If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Why not just prosecute everyone involved? The idiots are on video. Nothing will be done. This fully cooked. The media went for the most emotionally fed click-bait they could find. The story line right now is that the KKK is everywhere and must be destroyed with violence. Police will stand down ever...

This is funny in a if-you-are-going-to-do-something-wrong-at-least-do-it-the-right-way sort of humor.
https://www.inverse.com/article/26957-h ... rtial-arts

deLurch wrote:
Dornier Pfeil wrote:I wish I could donate anti-money to PZ's legal defense fund.
That would be giving it to Richard Carrier.

...but he doesn't mind if you get a little on his face.

Icould happily donate anti-money to both of them.

I wish I could donate anti-money to PZ's legal defense fund.

Because copyright is such a pesky, oppressive, patriarchal invention.
https://archive.is/qPMqM

(The King Estate is notoriously zealous about guarding their copyright privilege.)

It looks like the Greenpeace vandals took too literally the old saw about take only pictures; leave only footprints.

I would say, btw, the Hellcat wasn't so much designed to be a 'zero killer' in some sort of surgical warfare concept, but rather as a 'flying tank' that could out-last and out-hit a zero and, essentially, maul it to death while taking a hell of a pounding. You might find this from Wikipedia article...

another lurker wrote:It was also fun learning to shoot *ahead* of your target, to anticipate where they will go next.

It's called deflection shooting. Hans Joachim Marseille was the undisputed master of it during the war.

Sarkeesian's twitter timeline is like a machine at the moment. She just spouts non-stop rhetoric and people lap it up. Amazing. Her death threat was an absolute gift. Literally couldn't have been better if she had done it herself. Sarkeesian is now a 'pioneer'. http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=anita%2...

Actually both the Hellcat and the Corsair were not particularly maneuvarable compared to the Zero variants. Both American planes were designed to be rugged and survivable, and were quite heavy compared to the much lighter Zero. This meant they had much higher wing loading than the Zero, and thus co...

No, actually it was faster and more maneuverable than the Grumman F6F Hellcat. The issue was with it's carrier-landing certification caused, in part, by Navy requested redesigns in upgrading the armaments. Marine pilots quickly took to the new aircraft as its speed and power gave it a decisive adva...

I really wasn't expecting this site to be where I finally learned what "never turn with a Zeke" actually means, but there you go. Now get me Mykeru back. What the fuck are you talking about? It's a saying from Pac Theatre WW2: assuming that you're American, if you dog-fight a zero, don't try to use...

Idiot of the week: Malia Bouattia, Black Students officer of the British National Union of Students. According to her, a motion that condemns ISIS is "Islamophobic" and a "justification for an American attack". Read more about it here Once planetary resource depletion really starts to tighten aroun...

When I was a little kid I used to make model airplanes and the tail section of my Hercules transport was warped, which meant that I had to hold the plane together for a couple of hours while the plastic glue set (I wasn't intelligent enough to strap it together with rubber bands). The most comforta...

It is very likely that I don't understand Dennett's "compatibilism," which I believe comes from his version of non-strong determinism. If you can take the time, I'd really appreciate an explanation. When I heard the talk the first time, I thought that he was headed towards stochastic determinism as...

Personally I liked Mykeru, and I'm kinda disappointed that you folks wouldn't have aired this pent up grief in front of him. Just sayin'. ;) I agree 100%, and more. Thirded I would miss Mykeru if he left. And, for that matter, as futile as it is to keep up with sprint level posting I would miss nea...

1) No Doxxing.
2) No one speaks for the Pit.

Perhaps those should be front and center the home page or at least a prominent part of the site header.

Yes, okay okay, he was a Beowulf scholar and such, but I meant he wasn't writing a grand history of "I'm going to mirror the depth and complexity of real life moral ambiguity perfectly in my fantasy world," which is what many authors in fantasy and science fiction try to do. In my opinion, writers ...

This is an interesting quote: Frodo tells Sam, â€œThe shadow that bred them can only mock. It cannot make: not real new things of it own. I donâ€Ÿt think it gave life to the orcs. It only ruined them and twisted themâ€ But... I really am not sure that I proved my point exactly. I do think that the...

Agreed. And the main thing I disliked about the LOTR movies was how they skipped the best chapter of the WHOLE FUCKING BOOK. The "Souring of the Shire" is the most profound in the whole trilogy. Damn.... so they screwed up some of the most significant messages. P. Jackson had no proper understandin...

I don't... Meyers has a post up about a brand of vibrator. Just, out of nowhere, with no context, no obvious reason, and no fresh insight. He somehow shoehorns electron microscopes into the post, just to show that he is a scientist and not just a hentai tentacle rape porn mermaind enthusiast. I rec...

and here is an in depth discussion on the topic of orcs being pure evil or redeemable. http://forum.barrowdowns.com/archive/index.php?t-12881.html Am informal poll: My daughter thinks the orcs are redeemable and my wife thinks they are not. They are not. This is because Tolkien was a writer and not...

and here is an in depth discussion on the topic of orcs being pure evil or redeemable. http://forum.barrowdowns.com/archive/index.php?t-12881.html Am informal poll: My daughter thinks the orcs are redeemable and my wife thinks they are not. I tend towards the irredeemable camp. If you want to try y...

