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At 8/17/14 03:34 PM, WrightOnTarget wrote:

At 8/17/14 03:29 PM, Profanity wrote:

At 8/17/14 03:24 PM, WrightOnTarget wrote: While it's quite obviously not a real firearm, still not cool at all. The baby's face is kinda funny, though, gotta be totally honest.

That is not obvious at all. It very well could be a real firearm. There is nothing in the photograph to indicate that the weapon is a replica.

Why are you making the assumption that it isn't a real firearm?

Because I know firearms. First off, the cylinder is too small to accept even the smallest of rounds. The barrel is disproportionate to the frame, trying to replicate a K-Frame S&W. Yet it's still tiny in this small woman's hands. Pretty obvious to me that this is a cap gun of some sort, likely a Gohner or Rubie one. However, it wouldn't be obvious to someone who knew nothing about firearms, I'll admit, and even knowing it's a cap gun doesn't make the picture that much less horrible, because the concept is still there.

Since you know traditional firearms, then you're probably aware that third world nations are full of handmade nontraditional weapons with proportions unique to their local gunsmiths. You should also be aware that rounds can be much smaller than the apparent size of the barrel in this photograph.

And considering the poor resolution of the image, I would also dispute your claim that you have identified the low contrast of delineation between the barrel and the cylinder release as resulting from a cast moulded toy instead of a real weapon.

Furthermore, a cap gun, novelty lighter, or fake gun still poses a threat to a child that age.

At 8/17/14 03:24 PM, WrightOnTarget wrote: While it's quite obviously not a real firearm, still not cool at all. The baby's face is kinda funny, though, gotta be totally honest.

That is not obvious at all. It very well could be a real firearm. There is nothing in the photograph to indicate that the weapon is a replica.

Why are you making the assumption that it isn't a real firearm?

A corrupt and abusive Republican whose supporters are more worried about his bid for higher office than his rapport? No way!

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It's almost like the GOP is full of ignorant morons! Wow!

At 8/15/14 11:40 PM, Coinboi wrote: This is like the 2nd racism shooting since the Treyvon Martin case.

Racism needs to stop now.

SECOND??!! And Trayvon. This may be the 4th or 5th that gained enough attention to be talked about outside of the Minority communities, but American Law Enforcement has killed from 7 to 9 minorities per WEEK since 2005.

LE has been found encouraging officers to focus on "Blacks".

LE has assassinated the character of African American officer, causing him to declare war and systematically assassinate the racists in the LAPD.

LE has arrested an Ivy League professor for entering his own home.

This isn't a minor event, this isn't a "small little inconvenience" causing African Americans to "chimp out" (yeah, fuck you @Weaboo, go jerk off on 4chan). This is a pandemic trend of racist communities who take over government positions in order to whitewash their towns.

** shot

Holy fuck. Like you cannot be this blind.

Ferguson Police beat a man half to death and charged him with destruction if property for bleeding on their uniforms in 2009.

70% of Ferguson is African American.
90% of Ferguson's Police Force is White.

Are we just letting police assault crowds with LRAD and Tear Gas, then giving them permission to fire rubber bullets (low rate potentially lethal) if protestors throw the tear gas cannisters back?!

Where are all the high and mighty libertarians who were complaining about the militarization of police last year? Oh, right, you guys are all white. It doesn't matter to you when the COPS are white and the CITIZENS are black. Or should I say the N word, cause that's what you fucks use.

"Riots" "People getting pulled from cars and beaten"

Holy shit, some of you white kids are ignorant as fuck.

Police in Ferguson are battering African Americans, journalists, firing weapons of war (LRAD, Tear Gas, Pepper Spray, Rubber Bullets, Tasers) at groups of innocent protestors trying to seek some little measure of justice after one of their children was shit 9 times in the back as he ran away from a police officer. Police are ignoring actual crimes and destruction of property in order to show these people that they are lower class citizens. They aren't even answering 911 calls.

At 8/14/14 02:29 AM, Xenomit wrote:

At 8/14/14 02:18 AM, Profanity wrote: Learning how a computer works at its core, then building your own with an operating system to boot, is the very foundation of the fantastic journey which took young tinkerers in the past 50 years from garage-dwelling nobodies to jet-setting billionaires.

Here's the thing: We figured it out. There's no more big mysteries, there's already massive companies, no more kids are gonna get that same start like all the people before them. Companies like Apple and Microsoft already pioneered the computational frontier, you and your little open source OS that you shittily made is never, ever going to get anywhere near the companies that are as big as they are today for a reason; because they work.

