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- Mon Sep 26, 2016 9:44 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: who's joining me?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1481
Re: who's joining me?
I won't be watching the debate. I will be self-medicating, though.
- Mon Sep 26, 2016 9:13 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Compulsory unification of opinion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1974
Re: Compulsory unification of opinion
I'm more or less of the same opinion as Spidey on this one. I agree though, patriotism isn't something that should necessarily be legislated.
- Mon Sep 26, 2016 12:55 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Compulsory unification of opinion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1974
Re: Compulsory unification of opinion
So... what exactly are you saying here, Ferno? Posting a link and a single quote from said link doesn't say much. Just asking for clarification on your stance, maybe some thoughts on the matter. I don't like making the comparison, but that's a TB-tier OP. Please elaborate.
- Sun Sep 25, 2016 10:47 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Peddler of lies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2007
Re: Peddler of lies
Hillary is fast approaching the age where senility, Alzheimer's, and dementia become real issues for many people. She is also the age at which my own grandfather suffered a stroke and had to have a quadruple heart bypass. Embolisms are just the tip of the iceberg, although still very real threats ...
- Sun Sep 25, 2016 5:32 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Best possible answer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3179
Re: Best possible answer
But it doesn't change the point that more Americans die as a direct consequence of consuming chicken than from allowing Syrian refugees into the country. True, but as I said I think his qualm was more with the 'fact' that chicken is deadly to eat than the idea that it's generally worse than Syrian ...
- Sun Sep 25, 2016 5:05 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Best possible answer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3179
Re: Best possible answer
"I never inhaled" That's a legitimate distinction to make though, as any smoker worth his salt (and some that aren't) can tell you; the distinction being which type of cancer you're more likely to contract. The simple act of eating the chicken in and of itself isn't what kills. It's the ...
- Sun Sep 25, 2016 4:53 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Peddler of lies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2007
Re: Peddler of lies
What’s the point…who are you going to convince? You don’t even need one hand to count the people on this board who don’t know Trump is a liar. Maybe if we are all lucky, aliens will attack and take over. If Trump gets elected that will never happen, because he'll just build a wall around the planet ...
- Fri Sep 23, 2016 10:54 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: To the democrats that want to disarm us...
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1704
Re: To the democrats that want to disarm us...
Spidey wrote:WTF! They just wanted her TV!
I have to say, I don't own a gun, but if someone broke into my place with the intent of stealing, say, my computer, I have several knives they can have instead.
- Fri Sep 23, 2016 9:47 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Prediction
- Replies: 7
- Views: 378
Re: Prediction
There's a first time for everything.
- Fri Sep 23, 2016 9:17 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Romney Moment
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4607
Re: Romney Moment
What in the hell is nuclear warming?
- Fri Sep 23, 2016 9:16 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: It's that time again... or is it?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2419
Re: It's that time again... or is it?
like Stein views vaccines? Or, like Johnson claims we shouldn't bother addressing climate change because the sun will eventually destroy the earth? I don't approve of Stein's stance on vaccines and her statements regarding that stance, yeah, but then you already knew that because I already said it ...
- Fri Sep 23, 2016 8:27 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: It's that time again... or is it?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2419
Re: It's that time again... or is it?
dude, if you cannot accept change in a political person on controversial issues, or the fact that mostly true is vastly superior to most(including Stein, including Johnson when being evaluated, Clinton still comes out on top), heaven help you finding a political spokesperson for your points of view ...
- Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:01 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Interesting graphic
- Replies: 13
- Views: 898
Re: Interesting graphic
100% of people who are murdered are killed by other people.
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 6:26 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Microsoft is going full retard...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 784
Re: Microsoft is going full retard...
I see… Yea that’s probably because of the huge discount you get on such copies, because they were originally sold in bulk to a manufacturer, and they don’t want to sell at that rate to a single builder. I don’t know, just guessing here. Probably, but at that point they're just being greedy assholes. ...
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 6:19 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: It's that time again... or is it?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2419
Re: It's that time again... or is it?
posting some hack video of spliced together out of context nonsense is more intellectual garbage. Post as much as you wish, it won't convince me of much past your lack of ability to handle the discourse. She said "I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought ...
