Recent content by Aurini

Hmm, you're tempting me - it sounds like one heck of a movie - but I'm standing by my boycott of Jim Carey after his ignorant, scatalogical, gun-control video, especially given the hypocrisy of playing a vigilante character. Jim Carey has the right to hire armed guards and engage in vigilante...

I consider myself a failure, if a Liberal isn't calling me a racist nazi. >D It's funny, there's a distinct flavour of sociopathy to that progressive/communist ethic: you're supposed to value these abstract values such as 'humanity' and 'charity' and 'environmentalism', all of which are ill...

Here's the thing; the socialist Nordic countries work *despite* socialism, not because of it. With small, culturally homogeneaic peoples, there's a strong pressure not to abuse the system. Furthermore, it's easy to find the bureaucrat who makes the decisions, and explain to them why a new...

Just a few comments on where the left has got us: The Welfare State has destroyed the black underclass, by offering welfare benefits to single moms, driving men out of the households. The result is a criminal underclass, where young boys are without father figures, and grow up to engage in...

Good lord, I couldn't care less about this movie. My apathy is so profound that it's at risk of infecting The Avengers - a franchise that I've loved so far, and am looking forward to. Why do they have to keep shoving this garbage down our throats? Reboot after reboot, remake following remake...

Ex-military here, who rides a motorcycles; I understand defensive technology. So, here is my response to people who complain about certain elements of Ironman being 'unrealistic' when the whole premise of his superman suit is unrealistic from the get go. Armor, and helmets specifically...

Says who? The Drake Equation requires a number of unknown variable to be plugged into it; Robin Hanson wrote an extensive mathematical proof showing that the difference between 'gateways' of somewhat-improbable occurrence and extremely-improbable occurence are impossible to distinguish, when...

Glad to hear you're of Scottish descent. Those Irish are a savage, uncouth race that make the rest of Europe look like a civilized country by comparison.