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At 10/9/06 04:58 PM, TehChahlesh wrote: What kind of dumbass test is this?

..ok ok, it's an attempt to follow up the DOHS sorting opinions from fact thread. If we throw together a list of opinions and facts, we find that facts are where people widely agree, and opinions are where we uniformly differ.

To evaluate someone as a "terror risk" we would need to distinguish between say; who is depressed (mentally unstable), who is uninformed (ignorant rant), who is misinformed (indoctrinated), who blindly follow (believers), who doubt a popular cause (disbelievers), from those who are classically cynical.

General assumption is that optimistic ppl don't blow themselves up. But a group indicating "potential terrorists" would be made up of people who have extreme or negative opinions (as stated; depressed, misinformed, radically indoctrinated, etc).

Now with cynicism, which is also characterised by negative opinion, i suspect it's not a such good indicator of the potential danger of an individual. Cynicism is a cumulation of negative experiences heavily tainted by logical hopelessness, but not typically deep depression (suicidal hopelessness). A cynic might say "fuck we're all doomed!" but would conclude "..yeah, and nothing we do will change this". If the DOHS do use an algorythm to target text thought patterns as psycological indicators, then i'd suggest that widely held cynicism will give the most false positive results.

In summary; Cynicism is an expression that events are beyond our control, even if we don't agree with those events (ie. stress relief).

At 10/9/06 04:52 AM, cellardoor6 wrote: STUFF ..like ...Kim Jung il has proven that he cannot be trusted and will continue his nuclear program if the US talks with him or not. Its time to take him the hell out.

OFCW. It's Team America, World Polize - fo shizzle!

FAGS

At 10/8/06 11:38 PM, Imperator wrote: At 10/8/06 09:42 AM, o-r-i-g-i-n-a-l wrote::

On a side note.. MJ..

A correction to the side note. we still all call it weed..... ;)

Appendum to side note #2; we call it weed kuz if it wasn't for the govt. it would be growing fucken everywhere! ^)^

The official Korean Central News Agency said the test was performed successfully and there was no radioactive leakage from the site.

heh.. would they have said anything else?

"The nuclear test is a historic event that brought happiness to the our military and people," KCNA said.

ooh. feel teh joy-joy.

(how ironic that they test nukes in "nuclear bunkers" ..for safety)

Rate Your Cynicism (part1)

How many of the following do you agree with?

1) The world's CO2 levels are rising rapidly, but as long as China or Mexico are not doing anything about it, then why should we?

2) Yes the world is getting hotter, but it's a natural cycle, and there is no point fighting nature.

3) If there is a God, He must really REALLY hate us.

4) Why is it we work so fucken hard just so some jet-setter can lay back on a beach somewhere surrounded by chicks drinking pina coladas.

5) It's a fact. The rich are getting richer, and the poor getting poorer.

6) Kids today are lazy, stupid, and typically obnoxious.

7) Our world is run by evil people, and voting makes no difference in either way.

8) Terrorists seek to destroy our freedoms. They're not going to stop hating us no matter what we do.

9) Most countries develop thru war. It is inevitible, just like growing pains.

10) Human death and suffering is just the environments way of keeping world population in check.

11) Everyone is out to scam everybody else. You just can't trust anybody today.

12) Modern advertising makes me sick, but sad fact is the worst ads work the best.

13) Bad news just sells better than good news.

14) IMHO, people are fucking sheep!

15) Life teaches you that ALL life's problems are solved at the bottom of a liquor bottle.

At 10/8/06 11:22 AM, smith916 wrote: To solve the drug problem.. force kids to try at least one (illegal) drug in their life time. problem solved.

why use force, when we can just sneak it to 'em?

*imagines cool job description*

At 10/8/06 07:06 PM, smith916 wrote: I'm guessing that they are trying to get a computer to think on it's own.

yes, because to find a terrorist you have to be able to think like one.

apparently weed does wonders for ppl with chronic dementia.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is funding a research project designed to teach computers to scan text and then sort opinion from fact.

The scientists will use machine-learning algorithms to give computers examples of text expressing both fact and opinion and then teach them to tell the difference.

..of course this would be alot easier if thought-terrorists would simply put 'IMHO' in their most radicalized blog postings.

At 10/7/06 10:11 PM, Grotesk wrote:

At 10/7/06 09:41 PM, Fraggles wrote: Dubya!

That is perhaps the oldest joke on the internet.

or perhaps not.

At 10/6/06 08:29 PM, TitoGray wrote: Shinzo Abe became a prime minister. He calls for the revision of the Japanese constitution and creation a big army, which would be able to deter North Korea and China from possible attack on Japan.

there's a flaw in that sentence..

While China is already a nuclear power and North Korea is planning to join that club, the only possibility to successfully discourage these countries from military involvement is by creating its own huge nuclear arsenal.

which you correctly address in this subsequent sentence : )

So our real question here is simple; would anyone (America for example) object if Japan started developping it's own nukes?

At 10/7/06 07:55 PM, 100111100 wrote: There's proof that if Germany hadnt turned against Russia, then by 1946 they would have jet aircraft fully used and we would have been screwed.

Yeah, that's a good case in point. A Brit invents the jet aircraft, and even an all out war with Germany didn't spur them into developping it before they were duped into handing the specs over to America.

If Germany had got the Bomb, it's perhaps moot now to think whether Britian or Russia would have been the intended recipient.

