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Re: Awesome stuff you have to share
« Reply #820 on: November 04, 2012, 06:54:38 PM »




i wonder who wears the keyboard in the family....

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« Reply #821 on: November 04, 2012, 07:15:38 PM »

About Ayn Rand: she's become the Libertarian messiah.  I hate her about as much as you do, and for similar reasons.  It's just that when most people talk Libertarian, they think Objectivism.  See: Penn Jillette.  He's a religious zealot, and his religion is Randism.  It involves hating all other religions and trying to convert as many people as possible to the same, and taking over the world with anarchy that protects the rich people, regardless of why they are rich or how they got there.

Paradoxically, Objectivists (and Ayn Rand) are huge war hawks who think technologically superior societies should use force to destroy "barbarians" (defined as Muslims and Native Americans).  Peikoff of the Ayn Rand Institute wants to nuke Iraq and Afghanistan until the sand turns into glass,  while Libertarians want America to withdraw and become isolationist.  Sadly, lots of conservatives think they're Libertarians, muddying the issue further.

But I don't want to get too much into this; that's for the political thread.
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Re: Awesome stuff you have to share
« Reply #822 on: November 04, 2012, 08:37:40 PM »
A very cool and comprehensive political quiz.

You're asked a series of questions regarding policies, and on how strongly you feel about the issues.  After you finish, the quiz compares your stances to the US Presidential candidates (including 3rd Party Candidates).

I got Obama, unsurprisingly.
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« Reply #823 on: November 04, 2012, 09:02:50 PM »
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« Reply #824 on: November 04, 2012, 09:09:42 PM »
It's based on where it detects your IP address, I'd assume.  Any internet gurus can confrim?
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Re: Awesome stuff you have to share
« Reply #825 on: November 04, 2012, 09:29:31 PM »
It's based on where it detects your IP address, I'd assume.  Any internet gurus can confrim?

I took it from the UK...

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« Reply #826 on: November 04, 2012, 09:34:24 PM »
It connects to your Facebook account, so there's that.  Maybe that's what happens?
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« Reply #827 on: November 04, 2012, 09:38:45 PM »
ya, i didnt connect it to my facebook. unless i did on a previous visit.

and im not in indiana.

it might be guessing based on my internet service (cell phone). that normally shows up as chicago, but could be anywhere.
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Re: Awesome stuff you have to share
« Reply #828 on: November 04, 2012, 11:48:09 PM »
@bhu: You like me because I'm educated about my political party and get all ranty about it?   :p

@dman: Fair enough.  Johnson isn't crazy, or at least he isn't any crazier than the whole being a Libertarian and having political views that are just plain odd to most people IMO.  I don't really pay much attention to non-local politics (and barely any to local politics) but I can completely understand how crazy people paint themselves as Libertarians.  Oh well, every party has its weird hangers on that everybody wishes would just shut up.

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« Reply #829 on: November 05, 2012, 01:11:04 AM »
ya, i didnt connect it to my facebook. unless i did on a previous visit.

and im not in indiana.

it might be guessing based on my internet service (cell phone). that normally shows up as chicago, but could be anywhere.

All sites that read my ISP read me as being in some county that starts with a "G" in Indianna, because that's where my service provider's server is.

So for some reason, sites register that instead of my actual location, ~200 miles west of that. (central IL)

Also... haven't been on facebook in 9 months.

That said, where the site tries to ask you for a local question, if you click on the digits for the zip code that it registers, then you can enter in whatever zip code you want.

The site tells me that I'm libertarian. 72%
After that, Republican. 62%
Democrat: 59%

I find that to be just a little wrong. < sarcasm on the "little"

Was a college debate team participant. I assure you, I'm much much more Demo than any of the others (though I honestly hate all career politicians anyway, so I mostly mean the party mantras rather than the individuals).

Heck, That site says I support Romney economically. * stopped writing rant, deleted it, don't care enough to rant that much*
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Re: Awesome stuff you have to share
« Reply #830 on: November 05, 2012, 01:18:45 AM »
Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.
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« Reply #831 on: November 05, 2012, 07:56:02 AM »
You've obviously never seen Big Tits Zombie Dragon Strippers.
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« Reply #832 on: November 05, 2012, 01:16:48 PM »
Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.
It's a god-eat-god world.

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« Reply #833 on: November 05, 2012, 01:54:20 PM »
Molecular voodoo

Except that the fake ones are 2000 times the size of real atoms, and the binding is done with DNA molecules.
... wait.
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« Reply #834 on: November 05, 2012, 01:57:31 PM »
So lately we've been getting a very persistent telemarketer. Eventually, when mom seemed at her wits' end, I took the phone from her.

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you're looking to sell us something, I can tell you I don't have any interest. But what I do have is a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you stop calling and erase our phone from your registry now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

"[long pause] ...we won't be calling again, sir. *hangs up*"
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« Reply #835 on: November 05, 2012, 02:17:15 PM »
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Wow... I just... wow... This looks like something Amechra came up with.  :p
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« Reply #836 on: November 05, 2012, 02:37:46 PM »
Molecular voodoo

Except that the fake ones are 2000 times the size of real atoms, and the binding is done with DNA molecules.
... wait.
Are they trying to make the Borg / Skynet?

Synthetics and genetics should never meet. These guys need to play more games and watch more movies.
It's EXACTLY like reverse voodoo. It's a bigger model that is somehow similar enough to a smaller thing that it works in the same way despite being made of different stuff.
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« Reply #837 on: November 05, 2012, 04:12:07 PM »
So lately we've been getting a very persistent telemarketer. Eventually, when mom seemed at her wits' end, I took the phone from her.

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you're looking to sell us something, I can tell you I don't have any interest. But what I do have is a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you stop calling and erase our phone from your registry now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

"[long pause] ...we won't be calling again, sir. *hangs up*"

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« Reply #838 on: November 05, 2012, 05:27:25 PM »
So lately we've been getting a very persistent telemarketer. Eventually, when mom seemed at her wits' end, I took the phone from her.

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you're looking to sell us something, I can tell you I don't have any interest. But what I do have is a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you stop calling and erase our phone from your registry now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

"[long pause] ...we won't be calling again, sir. *hangs up*"

Having been in the industry making cold calls for charities (against my will), let me tell you how to avoid this in  the states.  When these people call you they have a screen, and they click one of several buttons when they end your call.  They have call completed, call again later, and do not call again.  They're only allowed  to click call completed if they got what they want from you.  They're told by the employer not to click do not call again unless you specifically say the words "Under state and federal law it is illegal for you to call me if i tell you to stop doing so, and I am doing so at this time."  See under the law they cant call that number again for 10 years, and you could move potentially losing them access to whoever moves in.  So if you make a request "please stop calling me" or a statement of anger "Fuck you guys, quit calling me", they click call again later.  You have to specifically declare "I am using my rights under the law, blah blah blah" because all those calls are recorded for the dozens of metrics they use to micro manage their employees.
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Re: Awesome stuff you have to share
« Reply #839 on: November 05, 2012, 06:07:12 PM »
the Brazil part could be a problem...
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