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I got featured on Kotaku again so I drew this as a thank you.
The very un-elusive strategy of the cheap ass gamer. I am guilty of this. lol
The very un-elusive strategy of the cheap ass gamer. I am guilty of this. lol
This pretty much tells it in 6 panels.
Hehe, love this. I keep thinking the same thing during this sale.
I feel so identified!!!
resistance is silly
LOL! .. I just laugh, yes out loud in my office. People looked, "I told them get back to work!" Then brought them in one by one..
Thanks. lol, I would have liked to have seen that. Damn steam and their sales, always taking my money.
Well, at least your money doesn't have any kilts to moon the steam sale with. That kind of killed that part of the movie for me.
lol yeah, I actually thought of that part while starting this comic so I decided to leave out the kilts in an attempt to unsee.
Lol This is what I tried to do throughout the sale, but it didn't work out well. At least I have more games to distract me from my empty wallet. XD. Great comic!
this just happened to me with Saints Row The Third
I can't consider myself cheap when I spent over $150. BUT I did get many games and DLC for that cash!
Same here..
Congrats on the feature. Got a good laugh from me this morning!
you made my day with this cartoon.
Now everytime that i see a steam promotion, i'll shout to myself "HOLD!! hoooold!!"
By the way, i can't hold anymore: GO MONEY GO!!!
Now everytime that i see a steam promotion, i'll shout to myself "HOLD!! hoooold!!"
By the way, i can't hold anymore: GO MONEY GO!!!
lol, thanks. I had that thought in my brain all last week. I'm glad you really like it. Btw You're work is pretty awesome, good stuff man!
thanks and thanks for the favorite. You have some awsome ideas, i've knew your work since the Game of Thrones fighing game illustrations, just amazing.
You have a new follower hahahaha!
You have a new follower hahahaha!
thanks to YOU SIR, I bought stuff on steam.
True story !!!! :d
i wish i had this kind of will power >< i failed.
Words cannot express the ammount of facts this comics carries
"Sir, SIR WAIT But... - 50% " i love that picture!
Nice lol. I love these comics, it's same as the Chrono Trigger/Frog one, EVERYONE knows the feeling. What was Kotaku for? Young Ryu/Ken?
thanks, that's always good to hear, makes me want to do more . Yeah it's fun to see when people can relate to these type of situations, I'm just really grateful for all the positive feedback. I was actually featured for my dragons dogma short but I was given a shout out for my work as well, so that was cool.
No...must not BUY........damnit. Nice picture.
not only you! awesome stuff

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Published: October 11, 2013 at 11:23 AMI have not been stuck on a ride myself, however my wife and oldest son wre on a raft ride at The Great Escape Water Park in Lake George, NY. They were 15 - 20 feet from the end when a pump failed and they had to wait about 5 minutes for the water to drain away so they could safely get out. I still find it funny, freedom was so close yet so far away.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 11:30 AMThe Universal Hollywood tram ride is nearly 1 hour long. I consider that to be "stuck" on a theme park ride.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 11:57 AMGot stuck on Splash Mountain for about 40 minutes during the Not so scary Halloween. It was a nightmare listing to "Looks like Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear are causing trouble down by the watering hole" for that long.....
Published: October 11, 2013 at 12:31 PMI was stuck on Everest for a not even 5 minutes last year, and they gave us fast passes to get right back on, that was really nice.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 1:03 PMStuck on the "Carousel of Progress" at the Magic Kingdom. The first time the ride didn't move - and we had to watch the 1950's stage again - the crowd remained silent and polite - looking around for the non existent human in the room that would explain what was happening.
The third time we launched into "Now is the time. Now is the best time. Now is the best time of your life...." there was nervous laughter - a few loud laughs as we realized we had to hear the song again along with the girl on the electric waist trimmer stuttering "Gee, Babs..."
The fourth time, someone yelled out "Gee, Babs..." and got a big laugh from the crowd. Eventually, some were even singing along - sarcastically with "Now is the time..." . By the fifth - it was like Rocky Horror. Audience member shouting along line-for-line, even inserting a well-timed joke here and there.
Oh, it got old. Soooo OOOOOLD. Unforgettable though. we toughed it out together for about eight or nine runthroughs. Maybe an hour.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 1:15 PMGetting a little insider-y here, but the one time you will be guaranteed to be stuck on a roller coaster is during a media day. Parks often invite local youth groups and such to "fill out the seats" while media types sit up front and get recorded riding. But the time needed to set up the recording almost ensures that the train with the camera gear will spend many, many minutes in the station between runs. And if you're in the other train, waiting to get into the station after your run, well, better get comfortable.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 1:22 PMOn Stich's Great Escape I was locked down in a steel harness in a dark room and tortured with chili farts and spit in my face. It was horrible.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 1:48 PMI was stuck on the lift hill of Big Dipper at Geauga lake at Coaster EXT in 2007. It took about 20 minutes in blistering heat. That's where I was was when I heard about the accident on Raging Wolf Bobs on the other side of the park, which I had two very good rides on earlier that day. That ride never reopened..and after that season, neither did the park.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 2:18 PMThe longest we were stuck on any ride was last years visit to Universal. MIB broke down and we were exactly half way through... which means we were the last to be taken off the ride.
With the lights on, we were able to see al the detail that went into one of our favorite rids of all time and take plenty of pictures.
