Besides, if were all supposed to be companions to God after we're dead, why the hell would he want to surround himself with stupid people? Have you ever owned a dog? Sometimes a stupid companion isn't all that bad.
I thought it was the black plague? Sneezers probably had it so people said "God bless you" since they were pretty much doomed otherwise. Or maybe that's something I just heard.
You know actually he probably won't. For one, if every job in the world required that you could never see your daughter, many father's/mother's would probably just beg for money from the government or something, I dunno. Secondly, he/she could work a minimum wage job just fine and get some kind of shabby housing.
And thirdly, he'd probably still be singing the same damn lullaby. =P
So you believe everyone in the world should just mindlessly follow your personal version of what is right and wrong just for you to be happy, don't you? Um, yeah pretty much. And I'm willing to kill for it. =) Welcome to the age old tale of life, it's not changing just because you think it's wrong.
Actually I can trace my dark fantasies directly to a single moment I experienced in my childhood, involving my first possitive memory with the opposite sex.
My parents, clearly, made the "problem" much worse.
Porn didn't help that "problem".
That's all I'm pointing out. The "blame" can go to all three, I can control the last one.
Well I'll be damned. That was a much more thorough, well thought out, and knowledgable reply than I expected. I really don't have anything to say to that, you clearly grasp more than enough to make your own more than reasonable conclusion. I don't quite agree with you, but at this point it seems you have a better grasp on your philosophies/beliefs than I have on mine.
It's not the pleasure that's the problem... Drugs and alcohol are pleasurable too you know, that doesn't mean that they can't become problematic.
Personally I quit teh pr0n because I eventually ended up having incredibly screwed up thoughts run through my head, the kind of stuffs rapists are made out of. =P So don't tell me there's nothing wrong with it, I know first hand what can happen to kids if you put strange/sexually violent thoughts in to their heads. On the other hand, I had parents who entirelly supressed all that kind of stuff, and I ended up associating sex with sin and darkness and bad and such, so it's no suprise that when I couldn't help but obey my nature that it all came out skewed. So for a solid three months, as an eighteen year old male teenager, I willingly supressed every sexual thought I had, until I decided I had the will to maintain I healthy balance. Now I'm fine, for the most part.
Do the cases like me in the world merit a block on porn? God no. But you argue beyond the blocking of porn.
As for the cherishing guilt thing about Christians, you clearly, like many others, missed the point. Take a look at a few of the writings of Paul... Such as First Corinthians 10:23, "All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not." Care telling me where that fits in to cherishing guilt?
And I dunno about you, but I came out of the womb an angry little bastard child. I didn't need anyone to teach me how to lie, did you? Whether you want to call it inheritance or not, I think most people simply have a hard time accepting the fact that we've all done our own share of ill deeds, and that's why they blindly rage against Christianity. It's one of the few (if not only) religions that plainly says: you all suck.
I don't care so much what you think about Christianity. I have a hard time choking down the "loving Almighty who does no wrong" bit, personally I think he's a sado/masochist, but please don't blindly rage against the entailing philosophies as if only a complete moron would believe any of it. If you fully understood it, you would realize that some of the Christian philosophies aren't so disimilar from Buddist philosophies.
I find the attack dog lawyers unlikely. This is based in Switzerland... The Swiss tend to be good at being 'neutral' assholes. (See Swiss Banks, World War I, and World War II)
I think he's talking about when you call for support on your 'supported' product and you get Hassad in India, who is employed by the closed-source company you bought your product from, who out-sourced their tech support to foreign countries with the sole requirement that their will work for pennies instead of dollars, nevermind the terrible engrish. It's not about xenophobia or rascism or whatever somebody wants to whine about. It's about the naive idea that staying away from open source products makes all the problems go away.
Is there something wrong when I'm getting pertenent and/or breaking news about a state that I live in from Slashdot? =\ Maybe I should pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV...
Does that really apply when you've gone bankrupt?
