NYC is the shit.

Bithday Shout-Outs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I also got a DS, farking rules.

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

interesting though.

UFO - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

We're sorry, but this video may not be available. Try refreshing the page to see this video. To see more videos visit our home page NO VIDEOS TO BE FOUND HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to remain agnostic on this issue.

UFO - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I've never dual booted, just full install debian testing. Then I wanted to install steam, so I switched back. But as soon as I can get a gaming pc, im going to reinstall debian on this laptop.

Linux - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

And the 360 is loud as FUCK. PS3 is pretty quite compared to it. Anyway, I agree with Poss, Sony has superior products. Anyway, you all seem to be forgetting the king of evil company's here, micro$oft. Whats the deal guys?

Evil - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I've realized lately that I have a problem with listening to people. I found that I am generally just waiting for my turn to talk. It's something I am trying to fix. But damn do I want to talk.

Random Stuff - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

I don't know if I was second or first wave, but I was in a digg wave. Probably second, because I think I remember poss being an established member when I showed up.

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 6

Well, I think you need to play portal again. Anyone else play through the advanced maps?

Games - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Known across the lands, it is.

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

Iz dat sum delicious cake?!

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Of course using the OT god it makes sense.

History - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I would say that satan more likely "blessed us" if we are going to talk about this seriously. Consider the genocides we have committed.

History - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

Thank you very much for all this information. It will help alot with getting by in their network. I also think that if I use their wifi I should be even more anon, is this so?

Computing - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

utorrent has encryption too, but it slows everything down so much. What if I used a proxy service. I know of a cheap one that routes all your traffic through (i think) sweden, before connecting to anyother servers.

Computing - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I'll take Bob any day, but Pink Floyd is great too.

Music - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Get a steel frame, it'll be heavier, but cheaper and sturdier. I used to ride alot back in the day, my max distance was 50 mi. but that was only once, generally i'd go 30. I don't ride much now, but im going to get a bike for uni, although I won't go very far with it.

Cycling - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Thank you. His post reeked of "Nya nya nya nya" with him making faces. thank you for that destruction. I hate that most people don't know that social democracy is dead. of course, Neo-liberalism is dieing in latin america too, or at least, the people don't take it seriously either.

Redstar - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

the plastics will break down before the half-lives of the individual elements comes into play.

History - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

thatnks for clearing that up.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I'm curious as to why you agree with the maoists when your name is a simble that means anarchy is order, and you read anarchist/ libertarian socialist lit?

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I would say that rage and zeppelin don't really run in the same groups as pantera or rammstein. Which is to say, they aren't metal. Rage is heavy, but filled with rap. And zeppelin is filled with the blues. anyway, Geek metal heads can exist. Although I am not one. Just got back from Bonnaroo! and the closest thing to metal there was tool. also, a jamband that had john paul jones in it. I doubt I will go back with the people I went with. They like shitty techno and not jambands. And they REFUSED to see the police. WTF is up with that? REFUSED. NO, I CANNOT!!!

Music - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

Dude, at bonnaroo I smoked about 1.5 packs a day. I really liked to smoke while i was tripping. also smoked opium for the first time there. that was nice.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

oh yeah, I smoked so much fucking pot.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

well, the duder is a bro of mine, so thats a no go.

Games - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

good thing i share a dorm room with a dude with a ps3

Games - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

@ATB You mean slightly illegal, not wrong. Right?

The Fascist Army - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Oh /b/, how you've changed me. I'm in ur topic, steelin ur karma.

Physics Lectures here - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Florida has the most cops per capita of any state. We's gots pigs every which way. seriously, this is the "police state" to make a pun.

The Fascist Army - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

word word. Im getting into an alt-country, indie folk sort of thing recently. rilo keilly and Feist mostly.

Music - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I just got Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins from my sister, pretty good stuff.

Music - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Count me in!! I read them as a young lad, recommended them by my parents. I even saw the old tv show, not that great by the way.

Books/Reading - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

I'd have a very hard time dating someone who didn't respect the pot, or a heavy duty christian/any religion. Smarts are good. I like short hair by the way, but it doesn't really matter. But seriously, short hair, tats, maybe a lipring, and im in love. I go goofy over that shit. So a strong will I suppose. Me likey the strong ladies.

Love - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

But Animal Farm did not illustrate how power corrupts. The novel offered no explanation for the actions that Napoleon (Stalin) took. He seems to be "naturally evil". And somehow, power did not corrupt Snowball (Trotsky). Very good point here. Trotsky WAS corrupted by power, and once he lost it, reformed some. Although, Stalin really was a very bad person. Killed his own wife? I think he was only Further corrupted by power, but he really was corrupt to begin with. But the fact is, unlike what Orwell tried to emphasis (that revolutions always make things worse), the Soviet Union WAS better than the Tsarist Empire, and the Maoist China WAS better than when it's under the dictatorship of the U.S.-sponsored gangster-fascist Chiang Kai-shek. I understand that, but just because something is better than what came before, does not mean it can't stand criticizing. The democratic party is better than the republican party, but I am highly critical of both. I don't think a doctrine of the "lesser than two evils" is the way to go. There are very few utopian novels out there, its really a hard thing to do. I've read of one where the language has been changed so that there aren't possisive words, which helps towards the abolition of property, and towords a more possesion based ideology.

Young Communist League - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I think that his point is that power corrupts. I suppose it is what you make of it. And to not trust marxists, because in general, I don't trust marxists, communists, maoists, whathaveyou, it doesn't matter, I don't trust power. I suppose ultimatly what I get from it is to not trust power, and to think that power must be legit before letting someone have the tiniest bit. I think he used the USSR and a prime example of power gone bad, as it was. Although, wilson was a wicked Son of a Bitch too.

Young Communist League - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

well, being that it was written before 1984, I doubt it was.

Young Communist League - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I don't think it is impossible to criticize stalinist, or even leninist, russia without being against the idea blah blah blah we know where I am going... I do it all the time. I am fully critical of the russian revolution. Much was promised, but not much really happened. There was so much potential in the people by this party bullshit, the commisars and what not. So what I get from animal farm is, Watch out for controlers, Authorty figures, and bosses, those who would exert power over you. And, I may be reiterating, but I think that 1984, and a brave new world, both brilliantly analyze the 2 extremes of control. Fear and Reward. I think brave new world frightens me more.

Young Communist League - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I disagree, Animal Farm came from his disgust with soviet russia, Where there was such great promise, but nothing great came about. The scene where the pigs become human is key. The soviet leaders really just became bourgeoisie in the end. No great revolution there. And zen is right, economics don't really matter in 1984, it's more about forms of control. The constant war, the hatred of a faceless enemy, very brilliant stuff because we see it in america today.

Young Communist League - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 5

A rather Modest Proposal, no? Har Har.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

Finishing people's quotes left and right. IS PEOPLE!!!!!>!>?!?!?!?!?!?!

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I say this Dun Cow, you really don't seem to understand what he is saying do you? Its not individuals doing harm, its is systems doing harm. Essentially "Network Effects", How changes in a system can do damage. and you say this For a machine to operate a certain way, it's constituent parts must operate in a way to make it possible. It's not like you can just step up a few levels and say, "Magic happens." You're claiming something very vague. The claim that there are people in the government conspiring to hook the underclass on drugs, conspiring to aid the drug trade, conspiring to destroy the drug trade, conspiring to do all manner of crazy things. I frown upon ideological answers to complex questions. To me, it smells exactly like religious faith. I want to see support for the individual claims that add up to the explanation for how it is. Isn't that what critical thinking is about? I just read a blog of conspiracy theories about the cause of the collapse of the WTC buildings, because Rosie O'Donnell posited her ridiculous ideas on the matter. People are very inclined to believe a system of ideas that comport with their own ideology. Critical thought is trumped. Almost none of that has anything to do with my post, it you associate it to my post. It is my personal observation that these things act as an overall network, that there may not really be a man at the top, but the system produces these currents, these swirls, in which bad things my happen. Its a rather strange Idea to try and discuss, especially online. For that I Apologize. It is like the butterfly and tornado analogy. You're claiming something very vague. The claim that there are people in the government conspiring to hook the underclass on drugs, conspiring to aid the drug trade, conspiring to destroy the drug trade, conspiring to do all manner of crazy things. Im not sure where I make these claims. When I say that the prison system is privatized, im not saying that the politicians are making bank, only that someone is, and that creates an incentive to keep this ban on drugs going.

Drugs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

And evidence is generally bullshit in this subject. I can find data that will support me. I can also find data against me. Its quite easy to create data.

Drugs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Fuck, I am tired and there are so many errors in that post.

Drugs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Millions? bah! we need Billions dead.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

our prison system is privatized, so people ARE making money on the "war on drugs" a bunch of non-violent inmates that aren't causing trouble, but you still get paid for keeping them.

Drugs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

oh hellz yeah. Corporations are technically psychotic. great doc.

Evil - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

erm, you cannot regulate pot silly pants. Its absolutely idiotic to think that they could regulate it.

Drugs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Dun Cow, you really don't seem to understand what he is saying do you? Its not individuals doing harm, its is systems doing harm. Essentially "Network Effects", How changes in a system can do damage.

Drugs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

You are putting words in my mouth. this is what you always do. You repeatedly use strawman arguments and examples that have nothing to do with me to destroy my character. Please Stop Now. Comparisons to religion and what not. This is all irrelevant to the argument.

Drugs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

If you want to talk about conspircy FACT, look at Fucking IRAN-CONTRA. Deny that. Just try to.

Drugs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Monsanto.

Evil - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

It's also much healthier than any other substance I've found. It is very easy to "recover" from, I have never had any permanent effects. Yes, short term memory is down for a day or two, but My brain is right back in fully working order rather quickly. Plus, it doesn't fuck up your body like booze will. No hangovers on pot, you can get right back up.

Drugs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

The 1940s saw Monsanto become a leading manufacturer of plastics, including polystyrene, and synthetic fibers. Since then, it has remained one of the top 10 US chemical companies. Other major products have included the herbicides 2,4,5-T and Agent Orange), aspartame (NutraSweet), bovine somatotropin (bovine growth hormone; BST), and PCBs.[citation needed] Also in this decade, Monsanto operated the Dayton Project, and later Mound Laboratory in Miamisburg, Ohio, for the Manhattan Project, the development of the first nuclear weapons and, after 1947, the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1947, an accidental explosion of ammonium nitrate fertilizer loaded on the French ship S.S. Grandcamp was responsible for the Texas City Disaster in Galveston Bay. The explosion destroyed an adjacent Monsanto styrene manufacturing plant, along with much of the port. It is considered the largest industrial accident in US history, with the highest death toll. As the decade ended, Monsanto acquired American Viscose from England's Courtauld family in 1949. Throughout 2004 and 2005, Monsanto filed lawsuits against many small farmers in Canada and the U.S. The lawsuits have been on the grounds of patent infringement, specifically the sale of crops containing Monsanto's patented genes as a result of wind carrying seeds from neighboring crops. As of February of 2005, Monsanto has patent claims on breeding techniques for pigs which would grant them ownership of any pigs born of such techniques and their related herds. Greenpeace claims Monsanto is trying to claim ownership on ordinary breeding techniques.[2] Monsanto claims that the patent is a defensive measure to track animals from its system. They furthermore claim their patented method uses a specialized insemination device that requires less sperm than is typically required.[3] In September of 2006, the Public Patent Foundation filed requests[4] with the U.S. Patent Office to revoke four patents that Monsanto has used in patent lawsuits against farmers. The Patent Office has rejected all 19 claims on one of the patents, which could lead to its revocation.[5] Since 1998 Monsanto has been attempting to merge or purchase Delta & Pine Land Company. D&PL has been involved with a seed technology nicknamed "Terminator", which produces plants that produce sterile seed. In recent years, widespread opposition from environmental organisations and farmer associations has grown, mainly out of the concerns that these seeds increase farmers dependency on seed suppliers (having to buy these each year for seeding new crops). However as of December 2006 Monsanto has been unable to complete the merger and has faced considerable public outcry over the technology of still unrelated D&PL. In the 1990s Monsanto conducted genetically modified (a.k.a. Terminator genes) Cotton trials in India through its subsidiary Cargill Seeds. It generated stiff opposition from Indian Farmers and one of its Plants in Karnataka[5] State was pulled down by protestors within hours before the Indian Government finally banned the company from continuing further.[6][7]. In 2003 Brazil followed suit with a similar protest in Goias.[8] Frontline's "Seeds of Suicide: India's Desperate Farmers" [9] has detailed some of the struggles facing the Indian farmer. The transition to using the latest pest-resistant seeds and the necessary herbicides has been difficult. Farmers have been lured to genetically modified seeds promoted by Cargill and Monsanto by the promise of greater yields, research however has shown that these seeds require more water and pesticide treatment (sometimes by design). For some farmers, these hidden factors have cost entire harvests due to water shortages and exorbatant pesticide costs. Resulting debts from such gambles with genetically modified seeds have led some farmers into the equivalent of indentured servitude and alarming suicide rates [10] [11]. This problem has been exacerbated by current corporate influence in the government: whereas in the past government experts would give knowledgeable advice to farmers, now such positions are often filled by corporate representatives who receive incentives for promoting company products. Admittedly, it is not a system which keeps the farmers' best interest in mind. Criticism can also be found in the documentary The Future of Food which sheds light on the relationship between agriculture, big business and government. It examines the effects of biotechnology on the nation's smallest farmers and discusses the downsides of genetically modified foods. There is also evidence that Monsanto dumped toxic waste including Agent Orange derivatives, dioxins and PCBs in British landfill sites. According to the Environment Agency it could cost up to £100m to clean up a site in south Wales.[8]

