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Some times, but not always. If the "means" ends up fucking up the "end", then you need to reconsider your approach.
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Racist jokes, probably this one:
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Absolutely. If governments have issue with a website calling "Bullshit!", they they should make more of an effort to be transparent about stuff and not assume that what people don't know won't hurt them. Especially when what people don't know involves the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
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The locals from where you want to go. They will tell you what sort of money you'll need, what to look out for and where to go. The UK is pretty diverse, so chances are you'll find someone foreign who can help you out if you are not a dick. If you are the sort of condescending dick though, the Internet is your friend. In fact, if you are a condescending dick, just stick to watching animal porn on the Internet and never leave your home. Ever.
Whatever you do though, don't ever bother walking into any travel agents for advice because they will simply try to sell you some over-priced package and you seriously risk getting stranded at your destination when the agency goes bust a couple days after you fly out. -
He's an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Louisiana. He looks a bit weird. Linus argued that "removing toxic assets would [...] reduce the volatility of banks' stock prices. Because stock is a call option on a firm's assets, this lost volatility will hurt the stock price of distressed banks. Therefore, such banks will only sell toxic assets at above market prices." He likes talking about fraud and bank bailouts. At parties he is also known as Buzz Killington.
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This is not a question, is it?
However, I gather Vatican 'scientists' are probably trying to work their god into whatever scientific theories look promising, which is rather un-fucking-ethical. You can't really bring the element of the supernatural (something unobservable) into a study of the natural world without some serious fuck ups along the way. It's a bit like trying to peel pistachio nuts with boxing gloves on. If you haven't tried this, it becomes increasingly frustrating and futile, with little benefit in the outcome.
Religion and spirituality might be useful in helping people overcome their fear of life and the unknown, but it is only symbolic. Being symbolic, it shouldn't interfere with or influence other aspects of life which have a more pragmatic role in human survival, such as diet or even governing. Philosophy moves along similar lines, but is much closer to science, since it's (mostly) based on reason, but science is really about rationalising the world based on observation and experimentation. Sure, religion funded science for centuries, but only insofar as it served its purposes. When science began contradicting religion, it used its political power to supress knowledge from getting out. That's called a "dick move".
Granted, the Vatican has moved on a bit from the Holy Inquisition, the Crusades and denying the Holocaust, but can you really risk letting them anywhere near real science these days for fear of them fucking it up with their sorry-ass track record? Vatican 'scientists' would only venture out to the stars to shake hands with Jesus or an archangel or something. And to set massive laser guns in orbit so that they can carry on killing brown people, homosexuals, single mothers and Richard Dawkins. -
Well, since they 'used' to work for NASA, I guess they got wise and got rid of them. This undoubtedly demonstrates the need to separate a) the church and state and b) NASA from government funding. I mean, just because a few lunatics got together and decided they hate science, some schools in the USA have to treat Intelligent Design as an alternative to Darwinism. Kinda crazy. I can only imagine some government people told NASA that they should hire some of their crazy Christian brethren 'because, you know, angels might be real and shit so we so should probably get them on board to figure out how to give wings to people'.
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'Vatican scientists'?! They have scientists at the Vatican? Real ones who won't take the Bible and gospels seriously? Is this some sorta trick question?
I can tell you that the Vatican Commandos were a pretty rad band though, shame Moby isn't down with hardcore anymore these days. -
Because people in Greece are too poor to afford swish computers these days and what the hell, the 1970s are coming back into fashion, so you might as well go all retro on each other. Plus the Greek government hasn't embraced the Internet like other EU countries, so there's no real point in a DDos attack. Look out for bearded, AK47-clad, Che Guevara types getting busted in a couple years.
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Whenever I hear 'Tea Party', I think of that bit in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back where they're in Hollywood, get busted by the security guard and makes them suck each other off, finishing with 'Ooooh, what a lovely tea party'.
