I interupt Natter for a Christmas Miracle/Virgin Birth -- [link]
No good can come from that.
See also: Jurassic Park.
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
Oz ,'Him'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Aims - Dec 20, 2006 10:05:11 am PST #7258 of 10007
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Sean K - Dec 20, 2006 10:05:28 am PST #7259 of 10007
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'd like to respond to that, because I think in part you may have misconstrued some things I've said, I may have mistated some things, and I may have, in fact, contradicted myself at times. But I have to go away from the computer, and don't have time to assemble a cogent response.
askye - Dec 20, 2006 10:06:33 am PST #7260 of 10007
Thrive to spite them
erika -- when I was going to lunch today I passed a church that said "Check out Jesus. He's alright" and immediately thought of you and The Wire.
Sean K - Dec 20, 2006 10:06:43 am PST #7261 of 10007
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
My summation of the discussion would be "Sean didn't mean any harm by it! He just likes playing with the idea!"
This too.
§ ita § - Dec 20, 2006 10:07:29 am PST #7262 of 10007
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Even if our two strawmen did nothing but meditate, one would be willing to pay $X to make the other quit breathing through his mouth or wash his feet or whatever
That's not very null, is it? My thetical (and oh-so-impractical) society doesn't have any intersecting values placed on anything. Nothing is ever exchanged.
Stealing--does that imply an economy? Would a null economy proposition require everyone to be self sufficient? Or for it to be a commune like environment where everyone gives and takes from the same big pool with no limits placed on what one can give or take? Would that still be null?
Connie Neil - Dec 20, 2006 10:07:51 am PST #7263 of 10007
brillig
"Check out Jesus. He's alright"
"Jesus is just all right with me . . ."
Gudanov - Dec 20, 2006 10:09:03 am PST #7264 of 10007
Coding and Sleeping
Connie beat me to it.
P.M. Marc - Dec 20, 2006 10:10:34 am PST #7265 of 10007
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
N.b. I don't actually know what pari-mutuel betting is, just that it's a point of debate among style guides and anyway kind of a cool word, like passerine or igneous .
I could explain it! It's kind of (and I know this will only make sense in my head) the preferential voting of betting! But less wanky!
(Okay, so it's pooled/co-op betting, where the odds are determined by those betting and are variable until the close of the pool, rather than fixed odds set by a bookie.)
erikaj - Dec 20, 2006 10:10:44 am PST #7266 of 10007
Always Anti-fascist!
Heh...Cornerboys For Christ. "Eternal Salvation" does sound like a good name for, um, product, she said blasphemously. But endorsing solid economic principles.
Nutty - Dec 20, 2006 10:13:09 am PST #7267 of 10007
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Semantic constraints are everybody's friends, people!
These are people whom I would like to kick in the hindparts, or possibly rip them off.
This sentence would not be ambiguous at all, in Ancient Greek. Also, it is not actually ambiguous in English at all, because, I have reality on my side!!
Also, I don't think you should talk trash about those people's economy. If they value the gift card at over $25, that's their business. Poor things.
Oh, no. If they value a $20 gift card at $25, it is my capitalist duty to relieve them of that extra $5 toot sweet, and as many times as I can sucker them into doing it.