By the way, did you notice your comments are not moderated as "Troll" or "Overrated" anymore. They do deserve them, because you were a complete ass in this discussion. Since you started the troll-calling I decided to use the mod points I had to get your attention. Or just piss you off. Whatever.
Last night, after it seemed you were quite done with the incendiary name calling, I posted a message so it would remove the mods I had made to you.
By the way, did you notice no one else piled on and modded you further down? Unlike you, some people here want to have a discussion without insisting their opponents are all sub-human scum. Hopefully you take that lesson to heart.
And, if you or anyone else wants to punish me for my use of mod points, feel free. It's not like this forum is my day job.
Hey Brandon, good to hear from you. You should make a slashdot account for yourself or your band before some douche here claims to be you or your band.
I haven't heard the music, but it's a neat hack doing it that way.
I read a book a while ago that dealt with that problem. A guy hauled an iceberg from Antarctica to the Gulf of Mexico, and used the empty oil pipelines from the oil boom time to push water to all parts of Texas and the Midwest.
Everyone from the VA attorney general to the US senate have had a go at him, none of them found a scrap of evidence showing impropriety on Mann's part.
Are you saying that Mann's hockey stick has not been debunked?
But, at the same time, let the idiots who decide to overdose suffer the consequences of their actions.
I'm not entirely sure why consider suicide a sign of idiocy.
I wasn't talking about people who are committing suicide. I was referring to idiots that take drugs for fun, and take too much because their stoned from all the drugs they decided to take.
Or did you mean "decide" in the same way as people would randomly "decide" to die of food poisoning
People randomly "decide" to overdose on tainted lettuce or dairy products? I was unaware of this trend.
if only those pesky regulatory agencies didn't interfere?
That is the point at which the liberals who want to LEGALIZE drugs fail the logic test. They want the government to allow them to use their favorite substances, and then rescue them when they have trouble. I want the government to stop inserting themselves into everyone's personal choices, including during the negative results that will result.
Do you have any particular reason for your wish? Because it seems to me that mitigating risks (of drugs, of walking out at night, of eating at a restaurant, etc) makes people effectively more free, and I don't really understand why anyone would think this is a bad thing.
Do you simply want to control people and pretend you don't?
Wow, good projection there. It is almost subliminal, following as it does something that makes no sense at all. Givien that my argument is about allowing people to choose to put poison in their body, you want to equate it to walking around and eating food. And somehow that translates into me wanting to control them.
First, let me say thanks for taking my argument seriously, even if you don't understand my reasoning.
Second, I've been saying the same thing for twenty years. Long before the term 'gay marriage' became the cool thing to support, I was saying that the state should not be in the marriage business. Regardless of how long marriage has been part of Western society, it nearly always was a religious rite. The governments recognized the institution because the governments were either theocracies (such as the Vatican), or were supported and affirmed by the church. There was no separation of church and state.
It seems weird to me that people who want no interaction between government and religion want to hold onto this one last tie. That includes both the left and the right groups, for their own reasons. It is also weird that we still think the state should recognize the act of two people saying a magical incantation, and then grant them legal rights they didn't have five minutes earlier.
But, as far as the actual reason of my position, it has nothing to do with gay marriage, but with getting religion away from government, and vice versa.
Others who are claiming this stance may fit the mold you have described. Their motives may be pure bigotry and small-mindedness. I still think it is the correct position.
I'm not the one spinning it, you are. You are saying your life is no more notable than my drivers license. I think you are foolish for believing that, but I do still think you have the right to have that belief.
Stop embellishing your Misogyny and enter the 21th century with the rest of the world.
Really? Saying a living person isn't the same as a drivers license is misogyny? If you wonder why your side loses the argument, it's because of stupidity like that.
I wish the government would DECRIMINALIZE ALL DRUGS. But, at the same time, let the idiots who decide to overdose suffer the consequences of their actions. That is the point at which the liberals who want to LEGALIZE drugs fail the logic test. They want the government to allow them to use their favorite substances, and then rescue them when they have trouble. I want the government to stop inserting themselves into everyone's personal choices, including during the negative results that will result.
Media regulation??? It is the lefties that want to bring back "equal time" laws to shut up right-wing talk radio.
Porno? What is the feminist stance towards this issue that objectifies women? It is the same as the righties stance, just with a different reason.