The Tea Party are the political equivalent of evangelical Christians who don't believe in evolution and hate everything that doesn't comply with their literal interpretation of the Bible. They really hate Obama for being black, but they won't say it directly. Instead they claim all sorts of random shit that make Dubya sound as intelligent as a theoretical physicist. -
First off, I should probably tell you to come down and call of the mob from showing up on my front door. I've got stuff to do int he morning and can't be dealing with angry peasants armed with pitchforks and torches.
Secondly, I should probably point out that the above comment was part of an article that included other funny (or dumb, you decide) comments. In case you actually think that everything in Crucial 'Zine is meant to be taken seriously (well, ok, it should), you can always assume that we are perpetually drunk, stoned and hanging out at cool places with other cool people, doing cool things, like watching Nery Alberto Castillo highlights or discussing appropriate mosh conduct. So yeah, at that point we will come up with a bunch of dark shit that we like to call comedy, which will no doubt read completely out of context five months later.
Still not good enough? OK, here's a semi-intelligent answer.
'Gentlemen' is a word that gets thrown about a lot. Some would say it means someone with good table manners, I think it means someone who has an inflated sense of themself. A 'gentleman' would probably be into chasing the dragon, killing elephants, casually raping younger siblings and upholding an arbitrary status system, all whilst wearing a top-hat. So fuck them. They are stupid. -
'It' depends on what it is. Are you building a pyramid, teleportation or time-travelling device? Perhaps you've decided to build a full-scale mock-up of the Titanic in your back yard. Whatever it is, if there is alcohol, weed or free blowjobs, I'll probably be there, throwing your CDs out of the window and replacing them with mosh-friendly music. Rule of thumb is that if it is crucial, you bet they will come. Hell, they might even bring along more people you don't know or like. If it's half-assed, you can count on people 'totally forgetting about it', having to suddenly do their laundry or simply opting to listen to the new Punch LP for an entire day. So be more specific and tantalise/trick people into coming with cool shit if you honestly think it's crap.
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The sort of idiot who likes to think that punk/hardcore owe a lot to metal or that they are part of metal. The sort of idiot who likes to think that punk/hardcore has naturally progressed to emo or metalcore. The sort of idiot who just simply doesn't 'get it'. Also, tits, vaginas, beer and weed.
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Whatever Charlie Brooker says it is.
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Nah, don't be silly. The belief in ghosts, to me, suggests that one would have to a) believe that can 'soul' exist independently from a body and b) that 'life' continues after the body dies. I find both of these pressumptions ridiculous:
a) What most consider a 'soul', I equate with 'personality', the sort of thing that develops from child-birth. Every tiny bit of influence, impulse or whatever contributes towards the 'mind' of a human being. All of that crap is stored in the human brain. What we like to call a 'soul' is nothing more than the electrical impulses going around in the slush of pink matter. When the heart stops pumping oxygen-carrying blood to the brain, it all shuts down. End of story.
b) You could probably contest my disbelief in the afterlife if you are the sort of person who will believe in fantastical mad shit and superstitions, so I'm not going to bother giving you an elaborate answer to this. So basically when the lights go out, the fucking go out and there is nothing to suggest that there is anything there. -
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Yeah, I have hooked up this super nifty cold fusion device to my Sega Gamegear, so I never run out of juice when I'm kicking ass at "Columns". I got it dirt cheap from some mad Russian-looking dude down town in Athens named Yuri. Crazy guy. It was like 10 am and he was already drunk and talking about taking over the world with communism or something.
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I don't think he sold his soul to the devil. What else is the THIRD party (in what is effectively a bi-partisan system) going to do when presented with this situation? Stay on side-lines pretending to make change (what I refer to as “Obama change”), or attempt to influence what policies go through? Chances are they will utterly fail at the latter, but wouldn't you want them to have some experience in running a country before you vote them in power next time? Think of it as an internship, only they have the power to pull out when they've had enough and overthrow the government. The only cooler internship I can think of would be to work at Revelation or Bridge Nine Records, just for the sheer amount of rare and cool records they have and discount you'd probably get.
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