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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: May 06, 2014, 04:48:59 PM »

The precautionary principle (not to be confused with a principal - the person in charge of the high school you should go back to) doesn't apply to this discussion. I am not claiming that global warming isn't harmful, I am simply asking you to substantiate your claim that all possible causes other than human actions have been exhausted.

You appear to have now admitted that this is impossible, thus rendering your use of a popular quote completely invalid. If that's the case, I'm quite happy with the outcome.

Never throughout this discussion have I claimed we shouldn't be addressing global warming - this is an assumption you made.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: May 06, 2014, 02:53:15 PM »

All right, let's try to actually respond to it then.

HHunter, just because you dislike some of the elementary properties of logical proofs doesn't mean you can expect others to cater to you. It doesn't make others require prescription medication, it simply means you require to fill in the gaps in your high school education.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: May 06, 2014, 02:42:28 PM »

Pizza have you ever taken any sort of medication or prescription?

Very mature. Please refer to the forum rules. Depending on your intent, this is either a personal attack or an instance of off-topic posting.

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Announcements / Re: The Wiki needs YOU!

« on: May 06, 2014, 01:58:27 PM »

I will be happy to write some of the articles.  Right now, I see this message, though.

but you do not have permission to create this page.

Yeah, you need an account. I'll set one up for you. PM me with an e-mail address to which you want your password to be sent to.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: May 06, 2014, 01:29:56 AM »

Name some.

I don't need to, and I already explained why this is a bogus request to make. Please don't waste my time.

Unless you can substantiate that no other possibilities exist (n.b. not that you failed to find any), you have no point.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: May 05, 2014, 09:13:23 PM »

"If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains – however improbable – must be the truth."

This is only correct assuming you've exhausted all possibilities. You haven't.

Secondly, you've avoided the question.

I didn't "avoid" the question, I explained why the question is nonconstructive.

"There's only one possibility, but it can't be, therefore aliens."

Please substantiate the following statement: There's only one possibility.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: May 05, 2014, 11:59:43 AM »

There are no atmospheric forcings, besides greenhouse gasses, that can be credited with these recent massive increase.

Or maybe there are. Can you name some?

That's not how proving things works. Just because you think there is only one possible cause of something in no way implies that it is the correct cause. You've basically weakened your argument to the level of "God dunnit because no one else could!"

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The NBA should be shut down

« on: May 05, 2014, 01:57:29 AM »

Maybe so, but saying that his life is ruined is not accurate either.

Sorry, I should have been clearer. It's Leon Jenkins whose life is being ruined, over something he didn't even have control over.

Sterling's life is obviously far from ruined. I think he's being treated unfairly, but he's still set for life. He might have to change hobbies, which is a shame, since it shouldn't happen over something irrelevant to the sport, but oh well.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The NBA should be shut down

« on: May 04, 2014, 08:39:35 PM »

Donald Sterling could sell the Clippers for over 1B dollars and can then retire to the Island he will be able to purchase.

He shouldn't be told what to do with his property. The fact that the commodity he's being forced to sell is very valuable doesn't make it better in any way.

The people who will take the worst of this is those Sterling names in the lawsuit for unlawfully recording him.

And rightly so - they appear to be the only people who did anything wrong here.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Watch_Dogs

« on: May 04, 2014, 08:37:31 PM »

A good story is not necessary for that. It sounds like you're confusing well made game missions with a story. The missions can be amazing but have a lackluster story and vice-versa. If you're saying that a story is necessary for motivation, well I'd venture to say you must not have ever played a GTA game before.

I wouldn't call it confusing, but yes, we seem to be using different words for the same thing.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dark Souls

« on: May 04, 2014, 08:36:48 PM »

No dodging or stabbing required.

omg worst game design ever

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The NBA should be shut down

« on: May 04, 2014, 05:05:36 PM »

You have a strange perspective of the world. People are generally not Lawful Neutral and politics/business relies heavily on public opinion.

A valid point. I just don't think it's worth ruining people's lives over it.

Your ideal isn't bad, it's just not very human.

Syntax error at line 3: unexpected "human". Resetting.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The NBA should be shut down

« on: May 04, 2014, 04:55:06 PM »

Like if someone was caught on tape that they fantasized about little boy bums yet had no child porn and had a totally clean record. They would still come under heavy fire and no one would want to be associated with them or represented by them.

