At 8/3/09 08:14 PM, Korriken wrote: meh, things arent so bad, in fact, things have been far worse in the past. things only SEEM so bad because you have been around for a short time and haven't been witness to anything worse than what you see now.

Agreed.

We're also hyperaware of what goes on NOW. But with a limited historical knowledge beyond a few centuries ago worldwide. I bet that people lived just as shitty 3,000 years ago. But we don't have records of it.

I personally use SANSA, and it's good except for the Rhapsody version that comes with half its hard drive filled with fucking "Preview Songs" and DRM shit. But on the other hand Ipod's are so expensive, and the "Accesories" like iHome and iFuck and iXuddle cost so much. And oh yeah, they supposedly make the battery die after a year so you keep buying new iPod's.

In terms of fabrication quality, my sansa's central button fell the fuck off, but I drop it on hard surfaces all the time, it's perfectly intact even with a cracked screen (I know I'm a klutz). But I don't know about iPod's. Either way, I'd go for a Sansa, or maybe one of those wierd but uber-cheap imported Chinese players?. Just get an English language patch.

At 12/29/08 11:26 PM, Thimbles wrote:

At 12/29/08 11:24 PM, gt44coder wrote: What do you guys think of the matter?

Both parties are fucking idiots.

Agreed

My listed email is pretty damn well disguised. My listed name is BS, and my address and zipcode are for the French islands or something like that *shrugs*.

From the emails they could figure my school, and that I go on newgrounds.

That is all.

At 8/28/05 12:58 PM, revexe wrote:

At 8/28/05 12:54 PM, Ravariel wrote: Take a math class, then learn some astrophysics. Come back when you actually know what you're talking about.

Learning math to understand biology. mh..Probably bioestadistics.

Biology involves numerous chemical reactions best described/explained by math.
I think the field itself is biochemistry. It's 11th grade stuff, and I don't think you need calculus or anything like that. Just decent algebra, decimals, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, and geometry perhaps.

At 8/28/05 12:51 AM, Altarus wrote: GREAT idea. Let's just withhold all moral teaching from our kids until they are old. You know, just let human nature take over, since we can obviously trust human nature to lead our children in the right direction.

This guy has a point. Although while Christianity is far from perfect, so is every other ideology we've come up with as a species so far.

The parents drill their kids as they choose, and the kids, once they hit their young teens get exposure to different ideas. They either choose a different ideology or lifestyle, or stick with what they were raised with from birth.

Influence is influence. If you're talking government dictating what children are taught, that's not much better. Because government can be taken over by specific causes MUCH easier than 76 million or so parents can.

Pluralism has its problems. But it apparently works better than the alternative.
I.E. 1984'ish propoganda.

This doesn't surprise me. If you don't like the other guy, just kill him. They do it in Africa and Asia and even the US all the time. (In descending order of frequency)

Lynch him.
Feed his body to the dogs.
Get Linux.
Ubuntu in particular.
Have a nice day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT41b3p1W Mo

Be More Specific.

The Republican's had their shining beauty over a hundred and fifty years ago when they fought slavery.

A century and a half ago...

Nowadays they're mostly the fiscally conservative (SAVING money for when its needed, although Bush is one of a newer line of exceptions)

And religious conservatives.... They want to "conserve" old ideals.

I agree, the party is a heavily mixed bag. To me their best man is Arnold Scwarnegger -I CANT SPELL IT.
Who is for civil liberties (gay marriage, emergency contraception for teens, being easier on immigrants) abut doesn't waste money like a noob in Halo wastes ammo.

At 7/8/08 01:06 AM, Creek wrote:

At 7/8/08 12:55 AM, SHIT-TANK wrote: If you don't understand that it's pretty much the belief saying there are somethings that we don't understand yet

People of this belief claim that something bigger and better and smarter than use created our most complicated inner workings, but they never ever explain how or why.

You say there are somethings that we don't understand yet, and you expect them to give you an answer. Again, you ask them to give you an answer to something we don't understand yet.

Ofcourse there are things we don't understand yet, and until you can explain with evidence how life was created, and recreate it, don't expect people to believe in nothing. They choose to believe in something.

Agreed. Modern Atheism is often accompanied with some hope of the afterlife, or a resigned idea that death is the end of it all. But many Atheist's fight for something, even if it's (The circular irony) Atheism...

People need a cause. Blame it on the human condition and our very unsure existence.

