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I definitely respect that the stupidly rich people buying the top-quality everything for the big bucks are funding the advancing technology so we all benefit from moore's law constantly trickling down. The thing that bugs me is that many of my stupider friends spend ALL their income on Blu-ray films and big HD TVs, then whenever I'm at their places all we do is watch films and I have to listen to them constantly reaffirming to me themselves how "worth it" it is to have "high-end" shit.

"Yeah, dude, you're absolutely right, it IS way better quality. Sure, I've probably got 30 films on my hard drive for each film you own, but the crisp perfection of this Blu-ray sure has me green with envy."

Am I the only one actually satisfied with watching medium-quality downloaded films of around 700MB, and listening to 256kbps mp3s? Seems like every motherfucker's gotta have FLAC and BLU-RAY.
Yeah that's right, smart-guy, your Blu-ray films look really sharp, pity you can only afford to own 15 movies. Me? I've got a couple hundred movies on my hard drive, but the quality on them is merely fine. I mean, you can tell you're just watching a picture on a screen, you know?

Broken AI: Don't worry, Internet is speeding up too, remember downloading a bunch of mp3s on Napster used to take just as long? But seriously, how much do you need the title screen and polish subtitles? Just download the 700MB .avi file, much easier!

Moore.. What an asshole!

ah that's cool, thanks trip. I'm totally over it now and I don't begrudge your honesty. It did frustrate me for a few hours though

I can see the faces.

The guy on the top is wearing a cram 'stache.

YES! 

that is absolutely horrible.. I didn't know what the fuck you were talking about until a friend explained what you meant.

000, you have just ruined my entire life. FML

"So what do you do for a living?"

There are lots of wonderful artists among us, but it sucks that threads die away.
Post drawings and share this one with me?

Faces

just random squiggles to fill the page, with a red and blue pen held together. HOLY CRAP LOOK AT ALL THE FACES!

Eye In The Triangle

random experiment

Two Dudes

they can communicate, but there is a barrier.

Snowmen

from HELL and on DRUGS wo0o0o0o0o0o0

Ok, so Rumkle pointed out that there is a store here in Melbourne that will print magazines for free if they like them, and then sell them and split the profits with the people behind the magazine...
So I was wondering what intermittens crew think.
Would it be a good idea if I can see if this guy will print our magazine and sell them here in aus for profit, with half those profits going back into pd.com?
Or would it be against all that's good and holy to sell kopyleft work?

I guess you could take this thread as a respectful 'no', lys

 

Sorry, this rant needs some trimming.

Recently, while debating ethics and philosophy with my sister, she told me they had banned smoking in cars with kids, in NH or MA sometime around '99 I think? A friend of hers was pissed off (a smoker with kids and a car, would you believe?!), but my sis was all for it.

Now, realistically in the modern world it doesn't really bother me - it's obviously to protect kids, but it's just gonna add to the resentment that those like my sister's friend have for the world, and quite frankly I don't think it's worth it all. Police should be left to protect us from MALICIOUS dangers, not having to pull over stressed out mothers and fine them for being less considerate than they ought to.

If you want to protect my children from me then why not just declare me an unfit parent and take them away. We in Australia basically stole a whole generation of aboriginal children to raise them in white society - I imagine it was supposedly for the good of the children as much as for the good of the white country, but it seems heinously wrong to me either way.

The reason I can't quite justify the banning of smoking in a car full of kids is that our group consensus of the significance of maybe taking 20 years off some kid's life through lung cancer couldn't possibly be as serious as, say, the fundie-christians' group consensus of the significance of you raising your children without knowing jesus and thereby damning their souls to hell for eternity, so if I can say "THOU SHALT NOT SMOKE IN FRONT OF THY KIDS" I then cant really argue against a "THOU SHALT NOT DENY THY CHILDRENS SALVATION".

I don't like drawing arbitrary lines wherever they seem right down the middle of shades  of grey. I think we need to come to a decision about which extreme to go with, but remain open to the idea of swapping ends. The pointless complexity of modern law comes directly from constantly trying to tweak out perceived injustices that arise from this line between 'legal' and 'illegal'. *BAM*, whoops, suddenly we need an army of lawyers, accountants, judges who have more right to decide than me because they studied our mess of a legal system for god knows how many years. Let's face it, we only need help from the legal system when A) we're fucking cunts, or B) we're being fucked by cunts. If we could all just stop constantly screwing each other that would be just dandy.

I believe that all ethical questions can be equated to a black or white on some level, so I always try to find the extremities in any dilemma. In the question of whether or not a society should be able to - or need to - forcibly 'protect' those who cannot protect themselves (the children) the extreme case seems to be in the religions vs. atheism debate:

There are fundamentalists of islam, christianity, and atheism, and each believe that every child deserves - even needs - to know that their version of truth is true. The success of all is impossible unless every child embraces Discordia, but I digress. The two possible eventual outcomes I can foresee are TOTALITARIANISM: one group 'wins', and every child is forced by law to reject all teachings but the doctrine of whichever group has power, or SECULARISM: everyone gets over the necessity to rule the world, a truce is called, and you and I are left to raise our kids to believe whatever the fuck we think is right. I know which sounds better to me, I think diversity of culture is good, and I think if we don't legislate the protection of cabbages quite so much we might evolve into REAL species, instead of this mound of whinging bitches we have become.

I don't advocate violence or hate, but on the other hand I'm not going to put much effort into stopping idiots from being idiots. You can educate people, but you cant force them not to be ignorant. What I learned from Thelema is not that I can do what I will, but that I might as well let all the other sick bastards in the world do what they will too, and get over my disgust.

Lead by example, be your own definition of good, and let me choose mine,

Or Kill Me

yes but What the Fuck is Wrong with Parents who make Babies That Can't Walk?

They COULD walk, but there are paedophiles EVERYWHERE!!!   

The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health

god damn this song is cool

If you do something bad to someone the negative effects will be recurring forward forever, same goes for good things. It doesn't mean it will come back on the monkey who deserves it, but that it will come back on monkeys in general, who, clearly, deserve it.

I agree entirely with the OP, but Nigel, I would like to point out that this doesn't mean I like watching people suffer. TBH I do in some way enjoy watching horrible shit like 1man1jar or the world news, but that's just because I like to experiment with things that make me squirm, and I think it will make me better able to deal with life in the future

If I see a little kid fall over I would rather laugh than feel guilty - shit happens and there's not much you can do about it. I'm not going to laugh at starving kids, but that's very different, if child grazes a knee it will probably see the funny side in a few days (or years), if it ever develops decent emotional stability.

It's not human suffering that I enjoy seeing, it's chaos. Sure, that generally involves human suffering, which is a crying shame (karma is a bitch, yeah fuck all you monkeys!), but I do constantly pray for social collapse to some degree. There is plenty that's fucked up right now and I don't think the situation can properly improve without casualties. So be it.

Cain has a really good point though, and I do really hope we can strip away a shitload of our system WITHOUT societies all descending into oligarchy or despotism, but I have little confidence.

Better to try and find comedy in any situation IMO. Horrormirth or just plain horror - have a giggle. Guilt isn't always constructive, often it just sucks.

I was impressed that Philip Glass was in the soundtrack.

That's about it.

Am I the only one here who thought the film kinda blew?