28,650 Forum Posts by "poxpower"
At 2/3/14 10:23 AM, Camarohusky wrote: Knowing another language and being able to peak English are not mutually exclusive. I would go one step further and say that it is precisely the influx of other cultures being brought into the US that gives the US its deep and grand culture.
What makes America great is freedom, not hot dogs and diversity.
You can't measure the "grandness" of a culture anyway. Wtf does that mean? Is the "best" restaurant a Chinese buffet because it has every choice?
Is the "best" language one that has words from the most languages?
What people usually mean by "grand culture" is "Wow look at how rich and technologically advanced these people are" which has jack shit to do with how many fried foods from Mongolia you have imported into your country.
Really no different than people collecting any number of other garbage like old toys or magazines.
What's the value of an old spider-man comic beyond how rare it is? The stories and art sucked and you can find high-res scans of everything online.
So yah, collect away you pack rats.
At 12/18/13 02:47 PM, MadFedora wrote:
I just threw together a Linux machine (Fedora, ofc!) and started to mine at rate of $80/day
How much did this cost to build, how much in electricity does it cost to run, how many bitcoins does it actually mine and how fast does the average bitcoin/month rate decrease for mining?
At 1/24/14 07:16 PM, Shauna wrote: Do you go digging for ginseng too?
I have no idea what that means but it's funny.
At 1/24/14 08:22 PM, exudaz wrote: Again?
is she real this time?
Well when you imagine something, it rearranges atoms in your mind to create that thing in some physical sense, so, yes his girlfriend is real.
In a manner of speaking. . ... ..
I don't think politicians are that much worse people than other.
Here's how they fail usually:
1. A lot of them come from money so they have no experience of any lifestyle other than rich spoiled asshole.
2. They don't come from scientific backgrounds and as such have horrible reasoning skills despite being highly educated. They "debate" with debate tactics and emotions instead of arguments and facts.
3. All their friends are politicians and lobbyists and they all want favors, so they all give each other favors. Everyone does this at their job. If you've worked anywhere, chances are you've seen this, but when people with power ( Cops and politicians ) do it, the impact is much greater. But to them it's just doing a friend a favor.
4. Politics is a popularity contest to some extent so obviously the ideas that benefit the status quo will always be more strongly selected for and the politicians who espouse those ideas, even honestly, will tend to have a higher chance to rise to the top
5. People will lie and cheat for their friends or if they think they're doing good. The "Robin Hood" philosophy basically. Everyone thinks it's ok to some extend to do something bad if it creates something good, and politicians are no exception and lots of them are under the impression that even if the knowingly lie or cheat or steal, it's for a good cause ultimately.
Remember number 2: They have no scientific background and their arguments are steeped in emotion. So that means that they are easily fooled into thinking they are doing good.
6. People do as the people around them do. Since most politicians cheat a little, scheme a little, go into lobbying, do favors for their friends etc. then every new politician who comes to the scene starts to cheat the same way, because everyone's doing it. They don't see who they hurt ( remember number 1) and it's all very removed from the real world as they just sit around in offices debating things with each other. They absolutely do not suffer any negative consequences as a result of their actions, unless they commit a crime, basically, and EVEN THEN.
So yeah, there you go, a bunch of rich priviledged scientificaly illiterate people who are dropped into an institution with a history of deceit, cheating and lies with all their friends and who suffer no ill consequence for their decisions can't really produce great results, no matter who it is you put there, honest or not, stupid or not.
Where most people get it wrong is in thinking that politicians are different from most people. They're not. Most people would do about the same performance in the same spot, same with bankers etc. But it sure is easy to single them out as being truly the BAD people who should know better while we go back to taking long lunch breaks, pirating movies, smoking pot etc.
At 1/22/14 04:40 PM, Entice wrote:
I can't drink that much soda now though. When I do though, I guess I might as well do it for $.25
Yes next time you go to a large grocery store, check what you were about to buy, then what the house brand costs in comparison, then count how much money you saved or would have saved for just that one grocery trip. Even on small amounts it's like 20$.
20 free bucks! What would you be willing to do for someone for 20$? It's a good question to ask. You'd probably go through way more effort for 20$ than you just did at the grocery store. A lot of people work an entire hour at their jobs they hate for 20$ :D
At 1/22/14 04:02 PM, Entice wrote: I noticed that ingredients are printed on the back of candy bars, so what if the food scientists at one company figured out how to make something that tasted just like their competitor's product and sold it for cheaper?
They routinely do, if you go to the grocery store you can find "house" brands for many poducts. They taste exactly the same, in fact sometimes even coming from the same factory.
