To be fair, perspectives like this are inevitable in countries like Oman where kids are literally afraid of blue skies.
Not that majority of world conflicts nowadays aren't caused by the Old World's inability to move past primitive ethnic/social mindsets though. If we could just get rid of fucking Shia's or Sunni's or whatever the fuck and just get them all to be Muslims there wouldn't be conflict to speak of for the past how many decades.

But I guess that's kind of wrong to say because ethnic/social boundaries have been drawn before in the West what with Ireland. Uneducated people who have these genocidal ideologies just won't all kill themselves off yet for god knows why.

Could this be another Russian Afghanistan, perhaps? He's about to go against a shit load of factions. Conventional warfare will never work.

It'd turn into an ongoing insurgency at least rather than "these areas are ISIS land", it wouldn't solve the crisis but it would stabilize it.

Russia isn't ready to deal with an ongoing insurgency though, and everyone knows that. IDK how else this situation can be improved in the long run. Radicals know now that if they just wait long enough for the big boys to get tired they can just seize up land immediately upon their departure. And with all of the good Muslims dying or leaving the area this shit just gets harder to reestablish any actual order.

Russian intelligence isn't afraid to kill terrorists though, and the world's a host different in Mesopotamia compared to the Kush when it comes to finding people.

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Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on September 23, 2015, 11:45:01 AM

I wonder why he didn't just drop them off at a shelter.

Because killing them (quickly) does no harm and doesn't put more burden on shelters which already have plenty to worry about.
Really he just fat fingered a task that otherwise doesn't have anything wrong with it (other than not spaying his dog)

Shepherd pups are usually quickly adopted, and no, it's definitely not legal or okay to kill your dogs.

I'd say it's definitely okay if done humanely (I don't think a puppies skull has good chances of surviving a .38).

> Humanely

> lining them up and shooting them in the head

gg

so its not clean WAHHH
as long as they die before they even know whats going on

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Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on September 23, 2015, 11:45:01 AM

I wonder why he didn't just drop them off at a shelter.

Because killing them (quickly) does no harm and doesn't put more burden on shelters which already have plenty to worry about.
Really he just fat fingered a task that otherwise doesn't have anything wrong with it (other than not spaying his dog)

Shepherd pups are usually quickly adopted, and no, it's definitely not legal or okay to kill your dogs.

I'd say it's definitely okay if done humanely (I don't think a puppies skull has good chances of surviving a .38).

Comp 2 is literally the same class I took in high school and I think I might be over qualified for it considering our instructor had to tell the class how to use paragraphs and there are some real empty heads in there.

Trig is literally a waste of my time because I was taking Calc 1 in high school but failed. then they didn't take my trig credit so I either had to take two math courses concurrently (which would have been 19 hours)  or have my time wasted with concepts I already know. The work is mindlessly tedius and designed with the instructors convenience in mind. All work so far has been taken online and graded automatically and the instructor only teaches actual trig at most 40 minutes a week. I feel sorry for someone who actually is tryi jg to learn trig here because the instructor is getting paid to have us teach ourselves.

Skills for Academic Success is like every high school peptalk about college lumped into a class period and it makes me want to cut myself it drains me of so much energy. The gist of the class is "suck companies' dicks for internships and by the way I hope you enjoy math because your remaining 3 years here are going to be nothing but it".

College Physics isn't bad, Im only taking it because my credit didn't transfer so I already took the class. The book is pretty useless because its wall of text for what is a mathematical subject. The professor is pretty good at answering questions and concerns and unlike trig actually bothers to teach people with his slotted time. The lab portions of this class are pretty chill, they have us apply relevant concepts and they don't waste our time (you can leave as soon as you finish).

Introduction to Java has been amazing. The teacher is a really nice guy who's good at simplifying course content for digestion. The book is really hands on and cooperation between lectures, assigned reading, and lab work all help bring it together and wpah what the hell I'm actually learning new things?

