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Aneristic Illusions / Re: So, RWHN, it appears your predictions of doom are contradicted

« on: May 11, 2013, 01:42:49 am »

POSTING THIS PIC FOR USE LATER DURING RWHN'S EVENTUAL ENLIGHTENMENT MOMENT:

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: So, RWHN, it appears your predictions of doom are contradicted

« on: May 10, 2013, 07:54:53 pm »

I wonder if the parents of youth, whose lives were irrevocably changed for the worst from legalization, will ever become bitter enough to track down the most vocal and instrumental legalizers and not just make them eat their words, but make sure they're gaggin' on it.

You're such a fucking dipshit.

No matter what, those kids had to CHOOSE to ruin their own lives. Nobody else MADE them do it. They did it to themselves and they have to live with the consequences. And people like you, who think everyone's freedom should be restricted in order to save a select group of people from their own bad choices, well, you're the worst and most banal kind of evil.

They are kids, not adults.  They cannot make adult decisions.  It's why we have statutory rape laws.  It's why we have ALL of the sexual misconduct and rape laws involving children because they are not capable of making adult decisions.  Suck it up bucko.  Societies are dependent on younger generations growing up and replacing the older ones.  Therefore societies will always make laws to protect children, that yes, will sometimes create impositions on adults.  That's just the way it is and it will NEVER change.

That's weird, I always thought laws protecting children from sexual abuse were in place because it's an actual crime that harms someone who is reasonably defenseless against the perpetrator.

There's a difference between "lecherous, evil old bastard violates defenseless child" and "inadequately parented youngster inhales vegetable-combustion byproducts on purpose."

It seems kind of low to me, to put smoking weed in the same category as raping children. But maybe I'm wrong.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories

« on: May 10, 2013, 07:49:01 pm »

I also love that the assumed default tv show is two people shooting each other.

The only American alternative would be considered bad taste in a patent application.

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Apple Zone / Re: ICONS OF HATE

« on: May 10, 2013, 01:57:54 am »

I think something worse just came down the pike.

I just got a spam email from Hewlett Packard.

They want me to buy something called a "Chromebook".

The HP Pavilion Chromebook runs on the Chrome operating system, based on the Chrome browser. Welcome to effortlessly simple computing where:
•You boot up in seconds
•Your data is auto–synced
•There’s no more buying, installing, or updating
software
•You can switch seamlessly between users
•All of the Google apps you love–like Gmail, Drive,
and YouTube–are built–in

It really looks like they stick you with Chrome and don't let you install anything else.

Chromebooks are actually pretty cool if everything you do is web-based anyway. The OS is in fact a blown up edition of the Chrome web browser, and no you can't install other native applications besides that, but your additional functionality comes from installing Chrome Apps which are more or less web applications accessible through the browser, like Google Docs. Some of the apps do have offline functionality so you can get to your documents and things without an Internet connection. The price of a Chromebook is seriously lower than the price of a comparabe laptop, and under the hood they're usually reasonably equipped.

I'd never own one, though, not if I had to pay real money for it.

I can get to my documents, music, etc. without an internet connection already. I thought everybody could.  It sounds like something that could lock you out of stuff like uTorrent, etc. "ALL TORRENTS IS ILLEGAL!!!!!" "No, it's a live show, the band gave permission..." "ALL TORRENTS IS ILLEGAL!!!!!"

It's a matter of how you use your technology. A Chromebook shouldn't be (and isn't really intended to be) your only or primary computer. It's more or less the same level of functionality you'd get in a tablet, except with a familiar keyboard that's easier to use than a touchscreen keyboard, and full sites instead of 'mobile edition' sites. I wouldn't be worried about BitTorrent being blocked, because that's why you have a permanent server at your house, plus something like Plex to access all your stuff when you're away.

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Apple Zone / Re: ICONS OF HATE

« on: May 09, 2013, 11:02:06 pm »

I think something worse just came down the pike.

I just got a spam email from Hewlett Packard.

They want me to buy something called a "Chromebook".

The HP Pavilion Chromebook runs on the Chrome operating system, based on the Chrome browser. Welcome to effortlessly simple computing where:
•You boot up in seconds
•Your data is auto–synced
•There’s no more buying, installing, or updating
software
•You can switch seamlessly between users
•All of the Google apps you love–like Gmail, Drive,
and YouTube–are built–in

It really looks like they stick you with Chrome and don't let you install anything else.

