How to Save the World (Identifying the World's Problems) (4548 hits)
Category: PoliticsLabels: ets_sociopolitical_commentary ets_essays
Rating: -0.19 on 417 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (View user info) at 2006-04-05 15:27:18 EDT
This morning, Forbes reported that a handful of U.S. industries are pleading with Washington to create mandatory cuts in fossil fuels. http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/04/greenhouse-emissions-environment-cx_jh_0405green.html?partner=links
Its seems they finally paid some attention to that little hunchback guy who would always come into their meetings coyly proclaiming, "Ummm...these...ummm...numbers clearly show how we're all going to die."
"That's nice, Johnson. Why don't you be a sport and get us all some coffee. Everyone, give Johnson here your order."
But the Hunchback of Corporate Dame finally got through somehow. My guess is he got that lazy eye operated on and brought out a chart that clearly showed that the company couldn't sell its products and services to dead people. Needless to say, Johnson was immediately fired.
However, he was soon brought back and promoted, if only slightly, to 'Low-Down Rotten Scoundrel of Operations', or LDRSEO. The job description was the same though; he still got the coffee and got cut off mid-sentence.
Every board room must have somebody there to get cut off mid-sentence, and Johnson is just good at it. It makes the rest look like they're doing their jobs. Plus, there's just a certain malevolent satisfaction in cutting off someone's perfectly valid point with nothing more than a "nanananananana" and a wave of the finger.
Now THAT says 'P.O.W.E.R.'!
All kidding aside...I hope these people are finally waking up and realizing, "HEY!!! I think dumping all this shit into the air is probably a bad idea!" It's a good thing too, because I was getting really tired of hearing that Jeopardy theme over and over.
Moving on...
I said in my last post that I had the answer to the world's problems. I will now reveal my master plan for world domi.....uh.....peace. Yea, world peace. (Wrong speech)
But first be must understand what the problems are before we can address them. Which leads me to...
{I}
Identifying the World's Problems
---------------------------------
The way I see it, the two main problems in the world right now are
1) our dependence on forms of energy that pollute the environment, and
2) the struggle for power in an increasingly global society.
Back in the time when the cold war first began, countries were far more isolated. News didn't travels as fast, people didn't travel as fast, and ideas didn't travel as fast. But now with the advent of the internet, satellite technology, improved travel, and global economy, we are all more connected to the rest of the world than ever before.
This, coupled with the specialized politics in the post-nuclear age has created a world wherein the haves and the have-nots are more widely separated than ever. Corporate lobbying, labor outsourcing, posturing of overwhelming military might, and control over the world's central banks through a strategic fiat petro-dollar arrangement have all converged to create a world superpower that has become increasingly meddlesome in world affairs and increasingly irresponsible in its supposed role as the world's leader and champion of peace and democracy.
This increasing obsession with global control has led the surviving superpower, the United States, to build military bases around the world to protect its various economic interests there and be ready on a moment's notice to protect its allies' interests.
It takes a little understanding of history to appreciate the current world political landscape, (America in particular), in the 21st century and how it differs from, yet adheres to, the M.O. of past empires.
In the past, the fundamental laws of economics and military power were very different. At the height of the Roman empire, the best military weaponry still consisted of men on horseback and in chariots, and in order to gain wealth to fund the lavishness of the people of the empire, military conquest was needed to plunder its gold and other resources, which at the time included slaves.
At the height of the British empire, the best things the military had going for it were muskets, wooden ships, and cannons. The relationship between military might and the homeland economy were still very much the same as in Roman times. Conquest was always needed to expand the empire and plunder its goods to fund the lavish excesses of the people at the expense of others.
At 8:15 in the morning of August 6, 1945 all that changed forever when the Enola Gay released its payload upon the unsuspecting people of Hiroshima, effectively ending the war and starting the footrace with Russia to superpower and world dominance.
