795 Forum Posts by "RWT"
At 9/12/10 04:49 PM, RWT wrote: Tyrone! TYRONE HOLY SHIT GET DOWN!
Forgot the god damn pic
Tyrone! TYRONE HOLY SHIT GET DOWN!
At 9/12/10 03:47 PM, Freaki-boy92 wrote: am I doing it right?
Aluminium(with an atomic mass of -13?)-elbow. Epic pun, doooooood.
What's his email? We can 'spam' him.
It's funny, because people with limps or other leg injuries don't need physical therapy?
At 9/10/10 11:37 PM, satanbrain wrote:At 9/9/10 11:02 PM, aviewaskewed wrote:America isn't. We tend to be pretty heavily in favor of Israel here. Also I doubt the UN is since they have all these various other resources then just simply going "I wonder what Al-Jazeera says today...because surely we can't look into this shit ourselves".Europe does, and Obama does. the UN have the same resources Al-Jazeera has. do you believe Al-Jazeera because they agree with you?
The UN has access to anything that's out there. Most news outlets, whether they be the New York Times, Al-Jazeera, or %u05D9%u05D3%u05D9%u05E2%u05D5%u05EA %u05D0%u05D7%u05E8%u05D5%u05E0%u05D5%u05 EA (Yedioth Ahronoth), have access to that same pool of information. If Israel has anything they're not sharing, I don't believe you can blame the international community for leaning towards what the facts they have say.
Which countries do you mean? I can't hope to answer your question unless I know which countries you're referring to. Give me a list and I'll try to answer as best I can.i don't see here iran, syrria or lebanon. coincidence?
Okay, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) is part of the executive of the UN; that means it serves in mainly an advisory capacity. The group you are referencing, the Human Rights Council, was formed in 2007 by a vote in the General Assembly.
Missions have not been sent to Iran because Iran will not tolerate such missions to occur. The Human Rights Council's main duty is to advise and monitor the governments in places where human rights violations occur; if they are not given access to the government, nothing can happen. The UN cannot invade a nation without its permission.
But more to the point; Human rights violations do occur in these countries, but it is not as severe as the situation in Gaza. To my knowledge, Syria has quieted down recently, and Lebanon continues to be embroiled in the same sectarian shit it has had since the Maronites and Druse lost control of the government. But in none of those countries do I observe a group of people being hemmed in like prisoners and being subjected to a state of war.
This is probably de-railing the discussion, but honestly, I don't think there's too much more to be said about DADT; it's on its way out.
At 9/10/10 11:49 PM, Warforger wrote:At 9/10/10 11:44 PM, Camarohusky wrote:Your saying that US troops would need to quarter themselves in US citizen houses to fight in Afghanistan? My point is that the US military does things that are unconstitutional and generally has its own laws for how to deal with criminals and PoW, so why would the Constitution apply to something that doesn't effect US citizens in their home.At 9/10/10 11:32 PM, Warforger wrote:Swing and a miss!At 9/10/10 09:28 PM, RWT wrote:........Yah exactly, we're not in a peace time.....At 9/10/10 07:59 PM, Warforger wrote: I assumed the military was free from the Constitution during war time.......Because quartering soldiers in houses is the sort of thing that you do in peace-time...?
The point RWT was making is that the no quarter provision of the Constitution is a war time only provision. Thus the argument that the Constitution doesn't apply to the military in a time of war has a large hole poked in it.
I'm saying that there are items in the constitution that specifically apply to the military. I've yet to see anything the U.S. military has done that is unconstitutional, other than maybe subverting the congressional power to declare war by calling it a "police action"... that aside, nothing rings a bell. The constitution demands Habaes Corpus be respected, and that everyone be subject to a fair trial. It does not stipulate that military and civilian courts have to be in any way the same, but it does mean that they both follow the same basic rules. The Geneva Convention, which the U.S. ratified, stipulates rules concerning the treatment of POWs, not the U.S. military. And I don't see your point in claiming that the constitution de facto cannot apply to the American military because they are on foreign soil.
