Let's not forget the King book It, shall we? Anyway originally I thought the Turtle was from asian folk lore in which there are fore great Spirit Beast, they each sybolize the cardinal directions and alot of other things, anyway common Otaku knowldge is that it's a crane, tiger, dragon and, of course, a turtle. In chinese folklore the turtle was a form of a God whose name roughly translates to "Holy Mother of China" and gives birth to the universe. This makes it very easy to apply to the "It" turtle.
Reading these posts sent me on that line of thought as well and now everything makes alot more sense.
BTW It's from the wastelands, it's ironic how in "The Drawing of the Three" that only two are drawn. (Well three but the Detta/ Odetta thing doesn't count)
Anyway I think being homosexual is against evolution (Or if your a christian who believes homosexuals are going to hell, then devine evolution.) and therefore against genetics, so it seems impossible for a person to be born gay. Of course, it can be argued gays are a result of over population and are increasing in number to perserve the rest of humanity from a severe lack of resources. The problem with this is that places where homosexuality is most abundant is places where there are relatively small population density (America and Europe) as opposed to high population areas where there is an actual threat of food shortage. (India, China, ect.)
Did you know that America pays farmers to dumps huge amounts of food to perserve sane food prices? Yup. Just dumps it away, your tax dollars at work ladies and gentlemen. Now I'm going off into a tangent, but still, it's amazing how much money are government spends to keep Farmer Bob from losing his job.
It seems that whenever a country (America, Ancient Greece and Rome, Most of Europe, Japan) gets a hold of absurd luxuries that the population seems to start leaning from the straight. Right now it's not that bad, (I'd be amazed to here it if America had a whole 1% gay populous.) but it's really high on global standards. This isn't to say it's a bad thing, time will tell, but we know what happened to Greece and Rome.
I've heard it get a little long winded after this point, along the lines of, "Four elephant on a turtle on a blank on a snake on a blank on blank on a macrocosmic blank, ect." But maybe I'm just trying to boost my posts.
Edit: This thing is full of mistakes, soorry!
That's not as funny as you might think it is. Stephen King (Oh yeah, that's a credible source.) proposed that our entire universe resided in a single blade of grass, and that smaller ones may exist in grains of sand. Some taoist believe that yin and yang gave birth to "ten thousand worlds." (More often ten thousands things, but a little bit of abscure translation never hurt anybody.) Greek philosophers used "universe" quite liberally, saying that a universe could exist inside the human body, a city, ect. If anyones interested I may post some links. *crickets*
That's not as funny as you might think it is. Stephen King (oh yeah that's a credible source) proposed that are entire universe resided in a single blade of grass, and that smaller ones may exist in grains of sand. Some taoist believe that yin and yang gave birth to "ten thousand worlds." (More often ten thousands things, but a little bit of abscure translation never hurt anybody.) Greek philosophers used "universe" quite liberally, saying that a universe could exist inside the human body, a city, ect. If anyones interested I might post some links. *crickets*
I'm curious if you could post some links to support that. I don't disbelieve you,but I would be interested. Oh wait, I should google that shouldn't I? I'll get to it(meaning I won't). I'd still really appreciate it.
You should of added "middle class" to that. And don't you think your over exagerating a little? Women/ Races/ ect who wouldn't have normally had the money fo college do. Don't piss on'em. I just really, really hate government supported affirmative action. 3v1l. The whole anti religious shit would make alot of people angry. I'd mod you for flamebait if I could, but I don't seem to be able to yet. The people who wou get most pissed at you probably wouldn't be on slash dot anyway.
------------Zaxser
First of all, that's in the contract. You should expect to get up reeeal early and work reeeal hard at whereever they place your sorry ass. On the other hand sometimes your trained to fix computer and end up fixing airplanes. Now that really does suck, you wasted abunch of time training to do something completely different.
The Army is for people who like to get up at ungodly times of night and walk around in the mud for four hours, and the Navy is for people who want all their sexual relationship to be with fish.
The USAF is almost bearable. They have a large variety of cler- oh screw it- paper pushing positions and while the pay is terrible, you do get lots of real life experience. For example, my father could land a job running an airport in a second and my grandfather (also in the USAF) made his retirement in under a decade. AND there are alot of benefits such as traveling, money for breathing at a fairly early age (Retirement is either 45 or 50 MUCH earlier than 65, plus you get the normal Social Security when you reach age.)GI scholarships, ect.
Really though, it's work and the pays crappy, but living on base covers most living expenses. For all I've said that's nice though the military is no fun. Being enlisted SUCKS ASS and being an officer means that you will get expeience doing jobs that usually takes four years of college plus experience to do and your pay will still suck.
