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PostPosted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:04 pm        Reply with quote
One of my students became an independent carbon trader. Sounded like an interesting job. He was really uh...fidgetity though.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:21 am        Reply with quote
bort wrote:
i'm moving to austin in five days or so. not a great sign.

by the way, hello any austin selectbuttoners!


s'up bort. Austin is pretty cool.

Man the news is incredibly depressing.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 10:37 am        Reply with quote
So what was I supposed to take from that?
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:45 pm        Reply with quote
psiga wrote:
Cocaine Socialist wrote:

LOL

G-Beck: "I want to talk to you tonight about the things... that the people... in the sane world... just don't say."


I'm actually gonna stop it right there. That was enough for me, in a 'Goodnight everybody!' exit stage left sort of way.


"from his mega church in San Antonio" I stopped there. I'm not certain it's the one I'm thinking of, because it's not the football stadium ones I've seen in Louisana and Mississippi, but it does make me think "megachurch" when I see it.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:27 pm        Reply with quote
Oh lord those comments make me want to kill everyone.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:29 am        Reply with quote
CubaLibre wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I'm incredibly anti-"colorblindness" and consider it a tool to perpetuate racism, which still exists today on a grand scale. It's just that the study isn't going to convince anyone. It's a study of perceptions, but those perceptions can only be compared to the exact same set of available perceptions. People who have a "colorblind" perception find the photos non-racist. The study tries to make the photos outrageous enough that they are "objectively" racist but that fails; ultimately the study's conclusions are based on the fact that the studiers have a non-colorblind perception. In other words they already think colorblindness is racist. They happen to be correct, but that doesn't mean there's anything scientific about the study.


I just feel like mentioning this. My mom was in the military hospital last week, so I had to get a visitor's pass to get on the base. While I was getting a pass, one of the private security guards ( because all the actual soldiers are in Iraq) asked me if I'd been to Fiesta this year, a big festival in San Antonio. I said I hadn't. He said, "What? Too brown for you?"

"I uh..what?...what? no." The question really surprised me, and I never really think about things that way, but okay America!

Then today at the Burritos place I saw a bumperstick that said, "FUCK SOCIALISM" and had a peace sign (seperate sticker.)
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:50 pm        Reply with quote
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Japan news: They've banned Yakuza, among other things.

And the US is closing their base in Okinawa.


Look at the dates.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:12 pm        Reply with quote
What the fuck?
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:43 pm        Reply with quote
God dammit.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 6:04 pm        Reply with quote
Texican Rude wrote:
God dammit.


I just hate how openly insane people are, and that I have to deal with people who believe these people. And I am related to some of them.

Went to a family reunion this weekend and they all watch Fox News.

Then the topic changed so I didn't really get to ask them, why?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:19 pm        Reply with quote
I couldn't make sense of that article.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:21 am        Reply with quote
I was a military brat and have had an ID card on me forever.

Reading that statement I immediately went, "Why NOT medical information?"
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 7:54 pm        Reply with quote
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Further to We're All Living RoboCop Already: Christian Book Touting Manly Aggression Inspires Violent Fundamentalist Meth Trafficking Cult.


what an amazing title.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:42 pm        Reply with quote
Holy fuck re: the spill.

What's fucking hiliarious about this is all the fisherman/people that make their life on the water have to fax their relief forms to D.C.

There is ONE fax line for this.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:43 pm        Reply with quote
Japan estimates there are 700,000 hikikomoris in the country.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 6:54 am        Reply with quote
Man! Race in America.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:40 am        Reply with quote
burn twilight.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:14 am        Reply with quote
God dammit I hate people.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 3:18 am        Reply with quote
Ymer wrote:

"I think it is a shame. Our political opponents should take the debate with us if they disagree with us," Almqvist said, insisting the attack "doesn't do any good for democracy."