Would they be forcefully deprived of their property? Besides, if someone fantasises about boy bums and happens not to do anything bad about it, they cause no harm to society. Leave them be.

And yes, the fact that the professional world succumbs to social stigma is largely my problem with this situation. If he's done something that's actually wrong, take him to court. If he hasn't, stop trying to screw his life up just because some people were offended by what he said.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The NBA should be shut down

« on: May 04, 2014, 04:45:46 PM »

legally Leon Jenkins didn't do anything wrong

My point exactly. He is entirely unrelated, as far as anything with legitimacy is concerned. Sure, some people decided to make him seem related, probably because they had some ulterior motive in destroying the man's career, one that we'll likely never learn about.

The only thing he's guilty of is being targeted by the mob mentality of dumb masses.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The NBA should be shut down

« on: May 04, 2014, 04:38:12 PM »

This incident seems more like a straw breaking the camel's back than a bandwagon.

It would, assuming that what he did this time was actually racist (I hold it's not, but I appear to be in the minority, even if no one can really explain why). But, even then, why are completely unrelated people being held accountable too?

This is nothing but a witch hunt. The PC police was running out of scapegoats, so they picked one that seemed like an easy target, and they're now attacking anyone that's vaguely related.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The NBA should be shut down

« on: May 04, 2014, 04:14:15 PM »

Jones doesn't say any of that.  He doesn't say anything even close to that. [...] Honestly, I don't think you've yet listened to the whole tape.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. If it makes you feel any better, I feel that you haven't listened to the whole video, so our frustration is mutual.

For real, look back at your last three posts and identify the sentences that actually make a point and aren't just snide, sarcastic remarks (hint: there are only two of them).  Don't get me wrong, I love the sarcasm (7/10 would read again); but, constantly having to guess at your meaning is growing old.

*yawn*

You see, your problem is that you read my sentences for what you want them to mean - that largely distorts your understanding. Yes, I do like my snide remarks, but if you'd like to start a thread about me and my personality traits, please do so in the Lounge/AR/CN.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The NBA should be shut down

« on: May 04, 2014, 03:19:43 PM »

Just out of curiosity, tell me exactly what point you think Bomani Jones is making.  I don't think he's supporting your argument the way you think he does.  I'm guessing that you just listened to the first few minutes and tuned out after you heard what you wanted to hear, not realizing that it was the set-up for his real point

You need to stop guessing (you're supposed to be "well informed, thanks")! It won't get you far, what with your natural anti-talent for getting things right and staying on topic.

Yes, Bomani Jones made a decent case for why Sterling might have been a racist in 2006. His actions been dealt with appropriately within the legal mechanisms designated for that purpose. They are irrelevant to this discussion. What is relevant, however, is that this particular situation is absolutely no reason for a backlash - there have been better reasons, and more appropriate backlashes have already occurred.

All in all, I'm glad that throughout your drivel you managed to agree that the situation is (at least relatively) not racist. Granted, it contradicts your previous statements, but I expect nothing else.

For example, this Bomani Jones article about what a raging racist Donald Sterling is: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jones/060810

Congratulations, you successfully linked me to an article the video discusses. Give it a few more tries and you might actually finish researching the subject (which you should have done before discussing it, of course).

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (cast list released!)

« on: May 04, 2014, 12:37:38 PM »

The Stormtrooper E-11 blaster rifle is supposedly pretty shit too. When you use one in the Jedi Knight games, they never hit center in the reticule, compared to the light blaster which always hit center.

Unless you stop running around like a spastic and using the alt attack 24/7.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Questions for the FAQ

« on: May 04, 2014, 12:34:53 PM »

I've improved my approach a little bit:

http://wiki.tfes.org/User:PizzaPlanet/FAQ_Sandbox

You can now click on the questions to expand/collapse them. I'm still of the opinion that having all questions in full the moment the page opens is better - the table of contents does its job well, and anyone who ever used a MediaWiki (Wikipedia, RationalWiki, Conservapedia, etc.) will already be familiar with it. But, if there is general consensus that something like this would be better (or if anyone proposes an alternative that then becomes the consensus), I wouldn't mind adopting it.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The NBA should be shut down

« on: May 04, 2014, 11:29:55 AM »

Meanwhile, people who understand what actually happened are having quite a laugh and other innocent people are suffering from the bandwagon.