I've never had an issue using any of my credit cards in the US. I'm not talking close to the boarder, either. I went down to Colorado last spring for a couple of weeks and used nothing but my trusty Visa. No questions asked.
two people I would not have thought about in the same way, before today
you know what? i grew up on a farm. i've butchered animals. i've milked them. i've bottlefed them. i've healed them. i've euthanized them. i've midwifed them. i'm completely unimpressed
modern living in the west means we are disconnected from our food sources like no generation before us. the chicken nuggets on our plate bear no cognitive relationship to the actual chickens we see, probably, only on television or the internet
then, at age 10, you ride by a truck on the highway, and see some movement in the slats and a pink snout trying to poke out: pigs going to slaughter
and for the first time, you realize what's going on
and you think you are witnessing fucking auschwitz
it's so fucking maudlin!
such contrived weepy empty drama from the mind of people raised more artificially than their food!
it's just food you coddled cloistered fucks. it has a brain? it has thoughts? emotions? so what! has this EVER fucking mattered in hundreds of millions of years of carnivore catching prey on the savannah or in the jungle or in the seas?
feel the inside of your mouth. between your incisors and your molars (you have both, you're an omnivore): you can feel two jagged teeth. these are called your CANINES. they are MADE to RIP flesh from bone and masticate it. you ARE an eater of meat. says hundreds of millions of years of evolution. says what every previous generation of YOU did, going back generations since before your ancestors were human, even mammal
now THAT'S natural morality (as opposed to human morality, which governs our relationship with other humans, NOT that which governs the relationships in the natural world or our relationship with it)
our grandparents and greatgrandparents and every generation before that grew up in societies where domestic farm animals were in earshot and smelling distance away, their entire lives. before they could talk they were aware that the geese squawing outside for the past few months wasn't squawking anymore because it was on the dinner plate tonight. no. big. deal
in fact, today, most of humanity lives like this: humans and ducks, pigs, cattle, etc., all bric-a-brac next to each other in a cacophony of noises and smells. this is reality. this is normalcy. the majority of humanity, in time and space, does not consider eating meat or who butchers it an issue
it's only an issue for rich coddled drama queens who grow up in hermetically sealed lives away from their food sources. in other words, your "morality" is as artificial and inconsequential to the reality of life on earth and of the majority of humanity, as your rich upbringing is (if you were born in the west, in the modern era, you are rich, according to any previous generation or every other contemporaneous society)
meat is food. meat is good. tonight i am going to have myself some chicken nuggets, and i'm going to enjoy it, knowing full well what i am eating was once a chirping chicken. who FUCKING cares. get the fuck over yourselves, rich sheltered westeners. you live in an artificial hermetically sealed environment, and some of your attitudes are pathetic reflections of your artificial unreal upbringing
Having done it both ways, you, sir, are utterly full of shit.
The Peaceful Cut is the kindest way to slaughter a living animal. A razor sharp knife is nearly painless, unlike the roaring, shattering impact of a bullet.
Seriously. I have shot an animal at point blank range through the base of the skull, so that the pressure blew her eyes out the front. I have also participated in the slaughter of pigs, using an extremely sharp knife.
The knife is kinder. The animal thrashes less, screams less, in general suffers less. Anyone who has done it knows this. A properly slaughtered animal sighs, sinks to its knees, and dies. A shot animal thrashes and jerks even if it's brain has been completely destroyed. You are not just your brain!
"Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware, dishonest adware, scareware, crimeware, most rootkits, and other malicious and unwanted software or program" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware
I can't be the only one who had issues with software like Limewire, Kazaa and the like.infesting my PC with this crap. (Regardless of if it was from the software itself or the p2p content it provided).
I don't find iTunes to be that bad when playing music. Especially if you have a big enough library to take advantage of the 'Genius' playlist thing. It's pretty good.
I haven't used Winamp since WMP10 came out. I never liked WMP, but the sound quality was far better than Winamp. Has the sound quality in Winamp gotten any better? If so, that might be an interesting option. I did really enjoy writing plugins and skins for it. Was good times.
I don't have any numbers on the subject, but I can speak for myself. Personally I go out of my way to make sure that the indie bands that I enjoy get my money. Be it through sales, donations, advertisements, whatever. If I enjoy the artist and I KNOW that they're the low-budget type that really needs the sales to pay the bills, I'll definitely go out of my way.
That's not to say that I pirate everything else that the big corporations have to offer, that's not true at all. It's just that I put forth the extra effort to ensure that the artists I enjoy continue to create whatever it is that they're creating.
I just use iTunes, honestly. Sure, the quality isn't as good as it absolutely could be, but it's leaps and bounds beyond the average mp3 I used to find in crappy malware infested software like Limewire. I've been buying all my music from there over the last few years. Early on the DRM was bothersome (especially when I wanted to listen to my music on my Linux box, though it's easy enough to get around that) but now they've removed that. I get the idea that pirating is "better" because it's free, but at this point in my life I'm willing to spend money on the things that I enjoy, especially when I look at it as an investment
1. Find music I like 2. Support the artist by buying their music 3. Artist makes money, has the means to create more music 4. ??? 5. Profit! (Enjoy more music from the artists I like)
Why is it then that I'm looked at like an extra-terrestrial being when I tell people I pay for things?
