Recent content by dirtyparrot

I take it then that you haven't seen Trainspotting.

You're right. It's a really short four hrs film. Apparently, it's a really good film to see in cinema for the panoramic shots (esp people appearing out in the distance).

I don't think that they'll start a war unless they feel that the regime is on the verge of collapse. At that point, since the result is bound to be the same, they may well attack figuring that they've got nothing to lose.

You could probably evacuated some people, but to where? The closest star is 4 light years away. None of our probes have even made it past a light day nevermind several light years. And we don't even have a good idea of what sort of conditions are over there. Besides, we're located in a pretty...

I thought that it was a mistake then and still feel the same way now. I never believed that their evidence was anything but flimsy. I felt that the run-up to the war highlighted the deplorable state of the US journalism which failed to pursue, analyze, or synthesize information relevant to the...

I'm a little awestruck by how much is happening on the largest and smallest of scales.

The universe is pretty big. Human immortality shouldn't be a problem if we can also do things like fuse hydrogen for energy.

Why not just have everyone do an extensive psych test to see who is potentially violent? Clearly, there are plenty of violent people who don't have a mental illness, so why do they get a free pass? I think that society in general thinks that they are far more sane and responsible than they...

Of course he knew. Your supposed gf has an almost deadly car accident and then leukemia and you don't bother to visit once in the stretch of half a year. I have a hard time believing that one.

Unfortunately, this isn't logic. It fails to account for relevant differences.

Except for Maxthon, I regularly use all the other ones listed. I also use seamonkey.

So VRWC, if instead they had caught the waiter spit in their food, would you still expect them to pay their bill? At what point is it ok to simply walk out?

I preface this by saying that I watched this movie a long time ago (so my memory is a little hazy), but the one thing that really stuck out to me was how overrated this movie was. The plot was boring and silly. The acting wasn't that great either. Personally, I think that if you swap out the...

I don't see why that movie was any good (other than it having famous actors in it).

The only one I was conflicted about were the alien lifeforms. I left it out because it's one of those things that I want at least some evidence for instead of just relying on the "universe is so big that there must be some" argument. And that being said, I'm skeptical that life is necessarily...