The only bits of nerd I saw in your post were 'WoW' (negated by the fact that you don't actually play), 'BioShock' (again, just buying the product doesn't make you a nerd), and... well... that's about it.
Meanwhile, simply talking about being 'in' with the 'nerd scene' shows you for what you really are.
It's nice that you've bought into this image that professional football players are some sort of gods. You think entire teams couldn't be replaced overnight in the event of a plane wreck? You think Americans would stop watching football if every recognizable name was replaced by another person doing the same useless shit?
Sure, you can claim that those doing college sports have lots of 'drive', but that drive is fucking useless if all you gain from it is the ability to kick a ball an extra foot. You think that 'drive' is going to kick back into gear when you take away their cheering fans and massive college sports budget? You think the drive to succeed at sports is the same as the drive to be, you know, ACTUALLY productive? Not to mention the fact that simply doing steroids will propel you past all the suckers with both 'drive' and 'moral fiber'.
People who win the lottery make way more money than code monkeys. By your logic we should just teach our kids to buy a daily lotto ticket and be finished with the 'school' crap.
So you name three (almost) separate games, that (kinda) had the features (l4d pipe bomb is a glorified grenade -- no remote detonation) of a SINGLE GAME that came out years before. His point exactly.
'The fifties' refers to all the years that start with 'fifty-'. 50, 51, 52, etc. It does not refer to the 196th decade, and really doesn't refer to decades at all. There just happen to be 10 numbers that start with 'fifty-'.
If you're referring to a 'new decade', people assume you're talking about a standard decade. If those decades started when yours did, then the first 'decade' would have had 9 years (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9). Not very 'deca', is it? So if you want your definition of a decade (10 years) to remain consistent with when you partition these decades, you have to start when the years start: year 1.
Your question at the end does nothing to prove your point. No, I do not consider 1960 to be in the 50s. But, 'the 50s' is not a decade. The 196th decade, which starts in 1951, does indeed include 1960.
Yeah, I had no idea what event he was talking about until you cleared it up. Thanks for that. I'll go back to that rock I was living under now I guess.
OK since you're the year expert here, what do we call 2011? I've heard oh-ten for 2010, and I guess that works, but oh-eleven is a pain to say. Oh-twelve is OK, but then we're back to annoying with oh-thirteen.
When one is attempting to act erudite, one would do well to remove one's head from one's ass and attempt to ascertain the facetiousness of the statement one was elicited to respond by; otherwise it makes one look socially crippled and autistic.
"The problem is systemic. Those broken family values extend and permeate the school and university system, meaning that Chinese children spend the most important phase of their lives in a fucking bizzaro wonderland."
I feel deeply, truly sorry for you and whoever equated sex with violence, rape, and murder for you as a child. Maybe someday those scars will heal for you and you can assume a mature stance on sexual matters.
Commie bastard? That's a horrible troll. YOU'RE the one requesting the government to step in and support your way of life. Hell, even with all the illegality it's still easier for me to get a movie for free than it is for me to actually buy it. This is truly capitalism at its finest! Stop trying to expand the government to subsidies your crappy business choices! Maybe next time invest in tangible goods, you COMMIE BASTARD moron.
"Next thing I know, is you telling me about the “supremacy” of the “white man”."
Wow you go right for the emotional nutsack, don't ya? Let's turn those tactics around:
"I think animal tests should be replaced by human tests. Pay people. There is always a market price. Just offer enough. If that means it becomes expensive, then so be it."
Next thing I know, is you telling me about the "morality" of "child labor".
I mean, if the 7 year old has the risks of getting impaled by a piston while crawling about in large machinery explained to him, then why shouldn't we let him in there? He'll get the Batman DVD we promised him, so where's the harm?
Actually I don't think that's a good comparison. You probably WOULD support child labor at whatever price the market could handle, but I was trying to show that the poster you were responding to wasn't a white supremacist (even though, according to your logic, their beliefs dictate them to be so).
"Punishment only “helps”, as long as you continue to punish. Just as pain killers only “help” as long as you take them, while continuing to run against the wall."