Sure, not ALL of the money goes to the artists, but that's not within my control. Paying for the music gets the artist a piece of the pie while pirating gives them nothing.
Eventually, artists will smarten up and start selling their own music (see: Radiohead) off of their own websites and get even bigger pieces of the pie.
Apple, which has typically been last in transitioning to new technology
It's bad news when TFS is a troll.
That doesn't sound much like trolling to me, if you consider that Apple (more specifically Steve Jobs) refuses to allow USB 3.0 or even SATA 6GB/s. It seems to me that every new motherboard out there is supporting both of these standards (though one could argue that they're not standards until completely accepted, which Apple clearly hasn't done, but I digress).
Either way... my new PC absolutely WILL have USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s. Enjoy your iStuff. I'll enjoy top transfer speeds.;)
I don't see how my post could be an argument for getting rid of obscenity laws at all. I mean, I'm not exactly pro-censorship, but I think within reason and a watchful eye, it has its place.
Am I alone in not really having a problem with this?
I mean, TFA says that they're looking into "if selling violent video games to minors should be deemed illegal". Porn certainly isn't illegal, but it's limited to adults. Is it the general consensus here that games including obsessive (relative, I know) amounts of blood, violence, gore, questionable themes or whatever should be available to all, with no restrictions? Though I don't have children of my own, I can't imagine if I did I would be okay with my hypothetical 8 year old grabbing a copy of Mortal Kombat: Supreme Decapitation Edition straight off the shelves with no questions asked.
This kind of censorship is everywhere. Movies, music, porn, alcohol, tobacco, gambling. Why are we up in arms because it's video games? As long as they're not trying to take it off the market completely, taking the choice out of my perfectly capable adult hands, it really doesn't matter to me.
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I've never had an issue using any of my credit cards in the US. I'm not talking close to the boarder, either. I went down to Colorado last spring for a couple of weeks and used nothing but my trusty Visa. No questions asked.
Write a book immediately.
This debate has already been settled. http://xkcd.com/747/
You're welcome.
Really?
I'm not even going to bother correcting your grammar. But... really?
You, sir, blew my mind at "d21", but quickly made up for that. Finally it all makes sense. Thank you.
Any suggestions on re-rolling in RL?
baaaaaaaaaaahahahahaahahaha
I see what you did there.
Now just abolish the CRTC, get rid of the oligopoly and we're good to go.
food was meant to be enjoyed, and not suffered
Actually, I'm quite sure food was meant to sustain life.
two people I would not have thought about in the same way, before today
you know what? i grew up on a farm. i've butchered animals. i've milked them. i've bottlefed them. i've healed them. i've euthanized them. i've midwifed them. i'm completely unimpressed
modern living in the west means we are disconnected from our food sources like no generation before us. the chicken nuggets on our plate bear no cognitive relationship to the actual chickens we see, probably, only on television or the internet
then, at age 10, you ride by a truck on the highway, and see some movement in the slats and a pink snout trying to poke out: pigs going to slaughter
and for the first time, you realize what's going on
and you think you are witnessing fucking auschwitz
it's so fucking maudlin!
such contrived weepy empty drama from the mind of people raised more artificially than their food!
it's just food you coddled cloistered fucks. it has a brain? it has thoughts? emotions? so what! has this EVER fucking mattered in hundreds of millions of years of carnivore catching prey on the savannah or in the jungle or in the seas?
feel the inside of your mouth. between your incisors and your molars (you have both, you're an omnivore): you can feel two jagged teeth. these are called your CANINES. they are MADE to RIP flesh from bone and masticate it. you ARE an eater of meat. says hundreds of millions of years of evolution. says what every previous generation of YOU did, going back generations since before your ancestors were human, even mammal
now THAT'S natural morality (as opposed to human morality, which governs our relationship with other humans, NOT that which governs the relationships in the natural world or our relationship with it)
our grandparents and greatgrandparents and every generation before that grew up in societies where domestic farm animals were in earshot and smelling distance away, their entire lives. before they could talk they were aware that the geese squawing outside for the past few months wasn't squawking anymore because it was on the dinner plate tonight. no. big. deal
in fact, today, most of humanity lives like this: humans and ducks, pigs, cattle, etc., all bric-a-brac next to each other in a cacophony of noises and smells. this is reality. this is normalcy. the majority of humanity, in time and space, does not consider eating meat or who butchers it an issue
it's only an issue for rich coddled drama queens who grow up in hermetically sealed lives away from their food sources. in other words, your "morality" is as artificial and inconsequential to the reality of life on earth and of the majority of humanity, as your rich upbringing is (if you were born in the west, in the modern era, you are rich, according to any previous generation or every other contemporaneous society)
meat is food. meat is good. tonight i am going to have myself some chicken nuggets, and i'm going to enjoy it, knowing full well what i am eating was once a chirping chicken. who FUCKING cares. get the fuck over yourselves, rich sheltered westeners. you live in an artificial hermetically sealed environment, and some of your attitudes are pathetic reflections of your artificial unreal upbringing
meat is not murder. meat is TASTY
one final thought:
BACON
(*lips smack*)
case closed
FTFY
Having done it both ways, you, sir, are utterly full of shit.