There's probably 100 companies that make Pepsi variants that all taste the same or similar enough that human tongues can't possible tell the difference. Same for cookies, corn flakes etc. etc.
That's why it's better to buy house brands in stores like 99% of the time. It's virtually the same product but for 20-40% less money
At 1/21/14 11:23 PM, TNT wrote:
True, but it's worth noting the significance of two cars going at 60 mph colliding into each other. What makes it more frightening is that most people (at least where I live) drives at least ten miles over the speed limit on a major highway (the speed limit at it's highest is 75). So imagine two 85 mph cars colliding into each other...
I am more interested in that winch. If it can pull a car at that speed, imagine what else you could tie to it and pull towards a wall!
Watermelons? Kids?
sweet
Do any of you have any idea where I can find someone to program a mobile game with me? I've already done 90% of the art, just need someone serious to bring this to mobile and share the sweet sweet glory.
If you know any forums / people / ressources, that'd help! Thanks
I like how, when the car crashes, he has a look of genuine concern as if two people just died.
So anti-mythbustersian.
Also ramming a car at 120mph into a wall is not the same as two cars colliding while each is going at 120mph as he says at the start... so..yah
I've made a lot of big flash games over the years and I have a new project that's just sitting on my computer with 90% of the art completed. I'm looking for a knowledgeable programmer to team up with and release this on a mobile platform of some sort.
I thought I'd give this place a shot. PM me for details if you have any experience in that field, I'll give you the info and send you links to view what art I've made so far for it.
Really looking for a partner here, your input and expertise would be highly valued. Lots of room for play here.
At 1/21/14 09:01 PM, Camarohusky wrote:
Sure, in a regular situation a store would rather hold off than sell for less. This isn't like a person looking for a job or no job. This is more like a person with lots of money who can afford to wait for the right job.
No, the store is not a person, they're a society.
One person = 1 product in the store.
If as a society we behave like a store and instigate a minimum wage policy, then stores can't haggle each individual's price down to nothing.
Stores actually DESTROY merchandise rather than sell it at a loss.
http://phillytrashmatters.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/what-do-companies-do-with-their-unsold-goods/
Why would they PAY to NOT SELL these things? Because the average gain from not letting consumer get everything at a loss far outweighs the loss from not selling XYZ batch of crap.
Similarly the overall gain from society not letting random idiots work for 2$/hour are worth a couple of people not having jobs and being stuck on government aid.
A typical argument ( and probably the best one I know of) for no minimum wage is "Well if someone pays me even only 5$ an hour, I'd rather have that job than nothing!".
Yeah? Well if you're a store and some guy comes in offering you 40$ for something that you normally sell at 80$, why not take it? Hey it's 40$ or nothing!
But storeowners aren't idiots, they've figured out that if everyone knows they can just wait and pay as little as possible, then they make no money. So yes they would rather get nothing from you rather than devalue their overall prices.
Of course it's all upside for them to argue that workers not follow this basic strategy as well, since that way the people employing you get to negociate your rate down but you don't get to negociate the prices of what you buy.
Bill Burr and Louis CK
Does anyone here happen to have a clue as to how many copies of XYZ game has sold on steam?
Do you know anyone who's sold games through steam?
Well I resisted it for years because my life was alright without it.
It's really just a more modern and better way to plan larger events with your friends. Kind of like it for that, the rest is mostly a waste of time.
At 1/19/14 07:37 PM, Xenomit wrote:
Except gold has never not been valuable in the history of human civilization. Even if you buy a bunch, and the value goes down, it's guaranteed to go back up eventually.
Given the trend, it's not guaranteed to go back up during your lifetime, no.
Worse, it's not guaranteed to go UP for most of your lifetime and even when/ if it does, its increase in value is far worse than stocks.
Also when you buy shares in the stock market, you're not owning MONEY, but SHARES, which can be traded in for any currency you want.
Gold and silver are a bad investment.
Their price is based entirely on speculation, unlike the stock prices which are based on a company's performance.
http://www.macrotrends.net/1333/gold-and-silver-prices-100-year-historical-chart
You can see that gold still hasn't returned to its high of 1984, 30 years after the fact.
From 1980 to 2000, it did nothing but go down, down down.
Now it's back up again into a GIANT spike.
If you manage to buy some and sell it at the right time, congrats. If it crashes in your face, you are super fucked.
Comparatively, the stock market only goes up, on average. It has crashes that recover within 3-5 years and as such is great for long-term investing.
If you invest in an index fun, your money is multiplied, on average, by 2-2.5 every 10 years.
If you invest in gold, you have no frickin clue what will happen to your money over the long term.
