California Mountain Snake
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ill assume this is a good thing. so...Thank you very much. thats very nice of you to say that. your on the right track to gaining my respect.
You're respect is all I could ever hope for your honor.
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Proud owner of a defunct iMac (defunct out fo the box and after 4 trips to the repair shop), 5 dead iPods (I only bought one; replacement plan), and dozens of dead $40 earbuds (also; free replacements). Also formerly a student under the tutelage of a school district that has used Apple computers since kindergarten. Maybe everyone else in the world but me has better luck with Apple hardware than me, but through my daily encounters with their products I'm happy avoiding them.
They also don't rev their hardware "every three months", and don't even bother saying "it was rhetorical" because that's an idiotic tactic to hide that you don't know what you're talking about.So Apple releasing the new 32 GB iPod Touch 5 months (whoops, sorry) after they released a 16 GB model was due to "improvements in technology."
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Wow, you know I didn't even notice that video, despite the fact that it was the first one that popped up after video ended AND it was the first one in the list for related videos! I mean really, how silly of me! You deserve a medal!
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Your ability to combat tete-a-tete with perfect meme parries and lunges is astounding and breathtaking. Obviously you are a master of the Internets and the related Intertubules. Bravo sir, bravo.
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Phoenix everyday you're changing my world in ways I never could have imagined.
One of the few things that remains clear is that a quote war is still the most boring and ineffective way to debate a topic that has ever been invented.
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Old "This American Life" podcast
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I'm not a good arguer, if I knew better words, I could argue well. But I don't, so whatever.
Don't respond to my posts, it won't do you any good. I'm officially leaving this argument, for it is pointless.
Also, Don't ever think you won. You didn't.
So you're saying everyone should take into account that beneath your rambling your ideas really do make sense, and those ideas should take precedence over those who can actually articulate their thoughts.
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There's two things to address here: OS and hardware.
Apple hardware and products are overpriced, and the fact that the operating system is integral to the actual hardware means Apple has sole monopoly over improvements in their products and can constantly sell shit products with inferior hardware and come back 3 months later with an "improved" model to sell at top dollar. Whereas a PC can be customized with whatever the hell you want with up to date and competitively priced technology, and you don't even have to install windows as an OS if you don't want to. Whiners who cry that Microsoft is running a racket and allude to Apple's high minded intentions need to get a clue.
Windows itself doesn't do much for me, but it's mainstream and thus all software is compatible with it, unlike the Mac OS. I'm not going to pay money to make Linux or Mac OS pretend to be a Windows when I can just eliminate a step and have windows, and I'm not so sure that the Mac OS is so excellent that I need to tolerate owning a shitty computer to enjoy it.
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Someone learned a new word.
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DH... I don't know where you're from.
MA = Massachusetts...?
Now there's a heap of generalizations I can make about Mass-holes from his posts
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Not gonna lie, I've known some Wal-Mart employees who could probably trample themselves in a locked room.
It's not like the shoppers are the only ones to blame, if in fact they even can be blamed. All sorts of advertisements and media coverage had been in place to enforce this idea of a "chaotic shopping spree." The Wal-Mart where this happened even had signs up advertising the "Blitz" (their words) that was going to happen Friday morning. People don't just go crazy, institutions like Wal-Mart intentionally created this frenzy in order to drive up sales. The fact that a person who got in the way was trampled by a mob honestly isn't that surprising, it's not like these people are "stupid" or "retarded", in fact I'm sure if a couple hundred SFers ran through a room all at once they would trample more than one person. You can't even see your feet in a crowd that big. Even a mob composed of "smart" people is still a mob (although I'm not implying that SFers are smart, mind you).
This doesn't need to be blamed on such generalizations as "stupid Americans" or "consumer pigs". When people are charged up like that it's hard to slow them down, no matter their intelligence or where they're from. Mostly I just think sources like the media, which actually encourage this shit, need to be more responsible in warning people and toning down the madness. Christmas is still a month away, for chrissakes.
your not too smart yourselfThe irony was too delicious to resist.
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Faith doesn't say we didn't evolve from monkeys. It could be true.
No one who actually understands evolutionary theory claims people evolved from monkeys. Chimps and humans once shared a common ancestor, but both species have digressed heavily from there.
The fact that this thread has degraded into tearing down unfairly constructed strawman arguments prevents me from posting further in this, but I fear I am too late for already I hear a sucking sound at the back of my brain.
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She's getting me WiiFit, and I'm already popsicle-stick thin :o
Assuming I live, all I have to do is:
-Sell my shoes
-Sell all of my socks
-Sell all of my shirts except for a white T-shirt
-Sell all of my pants and get some white shorts
-Sell all of the stuff in my living room
-Get a linoleum floor in there
-Paint the TV white
-Paint the couch white *or bleach it =P*
-Find the Wii Condom
-Find the Wiimote straps
-Gather around my family and take turns playing it
-Somehow look happy
And then I'll even be set to be on a WiiFit commercial as long as I:
-Get two Japanese guys at my door.
