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[Jul. 16th, 2009|07:07 pm] |
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What is your favorite animal? Elaborations appreciated. |
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| Inspired by a sci-fi miniseries I'm watching |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|06:03 pm] |
An alien species comes to Earth and demands 10% of the population to be killed. You cannot defeat them by military means and if you refuse they will kill everyone.
Do you:
(1) Refuse and hand over anyone. Everyone dies but humanity's every-day morality and values have been left inviolate.
(2) Hand over 10% chosen randomly
(3) Hand over 10% but choose them by some criteria (if so, how do you choose the 10%)
Or something else :o) |
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[Jul. 2nd, 2009|10:40 am] |
This is a clip about a man named Jim Rogers. Jim just happens to be one of the publicly known, wealthy, Americans who have recently moved from America to another country and now resides in Singapore. When asked his reasons for moving he has cited reasons such as Singapore having the best education and health care in the entire world. Not to be entirely negative, but perhaps what remains unsaid is that America currently has the worst education and health care in the world. And, without going into specifics, America undoubtedly rates the worst in numerous other areas as well. Example, America currently has the highest percentage of its population incarcerated in prison with more than 1 in 100 Americans currently in jail.
NVM. I don't care enough to finish writing this post.
I do wish I was rich enough or cool enough to move to another country and pretend to be Australian or something, though. I don't want to be affiliated with stinky America. Stinky, stinky, America and its legacy of fail. Take that as you will. (: |
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| Ranting gets you everywhere, apparently. |
[Jun. 28th, 2009|11:37 pm] |
Recently found myself saying this in a rant on another topic. But it was a rant, and therefore quickly typed and not terribly well thought out. I think it's kind of interesting though, and I'm trying to decide if, after calm reflection, I actually agree with it- and the best way for me to do that is to bat it around. So I thought I'd give it to you guys. What do you think, about any part of it?
Which is not to say I'm that big a fan of the concept of federal welfare- I think any country who needs it for people who aren't disability or receiving death benefits is ultimately failing that portion of the population for as long as they have to remain on it. Not that the government is failing them, but the country is. The purpose of a government is to provide a reasonably safe environment for a culture to grow. The purpose of a country- and that's including all the population of that country, every last one of them, working or unemployed, immigrant or native born, documented or not, all of them- is to provide a reasonably safe environment for children to grow.
(Which, on a side note, is part of why I will never self-identify as a Democrat, even if I'm never able to return to the Republican party with a clear conscience. Which at this rate may wind up beng true. But I'm pretty sure a lot of Democrats would switch those up, or at least put children in the slot for culture. Which is a whole separate thing.) |
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| Social recognition |
[Jun. 16th, 2009|02:17 am] |
To what degree do we do things for social recognition and/or acceptance? Are they things that we need and want less as we get older?
For example, I've been told that the different belt levels from martial arts is really for the children who practice it. For adults, progressing through martial arts is a spiritual experience.
Can someone be so humble as to deny social recognition for his or her work? Can this kind of denial make someone crazy? |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2009|10:03 pm] |
xposted to heated_debate
Psychologists have developed a “disgust scale” based on how queasy people would be in 27 situations, such as stepping barefoot on an earthworm or smelling urine in a tunnel. Conservatives systematically register more disgust than liberals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/opinion/28kristof.html?_r=1&em
umm some other interesting stuff in this article. what do you think? |
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| It's a Classic! |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|01:33 pm] |
So what's the most classic, most iconic rock song in existence? It doesn't necessarily have to be your favorite, but it should sort of capture the "spirit" of rock and roll. When you think about rock and roll, this is the song that should pop into your head.
Mine is "Magic Carpet Ride." Not my favorite song, but to me it is the #1 Iconic Rock Song. It is the National Anthem of Rock and Roll IMHO.
So what are your nominees? |
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| PORN |
[Jun. 2nd, 2009|04:51 pm] |
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either gender:
why do you watch it?
is it necessary?
do you consider it cheating?
etc.
guys...how should it make your girl feel?
girls...how do you deal? |
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[May. 5th, 2009|09:32 am] |
A judge in Stuttgart, Germany, is currently trying to decide on a lawsuit in which a man hired his neighbour to impregnate his wife. And is now attempting to sue him for failing.
Demetrius Soupolos, 29, and his former beauty queen wife, Traute, were very keen to have a child together, but Demetrius was sterile so they began to seek out other possible options.
The option the couple eventually decided on was to hire their neighbour Frank Maus, 34, to impregnate Traute.
Maus, who was already married with two children agreed to do the job for the fee of €2,000. For three evenings a week for the next six months, a total of 72 different times, Maus tried to impregnate Traute.
When his own wife objected, Maus explained that he was "only doing it for the money."
After the unsuccessful six-month period Soupolos insisted that Maus take a medical examination. The doctor concluded that Maus was also sterile, which forced his wife into admitting that their two children did not belong to him.
Soupolos is now suing Maus in an effort to get his money back. Maus' argument is that he did not guarantee conception, only that he would try his hardest.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/26357/ |
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| SCOTUS and the common man. |
[May. 1st, 2009|01:35 pm] |
Do you think it would it be a good thing, or a bad thing for Obama to fill in the current Supreme Court vacancy with a nonlawyer? Given that the constitution has no such requirements, and several big ones weren't lawyers (John Marshall and Earl Warren, then again, so was Abe Fortas) it's doable. I see it that on one hand, the near takeover of lawyers in politics worries me, and I think it would be good to have a sort of "normal person" review of certain precepts. On the other hand, perhaps the legal system really works best when the law is somewhat predictable, which professions have a tendency to do in the course of their affairs.
What's your thoughts? |
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| Beer Worse Than Marijuana? |
[Apr. 17th, 2009|09:25 am] |
(PhysOrg.com) -- It appears that when it comes to teen brain development, parents should be more worried about alcohol abuse than marijuana abuse. Two recent studies have been published showing that alcohol -- a legal substance (though not legal for teens in the U.S.) -- is considered more dangerous than marijuana, which is illegal in many countries.
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http://www.physorg.com/news157280425.html |
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