If you think there's any sanity whatsoever in any form of an anti-farting law whatsoever, then you deserve to suck the farts out of Hitler's ass, you fucking fascist. Go to hell.
You really think people can choose not to fart? Then how come we do it? Fucking idiot. Go move to Afghanistan.
The inverse of your metaphor seems to imply that people who fart should be stopped by law. After all, farting messes up a shared resource (it's called "smell pollution", fool).
I am goddamn sick of people who think they have a "right to quiet". Noise doesn't hurt you. Being annoyed at something is just that: Annoyed, not injured.
Seems every party has the cops come. And yet when I try to sleep in the day after the party, I have to listen to my neighbors lawnmowers.
What's the fairness in that? We're allowed to make noise based on the average hours of people around us? That is not equal protection under the law.
People who keep "normal" hours have an unfair number of hours with which they can make noise, versus the people who do not keep "normal hours".
I hope you all go deaf. You deserve it for ruining the right to make noise for everyone else. Fscking pussies.
You can't compare a 600,000 people state to a 18,000,000 people state using per-capita.
Oh really?? Did the definition of per-capita change?
One entry found for
per capita.
Main Entry: per capita
Pronunciation: (")p&r-'ka-p&-t&
Function: adverb or adjective
Etymology: Medieval Latin, by heads
Date: 1682 1: equally to each individual 2: per unit of population: by or for each person <the highest income per capita of any state in the union>
Actually, I am a contractor, so my work provided me with nothing. I was just in the right place at the right time. They probably wouldn't have given me the shot if they realized I wasn't a direct employee.
If you go to the Little Ceasar's hotel/casino in Las Vegas (Was there on my honeymoon), there are some rides there.
One of them is one of those "Virtual rollercoasters" where they put everyone in a hydraulic-powered set of theatre-seats, in front of a huge IMAX-like screen.
The coaster was neat, but it was running WINDOWS 3.1. It crashed. Biggest BSOD I've ever seen. Filled nearly my whole field of vision. Had to wait for it to reboot. Started over.
Basically we went on the ride twice because of that. Now, I DON'T "DO" ROLLERCOASTERS, and me & the wife wer both sick afterwards. We laid down on the floor of the promenade. Eventually some statues came to life and started battling and we woke up in the front row. It was neat.
Hmmm, me and my wife survived for 2 and half years making only $32000 for the both of us. $1180 mortgage, $80 internet, $100-$200 heating, and all the other standards.
Paid off both our cars when we made more. Didn't go to movies or restaurants. Cooked all our own food. Lived off our alcohol reserves (yes they were enough to drink 2 years without visiting the ABC).
It certainly helped that I was making $40/hour before the dot-bomb...
Now we're refinancing and can take $70,000 out of our equity if we want. Managing to hold onto a house through those tough times is really paying off. Quit your whining. People don't have spare money because they have no concept of how not to spend it.
They always have to have the newest everything. Can't buy a couch at a yardsale. Wont use a walkman when they can buy a fancy car stereo. They insist on having cars with working heat and blinkers (hehe). And the biggest thing: Carrying credit card balances.
NEVER carry a credit card balance, ever. Use credit as cash not as a loan. Don't get into debt in the first place.
Speaking as someone who has an 803 credit rating (that's VERY high to anyone not familiar with the system), having 0-balance credit cards that you never use does in fact help alot.
As for an in-dash mp3 player... It's about $220, installed, from circuit city. Aiwa cdc-mp3. Plays mp3 cds. Which is about 11 hours a disc. Burn 1 or 2 (or 20) cds for 15 cents each and you're done. For life. Those mp3 cdrs can also be useful when your work harddrive runs out of space but you just NEED another 11 hours of music.
My whole-house music solution was to drill a hole in my ceiling and run an RCA cable to a 2nd loud stereo upstairs. Then I use X10's shitty mp3anywhere transmitter to transmit to a tertiatry "Stereo receiver" (Actually a tiny television speaker hehe). The x10 part hasn't worked well so far. I also run an RCA cable for video upstairs. It can only see my computer, but I never watch anything outside of my computer anyway. It's my VCR and my cd player, and can do both at the same time (record one show, compress another, play mp3s).
I am a collector too. Got 6,000 shows on VHS before I switched to AVI.
I also streamed from home to work once. I shared my harddrive via tcp/ip (which is how my lan computers see each other... forget netbeui)... Tried typing in \\my.ip.address once, and got my shares. Typed in my password, mapped the drive to H: (home) since I do everything by comand-line. Ran winamp. Winamp didn't know it was streaming because windows was doing it all. Fortunately my upstream bandwidth at home is 768kbps and the mp3s were only 160kbps back then.
Do I have a point? Not necessarily. Just killing time while "working from home".
I was actually arguing that I was not "addicted" to any of those activities; the main point being that I didn't believe in the notion of "mental addition". Therefore, since sex/toons/games are not physical substances that are introduced into your body, they by definition cannot be addictive.