We actually found the experience enjoyable because we were able to slowly walk out along side the track with four ride operators and they stopped and pointed out where hidden targets are on some of the high scoring aliens.
It was like getting a guided tour / preview that Robert get's to enjoy from time to time.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 2:45 PMHubby and I got stuck on Pirates of the Caribbean at Magic Kingdom for just over and hour. It was at the end of the Halloween party and the boat was just engaged on the hill for the exit. therefore,they could not just push the boat back. We had several employees come by to keep us enterained waiting for the fire department to come. We had to have firemen hold our hand while we stepped over seats to the back of the boat and to the next boat. Then over to the edge in front of the treasure room with Jack Sparrow. it was fun getting to walk out thru some of the back area's of the ride and having employees point out hidden Mickey's etc. But we couldn't get a picture with Jack in the treasure room. No pictures inside the ride. It felt odd walking thru the park witout any visitors only a few employees stating to clean up and finishing the lock up. We just made the last boat and the monorail has stopped so I kind of wonder how we would have gotten back to parking if we had been 5 minuetes later.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 3:34 PMMany many many years ago. We were taking my Aunt and Uncle to Disneyland. We got stuck on Pirates. At first they kept everything going - all the sounds and effects, etc. Then they took out the sound so the figures kept moving but their mouths didn't move. Finally they stopped. Then cast members in waders came out and pushed our boat back until we were up against one of the walkways, then they took us out of the boat and we walked back stage and exited. Pretty cool, actually.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 3:57 PMMy wife and I were the couple who received FastPasses compensating for being stalled on IaSW two weeks ago. Had we not been passholders, we probably would have been much more unhappy about wasting 45 minutes of a vacation stalled on a barge in Old Fantasyland. Since the FP was limited to MK, my hunny bunny wanted to use it for something she hadn't been on yet. Off we went to Under the Sea, which she pronounced "cute." Had we the choice of anywhere at WDW, I imagine we would have used it at Midway Mania. I imagine that's about the only current attraction worth 45 minutes (plus the sonic irritation) of dead time, at least to us.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 5:15 PMJaiden said: "Was stuck almost falling out of the vehicle on forbidden journey at IOA for ten minuets"
They let you dance on the ride? :)
Published: October 11, 2013 at 5:49 PMWe were stuck on Big Thunder Mountain for thirty minutes in the middle of the third lift hill. It was fun getting to walk through the mountain to get out.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 6:10 PMI think this happened three years ago. My family and I were stuck on Haunted Mansion twice in one day. We all still joke about this, like the ghosts didn't want us to leave. The first time happened in the morning. I think on that ride, we were stuck for about 25 minutes; we were stuck going down in the cemetery, just a bit before the Gravedigger and his doggy. The way we were turned, we were looking at all the tombstones and I think the gravedigger and dog were to our right and we had to kind of crane to see them. It was an awkward position to be in. I remember the music started to get to us after a while because it just repeats. And they had that emergency message come on, saying something like the spirits were interfering or something. And then they played something in Spanish. I personally hate hearing Spanish, so that's what irked me: I kept having to hear that and I wish Disney didn't have Spanish recordings playing.
Later in the day, the same thing happened, but this time we were stuck in Madame Leota's seance room. That was better than being stuck in the graveyard, but I think we were stuck in there for 20 minutes. It seemed less than the first time we were stuck. I am very clumsy and so I never try to take my phone out of my pocket when on rides so I didn't check how long we were stuck. I was afraid I'd drop my phone out of the Doom Buggy. We heard all the Leota music and her spiel many, many times though...and of course all that emergency warning recording and then all that Spanish (which I assume was just repeating the English).
Published: October 11, 2013 at 9:31 PMRobert, it's articles like this that makes this my favorite theme park website. The only attraction I would give an MSOSM to would be Soarin at Epcot because we all know that if it's the middle of the day chances are you will not be getting a fastpass for that one if you are making your way from magic kingdom. I would give it a good 20inutes for that one and maybe Tron Track as well.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 9:37 PMMaybe around '86 or '87 we were trying to convince my cousin to try a few more rides, becausehe was worried about their safety. That said, Air Racers at SFot had become one of my faves. So off I go to get a ride in, when lo and behold it goes offline. At the top of the tower no less. So there I sit, plane to myself, looking at my cousin and mom waiting for me down below. Somewhere right around 60 minutes things get back together and soon I'm on the ground again. Ask my cousin if he wants to ride, looks me cross, says no. I think we hit Roaring Rapids next. I was a kid, didn't matter.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 10:22 PMNot long after Finding Nemo Subs opened I was stuck on it for at least about two hours, they gave me a Fastpass good for any ride. I was so upset at Nemo I vowed never to ride again and was going to use it at Space-Mountain when the FP castmember talked me out of it, she said it was rare to get one. I decided to give Nemo another try, I loved the ride just didn't want to get stuck again. When I decided to use the FP later that evening I noticed the pass was good for up to five guests. I was visiting by myself so I decided to share the wealth, this was when lines for Nemo were in excess of 3 hours. I found a family of four near the back of the line and brought them to the front with me, it felt good to do that plus I had some company on the ride.
Published: October 11, 2013 at 11:33 PMKnotts Berry farm. There was a loud bang and the power went out. All rides froze for...I want to say and hour because that how long it felt but it's more likely that it was about 35-45 minutes. That was kind of a scary experience in general.