At 10/7/06 09:29 AM, IndianaJamie wrote: That rainy shithole of an island made 53% of the worlds inventions.

heh. i'm just having a go at Del-Toro for suggesting Britian, France, Poland, or any other land was really worth fighting over, like for any resource Germany lacked just prior to invading it's neighbours, or that propaganda disguised as racial and economic intolerance hadn't just got so WAY out of control in the minds of certain Nazis with grandiose schemes of global domination or their own prowess of military victories and conquest.

It's ridiculous to say that by 1939 the hardships of WW1 had made Germans seek revenge when they already recovered to a very culturally sophisticated level. Only in the arrogance of excess do we find such an evil. A lesson looking ever more likely to be repeated in this century aswell it seems.

but tissues are SO expensive..

and destroy forests

;*O (

At 10/7/06 12:57 AM, Del-Toro wrote: the germans wanted britain..

Why would the Germans want Britian, that rainy shithole of an island? Or frozen popsicle Russia?

I thought the war about crippling German hyper-inflation, and the jews who unreasonably profited from it.

What does Russia, America, or the REST of the world have to do with saving France? I don't think the Brits even care that much about France.

"Ours is not to reason why, Ours is but to fight and die." - tombsone epitaph

At 10/6/06 07:52 PM, MrBibz wrote:

At 10/6/06 07:13 PM, Truthiness wrote: We all have hard lives.

Boo Fucking Hoo.

Very political indeed.

Depression shared, is depression doubled.

At 10/6/06 08:45 PM, Nylo wrote: The toppling of the Taliban regime was the last thing we did with unity before we became divided.

The Taliban were toppled?? I thought only tall buildings toppled.

America and Japan = bestest military buddies. Who would of thought it just 50 odd years ago!

At 10/5/06 12:13 PM, Truthiness wrote: Salmon

postcount + 1

OMFG. Pox needs teh hormone theapy!

WOOF

At 9/30/06 12:31 AM, Siggles wrote: I think that torture should be allowed in the US..

re: "Torture Bill"

"Congress has granted the President immunity from constitutional law and even from itself; Congress has given the President permission to allow torture, and to declare it as something else to evade the American public. Congress has given the President the power to act outside of itself and the courts in considering the treatment of human beings who may or may NOT be guilty of terrorist crimes."

Apparently Bush does. Do you really need anyone else to agree with you when you have the President leading the charge?

This TOPIC has just been DONE, DONE, & DONE!

Take some advice..

YAY! . . . NO More Kitten Plants!!

At 9/29/06 04:26 PM, Truthiness wrote: Resistance doesn't get more intellectual than a detonation.

I like it!

Resistance doesn't get more futile than superpower invasion.

At 9/29/06 11:25 AM, Lidov wrote: When you target innocent civillians in order to make a whole nation fear of you to get your goals, this is pure terrorism.

yes. agree.

IDF = terrorists.
USAF = terrorists.

At 9/29/06 09:59 AM, jlwelch wrote: Dissidence against the US and our allies = terrorism
Therefore, they are terrorists.

*sarcasm check*

jlwelch's fav movie: Team America World Police.

Ok, so you're being literal..

"Militant dissidents is the term usually assigned armed paramilitary groups whose aim is usually to overthrow a government or regime, or otherwise impose changes on the established order. Since militant dissidents are almost always militarily disadvantaged compared to the ruling power, such groups usually resort to asymmetric warfare, guerrilla warfare, or in some cases, terrorism, to further their cause. Such groups are often denounced as terrorists by the ruling power regardless, though they often consider themselves freedom fighters or resistance movements."

..fine!

However..

Dissident: The term is most often used to refer to political dissidents.

"A term introduced to describe intellectual opposition to non-democratic regimes, in particular, totalitarian regimes where dissidents are often punished with lengthy prison sentences, economic deprivation, or execution."

..dissidence being a tool of the politically disaffected.

Dissidence against the US and our allies = terrorism

So anyone who doesn't support US foreign policy are terrorists..

Dang. You should run for President!

but the place for idiot is already taken.

At 9/29/06 01:38 AM, fahrenheit wrote: But it all starts at the foundation of science, the big bang theory.. how does the idea that everything came from nothing make more sense than a divine being.

Good point.

If we believe what science is telling us, then we know our Universe is mind-bogglingly massive (at least more massive than even a 100% utilized human brain can comprehend ;O)

Latest theory is that our Universe is the result of the collision of 2 Universes, but it's purely a theory that make the most sense based on what we know. Way back they believed the light of stars were campfires lit by the Gods. As Carl Sagan said "just because we don't know how something works, why do we then conclude there must be Supreme Being behind it".

If scientists proclaimed we're in a box X light-years across, then i too would conclude there must be a box-maker. But here we're talking about our Universe (without end so far as we know) being produced by collision of yet other Universes (which we know little about, other than their physical laws are different to our own) ..leading to yet more Universes ..and so on.

If anything chemistry and cosmology make it harder to say there should logically be a Creator, even thou it's hard to deny we're substituting a belief in a Supreme Being with an equally inplausible belief in scientists.

At 9/29/06 12:57 AM, fahrenheit wrote: Believe it or not, logic makes me believe there is a god.

It must be easy to explain then. care to?

At 9/29/06 12:50 AM, BlisteringFreakachuu wrote: "Concerned citizens" that have nothing to say that could add or subtract from anything.

Then why are you here? why bother posting?

Grouping everyone on NG like that is like calling yourself stupid. I don't see the point.

but you're almost at 1000 posts, so i'm sure you'll tell me..