... The bulk of the world's scientists are engaged in a vast global conspiracy? That belief would require more faith than I can muster! Particularly since they have nothing to gain. Sure, individual researchers get grants for further study... But the whole scientific community? Surely someone who attended one of the conspiracy meetings would blow the whistle, right? Or an email telling them what lies to sell us would slip out? I'll agree with you that I personally can't prove AGW exists, any more than I can prove aerosols deplete the ozone layer or that cigarettes cause cancer. In all of those cases though, I do have faith in the scientific community's position. What companies profit from the belief in AGW? Makers of hybrid cars and alternative energy producers? We need those anyway regardless of emissions, because the fossil fuel supply about to run out. Makers of industrial stack scrubbers? We need those anyway, to control smog and acid rain. AFIK any measures we would take to counter AGW would have real, tangible, immediate benefits even if man-made global warming is all a big lie. It does have to be a globe-wide effort though. Instead of letting India and China off the hook, the US and Europe need to help them with stack-scrubber and cleaner energy technology. They are in the process of building out a vast energy and transportation infrastructure that could double that of the rest of the world in a reduculously short time. If the bulk of it is powered by new coal-fired plants... That scares me on a bunch of levels...

Chiropractors are kindof on the fringe of that "paramedical" stuff. At least they have (afik) a consistent training / certification standard and kindof agree amongst the chiropractic community on what works. I've had one very bad one (the guy was a frigging thief, and did more harm than good!) and some that I considered did help... Yet any changes are so gradual that it's just about impossible to tell if the adjustments actually made the difference. My mother's naturopath - I have zero trust in. She told mom straight up that people with brown eyes are like that because their eyes are showing the toxic gunk their body is saturated with - Otherwise they would be blue. (Now please to be buying this lovely cleansing eye of newt imported from the Orient!) wtf? They don't need any training / certification that I recognize or know of to practice their trade (crackerjack box diploma?) - Just the trust of their customers (marks?) I strongly suspect that most of what they accomplish for their patients is through the power of suggestion more than the efficacy of the (expensive!) cures they sell. Not that the placebo effect makes an improvement in health less welcome - I just wish there were legitimate, unbiased, unassailable clinical trials being done to concretely prove what does and doesn't work. ...And the same goes for Global Warming. Which brings me back to my beloved think tank. And of course, my benevolent dictatorship over the planet. Free Dairy Queen Blizzards for all card-carrying FP members, at any store too! Vote me!!

Three words: Buy Canadian farmland!

---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVzfI This is by no means conclusive, because to really effectively use the square we would want to be able to assign educated probabilities to the rows and columns, and spell out how big those implied costs are. Still food for thought though! The No camp claims that taking action against carbon emissions would have catastrophic effects on the economy. I actually think they could be right - But probably not IF the developing world (China and India, and also Russia, Brazil, etc) can be convinced to participate fully. Handicapping North American / European industry and food producers with excessively onerus emmission reduction requirements while letting 1/3 of the world's population in China and India off the hook would simply result in all of our industry moving to those industry-friendlier countries... Well, those who haven't already done so for the cheap labour, that is. That's why I'm not a fan of the Kyoto Accord, even though I tend to be a global warming believer. David Suzuki would say "Hey, every little bit helps!", but artificially creating an uneven playing field would very likely have horrifying economic side-effects that could be avoided if it were better designed.