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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited March 2009
    I have to reboot to install Safari 4? Do they think I'm running Windows?

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  • ViolentChemistryViolentChemistry __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Tav wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    Zimmydoom wrote: »
    To everyone who thinks this is "funny" or "stupid": If there had been a bomb, not necessarily a pipe-bomb but an explosive of some type capable of doing some damage or spreading a chemical or biological agent, and security noticed it but ignored it, and somebody did die, would you let security off the hook? Say it wasn't their fault, and they did the right thing by ignoring the clearly labeled, if very unusual threat?
    Let's say I'm a terrorist who lives a clearly labeled bomb in an airport.

    What would my objective be?

    Obviously not to kill the optimum number of people, as it would be more efficient to leave the bomb unlabeled.

    The only sensible motivation I would have for doing so would be to alert the authorities, resulting in a major disruption of the activities of the airport and costing who knows how much money to the airport, airlines, and air travelers. And I might be able to utilize a possible side effect of distracting the authorities from a real, unmarked bomb I might leave in an evacuation area.

    In other words, had that actually been a bomb, then the authorities did exactly what the terrorists wanted them to. So... the terrorists won?
    When we outlaw stickers only outlaws will have stickers. This will make them much easier to pick out.
    How about we only ban stickers that say "Skating is not a crime"?

    Elevate the threat-level to the album-cover from Rush's Moving Pictures.

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  • Look Out it's Sabs!Look Out it's Sabs! Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    This Polish beer is getting me good.


    *BUUUUUUURRRRRRPPP*

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  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    ABC News: Conservatives consume most porn
    8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election

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  • jarmisjarmis Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Guys If I tape a note to my coworker that says he is a bomb have the terrorists won?

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  • ZimmydoomZimmydoom Accept no substitutes Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Feral wrote: »
    The sensible reaction from the authorities would have been to quietly investigate it. It takes 10 seconds for a dog to determine whether an object contains explosives. So let the dog sniff it, return negative, then move on.

    Except that it takes a lot longer to evacuate an entire an entire airport. It has already been mentioned that such a sign could be used as a distraction to draw authorities away from an actual bomb or other disruptive event. That's why they cleared the whole area, rather than just checking the bike and moving on. Did it turn out to be a wild goose chase? Yep. Was it a waste of resources? Yep. Was the guy with the bike a dumbass for not realizing that his sticker might arouse attention? Kinda. Fire in a crowded theater, and all.

    There are plenty of times that airport security is completely useless, inept, and more disruptive than helpful. The no-fly list is bullshit, the "random" screenings do nothing, and I remember not long after 9/11 Al Gore was fucking hauled out of line and asked to take off his shoes.

    In this particular case, I think the authorities acted properly. I don't fear terrorism. I've got a better chance of dying from repeated lightning strikes to the scrotum. What I do fear is people's overreaction to a relatively insignificant threat. If there had been some kind of explosive in or around that bike, even if some asshole just filled his water bottle with gunpowder and didn't bother putting in a fuse, and nobody did anything about it? People would have gone fucking ballistic. It would have been a hell of a lot more disruptive than just one airport for one day.

    Airport security doesn't actually provide security. I know that. Anybody with half a brain knows that. But it provides the illusion of security, which is necessary to convince people that air travel is safe.

    It's a sick joke, but it is what it is. They did the right thing by letting the kid go. Let's leave it at that.

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    Gim wrote: »
    Zimmydoom, Zimmydoom
    Flew away in a balloon
    Had sex with polar bears
    While sitting in a reclining chair
    Now there are Zim-Bear hybrids
    Running around and clawing eyelids
    Watch out, a Zim-Bear is about to have sex with yooooooou!
  • stiliststilist Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Why is it called ‘the lambda calculus’ and not just ‘lambda calculus’?

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    jarmis wrote: »
    Guys If I tape a note to my coworker that says he is a bomb have the terrorists won?

    No, it just means you get off work early.

    Tav on
  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    ABC News: Conservatives consume most porn
    8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election

    AhahahahahAHAHAHAHAHahahahhHaHaHaHa

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    ABC News: Conservatives consume most porn
    8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
    Man, that's not really fair. They're using credit card purchases for that.

