Heh. Not only are your arguments weak, but your creativity is horribly lacking as well. If you want to parody me, put some thought into it. Then again, Neo-Nazis are implicitly not known for their creativity.
I never had an intention of convincing you. I know that's impossible, as your beliefs are based on non-scientific assumptions and irrational xenophobia. However, this being a public medium, there is some value to be derived from having this debate. The value is for others, not for you.
Run, little boy! Run! I'm just curious how I am off-topic when I am answering your question about where it was that you said that one race was superior?
I thought I was done with you, but at this point, your antics have gone from misleading to entertaining. Carry on.
I'm sure there's something about lying being reserved to Jews in your Aryan purity handbook. I'll just point you to my reply yonder about where you say that Germans are a better race than all others.
As for your rant on race... it looks like reading comprehension fails you. I won't repeat what I said earlier, but merely point you to your own citation on pubmed, which goes into quite some length on how arbitrary racial classifications really are.
By the way, you do realize that making a choice requires a value judgment? Your philosophical acrobatics to recast your racism as a personal preference rather than a fundamentally flawed world view are interesting. However, they still expose you as a racist.
What you're saying is a load of irrelevant babble. No one dismisses that certain people differ physically from others. It's a reality. It's obvious.
What is the problem is your misappropriation of genetic differences that correlate with self-identified ethnic affiliation for the purpose of identifying superior and inferior people. Even your little digression into "preserving the white race" is complete non-sense. Wouldn't you want your "race" to acquire the genes that lower occurrences of breast cancer in Asian/pacific women? Of course not. That would require racial mixing. All you're doing is attributing some vague benefit to preserving the purity of the "White race", which requires a value judgment on what skin pigmentation is better than others.
In other words, you're a white, racist, turd-burgling Neo-Nazi.
Where in my comments attached to this article did I ever mention the superiority of any race?
Cute. Of course, the question you ask cleverly avoids the problem of posts such as this one, which was attached to a different article. You can run, but you can't hide.
Ohhh.... a white supremacist who actually tries to argue. Neat-o. You know where the problem in your line of reasoning is? It's not in the definition of organism. It's not even in your definition of race. It's in the actions you advocate and justify based on your definition of race.
Here, let me walk you through it.
You've got the organism definition right. No point in arguing that. Your definition of race is irrelevant, as it is 100% arbitrary. It boils down to looking at yourself and someone you don't like, cataloging the physical differences and calling the set of differences "racial traits'. Overlap is either ignored or attributed to interbreeding. Where you run into problems - and where your Neo-Nazi mind-set is showing - is where you start attributing behavioral, moral and cognitive differences to those arbitrary differences. There is zero science to support any of it. As a matter of fact, science has found that there is no correlation, which means that your causation is impossible.
So, Mr Fudgepacker, drop the pretense. All your big words, metaphors and definitions still include that which makes you pond scum: the idea that, based on arbitrary and unscientific categorizations, some people are inferior to others.
For anyone interested, look up the recent posts of Thufir. He's nothing but a Vanilla Neo-Nazi. I have to say, I'm almost amused by the logical contortions Neo-Nazis create to justify their bigotry. They've created some interesting new definitions because they couldn't defend their old definitions. Just in this post, I see brand new definitions for:
Racism (Racially Biased) White race (organism) Lynching (helping your own race first)
Except "White race" is not an organism. And nobody outside the biggest blowhards will fault you for preferring someone's look over another. This includes preferring a certain skin color.
This is the problem with racism (which is exactly what you're describing). It justifies xenophobia through a complete fallacy. There hasn't been a single genetic marker that codes for race, and definitions of race are as varied as the groups that try to promote them.
I also like your reference to white guilt in a later post. Nice try. How are your friends in the National Alliance? Are you part of the Separatism group, or do you just want to kick everyone who is not White out of the US?
Hard to reach as in it needs more effort than to pry open the hood, disconnect the terminals and lift out the battery. Sometimes, it's good when things are hard. I'd like a $200 item in my car to be fairly difficult to get to if I don't provide keys and a proper garage.
