I'm sorry, I just had to jump threads to respond to this.
Morality is indeed relative to cultural values. For example, suicide is neither condemned nor promoted by Buddhism. Instead what is important is frame of mind at the moment of death. Suicide committed in fear, anger or grief is frowned upon, but only because they aspire to a state of calm, level-headedness, and peace. Several suicides are glorified in their texts, due to the subjects reasons and the state of mind in which is was committed.
Relax. The purpose of life is nothing more than being alive, nothing mystical about that now is there... and yes, it is an ethical view to consider someone being alive as being better than someone being dead, especially when you could have prevented such a tragedy.
And of the part about our lives not being ours to take? Please explain. I'm really failing to see how that isn't a religious/faith viewpoint. I suspect you're lying about not meaning it in a religious context.
I said that wasn't aimed at you in particular.
Not, it was aimed at "people like me", which effectively the same thing, since you're saying I would do something just as bad. Are you now taking that back?
No, that statement wasn't simply ethics. I'm not even going to elaborate on that, you know as well as I how full of shit it was to call a comment about life having a purpose and people's lives not being theirs to take, a statement about ethics.
Only that I'm in the same low group as people that would push another person off a building. What's the difference, you troll?
Because we have been given life for a purpose, and it's not our place to decide when to end it.
This smacks of religion, and is not an answer by any stretch of the imagination. Your personal opinions and beliefs are NOT a valid argument, much as it would make things incredibly easy for you if they were. Try again.
I don't advocate or promote suicide. I wouldn't even consider happily sending a suicidal family member of friend to their self-inflicted grave. Don't read so much between my lines. I was attacking the attitude that people's feelings don't count if they're telling them to do something considered wrong. Inflammatory and ridiculous comments involving me pushing people off tower blocks do nothing except make you look foolish.
This is the sort of attitude that's too prevalent in western society...*why* is committing suicide always wrong? *Why* is it better to live a life when you're in so much pain you wish you were dead? And I'm not talking about angsty teenage girls making passive attempts by overdosing on weak sedatives...
The fact is none of you can answer those questions, so you avoid them entirely by invalidating those feelings as always temporary and somehow not real. It's a copout and it stinks.
The National Guard is still under government control. I don't believe the context in the lines you're talking about (assuming you're the same person I replied to originally, or that you share that person's views)...
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
...indicates anything about the right of people to keep and bear arms on the condition that they're under the control and instructions of the government in power at the time.
The larger part of the way you see it seems to involve adding nonexistent words to the text to suit your own views on gun control.
Oh goody, yet another illiterate who gets the misinterprets something due to ignorance. I'll try to speak simply so your mind can grasp the concept.
"Militia" *is not* and *has not ever been* a synonym for "military".
Buy a dictionary, and you might find your obviously limited understanding of your country's constitution (which you people seem so to readily ignore in one breath, and then speak long-windedly on the absolute importance of in the next) changing somewhat.
Not that it would matter whether the FCC allowed it or not, since the FCC HAS NO AUTHORITY OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.
Fucking insular Americans.
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Wow, me speak good England. "or not" is meant to be "enough".
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This whole thing sounds like a great idea, but people just aren't trustworthy or not. I can just imagine some gimp's idea of a 'prize' would be taking a hard shit in the bucket...
I'm on a Celery 466@525, and I play DivXs at those bitrates and higher (my Fight Club DivX fills two Cds, looks like the DVD), smooth as silk. The recommended minimum requirements for smooth DivX playback are a p2 300, smaller if you use one of the new DivX players out there instead of media player.
Tom greatly exaggerated the hardware requirements of mpeg-4...
This news should have been about AMD's new cpus supporting alterable clock multipliers, not about Abit's motherboard. All of their boards with SoftMenu II or III have supported that for a long time. It reads like a glorified advertisement.
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Morality is indeed relative to cultural values. For example, suicide is neither condemned nor promoted by Buddhism. Instead what is important is frame of mind at the moment of death. Suicide committed in fear, anger or grief is frowned upon, but only because they aspire to a state of calm, level-headedness, and peace. Several suicides are glorified in their texts, due to the subjects reasons and the state of mind in which is was committed.
And of the part about our lives not being ours to take? Please explain. I'm really failing to see how that isn't a religious/faith viewpoint. I suspect you're lying about not meaning it in a religious context.
I said that wasn't aimed at you in particular.
Not, it was aimed at "people like me", which effectively the same thing, since you're saying I would do something just as bad. Are you now taking that back?
Only that I'm in the same low group as people that would push another person off a building. What's the difference, you troll?
This smacks of religion, and is not an answer by any stretch of the imagination. Your personal opinions and beliefs are NOT a valid argument, much as it would make things incredibly easy for you if they were. Try again.
I don't advocate or promote suicide. I wouldn't even consider happily sending a suicidal family member of friend to their self-inflicted grave. Don't read so much between my lines. I was attacking the attitude that people's feelings don't count if they're telling them to do something considered wrong. Inflammatory and ridiculous comments involving me pushing people off tower blocks do nothing except make you look foolish.
Btw, everything I said in the above post should be considered a reply to streetlawyer's post as well.
This is the sort of attitude that's too prevalent in western society...*why* is committing suicide always wrong? *Why* is it better to live a life when you're in so much pain you wish you were dead? And I'm not talking about angsty teenage girls making passive attempts by overdosing on weak sedatives...
The fact is none of you can answer those questions, so you avoid them entirely by invalidating those feelings as always temporary and somehow not real. It's a copout and it stinks.
Hiding guides on efficient ways to do it doesn't stop jack shit.
That AC was right man.
Are you sure you're not confusing Anime with the dodgier hentai/manga stuff? Anime itself just describes a particular drawing style, I thought.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
The larger part of the way you see it seems to involve adding nonexistent words to the text to suit your own views on gun control.
Er..."gets the misinterprets something". Obvious screwup. My apologies. ;)
"Militia" *is not* and *has not ever been* a synonym for "military". Buy a dictionary, and you might find your obviously limited understanding of your country's constitution (which you people seem so to readily ignore in one breath, and then speak long-windedly on the absolute importance of in the next) changing somewhat.
Are you moderators so used to the first post being an "Fp!"-style troll that you just mod it down without checking now? :)
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/08/0811216.shtm l
Uh, Taco posted this story, gimp.
That's pretty weird guys. Ran sweet for me in Win98, I'm on Celery 466@581, 128mb ram, GeForce2 MX...
Not that it would matter whether the FCC allowed it or not, since the FCC HAS NO AUTHORITY OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES. Fucking insular Americans.
Wow, me speak good England. "or not" is meant to be "enough".
This whole thing sounds like a great idea, but people just aren't trustworthy or not. I can just imagine some gimp's idea of a 'prize' would be taking a hard shit in the bucket...
I'm on a Celery 466@525, and I play DivXs at those bitrates and higher (my Fight Club DivX fills two Cds, looks like the DVD), smooth as silk. The recommended minimum requirements for smooth DivX playback are a p2 300, smaller if you use one of the new DivX players out there instead of media player. Tom greatly exaggerated the hardware requirements of mpeg-4...
Why on earth was this post modded to flamebait? Dumb fuck moderators...
The only country in the world that has kangaroos is Australia, moron.
No, it's basically, dumbass.
At least look something up about what you're saying before you comment, you stupid illiterate. Caffeine is physically addictive.
This news should have been about AMD's new cpus supporting alterable clock multipliers, not about Abit's motherboard. All of their boards with SoftMenu II or III have supported that for a long time. It reads like a glorified advertisement.