Chromebooks are actually pretty cool if everything you do is web-based anyway. The OS is in fact a blown up edition of the Chrome web browser, and no you can't install other native applications besides that, but your additional functionality comes from installing Chrome Apps which are more or less web applications accessible through the browser, like Google Docs. Some of the apps do have offline functionality so you can get to your documents and things without an Internet connection. The price of a Chromebook is seriously lower than the price of a comparabe laptop, and under the hood they're usually reasonably equipped.

I'd never own one, though, not if I had to pay real money for it.

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Apple Zone / Re: Introductions, part V: Don't Say We Never Warned You.

« on: May 09, 2013, 08:22:00 pm »

Forget what you thought you knew about Discordia™!
PD is like the following image:

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Apple Zone / Re: Introductions, part V: Don't Say We Never Warned You.

« on: May 09, 2013, 08:03:14 pm »

hey. I'm a Discordian, though probably very a slightly more fnord-y one(think beelzebub's bath scrub); I've been around, someone told me to post here, I thought it was a good idea. I'm pretty ethically hedonistic, and making people's days weirder has become a regular hobby.
Bazoo!

RWHN could definitely use someone on his side, that's for sure.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: So, RWHN, it appears your predictions of doom are contradicted

« on: May 09, 2013, 08:01:34 pm »

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:
In the following image, please locate at least 3 of the horrible things that would not exist if it weren't for marijuana and those who use it:

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: So, RWHN, it appears your predictions of doom are contradicted

« on: May 09, 2013, 07:26:41 pm »

I don't laugh at you at all.

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Apple Zone / Re: The REAL Election for Your New Mexico

« on: May 09, 2013, 05:47:27 am »

Mexico Charles Ramsey

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Apple Zone / Re: The REAL Election for Your New Mexico

« on: May 08, 2013, 09:30:17 pm »

This is ridiculous. NO PEOPLE SHOULD SUFFER SO LONG WITHOUT A PROPER MEXICO.

Therefore I submit the following nominee, who I believe we can all support:

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Apple Zone / Re: DARE ME?

« on: May 08, 2013, 04:27:02 pm »

Go ahead. There's no shame in it. I do it at least twice a day. It's perfectly natural for a man your age.

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Apple Zone / Re: Some good news, for once. Or at least better than bad news.

« on: May 08, 2013, 04:26:05 pm »

And here's the guy who DID SOMETHING when he saw something horribly, horribly wrong.  He did not, as the story goes, "pass on the other side".

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/07/18098905-can-i-help-neighbor-charles-ramsey-tells-of-role-in-discovery-of-missing-women?lite

The thing that's great about what he did is that DOING SOMETHING is pretty contagious.

An honestly good deed is more powerfully infectious and inspirational than an evil deed is discouraging. Humans can be horrible creatures, and we spend more of our time being at least passively horrible than we'll ever admit. But the fact that doing something good catches on in a way doing something bad just doesn't is what keeps me hoping that maybe there's a chance we can actually avoid annihilation by collective suicide or starvation.

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Apple Zone / Re: Things go boom

« on: May 08, 2013, 01:02:06 pm »

Meanwhile, in Minnesota:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/06/18087039-officials-minnesota-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-plotting-terror-attack?lite

Buford?  Someone named their kid BUFORD?  I'd be a terrorist, too.   

I had a great uncle named Buford. He was married to my great aunt, Fannie. They lived somewhere in Tennessee. Buford's hands were all gnarly with arthritis brought on by directly handling various objects made of uranium during his time in the military at a base that did some of the grunt work for the Manhattan Project.

So, yeah, actually I guess the name Buford indicates a high likelihood of building bombs.

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Apple Zone / Re: NYC = Bollocks

« on: May 08, 2013, 12:48:15 pm »

The Eastern Seaboard is full of the descendants of the people who were too scared to get on a covered wagon and head into the vast unknown with nothing but a six-gun, a satchel full of stale bread, and smallpox to keep them company. I am unsurprised at its present lack of adventurous spirit, the natives opting instead to hunker down in their dens by about 6 PM or so. After that, the only people on the streets are Europeans pissing on things and exhausted tourists wondering what happened to the street performers. And the homeless, of course, but they don't really have much choice.