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Judge hits Beatles MP3 seller with restraining order - Ars Technica

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:49:45 GMT

I'm turning 17 today. Tell me some things you wish you'd known at my age : AskReddit

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:43:40 GMT

Audentes fortuna iuvat Fortune favors the bold

I was a Scientologist for 3 years. My mother is still brainwashed, and doesn't know I'm actively protesting the cult. AMA : IAmA

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:33:09 GMT

Your hypotheticals in regards to alcoholism and scientology are too simplistically constructed to relate to reality.

Alcoholism is way more complex than a binary choice of violent or non-violent. Even if you have non-violent drunks, it impacts their lives and the lives of those who care about them in negative ways. It is self-destructive physically in terms of health, and mentally in terms of escapism and other psychological reasons. At the very least, it harms those who care because it will unnaturally shorten the lives of the victims, and decrease the quality of that shortened time in myriad ways.

Despite what the son has said here, there are similarities in this scientology situation. Working 3 jobs to support a "hobby" is not healthy. A marriage that has learned to subsist on grating tolerance and holding tongue because it was almost destroyed is not happy.

The happiness, if there exists any, is but a shallow and flimsy facade that turns ugly at the drop of a hat when challenged. It is not a real and healthy kind, it is a poor band-aid that costs tons of money to buy over and over for a wound it itself causes. Like a hard drug, over time it comes to cause how low you feel all the time instead of normal, and its chemical-induced high brings you back to normal. You ignore all about it that causes you pain and suffering. You develop logical fallacies and shady defense mechanisms to support its continuation. It is happiness in name only, and if we were able to visibly look under the hood, you'd see so much damage in there you'd be at a loss for how she continues to run.

She is suffering with a smile on her face, that comes from something that takes 3 jobs to buy and makes her hate her loved ones. I have my relatively simple annoyances for religions, but scientology is something that must be destroyed.

Candide/Chapter 21 - Wikisource

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:26:12 GMT

"But then, to what end," said Candide, "was the world formed?"

"To make us mad," said Martin.

"Do you think," said Candide, "that mankind always massacred one another as they do now? Were they always guilty of lies, fraud, treachery, ingratitude, inconstancy, envy, ambition, and cruelty? Were they always thieves, fools, cowards, gluttons, drunkards, misers, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, and hypocrites?"

To Restore Democracy: First Abolish Corporate Personhood | Thom Hartmann

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:16:47 GMT

Another great irony of this event is that the Bill of Rights was designed to protect human persons because of their vulnerability in relations with other human persons who may be much more powerful. But corporations are bestowed with potential immortality, can change their identity in a day, or even tear off parts of themselves and instantly turn those parts into entirely new “persons.” Yet regardless of all these superhuman powers, corporations are now considered persons.

What can Windows do that Linux can't? - Ubuntu Forums

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:19:13 GMT

2 is not an anwser , it's an error code. the universe is saying ' Error 42: meaning to universe not found '

6 People Who Secretly Ruled The World | Cracked.com

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:53:33 GMT

Yelu's system of taxation and governance proved too profitable to ignore. So much so that even Genghis's successor, Ogedei, kept him on staff to run the bureaucracy of Northern China. This from a man who once openly mocked Yelu's insistence to tax cities rather than raze them, saying, "Are you going to weep for the people again?" Yelu's response to Ogedei was that empires could sure be conquered on horseback, but not ruled from them. He's been proven right for about eight consecutive centuries now.

It Isn't Easy Being a Hufflepuff, a Harry Potter fanfic - FanFiction.Net

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:49:11 GMT

Harry had never thought much about Valentine’s Day, mostly because his life had revolved around an evil mad man. He had never had time to think about those sort of things or make those important observations, that it, until now.

It was a wonder to notice what happened to the female population.

Their eyes were softer.

And they spoke quieter.

And they blinked a lot more.

The boys, many of them, were standing straighter.

They fiddled uncomfortably.

And they looked nervous.

Like they forgot something.

And their girlfriends looked at them expectantly

And they began to sweat.