Recent content by petrolinus

Woah, finally one guy I can agree with. I think at least half of you people who suggested something ridiculously brutal are f****ng hypocrites (The other half was joking, I hope). If somebody had started a poll along the lines of "should marijuana be legalized?", there would have been a 90...

My image of Canada has largely been shaped by the songs of "The Arrogant Worms": "'Cause we've got rocks and trees and trees and rocks and rocks and trees and trees and rocks, and... water!" Seriously though, I'd love to go on vacation there some day. Also, if I shouldn't want to see another...

"Why do people hate Obama...?" Personally, I think that humanity mostly is a flock of sheep that will repeat and eventually believe anything it is told if the demagogue is just patient enough. I'm not an expert on US media, but from the few I've seen it seems that many of "your" (please...

I'm not sure what you mean by "100 billion times harder"... I'd assume you are talking about the density of the material: One teaspoon (or so) of neutron matter weighs about as much as a supertanker. This is because the atom's electrons have been drawn into the protons of the nucleus ("electron...

Why is everyone trying to compare the crimes committed by the Nazi and the Soviet regimes? To say that one of the two was better than the other sounds a lot like supporting the former. How are you going to do the comparison, anyway - the number of people killed in the respective concentration...

Well thank you, and thank you. =) Yeah, you have a point there considering his charisma - especially if one compares Blair to his unfortunate succesor... However, he would need the support of the majority (or a large part) of Europe's population. I'm from Germany, for example, and the...

I think you're referring to the popular idea that the gold standard should have been kept. The problem with a fixed amount of money is that although you surely have no inflation, you are likely to get deflation, which is the opposite but just as bad. With a constant amount of money and an...

Matisyahu: King Without a Crown Friggin' awesome.

Of course, it's the computer. Either videogames or webcomics or "stubleupon", the latter being the most dangerous by far. I neither drink nor smoke, but stumbleupon is f***ing addictive (you surely know that).

I think it shouldn't be too hard to find out about the purpose of the EU president in Wikipedia, right? I wouldn't call the EU irrelevant or unimportant, as it has quite a lot of power over 27 countries and half a billion people (really!). First of all: there are three major institutions in...