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Jesus f****** CHRIST what don't you understand!? "liberal" is not a quantitative assessment. We can disagree. Maybe if you got that through your arrogant head you'd get somewhere with me.

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Hey! We're into substance abuse as well as sex! Puh-lease

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We don't though. He defines Clinton as Liberal, I don't. I'd argue that not only do we disagree on how to define her, we also disagree on how to define liberal.

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What are you talking about!? I'm simply saying that "liberal" is a qualitative assessment. You can tell me why you think what you think, but you can't treat it as objective truth.

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Find that picture! I wanna see it!

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Dear You,

You might want to think about the things you put out there on the internet. Your parent directory contains alot of personal stuff.

-JL

Dear you,
See above. I think I already said this.
-cowpoodle003

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There's no such thing as empirical evidence for calling someone "liberal." It's a qualitative assessment.

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That's a subjective assessment. Many people I know who, in just about every facet of their lives, embody exactly what you'd call "liberalism," are in line with Charles. I would vastly prefer Obama to Clinton. He is more liberal than her in both senses of the word. Not only does he represen...

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So... I'm reading Romeo and Juliet for a class, and I came to a realization. For a long time I'd thought that Shakespeare was pretty overrated. I mean, really, in the end his plays were vulgar entertainment. They're full of innuendo and ridiculous comedy. Reading through the speeches in Romeo and Ju...

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Confession: I just saw Othello (in the local stage's version), and I realised maybe people were right when they said Shakespeare was a good playwright. Such an amazing play.

MMM. I'm reading Romeo and Juliet for a class, and I have to agree... actually, i'm gonna start a thread

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Oh Wil! I lolled. hahahaha. Oh my. anyway... back on topic: I'm pretty much with Slim on most of his points... though the first, I think is silly. It might only work 10 percent of the time, but it can really get a conversation going, at least for a while. If we don't have those flashes in the pan th...

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I started reading articles in Wikipedia on certain subjects, particularly summaries of Simpsons episodes and other material. And it's actually fun. You didn't do this before? I spend at a least 50% of my free time doing it. My friends claim I have a problem. Same here. I spend a shameful amount of ...

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This is something I found last spring, reading Slaughterhouse Five. I love it. "It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen Backwards by Billy, the story went something like this: "American planes, full of holes and wounded men and ...

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If you end up in Tacoma we could hang

At least it would be closer than any other pwebber i know of.

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Oooooh! Jota, will you help me too? Wikipedia only goes so far.

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Xenocide is by far the most ambitious of the Enderverse novels, having two parallel stories, even more branching storylines, etc. It's the most difficult novel to get into, but once you do, there are moments when the story SOARS. There are some moments in the story where it outshines even the best ...

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The reason I don't like it is that it reads like a fanfic. It advances nothing and has no meaning.

RE: Islamic students: it's not what he has them do, it's what he says about them. That's what I say.

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The service is tomorrow. I'm going to give her eulogy. I have no idea what to say. How do you sum up one person's life in five minutes? She was only 22. She never married, never had any children. I'm lost. You can say that. That you feel lost. Everyone there will feel the same. That's one of the wi...

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f*** PWeb, let's just make this an xkcd thread to brighten up everyones' day. I sometimes want to send people links to all the good xkcd. But then I realized there's already a collection of all the good ones. It's called xkcd.com. Amen! If I take part, I'm gonna be posting just about every comic. x...

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I have the twins... but they wouldn't do it.

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Speaking of vagina face.... today one of my teachers showed up wearing a pink sweater whose collar, I'd SWEAR were labia. Ew.

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xkcd.... I'd swear Randall Munroe is thinking the same thoughts as me.

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Even better, have the shuttle deploy a solar sail of its own and replace the one you're using

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http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/02/15/the-laser-elevator/

Read through the end and tell me that isn't the best idea ever.

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Oh my, I have. Horace, aka Whore

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This is true, but a jerk can still be right, and a subtle jerk bugs fewer people, and so is less likely to be recognized for what he is, which means people are more likely to listen.

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Lol. It's better than
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And super-awesome to boot!

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Short version: I don't think that the WBC is intolerable. Long version: I think that a lot of religious belief falls in the same area as the WBC. In fact, just about all of it. Any un-substantiable belief (i.e. religion) that claims it has the "one way" is fundamentally identical to the We...

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Is that a Stephenson book?

Anyway, I can highly recommend that you read The Diamond Age. It's a brilliant book. In some ways I think it's better than Snow Crash, though it's also a bit weirder.

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Well, the Metaverse is pretty standard... but the whole idea of where our society is going in 50 years (and in 100 years in The Diamond Age) is compelling.

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Oh... but it's so much more that just a dystopia. It's an entire philosophy.

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f***.

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Just keep in mind that everybody here loves you in their own way.

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Best book ever!

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Fair enough... I wasn't saying to rush it. I have no problem with you taking months at this. Months. A friend of mine once said "a day for every week since you got together." By that reasoning, you have five months. That's fair. I'll bow out now. And I'm sorry for any offense I may have gi...

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