Thankfully, those batteries are heavy, and located in hard to reach places. The batteries in the latest Prius weigh 45 Kgs and are located in the trunk of the car, partially underneath the back seat.
I don't see anyone spending a good 30 minutes tearing open the Prius with powertools, only to run around with a 100+lb weight. At that point, they might as well steal the entire car.
You do realize that the source study (http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/)has been thoroughly debunked in the same Slashdot discussion that you linked to? If you troll, at least put some effort into it.
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When level 60 was still a cap in WoW, the overall quest chain that went from essentially level 1 to level 60 was the Onyxia quest chain. It tied everything together very nicely - though everything in this case meant the human quest lines.
I don't think that long-term goals is the problem. The problem, as someone else pointed out, is that in a world where everyone's special, no one is. As everyone can do quests, the differentiation comes from gear. Hence the gear grind to become epic.
Random question: what's the difference between a well-thought out email sent directly to the publisher, and a well-thought out comment posted to Amazon?
Random answer: it's much more difficult to find the address of someone who cares at the publisher.
However, I like the approach. I will not buy Spore (partially because of the bad reviews, but also partially because of the DRM), but there is no easy way for me tell EA why I didn't buy it. Leaving a comment is a simple way for me to tell EA that piracy has nothing to do with the game doing badly - Securom, on the other hand, has quite a bit to do with it.
Show me where Scientology is a religion, or where freedom of assembly holds for criminals who are planning criminal actions during said assemblies.
That's the part that's so easily missed, and which makes it so easy for Scientologists to distract people from the underlying problem: Scientology is a money scam that is performing illegal actions at all stages and positions. Freedom of religion and freedom of assembly does not apply to Scientology.
I'll just point out what I point out every time someone makes your argument: why is that in the heart of Silicon Valley, which has a population density equivalent of any metropolitan density short of NYC, LA and Tokyo and which has more millionares and billionaires per square mile than any other place, I have trouble getting 1.5 Mbit/sec?
The population density argument is complete nonsense, because it ignores the fact that bandwidth in the US does not correlate with population density. It does, however, correlate with monopolies (negatively, sadly).
Hey look - an updated graph: http://nsidc.org/images/arcticseaicenews/20080827_Figure2.png I'd say the difference is now about 2-5% from last year's record minimum. Extrapolating from the current curves, I'd say that a new minimum record will be set by mid-September.
It looks like the predictions I heard were pretty spot on. And that crack you've been smoking must be pretty rocking.
Or, alternatively, you could understand that different pollutants do different things. Just throwing that out there, you know. Sorta like CO2 absorbing EM waves in the IR band, and particles reflecting light back into space. Not that anyone would know anything about this.
Wake me when this theory has been properly investigated. He says so himself.
You might also want to take note that no one is saying that CO2 is exclusively responsible for all temperature increases. It's currently put at about 40%-60%, with solar forcing responsible for about 25%.
Looks like I underestimated how much ice there was last year. Well, we're gonna find out in October who is right and who is wrong, no? From what I remember, the prognosis was about 3.4M km^2 at its lowest. Mark your calendar.
Yes. If at all possible, I'd like to write a check to Will Wright saying "Thanks for Spore, but don't ever put that kind of DRM on your games again." . I will not support the use of something that essentially hijacks my machine. In case I do torrent it, I'd like to be able to send Will Wright a check, but that's unlikely to be possible. Either which way, EA won't get my money for the PC version.
What the hell are you smoking? There was a warning that it *could* be ice free. Not to mention that North Pole being ice free is not the same as no ice anywhere. And so far, they're on track to have the smallest summer covering ever. By a few million square kilometers.
Really. If climate change wouldn't be such a huge issue, I'd take comfort in the fact that the only people disputing it can't even read the articles they're quoting. Instead, it's just depressing.
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Or you could realize that this is a teachable moment.
Choice A: ruin a kids life by throwing the book at him. Jail is not a reahibilation program.
Choice B: give a kid a second chance.
Not sure about you, but I'd rather not grow the prison population more than necessary.
