Why is the sinking of the Titanic an American tragedy? It was a British ship, with fewer Americans on-board than British (not to forget the other 26 nationalities) , with the sinking happening closer to Newfoundland (at the time a British colony, today a Canadian province) than America. Unless there's some maritime…

This is like a pre-alpha and it's about as unpolished as it probably gets, he even mentioned this in the video. Although I do agree that by virtue of technologies that go into flying spacecrafts, a collision with a static object shouldn't even be possible seeing that certainly there's some onboard computer that deals…

Got it.

Yes I get that, completely, but it almost makes it seem like naps => more likely to die at an early age; and yes, I know that this was explained not to be the case, but the fact that there's a need to explain that indicates that it is somewhat confusing. Maybe something along the lines of "unusually long naps may be…

But how about the fact that when I lived in Italy, the "riposto" (same thing as the "siesta" which is more well known among English speaking folk) or the afternoon nap was a way of life. Granted I lived in a town (Capua) but every day between 1 and 3 or so, all shops closed because the owners/workers went home for a…

The Z-5500? If so, I got to agree.

The max I ever had was 3 - basically had an orgasm, continued to have sex, had one again, continued, and had the last one where I was basically ejaculating cobwebs - to this day (~ a decade later) I still recall the pain within about 10 minutes of laying on the bed wondering if something was seriously wrong. It's…

Racist? Whaaa??!!

To say nothing of the fact these locusts are plaguing Canadian cities too with their blood money in exactly the same fashion. Vancouver is just one example, Calgary and Toronto are getting there.

Yes and yes. The money point was an example, not the point. Maybe Jesus just didn't phrase that 99.99% of us comment appropriately, which is what I was addressing, not Mozart's mastery of this or stupidity at that.

No, not what I implied. I know of Mozart's talents quite intimately, I studied his music, read many books and have lived on nothing but classical music for most of my life (not just Mozart) but what I was referring to was that comment about how (and I quote) "...99.99-percent of us don't have a tiny fraction of the…

Mozart was horrible with money. Budgeting, spending, saving, you name it, he was fiscally retarded. You assume that "genius" is all encompassing, but it really isn't. I mean not to sound like the fool and mediocrity that I am (I admit it) but genius is really something that is in the proverbial eye of the beholder.…

HL2 was my first PC game! In a way, HL2 actually made me learn about the PC, up to which point I didn't even know it was possible to order parts and assemble a system. I thought if one wanted a PC, it had to be a Compaq or Gateway or whatever was "in" on the retail level at that point. HL2 will always hold a very…

You might have tripped one too many times comrade, my mistake has already been settled a few posts back. But you're right, I was mistaken. Sorry to all out there who were offended by the bad rep I might have caused your choice of drug.

You are right, my bad.

No, if you want to know what it looks like when you take LSD, take a gander at this (don't worry, you'll have the chance not to view the photos after the jump)

Yes, the typical American response, except of course that if it boiled down to your government being in such dire straits that you had to invade a sovereign nation, you'd probably already be up to the teeth in other wars. Wars do bankrupt countries, I hope you understand that, and America isn't doing so well…

I had a geography teacher in high school, this was back in the early 90's, who seemed to be stuck on telling us repeatedly that World War 3 will break out over natural resources, and that it will likely be triggered by a conflict between India and Pakistan, and it will be over water. I have been reading more over the…

The two top players in this regard are Russia and Canada. We have the land for massive population explosion, we have fresh water and basically all the natural resources the world needs. I'm sorry but realistically, the US is not in a very good position at all. You already are faced with problems that are quite…

A Romanov working on a dairy farm?!