Skippy

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  1. Posted

    Am I the only one that likes Kanye West. Like, likes him, not just his music. I mean, SINCE WHEN have we judged musicians on their arrogance and douchebaggery. He is all of that, he knows it, he doesn't care, he makes good music, I respect him for that.

    "I ask cause I'm not sure, do anybody make real shit anymore" in a song sampling daft punk. I just can't listen to anything he's made.

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    Car companies are working to put HUDs in car windshields, though. Maybe some day.

    This video was just lame as squid.

    GM has been doing it for years.

    As for the google glasses, it's an interesting idea, the interface isn't quite what they are showing you there though, for one, it is only over one eye, and in general, most things are in your periphery. The images they produce are all translucent, and talk is that most of the imagery will be disabled if GPS says you are above a certain speed, and google is still up in the air as to if these will be launched, much less when.

    On another note, did you all see what they did with a prius?

  3. Posted

    Oh, I have no doubt that the news reported it with less than stellar info, but rather the veracity of someone dying because of it. I can't seem to find anything verifying that.

  4. Posted

    It seems to me that if a man dies due to fox's reporting.....it would be all over every other news network.....

    The again, it wasn't really fox news the national entity, just a local affiliate...

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    Quote from another forum that I posted in talk because I just love the quote so much. I don't see why you guys get so utterly squidding up in arms about political correctness. Maybe because it's actually expected of you in law in some cases now to be "politically correct." I know how much you Americans love your political freedoms. Being required to be polite, and yes, that is really all political correctness is (though there are always extremists, people who take non-offensiveness to such a degree that it ends up becoming condescending and offensive anyway!) seems to have the opposite effect on you.

    On the other hand, I have absolutely no idea why everyone in the USA seems to address black people as african-americans. It doesn't even make sense if you addressed a british guy as an african american. I don't see why black and white could even be construed as offensive but whatever I don't have to worry about that here because while we do have that same concept of political correctness, it is honestly just the squidding same as not being a dickhead. So if for some reason we need to distinguish between a white person and a black person no one gets offended when you just say that they're black or white or whatever.

    Not attacking any of you personally, just the attitudes I see prevalent around the internet regarding this topic, sorry if this was aggressive lol.

    I don't know, whatever. Maybe you guys would feel more comfortable if you thought of it as just being a decent person. No, political correctness as a concept is probably not a necessary thing. But does that squidding matter? Does it change the fact that not being racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic is necessary? No. So yeah, thats basically how I think of it. Just think of it as being a good person.

    To answer, we have the first amendment. I can say whatever I damn well please, so long as it does not cause someone to directly lose money or worth based on a lie. That doesn't mean I shouldn't be a decent person, I don't use racial epithets, but that should be for me, and all people, to decide for themselves, this idea of legislating morality is no different in essence than banning homosexual marriage or abortion because a sector of people doesn't like it.

    African american was determined sometime during the 60's and 70's to be the least offensive term, as a general rule, I don't use it, it's absurd. No one calls me an Irish American, nor would I classify anyone by their continent. I personally think that a lot of discrimination in application processes could be taken care of by removing race and gender boxes, and relying more on a personal interview.

    Keep in mind, that opinions are expressed in more extreme fashion on the internet then in real life as a general rule.

    To finish, it has nothing to do with being a decent person, it's that an otherwise decent person can have horrible consequences if they have one outburst. I had to fire a lifeguard that worked for me who made a comment about all the "damn niggers" that were swimming one day after he had to jump in for the fifth unattended child. He was engaged to a black girl, and did a lot of work with the NAACP. Point being, he isn't racist, he was a good guy that got upset, and used a word, and lost his job over it. In short, PC wouldn't be so bad, if it didn't permeate our laws, we don't walk on eggshells because we don;t want to be viewed as bad, we walk on eggshells because one misstep heard by the wrong person, can ruin your life.

  7. Posted

    alright, so i need to learn to make better titles, first and foremost.

    id just never seen something about someone killing intentionally at such a young age.

    also, she used her younger sister to lure out the girl, so some thought was put into it, at the least. also, the apology came three years after the fact, something that could be argued several different ways, as far as motivation and opportunity to do so go.

    There was an eight year old boy who killed his friend by bashing his head in with a rock in the woods a few years ago. When questioned about what happened, he said he wanted to see what it felt like to kill someone.

    If her demeanor was affected by the drugs, which is entirely possible, then a few years to get her on the right regimen may have cleared her judgment to be able to apologize. If not, then she is a skilled manipulator, which is not entirely unlikely. There are a lot of unknowns in all of this, that only studying her long term would be able to adequately fill.

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    I would say that has a lot to do with many of our problems, the idea has shifted as we globalized, but our government and infrastructure isn't designed around that idea.

    Honestly, I think if we got back to operating the way the country was designed to, we could work out a lot more of our problems as a nation.

