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6901
« on: February 21, 2015, 10:18:41 AM »
I don't really understand why Early Access isn't free. It's the same thing as the betas and demos that are out there, except now you're paying for it.
6902
« on: February 21, 2015, 10:12:16 AM »
Damn, that's incredible. Making trenches to defend against suicide bombers is a great idea.
6903
« on: February 21, 2015, 10:08:09 AM »
I'd rather talk about cold fusion. Other nuclear reactor types have been proven unstable due to human errors, or unpredictable circumstances. However, cold fusion is still small, and mostly theoretical.
Cold fusion would be great, but you're right in saying it's only theoretical. I think fission gets a bad rap for the few high, profile disasters that have occurred, but the Fukushima incident is really an endorsement of the safety of nuclear power -- they used old reactors with out of date regulations, had some of the worst conditions applied to it (earthquake and tsunami), and still nobody died. With modern protocols and technology, nuclear is safer than ever.
6904
« on: February 21, 2015, 01:28:43 AM »
many favors
6905
« on: February 21, 2015, 01:05:28 AM »
I came across this Op-Ed piece the other day. I think you'd find it interesting, Meta.
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
It was interesting to see that from The Atlantic. They're an often liberal journal, though I think they're one of the best publications available, but this is entirely apart from what a lot of left commentary has been.
6906
« on: February 21, 2015, 01:00:16 AM »
So if an underage girl looks like an adult, it's all good?
Of course.
How old is Azula, actually? I always pegged her as 18-25.
14. But you'd never guess that.
That's insane. Her voice alone sounds like an adult's.
6907
« on: February 21, 2015, 12:47:56 AM »
OP's post count right now 
6908
« on: February 21, 2015, 12:45:44 AM »
"Agree with me or you're harmful to the rest of humanity."
That's correct.
6909
« on: February 21, 2015, 12:44:38 AM »
How big of a dick are we talking?
6910
« on: February 21, 2015, 12:41:37 AM »
This arguably biased source states that there were 8,961 vaccine preventable deaths from 2007-2015. We'll call that about 1,125 deaths per year, on average. We're going to fudge numbers in this thread a bit, but it all benefits the anti-vax side, so it's okay. Now let's talk nuclear power. Surely, nuclear power is incredibly dangerous and must be approached cautiously. Just look at the Fukushima disaster, where a whopping...uh, 1 person died. From stress-related heart problems. And no significant increase in cancer rates. Despite being one of the worst imaginable scenarios for a nuclear disaster, we saw no nuclear-related deaths. It's hard to determine an average number of nuclear-related deaths each year, because it's so low. Forbes estimated around 90 per year. A NASA study predicted that if nuclear power had been adopted in the early 70s, we would have seen about 5,000 nuclear-related deaths since then. That fits the Forbes number pretty well. This NASA study also estimates that had nuclear power not been adopted, and we had simply used coal and natural gas during those 40 years, we would have seen an additional 1.8 million deaths, and another 64 gigatons of carbon in the atmosphere. None of this includes the long-term health effects of coal mining or environmental harm. That gives us about 45,000 deaths per year on average for not using nuclear power. They also calculate that if we stopped using nuclear power, we'd see another 7 million coal-related deaths, not to mention hundreds more gigatons of carbon released into the atmosphere. Let's summarize: Avg. deaths per yearAnti-vax: 1,125 Anti-nuclear: 45,000/yr in the past, 175,000/yr through the next 40 years The long and short of it is that if you're against nuclear energy, you're an order of magnitude more harmful to the rest of humanity than anti-vaxxers.
6911
« on: February 20, 2015, 11:51:26 PM »
B.net was a goner, and b.net-elitists was circling the drain. Cheat had a great layout and this seemed like the place to be.
6912
« on: February 20, 2015, 11:48:00 PM »
Lemme just kick Darkseid's ass real quick.
What is Flash even doing?
It looks like he threw Aquaman underhand-style at Darkseid...from like five feet away.
Almost looks like he throwing a frisbee or something. I bet the Flash kicks ass at frisbee.
6913
« on: February 20, 2015, 11:46:21 PM »
So if an underage girl looks like an adult, it's all good?
Of course.
How old is Azula, actually? I always pegged her as 18-25.
6915
« on: February 20, 2015, 11:42:36 PM »
Lemme just kick Darkseid's ass real quick.
What is Flash even doing?
6916
« on: February 20, 2015, 11:35:25 PM »
My favorite was when Goji sent me nudes.