Evil - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto Really, the wiki has all you need. here is another evil corp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_USA

Evil - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Whats creepy about them is that they are out of the publics eye. this corp though is not. WAl-MART

Evil - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

sorry for another gigantic copypasta, but here goes again Caterpillar For years, the Caterpillar Company has provided Israel with the bulldozers used to destroy Palestinian homes. Despite worldwide condemnation, Caterpillar has refused to end its corporate participation house demolition by cutting off sales of specially modified D9 and D10 bulldozers to the Israeli military. In a letter to Caterpillar CEO James Owens, The Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights said: “allowing the delivery of your … bulldozers to the Israeli army … in the certain knowledge that they are being used for such action, might involve complicity or acceptance on the part of your company to actual and potential violations of human rights…” Peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by a Caterpillar D-9, military bulldozer in 2003. She was run over while attempting to block the destruction a family’s home in Gaza. Her family filed suit against Caterpillar in March 2005 charging that Caterpillar knowingly sold machines used to violate human rights. Since Corrie’s death at least three more Palestinians have been killed in their homes by Israeli bulldozer demolitions. Chevron The petrochemical company Chevron is guilty of some of the worst environmental and human rights abuses in the world. From 1964 to 1992, Texaco (which transferred operations to Chevron after being bought out in 2001) unleashed a toxic “Rainforest Chernobyl” in Ecuador by leaving over 600 unlined oil pits in pristine northern Amazon rainforest and dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic production water into rivers used for bathing water. Llocal communities have suffered severe health effects, including cancer, skin lesions, birth defects, and spontaneous abortions. Chevron is also responsible for the violent repression of peaceful opposition to oil extraction. In Nigeria, Chevron has hired private military personnel to open fire on peaceful protestors who oppose oil extraction in the Niger Delta. Additionally Chevron is responsible for widespread health problems in Richmond, California, where one of Chevron’s largest refineries is located. Processing 350,000 barrels of oil a day, the Richmond refinery produces oil flares and toxic waste in the Richmond area. As a result, local residents suffer from high rates of lupus, skin rashes, rheumatic fever, liver problems, kidney problems, tumors, cancer, asthma, and eye problems. The Unocal Corporation, which recently became a subsidiary of Chevron, is an oil and gas company based in California with operations around the world. In December 2004, the company settled a lawsuit filed by 15 Burmese villagers, in which the villagers alleged Unocal’s complicity in a range of human rights violations in Burma, including rape, summary execution, torture, forced labor and forced migration. Coca-Cola Coca-Cola Company is perhaps the most widely recognized corporate symbol on the planet. The company also leads in the abuse of workers’ rights, assassinations, water privatization, and worker discrimination. Between 1989 and 2002, eight union leaders from Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia were killed after protesting the company’s labor practices. Hundreds of other Coca-Cola workers who have joined or considered joining the Colombian union SINALTRAINAL have been kidnapped, tortured, and detained by paramilitaries who are hired to intimidate workers to prevent them from unionizing. In India, Coca-Cola destroys local agriculture by privatizing the country’s water resources. In Plachimada, Kerala, Coca-Cola extracted 1.5 million liters of deep well water, which they bottled and sold under the names Dasani and BonAqua. The groundwater was severely depleted, affecting thousands of communities with water shortages and destroying agricultural activity. As a result, the remaining water became contaminated with high chloride and bacteria levels, leading to scabs, eye problems, and stomach aches in the local population. Coca-Cola is also one of the most discriminatory employers in the world. In the year 2000, 2,000 African-American employees in the U.S. sued the company for race-based disparities in pay and promotions. Dow Chemical Dow Chemical has been destroying lives and poisoning the planet for decades. The company is best known for the ravages and health disaster for millions of Vietnamese and U.S. Veterans caused by its lethal Vietnam War defoliant, Agent Orange. Dow also developed and perfected Napalm, a brutal chemical weapon that burned many innocents to death in Vietnam and other wars. In 1988, Dow provided pesticides to Saddam Hussein despite warnings that they could be used to produce chemical weapons. In 2001, Dow inherited the toxic legacy of the worst peacetime chemical disaster in history when it acquired Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) and its outstanding liabilities in Bhopal, India. On Dec. 3, 1984, a chemical leak from a UCC pesticide plant in Bhopal gassed thousands of people to death and left more than 150,000 disabled or dying. Dow still refuses to address its liabilities in Bhopal. Dow Chemical’s impact is felt globally from its Midland, Michigan headquarters to New Plymouth, New Zealand. In Midland, Dow has been producing chlorinated chemicals and burning and burying its waste including chemicals that make up Agent Orange. In New Plymouth, 500,000 gallons of Agent Orange were produced and thousands of tons of dioxin-laced waste was dumped in agricultural fields. DynCorp Private security contractors have become the fastest-growing sector of the global economy during the last decade—a $100-billion-a-year, nearly unregulated industry. DynCorp, one of the providers of these mercenary services, demonstrates the industry’s power and potential to abuse human rights. While guarding Afghan statesmen and African oil fields, training Iraqi police forces, eradicating Colombian coca plants, and protecting business interests in hurricane-devastated New Orleans, these hired guns bolster the security of governments and organizations at the expense of many people’s human rights. DynCorp’s fumigation of coca crops along the Colombian-Ecuadorian border led Ecuadorian peasants to sue DynCorp in 2001. Plaintiffs argued that DynCorp knew-or should have known-that the herbicides were highly toxic. In 2001, a mechanic with DynCorp blew the whistle on DynCorp employees in Bosnia for rape and trading girls as young as 12 into sex slavery. According to a lawsuit filed by the mechanic, “employees and supervisors were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, [and] forged passports.” DynCorp fired the whistleblower and transferred the employees accused of sex trading out of the country, eventually firing some. None were prosecuted. Ford Motor Company Among automakers, Ford Motor Company is the worst. Every year since 1999, the US Environmental Protection Agency has ranked Ford cars, trucks and SUVs as having the worst overall fuel economy of any American automaker. Ford’s current car and truck fleet has a lower average fuel efficiency than the original Ford Model-T. Ford is also in last place when it comes to vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. According to a recent report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, Ford has “the absolute worst heat-trapping gas emissions performance of all the Big Six automakers.” Despite the company’s recent greenwashing PR campaign, its record has actually worsened. According to Ford’s own sustainability report, between 2003 and 2004, the company’s US fleet-wide fuel economy decreased and its CO2 emissions went up. Ford has also lobbied against lawmakers’ efforts to increase fuel economy standards at the national level and is also involved in a lawsuit against California’s fuel economy standards. KBR (Kellogg, Brown and Root): A Subsidiary of Halliburton Corporation KBR is a private company that provides military support services. Notorious for its questionable bookkeeping, dishonest billing practices with US taxpayer dollars and no-bid contracts, KBR has violated human rights on the U.S. dollar. KBR’s dubious accounting in Iraq came to light in December 2003 when Pentagon auditors questioned possible overcharges for imported gasoline. In June 2005, a previously secret Pentagon audit criticized $1.4 billion in “questioned” and “unsupported” expenditures. In 2002 the company paid $2 million to settle a Justice Department lawsuit that accused KBR of inflating contract prices at Fort Ord, California. Many third-country national (TCN) laborers have been hired by KBR to “rebuild” Iraq. Generally hailing from impoverished Asian countries, they have unexpectedly become part of the largest civilian workforce ever hired in support of a U.S. war. Once abroad, the workers find themselves with few protections and uncertain legal status. TCNs often sleep in crowded trailers and wait outside in scorching heat for food rations. Many lack adequate medical care and put in hard labor seven days a week, 10 hours or more a day. Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin is the world’s largest military contractor. Providing satellites, planes, missiles and other lethal high-tech items to the Pentagon keeps the profits rolling in. Since 2000, the year Bush was elected, the company’s stock value has tripled. As the Center for Corporate Policy (www.corporatepolicy.org) notes, it is no coincidence that Lockheed VP Bruce Jackson-who helped draft the Republican foreign policy platform in 2000-is a key player at the Project for a New American Century, the intellectual incubator of the Iraq war. Lockheed Martin is not the only defense contractor that goes behind the scenes to influence public policy, but it is one of the worst. Stephen J. Hadley, who now has Condoleeza Rice’s old job as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, was formerly a partner in a DC law firm representing Lockheed Martin. He is only one of the beneficiaries of the so-called revolving door between the military industries and the “civilian” national security apparatus. These war profiteers have a profound and illegitimate influence on our country’s international policy decisions. Monsanto Monsanto is, by far, the largest producer of genetically engineered seeds in the world, dominating 70% to 100% of the market for crops such as soy, cotton, wheat and corn. Monsanto is the world’s leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed as Roundup. Roundup is sold to small farmers as a pesticide, yet harms crops in the long run as the toxins accumulate in the soil. Plants eventually become infertile, forcing farmers to purchase genetically modified Roundup Ready Seed, a seed that resists the herbicide. This creates a cycle of dependency on Monsanto for both the weed killer and the only seed that can resist it. Both products are patented, and sold at inflated prices. Exposure to the pesticide is documented to cause cancers, skin disorders, spontaneous abortions, premature births, and damage to the gastrointestinal and nervous systems. According to the India Committee of the Netherlands and the International Labor Rights Fund, Monsanto also employs child labor. In India, an estimated 12,375 children work in cottonseed production for farmers paid by Indian and multinational seed companies, including Monsanto. Nestle USA The problem of illegal and forced child labor is rampant in the chocolate industry, because more than 40% of the world’s cocoa supply comes from the Ivory Coast, a country that the US State Department estimates had approximately 109,000 child laborers working in hazardous conditions on cocoa farms. In 2001, Save the Children Canada reported that 15,000 children between 9 and 12 years old, many from impoverished Mali, had been tricked or sold into slavery on West African cocoa farms, many for just $30 each. Nestle, the third largest buyer of cocoa from the Ivory Coast, is well aware of the tragically unjust labor practices taking place on the farms with which it continues to do business. Nestle and other chocolate manufacturers agreed to end the use of abusive and forced child labor on cocoa farms by July 1, 2005, but they failed to do so. Nestle is also notorious for its aggressive marketing of infant formula in poor countries in the 1980s. Because of this practice, Nestle is still one of the most boycotted corporations in the world, and its infant formula is still controversial. In Italy in 2005, police seized more than two million liters of Nestle infant formula that was contaminated with the chemical isopropylthioxanthone (ITX). Additionally, violations of labor rights are reported from Nestle factories in numerous countries. In Colombia, Nestle replaced the entire factory staff with lower-wage workers and did not renew the collective employment contract. Philip Morris USA and Philip Morris International (a.k.a. The Altria Group Inc.) Among tobacco companies, Philip Morris is notorious. Now called Altria, it is the world’s largest and most profitable cigarette corporation and maker of Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Parliament, Basic and many other brands of cigarettes. Documents uncovered in a lawsuit filed against the tobacco industry by the state of Minnesota showed that Philip Morris and other leading tobacco corporations knew very well of the dangers of tobacco products and the addictiveness of nicotine. To this day, Philip Morris deceives consumers about the harm of its products by offering light, mild and low-tar cigarettes that give consumers the illusion these brands are “healthier” than traditional cigarettes. Although the company says it doesn’t want kids to smoke, it spends millions of dollars every day marketing and promoting cigarettes to youth. Overseas, it has even hired underage “Marlboro girls” to distribute free cigarettes to other children and sponsored concerts where cigarettes were handed out to minors. As anti-tobacco campaigns and government regulations are slowing tobacco use in Western countries, Philip Morris has aggressively moved into developing country markets, where smoking and smoking-related deaths are on the rise. Preliminary numbers released by the World Health Organization predict global deaths due to smoking-related illnesses will nearly double by 2020, with more than three-quarters of those deaths in the developing world. Pfizer Pfizer is the largest pharmaceutical company in the world; it is also one of the worst abusers of the human right of universal access to HIV/AIDS medicine. In addition to Viagra, Zoloft, Zithromax and Norvasc, Pfizer produces the drug fluconazole (an antifungal used by AIDS patients) under the name Diflucan, and sells it at inflated prices most poor people cannot afford. The company refuses to grant generic licenses of fluconazole to governments in countries like Brazil, South Africa, or Dominican Republic, where patients are forced to pay $20 per weekly pill, though the average national wage is only $120 per month. Pfizer also values shareholder profits over safety standards. In Europe in 2005, it withdrew from scientific studies of a new class of AIDS drugs called CCR5 inhibitors, choosing instead to rush its own untested CCR5 inhibitor onto the European market without full information about the drug’s side effects. Suez-Lyonnaise Des Eaux (SLDE) The privatization of water has had a disastrous impact on the human right to clean water, and the French company Suez is the worst perpetrator of this abuse. The company’s billions of dollars in profit come at the expense of poor people living in countries where thousands lack access to potable water, and, because of private water contracts, are also facing skyrocketing water prices. Suez goes by many names around the world-Ondeo, SITA and others-to mask its worldwide net of controversial activities. In Manila, Philippines, after seven years of water privatization under a Suez company (Maynilad Water) contract, studies showed that water rates increased in some neighborhoods by 400 to 700 percent. These studies also showed that the negligence of the company resulted in cholera and gastroenteritis outbreaks that killed six people and severely sickened 725 in Manila’s Tondo district. In Bolivia, a Suez company (Aguas de Illimani) left 200,000 people without access to water and caused a revolt when it tried to charge between $335 and $445 to connect a private home to the water supply. Countless people were unable to afford this charge in a country whose yearly per capita GDP is $915. Unfortunately, the IMF and World Bank are playing a key role in pushing water privatization all over the world. Many countries have been required to open up their water supply to private companies as a condition for receiving IMF loans, and the World Bank has approved millions of dollars in loans for the privatization of water systems. Wal-Mart Wal-Mart is the biggest corporation in the world. It owns 5,100 stores worldwide and employs 1.3 million workers in the United States and 400,000 abroad, as well as millions more in the factories of its suppliers. Many people have heard of the way that Wal-Mart steamrolls its way into every possible town, destroying local supermarkets and countless small businesses. We have also heard about Wal-Mart’s long track record of worker abuse, from forced overtime to sex discrimination to illegal child labor to relentless union busting. Wal-Mart also notoriously fails to provide health insurance to over half of its employees, who are then left to rely on themselves or taxpayers, who provide for a portion of their healthcare needs through government Medicaid. Less well known is the fact that Wal-Mart maintains its low price level by allowing substandard labor conditions at the overseas factories producing most of its goods. The company continually demands lower prices from its suppliers, who, in turn, make more outrageous and abusive demands on their workers in order to meet Wal-Mart’s requirements. In September 2005, the International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit on behalf of Wal-Mart supplier sweatshop workers in China, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nicaragua and Swaziland. The workers were denied minimum wages, forced to work overtime without compensation, and were denied legally mandated health care. Other worker rights violations that have been found in foreign factories that produce goods for Wal-Mart include locked bathrooms, starvation wages, pregnancy tests, denial of access to health care, and workers being fired and blacklisted if they try to defend their rights. 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Evil - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

