Doom Shepherd

"City 17"

Soylent Green is yummy. You should try some.

The point is that no matter how much the government spends or doesn't spend, it hasn't had a significant impact on the poverty level for longer than I've been alive. It's fluctuated between ~10 and ~15% since 1965. Meanwhile, check out what's happened to the family structure in that time, with an eye towards the fact that while 8% of children in two-parent families live in poverty, 42% of children of single mothers live in poverty. Our system has something to do with that.

Clearly, they haven't thoght that far ahead. But then, if they had cultivated that capacity, most of them probably wouldn't be where they are now.

"The goal is nothing, the movement is everything" "Thank you for playing 'should or should we not, follow the advice of the galactically stupid?'"

Seriously, how stupid do you think we are? http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.asp If you belive this nonsense, it's already TOO LATE. Your useful time on this planet is OVER.

Attacking Warner Music Group would make infinitely more sense than attacking YouTube. YouTube carries anonymous's videos, but WMG gets anything with the slightest bit of sampling from their artists removed, completely ignoring Fair Use. But Anonymous is not good for anything really useful. which is why they won't touch WMG.

I've recently heard it said that, boiled down to its essential truth, welfare, social security, and similar such programs are "bribes, paid by the wealthy to the poor, to keep them from rising up and simply TAKING what they want/need," and that the point of all the arguing back and forth about them is to distract the poor (or, the non-wealthy), enough to keep them preying on each other. Which is what really seems to happen. I mean, when poor people actually rob other people, do they rob rich people? No, they usually rob each other, or someone just slightly more wealthy (like, say, me.) When there are riots and looting, are rich neighborhoods burned and sacked? Not usually, usually the rioters burn down their OWN neighborhood, or one that's simply close by, and the looted stores are usually local businesses, something that always does more harm than good - and coincidentally leads to the public impression that the poor are a bunch of idiot savages who foul their own nests.

Yes, I know I was using 4chan speech. It was intentional, since Anonybous and /b/ are practically inseparable. The Devil can quote scripture for his own purpose.

So why is God here? What is the meaning and purpose of God?

My videocamera commands me to videotape jagoffs wearing Guy Fawkes masks doing stupid things. Guy Fawkes didn't really give a shit about freedom in a sense, he just hated the king of England and loved himself some pope. Its like choosing the false history of the comic book "V for Vendetta", over actual history to be some kind of symbol for their cause. Screw Anonymous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDT6GLO8zw

This might help. Nah, I mined out Memory Alpha a long time ago. They only deal with canon, on-screen ships. My real data gap is for all the video games, since I've never owned any Star Trek games myself. Games are hard, because a lot of them just pick names randomly from a list, and assign them to a random ship design, so no two iterations of the same game will have the same ship names. So I have to skip those games entirely. I have used Memory BETA (http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) for non-canon ships at times, but I've had problems with its reliability as well, as it tends to mash-up data from multiple sources. I like to keep my sources separate.

I'm working on a list of basic information about every named Starship to appear in any form of Star Trek media (Film, Books, Video Games, RPG Sourcebooks,) EVER. This is an impossible task that will never be finished. Or even close to finished. I'm writing an ASB (Alien Space Bats - a ridiculously impossible event occurs and changes history) Alternate History timeline in which I was given near-god-level superpowers on the night of Sept 10, 2001. I'm also trying to flesh out scenarios for a Star Trek RPG I hope to run someday, called "TrExiles" (A mix of Star Trek and the Marvel Universe's "Exiles" comic), where a bunch of characters will be "recruited" by the Guardian of Forever to travel from alternate timeline to alternate timeline, "fixing" the universe.

Yeah, but you get used to them, so they stop affecting you as much. Plus, you stop physically growing and maturing, which changes your imbalance. Plus, you gain mighty XP, which also helps with the coping. (and actually, certain natural hormones do taper off with age. That's why male and female hormone supplements exist.) Wait ten years. Then you will almost certainly see that the thoughts expressed in this video between 1:09 and 1:30 are a universal truth: http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=110&v=trending Yeah, me neither. Well, not egregiously stupid. I did do a few things against my nature while attempting to impress girls, but that was more along the lines of doing something that was safe, even though it triggered one or more of my phobias, rather than doing something that was unsafe in order to get :look at ME!" points.

