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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: European polls

« on: May 25, 2014, 07:09:11 PM »

You wouldn't be in the UK if it weren't for them.

Of course I would, I would have simply been on a student visa.

I didn't vote BNP, because I don't want to see your bloated corpse floating down the Thames as they give this country the enema it so sorely needs.

Oh. Why not LibertyGB, then? They want to stop the rivers of blood.

But UKIP will remove the right for the 380 million Europeans that have the right to work here from coming over. We can start encouraging you all to go back home after that.

With a 17% popular vote across local councils, I don't think we need to concern ourselves with that. They basically stole a bunch of seats from Tories and Lib Dems, which is awesome.

Sounds harsh, but when a generation can't afford their own homes, we have to look to our people before worrying about hurting everyone else's feelings. Sorry PP.

A generation of people who lose their jobs to untrained workers who don't even speak the language of the country they're in. Yeah, blame immigration.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: European poles

« on: May 25, 2014, 06:57:06 PM »

But Thork, UKIP wants immigration. They love immigration. You should have voted BNP, you numpty.



Also, I voted Labour. I hope you're mad.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: EJ's posts in "Transgenderism"

« on: May 25, 2014, 06:46:44 PM »

Rule 1 is the hardest rule of all.

And how.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Transgenderism

« on: May 24, 2014, 09:59:03 PM »

I see your point. I'm just not sure if transgenderism is the right answer to the problem here. I think I'd rather simply oppose gender* roles, which I pretty much do myself anyway. Sometimes I do things that would generally be perceived as feminine, and I have considered identifying as trans-something in the past. Ultimately, I reached a point where I'm perfectly comfortable with my gender, and I simply express myself in the ways I want.

Of course, your mileage may vary, but it just seems to me like this kind of approach could solve the problems of many people without resorting to very drastic changes. I'm sure that this is not something that would work for everyone, however.

* - I lack a better word for this, so I'm just going to carry on using it, but I'm confident I'm in agreement with Rama as to the specifics of the roles.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: EJ's posts in "Transgenderism"

« on: May 24, 2014, 07:33:55 PM »

Your posts were moved to CN as per rule 3, this time with no warning. You already know how this works.

EDIT: Actually, also rule 1.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Transgenderism

« on: May 24, 2014, 04:28:59 PM »

Yes and no. This may be semantic but each component of gender I listed has a role to play. Admittedly the social and psychological roles are more fluid.

Right, but you do mean roles?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Transgenderism

« on: May 24, 2014, 03:34:33 PM »

The truth about gender is that it is not solely a physiological idea. It has a psychological and sociological component that gets inaccurately excluded from the conversation when you make statements like this.

By "social component" do you mean gender roles?

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: SpaceX commercial satellite launch

« on: May 24, 2014, 03:33:30 PM »

Then I'll rephrase, my tone is not relevant to the debate point.

That's fair.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: flight to Buenas aires to sydney

« on: May 24, 2014, 03:27:15 PM »

See Newtown's First Law of Motion.

Assuming you mean "Newton's", congratulations, you just referenced something irrelevant. Matter outstanding.

Humans can see airplanes over extended periods of time and be able to note when their courses do not match tracking data or follow sensible flight paths.

I asked you to substantiate your claim, not restate it with more words. Please pay attention. Matter outstanding.

Wrong. In the case of MN379: The tracking systems would have worked, but someone or something turned off the transponder and its backup. In the general case, FlightAware and its ilk are accurate within 5 minutes see: http://flightaware.com/about/faq#howlive

Thank you for the link. I'm pleased to see that it confirms my suspicions about how the data is calculated (granted, it's not surprising that it does, since I sourced my original claim from the very same page):

FlightAware compiles, aggregates, and processes data from over 45 government sources (in Europe, North America, and Oceania), dozens of airlines, commercial data providers, as well as hundreds of receivers in FlightAware's ADS-B flight tracking network. FlightAware's proprietary algorithms calculate delay and arrival time estimates to offer the most up-to-date and reliable flight tracking data on the Internet.

Oh my. You didn't think it magically tracks every plane's every move, did you now?

Please tell me where I made any assumption or based anything on a false assumption.

See multiple matters outstanding above.

Also my post was a challenge VH's unsupported claims. VH amde the claims, so you should be challenging him, not me.