Cannabis is safer than aspirin. FTW

Drugs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I knew 2 and 4. But thanks much for 1 and 3. Very interesting.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Zimbardo is a creepy looking mutha. We watch these tapes he made in psych. I cant trust a dude that looks like he dyes his beard. Therefore, Failing argument is fail.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

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What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

I have more than 31 million more digits, but Ill leave it there.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

heroin overdose, no question. But I would build up to it. I would grow in addiction until I finally have the big OD.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Drugs are good, WTF do you think helps make you get better when you is sick. So, these chemicals that the govt decides are bad are "DRUGS" where as the ones created by powerful corporations are "medicines". Anyway, it WOULD be fun to suicide on heroin. I won't do it, not just yet anyways, only because I really just don't feel like it. It seems like a hassle. The whole dieing thing. Plus, what If I Fail majorly, how bad would THAT suck. I think there has been far too much morality in this thread. I really do plan on going out that way too. After the wife dies though. If she doesn't go first, I don't. Although that assumes I am in a committed relationship with someone I love, and that is a HUGE assumption. I really want to live to 80, have my wife die (not like whack her or anything, natural causes) go into deep depression, and enter a downward spiral of heroin addiction, leading to death.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I did the same thing Ati, or so I am told.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Biglew, that sounds entirely oppressive. You shouldn't force others into your own morality.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

yeah, I never study either poss, But I have failed me some tests.

Students - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

asperin OD Sucks. just kills your liver. LONG death.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I am also a friend of the moment by moment. Its how I live life.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

You need to fight this dude.

Linguistics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Well, it is a highly irrational and hormonal state. Clinical depression can be created by the surroundings. To continue the homosexual thoughts,( har har ) If the parents offer no support, and there are no friends for support, then the teen will have no positive outlook afforded to them. There ISN'T an effective way to cope, at least to them.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

I don't see it as cowardice, that seems disrespectful of the dead. I would think a good deal of deaths are do to just wanting to stop the pain, and being unable to cope with it. That is why men are more likely to commit suicide than females, we just don't know how to vent or cope. Of course there are other reasons though. There are indeed external factors. Take Indian farmers who are offing themselves due to the extreme poverty they live in (due to world trade). Or Homosexuals' having a high suicide rate because of our fucked up intolerant (although I hate tolerance, why not acceptance?) culture. Anyway, I hate to think of it as cowardly, I could never pull it off. I am far too afraid of whats on the otherside (namely, nothing) I also am rather good at forgetting my circumstances, so I can cope with problems rather well.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

The lower limit is 12. It assumes that you wont have a person older than you. age of consent of a 6 year old is 9? that is silly, no?

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Bill Nye can make any weapon. From baking soda and vinegar. That is all he needs. Anyone else see the epic gentleman thread on /b/?

Epic Hero Battles! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

oh, chicken can be bloody. I sell wings, I know. Also, I am a vegan. weird huh? Anyways, There really isn't anything in meat that can't be found elsewhere, except for cholestoral. Can't get that from vegetables. But I don't think I am missing out on that.

Green Geeks - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I used to not take the pain meds. ever. I would bear through it. But now I would take the heavier pain meds, but not for the pain.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

in florida, it is 16, but only if the person is 21, I think its 21, or its 22. anyways, if you are over that age, then the consent age is 18

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

p0ss, you are my hero. Absolutely brilliant post, very calm and collected.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

For me, I think that Neo-liberalism is not the answer. Whatever it is, Neo-liberalism needs to die. It cannot be sustained.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

J/K about Fuck modern medicine though.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

Im in the same boat as Ati. Fuck modern medicine, I like to get dirty and sick. It keeps my body strong, and on its toes.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

I'm still lost. I'm a new /b/tard

/b/-tards - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

In any case, whatever it is that's keeping Cuba from achieving its full potential under Marxist-flavored socialism aren't going away any time soon. I would like to point out that thing is Americas embargo on Cuba, keeping medical supplies out of the country. Because in America, we don't fuck with the leaders, only a nations poor.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

For me, it comes down to freedom. And if the ladies don't have reproductive rights, well then the don't have freedom.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I totally forgot what I had written here. Ati and I, SUPER ALLIANCE! Sorry folks, I felt that coming on for no reason.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Actually, it was fundamental flaws of Bolshevism. Like the one party state. Also, their unique organization methods, the use of a CEC and other such follies, not related to socialism. By the way, unique is not a complement here.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Goddamn you people, I can't get away from /b/!

/b/-tards - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Ati, of course it didn't become a commune, no shit. You take power out like that, it will end up in chaos (not anarchy, if one uses the classical definition (classical, as in greek)). Anyways, terrible example, they must put themselves in a free situation. This is like us trying to bring "democracy" to people. It requires a mindset.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

RyeGye24 How does "Look, I am not saying it will be perfect. There of course will be issues that would have to be worked out. Oh, and by the way, it was conjured up by two humans, and who are you to say who knows what on social sciences?" equate to him comparing himself to an economic system? Show me, oh great wizard of words.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Fetus death dude, fetus.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Because he said IT was conjured up by two people, not I. Your statement made no sense in reference to what he had written. Again, I will quote him. Oh, and by the way, it was conjured up by two humans, and who are you to say who knows what on social sciences?

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

yeah, but BNW is about advanced forms of capitalism. As someone brought up, Ford.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

By the way, Russia was Stalinist for most of it's time. Not really Marxist. Thats why there are Stalinists, because it is not really Marxism. Same thing with marxism-leninism, it is different than Marxism. Anywho, I must point out now that I am not a marxist, or a communist or a socialist. Or, If I am, I like to attach libertarian in front of it, to express the need for democracy and worker control. Non of this commissar bullocks. No Gods, No Masters, and for us 21st century slaves, NO MANAGERS!

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Im working on my /b/tardation right now, but I am having trouble making sense of the place, although I feel that may not be a problem.

/b/-tards - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

To me, And Science! (This is only half serious)

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

No, I mean they worship Ford. They use the name Ford instead of lord. Also, the protagonists are "Lenina" and "Bernard Marx", but I am not sure what to make of that.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Something of an anarchist. I am still studying. I started with socialism and communism, but I have moved on from that. I got really disgusted with the Bolsheviks, really quick. Especially what they did to the Krondstadt Sailors. Thats why I cannot be Leninist or Trotskyist, I cannot support those who would betray their own. Anyway, that is unimportant.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Lord of the Flies is a terrible example. Fucking hell, its fiction. Don't use fiction to prove a point. It is rather silly. Look at REAL autonomous zones for a REAL WORLD example of "mob rule" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Autonomous_Zone

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

That would have been a different story indeed, but he did not say it. I was merely pointing out historical inaccuracies. And if you are talking about Chinese communism, you are talking about Maoism, plain and simple.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I pretty much agree with RedStar. I hate the stigma we have attatched to sexuality, how restricted we are.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

And considering the time this book was written China was a prime example of communism. Ahem.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I believe that was a typo duder.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Actually, when ever a marxist is talking about capitalists, they mean THOSE WHO CONTROL CAPITAL. And dude, There are so many instances of you putting words in his mouth, its terrible. You implied that Cuab was communist by defending it every time any one said anything bad about it. That is absolutely ridiculous dude. Cuba is state capitalist, which is somewhat socialist, but not communist.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

There is risk involved with giving birth. But that is not the point, the point is that it is still the womans choice as to whether or not an embryo is life. Because the embryo still does not experience anything.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

And BNW was written well before WW2, Which was before the Maoist revolution.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received:

You still made the point. And there isn't anyone else in this thread with "totally anarchist state" in their post, except for me, after you. So no, It is not the same chunk of text. It is not a quote. You might be paraphrasing, but I've been on this thread the whole time, and do not remember any similar posts.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I Swear as much as I want. It is my right. And Poss swore up and down on his post, but it still stands. So don't make it about that.

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

He called you a dipshit. So yeah, again you are wrong.

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Whatever winston.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

now that you have censored poss, no one on here will respect you ever again. Foul words don't mean anything. They are just letters. They aren't magical words that will send you to hell, oh excuse me missus, H E Double hockey sticks.. His post was totally valid, and very well written.

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

The older episodes of it were pretty good. It really is just something to watch, and when you are sick, it helps pass the time.

Late Night TV :D - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Out of line maybe. But so much as to be censored. Especially if it was only for foul language, and not the post itself.

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I have not once gotten any form of punishment at school. No detentions or referrals, ever. If a site was taken down do to language, the company responsible would likely get sued in America, "Most" of us take freedom of speech very seriously, and more importantly, we really do like a good suing.

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I dig it Nadeem.

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I should have done that too, It gets worse as you read on.

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I swear because I work at a bar. It rubs off on you. I am positive this site couldn't go down for language. Jawad is in Canada, which only restricts hate speech. Most of us are in America. And in America, we can say whatever the f**k we want. Lew, you are abusing your power here. I should not feel that I must self censor only to get my voice heard.

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

How the hell is illegal to swear?

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Dude, we are all adults here, I think we can take the language.

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

@Pagan Wench. That is socialism. State Capitalism is Socialism. All so-called Communist countries were Socialist. We call it state capitalism, because the capital is in the hands of the state, instead of the rich. The problem is that it is still out of the hands of the workers. The workers still don't control their lives. I going to repeat, In marxist theory, you transition from capitalism, to socialism, to marxism. All countries claiming to be communist, have been stuck in socialism.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Three people? It doesn't matter how well armed you are, you cannot control a populace. If you start blowing up buildings, its war. The people will not submit. After all, they have already overthrown the capitalists, and their armies. Whats a nerds with some guns. Your forgeting, They might be more heavily armed than you. Look up to the church tower... BOOM, HEADSHOT. Too late. ok, obvious reference there to geek culture. But to be serious, IED up your ass.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

Lew assumed an anarchist society, post revolution. So these aren't the same people how you have in america now.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

And I quote "totally anarchist state" So yes, in your example, you did, absolutely. I didn't mean you wrongly assumed. Only that your example was not using people of today, but people living in an anarchist society. To phrase it in my southern dialect, "thats a whole nuther animal".