Virtually all the major advances in human technological know-how from that point on have centered around this footrace, which came to be known as the 'cold war'. Computers, satellites, intercontinental rockets, space exploration, wireless technology, the internet, advances in medical science, jet propulsion, weather control, genetic engineering, human behavioral research, you name it. If it advanced our knowledge of the world around us, you better believe the government was all over it right away, whether it began as a military operation or not.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the United States became the world's last unchallenged superpower, but how long this state of affairs can last is anyone's guess.
Americans, myself included, have been raised to believe that our overseas meddling is borne out of a benevolent wish to better the world by spreading democracy and hope to disadvantaged and oppressed people, but the reality is, America's interest in foreign affairs always carries some sort of strategic advantage for itself. Whether it's to open up a new foreign market to which it can peddle its services, to expand corporations, to exploit a cheap workforce, to expand military presence, to manipulate its leadership, or to acquire unfettered access to its natural resources, American occupation and meddling in foreign lands has always carried a distinct strategic advantage.
The problem with this is, while the rest of the world recognizes this as obvious, the American people, in large part, fail to see it. Media is controlled by a select few people. A handfull of companies own the entire media nerve center of the country. All the major newspapers, television stations, and radio stations are owned by a select group of men whose allegiance to the economic status quo will not allow them to penetrate the lie of American benevolence. To do so would jeopardize the economic system, not only of this country, but of the entire world.
Since 1971, when the dollar was taken off the gold standard, America has been free to print the dollar without restriction, on paper that is, for all intents and purposes, worthless. It has been able to maintain this ability through strategic alliances with westernized European countries, Canada, Japan, Australia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other oil producing nations to buy their oil in dollars - thereby solidifying the status of American currency - in exchange for American military intervention anytime one of them has a little 'problem'. It helps that the United States has the nuclear capability to destroy the earth many times over if it so chose.
As of yet, these countries haven't found an overwhelming reason to question this arrangement, because as long as their economies are growing at the expense of the poorer nations, all is right with the world. That is, until the day finally comes when the United States becomes more of a liability than an asset and the poor countries no longer have sufficient resources (either natural or of the labor variety) to keep up the pace of growth in the developed world. This is what I feel we're seeing happen right now in a range of different ways.
First, the U.S. is becoming a liability to her allies because, instead of an arrangement wherein other countries get free military service courtesy of the red, white, and blue to beat down violence and instability wherever it may erupt, they are now seeing the U.S. smacking at the hornet's nest of potentially violent people in a preemptive fashion, which is actually CAUSING more violence.
Second, the U.S.'s fiat currency system is beginning to be questioned around the world and even by people inside its own government. The United States' economic growth is now in direct inversion from where economist's logic says it should be. Any other country on the face of the planet that ran a trade deficit of $760 BILLION last year would have had their remaining assets seized by world banks and investors at the drop of a hat. Their country would have been invaded under the banner of 'liberating' it from 'oppression', and that would have been that.
The United States, on the other hand, due to its special place at the top of the military food chain, is allowed to produce less and less, and consume more and more. The goliath is growing, and the Davids of the world are slowly beginning to draw their sling shots.
This is what we see happening in Iran.
Iran is still planning its oil bourse to switch its oil sales from dollars to euros. It has been delayed momentarily - probably to keep it as a strategic bargaining chip while it continues its race toward nuclear development and sanctions are threatened against it - but you can bet that is but one of the rocks Iran will load into its economic slingshot at the U.S. should it come under sanction or attack.
China, so far, has remained content to sit back and play the game by the U.S.'s rules, because its own economy is growing and the United States is providing them with a constant source of revenue with which to build their infrastructure and expand their technological know-how, but if its thirst for oil is not quenched, and Iran is taken off the table by the U.S. as a source of this oil, China is a beast that could awaken quite explosively.
In short, the so-called 'growth' of the U.S. economy is only a gross growth, not a net growth, and it amounts to little more than highway robbery and open theivery of the rest of the world. That is, unless you believe we will at some point pay it all back...all $8.8 TRILLION of it.
If you believe that, I have some property I'd like to sell you. You'll LOVE it! It's right by the ocean!
