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The Show / Ted's 4 foot tall turkey claim (19 January '10 show @ ~1:53:30)
« on: January 21, 2010, 11:28:16 AM »
Plagiarism
Eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris)
This was the turkey species first encountered in the wild by the Puritans. Range covers the entire eastern half of the United States; extending also into Southeastern Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces in Canada. They number from 5.1 to 5.3 million birds. They were first named forest turkey in 1817, and can grow up to 4 feet (1.2 m) tall. The upper tail coverts are tipped with chestnut brown. The Eastern wild turkey is heavily hunted in the Eastern USA and is the most hunted wild turkey subspecies.
/Plagiarism (Bolding is mine)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Turkey
Ted rocks!
Eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris)
This was the turkey species first encountered in the wild by the Puritans. Range covers the entire eastern half of the United States; extending also into Southeastern Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces in Canada. They number from 5.1 to 5.3 million birds. They were first named forest turkey in 1817, and can grow up to 4 feet (1.2 m) tall. The upper tail coverts are tipped with chestnut brown. The Eastern wild turkey is heavily hunted in the Eastern USA and is the most hunted wild turkey subspecies.
/Plagiarism (Bolding is mine)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Turkey
Ted rocks!
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General / Re: Linux is just fine.
« on: December 18, 2009, 01:50:40 PM »Firefox had 44% of the discovered vulnerabilities, Safari had 35%, Internet Explorer 15%, and Opera had 6%.
Ah, "discovered" vulnerabilities.
It would be interesting if the "discovered" problems within Internet Explorer that are discovered internally were added, not just the ones publicly reported. One of the negatives of "open" development is that problems are easily seen.
To pick on your statement; if a "vulnerability" has not been "discovered" then it is not a vulnerability because nobody discovered it and the likelihood of exploitation remains at precisely 0.
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General / Re: Chaos is the only sensible answer. [TSFW] Cthulhu is awake!!!
« on: December 18, 2009, 01:20:16 PM »
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General / Re: Chaos is the only sensible answer. [TSFW] Cthulhu is awake!!!
« on: December 18, 2009, 01:03:39 PM »
Well, he's identified the problem.
The next step is to do something about it.
The next step is to do something about it.
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The Show / Re: liberty sci fi
« on: December 17, 2009, 08:23:03 AM »
Harry;
I was living in South America when the series was on the telly, so I missed it - I moved back to the U.S. the same month that Serenity came out on DVD; a friend had it and I eventually borrowed it, just because there was a spaceship on the cover. I instantly loved the movie, and had no idea that a series preceded it - nobody I knew beyond the friend I borrowed it from had ever even heard of the movie. I learned of the series when the Boxed set became available - the cover art let me know instantly that this was a series based on that awesome movie that I had seen - I didn't know until I began watching the entire series in a single weekend that it was the other way around.
Regarding the changing of the characters from the series to the movie; I feel like they turned Mal into less-principled criminal, more prone to violence - I can't put my finger on exactly why, but the opening bank robbery really didn't feel right to me, stealing a payroll from a company that will not report the payroll's theft - even though those who will go unpaid are contractors working for the government - they're not government. It just felt wrong, and I would have preferred if it were handled differently, but I don't necessarily have any suggestions. Maybe it's just the fact that I'm a contractor, working for the government bothers me about it.
It is the best sci-fi show ever - but I've never met anyone else who had even seen it, and I've never heard it mentioned anywhere, to include in relation to liberty - so I wasn't sure if anyone had ever seen it - maybe it was just unique to my own little 'verse.
Alex;
I'll have to give B5 another shot - my Mother has everything that's come out on DVD thus far, so I'll borrow it and check it out. Generally, I'll watch sci-fi no matter what the message, because it's fun and the stories are usually pretty decent. When it's on, I still watch the most anti-liberty sci-fi show ever; Star Trek - because I like the characters and the plot is usually pretty good - I wasn't a fan of DS9 or Enterprise though.
I really wasn't sure if anyone but myself had ever heard of firefly - I have no liberty-oriented friends, and when I say things liberty-oriented around family, they get all "worried" about me, but my Dad's starting to understand what I'm talking about. Prior to posting on this topic; I couldn't be sure if anyone on the planet, other than my wife and I, had seen firefly.
I've only broken away from my intellectual superior conservative mind-set in the past 6 months or so, so I'm still re-interpreting the world around me, and though I loved Serenity from the very first viewing, it was just a good story-line, with no other significance until earlier this year when I watched it again and saw something more.
