Bulldrek v3.0

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Buttsex!

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Interestingly, a lot of people experience those activating effects of Wellbutrin as mildly agitating and fairly uncomfortable. That's one of the reasons it is generally thought of as not particularly good for anxiety.

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See, I think we've been seeing only a little bit of the evolution of interfaces with smartphones. Some of it is great innovation, some of it is still just spandrels caused by hardware limitations, and at this point some of it is just fad. I think Microsoft has done this in the past, trying to track ...

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He asked if I wanted to go with him. I said yes. I asked Heavy D if he wanted to go with us. He said yes. . . . Now, the question is, can we create a singularity while we're there, and if so, how should we go about doing that? How anybody reads this without thinking it's a euphemism for surreptitio...

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Hooray for return to Bulldrek.

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Nearly everyone was a warrior, in that "Hey there's about 50,000 of us dudes around so I guess we'd all better grab a spear." Israel works kind of the same way.

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Most dust in the interior of homes are bits of people that have come loose.

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Paul, the problem is that soft drinks have become just as much a part of the American diet as...

I met a 26 year old girl the other day who drinks six liters of cola every day. She's in the hospital. It's not a coincidence.

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Light moves at the same speed for all observers. That is to say that if you're watching me fly past at near the speed of light you'll see light leaving my cigarette at exactly the speed of light even in the direction of my travel. I, moving along with the cigarette, will see the same light traveling...

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If you're traveling along at the speed of light, and you have a mirror in your hand, held out in front of you, can you see yourself in it? Uh, yes. Perfectly. This is the whole point of special relativity. We'll assume, of course, that you mean "very near the speed of light," to avoid tha...

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You were impressed by the sacks full of grains and beans too, huh?

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The Mexican family is drinking a terrifying amount of cola. Mmm . . . diabetes. The Poles, as usual, are clearly just trying to gross people out.

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I'm sorry, a what now?

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he seems at least symptomatic to me. His thinking appears pretty disordered, and he's fairly delusional and socially dysfunctional. I thought the big thing about schizophrenia was that you don't perceive reality correctly. That you see and hear shit that isn't there, you know. The hallucinations ar...

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The guy seems rather obviously schizophrenic, and I'm fairly good at spotting actors. I don't think he looks even a little schizophrenic, but he certainly looks seriously mentally ill. I'm also not totally surprised to hear that he's still alive. He took quite a bit of head trauma, but I didn't see...

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The problem we have is that most insurances know it's a fairly benign condition, so they consider it a cosmetic treatment and won't cover it.

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The medicine is really very expensive. The less-expensive generic (available only since 2004) is $250 for a 2-week course.

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Well, at the very least, you're going to need some water, or some food. The question is if I should have to give them to you, even if you can't afford them, in perpetuity. You mean if a person remains in a state of disabling starvation or dehydration? Then, uh, yes. It's generally agreed upon that ...

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Well, if I'm dying of thirst or starving to death, it's going to be harder for me to get work, too, isn't it?

Those are both conditions that require immediate health care.

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Somehow I have the feeling that the health insurance market in the US has nothing to do with supply and demand. Demand is very high -- very high, given the ever-increasing corpulence of the nation -- and supply isn't increased to meet the demand, and that's not because there aren't enough doctors a...

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Why does this market deserve special treatment?

Because, in general, a greater need for healthcare causes a decreased ability to pay for it.

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Damn, Deev, if we could get people here to approach the end of life the way you and your parents did . . . . well, damn, things would be a lot better here. I can never really tell when you're being sarcastic. If you're not being sarcastic, how would that improve things in the U.S.? You were plannin...

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Damn, Deev, if we could get people here to approach the end of life the way you and your parents did . . . . well, damn, things would be a lot better here.

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Why, after a person has eaten asparagus, does pee smell so strongly of it the next day? Ah, this one I know. Asparagus incorporates sulfur into organic acids, and you excrete several sulfur compounds. I also know that not everyone is capable of smelling it, but if your girlfriend is capable of smel...

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I mean, I knew the Italians came in during the Renaissance and were insufferable pricks about how smart they were, but you'd think that'd just spur further growth as the two cultures took stuff in wildly different directions before synthesizing each other's views and continuing to build on it. Inst...

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One might make the assertion, rather defensible I think, that Soldier of Legitimate Military Action and Criminal are not exhaustive categories. I don't think it matters whether one agrees with the (rather vague) practical definition of, or the interesting recent uses of the designation of "unla...

