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At 6/20/13 11:57 AM, TomFulp wrote: There really are a lot of shitty games nowadays, even with the shovelware crackdown. :(

You are only lvl 12 so you haven't been doing much portaling. This is a good site though.

At 6/20/13 11:42 AM, mandog wrote: Maybe its due to the fact nobody wants to play shitty flash games anymore.

There will always be a market for people wanting to program games by themselves and share them and people who want to play games which are fresh and original.

This is a better study for proving my point...

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/790.html

Eat yoghurts.

There is some evidence and theories that introducing lactobacillus and bifidobacter microbes into your gut flora may reduce the allergens released by other gut flora. Or it might do nothing.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892053/

There are also commercial antihistamines and allergy medicine you could try.

At 6/18/13 01:48 AM, Warforger wrote: I think their right in determining foreign policy should be weakened. What it should be handled by is through experts and diplomats who understand the situation and the culture rather than people who still have a hard time finding Iraq on the map

How can you ensure that you are weakening only the stupid voters? Politics is the very method in place that people use to make decisions, if you change the entire system to change 1 decision the system has made then the new system may start to make all sorts of other stupid decisions.

30% of Americans do not believe we should abandon the rebels to Assad's death squads and watch Syria become an insular totalitarian regime, I'm sure a proportion of the remaining 70% sympathize, what this poll tells us is they fear being dragged into another pointless war. If the system needs to be changed we need one which is more goal oriented, so that we don't sweep up legitimate critics along with stupid people while at the same time leaving the practical matters to the experts.

At 6/20/13 11:08 AM, Camarohusky wrote: An benefits recieving institution that is a choice FOR ALL is not discriminating against those who choose not to do it. However, when you cetagorically deny someone the choice of entering that institution, THEN you have discrimination.

Not allowing someone to enter an institution for no good reason is discrimination and I apologize for not making that clear, but what if the institution itself is screwed up? Marriage is a personal decision, I don't see why the government should step in and provide incentives for people to marry in the first place.

I'm scared to use the portal because people can submit anything without it being checked first.

There is no justification for supporting either side really.

1: Gay marriage is inevitable, so all this effort will only bring it around a little sooner and there is little point trying.

2: The practical result will be gay couples receiving more tax breaks and bigger welfare checks just for being married. So this isn't comparable to slavery and racism and the basis for this isn't about ending discrimination but rather allowing gay couples to discriminate against the unmarried.

3: The real problem is that people have psychologically indoctrinated themselves to get frustrated and angry over what is a non-issue.

4: Most of the political institutions behind the gay marriage movement intentionally abuse religious or egalitarian ideals to further unrelated agendas, such as promoting Chik-fil-A or Starbucks fast food chains or distracting people from more important political issues.

Do you have a favorite media pundit or someone who has convinced you to support this issue? I wouldn't be surprised if your most beloved and trusted leader received paychecks from Chik-fil-A for their work stirring up controversy (and free advertizing).

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/02/chick-fil-a-appreciatio n-day-sets-record-restaurant-chain-says/

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At 6/6/13 09:49 PM, Psycho666 wrote: Question that nobody is asking:

"Have conservative groups done anything differently that would cause them to be targeted more often than others?"

The answer is conservative groups tend to ask questions about EPA over-regulation and the justification for taxes and fines. liberals tend to ask questions about evil corporations and how much pollution there is. The EPA should be just as eager to provide information that implicates themselves in scandals and results in high ranking officials being forced to resign as they are to provide information that proves how brilliant and necessary they are.

At 6/15/13 06:41 PM, leanlifter1 wrote: I would burn the local church to the ground but there is to many mind locked fuck tards that would like to kill me if I did. Take that for what it is.

I think maybe fighting for justice and showing compassion to your defeated enemies is better, if you act little differently from your enemies then you are are your own enemy.

At 6/16/13 08:56 PM, Slint wrote:

At 6/16/13 08:54 PM, Toyz wrote:

At 6/16/13 08:49 PM, Slint wrote: This thread.

Your post is so original and funny that my sides are hurting from laughter.

Someone has to do the classics.

That's what I said to your mom last night.

At 6/17/13 09:56 AM, Psycho666 wrote: We're taking over the entire Middle-East and using a form of psychology to turn any Muslim with any longing for a traditional Islamic way of life into an enemy combatant. The Islamic way of life, I think, is incompatible to direct manipulation by a pure-capitalist entity.

The west is supporting the rebels and many of the rebels are islamists, naturally once these countries become democratic they will vote in an Islamist government, as they have in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. This has less to do with religion or foreign intervention and more to do with capitalism, what we are looking at is the result of the middle east's increasing population, industrialization and urbanization resulting in the growth of an educated middle class and plutocratic elite that competes politically with the military elite. Foreign intervention and religion are influencing factors but not the root cause.

The plutocrats are under constant threat of violence from the state while constantly looking for ways to influence the government and loosen restrictions on business. The state must apply violence carefully in order to eliminate opposition without turning people against them. The arab spring saw the middle classes protesting en masse presenting a difficult choice for the dictator.

Accept the tide of history and gradually transfer rule to a democratic government while tying up loose ends, as in the case of Suharto in Indonesia. The problem is if a dictator has too many enemies they will have nowhere to hide after the transfer of power.

Just flee to one of their allies like Tunisia's Ben Ali.

Continue to fight politically, as in the case of Egypt's Mubarak, this will preserve some of the power of the dictator's supporters, however there is no guarantee the dictator will preserve enough power to escape their enemies.