I'm curious what you think will change "just outside are window." I can see that a nursing jobs are good right now, but that won't be a problem because:
(A.) Nurse managers are demons of effeciency and can (very easily I might add, every one wants more hours) work with the shortage.
(B.) If it did become an actual threat then we'd just outsource to the thousands of Philipino trying to get jobs(An unusually high number of women nurses) in the US.
**WARNING THIS POST IS COMPLETELY OFF TOPC**
Lord Dweomer, where did your quote come from? I've seen it the Tip o' the Day section of Exile III, a deep but graphically challenged roleplaying game by Spider Web Software and one other place.
I'm intrested in how/ what/ where you learned the information you needed to start your business. Also school does matter, just not a whole lot in the IT / CS world. (If you want to become a nurse, doctor, lawyer, achitech, or even open your own practice or firm. Also I do reccomend some high scool bussiness specialization if you want to open your own bussiness other than that, not going to college is fine if you know your stuff) My grandfather learned tons of crap about computers when he was in the military. When he took early retirement in '89 he was making absurd amounts of cash, was reasonably frugal and just before the dotcom reached he retired. He is now living very comfortably in Carolina Trace.
~~~~~~~~~Zaxser
This post does raise some interesting points and is actually, very interesting. The whole "own kind" thing creeped me out a little, but affirmative action is 3V1L. And not in a cute l4m3R sP34k sort of way, but in a spawn of satan sort of way. By the way, blacks are not poor, in most places it's about even. Micheal Jordan ring a bell?
That's Bullshit. If America did that then everyone would stay in school for doctorates and you still couldn't get a decent job. In the UK/ Sweden the government takes 40% - 90% of your money what do they get in return? Medicare, which is crappy because that means there are three times as many ass holes with head colds wasting the docters time. Free Daycare, which isn't so bad except for the lack of competition between centers, meaning that it's a stab in the kidneys to free enterprise. Housing, atleast in Sweden, this means that noone shells out a extra thousand bucks for a condo or try to save up money in a $50 one room roach motel apartment. Another kick in the shins for free enterprise and a stomach blow to the already weak European economy. College, this means that there aren't a bunch of lower middle class people working there asses off so there little snot ball children won't have to go to community college and be a mechanic like Pops. You'd be suprised how quickly the American economy would recess without those people. Absolutely no idea. Capatilism works. Socialism doesn't. Get over it.
Oh wait this a bit off topic isn't it? Sorry.
-Zaxser
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Let's not forget the King book It, shall we? Anyway originally I thought the Turtle was from asian folk lore in which there are fore great Spirit Beast, they each sybolize the cardinal directions and alot of other things, anyway common Otaku knowldge is that it's a crane, tiger, dragon and, of course, a turtle. In chinese folklore the turtle was a form of a God whose name roughly translates to "Holy Mother of China" and gives birth to the universe. This makes it very easy to apply to the "It" turtle. Reading these posts sent me on that line of thought as well and now everything makes alot more sense. BTW It's from the wastelands, it's ironic how in "The Drawing of the Three" that only two are drawn. (Well three but the Detta/ Odetta thing doesn't count)
Oh is that the joke? How obscure...
Anyway I think being homosexual is against evolution (Or if your a christian who believes homosexuals are going to hell, then devine evolution.) and therefore against genetics, so it seems impossible for a person to be born gay. Of course, it can be argued gays are a result of over population and are increasing in number to perserve the rest of humanity from a severe lack of resources. The problem with this is that places where homosexuality is most abundant is places where there are relatively small population density (America and Europe) as opposed to high population areas where there is an actual threat of food shortage. (India, China, ect.)
Did you know that America pays farmers to dumps huge amounts of food to perserve sane food prices? Yup. Just dumps it away, your tax dollars at work ladies and gentlemen. Now I'm going off into a tangent, but still, it's amazing how much money are government spends to keep Farmer Bob from losing his job.
It seems that whenever a country (America, Ancient Greece and Rome, Most of Europe, Japan) gets a hold of absurd luxuries that the population seems to start leaning from the straight. Right now it's not that bad, (I'd be amazed to here it if America had a whole 1% gay populous.) but it's really high on global standards. This isn't to say it's a bad thing, time will tell, but we know what happened to Greece and Rome.
I've heard it get a little long winded after this point, along the lines of, "Four elephant on a turtle on a blank on a snake on a blank on blank on a macrocosmic blank, ect." But maybe I'm just trying to boost my posts.