This is an interesting quote: Frodo tells Sam, â€œThe shadow that bred them can only mock. It cannot make: not real new things of it own. I donâ€Ÿt think it gave life to the orcs. It only ruined them and twisted themâ€ But... I really am not sure that I proved my point exactly. I do think that the...

Regards the Tolkien censuring over at Khmer Freethought, the selective whinger also seems ignorant of Jordan's opus minimus the seemingly never-ending Wheel of Time series in which most users of magic are women. In fact the insult to the fantasy genre seems an SJWs wet dream, the magic using women'...

http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/10-05-2014/hOCido.gif Jesus Christ I hope that's a toy in the dog's mouth. I'd rather look at a million animated scat gifs than a single animal cruelty one. Don't worry there's no animal cruelty. That's not an animal it's playing with, it's a baby. Sir. You have a new ...

I can't believe Ophie has a post up levering off the assumed sexism is Lord of the Rings. Certainly the book was of it's time but: Galadriel kicked ass from the First Age thru to the end of the Third. Celeborn is generally accepted to be a pussy-whipped toilet slave. It's been years since I read LO...

So now anyone can be a victim if they say so on the internet, asking for evidence is rape apology, and saying they should go to the police is victim blaming. How exactly are we supposed to make the world safer for women if they never report rape? It's obvious to me they don't want a solution at all...

"Dornier" could easily be misheard as "derriere"by A Person Of Limited Hearing Capacity. "Pfeil" is German for "arrow", and arrows are blatantly patriarchical symbols, with their tips and their shafts and their penetration. Thus, Pitter "Dornier Pfeil" is clearly an asspervert, whose sole purpose i...

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha questioningkat 14 September 2014 at 12:23 pm Several years ago, I recall hearing rumors that someone who was a leader in the atheist community was a womanizer and needed to be watched out for. My mind filtered about about twenty or so names and I came up with â€¦â€¦.. Sherm...

BlueShiftRhino wrote:tee hee I just used the word "eschew" on Benson's blog

The word to be really proud of is 'elide'. The SJW really love that one.

I believe it was Dick Strawkins who has a timeline of the whole thing. (If he sees your post he may link it) There was the panel, then elevator guy, then complaining about elevator guy, then dear Muslima. If it doesn't offend you, to I'd like to correct that slightly. There was the panel, then elev...

To think that she actually got paid for that short exercise in feminist piousness makes me think I should have gone into journalism .... We would all have been better served if she just farted on her keyboard and left it at that. Something about monkeys and typewriters just came to mind; If a milli...

Brive1987 wrote:After all the years of arguments it's nice to finally have the magic debate winning word:

"Tauriel". It's 'mellonesque' in its power.

Naming, who was supposed to be a beautiful elf, her after the amino acid that is the principal part of bile could never have ended up well.

Recent Washington Post articles about military hardware making its way into police hands. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/14/want-an-armored-personnel-carrier-for-your-police-force-just-fill-out-this-one-page-form/?wpisrc=nl-wnkpm&wpmm=1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wo...

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2401/2251409388_0eff524839.jpg What you see here is a tank. This tank is used by the local County Sheriff's office. This tank is mainly used to raid businesses for hiring undocumented labor. Why the Sheriff needs a fucking tank to round up a bunch of dishwashers and l...

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2401/2251409388_0eff524839.jpg What you see here is a tank. This tank is used by the local County Sheriff's office. This tank is mainly used to raid businesses for hiring undocumented labor. Why the Sheriff needs a fucking tank to round up a bunch of dishwashers and l...

I tend to view the reaction to Myers piece as signifying something indirect. What we are really seeing is not a straight forward judgement on that post in isolation. What is happening is that the post is being taken by many as the final straw that broke the camels back. His self righteous pontifica...

The big ones that did exist were repealed ... women not being able to vote, women not being treated equally in a court of law, women not being able to inherit, women not being able to own property, etc etc So what is left ? I'm not sure what this particular conversation is about and I don't have ti...

https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/498971130171228160 So Rebecca Watson failed to check in with PZ''s blogpost to display the proper faux outrage, and actually expressed a genuine human emotion. Will wonders never cease. Do I sense a dissent in the ranks. Did she just disappear those of us bo...

PZ Myers doubles down on his own stupidity (last comment from his long incredibly stupid blog post): "Celebrity culture. Fuck it. These people do not have an emotional connection to Robin Williams, the man; itâ€™s fine to like the actor/comedian and enjoy his work, but look at this thread, and my t...

