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Jeff250

There are things that were commonly accepted hundreds of years ago that we now know are morally wrong. It is an interesting exercise to think about what are we are doing now that people hundreds of years in the future will think is morally wrong. I think that killing animals for meat is a strong con...

Jeff250

I believe that killing animals will be one of those things that hundreds of years from now kids in school will be taught about how horrible people in the year 2016 were for doing it. I don't think it will be because we will have become all that much more morally enlightened by then, but by then, I ...

Jeff250

I believe that killing animals will be one of those things that hundreds of years from now kids in school will be taught about how horrible people in the year 2016 were for doing it. I don't think it will be because we will have become all that much more morally enlightened by then, but by then, I s...

Jeff250

Sorry, I just can't figure out what all the hoopla is about weed. I felt like a zoned out and an utterly unproductive lump of flesh just sitting around wasting my life, and there's really not much of that left to waste anymore. Thinking about anything or doing anything was practically impossible. A...

Jeff250

callmeslick wrote:this one keeps coming to mind:
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Sadly the originator of the image and its poster may both be victim to its effects as well as the plotted line isn't even a function (it clearly violates the vertical line test).

Jeff250

But remember, twice in the past, the second banana has actually won the election, Bush W. in 2000 and Reagan in 1980. It's rare, but it's happened, both times with the Republican candidate. It will probably come down to the debates and third party candidate spoilers that ultimately decide who's the...

Jeff250

callmeslick wrote:for those who say I never congratulate repubs

To be fair though, you're complimenting him for adopting a Democrat viewpoint, so you're basically just giving yourself a pat on the back.

Jeff250

Thunderbunny wrote:[...]

But couldn't the same be said for woodchip attacking Obama but not attacking Bush? I'd like to see an end to hypocrisy on both sides.

Jeff250

Conscious act of choosing where to live doesn’t count? edit: Ha! Ok I see, I misunderstood what you said…probably because the actions of water vs. rapists is an irrelevant point…and didn’t think that was what you meant. The first act is really the only relevant action here, because if you understan...

Jeff250

Thats right, blame the victims. At what point does this become an issue of personal responsibility? If you live on a floodplain, and you are warned of the dangers but still live there anyway, why should the Federal Government take my tax dollars to help you? I the same vein, why should I have my ta...

Jeff250

Nope, not all slick and that is where your argument falls apart. Until I see universal agreement and no favoritism in the way research money is allocated, I consider the man made warming argument as flawed. More like until the Republican party finally changes its position on the matter. If the two ...

Jeff250

I think the confusion comes from language. For instance, there are Nazi beliefs (Hitler, eugenics, holocaust), and if you espouse those beliefs, then you are a Nazi. But the belief that Nazism is wrong, that in a weaker sense can be called a Nazi belief insofar as it is a belief concerning Nazis. Bu...

Jeff250

It's organized and people have regular meetings to talk about it's tenants - so how is it different from other religions - more specifically what exempts it from your "cult" criteria? This is why I think it matters whether you capitalize the S and the H or not. There are a lot of people w...

Jeff250

snoopy wrote:
Grendel wrote:Kind of stating the obvious. Every organized religion is a cult in my eyes and many of them declare non-believers outlaws.
...Just curious... does that make secular humanism a cult?

I think it depends on whether you capitalize the S and the H or not.

Jeff250

Ah, a specific ID just to vote ? That's stupid when almost everyone already has a government issued ID. Just spend a little more money to make divers license/id cards more easily accessible to the 1% that don't have one. If they want you to have an ID to vote, then they should give you a suitable I...

Jeff250

ATI/AMD video cards have always had shitty linux drivers (even shittier than their Windows drivers). If you use (or think you might ever want to use) linux, then you just don't buy that crap.

Jeff250

If anyone was as curious as I was as to why there are only 99 state legislative chambers, it turns out that Nebraska has a unicameral legislature.

Jeff250

The first link isn't actually a download. It's just an article about a fix that is included in the download provided by the second link.

Jeff250

This might be the one: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3161647 I had good luck with it on a machine I updated today, and unlike previously proposed fixes which appear to only decrease the scan time each month by installing the very updates you're scanning for, this one actually describes itse...

Jeff250

Even though my ISP gives me a /64, my router still makes me "port forward" for the addresses to be publicly visible. I'm wondering if this is the norm.