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:20 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Microsoft is going full retard...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 784
Re: Microsoft is going full retard...
I know. I just think it's a bit shady to say "you can pay for the right to use this but you can't install it on a computer you built."Spidey wrote:If you read carefully, you are still not actually buying the OS, it is still a license.
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:50 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: It's that time again... or is it?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2419
Re: It's that time again... or is it?
can you find her opinion stating she was 'against' it. She was just rather non-committal, as were most politicians. I'm going to repost this, since apparently you missed it the first time around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dY77j6uBHI It's literally the very first issue addressed, and she is ...
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:32 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Microsoft is going full retard...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 784
Re: Microsoft is going full retard...
But no, you can’t buy Windows 7 and treat it like it belongs to you. (well you can…until you get caught) Innocent until proven guilty! :twisted2: Interestingly enough, I found this: Under Microsoft's arcane licensing rules, you can legitimately purchase OEM copies of Windows 7 (any edition). H ...
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 12:45 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Microsoft is going full retard...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 784
Re: Microsoft is going full retard...
Let's just say I paid for that particular OS once in my life and I refuse to spend more money on another brand new "official" copy just because I built a new computer, if you catch my drift.Nightshade wrote:Free?
- Wed Sep 21, 2016 11:16 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Microsoft is going full retard...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 784
Re: Microsoft is going full retard...
I can install whatever I want, I'm still using my "free" copy of Windows 7.
- Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:15 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Best possible answer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3179
Re: Best possible answer
I never said anything about eating. it's supposed to be analogy -- a really poor one at that. This stems from Trump Jr's twitter image asking everyone if they would eat a bowl full of skittles even if three are poisoned; which is of course referring to immigrants. Dumbest thing I ever saw, and of ...
- Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:53 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Best possible answer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3179
Re: Best possible answer
Say, MD.... You're a "millennial," right? The Clinton campaign made this video just for you! http://descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=23280 You'll want to vote for her now, right? ;) If pressed for an answer, I consider myself the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail_Generation ...
- Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:17 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Best possible answer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3179
Re: Best possible answer
Look at it this way. If there were thirty thousand skittles to test, would you have the time to test each and every one? Or would you figure out a way to do it faster? I don't know anyone who would, let alone could , eat thirty thousand skittles all at once, so... why not just test the ones you ...
- Wed Sep 21, 2016 5:24 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Best possible answer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3179
Re: Best possible answer
Why not just test the skittles to see which ones are poison, throw those ones out, and enjoy regular non-poisoned skittles?
- Wed Sep 21, 2016 5:01 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: It's that time again... or is it?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2419
Re: It's that time again... or is it?
I'd love to see a Senate that was, for random example, 40 Dem, 40 GOP, 7 conservative, 4 libertarian, 9 Greens. Then, you'd have real compromise, consensus building and coalition building that actually results in legislation. Random disclaimer aside, I hardly think that would be much different. You ...
- Tue Sep 20, 2016 5:12 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: It's that time again... or is it?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2419
Re: It's that time again... or is it?
Couldn't have said it better myself, TC.tunnelcat wrote:Now if Sanders was still around instead of the poor "choice" the Dems forced upon all of us liberal voters, it would've made it easier to go out and actually vote and not hold our noses doing it.
- Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:32 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: It's that time again... or is it?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2419
Re: It's that time again... or is it?
how so, and in what ways? Please, show some evidence, if possible. Hyperbole, although things aren't going as well as they could. were you paying attention, you might realize that she is in no way, shape or form a traitor, nor a compulsive liar. As I said, this stuff is important enough to your ...
- Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:08 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: It's that time again... or is it?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2419
Re: It's that time again... or is it?
if you are still pondering the viability of Bernie Sanders, who is both CAMPAIGNING for Clinton and not on the ballot in any state in the nation, one has to question whether you are really paying any serious attention to the Presidential race at all. Why even bother to vote if you are that ...
- Tue Sep 20, 2016 3:38 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: It's that time again... or is it?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2419
Re: It's that time again... or is it?
