It's a proven fact that alcohol blocks GABAA receptors and makes it more difficult to stop one state and enter another; which causes reckless behavior often associated with the drug. Thus, you are not in full control of your actions.
Science.

Right.

All drugs alter the chemical interactions within your body.

That's what makes them drugs.

Following that line of logic would lead one to conclude that being sleepy removes full control of your actions. Of course, that's true; but it's also unavoidable.

My point being that "complete control" is impossible.
Personally, if I tried to be in constant control of all aspects of my life, I'd go nuts.
Sometimes it's nice to relax, but relaxation does not equal recklessness. Poor decision making, on the other hand, does.

Maybe you're just more Type A than I am?

At this point, I should also mention that, while I enjoy liquor, I think the wrong substance became socially acceptable.

For a discussion that involved something so arbitrary, it's not suprising that no one stuck around. Of course, I'm sure if they would have known what was going to come out of that meeting, it would have been a different story.

The whole thing really started off in an attempt to classify Eris. This quickly lead to the realization that if astral bodies of Pluto's size were considered planets, the list of them would grow to almost unreasonable size.

God forbid we add planets. I mean, there's no way we could just consider proximity to the Earth when we teach them in school. That would be too complicated.

The current 'consensus':

   "The IAU therefore resolves that planets and other bodies in our Solar System, except satellites, be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:

(1) A "planet"1 is a celestial body that: (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

(2) A "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that: (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape2, (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.

(3) All other objects3 except satellites orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar System Bodies"."

On the plus side, they're reconvening on the subject next year, so we may see another definition change.

But there's the thing, it really isn't more clear.

Due to the new definition (and this is the point that #####s Pluto over), it can't be considered a planet unless it has "cleared it's orbit" of other objects (asteroids and the like).
While there is a significant difference to the extent with which Pluto has cleared it's orbit in comparison to the other planets, several other planet fail to meet that specification as well.

Namely Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, and Earth.

It gets even muddier when you try and apply the definition outside of our solar system.

I think what really bothers me though, is that language is supposed to be a shared thing. Words only have meaning when agreed upon by the majority, and ~450 out of ~9,000 astronomers doesn't seem like a very convincing ratio. I understand that many of them were absent, since the discussion occurred near the end of the conference, but isn't it a bit presumptuous for five percent of the committee to make a decision that effects the whole system?

The reclassification as a Kuiper Belt object is more accurate.

It's not accurate, it's a semantic upheaval. Some dickweeds just wanted to create a new classification of astral body, and they martyred Pluto to do it.

And Pluto is no longer a planet.

Seriously, who decides arbitrary ##### like that?

Silent Hill: Homecoming will be out in a little more than a week.

I'm very excited.

I'll have to fly through it though, because Dead Space comes out a few weeks after that.

It's a good month(ish) for horror games.

Sure would.

Surprise butt-sex is one of my favorite hobbies.

I forgot to add: this is all controlled via a 15 inch touch screen display he installed and programmed.

One time, when our landlord locked out the thermostat in our apartment (he payed the bill), my friend made this little metal box. When you plugged the box into the phone jack in his bedroom and pushed the little button, it would turn our heater on for 15 minutes (the timer was so we didn't cook the guys downstairs)

He's #####ing McGuyver.

...except he's not gay...

That's... excessive.

I smoke with a fair bit of regularity, but an eighth lasts me at least a month, and only costs me sixty-five dollars.

Either she's smoking copious amounts because she's buying low grade #####, or she's one of those "I have to be high all day long" sort of people.

I have a friend who's a poster child for the latter. When he and I graduated high school, we both went into the working world when everyone else went off to college. Our second year out, he got a job working as a janitor. The place offers no benefits, crap hours, and ##### pay. He still works there. He hasn't seen a dentist in years (as evidenced by teeth that make him look like a meth-head), drinks nothing but Pepsi, and eats nothing but Jack's pepperoni pizzas. He lived with his parents up until a few months ago, at which point they kicked him out. All he does is smoke weed (he's never not high) and half-ass his work.

On the other hand, I have another friend who's the antithesis of an average pot head. He smokes with almost the same regularity as my deadbeat friend, but instead of wasting all his time, when he's high, he's really motivated. One time, while we were smoking (from a bong he made out of an air mattress pump, some sockets, and a plastic bag) he decided he was going to build a computer into his car. He started making notes regarding what he wanted to implement, and immediately started programming on his laptop. A few months later, and his car it outfitted with a home made computer system that: Operates his stereo and has preset equalizer settings for each individual MP3, interfaces with his GPS system and radar detector to recognize common radar readings and not beep OR notice new signals and log them, recognize when he's going through a residential area after quiet hours and automatically turn his sub-woofers off, log radar signals that aren't fixed (essentially making an extrapolated map of "cop hot-spots", adjust the speed of his windshield wipers in relation to the speed of his car, and turn off his music when his cellphone gets an incoming call. All homemade.

So there's the catch; being high doesn't make you lazy, it just amplifies your natural tendencies.

I've known those types of people, but I can safely say it's all about how you chose to conduct yourself.

To quote Frank Zappa: "A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole."