Jeff250

If it's just a media center machine and it's behind NAT, then installing Windows updates isn't really that important. Just don't use Internet Explorer.

Jeff250

You're a classy guy Woodchip.

Jeff250

Hillary is not a neocon, and you can provide little or no evidence of any confluence with any major figure in that movement. Yes, some are supporting her in this election out of fear around Trump's temperment, but every last one of them has assured us that she in NO WAY agrees with their world-view...

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The midwest, by the way, just got a big shakeup from that ad Kasich just ran, stating, " if Trump wins, you better hope someone is still there to save you" Pretty stark stuff, from a fellow Republican. Kasich aired that in November. He dropped out of the race a long time ago. :P At this p...

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the reason I asked was that he essentially doesn't HAVE one, that I can tell from any Libertarian party source Did you ask them to spend a week summarizing his foreign policy for you while you went fishing too? Hillary Clinton is a neocon, and neoconservativism has been proven to be a failed ideolo...

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Ferno wrote:Looks like this thread is done.

Fortunately Vander handled it like a pro.

Jeff250

You're still holding Gary Johnson to inconsistent and unrealistic standards. This time you're expecting a DBB member to spend a week writing up his foreign policy for you, which even if he did, you'd find some way to dismiss it in a few sentences anyways? (If you spend a week writing up Hillary Clin...

Jeff250

I was hoping to see someone counter with an actual list of positives, as opposed to the 'look at him/her' that seems to be the flavor of political exchange far too often. But I would like to have this conversation with someone who can evaluate candidates consistently and fairly. Can you do that? Ga...

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which is where the Dem platform stands, at this moment. But it isn't where Hillary Clinton stands. I suspect she might know that marijuana should be legalized, but instead of standing for what's right, she is taking the politically expedient position instead. The corruption was quite typical, as mu...

Jeff250

I couldn't find enough details about the story to really come to a definite position on the matter. The tl;dr seems to be that, in 1999, New Mexico prisoners who participated in a prison riot were sent to a Virginia supermax prison that many claimed had too harsh of conditions. And from what I can t...

Jeff250

I can't help but picture the author of that article having one of those crazy walls in his office with a picture of Gary Johnson in the center of it. As a simple sanity check, if Gary Johnson's presidential campaigns are really in the Koch brothers' pockets, then why haven't they given any money to ...

Jeff250

Nightshade wrote:Is this total falsehood?

And I guess since more people die in car accidents than by Muslim extremists, you're going to have to change your posting habits too, huh? Don't be a hypocrite.

Jeff250

According to recent market events, the pound ended up being less against the US dollar when the brexit vote came in, and the canadian dollar followed the pound in decline; albiet not as sharp. CAD is still doing better versus USD now than it was at the beginning of the month! It's nothing to worry ...

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Krom wrote:If you had read the first line, you would have noticed the article was written for the Associated Press and not MSN.

Is MSN even the same thing as MSNBC? MSN is the thing that people who don't know how to change their Internet Explorer home page read.

Jeff250

And because of the Brexit vote, the canadian currency just took a nosedive. Now it's more expensive for me to do business with the states. I think it's more accurate to say that USD took an upswing rather than CAD took a dive (for instance, the CAD exchange rate versus most other currencies hasn't ...

Jeff250

You can discuss why we have rules about flamebait, but regardless, we do have rules against that. That more than includes calling the victims of a shooting cowards just days after the tragedy.

Jeff250

What a sad misinterpretation. All I said was that it was too bad that a couple of the gays didn't have guns...and you in your infinite wisdom thought I was calling them cowards. What is cowardly is you acting like god because you have the mod power and use it when you don't like what someone says. ...

Jeff250

Agreed. But might there might be a way to optimize the system by reducing the weight of clear outliers while minimally increasing the weight of target age/gender/race groups? Perhaps a mixture of profiling and randomization? Let's take mass shootings for example: clearly there have been few to no w...

Jeff250

The problem is as soon as you optimize for a certain race, then you're creating a weakness that your adversary can exploit by sending someone who is of a different race than the one you're optimizing for, making you even more vulnerable. Since people can't really change their race, then some think t...

Jeff250

woodchip wrote:So does the Koran mean we can't have butt sex with women

It's at the very least a common interpretation of the Bible.

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