That's fundamentally wrong. As I mentioned in the post which you butchered to cherry pick your reply:

Large companies use the code written for open source programs in order to improve their own designs. Capitalist companies have a fascinating way of glossing over important and complex details in the rush to release a product. Microsoft is notorious for releasing their operating systems and new software in a shoddy early-version publish wiphich requires severe maintainance based on user feedback. They are using the free manhours of the consumers, just, not in the same voluntary manner as Open Source Culture.

Technology is a collaborative effort. Big companies go as far as spying on each other across international borders in order to steal trade secrets and improve their end product. Linux and Open Culture may be a learning tool for most people, but they have spawned much greater technology in their wake. Ever used an Android smartphone? Quadcopter? Any device built with Raspberry Pi or Arduino?

And of course, antagonizing curious young NGBBS users who want to learn how to create these magical arrangements of chemical elements from bits and atoms can't be doing much good for your own ego, you sad little shit.

Pump your brakes, kid.

The people who program all of the proprietary Operating Systems you may have grown up using are essentially the same individuals who work on forked distributions of alternative computer systems in their college work, spare time, retirement, or in massive online collaborations. Microsoft, Apple, and Unix-based OS may be the standards for businesses and schools, but they aren't perfect in and of themselves for many reasons which give Linux based systems advantages. And actually, a greater number of manhours can be devoted to constructing open source operating systems simply because the labor is all voluntary.

Did you know that code from open source operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD has been used by major corporations to improve their own operating systems?

Learning how a computer works at its core, then building your own with an operating system to boot, is the very foundation of the fantastic journey which took young tinkerers in the past 50 years from garage-dwelling nobodies to jet-setting billionaires.

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At 8/11/14 07:42 PM, ZJ wrote: What's shocking is that when @Zachary initially told me about this, a lot of the websites were reporting this was a fake. Didn't change until about 20 minutes ago. Very odd. R.I.P. Robin. You were a funny dude who was in a ton of movies I loved like Aladdin and Dead Poet's Society.

I saw that website on the first page of Google. It didn't look credible. The updates were set to midle-eastern to far east pacific island time. The advertisements oh that site are low bracket, as well. I suspect that that site is programmed to automatically responds to social media or RSS news of famous deaths by generating a simple 'hoax debinking' article.

The Marin County Sheriff published its press releases on the matter at between 3:00 and 4:00 Pacific Time (up to two hours ago).

What is your Reddit username? What subreddit a do you moderate?

I don't believe this forum is actively looking for new moderators. If you explore around a while, you'll notice that asking publicly to be a moderator prohibits you from becoming a moderator. As well, we have 50 moderators for a relatively small group of a thousand posters. Wade tends to select people who have seniority, a long history of participating in the community, or have built some sort of trusting friendship with him. With some exceptions.

You might want to get in line and wait your turn. There are at least two dozen members here who have been posting, participating in the rank systems, and moderating larger sites like Wikipedia and Bungee for years. But if you demonstrate that you have what it takes to lead the community and help it to flourish, I see no reason why a capable administrator would ignore your potential.

Cheers.

At 8/10/14 05:11 PM, wildfire4461 wrote:

At 8/10/14 03:32 PM, Phobotech wrote: If areas affected by fracking are indeed gaining flammable water supplies, it begs to question just what exactly thats doing to our bodies. What underlying consequences are happening by drinking a steady, consistent supply of water that can ignite?

Could make trying to light your farts with a match a little destructive.

At 8/10/14 06:44 PM, kazumazkan wrote: gotta love my flammable water

Ignorance is bliss, ain't it, gentlemen?

People bring up hard evidence that Fracking damages the surrounding region geologically, that Fracking companies have been shown to intentionally disregard the regulations for dumping toxic waste in locations which interfere with both wildlife and human populations, that groundwater has been contaminated with all manner of pollutants, that rates for cancer and other diseases skyrocket in areas surrounding Fracking sites, that Fracking company CEOs know the dangers and ask their local governments to disallow Fracking near their own homes, and more.

Do you not care, or are you incapable?

At 8/10/14 02:59 PM, wildfire4461 wrote: My term for those against it are "fracktards"

This oughtta be good.

I say that because every time a news story comes up about a sinkhole or minor earthquake these idiots get in the comments section and blame it on fracking.

Probably because fracking causes sinkholes and earthquakes. People want to raise public awareness of that fact.

Even when there wasn't any going on anywhere near the area the quake or hole happened

Fracking can cause minor earthquakes which result in major earthquakes whose epicenters are hundreds of kilometers away.