Edit: This thing is full of mistakes, soorry! That's not as funny as you might think it is. Stephen King (Oh yeah, that's a credible source.) proposed that our entire universe resided in a single blade of grass, and that smaller ones may exist in grains of sand. Some taoist believe that yin and yang gave birth to "ten thousand worlds." (More often ten thousands things, but a little bit of abscure translation never hurt anybody.) Greek philosophers used "universe" quite liberally, saying that a universe could exist inside the human body, a city, ect. If anyones interested I may post some links. *crickets*
That's not as funny as you might think it is. Stephen King (oh yeah that's a credible source) proposed that are entire universe resided in a single blade of grass, and that smaller ones may exist in grains of sand. Some taoist believe that yin and yang gave birth to "ten thousand worlds." (More often ten thousands things, but a little bit of abscure translation never hurt anybody.) Greek philosophers used "universe" quite liberally, saying that a universe could exist inside the human body, a city, ect. If anyones interested I might post some links. *crickets*
I'm curious if you could post some links to support that. I don't disbelieve you,but I would be interested. Oh wait, I should google that shouldn't I? I'll get to it(meaning I won't). I'd still really appreciate it.
Two words- Affirmative Action. You have to be a liberal to understand that one. ----Zaxser
You should of added "middle class" to that. And don't you think your over exagerating a little? Women/ Races/ ect who wouldn't have normally had the money fo college do. Don't piss on'em. I just really, really hate government supported affirmative action. 3v1l. The whole anti religious shit would make alot of people angry. I'd mod you for flamebait if I could, but I don't seem to be able to yet. The people who wou get most pissed at you probably wouldn't be on slash dot anyway. ------------Zaxser
--------Zaxser
*people throw rock at Zack* *Zack runs to his computer and searches google*
The USAF is almost bearable. They have a large variety of cler- oh screw it- paper pushing positions and while the pay is terrible, you do get lots of real life experience. For example, my father could land a job running an airport in a second and my grandfather (also in the USAF) made his retirement in under a decade. AND there are alot of benefits such as traveling, money for breathing at a fairly early age (Retirement is either 45 or 50 MUCH earlier than 65, plus you get the normal Social Security when you reach age.)GI scholarships, ect.
Really though, it's work and the pays crappy, but living on base covers most living expenses. For all I've said that's nice though the military is no fun. Being enlisted SUCKS ASS and being an officer means that you will get expeience doing jobs that usually takes four years of college plus experience to do and your pay will still suck.
---------Zaxser
I'm curious what you think will change "just outside are window." I can see that a nursing jobs are good right now, but that won't be a problem because:
(A.) Nurse managers are demons of effeciency and can (very easily I might add, every one wants more hours) work with the shortage.
(B.) If it did become an actual threat then we'd just outsource to the thousands of Philipino trying to get jobs(An unusually high number of women nurses) in the US.
---------------------Zaxser
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Zaxser
I'm intrested in how/ what/ where you learned the information you needed to start your business. Also school does matter, just not a whole lot in the IT / CS world. (If you want to become a nurse, doctor, lawyer, achitech, or even open your own practice or firm. Also I do reccomend some high scool bussiness specialization if you want to open your own bussiness other than that, not going to college is fine if you know your stuff) My grandfather learned tons of crap about computers when he was in the military. When he took early retirement in '89 he was making absurd amounts of cash, was reasonably frugal and just before the dotcom reached he retired. He is now living very comfortably in Carolina Trace. ~~~~~~~~~Zaxser
This post does raise some interesting points and is actually, very interesting. The whole "own kind" thing creeped me out a little, but affirmative action is 3V1L. And not in a cute l4m3R sP34k sort of way, but in a spawn of satan sort of way. By the way, blacks are not poor, in most places it's about even. Micheal Jordan ring a bell?
Oh and this is increasingly off topic.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Zaxser
That's Bullshit. If America did that then everyone would stay in school for doctorates and you still couldn't get a decent job. In the UK/ Sweden the government takes 40% - 90% of your money what do they get in return? Medicare, which is crappy because that means there are three times as many ass holes with head colds wasting the docters time. Free Daycare, which isn't so bad except for the lack of competition between centers, meaning that it's a stab in the kidneys to free enterprise. Housing, atleast in Sweden, this means that noone shells out a extra thousand bucks for a condo or try to save up money in a $50 one room roach motel apartment. Another kick in the shins for free enterprise and a stomach blow to the already weak European economy. College, this means that there aren't a bunch of lower middle class people working there asses off so there little snot ball children won't have to go to community college and be a mechanic like Pops. You'd be suprised how quickly the American economy would recess without those people. Absolutely no idea. Capatilism works. Socialism doesn't. Get over it. Oh wait this a bit off topic isn't it? Sorry. -Zaxser