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GeekNights 20110505 - Assassination, Libya, and Osama bin Laden

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  • Ate at a dive diner outside a convention in Rochester with ScoJo once. He wisely ordered an egg sandwich, while I foolishly ordered some pepperoni and sausage pizza.
    However, the Pizza place next to Geneso at that other convention had some really awesome pizza.
  • Ate at a dive diner outside a convention in Rochester with ScoJo once. He wisely ordered an egg sandwich, while I foolishly ordered some pepperoni and sausage pizza.
    However, the Pizza place next to Geneso at that other convention had some really awesome pizza.
    Hells yeah.
  • ITT: Pizza hipsters.
  • ITT: Pizza hipsters.
    2deepdish4u
  • ITT: Pizza hipsters.
    This pizza would be so much better on vinyl.
  • If Kaptain K was around we would be in trouble.
    Wut? Why would you be in trouble with me around?
  • ITT: Pizza hipsters.
    This pizza would be so much better on vinyl.
    And now it can be.
  • ITT: Pizza hipsters.
    I like a white with ham, its pretty obscure you've probably never heard of it.
  • Pizza is like Sex, even mediocre is pretty good, expect those Greek places on the boardwalk.. WHY EVEN HAVE PIZZA if you are going to make it so bad!
    I like teh greek pizza

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  • so apparently, making the seemingly not stupid choice of not living in Tornado Alley increases the likelihood of being killed by a tornado. (tl;dr, because of the increased and more regular frequency of Tornadoes, Tornado Alley is better equipped to deal with them).

    Now I'm curious; are people living on floodplains actually more likely of suffering catastrophic flood damage than people who live is areas where floods are not expected. Maybe they would be better prepared since they'd see them coming (the army blowing up a dam is a clearly an unusual case).
  • Fuck y'all, Lombardi's is three blocks from my office.
  • ...I like pizza.

    I like to eat it.
  • ...I like pizza.

    I like to eat it.
    Amen, brother.
  • edited May 2011
    Also,
    For me, Papa Gino's Pizza and California Pizza kitchen will always be the best.
    Your opinion is automatically invalid.
    California Pizza Kitchen is weak sauce. I'd consider it on the level of average lame delivery pizza were it not so overpriced as to be ludicrous.
    I notice my reasons for liking them were not included. I'll restate them.
    I love Papa Gino's Pizza due to nostalgia. CPK is great because of the sheer variety of types of pizza. Seriously, they have some toppings that I've only ever seen on those crazy japanese pizzas. But, yes, their regular pizzas are pretty crap.
    Post edited by Victor Frost on
  • Is there no one else out there who loves a nice Sicilian style pizza? I do enjoy traditional round pizzas, but as long as our local pizzeria continues to be good, I shall prefer thick square slices to the triangular thin ones.
  • Is there no one else out there who loves a nice Sicilian style pizza?
    I do, but only if it's prepared well. Most places use "Sicilian" as code for "thick, heavy, greasy, flavorless pizza."
  • The best pizza I've ever had was a thin, square pizza at Joey O's and Falbo's pizza in New Kensington and Greensburg, Pennsylvania respectively. They have the same recipe as it used to be one place but spilt because of dramas.
  • This page is hilarious, including the comments:
    Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says
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  • edited May 2011
    Oh internet, you're great.
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  • Here's what I think the killing of Osama Bin Laden comes down to:

    Regardless of the idiotic bile he spewed, that idiotic bile still incited people to kill their fellow man for reasons that nobody can really explain. Even though they are largely ineffectual, (911 and the London and Madrid bombings are far and away the exception, not the rule) I feel that it is not justifiable to allow such enterprises to continue when their actions, and indeed, intent, is to harm their fellow man. Those that follow him will still invoke his name when committing their acts, but at least now they do not have the benefit of his spoken word to guide their actions. At least a martyr cannot open his mouth to speak.

    As for the morality of killing a fellow human being:
    I guess I feel about the same way as Rym, everything needs to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis (which is why humanity makes generalizations, because it is so fucking hard on a large scale to do such) but from a solipsistic standpoint existence is the ultimate priority. If there is an imminent threat to your existence I feel you have every right to take any reasonable action, and some unreasonable (I'm generally against abortion except if it would save the mother's life and there is no other option) ones, to continue your existence. If you have a gun on a guy and he has his gun on you, I will not fault you for pulling that trigger. By the same token, if you killing one person will save 1, 10, 100, 6 million people then I say go for it if you have exhausted all reasonable options because that is extrapolating from my "Oh I want to exist" to apply to all examples of similar beings, and apply utilitarianism.
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