Yeah, my dog kept humping things so I sprayed him with water every time he tried. Now that the spray bottle is gone he just rapes me nightly. Oh no, wait... he just doesn't hump things as often. I'd accidentally confused reality with whatever twisted, fantasy world you live in. My bad.
You might have a point about the death penalty doing little to deter wrongdoers, but that's a totally different situation. It's like you've taken broken fragments of logic from someone debating the death sentence and applied them towards disproving Pavlovian reactions to punishment.
"People don’t do things that they think is wrong."
No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. If people don't do things that they feel are wrong, then please define the word 'guilt'. Sure, people can be made to feel guilty after an action, but 99% of guilt comes from someone doing something they KNOW is wrong.
Like now, for instance. I feel guilty for responding to this nonsense. I can't even finish this post to fully outline how nonsensical yours is. There's nothing to even argue against past a certain point, because you're just rambling about penal colonies and feeling ALIVE.
I'm still going to submit this, even though I feel it's wrong. However, if I knew I was going to get punished physically for this post, you probably wouldn't see it here...
Still T-Mobile's fault. I mean, it must be, because I have an Android phone and I have no idea WTF you're talking about. Spinning cubes? Maybe you should get your phone from someone who doesn't load it with a bunch of crap.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. That book, 'The Purpose Driven Life', spawned tons of prayer groups and such focused around finding Jesus' personal plan for you. I guess it's possible that they actually did all find a purpose after that, but from what I can tell most are still 'scrambling' for it.
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The only bits of nerd I saw in your post were 'WoW' (negated by the fact that you don't actually play), 'BioShock' (again, just buying the product doesn't make you a nerd), and... well... that's about it.
Meanwhile, simply talking about being 'in' with the 'nerd scene' shows you for what you really are.
It's nice that you've bought into this image that professional football players are some sort of gods. You think entire teams couldn't be replaced overnight in the event of a plane wreck? You think Americans would stop watching football if every recognizable name was replaced by another person doing the same useless shit?
Sure, you can claim that those doing college sports have lots of 'drive', but that drive is fucking useless if all you gain from it is the ability to kick a ball an extra foot. You think that 'drive' is going to kick back into gear when you take away their cheering fans and massive college sports budget? You think the drive to succeed at sports is the same as the drive to be, you know, ACTUALLY productive? Not to mention the fact that simply doing steroids will propel you past all the suckers with both 'drive' and 'moral fiber'.
People who win the lottery make way more money than code monkeys. By your logic we should just teach our kids to buy a daily lotto ticket and be finished with the 'school' crap.
That's funny number system you have, where 76 is the lowest number...
Where oh where is Alex Gembe...
So you name three (almost) separate games, that (kinda) had the features (l4d pipe bomb is a glorified grenade -- no remote detonation) of a SINGLE GAME that came out years before. His point exactly.
Yeah that's why he CHOOSES to.
'The fifties' refers to all the years that start with 'fifty-'. 50, 51, 52, etc. It does not refer to the 196th decade, and really doesn't refer to decades at all. There just happen to be 10 numbers that start with 'fifty-'.
If you're referring to a 'new decade', people assume you're talking about a standard decade. If those decades started when yours did, then the first 'decade' would have had 9 years (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9). Not very 'deca', is it? So if you want your definition of a decade (10 years) to remain consistent with when you partition these decades, you have to start when the years start: year 1.
Your question at the end does nothing to prove your point. No, I do not consider 1960 to be in the 50s. But, 'the 50s' is not a decade. The 196th decade, which starts in 1951, does indeed include 1960.
"and trivializes the event."
Yeah, I had no idea what event he was talking about until you cleared it up. Thanks for that. I'll go back to that rock I was living under now I guess.
OK since you're the year expert here, what do we call 2011? I've heard oh-ten for 2010, and I guess that works, but oh-eleven is a pain to say. Oh-twelve is OK, but then we're back to annoying with oh-thirteen.
Omgomgomg post again please. I must know if it's possible to fail harder than you already have.
When one is attempting to act erudite, one would do well to remove one's head from one's ass and attempt to ascertain the facetiousness of the statement one was elicited to respond by; otherwise it makes one look socially crippled and autistic.