Published: October 12, 2013 at 4:36 AMI was stuck on HP Forbidden Journey for 25 minutes not long after they opened. That would not have been so bad except I was in the pitched over forward position for 15 of that. I am a large man and the weight on my chest was excruciating. Once they straightend us up and turned on the lights, it wasn't so bed. I did enjoy seeing the mechanics of the ride. The technology is incredible.
Published: October 12, 2013 at 4:40 AMAnd as to being stuck on the Small World ride as you described. The fast pass would be nice except I would probably have to be carried out in a straight jacket after listening to that song for so long. I have purposely not ridden that ride in over 10 years (no small children) and now again I already can't get that tune out of my head. Thanks a lot.
Published: October 12, 2013 at 8:55 AMMe and three friends got stuck during the last scene of "The little mermaid" at new fantasy land this august. It was a short cue with just enough time before meeting back up with our friends who had been in other parks that day so we decided to ride for the third time (two of us love the little mermaid). We got stuck for about 30 mins and knew all of Scuttle's speech by the time it restarted. We never had an explanation and when I enquired about the hassle it had caused, the cast member was not helpful at all and just told us to keep moving. We didn't fuss because it was our last day and we had completed everything we wanted to do. It was fun sending snapchats to the group who were all waiting for us explaining our issues.
Published: October 12, 2013 at 8:57 AMMy wife and I were stuck suspended in the air on the skyway ride at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, between England and France. At the time (over 25 years ago) we had our 2 year old daughter and 1 year old son in the car with us, and they were both squirming around to try to look over the side, forcing us to hang on tightly to them. It was only for about 15 minutes, but it seemed like hours.
Published: October 12, 2013 at 9:10 AMThis summer on a family visit to WDW, we got stuck on Pirates of the Caribbean for 45 mins. We were at the point where they are burning Tortuga, and for awhile they left the sound track on until they made an announcement and it went silent. At one point they asked everyone to rock left and right in their boats, but that did nothing.
After about 30mins, a young lady sitting in the front of our boat started singing "Uh Oh Uh Oh, I really have to pee" to the tune of the Pirate song. Everyone started laughing and then started sining along. That must have did the trick because shortly after, the ride started up again. And when we got to the end, there was now long wait at the rest rooms. :-)
Published: October 13, 2013 at 7:44 AMBack when Busch Gardens Tampa had the monorail ride over the Serengeti Plain, I got put on a different monorail train from my family group, and the monorail train I was on broke down over the lion exhibit. Busch had to send out two other trains to push the train I was on back to the station. The whole process took well over an hour because Busch was running only 2 trains that day, and they had to get the second train out of storage. A total bummer for me and my parents who had to wait at the station while the rest of the relatives went on other rides.
Published: October 13, 2013 at 10:27 AMI have been stuck on a few rides. By far the worst was Tidal Wave at Busch Gardens Tampa. 3 boats were stuck right before you go up the hill. Ours was the 3rd boat and the last to be taken off. After about 40mins of wait our boat slowly start to sink. By the time we were unloaded at the hour and a half point we were sitting in waist deep water. Busch did give us front of the line passes and dry clothes.
Published: October 14, 2013 at 3:04 AMAfter lurking for years, I have something to add to the conversation -
My wife and I got stuck in the Little Nemo ride in Orlando for about 25 to 30 minutes on our honeymoon. This was pretty tame as far as being "stuck" goes, but it forever etched the words of one of the scenes (the manta ray singing) in our brains.
To this day, it only takes one of us starting to sing "Ooooohhhh...!" to put us right back on that ride as newlyweds :)
If I remember correctly there were two lines of dialog that rotated every 15 seconds or so, and we must have heard them maybe 50 or 50 times each.
"OOOoooohhh......Let's go explore, explore, explore...Let's go explore the big blue world!!"
We also got stuck on Toy Story about a month after it opened in CA and had to evacuate the ride on foot with cast members leading us in single file lines, all the emergency and overhead lights on, and the majority of the screens and effects turned off. Kind of interesting to see the ride that way really.
It was a long time, maybe a half hour again, but we at least got to play the scenes for however long they ran. They quit keeping score after the first time but it was still fun. We also got a pair of "front of the line" passes that the cast member at Soarin' (I think) handed back to us and told us to go back to Toy Story with them as well since we didn't get to experience the right way.
All in all, it ended up being a good memorable experience :)
Published: October 14, 2013 at 11:41 AMThe first time I attempted to ride Maverick, I got stuck on the lift hill for almost 45 minutes. This was in withering heat and humidity so that the wait for a ride op to get permission from a supervisor to release the restraints and help riders walk off seemed inordinately long. Cedar Point did compensate riders for the inconvenience by giving them immediate access to Millennium Force, Top Thrill Dragster and of course, Maverick once it reopened. I gather from the reaction of the ride ops at Dragster that rollbacks on Maverick are not uncommon but the risk of that happening twice in one day seemed minimal, so I did eventually get to ride Maverick. Unfortunately, despite my having put on sun screen, getting stuck on the lift hill resulted in a severe sunburn and nausea, negatively impacting my visit to the park.
Published: October 14, 2013 at 1:27 PMBig shocker that it is NOT about Disney from me, last summer I was stuck on Firehawk at Kings Island near the middle of the lift hill for the better part of an hour. I'd say about 50 min? Being in that on your back position on the Flying Dutchman coaster was uncomfortable for that long. Eventually the chain was fixed and we completed the ride.
