Sure. so, if she also talks in her sleep (which was not covered in the article), she could very easily have requested extra stars. People who sleep-talk can seem perfectly alert and rational, and then remember nothing of the conversation later. It's a recognized medical condition.
why am i here? :D
There are more flies on this planet than humans. They live, I think, an average life of 24 hours. They breed FAR more offspring than necessary because they know, genetically, not all of them will survive. If we don't kill them, if animals didn't prey on them, the world will be overrun with pestilence and disease. Seriously, try to protect species that are actually in danger. Try to protect things that need protecting, not one of the most populous and thriving species on the planet.
Your history teacher sounds like an isolationist appeaser (no offense). He could indeed be that insane. Half his nation is starving, thousands are in prisons for imagined crimes, the rest are all scared stiff... His nation's in the crapper. I highly doubt he cares that much about it.
Look up "narcolepsy". You can indeed get super-tired and fall asleep at random times. If she also had a high pain tolerance, it's possible she barely felt the needles.
I do agree with that. Really. But in this case, I was speaking from a behavioral and evolutionary scientist's stance, not from society's stance. Because homosexuality is not present in a majority of our species, or even in a comparatively large portion (considering the 6-7 billion people on earth, a few million is not that much), it is not, technically, normal. :D EDIT: Oh, and by the way, for Bonobos, sex is used not as an expression of love, or merely as reproduction. Sex, for them, is also a greeting, bonding exercise among peers, and even mother-child bonding.
It didn't say if she had this or not, but narcolepsy + sleep-talking could produce this effect - she could have agreed while asleep. My mom used to sleep-walk and talk, and she said she frequently freaked out her roommates by having full, intelligible conversations with them, seemingly fully alert, then not remembering them in the morning.
While it is natural to an extent (very few of the species on this planet practice it), it is not, so to speak, normal. Especially for humans, it does not fall under the category of normal behavior, genetically and behaviorally speaking. That said, I stand by what I said earlier in the thread.
You can probably take my place... :D I just had a hard drive crash, so I will be unable to take part. I already told Stardust about this.
As I understand it, you also have a limit of 10 video uploads without paying (which I do NOT want to do just for a hobby)
What are the odds of that?! I mean, really. That has got to be one of the most unlikely things...
Probably my desire to prove all the naysayers wrong about me. If someone says I can't do something, I will prove them wrong.
Lol. This isn't someone I know, it's actually me. In my house, our bathrooms have independent, coil heaters (where the metal coils get really hot, etc). I used to (before I got caught, lol) stick rolled up toilet paper into the coils to set it on fire, then watch it burn itself out before dropping it in the toilet and flushing it down. I mean, it wasn't all that dangerous to the house, cause I kept it over the toilet the whole time, and I'm pretty good with fire, but it was dangerous to me. I never did burn myself, though. That was several years ago. I am still forbidden to turn on those heaters when I'm home, though.
Well, we have to be careful about this. My grandmother, for instance, drives as well as she did 20 years ago (she's like in her 80s). She shouldn't be denied the privilege of driving, However, the testing for competence should be required a lot more often in later life (renewing your license every year, or so, for instance, with a road test), to try to catch the age-impaired earlier.
Chain videos do not convince me. I can make up an identical story and post it everywhere. Does that make it true? Besides, chalk dropping is not exactly reliable as a test.
Actually, TMMM made a very good argument. It just wasn't as long as many other posts here.
Agreed. But yea. I've been hearing about "the future" for a while now, and let me tell you, even IF the oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, and other big businesses let it happen, it'll take trillions of dollars to switch all our infrastructure to accommodate any new revolutionary technologies. We would probably need some kind of completely catastrophic event to destroy all our infrastructure before we would be willing to invest in things like flying, electric cars. Even for just electric cars, we would need to A) get the oil companies to accept a drastic profit cut (not likely), B) convert all our existing gas stations to produce electric power, C) get a pricing scheme set up D) get all the gas powered cars off the road, E) build a shit-ton of new power plants to supply the power for the cars, F) probably find a new source of power (fusion, for example), because our current sources would not be enough to power all those millions of cars. And that's just for ONE aspect of the future world I keep hearing about. All that alone would probably cost well over 2 trillion US dollars. Now factor in the rest. Trust me. It's not gonna happen in our lifetime.
Hey there, sorry to have to say this, but my hard drive just crashed, erasing my Vegas AND all my clips, so I will NOT be able to participate in...
Osama is exactly the kind of person who I think should, above all, get the death penalty. I mean, for the amount of people he has killed through his plans, not just here, but in countless terror attacks worldwide, and the number of people he has made miserable and afraid because of said attacks, he has clearly proven he is not reformable and should never be allowed back into society in any way. So, either keep him locked up in a windowless cell for the rest of his natural life, or go the easy route and put a bullet through his skull. Either way works, but a bullet costs less. Also, successful topic is evidently successful. Thanks for a great debate :D
It would also take the dangerous elements out of the gene pool... :D I just like hanging for the very visceral impression one gets from seeing the aftermath. It's just like... "I don't want to end up like that". It's also the most public way to do it, at least, if we go semi-traditional (for instance, new gallows, but still outdoors).
