They should actually have them fight instead of just talking about it.
Here's my idea:
Place them both on a platform suspended above acid or something, turn them both on, and let them go to town. Whichever falls off first loses. Kind of like a joust, with robots.
That would be spantastic.
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Being a pacifist to me means not using violence as a solution to problems, or at any other time for that matter. It doesn't mean not getting mad. I get pissed, but i vent it in healthy ways. And I'm not just pissed about what my school did to me, I'm also pissed about some of the things they have very recently done to some friends of mine.
For example, our furher/principal forced my friend to rip out his earings right in front of him the other day, because they were a "liability". They bled all over the place (we got a picture:) ) and it was really generally sad. Of course they used the rulebook to justify this, even though it had no mention of jewelry! Only a rule which said "Students must obey teachers at all times". They also came close to expelling that same friend for not letting them confiscate his hat. Another friend got suspened for two days for giving someone the finger, and yet another friend got tackled to the ground by campus security for looking like he was "on-drugs".
So yes, I don't like holding grudges, but it's sort of hard when i keep on getting reasons to renew them. ----------------------------------
Hey, all you people who don't seem to appreciate this critique of post-columbine mass histeria can go suck an egg! Clearly you weren't victims of this state condoned harrassment based soley on your non-conformist thought, so you have no idea what it's like. I totally applaud Jon Katz and what he is doing and I encourage him to keep it up.
I for one was a victim of this witch-hunt and I know a couple others who it happened to also. These though-police fuckers shut-down my website, threatened me with arrest, expulsion, and called me a cyber-terrorist. All for something I didn't even do!
Just because some asshole decided to post a threat against my school on my website, I got in trouble. Of course my schoool authorities/assholes never doubted for one second that it was me who did it, never mind the fact that my site got 300 hits a day. My non-conformist style of dress and shabby hair PROVED me to be a murderous phsychopath. Never mind the fact that I am a devout pacifist and vegan and that is one of the central themes of my fucking site!
This happened over a year ago and I am still pissed off about it. What they did was fucking wrong, and if you and I don't stand up to it it's only going to get worse. So you fucking go, Jn Katz, and fuck all the naysayers!
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Do you think they'd buy my pirated copy of windows off me, or maybe my pirated copy of office 2000, or maybe even my warezed copy of photoshop (by adobe ya, but i can hope no?).
That would be neat. ----------------------------------
I tried to use babel fish for a spanish project in my highschool. Big fucking mistake, it turned out to be pure gibberish and I got a big fat F.
I can see people who are too lazy to learn another language getting into all kinds of sticky situations.
CIA agent pulling a gun on a foreign criminal: FREEZE MOTHER FUCKER OR I'LL BLOW YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF!!!
What the foreigner hears:
Would you like a new puppy?
George Dubya talking with the president of france (he's to stupid to learn another language):
I would like to build a STRONG relationship of compassion between our two natIONS. I want to help execute and build military ties with you.
What the french president hears: I think we are going to take strong military action against the nation of france. And I am going to have you executed.
I got my site shut down by my school for criticizing it and my town. Well that and the fact that some asshole decided to post columbine-esque death threats on it. Threats which they of course attributed to me due to the critical commments I made on my site, my general anti-social behavior, and style of dress.
I came very close to the cops arresting me, my school expelling me, and having my house searched. Luckily I just got put in a police report (and car for a while).
Well, at least i got my site back up, and those fuckers are just going to have to deal with it. ----------------------------------
Whenever I start to talk about BSD at school people think that I am referring to twisted pornography. What do i do??? ----------------------------------
Gather around children and you shall hear, the story of a small town getting fucked in the ear.
Yeah I can't even drink the water in my town(Santa MAria, CA) because it is so infested with PCB's. 64 parts per billion to be exact, that's 32 times the legal limit.
It all started back in '77 when the state government, along with your basic run-of the mill corporate bastards, decided to dump the state's toxic waste in the nearby (poor, scarcely populated) town of casmalia. Of course they met no opposistion from the citizens because the citizens had no idea what was going on.
