diallingwand
DiallingWand
diallingwand

Because state surveillance is for COMMUNISTS.

I feel like the law should be changed so that if you flat out lie to a senate committee, you should never be allowed to 1)practice medicine again and 2)engage in any kind of government work, including receiving public funds.

"The police have not yet followed up the letting agent's tip-off,"

607? That's fucking insane. There were about 550 murders in the UK total last year. Granted it's a smaller country but I wouldn't have expected the police to kill someone twice a day in the US.

That may be true, but not everyone who commits suicide is intent on doing so. It can be and often is a spur of the moment decision facilitated by easy access to effective methods like guns.

So Nick Frost isn't the best photographer ever.

I remember reading that some Republicans had openly admitted to deliberate poor government on the grounds that it would put people off government in general if it was completely inept.

Most hosts don't publish the results afterwards?

J.K Rowling famously was told by her publishers to use her initials so that boys wouldn't refuse to read a book written by a woman.

The examples of amazon and netflix are typical marketing manipulation: what can we present you with that will make you consume more of our product? Facebook's experiment was (as you glossed over) not covered by their terms of service and was explicitly an attempt to alter people's emotional states, not an obvious

The best example is always "ough". Rough, plough, through, though, borough. 5 (at least) pronunciations of the same 4 letter part.

Wasn't it the case that there was no mention of research in the terms of service when the experiment was actually carried out?

That was the point, yes.

An earthquake and a volcano, and they've not even legalised gay marriage. Crazy.

Do you have a source for the bolded part? I've seen it claimed the other way (it'll give people ideas, indulging the feelings makes them stronger etc.) but never seen any research.

As great as technology and engineering are, I can't get excited about more effective killing machines.

I always just assumed it made them last longer.

Quantum of Solace was worse than any of the Brosnan films.

IIRC, official fifa rules prohibit mixed games above the age of 11.