It doesn't matter. Those vaguely worded laws are just a license to bully. They won't shut down youtube, facebook or probably tumblr, but they will shut any site they don't like that looks like its owner doesn't have the resources to put up a fight.

Or you can spit in the ground and then turn it off in the mini-puddle. And then carry the thing. That's going to look awesome!

That's what I say: WHA? Actual spitting may work, but there's no way you get anything other than a burnt finger by doing that

Yeah, that's not disgusting at all :)

I didn't know the quote, but I loved it. It reminds me of somebody who once asked me whether I liked X. I explained for a minute how I felt about X, what parts I do, what parts I don't and why. After that it was like "but do you like them or not", and I was like... you asked me for one bit of information and I gave…

People who would never throw a candy wrapper or bit of paper on the ground happily throw their cigarette butts all over the damn place.

People aren't using opium because it became out of fashion, not because it was banned. The same way heroin use dropped after the 80s, and cocaine use peaked during them. Banning drugs have never stopped people from using them, only from using them all the time and everywhere, and from knowing if what you're using is…

Yes you do, but the same way you don't smoke two packs a day when you're a teenager and live with your parents who don't know you smoke, because sneaking around makes it impossible, not being able to smoke in your car, at work, while shopping, while eating out or at a coffee shop will make it almost impossible to…

There have been studies that show that smoking while driving is as much of a distraction as talking on the phone is. If one thing is banned, the other should too. And so should dipping fries. If they are not it's because people is accustomed to them and it would cause an outrage, but that's the only reason.

Actually there's research about driving while stoned, and it's, well, much less dangerous than driving while drunk. Stoned people don't think they're invincible and have superfast reflexes, they feel quite the contrary (and are right about it).

I think he's deaf at more frequencies than that. :D

Watts are power, not energy, so that doesn't sound that surprising: If the same energy you cause while playing your drums for an hour was compressed in one second it'd leave you deaf (hence power), and the same energy spread over a football field would leave you deaf as well if it was compressed in your room.

I feel like such a smartass today... I read a while back that that's been disproved. What happens is your range moves, and you stop hearing weak sounds but are able to hear louder ones without pain. But if you stop using that, the range gets back to normal again. That is, you're not going to be deaf at 60, or not more…

Wow, that was a real tasty comment. It was almost 60 taste units

yeah... I don't think that exists. It's kind of hard to do, your ear is awesome at doing it, I don't think we can isolate speech from other noise in the same frequency range (your ears, or more precisely, your brain already filter out the other ones). You should pick up an instrument, though, apparently it helps a lot…

That too, (I had no idea what the chances were at any age before today), it's like when they say if you smoke pot you have 25% higher chance of getting this or that mental illness, meaning you have 0.65% instead of 0.5%. Giving this kind of data without a "normal" number to compare it to is kind of sketchy if you ask…

I fucking hate that Rose is the first one, since It's almost impossible to skip but it's the worst of the whole series. Seriously, I was a huge fan of DW as a kid, I caught it on TV and it put me off from starting to watch the new series for two years

So do the slake-moths

Would it really be considering sparing the lives of the animals if they were never alive to begin with? These animals are only bred and raised for their meat, if we're not eating them they won't exist.

IQ tests are not supposed to be affected by that, int he sense that they're supposed to stay away from anything that requires any previous knowledge. That said, IQ tests *are* affected by socioeconomic status, but the question about whether that's a good or a bad thing is moot, since IQ tests only measure one thing:…