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Off Topic / Re: Why Being Gay is a Choice

« on: October 21, 2012, 03:40:54 PM »

You only cited one news source

I recalled actual events that happened before me

another FTR point:  it's never a good idea to cite personal experiences as a source unless you're someone who did an actual conclusive study with research and found a strong conclusion.

i'm pointing these out because these little tidbits i'm telling you are right.  god help you if you ever write a research paper in high school/college, you're going to fail miserably as you go on and on about personal experiences.

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Off Topic / Re: Why Being Gay is a Choice

« on: October 21, 2012, 03:38:11 PM »

How do I cite real life events that I witnessed

another FTR point:  it's never a good idea to cite personal experiences as a source unless you're someone who did an actual conclusive study with research and found a strong conclusion.

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Off Topic / Re: How to prove to yourself God exists

« on: October 21, 2012, 03:37:00 PM »

Have you been dead before?

yeah, i saw a tunnel with a light at the end of it!

oh wait that was just remaining brain activity during the death until i was resuscitated successfully.

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Off Topic / Re: Why Being Gay is a Choice

« on: October 21, 2012, 03:34:33 PM »

Oh for pete's sake. You're using a news souce? You know people are usually bribed large sums of money in order to lie and have the station gain huge ratings?

for the record: a site like CNN can be used as a news source.  if it was something like fox news or NBC then it would be right to question the background of the article's host corporation.  CNN can be considered at least slightly less biased in both directions towards liberal/conservatives.

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Games / Re: Minecraft; Version 1.3.2 released, mainly bugfixes!

« on: October 21, 2012, 03:22:00 PM »

This, seriously, why should i be sorry for some naive fat guy with a god complex?

he doesn't necessarily have a god complex.  he doesn't show any tendencies to think he's more important than everyone else, otherwise we would all be angrier at him collectively.

he's just overrated, is all.  he doesn't deserve much attention and neither does minecraft.  while it's a fun game, it's not much more innovative than any random map generator with either creative sandbox ability or objective survival goals.

what kind of sense would that make

if that's seriously the case I'm going to kick jeb in the teeth

also another reason why the game is heavily overrated.  it's made in java ffs, they keep dishing out content, some of it useful/some of it useless, and every new piece of content breaks some other part of the game.

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Off Topic / Re: Why Being Gay is a Choice

« on: October 21, 2012, 03:17:27 PM »

okay, i think everyone should go ahead and leave the thread now.  please leave No2mad2 to just run around with his hair on fire believing his silly opinions, and please do not attempt to correct him, there is no salvation for him.

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Off Topic / Re: What's wrong with the world and America

« on: October 21, 2012, 03:16:05 PM »

Agreed in that we need to remove the party system
Agreed
Agreed

for clarification, the fact that we have political parties isn't the problem, it's that we have just two gigantic super-inflated political parties that support extremely contrasting ideas, both sides of which are very detrimental to the country and possibly the world.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”

- Alexis de Tocqueville, not really an important quote but just something to think about.

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Off Topic / Re: Why Being Gay is a Choice

« on: October 21, 2012, 03:12:37 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_balls

oh. nvm that.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blue+balls

???

that's the same thing.

you just went beyond full handicap.  in fact, i think you have surpassed anything so stupid in the history of this damnable planet.

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Off Topic / Re: How to prove to yourself God exists

« on: October 21, 2012, 03:09:45 PM »

If I pray to win the lottery and I do is that an act of god?

yup, and if you don't, oh well, he still loves you because that's all that matters!!

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Off Topic / Re: What's wrong with the world and America

« on: October 21, 2012, 03:00:21 PM »

the major problem in america is the completely useless political system we have here.  even as a representative democracy we're doing horrible because all we have is the really stuffty republican party and the equally really stuffty democratic party.  call me a stupid edgy kid for being so hipster and hating mainstream politics, but i still think it's unfair that we have only two parties representing all of america and they are the only ones who get any form of attention in the media.  speaking of the media, the fact that we have politically-biased media again further ruins any chance of outside parties receiving attention.

moving on from the media, the united states needs to maintain an absolute separation of church and state.  as a nation of immigrants, this is the best option as there are outlying religions in america that will not agree with any form of government action that is supported by, caused by or in favor of any religious sect.  feel free to practice your religion as defined in the constitution, but it cannot be in politics.

furthermore, there needs to be an absolute wall between corporations and government.  big corporations receive too much love from congress.  some of our members in congress are complete bum-licking morons too, which is why we see people like todd akin making comments like "women can just shut down pregnancies in legitimate rape" and people like lamar smith who just blindly push for loosely-worded bills that favor copyright-enforcing-happy corporations (note: the problem is not that i am in favor of piracy more so that the bill can allow for really stupid cases of "copyright", i.e. uploading a home video with music on it and getting it taken down).

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Off Topic / Re: How to prove to yourself God exists

« on: October 21, 2012, 02:50:10 PM »

hahaha i lost it at this part

this is exactly the problem with christians and almost all other theistic religions. they link random, unconnected events to spirituality and then try and use it as some sort of proof of their godand then these two parts. the good old, "oh so you didn't have any spiritual experience, you obviously didn't have an open mind or weren't sincere!!


this isn't an exercise to prove that god exists. it's an excercise to prove how creative the mind can be in attaching random and unconnected justifications to normal events

what the forget did you just loving say?  i'll have you know that the fact that my coffee didn't spill this morning when i knocked the cup over was a work of god.

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Off Topic / Re: AMD CrossFireX or Nvidia SLI

« on: October 21, 2012, 02:49:15 PM »

two of the 670s.

the fact that they're overclocked by the manufacturers probably puts them on par with the 680, as a 670 is just a slightly less 680 but can easily match it in performance.

OP: try going with this 670 instead:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162109&name=Desktop-Graphics-Cards
EVGA cards tend to just stick one little fan on the back which IMO isn't as effective as something like this, with two large fans near the GPU itself.  the only drawbacks i can see at quick glance are that these come at 2GB of dedicated VRAM per card, but then again 2GB of VRAM per card is plenty since you'll have two of them anyway.

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Off Topic / Re: Why Being Gay is a Choice

« on: October 21, 2012, 02:46:48 PM »

how modern

probably within at least the last half-century.

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Off Topic / Re: Why Being Gay is a Choice

« on: October 21, 2012, 02:42:22 PM »

"Choice" is a terrible word to describe it because it makes you think that someone just woke up and decided "I will be gay now".

"hey you know, maybe I should try out that whole 'homolove' thing..."

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Off Topic / Re: Why Being Gay is a Choice

« on: October 21, 2012, 02:40:13 PM »

Because people used to have to hide it. Being gay is much more accepted than it was a hundred years ago.

Because gay people aren't persecuted now as much they would have been in the past?

good points, nevermind.