lol. Here's the documentary if you want to post it.

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FUCK!! i spent all day at the equine therapy stables. if i had known earlier, i wouldve taken videos of those aweosme therapy horses being fucking awesome.


all that aside. i heartily approve of horse video day. who will be the first to post the mr. hands video?????? am i going to be the hero???

FUCK!! i spent all day at the equine therapy stables. if i had known earlier, i wouldve taken videos of those aweosme therapy horses being fucking awesome.


all that aside. i heartily approve of horse video day. who will be the first to post the mr. hands video?????? am i going to be the hero???

>> ^Ornthoron:

>> ^rottenseed:
>> ^Ornthoroneriously, read the manifesto. Area = (tau/2) r^2 actually makes more sense, too.

Dude that manifesto is fucking hilarious...all of this math knowledge spouted and all for what? All because he doesn't like doing fractions??? Really??? Yea let's rewrite all the math texts since before Princia Mathematica just so you can use tau/6 instead of pi/12. That's useless knowledge wasted on somebody with no common sense. Furthermore, it adds unnecessary fractions in things like Euler's identity and like what you just pointed out, the area of a circle.

Well, it's certainly unrealistic to expect that we can get rid of pi in favour of tau after over two millenia of pi's monopoly. But one can dream, can't one?


What I'm saying is that there's no reason to get rid of it...why's it worth trading 2*pi here for tau/2 over there?

>> ^rottenseed:

>> ^Ornthoroneriously, read the manifesto. Area = (tau/2) r^2 actually makes more sense, too.

Dude that manifesto is fucking hilarious...all of this math knowledge spouted and all for what? All because he doesn't like doing fractions??? Really??? Yea let's rewrite all the math texts since before Princia Mathematica just so you can use tau/6 instead of pi/12. That's useless knowledge wasted on somebody with no common sense. Furthermore, it adds unnecessary fractions in things like Euler's identity and like what you just pointed out, the area of a circle.

Well, it's certainly unrealistic to expect that we can get rid of pi in favour of tau after over two millenia of pi's monopoly. But one can dream, can't one?

>> ^Ornthoron:

Seriously, read the manifesto. Area = (tau/2) r^2 actually makes more sense, too.


Dude that manifesto is fucking hilarious...all of this math knowledge spouted and all for what? All because he doesn't like doing fractions??? Really??? Yea let's rewrite all the math texts since before Princia Mathematica just so you can use tau/6 instead of pi/12. That's useless knowledge wasted on somebody with no common sense. Furthermore, it adds unnecessary fractions in things like Euler's identity and like what you just pointed out, the area of a circle.

Welcome to the club of the "Fucked-over-deficit" Ti_Moth. All public workers in Portugal making more than 1500€/month had a pay cut (the higher the salary, the bigger the cut), the fuel market was deregulated a couple of years back, so now we're paying 1,5€ per liter (and on the rise), unemployment is at 10,5% (me included), and the fucking idiots in the government just announced and extra set of measures for 2012 and 2013 that will surely fuck us all even more.

<sarcasm> Fortunately the high-speed train project (which will connect Lisbon to Spain, and later on, Lisbon and Porto) and the new Lisbon Airport are still going ahead as planned at a cost of several billion euros. </sarcasm>

I can imagine blankfist as a drug dealer.

Yeah, man, I've got some dank nugs for you this week.
Awesome, I can't wait.
It's just in the other room. Here, let me put on some libertarian videos for you to watch while I get it.
Ummm.... OK... sure, put it on.
This is Stefan Molyneux, my favorite.
So, the weed is in the other room you said?
Shhh, listen to this part... 'taxes are theft'.. that's my favorite part.
Yeah, I need to get going, I'm supposed to meet a friend for dinner.
What are you trying to say? Am I not your friend? Am I just your dealer?
No, man, no... of course you are my friend.
So, what's the problem? Let's get baked and listen to some Ron Paul speeches. It'll be epic.
Um.. OK, but I've got to get going in like 15 minutes. I'm parked at a meter.
What do you need? Quarters?

