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[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I have a NOOK!

[DaemonSeid]

Online Comic retailer from Heavy Ink drawing criticism for comments

On Saturday morning, a gunman shot Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords while she was meeting with constituents outside a Safeway store in Tucson, Arizona, and then apparently kept on shooting, leaving six people (including a nine-year-old girl) dead and Rep. Giffords in critical condition.

While the rest of the world was wishing Gifford well, mourning the dead, and denouncing the vitriol that encourages such violence, Travis Corcoran, the president of online comics retailer Heavy Ink, put up a post on his personal blog titled “1 down, 534 to go.” Corcoran was, of course, referring to the 535 members of Congress.

It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot “indiscriminately”.

Target only politicians and their staff, and leave regular citizens alone.

The post drew swift reaction after Rich Johnston picked it up at Bleeding Cool, along with the first round of outrage on Twitter. While some of Corcoran’s longtime readers gave him high fives in the comments of his blog posts, the rest of the world wasn’t so sanguine, and Morning Glories creator Nick Spencer specifically asked that Heavy Ink stop carrying his work, saying, “I respect your right to an opinion, but am not personally comfortable doing business with someone who advocates violence against people they disagree with.” Gail Simone Tweeted, “@tjic, you have my pity. May you grow a soul someday, because you desperately are in need of one.”

Corcoran, who describes himself as an “anarcho-capitalist,” confirmed in this thread on the HeavyInk forums that he is indeed the author of the post. He then followed up with a fuller explanation of his politics, including his distaste for laws and government, and why he thinks the U.S. government has overstepped the bounds of the Constitution. While he disavowed armed revolution, he defended his blog post, saying,

I don’t retract my callousness. I dislike Representatives and Senators, and I think that each and every one of them is doing grave harm to the United States, and to the freedoms of the citizens of the US.

As long as they continue to be callous by the laws they pass (and to do massive harm to real people – senior citizens, mothers, fathers, children), I reserve the right to use harsh language towards them.

[cheerfulgreek]

I'm getting ready to watch alien planets. This is why I love my telescope because I like looking at other stars to see if there are any planets rotating around them. Usually, I can tell if there are any because of the movement of the star. So far, I haven't found any. But then again, there's a possibility that I may have, but I just couldn't see them. Sometimes, it's difficult to see because of the bright light from the star, so I usually look for a wobble. That's usually a good indication that there are planets rotating around it. I love astronomy and physics SO much.

[cheerfulgreek]

Ugh!!! I just can't stop thinking about them. It's just that I get so frustrated with black holes, trying to figure out what's inside, and what happens to the information that goes inside. I mean what lies on the other side of a black hole? Like, what would happen if I throw my immunology book inside of a black hole? Is all of that information lost? It's just that according to Einstein's general relativity laws, nothing can ever come out of a black hole. But what about quantum theory? I mean, there are some black holes that do radiate. What about mini black holes? They radiate. According to Stephen Hawking, I remember reading in one of my physics books that he thinks that mini black holes eventually evaporate and disappear. He thinks (based on his mathematical evidence) that anything that went in, never comes back out. This is what I find to be so frustrating because the laws of quantum therory says that information can never be completely destroyed. I dunno, it's just that how do we know the information that went in isn't preserved and instead comes out subtly? I just think the question of what happens to the information that goes into a black hole is (IMO) not fully settled. It's just that I'm speaking of the chemical composition of the objects that went into the black hole, and other aspects of them, like their color, their temperature etc. those kinds of things. I mean, I love Stephen Hawking, but no one really knows what happens to that information, including him. And this really aggravates me! See, this is why I am so glad I chose vet medicine as a profession, because I woud go freaking nuts over not knowing everything about the universe, especially my obsession with black holes. Or at least most things that I think we need to know.

[DaemonSeid]

Everything you need to know about the Verizon iPhone; preorders being taken starting in February.

[Kappamd]

^It's about damn time.

[cheerfulgreek]

[cheerfulgreek]

Question for Daemon.

Daemon, since you're really into comics -Marvel/DC, do you collect or have any of the figurines? Like this one?

[DaemonSeid]

@CG....yup and am running out of space too. One of my most prized is the Predator 2 mint in box figure that Todd McFarlane signed last year in Baltimore.


@drole don't be mad but I think DCUO may be my new poison.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

@CG....yup and am running out of space too. One of my most prized is the Predator 2 mint in box figure that Todd McFarlane signed last year in Baltimore.

Do you really? Wow, you have a really cool hobby. Do you keep them all in the box, or are there some that you assemble, paint, and display?

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Do you really? Wow, you have a really cool hobby. Do you keep them all in the box, or are there some that you assemble, paint, and display?

Most are still boxed... a few are taken out and displayed in my book case.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Most are still boxed... a few are taken out and displayed in my book case.

*like*

So, we have a figurine collector, a model car collector/diorama builder, and a dollhouse collector/seller (me).

Does anyone else have something really cool that you collect/display?

[cheerfulgreek]

Okay, so I'm starting a thread within a thread.
What's your geek dream? Meaning, what's something that you're so passionate about that could become a reality. Kind of like a possible realistic geek fantasy? Something that you've never done, but have always wanted to do, or something that you've never seen, but would like to see? You can only choose one thing. What is it?

Well, everyone knows my fascination with astronomy, astrophysics, and astrobiology, so I have a whole list of things, but since we can only list one, I'm going to say to be able to find an Earth like planet. I'm not saying there has to be intelligent life forms there, but just a planet similar to Earth. Well, I've always been excited about Gliese 436B. I'm so excited about that planet that I'm almost jumping out of my clothes. It's just that we still don't know if Earth is a common occurring planet, or a 1 in a billion freak. Gliese 436B looks like a Neptune sized Earth and it's warm enough for liquid water. I mean, it's not like our water because there's so much of it, but it's still liquid water on the surface. That would be a dream to be able to send a space probe that could land on its surface. What would we see?

[DaemonSeid]

To see man fly.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

To see man fly.