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LO Van Alden.

Actually you can just impeach him for that. I know TECHNICALLY you'd think the wording would keep that from happening, but the Supreme Court found it hasnooversight in terms of whether a Senate's impeachment hearing was justified or done properly. So the Congress is completely open to it's...

It was awesome. Give Ary your avatar, he's earned that. For Ary.

Tan. Have you ever stopped to think about this possibility: That Capitalism is a system which increases production based upon exploiting negative human qualities, such as greed and self interest. And it'sbecauseCapitalism exploits these qualities rather than suppress them, which previous systems...

LOL at Leno at the end, that made the whole thing pay off. Also, was hilarious when Cranston threw the Pizza.

Looks like they are adding a Paragon skill tree. Which is really good, if they are doing ladders, you want personalization in how people build their characters. Even if there is "one best build", you can design a tree so that getting to the end point is different depending on how a person plays...

Yeah, can't believe I forgot House of Cards, but it definitely fits. And yep, Aaron, all the above are contiguous stories, they function just like Game of Thrones where the overall arc is the basis for each episode. Obviously all shows have some episodic elements (Some new drama springs up and...

Says this while living in an age where progress is moving exponentially faster than at any other time inhuman history. Again Tanoomba, just like what was asked earlier--what in the hell are you comparing stuff to? Again, quality of life, and the responsibility of society to ensure life has...

I only read anthropology as a hobby, so I don't know, but it seems like in a state of nature, the impetus to disenfranchise and control the weaker members of a social group by the stronger ones would be fairly strong. I mean, do we not believe hominids would have broken that far from other...

Honestly, I think Michael Shannon would have been great in the Nucky role. I agree, Buscemi doesn't really seem to fit well, don't get me wrong, he's good, but there is something off when he tries to be really confident and strong. He plays a better devious/psycho character or a more comedic...

Everyone asked "why", they thought the method of getting there, whatever the answer to why might be, was fucking stupid. If you wanted Hank to live to the next episode, then it should have been shot in a way that wasn't completely idiotic (Like Hank being closer to the car at the start). If you...

I think you're talking about heavily serialized shows vs episodic ones. Serialized means the whole season is built to tell a single story. There can be elements of each in the same show, for example, Star Trek DS9 had long "arcs" but was also episodic. If you're asking about shows that are...

I remember reading somewhere in a book I had to peruse for school about when the first really strict domestic violence laws were put in during the 90's. They essentially said the policehadto take someone in if there had been violence or they felt the situation might lead to violence. Well, a...

Well, that's after the end of S4. That's really the tipping point where Jesse became a "better" person than Walt. Jesse actually feels remorse, wants to get away from it all...While Walt revels in it and wants to go deeper into the life. However, up until that point? Jesse is an absolute fuck...

Yes, but WHY did they have to kill Gail in the first place? Because of Jesse. Then Gail's death is the reason Gustavo betrayed Walt, and Jesse went along with it because he was pissy about Walt "making" him kill Gail and "manipulating" him. Which is essentially Jesse speak for telling him the...

Except for the "Mildly poisons Brock", it's all pretty much correct. It amazes me sometimes how people miss what a douchbag Jesse has been throughout the series. But I think it has a lot to do with Jesse being on a redemption arc and Walt being on a "falling from grace" one and people really see...

heh, I love these things.

As others have said, episode would have been better if they would have faded to black on the first shot and next week would have started with Gomie's head exploding and Hank losing a knee before crawling over to the car. Then probably Walt screaming to Hank that he's sorry as he's drug away and...

Hopefully Brad realizes he sucks at management and keeps his head down as a developer.

I was under the impression an AR15 would absolutely not penetrate an engine? (I'm not gun guy though.) Thought it always makes me lol when thin metal, like a barrel or something, stops bullets. Even gun novices should know that shit doesn't work.

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You received a set of signals indicating chemicals were exchanged between two people which you established in your consciousness under certain indicators (Most likely photons interacting with optic nerves, various molecules captured by membranes in your nose and mouth, and stimulation of...

Seems like Hodj beat me to it. But yeah, I think we've all read Plato here, Dum. And I'm pretty sure most, if not all, undergrads require Philosophy 101--We all had fun with the arguments of "whatis" and the search for "higher truth". But no higher truth is going warp how electron clouds interact.

You're able to discern it because of your consciousness. Which you actually say, that's an emergent property of consciousness. Consciousness can be derived from the inputs are electron clouds hitting together ("real" world), or impulses which verify thesamething. What happens after that...

I think they are getting waved away because they are being confused with what is tactile and measurable. When you "touch" something, for example, all you are doing is having your atoms electron clouds, interact with their atoms electron clouds. Then your nervous system gets various information...

There is a lot of romantic BS up in here bro. These fools rejecting the singularity will need to be crushed with our super robot bodies under the banner of the enlightenment.

If it's a perfect simulation of reality within the jar, to the point that the electrical signals to your brain (By whichever sensory path they might take) are perfectly simulated, then it's effectively the same thing as the human body interacting with it's physical reality. You have a bunch of...

I learned that in the Matrix you can have juicy steaks, with warm beds and nice houses, while also being martial arts ninjas. Outside the matrix you live in a dank cave and eat gruel but you're "free" (To live a shitty life and die by a machine anally raping you with a metal tentacle.).

Bring on my immortal robot body. To have a simulation as powerful as the Matrix will be amazing, can you even imagine that? We can grow the most efficient food/land crops, and not care if people like them, because you can plug in at a restaurant and eat a huge, perfectly cooked steak, while...

Devastation how? I measure devastation in human suffering. Which is lower. Granted, I will take into account diminishing biodiversity, climate change and other factors as net negatives to us in the future--but if you're asking if I think those things are worth giving up the modern era for? No...

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Wanted to specifically respond to this. This is just flat out, full stop, wrong. Capitalism has reduced the ability to abuse power, it has not increased it. I post regularly here about how egregious the abuses of various powerful corporate CEO's are, but look at the differences in what someone...

Just snipping this last part because it epitomizes the post. The post was only refuting your point that Capitalism makes us worse. It most certainly doesnotmake us "worse" overall than how we were in history and it does not make us worse than any system which has thus far been implemented...

So rich guys get more pussy even here.

So how do you rationalize the fact that the world was far more brutal and "cold" before capitalism? Capitalism did not create this condition, rather it was formed to respond to it. It was born from an era where people were abused, died and horribly mistreated because of a family name or some...

Even the CGI looks like shit, at least the Robocop centric CGI. When he jumps off the building, it looks like something you'd see on network TV.

Where are you doing your 20's at? Warslik woods? Is that a decent place for a Necro to go from 26 to 29? I'm doing Aviaks now, but just not feeling it, too many people come and snipe blues but leave greens to clog the spawns. But not really sure of another decent 25-30 zone that's conducive for...