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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.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing

« on: May 15, 2014, 05:58:20 AM »

pizaaplanet listens to serious music

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

« on: May 15, 2014, 05:54:27 AM »

So what you have is essentially a glorified sandbox. Why not just use Sandboxie?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Cazazza Dan

« on: May 12, 2014, 02:25:25 AM »

laughing trombones!

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Drugs should be legal.

« on: May 11, 2014, 09:52:30 PM »

http://time.com/61940/recreational-pot-use-harmful-to-young-peoples-brains/

The evidence just keeps piling up. Marijuana is a dangerous drug and everyone should stay away from it.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Piracy

« on: May 11, 2014, 09:51:39 PM »

I never said otherwise.

Irrelevant.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Piracy

« on: May 11, 2014, 08:32:41 PM »

Correlation, causation, etc.

But that argument swings both ways.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Piracy

« on: May 11, 2014, 08:02:45 PM »

Becoming really good at something takes a lot of time and concentration.  This can be quiet a hindrance if you have to go push paper for 8 hours, commute for 2 hours, feed your family, bathe and sleep.  If you had it your way, a lot of artists, of all disciplines, would never reach their potential.

Well, back when artists were piss-poor, art was actually good. Now it's... pop-culture. Talk about reaching someone's potential.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy

« on: May 09, 2014, 06:40:29 PM »

Hopefully, he will soon become irrelevant enough for it not to be risky (from a PR standpoint) to deal with him.

rooster, I generally agree with you. The problem is that it might be political suicide if a big enough news station abuses their thesaurus hard enough. The very possibility is probably quite frightening to politicians.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy

« on: May 09, 2014, 06:23:39 PM »

I wouldn't vote for a government who allowed this to go on. No matter what side of the political spectrum they were on.

Neither would I. Unfortunately, people like us are in the minority, and populism continues to be a popular and efficient approach.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy

« on: May 09, 2014, 05:54:57 PM »

Doing nothing is political suicide.

It's not, because no one's doing anything. Hypothetical politician John Q. Conformist takes the exact same reputation hit as everyone else, i.e. no relative reputation hit.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy

« on: May 09, 2014, 05:48:41 PM »

That is political suicide.

Sadly, no. It should be, I agree, but it isn't.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy

« on: May 09, 2014, 05:34:59 PM »

But you're right, I guess we should just let a militia hang out in Neveda because no one wants to be the person to restore order.

Reality sucks sometimes. Most politicians value their job more than their constituents.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy

« on: May 09, 2014, 04:55:28 PM »

Only the really crazy right minority would say something like this. How would a SWAT team be too much force after everything this guy has said and done? He has a fucking militia. No one would think "man, the local beat cops should have tried to just walk up and handcuff him."

Your argument defeats itself. He has a ton of people willing to take arms against the government for him - logically there are many more people who support him but don't have a deathwish. Sure, it would be a minority, but more than enough to cause a media outrage.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The saga of Cliven Bundy

« on: May 09, 2014, 03:34:40 AM »

Clearly, the solution is to bring tanks.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Legit suggestion about how to handle large pictures in posts...

« on: May 09, 2014, 02:49:26 AM »

It does, yes. I didn't think it would be a problem (keep in mind that most pictures won't be quite as huge and will load considerably faster). This could be solved by making the images load with the width limit already in place.

A consequence of that would be that if you were to load the thread with no javascript support, you would always see the images scaled down without an easy way of scaling them back up. The way I have it set up, if you view the thread with no JS, you will see all images in their full size (i.e. no difference from how things were in the past). If people feel that having it the other way around would be better, that's a very easy fix.

EDIT: Actually, it won't be that hard to get the best of both words. I'll fix it soon.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Updated Topics is bust

« on: May 08, 2014, 08:23:46 PM »

Hmm. There does seem to be something very wrong with how that list gets generated. We'll try to figure out what we fucked up soon <3

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Legit suggestion about how to handle large pictures in posts...

« on: May 08, 2014, 08:14:23 PM »

back in the day that kind of shit would get you banned.

Luckily, those grim times are nothing more but a thing of the past.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Updated Topics is bust

« on: May 08, 2014, 08:13:25 PM »

Could you be a bit more specific and explain what the problem is?

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Legit suggestion about how to handle large pictures in posts...

« on: May 08, 2014, 03:25:03 AM »

Don't mind me, just posting a ginormous image without specifying the width.



(Currently not implemented in CN because the CN theme is fucking horrible)