At 7/22/14 05:14 AM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

At 7/22/14 05:08 AM, Profanity wrote:

At 7/22/14 04:58 AM, ZeroAsALimit wrote: bottom feeder conspiracy bullshit

I thought we were rid of you. Take your shitty, undeveloped sense of reality straight back to the dark, damp corner of whatever building you hole up in.

If it is happening in broad daylight it is not a conspiracy. I imagine that you feel we were right to invade Iraq as well.

No, that's the impression you get when you skim some of the relevant news after you just began paying attention to Ukraine in the past six months. Anyone who has been following Ukraine for years can hear the idiocy in your verbal diarrhea.

Fuck right off back to whatever "alt news" forum you brew in.

At 7/22/14 04:58 AM, ZeroAsALimit wrote: bottom feeder conspiracy bullshit

I thought we were rid of you. Take your shitty, undeveloped sense of reality straight back to the dark, damp corner of whatever building you hole up in.

At 7/20/14 05:54 PM, orangebomb wrote: have a lot more than what would be considered a personal amount. How can we change this? It's rather easy, a few states are legalizing marijuana while a lot others are mulling it over (most likely for medical rather than personal) so that should ease some of the incarceration rate.

Let's go back to passing the buck. Why is it that the Grand Old Party, Arbiters of Liberty and Limited Government, launched a prohibition to begin with? If they are so concerned by the nation's debt, why have they supported a multitrillion dollar four-decade-long failed War on Drugs? Why did Republican executives use the War as an excuse to topple politicians, find coups, and install American puppet regimes in South America? And now they whine and stomp their feet while tens of thousands of South American children chase the cheap clothing they've sewn across our southern border trying to escape the Drug War?

Please. Republicans are inheriting a party with selfish and evil intentions.

At 7/19/14 04:48 PM, Voltage wrote:

At 7/19/14 04:06 PM, Profanity wrote:

At 7/19/14 03:42 PM, Voltage wrote: You forget 7, 8, and 9:
7: Republicans have generally gone through college and have some sort of conservative/fiscal responsibility

that is actually untrue. Progressive Liberals are the most affluent and best educated political group

Dude you referenced a NINE year old article and you're defending democrats

You're right, that was a bit out of date. It was rude of me to neglect mentioning that the registration rate for Republicans has been on a strict decline since Bush v Gore, but the affluency rate hasn't changed.

this oughta be fun.

A pleasure, truly.

That is to say their political ideologies had no bearing in their success; their wealth was accumulated_ by employing other people to do a large amount of work and pay them the profit.

I hope you're talking about your nine year old article you linked to, because in this entire statement which was nothing short of rambling - that's how to be actually be successful. You employ people to do tons of work and you just pay them some kind of difference. This is exactly what time has shown that large amounts of work can't actually be done except by the work of robots, which puts the low-information individual out of any kind of monetary power. Republican idealogues definitely have it right the way they think, Democrats really think we can get along and everyone will be happy.

yeah, ooooooooookay

Um duh? Sheldon Adelson can't exactly build robots to fleece conservative sheep in Las Vegas, they would lose their trust. The Koch brothers can't build robots to deal with carcinogenic materials and pollutants, that would be too expensive. The Walton family can't staff their stores with drones, they have to pay just below a living wage in order to get desperate people to sell cheap plastic trinkets shipped in from slave labor in South Asia.

And they won't choose to pay those employees a living wage if they can avoid it. The onpy way to save the labor force from being an Untouchable caste is by legislative arrangements to raise their pay, tax the profits of the largest corporations, and do our best to keep the slimeballs from cutting corners on ethics. They won't waste their time using a conscience when they could be working hard to squeeze juice from rocks.

the rate of incarceration for Republicans and Democrats does not significantly deviate from the rate of party affiliation among the general populace, although you may be convinced otherwise if you did not know that there was a statistical gap between registered Democrats (+10%) and registered Republicans(-10%) against the second largest group: Independents.

Fun chart: education and being a Democrat. Look at that distinct group in the top right.

Now when we talk about "old articles," we are talking VERY old statistics. I think my argument is pretty solid, I hardly need to reference any confusing charts that don't date back 2 entire presidents ago (you reference a chart dating back to 1996, whoa dude!). Safe to say more democrats are definitely in jail or the midst of going to jail, that's what that chart pretty much told me. I don't know what 'party affiliation' has to do with anything considering 3 million+ people in jail, more than likely about 2 million or more are registered Democrats, or they probably don't actually have a party IE low information voter/welfare recipient.