Best headphones I've ever owned were Sony MDR-V6

Awesome sound for the money.

To be fair, it's not completely #####ed up to think they're bad.

Some of them most certainly are.

The trick is differentiating between the "good" and "bad" drugs.

Not that I'm trying to pressure anyone into doing anything, but for those of you out there who are "I have no interest in doing drugs.", I'm curious as to your reason.

This is, of course, assuming you didn't try them and decide they weren't for you.

Creeper? No.

But you DO look like you're experiencing a large hardon collider.

You don't have a reason that you know of.

Maybe the Anti-drug folks got into you at a really young age.

I'm also of the firm belief that everyone should do mushrooms/LSD at least once.

I'll never understand the "I don't want to not be in control of myself" thing.

I've never not been in control of myself.

All substances included.

Awesome. I loved GTA 1 and 2.

They really don't stray much from the formula established in SotN, so I'd expect it to be decent.

He wasn't pointing it out, he simply misspoke.

That's what made it funny.

I was just discussing this with a friend.

He called it a Large Hardon Collider.

*laughs*

Gillies said the sector that was damaged will have to be warmed up well above the absolute zero temperature used for operations so that repairs can be made — a time-consuming process.

Did anyone else notice this and find it troubling?

I know it says later that it uses near absolute zero temperatures, but doesn't it seem like a good idea (if you're writing about science) to make sure to avoid ##### like that?

Castlevania has been suffering for awhile.

Except the DS/GBA games. Those are gold.

*laughs* Megaman sans-helmet FtMFW!

"da" is not an acceptable substitute for "the"

At least, not for anyone of intelligence.

Or something. I'm not entirely sure what it's trying to do.

Clutter the board maybe?

Go back to sleep America, you're government is in control.

Now, here's American Gladiators.

China seemed to manage.

If the government does anything to regulate the internet, it will be straight across the board, age being moot.

If you keep an eye on some of the bills that have been and are being proposed, you'd see they're already trying.

I just finished watching "Waking Life" for the umpteenth time.

If you consider yourself any sort of philosopher, you owe it to yourself to watch it.

It's a bombardment of ideologies.

And abandon matches just before they lose.

I love the internet because of how freely information is conveyed.

I hate the internet because of how absolutely shameless it makes people.

I think that unfairly suggests that he said "Feed your head"

Which he didn't.

Don't listen to the dormouse, he's a #####ing liar.

Always taking credit for something he never said.

I just want one area of my life to not end up being a #####ing pissing contest.

As if leader board standing is a measurement of personal worth.

The new Bionic Commando lost me when half of their game play trailer was multi-player.

Sometimes I feel like the only person who cares more about single player modes than online game play.

If I wanted to interact with other people, I wouldn't be playing video games.

Oh god....

No more coke.

Hard work good

and hard work fine

But first take care of head.

*is actually waiting on a phone call regarding the subject*

Agreed. It at least looks like a fresh take on what I can only describe as a stale genre.

And there's no green in it.

Not trying to rag on anyone's religion or anything, but did you ever notice how Christian stuff like this tends to jump on bandwagons, rather than buying their own?

I mean, seriously, when was the last time Christianity started it's own trend, as opposed to taking someone else's idea and bloodily ripping it off?

I'd spend far more time making things than playing the actual game.

Which is good, since it's the games strongest suit.

The actual game play is pretty weak, and in the end, the way you built your creature means virtually nothing.

How is it that my two-legged creatures move at the same speed as my eight-legged ones?

I can't help but wonder why, if these topics bother you so, you've added another.

It totally made me think of that one kid from Captain Planet.

You know the one.

He was the pussy of the group, and among the Planeteers, that's quite the feat.

Super Mario RPG > Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door > Paper Mario > Super Paper Mario

For the Record: Genuine is a three syllable word.

Genuine -> gen.u.ine -> jen-yə-wən

Well, a man-made micro black hole (mathematically) isn't as scary as you'd think. Due to Hawking radiation, the singularity would "evaporate" almost instantly at the size they'd be making.

Of course, according to the Standard Model, a LHC isn't capable of generating the amount of energy necessary to create a black hole of any size.

According to current theory:

Black holes do not grow in size, even when two black holes absorb each other.

The only difference made by the objects absorbed by a black hole to the hole itself is the amount of Hawking radiation given off at the event horizon.

As an old-school Jedi Knight fan I was disappointed from the very first time I saw any of it.

What happened to LucasArts to stop the flow of awesomeness anyway? Until five years ago or so they could do no wrong (Force Commander and Galactic Battlegrounds notwithstanding) and now I'm just not interested.

Actually, if you take into account their entire history as a gaming company, their track record isn't nearly as good as you're making it sound.

And yeah SWtFU looked neat, but it gets really old, really quickly.

That actually sums the game up well.

Massively disappointed in it.

Would a black hole not just crush you into less than slime?

In real life, yes. You would be compressed down to about the size of a strand of spaghetti.

In theory. Our understanding of black holes is pretty poor.

Also, Xzeemo, you're taking 'spaghettification' a little too seriously. A single line of elementary particles is hardly the size of a strand of spaghetti.

That's got nothing on this guy