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Anyways, to Lew. It doesn't matter if there is no state. A state is still just an organization of people. It is still just people. So why would it matter if they were organized by the large state, they would only have to fight off 3 people. Christ, I get stupid after working a double shift.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received:

Atheism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received:

If it happens outside of this universe, it still has no effect on ours.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

The virus was a joke, but I also talked about mandatory sterilization. To DunCow. I don't know how many times people have said that it "wont work on a national scale". I have addressed that. If you had read redstars and my posts, you would know our counter arguments.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

yes, a sixth sense exists, but it is not what you think. Close your eyes and stick out your arm. now, bend it. Now touch your nose. The ability to know where your body is without looking is a sense.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Well, to clarify, I am not really talking about something that is at a national scale, except for maybe a federation of communes. So I am annoyed when an argument against is irrelevent to what I am arguing for. The problem is that I disagree with the idea of nation-states. We are all Humans after all. Why are Americans better than Europeans, or Mexicans or [Insert nationality]? They aren't. As for the Indians, I was only trying to point out that they didn't really spend all their time attacking each other. I thought it to be rather bigoted to say that they spent all their time shooting each other, and to not point out some of their achievements. It sounded like a White Privilage Perspective. Also, What was western Europe doing at this time? I'm sure it was all peaches and cream. I appogize for attacking you on the immaterial thing. I'm at school, so no firefox spellcheck.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

@Gregmills Revolution means change. It does not need to be violent. Get rid of the oppressors power, and there is no need to kill. But, I may have to kill a few pigs along the way. I only hope it doesn't come to that. @Zenmonk No. Do you know what a federation is? We used to be a federation of states. But now the states have so little power. It is all held at the top of the federation. But they had a more loosely formed federation, a true federation.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Hrmmm, he's got a point there. American Indians did spend a lot of time shooting each other. WTF are you talking about? Who said that? And uhh, not really. They were the first people's to have a federation. Most of them were peaceful people, until we came and brought the idea of property to them.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I've started watching The Trap, and its a pretty fair documentary. I think the problem a lot of people have comes from john nash, and his use of game theory. Nash was a paranoid fuck, and used that to assume that humans were always looking for themselves, and suspicious of others. I haven't watched it all, but I think that the gov'ts start operating under that assumption, which brings us to today, where everyone thinks they need a monetary compensation for their "work". But, as Gregmills pointed out earlier, look at social networks, and as I said, the open source movement, or creative commons. Throws your theory out he window. Examples of lots of people giving away the product of their labor.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

capitalism will die because it is capitalism. It cannot exist forever. It cannot be sustained.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

All "communist" countries in the past were socialist. I doesn't matter what you call them. Oh and I probably shouldn't have spoken for you, Redstar, but we seem to have aligned in the debate here. Feel free to point out where you differ with me.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

I have not read any Bob Black, but after a quick look at his Wiki, I am very interested. Thank you for the recommendation. I am interested in his rebuttals to Murray Bookchin, who's work I am currently reading.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Firstly, when we say communism, we don't mean Marxism-Leninism, which is like Stalinism. secondly, there have been communist societies, although they went by different names. Look at many indian tribes. They were communal. this was developed freely, without "Ivory Tower" academics. You seem to have a hard time understanding that most of the so called communist societies were socialist in reality. Socialism is state capitalism. The idea was that you would go to a transitional socialist phase, then go to communism. We now know that THAT has been debunked. That is to say, the idea of the transitional govt. You are wrong about human nature. Just because we live in a capitalist society doesn't mean that it is human nature. You are simply making that assumption. Look at other societies, and past societies, not just your own.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

It isn't. But if it isn't argued for, it won't have a chance. One must argue for something for it to be. I think that it is the next phase. Well, redstars form of communism, which is like my form of anarchism. I think that when the economy falls, and we start running out of cheap energy (oil) there will be a large collapse, which may lead to what we dream for. Now, I know some of you will argue about people being selfish and what not, but I feel that the great crash will be the point in which redstar and myself and others will work the hardest on educating people helping them set up communities.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

And as far as it's being immaterial, American govt is based on it. Federated powers. Of course I am not talking about our current form of govt, because it has been so bastardized as to not be recognizable.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Poss, not to be a jerk, but its funny how the only thing you seem unsure of is what the minds will do. Everything else is positive go.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Do you want to know the BEST way to prevent the oncoming ecological disaster? A virus that will kill 70% or more of the worlds population, ruthlessly. That, or universal sterilization, with only a chosen few, say, 20%, allowed to reproduce.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

well, the think is, communism shouldn't be centrally planned. Socialism is. Communism, commune, community. its all there. Marx is very important in this, but I think he isn't the only guy we should look to. He is held back by his times. There is alot of "cult of personality" that goes on in marxist groups. I tend to call it Anarcho-communism, or anarcho-syndicalism. It's Redstar that just calls it communism.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

The supernatural is anything that isn't real. Bwahhahahahah! But to be serious, yes. It is irrevelent to me. It has nothing to do with my life. When it starts effecting me, I'll worry.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

My problem is that I can't come up with good questions. I don't really just take stuff at face value. It is always good to have other sets of eyes, or really, brains, looking at your ideas.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

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Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I must say, I have enjoyed this debate immensely. You all have preformed quite well. You've all brought up great points, and have helped me address parts of my thoughts that I probably wouldn't have questioned myself. I have but one question for you though. Does anyone know how to reset the spellcheck for firefox? I have added so many wrong words to its dictionary by accident. The "add word to dictionary" button is RIGHT next to the corrected word. very easy to slip.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

the point is, the Information itself exists. this laptop in front of me might not exist, but the image of it does. For me at least. But that doesn't matter, its not like you exist anyway. I've never been to Australia. Thats a continent out the window.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I am sorry, but I must do this. Steve C, You are an absolute fucking Idiot. You clearly do not understand evolutionary theory at all. In fact, you do not grasp even the simplest bits of it. We have repeatedly told you that evolution only describes what it sets out to describe. That is, it only describes EVOLUTION! Not abiogenisious, and not big bang theory. You must be fucking retarded not to understand this. I know you know nothing about evolution, so let me explain more. It is not a religion. I do not get on my knees and feel its warmth all over my face. Its a fucking THEORY! You see, only religion will claim answers for the unknown. Religion will always pull shit out of its ass to explain something. You say that evolution is biased???? It came from fucking observation. It wasn't made up out of the blue like your god. Fucking hell this guy is a moron.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Anyways, currency and property stop having value when everyone around you is dieing or dead.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

naw, it would be some crazy scientist to release it. A MAD scientist, if you will. There will be no vaccine.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Certainly not as big of an ass as the present ruling class! Thats the gist of what I was going to say. To gregmills about specialists. The anarchist community as all about DIY and workshops. They love to share knowledge. So I doubt that they would use their skill to exploit others. The thing here is that revolution requires a change in mindset. It cannot be done right now with the lazy consumerist attitude that most Americans have. Revolution is impossible in America right now. And your somewhat mistaken about what is to be accomplished. The abolition of work. I define work as selling ones time for currency. The main gain would be to make everything be play. I'm still a bit dry on this part of theory, and I think it is a more recent idea. Anyways, the goal is to make so much of life become leisure, like in some indian tribes. They were able to produce enough food efficiently that they had more leisure time, as a whole, than any societies. ok, that was a bit of a rant, and I'm interested in Redstars reply, I'm sure it will be informative to say the least. By the way, Praise to FireFox, for it has a ctrl+z undo function, which saved this post from being destroyed to the world. I somehow selected all the text and pressed a letter, killing the post. But it was saved by our savior, FireFox.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

I am inclined to say that smarter people tend to go to UU's. Hell, I've been to one, and I liked it. Not to say that I am a brilliant mother fucker, but I am an atheist, and would consider going back, if it wasn't an hour drive. imho, I think the attitude creates the church, not the other way around.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

servants can't exist where people can't be exploited based on their monetary situation.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Fo show. So, we've established that the information you receive via your senses is real. Woot! You also know that your being is real in some state. I think, therefore I am, no?

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Now, GringoStar, I think the transition of work into play is an actual trend and that is a very, very good thing. The efficacy of social networks can be empirical shown. That's were capitalism will face it's toughest challenge. So, yay! I very much agree. Also look to the open source movement and creative commons. And the anarchist community may be great with their non-exploitative sharing of knowledge and do-it-yourselfism, but you're ignoring the fact that the anarchist community is a SELF-SELECTING group of LIKE-MINDED individuals. OK, so now take one part anarchists, mix with 199 parts American Idol fans, and what do you get? I know that. What I talk about isn't a coup d'etat. And anarchist communities must be small, the affinity group as an example, with larger federations to hold it all together. But if you'll notice, I somewhat mentioned this earlier. I said it couldn't be done right now. It takes a change in the mentality of the people. It must be done without the traditional vanguard group. Here the "vanguard" must act as a catalyst, and not in the traditional role of a party or similarly formed organization. Hell, the group isn't even really a vanguard, but I can't think of a proper term for it right now. I fully understand that it may not be likely for this to come about, but I feel it is our only hope. That, or Luke Skywalker.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

Well, I don't know that you are getting information in the form of "senses" but you do. I can't prove it to myself, but you can prove it to yourself. Sorry if I have a hard time explaining this, it isn't my usual topic of conversation. well, once I talked with someone about this.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Survival as a species, and for ultimate freedom and happiness blah blah blah. seriously though, I doubt the capitalists will ever acutually get to work on cleaning up this planet. it is up to us. pollution and what not. It is late, and my brain buzz I went through earlier is gone.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

In addition, the problem is not that god exist or not, but which of the many gods does one choose? Allah would be pissed if you choose yhwh, and so forth. I think that is the main problem with the argument. There are hundreds of choices on the theistic side, and one on the atheist side.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Well poss, your conciousness exists. I can't prove it to myself, but you know it does exist. ok, thought up some counter arguments to that one. So no, nothing can ever be conclusivly proven.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

even if they occur in ones own mind.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

But all of them are godless. The point is that you won't get punished for picking the wrong form of godlessness, where as choosing the wrong god can make all the difference in the world. Just because one believes in god, doesn't guarantee them a spot in the afterlife (heaven or whathaveyou).

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Yes, but according to most religions, you must worship THEIR god, in THEIR way. Or else its the eternal fires. I know that they are all the Abrahamic god. That doesn't matter. If the southern baptists are right, you must do this or that, then one is good with god. If the hardline Jews are right, then you must dress this way, and eat only kosher food, and you are good with god.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

oh, sorry, those are to poss, then zenmonk, in order of my seeing them.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I'm agreeing with ati on this one. You can say that some form of consciousness does exist somewhere based on turing's test.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I'd call you a communist, but not in the modern use of the term. Modern communists are nothing like what you are. so, in relation to modern communist theory, you are an anarcho-communist. But really, most communists just bastardize the theory. Dictatorship of the proletariat, and the transition period. all bullocks used to get power. as for myself, something of a anarcho-communist. So, No Govt at all. Not even a socialist Govt. Because state-captitalism is still capitalism. And it's still a form of control. By the way, remember Production for the sake of production? Marx never saw this coming, Consumption for the sake of consumption. God damn, I write weird when I need a smoke, which is always.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

I just threw that out there for no reason at all. not really a response to anything, but I like the phrase, and have been mulling it around in my head for awhile. I guess I don't think self govt as really govt.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

Then that universe exists. as a concious being. Crap! I just added concious to my dictionary. My spell check dictionary.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Ati, I've done that once, but I was tripping so hard on acid, I didn't think to write it down. Forgot all the numbers.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Yeah, I had never heard of that before, but I also dugg it myself. Very interesting concept.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I wish that was true for me brother. but me smoketh the pot. And I am too lazy to make anything that takes longer than 10 min. hard to be a lazy ass vegan.

Entheogens - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

TV rots the brain people. Please stop now. I suggest Throwawayyourtv.com actually its a blog now, but that will take you to the proper site.

Late Night TV :D - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Um, no. Meat is a luxury food. So it is not a luxury to say you won't eat it. How about all of the impoverished Indians who eat vegetarian diets? Are they elitist? And you can differentiate between animals and plants. Central nervous system. Makes a big difference. And your Bourdain quote is a call to emotions, and nothing more. "I shall now eat meat because it would be rude to not eat meat when a poor family offers it to me."

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

"There is a science which has for its object only incomprehensible things. Unlike all others, it occupies itself but with things unseen. Hobbes calls it "the kingdom of darkness." In this land all obey laws opposed to those which men acknowledge in the world they inhabit. In this marvelous region light is but darkness, evidence becomes doubtful or false, the impossible becomes credible, reason is an unfaithful guide, and common sense changed into delirium. This science is named Theology, and this Theology is a continual insult to human reason." Jean Meslier Now, look to ryegye24's definition of god. His god exists in the unknown, like his big bang energy. His soul is to exist in a higher dimension, another unknown area.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

@Constantine Brilliant. That is what I strive for, but I could never define it like that.

Skepticism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I hate all other drivers on the road. I have terrible road rage. I hate people who are assholes about your bad habits (smoking).

General - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I have energy ratios of 56:1 with beef. http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Aug97/livestock.hrs.html

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

That was an over generalization, I just happen to hate a lot of things people do on the road, and can find any small reason to hate anyone on the road. I drive too much, probably why.

General - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

people who like macs just because it looks cool same here.

General - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

What your thinking of is MDMA or Methylenedioxymethamphetamine.

Entheogens - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

The god particle is theoretical, just like you said. What does this have to do with god? Particle physics isn't a belief system. I don't base my day to day actions on the way w-bosons interact with other particles. I don't see how any of this relates to silly ideas based on nothing.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

To me? sillyness. Don't get offended by that, you asked what it is to me. Or if you are asking how does it effect me, then I will say I doesn't really, but an example of indirect effects could be the national day of prayer. What if all those people, instead of praying, donated blood or money to charities. Imagine what would actually get done.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I probably shouldn't do this list a school, but here goes weed, lsa, ether, oxycodone, coke, shrooms. im blanking, more later.

Entheogens - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

The god particle is theoretical, just like you said. What does this have to do with god? Particle physics isn't a belief system. I don't base my day to day actions on the way w-bosons interact with other particles. I don't see how any of this relates to silly ideas based on nothing. Where do I talk about you in this?