If you had bought gold at its low in 1970 at around 200$/ ounce, that 300$ would be worth 1200$ today.
If you had invested it in an index fun, it would be worth 9500$
Even if you had been lucky recently and bought it at its low in 2000 at 350$, it would be worth 1200$ but stocks bought in a similar period would be worth 1120$ anyway.
Cept you know the stocks will keep going up whereas the gold might do any number of random shit.
Don't buy gold.
This is a man trying to a find a solution to save the morons of his own country from themselves without them realizing it.
"Yes we should...ignore this death thing..for.. the...economy...yeaaah".
He probably just wishes he could slap them upside the head but of course he'd love votes.
Wait do votes matter in Uganda or is it one of those places where you get elected based on the number of children you ate in the last uprising?
Hi just need an adult male voice to read some text.
You have to sound kind of like this asshole: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3xe-Wxio1o
The video will just be text and pictures. Simple nuff. Not a big project, just be able to record clean audio. I imagine the whole thing would last 2-3mins or so.
Sample:
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So I was sitting on my ass browsing the internet as usual when I noticed I had no 9000 piece puzzle to display on my wall.
So I bought one.
Yep PM/ reply here ASAP.
At 1/18/14 05:16 PM, Aethos wrote: Soooo.........These are pants or shorts that are hard to pull down... So instead of pulling down the pants, the rapist has to just unbutton them?...
If I understood the video correctly, the little buttons only unlock if you turn the little handles at specific angles ( like a lock basically ).
So if you didn't know how the button was set, you just couldn't pull the pants down.
It seems like about as good a design as you could imagine for chastity underwear but of course it does have one fatal flaw: The user... Without knowing a lot more about rape statistics, I couldn't say how likely this is to prevent you getting raped or if it's even worth the money.
But the women in that demo video are really hot, so yep. Yep.
Yep.
At 1/18/14 02:34 PM, Kwing wrote: There was a very homey vibe to them back when they were just two kids messing around. Crybaby was the first video I ever saw from them and I really enjoyed their silly low-budget humor. Now it seems all of their stuff is shock value and gags rather than the solid fleshed out skits they used to do.
Jesus fucking christ... who...likes this.. lol
It's so.. bad... in every possible way that a thing can be bad... Of course this is only angering considering how impossibly popular and rich they've become.
Oh well if that guy's haircut is any indication, they're probably idiots and will blow all their earnings within 10 years. No way you can keep such a business venture going strong for that long, it's way too trendy and erratic. Those preteens are going to grow up in 5-6 years and Smosh will become just another "Hey remember that old XXX" as those guys turn mid-30s and realize they have no skills to speak of other than being really lucky at youtube...
At 1/18/14 01:00 AM, ExtraLife wrote:
The question then becomes what is that "innate human ideal of beauty", if one even exists. Do you have the link to the study that you referenced above?
There's really an endless trove of them.
Just glance at the wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attractiveness
Then just click the references that interest you the most.
There's lots of variations that depend on status or living conditions but for the most part there clearly seems to be an innate trend as to what men and women find attractive and not a whole lot of cross-cultural variation in that body / facial type.
There is also a whole page about just skin color on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin_color#Light_skin
Very interesting. For instance, women have lighter skin than men, which would explain why lighter skin is more desirable for women: It's more...womanly.
As with everything of the sort, people tend to want something better than average without it being freaky. So if you were an African tribe, you would find lighter skinned women sexy but a totally white-skinned African woman to be freaky as fuck, just the same as here we think DD tits are rocking but that woman who has the world record tits to be disturbing. This doesn't prove that men hate large breasts, it proves there's a point that is TOO large and too different.
Sort of. I think there's a grey area here because the media can distort the shit out of that particular look. You know the magic of photoshop and how one can use it skew those proportions into impossibly to reach standards.
What photoshop ( and plastic surgery) can do is exaggerate what we think is beautiful to a point of perfection that is impossible to find in nature.
I don't think again that this idea is particularly new or western-centric.
What? No. A pervasive black culture doesn't exist.
Rap is highly popular among white people despite it being predominantly a black thing. It has influenced people's dress style, lifestyle, way of talking etc. White people are trying to be "blacker" so they appear more badass all through the emulation of this highly popular rap culture. It's really "in" to be black-friendly if you're white. A lot of black people say that this is cultural theft.
So who's to blame here? Are you going to blame black people for white people liking rap? Or is it white people's fault and they "stole" black people's culture?
But Nigerians trying to be whiter didn't "steal" white culture, they're a "victim" of assimilation.... ?