    The reason it looks like the red states consume the most pornography is that they're rednecked yokels who don't know how to find free porn on the internet, because they don't know how to use a computer.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    jarmis wrote: »
    Guys If I tape a note to my coworker that says he is a bomb have the terrorists won?

    That means you win.

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  • ViolentChemistryViolentChemistry __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Evacuating airports provides the illusion of security? It seems it more provides the illusion of imminent danger to me, but then I'm not very good at moon-logic.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Man, I really wanted a sig of Dr. Manhattans blue bare ass. This will do.

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  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    I <3 German Idealism:

    "The true sense of each judgment – for example, that “A is B” – can only be the following: THAT which is = A IS THAT which is =B, or: THAT which is A and THAT which is B are as one. Thus, a doubling lies at the ground of even the simple concept: A in this judgment is not A, but rather is X, which is A; B is not B, but rather is X, which is B, and it is not the case that A and B are as one, either for themselves or as such: but rather, the X which is A and the X which is B are as one. The proposition cited above [“A is B”] in fact contains three propositions: first, A =X; second, B=X; and only from these follows a third, A and B are the same – to wit, both are the same X."

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Thanatos wrote: »
    ABC News: Conservatives consume most porn
    8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
    Man, that's not really fair. They're using credit card purchases for that.

    The reason it looks like the red states consume the most pornography is that they're rednecked yokels who don't know how to find free porn on the internet, because they don't know how to use a computer.

    If it weren't for them rednecks actually paying for porn there'd be no porn for us to get for free.

    Kagera on
    My neck, my back, my FUPA and my crack.
  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Kagera wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    ABC News: Conservatives consume most porn
    8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
    Man, that's not really fair. They're using credit card purchases for that.

    The reason it looks like the red states consume the most pornography is that they're rednecked yokels who don't know how to find free porn on the internet, because they don't know how to use a computer.

    If it weren't for them rednecks actually paying for porn there'd be no porn for us to get for free.

    Amateur porn is the best porn.

    Tav on
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited March 2009
    And in the middle of the song... a redneck banjo solo.

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  • Look Out it's Sabs!Look Out it's Sabs! Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I would use my Comedian avatar but I love Space Brent too much to switch right now.

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  • Silas BrownSilas Brown That's hobo style. Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Goddamn, it is the worst feeling in the world when the boss walks in and I'm on the Penny Arcade forums. We talk about work stuff and don't mention it, but my face is growing redder and I'm waiting for him to ask "what are you looking at? That isn't work related!"

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Tav wrote: »
    Kagera wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    ABC News: Conservatives consume most porn
    8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
    Man, that's not really fair. They're using credit card purchases for that.

    The reason it looks like the red states consume the most pornography is that they're rednecked yokels who don't know how to find free porn on the internet, because they don't know how to use a computer.

    If it weren't for them rednecks actually paying for porn there'd be no porn for us to get for free.

    Amateur porn is the best porn.
    Yeah

    Nature abhors a porn vacuum

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Tav wrote: »
    Amateur porn is the best porn.

    Fool, amateur porn has horrible cinematography.

    Kagera on
    My neck, my back, my FUPA and my crack.
  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I heart everyone who made Starfox references. I love those so much I make them in person.

    VC: I have to retract what I was saying about your sarcastic posts starting to suck. Some of the ones on the last couple pages were great. Moon-logic, in particular.

    Zimmy: <3s even though you're wrong. If people overreact to stupid shit, the solution is to remove the overreaction, not the stupid shit. Removing the stupid shit is easier, but wrong, because people mostly have the right to do stupid shit that isn't dangerous.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Kagera wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    Amateur porn is the best porn.

    Fool, amateur porn has horrible cinematography.
    Have you watched professional porn?

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Goddamn, it is the worst feeling in the world when the boss walks in and I'm on the Penny Arcade forums. We talk about work stuff and don't mention it, but my face is growing redder and I'm waiting for him to ask "what are you looking at? That isn't work related!"

    Alt+Tab

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  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Elendil wrote: »
    Kagera wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    Amateur porn is the best porn.

    Fool, amateur porn has horrible cinematography.
    Have you watched professional porn?

    For the stories, yes.

    _J_ on
  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Elendil wrote: »
    Kagera wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    Amateur porn is the best porn.

    Fool, amateur porn has horrible cinematography.
    Have you watched professional porn?

