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General / Re: Something I have noticed about nude scenes in movies.
« on: July 31, 2009, 07:12:19 PM »
Titanic.
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The Show / Re: Sex with little kids, Tech 9s for Murderers
« on: July 31, 2009, 03:16:48 PM »Quote
It's just...if i had an idea for utopia-lite within my lifetime, i think that many of my ideas would overlap with theirs but like...nowhere in that scenario does "should be able to fuck a ten year old" or "Charlie Manson needs to be able to buy hollow points" come up whatsoever. Nor do they for many people.
It's a great litmus test. If it turns them away, I'm fine with it.
Ian traded sex for games when he was 10 years old. He was aware he was being a man-whore at the time. Like it or not, societies so-called victim was consenting there and I'll honor his choice.
As for felons having guns... A man was charged with two felony counts recently for organizing prostitution rings with consenting adults. You're an aweful fucking spokesman for gun freedoms if you support this man being kidnapped and tossed into a cage for owning a gun simply because he got paid for other people getting laid. Either you shit on peaceful people's ability to own guns OR you support felon firearm ownership.
Furthermore, let's assume you jump onto the whole "Well, if we fix the laws..." thing and argue that only violent crimes SHOULD be felonies... Okay, cool. However, when Joe Doakes goes out and offs someone, he does harm and creates a victim. It is the VICTIM who has a debt there, or his family/friends/contractors et cetera. Unless you're one of them, even if it's violent, how about shutting the fuck up since it doesn't affect you at ALL.
kthxbye!
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General / Re: Extreme libertarian...
« on: July 16, 2009, 04:25:09 PM »
I would actually say the "Extreme Libertarians" are the minarchists. There's nothing extreme in my eyes about leaving your neighbor alone. There IS something extreme about advocating mass theft against your neighbors.
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The Polling Pit / Re: Best Unix OS / BSD / Linux distro
« on: July 16, 2009, 04:04:41 PM »Quote
I've been happy with WICD
Yeah. Karmic doesn't yet have working fglrx either though. Once that's in there, or radeonhd or radeon can play videos decently, I'll be on it likely.
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The Polling Pit / Re: Any Windows users NOT switching to 7 RC?
« on: July 16, 2009, 04:02:27 PM »Quote
Was the earlier comment true, that Win7 requires video cards with 128MB of RAM? Is that just to run, or to get some gnarly effects?
I think that's the run the composite effects of Aero. I've run Windows 7 in a virtual machine with 16MB of video RAM. It works.
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Once Linux is installed, it just works.
I'm a Linux fanboy. When this is true, it's true. When this is wrong, it's way... the fuck.. wrong.
The important thing, no matter what OS you run, is that your OS is designed for you needs and your hardware. Built a system designed for Linux and drop XP on it. You'll spend hours fucking with network drivers, video drivers and sound drivers. Pop in Ubuntu and boom, you're online, running image editing software, watching movies with three clicks and prospering.
The opposite is true. I bought a laptop without really paying attention to the hardware because... well... Linux is flawless. I can get either wifi OR 3D acceleration but not both. Since my laptop is part of a wireless network and replaces my TV, that one or the other shit isn't cutting it. Even on the best of distros, I've got a better-than-average printer. It's wide format both in printing and in high-res scanning. It's wireless. Holy damn, can't use it with Linux! CUPS makes a driver for models in the same series, but not my specific model, and the other close-enough drivers don't work. As for scanning, fugeddahbout it. Last I checked, SANE wasn't even able to PROBE for scanners that aren't physically attached to the machine.
The Xerox Phaser solid ink printers at work? Nope. Linux did, at one point, back in KDE 3.5 if the stars were aligned properly. For some reason, it broke and never quite started working again. I stopped reporting bugs after a year of that.
I'm still more productive on Linux because I know it better, and I do like it better, but being unrealistic is a very good way of having people disappointed and going on anti-Linux rampages.
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The Polling Pit / Re: Best/favorite video player
« on: July 15, 2009, 05:15:53 PM »
I use VLC on Windows. I prefer Totem on Linux.
I'm in KDE land right now though, and Dragon Player works too. I just wanna play my damn videos, and pause when I need to piss. I don't need any other features.
I'm in KDE land right now though, and Dragon Player works too. I just wanna play my damn videos, and pause when I need to piss. I don't need any other features.
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The Polling Pit / Re: Best Unix OS / BSD / Linux distro
« on: July 15, 2009, 05:14:11 PM »
I'm in a state of flux right now. I was a former Debian fan, but moved to Ubuntu because they seemed to actually be outpacing Debian in terms of Debian core stuff (i.e. the "alternative" installer, based on d-i, actually got ext4 support from Ubuntu before Debian included it.)
I got a new laptop several months ago, and Ubuntu Intrepid worked well, minus crappy results from the fglrx driver and freezing. I was excited for Jaunty but... Jaunty killed my wifi. Sitting about 5 feet from my AP, Jaunty detects my network at about 30%. From my coffee table in the next room, not networks.
Karmic fixed wifi range, but causes disconnects... IF NetworkManager works... it doesn't always.
I've been finding OpenSuse 11.1 and 11.2 to be decent. I have complaints there too. I encrypt my filesystems - OpenSuse 11.1 requires some hacking to do that with it's clunky partitioner. 11.1 also doesn't support ext4 for /. 11.2 still doesn't support encryption of /, but it does support ext4. 11.2 is unreleased, however, and there's a constant prompt to add repos which gets annoying.