At 1/17/14 11:48 PM, AxTekk wrote:
Most of what you say's pretty reasonable, but I'm going to call this for the bullshit it is. Most Celtic and Ainu rituals involved darkening their faces, the Romans had a historic preference for North African complexions and eye/ lip make up has always accentuated typically African features. And the Egyptian situation had jack shit to do with colour preference - the darker skinned Egyptians were partially congolese immigrants, just newcomers in an incredibly dynastic culture.
Even if each of these individual cases happens to be right: So what?
The point is simply to show that changing one's skin color has been an idea long held by many cultures, some having no contact with white men that I know of.
If some Nigerians think looking whiter is better then who cares? Why are some people trying to spin this into some sad cultural death of the mighty Nigerian culture, which up to this point no one gave a shit about and no one here knows anything about, really.
So you have a bunch of morons being sad that some other morons are bleaching their skin and trying to spin this to be evil white culture's fault... yeaaah ok, okay...
At 1/17/14 11:00 PM, ExtraLife wrote:
American media becomes an issue when one realizes of how pervasive it is when compared other culture's media and how harmful it can be to the human psyche. It concerns me to think about how far people will go to "fix" themselves with radical reconstructive surgery in a never-ending struggle to live to some impossible beauty ideal. They are chasing WASP dragon.
People have always done this, it has nothing to do with "american media".
Ancient Incas would bind kid's heads so the bone would grow all fucked:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_O0ch3ABb3L4/S1S_LnBUpSI/AAAAAAAAARA/S7RoVQ1dHTw/s400/craneo1.jpg
The japanese did foot binding. The great "cultures" of Africa and South America routinely mutilate their teens's bodies to make them belong to the "adult" or "warrior" social class.
Right. I agree, that's a fair assessment from a historical context. Nowadays, though it's clear to see that the media (Internet, TV, Movies, Music) is initially how ideas of beauty are manifested into people's minds.
The media doesn't create the innate human's ideal of beauty.
These have been studied. For instance, the hip to waist ratio that men prefer in women is fairly constant through time and culture. Same with the shoulder to waist ratio that women like in men.
The media didn't trick people into wanting thin-waisted women with luscious strong behinds. They just give people what they've always wanted.
The one who seeks out plastic surgery wants to essentially destroy their own culture because of some false beauty ideal that they feel they need to achieve.
How can a beauty ideal be false???
And what makes you think you'd even be qualified to tell the "real" beauty ideals from the false ones? How would you do that?
My perception is that it is simply unfortunate that one's self-esteem can be so low that one would go to radical lengths to make themselves feel better about the way they look.
People do lots of things to raise their self-esteem
Cosmetic surgery happens to be one of the ways in which you can raise it forever the best ( as long as it doesn't fuck up ).
There's one cosmetic surgery to be more "black": The ass implant. What do you think of white women who do this? Do you blame "pervasive black culture forcing this false beauty ideal onto our proud white women"?
The best you can hope for is people saying it's just stupid to get this surgery because it looks bad.
At 1/17/14 05:07 PM, ExtraLife wrote:
Yes. It's a damn shame that some people think they have to live up to some other predefined notion of what what it means to be. This "white assimilation" is taking place due to the globalization of American media.
Lol again, you absolutely would not give a shit if more African culture spread into American media and culture but if the reverse happens, you cry foul and think it's shameful.
Long before America was even a country, white skin was preferred all over the world. Asians used to paint their faces white and the lighter skinned Egyptians shat on their darker skinned southern cousins.
It's not some new "black shame" phenomenon.
And again: You probably applaud any fat nerd who wants to learn Japanese and go live in Tokyo for a year but god forbid anyone have plastic surgery to alter their image in a way you don't approve of. You can make your nose look different, but just as long as you're not making it different to look another race!! Yeah!!
Makes sense.
There is no such thing as "being mature".
There is only "being stupid". People who say others are immature are generally stupid.
What people call "being mature" is generally life experience but more often, just life choices. For instance, maybe it's immature to live at home at 30.
But what does that even mean? Is that bad? Are you stupid for doing that? What if you're saving 600$ of rent + utilities by doing that and putting that into a savings account while the "mature" idiot is off living their "mature" lives of partying, fancy dining and show-watching in their fancy mature car?
So yah if you have friends who constantly remind you that you're "immature" for any reason, know that they are most likely retarded.
I ate some random mixed ones as part of eating a bunch of weird food for facebook challenge last year.
http://www.thepoxbox.com/what.php?id=weirdfood2
Dried crickets. Smelled like beef jerky. Horrible texture really, was like eating smoky crumbly jerky dust.