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Either these individuals are criminals or soldiers. You don't get to have it both ways.

I think, rather, that they're trying to have it neither way.

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Like a charm. As the last one in you get to eat the cookie.

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I don't care so much, but my employer does.

I think youi should rather curtly inform them that you resent the suggestion that the color of your skin affects your job performance, and that you had hoped you worked with people who were past such antique prejudices.

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Now that's just plain rude. Crazy Elf is a grade A cunt, and when you don't address him as the rancid, dripping cunt that he is then you're insulting all the effort he's made to appear so pathetic and, well, Australian.

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Yeah, as it turned out the Guide for Democrats to Win in 2008 was simply Napoleon's Battle Plan.

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Mooch: "Cells shit sticky, firm stuff to make them stay together and support the structure of tissues."

Earl: 1,014 words, some of it about termites, and an illustration.

I really ought to hang out with this guy more often.

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I've never once even considered how cells adhere to each other, and this has sent me on a great chase for the answer. Thanks, buddy! I'll stop reading and start typing this week, I promise. Oh dear, this is so very complicated. It varies greatly based on tissue type, but the very general answer is ...

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Why do men, statictically, more often commit suicide by hanging or with a gun and woman slice their wrists and use pills? Obvioiusly this is because men are much smarter than women. Actually, I think the demographics are important, as are certain cultural influences on risk factors. Suicide risk in...

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I've never once even considered how cells adhere to each other, and this has sent me on a great chase for the answer. Thanks, buddy! I'll stop reading and start typing this week, I promise. Oh dear, this is so very complicated. It varies greatly based on tissue type, but the very general answer is ...

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My job, which means, really, my life.We work fairly long hours on fairly twisted schedules, and a whole lot of us moved to this city for work. We have few opportunities to meet people outside of work, and rarely enough free time to cultivate those relationships further, so we wind up socializing amo...

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Are there certain songs that always make you happy? Closer and March of the Pigs by Nine Inch Nails. 46&2 by Tool. Shostakovich 8th String Quartet sad? A song called Before You Go, by an acapella group from Ithaca. want to hack your wrists into shreds? Most dance and popular music, but especial...

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Like hell. Society advances all the time and new issues spring up that need to be dealt with. If you don't adjust things to an ever changing environment you totally fuck your country. Governments pay for more than just social programs. Of course, and I've suggested adjustment, as the decades roll b...

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You do this through debt spending (additionally spurred by lower taxes) in the trough, and repaying that debt in the boom. Unfortunately, that means that in the boom period, you have to hike taxes and interest rates. Voters never, ever like hearing that their taxes will be going up . . . Well there...

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As a general rule, if a band is shitty live, but you like their recordings, then you need to own up to the fact that you like shitty music.

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Yeah. It appears there's this weird phenomenon whereby certain people become highly invested in partiuclar discussions. Sometimes these are even intellectual and philosophical debates.

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I'm with you, Deev. Animalball annoys the crap out of me, but for some reason it's active and Bulldrek isn't.

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Yeah, that's a pretty nice score.

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Yeah, keep an eye on this. It'll be fun. The more established, entrenched Democratic Party politicians Obama puts in place the more his presidency will end up a lot like Bush's.

Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Clinton, and Tom Daschle, so far. It's looking like it could get comical.

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They probably would have mailed you something. Ben & Jerry's is solid on promotions. Although, I guess I got more than usual, since they're alumni from my college and they like to come back and give out free stuff.

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Al Gore in State would be a complete repudiation of Bush

And of sanity, as well.

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Yeah, keep an eye on this. It'll be fun. The more established, entrenched Democratic Party politicians Obama puts in place the more his presidency will end up a lot like Bush's.

He's off to a fabulous start, with Rahm Emmanuel as Chief of Staff

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No, probably not, and no.

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Incidentally, does anyone know if the other $620b in swap lines the Fed has injected into other markets in the last two weeks (without congressional approval) is inflationary? It increases the money supply, I think, unless dollars owned by foreign reserves are counted in the money supply, and I rat...

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I don't think it's a very good idea. I think, rather than give US$2000 for every man, woman, and child in the nation - probably closer to US$4000 when all is said and done - to an industry which has failed, we should allow the market to play itself out, even if that means a temporary recession, whi...

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