CptnChan

So, the only smart people in the world are in the US, and everyone else is dumb?

The music is a bit distracting. I tried understanding what this lady was talking about, but I would start to get lost mid sentence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GLBiO2-IAA Edit: If you don't want to watch the whole thing, it's worth checking out 6:09, when the kid offers his autographed drawing to her. I found it hilarious.

Everyone watch out. Global warming shows no mercy: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/06/starved-polar-bear-record-sea-ice-melt Add one more to its list of homicides. To be fair, some guy said: "It's not just one bear though. There are an increasing number of bears in this condition" Does this mean that there are more than ONE?! Am I to understand that bears are simply DYING in the wild, and we are doing nothing? I thought bears lived forever, but this makes me re-think everything.

This is a pretty awesome commercial for PlayStation that's airing right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdW1OuZ1U0 In addition to just being visually stunning, his monologue is just down-right radical. Why can't we have more things like this?

Hey I like Katy Perry as much as the next guy, and I definitely wasn't attacking "pop music" qua pop music. It has it's place. It just seems that a very specific attitude is popular among my generation. Even hardcore hippies in the 60's had more substantial music. And don't even get me started on YOLO. An expression so devoid of any real meaning I could actually see any dictator using it. But I think Harrison filled a gap I was looking for, about this mind-set being sort of a misguided search for guiltless happiness.

I thought about that while claiming that this is a modern trend. I'm certainly aware that it's not a brand new concept, After all Ms. Rand defined it over 50 years ago. But I still contend that it is more pervasive than in the past. But that's really just a feeling.

Sure there are many people who develop long-term goals, But it seems that there is huge popularity in "living for the moment". Most popular mainstream songs in the last few years are usually about deliberately not planning ahead (Getting drunk, partying all night, spending all your money at a club, making random sexual hook-ups with people). I discussing this with my liberal friends, they point to consumerism and technology for making people so shortsighted (Those damn computers and commercials spoil people. You can get anything you want with the click of a button!). But this does not really convince me. Is whim-worship related to altruism? The best source I could think of was collectivism. People grow up looking at themselves as part of a group and not an individual. They are a nationality, or race, or other demographic. And when you're just a number in a crowd, what does is matter what you do? So why not just live in the moment and worship pleasure? Any thoughts?

That applies to someone with rights. I believe children have limited rights until they're an adult.

Idk, But I check myself out at every single mirror I walk by...

I would liken this to saying you only praise business men like Hank Rearden. The sad truth is, most of them aren't. Bill Gates is and Steve Jobs was philosophically depraved, but I still praise them for their accomplishments and what I receive from them. I think it's acceptable to celebrate the men in service and what they do without having to make a distinction of philosophy here.

I did watched a documentary about global warming. Or more accurately, a documentary where he asked lots of questions that were supposed to imply global warming like: "Could the increase in average rainfall in this area of the world be due to global warming?" "Is the frequency of tornados related to global warming?" "Will my eyes get squintier in intense scenes if there is global warming?" Not sure about the accuracy of the first two "quotes" but the last one is definitely made up.

I definitely plan on seeing it, since I have yet to be disappointed with Leonardo DiCaprio. Never read the book, have no idea what it's about. Something about rich people and parties from what I gather (Is there some kind of message?). But honestly I could watch Leo plant a garden and it would be a delight.

Am I to understand that he's saying, if you expect to just throw money at a problem in hopes of your superiors fixing it, then you will actually attract your inferiors and be taken advantage of? I'm having trouble where "becoming the victim of his inferiors" comes into play.

I never read that fanfic, but the ending was certainly not the most original thing. The whole concept was kind of a mash-up of time travel ideas. The final scene reminded me of Looper with Joseph Gordon Levitt. And I agree with you on the antagonists. I think the main problem was they didn't really stand FOR anything. It was kind of a vague religious/ stereotypical confederate-type white people thing. Not very intriguing.

I'm sure there are many out there who, like me, came into contact with Ayn Rand after playing Bioshock. I was a fan of the second game, since I thought it portrayed an alternate extreme to Andrew Ryan with the character of Sophia Lamb, a collectivist through and through. But that game was not created by Ken Levine, while Infinite is. So it seems this is the true successor to the first game. What are your thoughts on it? The story, the characters, the morals, the message of the game. Anything. Spoilers welcome.

I tried to read the comments but I got sick

I would love to see this! I like his old TV show as opposed to his HBO one.

In addition to being un-intelligent, Maher is a huge DIck. This is one of the best throw-downs on him I've ever seen on his show. Ron Paul makes him look like an idiot here:

You create fictional dialogue? Or you take existing quotes and match them together?

Some of the things that people create in it are breathtaking. Most of them would be completely impossible in an engineering sense, but it's like painting of a canvas. It's your world, you can make whatever you want!

This is one my favorite musicians. Besides the fact that he sings about cool nerdy stuff, his song composition is always simple and catchy, and his lyrics are just amazing. He paints such vivid pictures and crafts such amazing stories with his words, I always listen to this song, it's just a brilliantly tragic and emotional tale.

Thoroughly perplexing. All I can say is that the scene I saw in theaters and the one on my dvd are the same.

I also saw it twice and it was darkened. I distinctly remember being disappointed because they already gave it away that he was real in Part 1, so I thought they would give us something more. Plus, I want me some D.B. Sweeney!

Quite true. When I was in Mexico, it proved to be an amazing tool.

And this is what google translated it back to: The statement is equivalent to the denial of knowledge so knowledge of the claim that almost all of which of the report we are aware of