Heh. Not only are your arguments weak, but your creativity is horribly lacking as well. If you want to parody me, put some thought into it. Then again, Neo-Nazis are implicitly not known for their creativity.
I never had an intention of convincing you. I know that's impossible, as your beliefs are based on non-scientific assumptions and irrational xenophobia. However, this being a public medium, there is some value to be derived from having this debate. The value is for others, not for you.
Run, little boy! Run! I'm just curious how I am off-topic when I am answering your question about where it was that you said that one race was superior?
I thought I was done with you, but at this point, your antics have gone from misleading to entertaining. Carry on.
Non Sequitur. I'm glad that your logic has fallen apart. At least no one will be misled into thinking you're anything but a run-of-the-mill Neo-Nazi.
I'm sure there's something about lying being reserved to Jews in your Aryan purity handbook. I'll just point you to my reply yonder about where you say that Germans are a better race than all others.
As for your rant on race... it looks like reading comprehension fails you. I won't repeat what I said earlier, but merely point you to your own citation on pubmed, which goes into quite some length on how arbitrary racial classifications really are.
By the way, you do realize that making a choice requires a value judgment? Your philosophical acrobatics to recast your racism as a personal preference rather than a fundamentally flawed world view are interesting. However, they still expose you as a racist.
What you're saying is a load of irrelevant babble. No one dismisses that certain people differ physically from others. It's a reality. It's obvious.
What is the problem is your misappropriation of genetic differences that correlate with self-identified ethnic affiliation for the purpose of identifying superior and inferior people. Even your little digression into "preserving the white race" is complete non-sense. Wouldn't you want your "race" to acquire the genes that lower occurrences of breast cancer in Asian/pacific women? Of course not. That would require racial mixing. All you're doing is attributing some vague benefit to preserving the purity of the "White race", which requires a value judgment on what skin pigmentation is better than others.
In other words, you're a white, racist, turd-burgling Neo-Nazi.
Cute. Of course, the question you ask cleverly avoids the problem of posts such as this one, which was attached to a different article. You can run, but you can't hide.
Ohhh.... a white supremacist who actually tries to argue. Neat-o. You know where the problem in your line of reasoning is? It's not in the definition of organism. It's not even in your definition of race. It's in the actions you advocate and justify based on your definition of race.
Here, let me walk you through it.
You've got the organism definition right. No point in arguing that. Your definition of race is irrelevant, as it is 100% arbitrary. It boils down to looking at yourself and someone you don't like, cataloging the physical differences and calling the set of differences "racial traits'. Overlap is either ignored or attributed to interbreeding. Where you run into problems - and where your Neo-Nazi mind-set is showing - is where you start attributing behavioral, moral and cognitive differences to those arbitrary differences. There is zero science to support any of it. As a matter of fact, science has found that there is no correlation, which means that your causation is impossible.
So, Mr Fudgepacker, drop the pretense. All your big words, metaphors and definitions still include that which makes you pond scum: the idea that, based on arbitrary and unscientific categorizations, some people are inferior to others.
For anyone interested, look up the recent posts of Thufir. He's nothing but a Vanilla Neo-Nazi. I have to say, I'm almost amused by the logical contortions Neo-Nazis create to justify their bigotry. They've created some interesting new definitions because they couldn't defend their old definitions. Just in this post, I see brand new definitions for:
Racism (Racially Biased)
White race (organism)
Lynching (helping your own race first)
Nice work, ass-pirate.
Except "White race" is not an organism. And nobody outside the biggest blowhards will fault you for preferring someone's look over another. This includes preferring a certain skin color.
This is the problem with racism (which is exactly what you're describing). It justifies xenophobia through a complete fallacy. There hasn't been a single genetic marker that codes for race, and definitions of race are as varied as the groups that try to promote them.
I also like your reference to white guilt in a later post. Nice try. How are your friends in the National Alliance? Are you part of the Separatism group, or do you just want to kick everyone who is not White out of the US?
Hard to reach as in it needs more effort than to pry open the hood, disconnect the terminals and lift out the battery. Sometimes, it's good when things are hard. I'd like a $200 item in my car to be fairly difficult to get to if I don't provide keys and a proper garage.