The way Kings Island handled it was mediocre, being in the HOT sun that long and the sun right in our eyes was terrible and we got passes to skip a line and sit anywhere; so all that for one front seat ride on Diamondback was "good enough" but I'm sure a place like Disney would have handled it differently.
Published: October 15, 2013 at 10:57 AMMy late father seemed to be cursed when it came to rides at Disney. He and I got stuck a few times. Last year on Splash during Mickey's not so scary for 30 minutes, and about 7 years ago, he and I got stuck on Test Track at the end of the speed run where it was banked. Being a big man, with me sliding down on him was very very uncomfortable. We were there for about 20 minutes before he finally whipped out his pocket knife and yelled "I'm cutting myself out if someone isn't here to get me out NOW!" Surprisingly enough, a CM immediately popped out from around the corner and shut down things and let us climb out. It was a ridiculous situation to be stuck for so long. We told the CMs to shove their fastpasses to TT where the sun didn't shine when they offered them. Now I understand why security asked me to check my pocket knife at my visit to the MK last year - they don't want any chance that you might be able to save yourself if needed.


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MSNBC's Countdown documented the "swift-boating of Al Gore"
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On MSNBC's Countdown, fill-in host Brian Unger denounced the baseless attacks -- including Nazi references -- against the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, which chronicles former Vice President Al Gore's campaign to raise awareness about global warming. Noting that these attacks ignore the scientific facts put forth in the movie, Unger characterized them as "swift-boating."
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On the May 31 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, fill-in host Brian Unger, a commentator on National Public Radio's Day to Day, denounced the baseless attacks -- including Nazi references -- against documentary film An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics, May 2006), which chronicles former Vice President Al Gore's campaign to raise awareness about global warming. Noting that these attacks ignore the scientific facts put forth in the movie, Unger characterized them as "swift-boating," referring to the attack ads by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth against Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) during his 2004 presidential campaign. He added that "Third Reich analogies are the nuclear bombs of oratory, rhetorical, or literary devices," which "obliterate any logic or reason within miles of the hurler."
Unger pointed out that global warming skeptic William M. Gray, professor emeritus of atmospheric science at Colorado State University, stated that "Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews," according to a May 28 Washington Post Magazine article. Unger also highlighted an unnamed pundit who compared An Inconvenient Truth to Joseph Goebbels's Nazi propaganda films. Unger may have been referring to Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, who, as Media Matters for America has documented, called the film "propaganda" and added: "You don't go see Joseph Goebbels's films to see the truth about Nazi Germany. You don't want to go see Al Gore's film to see the truth about global warming."
From the May 31 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
UNGER: Third Reich analogies are the nuclear bombs of oratory, rhetorical, or literary devices. They obliterate any logic or reason within miles and the hurler of the Hitler bomb almost always looks worse than the intended recipient of the blast. Seinfeld's soup Nazi episode gets the only waver. The latest target of the Hitler comparison: Al Gore and his global warming film. And anyone who has a beef with it should probably base their criticism on the science and not the mindset of old Adolf.
In our third story on the Countdown: the swift-boating of Al Gore -- the former vice president's wake-up call on climate change, leading to some unfortunate analogies and a debate that seems lacking in substance. The documentary itself, An Inconvenient Truth, making an impressive debut at the box office, raking in an average of just over $70,000 per screen over the holiday weekend. The No. 1 film, X-Men III, averaging less than half of that. As a result, the counterattacks beginning in earnest. Meteorologist Bill Gray making little mention of the weather in his rebuttal. Quote, "Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews." Which doesn't even make sense.
Then there's the pundit who compared the Gore movie to Joseph Goebbels films about Nazi, Germany. The Fox News analyst who said that global warming was bogus and dreamed up by environmentalists to stop economic development. And in true swift-boat fashion, the campaign-style attack ads produced by a conservative think tank that is funded largely by the energy industry.
ANNOUNCER [clip]: There's something in these pictures you can't see. It's essential to life. You breathe it out, plants breathe it in. It comes from animal life, the oceans, the earth, and the fuels we find in it. It's called carbon dioxide -- CO2. The fuels that produce it have freed us from the world of back-breaking labor, lighting up our lives, allowing us to create and move the things we need, the people we love. Now, some politicians want to label carbon dioxide a pollutant. Imagine if they succeed. What would our lives be like then? Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life.
UNGER: Time now to suspend this lesson on photosynthesis for a closer look at the politics involved here with the White House correspondent for the New York Daily News Ken Bazinet.
Thank you for joining us.
BAZINET: Hi Brian. Good evening.
UNGER: For five years now, Al Gore has been, you know, little more than a political punch line at times. Why go to all this trouble of attacking him now? I mean, are conservatives legitimately scared of a Gore comeback here?
BAZINET: I don't -- I don't know that they're necessarily scared of a Gore comeback, but I think it's the message. It's sort of a -- it's a wine whose time has come, I think. In 2000, when Al Gore was talking about climate change and global warming, I don't think people by and by could state their position, articulate how they felt about it or even tell you what it was. I think now, in 2006, we're at a place were people actually do have an opinion of this. They go on the Internet and they want to try and find out what does climate change have to do with hurricane season, for instance. What exactly are greenhouse gases? So, I think the timing of this really is -- is what's essential. I don't think it's so much the messenger as it is the message.
UNGER: It feels, though, that this is a personal attack. The politics of global warming has -- of course, you know, the science has long been in dispute. Is this more personal?
