<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: NorthernJohnAre you posting from a work PC?NJ, you are one hilarious autistic nut-job, in addition to giving the students a lot of good attention.If you really want me to, I will hunt you down and feed you your own teeth on the street corner in front of where you live. ...

Did you know that1) the government pays for prescription medications for prisoners, and2) sales to US prison inmates accounted for over 20% of the sales of Viagra in 2003?MP

<t>That's not a bad idea. But first we have to install a sucker to whom we can address the asking. Do you think Saddam Hussein would be inclined toward self flattery through generosity?The human mind is an unpredictable system. Every time you ask, it is like pulling the arm on a slot machine. There ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: MarsdenMany in the developing world argue that they should be allowed to ignore copyright lawsPeople have every right to present the reasons they would benefit from gifts. I can't think of when there is ever anything immoral about asking for something. Like spam, asking...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: LongThetaThe difference between us is fundamental and huge: I do not (or at least I hope I do not) hold any fixed opinionsYes, the difference here is one of motivation. One person is seeking a guide to action, another is imagining his own inner beauty. It's like the dif...

<t>Last time Nonius was in Rome, he filled one of those emphysema tanks with nitrous oxide and paid a Slovenian boy to wheel it around behind him like a golf caddy.Maybe that movie "The Talented Mr. Ripley" can provide you with some inspiration?Ahhhhh, the Rome of my youth was a place filled with di...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: SanFranCA2002The profilers know that it is very unusual for adults to do this because of an inherited sense of protectiveness toward those much younger. Kids may shoot kids, but rarely do adults shoot kids. And, by the same reasoning I believe you have not yet reached y...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: MarsdenIf you knew that you or your kids would have probablity X of dying violently due to this war, rather than just members of the military having probablity X of dying violently due to this war, would you still support it?This is ridiculous. One reason I support this...

<t>Quote"I thought I was worth at least £100,000," he said in a telephone interview from Las Vegas, where he is putting in a week gambling about $US3000 in a bid to raise his pot. By Wednesday, he was down $US1000.Yup. This guy is one-of-a-kind.It is interesting that they offered some insight into w...

Amazing. A person risking every penny he has at a casino? Now there's something you don't see every day...MP

What's "crazy" is that this was news. Certainly, the decision to end the 30 could not have been arrived at suddenly. They should have kept the market informed of their progress, or at least created the impression they were doing this, so that nobody could think anyone else was surprised.MP

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: NoniusThe Iraq policy/strategy, even from a right wing perspective, did not make sense. We did not make America, nor the World, safer. This is obvious. Look at the mess there now. It is chaos and it looks like this will evolve into Viet Nam IIThugs are being killed, I d...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: noisereadFirstly, you're assuming that by virtue of being able to pay for something means you are right.Sure, that's how we beat the Nazis, and won the Cold War. That's how we beat slavery, which still persists in poor countries. "Right" is simply a label for rules whic...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: noisereadBut I do think that people who have actually faced such situations would be less quick in raising their battle flags.Even if this is true - and you have no evidence that it is - it still admits the possibility that the quicker people may be right!QuoteOriginall...