Swine flu is something to be concerned about but not worried about. What gets me is the hand sanitizers that it seems everyone has started using. Even worse is the masks. Understandable if you have already contracted the virus, but people. Exercise your immune system!

This is my schedule.. Between classes and work.

Monday 9am - 1pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 9:15pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9:30am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

Weekends are generally free, however I have an online Bio course, tons of animation homework, plus all my obligations as an RA. When I work a weekend shift I'm on call for 24 hours T_T. My schedule is insane! I have been gradually reajusting my sleep cycle and becoming more and more active on NG again.

In other news: I bought an NG poster today!

I died a little inside after watching that video. Acting on what you believe in is great, but acting without thinking or not even having a clue about what, what you believe in is, well not so much. I'm not sure which I find more irritating, the horrible comparisons, or the fact that so many people are willing to buy into them.

At 9/15/09 07:58 PM, EagleRock wrote: Excuse me?? It's "EagleRock" not "Eagle Rock." That's grounds for dismissal, PVC! Now report to the mess immediately for KP!

AND GIVE ME BACK MY KIDNEY!

Sir yes sir! Your kidney is in the freezer next to the pudding sir!

Speaking of school, I'm using the time I have during my art history class to post on NG again. School has been taking up most of my life lately. On Tuesdays I have 9 hours of class, but art history is pretty much useless.. sooo I decided to do something productive! I just read over a large number of posts that I missed; it's pretty cool to see the return of Eagle Rock. Sucks to hear about further hackings, but life goes on. I have been depositing lately, but it's time to start b/p voting again, so you guys should be seeing a bit more of me ;)

Other animals should not be treated like humans because they are not. They should, however, be treated with a lot more respect then they are. They are still living breathing creatures, and while they may not have conscious thought they do feel pain and pleasure, as well as interact with their surrounding environment. They are a lot more intelligent then people would like to think. Humans have developed a sort of arrogance because we can "think ahead." We may be more powerful in that aspect, but we come up short in many other areas.
In reference to Pox's first statement, providing for a dog is much different than providing for a person. Sure the money spent on the dog could be used to feed other people, but there is an emotional bond with the dog, not with random people. Also the dog does not merit the same funding as a person that would share residence.

At 8/14/09 12:33 AM, aldlv wrote: Supreme Commander aldlv, reporting
*Salute*

You can't imagine how great is to finally get it... it's just awesome

and I have to say the the 60% looks awesome when voting, XD

Congrats man! That is quite the accomplishment!

Yea, I saw that article the other day. That really is just.. sad. Cat's are not capable of downloading child porn, not even by running across the key board.

At 8/13/09 04:01 PM, ToddM wrote: I don't see why we need to fund public transportation. Why sink more money in which it would increase the debt of this country. It can cost into the billions for more mass public transportation. Right now what we have is fine.

Public transportation isn't fine in a lot of places. In fact most of the public transportation I have seen has tons of financial issues, which cause the fares to go up. With better public transportation more people would use it, cutting down on traffic.

At 8/13/09 03:56 PM, Drakim wrote: I hope abortion gets banned in the US so people start using coat hangers in back alleys.

It's ironic how legislation against something often makes it worse.

Hopefully I will have time to vote on Saturday. Sadly that is the day I start RA training and disappear from society T_T. We shall have to see.

At 8/8/09 11:05 PM, TheReno wrote: Rebuild our schools? Fuck that. If I had to go out into the world and survive, Id prefer to have the gun over the masters degree. Just saying.

The gun gets you nowhere if you don't know how to use it.

It's not really so much a matter of using them. We just need to have them. We use them to flaunt our weight.

So long as army A has their tech they will win. Army B may be the best trained but they don't stand a chance against high powered weaponry. Especially if someone wants to bring out the nukes.

Hey guys, I'm going to be in and out for awhile. My life is getting pretty chaotic. Hopefully I will still be able to deposit, starting the 15th I have RA training until the end of the month. Right now my internet connection is well.. not there. Heads are going to roll if this doesn't get fixed soon.

Nice tattoo. I'm still too poor to afford one myself. I can't get a job and I don't even have tattoos.

