Recent content by AlexFromOmaha

You actually match our own stereotypes pretty closely. The East Coast is generally made up of pretentious and insular types. They are, in fact, Better Than You, unless they have the misfortune of being from New Jersey. The reasons why they're Better Than You depends on the individual place...

I say this as someone who has not owned an Apple product besides an iPod since the 80's, but I think this is pretty brilliant. Apple just subverted one of Win7's most hyped selling points with a cheaper, more user-friendly alternative. Given Apple's real talent and experience in...

What this actually sounds like is the budget, most notably the art budget, running dry. The physics engines themselves are open source. The implementation of them is not. Also, the animations are not created by a physics engine. A programmer/artist team actually needs to take the input...

I like how the OP can declare that anyone who disagrees with him is a troll that should be modded. Great display of intelligence there. Anyways, the War of 1812 was an embarrassment to Britain. Britain's legendary navy was neutered and Britain lost its ability to manipulate its old colony...

Haven't seen an intelligent thread yet. I've seen a lot of people pretend to be intelligent. Big difference between faking it around people who don't know and being it around people who do.

How do random, senseless acts of violence encourage a greater appreciation of life? You must live in a different world than I do, because I'm pretty sure we already know this is the opposite of the truth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7buwlNK8ic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7Rko8vrxPE

I would drop three day suspensions on everyone who starts a thread like this. I suppose that means I can't be a moderator, eh?

I'm proud to say that I've returned two wallets without taking any cash from either. In regards to the OP, though, I definitely had fun looking through both of them. Losing their sense of privacy to satisfy my curiosity was my finders fee.

Recursive acronyms aren't paradoxical or rare. For example, GNU means GNU's Not Unix. Bonus points if you can figure out how Microsoft's new search engine got its name. EDIT: Typo fixed!

Woman pursuing a career in research science. I think that about covers it. It's weird, though. It's not that people don't want me to succeed. It's not that people think, in general abstract terms, that women aren't smart or belong at home or can't be successful. It's just that there...

Hey, look, a new topic starter who has no clue. Haven't seen that yet this hour. You think we keep military bases overseas for stability reasons? Japan? Germany? Australia? They're totally unstable. They'll collapse at a moment's notice, and only the Pentagon knows it. Yep. Even if...

You're thinking too hard here. "If I build one house, I am not a famous architect. If I treat one sick person, I am not a famous doctor. If I write one essay, I am not a famous journalist. But if I screw just one goat..." The much simpler patch is that no amount of good overwrites evil...

Enlighten you? Sure. The link to the bill was in the original post long before you posted this. Reading comprehension is an awesome skill.

Wait, wait, wait, what? The federal government has no jurisdiction over federal law? The legislative branch of the federal government is out of its jurisdiction when legislating?

Couple points: One, votes for such amendments are done one at a time. That is, voting for or against that has no impact on the rest of the bill. Two, what makes you think that continuing to use wickedly overpriced mercenaries is a good idea?