11,660 Forum Posts by "MortifiedPenguins"
At 1/23/09 11:56 PM, HandsomePete wrote:At 1/23/09 11:51 PM, Dawnslayer wrote:
It seems to me that the government should be paying for things that are designed to help keep people alive and productive citizens, like:
Defense
Police
Fire
Schools
Roads
... we need all of these things to get by, why not health care?
Because the government doesn't pay for it: you pay for it, I pay for it, John the plumber pays for it. The American government doesn't pay for anything, now a days it just destroys our credit and still taxes the shit out of us.
People seem to forgot many things in this wonderfull nation. That the government doesn't pay for a thing, that people seem to be comfortable enought to give away more of thier own liberty to the federal government, and that somehow health care is a right.
You have the right to advance to find a well paying job that provides healthcare, you have the right to have an actual job that the market wants and thus will pay willingly for.
You don't have a right to expect the American taxpayer to pay for your own incompetence and poor decesions.
The budget is really easier to balance than they make it out to be. If politicians weren't so busy skimming money off of the basic essentials, we could easily afford universal health care. But they also need to quit calling it communist, since that's apparently worse to say than Fuck in a public forum.
Thank you Mr. Greenspan, I'm sure President Obama has already called you for help on the national budget.
At 1/23/09 10:47 AM, Proteas wrote:At 1/22/09 11:44 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:
Why is it when somepbody agrees with a bill, it's democracy in action, but when they disagree with it, it's mob rule or tyranny of the majority? Can someone explain that for me?
I've always disliked direct populous based votes on any bill or ammendment, due to the nature of mob rule.
People seem to forgot that a pure and true democracy is no different then any despot, thier both tyranys.
For this, I would have actually wished it passed, but there was no need of it being voter based. The voter should have the ability to petition for a bill to come up to the legislature, but not to have direct vote on it.
See, now this is why I don't like Democracy.
Were a Republic for a reason, vote for your representatives and let your state legislature deal with the problem, not mob rule.
Once it becomes financailly viable, and once Oil has really put us into a squeze (as long as gas is under five bucks a gallon I don't see that has happening) then the private market will adopt it.
Let the invisible hand take care of it, market forces are a hell of a lot more efficient then anything else.
At 1/21/09 07:05 AM, SevenSeize wrote:At 1/20/09 08:52 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:
Oh no, we realize we are lucky in that aspect, we just want SOME snow.
But you guys always have white fluffy stuff, it's called cotton.
You hate it now, but if you never ever ever freaking saw any, you'd miss it.
True. If it makes you feel any better you can think that your a New Englander if your read some Robert Frost poems.
Yesterday morning our local radio DJs literally said, "It's only 30 degrees this morning, but hey, you could be in Boston."
I'm assuming that was one we were floating aroud 0 and -5ish.
At 1/21/09 05:04 PM, AKACCMIOF wrote:At 1/20/09 08:48 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:At 1/20/09 03:14 PM, AKACCMIOF wrote:At 1/19/09 05:46 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:At 1/19/09 05:35 PM, AKACCMIOF wrote:At 1/19/09 05:25 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:
I refute. The out hunting of the Neanderthal. (Spell check?)
The problem with that is, that the Neadertall wasn't a human like us, it's classified as a whole nother species. So what makes us, Humans, Homo Sapien Sapiens, would have absolutely nothing to do with another creature.
Likewise more then likely the Neandertalls died off because of thier physical characteristics and genetic structure, not because they never(if actually possible for thier species) adopted the use of logos.
The topic of neandertalls, my friend, is a whole nother can of worms.
Its more than that. Families of cows seem to learn to cross at the least busy times of day regularly. In fact some are killed when freak trucks get thrown in or families die out.
Your family just lets thier cows wander across a busy road like that?
At 1/21/09 12:12 AM, MultiCanimefan wrote:At 1/20/09 11:48 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:At 1/20/09 11:30 PM, MultiCanimefan wrote:
For example, when someone learns to do something as "second nature," he's turned a thought out response into an instinct.
I consider that to be a case of classical conditioning more often then not.
At 1/20/09 11:30 PM, MultiCanimefan wrote:
I propose a question: These animals act out of instinct, correct? So, who is to say us humans aren't just merely acting on our own instinct, just with rational thought and foresight thrown in?
