C'est la vie. By the way, my argument was weak at worst. I'd say it was mediocre to fair at best.
My savings right now amounts to less than half a month's rent. You really think I'm going to give that away to anyone for ANY reason? Go yell at Britain, they only gave $100k. Maybe they'll listen.
More power to ya. Under the current system, it's a good idea. However, I'd prefer a system where all the nations would work together to further mankind, rather than profit from it.
The conflict is that the iPod scheme is a pyramid scheme. In order to get the iPod, you must sign up X friends who are not already signed up. Those friends must then sign up X more in order to get their iPods. When most of the world has already received their iPod and there's only so many people left who haven't gotten an iPod, that means that the people who haven't received an iPod can no longer sign anyone else up.
Therefor, he's screwing people to help himself and complaining about nearly the same thing. Sorry, the tsunami didn't effect me and maybe I'm just a cold, calloused bastard, but I'm not giving any of my meager savings to any relief fund for it.
I'm an 18 year old college student and it's hard enough for me to figure out where my next meal is coming from. Why isn't anyone donating any money to me? Because it doesn't effect them in the least whether I live or die.
However, when torrent sites die, it effects everyone in America. Some of our civil liberties are being killed, and that has an effect on every single person in America, whether you use those torrent sites or not.
Whining because people would prefer donating to something that directly affects them while having a pyramid scheme link in your.sig. Oh, the irony. If you really cared, you wouldn't participate in the pyramid scheme.
Stranger: Hey little kid, how about some candy? It's in a bag in my basement, you can help yourself!
Little Kid: Ooh! I like candy! But I don't really like chocolate. Let's go see what he has!
We're trying the jury box. And when it fails, what's next?
The ammo box.
*sigh* Maybe all those freaky militia-type hermits have the right of it. We'll see when American Revolution II comes around.
Just posting this scares me, thinking that/. is gonna get a subpoena and my house is gonna get broken into by gov't goons for talking. So, let me clarify by saying I'm not planning or preparing for anything. It hurts me that I actually have to say that to ease my fears. It saddens me that I'm actually afraid to post this.
Are you joking? He makes some damn good points. Daredevil, along with the Kingpin fight scene being utterly stupid, had too much CGI for me. I couldn't help but notice and be annoyed by the CGI during the fight scenes, especially the one with Bullseye in the church.
"The slightest criticism" - It's one of the main facts of my life. No one even attempted to be polite about my beliefs. No, they were assholes and deserve no consideration.
"Keep it private" - I do. So leave me and God the fuck alone.
1: How do you know there is a God?
Or to put it another way, if no one had ever told you about 'God' would your belief be the same?
Faith is believing without proof. And I honestly don't know if I would believe in God if I had never heard of Him before.
2: Given your belief in God I can only assume that you try do things you believe that your God would find acceptable, things you believe to be moral. Do your actions truly effect no one and nothing else?
No, I do what *I* find acceptable. I believe I'm a good person and I do good things. Of course, everyone's actions affect other people, but that wasn't my point.
3: If that is the case then why do you believe in a God, just believe in yourself as that's what you appear to be doing. Next time put I believe in myself in the religion box, not God.
I believe in God because I don't believe the universe can just exist.
Understand: I don't care what you believe. I really don't. You and IgnorusMaximus or whatever don't need to be asses to say you don't believe in God. You still need to respect, or at least not be hostile, to someone else's views.
Way to go trying to categorize me, I'm none of those. I believe what I believe and I don't need others to tell me. You are an ass who can't accept the fact that my beliefs do not effect you in the least. Maybe Bush's do, but mine don't.
How about I'm not part of a religion? I don't care whether I'm being "faithful." I know there is a God. However, what I said still stands true. MY belief in God does not effect you in the least.
You're a fucking idiot who doesn't respect other's beliefs? My belief in God doesn't effect you in the least, so how about you back off and stop trying to call me mentally damaged?
However, communism is a decent idea on paper. Equal rights and such for everyone. Everyone working towards the greater good. The problem is, the current incarnations of communism never gave the power back to the people after siezing it.
If you know you are not interested, why do you desire an explanation?
Because if this means that we might have Martians visiting Earth or colonies on Mars soon, it would matter to me or I might find that interesting. I don't care much about chemistry, but I find it interesting that two deadly chemicals combine to form salt.
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Mayhap it wasn't berating, but it still, at least to me, has that "Shame on you" tinge to it.
No. Evil schemes don't always require money.
However, those 5 friends signing up will most likely be spammed to oblivion.
C'est la vie. By the way, my argument was weak at worst. I'd say it was mediocre to fair at best.
My savings right now amounts to less than half a month's rent. You really think I'm going to give that away to anyone for ANY reason? Go yell at Britain, they only gave $100k. Maybe they'll listen.