You gotta pay the bills somehow, and the government has the deepest pocket books. And I somehow think that if he DIDN'T sell it to the government they'd rip it from his hands in some legal battle anyway, that is if some other private contractor were actually interested enough to do something about his design, which I doubt. Otherwise he's simply thrown all his money away on a prototype suit for no reasonable use, and now he can't eat.
Highly unlikely. Fitting vs. mass production, and you think it'll offset the savings? Go tell that to the Chinese sweat-shops that're making all kinds of sizes for jeans right now and letting us figure out what size we need. Mass production can produce much, much more savings than you'd think.
I'm more for efficiency > idea. Being left handed has lead me down a path with a natural tendency to ditch hand writing. By six years old I was telling mom that I wouldn't need to write with my hands because of computers. Now I'm 18, can hardly write more than my name without a computer, and having no problem. The most trouble I have in school when it comes to writing is the hand written SAT essay. I really don't see why we would worry about writing by hand anymore. I see it as simply clinging to traditional tools when far superior tools are available. How many of you can start a fire with flint? How many of you like to set it off with a blow torch? Nothin' wrong with that.
Or maybe I simply misunderstood you and you're saying that kids can't hardly read or write yet and we're throwing computers at them.
Actually, indie is starting to pull away from CD's, at least the indie that I'm associated with. Some bands are setting their stuff up online for download instead of having CD's made and mailing them out. I remember one of my favorite bands that came through town, The Blakes, talking about choosing between record deals they had on the table for their new CD. In the end they went indie and set up their new CD online through Snocap for $11, $6 of which goes to Snocap. Of course the CD's are available to be ordered, and they can be purchased at shows the Blakes play at, but I imagine this will become more and more the trend as online sales boom and CD stores close, stores which indie bands can't get their record in to anyway.
Guaranteed this will be weaponized - and then only the government and terrorists will have it.
Except for not. Why would this be "weapon" be any better than a fine dose of arsenic, or even just pipe cleaner or something nasty? Or just a bullet, those are cheap. I don't really see weapon potential here that surpasses anything already created...
These kind of philosophies bother me. Why don't we just lock kids in cells on school nights? They'd preform great academically! I for one was not allowed to own video games for many years. When I got my first N64 (which was an out of date system by then) I played it non-stop. Granted I was homeschooled, so I don't know how it would've affected my grades, but I certainly would argue that abstinence is not the answer. This is one of many parenting ideas which creates mindless zombies out of kids who can't make rational decisions on their own. Give them no freedom, and they'll go to college and party. Teach them moderation, and consequence especially, and they won't flunk out when you send them to community college. =P I would even go so far as to say it would be better to let them drop their grades once and ground them to teach a lesson, rather than hold their hand all the way through grade school and high school, then let them flunk out of college on their own.
Environmental activists have always confused me. The very basis of their thinking seems wrong.
What causes them think the earth is a natural occurrence in the first place? Every other planet in the universe (that we know of so far) is barren and hostile to life. For life itself to cling to this rock, which spins about in volatile oblivion, is an abnormal occurrence. Why then do we aim to remain environmentally transparent, as if our presence will somehow alter the "natural" occurrence of life here? The universe is naturally barren. Maybe we should strive to return the earth to its natural state, and snuff out all life upon it? Burn the Earth. Burn every last tree, and snuff out all life, so that all things will be at equilibrium. I could start my own corporation, like PETA. We'll just go around and kill everything, and burn every forest, in an attempt to restore natural order in which everything is dead. And I'll sell t-shirts made from the leather of the animals I kill with "Burn the Earth" inked on them, or made from the purple dye of crushed worms, whichever you prefer.
The idea is ludicrous, as is boycotting wool because it's sheep abuse. I'm sorry, but life isn't natural. Let's do everything we can to preserve this abnormality, not worship it as some kind of irrational, barely sentient god that was must bow down to.
Sometimes, animals are used in scientific research. Yeah, it's cruel, but you know what? Life sucks and things die. This is simple as math. You wouldn't prefer human testing would you? Either we progress scientifically, or we kid ourselves in to thinking the stone age is where we belong.