National Socialist German Workers Party.
I don't know near enough German (Deutsch) to be able to translate that into Deutsch, but it's easily looked up.

I think it's sad people use Nazi's as an insult these days. Sure, they did a lot of stupid shit under Hitler and his dumbass 1930's Crackpot Eugenics Based ideas... But NAZI is just German for a political party, and its an exaggeration.

Bob:"YOU'RE A NAZI (I.e. Genocider) BECAUSE YOU HATE T3H GHEYS!"
Drew:"No... I'm not a socialist German worker. I just hate gays because of <insert religious or social reason here"

At 7/14/08 02:59 PM, W31RD0 wrote:

At 7/14/08 02:37 PM, notld224 wrote: When oil runs out, and it may likely be sudden.

I disagree. I believe that the effects of an oil shortage will be gradual as the problem escalates. Rising gas costs are showing that though we havent run out of oil yet, worrying about it is enough to make a noticable economic impact.

I apologize, when I said likely to run out quickly I exaggerated because I was in "global cataclysm mode".
Over the time between oil dwindling and a transition into alternative energies there will be millions of resultant deaths. I also would expect a brief gap where alternative shit isn't ready and oil is mostly run out. That will lead to a measure of famine in parts of first world countries and most definately in third world countries.

But at the current rate we'll pull through. The price will be paid in lives as usual. Change costs life and this is the human way.

Like an above poster said.
They'll say "Damn", then get on with their lives if they survive.

At 7/13/08 05:39 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: Damn. I can't seem to find the "applaud" button on my internet.

But seriously, the world has TOO MUCH biodiversity if it has pandas. Pandas are effin useless.

They're cute. Little girls like pandas. Old women like Pandas. The Pope likes Pandas. Your average joe likes Pandas. I like pandas... Sure they can be vicious if prodded, but whatever. People have all sorts of stupid shit going on.

Regardless of Religion, that dumbfuck teacher should be WELL AWARE of a separation between Church and State. Religion is an individual business, not that of some teacher.

When oil runs out, and it may likely be sudden. There will be a measure of chaos and economic depression. Expect millions dead in third world countries, riots too. And this will also spread to the first world. Europe, Canada, USA, Israel, Japan, South Korea...

This will go on for about three months or so until alternative technologies (solar, wind, mostly solar it seems because of recent major advances) manage to stabilize energy production and enable food transport..

We threw ourselves as a species into the industrial a century ago with little thought as to what we'd do when oil and coal ran out. We have been slow to build up alternative infrastructure in preparation. So we will pay, at least most of us.

I'm a tottering agnostic, I believe the argument for both sides is immense, and perhaps eternal.

But in terms of my funeral?. Most relatives are quite sensible as to the types of funeral they have I.E. My body might have some prayers said over it, a moment of silence and/or worship to commemorate me and a list of "my good deeds".

That's fine in my book. If it helps save my ass in the afterlife then so be it!

At 6/27/08 04:06 PM, Jigginator wrote: i've read that it's illegal to force someone to say the pledge in schools, because of freedom of religion.
supposedly jehova's witnesses or some sect of christianity like that can't pledge an oath to anything other than god, and it leaves me wondering. what IF nobody said the pledge?

say, like a boycott (not necessarily) of getting up every day like a socialist, taking oaths to the state?

Patriotism is dangerous enough as is in my mind. A state is a social construct, either evolved out of older states or the "consent of the people". State's can turn bad, and patriotism is often used to clamp down on whistle blowers.

Enforced patriotism just paves the way for a more easily corrupt state/society. The pledge is asinine. If I have to choose between America and some other country I'd mull the circumstance most likely, or choose America if there was little time. The idea of a nation is useful in this regard.

But putting your nation/state above the rest of Homo Sap.?

SELF DESTRUCTION

At 6/27/08 10:40 PM, Bookman60 wrote:

At 6/27/08 10:36 PM, KeithHybrid wrote: I watched on TV someone working for McCain saying that his best chance of getting elected at this point is if there's a terrorist attack.

Can you say, ominous?

Are you implying that there's going to be a conspiracy? Because if you are please hit your head with a blunt object until a little sense is knocked into you.

But in all seriousness he probably would get elected. Which I think would be a good thing, him getting elected that is.

Now don't rush to diss off the conspiracy theorists. They often profess a smidgeon of the "truth" at least.

But in response to the original question.