Nice run-on you have there too, dumbass.
Please change your sig. The first time an idiot fell for it, it was funny. Now it's just annoying.
Too many idiots.
"The problem is systemic. Those broken family values extend and permeate the school and university system, meaning that Chinese children spend the most important phase of their lives in a fucking bizzaro wonderland."
Sooo it's pretty much exactly like America?
Yeah, what an unfounded jab at christians. It's like he forgets Jesus Christ himself started the first porn BBS.
I feel deeply, truly sorry for you and whoever equated sex with violence, rape, and murder for you as a child. Maybe someday those scars will heal for you and you can assume a mature stance on sexual matters.
Commie bastard? That's a horrible troll. YOU'RE the one requesting the government to step in and support your way of life. Hell, even with all the illegality it's still easier for me to get a movie for free than it is for me to actually buy it. This is truly capitalism at its finest! Stop trying to expand the government to subsidies your crappy business choices! Maybe next time invest in tangible goods, you COMMIE BASTARD moron.
"Next thing I know, is you telling me about the “supremacy” of the “white man”."
Wow you go right for the emotional nutsack, don't ya? Let's turn those tactics around:
"I think animal tests should be replaced by human tests. Pay people. There is always a market price. Just offer enough.
If that means it becomes expensive, then so be it."
Next thing I know, is you telling me about the "morality" of "child labor".
I mean, if the 7 year old has the risks of getting impaled by a piston while crawling about in large machinery explained to him, then why shouldn't we let him in there? He'll get the Batman DVD we promised him, so where's the harm?
Actually I don't think that's a good comparison. You probably WOULD support child labor at whatever price the market could handle, but I was trying to show that the poster you were responding to wasn't a white supremacist (even though, according to your logic, their beliefs dictate them to be so).
"Punishment only “helps”, as long as you continue to punish. Just as pain killers only “help” as long as you take them, while continuing to run against the wall."
Yeah, my dog kept humping things so I sprayed him with water every time he tried. Now that the spray bottle is gone he just rapes me nightly. Oh no, wait... he just doesn't hump things as often. I'd accidentally confused reality with whatever twisted, fantasy world you live in. My bad.
You might have a point about the death penalty doing little to deter wrongdoers, but that's a totally different situation. It's like you've taken broken fragments of logic from someone debating the death sentence and applied them towards disproving Pavlovian reactions to punishment.
"People don’t do things that they think is wrong."
No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. If people don't do things that they feel are wrong, then please define the word 'guilt'. Sure, people can be made to feel guilty after an action, but 99% of guilt comes from someone doing something they KNOW is wrong.
Like now, for instance. I feel guilty for responding to this nonsense. I can't even finish this post to fully outline how nonsensical yours is. There's nothing to even argue against past a certain point, because you're just rambling about penal colonies and feeling ALIVE.
I'm still going to submit this, even though I feel it's wrong. However, if I knew I was going to get punished physically for this post, you probably wouldn't see it here...
Yeah, the government totally fucks over any and all innovation. I mean, look at what those commies in England thought up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nhs_direct#History_and_background
Those bastards totally cut out the innovation by prenovating!
Ahhh, slashdot: one of the few places where the above could be considered a 'sick burn' (if it wasn't already a 'whoosh', that is).
Still T-Mobile's fault. I mean, it must be, because I have an Android phone and I have no idea WTF you're talking about. Spinning cubes? Maybe you should get your phone from someone who doesn't load it with a bunch of crap.
Nonono, didn't you hear? Because this is CAPITALISM, the only way to get rich is by contributing many more times to the greater good.
Oh my, it's a good thing you posted here then. The actual title is "Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement".
Hope this helped!
And he still can't achieve his original goal, which was of course communication with the 'girl' life form.
Ummmm, hello, it's not a sin if it's for JESUS.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. That book, 'The Purpose Driven Life', spawned tons of prayer groups and such focused around finding Jesus' personal plan for you. I guess it's possible that they actually did all find a purpose after that, but from what I can tell most are still 'scrambling' for it.