Recent content by Lemming_Messiah

In the event of armed uprising, of course not. I'm an American who was too young to have taken part in the LA riots. My basis of opinion for my fear of totalitarianism as a result of de-weaponizing the populace comes from logic: When someone comes to take what's yours, how do you fight back if...

The idea of guerilla warfare involves ambush and retreat. It's not easy to take out an Abrams, but impairing its movement can be. As for active rebellion: We don't really have the right to replace our government as it says in the Constitution. Consent of the governed means shit to an Apache...

Unlikely. I believe pain is enough of a deterrent from injury, and generating whole organs would help thousands of patients on the donor waiting list. Those who would test the endurance of their livers a la Leaving Las Vegas would be rare.

Beware, us Kentuckians can play a mean dulcimer. I have a friend who is able to play "Schism" on a mountain dulcimer. It's hilarious to watch, since you don't expect a rinky dinky 3-string $15 instrument to perform so well. My life will be complete once I find a guy who can play One-Winged...

I'm waiting for Rebuild of Evangelion to start this September. Til' then: Blades of Glory kicked more ass than Anchorman, but less than Talladega Nights. Spider Man 3 and Pirates 3 look like the shit. Go Transformers!

I started out with Linkin Park. Don't worry. I grew up a bit since then (although many of their Reanimation tracks are interesting from a musical construction perspective, I find their lyrics and singers absolutely terrible). Currently, I'm loving the music from the previous generation...

Crunching numbers makes it easy to pull a trigger. Of course, reducing human beings to numbers entirely invalidates the concept of human life having value, but I'm a nihilist, so PMS*. *Pass My Shotgun.

So, contructivism, or realistic constructivism, proposes giving al-Qaeda and other non-state affiliated groups a say in world politics (other than their current methodology, terrorism). A small permutation of this would be giving al-Qaeda a seat in the UN. Negotiations, with terrorists, would...