So basically the corporate criminals who were doing this (with the complete, unquestioning blessing blessing of the local government, go figure) started to pump some of the most dangerous chemicals known to man into a little canyon. The said it was safe because there was "a thick layer of clay" under the ground. Of course there were never any geological tests to prove this, it was just sort of assumed.
Well so this dude named Les Conrad (the hero of our story), a sign painter, gothired to paint some of the dump's trucks. And he saw them pumping that shit into the ground. He questioned them about it, and of course they told him it was perfectly safe. And of course it turned out they were lying.
So Mr. Conrad did some research and found out that not only was the dump not safe, the chemicals were becoming highly concentrated in our entire valley's groundwater! Of course he tried to bring this to the attention of local politicians, but the simply ignored him. He had to fight for 17 years to finnally get the plant shut down in 1997. And by then the damage had already been done. Our town has twice the national rate of lukemia, and people are dying of cancer left and right. All because of our corrupt local and state officials and the corporate criminal paymasters.
It makes me fucking sick.
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You say they finished principal shooting last week? But you say that it is going to come out onthe 30th of december (two weeks before the twelth). That would give them only a few days to re-shoot bad scenes, edit, and add special effects! Unless of course i mis-read something. ----------------------------------
Well, here are some simple solutions to this problem:
-Upgrade your HD NOW if you have an older one, don't buy the new ones.
- Also , it would be a good idea to start stockpiling as many "Old-generation" hard drives as you can right now. That way you could sell and/or distribute them to people who don't want to buy into this corporate bullshit.
I myself currently have a 13mb hard-drive, and before I don't see any need to upgrade at all in the near future. But now I think that I am going to:)
Actually this could be really neat, there could be a huge underground market for older hard-drives that don't implement this "technology".
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I don't quite understand what you are trying to say, or what you are trying to complain about. You seem to have taught yourself tons of wonderful skills outside of your school. That is the way that most people learn stuff anyway, on their own initiative, not because they are forced too.
And Believe it or not the purpose of school is NOT really to teach kids information and expand their minds. The purpose of schools is basically behavior modification. You know, forcing kids to behave and breaking them into acceptance of society's stupid rules and status quos.
You should really count it as a blessing that you were never sent to any special schools, those are the same thing as regular schools, only the brain-fuck techiques they use are geared toward more intelligent kids.
So tell me. Would have really liked to be taught to program by some asshole teacher who's motto is: "My way or the highway"? People who teach themselves a skill are generally better at it and more creative in it's application.
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Basically, this research amounts to shit. Animals are so phisiologically different than humans that any drug that you test on an animal normally has a completely different effect in humans. For example: Tylenol causes Renal bleeding in cats, Aspirin kills dogs, and pigs are unaffected by arsenic.
Basically animal testing is scientifically a big fucking joke and the only reason that it is allowed to perpetuate is because big money is involved in it. Every year 100,000 people die from adverse reactions to drugs that were proven "safe" in animals and not even tested in vitro on human cells. Medical expenses for these adverse reactions cost taxpayers about 136 billion dollars a year.
So just because removing this gene in a goddamed fruit-fly causes them to live longer doesn't mean it is going to do squat for a human being. Using animals as a model for human medical research is a big lie that is both harmful and mis-leading.News orginizations should be fucking ashamed of themselves for reporting this lie as having any validity. ----------------------------------
I know what you're thinking, but this is NOT a troll, it is a legitamit question, and I don't think that people quite realize how much of a breakthrough mirochip-toilet technology can be.
Just imagine the possibilities:
You'll have to use your hands to flush ever again! The whole defecation process will be completely automated. All you'll have to do is sit and squeeze, your toilet will do the rest for you.
Imagine a toilet that talks to you AS your feces drop into it. Well with recent AI and microchip advances (such as this one) you can!
Toilet: Looks like your having some trouble there, bob, would you like some jet-streams?
Bob: THANKS! TOILET! That would be great!!!
