So basically, you think that if a foreign government tries to assasinate one of our Presidents, the proper result is for us to light ourselves on fire in protest? Cause thats what the Iraq war was. Not that you're smart enough to understand the situation. Don't worry, I'm sure your daily ditto download will be delivered soon and then you'll know what to think about what I just wrote.
Because you can not have your cake and eat it too. The analogy is in gp is wrong. The proper one is, its like if a fat kid didn't eat the slice of cake in front of him because he knew that if he let it sit until tomorrow it would magically grow into an entire cake, which he could then eat.
Note to stupid motherfuckers: I am not saying more oil will magically grow in the ground. If thats what you think, you don't understand the discussion and should go back to wanking to pictures of John McCain's head photoshopped onto Orlando Bloom's body.
How is Obama replacing 5 million barrels a day tomorrow? Tuneups and inflating tires? McCain has made it pretty clear he is for all alternative fuel source AND drilling.
So, essentially what you're saying is that we should ignore actions that will actually have the effect of lowering demand by increasing fuel efficiency, and that can be done now by individuals, and instead we should go with the stupid fucking dittohead plan of offshore drilling, which has greater long term costs than gains, and has no short term gains at all?
Yes, lets drill drill drill. No, it won't do anything to help anyone. Sure, the resulting environmental damage will wreak havoc on all kinds of tourism and other important industries, but in the long term it will also have a statistically insignificant effect on oil prices!
I mean, what the fuck? How can you be so blindly, happily, willfully fucking ignorant? How can you simply bend over and let an elephant fuck you in the ass, screaming "Thank you" the whole time?
It's because for Bush, every day is opposite day. He always conveys the truth as long as you keep in mind that the truth is the exact opposite of the thing he actually said.
When you can actually understand the stupid motherfucker that is.
D&D Online was fun for me for a while, but their house rules for D&D sucked so bad that the endgame was unplayable for me. My first character, a halfling 4 fighter/6 ranger specialized in bows, was great fun up until I got to the end game stuff, when I figured out that without fighter "action point" powers to boost my hit, I could never do any kind of damage to most of the endgame mobs, who all had rediculously high armor class that was basically unhittable. That and the insane saving throws of the dark elves in that big end-game raid thing (not the dragon, the big mountain) which made my wizard equally worthless. The golem player race was pointless, stupid, and a chore to heal... ug, the whole thing was a clusterfuck. Why they ever chose Ebberon over Forgotten Realms I'll never understand. I'm sure some douche in marketing thought it would have a "broader appeal" or some crap, and he was probably the guy who convinced the developers of Star Trek: Elite Force 2 to turn their game into a Soldier of Fortune with a star trek skin. I don't know what is with all the fail in some of these franchises. At least Neverwinter Nights was fun, sadly NWN 2 sucked balls (or at least, it did when it came out, and I couldn't even drag myself past the first hour or so of gameplay, especially when the goddamn first NPC you have to rescue would just kind of wander off on his own, stop following, or whatever).
Hell, if it were real you'd have to stop and rest after every fight, eventually you wouldn't be able to even move much less swing your oversized weapon, and the first time you came within 10 paces of molten lava it would burn your face off, or at least kill you from heat exhaustion due to all your heavy armor/robes/whatever.
Of course, if it was realistic there wouldn't be demons to kill, and you wouldn't be able to shoot magic fire out of your fucking hands either...
Realism is boring. If I want realism I'll get some guns and move to Lebanon.
If the people of Texas really wanted government out of their lives, I'd be able to buy a bottle of wine late at night on a Sunday. The Red states are just as bad with the nanny state crap, just in different areas of your life.
If they're not already doing it, I imagine what they'll do is have pilot/copilot teams, perhaps even with a rotating overlapping schedule so that anyone coming on-shift will spend an hour or two in the cubicle-cockpit with the current pilot before they swap out.
They train them on netquake playing on 56k modems with noisy connections. Eventually you can learn to ice skate your way through a level, predicting movement well enough to actually intercept people with rockets.