I wish everyone thought like this.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 7:26 am        Reply with quote
god fucking dammit. CHRISTIANS AREN'T THE MINORITY YOU'RE THE FUCKING OPPRESSORS.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 5:57 am        Reply with quote
Japan shown to be a coward towards international policy, China a fucking jackass.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:05 pm        Reply with quote
BalbanesBeoulve wrote:
What was the big deal about some fucking ship captain. Why was Japan even holding on to him after releasing the rest of the crew and ship?


Ship rammed a patrol vessel and had without permission passed into Japanese waters. Japan law says they take the captain into custody. Japan law also waits 10 days to official press charges.

I know governments are ass-backwards on it, but they really should have released the patrol videos right after taking him into custody if they show what they say and the evidence shows.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:31 pm        Reply with quote
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A similar incident occurred in the early morning hours in front of the Chinese consulate in Fukuoka. Somebody on a motorcycle made a lot of noise and burned some paper before fleeing the scene.


I don't know whether to be relieved or upset how incompetent Japanese right-wingers are.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:29 am        Reply with quote
evnvnv wrote:

all this for a few abandoned rocks in the sea. very strange.


I assume you know this, but for everyone playing at home, all the asian countries' various THIS ROCK IS MINE disputes are about the potential minerals and natural resources. I'd be curious if anyone has sent scientists/survey teams to these pitiful rocks to find out if they actually have any value.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:09 am        Reply with quote
that's gorgeous.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:18 am        Reply with quote
Man. Hell she was governor of probably (earth is round) the closest state to Korea too!

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Since the point of terrorism is to cause terror, the more security theater you create and the longer the lines that result, the more likely it is that a terrorist will simply waltz into the line with a monster suicide vest on and blow himself up in the line before the scanner is reached. This will kill dozens, injure hundreds and wreak total havoc on the US air transportation system.


I've always thought this would be more effective terrorism. Like a plane blows up SHIT! but when Thailand had those riots and the airports were on lock down, holy shit.

wait holy shit they are doing radiation screening now?
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:46 am        Reply with quote
Vikram Ray wrote:

Very little would get done, on a Federal level, which is I think precisely the point.


Yes that would be the idea, so that states are allowed to be more of their own independent governments. Various court cases make this an incredibly mute point at this point.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:38 am        Reply with quote
Oh I have no opinion on the man, merely what this thread has presented really. I try to stay out of politics (hence my frequent "god dammit" posts in this thread).
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:39 am        Reply with quote
Dark Age Iron Savior wrote:

just a reminder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul


This is the kind of crazy I like.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:43 am        Reply with quote
The governor of Tokyo is an asshole that has apparently been in power for a while yet everyone hates him.

edit: He also recently said it was pitiful that we consider homosexuals a minority.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 3:38 am        Reply with quote
Sounds like a great guy. NOT!
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 6:06 am        Reply with quote
San Antonio is surprisingly diverse, then I remember we have the illusive "hispanic" population which really means jack shit.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 7:21 pm        Reply with quote
Don't Ask Don't Tell repealed.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 6:01 am        Reply with quote
What is a count of delivery exactly?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 7:27 pm        Reply with quote
internisus wrote:

Also, did you guys see that Apple pulled a WikiLeaks app? Again, I think that should be illegal. I think people should be able to sue over that. Maybe a class action thing. There should be an advocacy or free speech organization working on this.


It's not infringing on free speech. Apple is a private venue.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 6:41 am        Reply with quote
This woman doesn't know what UFO means.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:47 am        Reply with quote
people of faith.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:02 am        Reply with quote
The Tokyo Governor is still the world's biggest asshole:

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The outspoken governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, told reporters Monday that the disaster was "punishment from heaven" because Japanese have become greedy.


I tried googling for it, but can someone give me the history and perspective of what the hell is happening in Libya? The only thing I know is, something is happening that is vaguely related to what happened in Egypt last month.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:27 am        Reply with quote
A return of Big Business!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:17 pm        Reply with quote
Thinking about how much money has been raised for Japan versus Haiti is depressing.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:31 am        Reply with quote
I don't have any figures it was just something I was thinking about. Then again donating to the Red Cross = helping out places in situations around the world.
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