Another implementation of smart-toilet technology would be a medical one. Your toilet would examen your stool for toxins and other abnormalities, and catch potentially diseases before it's too late!
And lastly you'll never have to stop playing Quake when nature calls , EVER AGAIN! Because your smart-toilet will have a built in keyboard and monitor, you can finnally play quake AND defecate AT THE SAME TIME!!
Article excerpt: "....A Yahoo.com auction site...." Maybe if YOUR brain had been working when you read the article, you would have noticed that it was yahoo.com, and not yahoo.fr. Sheesh, what is it, whack-a-rat day?
JOIN US!!!! We'd love to have you! AND TALK ABOUT PISSING PEOPLE OFF! THAT'S WHAT We're all about
We've already been shutdown by a police department and a highschool! IN the process losing alot of our content (I.E. our message board). SO we've basically had to start again from scratch, which sucks alot of ass, and things haven't been going so well.
But those bastards at the santa maria police department won't have the last laugh, we promise you that!!! In fact any person pissed off at our government for all the nasty shit they do (I.E. politicians putting their campaign finances ahead of the enviroment) is free to join! We whine like bitches and have a hell of a lot of fun doing it!! We're also working on a for-charity video game, so any programmers willing to work for nothing would be nice!
Thanks, Ned the Rat ----------------------------------
Ok first off, just becuase the U.S. has imposed it's will on other countries doesn't mean that that same country do the same to us!! Think about it, the U.$.A is like the world's bully (and iraq, that pyromaniac kid who no one likes) telling all the other kids what to do and stealing their lunch money (oil). No one has the guts to stand up to that bully, and when they do, the U.S. will just beat the snot out of him! Which is probably going to happen to france if they pursue this further.
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They should actually have them fight instead of just talking about it.
Here's my idea:
Place them both on a platform suspended above acid or something, turn them both on, and let them go to town. Whichever falls off first loses. Kind of like a joust, with robots.
That would be spantastic.
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The subject says it all.
:)
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Being a pacifist to me means not using violence as a solution to problems, or at any other time for that matter. It doesn't mean not getting mad. I get pissed, but i vent it in healthy ways. And I'm not just pissed about what my school did to me, I'm also pissed about some of the things they have very recently done to some friends of mine.
:) ) and it was really generally sad. Of course they used the rulebook to justify this, even though it had no mention of jewelry! Only a rule which said "Students must obey teachers at all times". They also came close to expelling that same friend for not letting them confiscate his hat. Another friend got suspened for two days for giving someone the finger, and yet another friend got tackled to the ground by campus security for looking like he was "on-drugs".
For example, our furher/principal forced my friend to rip out his earings right in front of him the other day, because they were a "liability". They bled all over the place (we got a picture
So yes, I don't like holding grudges, but it's sort of hard when i keep on getting reasons to renew them.
----------------------------------
Hey, all you people who don't seem to appreciate this critique of post-columbine mass histeria can go suck an egg! Clearly you weren't victims of this state condoned harrassment based soley on your non-conformist thought, so you have no idea what it's like. I totally applaud Jon Katz and what he is doing and I encourage him to keep it up.
I for one was a victim of this witch-hunt and I know a couple others who it happened to also. These though-police fuckers shut-down my website, threatened me with arrest, expulsion, and called me a cyber-terrorist. All for something I didn't even do!
Just because some asshole decided to post a threat against my school on my website, I got in trouble. Of course my schoool authorities/assholes never doubted for one second that it was me who did it, never mind the fact that my site got 300 hits a day. My non-conformist style of dress and shabby hair PROVED me to be a murderous phsychopath. Never mind the fact that I am a devout pacifist and vegan and that is one of the central themes of my fucking site!
This happened over a year ago and I am still pissed off about it. What they did was fucking wrong, and if you and I don't stand up to it it's only going to get worse. So you fucking go, Jn Katz, and fuck all the naysayers!
----------------------------------
Do you think they'd buy my pirated copy of windows off me, or maybe my pirated copy of office 2000, or maybe even my warezed copy of photoshop (by adobe ya, but i can hope no?).