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I thought it was the black plague? Sneezers probably had it so people said "God bless you" since they were pretty much doomed otherwise. Or maybe that's something I just heard.
So I looked it up in wiki and they say both. Meh.
You know actually he probably won't. For one, if every job in the world required that you could never see your daughter, many father's/mother's would probably just beg for money from the government or something, I dunno. Secondly, he/she could work a minimum wage job just fine and get some kind of shabby housing.
And thirdly, he'd probably still be singing the same damn lullaby. =P
Actually I can trace my dark fantasies directly to a single moment I experienced in my childhood, involving my first possitive memory with the opposite sex. My parents, clearly, made the "problem" much worse. Porn didn't help that "problem". That's all I'm pointing out. The "blame" can go to all three, I can control the last one.
Well I'll be damned. That was a much more thorough, well thought out, and knowledgable reply than I expected. I really don't have anything to say to that, you clearly grasp more than enough to make your own more than reasonable conclusion. I don't quite agree with you, but at this point it seems you have a better grasp on your philosophies/beliefs than I have on mine.
It's not the pleasure that's the problem... Drugs and alcohol are pleasurable too you know, that doesn't mean that they can't become problematic.
Personally I quit teh pr0n because I eventually ended up having incredibly screwed up thoughts run through my head, the kind of stuffs rapists are made out of. =P So don't tell me there's nothing wrong with it, I know first hand what can happen to kids if you put strange/sexually violent thoughts in to their heads. On the other hand, I had parents who entirelly supressed all that kind of stuff, and I ended up associating sex with sin and darkness and bad and such, so it's no suprise that when I couldn't help but obey my nature that it all came out skewed. So for a solid three months, as an eighteen year old male teenager, I willingly supressed every sexual thought I had, until I decided I had the will to maintain I healthy balance. Now I'm fine, for the most part.
Do the cases like me in the world merit a block on porn? God no. But you argue beyond the blocking of porn.
As for the cherishing guilt thing about Christians, you clearly, like many others, missed the point. Take a look at a few of the writings of Paul... Such as First Corinthians 10:23, "All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not." Care telling me where that fits in to cherishing guilt?
And I dunno about you, but I came out of the womb an angry little bastard child. I didn't need anyone to teach me how to lie, did you? Whether you want to call it inheritance or not, I think most people simply have a hard time accepting the fact that we've all done our own share of ill deeds, and that's why they blindly rage against Christianity. It's one of the few (if not only) religions that plainly says: you all suck.
I don't care so much what you think about Christianity. I have a hard time choking down the "loving Almighty who does no wrong" bit, personally I think he's a sado/masochist, but please don't blindly rage against the entailing philosophies as if only a complete moron would believe any of it. If you fully understood it, you would realize that some of the Christian philosophies aren't so disimilar from Buddist philosophies.
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It's just the booze talking...
...How am I trolling?
I find the attack dog lawyers unlikely. This is based in Switzerland... The Swiss tend to be good at being 'neutral' assholes. (See Swiss Banks, World War I, and World War II)
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Please excuse me, I'm probably drunk. =)
I think he's talking about when you call for support on your 'supported' product and you get Hassad in India, who is employed by the closed-source company you bought your product from, who out-sourced their tech support to foreign countries with the sole requirement that their will work for pennies instead of dollars, nevermind the terrible engrish. It's not about xenophobia or rascism or whatever somebody wants to whine about. It's about the naive idea that staying away from open source products makes all the problems go away.
Or maybe I'm wrong. =)
Is there something wrong when I'm getting pertenent and/or breaking news about a state that I live in from Slashdot? =\ Maybe I should pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV...
Doesn't matter Mr. AC, he's still right.
*sigh* If only it were so...
You'll read a few more headlines Lucless, and then you'll see the light. It's all about the headlines.
Perhaps they should try creating large metal spider butts in order to replicate the spider-silk process?
Seriously though, I want to know why it's so difficult for us to make it, but a spider just kind of shits it out. How'd this happen?
Somebody want to clue me in on where the hell this comment came from?