So basically I'm here full time when I only actually need two subjects for my major. If I could drop all of the useless classes, not have to start paying debts for dropping below fulltime, and get a part time job I so would.

Quote from: Fuddy-duddy on September 22, 2015, 08:15:42 PM

He fucking won the popular vote, but it didn't matter.

I know--some states are more populous than others. I really just don't care. If having a popular vote means that states like California would get more of a "say", so be it, if you ask me.

It's not really about that some states get more of a "say" - it's that the campaigning and addressing issues would be focused on the Top 10, maybe Top 15 most populated states and what they need, rather than the nation as a whole.

It already is to a good degree, and that's not a bad thing. There is absolutely no reason that the interests of a smaller group of people should be weighed evenly with the interests of a larger group of people.

"The abuse of power of the majority" is a horrid defense because all defending against that does is give opportunity for the dynamic to happen in reverse, where decisions are made in the interest of a smaller group of people.

My AmGov teacher loved to ask us why we would ever want to sacrifice the value of our vote and I could only tell her it's because I have the controversial belief that my opinion is no more valuable than someone in San Diego's.

play hearthstone

And because of that, I don't think you should be allowed to access any of the websites that you block ads on.

In the end content producers have to come to the terms of the users, and not the reverse.

Quote from: eggsalad on September 22, 2015, 03:17:07 PM

There is a very clear distinction to be made between ads that, other than page loading time (even though they load after media usually), at no time prevent the consumption of media and ads that need to be circumvented through means of adblock before the media can be accessed.

One of these makes itself visible and lets interested customers learn more if they so desire, the other asserts itself as the gatekeeper of the video that you need to either listen to or circumvent in order to get to what you want.

There's also a clear distinction between thirty seconds and ten minutes. Most people who watch television in America sit through ten minutes of commercials when they watch their shows. And no one really gives a fuck.

and you're whining about thirty seconds

No, I'm choosing not to cooperate with dumb advertisements. Just like how I don't use mediums that have models as ridiculous as TV.

Quote from: eggsalad on September 22, 2015, 03:07:24 PM

The alternative to non-intrusive ads is not paid subscription.

Most people consider ALL ads to be "intrusive".

I don't consider any ads to be intrusive.

Thirty seconds is NOTHING.

There is a very clear distinction to be made between ads that, other than page loading time (even though they load after media usually), at no time prevent the consumption of media and ads that need to be circumvented through means of adblock before the media can be accessed.

One of these makes itself visible and lets interested customers learn more if they so desire, the other asserts itself as the gatekeeper of the video that you need to either listen to or circumvent in order to get to what you want.

Don't forget to whitelist this place though.

hopefully my laziness to explore any adblocking methods on my phone cancels out my laziness to let global do its work

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Quote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 22, 2015, 02:47:14 PM

Patenting medicine really shouldn't be a thing.

It's supposed to be an incentive to innovate medicine. Whether it works or not? I have no idea.

It doesn't.

Think of it less as creating incentive as it is preventing the destruction of incentive. Without patents competition could literally just steal the profits out from under you and you are left with the bill.

Quote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 22, 2015, 02:47:14 PM

Patenting medicine really shouldn't be a thing.

Why take the burden of developing new things if someone would be able to utilize your findings and make the same product as you but charge less because they weren't the ones investing in research?

They want to show very little, because the game was developed with large scope but little depth, and once you see something once, there's no joy in seeing it again. As is characteristic of sandbox, and Bethesda games in particular.

Nobody is disagreeing with you; but this doesn't make FDA policy optimal, or automatically mean "the heavier the better". It takes about thirty months for a generic drug to pass through the ANDA scheme. This is, however you look at it, rather ridiculous. Especially since generic drugs of Daraprim are used all around the world as an antimalarial.

I'm no pharmacist so I don't know the intricacies between the same drug being used for two characteristically different conditions, but that's just my ignorance so I guess I'll have to take your word for it here.