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For some reason, I was debating its epicness with someone a little bit ago, and I say yes, he says no. What does NSG think of Easy Mac?

I have just finished the Kite Runner, and the Picture of Dorian Gray. I am reading the Iliad and Dante's Divine Comedies (translations, naturally) and have read a few different books such as The Secret History, Crimes against Humanity and Love in the Time of Cholera. I want some advice from you Generalites, whose taste is beyond reproach on some books I should read. I am bored with my current ...

Tilting at windmills again, but rumor has it that McCain went way frickin' wildcard with his choice... http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/....vp/index.h tml

Ok, a StarGate takes a multi-gigaton bomb to blow it up. Fair enough the thing handles massive amounts of energy to function. Except you do the math and realize that the gate handles orders of magnitude more energy. I figure this out when I was trying to rationalize what happens to thinks that enter the "wrong end" of a wormhole, or get destroyed by the kawoosh. 100lbs of person, rock, ...

Well? We can discuss the legal realities, sure, but let's focus on the arguments themselves. Do you believe that private business owners should have the unfettered right to deny service? Why or why not? Should there be some limits? Complete limitation?

Would you eat a kangaroo?

A soldier wounded in Afghanistan went to a city for a funeral of one of his comrades who was killed fighting in the war. It was late at night and he went to a hotel to get a room and was told, "It is our policy not to rent rooms to people in the military." So, he spent the night sleeping in his small car with a cast on his arm. That is absolutely disgusting and wrong. People should not be ...

Have any of you noticed all the ads recently? Some of them are pretty funny. One I've seen alot is the 'Meet single Persians' ad. Why the heck does that one keep popping up?! Anyone see any other funny ads, or know why some of the adds seem to have something to do with the posts on the page?

Has McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin affected how you will vote? If none of the options indicated accurately reflect your position, choose the last option ("Yes, now I am undecided/other (please explain)") and explain your position. Serious responses only, please.

Just wondering how the market for Kangaroo meat is in Australia and around the world. There are alot of lies about Kangaroos so I thought I would see what people believe and if they would eat some.

Tilting at windmills again, but rumor has it that McCain went way frickin' wildcard with his choice... http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/....vp/index.h tml

I really don't know if laughing would be appropriate right now, I feel bad for the girl, but this is what they had in mind when they coined the phrase "political dynamite". The article basically says it all, but I do have to wonder how McCain will handle this, especially since he knew before he picked her. source Quote: ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- ...

"...If statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky way. properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his...

A poster on NSG a while ago claimed God (in the case, context indicated the Judeo Christian God, but qualify your answer as you wish) was NOT supernatural. I claim that God, whether it exists or not, is a concept that posesses the property of being supernatural, whether the concept represents a real thing or not.

Anyone else still on the fence for the up-coming US elections? Here it is, September, with voting in about 8 weeks (Sooner for me since I need to get my ballot back to Nevada on time) and I'm honestly not grocking one ticket or the other. I LIKED McCain in 2000, but this McCain seems to be going out of his way to play snuggle-bunnies with the GOP base instead of keeping that independent streak ...

Have you seen that ad McCain is putting out saying that Obama is intending to raise taxes? OF COURSE he is, for the top 5%, who will be like "OMGZORS? I hab to pay more moneyz to teh guvermint now?!?!?1? Now I can't get 200 new yahts! Onli 199!" (Yes they spell like that) The ad makes it seem like he's raising taxes for lower and lower-middle class citizens. That kind of manipulation pisses me ...

I have just finished the Kite Runner, and the Picture of Dorian Gray. I am reading the Iliad and Dante's Divine Comedies (translations, naturally) and have read a few different books such as The Secret History, Crimes against Humanity and Love in the Time of Cholera. I want some advice from you Generalites, whose taste is beyond reproach on some books I should read. I am bored with my current ...

A soldier wounded in Afghanistan went to a city for a funeral of one of his comrades who was killed fighting in the war. It was late at night and he went to a hotel to get a room and was told, "It is our policy not to rent rooms to people in the military." So, he spent the night sleeping in his small car with a cast on his arm. That is absolutely disgusting and wrong. People should not be ...

I've recently (as in under 24 hrs) moved to Europe. Norway to be specific. I want to do my best to not be an idiot in this part of the world. Proper etiquette and manners are very important to me. I'm hoping the good folks of NSG could enlighten me on the do's and don'ts in this part of the world. I'd like to be minimally irritating and as polite as I could be.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/new...ot-kill-oba ma/ Quote: Authorities are investigating a possible threat against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Aurora police arrested a longtime drug user Sunday afternoon during a routine traffic stop where the man was seen "weaving," sources said. Two possible other accomplices also were ...