Quote from: Verbatim on May 02, 2017, 12:19:45 AM

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- I got my first kiss at about the right time. A girl kissed me when I was 15-16, but I've never personally kissed anybody.
- I got my first job two years late, and I hated it more than I've hated anything else in my life.
- Never passed my driving test and I'm one year overdue on that. I cannot believe that the average age for this is 20.
- I've never been on vacation with my friends that did not include my family, so one year overdue I guess.

Some of these aren't even milestones in any way.

Over here you can start doing driving when you're 17.

Myself I've been doing it since september and I'm nearly done now.

We start at 16.

It's a hallmark of American life.
Pretty much everybody gets their driver's license at 16.

Taxi Driver was pretty much all done in a drug fuelled haze.

This thread isn't about the Houston Oilers, so I don't care anymore.

it would probably help if you weren't smitten with a convict that enables your addiction

Why don't you go pretend to understand some relationships you're actually a part of.

You know what, I'm not going to give you the satisfaction.

This is a forgone conclusion.

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on April 30, 2017, 03:07:22 PM

Wear a t shirt with dinosaurs on it

i believe the current line of thinking is that jesus lived alongside the dinosaurs

Holy shit i did sleep like 14hrs

Don't like them.

Quote from: Ian on April 29, 2017, 11:44:58 PM

Do you have a solution?

It's an EVGA 850W 80+ Gold. I would like to go with Corsair but I hear awful things about their PSUs.

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on April 29, 2017, 11:42:26 PM

I meant it's not because you left your PC idling overnight.
Your PSU is probably just substandard QC. Shit ain't wound properly.

Short of dissecting the unit and re-wiring it yourself, no.

This is exactly what I would do.
But I expect I'm a more experienced electrical engineer than Ian.

See, it doesn't really matter whether or not you believe the accusations - there is evidence that it happened, as publically detailed in media outlets, and no counter evidence has been presented to disprove the claim. You don't get to claim something is true/false, offer no evidence to counter, and then continue to parrot said belief as if you've determined it to be fact.

I can't speak to Sean Hannity's case as I've yet to read any details about it. But as I said before - O'Reilly and Fox News did this to themselves by attempting to cover up crimes. This is not a Freedom of Speech violation, it never was and never will be because the government is not stepping in saying what Fox News can say.

This is advertisers and the public disassociating themselves with a guy who did shit, lied about it and paid victims to cover it up. That isn't a free speech violation, that's the beauty of having options in who you watch and support. Unless you have evidence that this is some conspiracy to take down a network (Which still WOULD NOT be a violation of freedom of speech), then this is simply a glorified opinion of yours and not a fact.

I never claimed free speech was being violated, I said they don't respect free speech.

There's a difference.

As for the other, I'm not getting into an analytical discussion about it or trying to prove to you Bill O'Reilly is innocent, because I've looked at the facts and made up my mind and you've looked at the fact and made up yours.

My point is, you don't have to take a person's rights from them to demonstrate a basic lack of respect for human rights.

The assault against people who voice dissent is, bottom line, without regard for free speech.
Obviously people are free to have no respect for someone's right to voice their opinion, and they're free to have no respect for people's wishes to hear what other people have to say.

The fact that we permit their disrespect doesn't make them less fascist, it just makes us better democrats.

I meant a summary of what you're talking about....

And what did I ever do to you?

Quote from: SecondClass on April 29, 2017, 10:50:22 PM

really normal guy but someone i dislike regardless

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Quote from: Ramona on April 29, 2017, 10:26:59 PM

Verb shouldn't have sewed the seeds of self doubt in the first place.

you're saying it's my fault that he doesn't have the self-control to keep his word

Yeah everything bad is your fault.

Quote from: Ramona on April 29, 2017, 04:31:11 PM

Bill O'Reilly's show didn't get cancelled because people didn't want to listen to him, it got cancelled because somebody ran a slanderous mudraking campaign against him and very probably falsified claims in order to demonize him, not before his public, but before his producers, who were too afraid for their own reputations by association.

First off, neither O'Reilly nor his lawyers have provided evidence to defend himself or disprove the claims that he and Fox News paid settlements to the tune of $13 million to five different individuals. They aren't even attempting to disprove that at this point because it's been confirmed by The New York Times.

Their issue at this point is that a left-wing media group decided to bring attention to the fact the network has allowed this guy to remain in his position despite have to settle five times because of claims of sexual harassment and verbal abuse - ironic, considering the image of the news outlet standing for "Conservative, family values".

So yes, he wasn't yanked because of free speech. He was yanked because he acted inappropriately, tried to cover it up, and lost the network money when advertisers decided they didn't want to be connected to him. So I'm sure exactly sure why you're deciding to paint him with the brush stroke of innocence and victimizing him - he fucked himself in the ass on this one.

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That's not dissent, that's a targeted silencing.

So hold on a second. The left-wing media group is the person in the wrong here because they uncovered O'Reilly/Fox News' unethical cover-up and decided to run with it?

quite simply, I don't believe any of it ever happened

Just like I still don't believe Bill Cosby raped 50 women.

Maybe one or two, but the rest is sheer opportunism.

The fact that immediately afterward Hannity was targeted, and the use of similar tactics against the President, who really is guilty of nothing more than speaking crudely in a private setting, but was also accused of secual misconduct for only nothing to come of it.

It's obvious the Sean Hannity is right.
The left is trying to systematically wipe out dissent by means of career assassination.

There was once a time in this country when even if you didn't care for what a man had to say, we were willing to die for his right to say it.

I may think Fox News is nothing but right wing propaganda, but I can absolutely admit when they're not being given a fair shake.

Daily reminder that the value of a person's opinion in a democracy is valued not by any iron clad grid of ethics, instead simply by the number of people who agree.

but I still expect you to fix it cheat