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I got my monitor today, but it turns out at some point during the month my computer was turned off, my dying hard drive breathed its last gasp. Now I'm stuck running the trial version of Ubuntu off a 4-gig flash drive, all on a 16" monitor. Still better than nothing. 
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Good news, everyone! Frank Luntz is back in politics, and he's teaching Zionists to not sound apartheid-y when massacring Palestinians.
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Jul 27, 2014 16:53
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Hedera Helix posted:Has mayday.us actually done anything yet, or did Lessig, Abramoff, Boyko, et al walk off with the money? quote:I’m extremely happy to announce that we’ve found a way to accelerate disclosure without adding significantly to our costs. Using a new technology for matching contributors, we will be able to identify contributors who have given $200 or more, almost for free. (Almost, since we need to do some hand-verification, etc., but nothing very burdensome.) We’re still testing the data flow, but here now is our commitment: http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=cad4eadd9c925ea7198ac5301&id=8a05574528 I wonder if any of Abramoff's old pals helped get them across the line.
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Jul 27, 2014 17:44
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Joementum posted:Thankfully, the BuzzFeed articles now link back to the original content on Yahoo! Answers, so I know where to go for higher-quality information. HOW IS LISTICLE FORMED HOW GIRL GET PLAGIARIZED
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Jul 27, 2014 17:54
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SedanChair posted:I wonder if any of Abramoff's old pals helped get them across the line. Didn't they start accepting Bitcoin in the last days of the fundraiser?
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Jul 27, 2014 18:00
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Just so I don't contribute to the derail in the ME thread: McDowell posted:Edit: Whoa someone got me a new avatar, anyone get the reference? They should have chosen the best Caligula: 
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Jul 27, 2014 18:26
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McDowell posted:Didn't they start accepting Bitcoin in the last days of the fundraiser? Truly a work of Reddit.
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Jul 27, 2014 18:34
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This last few months have been a really lovely few for humanity. Lemme think, what've we got: Like three plane crashes (one of which is a shootdown), Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Gaza, Ebola outbreak, China's quarantined a whole city because of the Plague, CAR crashing, Boko Haram, Tony Abbott's still alive ???
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Jul 27, 2014 18:50
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illrepute posted:This last few months have been a really lovely few for humanity. Lemme think, what've we got: Like three plane crashes (one of which is a shootdown), Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Gaza, Ebola outbreak, China's quarantined a whole city because of the Plague, CAR crashing, Boko Haram, Tony Abbott's still alive ??? What's CAR? Google's not helping me much.
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Jul 27, 2014 18:55
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Mr. Lobe posted:What's CAR? Google's not helping me much. I think he's referring to the Central African Republic.
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Jul 27, 2014 18:57
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Plague? As in THE plague?  Edit: Okay it was lifted that's good right?
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Jul 27, 2014 19:08
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Yeah the Central African Republic has been melting down for a little while now, but because it's one of the smallest, poorest, most-landlockiest countries in Africa it hasn't gotten a lot of news. The sectarian violence there has been terrible.
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Jul 27, 2014 19:28
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illrepute posted:Yeah the Central African Republic has been melting down for a little while now, but because it's one of the smallest, poorest, most-landlockiest countries in Africa it hasn't gotten a lot of news. The sectarian violence there has been terrible. Same old, same old. No one cares about the poors.  Violence that passes without remark is the worst kind.
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Jul 27, 2014 19:33
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trader joes frozen food is legit to me. what do yall think?
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Jul 27, 2014 19:42
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Swan Oat posted:trader joes frozen food is legit to me. what do yall think? I don't think there's a Trader Joe's within 1000 km of me
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Jul 27, 2014 19:43
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it's good by frozen food standards my favorites are gnocchi and chicken tik
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Jul 27, 2014 19:45
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illrepute posted:Yeah the Central African Republic has been melting down for a little while now, but because it's one of the smallest, poorest, most-landlockiest countries in Africa it hasn't gotten a lot of news. The sectarian violence there has been terrible.
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Jul 27, 2014 19:55
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cheerfullydrab posted:It's not that small, it's just a little larger than Ukraine and almost as big as Afghanistan or Texas. Bigger than many other African countries, too. 5 Million people is small.
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Jul 27, 2014 19:59
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:Plague? As in THE plague? Like a dozen people are infected with plague each year in the US, it's no big deal if you have access to antibiotics.
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Jul 27, 2014 21:08
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Like a dozen people are infected with plague each year in the US, it's no big deal if you have access to antibiotics. Cheap antibiotics too. It's also pretty preventable with proper hygiene and pest control. So don't get flees you dummies.
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Jul 27, 2014 21:19
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illrepute posted:5 Million people is small.
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Jul 27, 2014 21:51
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cheerfullydrab posted:I am slain. It kinda is on a worldwide scale, though? It's .07% of the world's population. Not that each and every one of those five million people don't deserve all the sympathy and help we can muster for them, but saying it's not small is simply not true.
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Jul 27, 2014 21:55
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cheerfullydrab posted:I am slain. Oh sure the 120th highest population country on the planet is totally big. Right.
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Jul 27, 2014 22:02
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can it be a probatable offense to get trolled?
