>> ^Tokoki:

Do yourself a favor, and hold on...
Season 3 is my favorite (especially the last few episodes) - although, Season 5 as a whole is also great. It's almost like, since they only had 8 episodes, they crammed more into each episodes than they used to...>> ^alien_concept:
I want to watch this sooooooooo bad!!! But alas, I am only on Season 3



Oh I will for sure, thanks

Do yourself a favor, and hold on...

Season 3 is my favorite (especially the last few episodes) - although, Season 5 as a whole is also great. It's almost like, since they only had 8 episodes, they crammed more into each episodes than they used to...>> ^alien_concept:

I want to watch this sooooooooo bad!!! But alas, I am only on Season 3

One of my favourite bands of the last few years. aka Memory Tapes.
Download a free "mixtape" he did for Modular People. They just expected a track listing of other people songs, but he gave them 23 minutes crammed with original music.

http://www.modularpeople.com/modcast/95-memory-tapes/10217.html

'mazin!

>> ^lantern53:

Hasn't the IRS had 10 years to look at Romney's tax return from 2002? And nine yrs to look at his return from 2003, and eight years to look at his return from 2004, etc?
If the IRS has no problem with them, why should anyone else?
Has Obama released his tax forms from 10 yrs ago?
Obama hasn't even released his college transcripts, admission papers, thesis paper, his Illinois state senate schedule, his medical records, and on and on. All these things are sealed. As is our fate if he is re-elected.


The IRS doesn't "look" at returns and analyze them. There are too many. They only respond to certain red flags and that's it. And they don't "look" at them because they're political candidates as that would be unethical not to mention illegal to just start looking through a return for shits and grins and to dig up dirt.

In all likelyhood, everything Romney is doing is technically legal, just crammed full of loopholes and dirty tricks. It probably wouldn't be bad per him per se, it would just highlight the extent the super-wealthy exploit the tax codes.

I don't think you understand how much corporate influence has over the gov't

I work IT in state revenue and while I'm not privy to details, I've talked to enough of the attorneys to know that some of the bigger companies will come in and argue essentially that they don't feel they owe that much tax. no facts, no figures, no calculations. simply "we feel our tax is too high" And deals get made...they get made all the time.

We supposedly live in a land of laws, but those laws get dodged and skirted and bent all the time and its usually the wealthy that get to do it.

>> ^shinyblurry:
I've read that children around the age of 12-14 are getting counseling on how to interact face to face with people because they've lived in a world of texting their whole lives. Our wired world is creating profound dysfunction in the minds and hearts of the people:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/08/is-the-internet-making-us-crazy-what-the-new-research-says.html


People have an inherent desire to feel needed or worthwhile. That desire can be managed through social interaction, being part of a group helps act as a conduit allowing the interaction to have a basis to proceed. Most group interactions have obvious positive benefits for the individuals involved, with the negative impacts being dismissed because the good supposedly outweighs the bad.

You raise a good point that face to face interaction has declined due to the impact of the internet, and it definitely helps the individuals affected if they can learn multiple ways to interact with others. Take letter writing for example, everyone loves to receive a personal letter but very few people actually take the time to put pen to paper anymore. Maybe we should also be encouraging people to write more instead of cramming what they're trying to say into a small bite-size chunk of communication.

If these modern forms of interaction are providing benefits to the individuals who utilise them then all that is required is ensuring that people are aware and well-informed of the negative consequences so they can make adjustments to their lifestyle if they see fit.

Listen, I am not trying to take anything away from this girl or the situation at all, but she was 17 years old, at a party, drinking to black-out drunk levels and got in a bad situation.

Why was she there at all? Where are her parents? They should be just as guilty as anyone.

Rape sucks. My wife was date raped before we met so I am not making light of it. I say this with all due respect for rape victims out there. People hear or read the word rape and picture Jodie Foster in The Accused every time. Legally, rape at the core level means "sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent." -Wikipedia. Here's the issue. If she is black out drunk (which she was), she could have easily offered consent willingly and later not been able to recall consenting in the first place, therefore placing the boys in serious trouble. Them pleading guilty was probably their lawyer's work, pleading guilty ends the case and seals the charges in juvenile record as they were not tried as adults. Now, I am not saying that happened here, but it is possible.