Thankfully, those batteries are heavy, and located in hard to reach places. The batteries in the latest Prius weigh 45 Kgs and are located in the trunk of the car, partially underneath the back seat.
I don't see anyone spending a good 30 minutes tearing open the Prius with powertools, only to run around with a 100+lb weight. At that point, they might as well steal the entire car.
You do realize that the source study (http://cnwmr.com/nss-folder/automotiveenergy/)has been thoroughly debunked in the same Slashdot discussion that you linked to? If you troll, at least put some effort into it.
When level 60 was still a cap in WoW, the overall quest chain that went from essentially level 1 to level 60 was the Onyxia quest chain. It tied everything together very nicely - though everything in this case meant the human quest lines.
I don't think that long-term goals is the problem. The problem, as someone else pointed out, is that in a world where everyone's special, no one is. As everyone can do quests, the differentiation comes from gear. Hence the gear grind to become epic.
Random question: what's the difference between a well-thought out email sent directly to the publisher, and a well-thought out comment posted to Amazon?
Random answer: it's much more difficult to find the address of someone who cares at the publisher.
However, I like the approach. I will not buy Spore (partially because of the bad reviews, but also partially because of the DRM), but there is no easy way for me tell EA why I didn't buy it. Leaving a comment is a simple way for me to tell EA that piracy has nothing to do with the game doing badly - Securom, on the other hand, has quite a bit to do with it.
Show me where Scientology is a religion, or where freedom of assembly holds for criminals who are planning criminal actions during said assemblies.
That's the part that's so easily missed, and which makes it so easy for Scientologists to distract people from the underlying problem: Scientology is a money scam that is performing illegal actions at all stages and positions. Freedom of religion and freedom of assembly does not apply to Scientology.
I'll just point out what I point out every time someone makes your argument: why is that in the heart of Silicon Valley, which has a population density equivalent of any metropolitan density short of NYC, LA and Tokyo and which has more millionares and billionaires per square mile than any other place, I have trouble getting 1.5 Mbit/sec?
The population density argument is complete nonsense, because it ignores the fact that bandwidth in the US does not correlate with population density. It does, however, correlate with monopolies (negatively, sadly).
Hey look - an updated graph: http://nsidc.org/images/arcticseaicenews/20080827_Figure2.png I'd say the difference is now about 2-5% from last year's record minimum. Extrapolating from the current curves, I'd say that a new minimum record will be set by mid-September.
It looks like the predictions I heard were pretty spot on. And that crack you've been smoking must be pretty rocking.
Or, alternatively, you could understand that different pollutants do different things. Just throwing that out there, you know. Sorta like CO2 absorbing EM waves in the IR band, and particles reflecting light back into space. Not that anyone would know anything about this.
Strawman. No climatologist is arguing that CO2 is the only factor. It's just one of the most significant ones, with a rising proportion of the impact.
Wake me when this theory has been properly investigated. He says so himself.
You might also want to take note that no one is saying that CO2 is exclusively responsible for all temperature increases. It's currently put at about 40%-60%, with solar forcing responsible for about 25%.
Looks like I underestimated how much ice there was last year. Well, we're gonna find out in October who is right and who is wrong, no? From what I remember, the prognosis was about 3.4M km^2 at its lowest. Mark your calendar.
Yes. If at all possible, I'd like to write a check to Will Wright saying "Thanks for Spore, but don't ever put that kind of DRM on your games again." . I will not support the use of something that essentially hijacks my machine. In case I do torrent it, I'd like to be able to send Will Wright a check, but that's unlikely to be possible. Either which way, EA won't get my money for the PC version.
What the hell are you smoking? There was a warning that it *could* be ice free. Not to mention that North Pole being ice free is not the same as no ice anywhere. And so far, they're on track to have the smallest summer covering ever. By a few million square kilometers.
Really. If climate change wouldn't be such a huge issue, I'd take comfort in the fact that the only people disputing it can't even read the articles they're quoting. Instead, it's just depressing.