The third major reason the U.S.'s superpower status is beginning to be more vocally challenged - even among allied nations - is because it is the single greatest polluting nation on the planet. At the very time when it's becoming more and more clear that the world is in need of environmentally-conscious leadership, the United States - more specifically the Bush administration - has refused to even join, let alone lead, the Kyoto accord.
It's clear now to most respectable scientists, and even most reasonable laymen, that greenhouse gasses from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation by an over-industralized world population (which has now exceeded 7 billion people) is causing a global climate crisis the likes of which mankind has never seen, and its manifestations are everywhere.
From melting ice caps to more intense hurricanes to wholesale destruction of coral reefs to increased cases of cancer to widespread drought...all the signs are there, and the world is beginning to wake up. That is, all but the United States apparently.
At a time when its obvious we should be focusing on these problems, the U.S.-elected (by "electoral college") leadership won't even acknowledge global warming as a possibility. Instead, they stubbornly sit atop the world pyramid scheme and fight for control of the remaining drops of oil.
But, do not be disheartened. This cannot last forever.
Please see my next post in which I'll give the solutions to all of these problems and more. If mankind will only follow a few very simple premises, which I will outlay, we will be able to live in peace and prosperity forever.
Is that a vain claim? Probably. But I'm gonna put it out there anyway. For now, feel free to discuss what you feel are the world's biggest problems.
User Reviews
Submitted by Nobb (user info) at 2006-04-11 02:29:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-11 00:28:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by jonukah (user info) at 2006-04-10 23:18:58 (#)
Ranking: 0
Within twenty years, China will be much scarier than the U.S. Between the rate of growth and corruption in their economy, they will be a true beast. However, this most likely will not be dangerous for the U.S., as the sheer amount of China's FDI in the U.S. will probably keep the walls down. But if you think the U.S. is polluting bad now, look out for China.
---------------------
And we're only helping them toward that goal right now through our actions...
There is a way to stop it. Look at this: http://www.ubersite.com/m/86432#1926262
Submitted by jonukah (user info) at 2006-04-10 23:18:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Within twenty years, China will be much scarier than the U.S. Between the rate of growth and corruption in their economy, they will be a true beast. However, this most likely will not be dangerous for the U.S., as the sheer amount of China's FDI in the U.S. will probably keep the walls down. But if you think the U.S. is polluting bad now, look out for China.
Submitted by nrduncan (user info) at 2006-04-10 09:31:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
STFU
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-04-10 05:52:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Um, just noticed, too...
Ya still haven't told us HOW you're gonna do it, like promised.
I'm disappointed in you.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-04-10 05:41:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Quoting Orwell, hmm?
Still don't see how you're not banned.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-09 11:33:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. The self-satisfied sheeplike face on the screenm and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne; besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically. He was an object of hatred more constant than either Eurasia or Eastasia, since when Oceania was at war with some of these powers it was generally at peace with the other. But whta was strange was that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody, although every day, and a thousand times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish that they were--in spite of all this, his influence never seemed to grow less."
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-04-08 21:31:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
I wonder if he's been banned yet for last night...
I guess we'll know in a day or so...
Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2006-04-08 14:41:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
our environment wont die till after Im long gone, and Im not planning on having kids
fuck the planet
Submitted by Kaelic (user info) at 2006-04-08 13:49:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
So go join the taliban, John L. Walker, seriously.
Submitted by Chillax (user info) at 2006-04-08 13:47:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Didn't even read this shit, but it has more heat than the Ultimate MSPaint ever did...which cannot be a good thing.
Submitted by Donitsu2002 (user info) at 2006-04-07 15:48:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-04-05 15:49:20 (#)
Ranking: -2
OMG ETS IS GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD WITH HIS ACID-INDUCED SUPER DUPER MIND POWERS OF RADICAL LIBERALISM AND HIS DEATHRAY EYES!