They are assholes for taking advantage of the situation and especially for taking pictures and spreading them around school. I am glad they were found guilty and they absolutely deserve it. We'll never know what their punishment was and I am quite sure it wasn't enough for this girl or her family, nor would any remotely realistic punishment be enough, honestly. The judge tried them, they were found guilty and punished according to the judge's application of the law. Case closed.

Her tweeting their names and violating the court order was stupid, but I am glad they didn't seek to punish her further for it, she's clearly been through enough.

All that being said, these hack-job video "hosts" are just making it worse for everyone, especially this girl whom I sure would rather have it all behind her instead of cramming it down everyone's throat like this morons did.

"What caused me discomfort far more acute - because it was mental, not bodily - were the illustrations of the bestiality, the futility, the insanity of war and of the system that produced war as surely as land uncultivated produces noxious weeds: these were now forced on my notice every day. "

"The first cart of dead that I saw, legs sticking out stiffly, heads lolling on shoulders, all the poor bodies shovelled into a pit and covered with quicklime, made me wonder what the owners had been doing when they were called up, crammed into uniforms, and told to kill, maim, mutilate other men like themselves, with whom they had no quarrel. All of them had left behind many who would be grieved, perhaps beggared, by their taking off. And all to no purpose, for nothing."

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWstretcher.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jfyfe.htm

Our military gets kids before they are diagnosed with any mental disorders... they dont weed those with OCD and depression and daddy issues out... we give them guns and tell them they are killers, then they realize its all bullshit and they suicide or go apeshit... at a higher rate than other professions.

you couldnt make a better formula for disaster and record profits. a war that isn't involving most of the population of the country winning is not really a war. its a game for profit and young men who like to feel important.

What caused me discomfort far more acute - because it was mental, not bodily - were the illustrations of the bestiality, the futility, the insanity of war and of the system that produced war as surely as land uncultivated produces noxious weeds: these were now forced on my notice every day.


The first cart of dead that I saw, legs sticking out stiffly, heads lolling on shoulders, all the poor bodies shovelled into a pit and covered with quicklime, made me wonder what the owners had been doing when they were called up, crammed into uniforms, and told to kill, maim, mutilate other men like themselves, with whom they had no quarrel. All of them had left behind many who would be grieved, perhaps beggared, by their taking off. And all to no purpose, for nothing.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWstretcher.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jfyfe.htm

some things are always go hand in hand, like rich and being better off. who wants to give that up...

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Yes! Greatest show on television in many..many years.


Yeah it's a very good show but I hesitate to call it the greatest because there's simply not enough of it. Seriously you're cramming a book into 10 episodes...I haven't even read the book and I can tell this is getting silly. Just about every scene is CRAMMED with as much exposition as they can muster, it literally feels like there's guys with a camera going "OK Lets go over here and establish what's going on with these people, just the bare minimum and ok done next group of people!"

I love a lot of these characters...I love this world. I wanna hang in it, chill in it, listen to their conversations and their storylines. Not be kicked from one side of the continent to the other while they give me the cliff notes of what the hell is going on in this universe.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

But there's no "fix" for the problem if you believe the whole institution itself is wrong. Just because we've had a system of lockers and sports and proms and bells and *thousands* of kids crammed into a single building - doesn't mean this is something that needs tweaking. It needs teraring down and reinventing. >> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^dag:
Massive institutional schooling systems. It's like prison. That's where bullying breeds. modern schools are just awful, awful places. Keep your kids home or put them in an alternative school if you can afford it.

I can't help but feel like this is hiding from the problem rather than addressing it. Also, the potential cost in social skills seems like it could be severe.

Guy reminds me of Tom Hanks.

I don't think they will pass, but I think each round they cram through pushes us closer to the time something like it will. And I suspect it will be worse once it does finally get in.

And once it happens, I suspect Internet2 will spring up. Maybe even running on a Google/whomever fiber network that would hopefully break the monopoly of so many other companies out there. Fracture the internet to the one everyone uses and the one all the companies police.