BAZINET: Well, I don't think that Al Gore has sort of manufactured himself to become a candidate overnight, but I do think that he can lay claim to this issue. But again, I want to get back to my -- to really, my first answer. They're attacking Al Gore because he's the perfect messenger. He can articulate this. I spoke with someone who attended a screening of this film, and one point that she made was that he really does a good job of simplifying things that are very complicated to, I think, the untrained mind. I think that's very dangerous. If you can say in a simple declarative sentence what the problem is, back it up with science, I think that really you have a hot potato there and I think that the right is very concerned about that, potentially those folks who are on the payroll of big oil at this point, I believe.
UNGER: The swift-boating of John Kerry helped secured four more years of George W. Bush. Anything that it would suggest that it won't work this time?
BAZINET: Well, first of all, what ballot is he on? And, you know, second of all, I think that there is probably more science to back up Al Gore's case at this point. I'm not sure that this will work to destroy Al Gore as much as it's going to cause an awful lot of people who, you know, quite frankly, he wasn't on their radar screens, but now he will be. Any time you hammer someone, I mean, people want to know why. So, I think it's a real risk move and I think that's why you don't necessarily see so-called mainstream Republicans jumping in on this, but rather sort of the fractured right at this point.
UNGER: Big box office does not mean a film like this will have any real lasting impact at the ballot box, Fahrenheit 9/11 being a recent example of that. Is it too soon to be hailing the success of An Inconvenient Truth?
BAZINET: I think -- I think it's not necessarily too soon to hail it, but I think that you can measure it, both dollars and cents wise -- people, obviously, showing up at the theaters -- but also, let's see whether or not he's able to, you know, get people talking. If he's able to galvanize, for instance, part of the true left, I mean, that can work to the advantage, obviously, of those Democrats, those progressives who are on the ballot this fall. So, I think, you know, yes, the jury's out, but we're already talking about this.
UNGER: Ken Bazinet, thank you very much for joining us.
BAZINET: My pleasure.
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God Enters The Race
There are 109 comments on the The Daily Beast story from Sep 10, 2012, titled God Enters The Race. In it, The Daily Beast reports that:
In the past 72 hours, Romney has endorsed the controversial conservative Iowa Congressman Steve King, appeared onstage with televangelist Pat Robertson, debuted a revamped stump speech with warnings of encroaching secularism at its center, and devoted substantial time to a hot dog-heavy photo-op at a NASCAR race.
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#1 Sep 10, 2012
If anyone can screw this up more that a politician, it's god. Any one of them.Who invited them anyway?
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#2 Sep 10, 2012
Almighty God Jehovah, the one true God of the Bible, does not get involved in this world's politics or governments, he considers them beasts.
If you read the book of Revelation you will see the symbolic description fits all the governments on this earth in these last days of this world.
That book also identifies Satan the Devil as the original serpant or dragon, who gives the beasts their power and control.
Revelation 13
If you want to survive the end of this world, you must not get the symbolic mark of the wild beast on your hand or forehead, that means you service and support, worship or allegence to the beast.
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#3 Sep 10, 2012
Doesn't god also mention other gods in his little fantasy book of the bible? Seems he thought there were othere gods.
this is what happens when humans create a god, the god ends up with human traits and failures...
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#4 Sep 10, 2012
Almighty God Jehovah knows the makeup of man, and knows they are under the rulership of Satan the Devil the god of this world, therefore they worship many false gods. The Devil doesn't care what god you worship, just so you don't worship Almighty God Jehovah, Satan wants your worship anyway he can get it.
If you worship, serve or live for anything, that is your god.
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#5 Sep 10, 2012
I should have said, whatever you focus your time and energy on, whatever you make your prime concern that is your god.
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St. Croix valley
#6 Sep 10, 2012
so your mythical god created another god that can control his creations better than he can?
You cult people crack me up...
go find a volcano and toss a couple of virgins in and call me in the morning...
#7 Sep 10, 2012
God is an Englishman, he can't vote in our elections.
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#8 Sep 10, 2012
I guess my god is picking winners at Belmont.
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#9 Sep 10, 2012
With characters like Romney, King, and Robertson around, God is taking a sabbatical leave.
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#10 Sep 10, 2012
God enters the race. Noticed the DNC had to actually vote on it. Could have easily been Allah, God won by a couple of bused in votes, you know, to avoid any media converage.
#11 Sep 10, 2012
Democrats agree 100% with the First Amendment and are losing patience with the GOP's downward spiral to the 16th century. WE the People reject Theocracy.
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#12 Sep 11, 2012
What if your prime concern is not lying about science, truth or athiests?
"ecrasez l'infame"
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#13 Sep 11, 2012
Cool! Then as Richard Bamford said:
My god can beat up your god.
Do you know his name? Sure you do. He talks to you every day. You could not live a normal life without him. You believe in him, whether you like it or not. Unless you abandon him completely, you cannot deny he exists.
My god is a more personal god than yours can ever be, for if you have enough sense to understand these words, my god lives within you. He lives within us all, to some degree. A heartbreaking few cannot understand him, but this is not their fault. The real tragedy is the multitudes who ignore much of his counsel, particularly when he questions your god too deeply.
My god has been around longer than your god. He was here before the many other gods that preceded your god. Though you will likely scoff at the notion, my god was the father of your god, as he was to all gods. But that was long ago when he was young and not yet sure of himself. Though many of your god's followers try to hold him down, my god grows stronger and more independent each day.
