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« on: January 07, 2015, 07:25:10 AM »
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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« on: January 07, 2015, 07:22:28 AM »
I'll do it.
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« on: January 06, 2015, 01:37:58 AM »
No
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« on: January 06, 2015, 01:35:26 AM »
What time? I teach guitar until 6:00 EST.
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« on: January 06, 2015, 01:34:42 AM »
I might try it when Sony stops being asshats and allows streaming on PC.
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« on: January 06, 2015, 01:22:32 AM »
liar
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« on: January 06, 2015, 12:05:03 AM »
a gold standard tfw you used to believe in that nonsense. I still consider myself an Austrian, but I haven't come across one arguing for a gold standard in a few years.
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« on: January 06, 2015, 12:00:13 AM »
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« on: January 05, 2015, 01:24:05 PM »
I subscribe to the theory that there's a surge of neurological activity; an effort by the brain to keep the person alive. I also believe that what people see in NDEs is based largely on what they think happens when you die. Many people see Heaven (or Hell) and God (or Satan) because the vast majority of the world is Christian, Muslim, Jewish or Catholic, and that is what the afterlife is portrayed as in mass media. I'd be interested to see more data gathered about NDEs in societies where the predominant religion isn't Abrahamic.
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« on: January 05, 2015, 04:29:50 AM »
Fallout
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« on: January 05, 2015, 04:26:27 AM »
Or they could use that 97% profit margin they pocket to upgrade their infrastructure. Google on the other hand is showing that it can implement fiber optic cabling capable of gigabit connections for only dollars more than what people are paying for their shitty old copper wire cabling that current ISPs are using and refuse to upgrade from.
As long as ISPs and local municipalities remain intertwined together, you're not going to see much upgrading. Google has only gotten as far as they have because city leaders see more $$$ from Google rolling out their fiber.
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« on: January 05, 2015, 01:39:08 AM »
So you pay for the Internet based on much data you use? What's so bad about that?
It's more about "data discrimination". For instance, if you're streaming Netflix you might get better download speed than say, browsing Facebook or Reddit. The fear is that ISPs will begin charging you for what websites you use (ex. charge you for a "social media package" so that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. don't run at a snail's pace). My problem with net neutrality is that it doesn't allow ISPs and companies to get into agreements that are beneficial to the consumer, like how Netflix made a deal with Time Warner to give its customers better stream quality (the average video quality went from 480p to 720p where I live). The only way they were able to do that was to prioritize Netflix's traffic (put it on a "fast lane") so that it isn't competing with other traffic on the downstream.
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« on: January 04, 2015, 10:51:12 AM »
At the very least would you accept that both sides are shitty in different ways?
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« on: January 04, 2015, 10:49:12 AM »
I'm still convinced that the problem with American internet infrastructure is monopolies granted by local municipalities.
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« on: January 04, 2015, 07:28:36 AM »
I consider myself libertarian. Spoiler 1. Morality is objective, whether given by God or determined by humans. Answering "false" to this question essentially means that there are no moral facts, and statements about morality are a matter of opinion, emotion or sentiments. False 2. There are some cultures which are objectively superior to others, the values of which should be upheld and preserved in the face of inferior cultures. True 3. The Western world is, taken as an aggregate, the best place on Earth in terms of values and culture. True 4. Regardless of your answer to the prior question: the Western world is currently in a state of moral or cultural decline or decadence. False 5. Islamic fundamentalism is a bigger threat to world peace than any other geopolitical force currently in play. True 6. Islamic fundamentalism is the worst kind of religious fundamentalism. True 7. The State of Israel has a right to exist. True 8. The Jewish people have a right to their own State. False 9. Israel is morally superior to Hamas. True 10. Muslims are currently persecuted/unfairly oppressed in the Western world, in a systemic manner. False 11. Europeans (Germans, British, French, Dutch) are right to worry about the influence of Islamic values and traditions over their countries. True 12. Islamic fundamentalism is more widespread than most people think/would have us believe. True 13. Islam is inherently more violent than other religions. True 14. America, Israel and the West are mostly responsible for the existence of groups like ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and Boko Haram. False 15. I can understand and sympathise with the motives behind the 9/11 perpetrators. True 16. The current state of Iraq is mostly the fault of the Coalition forces' intervention. True 17. It was morally necessary to remove Saddam Hussein. False 18. It would be unethical for the U.N. to try and formally declare the Iraq War to be illegal. False 19. On the whole, it is a positive thing that the Iraq War happened. False 20. Bashar al-Assad is heading a regime preferable to the one the Free Syrian Army would implement, if they gained power. True? (Not well-read in the Syrian conflict) 21. We should not allow Iran to have nuclear weaponry. False 22. It might be necessary to consider a nuclear first-strike if a fundamentalist Islamic group or government somehow got hold of intercontinental nuclear missiles. False 23. A Christian theocracy wouldn't be as morally reprehensible as a Muslim theocracy. False 24. Christian fundamentalism isn't a problem in the world today. False 25. It should be the right of everybody, including fundamentalist Christians like the WBC, to burn and deface a Qur'an without facing any criminal charges. True
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« on: January 04, 2015, 07:20:48 AM »
I agree with everything in the OP.
