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what if she can't keep any beat? :P

Test for muscle defects.

Actually that's kinda morbid man, you baiting me into edgy jokes?

I don't have any muscle defects and I have about as much rhythm as an epileptic squirrel.

To be fair, I do have other defects.

Shit though I really did word that badly XD

what if she can't keep any beat? :P

I'm in!

I only have two email addies.  One is gmail, the other is my real life one, and fuck if I'm using THAT for forums.

should be in spam folder now

I'll tell you all when the registration is no longer fucked

forum is the one that's "my" website in my profile

What forum?

one in my profile

I'll tell you all when the registration is no longer fucked

If you all try to sign up again it should work.

Apparently Google is shitty to other mail servers.

The Discordians actually are the ancient Illuminati that goes back to Atlantis. They made the sphinx's head disproportionately small, just to set off my OCD.

I'll tell you all when the registration is no longer fucked

Apparently it's a problem with google rejecting the emails.

Thanks for pointing out this problem XD

He said:

<absent> I just tested it
<absent> the're probably not putting in the correct answer to the question
<absent> tell them to review the order of operations and make sure it doesn't say they're getting the wrong answer
<absent> and tell them to check their spam box

looking through old threads on these here forums

I fucking love all of you

I was gonna look through your forum, but your registration is busted.  No confirmation email sent.

Oh well.

Oh, we'd love to have you. Actually not my forum, I'm just proselytizing. 

I'll have tell the guys who do the computery shit the registration fucked up.

looking through old threads on these here forums

I fucking love all of you

[TheWake]

TheWake - You just keep doing your thing, man.

Good, I'm thankful none of this bullshit gets in the way of my masturbation habits.

Oh now I remember what I wanted to ask you!

Do you consider yourself to be the product of some design? What I mean is do you think that there's a God or some sort of inherent purpose to your being?

I consider myself an agnostic soft/weak atheist. I don't know if there's a God or inherent purpose, I don't believe one way or the other.

This is critical to your idea here. If purpose is inherent then each and every breath serves it and is of value sufficient to heavily skew your "formula". If there's a God then the value of even your subjectively highest and lowest rates of "ROI" for various presumed "costs" of living are of no real impact as your existence serves the puropses of such a maker. See the book of Job for further illustration. Really.

If neither of those assertions reflect reality then the value of even one more breath approaches infinite and so will perpetually be higher than the "costs" and worth striving for and even perhaps sacrificing for the good of the group as a whole.

So upon what basis would you judge the value of a person's life?

Fuck, so I think I see where some misunderstanding might be happening here.

The utility on the original graph is the utility experienced by the person we're theoretically analyzing. It's not about anyone else's valuation's of how much their life is worth. In layman's terms, I'm saying at some point it's more bad than good to keep living from the perspective of the individual doing the living, so they will cease to live. Although, if the ceasing to live requires suicide, I did leave out of my analysis that suicide is rather unpleasant, so that's a pretty big problem with it. 

I'm operating under the paradigm of the subjective theory of value. Economics has largely (barring some Marxist holdouts) adopted subjective value as its theory of value. Instead of saying that there is a value separate from individual people that determines price and whatnot, economists have come to the consensus that each person values things differently and it's their coming together and trading toward equilibrium that determines prices. You and I, we value things differently. I might pay as much as 50 bucks for a blowjob from an ugly hooker but the most you'll pay is 20. Economic value seems to be subjective.

Of course, if there is some standard of objective value like a God, you're possibly correct. Unless that God allows for subjective valuations of human life to exist.

Asking me on what basis I would judge the value of someone's life is a bit different from the graph I made, but I'll bite. I don't know, exactly. That's a pretty complex issue. For most people, I would kill them if they tried to kill me. So I guess you could say, in a lot of cases value(me)>value(murderous person).  But I like to think I'd be nice enough to throw myself in front of a bus to save a toddler from getting ran over, so value(random toddler)>value(me), at least provisonally. I'm probably too much of a chicken to actually do it, so there's a good probability that value(me)>value(random toddler).

I have a feeling I'm not quite answering what you want me to, though.

He's right though. Assuming excessive familiarity via a disingenuous endearment or nickname is a classic power play. It's a shame you lack the self-awareness to recognize when you're exhibiting textbook passive-aggressive behaviors.

And by textbook, I mean that I finished a psychology BS a few months ago, and that is literally in the textbooks.

and here all this time I thought I was just being a plain old asshole.

A shame you hate me.

It was your goal.

No it wasn't.

But if we shall play the game of trying to guess someone else's motives, maybe it was your goal to find something about me to hate. :P

Other than being a bit upset I might get banned for what I probably shouldn't have posted in the first place, I rather like everyone here.

You aren't going to get banned for being a useless dick.  However, if you keep pestering me in PM about shit I wrote in 2011 or what medications I am on, or anything other than admin issues, you will be.