I was living in South America when the series was on the telly, so I missed it - I moved back to the U.S. the same month that Serenity came out on DVD; a friend had it and I eventually borrowed it, just because there was a spaceship on the cover. I instantly loved the movie, and had no idea that a series preceded it - nobody I knew beyond the friend I borrowed it from had ever even heard of the movie. I learned of the series when the Boxed set became available - the cover art let me know instantly that this was a series based on that awesome movie that I had seen - I didn't know until I began watching the entire series in a single weekend that it was the other way around.
Regarding the changing of the characters from the series to the movie; I feel like they turned Mal into less-principled criminal, more prone to violence - I can't put my finger on exactly why, but the opening bank robbery really didn't feel right to me, stealing a payroll from a company that will not report the payroll's theft - even though those who will go unpaid are contractors working for the government - they're not government. It just felt wrong, and I would have preferred if it were handled differently, but I don't necessarily have any suggestions. Maybe it's just the fact that I'm a contractor, working for the government bothers me about it.
It is the best sci-fi show ever - but I've never met anyone else who had even seen it, and I've never heard it mentioned anywhere, to include in relation to liberty - so I wasn't sure if anyone had ever seen it - maybe it was just unique to my own little 'verse.
Alex;
I'll have to give B5 another shot - my Mother has everything that's come out on DVD thus far, so I'll borrow it and check it out. Generally, I'll watch sci-fi no matter what the message, because it's fun and the stories are usually pretty decent. When it's on, I still watch the most anti-liberty sci-fi show ever; Star Trek - because I like the characters and the plot is usually pretty good - I wasn't a fan of DS9 or Enterprise though.
I really wasn't sure if anyone but myself had ever heard of firefly - I have no liberty-oriented friends, and when I say things liberty-oriented around family, they get all "worried" about me, but my Dad's starting to understand what I'm talking about. Prior to posting on this topic; I couldn't be sure if anyone on the planet, other than my wife and I, had seen firefly.
I've only broken away from my intellectual superior conservative mind-set in the past 6 months or so, so I'm still re-interpreting the world around me, and though I loved Serenity from the very first viewing, it was just a good story-line, with no other significance until earlier this year when I watched it again and saw something more.
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The Show / Re: liberty sci fi
« on: December 16, 2009, 11:43:12 AM »
I found firefly to be a quite liberty-oriented series - not the movie though.
I used to watch B5, and just found it to be boring and preachy; but when the Archangel Michael or Gabriel, or whoever it was, came out of the spaceship - I couldn't watch anymore. The idea that all aliens have french accents and the exact same haircut bothered me (I'm just focusing on one group of aliens - but all the groups were very cookie-cutter according to my rememborizing), but the religious stuff turned me the rest of the way off. To be honest; I watched the show back when I was still a brainwashed liberal, prior to becoming an intellectually superior conservative, way before I understood any concept of liberty.
But I was just wondering, did nobody else find the firefly story to be very liberty oriented? It was such an awesome series - I'm still pissed off that they canceled it, and that the movie turned some of the characters into violent, petty criminals.
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General / Re: guten morgen & hello from germany
« on: December 03, 2009, 12:25:11 PM »
You're in the Dirty South, if memory serves, if you live anywhere in the more rural areas from North Carolina to some parts of Florida and as far West as Louisiana. Characterized by a relatively poor populous with above average capacity for big-pimpin'
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The Rubber Room - Not Safe for Work / Re: What was the shortest time you ever took a shit in?
« on: December 03, 2009, 12:18:30 PM »
About 13 or 14 years ago, when I was going through Army basic training, to learn the proper way to point a gun at a stranger; I was given "less than 60 god-damned seconds" - from the hallway - to get into the bathroom, do my business and get back into the hallway in the "front leaning rest" position. I don't remember what the punishment would have been, but I was highly motivated and I took the "fastest god-damned shit" that drill sergeant had ever seen - or so he said (it helped that pressure had been building for quite some time - I was desperate to to hit the can; it was like popping the cork from campaign bottle). I remember my o-ring really hurt for a few days after that, probably from forcing it so abruptly - it wasn't a natural thing to do. I do not know what the exact time was, I think it took about 50 seconds total. Probably doesn't really count though - too forced and too unnatural.
One fellar said, "The water's cold" and the other fellar said, "The water's deep". I believe one fella come from Arkansas. Get it?
One fellar said, "The water's cold" and the other fellar said, "The water's deep". I believe one fella come from Arkansas. Get it?
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General / Re: Chaos is the only sensible answer. [TSFW] Cthulhu is awake!!!