I just assumed you have been paying attention to trends well enough to judge the change. Fewer college graduates are registered as Republicans now than at any time in the past few decades. Policial affiliations don't correlate to higher or lower rates of incarceration. You can take my word for it, or you can head back to AskJeeves until you agree with me. Though I'm sure you're right: wealth does correlate.

Your last picture is kind of like what I just said though, confusing chart, no citation, no reference link, no nothing. If I knew better, I'd say you either pulled that out of your ass or it's something from 2006, it's also quite one sided in that it doesn't show any Republicans as a difference within the image itself. Like I said, I lean left but even this is hardly enough to convince myself my own party is in the green about many issues.

It's from the 2012 presidential race stats bargain bin. ProgressivePolicy had to take the study down because it was generating too much hate from the right side of the aisle. You can see a bit about it on BI.

At 7/19/14 03:42 PM, Voltage wrote: You forget 7, 8, and 9:
7: Republicans have generally gone through college and have some sort of conservative/fiscal responsibility

that is actually untrue. Progressive Liberals are the most affluent and best educated political group

(For non-Americans, Liberal = socially left, it's reversed from the international definition. Strange, I know)

8: Republicans at-large as a majority are much richer and probably more successful than Democrats

See above. Enterprising Conservatives are a very small and disproportionately wealthy group of people whose vote Republican because it helps to improve their incomes. However, studies have shown that most have reached their economic height by winning "against the odds" which brought confirmation bias to their support of blind capitalism. That is to say their political ideologies had no bearing in their success; their wealth was accumulated_ by employing other people to do a large amount of work and pay them the profit.

9: Republicans make up about 10% of the people in jail, while the other 90% are probably welfare recipients, illegal immigrants, terrorists/high ranking criminals which are probably... YOU GUESSED IT, a Democrat

the rate of incarceration for Republicans and Democrats does not significantly deviate from the rate of party affiliation among the general populace, although you may be convinced otherwise if you did not know that there was a statistical gap between registered Democrats (+10%) and registered Republicans(-10%) against the second largest group: Independents.

Fun chart: education and being a Democrat. Look at that distinct group in the top right.

It's simple.

1. Republicans are religious
2. Republicans idolize people who fit in and follow traditions
3. Republicans support the military and thank !military members for killing people
4. Republicans believe in a pure capitalist economy and open market
5. Republicans vote in representation which rigs capitalism in favor of existing companies
6. Republicans are guilelessly optimistic about self-guided morality

Basically, Republicans are all suckers who get exploited by wave after wave of corrupt cynical assholes. They spend so little time researching, reading, thinking, and writing that they have no choice but to believe the loudest mouth in the room.

At 7/14/14 11:29 AM, SCTE3 wrote:

At 7/14/14 08:44 AM, exudaz wrote: lack of logic used

Thanks for proving my point kid.

People might pay more attention to your opinions if you stopped using the words "logic" and "reason" to refer to your extremely biased emotionally driven judgemebts. There are entire books written on the subject of logic, none contain chapters on sympathizing with a person and taking everything they say as canon.

At 6/30/14 03:44 PM, Chronamut wrote: I have yet to find a positive post in your entire posting history sooo.. gonna disregard everything you say.

That's to be expected by your attitude. I carry a positive message.

I am positive that you seek out social circles which attract pædophiles. Why else would you defend three in your OP, a fourth guilt-ridden pervert in the same post, and then blame the victim of two pædophiles convicted of harming a child? Maybe that's because you are a surrogate child for their molestation fantasies?

At 6/30/14 03:30 PM, Emma wrote: I've never heard of a falsely-accused pedophile being investigated/arrested by the federal government.

BTW your friends are sickos and you're probably a pedophile.

Agreed. Everything about the guy screams deep-seated psychological issues. Just crawl his account history for ten minutes and you get the impression of a thin veneer of personality masking his true nature.

You have three close friends who have been arrested for pedophilia. One more friend is avoiding the internet because of what you claim to be a baseless accusation of pedophilia. And you are emotional enough to lash out defensively at a small community of overwhelmingly male children and young adults with whom you share public space. On the premise that an unseen power is observing your actions.

This says more about you as a person, the company you choose to keep, and your mental state than whatever message you may have been trying to sell.

At 6/20/14 11:48 AM, LazyDrunk wrote: Take a breath, relax, and really think about what you just wrote. Are you so far gone down the progressive commie-hole you can't see the light anymore?