No negotiation, use force to end opposition, as in the case of Syria and Egypt. If the violence is excessive it will cause major political instability and may escalate the situation.

It almost reminds me of FF7, but with no good guys at all. Just all evil characters.

I have never played final fantasy, the turn based combat seems boring.

At 6/17/13 04:38 AM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: Sorry on my phone if forgot choice. It was a stupid choice.

What choice?

At 6/17/13 03:59 AM, aviewaskewed wrote:

At 6/13/13 10:20 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: not our problem

That didn't stop us with Iraq or Afghanistan so why should it stop us now?

They make decisions like a business, weighing the benefits and costs of their actions, they are unwilling to achieve their objectives at all costs. Russia's involvement to prevent foreign intervention means they cannot use airstrikes as they did in Syria and are limited to a proxy war.

You only hear a lot about religion because it is an important part of their propaganda and naturally that is what is blasting from the speakerphones. Those at the bottom of the command structure may take it seriously but those higher up have different motives.

At 6/15/13 04:06 AM, infamoss wrote:

hey, fix'd that for yah

At 6/11/13 07:48 PM, tatsumaru7 wrote: So yea what are my options :(

Now that you have been to university yuo can use that education to get a good career.

4chan would troll reddit, then reddit would throw a major hissy fit.

They have the highest standards of living in the world, best healthcare, education, low crime, high ppp per capita, good human rights.

We need to figure out what they are doing right and copy them.

There is no strict definition, just use common sense.

Eurasia
Africa
North America
South America
Malay Archipelago + Australasia

Detain people for years without trial? For freedom? Gitmo is an embarrassment that does more harm than good. Not to mention immoral.

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it is like ps3

plutonium?

At 4/19/13 05:22 AM, NecroNympho wrote:

third parties

agreed. Hey I'm not an Obama fan seriously, I was just trying to provoke conversation.

That's right, people assume if you oppose something it means you support the opposite.

I suppose another solution is you could try and change one of the 2 major parties. It depends on which has more chance of success, growing a small party or changing a major party.

At 4/17/13 06:00 AM, Earfetish wrote: Are you 'just sayin' that these things would not have happened with McCain or Romney?

So what if something similar would have happened with the Republicans in power? Democrat or Republican, 2 wrongs don't make a right.

Articulate reasons why.

There is a left wing versus right wing false dichotomy going on and everyone throws a hissy fit whenever someone mentions the possibility of a third party. At the moment and all things considered, there is no viable multi-party political culture. However political parties do not spring out of thin air, they develop over many years as they grow government positions are gradually ceded to them and they learn from their experience, amending their previous positions. At the moment the libertarian/green/constitution party are full of nuts but if they suddenly developed a significant voting base that sees them as a potential for the future but is apprehensive about a minority of their more ridiculous supporters then the party will favor the general public over the nuts and make efforts to become a viable moderate mainstream party.

Thanks

You're welcome.

At 4/17/13 07:10 AM, mitcoiv wrote: Your link is broken.

That's funny, you bump an 8 and a half year old thread just to fix a link that has been ignored for years.

It also says here those "2" exactly the same posts are your only posts so far.
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/search/author/mitcoiv

It is not unreasonable to speculate that you have some kind of political motivation and a search engine brought up this post from years ago and for some reason you thought it would be a good idea to bump it.

Is this true? What is your story?

At 4/18/13 01:52 AM, aviewaskewed wrote: I simply don't want to hear that line anymore from people who advocate all problems should be solved by going to war and blowing our problems up.

If the problem is Vietnamese peasants who dislike the South Vietnamese government then that applies. If it is a weapon built for the express purpose of killing 100000s of people in Seoul to use as a bargaining chip so a tyrant can stay in power and ruin the lives of millions of North Koreans then that doesn't apply.

So this got me to thinking about all the atheists you see on the internet in sites like reddit and tumblr.

http://news.discovery.com/human/life/atheist-church-set-to-g o-global-130308.htm

Officially named The Sunday Assembly, the church was the brainchild of Pippa Evans and Sanderson Jones
"There's so much about Church that has nothing to do with God -- it's about meeting people, it's about thinking about improving your life," said Jones

Most atheists realize it is just an abstract belief and largely irrelevant, however some attribute things to it they shouldn't and have formed ideological groups that are getting quite large now. The problem is human nature and the mental gymnastics we are capable of.

How do you get people who value logic and thinking for themselves to join your group and believe everything they are told? You appeal to their emotions, you tell them they are better than the illogical dumbys who don't think for themselves which makes them feel proud and socially dominant. You tell them people who are logical reach the same conclusions and are part of a special group, if you don't reach the same conclusions there must be something wrong with you.

Going up to random people and lecturing them on Riemann and Lorentz will only encourage them to go to university. Why should they join your club? You don't have a monopoly on science and there are plenty of actual scientists out there. Right? Well why not constantly construe atheism with science? Why not claim fundamentalist luddites are a huge threat to science and only you can stop them?

How do you oppose extremism and tribalism, yet practice it yourself to help your movement become large and successful? It is simple, you find some way to separate your extremism from other types, you call it "religiosity" and vehemently preach against it as if it is the only form of extremism. Since you oppose it so strongly you can't possibly be practicing it yourself!

I like to think that maybe anti-extremism might be a solution but something tells me even that would fall prey to human nature as well and end up as just another dumb ideology. It seems the only way to influence society is to stoop down to its level. How do you solve this problem?