That would be neat.
----------------------------------
I tried to use babel fish for a spanish project in my highschool. Big fucking mistake, it turned out to be pure gibberish and I got a big fat F.
I can see people who are too lazy to learn another language getting into all kinds of sticky situations.
CIA agent pulling a gun on a foreign criminal: FREEZE MOTHER FUCKER OR I'LL BLOW YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF!!!
What the foreigner hears: Would you like a new puppy?
George Dubya talking with the president of france (he's to stupid to learn another language): I would like to build a STRONG relationship of compassion between our two natIONS. I want to help execute and build military ties with you.
What the french president hears: I think we are going to take strong military action against the nation of france. And I am going to have you executed.
Scary stuff.
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I didn't know that! Please elaborate further. I DO know that Jello Biafra is a money grubbing whore now though.
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I got my site shut down by my school for criticizing it and my town. Well that and the fact that some asshole decided to post columbine-esque death threats on it. Threats which they of course attributed to me due to the critical commments I made on my site, my general anti-social behavior, and style of dress.
I came very close to the cops arresting me, my school expelling me, and having my house searched. Luckily I just got put in a police report (and car for a while).
Well, at least i got my site back up, and those fuckers are just going to have to deal with it.
----------------------------------
Whenever I start to talk about BSD at school people think that I am referring to twisted pornography. What do i do???
----------------------------------
Gather around children and you shall hear, the story of a small town getting fucked in the ear.
Yeah I can't even drink the water in my town(Santa MAria, CA) because it is so infested with PCB's. 64 parts per billion to be exact, that's 32 times the legal limit.
It all started back in '77 when the state government, along with your basic run-of the mill corporate bastards, decided to dump the state's toxic waste in the nearby (poor, scarcely populated) town of casmalia. Of course they met no opposistion from the citizens because the citizens had no idea what was going on.
So basically the corporate criminals who were doing this (with the complete, unquestioning blessing blessing of the local government, go figure) started to pump some of the most dangerous chemicals known to man into a little canyon. The said it was safe because there was "a thick layer of clay" under the ground. Of course there were never any geological tests to prove this, it was just sort of assumed.
Well so this dude named Les Conrad (the hero of our story), a sign painter, gothired to paint some of the dump's trucks. And he saw them pumping that shit into the ground. He questioned them about it, and of course they told him it was perfectly safe. And of course it turned out they were lying.
So Mr. Conrad did some research and found out that not only was the dump not safe, the chemicals were becoming highly concentrated in our entire valley's groundwater! Of course he tried to bring this to the attention of local politicians, but the simply ignored him. He had to fight for 17 years to finnally get the plant shut down in 1997. And by then the damage had already been done. Our town has twice the national rate of lukemia, and people are dying of cancer left and right. All because of our corrupt local and state officials and the corporate criminal paymasters.
It makes me fucking sick.
----------------------------------
You say they finished principal shooting last week? But you say that it is going to come out onthe 30th of december (two weeks before the twelth). That would give them only a few days to re-shoot bad scenes, edit, and add special effects! Unless of course i mis-read something.
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Yeah, pretty much.
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Well, here are some simple solutions to this problem: -Upgrade your HD NOW if you have an older one, don't buy the new ones. :)
- Also , it would be a good idea to start stockpiling as many "Old-generation" hard drives as you can right now. That way you could sell and/or distribute them to people who don't want to buy into this corporate bullshit.
I myself currently have a 13mb hard-drive, and before I don't see any need to upgrade at all in the near future. But now I think that I am going to
Actually this could be really neat, there could be a huge underground market for older hard-drives that don't implement this "technology".
----------------------------------
I don't quite understand what you are trying to say, or what you are trying to complain about. You seem to have taught yourself tons of wonderful skills outside of your school. That is the way that most people learn stuff anyway, on their own initiative, not because they are forced too.
And Believe it or not the purpose of school is NOT really to teach kids information and expand their minds. The purpose of schools is basically behavior modification. You know, forcing kids to behave and breaking them into acceptance of society's stupid rules and status quos.