As you rightly pointed out, Vauxhall is already being challenged - there's no point in two people doing the same thing. Meanwhile, someone needs to keep you in check - otherwise people might think that you actually put some effort into your posts, or even be tricked into believing you.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: flight to Buenas aires to sydney

« on: May 24, 2014, 09:32:36 AM »

Passengers can detect "flying around".

Please substantiate this claim.

Observers on the ground can detect "flying around".

Please substantiate this claim.

Users of real-time tracking of flights and sea voyages, using--for example--http://flightaware.com/, can detect "flying around".

Oh, right, because that gives us accurate information as to where the planes actually are, as opposed to plotting e.g. $timeelapsed/$timeexpected on a line. I guess all we need to do is type in MH370 into this magnificent tool and we'll immediately detect where the missing plane has gone!

No, wait, of course this won't happen, because tools like this are utterly useless for anything other than figuring out if your friend that you're about to pick up from the airport is going to land on time.

So Vauxhall's explanation is quite foolish.

Please provide some evidence to this claim before making it. A conclusion based on false assumptions is useless.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: SpaceX commercial satellite launch

« on: May 24, 2014, 09:21:33 AM »

Oh, and my tone is quite irrelevant.

Actually, it's not. You're standing on the very thin line between just being rude and making personal attacks. The former will mean people won't want to talk to you (Really, we have better things to do than deal with an angry person on the Internet - for example, dealing with pleasant people on the Internet). The latter will have you in breach of the rules. As far as I know, you haven't breached the rules yet, but as friendly advice, you could really try not being such a cunt to everyone. It goes a long way.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Transgenderism

« on: May 24, 2014, 09:17:04 AM »

Here's a helpful link: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transgender

Most trans* people I know firmly reject dictionary/DSM definitions of these terms. While your point that transgenderism doesn't imply physical alterations is not something I disagree with, I don't think using dictionary definitions to argue something about people who reject them is a good idea.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: The "Arctic Rim" Theory

« on: May 23, 2014, 11:10:12 PM »

I'm asking questions, and then when people refuse to answer them I post satire.

Perhaps if it wasn't so difficult to tell the difference between one and the other, people would take you slightly more seriously.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What happened to flight MH370?

« on: May 20, 2014, 06:30:07 PM »

Silly Malaysians thought the Earth is round and ran out of fuel

I was close!

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Bill Nye debates Ken Ham on Creationism

« on: May 19, 2014, 09:40:05 AM »

Free speech does not give people the right to say something and not be ridiculed.

Exactly. No one says Ken (or other creationists) shouldn't have the right to speak. I mean, I'd prefer if they stopped being wrong, but they have all the right to voice their beliefs, and said right should be defended when necessary.

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Technology & Information / Re: Avoiding Viruses with Linux as my web browser

« on: May 19, 2014, 06:10:19 AM »

I think both of you have a point here. Sure, it is a bit of a paranoid thing to do, but it comes with essentially no disadvantages, so what's wrong with a bit of paranoia?

Also, Thork, weren't you the guy that steered away from Google services when the media highlighted their privacy policy, despite the fact that no major changes were made to the policy? Wouldn't that count as paranoid either? Again, I'm not trying to criticise the move itself, I'm just saying that there ain't nothing wrong with this kind of stuff, so long as it's kept in moderation.

IMHO, there is no such thing as "too secure" - the only question is whether or not the added effort/inconvenience from your security measures would bother you enough to reconsider.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Live Debate

« on: May 17, 2014, 05:39:48 AM »

I fixed it. Don't know why that happened

youtube does not allow embedded links (so Google can continue to advertise along side of your videos).

For a more truthful answer, it's a known bug with the YouTube embedding mod for SMF that I have been too busy to fix just yet. It tries to embed usernames as if they were videos. This is why we mostly write our own code instead of installing mods these days.

For the time being, the workaround is to wrap YouTube URLs with [url] tags when you want to explicitly make sure they don't get embedded.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Piracy

« on: May 17, 2014, 05:17:02 AM »

Is it really stealing if you download it but never listen to it?

If we argue that piracy in general is stealing, then I see no reason why this case wouldn't be. It could be seen as "equivalent" to stealing an album from a store and never listening to it.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Live Debate

« on: May 16, 2014, 08:26:29 PM »

It will be broadcasted live to my youtube channel.

It may be a good idea to show us your channel before asking if any of us even care about being affiliated with it.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: May 15, 2014, 07:38:52 PM »

I can't even tell what's going on.

Looks like a crowd of statistically median MMO players.