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This is incredibly irresponsible and stupid. Anyway, I think it was a Russian experiment during the cold war in which they studied how we act after extreme sleep deprivation. Not sure what it was called. Apparently they locked the subjects inside a room and filled it with a gas that caused them to not feel tired. Their conversations were quite chipper and cheerful in the beginning, but as the days went by they became darker and more depressive. And after a while they just sat in each corner and didn't talk at all. Skip a few more days and they started killing one another and then ate the bodies or something... and when the scientists shut the gas off they begged them to turn it on again. There's a wikipedia article on the experiment somewhere. So yeah, get your damn sleep or you'll literally turn into zombies. Yeah that was just a fictional story. I remember thinking it was real for a while though :P EDIT: beat me to it :P

When society gets too used to gun ownership, trying to take them away will only lead to a black market for guns. Black markets are never good Exactly my point. Like drugs... making them illegal doesn't exactly help. I find that quite hard to believe. Making drugs illegal doesn't make them impossible to obtain; but it does curb their usage, significantly so.

I wonder how many of the looters had guns of their own? Probably a fair number.

Of course if the communist party had guns they wouldn't have been suppressed as easily - it simply would have easily justified hitler's use of violence against them. Goes without saying. It's still a far cry from that and suddenly deciding to sity idly by as your government turns into a dictatorship.

Figured it would be better to hold my tongue after being awarded a temp ban at zybez (god damn their mods are ridiculous), still had to say something though. Just don't compare to Nazi Germany, it's a bad idea Next time you should just say "post count" instead, we'll understand. Hitler came to power because he was a master of manipulation and insanely clever. He only took away the rights of society once he had everyone on board with it - by the time he got going, ifi the jews had guns it wouldn't mean crap, because the 85% of the population that liked what Hitler was doing had guns too.

I swear crit is bad for all level 85's...I have like 10% on my pally...I was at almost 40% with ICC gear end wotlk..

I find that a little hard to believe....

So you're suggesting that Canada and the UK are doomed to dictatorship when a crisis hits?

70-80 sucks balls, I'll tell you that much. Yeah it's slow as hell. Got 70 like two weeks ago :( I keep moving to higher zones thinking "yay more xp quests" - get there, GO BRING ME 10 ITEM FROM NPC THAT DROPS 1/20, I GIVE 16K XP FFFFFFFFFFFFF

Also, you've got all kinds of effects on the guitar, you've got other instruments, etc..maybe multiple guitars. Try getting a guitar pro tab if you're willing to pay for the software (i think version three free trial never expired).

@studio - and in Canada, owning a gun for personal safety is already pointless in most of the country(population wise at least).

http://hereberobots.com/ This is his website. Or one of them at least. Need moar :D

Beautiful, though. I'd love to travel up north...

A direct link to the product might be helpful :D Demented, have you ever considered selling these independently? I admit I wouldn't buy this one, but I would definitely buy one or two of your others..and it seems threadless takes quite the liberties with their artists (changing the colours like that)

What was wrong with Howard exactly? I saw the injury but they never actually came to a conclusion about what happened....

If you train yourself you can be up far longer than that... For instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)

Grats :D 73 on the lock still, starting to get bored :(

Ideally, this would be why canonization exists. A way to say "Hey, this is the kind of guy we should try to be like". Don't really need miracles for that. The requirement of miracles purportedly acts as a divine confirmation of the ability to a departed person to intercede because they have achieved heaven. The Eastern Churches (i.e. Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox) determine sainthood by gauging popular consensus. I'm not really a fan of the requirement of miracles, but I'm not the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. I am a big fan of Pope Benedict XVI, however, as he's extremely intelligent and holds certain theological opinions that run against the grain. & @sees_all1 that's the problem, the general number of Catholics omit themselves from a proper understanding, so you have that group of old ladies in church who are like cultists haha. But seriously, it's a big issue, especially in terms of Marian devotion. Yes marian devotion can certainly become almost god-like at times. I actually do like the miracle requirement - as it is basically the best way to determine if there is at least something possibily supernatural that can be interpreted as some sort of sign, other than just a blind guess. @sees_all: a good analogy is one of an "in with the boss". If you're looking for a job, you could ask the boss directly - but if you ask someone who works at the place already to put in a good word for you you're that much more likely to be successful.

True - but canonized saints aren't being put on a different level - they're merely being clarified as having made it to heaven by something that is beyond worldy explanation (at least with our knowledge to this point). Not much to say here, agreed. Agreed once again - you pray for intercesion, not to the saint themself. A complex subject, for sure... Also agreed that I'm looking forward to his canonization - the man was at very least a selfless and inspiring model for many people, both religious and otherwise. Nice to see an actual insightful post on the topic, other than the usual "god's not real lolol" garbage. @ring_world: the process for identifying a "miracle" as legitimate, or without reasonable explanation, is actually quite stringent. Did you know, in fact, that despite JPII abolishing the role of devils's advocate, when they were in the process of the cause for beatification of mother teresa, they requested that christopher hitchens (i assume you know who he his) come in and specifically make a case against the miracles that had so far been attributed to her. Doesn't exactly sound like an organization wishing to force sainthood without adequate consideration.

Pretty much haha. Just watched TO vs CGY, and I must say that was the most mind-numbingly boring game I've ever seen. Even though we lost, I was impressed with Giguere's play though; one of his best games this season I think.

Excellent :D

No, I live in the GTA. Went to Winnipeg on the same trip though.... We should probably stay on topic though lol :P

Perhaps they're more resilient on TV...when I went to a native reservation for a community service project five years ago the stuff they went through was ridiculous. Rampant alcohol abuse, many of the kids were functionally illiterate, violence and vandalism galore, no police presence...and this was 400k north of Winnipeg. I can't even imagine how much worse it would get going further north. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Berens+River,+Manitoba,+Canada&sll=52.339535,-96.793671&sspn=0.463159,1.757812&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Berens+River,+Division+No.+19,+Manitoba,+Canada&ll=52.353796,-97.003784&spn=0.926024,3.515625&z=9

You can add the northern halves of the western provinces to there. It's pathetic, but 75% of geographical Canada is basically a third world country.

Agreed. One with Bouchard looked way worse tbh... Burrows vs Avery, anyone?