-----------------------------------------------------------
I worship you jgreening
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-04-07 14:44:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 20:15:00 (#)
Ranking: 2
Can I just ask you, then, why you're so set on your way of how to live life if life is meaningless?"
this question has done nothing but leave thousands of people with mental anguish on their death beds. in extreme cases, it's part of what's led to ideological warfare. if you think too hard about irrelevant shit like this, you'll never find an answer that is absolute, so you'll always be left wondering about the what-ifs; and none of it is going to make your life any better anyway. it's not that life is 'pointless,' it's that it doesn't really matter whether or not there is a point. allow yourself to enjoy it, or join the masses who waste every second of breath with higher motives unachieved. cf. Method's MLK diatribe;
"Hell, he got shot in the face, but he persevered (before the face shooting thing), and he went through ALOT worse than what we're dishing out to you. You're just proving that you're too much of a pussy and you dont have the gumption to actually do something about what you're so "passionate" about.
Another failure. You're a dime a dozen. Get bent. You don't have the moxie to get out of your basement, let alone lead a revolution. Go ahead and give up, pussy. It's what you do best"
he's right, you know. this kind of behavior is exceedingly common. and yes, it's ONLY common in rich societies. to claim, as MistressFist does, that this 'has nothing to do with money' is simply fucking blind. you really think it's a coincidence that the very people who so often end up losing friends and perhaps losing all contact with society at large, are the very ones who tend to be well-educated(if not particularly intelligent) and pining for Something Greater? and, additionally, that they ALWAYS have the option of living a comfortable life -regardless of whether or not they choose to take it?
as for 'saving myself typing time,' now really. if i'm at uber at all, it's obviously not to accomplish anything of any import. i come here to fritter time away, nothing more than to fuck around. so efficiency doesn't even factor in.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-04-07 13:09:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2006-04-07 12:21:03 (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for knowing better than most of these idiots.
I wonder why I only rarely visit this place
-------------------------------------
i thought it was because everyone here thought you were a fucking tool? that or you caught your wife cheating on you with method, shlongy, and a wolly goat.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-04-07 13:07:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
guys, he claims he never said we should be on the gold standard... remember??
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-07 12:53:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2006-04-07 11:59:41 (#)
Ranking: 0
is the euro on the gold standard/
----------------------
No it isn't.
Neither is the british pound, and I am pretty sure it was taken off a metal standard before the dollar.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2006-04-07 12:21:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for knowing better than most of these idiots.
I wonder why I only rarely visit this place
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2006-04-07 11:59:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
is the euro on the gold standard/
Submitted by Dead_0hi0_Sky (user info) at 2006-04-07 11:57:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
hey method,
go fuck yourself.
love,
D0S
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-07 11:50:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-07 11:20:13 (#)
Ranking: 0
hahahaha Bradley why don't you just down a whole sheet of acid and REALLY go out with a bang? It would make my day to hear that you jumped off a fucking bridge and flapped your arms in a futile attempt to fly away to some alternate universe because no one accepts you.
You are THE biggest pussy I have EVER not met in my life. What the fuck do you think will happen to you if you take your views and ideas into the real world? Everyone's going to accept you with open arms? This is just a little taste of what's going to happen. We're actually doing you a favor. Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't loved by everyone. Hell, he got shot in the face, but he persevered (before the face shooting thing), and he went through ALOT worse than what we're dishing out to you. You're just proving that you're too much of a pussy and you dont have the gumption to actually do something about what you're so "passionate" about.
Another failure. You're a dime a dozen. Get bent. You don't have the moxie to get out of your basement, let alone lead a revolution. Go ahead and give up, pussy. It's what you do best
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-07 11:49:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
I believe today will be the high point of his insanity. Expect a devastating crescendo, something along the lines of a "Fuck you all, I'm leaving Ubersite" post by ETS, denouncing us all and talking about his genius, followed by a killing spree in Indiana.
I can't wait! I'm giddy with anticipation!
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-07 11:38:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:52:26 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:13:58 (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:03:23 (#)
Ranking: 0
That's funny, Caul, considering I can't remember the last time you gave a real debate with me a chance.
===
Why would I?