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I have more. duster (once, thought it is terrible), ambien (for it's hypnotic effects), and diphenhydramein (same reason as ambien), ecstasy(once, and we got bad stuff, so never again unless I am assured of quality). I know there is more, so I'll be back with this. I've also tried legal stuff, but it all sucked nuts.

Entheogens - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

DMT, my hero. No, lsa is a form of acid, found in morning glory seeds I had forgotten smoking salvia as well. been there, done that.

Entheogens - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Oh, no dude, they know each other. It's a personal thing.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

The defeat of the Spanish Anarchists was attributed to their strategy (Trench warfare against Luftwaffe). They could have learned a lot from the Maoists in terms of military strategy. Word. I'll be honest, I haven't read enough about the Spanish Anarchists. Just a few essays. And I think something written by Goldman on them, but I can't be sure. I haven't looked at "No Gods, No Masters" in awhile. right now I'm on Post-Scarcity Anarchism. A really good read.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

@RedStar The more I read your posts, the more I think that we may be on the same level. I would just like to say that when you criticize my posts (not really here, but other threads) please make it more of a constructive criticism, and too much of a balking at me criticism. Because I really consider what you post. I think about it, run it over. And I am really open to it. My revolutionary theory is always in need of a good shake up, and thats why I'm glad your on here. as per the social versus the political revolution, most of the time, social revolutions are used to have a political revolution. Case and point, the Bolsheviks. They used a popular uprising to gain power. They destroyed all forms of democracy and worker control as soon as they could. This is why I am always weary of any self-proclaimed Marxists. Marx was in favor of the political revolution. Socialism to Communism, and all that. But you probably know this. Oh well, its been a great thought provoker anyway. That may sound shitty, but I just got home from my wage slave occupation.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

grand Idea p0ss.

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

yeah, im not reading guest posts anymore. and I will not reply to them either. They probably won't be back if they don't sign up.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

the Spanish anarchists were very successful. The fascists were just too organized and powerful.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I can tell already that this guy is going to be a valid member.

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

oh yeah, done that there.

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

actually joining takes you out of the fray. I now care what you have to say, as I will be seeing you here more often (hopefully). Anyway, I am trying to think of something positive to say about you joining, but I'm drawing blanks. Good luck? Oh well, Happy Beams are sent your way. oh, and +karma for joining.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I really shouldn't talk about maoists. the most I've read is the wiki, which was because of this thread. And I'm sure that wasn't a really great post. I'll stick anarchist theory thought. I have so much more too read, no time for Maoist stuff.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

No, God does not come from observations. It is just a made up concept. You are wrong about neutrino's, they have been detected. look at the wiki article. Both of these are based on observations. and no, I do not "believe" in either dark energy or neutrinos. I don't really think about them too much. I have no reason to "believe" in them. I think that they probably do exist. but I don't "believe" in them. That is ridiculous. I suppose that if I was some sort of physicist, I would use them in my models explaining whatever. I really don't know why I debate with you people.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I am limited by my language. English cannot express.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

It provides some decent insight on how to live life. I can use this without having to believe in any of the gods. The philosophy is useful, not the theology.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

well, what was your argument? I am not looking at every post to see the name matches yours. We do need an influx of new thought. But guests don't really count. And I don't really find it ironic. I think that Hinduism is somewhat useful if not taken literally. I have a copy of the Ramayana.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

um, workers unions don't imply hierarchy. Organization doesn't imply hierarchy. You really didn't make a point there.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

and I don't like debating people who respond like that. You didn't address anything I said. You simply stated that my arguments were simplistic, without offering proof, or even saying why, or what.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I do have a grudge agains't most religion. I have a grudge against forms of control, and rlilgion is one of them. I have a grudge the Idea that we must somehow have a way to fit god into the realm of our universe.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

yeah, karma is our currency on here idiot. look on the right of your post. or this post. And yes, I don't look at most of the guest posts. I just don't. I am not going to argue with someone who I will never hear from again.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

well, to be honest, I think most church goers don't really believe in god, it's just a habit to them. As in, they will take action, not pray.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Oh, and I said Stalinist Russia, not Stalin.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

gravity is such a weak force, I don't think it matters within the realm of big bang physics. I say that God is a force or energy, and unless you're saying that the big bang happened without any energy input then that part of my hypothesis is at least correct. The big bang released a great deal of energy. It may not have needed energy input. But don't debate me on that, I really don't know too much about the physics, so I'll leave that one in the air. What is important here is that what you are talking about does not need to be "god". Why do you need to call it god? So that you can have something to look at and call god? Why not just call it force or energy, and not "god". And why is it that you feel the need to be able to answer all of the questions of the universe right now, even though you have to make up all the answers? Do you really need to know how the universe got to this point? Where will you encounter that in your daily life? This is the business of science, to find the answers. If you want to find answers, at least adopt a scientific approach and start doing some research. With math and data involved preferably.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I'm not really trying to point directly to Stalin's regime, more towards how the centralization of power in any groups hands is a bad thing. It doesn't matter what flag they fly, it will corrupt. Anyway, the so-called soviet union was blatantly anti-soviet. They ran with the slogan, "power to the soviets", and immediately usurped the soviets with the CEC. The Bolsheviks were counter-revolutionary. One only has to look at the Krondstadt Sailors, true revolutionaries.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Stalin's Forced Famine 1932-33 7000000 Deaths. http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/stalin_famine.htm

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Lesser of two evils is still evil. Genocide is not an option.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

there isn't an answer, but I am sure there will be theories.

Astronomical - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Why do you need an answer? That is a question that may actually be answered. to all those who responded to my, I must admit, Rash post: You don't live in my area. Mega baptist churches. Super huge churches, with homeless sleeping on the streets nearby. And It doesn't have to be about money, it can be power too. You didn't hear about the rape cases in my area, of preachers and little girls. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they believe what they preach. But it is still false, and it is a form of control.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

And I think that a lot of religious people don't really believe that prayer is a valid means for getting what they want/need.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Yeah, I am a big fan of Taoism. It's so confusing to me though. But I do love how liberating it is. No dogma to speak of, and no preachers really. Its all about burning your own path.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

or at least you a fucking spell checker HAHAHAHA Fuck you dumbass mother fucker! You made an error! see how easy it is? Fucking asswipe.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

oh really? well, it's shit design. gallbladder, wisdom teeth, appendix.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

uhhh, yeah? you see, god is presupposed. You start with god, and look for where it can fit. I start with nothing and build up. I am not looking for all answers. I see no evidence for the soul, no scientific studies talk about seeing ghostieness, or god. why should I accept that what you make up is good and valid? you have no data son! look, maybe they do exist, it certainly could maybe be possible. but im not about to start believing something is true just because there is a minute possibility of it being true. especially if it is just something pulled out of someones ass, and not based on math(as string theory is) or experimental data( as the standard model mostly is). The burden of proof is on you, the one making positive statements. We only deny because of a lack of proof. that is how we are qualified to deny your statements.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Not to mention he completely insults taoism without the slightest clue of what it actually is. Now that is a true christian, full of shit.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

thats just digg slammin the server

Shuzak's Collaborative Program - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

political revolutions do that, social revolutions do not.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

shit, number one topic right now. But it's not like we want to get more traffic for more money or something, just to strengthen the community.

Shuzak's Collaborative Program - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

uh, thats a typo. Dumbass.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I liked taoism because it felt dynamic. I also liked it because it wasn't goal oriented. be good, get to heaven, get to nirvana, get reincarnated, whatever. The payoff in taoism is in the now.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

No Joseph, I didn't want you to just make something up. I want someone to point to scripture. All you christians feel like you can interpret gods words and feeling at anytime, without reference to the bible. why do you even need it?

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Why do you even post? He asked if you agreed, you said prove it.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Ah Jawad, dropping some knowledge on us.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

The vegan diet is essentially an agrarian diet. It is the diet used by most of the worlds poor, only they are forced into it. Meat and dairy and eggs are Luxury foods. Yes, some do hunt for food, but most third world poor eat what ends up to be a vegan diet. It is also more efficient, as the production of these luxury foods takes a great deal of resources. Something like 50 pounds of grain for 1 pound of beef, that probably isn't the right ratio, but I don't feel like doing the research. It is the moral diet, I suppose.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Religion give lies, not answers. If not lies, then certainly not truths, not even close.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I really want a Christian to explain the whole sacrifice thing for me. It seems to make no sense. If Jesus is part of the trinity, which in itself is one entity, who is he appeasing by the sacrifice? Why did he need to be crucified for our sins to be canceled out? The whole thing seems a bit crazy to me. Also, I've been thinking about communion. Isn't that just a form of symbolized blood sacrifice? Eat of my flesh and blood?

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I think the main difference we have here is that you need to believe in higher functions. We don't. We don't need to know how everything works NOW. We don't need to fill in the gaps Right Now. We can be happy while there are gaps. You, and other believers of your lot seem to have this need to fill in gaps you find without finding evidence. Belief is used in area's where there is unknown. Yes, I agree that this whole universe could be controlled by some being operating on the 10th dimension. That sounds cool. But there is just no evidence for it. Let me define my atheism. Its not that I think that it's not possible for some higher power, it is possible. But because there is no evidence for any of that, or even higher dimensions (string theory being my framework for multidimensional universes) we must take all Ideas based on pure thought with a grain of salt. Put them on the back burner so to speak.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

or the guy from the who, he was amazing.

Music - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

You have sensed the afterlife? WTF did that have to do with anything that had been said? You have had your arguments addressed from all angles and destroyed. admit defeat, instead of childish name calling.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

ahem, Stalinist Russia. ahem. Just because a fight is against the capitalists, doesn't make it good.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I vote for 2001. From Wikipedia The title derives from Leon Trotsky's last testament;[citation needed] while in exile in Mexico, knowing he was soon to be assassinated by Stalin's agents, Trotsky saw his wife in the garden and wrote: "Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full." I saw blood diamond. I didn't think it was all that great.

Entertainment Fans - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

hahaha, the infamous black bloc. I love the part about them fighting for freedom. Why does anyone buy that bullshit? It makes absolutely no sense at all.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

No one has touched this yet? Well, I don't fully support this. It probably won't endear the people to them. That, and I don't really like Maoists all too much.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I think that Shuzak is a direct democracy. It is all about direct action. If you don't like something, get people going about it. If you want more options, code it.

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

yes yes, but I have come to the conclusion that class war does not lead to a classless society. I agree that they have the right to defend themselves, but that was not defense. More like offense. My point really is what has been gained by the attack. I'm not really crying for the pigs here. Just wondering the effectiveness.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

haha, good one. I guess you have the most power here, depending on your ability to control Jawad through violence.

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

when i have to type 5 or more numbers, i use the keypad. otherwise... But im on a laptop now.

General - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Oh, I do that all the time. once, in calculus, I decided to do other homework instead of participating in the review. Our teacher put up a basic integration problem, so I looked at it, solved it in my head, and continued to do my work. A few minutes later, when she was asking for answers, no one would offer one up. So I through out the answer that was still in my head, it happened to be correct. bunch of rubes in that class. I swear.

Geeks - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

It is A LOT faster for entering large numbers. really, that is the only reason.

General - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I'm of the same camp Nadeem. I'm also much faster on the keypad.

General - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

seventh day adventists I think. They don't do blood transfusions. Oh, and there is no evidence prayer works. The national day of prayer will only be a waste of time. But, there is the atheist blood drive on the same day. I'd sign up, but my blood is full of drugs, and they don't like that.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I must admit, I skipped the part for the numbers on top when I took that typing class so long ago. I am really terrible with them. I have to look, otherwise it is always wrong. I'm great with everything else, but those damn numbers and symbols. if it isn't a !or @ or $, I will have to look at it to see which one it is.

General - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I think you scared him off. Destroyed his argument.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

forgot me.

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

there are some hardcore shuzak haters out there, already suggested for deletion.

The holy church of Rob - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

my pops has had em.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

well, if you go to the teamwork page, it looks like there was alot more content before.

The holy church of Rob - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

really, I don't remember eating anything gross. It's hard to find gross food when you don't eat meat or dairy. seriously, what vegetable is nasty?

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

well, I haven't seen joseph in a long time. I don't know if he will return.

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

both super tasty. you people are just picky.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

i looked at his history. It looks like its only been 8 days since his last post, which was in the why are so many geeks atheists post.

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I know, I was shocked when I saw that it had only been 8 days. it's certainly felt like at least 3 weeks since those discussions.

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

nope, squash is super tasty, a good acorn squash or summer squash, the best.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I had Blood Pudding once. Didn't taste all that bad. Pretty gross when I think about it though. looked nasty as hell.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I like to go with the flow, and I feel that the flow will take me where I am headed. But I do not see that as fate, just letting all the factors, movers and pushers, take me to where I can be. Not really a "supposed to be" but to take me. I guess it's more about the path. Or that there isn't a path. I don't really know what I am trying to say. I guess maybe that there is no fate, just the here and now. To exist in the now because the future is uncertain. I really need to poop, and it's effecting my thoughts.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

yeah, I don't really know.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

No, religons LIE to people. They tell them that they should avoid modern medicine, instead hope to get healed by god, or the by the healers that are in communion with god. they deceive to make money. Most of the religious are true believers (which isn't really a good thing anyway), but the leaders are deceivers. They use strange tactics to convert you to their cult, and then start asking you for money. I've seen it at the local baptist church. well, the closest one to me. we have so many in my town, its a very profitable business. believe me, you haven't seen corrupt religion until you've seen the southern baptist church.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

No, we will run out of oil, and I am not seeing prominate changes in the market to protect against the end of cheap energy. The market is far to slow to do anything about the long term, or to look to the future at all. When we start seeing oil prices sky rocket, there will be major problems. America's entire infrastructure is based on oil.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

hahah, i love that one! such a great episode. I saw it on youtube, or something. I think it was on throwawayyourtv.org. or taytv.org for short. fuck, i think soon is the time for a smoke

Games - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I can testify to that, Almost all rednecks love jesus. really, it depends on the redneck.