And...
Quartering troops is actually legal if a law was passed.
Not true. The constitution can only be overridden by an amendment.
At 9/10/10 11:35 PM, sumidiotdude wrote:At 9/9/10 11:01 PM, ilikeblamingcrap wrote: Inb4 9/11 and bomb jokeThis will be the best bomb day EVAR.
We should celebrate it like Pimp Day... this is going to be the biggest blast since Rig's Fish Day!
I suppose there's always the slight chance that she's just testing you. But if that's the case, sneaky bitch deserves to get dumped anyway.
Easy. Stop the car, shift into reverse, then slam on the gas. Once you get up to speed, turn the wheel hard left, hit the emergency brake, and make a moonshiner's turn. Once you're turned all the way around, shift back into gear and drive past the cop. If you have a friend riding with you, he or she should be laying down suppressive cover fire with a handgun or light machine gun to keep the cop off your back. If you aren't comfortable performing a moonshiner's turn, a controlled series of blasts from plastique shape-charges should clear a path through the left lane of traffic.
Or, you know, pull the fuck over to check your tail light. They have these things called shoulders now.
At 9/10/10 07:14 PM, Alphabetetical wrote:At 9/10/10 07:04 PM, spatticus wrote:I believe it's my mom and I.At 9/10/10 06:56 PM, Cootie wrote: Thank goodness he lives with my dad and not with me and my mom.You mean, my mom and me
Grammar is very important
spatticus is right. Object of a preposition, BITCH!
Also, there should be the word 'that' at the beginning of the independent clause that starts with 'he lives.'
Little kids do stuff like that. It's immature at that age, but most of the time they grow out of it. Wait until he's like 12 or 14; then you can start seriously mentoring the shit out of that kid.
It's an important point of Keynesian economics that people do not make 100% efficient decisions. Most economic models fail in the real world because people do stupid things, they follow patterns that have been set by familiarity and not logic, and they are especially prone to think only in the short-term. And referencing Bastiat's parable about the glazier, people tend to view any exchange of money as productive and economy-boosting.
The armed forces of the United States serve an important purpose. The sheer mass and devastating power the nation wields is enough to prevent wars simply through fear. A military, like roads, schools, or public utilities, is a piece of infrastructure. It serves a role very similar to those of police forces and institutions of law and order; maintaining a peaceful forum for interaction and trade. But like multiple ten-lane highways circling Houston, the current American military is an infrastructure glut. With the fallacy of "Infrastructure always = Good," a hugely inflated military is justified as a necessary service.
To be sure, glaziers are a necessity. (You're regretting not reading the Parable of the Broken Window article on Wikipedia). Windows do break. Waste does occur, with or without direct input. But that doesn't make the glazier a healthy part of the economy. That glazier could have been a farmer or a tailor or a blacksmith, providing something more useful to the world. The glaziers of the world are parasites, existing only because no one has figured out a way to make windows indestructible. So a large military is a necessary evil for the United States, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't reign it in.
On the topic of the stimulus; it's wrong to say that a nation should not run in debt. Unless it hoards gold in a large vault (and eventually gets overthrown by angry serfs), no government entity runs at a profit. Virtually all nations, cities, towns, hell, private organizations, run as leveraged as possible. Leveraging everything is actually the most efficient way for an economy to run. The United States may be borrowing more money than it is producing, but the difference is expected to be covered by the improvements made with the money in the next fiscal year. Shit, that's how all businesses run. You borrow as much money as you possibly can use to improve your business, then you hopefully pay it back when the investment in your business increases your revenue. It's called loaning money (ursury), and while it may land you a spot in the sixth circle of hell, it's been a cornerstone of human relations ever since the Jewish race was founded. (lololol, no offense Jews, I just like throwing in jokes to break up walls of text)
But more to the point; compared to many nations in Europe, including Britain, the United States is actually in much better shape in terms of foreign debt. 'Throwing' hundreds of billions of dollars into random investments in the country will produce a lot of pork, but it also gives businesses capital to improve themselves. That is; the stimulus provides money to businesses, which allows them to upgrade their processes, which gives them more assets and worth to leverage, which gets them deeper into debt, which is repaid when returns are made, which makes for a healthy economy!