Anytime I or anyone tried to put forward an argument that makes you usually ignore it or you'll select small parts of it and say: "FUCK YOU, YOU'RE FUCKING STUPID, YOU SICKEN ME! I AM SUPERIOR! I READ A LOT MORE THAN YOU! BLAH BLAH!"
How come NO ONE here is interested in wasting their time with you? Have you ever asked yourself that?
Is it because we're ALL stupid?
----------------------
Not "interested in wasting their time"?
...and this all coming from the guy who has rated me 477 times. I don't know about everyone being stupid necessarily, but Im pretty sure your true colors are shining through, Ms. Lauper.
How Caulaincourt has rated other users
electrictoothsyndrome (user info) -279 on 477 = -0.58
By the way, that's more than you've rated any other user but Apollo.
===
I said it already...your shit posts make great chat rooms!
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-04-07 11:32:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Why don't you just eat the entire bottle of pills, you pathetic fuck?
Dropping -2 bombs on people like it matters.
You're like a fucking 3 year old, only with stinkier underwear.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-04-07 08:26:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
thanks indon.
Submitted by pen_name (user info) at 2006-04-07 05:26:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-04-07 01:24:07 (#)
Ranking: -2
I can't believe you idiots indulge this moron.
If you stop giving him attention, he will go back to posting entertaining stuff, rather than heatwhoring SHIT like this.
______________________________
it doesn't work with you.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-04-07 01:37:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
are you kidding me? this shit is wayyy more entertaining than anything he's done comedically...
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-04-07 01:24:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
I can't believe you idiots indulge this moron.
If you stop giving him attention, he will go back to posting entertaining stuff, rather than heatwhoring SHIT like this.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-04-06 21:17:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i wish he'd still respond to me... you're lucky, indo... dammit...
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 20:45:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:15:33 (#)
Ranking: 0
No wonder you don't understand how it proves nothing, it isn't even a bar graph.
I have cousin in the 6th grade, she was doing homework on graphs last week and she knew the difference between different types of graphs.
No wonder the peace corp won't take you, you don't understand middle school math.
------------------------
Line graph, whatever. You still couldn't read the thing. I had to TELL you how Mauna Loa related to the ice core data even though it plainly says what's what on the graph.
----------------------------------
Try not to be retarted here just for a second. I didn't understand how the Mauna Loa info proved anything about what happened over 300 years ago, because it doesn't. It especially doesn't confirm theories that some scientists have about the atmosphere hundreds of thousands of years ago.
If you are trying to prove the info from hundreds, and thousands of years before, matching a trend over a 50 year period is not only completely insignificant, it is retarted. Look at atmosphere graphs everywhere, you see up and down trends, that does absolutely nothing to prove the accuracy for estimates of what the atmosphere was like that long ago.
You really think there is zero chance that the models that they make introduce more and more error as they go back further in time? The info they use from tree core is a classic example of losing integrity as you go back further. They place assumption upon assumption. Matching different trees, matching trees that have been petrified or buried for a number of years.
I usually enjoy pointing stuff like this out because your mistakes and ass backward assumptions are so obvious it is laughable, but sometimes you are so thick and full of shit it hurts my head to try and explain the simplest things.
I could see you in the peace corp helping out a farming community. Helping them go back to hunter gather technology.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-04-06 20:42:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i dig philosophy... keep it up!!
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 20:15:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-04-06 20:02:34 (#)
Ranking: 2
there's no virtue in finding a meaning to life.
____
Can I just ask you, then, why you're so set on your way of how to live life if life is meaningless?
By the way you can stop calling me a dipshit or whatever (I get the point) and save yourself some typing time.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-04-06 20:04:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
as for the money thing, you're losing ground with every word you say. 'money' doesn't have to refer to greenbacks, and unless you really are as stupid as i keep saying you are, you realize that. 'money', like 'wealth,' is simply an easier way of saying an accumulation of material goods. i honestly hope you're just being a petty bitch, because the only other option is that you're being a dumbshit.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-04-06 20:02:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:49:45 (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow. Another "this is the world" realist who's suckling on the teat of Thomas Hobbes to no end. What else is new?