« on: December 02, 2009, 03:17:44 PM »
Not so cute when spanking new.
Tail: somewhat less fuzzy than I had imagined for a baby squirrel.
Too...cute...can't take any more...KABOOM!
Did you know that cats do not ovulate until they mate? Or that a female cat may give birth to five kittens, each from a different father? That whole (un-neutered) male cats have barbed penises to stimulate the female cat to ovulate & upon withdrawal, the female cat will often scream (whether from ecstasy or pain is questionable).?
Last bit of cat-facts ripped-off from about.com.
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General / Re: Chaos is the only sensible answer. [TSFW] Cthulhu is awake!!!
« on: December 02, 2009, 10:35:01 AM »
"Son I am able," she said "though you scare me" "watch" said I. "Beloved," I said "watch me scare you though" said she "able am I son."
You're a towel.
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The Show / Re: Debate Over Declawing Cats
« on: November 24, 2009, 08:06:40 PM »
Hey Kenneth,
If you made the best decision you could with the information you had; everyone else can suck it. I had my cats "fixed" and both will die virgins, and I feel bad about that - but I'm pretty sure neither of them understand or miss what I have taken from them, so - I don't loose any sleep over it. Neither should you. But that doesn't mean that cutting off kitty fingertips isn't a shitty thing to do.
[img width= height=]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PS_wLO3bow0/SFifAEYuPbI/AAAAAAAABds/hlIMK1__n1E/s1600/Declaw.jpg[/img]
If you made the best decision you could with the information you had; everyone else can suck it. I had my cats "fixed" and both will die virgins, and I feel bad about that - but I'm pretty sure neither of them understand or miss what I have taken from them, so - I don't loose any sleep over it. Neither should you. But that doesn't mean that cutting off kitty fingertips isn't a shitty thing to do.
[img width= height=]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PS_wLO3bow0/SFifAEYuPbI/AAAAAAAABds/hlIMK1__n1E/s1600/Declaw.jpg[/img]
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The Show / Re: Debate Over Declawing Cats
« on: November 24, 2009, 03:07:45 PM »
What's the frequency, Kenneth? – I did read your comment above - I wasn’t responding to you…if I broke BBS etiquette, I apologize. My main focus was to comment on Ian’s circumcision comments – from the PodCast that I had just finished listening to. But, in-line with what BonerJoe said; I doubt that anyone had a gun to your head, forcing you to take that particular apartment – continuing to hunt for another place might have been too much work. Perhaps you really liked that place and getting to live there was totally worth permanently altering the small fuzzy creatures which have come to depend upon you for their care – but you haven’t violated my trust, nor my private property, so it’s your issue to deal with and my opinion regarding your motives remains my opinion whether or not you agree. You could have had them euthanized or given them to someone else – I still wouldn’t care about what you’d done, but I might have an opinion about it if the topic were ever brought up, and depending on the circumstances; you might one day come to be aware of that opinion, but let’s not invite the interpretation that this would mean that I somehow care all of a sudden – everybody’s got an opinion, and I don’t care about most of those either.
Alex Libman – Are you just telling us about your favorite past-time or did you have a point to make? Your response, if a reaction to my post; would seem to indicate that you either did not read my post or you did not understand it. If not in reaction to my post; your post would appear to be curiously random. The focus of my mini-rant was…wait for it…circumcision. People do horrible things to animals all the time and I object to cruelty in any form – but, if you put a kitten through a grinder; that’s your problem. The point I was trying to make was based on my understanding of Ian’s comment which I interpreted as indicating that Ian feels a parent has every right to circumcise their child – I wanted to get across that circumcising any child is an act of aggression against that child – this has nothing to do with animal rights beyond any rights one may believe to be possessed or bestowed upon the human animal. Now, if you’re attempting to be funny; HA HA HA – I like to put kittens into a blender on puree, then I have a girl drink the blended kitten, puke it into a cup and have another girl drink it.
Alex Libman – Are you just telling us about your favorite past-time or did you have a point to make? Your response, if a reaction to my post; would seem to indicate that you either did not read my post or you did not understand it. If not in reaction to my post; your post would appear to be curiously random. The focus of my mini-rant was…wait for it…circumcision. People do horrible things to animals all the time and I object to cruelty in any form – but, if you put a kitten through a grinder; that’s your problem. The point I was trying to make was based on my understanding of Ian’s comment which I interpreted as indicating that Ian feels a parent has every right to circumcise their child – I wanted to get across that circumcising any child is an act of aggression against that child – this has nothing to do with animal rights beyond any rights one may believe to be possessed or bestowed upon the human animal. Now, if you’re attempting to be funny; HA HA HA – I like to put kittens into a blender on puree, then I have a girl drink the blended kitten, puke it into a cup and have another girl drink it.