Abortion? Scientifically, a new organism is formed when sperm and egg cell join. Would you claim a baby chick in an egg is not a separate organism from the hen that laid the egg? Does it matter than the baby chick is living off the matter that the mother hen included inside the calcium wrapper? Or that the chick's life is dependent on the mother's body heat as well. It seems quite obvious that the chick is a separate organism that is dependent on its mother's sacrifices to live. How is this different when it comes to mammals?
With that being said, I don't oppose abortion. I don't support abortion. I think society has to decide on abortion, which is not what happened in this country with Roe v Wade.
I hope I don't get Eiched here for not supporting gay marriage, because I think it is the stupidest debate in recent history. Get government out of the marriage business entirely, end all legal designation of a religious rite, and be done with it.
I would finish the other minor points you made, but I have to go give the government some of my money today.
I'm not sticking up for anyone. I just get tired of everyone using those debate team crutches, rather than relying on their own words. It doesn't matter if I agree with your argument, or with his, or neither. It's just annoying to me.
Actually, he has taken the exact proper line in addressing the previous poster.
Just a few minutes ago I responded to someone about using a high-school debate defense, rather than stating in plain language what was wrong. Phantomfive didn't use the crutch of debating protocol, he used plain language.
He used the term "strawman" the way it should be used, with full explanation as to what it is referring to, rather than just "Strawman! Strawman!", like we usually see. That is what conversations should be like.
I was pulled over probably 3 or 4 times in that truck. Never got a ticket, which includes the time I charged over Donner Summit during a blizzard without snow chains and a bunch of drunken friends in the back (it was a 2WD truck).
How many of them survived the journey? and how many of the others did they eat?;^)
Isn't the definition of irony that the situation is the opposite of what you would expect.
I would expect to be able to follow news events on my smartphone while sitting in a courtroom during a trial involving the two biggest players in the smartphone realm. The fact that smartphones are causing traffic congestion isn't the ironic part.
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By the way, did you notice your comments are not moderated as "Troll" or "Overrated" anymore. They do deserve them, because you were a complete ass in this discussion. Since you started the troll-calling I decided to use the mod points I had to get your attention. Or just piss you off. Whatever.
Last night, after it seemed you were quite done with the incendiary name calling, I posted a message so it would remove the mods I had made to you.
By the way, did you notice no one else piled on and modded you further down? Unlike you, some people here want to have a discussion without insisting their opponents are all sub-human scum. Hopefully you take that lesson to heart.
And, if you or anyone else wants to punish me for my use of mod points, feel free. It's not like this forum is my day job.
Hey Brandon, good to hear from you. You should make a slashdot account for yourself or your band before some douche here claims to be you or your band.
I haven't heard the music, but it's a neat hack doing it that way.
Good luck.
Don't let them give you shit. If you like the idea, tell the others to get lost.
Plus, it's only April.
Actually, they are all funny. You just don't understand some of them. :^)
Well, sure, not is standard English. But the story is from Finland. What's the usage of the word 'axe' in Finland?
I'll give you a new "o" here. Let's see if it's the same after four more replacements.
woosh
My god man, that's genius. ;^)
Now if only I could be a used tire to be 3D printed, I would have the perfect setup.
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What? There are easier ways to get used tires?
I don't think chickens would be able to use this one too well. They don't have the wrist strength for it.
I read a book a while ago that dealt with that problem. A guy hauled an iceberg from Antarctica to the Gulf of Mexico, and used the empty oil pipelines from the oil boom time to push water to all parts of Texas and the Midwest.
It is confirmed because every set of data they put into Mann's program gives the same hockey stick. Even random data does this.
Everyone from the VA attorney general to the US senate have had a go at him, none of them found a scrap of evidence showing impropriety on Mann's part.
Are you saying that Mann's hockey stick has not been debunked?
I'm not entirely sure why consider suicide a sign of idiocy.
I wasn't talking about people who are committing suicide. I was referring to idiots that take drugs for fun, and take too much because their stoned from all the drugs they decided to take.
Or did you mean "decide" in the same way as people would randomly "decide" to die of food poisoning
People randomly "decide" to overdose on tainted lettuce or dairy products? I was unaware of this trend.
if only those pesky regulatory agencies didn't interfere?
Do you have any particular reason for your wish? Because it seems to me that mitigating risks (of drugs, of walking out at night, of eating at a restaurant, etc) makes people effectively more free, and I don't really understand why anyone would think this is a bad thing.
Do you simply want to control people and pretend you don't?
Wow, good projection there. It is almost subliminal, following as it does something that makes no sense at all. Givien that my argument is about allowing people to choose to put poison in their body, you want to equate it to walking around and eating food. And somehow that translates into me wanting to control them.