6917
« on: February 20, 2015, 11:33:34 PM »
On a different note though, I said nothing about philosophy anywhere here, and religion and philosophy are different things. One isn't even a subset of the other. Religion is unquestionably a subset of philosophy. You're welcome to not believe in any religion or follow any particular philosophy, or even care to study any. You're welcome to think religion is stupid and its followers are idiots, and you're certainly welcome to think it has no place in the modern world and support that with compelling arguments. Let's have actual discourse though, instead of running around semantics. Turkey, out. Spoiler Edited a lot out because I'm tired and sounded like a real asshole.
6918
« on: February 20, 2015, 11:09:08 PM »
I'm pretty convinced we're using the term basis to mean different things.
No possible historical consideration you can argue for will establish that religion at this moment in time forms the basis of the modern practice of science, or in the context of this thread, that it should be considered to have modern relevance based on its role in the modern practice of science. So the reply "It's the basis of science" being used to answer OP's question is silly.
For comparison, alchemy has an even greater claim to being called the historical foundation of chemistry and earns no modern relevance based on that fact.
I haven't even used the word 'basis'. I've said it's the historical foundation. It's still relevant in the same way any other school of philosophy is, because it's tangential to science in the pursuit of understanding of the world. I also provided several other reasons for its relevance. Alchemy is defunct. Philosophy is not.
6919
« on: February 20, 2015, 10:40:36 PM »
Religion was the precursor to science and fulfilled some of the same role in society, but that doesn't make it the basis of science. At some point we're only disagreeing on what that word means so it's immaterial but I think your definition is silly.
I said it's the historical foundation of science, meaning the scientific process developed from the search to learn more about the world around us, which is the overarching goal of religions and philosophy. You recognize religion as a precursor but all you're trying to do is deny the religious roots that modern science has, probably as a result of bias against religion.
6920
« on: February 20, 2015, 10:11:12 PM »
See above. Religion as a means of explaining the machinations the universe is the precursor the rigor of modern-day science.
This is whole lot like crediting "making things up" as the basis of science.
Not really, since science developed through the same motivations and processes that inspired religious exploration: the desire to understand the universe. Like I already explained.
6921
« on: February 20, 2015, 09:08:22 PM »
Not sure if DMC can be considered an RPG, but I'd have to say Dante.
DMC is pretty mainstream.
6922
« on: February 20, 2015, 07:38:04 PM »
Not sure if DMC can be considered an RPG, but I'd have to say Dante. 
6923
« on: February 20, 2015, 07:32:40 PM »
So if an underage girl looks like an adult, it's all good? Keep telling yourself that.
6924
« on: February 20, 2015, 07:30:58 PM »
Well, Zim already enslaved Earth with his robot Santa, and Dib was defeated by Zim's Easter platypus.
6925
« on: February 20, 2015, 05:00:22 PM »
Was the SPNKr pronounced as 'Spanker' or 'Spunker'? I'd like to think that I've been spunk-whoring these past 10 years.
6926
« on: February 20, 2015, 02:24:21 PM »
Just wondering why this is still an acceptable response. Nearly any thread that isn't a lazy copy and paste news article gets this response from one or more of a few specific members. I didn't know if there was an actual reason why this is never addressed by moderation, or if they just get a pass for being old members.
6927
« on: February 20, 2015, 01:12:14 PM »
The juice isn't actually blood, it's just water packed with myoglobin.
Spoiler Anything hotter than medium rare is overcooked. Anything more than rare is over-cooked.
Some cuts I'll go medium rare. Cheap cuts that don't have good marbling, or really thick steaks that I can't usually get perfectly rare. I'd rather slightly overcook something than have to put it back on the heat and ultimately make it worse.
6928
« on: February 20, 2015, 01:02:59 PM »
The juice isn't actually blood, it's just water packed with myoglobin. Spoiler Anything hotter than medium rare is overcooked.
6929
« on: February 20, 2015, 11:19:58 AM »
Fuck my arm aches.
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6930
« on: February 20, 2015, 10:47:36 AM »
I'm a little confused why you're blaming Fox News. Is was the president's administration that released it to the media, and Fox got the story from the AP.
Ah, that would explain, and now i'm starting to hate the Administration, what are they thinking, this is treason and out right stupid, it's like telling a snake what your doing.
Holy shit you're so fucking basic.
That's because yesterday wasn't my day, now it is.
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