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October Sky is a porn actress but the movie is not a porn movie; it is a docudrama about how the little girl from nowhere-ville Nebraska became October Sky, the most celebrated porn actress in 20 years. Inception

I am neither stupid nor ignorant, but thanks. And you really think that the government is populated by people that are outperformed by halfway competent 3rd graders? I'm not sure why you suddenly launched into insults, to be honest, but I am reminded of why I stayed away from this section for quite a long time. If you were in charge, what would you cut to make the government run on half the tax revenue?

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Hole.

By definition, no apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the scriptural record.

Mary's mother has five daughters. The eldest is named Nana. The next oldest is named Nene. The next oldest is named Nini. The next oldest is named Nono. What is the name of the youngest daughter?

I have to get me one of these.

Whoa

I..um....don't currently know the entire orientation of my body. I should've stayed out of the mushrooms.

Half-Life is the original game using the GoldSrc engine, which is a modified Quake engine, which was originally designed by id Software. Valve heavily modified the Quake engine to produce GoldSrc, which is what Half-Life originally ran on (and the original Half-Life continues to run on). Valve, later, created their own 3D game engine, which they call "Source". While working on Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source in the Source engine, they decided to see the process mod-makers would have to go through with the new engine. They ported Half-Life over to the Source engine (a direct one-to-one transfer) including things like water effects and ragdoll physics along with a new 3D skybox rather than bitmap skies. They released this port of Half-Life and called it "Half-Life: Source". Half-Life: Source garnered some criticism because some fans were expecting Half-Life to be re-done with Half-Life 2 style graphics and it wasn't anything but a straight port. As a result, some would-be modders decided to get together and make their OWN modification, porting Half-Life into the Source engine with blackjack and hookers--in fact, forget the mod!...no, wait. This was considerably more daunting than they were expecting. However, after years of waiting and a missed deadline in which they decided to re-look at the mod with fresh eyes and re-did a lot of things, the modification known as "Black Mesa" was released (at least up until the portal to Xen; Xen is still being worked on to this date for a future release). Essentially, Half-Life: Source is a port of the original Half-Life. Ross is using "Half-Life: Source" for Freeman's Mind.

Excited.

Wall of Text Warning! Me, I don't think that the definition of the three-letter string "God" has been truly and adequately defined. How does one distinguish between "God" and simply a being of sufficiently-advanced intelligence and evolution (to borrow from Arthur C. Clarke)? I know I'm quoting Star Trek here, but they've touched on this subject several times. In Star Trek 5, a renegade Vulcan takes the Enterprise and her crew to the center of the galaxy to "meet God". There, they find a being of massive power claiming to be the deity of many religions, yet requires the assistance of lowly mortals to "carry him" outside the center of the galaxy ("What does God need with a starship?"). Later, in the TNG episode "Who Watches the Watchers?", a group of proto-Vulcans mistake Picard as a deity after a mistake causes the proto-Vulcans to see these beings of far-advanced technology (they haven't evolved to the point where First Contact can be made and the Enterprise crew had violated the Prime Directive by making their presence known), going so far as to call him "the Picard" and attempting to "please the Picard" even doing quite evil things, such as attempting to sacrifice Troi to "please" him. Picard attempts to show that he's "not magical, just very advanced" and, in one of the proto-Vulcans' desparate attempts to prove that Picard is the magical deity, shoots him with an arrow. Picard is grievously injured and is dying on the planet. Only then do the inhabitants realize that he is mortal. He is transported back to the ship where Crusher performs a life-saving operation and Picard is restored to good health. In a later episode of TNG, a being known as "Ardra" has come to 'collect' on her guarantee of a thousand years of peace on a planet. She is there to enslave the planet and, as such, the planet is now in chaos and the Enterprise is called in to assist. The being calling herself "Ardra" appears on the ship and claims ownership of the Enterprise and its crew (as per the deal struck a thousand years ago). However, due to ancient custom, Picard is allowed to challenge Ardra to a trial. During the trial, she causes the various "apocalypse" signs to happen including showing up as their version of the devil (she is able to shape-shift into the Christian devil as well for Picard and the Klingon devil Fek'lhr for Worf), causing planet-wide quakes, and even disappearing at will. Picard believes "Ardra" to be a charlatan, taking advantage of cultures such as this planet's for personal gain, but they have no evidence. In fact, the thousand-years of peace did happen on the planet, but Picard quickly deduces that the peace came about not by Ardra's work but by the hard work of the people on the planet; they cleaned up their environment, they stopped the wars, they shifted to a more agrarian society, and so forth), but the people of the planet still don't believe it. It appears that Picard might lose the case, his ship, and his crew to Ardra. Until they find Ardra's cloaked ship. Quickly, they take over Ardra's ship and suddenly she has lost all her powers and Picard has suddenly gained them. Picard then announced that "Ardra" was one of 23 different aliases she's used in a single sector of space and she was taken into custody by the planet's security forces. In all three instances, mortal-but-very-advanced-by-comparison beings are mistaken for deities. These people (the creature at the center of the Galaxy, Picard and Ardra) are not magical or supernatural at all, just very advanced. So, how can we, as a people, possibly KNOW that "God" (if this thing even exists at all) is a deity? What is a deity? That has not yet been adequately defined and I don't think it ever can be. As for "God" himself? In my mind, He's just one of many conceptions invented by humans to explain the unexplained (such as the creation of "Ra" to explain the sun). As such, the attributes given to "God "by us have a logical inconsistency: Namely that an all-knowing, all-good, and all-powerful being could ever possibly allow any sort of evil to happen ever, even in the course of promoting a "greater good" (a la "Naziism" was not a good thing even if it led to something good coming out of it; an all-good, all-knowing, all-powerful deity could not possibly have allowed even that to happen, but it did). This is the kind of error that fallible humans make, but not the infallible deity known as "God". To make a long story short (too late!): I do not believe in any deity simply for the fact that there's no evidence that has been (or possibly could ever be) provided for me to possibly believe. Could such evidence be provided in the future where I can be shown to be wrong? Perhaps, but historically speaking, it's not looking very good. I don't mind or even care if you do believe in a deity. If you do, more power to you and I salute you. I just can't. And, if you use that deity you believe in to try to advance your own personal goals against certain groups of people, then you and I are gonna tangle, if you know what I mean.

