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Off Topic / Re: This generation and politics

« on: February 01, 2016, 02:43:19 PM »

It's true that voting can be seen as more of a right than a responsibility, though it should most definitely be treated as the latter. This is the person who's in charge of making the decisions that are more than likely going to change your life in one way or another. I think it's pretty important that you have a say in the choices that this person makes. Not even just the president either; every seat holder. Participating in government and staying informed really is one of the most important parts of being a citizen. Of any country, I'd wager.

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Off Topic / Re: This generation and politics

« on: February 01, 2016, 11:14:59 AM »

Why is democracy so hard? Just ged rid of the representatives and make like www.vote.gov and all citizens can vote on all stuff from their couch, not just elections but also bills themselves.

Representatives tend to be a lot more experienced and knowledged in government than the general population. That and, like I said before, fair representation per state is important here. This would work fine if we were just a smaller country with just one blob of people that generally agrees on the same things, but it doesn't really work like that, unfortunately.

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Off Topic / Re: This generation and politics

« on: February 01, 2016, 10:25:49 AM »

looks like what we need is a corporate takeover

Yes, exactly! Let's just make the gap between the upper class and lower classes even bigger! 

( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o)

It is pretty dirty. I've heard some states weren't really reporting accurate voter turnouts, but I guess I can't be too surprised. Humans are disgusting.

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Off Topic / Re: loving stuff climate

« on: February 01, 2016, 10:23:21 AM »

Oh, damn. If only we'd have seen this coming from the piles upon piles of measurements, charts, and other information produced by weather and climate scientists and specialists over the past twenty loving years.

It's pretty bad, though. Tempatures in Ohio are just not even trying to be consistent anymore. The past few days were: 20, 30, 20, 20, 50???, then... what, 30 something again? No snow from all of November to December, then suddenly a forgetton of snow in the middle of January... and it lasts for a week. Lovely.

weather and climate arent interchangeable

This though.

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Off Topic / Re: This generation and politics

« on: February 01, 2016, 10:19:25 AM »

everyone knows the government rigs the vote. elections are merely to make it seem like we matter. -_____-

But it's not the government rigging them in most cases, it's big businesses.

electoral college

you're voting for the guys who say they'll vote for the guy you voted for

The Electoral College is voting, the popular vote doesn't matter

The college is created in a way to represent states based on their population, so that Rhode Island doesn't receive staggeringly less representation than a state like Texas or California. Still, I agree that it's not the best system, and that popular vote would definitely be a better idea to use now that technology advances have gone bast the barrier that was the difficulty of counting individual votes. It's hard to change the entire system like this, unfortunately, but abstaining from voting is not the solution here.

EDIT: Actually, no, that's wrong. If it were up to popular vote, the more populated states would sweep the election every time, especially if those states learn closer to one party than another. It's problematic if that happens. States should definitely receive fair representation here.

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Off Topic / Re: This generation and politics

« on: February 01, 2016, 09:59:03 AM »

like our votes matter anymore

They absolutely do matter! It's the fact that everyone thinks this that makes it seem that way...

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Off Topic / Re: Anime and Manga Megathread

« on: January 30, 2016, 06:38:45 AM »

I'm on the second episode of Erased and it's good as hell

It's ludicrously good. Definitely #1 this season. I love the concept behind it.

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Off Topic / Re: Would You forget A Clone Of Yourself?

« on: January 29, 2016, 03:16:43 AM »

I would totally think about it, but realistically, I couldn't be any more than butt-buddies with myself. A BJ or two, though? Sure.

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Off Topic / Re: Linux on USB questions

« on: January 28, 2016, 03:43:50 AM »

I may be wrong, but from personal experience I don't think #1 is completely true. I've removed a live USB on multiple occasions and the system continues to work just fine.

Same, though the system is gonna cry a little with a few files missing, most likely. Eventually something will break hard enough for the entire thing to just fall apart and give up.

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Off Topic / Re: Linux on USB questions

« on: January 28, 2016, 02:49:49 AM »

I don't really recommend going with Kali as a first either, and I haven't even heard of it before today... If this is your first time using Linux, I'd go with either Ubuntu, Linux Mint (as others have suggested); Elementary, or maybe Manjaro.

forget off

The aggression isn't necessary...

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Off Topic / Re: Whats your easiest subject in school?

« on: January 28, 2016, 02:17:31 AM »

Anything math related, and some science classes, mainly chemistry and physics. Everything else I'm trash at, especially subjects related to language or social studies.

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Off Topic / Re: Desktop Megathread 3 - Post your Desktop/Homescreen!

« on: January 27, 2016, 10:10:22 PM »

yo what the forget page stretch
use a width tag please

Apologies! It used to automatically resize images in the past. Hm...

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Off Topic / Re: Drone Racing League

« on: January 27, 2016, 06:35:32 PM »

pretty cool on its own but it shouldn't be a loving sport

a contest or game in which people do certain physical activities according to a specific set of rules and compete against each other

"Physical activity" encompasses a lot, you know.

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Off Topic / Re: Forum avatars are still stupid?

« on: January 27, 2016, 05:28:32 PM »

something to do with removing the metadata?

It's filesize is too big.

Use something like tinypng to compress it.

Fixed, and you both are close - I indexed the color profile of the image in GIMP, which probably did bring the size down well enough. All is well, thanks.

being helpful: with sheepocalypse

Saw it coming, don't really mind that much.

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Off Topic / Re: Forum avatars are still stupid?

« on: January 27, 2016, 05:24:41 PM »

some people import it into gimp and then export it so idk

That's exactly what I did. :U