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« on: January 03, 2015, 05:25:54 AM »
Musk and ball/boob sweat (vinegar and pickles)
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« on: January 03, 2015, 05:24:30 AM »
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« on: January 03, 2015, 05:18:19 AM »
I hope it passes, if only to see the ensuing chaos.
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« on: January 03, 2015, 05:16:58 AM »
Mine used to take drugs, but other than that he is pretty much perfect.
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« on: January 03, 2015, 05:15:57 AM »
but 2000 to 2, is just disgusting no matter how you try to paint it.
It's more like 9 to 1, but w/e.
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« on: January 03, 2015, 04:14:22 AM »
I recently had an argument with a fellow online who said that if nukes were in the hands of private companies and not government, that the world would've been destroyed by now.
Obviously I disagree, as there is no profit incentive to nuking anyone when the energy put into a nuclear device could be put to more profitable uses (i.e. electricity), not to mention that people wouldn't willingly do business with a company that nuked someone without damn good reason.
I'd like to hear your thoughts.
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« on: January 03, 2015, 04:06:58 AM »
Taylor Swift always looks like she's plotting how to kill everyone in the room. Just look at her eyes. I would not want to be in the same room as this woman.
I knew she was trouble when she walked in.
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« on: January 03, 2015, 04:05:41 AM »
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« on: January 03, 2015, 04:04:33 AM »
Fuck the Israeli government, and fuck Hamas.
This entire fight is over a flying spaghetti monster and a goat fucker. It's sickening how so much death and destruction can be fought in the name of entities no one can see, hear, or touch. The people of both nations are just pawns for the Zionists and the Qatari billionaires.
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« on: January 03, 2015, 04:00:18 AM »
>Don't scratch phone or crack screen
>Sell on eBay for mucho dinero when a new phone you want comes out
>Still have $100 extra left for video games or w/e
This is what I've been doing since 2006.
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« on: January 03, 2015, 03:57:25 AM »
Jaco Pastorius died because he got in a bar fight.
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« on: January 03, 2015, 03:51:37 AM »
Well America plays a part as to why the Middle-East is such as shithole. Before the 40s, it wasn't all that bad and throughout history we saw many great societies flourish and intellect advance. America's financing of coups and toppling of strong leaders in favor of weak puppets lead to various groups wanting to take power because they think they're stronger and then this government doesn't have America there to back them up until their interests (oil) is at stake
I very seriously doubt america had much to do w/ the fall of islamic asia from a cultural beacon to what amounts to theocratic lunacy. Especially considering it happened centuries before.
I'm not going to argue that the state of Islamic Asia deteriorated as the Ottomans lost power, but you can't possibly deny that American intervention in the Middle-East during the 50s didn't somehow influence the radicalization of Muslims.
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« on: January 03, 2015, 03:46:47 AM »
You provide consent by using the services and living in government territory. Like I said, reluctant use is still use.
Nobody is going to shoot you for not paying taxes, and to continue to refer to imprisonment as kidnapping is just silly. You're not stupid, so I know you recognize the legality of enforcing law and order. All this keeps coming back to is you saying it's illegal, which is just not true. Wrong? Maybe. Argue that. That's compelling, and I'm inclined to agree that the government should not take much of what it does.
That's what I'm arguing. I'm not thinking in terms of legality. I believe in a society without government, and by proxy without laws. And if you don't pay your taxes, you'll be imprisoned (someone will come to your house, handcuff you, and take you there--kidnapping). If you resist being handcuffed and taken to a cell, you'll most likely be shot. I feel as if both our philosophies come from the same root but that we just have different views of the reality that we live in. I can accept that.
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« on: January 02, 2015, 07:03:14 AM »
I like that subreddit because you have to have a basic understanding of geopolitics and history to get the humor.
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