She must be rubbing off on me..
>> ^rottenseed:

Oh Nicki...you sound like my mother.>> ^gwiz665:
Suck my dick, fuckface.
>> ^therealblankman:
>> ^gwiz665:
I can't agree with him on the last one, but otherwise fine fine.

That's because, no offense intended, like everyone else who keeps buying these games you're a sycophantic idiot who happily swallows whatever tiresome, un-original, unimaginative, over-rated swollen appendage the major publishers choose to repetitively cram down your open throat year after year.
All the best.

Oh Nicki...you sound like my mother.>> ^gwiz665:

Suck my dick, fuckface.
>> ^therealblankman:
>> ^gwiz665:
I can't agree with him on the last one, but otherwise fine fine.

That's because, no offense intended, like everyone else who keeps buying these games you're a sycophantic idiot who happily swallows whatever tiresome, un-original, unimaginative, over-rated swollen appendage the major publishers choose to repetitively cram down your open throat year after year.
All the best.

>> ^Quboid:

>> ^therealblankman:
>> ^gwiz665:
I can't agree with him on the last one, but otherwise fine fine.

That's because, no offense intended, like everyone else who keeps buying these games you're a sycophantic idiot who happily swallows whatever tiresome, un-original, unimaginative, over-rated swollen appendage the major publishers choose to repetitively cram down your open throat year after year.
All the best.

I must say, I'm getting pretty tired of the hipster "you've probably never heard of the games I play" attitude that is prevalent in PC gaming. The "You like Modern Warfare 3? That's cute, personally I'm more into SpaceChem but whatever" attitude. This is probably unfair on you @therealblankman but this certainly applies to a lot of people.
You know why we have BF3 and MW3? Because BFBC2 and MW2 sold well. Why was that? Because people liked them. Not because major mainstream publishers told us to like them, but because we actually did like them, in general. I don't care for MW3 but I bought Skyrim because I like "dumbed down, overly simplified RPGs" like Oblivion.
I don't think less of people who prefer MW3 to X3. I think less of people who play them on consoles, but that's because console gamers are simply genetically inferior.


Like I said to gwiz when I pm'd him: I don't begrudge these games simply because they're successful. Hell, these game's biggest crimes are that they're simply repetitive, derivative, formulaic and most egregious of all... BORING. If Twilight were a video game, it would be MWx. To quote H.L. Mencken "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people".

Shit, if nobody made money off them then we wouldn't have games to play. My favorite games of the past year are both huge hits, but at least they're fun to play... Batman: Arkham City and Portal 2. Haven't gotten into Skyrim (yet), but that's only because I'm terrified that I'll have to quit my job and not have friends any more if I start playing it- I did play Oblivion so I know of what I speak.

As for consoles vs PCs, you're right of course. At least partially- I frankly got sick of spending $400 every year or so to upgrade my graphics card to be able to even play the latest and greatest, so I've given up and joined the PS3 darkside. But you know what, there's hope for that as well. Valve software is bridging that divide in the right way. I bought Portal 2 for PS3 but using a code I can also play it on my PC, and if I want to play Co-op with someone it doesn't matter whether they're on a PC or PS3 either! Maybe other publishers will do the same going forward, but I doubt it.

>> ^therealblankman:

>> ^gwiz665:
I can't agree with him on the last one, but otherwise fine fine.

That's because, no offense intended, like everyone else who keeps buying these games you're a sycophantic idiot who happily swallows whatever tiresome, un-original, unimaginative, over-rated swollen appendage the major publishers choose to repetitively cram down your open throat year after year.
All the best.


I must say, I'm getting pretty tired of the hipster "you've probably never heard of the games I play" attitude that is prevalent in PC gaming. The "You like Modern Warfare 3? That's cute, personally I'm more into SpaceChem but whatever" attitude. This is probably unfair on you @therealblankman but this certainly applies to a lot of people.

You know why we have BF3 and MW3? Because BFBC2 and MW2 sold well. Why was that? Because people liked them. Not because major mainstream publishers told us to like them, but because we actually did like them, in general. I don't care for MW3 but I bought Skyrim because I like "dumbed down, overly simplified RPGs" like Oblivion.

I don't think less of people who prefer MW3 to X3. I think less of people who play them on consoles, but that's because console gamers are simply genetically inferior.