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Messages - BrenMan 94
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1501
« on: November 28, 2014, 01:40:04 AM »
It'd be more accurate to call that forum "The Purge".
1502
« on: November 28, 2014, 01:38:05 AM »
I would say Teddy Roosevelt, but he's directly responsible for getting Woodrow Wilson elected, so I can't really nominate him.
1503
« on: November 28, 2014, 01:35:38 AM »
Pretty sure this is just a PR move so Europoors think that their governments are doing something.
1504
« on: November 28, 2014, 01:32:58 AM »
When I was homeschooled, my curriculum used uber Christian textbooks (yes, including science textbooks). It still fit the national and state (SC) standards, but taught completely different shit than the public school textbooks (I remember that one of the science books was dedicated solely to rebutting the theory of Evolution).
Despite that, the math and English textbooks were far better than public school equivalents, and the curriculum also taught geography and logic; two things that I would've never been taught in middle school.
1505
« on: November 28, 2014, 01:26:32 AM »
There were mistakes on all sides. Enough for me to conclude that the blame doesn't fall solely on the police or the kid.
It's just tragic, plain and simple.
1506
« on: November 28, 2014, 01:22:56 AM »
How much is the lowest you've seen?
$2.49 is the lowest around here
1.07/litre.
Wow. That's still US$3.57 per gallon. Why is gas so hella expensive up there?
1507
« on: November 26, 2014, 07:13:47 PM »
Progressivism: 90
Socialism: 12.5
Tenderness: 40.625
Your test scores indicate that you are an open-minded ultra-progressive; this is the political profile one might associate with a journalist. It appears that you are skeptical towards religion, and have a generally optimistic attitude towards humanity in general.
Your attitudes towards economics appear laissez-faire capitalist, and combined with your social attitudes this creates the picture of someone who would generally be described as a libertarian.
To round out the picture you appear to be, political preference aside, a considerate radical egalitarian with many strong convictions.
This concludes our analysis; we hope you found your results accurate, useful, and interesting.
1508
« on: November 26, 2014, 07:08:36 PM »
gg free Britannia
1509
« on: November 26, 2014, 07:08:03 PM »
>Implying you can't have both
1510
« on: November 26, 2014, 07:07:21 PM »
- Anti-capitalist sentiment
- Growing police state
- Gay marriage (and government-sanctioned marriage in general)
- Taxation
- The military-industrial complex
- Statism
1511
« on: November 26, 2014, 07:31:48 AM »
Of course.
1512
« on: November 26, 2014, 04:20:47 AM »
Probably just another Xbox One controller, if they're on sale.
1513
« on: November 26, 2014, 04:17:10 AM »
The protests are understandable in that this was an indictment hearing, not a trial. Given the controversy, you'd think that Wilson would've at least been indicted.
Although, the prosecution was trying him for murder, not man slaughter or excessive use of force, so maybe that's why he wasn't indicted.
1514
« on: November 26, 2014, 04:15:46 AM »
Is this about that kid who bought cigars and was then shot by the police for no reason? Seems like a pretty justified reason to riot.
He stole the cigar wraps.
1515
« on: November 25, 2014, 06:11:19 PM »
I almost recommend GTA V on next gen. First person mode is a blast.
current gen*
GTA V is not out on next gen, because next gen is like ten years away.
More like five, at this rate.
1516
« on: November 25, 2014, 06:10:23 PM »
"Yeah, I got my mom/dad to pre-order it for me the other day."
*cringe*
1517
« on: November 25, 2014, 06:07:30 PM »
Mine has to be holographic. I just tend to do better when the reticle is slightly transparent, but not so simplified that it's hard to see in certain environments (red dot is hard for me to see in the snow).
1518
« on: November 25, 2014, 03:44:58 PM »
The system? No. But can people working within that system be exploitative? Absolutely.
It's irrelevant whether or not capitalism, as a system, fosters that behavior.
1519
« on: November 25, 2014, 02:37:52 PM »
Well, I found Meta. 
1520
« on: November 25, 2014, 02:21:13 PM »
I keep trying to sign up and it won't let me.
1521
« on: November 25, 2014, 10:20:52 AM »
Meanwhile Comcast is the devil for making Netflix pay for more infrastructure so that they can deliver higher quality streams.
that scenario is different, though.
Data isn't being prioritized in that scenario, either, it's just going down a different road.
Imagine the internet as a highway. Netflix is taking the bus lane.
In that scenario, Comcast is charging a different price to Netflix, something that would be prohibitive to a smaller company.
They're charging a different price to Cogent, Netflix's ISP, who are in turn charging Netflix, because of the additional infrastructure that's having to be built specifically for Netflix traffic.
Seems like a cop-out on Comcast's part, though. Instead of "our customers need more bandwidth, we should beef up our network" they go with "our customers use a lot of Netflix, we'd better charge Netflix more."
That's definitely a valid argument. If they had gone the Time Warner route and negotiated with Netflix to share the infrastructure costs, this whole issue would be non-existent.
1522
« on: November 25, 2014, 10:14:28 AM »
Meanwhile Comcast is the devil for making Netflix pay for more infrastructure so that they can deliver higher quality streams.
that scenario is different, though.
Data isn't being prioritized in that scenario, either, it's just going down a different road.
Imagine the internet as a highway. Netflix is taking the bus lane.
In that scenario, Comcast is charging a different price to Netflix, something that would be prohibitive to a smaller company.
They're charging a different price to Cogent, Netflix's ISP, who are in turn charging Netflix, because of the additional infrastructure that's having to be built specifically for Netflix traffic.
1523
« on: November 25, 2014, 10:11:24 AM »
Verby, Comms, Capiton, and Camnator
1524
« on: November 25, 2014, 10:08:45 AM »
It's less of police being trigger happy so much as it is them being increasingly belligerent
1525
« on: November 25, 2014, 10:07:30 AM »
Meanwhile Comcast is the devil for making Netflix pay for more infrastructure so that they can deliver higher quality streams.
that scenario is different, though.
Data isn't being prioritized in that scenario, either, it's just going down a different road. Imagine the internet as a highway. Netflix is taking the bus lane.
1526
« on: November 25, 2014, 07:45:35 AM »
The way I see it:
>13yo begs parents for $60 to buy Destiny™
>Tells them how you can become legend™
>Won't shut the fuck up about it
>Parents give in
>Kid plays game for a week
>"wtf is this shit"
>Sees that AC4, FC4 and MCC are coming out
>Begs parents for more money
>lolno
>Stuck playing Destiny™
1527
« on: November 25, 2014, 07:41:01 AM »
1528
« on: November 25, 2014, 07:39:07 AM »
I have a hotspot on my phone so if sites I want to visit are ever blocked I just use that.
1529
« on: November 25, 2014, 07:35:21 AM »
Meanwhile Comcast is the devil for making Netflix pay for more infrastructure so that they can deliver higher quality streams.
1530
« on: November 24, 2014, 10:53:29 AM »
Both have the power to manipulate the geopolitical spectrum. I'd say that they're about even.
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