The stimulus is an attempt to get the investment cycle started again, after it stalled during the recession. When people get frightened, they sit on money in bank accounts. Hoarding money is a no-no; it should be out in the world, being spent on crackpot start-ups and duplicated in cooked books. When governments start to collect money, it's wasted. As value drops out of an economy and into a vault, the economy stagnates. So when Republicans accuse Democrats of just throwing money at the economy to try and fix it, I ask: what else are they going to do with it?
To quote famed economist Gordon Gekko: GREED IS GOOD!
At 9/1/10 11:31 AM, Chris-V2 wrote:I don't feel that's a fair comment, I feel any other form of employment other than self employment does this.At 8/29/10 04:20 PM, TheMason wrote:Socialism limits the incentive for people to be productive.
Do you know how much I get paid an hour for being a waiter in a hotel?
EU9.06
Know how much I get if I work really really hard?
EU9.06
I'd just like to point out that salaried or hourly payment systems are actually a form of socialism. Getting paid the same at the end of the day regardless of how you do is the epitome of socialism. True, there's a degree of capitalism (if you don't show up for work, you get fired), but it's a fallacy to think that the system we use for wages is capitalism. If you got paid entirely in tips, I don't think there would be much worker apathy. Then again, you wouldn't have food either. :(
Meh, it'll eventually get repealed. You have to remember, being a homosexual was a chargeable offense in the United States until the 1960's. And sodomy was a misdemeanor in 14 states until 2003. Change happens slowly.
At 9/10/10 07:59 PM, Warforger wrote: I assumed the military was free from the Constitution during war time.......
Because quartering soldiers in houses is the sort of thing that you do in peace-time...?
Okay, the Islamic world is not "in a frenzy" over the Quran burning. People are upset, and understandably so. Defiling the Quran is an affront to Islam, which is an affront to any Islamic country. Which most Arab states consider themselves. The worry about security concerns is not that the entire country of Saudi Arabia will suddenly revolt, go batshit-insane, and try to set Israel on fire. It's that groups of extremists would immediately use this as an example of Godless, evil, anti-Islamic Americans trying to destroy Islam.
Some of this actually is just a "culture-clash." In Arab countries, even the republican ones, the government has the authority to censor this sort of thing from happening. Many Arabs, who don't understand the universality of Freedom of Expression, are flabbergasted that the American government wouldn't exercise its authority in order to stop the burning.
In the Arab world, Islam is a uniting factor that ties all Arabs together. That doesn't mean Muslims have any specific authority over one another; it really means that when political differences arise, schisms erupt in the religion. Rulers wielding absolute power, on the other hand, are a long-standing Middle-Eastern tradition. So your average Saudi or Egyptian would view an Iraqi terrorist as a failure of the state to maintain order, but they take no responsibility for someone who happens to claim to be of the same creed. The Quran burning is viewed in a similar way. Not all Christians or Westerners are responsible, but the United States is for allowing it to occur.
Extremists don't hate Americans; they hate the American government. And in the same way that Japs and Germans were universal pariahs in the United States during WWII, despite the fact that obviously not everyone assented to the regime, the American is persona non grata in the Muslim world. It's nothing personal, they just think Bush was a maniac and that Obama is a pretty impotent dictator, and that reflects badly on Americans as a whole.
"So President Assad's assistant runs in and says 'Great news, President! The numbers from the polls have returned, and it is calculated that you have won 99.7% of the popular vote! That means that only three-tenths of a percent of people did not vote for you! What more could you ask for?'"
"The names of that three-tenths of a percent."
The next day, 40,000 people in the city of Hama were killed by the Syrian military, the entire city razed by bulldozers. Today it looks like a parking lot.
People make jokes 'bout shit.