Phil, it's not our place to decide if A+ is "shite". Only Dr. Carrier (as poor McWrong has already denounced it), can decide whether or not to pull life support from it. May I ask for a link to that denunciation? I'm curious to read it. You win. I was under the impression when someone says somethin...

PZ Myers doubles down on his own stupidity (last comment from his long incredibly stupid blog post): "Celebrity culture. Fuck it. These people do not have an emotional connection to Robin Williams, the man; itâ€™s fine to like the actor/comedian and enjoy his work, but look at this thread, and my t...

Having read most of the 'boons comments on XY-gate, it appears they recognise the formula is rational but self-evident and that because it triggers, it does more harm than good. I can see the idea here, in the same way a vet may be triggered by a rational convo about 'nam, a bereaved parent could b...

Yes, somehow you are to blame for being born with perfectly functional limbs, and that you yet haven't been involved in an incident to relinquish one or several of those perfectly functional limbs. It's rather sadistic when you think about it. Able bodied people should be ashamed of themselves. The...

It's finally Dawkins-Throws-PZ-Under-the-Bus Day (everything you see below was either tweeted or re-tweeted by Dawkins): https://twitter.com/analyzedatheist/status/499255688158511104 So all we have to do is wait for Bill Cosby to die or commit suicide. I doubt he is loved by millions any less then ...

Opyt wrote:Phil, it's not our place to decide if A+ is "shite". Only Dr. Carrier (as poor McWrong has already denounced it), can decide whether or not to pull life support from it.

May I ask for a link to that denunciation? I'm curious to read it.

And able-bodied, of course. (I really have to play that card sometimes. Worth at least 25 points) Yes, somehow you are to blame for being born with perfectly functional limbs, and that you yet haven't been involved in an incident to relinquish one or several of those perfectly functional limbs. It'...

Next week I go to the Air Force museum in Dayton (SR-71 fuck yeah!) and the GenCon game convention in Indianapolis. Dress-up... play games... drink late... do it again for three days. woot! I believe you meant "I-75"; as "SR-71" is non-existent in southwest Ohio, and I-71 goes to Cleveland via Colu...

Setting aside whichever side anyone is on concerning Ukraine, how about a pool. How soon do you think it will be before Obama stands up and declares "PEACE IN OUR TIME!" after giving Ukraine the shaft? I think he'll do it on April Fool's Day so that no one will be able to tell if he was kidding or n...

Brive1987 wrote:tl/dr

Start at 1812. Just when, exactly, wasn't the West trying to contain and constrain Russia?

If you want to play the game of stop-touching-me then start a lot earlier then 1812-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_ ... %80%931800

when wasn't Russia trying to expand?

Are you seriously saying that Russia needs more territory? That map you posted just happens to miss about, oh, I dunno, 4/5ths of the rest of fucking Russia. But sure, po' lil Russia is just afwaid of big bad western bully. And their need for a buffer being obvious is, what exactly? The impending i...

it's russia's until they start rolling over other sovereign countries. Then it is not just "russia's" business. It still isn't our business, it becomes Ukraine's problems not the West's. Going to war for the Ukraine so they can keep the Crimea which a majority (well 58%) want to split off is foolis...

http://thisisthinprivilege.tumblr.com/ Whatâ€™s wrong with exercising? . . . -snip- . . . The real problem, in general, is the idea that people must exercise, that we somehow have an obligation to do so, that we have an obligation to be healthy. And thatâ€™s pure shit. There is no ethical requireme...

Ms Benson has put up several posts about the Elan/Diane thing on the plane around Thanksgiving. I think she is making some quite reasonable points, but this bit I've bolded below caught my eye: Mostly Iâ€™m seeing people agreeing that Elanâ€™s first commentary-tweets were ok but his actual confront...

The Social Justice Warriors seek to install themselves as the HR Department of the world, beyond the workplace. Their dogma authorizes them to practice discrimination, in the name of ad-hoc Affirmative Action, without benchmarks for when equality has been achieved. That's the power they want to hav...

Sorry everybody, no algebra for you lot anymore, unless you're Islamic of course. That would be "appropriating culture". Are you chinese? Put down that fucking pasta and throw out your ben & jerry's. But when the appropriation goes the other way it is supposed to be some kind of sad denunciation of...

Tapir, I think you could make a case for the second image showing a Skyraider firing the rockets. True, the tail does have that cropped, angular look of a Skyraider but the remainder of the fuselage is too different in my opinion. The exhausts in particular mean there's no radial engine up front, a...

Were the Soviets "derivative" by "appropriating" the blueprints of the Ta 183 to create their MiG 15? No, they were "keeping it real" However, the TT-30 pistol? Total inauthentic and derivative appropriation of the M1911/M1911A1 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/TT_1.jpg/300p...

Karmakin wrote:At this current junction supply side economics is as rational/skeptical as Bigfoot or creationism.

There has never been a junction where a belief in infinite growth on a finite planet was rational. Temporarily not fatal? Sure. Rational? Never.

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