The Peaceful Cut is the kindest way to slaughter a living animal. A razor sharp knife is nearly painless, unlike the roaring, shattering impact of a bullet.
Seriously. I have shot an animal at point blank range through the base of the skull, so that the pressure blew her eyes out the front. I have also participated in the slaughter of pigs, using an extremely sharp knife.
The knife is kinder. The animal thrashes less, screams less, in general suffers less. Anyone who has done it knows this. A properly slaughtered animal sighs, sinks to its knees, and dies. A shot animal thrashes and jerks even if it's brain has been completely destroyed. You are not just your brain!
FTFY
Uh no. That would be the Enrons and TEPCOs and Madof's of the world -- the people that like to steel shit
Sounds painful.
Mod parent up. kthx.
"Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware, dishonest adware, scareware, crimeware, most rootkits, and other malicious and unwanted software or program" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware
I can't be the only one who had issues with software like Limewire, Kazaa and the like.infesting my PC with this crap. (Regardless of if it was from the software itself or the p2p content it provided).
I don't find iTunes to be that bad when playing music. Especially if you have a big enough library to take advantage of the 'Genius' playlist thing. It's pretty good.
I haven't used Winamp since WMP10 came out. I never liked WMP, but the sound quality was far better than Winamp. Has the sound quality in Winamp gotten any better? If so, that might be an interesting option. I did really enjoy writing plugins and skins for it. Was good times.
I don't have any numbers on the subject, but I can speak for myself. Personally I go out of my way to make sure that the indie bands that I enjoy get my money. Be it through sales, donations, advertisements, whatever. If I enjoy the artist and I KNOW that they're the low-budget type that really needs the sales to pay the bills, I'll definitely go out of my way.
That's not to say that I pirate everything else that the big corporations have to offer, that's not true at all. It's just that I put forth the extra effort to ensure that the artists I enjoy continue to create whatever it is that they're creating.
I just use iTunes, honestly. Sure, the quality isn't as good as it absolutely could be, but it's leaps and bounds beyond the average mp3 I used to find in crappy malware infested software like Limewire. I've been buying all my music from there over the last few years. Early on the DRM was bothersome (especially when I wanted to listen to my music on my Linux box, though it's easy enough to get around that) but now they've removed that. I get the idea that pirating is "better" because it's free, but at this point in my life I'm willing to spend money on the things that I enjoy, especially when I look at it as an investment
1. Find music I like
2. Support the artist by buying their music
3. Artist makes money, has the means to create more music
4. ???
5. Profit! (Enjoy more music from the artists I like)
Why is it then that I'm looked at like an extra-terrestrial being when I tell people I pay for things?
Sure, not ALL of the money goes to the artists, but that's not within my control. Paying for the music gets the artist a piece of the pie while pirating gives them nothing.
Eventually, artists will smarten up and start selling their own music (see: Radiohead) off of their own websites and get even bigger pieces of the pie.
Well, it was 'Informative'.
At least he's getting slightly more creative.
I can't be the only one who actually finds his posts funny, though. Am I? AM I??
It's posts like yours I'm saddened to not have any mod points. Keep it up. Seriously. :)
It's bad news when TFS is a troll.
That doesn't sound much like trolling to me, if you consider that Apple (more specifically Steve Jobs) refuses to allow USB 3.0 or even SATA 6GB/s. It seems to me that every new motherboard out there is supporting both of these standards (though one could argue that they're not standards until completely accepted, which Apple clearly hasn't done, but I digress).
Either way... my new PC absolutely WILL have USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s. Enjoy your iStuff. I'll enjoy top transfer speeds. ;)
Thanks, AC. Us "pot heads" appreciate your swift and accurate defense.
How is that?
I don't see how my post could be an argument for getting rid of obscenity laws at all. I mean, I'm not exactly pro-censorship, but I think within reason and a watchful eye, it has its place.
Yeah, I'll second that.
You should probably try to get your point across without looking like a douche, though.
Am I alone in not really having a problem with this?
I mean, TFA says that they're looking into "if selling violent video games to minors should be deemed illegal". Porn certainly isn't illegal, but it's limited to adults. Is it the general consensus here that games including obsessive (relative, I know) amounts of blood, violence, gore, questionable themes or whatever should be available to all, with no restrictions? Though I don't have children of my own, I can't imagine if I did I would be okay with my hypothetical 8 year old grabbing a copy of Mortal Kombat: Supreme Decapitation Edition straight off the shelves with no questions asked.
This kind of censorship is everywhere. Movies, music, porn, alcohol, tobacco, gambling. Why are we up in arms because it's video games? As long as they're not trying to take it off the market completely, taking the choice out of my perfectly capable adult hands, it really doesn't matter to me.
But maybe I'm alone in that.
/slow clap
Epic.