* When your god expelled us from paradise for eating an apple, my god taught us to grow our own fruit.
* When your god forbade knowledge, demanding we live in ignorance, my god created books.
* When your god smote cities like a tantrum-prone child, my god helped to rebuild them.
* When your god insisted the world was flat, my god showed his followers it was round, to their peril at the hands of your god's followers.
* While your god watched in silence as children sickened and died, my god created medicines to make them well.
* When your god winked and nodded at slavery, my god argued passionately against it.
* While your god represses half the human race, my god considers woman to be the equal of man.
* When your god only helps those who help themselves, my god rolls up his sleeves and actually does help until your god decides to join in, and then steals all the credit.
* When your god inspired great buildings and great art, my god made them possible.
* While your god says we are all born sinners, tainted before we even draw breath, my god says we are all born innocent; a clean slate with limitless potential.
* While your god offers dubious allusions of an afterlife, my god provides for us here in this life.
* While your god makes amazing promises, but offers not a shred of proof, my god performs amazing deeds, and the proof is there to be seen by all.
* While your god demands blind faith and obsequious obedience, my god encourages questions, even about himself.
* When your god says "Thou shalt not," my god says "You can do anything."
My god is reason. He does more in a day than your god will ever do.
#14 Sep 11, 2012
If atheist are so content with non religion why do you urge religous people into arguments?
"ecrasez l'infame"
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#15 Sep 11, 2012
Get your religion out of my face and stop trying to get the government to help you force your beliefs on others and I promise you'll never hear from me about atheism again.
#16 Sep 11, 2012
Lol well my religion ( islam) is trying to be exterminated by the government. Also i find more people preaching atheisim than the other way
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#17 Sep 11, 2012
Great post. I feel the same way about gays.
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#18 Sep 11, 2012
Democrats are easy targets for propaganda. Obama has them telling God himself to go to hell.
Ain't that something.
We are gong back to the dark ages.
If you don't believe in God, that's fine. Just don't insult those that do. That's communism.
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#20 Sep 11, 2012
Here's a morsel of food for your thought. It is possible to be non-religious without being an atheist.
#21 Sep 11, 2012
Wow guess you don't know the Arabic word for God is Allah. Read a book sometimes.
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Tech professionals have become somewhat inured to descriptions of the exponential rise in computing power in what is commonly described as Moore's law. But when inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil strings together dozens of examples on logarithmic graphs to support his claims of an imminent transformational moment in history, it's an intellectual jolt.
Kurzweil's books have attracted a wide following and his latest project, a film, The Singularity is Near: A True Story About the Future, evokes a more immediate visceral reaction to his projections on how an ever accelerating technology will increasingly reshape the very fabric of our physical reality and living experience.
The movie utilizes the device of dual story lines. The main thrust is a high-level review of technological trends presented through snippets of Kurzweil's interactions with about 20 leading technologists/scientists and futurists. Most are squarely on-board with Ray, agreeing that we are on the cusp of an epochal shift and eager to discuss the profound implications on a range of fields including energy, medicine, health, and law.
Although environmentalist Bill McKibben questions the morality of imposing such vast changes upon on our own lives and shared ecosphere, and technologist Bill Joy reflects on the dangers inherent in these new technologies, most see the shift as inevitable and generally of tremendous benefit for those of us lucky enough to be alive to experience it.


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Hugh Jackman: Aussie Heartthrob at the BAFTA Awards
Gearing up for a star-studded spectacle, Hugh Jackman showed up at the Royal Opera House in London, England for the 2013 BAFTA Awards tonight (February 10).
Joined by his lovely wife Deborra-Lee Furness, the "Les Misérables" stud kept it classy in a black tuxedo/suit as he made his way down the red carpet.
And once all the red carpet pomp and circumstance dies down, all eyes will turn to the winner's circle to see who comes out on top. The movie musical is nominated for Cinematography, Costume Design, Make Up and Hair, Production Design, Sound, Best Film, and Outstanding British Film with the 44-year-old hunk picking up a Best Leading Actor nod.
Hollywood hunks Ben Affleck, Bradley Cooper, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Joaquin Phoenix will all battle it out with Hugh for the Best Leading Actor trophy and it's anyone's guess who will take home the hardware.
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The 10 best events on Long Island this summer
Eat your way through a classic summer festival or just try to keep your eye on the birdie as ultra-competitive badminton players vie in a national tournament. Whether you want to hang outdoors or chill inside, these events please both types of people.
GO WEST IN RIVERHEAD(Credit: Country Fest Long Island)
There's a whole lotta country on Long Island -- and a festival to prove it. The fourth annual Country Fest Long Island is a two-day celebration with line dancing, live music and activities ranging from a mechanical bull to rides in a monster truck, July 26-27 on the grounds of the Dorothy P. Flint 4-H Camp in Riverhead ($10, 631-482-5657, countryfestli.com).
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Patchogue's Thursday night series of street fairs bring vendors, live music, artwork, food stands and other fun along Main Street in the village, which is closed to car traffic for the evening — and there are plenty of restaurants and shops to wander, too. Events run 5-9 p.m. July 17, July 31, Aug. 14 and Aug. 28 with a rain date Sept. 4 (aliveafterfive.com).
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This isn't a dainty sport -- not with shuttle speeds of up to 70 miles an hour. Competitive badminton players will converge for the first time on the East Coast at the U.S. YONEX Badminton Open, July 8-13 at Suffolk Community College's Brentwood campus -- sessions are spectator-friendly ($13-$15, usopenpg.com ).
