Recent content by Echelon_3

I think we have no choice but to have free will.

I don't think so, I mean the Canadian Airborne Regiment was disbanded in the 90s. Really? Where I live, practically every new housing development is a subdivision. And I've heard horror stories about the cookie-cutter houses in southern Ontario being without number.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqUv3xCew9E Iron Maiden - Wrathchild New metal is shite.

A lot of our laws today are derived from basic human moral intuitions which handily predate the Bible. Commandments one, three, and four are all quite obvious control mechanisms to keep the faithful in line. Commandment two just plain doesn't make sense - It almost seems to be prohibiting...

I can only guess at the reasoning since I'm a decidedly secular person. I would hazard a guess that people need religion to: - Make them feel like a part of a greater collective (the same reason people go batshit with nationalism, etc.) - Answer their questions, from "What is the meaning...

So why give people another, powerful reason to act ill towards each other? Especially one that isn't as obviously necessary as sex or as grudgingly necessary as money.

France - 12 Spain - 13 Germany - 14 Britain - 22 Japan is in the top 10. All the other G8 countries except Russia rank well above the U.S. Japan isn't socialist but does have universal health care. I'm not so sure about Hong Kong but wiki says it has "12 private hospitals and more than...

Hey guys - Sometimes a cake being a lie is just a cake being a lie.

Edited to 'infant survival rate', but you know damn well what I was talking about. Here's the list, if anyone's interested: 1. Iceland 2. Singapore 3. Japan 4. Sweden 5. Norway 6. Hong Kong 7. Finland 8. Czech Republic 9. Switzerland 10. South Korea ----- 28. Cuba...

This is what I always want the angry right-wingers to answer. I heard Dennis Miller on the radio talking about why he opposes "socialism" and how (and I paraphrase): "...in France, they go to work at 10:00 and have six weeks vacation, and don't have to worry about their kid's college tuition...

Fictional enemy? Fictional weapon. - Will pop a zombie's head, or blow off a limb at the very least. - Perfect accuracy due to being a laser. - Can fire 40+ shots before reloading, depending on power setting. - Power cells recharge from any heat source (can charge very quickly by...

All life does this, blame natural selection for selecting individuals. In fact, humans are the only animal which is capable of looking at the greater whole, can conceive of morality, and can go against what our biological programming tells us to do - Most of the time. Humans are neither good...

If it's a contest, how's it judged?

What's the point of an impracticality contest? Whoever spends the most time gluing one thing to another till it fills the screen?

25mm Heavy Sniper