Bulldrek v3.0

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A book on animal husbandry that belonged to my great-grandfather, printed in 1868.

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Science isn't about 'true' or 'false', it's about setting up models that conforms to observed events as accurately as possible. No, as a matter of fact, it's not. It's not about making models that conform to observation. It's quite the inverse of that. Science is about observed events conforming to...

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All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it’s absurd. Of course it’s going up. . . . Wow, you must be right, it's totally moronic to argue about that. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’...

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My best guess is that it's an attempt to get the G8 to say "Bad! Naughty international corporations! No taxbreak!" Or something along those lines. I keep telling him that making them break out the riot police and ship in over a thousand more cops isn't going to work, but...

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Well, since I know at least one person who's liable to be in Germany protesting right now (assuming he hasn't gotten his ass deported or jailed again), let me try to summarize his views: He's pretty much there to protests corporations going into countries filled with poor brown people, employing the...

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It's always amusing to see people harken back to the Cold War environment as the "good old days," or beneficial at all. Bilateral opposition is a hell of a lot scarier and more unstable than hegemony, and people are hurt far, far more often. Oh, come on. That was not what I said, nor even...

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Hmm, Mexico could very well gain much stronger links with China and Japan instead of the US. Such economic power houses are becoming something of a major threat to the US economic hegemony. Minus the part where I'm not nutty about China's politics, I hope it happens. I'd like to see an Eastern supe...

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*prepares the virgin's blood and hay-scented beeswax candles*

*casts Summon MooCow*

Dude! Should we put you down as a pass again, or what?

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Mmmmm. Starcraft II.

I have been waiting a looooooong time for this, and I'll definitely get it as soon as it's available. Besides, I've been more or less looking for an excuse to upgrade my computer.

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Well, I've read rthe document a couple of times, and I would actually have preferred it if the deleted text hadn't been deleted at all. The reason being that the deleted portions of the text came across as candid and honest, rather than so much political fluff. As Elf said, it ended up being balance...

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All this is definitely taking an interesting turn though!

*restrains urge to toss in nonscencial interludes*

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Not quite as simple as that, I'm afraid, Salv. There were plenty of right-wing authoritarian regimes in Europe, and most of them would likely have appeared even if Hitler did not. In many cases, they held down both communists and fascists (as with Dollfuss in Austria and Horthy in Hungary, I believe...

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The only thing that shits me is the current affairs / human interest story reporting / punditry, which is just daily stories of Palestinians, Lebanese and Iraqis living shitty lives. It's almost as bad as Bill O'Rielly and co sometimes. Almost. Thankfully there's far less of that than in the wester...

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As an aside, since this has turned to media (and television in particualr), it's my impression that the more tv-channels you get broadcasting "The news", you don't get any less bias, but rather a more focused bias. The only thing you get to pick and choose is which version of the world you...

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I am endlessly entertained, by the way, with the implication that we have to be tolerant of everyone... except intolerant people. Those people, we must legislate away, because clearly intolerance is not to be tolerated! The notion that tolerance is "right" and intolerance "wrong"...

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Chester really wasn't enjoying this. Using as much of his magics as he dared, hoping to remain unnoticed, he shot another glance at his... their, prospective employer. Nothing. He looked perfectly mundane. So, either a trusted servant or good enough to hide every trace of power. Neither option was c...

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Eurovision, by this point, needs to be put out of my misery. Seriously. I hate that fucking thing so, so much.

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*is prodded* If I haven't got something up by Monday, I'll have to pass as well.

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Oh! Option Three: Buy Africa.

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Assuming that this applies to my nation as well; Option the first: Through legal mandate. Domestic Policy: Legalise gay marriage as one of the first things I do. Next, seperate church and state completely. No more money for those fuckers, and I really don't want my country to have an 'official' reli...

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Paul: Yes, I think what you're saying makes perfect sense, and overall I agree with you. Marriage wasn't always something you entered into 'for love', after all, although that's certainly played a part. Go back a century or so and marrying someone was very much a question of entering into a business...

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But what the fuck happened to Stephenson in recent years? That Baroque cycle was godawful. I'm in the minority that like the Baroque Cycle. Even I think it dips off toward the end (say, book three, novels five and six). Well, if it's any consolation, I really liked the Baroque Cycle as well, though...

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Currently reading "Memories of Ice" by Steven Erikson, third book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen saga. And enjoying it immensely.

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Yeah, Marriage, doesn't seem like a "contract" so much till you want to get out of it. I think that's part of our problem these days-we approach things from the wrong vantage. (Mainly a Judeo-Christian vantage when it comes to marriage.) I think if we backed up off it, and thought about i...

