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« on: July 14, 2015, 09:12:31 PM »
Splitscreen on consoles is great, splitscreen on PC is a pointless clusterfuck. Kind of a non-issue there.
As for Y-wings, aren't they just bomber X-wings?
Yeah, they're slow as fuck and are only used to bomb stuff. They filled a role in space battles, but kinda sucked in ground maps.
5192
« on: July 14, 2015, 09:02:00 PM »
Was Rogue even in that movie? I don't remember her at all.
5193
« on: July 14, 2015, 07:49:13 PM »
Gayniggers from Outer Space
Quotes
Capt. B. Dick: I know you're afraid ArmInAss, but my son- this is just step on the long road to becoming a GayNigger.
Capt. B. Dick: It started when you're father gave birth to you... and who knows, maybe after this mission, you'll get the sign of the brown ring- and can truly call yourself a GayNigger.
Capt. B. Dick: And that's what you've been preparing for since you went to GayAgent School.
ArmInAss: You really think so sir? Holy shit, this is amazing.
5194
« on: July 14, 2015, 07:19:59 PM »
5195
« on: July 14, 2015, 06:53:25 PM »
Shit makes no sense Turkey
all of that aspartame is starting to affect you
50/50 chance it is.
5196
« on: July 14, 2015, 05:53:20 PM »
corporations can be sued and taxed
Just as a minor digression, this doesn't seem like a good thing.
We know taxing corporations is a pretty awful idea, and I imagine suing them isn't as effective as suing the executives/shareholders.
Yeah, I was pointing it out because liberals often cite corporate personhood as a shady backdoor deal between big business and Congress when in reality it was a fairly liberal decision. Quite a large attraction of incorporation is the protection it grants individuals to risk their money and the investors' money.
5197
« on: July 14, 2015, 05:42:45 PM »
I just have a lot of trepidation about abortion clinics seemingly providing an apparently justified reason to use their service for mothers on the fence (i.e., if a mother is debating whether to do it, but feels more justified in doing so because it seems like it's beneficial for science). I'm not sure if I'm articulating it well.
I understand what you mean, and if I'm not mistaken, you're rather against abortion in like, 98% of cases, so I can totally see the logic.
I can't say that I agree though.
Yeah, I'm trying to keep that separate from this. As long as the mother isn't profiting off of it, I think it's fine. If the clinic is also profiting off of it (which they don't appear to be), I'd say there's a worrying conflict of interest.
5198
« on: July 14, 2015, 05:40:19 PM »
So this is on Reddit's frontpage right now, and I just want to point out a few things. At first I thought this was a joke because of how simple-minded it is, with two people seemingly discussing the reason that corporations are given the rights of citizens -- and that reason is, obviously, that corporations are comprised of people who do not lose their rights simply because they've entered into business together. So a few big things "corporate personhood" (clearly I think this label is a huge misnomer) gives them: corporations can be sued and taxed, and they also can't be censored unfairly. Stuff it doesn't give them: the right to donate to campaigns. That's from a separate court ruling from the case Citizens United v. The FEC, which doesn't pertain to corporate personhood in the slightest. And even if corporations couldn't directly donate, then the shareholders could just give themselves the money and spend it themselves, which I presume would be private information; I think I'd prefer to make it transparent and have the corporations do it. There's also quite a bit of irony (hypocrisy?) in Ben and Jerry using their corporate name in a political setting to advocate against the right of corporations to speak and donate in the realm of politics.
5199
« on: July 14, 2015, 05:12:53 PM »
I just have a lot of trepidation about abortion clinics seemingly providing an apparently justified reason to use their service for mothers on the fence (i.e., if a mother is debating whether to do it, but feels more justified in doing so because it seems like it's beneficial for science). I'm not sure if I'm articulating it well.
5200
« on: July 14, 2015, 04:56:45 PM »
In health care, patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, such as treatments and cures for serious diseases. Women at Planned Parenthood who have abortions are no different. At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high-quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards.
This is still super fucking sketchy. I get the argument for bodily autonomy and all that, but does a mother really have a right to donate the fetus's organs? The mother isn't the patient in question -- those tissues aren't hers. You can't get consent from a fetus, and it's a bit of a stretch to say the mother is acting in a medical proxy capacity.
I can't see it as any different than any decision made about a live child's health by the parents. A comparison to the ever popular circumcision debates of Bungie comes to mind.
Well it's different in the sense that medical proxies are bound by regulations which preclude operations like abortion which terminate the patient's life without any medical reason (i.e., artificial life support). Clearly fetuses aren't classified as patients (because they're not 'people', legally), but on the other hand those tissues don't belong to the mother like her own tissues nor like her property. She presumably can't just take the fetus home with her. It's apparently a common practice to ship aborted fetuses to research facilities, but I'm just confused about who has the authority to determine what happens to them.
