Ok. Someone *PLEASE* explain to me why the HELL people get all worked up over a nude body. Is it somehow "shameful" to see a naked body? Do you censor your own mirror in the bathroom, for fear you'll see your own nipples? The only shame from a human body comes from those people who are either a.) ashamed of their own -or- b.) whose religon tells them it's a bad bad thing.
I just don't understand what the big friggin' deal is. Children run around either semi- or completely naked a lot of the time, but usually nobody associates anything "dirty" with that.
I really wish people would decide for *themselves* and not peek over everyone else's shoulder and tell them their opinion is sooo wrong we need to make a law so that EVERYONE follows their morality.
The reason you don't see much info in ads is something to do with the Truth In Advertising laws. For everything good they say, apparently they have to balance that out with listing some side effects. Which is why you get rhyming Krestor ads that don't say what the fuck the med does....
I agree that Pharm. companies should *NOT* be able to advertise on TV. Their commercials are intentionally mis-leading.
You know, I was told growing up that there were these evil people who would tell you very little about what they were offering, and they'd tell you that it would solve a lot of your problems. But they were *shaking finger* EEEEVILLLLL. They'd even sometimes give you "samples" of their drugs to get you hooked.
Apparently now those "drug dealers" are ok and even have the support of the government. My street dealer ain't got SHIT on Glaxo Smith-Klein.
I'm sure that you've got more than a few car thieves, robbers, and drug dealers around too. Shall we pitchfork and torch them too? Well, at least your kids can play in front of these people's houses, I mean... they're just robbers and whatnot right? MUCH better than say, someone who made a pass at someone who was underage and she decided to press charges. (Yes, this does happen, my friend spent 2 years in jail for "Gross Sexual Imposition." I was there for the 'offense' he hit on her a few times she smiled, got his number, and then pressed charges.) Now, he's a "sex offender!!!!!" The term is fairly misleading and could be *ANY* crime with sex anywhere in it. From rape to some 16 yr old girls pissed off parents pressing charges against you because you're 18 and had sex with her.
Don't believe anything you read and only half of what you hear.
It's that whole "if you can prove it" thing that usually annoys me. I understand that you have to prove something has occured. It just annoys me that I've seen how hard that proof can be to come by.
No win situation I know...just ranting as I'm wont to do sometimes.
The Japanese video for sure, then I'll *know* my kid won't be out there having sex for a WHILE. Those videos when I find them make ME not want to engage in sex and I'm 29 lol.
(Yeah, it was a JOKE for those who are humor impared:P)
1. Relating to or composed of right angles.
2. Mathematics.
1. Of or relating to a matrix whose transpose equals its inverse.
2. Of or relating to a linear transformation that preserves the length of vectors.
Um....have you noticed that they haven't done SHIT with these people but hold them? Or the way they've dodged and legal-sleezed their way around one of the CORE DOCUMENTS of human rights on the planet? If another country were to do even *some* of the things we're doing right now, the UN and the US would be all over them like flies on shit.
...apparently so are idiot coward um...AC's. (Yeah, redundant I know, but I just got off work and I'm tired and really fucking cranky.) If you have an opinion, chime in with it, but AT LEAST have the balls to log in first and not post AC...or are you afraid of a lil' Karma?
I agree, I used to be "Christian" but as I grew up, I found myself less and less like the people I was going to church with. It stopped being about acting kind to your fellow man and helping them out and more about "They're not like us... they're EEEEEEVILLLLL *shaking finger*" So I started looking for myself, checked out all the major religions and a few of the "minor" ones....and decided I didn't like all of any of them, so I made my own so to speak, a smattering of all of them really. It's really heartening to read that there's still some of what I used to call "Christians" out there...
--- It's about rising above the animal urge and embracing the spiritual. The power hungry thing that you have going on with religious conservatives shouldn't be blamed on Jesus, he never legislated anything.---
"Power hungry"? How do you figure? If you'd care to look, you'd notice that most of the law makers in this country aren't Buddhists. They're Christians. It's not the Buddhist code of behaviour that's on display in American courtrooms is it? Sorry, but that really looks to me like I'm going to be judged by what *christians* say is right and wrong. I'm not Anti-Christian by any means...I just don't think I should be judged as one, or be expected to follow their morals or ethics.
I should be allowed to do whatever I'd like as long as it harms no unconsenting person or an unconsenting person's property. It's that simple. Sadly, we have a leader who wants a "Good Christian Country".
"The Government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" --George Washington, Treaty of Tripoli.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/resources.aspx? act=contrib Just something I found, still looking for a better list. The point of that list is that if you ever wanted to find where our laws come from... look no farther than where the money comes from.