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Make it a leisurely pedal or really go the distance -- the 32nd annual Gold Coast Tour from Greenlawn on July 13 offers bikers a choice of five courses, all with great views of Long Island Sound, stately homes and village charm. First-timers might consider the flat 12-mile course ($20-$25) while pros will surely want to tackle the full 100-mile affair ($40-$45, huntingtonbcli.com).
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You've seen them on the silver screen, now watch as Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor and Captain America come to life in "Marvel Universe Live!" at Nassau Coliseum on Aug. 21-24. Spider-Man and Wolverine join forces with these Avengers in an epic battle with Thor's evil brother Loki, who is trying to clone the powers of the Cosmic Cube to destroy the universe. They'll have their hands full as they take on Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Red Skull, Electro and other villains in this live-action show ($55-$170, 516-794-9300, nassaucoliseum.com).
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The summer blockbusters are at every multiplex, but the indie flicks are in Stony Brook, at least July 17-26. This annual festival spotlights features, documentaries, foreign films and shorts one screening at a time -- and you might see a celebrity or two on the red carpet (631-632-2787, stonybrookfilmfestival.com).
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Everybody's Italian -- at least for a night -- at Glen Cove's venerable Feast of St. Rocco. Yes, there's rides, games and live entertainment, but let's be honest: We're in it for the food. Cannolis, sausages, pastas, Parms -- and tripe by the bowlful for those inclined -- all made using parish members' recipes that tend to date back generations (July 29-Aug. 3, 516-676-2482, stroccoglencove.com).
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Beloved by Long Island's runners, the state park system's Summer Run Series is a long-standing Monday night tradition -- for thousands. The eight-race series June 16-Aug. 4 takes runners to a different state park each week. This year's races are sold out -- and there's no same-day space, either -- so make like a spectator and cheer on the masses (nysparks.com).
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Edible East End's Great Food Truck Derby is a once-a-summer meet-up of mobile food vendors in the Hamptons -- many make the trip from the boroughs of New York City. Patrons pay one price (last year it was $60) to bounce from truck to truck getting their fill of specialties that range from inventive tacos to artisanal ice cream bars (3:30-7 p.m. Aug. 8 at the Hayground School, Bridgehampton, 631-537-4637).
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The community's annual Puerto Rican/Hispanic Day Parade is now a weekend-long celebration. Festivities begin May 31 with a noon-7 p.m. salsa festival in the streets on Suffolk Avenue at Brentwood Road -- headliners include Tito Puente Jr. It's all a warm up to June 1's grand parade down Fifth Avenue, which steps off at noon (631-231-7460, teatroyerbabruja.org).
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i just installed my transmission mount today and when i was tightening down the 17mm bolt i heard a pop and now it won't tighten or loosen.
can i just ignore it or do i need to replace?
This is a discussion on bolt popped? within the Transmission & AWD forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; i just installed my transmission mount today and when i was tightening down the 17mm bolt i heard a pop ...
i just installed my transmission mount today and when i was tightening down the 17mm bolt i heard a pop and now it won't tighten or loosen.
can i just ignore it or do i need to replace?
When you say it wont tighten or loosen, is the bolt spinning in place or is it stuck (doesn't rotate either direction)?
the bolt spins
it takes a little effort to make it spin
i can't do it by hand.
the crossmember is still tight onto the frame
If I am not mistaken I believe the bolt you are referring to gets threaded to a welded nut. Sounds like the welds on that nut let go thus the spinning but not tightening nor loosening.
I'm assuming the bolt was almost fully tightened when you heard the "pop" which would also explain why its difficult to spin the bolt. It may be tight at the moment, but you are at risk of it backing out over time. I would look into getting back there and tack welding the nut back on or finding another means of fully securing that bolt on.
ok i'm not too sure how i'm gonna be able to do that *tack welding the nut* what other means are out there for me?
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it literraly popped close to 75ft-lb. how do even get access to that area to tack/chemical?
Unfortunately by making a hole through the inside of the car. If you can't/don't want to tack-weld the nut back on you could probably use a socket on the nut while you tighten the bolt, which if that's the route you choose to go I would use a lock washer. I recommend tack-welding it back on however.
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Came here from your other thread.
You said you were going to use anti-seize on your bolts... did you use anti-seize on the bolt that broke? If so, I'm guessing your bolt broke because it was over-torqued. Anti-seize, as the name indicate, prevents seizing... typically used with stainless steel hardware. However, it also acts as a lubricant. According to various anti-seize manufacturer specifications, bolt torque should be reduced by 15-30% when using anti-seize on a bolted joint that calls out a "dry" torque.
So if whatever manual you were using to you to torque to 75 ft-lb, then you likely should have used a lower value - something like 53 ft-lb.
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i didn't not use any anti seize on the bolts
i had 2 separate body shops look at it and for now it's ok because the bolt is torqued down enough to hold *bolt unwilling to spin by hand* and i was told to keep an eye on it. they're looking to charge about 200-300 to fix this. is that a decent price or am i getting shafted?
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Boris Johnson is "keeping his powder dry" for a potential Tory leadership bid before the 2015 general election, the Standard has learned.
Sources close to the London Mayor said that although his return to Parliament was "more likely" after the poll, he ruled nothing out. He hopes to fulfil his vow to see out his full second term at City Hall — but could do so while being an MP for his final year.