Yeah, except when the bored kids decide to grief and drop a cluster bomb on a friendly positions, because hey its "my game, I can do what I want!" Or they start having competitions to see who can fly their drones into the biggest major landmark, even if that happens to be the pyramids or something equally ancient and valuable.
No, I think instead we should strap high government officials to a clockwork orange chair and make them stay up for 144 hours looking over the shoulders of these drone pilots. Might make them less likely to start pointless fucking conflicts in the first place. People should always be aware of the horror of the fact that they are killing other human beings, if you make war too impersonal it becomes to easy to send millions to their deaths.
Do you really want the same asschewing douchenozzles who freaked out over Janet Jackson's breast exposure deciding what furthers the 'arts' and deserves protection?
Hmm, instead of the car not starting, try this: the car starts, but periodically when you try to turn left you turn right instead. Because of this, you often end up places you didn't intend to go. Like Iraq.
Thanks, your reply to that dude was a lot more civil than mine would have been. Plus its always nice to know that there ARE people out there who bothered to read up on the science a bit, and have the ability to understand it.
It is. Thats the problem, it is melting faster than the IPCC predicted. Something is still wrong with the science. It seems, though, that its wrong in the bad direction... ie things might be even worse than they thought. Hopefully there are feedback loops that will ramp up along with the heating to help mitigate it. We've gone off the map as far as historic levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere go, so we're kind of flying blind.
Maybe they were right in Battlefield 2142, and in the next couple of decades we'll see the glaciers come back and end up fighting "The Cold War."
You're mixing up evolution, or the process of speciation through natural selection, and population growth. I feel safe assuming you're a creationist, since you use all the standard issue discovery institute talking points.
Your repeated invocation of "natural balance," which as near as I can tell is some kind of pet food supply company and/or a spa in Brooklyn, in relation to Evolution, simply shows that you do not know what you are talking about. You are moderately good at memorizing and repeating things, and due to the fundamentally broken education system you've probably been rewarded for all or most of your life for doing so. Sadly, your inability to actually critically think about or otherwise process information makes trying to argue with you akin to trying to shove the shaving creme back into the spray can. Annoying, messy, and ultimately pointless.
On the off chance that your brain isn't an unrecoverable pile of Dittos and prayerful supplications to some asschewing character from popular fiction, here's a rundown of where you fail:
Cooperation has evolutionary advantages. See the bacteria in your gut for a good example.
Religion causes more conflict than any other topic because it ultimately can not be reasoned out. Religionists lose every argument they begin about their particular popular fiction because its just some arbitrary shit they made up. Living without religion and arguing ethics and morality from first principle values is the basis of successful civilization, as harmony can be found when people declare values, argue to principles from those values, and then try to find ways to cooexist without conflict.
Genetic evolution can be supplanted, guided, and even overridden when sufficiently complex memetic processes become involved. Religion is only one of the memetic processes that are capable of doing so, and one of the least useful for a long term open, free, and peaceful society.
Finding fault and assigning blame are important steps into identifying and rectifying problems. Failure to recognize this is, in fact a problem. Without blame, there can be no punishment, and without punishment many animals will not be sufficently incentivized to behave correctly. In fact, casting blame is one of the fundamental guiding principles of all of the Judeo-Chrislamic faiths. See Judgement day, eternal punishment, etc.
I'd flesh this all out a bit more, but then I'd be doing your homework for you. Please learn to reason so that we can have a proper argument. I suggest you start with some google searches.
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Yeah, considering it is their best setting, I don't know wtf their problem is. Maybe they're still having to pay royalties on it or something.
So basically, you think that if a foreign government tries to assasinate one of our Presidents, the proper result is for us to light ourselves on fire in protest? Cause thats what the Iraq war was. Not that you're smart enough to understand the situation. Don't worry, I'm sure your daily ditto download will be delivered soon and then you'll know what to think about what I just wrote.