-- How about "think of the police officers" who are outgunned by potenially legal assualt rifles?--
How about all the people that are shot with handguns EVERY DAY? Or the people who get cancer (http://www.kodakstoxiccolors.org/) from industrial pollution? There are a million "think of" statements, you cannot prevent EVERYTHING that's happening in the world. However, you *CAN* do YOUR part in helping to reduce the things that are happening.
--- Who gets to decide what's in my "best interests"?--- Well, if you live in the US, that would be the religious controlled government. Specifically the FCC who tells you what you can and cannot see / hear in the media. Also, we have the DEA who tells you what you can and cannot put into your body. No prostitution? Gee, where'd they get that notion? Oh yeah, Christianity. No "weird or odd sex", man where'd that come from, you guess. The lists go on and on. Basically if you live in the US, you've got LOTS of people telling you what's in your (Their) best interests. They need good little consumers that buy their garbage, and we're making them everyday in our schools.
how is saying that one thing IS NOT the same as the other "Playing games with words?" There's no semantics involved here. They're DIFFERENT CRIMES. Would you say that murder is the same as say... rape?
--Well yea, why didn't I think of that. Sort of like the police who are enforcing the local/state/federal laws - that must make them evil too.--
Actually about 30-40% of the contact I have with the law enforcement of my city is watching them break the law or harass people for no good reason. I've seen them flick on their lights because they didn't feel like waiting for a stoplight, get 4-5 cruisers to chase down 3 CHILDREN who were just skating in a parking lot. (Yes, they could have just robbed a bank or something else illegal but somehow...due to the fact that I'd seen this happen a few times now...I doubt it.) As far as I'm concerned, law enforcement almost anywhere is corrupt, as is ANY large government. The proof is everywhere. I've tried to have sympathy for the RIAA, really I have. I just have trouble sympathizing with "OMG!!! I can't chisel the american public at will anymore?? NOOOOO" *shrugs*
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Ok. Someone *PLEASE* explain to me why the HELL people get all worked up over a nude body. Is it somehow "shameful" to see a naked body? Do you censor your own mirror in the bathroom, for fear you'll see your own nipples? The only shame from a human body comes from those people who are either a.) ashamed of their own -or- b.) whose religon tells them it's a bad bad thing.
I just don't understand what the big friggin' deal is. Children run around either semi- or completely naked a lot of the time, but usually nobody associates anything "dirty" with that.
I really wish people would decide for *themselves* and not peek over everyone else's shoulder and tell them their opinion is sooo wrong we need to make a law so that EVERYONE follows their morality.
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Somewhere, an English teacher weeps.
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The reason you don't see much info in ads is something to do with the Truth In Advertising laws. For everything good they say, apparently they have to balance that out with listing some side effects. Which is why you get rhyming Krestor ads that don't say what the fuck the med does....
I agree that Pharm. companies should *NOT* be able to advertise on TV. Their commercials are intentionally mis-leading.
You know, I was told growing up that there were these evil people who would tell you very little about what they were offering, and they'd tell you that it would solve a lot of your problems. But they were *shaking finger* EEEEVILLLLL. They'd even sometimes give you "samples" of their drugs to get you hooked.
Apparently now those "drug dealers" are ok and even have the support of the government. My street dealer ain't got SHIT on Glaxo Smith-Klein.
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I'm sure that you've got more than a few car thieves, robbers, and drug dealers around too. Shall we pitchfork and torch them too? Well, at least your kids can play in front of these people's houses, I mean... they're just robbers and whatnot right? MUCH better than say, someone who made a pass at someone who was underage and she decided to press charges. (Yes, this does happen, my friend spent 2 years in jail for "Gross Sexual Imposition." I was there for the 'offense' he hit on her a few times she smiled, got his number, and then pressed charges.) Now, he's a "sex offender!!!!!" The term is fairly misleading and could be *ANY* crime with sex anywhere in it. From rape to some 16 yr old girls pissed off parents pressing charges against you because you're 18 and had sex with her.
Don't believe anything you read and only half of what you hear.
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FF11 != D&D
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It's that whole "if you can prove it" thing that usually annoys me. I understand that you have to prove something has occured. It just annoys me that I've seen how hard that proof can be to come by.
No win situation I know...just ranting as I'm wont to do sometimes.
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*laughing* nice...
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Thanks for setting me straight....I was a bit confused for a second there :)
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The Japanese video for sure, then I'll *know* my kid won't be out there having sex for a WHILE. Those videos when I find them make ME not want to engage in sex and I'm 29 lol.
:P)
(Yeah, it was a JOKE for those who are humor impared
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orthogonal Pronunciation Key (ôr-thg-nl)
adj.
1. Relating to or composed of right angles.
2. Mathematics.
1. Of or relating to a matrix whose transpose equals its inverse.
2. Of or relating to a linear transformation that preserves the length of vectors.
---"Civilian" and "infidel" are orthogonal.---
How's that?
