Phi for All

I don't eat fast food. McDonald's CEOs die very, very young.

I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe I believe what I believe is right. I believe it is spelled culler.

Brava! Love it!

I see you coming back on a hang glider, no more scared face, raining down double Uzi death upon the crowd below. I'm just not sure of who is in the crowd.

Thanks! It's not that you don't like hacking, it's that you hate being forced to do ANYTHING! You miss the freedom to hack what you want to hack.

5614's Song (to the tune of Help): Help, they need a hacker, Help, a computer cracker, Help, a fifty-six fourteen, help! When I was younger, I hacked into MI-6, Now YT’s got my number and I’m in this fix. So now I’ve got to help him save the bloody day, How I’d like to meet with Blike and then be on my way. Help me if you can, I hate this course, ‘cause I’d really rather be an open source! Help me, Luke, where are you? Use the Force! Won't you please, please help me? And now my laptop’s locked up in the cargo hold, We’re jetting off to Shy-town, man, it’s gettin' cold! And when we get there, Sayonara Cubed will be The kinda guy, spit in your eye, I just hope he don’t spit me! Help me if you can, I hate this course, ‘cause I’d really rather be an open source! Help me, Luke where are you? Use the Force! Won't you please, please help me? When I was younger, I hacked into MI-6, Now YT’s got my number and I’m in this fix. So now I’ve got to help him save the bloody day, How I’d like to meet with Blike and then be on my way. Help me if you can, I hate this course, ‘cause I’d really rather be an open source! Help me, Luke where are you? Use the Force! Won't you please, please help me?

But do you see what I mean? In a musical you've got songs that are written to fit the situation. I'm not suggesting you write original music, but writing new lyrics for popular songs is fun and allows you to customize your musical. Otherwise, as I said before, you just have a movie (your script) with a soundtrack (the songs you've chosen). It's not really a musical if the songs aren't written to fit.

I understood what you meant, I guess I don't understand the reason for casting SFN members in a musical if you don't rewrite the song lyrics to fit their personalities. Without it, you just have a movie with a soundtrack. I guess I mistakenly thought it was going to be a Weird Al Yankovic kind of thing.

Are you rewriting the song lyrics or do they stay as is?

*And now the end is near, and so you face the final curtain. You fools! You came inside my evil lair and now you're hurtin'! I stole your secret plans, Bettina's mine, she'll do what I say! So kiss your ass goodbye 'cause this is My Day! *Sung to the tune of "My Way", since ed84c mentioned Sinatra

You're thinking of opera. This is a musical, no one gets raped. I think the phrase was "sex in the shower", which, in a musical, means a swell in the music as the lights fade to black before the next scene, where you're smiling and humming something catchy. Big difference.

Are you going to call it BrigaDOOM?!?!

Confucious say, "Musical comedy rike rife itself; many funny characters waving swords and screeching." Framing sword is from christian bible. Velly plitty until you get too close. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. -- Genesis 3: 22-24 A thousand aporogies for ringuistic steleotypes.

...and in a related story, Phi for All fell out of the Stupid Tree, and hit every branch on the way down. Oh well, some drink from the Fountain of Knowledge, but he only gargled. This has been Views on the News, please resume thinking.

You're good at being obtuse for the same reason midgets are good at being short!

I know you've used this one already this year! I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth!

Please keep in mind, JohnB, that in the US the Dem and the Rep politicians, based on their voting records, are practically indistinguishable. The voters still have a distinction in their minds, but the elected officials all listen and vote the way the PACs and lobbyists tell them to. It's not necessarily corruption, simply a matter of who is in your face showing an interest in what you're doing. The voters are not, the lobbyists are. So unless you take the time and spend the resources to join a group who communicates on an almost daily basis with the politicians, you aren't really represented. This country is artificially split down the middle idealogically because the pols stump with the voters in mind, but vote based on what their funders want. And the funders can also afford to sway the media to try and imflame the partisan sentiments of the voters as well. It's not really about the Rep or Dem platforms anymore. It's about where the biggest money is. Always has been, really, it's just that media availability and spin science are at an all-time high.

This bothers me most, that because he speaks poorly and seems to come off as kinda stupid, half the population excuses him for the above 100 mistakes and votes him in anyway. "We don't mind that Bush ignores his top advisors and acts on bad intelligence. We learned our lesson about smart, Rhodes Scholar presidents with that lecher Clinton." --Joe Voter

No, you do not. In fact, your attempt to distill such a complicated issue into a flaming, single-sentence judgement is ludicrous. In order to keep from prosecuting every woman who unintentionally endangers the fetus she is carrying (or even intentionally, since smoking while pregnant is not advisable but not currently illegal), the rights of the mother outweigh the rights of the unborn child to a certain extent. Without this distinction, every woman who does anything that could possibly put her fetus in danger would be guilty of reckless endangerment at the least and manslaughter or even murder if it resulted in a miscarriage. While the legal profession might rub its hands in glee over the possibilities, the courts could never handle all the cases. It has been pointed out earlier in this thread that the dependency of the fetus on the mother should give the mother more rights over decisions made regarding her body. No one is disputing that life begins for a viable human being at a certain point, and that moral judgements begin at that point. But for legal purposes, such as when abortion should cease to be an option, there needs to be a limit that is as equitable as possible.

1. Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view. 2. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist. 3. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce. 4. Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. 5. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care. 6. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid. 7. What am I? Flypaper for freaks!? 8. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant. 9. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth. 10. Ahhh, I see the f**k-up fairy has visited us again. 11. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you. 12. It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off. 13. Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial. 14. No, my powers can only be used for good. 15. How about never? Is never good for you? 16. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me. 17. You sound reasonable. Time to up my medication. 18. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter. 19. I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message. 20. I don't work here. I'm a consultant. 21. Who me? I just wander from room to room. 22. My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys! 23. It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy. 24. At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits. 25. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers. 26. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public. 27. Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.

How many snowflakes (no two alike!) would it take to ground butterflies?

We have established in this thread that a legal definition must be arbitrary in order to span cultural differences. The fact that an 8 week old fetus has everything that establishes it as a human doesn't alter the fact that it is still dependent on the mother for life for several more months. Everyone's opinions will differ as to when or if it is acceptable to terminate an unborn child, and all those opinions are completely valid. Abortion must be viewed from a legal stance only or this thread would be endless. Since making all abortions illegal brings up too many opportunities for injustice, a line must be drawn somewhere that accomodates as many situations as possible.

Perhaps rather than posting our silly current requests for supernatural intervention, some of you would like to share some past experiences where you asked for something and it came to pass in a spooky sort of way? Many years ago I had a girlfriend I had decided to break up with. I had put off the decision too long but had finally decided to do it and made arrangements to see her. An hour before we were to meet I was dreading it and wished something would happen so I could get out of it. A few minutes later my phone rang and I remember getting a chill. It was my oldest friend asking me to drive him to the emergency room to get his hand stitched up. He had cut himself badly just a few minutes before. Coincidence? Maybe, but I felt really bad about it.