Does that really apply when you've gone bankrupt? You gotta pay the bills somehow, and the government has the deepest pocket books. And I somehow think that if he DIDN'T sell it to the government they'd rip it from his hands in some legal battle anyway, that is if some other private contractor were actually interested enough to do something about his design, which I doubt. Otherwise he's simply thrown all his money away on a prototype suit for no reasonable use, and now he can't eat.
Highly unlikely. Fitting vs. mass production, and you think it'll offset the savings? Go tell that to the Chinese sweat-shops that're making all kinds of sizes for jeans right now and letting us figure out what size we need. Mass production can produce much, much more savings than you'd think.
In other news... stocks of a company selling I Hate Jack Thompson T-Shirts rise dramatically!
I'm more for efficiency > idea. Being left handed has lead me down a path with a natural tendency to ditch hand writing. By six years old I was telling mom that I wouldn't need to write with my hands because of computers. Now I'm 18, can hardly write more than my name without a computer, and having no problem. The most trouble I have in school when it comes to writing is the hand written SAT essay. I really don't see why we would worry about writing by hand anymore. I see it as simply clinging to traditional tools when far superior tools are available. How many of you can start a fire with flint? How many of you like to set it off with a blow torch? Nothin' wrong with that. Or maybe I simply misunderstood you and you're saying that kids can't hardly read or write yet and we're throwing computers at them.
You, Mr. Racism Comment Accusing Sir, clearly do not know what you are talking about. I found no racist remarks in the preceeding comment.
Actually, indie is starting to pull away from CD's, at least the indie that I'm associated with. Some bands are setting their stuff up online for download instead of having CD's made and mailing them out. I remember one of my favorite bands that came through town, The Blakes, talking about choosing between record deals they had on the table for their new CD. In the end they went indie and set up their new CD online through Snocap for $11, $6 of which goes to Snocap. Of course the CD's are available to be ordered, and they can be purchased at shows the Blakes play at, but I imagine this will become more and more the trend as online sales boom and CD stores close, stores which indie bands can't get their record in to anyway.
These kind of philosophies bother me. Why don't we just lock kids in cells on school nights? They'd preform great academically! I for one was not allowed to own video games for many years. When I got my first N64 (which was an out of date system by then) I played it non-stop. Granted I was homeschooled, so I don't know how it would've affected my grades, but I certainly would argue that abstinence is not the answer. This is one of many parenting ideas which creates mindless zombies out of kids who can't make rational decisions on their own. Give them no freedom, and they'll go to college and party. Teach them moderation, and consequence especially, and they won't flunk out when you send them to community college. =P I would even go so far as to say it would be better to let them drop their grades once and ground them to teach a lesson, rather than hold their hand all the way through grade school and high school, then let them flunk out of college on their own.
Environmental activists have always confused me. The very basis of their thinking seems wrong.
What causes them think the earth is a natural occurrence in the first place? Every other planet in the universe (that we know of so far) is barren and hostile to life. For life itself to cling to this rock, which spins about in volatile oblivion, is an abnormal occurrence. Why then do we aim to remain environmentally transparent, as if our presence will somehow alter the "natural" occurrence of life here? The universe is naturally barren. Maybe we should strive to return the earth to its natural state, and snuff out all life upon it? Burn the Earth. Burn every last tree, and snuff out all life, so that all things will be at equilibrium. I could start my own corporation, like PETA. We'll just go around and kill everything, and burn every forest, in an attempt to restore natural order in which everything is dead. And I'll sell t-shirts made from the leather of the animals I kill with "Burn the Earth" inked on them, or made from the purple dye of crushed worms, whichever you prefer.
The idea is ludicrous, as is boycotting wool because it's sheep abuse. I'm sorry, but life isn't natural. Let's do everything we can to preserve this abnormality, not worship it as some kind of irrational, barely sentient god that was must bow down to.
Sometimes, animals are used in scientific research. Yeah, it's cruel, but you know what? Life sucks and things die. This is simple as math. You wouldn't prefer human testing would you? Either we progress scientifically, or we kid ourselves in to thinking the stone age is where we belong.