Likely not. Even BUSH does not seem capable of helping murder thousands of innocent AMERICAN civilians just so he can get back at Saddam for trying to murder his father/near-sighted oil acquisition bullshit. However he DID help murder thousands of innocent Iraqi's you may say. But he believed these to be retarded infidel Muslims, so it's justified in his mind.

McCain is a "Navy Man" as my father put it. He's too patriotic I think to pull murderous shit like the 9/11 conspiracy theorists say Bush did.

(You can NEVER KNOW however)

At 6/21/08 07:00 PM, peyoteclock wrote: It is for losers because losers can't get girlfriends so they fall in love with cartoon characters from their favourite animes etc.

I agree with the above, and sincerely hope that people in such a scenario manage to pick up the courage and/or any social skills needed in order to acquire a girlfriend. I'm doubtful of the health in loving a fictional character, especially if it is drawn.

However, Hentai has its appeal in the unnatural/rich lighting, often unnatural beauty, novelty, and a large repertoire of fetish subgenres commonly available (Think tentacle rape, shemale)

To me it is not for "losers" as one might put it. No more than regular pornography. However it's negative connotation with blind reverence for Japanese pop-culture and an inability to "Get any" lends it this "only losers use it" image.

Now I know this question, for most of you on here. Is probably WAY out of your expertise, and likely just as much in terms of knowledge. But I'm posting this on a few other forums, and I hope to find a decent response or three.

Namely, I have learned a bit of Russian on my spare time, and I know a few things (I speak, you speak, we speak, hello, excuse me, one, two, three, road, newspaper).

However I am also interested in the Christian scriptures, and I thought of reading the Russian Synodal Bible. Unfortunately, it's 100+ years old, and any grammar/vocabulary I acquired would likely be hopelessly arcane.

Does anyone know of a MODERN Russian bible translation?. Which, if read sufficiently could provide some basic speaking/grammar in the Russian language?.

P.S. I can read and decently pronounce the Cyrillic alphabet,

Conservatism is the light.
Conservatism is the way.
Con- *gunshots follow*

Everybody has their favourites *rolls eyes*.

At 3/1/08 01:26 AM, bobomajo wrote: I just recently learned how U.S American elections work. What the hell were the lawmakers on when they produced such a retarded voting system?

Explain Further... Your vagueness and anger-laden brevity is appalling.

At 12/10/07 05:38 PM, SirStanley wrote: Pastafarianism was never funny, and you can't prove an opinion to be valid.

However, I will humor you anyways. The Bible makes the prediction that the Jewish state will be re-established before the end of the world, and it has, so +1 for the Bible.

Define "end of the world" bitch!.
-1 for the Bible.

--Spaghetti Monster = EPIC LULZ!.

At 2/27/08 12:40 PM, Britkid wrote: And this is the government we frequently support and trade weapons and oil with.

Still, we're the good guys.

-Then again. Isn't the "king" of Saudi Arabia building a 10 billion USD 99.8% Secular-University BECAUSE of Incidents like this?.

Two Documentaries:

FUCK: A Documentary
This film Has Not Yet Been Rated
One Book:
Not In Front Of The Children: Indecency, Censorship, and Youth

At 2/28/08 11:08 PM, butsbutsbutsbutsbuts wrote: Exercise makes it more likely for a madman to kill someone, also teeth and hands. We should surgically remove everyone's teeth to reduce the likelyhood of people being murderred.

And we shall replace those teeth with Fiberglass Razor Fangs...

A Greek Philosopher, his name I forget. Once said that out of Entertaining Violence comes Catharsis (A release of stress and anger).

From personal experience... I couldn't agree more.

Now that's not to say there aren't any exceptions to the idea. Crazy fuckers do all sorts of shit for all sorts of reasons. But just because Hen-Ko-Jing and Terry Higgins have a psychotic episode in which their schoolteachers look like the Imps from Doom...

Doesn't mean it should affect the rest of us. And to have an employee from EB-GAMES talking down to me, asking for my ID card.

Nothing as infuriating as that... I wish I could just punch the mutherfucker bureaucrats responsible for this in the face. Besides... Shit Happens. And there are far WORSE causes for Homicide then Video Games... *rolls eyes*

We took America from the Indians. And now the Mexicans are taking America from us.

The Cycle Continues...

Besides... we could always work on our SPACE PROGRAM since there's ENDLESS resources in space... HINT.