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Jul 27, 2014 22:06
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Nintendo Kid posted:Oh sure the 120th highest population country on the planet is totally big. Right. CAR is not a small country.  edit for content: I've just started Do Not Ask What Good We Do, and it's making me wonder what kinds of books we'll get about the current Congress. Hedera Helix fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Jul 27, 2014 22:13
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Hedera Helix posted:CAR is not a small country Geography=/=population
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Jul 27, 2014 22:15
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:can it be a probatable offense to get trolled? I've seen it happen, with that exact reason given.
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Jul 27, 2014 22:15
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:can it be a probatable offense to get trolled?
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Jul 27, 2014 22:16
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I've always taken the crazy position that the person doing the trolling should be the one probated first
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Jul 27, 2014 22:17
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Trolling exposes the decaying moral underbelly of the something awful forums and enables us to purge that element that dwells within us which, having done so, would enable us to achieve the perfection of the Ultimate Post.
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Jul 27, 2014 22:26
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:can it be a probatable offense to get trolled? Falling for it, even when you know someone's trolling, is a sign of kindness.
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Jul 27, 2014 22:38
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Just make sure to absolutely never read any of the sequels. I'll save you all the hassle of reading 1200+ pages of 10th grade level prose with characters that make a Clancy novel seem insightful. Its God. The entire thing is God. Rama is part of God's program to study the universe to find perfection. You see the purpose of existence is to worship God perfectly, and that has to be occurring at all levels simultaneously, even the subatomic level, for perfection to be true. So God sends out Rama's to all populated Solar Systems in order to find perfection in his own creation. Prester Jane fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Jul 27, 2014 23:25
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d&d trolls itself on a regular basis so what you're proposing is *assumes Everett True pose* forums suicide!
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Jul 27, 2014 23:32
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Prester John posted:I'll save you all the hassle of reading 1200+ pages of 10th grade level prose with characters that make a Clancy novel seem insightful. Its God. The entire thing is God. Rama is part of God's program to study the universe to find perfection. You see the purpose of existence is to worship God perfectly, and that has to be occurring at all levels simultaneously, even the subatomic level, for perfection to be true. So God sends out Rama's to all populated Solar Systems in order to find perfection in his own creation. what
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Jul 28, 2014 00:16
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Prester John posted:I'll save you all the hassle of reading 1200+ pages of 10th grade level prose with characters that make a Clancy novel seem insightful. Its God. The entire thing is God. Rama is part of God's program to study the universe to find perfection. You see the purpose of existence is to worship God perfectly, and that has to be occurring at all levels simultaneously, even the subatomic level, for perfection to be true. So God sends out Rama's to all populated Solar Systems in order to find perfection in his own creation. Ugh. Those Rama sequels started coming out in my early teens and they were everywhere. The covers always looked so cool and I always wanted to read them but could never find the original novel. I finally got around to them last year discovered how soul-suckingly tedious they were. Especially the last one. The original was a quick, fun little read but anything after that is slow death.
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Jul 28, 2014 00:23
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So basically God Emperor of Dune without the genocidal sandworm.
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Jul 28, 2014 00:43
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Becoz,of ur fabricated bible. Cristians r having gays, lesbian n bdsm allowed in their countries... They r allowed to become nude aswell.. If that is the modernism u wish to see in muslims then. Bug off.. We r happy to liv in 8th,century.. Rather than watching our brothers n sisters being naked like cristians does...
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Jul 28, 2014 01:00
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razorrozar posted:what That is all revealed by a robot/angel thingamabob during the last 10 pages or so. The rest is an incredibly lovely morality tale about a Rama ship that gets sent to Earth and demands 10,000 (something like that) humans be selected to be teleported up or the planet gets destroyed. The humans comply but slyly sent up 10,000 criminals instead. The humans proceed to wreck their little custom built utopia (through global warming) and start invading the areas of other aliens (spiders whom communicate through color) whom respond with biological genocide germs. There is also an entire books worth of "SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON IN SPAAAACE!" shoehorned in as well. I wish I was lying.
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Jul 28, 2014 01:39
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Prester John posted:That is all revealed by a robot/angel thingamabob during the last 10 pages or so. The rest is an incredibly lovely morality tale about a Rama ship that gets sent to Earth and demands 10,000 (something like that) humans be selected to be teleported up or the planet gets destroyed. The humans comply but slyly sent up 10,000 criminals instead. The humans proceed to wreck their little custom built utopia (through global warming) and start invading the areas of other aliens (spiders whom communicate through color) whom respond with biological genocide germs. I read them too. I wish Prester John was lying. 
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I have a question that I posed in GBS that you all probably have better information about: I have barely met any Jewish people in my life. I've never grown up around Jewish communities. I dislike Israel for a variety of reasons, none of which are that they're a Jewish country. The most I know about Jewish people is that there seem to be a lot of successful Jewish people, and Jewish culture produces some of my favourite comedians and entertainers. My question is: where does modern anti-Semitism come from? I understand the stupid reasons that racists have for hating most groups of people (they look different and talk different, durr!), but I don't know why an average uneducated moron would hate a Jewish person, other than that they're not Christian, or some crazy conspiracy theory. I apologize if this is an overly hot-button issue, I'm just genuinely curious as a Canadian that has had most of his information about Jewish people come from American media. Hopefully this is the right thread for it.
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