Games - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Threat level High! Your bags will be subject to search! Report any suspicious activity!

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Maybe science requires some form of believe, although not blind. Religion on the other had requires faith, which is very blind.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

The only thing I have faith in is that anything can happen. I don't believe in fate, but I know that my life is out of my control. It's just not fate.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

beowulf Clusters are the shitteee! I've wanted to build one for so long.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

ahhh, coffee and cigarettes, the ultimate combination. And a great movie.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Ah, thanks for the breakdown. That all makes sense now. We call em bangs. but the french call them les fringes, I think. I have a D in French. I fucking hate that class.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

wow, I really posted this question on myspace. It's really a funny question.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

well, maybe not negative karma, but karma costs. Heavy costs for really important stuff.

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

wtf does that even mean.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

So then fibs, is that what you were getting at? Because I think that oi and myself would agree to ati's post. I only say this because I know oi personally.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

so then, I can guess that not a whole lot of people know about it. I have heard that the American MIC is competing with all the foreign manufacturers, and that this has caused major problems. And by compete, I don't really mean in the capitalistic way. god, im really out of it today. I need to start working my brain out.

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

capitalism! Yeah, I don't know.

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

wow zombella, maybe ive had too much wine, but That chicks fringe Maddog is sick as... *thinks about cutting fringe* Make absolutly no sense to me. could be that I'm from amerikkka

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Lame. Tv is for Rubes.

Late Night TV :D - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Oh god P0ss, good point. 42

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Super geeky.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

well con, I feel like the sequels had to go somewhere, they couldn't be clones of the original. I liked the departure though. But you must remember, I was young when all of this came out, still am quite young. Anyway, It held an impression on me.

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

looks great. Im rusty in C++, and have no training in php, but I could follow it. surprised myself really. anyway, great job.

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

har har *shakes fist*

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

oh fuck. I really should have read your post more. fuck fuck fuck. That remark I made is retarded. But I leave it up, For the Public good. Learn from my mistake, all. and rejoice.

Cognitive Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Yes, but the parts were made in Japan.

Cognitive Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

MGS. very good stuff. I must agree. And there is some karma for ya brosky.

Games - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Burn from Maddog.

Cognitive Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

not at all. My vote would be a waste, because the 3rd party cannot win, so why vote at all. I can complain about how shitty all my options are, can't I? And I have looked at the constitution, I do have a right to complain if I don't vote. Jeez.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I agree Crazy Ski Hats! I'll be back in an hour guys.

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

ok, your going to need to click on it to see it better.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

yes, i know. but it sounded very funny. If only I could record my voice for this.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

ooooh, I like it I like it. Romantic and Sexy.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

like, to get loving?

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I'll pants your revolution!!

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

oh, but im not a fan of dancing. But I do like to party!

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

ah, I love it.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I think its true! It all makes sense now. 12 ft high lizards, Of Course! I love the reptoids conspiracy, its got to be my favorite.

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I do not believe the official line, but I am not sure of the details. There are a few ends though. Oil, control over populace ( as it is said in the Project for a New American Century "looking for a new pearl harbor"), Money for the MIC.

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Entirely pervasive. I doubt we in America can overthrow it. All of the politicians are stuck to it, addicted to it. And I fear our economy is pushed along by it.

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I do not think that a revolution will come to the western world in my life-time. But I will keep my eyes open to it. I am not a leader, and I don't like leaders in general anyways.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Even if they aren't rigged, look at American politics. You get to choose from either privileged class person number 1, or privileged class person number 2. Both parties represent the rich, only different sectors of the rich. Oh, and there isn't an American left. It is only right wing, and Super right wing. And no one in the country is awake enough to see this. To quote Emma Goldman, "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Oh no! It is gone now. The advert that is.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

You must go to the atariology website, it has to be the worst designed site ever. maybe worse than my own high school's.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

We are here because we are here, and there is no why. There is my bit, lets see what others have to say.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

Because you live in the boonies. There are no respectable guys for miles around. I am sorry for you.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I suppose.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

ok, I was going to post something else, but it came out sounding rather disturbing... It wasn't supposed to though, just the end product was, as a whole.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

haha, grand. "Baby, baby. we are just fulfilling our purpose. come one now. Its the one defining characteristic of life now baby!" Imagine that in somewhat of a pimp voice. literally a pimp. with gold teeth, and a fur coat. but thats just the voice. dont actually imagine that person saying it.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I suppose, but I see that as a defeated attitude. The big question is Are elections meaningful, and I think that if your options aren't really options at all, just one is slightly better than the other, then the answer is no, they have no meaning. Either way, the regression isn't stopped via the vote.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I hate debating this subject, so this may be my last post here.

Conspiracy Theories - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

lesser of two evils is still evil. And no progress comes from that. the current parties make sure that a third party cannot get any control.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

ah yes, i can see that. there is much that needs to be done in the department of alternative energy and pollution, that if not done soon, will come around to bite us in that ass. Or maybe we've passed that point. maybe we are in store for an ass biting already.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I agree Ati, but I'm going to stick with the loving. only because maybe, Juuuussstttt maybe, it will help me get some.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

then god is imperfect, in that he didn't know what would happen with his designs.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Since Joseph is talking about the Christian god, I offer a question, or observation of the insanity of the biblical account. Why is it that god would create the earth and its people, then destroy them all in a flood when his design didnt work out. Another biblical oddity is Christ's death for our sins. First off, who is he appeasing? His own dad who sent him to do it. that makes plenty of sense. Then if you factor in that he is really just a part of one big god trinity thing, and that really he sent himself to appease himself, nothing makes sense. Why did he have to die for our sins? why couldn't god just forgive us? I will tell you why. The authors of the bible didn't really read each others work, so not much fits together. secondly, the authors weren't all too bright, or at least hadn't had access to the fine literature that we do.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

If our perception belongs to a set pattern, a set pattern belongs to our perception. right. and what is wrong with any of this? p0ss was saying that it could be either way.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I certainly do not feel a continuity. I feel infinitely small points of time flow by, at a rate so fast it would feel a continuity. We can only experience time in dots, in points. like a point on a line, in the graphing sense. That point has width or length, it is merely a point, designating a specific place. That is how time is experienced.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

What problems? And define subjective perception. We may have different ideas about what you mean when you say that.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

no, you were not defining soul. You started with we all have souls, and expanded on that. look to your original post. You cannot define something using the word you are defining.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I really think it is the ghosts of those who were banned.

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I think she's talking about the style that some Italians and others take. let me try and post that pic again.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

or we can take a hint from the movie flatliners

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Joseph, yes. I always question my ideology. It seems you do not. I am not a blind follower. I question everything. Even myself. I do not see that as an insult at all.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

wtf, it showed up on the preview

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

basically, its anyone with hair like the gotti son

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

sorry, but his last post was so full of shit. I couldn't stand it. I knew it wouldn't help.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

we call'em gotti's

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

i like green heads! serioulsy. i love died hair. but redheads are nice.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Joseph, why won't you actually point out where ati is wrong and why. Simply saying that his arguments are illogical doesn't mean shit.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Joseph, your original post on this thread needed a thorough ass whooping. The logic you used was atrocious. You started with the assumption that we all have a soul. Very few people on here will agree to that, so you would need to prove the existence of a soul before you even posted that argument. You deserved what he said to you. He has asked you to further try to explain your position, but you have failed to completely. He asks you to point out what he is missing, but all you can do is further insult him. He dropped the insults and he has tried to approach this in a civil manner.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

what is the deal with random stupid ass guest comments. I think it is the advanced tech guys coming back from the grave.

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

WOW, I want a spirit booster NOW! dear god, I am so bored right now.

Shuzak Current Affairs - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I agree. It was a terrible argument. But I don't think he can ever see that.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Ah Ati, good job bringing some sense out of what he is posting. Joseph, you much try to understand that we are mostly atheist or agnostic, and do not have the same mind set as the theologian. We see no problem with our minds or conciousness being a product of our brain, which is a product of matter (taken from ati) Ok, I'm really just rephrasing Ati, but making it stupider.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

You insulted his first post "A three year old could see through some of the logical holes in your 'argument'." But that was entirely true. he took that and went nuts insulting you. He never actually debated the points you brought up.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I didn't like x3 at all. The whole movie felt like it was made to progress plot. but thats just my humble opinion.

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I understand what you are trying to say, but it is foolish. It is akin to talking about how improbable it is that we as humans evolved. The problem is that if we didn't, we couldn't ask the question, or talk about how improbable it is that we are here. It relates the same way to your idea about perspective. The reason our perspective is anchored to our bodies is that our brains are in our bodies. If it was somewhere else, you'd ask the question there. If you are trying to say, "why is it that I am here now, and have always been here, and not suddenly changed perspective" that is easily answered. I believe it was Ati who said that our perspective, or soul as you like to say, is a function of our brain, and thus it is anchored there for that reason. It cannot exist somewhere else. Your mind, soul, perspective, whatever you want to call it, is entirely organic, and there is nothing special about it. It just is.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Joseph you pompous fuck. You are so clueless its depressing. Do not condescend to ati, he is worlds smarter than you will ever be. Your ideas about subjectivity in no way lead to a conclusion about a soul. Do not say that you are in any way rational if you think that subjectivity leads to a soul. This is the most irrational conclusion someone can make. Please shut the fuck up and quit acting like you are the fucking truth. Clearly you are ignorant in that you have not been able to convince anyone on shuzak that your ideas are remotely valid, and yet you soldier on, thinking no matter what, you are RIGHT. You need to learn to be humble. I have held back most of this debate, but your last post was far too asinine to not say anything.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Also, I really need a smoke. So your last pissy post really got to me.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

man, it takes so much ram to just open the .txt file holding my results. 3. 1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859 5024459455 3469083026 4252230825 3344685035 2619311881 7101000313 7838752886 5875332083 8142061717 7669147303 5982534904 2875546873 1159562863 8823537875 9375195778 1857780532 1712268066 1300192787 6611195909 2164201989 Thats only a smigeon of what is there.

Mathematics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

HAHHAHAHAHAHA, he does know him well. That person is you. Joseph, Do not think that we have your back. It would be safe to say that most of us are behind ati.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

damn, I was about to do some back jumping, but you beat me to it.

the physical world - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I refuse to memorize any digits of pi. The bible says it is three, and so it is three.

Mathematics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

bahh, guys, don't talk like that! The NSA will make a visit to me Probably already tapped my phonelines. Oh, and I've been addicted forever, but eversince I got my laptop, I am NEVER off.

Internet - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Thank you ati, i was thinking the same. It bugs me how much people put into pi. But I calculated 32 million digits on my old comp. gotta try again, see that the lappy gets

Mathematics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

on the old compy, 40+ minutes. im gonna test this one now. oh, and i need to see WHAT the lappy gets. as in what time. that post didn't make too much sense.

Mathematics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

yeahh, i made gtalk not keep logs. I'm a little bit of a privacy geek. I was using an encrypted messenger for awhile, but it was a hassle to use.

Internet - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

on... hippy girls, I love em also, tattoos. tough (not buff) can handle their own shit. independent. smart down for smoking a bit of reefer off, flip those and revere em.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

oh, and I don't really care if they are into what I'm into, just as long as they are interested in Something. not consumerist stuff, and not friends, parting and stuff. well, im saying as long as there is a hidden geek im happy.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

P0ss, did we just have a holy moment?

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

oh, I was referencing waking life.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

excellent!

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

oh, thanks a bunch. we are watching that in me econ class, but its one of my favorite movies.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

hmm that post seems to be in the wrong place. or maybe someone is now gone

Jonestown 3.0 - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Ahh! I am torn between the too faiths! both seem rather appealing. I think Rob might eat the FSM for dinner.

Flying Spaghetti Monsterism - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

sorry, It was suicide. Captain America killed himself.

Comicbook Community - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

What is the function of this thread?

The man community - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

or a telescope *scowls*

Jonestown 3.0 - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I know who the real men are!!! SPARTANS!!!!!!!

Females - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

very fantastic indeed

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

@Ati I don't think there is much deteriorating left to do. It was already pretty dead.

Females - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

It matters as to whether my specific conciousness continues on, or just a copy. but your method may solve that. I want eternal life!

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

yeah, that was great.