First, let me say thanks for taking my argument seriously, even if you don't understand my reasoning.
Second, I've been saying the same thing for twenty years. Long before the term 'gay marriage' became the cool thing to support, I was saying that the state should not be in the marriage business. Regardless of how long marriage has been part of Western society, it nearly always was a religious rite. The governments recognized the institution because the governments were either theocracies (such as the Vatican), or were supported and affirmed by the church. There was no separation of church and state.
It seems weird to me that people who want no interaction between government and religion want to hold onto this one last tie. That includes both the left and the right groups, for their own reasons. It is also weird that we still think the state should recognize the act of two people saying a magical incantation, and then grant them legal rights they didn't have five minutes earlier.
But, as far as the actual reason of my position, it has nothing to do with gay marriage, but with getting religion away from government, and vice versa.
Others who are claiming this stance may fit the mold you have described. Their motives may be pure bigotry and small-mindedness. I still think it is the correct position.
Spin this thing however you like.
I'm not the one spinning it, you are. You are saying your life is no more notable than my drivers license. I think you are foolish for believing that, but I do still think you have the right to have that belief.
Stop embellishing your Misogyny and enter the 21th century with the rest of the world.
Really? Saying a living person isn't the same as a drivers license is misogyny? If you wonder why your side loses the argument, it's because of stupidity like that.
I claim to lean libertarian.
I wish the government would DECRIMINALIZE ALL DRUGS. But, at the same time, let the idiots who decide to overdose suffer the consequences of their actions. That is the point at which the liberals who want to LEGALIZE drugs fail the logic test. They want the government to allow them to use their favorite substances, and then rescue them when they have trouble. I want the government to stop inserting themselves into everyone's personal choices, including during the negative results that will result.
Media regulation??? It is the lefties that want to bring back "equal time" laws to shut up right-wing talk radio.
Porno? What is the feminist stance towards this issue that objectifies women? It is the same as the righties stance, just with a different reason.
Abortion? Scientifically, a new organism is formed when sperm and egg cell join. Would you claim a baby chick in an egg is not a separate organism from the hen that laid the egg? Does it matter than the baby chick is living off the matter that the mother hen included inside the calcium wrapper? Or that the chick's life is dependent on the mother's body heat as well. It seems quite obvious that the chick is a separate organism that is dependent on its mother's sacrifices to live. How is this different when it comes to mammals?
With that being said, I don't oppose abortion. I don't support abortion. I think society has to decide on abortion, which is not what happened in this country with Roe v Wade.
I hope I don't get Eiched here for not supporting gay marriage, because I think it is the stupidest debate in recent history. Get government out of the marriage business entirely, end all legal designation of a religious rite, and be done with it.
I would finish the other minor points you made, but I have to go give the government some of my money today.
So you assign the "privilege" of living to be the same level of importance as driving?
I'm not sticking up for anyone. I just get tired of everyone using those debate team crutches, rather than relying on their own words. It doesn't matter if I agree with your argument, or with his, or neither. It's just annoying to me.
Actually, he has taken the exact proper line in addressing the previous poster.
Just a few minutes ago I responded to someone about using a high-school debate defense, rather than stating in plain language what was wrong. Phantomfive didn't use the crutch of debating protocol, he used plain language.
He used the term "strawman" the way it should be used, with full explanation as to what it is referring to, rather than just "Strawman! Strawman!", like we usually see. That is what conversations should be like.
My previous post is here: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Do you always rely on the crutch of high-school debate team offenses while having conversations with people?
I can think up a cool name for a "open source project", if you send me the $500. :^)
Respond if you want my bank routing and account numbers for the deposit.
I was pulled over probably 3 or 4 times in that truck. Never got a ticket, which includes the time I charged over Donner Summit during a blizzard without snow chains and a bunch of drunken friends in the back (it was a 2WD truck).
How many of them survived the journey? and how many of the others did they eat? ;^)
MOD PARENT UP!!!
This is the solution. If you want a reliable connection, used wired Internet.
and IPv6.
Isn't the definition of irony that the situation is the opposite of what you would expect.
I would expect to be able to follow news events on my smartphone while sitting in a courtroom during a trial involving the two biggest players in the smartphone realm.
The fact that smartphones are causing traffic congestion isn't the ironic part.
I went for Jill Stein in '12. My sig isn't as off-the-wall as it may at first seem.