For servers, I prefer Debian, mainly because I know it well and I consider that to be more important than having a very tight OS like OpenBSD.
I'm running an Ubuntu Jaunty system right now at work. I installed Jaunty, added the KDE 4.3 RC PPA from Kubuntu and then installed. It's pretty good but the wifi issue and shitty performance from fglrx make it not an option on my home laptop.
I got a new laptop several months ago, and Ubuntu Intrepid worked well, minus crappy results from the fglrx driver and freezing. I was excited for Jaunty but... Jaunty killed my wifi. Sitting about 5 feet from my AP, Jaunty detects my network at about 30%. From my coffee table in the next room, not networks.
Karmic fixed wifi range, but causes disconnects... IF NetworkManager works... it doesn't always.
I've been finding OpenSuse 11.1 and 11.2 to be decent. I have complaints there too. I encrypt my filesystems - OpenSuse 11.1 requires some hacking to do that with it's clunky partitioner. 11.1 also doesn't support ext4 for /. 11.2 still doesn't support encryption of /, but it does support ext4. 11.2 is unreleased, however, and there's a constant prompt to add repos which gets annoying.
For servers, I prefer Debian, mainly because I know it well and I consider that to be more important than having a very tight OS like OpenBSD.
I'm running an Ubuntu Jaunty system right now at work. I installed Jaunty, added the KDE 4.3 RC PPA from Kubuntu and then installed. It's pretty good but the wifi issue and shitty performance from fglrx make it not an option on my home laptop.
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The Polling Pit / Re: Any Windows users NOT switching to 7 RC?
« on: July 15, 2009, 05:05:42 PM »
Windows XP sucks ass. Sorry to all ye who like it.
XP was my trigger to leave for LInux. When Vista hit, I didn't like it because of the bloat. After SP1, and after hardware moved out of the single-core age, Vista became usable, and even enjoyable.
When the Windows 7 Betas came out, I downloaded them. I'm alternating between Vista Home Premium and Windows 7 RC on my laptop at home right now. I actually went to buy an upgrade license last night, but the $49 promotion ended and it's now costing $119. Fifty bucks for Windows 7 is in my price range, $119 is not.
Compared to Vista SP1, I like Windows 7 much better, but there are still some software issues that have yet to be resolved (big on for me, VirtualBox fails to pass USB Devices property to guess systems) but hardware is great.
The Windows 7 Client is awesome. WIndows FINALLY manages updates and upgrades of third-party drivers; that makes me happy.
XP was my trigger to leave for LInux. When Vista hit, I didn't like it because of the bloat. After SP1, and after hardware moved out of the single-core age, Vista became usable, and even enjoyable.
When the Windows 7 Betas came out, I downloaded them. I'm alternating between Vista Home Premium and Windows 7 RC on my laptop at home right now. I actually went to buy an upgrade license last night, but the $49 promotion ended and it's now costing $119. Fifty bucks for Windows 7 is in my price range, $119 is not.
Compared to Vista SP1, I like Windows 7 much better, but there are still some software issues that have yet to be resolved (big on for me, VirtualBox fails to pass USB Devices property to guess systems) but hardware is great.
The Windows 7 Client is awesome. WIndows FINALLY manages updates and upgrades of third-party drivers; that makes me happy.
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The Polling Pit / Re: I'm a male, I French braid my hair. Am I kinda faggy?
« on: July 14, 2009, 10:41:35 PM »
Real men shave their heads. It's a proven fact that testosterone causes baldness.
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General / Re: Interesting symbolism.
« on: July 14, 2009, 10:31:13 PM »
All the animal prints, the falling feathers and the "jerk it" theme made me expect this to be a PETA film with a plucked bird at the end.
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General / Re: I'm not a porcupine anymore
« on: July 14, 2009, 10:10:10 PM »Quote
They don't really have many strip clubs, and they have state run liquor stores.
I said conservatives, not conservative places. Lack of strip clubs is always fixable if there's demand. I drink beer, not liquor, and compared to the illegality of selling beer at grocery stores, New Hampshire is actually a bit more lax than where I'm currently at.
That said... When we wanna see cute women dancing nekkid around here, my wife and I head to the West Virginia panhandle which is considered both redneck and conservative...
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General / Re: Might this be Mark?
« on: July 14, 2009, 07:01:02 PM »
Late... but I have corrected my fail.
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General / Re: I'm not a porcupine anymore
« on: July 14, 2009, 02:46:29 PM »
The "trade off" is the problem, I think. Moving to an area because it more closely meets your defintion if freedom is good but it does nothing to account for the changes that will eliminate those freedoms. New Hampshire MIGHT, but doesn't yet, effectivly combat that problem.
Conservatives piss me off. The conservative vestige of measuring "freedom" by the tax rate also pisses me off.
Conservatives piss me off. The conservative vestige of measuring "freedom" by the tax rate also pisses me off.
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General / Re: Things that have killed more people than marijuana.....
« on: July 13, 2009, 06:28:01 PM »75
General / Re: Captain America for Mark
« on: July 13, 2009, 06:21:13 PM »
Is she supposed to be Pikachu?