Internet - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

wow, Dragonball z helped me see your perspective.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

well, android 16 dies, and it shows his "Chip", his main unit for thinking, blinking, and then die. I thought, well, what if they just powered him up again, he'd act like the same person. Then I thought about people who are technically dead, coming back. The only problem here, is if they are brain dead or not. but anyway, It really helped me see what you are talking about. well, it led me to what I needed to think in order to see it clearer.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

like the forth or fifth. I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

The best Ideas come when you least expect it. Not to say that was a great idea, but it came when I had my mind off it.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Fashion is ridiculous. Anyway, the girls that reply to that sort of stuff aren't what im looking for. I'm gonna sew some jeans tomorrow, patch them up and the like. Maybe make a pocket for my jacket. I am all about functionality, to an extent. Or maybe its that I have a solely separate fashion.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Ah! Finally! Joseph makes a good point. I've though about it myself. It really has nothing to do with the soul. To answer the question, no. but the machine would be come a copy of you. well, your consciousness.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Oh, yeah, I loved to ask that one as a kid. Nobody could ever give me an answer. "Its an attractive force between masses." "why? How? What?" "Erm, well uhh..." anyway, All I know is from reading ahead in my AP physics book and watching NOVA so I'll leave this to the experts.

Astronomical - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

more props for Rob here. never heard it that way, but really helps with visualization.

Astronomical - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I've been thinking about that too. If I make a copy of myself before I die, or "upload" so to speak, am I really there? My brain is dead. The only way I can think of a successful upload would be a nanomachine take over, where nanomachines take over the functions of the cells of the brain, and enable it to be moved from your body, an into a network. Because otherwise, your brain still dies, and your (to bring up a terrible word) perspective isn't changed. its really a hard question. sorry if that is nonsensical, it is something that occurred to me while stoned.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Yes, the copy would feel like me and be like me, and for everyone else but me, it would be me. I don't believe in the soul, so I am not arguing that. I guess what I'm saying is best put in an example say I pass out, my data is transferred, and my brain and body die, the copy goes on etc... Would it feel like closing my eyes and opening them somewhere else? or would I go into nonexistence, with a copy of myself going on thinking. My point here, is that I am still dead, and my own consciousness is dead, although a copy exists.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I think the difference here is the time period. The brain still is intact at all times during the death/rebirth/changing/whatever of atoms. only parts change at a time. I would think the the upload process would need to make sure all functions of the brain are intact, and I still think the only way for this to work is with a nanomechanical brain which emulates the organic brain. It could be tweaked to be better than the organic brain. I don't think a brain scan will work. Of course, there would be no way to notice the difference. No one would know, not even the copy.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Like in P0sses post for a future, where the people are represented by nanobots, and uploaded by nanobots. I am of a similar camp to that idea for the future/singularity.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

There are direct dls on rhyme torrents.

Internet - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I feel like a read about this before, but its a vague feeling. this may stem from it seeming like a very good idea!

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Damn, you guys already got to redefining life. Well, I think that a conscious life form would need to consume energy. Or, anything with a consciousness would need to do that. Or, would need to use energy. Sorry if this is jumbled, just got out of work. Thats just an excuse. I'm always jumbled in my writing.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Idk. Something feels wrong to me about that. But because I cannot explain why, I will agree. I have beginnings of thoughts that argue against the water example, but none of them are nearly complete enough to be of value. I guess that they are simply a protest my mind is making irrationally. Oh well, I dig where this is going. Very good topic.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

motorcycles are far more efficient.

Cars - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Whats a snowstorm? That is not a problem for me. I think green cars are really just a scam from car makers. makes you feel like your helping, but your really not. still using up a ton of fuel, just not quite as much. A hydrogen burning car, now that makes a difference.

Cars - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I am interested...

Pirates - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

uhh, how about all the studies showing no correlation between smoking weed and cancer? no, I will not provide a source, it is late. It has been suggested that the THC kills cells off before they become cancerous.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

you silly christians. There does NOT need to be a reason for me to be here. I simply am. Why do I have wisdom teeth? They serve no purpose. they are because of evolutionary design. We are not "thrown" here... I was born of my mothers womb. my perspective comes from the observations of my eyes. You are confused. there is no why you are here. You serve no purpose. The only reason is the how.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

what a wonderful feeling, im Happy again... Kick Kick.

The holy church of Rob - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Yeah, and I don't have a perfect idea going, just a general idea that i like. I won't hate someone who doesn't adopt my system.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

judge no lest ye be judged? something like that? I dislike that christians rarely follow the tenants of their faith. love thy neighbor? Turn the other cheek? Thou shalt not kill? (Unless they are heathens, of course) I have found that the most devoted are generally the worst people.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

such good responses! karma around!

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

whoops

Jonestown 3.0 - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

ick

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

i know it

The man community - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

good point nadeem

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received:

Proof your child still lives. scams. terrible.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received:

Haha, we make fun of my boss because he was In the Navy.

The holy church of Rob - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

True that.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

ok, mine isn't THAT far. but i am inconvenienced by its distance.

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Yar, im not too sure ours is playing in the IMAX, and our IMAX is far away. but i will see it, although, maybe not this weekend.

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

thank you much. I really am a dummy when it comes to trig.

Mathematics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

because every christian thinks they can judge other christians in morality. we all know that god is the judge, not other christians. plus most christians think that they are practicing the right way, and all other ways are wrong.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

but that is not what we were talking about Sure, you can farm your own carrots and dig your own well---But how much time are you going to be left with to think, speak and act? he's making fun of some of my individualist anarchist ideas, not communism.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

there is no natural view of a soul, other than it doesn't exist. your entire argument is rooted in theology. the axiom you set up is entirely refutable. you seem to be convincing only yourself.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

yes, that is what the word means, good job. now look up the actual ideas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_anarchism that will begin to give you an idea of what we are talking about. Not @N@rk1 like those stupid 14 year old punks talk about.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

and as per the crime, how about my gun? that would stop would be robbers. as per atrocity, those generally require someone telling someone else to do something. this cannot happen when all forms of power are destroyed. its not perfect. and its very spread out. but it certainly is not what you think it is.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Great comic, really sums up.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

dude, ati. joo rock this thread. I know in others we disagree, but mad propers. this is good stuffis.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

my headache is killing me, so i will not refute, maybe another time.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I hate debating anyway. I know that you are smarter than me. I don't think I can will. I still feel I am rightish. If there is a word. well, there isn't, but I am trying to express a feeling of being on the right track, but not perfect.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I have much more reading to do.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

yarbles mates? what about an 18 year old? mmm Lacey. Just checking it out.

Jonestown 3.0 - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Joseph, you don't know what we're talking about.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

sorry, tried my hand at online sarcasm. FF's spell check shows online to be misspelled, and recommends on line, how fucked up is that Worst, spell check, ever.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I knew Ati would own that. I just tried to write your second sentence, and it looked like shite. but you pulled out some great stuff. mad Propz

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

naw, she has stuff to do. actually Ive been incommunicado with her, she hasn't called me back. whatever. I guess its gonna just be me and the devil tonight.

Astronomical - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

totally got boned by the clouds.

Astronomical - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

ah, come on. everyones doing it.

The holy church of Rob - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

yeah, I OD on caffeine all the time. I had .8 grams of it one day. Not a good day I must say. My friend is so addicted to caffeine that he takes .8 or so all the time.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

ah but it will soon be time for my fifth of a gram, for work is approaching.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

The only time I saw a lunar halo, me and my buddy were off to go smoke of the reef. really freaked us out.

Astronomical - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I second Ati's opinion.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

very cool. one of the coolest things I've ever seen in the sky. Oh, and thanks for this lunar eclipse info. I may try to use it to be romantic... *Grin* If she can get out *not so grin*

Astronomical - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Blast you! I could argue this, and I had typed up something, but I think Ati will make the point better. probably have better points too.

Supernatural - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Oh retarded Scott Peterson... please get out of our community.

The man community - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Ah... Leftist New Mexico. I see it all now.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I go in and out of addictions.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

The chat definitely slows down the threads. I think less work gets done. There may be less serious discussion.

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

yeah, did lacey or tera see The Loving??? honestly. thats why P0ss brought it up. It reminds us all of those days. those days of uncertainty and horror. Ok, it wasn't that bad.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I second the twenty vote.

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

ok, im going to bump this a bit. It seems I am the only one who has voted so far.

The Contest - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

OH, I have seen the divine glory That is Rob.

The holy church of Rob - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

yeahhh, still the only one who has voted.

The Contest - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

what about a holy bong?

The holy church of Rob - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

The Loving was The Horror of Shuzak. It was one of the trials of Shuzak.

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

an underlined platonically, harsh. Jk.. time for some DBZ

What Is A Geek? - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Oh, the Glorious Rob is Gracious unto His followers.

The holy church of Rob - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Thank you Nadeem for the back up. I must spread the gospels of the boiled peanut! And now that i know that i can get them in India, I must go!!! Boiled peanuts from across the world!

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Where do you live? I have a hard time finding any good news except for on the internet. The only places that offer alternatives here are UNF's bookstore, a health food store, and a collective we have called inertia. (Great place by the way, it is mentioned in the slingshot planner(Great planner by the way, carrys a good amount of info.)) Anyway, I guess my point is that only the places that tend to cater to the people interested in alternative media actually carry the stuff. i dont find it at a standard bookstore. or any sort of shop.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Cheaper. I don't see the point in buying a car for efficiency if you don't save money. "ooh but your using less fuel@!" yeah, maybe. but If I wanted to save more, I could ride a bike. And its not like the manufacturing process is green anyway.

Cars - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I really don't feel like it helps all that much. get an electric car. Or a plug in hybrid. and charge them using green energy. then you are doing something big.

Cars - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

wow, that is amazing. This man is truly a man. I cannot think about doing that, but that he can, pure skill.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

really, i just love posting strange pictures.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

rarely is a porn star not a moron. I wish it wasn't so. If only is was more accepted my society.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

*cough bittorrent *cough ahem. porn is immoral and degrading to wimmin.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

what a nice gal.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

huh? the peanuts? you keep them in the shell. they are just soft. googleing sago now... still lost on it. here is a pictorial guide to boiled peanuts. Here we have a more mobile stand Here we have one hick buying boiled peanuts from another hick. Here is the delicious product. Note the softened, pinker state of the nut. I hate shuzaks autoformatting.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 5

oh no no no, it makes them soft (but not too soft) and fills them with what ever flavor you boil them in.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

oh, I guess it is unique to south-eastern united states. The reason I wrote that somewhat eloquently (if I may say so myself hahaha) is to avoid saying "Its a southern thang" because that phrase grinds my gears. really though, it is rather delicious. The peanuts need to be green, so it needs to be done in a certain time of the year. It's actually pretty hard to make them right.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Fibs, I do not understand your amusement at boiled peanuts. seriously, it is the only way to eat peanuts. I could go for some right now. mmmmmmm Cajun boiled peanuts.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

why thank you sir.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

is trolly aussie for shopping cart?

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

oh yes, Asia. I had a friend who was into her. I more into the amature stuff to be honest. pornstars really turn me off.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

to be honest, i could talk allday, but this is on teh intrarwarbs, and is public. plus, we have [hushed]Mixed Company![/hushed]

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

it is a tv show on hbo that shows the behind the scenes of the porn industry. really good show.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

have you watched porno valley?

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

I hate that doll look.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

mmm, im getting hot just thinking about it.... jk. i also like the lack of a story with amature. its just straight up fucking. and sometimes, thats what i want to watch. seriously though, i should really back off of this topic. I am starting to feel icky.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

i just mean that i cant stand watching the old style pornstar. with all the make up and nails and shit. i dont find it attractive.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

not too real though. girls gone wild, im looking at you.... seriously, i watched some of that. just sucked hard... and not in a good way.

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I like the "one of her legs was shorter than the other??" part. really had to think about that one. "If it weren't for that horse, I wouldn't have stayed that extra year in college."

Sex - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

i love the south. and I cant wait to leave. I want to be known as the southerner at my place of work located in the north. and i want to boil peanuts for people, as that is the ONLY way to eat a peanut.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

mad props fibs, way to get to the bottom of the issue. there was an article in seed about gay animals, and how most species exhibit those features.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I'd vote for a turd bag.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

What in Tarnhill is goin on?!? Tarnation! confound it! hurray southern culture!

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I am brewing some Java right now. Yummmmy!

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

coffee. but tea is wicked good. just not filled with the caffeine i need.

Tea - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

uhhh, what? that really made no sense at all.

Religious Theory - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

oh P0ss, how wrong you are. kidding. that was brilliant. I wish I could write well. It's not that I didn't know all those things, but putting them together, in one cohesive argument? beyond my abilities.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I thought so.

Music - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

wow, so i take it that because chat is down, your all posting much more. I prefer the chat to be down. as much as i like it, it seems more content is produced without it.

Religious Theory - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I was once told. i really should read these before I post. I thought about doing it, but thought wth, just go with it. and then this happens.

Musicians - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I told that all instruments are trying to emulate the human voice, and are for those who cannot sing. but this was from a dick classical trombonist. and im totally into jazz. I feel that all the instruments have their own unique flavor, and the perfect instrument really doesn't exist. Its that blend that I groove on. Brings me back to my Jazz days. how I miss being a great musician.

Musicians - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

and that seems to be my role on shuzak most of time. throwing in a mad props here and there.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

true true, erm, They are SINNERS!@!!!R#RJDFDSIO IM CRAZY RELIGIOUS. ok, that may have been uncalled for, and I will be the First one to admit it. Stella anyone?

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

yeah, the whole thing made no sense. it contradicted itself.