At 9/10/10 07:40 PM, SteveGuzzi wrote:
"bad boys rape only young girls but Violet gives willingly" (black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white)
HAHAHA, I don't remember an acronym for resistor colours. I do remember determining that the system was fucked if you needed a 100 GigaOhm resistor. I wonder how Doc labeled the transistors in the DeLorean.
I don't make friends with people who would do something worth snitching about. If someone does something that hurts another person, I'd turn them in. Otherwise, nah. If you mean like cheating on a test in gradeschool, no. You're welcome to fuck yourself over, in my book.
I dislike cops and authority figures in general, but I'm not adverse to turning people when it's for the greater good. But that's a final option. I see someone steal something, I confront them. Or, better, tell the owner of the property. You'll gain his trust, and be in a better position to rob him later.
I don't know what that is... it's obviously in Hebrew, I recognize the New Shekel symbol (%u20AA), and the image is shaped like an Israeli banknote. Oddly enough, there is no 150 Shekel bill.
It's a conspiracy! Maybe Yasir Arafat is on the reverse. Jewgrounds is up to something.
At 9/10/10 07:11 PM, Cootie wrote:At 9/10/10 07:09 PM, Cootie wrote: It isn't an acronym at all. It is actually an initialism. Take that, broksi!I spelled broski wrong. I feel like a dumbass now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and _initialism
You're also wrong. An initialism is pronounced as the letters it uses (ex. FBI, CIA, S.O.S.), while an acronym is pronounced like a word (ex. FIFA, laser, PEMDAS). That's the only difference.
You should just kill yourself now.
Lol, this reminds me of a discussion I once had in a calculus class. We decided that 'Cheesy Quesadilla Theorem' was a better name for f(x) > h(x) > g(x) :: lim f(x) > lim h(x) > lim g(x)
PEMDAS is actually kind of a stupid acronym, because it implies that Multiplication occurs before Division and that Addition occurs before Subtraction (They're actually identical). A better acronym would be PEFT; Parentheses, Exponents, Factors, Terms. Pink Elephants Follow Tequila?
It's just nothing. There's nothing after death. It isn't a bad nothing, and I don't think dead people mind it. Nothing to complain about.
This is much worse:
After everyone (including President F*cking Obama) assured him that this would probably cause every single Muslim in the world to hate us forever, dude finally relented. Then he had the balls to claim that he had agreed with the builders of Park 51 to convince them to move the site, and in return, he wouldn't burn a bunch of Qu'rans. The people behind Park 51 immediately contacted every news outlet to say that this was a fabrication; that they had only agreed to meet with the pastor to discuss the possibility of moving the site.
LOLOLOL America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUEyYuZkj VI
^ That one
And for anyone hating on German (non-English) music: A lot of the Beatles' early songs are in German. England just didn't appreciate them enough in the early years. Try searching "Sie Liebt Dich" on Youtube.
'Koran' is more correctly transcribed in English as 'Quran,' and it's become the standard spelling. Search again
Sowie
There are people who regularly mutilate themselves because of depressive thoughts. You think you're strong because you've never been tested for shit by the world. Being callous about bestial things is something you gain after a lifetime of dealing with human suffering. Some people can't take it. It doesn't make them weak; it makes them human. I'd like to see you handle finding a dead body or putting a knife in someone's chest.
There are many reasons to kill oneself. Some are more legitimate than other, though all are tragedies.
A fully healthy mind is a blessing. You're very lucky that you're not mentally ill, asshole. If you were, you'd be the first to give up.
Hold on, what if they didn't invent gasoline two days ago?? You'll never get home!
On a side note, once you're done with it, can I use the time machine to go back and get some work done on this briefing? I've got like 3,000 words left and it's due Friday.
To anyone who thinks they have an answer:
I just have to ask- why don't you believe that the world is the wonderful, happy place that it is; a place where you can have a happy and joyful life beyond your wildest imagination if you just seek it? Why do you think that the world has to suck; that shit has to happen?
I win, because there's no one holding the crowbar. Fascists unite!