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---Making us secure for the long-term by sacrificing unessential liberties can be justified.---
Could you please define "Unessential Liberties" for me?
All I've seen them throw away is our honor, our personal privacy, and the need for an actual warrant when they want to search you.
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It's been said a lot of times on here, but bears repeating.
"Those who would sacrifice liberty in the name of security deserve neither."
(I'm tired and I think that's not the full quote...google is your friend.)
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Well, they'd better check up Saddam's ass, because apparently THEY'RE NOT IN IRAQ.
Thanks,
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--They must have some evidence--
Um....have you noticed that they haven't done SHIT with these people but hold them? Or the way they've dodged and legal-sleezed their way around one of the CORE DOCUMENTS of human rights on the planet? If another country were to do even *some* of the things we're doing right now, the UN and the US would be all over them like flies on shit.
--We are at war.--
Two words for you...
"Mission Accomplished."
'Nuff said.
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Simple axiom :
If it bleeds, it leads.
...apparently so are idiot coward um...AC's. (Yeah, redundant I know, but I just got off work and I'm tired and really fucking cranky.) If you have an opinion, chime in with it, but AT LEAST have the balls to log in first and not post AC...or are you afraid of a lil' Karma?
(Speaking of which...sigh...oh well, it happens.)
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I agree, I used to be "Christian" but as I grew up, I found myself less and less like the people I was going to church with. It stopped being about acting kind to your fellow man and helping them out and more about "They're not like us... they're EEEEEEVILLLLL *shaking finger*" So I started looking for myself, checked out all the major religions and a few of the "minor" ones....and decided I didn't like all of any of them, so I made my own so to speak, a smattering of all of them really. It's really heartening to read that there's still some of what I used to call "Christians" out there...
Thanks!!
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--- It's about rising above the animal urge and embracing the spiritual. The power hungry thing that you have going on with religious conservatives shouldn't be blamed on Jesus, he never legislated anything.---
"Power hungry"? How do you figure? If you'd care to look, you'd notice that most of the law makers in this country aren't Buddhists. They're Christians. It's not the Buddhist code of behaviour that's on display in American courtrooms is it? Sorry, but that really looks to me like I'm going to be judged by what *christians* say is right and wrong. I'm not Anti-Christian by any means...I just don't think I should be judged as one, or be expected to follow their morals or ethics.
I should be allowed to do whatever I'd like as long as it harms no unconsenting person or an unconsenting person's property. It's that simple. Sadly, we have a leader who wants a "Good Christian Country".
"The Government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" --George Washington, Treaty of Tripoli.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/resources.aspx? act=contrib
Just something I found, still looking for a better list. The point of that list is that if you ever wanted to find where our laws come from... look no farther than where the money comes from.
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-- How about "think of the police officers" who are outgunned by potenially legal assualt rifles?--
How about all the people that are shot with handguns EVERY DAY? Or the people who get cancer (http://www.kodakstoxiccolors.org/) from industrial pollution?
There are a million "think of" statements, you cannot prevent EVERYTHING that's happening in the world. However, you *CAN* do YOUR part in helping to reduce the things that are happening.
Just a thought from a 29 yr old hippie.
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-- Eye for and Eye and all that--
Leads the world to blindness. Congratulations.
--- Who gets to decide what's in my "best interests"?---
Well, if you live in the US, that would be the religious controlled government. Specifically the FCC who tells you what you can and cannot see / hear in the media. Also, we have the DEA who tells you what you can and cannot put into your body. No prostitution? Gee, where'd they get that notion? Oh yeah, Christianity. No "weird or odd sex", man where'd that come from, you guess. The lists go on and on. Basically if you live in the US, you've got LOTS of people telling you what's in your (Their) best interests. They need good little consumers that buy their garbage, and we're making them everyday in our schools.
Cheers! =)
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how is saying that one thing IS NOT the same as the other "Playing games with words?" There's no semantics involved here. They're DIFFERENT CRIMES. Would you say that murder is the same as say... rape?
--Well yea, why didn't I think of that. Sort of like the police who are enforcing the local/state/federal laws - that must make them evil too.--
Actually about 30-40% of the contact I have with the law enforcement of my city is watching them break the law or harass people for no good reason. I've seen them flick on their lights because they didn't feel like waiting for a stoplight, get 4-5 cruisers to chase down 3 CHILDREN who were just skating in a parking lot. (Yes, they could have just robbed a bank or something else illegal but somehow...due to the fact that I'd seen this happen a few times now...I doubt it.) As far as I'm concerned, law enforcement almost anywhere is corrupt, as is ANY large government. The proof is everywhere. I've tried to have sympathy for the RIAA, really I have. I just have trouble sympathizing with "OMG!!! I can't chisel the american public at will anymore?? NOOOOO" *shrugs*
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