Actually the more I think of it, the more we were really saying close to the exact same thing.
I am a bit obsessive about music though. 12,000 mp3s on random 24/7/365 to every room in the house. Mp3-cd player in car. Mp3s at work. Control via infrared remote (and soon 100-ft range keyboard). If the power goes out, the music stopping wakes me from my sleep within 30 seconds. If I realize I'm in silence, I am alarmingly disturbed. If I try to sleep in silence, every single sound I hear causes my adrenaline to surge and my body to tense up wondering what it is.
But I think I am just an obsessive personality. Just ask my wife.
Addiction is physical. Your body develops a dependence on a substance and you need more and more of it to get that same feeling. Even the bad emotions associated with some addictions (ie cocaine) are phsyical -- they are bad feelings caused by a pysiological process in the brain.
The whole concept of so-called "mental addiction" is something that has been created by the prohibitionists and moralists.
If you do something you enjoy, like seeing a movie, or fucking, you will probably do it again. It was fun, so you do it again. Is that an addiction?
Some on slashdot have commented right here that it is an mental addition "if the behaviour is harmful". So now the criterion has nothing to do with the behavioural process, but with the morals associated with the behaviour!?! What a load!
If they are right, I guess I am "mentally addicted" to having sex, masturbating, listening to music, watching cartoons, playing games both video and real. And I am physically addicted to food and water.
Let's get real people. If something is fun, we're going to do it again. And again. And again. And again. It would be stupid to ever stop.
P.S. Marijuana is not physically addictive, but DAMN is it fun, or so I hear.
Anyway, this thread reminds me of one of the CheapAss games:
Game Synopsis: U.S. Patent Number 1 is a racing game. Every player is a scientist who has invented time travel, and now everyone is racing to the Patent Office to prove who invented it first. Because you have a time machine, it's not enough to get to the Patent Office fast. You actually have to go back in time, to the day the Patent Office opened!
During this race you will upgrade your machine with some gadgets, including a power plant, a chassis, a weapon, and a shield. You can invent these things on your own, you can buy them, or you can steal them from the other players. Only a machine with all four upgrades qualifies to earn the patent, and you have a limited supply of money and power to spend.
Probably a fun game; most games at this website are decent.
(Lightspeed is killer... Realtime space battle cardgame played in under a minute... $5... very fun).
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You really think people can choose not to fart? Then how come we do it? Fucking idiot. Go move to Afghanistan.
Fan fell off. We ran it with no cooling whatsoever. Logo burned off. Computer still worked the day we decomissioned it.
The inverse of your metaphor seems to imply that people who fart should be stopped by law. After all, farting messes up a shared resource (it's called "smell pollution", fool).
You should have mentioned it was 8-bit. That changes everything.
By hour, the games we have played the most together are:
PC: (1992-2002)
Quake3
Kentris (head-to-head trippy pallette cycling competitive tetris with statistics)
Warcraft 3
PS2: (2002-2003)
Dance Dance Revolution... way too much.
Frequency/Amplitude
Soul Calibur 2
Parlour/"Real" games: (2003)
Gnostica (uses icehouse pieces + tarot cards) (wunderland.com)
Diceland
Aquarious (also from Wunderland.com/Looney Labs)
Palabra (occasionally)
As for 1 player she likes to play Nethack a lot more than me. And I like to play Amplitude & Twisted Metal Black a lot more than her.
I am goddamn sick of people who think they have a "right to quiet". Noise doesn't hurt you. Being annoyed at something is just that: Annoyed, not injured.
Seems every party has the cops come. And yet when I try to sleep in the day after the party, I have to listen to my neighbors lawnmowers. What's the fairness in that? We're allowed to make noise based on the average hours of people around us? That is not equal protection under the law.
People who keep "normal" hours have an unfair number of hours with which they can make noise, versus the people who do not keep "normal hours".
I hope you all go deaf. You deserve it for ruining the right to make noise for everyone else. Fscking pussies.
Oh really?? Did the definition of per-capita change?
Nope... I don't think it did.He was probably talking per-capita.
He didn't press charges?!?!
You, sir, need to free your mind.
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Don't have kids.
You, sir, sound like an intelligent person who other people should listen to for financial advice...except for the whole kids thing. :)
I'm just teasing. Don't get all offended. :)
Actually, I am a contractor, so my work provided me with nothing. I was just in the right place at the right time. They probably wouldn't have given me the shot if they realized I wasn't a direct employee.
One of them is one of those "Virtual rollercoasters" where they put everyone in a hydraulic-powered set of theatre-seats, in front of a huge IMAX-like screen.
The coaster was neat, but it was running WINDOWS 3.1. It crashed. Biggest BSOD I've ever seen. Filled nearly my whole field of vision. Had to wait for it to reboot. Started over.