I'd just like to say one thing, Foal, in regards to something you said way back in July. Sorry if I haven't been around this section in, like, forever. Ah, well, see, that's where I take issue: Liberals in the United States, by and large, are not advocating socialism. On Topic: The debt is an insanely hugely massive figure. However, let's not lose sight of what's important while attempting to address the debt. We could cut government spending down to zero except for Constitutionally required expenses and the debt will STILL go up. Why? Because we have decided that it's more important to cut taxes than fund the government for what we want out of it. For at least 30 years, maybe more, the mantra has been "Government is evil" or "I've always felt that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help." We do need to address the debt. In due course. First, we need to address the causes of debt and start "getting real" over what needs to be done while NOT HARMING THE NATION at the same time. We in the United States 'owe' a large amount of money to other countries but then again, we 'owe' even more to ourselves. I use the word "owe" in quotation marks because, for the other countries, they have taken things out on bonds. Those bonds are, as required by the Constitution (Article 4) and US law (28 U.S.C. § 1738), backed up by the full faith and credit of the United States. This means that the government CANNOT default on its "loans" (as it were). This is why the other countries will not "come to collect", as it were. I believe we will always have debt; there will always be people who don't want to pay for what they want (I currently call them NIMBPs, Not In My Back Pocket, a variant on NIMBY -- those who want to have certain things but they don't want them in their back yard). What we need to do is address the root causes and not the symptoms. A broken arm doesn't heal simply by taking massive amounts of morphine (yeah, I'm talking to you, Gordon Freeman!) even if you might not feel any pain. The cause of the pain must be addressed. The broken bone(s) must be set and given a chance to heal or barring that, an artificial construct can be implanted to simulate the bone. Right now, we're simply increasing and increasing the amounts of morphine we're taking when the effects are lessening. Sure, it might be fun for a while but eventually we're going to brass tacks. This means addressing what we have been putting off for decades: Paying for what we used. That means (get your fainting couches ready, right-wingers): Taxes. Ourselves, our children, our grandchildren, and our great-grandchildren (if not more) have been saddled with this debt that WE (yes, WE) caused. They already are saddled with it. We can either ignore the problem and hope it'll go away (it won't) or we can do something about it (so far, we're not). It's time for us to mature as a nation and stop whining about taxes. We've done this to ourselves. Time to lie in the bed we made. Or. We can punt it down the road. But, I think that's entirely selfish.

I don't see why not.

Will you be providing tracking for the shipment once it's out the door? Or will it be a surprise when it shows up at my door? I don't like surprises. It makes me fling my poo, harkening back to my simian instincts. Oooh oohh oook AAAHH AAAHK!

My order is in. Might buy more later.

Are the sizes standard American sizes? I saw on the webpage width and height measurements for the front of the shirts but is that for non-US customers? Basically, if I take a certain size in standard American sizing, I can expect the same basic fit from this store?

What is your favorite computer animated film?

Banned for hating yogurt, especially strawberry.

BTG got it. There was no weighing scale in the booth so there was no way to measure the weight.

amirite?

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Soon. How soon?