HA!! These 'patriots' really just want to get drunk on donations.

http://usuncut.com/news/oregon-standoff-member-caught-drinking-donation-money/

According to a Facebook video that he has since removed from his profile, Cai Irvin, one of the gunmen holding down the federal bird sanctuary, claimed that one of the “patriots” walked off the camp to stay in a hotel and drink away the donations he raked in to be part of the insurgency.

If you want some reading material that delves into this quite extensively check out:

• Denial of Death


• Existential Psychotherapy
  

The latter goes even deeper and also explores not only denial of death, but also meaninglessness, freedom, and isolation.

Good stuff.

My black friend likes to talk about chicken and watermelon, and then we (group of friends/coworkers of varied races/nationalities/sexualities) ALWAYS laugh. Why do we always laugh? It's not fake or even nervous laughter -- he's just a goddamn funny dude; goes around doing a combination of Urkel and Denzel.

His story is the story of a black man that came to White/Asian Irvine California to teach the other races how to laugh -- and to pick up on hot Asian women near UCI. Sort of the opposite of the Hilarry Swank movie in all regards.

I've lived in areas of Orange County where it was very white and very racist, parts of the American "South" where it was very white and very racist, parts of Orange County where it was very hispanic and very racist, and parts of Orange County where it was so racially diverse no one really cared a goddamn what you look like, other than if you were a nerd or a jock.

Perception of racial issues depends almost entirely on where you live.

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My first apartment (in Irvine, CA) was about $1100/month and about 400 sqft., if I recall correctly. That was over a decade ago.

The last apartment I rented was around 2007 and about $1600/month for ~700 sqft. (also in Irvine).

"I'll call the police if you look at my public information and talk to me in public again." Dipshit.

*promote for filming in Irvine ♥

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Yo, play Ingress with me. It's an augmented reality game with two factions fighting over actual points of interest in reality: Post offices, fire departments, police stations, parks, college campuses, jamba fuckin juices.

Each location is a portal that you fight over and DESTROY for your factions. I am in the Orange County Resistance. If they want to stop us from playing, then they're going to have to stamp out all of our freedoms.

Fight the power peacefully and practice war in augmented reality!

@poolcleaner me: Garden Grove, Stanton, Westminster, Fountain Valley, Irvine, Costa Mesa. Civil Disobedience in the form of gaming.

OC Resistance!! If you get in and you're in socal, hit me up. #Irvine Resistance #OC Resistance #OC Legends

OC Resistance!! If you get in and you're in socal, hit me up. #Irvine Resistance #OC Resistance #OC Legends

>> ^lucky760:

Aye aye aye, ant. How many times over the years are you going to think I live in Australia?!
I live in Orange County. (Irvine, to be exact.)
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Ah cool. Where do you live again? Downunder?
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Actually just about 30 feet away. Sold my house (finally) and am renting a neighbor's for a few months until our new home is built.
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Moved??! From where to where?
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Birthday dinner will have to wait this year. Just got done moving. Still busy unpacking for maybe another day or three.
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You're welcome. Did you do anything fun on your birthday yet?
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Thanks for the warm-hearted birthday wishes!
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Birthday! Where's the party?









Ugh, I thought that was Dag. You guys are confusing! Ahh, right next to Blizzard, the home of ant eaters, Spectrum 21, etc.

Aye aye aye, ant. How many times over the years are you going to think I live in Australia?!

I live in Orange County. (Irvine, to be exact.)

In reply to this comment by ant:
Ah cool. Where do you live again? Downunder?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Actually just about 30 feet away. Sold my house (finally) and am renting a neighbor's for a few months until our new home is built.

In reply to this comment by ant:
Moved??! From where to where?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Birthday dinner will have to wait this year. Just got done moving. Still busy unpacking for maybe another day or three.

In reply to this comment by ant:
You're welcome. Did you do anything fun on your birthday yet?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Thanks for the warm-hearted birthday wishes!

In reply to this comment by ant:
Birthday! Where's the party?

We used to have a map of user locations, but that's dead now unfortunately. (I think the service we used for it went bye-bye.)