>> ^blankfist:

>> ^MarineGunrock:
Wow - I'm glad none of you are my neighbors. Apparently if you were and my house was on fire, I'd be fucked. Y'all would be too busy filming the spectacle or toasting marshmellows to even toss a bucket of water on me.
Maybe it's just the way I was raised - but I try to help in whatever way I can.

You totally want me as your neighbor. I have some great weed.

>> ^MarineGunrock:

Wow - I'm glad none of you are my neighbors. Apparently if you were and my house was on fire, I'd be fucked. Y'all would be too busy filming the spectacle or toasting marshmellows to even toss a bucket of water on me.
Maybe it's just the way I was raised - but I try to help in whatever way I can.


Only if you were too fucking fat to get out! BAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!

>> ^MarineGunrock:

Wow - I'm glad none of you are my neighbors. Apparently if you were and my house was on fire, I'd be fucked. Y'all would be too busy filming the spectacle or toasting marshmellows to even toss a bucket of water on me.
Maybe it's just the way I was raised - but I try to help in whatever way I can.


You totally want me as your neighbor. I have some great weed.

Wow - I'm glad none of you are my neighbors. Apparently if you were and my house was on fire, I'd be fucked. Y'all would be too busy filming the spectacle or toasting marshmellows to even toss a bucket of water on me.

Maybe it's just the way I was raised - but I try to help in whatever way I can.

Well, that discussion is definitely more interesting than the news piece itself.

Just on the term 'nanny state', someone made the point to me the other day that if people didn't act like fucking children all the time, we wouldn't need nannies.

I fucking love all of her stuff. The alot is my favorite, though.

@blankfist

Eventually we could all be working for the big corporations, and with less competition they could lessen benefits such as health or vacation pay, they could easily lower wages, and they could then extend the expected work week from 40 hours to something like 100 hours. If that sounds farfetched, I can tell you from first hand experience I've seen this exact thing happen to an industry I know very well. And when I say big corporations, I mean major parent companies that buy large businesses. For instance, let's take the advertising industry. One parent company could own almost all of the major companies in that industry, so if you complain about the 100 hour work week and loss of vacation benefits, your chances of receiving another job in that industry are cut to almost zero. I've seen it. And they do illegal shit like tell women not to get pregnant.

That is exactly what's happening. Wages began stagnating in the 70's. At the time, women were moving into the work force so the impact on families was offset by an extra income. And today, it's out of control. It's been researched and it's been documented. And it's visible if you look at all the personal debt families have. Americans take less vacation time than other industrialized nation. The US is also the only industrialized nation who does not mandate vacation time. I read something the other day (disclaimer: i don't have a good grasp on economics, it was a complicated paper and i'm a bit dyslexic/dyscalculic so I've got to reread it a few times before I'm totally confident I understand it, and then research it for accuracy) and the idea of it just fascinated me. It was something like, wages used to increase as labor's productivity increased.. like it was inherently built into the market. So maybe technology eliminated the need for as many people, but the remaining workers were more productive, so their wages should have been going up. But the mid 70's saw an abandonment of this principle in favor of higher profits and the consequences of that have been devastating for working people ever since. Like, they broke a rule of the market and it's sent tremors through almost 40 years and now everything is fucked up and the worker is more and more screwed everyday.

now, regulation: we've been peeling back regulations for decades. and it seems to have worked antithetically to your hypothesized outcome. why do you think that is? which regulations are you talking about, specifically?
I don't disagree that it should be fairly simple to start your own new business. And I don't like or trust government either, but I want some kind of assurance that this new business is not polluting my air, water, community, that its employees are not being exploited and are paid a living wage and that sanitary practices are being followed. What sort of system do you propose to keep new restaurants from serving rat poo infested soups made by 5 year olds? ..... maybe, eventually, the free market would take care of this sort of violation but after how many people eat there and get sick? And after how many child chefs burn their little fingers on hot stoves?