Because that would be a doulbe negative.
If it was an act of instinct, ie jumping away at a sudden noise or movement then you didn't put the time to rationalize the decesion and act decisivly on it.
Likewise If I made a logical decesion, then that would not be instinct taking over.
More often then not, a human being lives most of the life in logos with instinct providing the relief at times.
At 1/20/09 08:46 PM, Patton3 wrote: Just a quick note. This is completely original, in that I didn't take ideas from any politician, at least not intentionally. I'm sure there are some places were my ideas and other clean energy plans overlap.
Because there overly vague, undetailed and sound like any other politicians stumping for some "form" of clean energy.
Add more realistic details adn the like to add some wieght to it.
At 1/20/09 09:00 PM, Elfer wrote: The budget should have been more like fifty bucks for propane and hot dogs.
I don't see why the inauguration is such an enormous event. Up here, we check the newspaper the day after voting to see who won the election, and that's pretty much that.
Agreed.
Obama takes the oath of office in front of Congress, from the Chief Justice just like the founding fathers did. Cut backs waste and useless time.
Then again, this could be said for every president since the founding fathers. And to be fair, there politicians. Thier slimy parasitic lowlives with a hyper inflated ego and a cloud of smug floating around them.
More snow today, we had to have gotten 6 or 7 feet in the last couple of days.
You southerners just don't know how good you got it.
At 1/20/09 03:14 PM, AKACCMIOF wrote:At 1/19/09 05:46 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:At 1/19/09 05:35 PM, AKACCMIOF wrote:At 1/19/09 05:25 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:
Natural selection of useful methods. And a little rationalism, but as I point out this is concurrent in the animal kingdom.
The problem with falling back onto a natural selection argument, is that by developing or using the bow over the spear, is not a mutation and is not restricted to a certain group of humans but all humans.
It isn't one group of humans never being able to use a bow and thus dying out due to the innefficiences of the spear, it's the use of logic and evualtion.
Bad example. What about herds of cows (my aunt a farmer be) who know what time to cross the road?
Becausing hearing is now equal to logical reasoning?
Or because classical conditioning (aka Pavlov's Dogs) has now become logos.
What the fuck.
Even sportcenter is talking about the Obama innaguration.
Dear God.
At 1/19/09 05:45 PM, Proteas wrote:
Can anyone rationalize that for me?
While since my pyschological information only goes up to Freud, I'll try.
Something something something, oedipus complex, something sex with mother, something something reminiscent of breaking bones something something something dreams of sex with mother and death of father something something id and ego.
That is why you don't like broken bone snapping sound.
Or because it's a natural reflex of the human condition to assume that sound with the ultimly pain of themselves or somebody around them.
At 1/19/09 05:24 PM, SuperDeagle wrote:At 1/19/09 04:32 PM, Minarchist wrote:
Didn't Obama, just two weeks ago, say he wouldn't be able to fulfill the majority of his promises because the climate is different now then from the campaign season?
How has the world changed so dramatically in two months that would alter every single promise that he has given on what he would do.
Has every American apparently find low cost healthcare? Is the economy stabilized again? Has the forlorn American blue collar recieved thier jobs again that went overseas?
The reality is that he knows that he can't fulfill those promises (like every politician in campaign season) and is subsequently falling back onto excuses.
At 1/19/09 05:35 PM, AKACCMIOF wrote:At 1/19/09 05:25 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:
OK, but the human making a spear only does so because he has done so before successfully and is therefore a continuation of perspective thought.
If this is true, then why does different and varried ways to get deer or elk come about. If making the spear got them the deer, then why did somebody decide to use the bow or find a new way to perform that action.
Even if you take this out of account the rational structuring of packs and shoals, and the way certain types of spider rationally sacrifice their lives to increase success of mating.
Does the spider rationally view the situation there in and decide that by thier death a new generation can be born and be raised and thus commit himself to the action of mating and his subsequent death, or does the spider simply follow the instincts that is written in it's genetic structure?
A spider can't rationalize, a spider lacks the logos to have the rational soul.
At 1/19/09 05:04 PM, AKACCMIOF wrote:
Discuss.
The idea that your missing is that your comparing the portions of what Aristotle percieved as parts of the soul.
