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Entertainment District / Re: Quantum of Solace

« on: November 15, 2008, 11:37:41 pm »

Meh, I enjoyed it.  However, I'm not sure I would have so much if it weren't for Casino Royale.

WTF i told you to call me.

Apologies, but my seeing it last night was unexpected and very late.

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Entertainment District / Re: Quantum of Solace

« on: November 15, 2008, 02:56:41 pm »

Meh, I enjoyed it.  However, I'm not sure I would have so much if it weren't for Casino Royale.

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General Discussion / Re: Dead husband kills wife

« on: November 13, 2008, 01:16:25 pm »

That one final piece of unfinished business.  Now he can rest in peace--provided she doesn't now show up to nag him there.

As for hell, I think that judgment applies to actions in life, so he is safe, albeit by technicality.

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Entertainment District / Re: Is it wrong..

« on: November 13, 2008, 01:03:22 pm »

I generally like to simply answer "yes" to that question ("Is it wrong?"), but in this case I'm going to say no.

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Entertainment District / Re: Best Lawsuit ever?

« on: November 07, 2008, 01:20:32 pm »

What did the Federalist Society ever do to him?

Apart from that I have no objections. 

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Entertainment District / Re: Political cartoon

« on: November 05, 2008, 09:09:29 pm »

Pretty good comic.  Though the pictures should have Obama in a celebratory form and Bush looking more serious.

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Trash Can / Re: Trash from book thread (dark_drake was tired of it all)

« on: October 23, 2008, 01:15:22 am »

Personally, I stress the importance of all sorts of details throughout the text, taking it as a whole, and thus have no difficulty suffering through slow portions, but, for one who does have such difficulty, that is a fairly solid plan. 

Don't pretend to know me or my reading style--your contempt is really quite pointless.

While this is your forum, your hostility is really quite pointless. He was making a suggestion.

To be fair, I would also interpret that post as condescending. But it could very well have just been a mistake resulting from the haste in which we write forum posts. That is, there's no need to harbor grudge for it, but it doesn't make sense to reprehend deadly

I had no intention to be condescending.  You are completely right insofar as that was just a matter of cranking out a thought quickly and not going back to reword it properly--in this case, it may have been better to simply not include that last note at all.  I do apologize. 

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: October 22, 2008, 03:13:47 pm »

This saturday is going to suck.... 8 hours of watch at the worst times.

0700-0930
2030-2215
2230-0030
0330-0515

Sleep? I don't think so.

Hopefully you'll get some action!

I guarantee you there is no action to be seen with what I'm doing. Unless someone rolls around drunk in the middle of the night, but that will just be entertaining, not necessarily "action"

Unless there's a whole bunch of drunks.  Who are armed. 

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General Discussion / Re: An article critical of the higher education system

« on: October 22, 2008, 01:35:48 pm »

Education isn't all about going to class to learn about something for your job. It teaches you certain ways to think, which can prove to be invaluable in ANY field you want to work in.

I'm going to have to agree 100% with Towelie. While crazed is right in a sense that there are jobs you can make a good living off of without going to college, how many of those jobs are there to spare? With a good portion of jobs being sent from the state to overseas, that eliminates a good amount of blue collar jobs that are left. Not saying that learning a trade skill such as carpentry of plumbing is bad, but, as far as I see now, a great deal of people are not going to college and going into some sort of trade, which will create an abundance of people with some sort of trade skill who do not have a job, whilst you can go to college and learn another trade, get a degree, and live a more comfortable lifestyle than knucklegrinding for 30 years of your life.

While it is true that many blue collar jobs are going overseas, there are a great many that pretty much physically have to be done here, from plumbers to auto-mechanics to all sorts of other such trades.  Now, you are right insofar as if most people were to shift that way, rather than going to college going basically directly into a trade, there would be problems with the market being flooded with those skills and labor, but there is no risk of that happening at this point. 

In fact, the pendulum is way out the other way--the colleges are flooded, and a great many of the people there are most likely not going to get much of anything useful out of it, while the trades are suffering in quality and growing overly expensive out of lack of people.  In that sense CrAz3d's point is absolutely valid: many people who are going to college should instead go vocational.  It would not be valid to say that most people who are going to college should go vocational, which would take the pendulum in the opposite direction, being similarly destructive.  There needs to be a balance. 