It's called the Hobbesian-Syndrome that you're suffering from. Everyone assumes the worst and that everyone else is out to get them and it'll happen that way. Sounds to me you're more afraid to embrace possibility ("you can either accept that you don't have a fucking clue, and never will") and willing to grovel in a pathetic excuse for an existence, than to take a look in the mirror and actually consider the fact that "you're going to die; what are you going to do about that?". Metaphysics are deemed irrelevant by the scientific-minded person of today like yourself, however, I ask: what the hell is relevant then?
In short: I'd rather at least try to figure out at least the meaning of my own life before I die because I find that a lot more virtuous than simply accepting what's on plate, and certainly more virtuous than telling others to accept what's on their plates as well. If you're afraid of the unknown, that's fine. Don't try to drag me down with you."
and the syndrome you're suffering from? what is it, Down's? or just a basic universal pretentiousness? i'm not afraid of possibility or the unknown; i simply don't base my life on it. it's idiocy of the highest degree to think that because something is merely possible, you should allow what is tactile to revolve around it. *everything* is possible. thus there is no basis to believe one possibility as being more likely than any other; without a basis for such a belief, it is merely a matter of preference, in other words, because it makes you feel good. what am i going to do about death? what kind of bullshit question is this? it's death. what is relevant is those things that actually affect your life. there's no virtue in finding a meaning to life. i'm sure Charles Manson's life is full of meaning. the two things are completely unrelated.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2006-04-06 20:00:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
everything ets writes is getting on most heated and he's about to knock Ryan Donovan off most viewed authors.
this site sucks.
oh well.
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:58:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Excuse the spelling mistakes I made before.
One more thing:
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:28:01 (#)
Ranking: 2
money equals comfort.""
So no-one before a monetary system was in place was comfortable?
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:49:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:28:01 (#)
Ranking: 2
i never said money equals happiness, you fucking idiot. suffering is part of being human. NOBODY is completely satisfied with everything in their life, that's normal. money equals comfort. you don't want to be insulted? don't use straw man arguments.
it may not make me an authority, no; but it certainly makes me more so than you. if you want to use an example like that, get ready to be berated when you are faced with someone who can actually attest to that example's validity, but still reject their point of view simply because it doesn't mirror yours.
and you're still missing the fucking point. CHOOSING survival is *still* not survival. if it's a choice, it's an ideal. and it can only be a choice if you're rich enough to choose something else. it's pretty simple.
if you want to know the meaning of life, there's two things you can do. you can either accept that you don't have a fucking clue, and never will, or you can invent stupid bullshit that has NOTHING to do with reality to make yourself feel slightly better about who you are. it's deceptive, false, and self-ingriating. it's hard to think of anything that is more "the way of humans" than that. no matter what hokey magic you choose to believe in, you'll always be human, and you'll always believe in something that was invented by a human. you don't have the option of escaping your humanity, as much as you'd like to. welcome to the world.
__________
Wow. Another "this is the world" realist who's suckling on the teat of Thomas Hobbes to no end. What else is new?
It's called the Hobbesian-Syndrome that you're suffering from. Everyone assumes the worst and that everyone else is out to get them and it'll happen that way. Sounds to me you're more afraid to embrace possibility ("you can either accept that you don't have a fucking clue, and never will") and willing to grovel in a pathetic excuse for an existence, than to take a look in the mirror and actually consider the fact that "you're going to die; what are you going to do about that?". Metaphysics are deemed irrelevant by the scientific-minded person of today like yourself, however, I ask: what the hell is relevant then?
In short: I'd rather at least try to figure out at least the meaning of my own life before I die because I find that a lot more virtuous than simply accepting what's on plate, and certainly more virtuous than telling others to accept what's on their plates as well. If you're afraid of the unknown, that's fine. Don't try to drag me down with you.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:47:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
ets has stopped answering me altogether... oh well...
ets is a sellout, pass it on...
