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I don't follow his blog or anything, but I've got the impression that Martin knows mostly where it's going, he just has a hard time fitting the pieces in place. Like he has an endpoint for, say, Arya, and one for Jaime, etc. But then those arcs impact the main arc and may need to intersect with each...

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So, I finally saw this. I don't know why, but I enjoyed the movie in a very detached way. I could intellectually see the point of most of the scenes, and I thought most of the performances were good at conveying the characters and so on. I just never really found myself feeling involved, though. Ban...

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It's the same as most of these free-market things: because the market isn't actually free, we can't tell if it's privatization or partial privatization that's the problem. The market distortion caused by tax incentives for health insurance is definitely highly debated. It's interesting to compare t...

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I have a very badly tuned meter. I go from "disengagement" where I don't care enough to bother telling you what's wrong straight to "over-sharing" where I just lay things out in their nakedness. I've tried modulating it, and then I get everyone confused.

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The real question is whether your drug use is going to hold you back more than the potential risks of dealing with the problem. If you avoid going to rehab because your career will take a big hit, is the avoidance of that risk worth the risk that your drug use will get out of control enough for you ...

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Doesn't really mean anything, one way or the other. You can be addicted to something and still give it up for something else. But I think probably it's not marijuana you're addicted to, but escape, little doses of pleasure to distract you from the fact that you're not getting enough pleasure. I thi...

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Syrio as Jaqen is a popular theory, but I don't think Ned would knowingly hire a faceless man to protect Arya even if he knew about them beforehand. There's a slight possibility that IF Syrio was a faceless man, he might have become Syrio to fill the Starks' need for a swordmaster to teach a girl fo...

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Uncle J has it right. I'll be thinking of you, man. Stay strong.

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I think the book version was more narrow, because that's what made the chain possible. I kind of understand the removal of the chain, though. Even if the chain made the situation more horrifying for the dying as well as Tyrion. They did do one kind of puzzling thing, though. In the previous episodes...

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From Operation: Market Garden to Operation: Joe's Grease Shack.

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- If you tell me you have a uHaul lined up, I assume that means you have it reserved and will have it ready to load that morning. If you require a pre-weight for claiming DitY move compensation, I expect that to be on your time, not mine. - If I arrange for a crew of volunteers to help your emergenc...

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Yeah, this season they're really having to deal with just how dense the plot from the books is.

Next week - Ships. At. War.

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Raygun wrote:I think he's one of the most perfectly cast characters in the show so far and that's saying a lot! They hit the nail on the head with him. And the bit of screenwriting with him killing Lorch was great.

Arya: It has to be done now!
Ha'Qar: *sigh*

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Yeah. I just read an interview with the actor that's playing him in the upcoming season. He's one of the characters I'm really interested in seeing how they pull off. So how are you feeling about him so far? I'm really loving the back and forth with Arya and Tywin, Arya having HaQar in her back poc...

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I like that things are feeling good for you, but I suggest counseling. There's chill and then there's "letting someone endanger me with a smile".

On the other hand, if this stunt really is some kind of catalyst that helps her get healthy, what do I know?

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Congratulations, man! Spoil her rotten.

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For those of you not wasting time watching TV, Lost Girl is a new show capitalizing on the current wave of fairy tale popularity. It's shot beautifully in the way that everything is nowadays, and the basic premise is alright (woman with freaky powers she doesn't understand turns out to be a succubus...

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There are websites-they can literally take you through it step by step. S&M pretty much bores me, but after reading this I did a search on Google and literally found dozens of websites with step by step pictures and videos. I mean you can learn to fix a washing machine online, why not this? If ...

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Started reading Republic Lost. So far I like the guy's style of writing, but he's trying real hard to not blame people so far. But his descriptions of the corruption situation seem pretty solid so far.

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Cain had me interested slightly with his whole 9-9-9 thing. Not sold completely, but I like the willingness to be bold. And I kind of generally don't mind a President without strong foreign policy credentials/military experience. BUT...he doesn't talk like someone with little experience. He talks li...

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Buddha's still around? I thought he dropped off the earth, like Cain in Discworld.

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Huh, I kind of remember that thread, but I thought I'd gotten a song. Guess mine's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh-0dFvT ... ideo_title.

*flounces off*

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How much are we considering 'science'. Would you be allowed to use a wheel, or fire?

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Except for children's programming in the eighties/nineties, of course.

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Coincidentally, I am now on Oxycodone. I've only had a couple of doses in the last two days, but I don't see what the big deal is. I hurt, take a pill, then I sleep, then I don't notice the open wound in my groin so much. Can't imagine wanting to get that foggy when I'm healthy. Or maybe caffeine an...

