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Post by Tiger on Dec 25, 2010 18:38:32 GMT -5
I'm posting this from my new iPad.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 25, 2010 15:53:03 GMT -5
Oh. Yeah, that's why I stopped using my Apple mouse. I got a neat wireless one that folds up instead.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 25, 2010 12:25:46 GMT -5
I'm a Mac person and I didn't get it.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 24, 2010 14:13:41 GMT -5
Seems like a decent philosophy to me. As far as the RR thread... I just... well... what is there to say, really? Being a closed-minded group built around blind faith in one or another of the various mystical belief systems we've invented virtually requires a toweringly hypocritical worldview. I would bet big bucks that if Jesus did actually ever return, they would call him a wacko and reject him as a fake. This bothered me even when I was a believer. My pastors gave us Sunday Schoolers a number of lectures about being wary of pretenders and false prophets and told us that Satan knows scripture and can perform false miracles... but never actually told us how we were supposed to recognize that Jesus 2.0 wasn't one of them. I don't think I ever worked up the courage to ask.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 24, 2010 5:04:13 GMT -5
One lady got a Darwin Award about a decade back for actually trying to live without food or water. Aaaand this is the point at which First Amendment rights come screeching to a halt. Or should, anyway.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 24, 2010 1:00:08 GMT -5
The German government didn't really make a huge effort to cover up what they were doing in the camps, which leads people to wonder how ordinary Germans could still support the Nazis despite what was going on. Basically holocaust deniers are unfamiliar with the concepts of hiding in plain sight and citizens turning a blind eye to travesties due to pressure to conform and/or fear of persecution. I think I've heard that there were few to no actual death camps in Germany, just work camps. The death camps were mostly in conquered nations like Poland. You are correct.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 23, 2010 23:45:40 GMT -5
Wait, what? He... is capable of logic? I'll be damned. No he just wants the weed for his glaucoma! That's slightly more logical than the reason I want it.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 23, 2010 22:15:29 GMT -5
._.' I really need to check things I'm trying to get from memory. I feel stupid now. We all make mistakes. We're only stupid if we refuse to learn from them. And in this particular case, the vast majority of the information you'll find on the topic is bad. You can hardly be blamed for not knowing that.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 23, 2010 20:48:17 GMT -5
Of course, once there, there is a nonzero chance that they'll argue that the buildings were part of the conspiracy & not really used for that. They often take the fact that many of them were restored (probably even rebuilt in some cases) for use as museums after the war and turn that into a claim that they're all outright fabrications.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 23, 2010 20:35:39 GMT -5
A basic experiment on how reputation and power can corrupt and cause major issues can be seen in the Stanford Prison Experiment. Stanford Prison Experiment was a horrendous farce that taught us absolutely nothing. skeptoid.com/episodes/4102TL;DR - the experiment's methodology was horrible, the results weren't what people think they were, and they don't necessarily support the conclusions either the experimenters or cynics draw from them. And the argument isn't that humans aren't capable of such brutality, it's that an entire nation wouldn't have gone along with it. Conveniently enough, the other two experiments cynics typically point to are perfect responses.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 23, 2010 19:34:21 GMT -5
I like the post where the mod edited out links to and information about an organization they disagreed with. And the poster wasn't even referring to them favorably.
Do they still pretend to support freedom of expression?
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Post by Tiger on Dec 23, 2010 17:30:22 GMT -5
They have it here in Chicago too, jumping into lake Michigan. I'd try it if I thought I could convince a friend to do it with me. I'm not a fan of showing up to places where I don't know anyone by myself.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 23, 2010 16:47:00 GMT -5
I present you with one proof that people are capable of believing the most ridiculous shit without needing indoctrination from childhood: War of the Worlds' original broadcast. I was under the impression that the reports of mass panic were apocryphal, or greatly exaggerated at best.
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Post by Tiger on Dec 23, 2010 14:21:18 GMT -5
Yay communism!
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Post by Tiger on Dec 23, 2010 14:06:51 GMT -5
You could say that the movie had an effect on his speech pattern, or that the movie affected his speech pattern, but to say that the movie effected his speech is to say something different entirely. No you couldn't. You can't have an effect on something any more than you can have a cause on something. Saying that the movie effected his current speech patterns is saying that it caused his current speech patterns. Saying that the movie affected his current speech patterns is saying that it changed his current speech patterns. Both are perfectly accurate.Edit: I see your point. Saying that it effected his speech may be inaccurate, but the first part of my post still stands.
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