5201
« on: July 14, 2015, 04:49:12 PM »
In health care, patients sometimes want to donate tissue to scientific research that can help lead to medical breakthroughs, such as treatments and cures for serious diseases. Women at Planned Parenthood who have abortions are no different. At several of our health centers, we help patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, and we do this just like every other high-quality health care provider does — with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards. This is still super fucking sketchy. I get the argument for bodily autonomy and all that, but does a mother really have a right to donate the fetus's organs? The mother isn't the patient in question -- those tissues aren't hers. You can't get consent from a fetus, and it's a bit of a stretch to say the mother is acting in a medical proxy capacity.
5202
« on: July 14, 2015, 04:41:21 PM »
Still no word on what sort of toy is found on the inside. Scientists expect to open it up and pour out the contents within the next decade.
5203
« on: July 14, 2015, 04:11:08 PM »
My main gripe is that he doesn't look like he's Lex Luthor, he looks like Jesse Eisenberg playing Lex Luthor.
5204
« on: July 14, 2015, 03:57:21 PM »
I wish we'd go back to "e pluribus unum" because it seems to represent our country much better, but "In God We Trust" is such a generalized statement that claiming it's specifically Christian (rather than of any Judeo-Christian worldview, or more ambiguous theism/deism as many of the founding fathers were) is difficult to justify today.
I've also interpreted it as a tongue-in-cheek reference to American exceptionalism using the word 'trust' in an economic sense.
5205
« on: July 14, 2015, 01:19:30 PM »
The new file is about 1.4Mb, 120x 120. If you implement a smaller file size, I'll change it, but I've used larger gifs without complaint.
5206
« on: July 13, 2015, 11:38:54 PM »
It's a very generous lover.
5207
« on: July 13, 2015, 11:37:26 PM »
30kb for a decent gif? Yeah, no. I took the image down and I'll work on it tomorrow.
Cheat, isn't your bandwidth only used for images hosted on this site? It's an imgur link, so I was under the impression every time it's seen here it's using Imgur's bandwidth.
External images don't cost us bandwidth, but it's still kind of shitty to have a huge avatar, as it will take that much longer to render on a page.
Unless people here deliberately disable browser caching, it isn't loading every time, just once until the cache is cleared. But I didn't realize it was so massive and I completely understand why it's got to go. My bad.
5208
« on: July 13, 2015, 11:30:05 PM »
30kb for a decent gif? Yeah, no. I took the image down and I'll work on it tomorrow.
Cheat, isn't your bandwidth only used for images hosted on this site? It's an imgur link, so I was under the impression every time it's seen here it's using Imgur's bandwidth.
5209
« on: July 13, 2015, 11:12:17 PM »
Resized to 130x130
The pixels ruin the smoothness. I'll make a smaller file tomorrow. Cheat, what file size do you consider acceptable? And Septy, Spoiler snitches get stitches.
5210
« on: July 13, 2015, 11:04:48 PM »
Well yeah, but that doesn't tell you the file size. It's a pretty sweet gif though. What's the issue?
5211
« on: July 13, 2015, 10:43:24 PM »
My favorite jazz band, a local group from Phoenix that does jazz crossovers of classical songs: Burgstaller Martignon 4 Another local Phoenix band: Raining and OK
5212
« on: July 13, 2015, 08:51:41 PM »
Four games in 11 months. You can hate the model, but that guy's raking in money regardless.
5213
« on: July 13, 2015, 07:14:08 PM »
My whole career | | | | V 
5214
« on: July 13, 2015, 07:08:28 PM »
I've had the countdown as my homepage for a couple weeks. Here are some quick details:
5215
« on: July 13, 2015, 07:05:16 PM »
Oh shit, is it seriously that big? How did you even notice?
5216
« on: July 13, 2015, 06:59:43 PM »
My parents' Australian Shepherd mix on the right. Shepherd mutts are my favorite look in general. My parents' dog Sam on the top for reference:
5217
« on: July 12, 2015, 11:19:49 PM »
Snip
5218
« on: July 12, 2015, 10:55:53 PM »
Also, get Camnator in here because for the first time in Flood history I defended cannabis.
5219
« on: July 12, 2015, 10:54:55 PM »
Better go bang some hookers just to be safe.
5220
« on: July 12, 2015, 10:52:08 PM »
Your posts aren't even funny. You're ruining the joke, man. Be cool. You knew what would happen here: nobody would agree with you, and you'd deny all opposing arguments. Just be a good sport.
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