And when people feel they pay into a nanny system, they feel less generous to help those in front of them. I know, I see it every damn day in LA.

this statement is a motherfucking cop-out. i'm not saying that you dont "see" it.. i'm just saying people should know better. The "nanny-system" obviously, isn't taking take care of those in front of them. This is where i see a major downfall in individualism. "I would help, but something else is already helping you. I'm looking out for #1!! I already gave to charity this week.. see where my pay stub says 'FICA'?"... And "someone else is already doing it" has become the operative ethic of the gen-x yuppie class. It is an excuse for petulance and cold heartedness and snobbery. If we lived in nomadic, tribal hunter/gatherer communities, they would be the first kicked out of the clan. ... and John Winthrop would have thrown them off the arabella. Shame on them.

I spend a great deal of time with the "nanny-system"... personally, professionally and academically. There are atrocious disparities. My most functionally impaired clients also happen to my poorest clients. At first, I thought this was a coincidence. It isn't. Not at all. Diagnosis doesn't have as much to do with prognosis as the financial and social status of the person living with the disability. (e.g. parents can't afford to make the home handicap accessible, so the wheelchair can't make it through the front door, so person with the disability spends 30 years crawling around on the floor, which solves the problem of moving from room to room, but creates 100 other problems in its place. the body is so malformed at this point, employment placement for the disabled adult is impossible, i could give you 500 other examples) This is a sin.

In a lot of ways, I agree... government is too bulky and convoluted here to be as effective as it needs to be. The apparatus is too cumbersome and the funding and political/community support for such services is far too small. It doesn't have to be this way. Nationally, we've tabled charity and efficiency as a virtue, in favor of strength and might and greed and pride. Social Services could be reworked, in a vastly more effective and efficient way if only we had the political and social will to do it. We could do it for a lot cheaper as well, I think. I won't go on my diatribe about how disability services needs to function, mostly because its full of jargon and boring.

But, I think we mostly agree on a lot of things, namely, corporations are fucking us all and the government is providing the reach around. every 4 years half of us orgasm when our candidate is elected by popular vote. only for the pounding to commence again the following January.

how would you ship something like this? it'd be sticking to everything.

would be hilarious to put it in your carry-on baggage and let it go through TSA's fancy machines to fuck up all the calibration

(Ok, writing as I watch...)

Argh, they make me f*cking angry. This bullshit of a 'gay agenda'. F*ck off, it's called equality, not a 'gay agenda'.

Oh my, never! They might have books about homosexuality! Oh no, the very thought about reading about sexuality... at 13! Nooooo, not when they're going through puberty... noooo.

Wait, what, the website is called TrueTolerance!??! Talking about being 'sneaky', how is this in ANY WAY Tolerant?

Oh gee, same sex couples being thought of as 'normal' and 'worthy of being embraced'... FUCK YOU, JUST FUCK YOU ALL. Fucking hell you are disgusting. Your disgusting referring to them as less than human... argh you make my skin crawl you disgusting people.

WHAT? How are schools not accepting of 'christian values'? Huh? How is the normal 'mum,dad, kids' view of the family not the OVERWHELMING norm? How the fuck can we in any way feel accosted?

This ALL springs out of fear and insecurity on their part, they cannot possibly be exposed to ANYTHING other than the closeted little world they know because they fear that their 'faith' will not stand up to scrutiny or questioning.

BECAUSE IT WON'T.

They're afraid their kids will end up being better human being than they are.

Fuck fuck fuck fuckity these people are horrible, really fucking horrible people.

They never see that the things they so flippantly say like 'everyone is created by God' or the like is THEIR view. They just throw this shit out there like fact and expect it to be accepted.

Gah... must go and watch happy puppies or kittens or something.