You should really count it as a blessing that you were never sent to any special schools, those are the same thing as regular schools, only the brain-fuck techiques they use are geared toward more intelligent kids.
So tell me. Would have really liked to be taught to program by some asshole teacher who's motto is: "My way or the highway"? People who teach themselves a skill are generally better at it and more creative in it's application.
----------------------------------
Basically, this research amounts to shit. Animals are so phisiologically different than humans that any drug that you test on an animal normally has a completely different effect in humans. For example: Tylenol causes Renal bleeding in cats, Aspirin kills dogs, and pigs are unaffected by arsenic. Basically animal testing is scientifically a big fucking joke and the only reason that it is allowed to perpetuate is because big money is involved in it. Every year 100,000 people die from adverse reactions to drugs that were proven "safe" in animals and not even tested in vitro on human cells. Medical expenses for these adverse reactions cost taxpayers about 136 billion dollars a year. So just because removing this gene in a goddamed fruit-fly causes them to live longer doesn't mean it is going to do squat for a human being. Using animals as a model for human medical research is a big lie that is both harmful and mis-leading.News orginizations should be fucking ashamed of themselves for reporting this lie as having any validity.
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Yeah i agree. Go here: www.freespeechfunhouse.com NOW!
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CLICK HERE TO FEED STARVING PEOPLE FOR FREE!
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I guess they didn't 'donate' enough money to politicians.
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How will this affect my toilet?
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I know what you're thinking, but this is NOT a troll, it is a legitamit question, and I don't think that people quite realize how much of a breakthrough mirochip-toilet technology can be.
Just imagine the possibilities:
You'll have to use your hands to flush ever again! The whole defecation process will be completely automated. All you'll have to do is sit and squeeze, your toilet will do the rest for you.
Imagine a toilet that talks to you AS your feces drop into it. Well with recent AI and microchip advances (such as this one) you can!
Toilet: Looks like your having some trouble there, bob, would you like some jet-streams?
Bob: THANKS! TOILET! That would be great!!!
Another implementation of smart-toilet technology would be a medical one. Your toilet would examen your stool for toxins and other abnormalities, and catch potentially diseases before it's too late!
And lastly you'll never have to stop playing Quake when nature calls , EVER AGAIN! Because your smart-toilet will have a built in keyboard and monitor, you can finnally play quake AND defecate AT THE SAME TIME!!
Isn't technology wonderful?
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Article excerpt: "....A Yahoo.com auction site...."
Maybe if YOUR brain had been working when you read the article, you would have noticed that it was yahoo.com, and not yahoo.fr.
Sheesh, what is it, whack-a-rat day?
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Yeah , the U.S. imposing it's will on other countries, not the other way around.
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JOIN US!!!! We'd love to have you! AND TALK ABOUT PISSING PEOPLE OFF! THAT'S WHAT We're all about
We've already been shutdown by a police department and a highschool! IN the process losing alot of our content (I.E. our message board). SO we've basically had to start again from scratch, which sucks alot of ass, and things haven't been going so well.
But those bastards at the santa maria police department won't have the last laugh, we promise you that!!!
In fact any person pissed off at our government for all the nasty shit they do (I.E. politicians putting their campaign finances ahead of the enviroment) is free to join! We whine like bitches and have a hell of a lot of fun doing it!!
We're also working on a for-charity video game, so any programmers willing to work for nothing would be nice!
Thanks, Ned the Rat
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Well, i know I'm excited....
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Ok first off, just becuase the U.S. has imposed it's will on other countries doesn't mean that that same country do the same to us!!
Think about it, the U.$.A is like the world's bully (and iraq, that pyromaniac kid who no one likes) telling all the other kids what to do and stealing their lunch money (oil). No one has the guts to stand up to that bully, and when they do, the U.S. will just beat the snot out of him!
Which is probably going to happen to france if they pursue this further.
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God, that was beautiful. You couldn't be more right.
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