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The Show / Re: Debate Over Declawing Cats
« on: November 24, 2009, 08:50:58 AM »
Although I basically agree that there are declawed cats out there, with loving homes, which might not have otherwise been so lucky – I still feel like declawing a cat is cruel; the only reason I can see for it is because the human knows they will be too lazy to trim the claws regularly. I have two clawed cats, which have put countless little holes in my beautiful, cobalt-blue leather couches; I’m often too lazy to clip their nails, and I haven’t provided adequate play structures to wear their nails down as would occur in the wild. I’ve already had their reproductive organs removed – for my own convenience – I could not put those beautiful creatures through any more pain just to make things easier on myself.
During the debate that I was listening to on the Podcast, I heard Ian bring up circumcision – I interpreted his statements as indicating that he feels that the declawing of a cat is at the discretion of the owner and that this is similar to the circumcision of a child being at the discretion of the parents. Now, I feel a little bad for a declawed or “fixed” cat, but I can’t be absolutely certain that the cat really even understands what has happened or particularly cares when it comes down to it.
Circumcision, however, is the absolute pinnacle of lazy parenting and is nothing less than child abuse. Circumcision gained popularity in America as a punishment for young boys found masturbating, once circumcised, the glanus dries out and the newly exposed skin becomes swollen, rough and desensitized – it makes masturbation more difficult and considerably less pleasurable. People have their children circumcised for only one of three reasons, no matter what excuses they tell themselves;
1) Religious doctrine – a pretty stupid reason to mutilate your child.
2) Abject laziness – they don’t feel like cleaning the little guy’s pee pee until he’s old enough to do it himself (Hell, chop off the fingers, toes and ears while you’re at it).
3) It’s all they have ever known and they assume it to be the right choice even though it was a choice they never had the chance to make for themselves.
My intention is not purely to ridicule or offend – I wish I knew how to deliver this argument without calling names, but sometimes, name calling feels appropriate. Taking a child, with no ability to resist or comprehend, and forcibly removing a body part for any reason is absolutely an initiation of force upon that child. If you don’t recognize it as the initiation of force, find any uncircumcised adult and attempt to circumcise them – let’s see how they respond. Could a man in a coma circumcise a child? Maybe I misunderstood Ian’s position on all this – but circumcision is a barbaric, cruel practice – what restitution could ever be enough for a circumcised man who’s most sensitive pleasure producing part is critically damaged before they’ve ever had a chance to even take it for a test drive.
During the debate that I was listening to on the Podcast, I heard Ian bring up circumcision – I interpreted his statements as indicating that he feels that the declawing of a cat is at the discretion of the owner and that this is similar to the circumcision of a child being at the discretion of the parents. Now, I feel a little bad for a declawed or “fixed” cat, but I can’t be absolutely certain that the cat really even understands what has happened or particularly cares when it comes down to it.
Circumcision, however, is the absolute pinnacle of lazy parenting and is nothing less than child abuse. Circumcision gained popularity in America as a punishment for young boys found masturbating, once circumcised, the glanus dries out and the newly exposed skin becomes swollen, rough and desensitized – it makes masturbation more difficult and considerably less pleasurable. People have their children circumcised for only one of three reasons, no matter what excuses they tell themselves;
1) Religious doctrine – a pretty stupid reason to mutilate your child.
2) Abject laziness – they don’t feel like cleaning the little guy’s pee pee until he’s old enough to do it himself (Hell, chop off the fingers, toes and ears while you’re at it).
3) It’s all they have ever known and they assume it to be the right choice even though it was a choice they never had the chance to make for themselves.
My intention is not purely to ridicule or offend – I wish I knew how to deliver this argument without calling names, but sometimes, name calling feels appropriate. Taking a child, with no ability to resist or comprehend, and forcibly removing a body part for any reason is absolutely an initiation of force upon that child. If you don’t recognize it as the initiation of force, find any uncircumcised adult and attempt to circumcise them – let’s see how they respond. Could a man in a coma circumcise a child? Maybe I misunderstood Ian’s position on all this – but circumcision is a barbaric, cruel practice – what restitution could ever be enough for a circumcised man who’s most sensitive pleasure producing part is critically damaged before they’ve ever had a chance to even take it for a test drive.