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I can sum it up in a very simple way: It's good to be able to grow your own food. Even if it'd only partially cover the actual need, a working agricultural sector is a blessing for any country anywhere in the world. Food is the most vital commodity without question, and so it makes perfect sense to ...

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WillyGilligan wrote:Reality notwithstanding, I feel kind of responsible for this. Which is really ironic, given how non-combative I am.

Reality called. It said to tell you that you're not responsible. And it wants its car back.

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Well what role does gender play in relationships? And marriages? Are there and should there be gender based roles in marriage and relationships? (I.e. The man takes out the trash, the woman does the dishes.) Your mileage may vary, really. If the relationship falls into those roles I don't think tha...

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No. The tension levels are just not worth it. I specifically declined a job I was offered because my significant other worked in the same business.

Sure, some people might pull it off, but it's not something I would consider, except in very specific circumstances (like a family business).

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I have been saying for years that the US is a lot like the roman empire. And as Rome fell, so shall we. As have I. But the decline and fall happens with every empire eventually, some are just a little more resistant than others. Right now the USA can still expect several decades of progress and pro...

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That's one of the things that makes measuring diversity so hard: the groups that aren't making noise. Most people in America think of there being a few different groups here: Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics, or Northerners and Southerners, or Midwest and "people from out thar," when in trut...

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Chiminage He's worn and weatherd, looking more than a decade older than he really is, due to the strains of always moving. Hence, at 35, he looks like he's in his late 40s, though that is added to by the beard which he keeps neatly trimmed, somehow. Chiminage is tan and lean, more wiry than muscula...

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I procrastinate like it was my job. I argue a point long after I should've conceded to being wrong. I jump to conclusions. I voice opinions as fact and in the heat of the moment, rather than doing what I should and think about it. I have an odd relationship with money. I do not care nearly enough ab...

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WillyGilligan wrote:I thought that Western Civilization (culture) is counted as most of the stuff the ancient Greeks started that got exported to other places.

Go far enough back and we're all Sumerian or Egyptian.

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Now... Come on. Are we really going to sink this low? Are we really going to descend en masse onto this poor dingbat and his LJ, being snarky and rude and fucking with his ego in an exceedingly public and humiliating way? .... I almost managed to keep a straight face typing that. Can I get in on thi...

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Doomsday!

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In general, I think that continued legislation to tighten copyright law and extend the lengths of copyrights is a step in the wrong direction; I am against laws that make it criminal to manipulate items that you have purchased [such as your DVDs and DVD player]; and I am against laws that attempt t...

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Thanks to dentist, I am now fucked up on painkillers. Yay!

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Went to the dentist today. Got my molars jacked apart and drilled. Anaesthetics did not work. Not a happy bunny, me.

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Shockingly, I have to agree with Serious Paul. If nothing else, the sheer level of general weirdness that finds its way out of the USA should put the "homogenous country" myth to rest. The idea that Western values are universal is completely devoid of the cultural values of any other socie...

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My role in the world: I'm here to do whatever it is that I get into my head at the moment, and hopefully along the line I'll have fun and lead a life I can look back at and go; "Yeah, I'd do it again." I don't really have any great causes to champion, or that kind of stuff, but I do have a...

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So, your ideal USA would be one in which there were no great urban centers and with just about everyone as a farmer, with about a population of 25 to 50 million people? Is that an accurate summary, or am I completely off the mark?

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Chicago, Illinois. T -14 days Checking his clothes one final time, Chester nodded with satisfaction. Threadbare and worn, but still respectable. Nothing fancy, but a clean shirt and slacks that made him look like he was a part of society again. A poor cog in the mechanism, maybe, but still a part o...

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I have sent in application for an apartment, near my new university! Thank god for government-supported student-apartments!! *fingers crossed*

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Will try and slap something together tomorrow.

Am to tired-drunk right now, though.

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I'm going to save this until someone seriously pisses me off. Then I'll use it as a time-devouring neuron-nuke.

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This is not me being snarky, I honestly want to know, since I'm not American and therefore don't have a history of learning this stuff: 1) The Constitution provides for the US Government to make laws, right? 2) Assuming the answer to #1 is 'yes', unless something is explicitly forbidden by the Cons...

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At first glance, it actually looks eerily like some of our own grade-A nutters. How are they nutters? Quick glance, all they want is an end to unconstitutional programs like Federal Welfare, Student Loans, Social Security, Drug Enforement, Enviromental Protection, etc. How horrid, they want the gov...

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At first glance, it actually looks eerily like some of our own grade-A nutters.

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Jestyr wrote:Questionable Content is faaaabulous. <3

It is. Am reading it now, as it happens.

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NYC... Why do I think Nycthemeron when I see that, and where the hell do I have it from?

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