I love being punished for crimes I haven't committed yet. You know, if the old people can't hear anything in that register, how do they know it's still working? Just disable the thing somehow, they won't notice.

Hey cool, in the picture you can kind of see the remains of three and you can see five starting to come together.

@biltmore: I don't see how that's a bad idea.

@TheConqueror: If those wheels aren't being driven the axle can easily be lower or further forward than the center of the two wheels it connects, really it doesn't need to have an axle at all.

Two wheels in the front just looks kind of dumb to me.

In my experience the mule kick just makes you look dumb. Metal frames can actually be a little easier to kick open, each jamb is pressed from one sheet of steel, it's not solid. All you have to do is bend the jamb enough for the bolt to slip out of the strike plate. If the frame is wood you actually have to force the bolt through the jamb. If you want to actually break down the door, it's not impossible for a full grown man with a good head of steam to take the entire door and frame out of the wall in one piece. My brother did that once.

Really? We can't start judging? I'm going to judge. Even Yemen's next-door neighbor Oman has an age of consent, it's four, but it's still there. That's if you're married, though. Extramarital sex is punishable by death, at least for the female involved. I think the dude gets a fine.

I think it speaks of our enormous self-esteem problems. Half our population seems to hate it here, and yet they remain. Seattle is one of the least patriotic cities I've ever been to, and we don't have a lot of civic pride neither. It bothers me that I have to defend my country in a conversation with /another inhabitant of my country./ Not only that, but people expect me to join in on their gratuitous America-bashing, just because I'm a gay liberal limey doesn't mean I don't love my adopted homeland.

It's art. We're constantly doing stuff like that these days, they must have just been ahead of the curve.

It'd be cool if we developed a visible ring at some point, as time goes on junk will collide with other junk and break into smaller and smaller pieces and eventually become dust.

I ignore ads. I make a conscious effort to not let them affect my purchasing decisions, and that's only in the case of things I might actually want to buy, most internet advertising is for stuff I've never even thought about before. So, is ignoring advertisements a crime? Maybe not buying things is irresponsible.

Remember when banner ads didn't move, by the way? I remember Penny Arcade used to try their damnedest to wring non-animated banners out of their sponsers at a point in time at which animated ads had already taken over, and it made their website a great deal more pleasant. Eventually they stopped because most of their sponsers didn't have a non-animated banner to give them, or would just rather advertise elsewhere than use one.

Shoot them both. Today. We can probably save the kid, but honestly he'd have a better chance at a decent life if we let a pack of wolves raise him. Might end up with better diction, too.

Cute little thing. The civets eat the beans naturally, it's what they do. The digestive process apparently removes all the harsh alkalines that make coffee taste like coffee, so people who don't like coffee but still want to drink coffee because it's cool now can drink it. Normally you get rid of those alkalines by burning the hell out of the beans, something Starbucks also does to appeal to people who don't like coffee.

I like to think we have a sense of humor about ourselves here in Seattle.

What a lot of people don't realize is the incredible plasticity of mortar. Given twenty years of a very slow and strong force, you could bend a brick wall double without the mortar cracking once.

That's hot.