Religious Theory - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

ohhh!!! why!!!! seriously tho, that sucks

The Contest - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I agree with ati. we can have our own morals, but none will be universal. NEVER. Wait, I have a moral fact. Don't break the laws of physics unless they aren't really laws, in which case, break away! anyway, the morals that dcortesi wrote about are in no way universal. Stoning adulterous girls? that is moral to some. Not at all to us, but whatevvvv.

"Morality" - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

not at all relevant. it sets people to have ideas that cannot be shaken by science. I am referring to judeo-christian stuffs. of course some of the more eastern religions are still good. but they are more philosophy than religion.

Religious Theory - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

one atom is walking with another atom. one says "hey I just lost an electron" the other says "are you sure?" he says, "I'm positive"!!!

Jokes - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

oh learning nerd. that was brilliant. good job summing that up. Karma for joooo!

"Morality" - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

yeah, these guys are good, but who is the Strongest? I vote for Victor Wooten(double u, double o, 10). Look at him go! The pictures don't format that well in the preview, oh well.

Music - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

dude, the 100 years war started in 1337 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1337

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I argue for no one to hold power. no hierarchy. I don't know how redstar feels about party's, but i am fully against them, and the vanguard. I am sure he'll be all for the vanguard tho.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I am all for it! I had one just to show my support! I'm not even gay! Just wanted one. Now me and Pedro are off to an art showing. laters.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 5

the idea of morality is a man made convention. some animals may act as if moral, but it is still our idea. morality only exists within the human mind.

"Morality" - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

haha, all the responses to it are so retarded. My favorite thing that christians say is, "Well, they are not true christians" They all feel they are the best christian, and can judge all others.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Actually matter can be changed into energy and vice versa numskull. Nuclear bomb? There, tiny amount of matter is destroyed in the reaction, and converted to energy.

Religious Theory - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

see, I knew about most of this, but I wouldn't of written it.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I agree very much RedStar. Problem is, hardly anyone in america even knows what neo-liberalism is.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I agree with you for the most part, only I have problems with Marxism. Mainly that it changes control to the state, but the control is still there. Thats why I digg on the Anarcho-synicalism. freedom and equality, somehow.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I have a headache right now, so I am a bit foggy. I wasn't really referring to classical Marxism. I think that it is far too outdated to fit with our world. I am trying to read more up to date theory right now, but I haven't had all that much time. I think that we may have a very similar mind set here, only differing on semantics. I think thats the word. My brain is rotting right now. I think that for any revolution to really work, it need to be global. We cannot have competing nations anymore. It is useless. I may be preaching to the choir though. The revolution must also be in our way of life, that I why I believe that (at least for anarchists) we must find a balance between social anarchism and individual anarchism. Both ideas are good, but not alone. Oh, and what you said about the idea, reminds me of V for Vendetta. And, just to add that nerd status, I read the comic first.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I was talking about a blend. No revolution will work without destroying the idea of property. And that cannot be done without changing the way we live and think about the things around us.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

again, I think they come hand in hand. I think that they need each other.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

actually chadrack, that is debatable. china spends less than us on their military, and has greater equality(or it did, but thats leaving thanks to neo-liberalist policy.) but im not going to argue for china. it is a country too. and it has leaders. its debatable, but i dont want to try to debate it. I'm not fully sure that china is worse or better. goddamn, i cant think straight.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

redstar FTW on that one.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I was going to post something, but im going to wait for redstars response.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

wow, your my hero man. I am an aspiring physicist. But as of now all I do is take AP physics and read some Physorg.org stuff.

the physical world - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

florida. not too much. there was the article i posted awhile back about the new experiment for string theory.

the physical world - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

or another lenin... the world can and has been changed, but almost never for the betterment of mankind. or maybe so. who knows anymore. I guess the real thing here is that we need more specific actions, not just talking but doing. im all theory and no action digg?

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

honestly, I may also fall in love with CS. Right now im considering three areas. physics, computer science, or mathematics. although i dont know what to do with either of them, just three general directions.

the physical world - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

yeah! fuck turd sandwiches.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

thanks P0ss, couldnt remember that name at all.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

yes, but anybody can fill the position, it doesn't take drive or ambition. most cashiers are there for the pay, nothing else. and it changes nothing, i guess that is the main point I am trying to make.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

@ Ati Shazam!

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

well said tofu Its all about how information is gathered, and new Ideas are obtained. Definatly.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I can't wait to see the submissions. I'm pretty much only posting here so that it shows up in my replied to box.

The Contest - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I am vegan. been for about 2+ years. i think. never was a veggie.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

gotta Include Tom Waits, Great songwriter and Actor.

Music - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I actually love this idea. I was tripping Saturday, and me and my friends started talking about what it would be like if the price for tokens at an arcade varied based on availability, so that would could go in, buy a bunch of tokens, not spend them, and fuck with the price. at our own expense of course. and then re-enter them in the "Market" at the current rate, and make good on the high value of the coins.

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

going nuts in the VR, Or not wanting to leave it.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Yeahhhh, Florida just sucks for stargazing. I live near a Mall, and tennis courts, both of which are very bright. Never that many stars out. A real bummer.

Astronomical - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

weird, this showed up in my somebody replied to me box, but nobody replied.!

Astronomical - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I smoke ciggs and pot. I had no Idea so many people smoked on here.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

did someone just watch the new movie by the maker of office space? fuck, i cant remember the name. Anyway, good topic. I've talked about this a lot with friends of mine. It's really hard to say.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

we stopped evolving genetically for the most part. we now evolve culturally, and I think this is the key to us getting smarter and smarter.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

oh, I misread your post. my point is that people may not want to leave a blissful VR.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I totally agree, Its a huge waste of resources for someones meal.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Yeah, I don't take time out of my life to think about anything, I just think, unscheduled.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

well put rath.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

modern medicine prevents that troll. we keep them alive.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I killed a cat with my mighty automobile! fucker ran in front of my car.

The man community - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Uhhh, why not make a cluster using real top of the line computers.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

edit: Because 360s aren't really made for clustering, I wouldn't think that they would cluster well.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Women tend to be more emotional than men. Men tend to be more logical than women. Psych 1 bitchs!* *bitches is not being used as a derogatory statement towards women. here it is not gender specific.

Females - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

ahhhhh jim jones got no buddies?

Karma=love - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Meh, Idk. It's great, but I don't think that its THAT great.

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Not Important looks like what comes out of my ass after I eat Jungle Curry. I destroy cities. Always gotta move afterward. You'd think I'd just stop eating it, but its SOOOOO tasty.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

P0ss, good point. I liked it for that reason though. I'm a drug geek.

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Yeah, I think you are. Nangs? never heard that. we call em whippets, hippy crack, laughing gas. Im blanking on some other names. The only way I've been able to get my hands on it is using in the ol' pressurized cartridge. I have a cracker for it. Its got a pin on the top to break the seal. I really just take it straight from there, although more sophisticated types will uses balloons and tanks.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

All men dont know what women want All women dont know what they want very very true. I have no clue what the ladies want. And I'm quite positive they don't either. but they think they do. And mad props to chadrack on the last props. I think that this blog gives some pretty good insight into the subject as well. http://www.violentacres.com/archives/100/dating-is-competitive-manipulation

Females - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Shit I hate no editing. Mad props on the last POST.

Females - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Right on target. I used ether (bad choice, I shiver just thinking about it) mostly because of that movie. I love youth and being able to make stupid decisions.

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

yeah, we have those too, but they are a bit expensive. I got my cracker at the local head shop (its a discount liquor store run by chan the man).

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Not Important is spamming the system. I don't know how, but I'm positive he is. He only recently joined the community and he has more Karma than most other users. Even the Power Users.

Karma=love - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 5

actually, my zombie survival guide highly recommends katanas. katanas don't run out of ammo, and don't need to be reloaded.

Military Strategies and War - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

you definitely get karma for comparing DBZ and programming.

Java Programming - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

Yeah... energy drinks were wasting my limited supply of money. Now I just go for the good ol' 200 to 400 mg of pure caffeine in pill form. I hate the sugar crash I get from standard energy drink. But my all time fave is monster. really tasty if its cold and I'm thirsty. and if one hasn't just smoked. really can ruin the taste. Shit, now I want one really bad.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Ramen all the way. Its the best. Cheap, easy to make, and versatile. I have so many recipes that involve ramen. plus, when you sit down to a steaming bowl, you get to say "Thank you grand FSM for this bounty, for which we are about to receive. Rahmen" Ok, I can't remember the prayer exactly, that was way off.

Food - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Wow POss, if I could only give so much karma, i'd give it all to that post. that was amazing.

the physical world - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I've only learned very limited C++ and qbasic in an programming class. The only thing I learned in that class other that qbasic is that qbasic is useless. Anyway, I would agree with what everyone else is saying. I think a good example is between utorrent and azurus. utorrent is written in C++ and is thin and fast. Asurus is written in java, and is fat and slow, although probably more versatile.

Java Programming - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

If a tree is in the woods, does it fall? If it falls, it makes a sound, but how do we even know it falls? observation of something acting in the 5th dimension (which is all timelines, all probabilities) brings it into our timeline on the fourth. I don't know if that makes any sense at all.

Philosophy - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

wow, the libertarian party is advertising on this page.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I know Shaun of the Dead was shown in Florida. I got Kicked out of the theater because I wasn't old enough to see it at the time.

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

Rob, I think you've got yourself a convert! I never thought I'd ever be a convert, but today I am. I had heard of it before in an interview with the founder. I thought "oh, that's cool, but I doubt it's that big, so I won't join". But now that I've actually met(online) a bright, I feel like I can join up.

Religious Theory - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

dudeee, that was funny once. but putting it all over the place just sucks man.

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

oh, nevermind then, its gone.

Movies and Film - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I think you could join up. your world view seems naturalistic enough. Although Rob would be more of an authority on this than I.

Religious Theory - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Some use large words to convey large meanings. It also can reduce the number of words needed. On another note, I hate it when people say they have faith, but can't stand any criticism.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

wow, that is very cool.

Quantum Mechanics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

yeah, cars.......

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

yeah, but im not into cars really. im more into pastries and whipped cream.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

buy porn???? who does that anymore?

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I am very excited for this! I think that Google has the best way to advertise, and I figured that you wouldn't settle for anything that wasn't as noninvasive as google. you have my full support. Hell, I'd be happy if you made a ton of cash off this. You deserve it.

Suggest Shuzak! - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

because religion usually does conflict with science. DINOSAURS! EVOLUTION! yes, a watered down religion fits, but most believers arn't watered down.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

@Rathmaster Check out Taoism. Its really quite interesting. And it has none of that path shiz i hate so much. no heaven, no nirvana. just now. i guess. its also rather confusing. Taoist love paradoxes.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I don't care how much cheaper it is then a blue ray player. I don't want a blue ray player. I don't want an HD-DVD player either. none of that matters to me. I don't care that it browses the internet. I can do that on my laptop. All the stuff that is packaged with it doesn't matter. Its nowhere near a price range for a games system that I would buy. Only the Wii is, and I don't own a wii either. all this coming from an ex-sony fanboy.

Advanced Tech - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

yeah, that sounds kinda rough.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I think that a lot of people who are given a choice, or grow up on relatively secular households tend to become skeptics of some sort.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

OMFG Max! I can't believe you said that! I think you went way too far. I am personally insulted.

weezer - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I think that everything can be explained. Maybe we just can't understand most of it. Maybe some things are just above what our human minds can comprehend.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

there is something that generally permits large things from getting to the brain, or was it small particles? i dont remember what it was called now. blood brain barrier?

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

Finally, my relentless research of recreational drugs has paid off! In the form of a karma. totally worth it. (why do I love getting Karma so much?)

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

I'm so sure you do. America doesn't have issues, America is currently FUCKED UP! Warrantless wiretapping? War on fucking Drugs? People are kidnapped, taken to secret prisons, tortured, and then have their tortured testimony used against them in secretive military tribunals. look at the military commissions act. It took away HABEAS FUCKING CORPUS!

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

thank you so much for adding to the conversation.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

its not a court, they are "enemy combatants" who are tried in military tribunals. and the prez decides who are enemy combatants.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Already did

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

the one time ever. everyone, enjoy this while you can! Its Jim Jones, actually taking a topic seriously!

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

brilliant. I was going to post something, but I don't want to follow that at all.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

I really like nitrogen, and oxygen. both of them really. together, ya know?

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 0

so i have noticed. I try to stay away from addictive substances, but I missed this one. Now I can't quit!

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I love that one. My friend actually printed it out and brought it to school.

Science - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

Science is for bitches. Its all about The Grand Flying Spaghetti Monster. His noodly goodness gives me my strength to make it through every day.

Life - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 3

This is very true. Most Americans also have a very poor idea of recent history. And also seem to be able to forget anything. Just put it in the memory hole.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 2

but i agree that more people died by conventional bombing

the physical world - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

I agree totally. only one thing, i think its fucked up that only 2/3s of americans are pissed.

Politics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 4

Actually the testability of sting theory is no longer so far from reach. http://www.physorg.com/news88786651.html

Quantum Mechanics - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1

the problem is that japan was already going to surrender, the bomb was dropped just to fuck with em. or to scare stalin. or what ever other reason. british and american intelligence knew this, and there are documents to prove this.

the physical world - Posted By GringoStar - Karma received: 1