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Apples and oranges... I couldn't agree more. I am dismayed at the lack of choice in this election. Although I dislike Bush and think that he is a fuckwit, I don't think that Kerry is a very good presidential candidate. I hate being made to vote against a person instead of voting for someone in whom I believe. I have stated before, I would have preferred seven Demo candiadates above Kerry... and he has not made me like him any more.
Kerry needs to show that he is different from Bush to be a legitimate candidate. He has not made himself known as more than just an alternative to Bush, since Bush is a questionable president at best.
BTW... I enjoyed the Fahrenheit 9/11 film. I saw it in a big theater that was filled to capacity. People laughed and gasped... it was an interesting movie experience. I am not a big fan of Michael Moore (I think that he is a narcissist and that the logic that he uses is shaky), but the film was rather entertaining and did make an interesting point about the world in which we live post 9/11.
Honestly, 9/11 hasn't really affected me, being on the West Coast. This will probably change in the future as the Iraqi people actually become terrorists in order to retaliate for the US killing many of their citizens in an unnecessary war. You can't stop terror. You can just lessen what causes it by being kind to others and using compassionate foreign policy.
The US citizens are sightless to the perspectives of others in the world due to their reliance on biased news and inablility to place themselves in the minds of "the enemy." To terrorists, we are the enemy. This is just the manner in which they have been taught to fight and are fighting, similarly to the "good guys" an abstract idea, not people. When the US says that they are in a "war against terror," they are just perpetuating the conditions necessary to create terrorists. They are killing people's families, destroying their economic infrastructure and occupying their nations. If the proud citizens of the US had this happen to them, they would do the same damned thing. Actually, isn't this similar to any revolution? What about the Boston Tea Party? I would call that a terrorist act, and what about the Declaration of Independence?
To declare war against something as abstract and ephemeral as "terror" is to begin a war that will never end. It is self-perpetuating and creates what it in fact tries to end. The US response to 9/11 was an atavistic, reactive response to something that was horrifying. Declare war... the terrorists have already won... they have struck terror into the hearts of Americans ... people are scared to go to malls on holidays and large social events are tinted with vague shades of fear... of what? Death? Destruction?
War against terror is a reactive, short-sighted response to something that the US could prevent somewhat if they had been more aware, but, in all actuality, is inevitable. This is the response of people against a system with whom they have no recourse. People are naive to say that they could not imagine 9/11 before the fact.
What is the correct response if war is wrong?
Diplomacy. Create global conversations and allow other sovereign nations to voice their opinions as independent nations.
Multilateralism. Terrorists have a harder time retaliating against something when it is the decision of the global community.
Discourse/Dialogue. People without a voice have to strike out in any way they can. I wonder if terrorists realize that their message is lost in doing these acts... that the populations they are attacking just hate them and hear nothing about their reasoning behind the acts. People should not lose their voices. If a people is kept down and they have no recourse, they will do anything to regain their voice. No person or group should ever lose their voice.
I did not expect this post to become this, but it did. So it goes.
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I really enjoyed Faith No More on Epic and Angel Dust, but they lost their sound in Fool for a Day... I like Patton's voice, but the music that he makes is ehhhh... I have never been able to get into Bungle or Fantomas. I think that something as beautiful as Angel Dust is one of those flukes that happens when you are a creative individual that is working with other creative individuals and have no real idea about what type of sound they should create. I will admit that there are some other good Faith No More songs (I kinda like Album of the Year), but that (Angel Dust) album is infinitely better than the previous or latter music.
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I completely disagree.
I think (key word here, opinion) and consider human life to be a fertilized embryo and beyond.
Reproductive rights are then irrelevant in my book, because we're now dealing with two entities.
I find your 9 month old baby thought to be disturbing, and even though you took it back abruptly, I find the direction you’re going in disturbing.
Again, all my opinion. Have a nice day!
Now, as for stem cell research, I can't really say I know much about it at all (even after the quick read), so I can't really comment.
My statement was meant to be disturbing... What is life? When is a baby not something that is attached to the mother? Who knows? I think that abortion during the third trimester is messed up, but to disallow this begins people on the slippery slope of taking away people's right to choose.