At 7/31/09 01:51 PM, MultiCanimefan wrote: It's very irritating where I am right now. It's currently raining, which only adds to the humidity, and I'm not even moving and I'm sweating. New England(where I'm located) weather must be the most unpredictable, continuously changing pattern in the entire country; it's like what we say here: "If you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes." It's always been like this, though, but you'd think that because I've lived here my entire life that I'd have become accustomed to it by now.

Same. I'm only an hour and a half north from this guy. There was a small monsoon yesterday, and clearly that wasn't enough to kill my bike which was locked up outside so it rained again this morning. The humidity is dreadful.

At 7/31/09 09:47 AM, fatape wrote: seems like you guys are mostly looking at the sytoms of the problem and the problem itself, the problem is the stupidity of these teenage girls.\

to fix the core of the problem we need to educate our children better, and no amount of moderation is going to fix stupidity.

This is exactly what aviewaskewed is talking about. We only really need mods because people are stupid, but Stickam lacks this moderation.

I think the taser was uncalled for. It may have been acceptable in self defense, but this was a young girl running way...

Clients might not want to use condoms, and I am sure that all staff would be on some form of birth control, most likely the pill. If worse comes to worse, there is always the option of an abortion. The staff there would be well aware of the risk, and if they are not willing to have an abortion they should be ready to have a random mans baby or they really shouldn't be in that line of work. I'm sure most prostitutes wouldn't have any moral issues with abortion. The church would probably, in fact would, be against prostitution. This is considering the whole sex before marriage thing. Also from a business perspective, condoms cost money. I mean damn, they are not cheap either. It's like paying a two dollar toll every time you want to have sex. Of course they would be good in practice, so maybe charge more for clients who want to go "gladiator."

At 7/29/09 12:21 PM, RubberTrucky wrote: I wouldn't know. People who engage in rape are likely to be over confident enough to believe that they can get sex without paying for it. It's very likely they will just rape hookers. I wonder if that still count as rape or just refusal to pay.
Also, rape isn't always precalculated and occurs when a person can't withold his lust on the spot.

I would imagine one would have to pay for the services beforehand. If people go beyond what they pay for, issue bans. I imagine there may be contracts too, so it would remain a legal issue regardless if it was counted as rape.

See the problem here is that people like to eat. I know I for one won't be giving it up. You will never take my coffee shakes from me.

I generally avoid conflict, and if someone bothers me I can usually convince people to do otherwise. However if people get on my nerves I don't let them push me around.

At 7/28/09 10:25 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Why the hell are you congratulating me? I've been here for a while now. rofl, all joke aside, howdy SilentDeath. DROP AND GIVE ME 20! lmao, jk jk, seriously, welcome dude.

Haha! Oh no! Name conflict! Since the portal is so slow, maybe I will work on my animation a lot tonight so you guys have something decent to vote on soon. ;)

If your previous experience with sex was unpleasant and awkward.... well, who/what were you having sex with. Will golf cleats be an upgrade? Well good luck with that.

I have A.D.D. and I did my research paper last semester on A.D.D. because I wanted to know more about it. At the age of 5 someone really shouldn't be being diagnosed with A.D.H.D, there have to be at least 6 factors present for a diagnosis, but a lot of these are things children do normally. The problem here is overdiagnosis. Doctors go crazy with it, of course there is underdiagnosis too, but I feel overdiagnosis is a lot worse. Children will be children, parents just need to be parents. Medication isn't the way out.

Congrats Silent.
The portal really has been slow lately. Although I can't say it is a very bad thing, considering I have been posting quite a bit more in the forums. Because of that I feel my writing is improving.

At 7/28/09 09:04 PM, Korriken wrote: There are people who would actually, it would be like spring break all year round, especially if you set it up on a tropical island.

Sex addicts unite! I just wonder how the economy there would function and such. I don't think it would run very well if people were having sex all the time haha... although they might be more motivated.. hmmmm.

At 7/28/09 09:05 PM, fizzthewizz wrote: It could also be a city, or even district. And if the get frequent sores, you aren't allowed in.

The sores do not have to be frequent, it only takes one, a small one at that.

I want Ramen.

but it isn't worth a sex change..

I'm not an expert on sexually transmitted infections, but I'm going to have to say no. I base this on the fact that herpes can be transmitted via oral sex by a sore in the mouth. Also I don't think people would move to an island just for the sake of clean sex. Interesting idea though.