    It depends on what you define as professional.

    If you are talking about Vivid or any of the Top 5-10 porn companies then no, I don't watch them.

    If you're talking Girlfriend Films, Triangle Films, or Sweetheart Videos then yes I watch them.

    Because they ROCK...

    Kagera on
    My neck, my back, my FUPA and my crack.
  • Silas BrownSilas Brown That's hobo style. Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Goddamn, it is the worst feeling in the world when the boss walks in and I'm on the Penny Arcade forums. We talk about work stuff and don't mention it, but my face is growing redder and I'm waiting for him to ask "what are you looking at? That isn't work related!"

    Alt+Tab

    Holy crap. I feel I have just found the holy grail of poor employee practices! <3

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Goddamn, it is the worst feeling in the world when the boss walks in and I'm on the Penny Arcade forums. We talk about work stuff and don't mention it, but my face is growing redder and I'm waiting for him to ask "what are you looking at? That isn't work related!"

    Alt+Tab

    Holy crap. I feel I have just found the holy grail of poor employee practices! <3

    Also there is Windows+D, which minimizes everything on your screen.

    Incenjucar on
  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    What the heck, it's not letting me alter my signature.

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  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    What the heck, it's not letting me alter my signature.

    It knows that you want to make your signature something stupid.

    _J_ on
  • ViolentChemistryViolentChemistry __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Goddamn, it is the worst feeling in the world when the boss walks in and I'm on the Penny Arcade forums. We talk about work stuff and don't mention it, but my face is growing redder and I'm waiting for him to ask "what are you looking at? That isn't work related!"

    Alt+Tab

    Holy crap. I feel I have just found the holy grail of poor employee practices! <3

    Also there is Windows+D, which minimizes everything on your screen.

    I've got you beat. control + -> takes me from the Space with Firefox and Adium to the Space where PDFs and OpenOffice open.

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I got you all beat.

    I do my JOB. OHHHHHHHHHHHH!
    All lies.

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    My neck, my back, my FUPA and my crack.
  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Is DUE around?

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  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Kagera <3 your sig. My current favorite song.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Did I forget how to change my signature?

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  • RonTheDMRonTheDM Yes, yes Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I use backwards super logic and keep a maximized picture of a 'gina up at work and tab to it, and then the boss is all, "is that a 'gina" and I am all "that's what the terrorists want you to think" and then he nods solemnly and walks out.

    Unfortunately with the suspension of Labias Corpus I could get fucked, even with no Bush to speak of.

    ... Clitoris.

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Paintball was mostly awesome today guys.

    A dude on my team sold me his old pair of paintball pants, they were amazing. Really nice padding on the knees, bounced so many cross field shots, and they breathed very well. So yay there.

    Also, there were two guys with cameras there today, so hopefully they got some photographs of me and my friends, I'll be sure to share them with you all (even if you don't want me to share them with you :P ) Hopefully he got the one where I ran up the left side of the field and got out three guys, and not the ones where I got blasted.

    It wasn't all good news however, one of guys on my team was working on the regulator on his gun, but forgot to vent all the air in it first... Yeah, the allen shot out and hit him right in the eye, luckily he blinked. He's not a nasty cut on his eyelid, but, one of the other guys is driving him to the hospital right now and everything should be good, his vision was already starting to come back...

    So, how have you guys been?

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  • ZimmydoomZimmydoom Accept no substitutes Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Kagera wrote: »
    Thanatos wrote: »
    ABC News: Conservatives consume most porn
    8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
    Man, that's not really fair. They're using credit card purchases for that.

    The reason it looks like the red states consume the most pornography is that they're rednecked yokels who don't know how to find free porn on the internet, because they don't know how to use a computer.

    If it weren't for them rednecks actually paying for porn there'd be no porn for us to get for free.

    Utah sure is a confusing place.

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    Gim wrote: »
    Zimmydoom, Zimmydoom
    Flew away in a balloon
    Had sex with polar bears
    While sitting in a reclining chair
    Now there are Zim-Bear hybrids
    Running around and clawing eyelids
    Watch out, a Zim-Bear is about to have sex with yooooooou!
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Zimmy you should go paintballing! You can lose vision in one of your eyes! Fun!

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Kagera <3 your sig. My current favorite song.

    Sex. Let's have some.

    Kagera on
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