"And then I a coke bottle THE WHOLE THING"
ITT: non sequiturs
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I remember a presentation I saw in high school one of my classmates gave on Mauritania, in which they declared 1/3 of the population was of Arabic decent, 1/3 Moorish, and another third was "African-American"...
"Black" isn't politically incorrect. And neither is Caucasian technically correct (Caucasian = from the Caucasus, an area between the Caspian and the Black sea including Albania, Georgia, Azerbaijan, etc).
I just tell people I'm Native American, which most people balk at. But really, my family has been here 4 generations at the low end, and too many generations to count at the high end. I hold no cultural ties to England, Germany, Scotland, etc. I was born here, I am an American, I can't get any more native than that. And believe it or not, many First Nation or "Indian" people find the term Native American offensive, to them we're the Americans, because we destroyed their nations to make America. To some of them, the idea of being called American in any context is offensive and grossly inaccurate. There was no "America" before the Europeans came here.
Political correctness has gone way overboard, but to imply it's "completely useless", like most absolute statements, is a bit overboard. The expectation that politicians and our government exercise political correctness is what prevents our government from (overtly) playing off racial tensions and ingrained primordial sentiment, a problem many nations have had that result in ethnic violence (Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Germany) and salient ethnic tension (India, Belgium Canada, lots of others). Political correctness is the part of our freedom, believe it or not, which allows a Muslim to be angry when he is scrutinized at an airport, and allows a black person to be offended when the security officers follow him around in the store. Political correctness takes away some of the ethnic tension in America that, believe it or not, is quite lower than many other nations, even those that we could consider civilized.
It's a personal choice. Yes, you're allowed to call mental challenged people "retarded", and your allowed to call homosexuals "queers", this is America and unlike many other countries you're allowed to say (mostly) anything you want. And political correctness is never going to be legally required in this country, so there's really nothing to worry about except the fact that being PC is, in some limited circles, becoming socially expected (there are still much larger circles I believe that are fighting against political correctness). Basically, if you have it good enough to just be able to complain about using good manners to be acceptable (since it's not legally required), you need to stop BAWWWing and put a little perspective on things.
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Hell, that's how things like slavery ended. Someone thought it was right, and someone else thought it was wrong, if no one voiced they thought it was wrong, then well we'd all have slaves still.
Comparing abortion to slavery is ignorant and completely incorrect.
Slavery involves the involuntary subjugation of other people, as does banning gay marriage, and most other civil rights issues. Basically, it involves legally sanctioning one group to have dominance over another group in terms of preventing certain people from making choices available to the rest of us. That's why these people need outsiders to stand up for them, because they are legally stripped of their right to stand up for themselves.
Unlike enslaving other people or controlling someone else's actions, abortion is a completely voluntary and personal choice, available universally to all people in this country. You're not trying to tell someone else to live, you're deciding how you want to live. These are completely different dynamics.
The OP is correct in saying that it's impossible to argue successfully about this. Whether you disagree or agree with abortion, why should you have the right to tell anyone else how to think about a choice that only affects them? It's simple, you don't have that right, and "arguing" about this point is futile, because everyone is entitled to their own personal opinion on this matter, and it's true that you can never change anyone else's opinion on the matter. You're not enslaving people or hurting other people, so keep your nose out.
This isn't a debate about whether debate in general is valid or not, it's about whether debate over personal choices is valid. Don't attempt to simplify it because you're just creating a strawman argument for your own satisfaction. You're not going to see "debates" over one person's choice to belong to certain religion, or critiques on a member who applies dadaism to his everyday life, and neither should people tell others to feel a certain way about abortion. It's simply none of your business.
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And I don't see how we would get China (with the fastest growing infection rate, or atleast second to africa) to comply with us. Their sex education and disease prevention/control is so shitty.
It's not really about whether China wants to or not. The country is still ~60% rural, huge parts of the country don't have electricity access, hundreds of millions of people live off a dollar a day. Despite the prosperity of the coastal regions, the majority of China is still equatable to the third world. It's not just a politics problem.
Since society is too obsessed with money to help anyone out, I doubt it'll happen.Generalities ftw.
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Yes, and according to other models, we could share all our food and make sure no one starves. And also make sure every one is clothed. And logically, there's no reason for wars, so under that model no one would have to suffer from oppression or genocide either. All suffering could end in 10 years if we follow the right model!
Mathematical models are very hand for predicting human behavior.
Would you watch this movie?
in Far from the Forest...
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