I personally think that there should be more vocational training available in the public schools.  There was an auto-mechanics class in high school in my parent's day, but when I went there (I actually went to the same school as my mother) it was gone.  The facilities remained, but the class was not there.  The point of public education, in many respects, seems to be to get you ready to go to college.  They should offer a lot of options for people who don't want to go in that direction--people who remain crucial to our economy. 

But I really shouldn't get started on the education system as a whole. 

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Entertainment District / Re: Corre Corre la migra!

« on: October 15, 2008, 01:27:27 pm »

Wow. 

I mean, I've heard/told that joke where there was a car accident down by the border involving two vans and 96 people were killed, but it is so much more effective visually. 

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Introductions! / Re: Hello

« on: October 11, 2008, 01:01:02 pm »

Since this is my intro thread, I figure it might be a good idea to ask intro questions--those that really don't warrant an independent thread--here.  So here goes. 

Question: Should I be concerned about bringing about animosity through statement of political views? 
That is to say, if I express an all around view point which is strongly disagreed with, which a cursory examination of recent posts in the politics section suggests some might not be able to understand my maintaining, and argue it persistently and effectively (subjective, I know; let's just say I'm not simply spouting off talking points), should I be concerned about being flamed, decried, ostracized, and shunned? 
Not that that bothers me too much; I would just like forewarning. 

There are really two questions in this. 
1) Will you be "flamed, decried, ostracized, and shunned?"
2) And, if you are, should you be concerned by it?

I would suggest posting about whatever you feel like posting, in any terms you feel like using, and then let the reaction take care of itself.  If it is overwhelmingly negative, then you should either ignore it, decide this isn't the best place to express your views, or respond to it.  Of course, no-one can specifically answer your questions in advance of you making these posts.

Cool, that's what I intended to do--particularly the latter most option you gave. 

Any intelligent and thought out posts are welcome. Personal attacks and general stupidity aren't.

At least to me.

I judge people on how they argue, not what they argue.

Good philosophy; I hope I can expect such from others as well. 

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Who's your favorite king of England?

It would be between Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Edward I, and Henry VII (that last one due more to my being a fan of Protestantism than anything else, though I know his motivations certainly were not theological).  They are not all of the good/interesting ones, but they are the ones good/interesting enough for me to remember them. 

These are exclusively prior to the Union of 1707, when they ceased to be the Kings of England and became the Kings of Britain. 

Cool. Yeah William the Conqueror is pretty awesome. English wouldn't be the way it is without him. Oh, and do you mean Henry VIII?

Since this is my intro thread, I figure it might be a good idea to ask intro questions--those that really don't warrant an independent thread--here.  So here goes. 

Question: Should I be concerned about bringing about animosity through statement of political views? 

No.

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Oh, and I did mean Henry VIII.  I thought I had typed that . . . thanks for catching it. 

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Introductions! / Re: Hello

« on: October 11, 2008, 12:59:26 am »

Since this is my intro thread, I figure it might be a good idea to ask intro questions--those that really don't warrant an independent thread--here.  So here goes. 

Question: Should I be concerned about bringing about animosity through statement of political views? 
That is to say, if I express an all around view point which is strongly disagreed with, which a cursory examination of recent posts in the politics section suggests some might not be able to understand my maintaining, and argue it persistently and effectively (subjective, I know; let's just say I'm not simply spouting off talking points), should I be concerned about being flamed, decried, ostracized, and shunned? 
Not that that bothers me too much; I would just like forewarning. 

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Introductions! / Re: Hello

« on: October 09, 2008, 12:54:50 am »

I like apple pie

It's okay, I guess, but I'm a bigger fan of Pumpkin Pie.  Mmm...

Personally the poontang pie is my fav :p

I was going to say cream pie...

You're crazy; there is no beating good apple pie.  Serious props to Chavo. 

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Introductions! / Re: Hello

« on: October 08, 2008, 06:45:31 pm »

Interesting how the conversation of this thread progressed. 

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Introductions! / Re: Hello

« on: October 08, 2008, 10:54:17 am »

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Who's your favorite king of England?

It would be between Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Edward I, and Henry VII (that last one due more to my being a fan of Protestantism than anything else, though I know his motivations certainly were not theological).  They are not all of the good/interesting ones, but they are the ones good/interesting enough for me to remember them. 

These are exclusively prior to the Union of 1707, when they ceased to be the Kings of England and became the Kings of Britain.