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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_cassidy It's an 8 page monster of a read, but the upshot is that banks don't really pursue any of the functions for which they get treated the way they do. Financial manipulation trumps providing services to customers, and we're all suffer...

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Yeah, there's lots of little nuggets like that in the story. Things happening to the pups also tend to reflect things happen to their Stark child as well.

Just started reading Dance, finally. (Thank you Borders bankruptcy!)

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Salvation122 wrote:
Bonefish wrote:Do we still need the USMC? Why can't we just fold it into the army?
A better question is why we need the air force, when long-range strategic bombing is now mostly handled via cruise missile.

Hey!

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I never really paid attention to the funding and such. That just blew my mind.

And the current wars have really broken what the Corps is supposed to be about. They do it partly because they've never been this well funded. I've talked to Marines that haven't drilled an amphibious assault in years.

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But if that's true, what do I do with this finger?

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After watching Dave Ramsey, we have been trying to stay in a budget. Now that we live in Hawaii and the kids are all getting older, the budget is a bit depressing. Three pairs of glasses in the family, soon to be three sets of braces, the school charges $74 per student per marking period to ride the...

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Dude, I hope life stops dressing you out soon. Don't let the Man keep you down.

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Holy shit, I thought you were going to be a perpetual student, like Pauly Shore in Son-in-Law. Congratulations on entering the workforce! Welcome to Hell, here's your accordion.

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We've been using cast iron for almost a decade to help deal with my wife's anemia. The only issue I have is that I can't be lazy and put the skillets in the dishwasher, and I may not season them enough. Love the things, and if you ever have to stop a ninja attack while you're cooking your eggs, you'...

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RE RE RE Spoiler: He knew Cat well enough to have knocked her up with Robb before he left and for her to be extremely upset about him having shot one off into some other chick, to the point that she treats Jon like shit. At some point in the subsequent 15 years, you'd think Ned would have trusted h...

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Hobbits fucking dog suits!

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Again, haven't seen it, but it's probably doing well because television is such a creative wasteland that "different" has replaced "good". Having Elijah Wood in it doesn't hurt.

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Crazy Elf wrote:Dog suit.

I'm sorry, I thought we'd had this talk already. Like a week after you linked the Australian ad for the show, I heard about the American version. Haven't watched it yet, but I laugh every time there's another article, and not cause the show's funny.

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How do you know when you've found the one is the question? You don't. You don't ever know. But that's okay, you don't have to know. And the question itself is probably meaningless, anyway: there's almost certainly no "one" person for everyone. What there are, instead, are people, who fit ...

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I think Ted Nugent counts as a bit irrational. While I'm not keen on letting a lot of violent thugs walk, I don't get how myopic people get when it comes to prisoner rights. You actually don't have to be a violent threat to society at large to end up in prison, and the overcrowding puts the lives o...

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The thing that gets me is, that one tweet said that they'd released the kraken on those guys. All they did was tip off the FBI. Nothing says "tough guy" like going and telling Mom on a dude. The line is "snitches get stitches", not "snitches get reported to the appropriate a...

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It's possible but space geeks are far more anal than history geeks. And can you imagine the effects budget for the zero gravity boobs alone?

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Everyone is acting with imperfect information and fighting with the army they have instead of the one they want. Which is part of the charm. This. A thousand times. It's taken some getting used to, but I also kind of dig how a lot of things the reader learns about through rumour before going to a c...

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But at the same time: I never prevented her from going out partying with her friends, who are almost universally male. It doesn't work that way, unfortunately. You don't get to give her permission to do things, and then buy permission for you to do things with that. One doesn't effect the other. An...

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I feel for ya, Bone. You'll never understand "women", and there is no one way to be in love. Try to hang out with decent people and it'll at least improve your chances at finding a less crazy woman, then just try to understand her (you'll never get there, either, but it's at least a little...

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Oh, also: http://oi56.tinypic.com/qqvol0.jpg EVERY PAGE. And yes, Daenarys's guard is the son. The book does a better job of explaining her mental state, but that happens with a lot of characters. Everyone is acting with imperfect information and fighting with the army they have instead of the one ...

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There's a sleepover at my house, so I don't get to watch Game of Thrones. This is killing me a little.

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Uh oh. Ned's fucked. Run, Arya! (Syrio's the shit.) Go, Robb! We may be wholly dependent upon the imp for hahas, I think. Ohhhhh Shit. Look out, John Snow. Better figure out how to make matches. Barristan was pretty pissed. He better come back and start stompin' on some asses. Spring Ned and join u...

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I think there are two angles to it - rights and, for lack of a better term, practicality. We started off the assumption that the individual is pretty well sacrosanct in America. To prevent the State from locking people up for bad reasons like political dissent, the onus is placed on law enforcement ...

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