Break even, profit. Loss, non-sale. Semantics, shmantics.
More power to ya. Under the current system, it's a good idea. However, I'd prefer a system where all the nations would work together to further mankind, rather than profit from it.
He's not suggesting people to help out. He's berrating those who don't. Read my reply to the other guy to find out how it's related.
The conflict is that the iPod scheme is a pyramid scheme. In order to get the iPod, you must sign up X friends who are not already signed up. Those friends must then sign up X more in order to get their iPods. When most of the world has already received their iPod and there's only so many people left who haven't gotten an iPod, that means that the people who haven't received an iPod can no longer sign anyone else up.
Therefor, he's screwing people to help himself and complaining about nearly the same thing. Sorry, the tsunami didn't effect me and maybe I'm just a cold, calloused bastard, but I'm not giving any of my meager savings to any relief fund for it.
I'm an 18 year old college student and it's hard enough for me to figure out where my next meal is coming from. Why isn't anyone donating any money to me? Because it doesn't effect them in the least whether I live or die.
However, when torrent sites die, it effects everyone in America. Some of our civil liberties are being killed, and that has an effect on every single person in America, whether you use those torrent sites or not.
Whining because people would prefer donating to something that directly affects them while having a pyramid scheme link in your .sig. Oh, the irony. If you really cared, you wouldn't participate in the pyramid scheme.
Stranger: Hey little kid, how about some candy? It's in a bag in my basement, you can help yourself!
Little Kid: Ooh! I like candy! But I don't really like chocolate. Let's go see what he has!
Yeah. Nothing there is common sense.
We tried the soap box. And it failed.
/. is gonna get a subpoena and my house is gonna get broken into by gov't goons for talking. So, let me clarify by saying I'm not planning or preparing for anything. It hurts me that I actually have to say that to ease my fears. It saddens me that I'm actually afraid to post this.
We tried the ballot box. And it failed.
We're trying the jury box. And when it fails, what's next?
The ammo box.
*sigh* Maybe all those freaky militia-type hermits have the right of it. We'll see when American Revolution II comes around.
Just posting this scares me, thinking that
Are you joking? He makes some damn good points. Daredevil, along with the Kingpin fight scene being utterly stupid, had too much CGI for me. I couldn't help but notice and be annoyed by the CGI during the fight scenes, especially the one with Bullseye in the church.
Yeah... I guess you're right.
Mod Parent +1, You Win.
Except you can continue using Winzip for free however long you want. It just nags you on start-up.
WinMX is a P2P program that is NOT infested with spyware or adware. You must have gotten it from a bad location, because I use it and it's clean.
"The slightest criticism" - It's one of the main facts of my life. No one even attempted to be polite about my beliefs. No, they were assholes and deserve no consideration. "Keep it private" - I do. So leave me and God the fuck alone.
Well, then, what you say is wrong. I do believe in God. Perhaps others believe in something else.
1: How do you know there is a God? Or to put it another way, if no one had ever told you about 'God' would your belief be the same?
Faith is believing without proof. And I honestly don't know if I would believe in God if I had never heard of Him before.
2: Given your belief in God I can only assume that you try do things you believe that your God would find acceptable, things you believe to be moral. Do your actions truly effect no one and nothing else?
No, I do what *I* find acceptable. I believe I'm a good person and I do good things. Of course, everyone's actions affect other people, but that wasn't my point.
3: If that is the case then why do you believe in a God, just believe in yourself as that's what you appear to be doing. Next time put I believe in myself in the religion box, not God.
I believe in God because I don't believe the universe can just exist.
Understand: I don't care what you believe. I really don't. You and IgnorusMaximus or whatever don't need to be asses to say you don't believe in God. You still need to respect, or at least not be hostile, to someone else's views.
You'll never understand. Go back under your bridge.
Way to go trying to categorize me, I'm none of those. I believe what I believe and I don't need others to tell me. You are an ass who can't accept the fact that my beliefs do not effect you in the least. Maybe Bush's do, but mine don't.
How about I'm not part of a religion? I don't care whether I'm being "faithful." I know there is a God. However, what I said still stands true. MY belief in God does not effect you in the least.
You're a fucking idiot who doesn't respect other's beliefs? My belief in God doesn't effect you in the least, so how about you back off and stop trying to call me mentally damaged?
It was a joke.
However, communism is a decent idea on paper. Equal rights and such for everyone. Everyone working towards the greater good. The problem is, the current incarnations of communism never gave the power back to the people after siezing it.
Get what?
If you know you are not interested, why do you desire an explanation?
Because if this means that we might have Martians visiting Earth or colonies on Mars soon, it would matter to me or I might find that interesting. I don't care much about chemistry, but I find it interesting that two deadly chemicals combine to form salt.
Why is this interesting? I'm not intersted in the universe much, can someone explain the importance of this please?