Recent content by The-Jake

I vote Kurokasumi for president.

I resent those guys too, and I am an atheist. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.[/Dobbs] I spy a derail! QUICK EVERYONE LOOK OVER THERE IT'S A PUPPY PUPPIES ARE SO CUTE

I'd ban problems. Bam, world peace. I don't know why you chuckleheads haven't got it all figured out like me. :frogc00l:

That's government. Your argument seems to me to be that people are controlled by either people or government. This argument doesn't make a lot of sense, since governments are made out of people and nothing else. I— Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek.

Wealth is not zero-sum. Making yourself more wealthy does not necessarily entail making others less wealthy. Certainly it happens, which is evidence that the market is not always right, but leaping from there to "The profit motive is always destructive no exceptions" is just another perfect...

Any political system can work for a population size that is sufficiently small. The true test of whether a system is practical is how gracefully it handles the population size increasing towards infinity, because that's when you start to see the effects fundamentally inherent in The Bell Curve...

Most of my favorites (Callahan's, Dexter (only the first one), Discworld, Dresden Files, Wizard of Oz (only the ones by L. Frank Baum) (MUCH better than that stupid film), Robert Asprin's Myth, Narnia, Rick Cook's Wizardry (excluding the first one), Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time)...

Oh, hi. Your basic assumption, that there is a universal woman code, is flawed, as, even if there are trends, different women do not all have identical standards. Even if they did, not all women are in the same situation. I'll just leave this here...

If I had to spend eternity with one game, it would have to be one with procedurally-generated content. No matter how expansive or how much of a masterwork a game is, if it has the same content every playthrough, one eternity later you'll be violently sick of it. (Remember, Eternity Is Longer...

I wouldn't have thought that different possible answers to this question existed. Yes, the character of the Nerd is immature, because that's the point of the Nerd: his overreaction is the punchline. We're supposed to laugh at the Nerd, even though we identify with him. (If you didn't, why would...

Thank you. That's the problem with fences: against the honest, you only needed a sign, and against the dishonest, they're ineffective. "Security of the State" is used in the statement of context, yes, but the statement of policy uses "the right of the people". I know it is; that's why I...

True, but a round "going off" and a round "being shot" are completely different things. Without the gun barrel to turn the expanding gases into effective thrust and the back of the chamber to keep thrust from being wasted on the casing, a bullet going off is basically a weakling flashbang. I think.

He is wrong, but she is right by definition, because she is the head of the household and her word is law. Table the issue until you're 18 and you have your own place. Inalienable rights do not go "out of date", access to whatever force needed to keep your rights inviolate foremost among them...

That actually crashed my brain and I had to reboot. I'd've said, "A, when you lose your virginity, you can't have babies anymore? That makes the opposite of sense. And B, hymen integrity and virginity are not one and the same. A woman who's never had sex might've had her hymen torn by...

Which non-zero number? For two different non-zero numbers, is the number of zeroes needed different? (Hint: there exists no correct answer because the question is nonsense.) 1/0 is not equal to infinity; it is undefined. It makes intuitive sense that it should be infinity, but quite a lot of...