You can fool all of the dittoheads all of the time though, so thats handy.
Because you can not have your cake and eat it too. The analogy is in gp is wrong. The proper one is, its like if a fat kid didn't eat the slice of cake in front of him because he knew that if he let it sit until tomorrow it would magically grow into an entire cake, which he could then eat.
Note to stupid motherfuckers: I am not saying more oil will magically grow in the ground. If thats what you think, you don't understand the discussion and should go back to wanking to pictures of John McCain's head photoshopped onto Orlando Bloom's body.
How is Obama replacing 5 million barrels a day tomorrow? Tuneups and inflating tires? McCain has made it pretty clear he is for all alternative fuel source AND drilling.
So, essentially what you're saying is that we should ignore actions that will actually have the effect of lowering demand by increasing fuel efficiency, and that can be done now by individuals, and instead we should go with the stupid fucking dittohead plan of offshore drilling, which has greater long term costs than gains, and has no short term gains at all?
Yes, lets drill drill drill. No, it won't do anything to help anyone. Sure, the resulting environmental damage will wreak havoc on all kinds of tourism and other important industries, but in the long term it will also have a statistically insignificant effect on oil prices!
I mean, what the fuck? How can you be so blindly, happily, willfully fucking ignorant? How can you simply bend over and let an elephant fuck you in the ass, screaming "Thank you" the whole time?
It's because for Bush, every day is opposite day. He always conveys the truth as long as you keep in mind that the truth is the exact opposite of the thing he actually said.
When you can actually understand the stupid motherfucker that is.
Why the hell do your "companies" go out of business exactly one year after they become profitable?
Thats how ponzi schemes work dude. Didn't you notice the guy is a dittohead?
good point! silverlight is an abomination, but one which will certainly die out over time. (IMO, of course)
I used to think that about AOL.
D&D Online was fun for me for a while, but their house rules for D&D sucked so bad that the endgame was unplayable for me. My first character, a halfling 4 fighter/6 ranger specialized in bows, was great fun up until I got to the end game stuff, when I figured out that without fighter "action point" powers to boost my hit, I could never do any kind of damage to most of the endgame mobs, who all had rediculously high armor class that was basically unhittable. That and the insane saving throws of the dark elves in that big end-game raid thing (not the dragon, the big mountain) which made my wizard equally worthless. The golem player race was pointless, stupid, and a chore to heal... ug, the whole thing was a clusterfuck. Why they ever chose Ebberon over Forgotten Realms I'll never understand. I'm sure some douche in marketing thought it would have a "broader appeal" or some crap, and he was probably the guy who convinced the developers of Star Trek: Elite Force 2 to turn their game into a Soldier of Fortune with a star trek skin. I don't know what is with all the fail in some of these franchises. At least Neverwinter Nights was fun, sadly NWN 2 sucked balls (or at least, it did when it came out, and I couldn't even drag myself past the first hour or so of gameplay, especially when the goddamn first NPC you have to rescue would just kind of wander off on his own, stop following, or whatever).
Or a very disturbing porno.
Hell, if it were real you'd have to stop and rest after every fight, eventually you wouldn't be able to even move much less swing your oversized weapon, and the first time you came within 10 paces of molten lava it would burn your face off, or at least kill you from heat exhaustion due to all your heavy armor/robes/whatever. Of course, if it was realistic there wouldn't be demons to kill, and you wouldn't be able to shoot magic fire out of your fucking hands either... Realism is boring. If I want realism I'll get some guns and move to Lebanon.
If the people of Texas really wanted government out of their lives, I'd be able to buy a bottle of wine late at night on a Sunday. The Red states are just as bad with the nanny state crap, just in different areas of your life.
If you lived in Texas, you'd have the intent to produce drugs too. Mostly so you could immidiately consume them.
What happens when they finally build a bird of prey that can fire while cloaked!? Think of the Children!