Stein has made some recent statements that border on the seriously delusional. Long ago disqualified as a fake candidate with no real interest in the actual office at hand. Bernie had it right the other day: we need a third party, or maybe more, but those have to be raised from the ground up, not ...
- Tue Sep 20, 2016 2:40 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: It's that time again... or is it?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2419
It's that time again... or is it?
This seasonal thread isn't about any of the usual stuff. I considered it, but I've pretty much covered everything I wanted to in my past seasonal posts. So! This time, given the general flavour of E&C page 1, I'm going with: Who are you voting for (if you plan to vote at all), and why? Personally, I ...
- Thu May 14, 2015 7:32 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: The Notion of Government Sanctioned "Mutual Relationships"
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2559
Re: The Notion of Government Sanctioned "Mutual Relationship
Lets say a muslim wants your boss to paint their car with islamic slogans for their upcoming Eid Al-Fitr and your boss refuses. The press gets hold of it and before you know it business drops off to the point your boss can't stay in business. You of course get fired. Now the whole issue affects you ...
- Thu May 14, 2015 6:01 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: is this what the nation really wants?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 5601
Re: is this what the nation really wants?
Yeah, I'm not too fond of some of that technology they're putting in new cars right now either. Software upgrades? EEEEEK! Think of driving your reliable PC after Microsoft or Apple runs a borked update. And don't pass judgement on the engineer just yet. The NTSB is still investigating. Last time I ...
- Thu May 07, 2015 8:53 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Here's a thing...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 423
Here's a thing...
I'm just going to leave this here for now: [youtube]mzWnS4F6_Wc[/youtube] http://blog.thecornellreview.com/2015/05/01/mayday-mayday-student-protesters-take-stage-at-cornell-presidents-farewell-party-jazz-band-plays-on/ I'm far too tired and appalled by this sort of sophistry to even begin to form a ...
- Mon May 04, 2015 10:25 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Mama Bear
- Replies: 77
- Views: 5119
Re: Mama Bear
http://puu.sh/hBUdM/ac8e89f44e.png You do want to handle your children. You do want to control them to some degree. You don't want to use them. I think manipulation in this sense is a neutral enough word to use, and in that light is acceptable. One could argue that the 'threat' (promise or ...
- Mon May 04, 2015 4:46 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Mama Bear
- Replies: 77
- Views: 5119
Re: Mama Bear
I find it interesting that most people here seem to think that physical punishment can be warranted at times, and may even be necessary, yet vision is unwilling to accept that it is ever anything aside from uncivilised bad parenting for idiots and morons. His words, not mine. It's not always the ...
- Sat May 02, 2015 4:40 am
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Mama Bear
- Replies: 77
- Views: 5119
Re: Mama Bear
Why isn't passive resistance listed along with logic, bribes, or threats? Mainly because from everything I've read about passive resistance, it's used against those in authority, not by those in authority. Actually I'm pretty sure in some instances you could say it's used by those in authority ...
- Fri May 01, 2015 10:16 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Mama Bear
- Replies: 77
- Views: 5119
Re: Mama Bear
Great advice, if you want to be restricted to a world where morality is defined by physical pain. Lake of Fire anyone? How's that biblical morality working out for us? Nice try, except that I never once said it had to be physical, and I don't buy into that lake of fire nonsense any more than you do ...
- Fri May 01, 2015 5:18 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Mama Bear
- Replies: 77
- Views: 5119
Re: Mama Bear
Vision, you do realise that punishment only works if it hurts, right? The original latin word that led to 'punishment' means 'pain'. Pretty telling, I think. My parents beat the hell out of me as a kid. Did they go overboard? Yeah, probably, but in some ways I think I turned out better than I would ...
- Sat Apr 25, 2015 2:09 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: Shut your dumb mouths, anti-vaxxers
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1991
Re: Shut your dumb mouths, anti-vaxxers
Well, we try, Spidey, but that's a lot of clever titles to come up with, and we're busy people with non-dumb decisions to make.
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:15 pm
- Forum: Ethics and Commentary
- Topic: We Lucky Molecules
- Replies: 3
- Views: 366
Re: We Lucky Molecules
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