My father was a hamster, and my mother smelt of elderberries! No. My ethnic background is Scots/German/English/Irish/Welsh/Polish/Iroquois. And possibly a few other things. I am distantly related to the VP of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens. My Scots ancestry can be traced aaaaaaaaaaaall the way back to MacDuff. That's THE MacDuff, of "Lay on, MacDuff" fame, the guy who kills Macbeth at the end of the Scottish Play. My great-great-great-great-great grandfather helped survey the boundary between Virginia and Pennsylvania, serving under George Washington, and was rewarded for his efforts with three tracts of land in southwest PA, in what is now Fayette County. Some of my family still live there. Every person with my last name in this half of Pennsylvania is descended from one of his three sons. My uncle retired as a Colonel after serving in every US conflict from Vietnam to Desert Storm. He worked in Army Intel. My mother and father are both retired teachers, my father taught high-school chemistry and psychology, my mother taught various grades in Elementary school. And now, a moment of "Eew" : My mother and father are actually 8th Cousins. (Not first, not second, eighth.)

With the hormones pumping, a teenager is even MORE likely to be an idiot than a child. Children do stupid things out of ignorance and testing their boundaries. Teenagers do far stupider things for far worse reasons.

Some of you guys have crummy news sources. There were no NATO troops involved in his capture. Those guys were all Libyan rebels.

No, for the reasons quoted above, and also the reason that I am now old enough to objectively evaluate my childhood, and... Listen, this may upset some of you who are still kids, but... Children are freakin' morons.. I was a straight-A student, IQ of 176, but still... Freakin' moron, when it came to the kinds of decisions rational adults have to make.

I've never encountered anyone who believed in the Professor who also believed this, although I've met a few who were too polite to say so out loud.

None of the above. I want a remote I can point at other people. With one button. "OFF" Fear me.

If the robots aren't smart enough, then you'll still have to have humans in the equation, just as BMW does. To go as completly over to robots as you propose, you have to have robots that are capable of advanced decision-making and planning. They have to know to STOP manufacturing cars when there is a national surplus or when other conditions change. They have to design new cars (and new robots to build the new designs), continuously updating them to match changing factors, like the government deciding that all cars must be 20% more fuel-efficient.)

Didn't GE pay no income tax this year because they got a BIG tax credit for working on Green Technology? Also, only 5.1 billion of that money was US profit. The US (and I think other countries) do not require corporations to pay US taxes on non-US profits. Also, tax law allows companies to "carry forward" losses, and apply them to later taxes. GE lost billions in the financial crisis of the previous years. For example, if a corporation loses $10 million every tear for ten years, but makes $100 million in the 11th year, their total tax liability for the combined years will be $0. Regular people can do the same sort of thing. Individuals can carry capital losses forward to offset future gains and up to $3000 ordinary income.

Make robots that smart, and they're likely to decide that your irrational, emotional butt is more trouble than its worth. Or that your body would better serve the community (of robots) broken down into a nice, lubricating oil.

Life has whatever meaning you give it. As for the afterlife... I think most conceptions of it are fundamentally flawed. There was a quote from House M.D from the first season that stuck with me. Foreman: “you find it more comforting to believe that this is it?” House:”No, I find it more comforting to believe that this isn’t merely a test”. Given what I've seen these last 40 years, I have to conclude that if life is a test, then it's a terribly biased and unfair test, administered by a Professor who gleefully admits to helping some students cheat while giving others poor study guides with wrong answers, and who will give you a better grade if you suck up to him.

Move to Titan, largest moon of Saturn. There are abundant hydrocarbons (huge lakes of it!), and at -270, it's only slightly colder than Norway. Seriously, the only way Communism can really work with humans (instead of androids) is if we first eliminate the scarcity economy. The only way that will happen is if we first exploit the f*** out of space. Only when recources are limitless and freely available will the Unwritten Law of Economics (A thing is worth what you can find some fool willing to pay for it) no longer apply. Then, all the value that will remain is the actual value of the worker's time in designing something new in the first place. When anybody can manufacture anything, we won't sell labor or objects anymore, then. All we'll be selling is the design, and the skill set.