Haha I didn't know that!

If I saw this on the side of the cart, I would never ever drunkenly order chicken over rice at 4AM. Goddammit, new comment system - it says halal!

Nope!

Say what you will - as far as game design goes, the news broadcast POV thing is pretty clever.

They don't look sillier. They look more like normal animals, and less like monsters.

My point is a response to your first three sentences, which question how this brings us closer to self aware robots. I didn't see your other post, I just responded to this one.

It passed the test...which means we were able to design something that passed the test, which means that we are closer to understanding what causes something to be able to pass the test, which means we maybe understand what it means to be able to pass the test a little better.

The Jurassic Park theme was the *second* thing that popped into my head.

Right, but if doctors were better trained to handle things those laws wouldn't be such a big deal.

It's because they already reach the wider audience with the ads they have. Men who need cleaning products trust the moms in the ads.

We shouldn't pretend that there aren't legitimate medical reasons that some doctors aren't able to treat people that are overweight - what we should be talking about is why doctors aren't trained to serve people of certain sizes, given the realities of obesity in America.

I was kind of just hoping it was going to be an in continuity piece that happened to be funny.

"Just maybe [Akin] didn't really mean 'legitimate.' Perhaps he meant if 'someone IS really raped' or 'a rape really occurs.'"

I'm down with what you're saying, I'm just saying that they seem to legitimately misunderstand the source of liberal grief, here.

What I don't understand is what the fuck they're calling a gaffe. Ideally, here, "the leftists, liberals, and other miscreants" aren't "pounc[ing] opportunistically, to lie, cheat, and twist (all the while drooling) over a phrase like 'legitimate rape,'" they're pouncing on the fact that the phrase means that any…

"From an evolutionary point of view, Mitt Romney should get 100 percent of the female vote. All of it."

I kind of want the next YA franchise to be that racist one about Pearls and Coals and blackface and "it's not racist! Why is everyone being so mean to me and my book?!" and I love this shit.

They should stop going back to the Martian well on this one.

What's interesting about the Twain quote is that it demonstrates a failing of phonetic spelling: differences of dialect. Twain's pronunciation of "orthographical" has four syllables, while mine has five; his pronunciation of "coherent" has two syllables, and mine three.

I felt the same way about "vacuous blondeness," but I think she's referring to "blondeness" as a stereotype that Barbie exemplifies. I'd be interested to see another translation - it sounds almost as if she means '"vacuous blonde"-ness'.