If they're not already doing it, I imagine what they'll do is have pilot/copilot teams, perhaps even with a rotating overlapping schedule so that anyone coming on-shift will spend an hour or two in the cubicle-cockpit with the current pilot before they swap out.
They train them on netquake playing on 56k modems with noisy connections. Eventually you can learn to ice skate your way through a level, predicting movement well enough to actually intercept people with rockets.
Yeah, except when the bored kids decide to grief and drop a cluster bomb on a friendly positions, because hey its "my game, I can do what I want!" Or they start having competitions to see who can fly their drones into the biggest major landmark, even if that happens to be the pyramids or something equally ancient and valuable.
No, I think instead we should strap high government officials to a clockwork orange chair and make them stay up for 144 hours looking over the shoulders of these drone pilots. Might make them less likely to start pointless fucking conflicts in the first place. People should always be aware of the horror of the fact that they are killing other human beings, if you make war too impersonal it becomes to easy to send millions to their deaths.
Do you really want the same asschewing douchenozzles who freaked out over Janet Jackson's breast exposure deciding what furthers the 'arts' and deserves protection?
Is that why women love shopping so much?
Hmm, instead of the car not starting, try this: the car starts, but periodically when you try to turn left you turn right instead. Because of this, you often end up places you didn't intend to go. Like Iraq.
Thanks, your reply to that dude was a lot more civil than mine would have been. Plus its always nice to know that there ARE people out there who bothered to read up on the science a bit, and have the ability to understand it.
It is. Thats the problem, it is melting faster than the IPCC predicted. Something is still wrong with the science. It seems, though, that its wrong in the bad direction... ie things might be even worse than they thought. Hopefully there are feedback loops that will ramp up along with the heating to help mitigate it. We've gone off the map as far as historic levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere go, so we're kind of flying blind.
Maybe they were right in Battlefield 2142, and in the next couple of decades we'll see the glaciers come back and end up fighting "The Cold War."
If so I call dibs on the walker.
You're mixing up evolution, or the process of speciation through natural selection, and population growth. I feel safe assuming you're a creationist, since you use all the standard issue discovery institute talking points.
Your repeated invocation of "natural balance," which as near as I can tell is some kind of pet food supply company and/or a spa in Brooklyn, in relation to Evolution, simply shows that you do not know what you are talking about. You are moderately good at memorizing and repeating things, and due to the fundamentally broken education system you've probably been rewarded for all or most of your life for doing so. Sadly, your inability to actually critically think about or otherwise process information makes trying to argue with you akin to trying to shove the shaving creme back into the spray can. Annoying, messy, and ultimately pointless.
On the off chance that your brain isn't an unrecoverable pile of Dittos and prayerful supplications to some asschewing character from popular fiction, here's a rundown of where you fail:
Cooperation has evolutionary advantages. See the bacteria in your gut for a good example.
Religion causes more conflict than any other topic because it ultimately can not be reasoned out. Religionists lose every argument they begin about their particular popular fiction because its just some arbitrary shit they made up. Living without religion and arguing ethics and morality from first principle values is the basis of successful civilization, as harmony can be found when people declare values, argue to principles from those values, and then try to find ways to cooexist without conflict.
Genetic evolution can be supplanted, guided, and even overridden when sufficiently complex memetic processes become involved. Religion is only one of the memetic processes that are capable of doing so, and one of the least useful for a long term open, free, and peaceful society.
Finding fault and assigning blame are important steps into identifying and rectifying problems. Failure to recognize this is, in fact a problem. Without blame, there can be no punishment, and without punishment many animals will not be sufficently incentivized to behave correctly. In fact, casting blame is one of the fundamental guiding principles of all of the Judeo-Chrislamic faiths. See Judgement day, eternal punishment, etc.
I'd flesh this all out a bit more, but then I'd be doing your homework for you. Please learn to reason so that we can have a proper argument. I suggest you start with some google searches.
False analogy. Tax revenues are not profits. Please try again, this time with critical thinking.