Basically we went on the ride twice because of that. Now, I DON'T "DO" ROLLERCOASTERS, and me & the wife wer both sick afterwards. We laid down on the floor of the promenade. Eventually some statues came to life and started battling and we woke up in the front row. It was neat.
I like stories.
Paid off both our cars when we made more. Didn't go to movies or restaurants. Cooked all our own food. Lived off our alcohol reserves (yes they were enough to drink 2 years without visiting the ABC).
It certainly helped that I was making $40/hour before the dot-bomb...
Now we're refinancing and can take $70,000 out of our equity if we want. Managing to hold onto a house through those tough times is really paying off. Quit your whining. People don't have spare money because they have no concept of how not to spend it.
They always have to have the newest everything. Can't buy a couch at a yardsale. Wont use a walkman when they can buy a fancy car stereo. They insist on having cars with working heat and blinkers (hehe). And the biggest thing: Carrying credit card balances.
NEVER carry a credit card balance, ever. Use credit as cash not as a loan. Don't get into debt in the first place.
My flu shot cost me $10 at work.
Speaking as someone who has an 803 credit rating (that's VERY high to anyone not familiar with the system), having 0-balance credit cards that you never use does in fact help alot.
As for an in-dash mp3 player... It's about $220, installed, from circuit city. Aiwa cdc-mp3. Plays mp3 cds. Which is about 11 hours a disc. Burn 1 or 2 (or 20) cds for 15 cents each and you're done. For life. Those mp3 cdrs can also be useful when your work harddrive runs out of space but you just NEED another 11 hours of music.
My whole-house music solution was to drill a hole in my ceiling and run an RCA cable to a 2nd loud stereo upstairs. Then I use X10's shitty mp3anywhere transmitter to transmit to a tertiatry "Stereo receiver" (Actually a tiny television speaker hehe). The x10 part hasn't worked well so far. I also run an RCA cable for video upstairs. It can only see my computer, but I never watch anything outside of my computer anyway. It's my VCR and my cd player, and can do both at the same time (record one show, compress another, play mp3s).
I am a collector too. Got 6,000 shows on VHS before I switched to AVI.
I also streamed from home to work once. I shared my harddrive via tcp/ip (which is how my lan computers see each other... forget netbeui)... Tried typing in \\my.ip.address once, and got my shares. Typed in my password, mapped the drive to H: (home) since I do everything by comand-line. Ran winamp. Winamp didn't know it was streaming because windows was doing it all. Fortunately my upstream bandwidth at home is 768kbps and the mp3s were only 160kbps back then.
Do I have a point? Not necessarily. Just killing time while "working from home".
I was actually arguing that I was not "addicted" to any of those activities; the main point being that I didn't believe in the notion of "mental addition". Therefore, since sex/toons/games are not physical substances that are introduced into your body, they by definition cannot be addictive.
Actually the more I think of it, the more we were really saying close to the exact same thing.
I am a bit obsessive about music though. 12,000 mp3s on random 24/7/365 to every room in the house. Mp3-cd player in car. Mp3s at work. Control via infrared remote (and soon 100-ft range keyboard). If the power goes out, the music stopping wakes me from my sleep within 30 seconds. If I realize I'm in silence, I am alarmingly disturbed. If I try to sleep in silence, every single sound I hear causes my adrenaline to surge and my body to tense up wondering what it is.
But I think I am just an obsessive personality. Just ask my wife.
The whole concept of so-called "mental addiction" is something that has been created by the prohibitionists and moralists.
If you do something you enjoy, like seeing a movie, or fucking, you will probably do it again. It was fun, so you do it again. Is that an addiction?
Some on slashdot have commented right here that it is an mental addition "if the behaviour is harmful". So now the criterion has nothing to do with the behavioural process, but with the morals associated with the behaviour!?! What a load!
If they are right, I guess I am "mentally addicted" to having sex, masturbating, listening to music, watching cartoons, playing games both video and real. And I am physically addicted to food and water.
Let's get real people. If something is fun, we're going to do it again. And again. And again. And again. It would be stupid to ever stop.
P.S. Marijuana is not physically addictive, but DAMN is it fun, or so I hear.
Anyway, this thread reminds me of one of the CheapAss games:
Game Synopsis: U.S. Patent Number 1 is a racing game. Every player is a scientist who has invented time travel, and now everyone is racing to the Patent Office to prove who invented it first. Because you have a time machine, it's not enough to get to the Patent Office fast. You actually have to go back in time, to the day the Patent Office opened!
During this race you will upgrade your machine with some gadgets, including a power plant, a chassis, a weapon, and a shield. You can invent these things on your own, you can buy them, or you can steal them from the other players. Only a machine with all four upgrades qualifies to earn the patent, and you have a limited supply of money and power to spend.
Probably a fun game; most games at this website are decent.
(Lightspeed is killer... Realtime space battle cardgame played in under a minute... $5... very fun).
God you're naive.
I'm an asshole.
And I love it.