The possibility follows reports that Mr Johnson had told party figures close to David Cameron that he had no desire to go for any seat in 2015.
Sources dismissed the suggestion he had agreed not to stand at the general election, adding that the Mayor "does not give guarantees".
They also played down reports that he had only pledged not to fight the safe London seat of Croydon South, where current MP Richard Ottoway is standing down, saying only that it was a "less likely" option. One well-placed source said: "This is all about positioning for the future. If I was a betting man I'd say he'll see out his full term. But is that nailed down? No, not at all.
"I wouldn't say it's much more likely that he'll return after 2015, I'd just say it's more likely. But he certainly hasn't ruled out going for it before 2015. He's keeping his powder dry."
Mr Johnson is understood to prefer the option of returning to Parliament in a by-election — possibly in 2016 or 2017 — but his decision to pursue the Tory crown will ultimately depend on Mr Cameron's position at the time.
A friend of the Mayor said: "My view is that Boris will decide it's too early to go for a seat in 2015. It would mean him throwing his hat in the ring as early as this autumn, which may not sit well with his vow to see out his second term.
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Another source said: "The reality is he hasn't made up his mind yet. If he goes back to Westminster, in all likelihood it would be after the general election. He's not 50 yet so he has time on his side. But he isn't ruling anything out. If Cameron's fortunes dip he might be tempted to make the most of it."
Mr Johnson last month confirmed he would stand down from City Hall in 2016 as planned. He is understood to be considering options other than a return to Parliament, including a lucrative role in the private sector or writing more books or TV shows. But most see his return as an MP as a virtual certainty.
His official spokesman said: "The Mayor was elected last year to serve a second four-year term. That's what he is doing. He is determined to help return a Conservative government in 2015."
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Evaluating Complexity
Posted by Jean-Pierre Garbani on December 21, 2010
We're starting to get inquiries about complexity. Key questions are how to evaluate complexity in an IT organization and consequently how to evaluate its impact on availability and performance of applications. Evaluating complexity wouldn't be like evaluating the maturity of IT processes, which is like fixing what's broken, but more like preventive maintenance: understanding what's going to break soon and taking action to prevent the failure.
Volume of application and services certainly has something to do with complexity. Watts Humphrey said that code size (in KLOC: thousands of lines of code) doubles every two years, certainly due to increase in hardware capacity and speed, and this is easily validated by the evolution of operating systems over the past years. It stands to reason that, as a consequence, the total number of errors in the code also doubles every two years.
But code is not the only cause of error: Change, configuration, and capacity are right there, too. Intuitively, the chance of an error in change and configuration would depend on the diversity of infrastructure components and on the volume of changes. Capacity issues would also be dependent on these parameters.
There is also a subjective aspect to complexity: I'm sure that my grandmother would have found an iPhone extremely complex, but my granddaughter finds it extremely simple. There are obviously human, cultural, and organizational factors in evaluating complexity.
Can we define a "complexity index," should we turn to an evaluation model with all its subjectivity, or is the whole thing a wild goose chase?
One approach that I'm contemplating right now is to measure complexity not directly but through its consequences, like evaluating your foot pressure on the accelerator by measuring the speed. For example, we would use metrics like support budget spending; ratio of support people to servers and applications; size of the code; frequency of change requests; time to resolve a category 1 issue; deployment rate of new services; or time spent on unplanned tasks in I&O. The list needs to be drawn up and checked, but it seems that all these things capture the relative complexity of a given IT environment by measuring its effect. Since complexity is a relative notion, this would not be a measure of "absolute complexity" but a measure that is significant for a specific organization.
Your input and comments on this will be greatly appreciated.
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This is increasingly an important topic many organizations.... we're drowning in complexity!
I think we need to consider the perspective thru which expectations around quality attributes such as simplicity / complexity are expressed and managed. For example, a given system may require sophisticated functional capabilities which necessitate a degree of complexity; however we have choices as to how we manage that complexity. Do we manage it in a way that hides complexity and yields agility / simplicity for business consumers but forces development and operations staff to deal with increased complexity, and potentially decreased availability?
I'd also be interested in techniques, patterns, etc (eg: proper functional system decomposition and interface standardization) to manage complexity holistically and the inherent quality trade off's in those choices.
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220.8, fat percentage 46.8. Down point2. Better than nothing, or the gain I felt this week as I used food to deal with stress. It wasn't volume, but it was too much comfort food, not enough veggies.
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Dog Breeder Arrested For Animal Cruelty
He's a registered dog breeder, but now a man from Archer is also an inmate at the Alachua County Jail, charged with animal cruelty, and now animal control officers have seized his pit bulls.
38-year-old James Earl Dennis was arrested Wednesday on one count of "Causing pain, death, cruelty and suffering to animals."
He also faces two counts of "Abandonment and confinement without food, water, or exercise."
Alachua County Animal Control officers seized 26 pit bulls from his home Thursday, and say many of them had mange and sores from where the chains around their necks have rubbed them raw.
"Some of the dogs that were impounded were tied to heavy chains. one of the chains involved weighed 18 pounds," said Vernon Sawyer from Alachua County Animal Services.
Dennis sells pit bulls and runs a website, DiamondPits.com, where he offers potential buyers advice on how to be an responsible pet owner.
He is being held on 55-thousand dollars bond.
By David Hamilton/WCJB TV 20 News
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