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    So, I'm sitting at home sick on a saturday night with nothing better to do, so I thought I would give a brief overview for some of our foreign members (maybe some of out U.S. members as well) of how the U.S. Government is actually set up.

    So first things first, the U.S. is not a democracy, don't let anyone tell you that it is. It is a constitutional republic. This means that our federal government is based in a charter constitution (you can read it all here: http://www.usconstitution.net/).

    Now to understand the constitution, you have to understand what it does. The constitution outlines how the government is to operate at a federal level, it is the highest law of the land, and cannot be superseded (and supersedes all other laws). Beyond defining the branches of government, the constitution also defines the jobs and responsibilities of those branches explicitly, it is also the source of checks and balances in our government. It is important to realize that any function not explicitly stated in the constitution is left to the state or the individual.

    Now we have to look at the states and where things start to get a little confusing. You see, a lot of times people make the mistake of looking at the U.S. as one country. And that sounds confusing, of course we are one country, we have a national currency, we have a common military, we have a federal government. All of these things are true. But here's the thing, we are effectively 50 small countries that operate independently with the exception of defense and trade and operating on the same base charter.

    That is why you see so many varying laws from state to state. While the Federal level is dealing with interstate trade and defense and human rights, the states are defining all the little things form the speed limit to tax code. This is why laws like a national healthcare law will likely never be realized in the U.S., it would be like trying to get all of Europe under one universal bill, what works for small entirely independent countries often collapses under the weight of fifty.

    So what it comes down to is this, things make a lot more sense when you realize the Federal government isn't running one gigantic country, it's overseeing 50 small ones.

  17. Posted

    GMP,

    That is entirely state by state, Arizona, Alaska, Vermont and Wyoming require no permit. Shall Issue states, such as MO, OH, MI, give them out when you have passed the requirements as set by state. May issue states like CA, NY, AL, generally require that a person show genuine need to the sheriff, so it is really dependent on what the sheriff will take as a valid reason. No issue states obviously don't issue, like Illinois.

    Pheo lives in Illinois.

    They don't have to give anyone anything, you may want to brush up on your firearms laws as they currently stand.

  18. Posted

    how did you know secretly we all have telescreens installed in our homes over here? /rolleyes

    Oh cas, it's hyperbole.

    The UK has around 1 camera for every 32 people or so (this being the most conservative, one study showed 1 for every 14, and up to 11,000 in London alone), most of them indoors. Authorities can access these with little requirements, in fact, most of the systems are installed by one company, and linked to the police. Keep in mind that Britain is among the top worst countries for maintaining privacy of their citizens. Add in ANPR CCTV and you have the makings of Orwellian levels of surveillance in the UK, and they are only adding more cameras.

    To be fair, the patriot act over here makes the U.S. just as bad for certain things, but damn, there are a lot of friggin cameras in the UK.

  19. Posted

    Have you used the 3DS, Skippy?

    I have, I have also used, and sell, bot the LG thrill and HTC EVO3D. The tech still causes headaches in a large number of the population and still requires you to view at a specific angle. Until you can sit down anywhere in your living room, in any position, and view it without glasses and without the headaches, it will need work in my book.

  24. Posted

    Well, if you look at it in the sense that the mayan calendar ending as not a prediction of the end of the world, but as the end of an age, then it could be possible. While I wouldn't say that Mayans were sitting around making a calendar they said "Oh hey, on this date the internet will go down" without really knowing what they were talking about, they could have very well predicted that the end of an era would come.

    If you look at the times the mayans were in the world, there was western expansion, technology was starting to grow at a much faster rate, the world was doing things they wouldn't have dreamed of a few generations before. The Mayans got to see some of this through the Spanish coming into their lands with the new technology they had.

    Then look where we are, technology isn't growing at as fast of a rate as it did for a long time. There is little that we are seeing that is new, just improvements as time goes on. Innovation i slowing down and we are seeming to reach the edge of what the human mind is capable of producing, and the edge of what we are capable of experiencing. TV's have resolution that looks like real life, and can produce things the human eye can't see unassisted, computer speeds are getting to the point that any we will soon surpass the capacity to understand the speed of them.

    Then look at things like SOPA and PIPA, could they be the first steps to a more totalitarian regime in the U.S.? The U.K. has already taken Orwell's 1984 as an instruction manual for surveillance. There is a third world war brewing in Iran. What happens if the government of the world community gets control over what is posted on the internet? What happens with another world war? A nuclear one?

    Maybe the Mayans weren't predicting the end of the internet so much as it is a side effect of what they were?

  25. Posted

    Ahhh, the P90, I love that 'lil bullpup. I'd like to get that plus the FN Five-seveN, for the complete weapons system.

    At a total cost of almost $2500, it will be a while before I get it though.

    Ammonsa, I accidentally hurt myself with my .22 rifle cleaning it. Launched the entire receiver into my face. Not a good day. At least I didn't have to polish the bruise out though.