The argument is that there are bigger problems warranting more attention than the made-up theory that human CO impact is going to kill the planet, kill the people on the planet, or kill the western striped-back sapsucker tadpole.

Ignorance is not the problem; everyone has to abide by the laws their respective nations enact. Overemphasis on silly pedantic scientists who need to eat is.

Overemphasis on silly pedantic scientists? Are you for real?! This is some low brow middle school lunchroom bullshit. When they boil the facts down for you and present a solid case, your camp says that the scientists don't understand it. When they present scientific data and scholarly arguments along with tens of thousands of tiers of peer review to assess the real world results of our industrialisation, your camp says they're being silly, pedantic, and grubbing for money.

The reason ocean levels rising several inches over decades is actually important is that it will flood coastal flatlands like The Netherlands and Florida. And absolutely destroy migratory island nations in the Pacific.

The reason the extinctions of small species you've never heard of actually matters is that they're a part of greater ecosystems, and their extinctions have enormous environmental impacts.

The reason global temperature rise, ocean acidification, industrial contamination, and pollution matter is that they force species which have lived in specific habitats for thousands to millions of years to suddenly migrate to other locations, fucking up the other ecosystems or local economies which are based on fishing, hunting, and gathering from those ecosystems.

Not mentioning the other repercussions that you evidently don't give half a shit about.

At 6/19/14 04:20 PM, WahyahRanger wrote: But everyone's body is different and cardio does little to help me reach my goal.

That is utter bullshit. You aren't a different species from the rest of us. Go for a jog every day, do your pushups, and start eating a normal amount of calories.

At 6/12/14 08:19 PM, Vnzi wrote:

At 6/12/14 08:16 PM, Stereocrisis wrote: insulting

And you wonder why people act this way to you?

He thinks he's being mature because he had an extremely shitty example set for him by his parents and the other adults he knew as a child.

Why bother. Let him stew in antisocial narcissistic self pity. Watching him struggle to cope with simple problems is funny.

At 6/11/14 03:47 AM, Stereocrisis wrote: Swearing is how men talk

Maybe if you come from a shitty family with dads who stumble into your room drunk holding knives to their throats, you come off with that impression about adults.

That's not how mature people talk. Grow up.

At 6/9/14 05:07 AM, NeonSpider wrote: You're young and naive and panhandlers are sharks. The people passing by without giving money aren't doing so because they're embarrassed. They're doing so because they know how these people are. They're hoping the panhandlers will ignore them and choose a more suitable target, such as yourself.

Most of the panhandlers have homes.

Are you sure about that?

They're just playing it like it's a game. To see how many people they can bum money off. They choose that lifestyle.

Actually they have problems which put them in that situation in the first place.

The actual homeless may or may not panhandle, but most of the panhandlers aren't actually homeless. They are bums though. There's even a chance they may be criminals.

That's the typical excuse people use to avoid giving their pocket change to people who obviously need it. "The panhandlers aren't needy, they're frauds! I'll give this to the real homeless!" " The waitresses should get no tips and be motivated to find better jobs! I'm doing them a favor!"

You must tell yourself a lot of other lies to twist the truth around and help yourself believe that you aren't just a selfish person. Why don't you share more of your wisdom?

Those are white Peace Doves, which symbolize peace and tranquility.

At 6/2/14 12:11 PM, WahyahRanger wrote: Yeah, they're not albino 'cus the eyes would be red

Leucism differs from albinism in that the melanin is, at least, partially absent but the eyes retain their usual color. Some leucistic animals are white or pale because of chromatophore (pigment cell) defects, and do not lack melanin.

"Dove" and "pigeon" refer interchangeably to the same family of birds. If they're larger, usually they're pigeons. If they're smaller, usually they're doves.

Using hindsight on the USA:

1. Regular weed use makes most people lazy and stupid, therefore less competitive workers.
2. Restricting access internationally makes it a cash crop and gives powerful nations a legally justifiable reason to devastate less powerful nations. See: War on Drugs, effects on Mexico, Latin America, and South America.
3. Restricting access domestically gives the upper classes a legally justifiable reason to subjugate the lower classes.
4. Restricting access domestically gives the majority race in mixed race nations a reason to subjugate the unfavored minority races.
5. Hemp (a cousin of the psychoactive) was a strong competitor to the cotton and paper industries, and marijuana a competitor to the alcoho and tobacco industries.

Although historically, the reasoning behind the ban on weed may have been closer to #1 than the other four, the other four have become much more relevant. In addition, three other industries: Black market weed production, Medical and Pharmaceutical, and Law Enforcement have interests which conflict with the legalization of marijuana.