I am not pro-abortion per se, but I believe that a person's body is their own and the government does not have a right to say what a person can do with it or not (I am also for euthanasia, drug legalization etc under this same idea... I don't agree with all of these issues, but I don't believe these are something that the gov't. has a right to regulate).
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Managing themes is a pain in the ass.
they fixed this now... the mozilla update site had some bad binding and didn't work yesterday.
.9 is an improvement; although some of my extensions are not here yet and the installer kinda sucks if you have a profile for previous versions.
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Aw...I would never turn anything like that on you :hug:
But, maybe this would help me understand...how do you define life? Is an embryo that has never been and never will be implant/grow qualify as alive?
I only condone cloning if they first are going to create an army of evil clones that are under my control. Okay, I am just kidding, I would allow it even if they did not make myself an evil army first, unless they made an evil army of one of my enemies.
By the way... I don't consider something alive until it breathes on its own. An embryo that has not been implanted would therefore not be alive, nor a nine month old baby in a mother's placenta (okay... maybe if the baby could not live outside of the womb it isn't really alive, but the breathing example allows people to have reproductive rights).
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Man, graduation ceremonies are painful.
Why would anyone subject themselves to this torture? It seemed to go on-and-on. One person after another saying the same trite, cliched expressions... even some people that were graduating and on some silly student committee for something in which nobody really participated. The speaker was very liberal, basically making a political statement--telling people to change the gov't., give everyone equal rights, and keep religion out of the gov't. It would have been interesting it had not been 3 hours into the ceremony and everyone's interest had not waned.
Enough about the lame ceremony.
Thank you all for the kind words and such. It has been fun going to school, and I will miss it, but now I have time to find a job and catch-up on four years of video-gaming. So, it is a good thing and a bad thing (damned working).
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Im not sure. Wingnut probably didnt seee Zero Mostel's post-humous performance on Seinfeld, so my first guess was disqualified. Was The Producer's right?
Dead guys on TV shows don't really count; anyways, I was intending for it to be that Larry David played Max Balystock on TV, Jason Alexander played him on Broadway and Zero Mostel in the original film.
Although technically your first answer was correct.
BTW: I am tapped and have great consternation while making these. There is a level of difficulty that I have trouble with manipulating. Somebody else should make some since I will go insane if I think about these any more.
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I think that last one was right - so I'll take the liberty of adding the next one:
Up
Strange
Charm
Wel... this could be a few things:
1) three of the six types of quarks
2)or a performance by Robert HP Platz
both are correct, I will go with the former though, since the latter more than likely is derived from the first.
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Sorry for not posting earlier. I have been a bit busy and anything that has come to mind has seemed far too easy. Then I realized, this game is only fun if people can guess the answer. So, here I go:
Larry David
Jason Alexander
Zero Mostel
Go at it you crazy cats!
Seinfeld
WRONG!!!
It just seems like it is right, but no!
Try again! I suggest that you look deeper at something that all three share!
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Sorry for not posting earlier. I have been a bit busy and anything that has come to mind has seemed far too easy. Then I realized, this game is only fun if people can guess the answer. So, here I go:
Larry David
Jason Alexander
Zero Mostel
Go at it you crazy cats!
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Well... if you wanted the answer... it was all too easy. Only like a minute:
Jersey Boy Bruce first tried in the early '70s to join the throngs of folk singer/songwriters in New York; failing at this, he returned to Asbury Park, N.J., where he played with various groups, finally hooking up with the E Street Band, which already had a considerable local following. The legendary band — sax player Clarence Clemons, guitarist Steve Van Zandt (who was later to become Silvio Dante of "The Sopranos"), keyboardist Danny Federici, pianist Roy Bittan, bassist Garry Tallent and drummer Max Weinberg (later the bandleader of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien").
http://www2.koit.com/spring/artist_bio_detail.cfm?id=90
They were all members of the E-Street band!
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Sonic Youthy... a new adjective!
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I would recommend going to a more appropriate forum than this one... there are many out there... just use google. I use nforcershq.com, but that is appropriate only if you have an nForce mobo.