I live in Irvine, California. Have lived happily in Orange County all the days of my life.

Canada is the only place I've visited that I considered a place I might be happy living.

Lasers, light, and the universe... 2012 will be amazing as predicted. I'm glad Obama couldn't stop all progress, despite his efforts... right QM?

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/12/more-evidence-found-for-quantum-physics-in-photosynthesis.ars

Quantum coherence in antenna-protein chlorophylls from green sulfur bacteria:

"A team led by Engel and Shaul Mukamel of the University of California, Irvine analyzed the fluctuation of lasers as they passed through antenna proteins. Depending on how they shifted, the researchers could track what happened inside.

They found a clear mathematical link between energy flows and fluctuations in chlorophyll coherence. The link was so clear it could be described in derivative sines and cosines, mathematical concepts taught in college trigonometry."

"The mounting evidence that quantum effects can be seen in natural systems when excited by lasers is compelling" - Greg Scholes, University of Toronto biophysicist

>> ^chilaxe:

1. Fairness:
How many people do you know who follow the path I described? Even here in Silicon Valley, people like that are rare, so the world is basically just waiting for people like that to come along.
I doubt most people are genetically incapable of following that path, if that's what you're suggesting.

Genetics isn't the only thing you inherit from your parents. You also get citizenship in the country they live in, you get raised and educated in their social and economic class, and you might also be able to take advantage of their network of business contacts. And that's not even mentioning the potential differences in parenting techniques and lessons they impart.

When I say "you think life is fair", I'm mostly saying that you seem to think we all have the same paths in front of us to choose from. We don't.

I had a lot of opportunities available to me that other kids from my neighborhood didn't, not because I'd done anything to earn them, but because my parents were well off.

I had a lot fewer opportunities available to me than my classmates at school, not because I hadn't earned them, but because I wasn't the child of the owner of a multinational corporation.
>> ^chilaxe:
2. Racism:
You could call me an intelligencist if you'd like... I believe immigration slots should be given to that portion of poor people who can, regardless of ethnicity, be statistically shown to have good odds of doing well in the US, both regarding themselves and their children born here.
Remember that it's liberals who believe in institutionalizing racism. Here in California, liberals are fed up with Asians contributing so much to society, so liberals are currently seeking to restore racist discrimination against Asians in universities.
California outlawed such racism in 1996, so schools like UC Berkeley and UC Irvine are almost majority Asian. Personally, I like 21st century societies, so I think Asian studiousness is good.

There's a pretty big difference between having a debate over what the most fair (i.e. non-racist) admissions policy would be -- policies that promote racial diversity, or policies that discount race altogether -- and what you were talking about.

We can accurately predict that billions spent on trying to close the achievement gap will never succeed. We can accurately predict that hyper-liberal Berkeley will always have the highest crime rates in the San Francisco bay area regardless of legislative policy because it's sandwiched between Oakland and Richmond, which have collected genomes that are bad at complex society.

We can know that it was probably a mistake for liberals to import 80 million permanently poor people from other countries between 1970-2010.

In that short little quote you asserted:

1. Some races can't be educated, no matter how much money we spend trying to educate them
   
2. Some races will always commit lots of crimes, and no amount of policy change will stop it
   
3. Some races will be "permanently poor", and no amount of economic opportunity will change that
   

That's more or less the soul of the Jim Crow style of politics. There are good races, for whom higher education spending, and economic opportunity will work, and there are bad races, for whom such things are a waste. Therefore, the logic goes, smart policy would be to reserve that spending and those opportunities only for the good races, since they're the only ones who could ever make use of it.

Oh, and keep an eye on your valuables whenever one of those bad races comes by. You never know about those people.

You sure that all people in that kind of world can determine their ultimate fates, purely through their own individual choices? Hasn't that been disproven by history time and time again?
>> ^chilaxe:
3. Human rights:
Yes. People are free to work for anything they want.


Really, that's the only one? Rather than open that can of worms, I'll just follow through with my original line of thought -- that's a right you think everyone should have, right?

Why? Why not abolish such liberal ideas as "equal rights", and tailor our legal system to the findings of your studies?