Aristotle thought that there were three parts to the soul; the nutritive, the perceptive and the rational. The nutritive was simply life or any other variation of existence and perceptive is the interacting with the world around us (that is if what I read I interred correctly) but the rational soul is one that is indepedent from all species but man, because only man is the species that contains the ability to reason and logos or wisdom.
Thus, as stated, the examples that you gave and the many examples in life that animals can perform are all perceptive traits. A Chimpanzee using a stick to get bugs out of a dead log for food is perseptive, but a man making a spear to hunt deer that he has yet to see and will hunt in the future is wisdom or rational thought.
More then likely this innaguration is just going to be the outspoken liberal celebrities state of grace at the cost of the American taxpayer for a rather overdramatized even that could be done for an extreme fraction of the cost without all this huff and puff.
And more then likely he'll fail to live up to any of his promises and turn into every other "reformist" politiician that goes to Washington. Except that he's already a socialist parasite.
Washington never changes, it changes them.
At 1/18/09 08:27 PM, SevenSeize wrote:At 1/18/09 08:15 PM, Malachy wrote:
I just cannot take the taste of coke. I know some people say, "soda is soda" No. It's not.
and that's like treason down here.
Some tonics, as in the crap ones do taste the same.
But if you want something good, and you don't want to drink Pepsi and want to try a new tonic.
Go for Moxie, thats all you need in life.
At 1/18/09 04:57 PM, SevenSeize wrote:At 1/18/09 04:50 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote:
I like that. I know it's your body, so I won't try to influence ya, but I don't think it's silly, so either way, stache or not, will be cool.
Depends on how the stache looks.
There are two types of people with facial hair; those that should have it and those that shouldn't have it.
If the only mustache you can get is one of those pube mustaches (you know what I mean, go to any freshman class in highschool and you'll see it) then you shouldn't have a stache.
At 1/18/09 10:35 AM, Al6200 wrote:At 1/18/09 08:37 AM, glomph wrote:
A better way to spread opportunity would be to create magnet schools, where kids who are intelligent can go to good schools no matter what their parent's background is.
Or to force competition and choice into failing American schools by installing a voucher program that would run cheaper and more efficient then our current system.
As well as helping to destroy the evils of teacher's unions as well.
People seem to forgot that the first victims of the 29 Crash were the capital owning entrepeneurs and we all know what happened to the working man at the end of it.
Give it time, just wait until the lack of capital "trickles down" to the working class.
And to be fair, Circuit City was barely on solvency even before the slowdown.
Finally got computer working again, it only took a month
At 12/5/08 05:35 PM, SevenSeize wrote: Today I wore a shirt with a light up reindeer on it. Then after I graded papers, I played with blocks on the floor.
My job is so awesome.
They still make those sweaters.
At 12/5/08 12:25 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: The final boss in Gears 2 is a lot less crushingly difficult than the one in the first game. I know a lot of people were really frustrated by the first one.
Still haven't beaten him on Insane difficulty yet.
But, the boss at the end of Gears 2 was laughable.
Now, this is why I hate parlimentary democracies.
Well maybe hate is the wrong word, maybe detest a variety of parts to it.
At 12/4/08 01:13 AM, fli wrote:At 12/3/08 10:42 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: Maybe Fli's one of them.BBMs?
(Brokeback Mountain?)
amirite?
Big Beatiful Men.
You know, like BBW's.
I always thought that the gritty man's man gay fetish was the whole bear movement
At 12/3/08 10:21 PM, Proteas wrote:At 12/3/08 09:59 PM, fli wrote:
You'd gouge your eyes out if you saw me in that outfit, BELIEVE ME. Colton Ford I am not.
Some gay men happen to be into BBMs
Maybe Fli's one of them.
At 12/3/08 12:53 PM, FUNKbrs wrote:
Mainly EMO kids. Mainly EMO kids.
How do they go around with that view of thinking.
I mean, we all learned that the rise of Punk was in direct response to what was percieved as commerical rock and Prog rock in the late 70's and how Punk Musicians wanted to go back to the shitty Garage Rock bands of the 60's.
How do they tend to ignore that point. Or the whole idea British Invasion or any of that?
God, this is why I just stick with the Blues and Bluesrock.
I think we learned that Axel was a complete idiot when he fucked up with Slash.
Only reason why I listened to Guns and Roses was for Slash.