For google, just put in something like: "AMD 3000+ temperature" and you will find tons of results (minus the quotes of course).
Good luck with your search!
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I read something about the concert they were playing being the Scottish Download Festival... wtf?
http://www.nme.com/news/108706.htm
Metallica confuses me... BTW... that is one sweet picture CP. Although it makes him look a little bit less evil. I was looking for an equally good picture and i found something truly disturbing. Here is a picture that I found while doing a google picture search... I am just putting it in here because it is so fucking weird to find. WARNING CONTAINS NUDITY OF A LARS ULRICH NATURE AND SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED BY ANYBODY BECAUSE IT IS SICK!!
By the way, this was on page 2 of the google search... WTF? I wish that I had used safe search: DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK!!!
Ulrich Uncovered (ewwwwww) NSFW (or anywhere else for that matter)
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d00d!!! You rule!!
Oh wait, I have no idea what you just posted... and I even looked at the screens, oh well, whatever. I am glad that your bug has been worked out adn you can now show your pwnage!
gg!
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wingy, you still go to that Mars Volta room? I never felt quite right there, seeing how I'm not a big Mars Volta fan.
Yes I do... actually, I think the Mars Volta chat room on soulseek may be my preferred venue for chat. the people that frequent it (for the most part):
1) are intelligent
2) like to read
3) share similar music tastes
4) and are nice people... even the flamers are okay
I think that you would fit in there tuber... the people in it are not the biggest Mars Volta people in the world, they just like the chat. People rarely talk about them in the room unless requesting something or there is news (and those individuals, similar to mr. jip, that come in only to say that they suck).
There are just enough people that chat can start up, yet they are not the normal chat crowd... I never see people talking about slapping others with trout and such in the room.
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yeah... soulseek is plug and play goodness to the nth level... although it is buggy as hell. Honestly, it is damned configurable, but you learn it over time... It has an intuitive interface and you can figure it out just by looking at it and guessing.
Just go into one of the chats (okay, go into the beatking room... others may not be so nice) and ask for some help if you don't know a feature... there is also a forum and a FAQ.
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I just finished East of Eden by Steinbeck and started Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury... I have had a shitload of journal articles to read this quarter, so I have been kinda slow as of late... I also have Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg that I want to read a bit of sometime soon.
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You know... I hate American Idol... it even made me upset when i had to listen to the end of a syrupy sweet pop song just prior to an ep of "The O.C." I couldn't even take it for a few seconds... I had to turn it off.
How the hell can people take this show? What is the allure? Who can take people lacking in charisma singing covers of shitty songs?
Sorry... just had to vent for a second. You can like the show if you like, I have no problem with you.
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:) Those fans are really whipped up into a frenzy!
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hmmmm... I am a user of ABC... and I read about this new version in their forums. Although you say that the version is dated, BitTornado 2.0, upon which this version is based, is the last version without any issues (supposedly 3.X has some major bugs). The 3.x is an experimental version and is a little iffy.
Anyways... ABC is a sweet prog... if you like the torrents, it is the best client out now.
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A while ago I ripped The Cure - Disintegration into both mp3 nd ogg formats and listened with my awesome Sennheisers and the ogg was nicer. I don't remember what bitrate either was at. Perhaps I'll try the experiment again with a few different albums.... perhaps when I have more than a gig of free space.
you and your awesome headphones :P
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I like to listen to music on my .mp3 player... so I encode in alt-preset LAME/EAC... I try to stay away from .ogg files, since I like the idea of being able to listen to it on the go.
OGGs aren't bad; it is cool that they are an open and free standard (unlike those damned Franhaufer people and their meddling w/ .mp3s and charging royalties for players), but they haven't really caught on in the real world.
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Fortunately the girl is eating less carbs, which means better lyrics (she must be insane to have said that)... I am not holding my breath for the album, but, if I had the album, I would be holding my breath.
Movie Goer Assaulted at Fahrenheit 9/11 Showing
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Just to regain your respect Shawn, I edited my post. It was my homage to Vonnegut, since my post seemed to die near the end. It was a throwaway three words.