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:28:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:03:47 (#)
Ranking: 2
Well I'll be damned. It appears you certainly have life figured out don't you? You "know" that money equals happiness, eh? I'm certainly not rich, and I don't think I could be happier. I don't know you bud, but insulting me does not strengthen your argument one bit. In all honesty, you should pull your head out of society's rear-end because any "genius" can figure out that "he who dies with the most toys is still dead".
I don't think that because you lived in Africa for a while you somehow are an authority on their views either. Yes, it can be called survival, but there's no reason survival couldn't be an ideal in a person's head. Hell, I'm sure lots of people would choose survival and happiness over wealth and torment.
If you want to live your life clawing your way to the top of human concoction only to die without any real grasp of what you just lived or more importantly _WHY_, then go ahead. It doesn't have to be "the way of humans" though and it certainly won't be for me. "
i never said money equals happiness, you fucking idiot. suffering is part of being human. NOBODY is completely satisfied with everything in their life, that's normal. money equals comfort. you don't want to be insulted? don't use straw man arguments.
it may not make me an authority, no; but it certainly makes me more so than you. if you want to use an example like that, get ready to be berated when you are faced with someone who can actually attest to that example's validity, but still reject their point of view simply because it doesn't mirror yours.
and you're still missing the fucking point. CHOOSING survival is *still* not survival. if it's a choice, it's an ideal. and it can only be a choice if you're rich enough to choose something else. it's pretty simple.
if you want to know the meaning of life, there's two things you can do. you can either accept that you don't have a fucking clue, and never will, or you can invent stupid bullshit that has NOTHING to do with reality to make yourself feel slightly better about who you are. it's deceptive, false, and self-ingriating. it's hard to think of anything that is more "the way of humans" than that. no matter what hokey magic you choose to believe in, you'll always be human, and you'll always believe in something that was invented by a human. you don't have the option of escaping your humanity, as much as you'd like to. welcome to the world.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:15:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:08:06 (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 14:48:44 (#)
Ranking: 0
SEE!!! You're so fucking stupid you don't know how to read a goddamn BAR GRAPH.
-----------------------
No wonder you don't understand how it proves nothing, it isn't even a bar graph.
I have cousin in the 6th grade, she was doing homework on graphs last week and she knew the difference between different types of graphs.
No wonder the peace corp won't take you, you don't understand middle school math.
------------------------
Line graph, whatever. You still couldn't read the thing. I had to TELL you how Mauna Loa related to the ice core data even though it plainly says what's what on the graph.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:13:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:03:47 (#)
Ranking: 2
If you want to live your life clawing your way to the top of human concoction only to die without any real grasp of what you just lived or more importantly _WHY_, then go ahead. It doesn't have to be "the way of humans" though and it certainly won't be for me.
-----------------
I knew I liked you for a reason. We share a lot of eerily similar views.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:08:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 14:48:44 (#)
Ranking: 0
SEE!!! You're so fucking stupid you don't know how to read a goddamn BAR GRAPH.
-----------------------
No wonder you don't understand how it proves nothing, it isn't even a bar graph.
I have cousin in the 6th grade, she was doing homework on graphs last week and she knew the difference between different types of graphs.
No wonder the peace corp won't take you, you don't understand middle school math.
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:03:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:45:07 (#)
Ranking: 2
_________
Well I'll be damned. It appears you certainly have life figured out don't you? You "know" that money equals happiness, eh? I'm certainly not rich, and I don't think I could be happier. I don't know you bud, but insulting me does not strengthen your argument one bit. In all honesty, you should pull your head out of society's rear-end because any "genius" can figure out that "he who dies with the most toys is still dead".
I don't think that because you lived in Africa for a while you somehow are an authority on their views either. Yes, it can be called survival, but there's no reason survival couldn't be an ideal in a person's head. Hell, I'm sure lots of people would choose survival and happiness over wealth and torment.
If you want to live your life clawing your way to the top of human concoction only to die without any real grasp of what you just lived or more importantly _WHY_, then go ahead. It doesn't have to be "the way of humans" though and it certainly won't be for me.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 19:01:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:52:44 (#)
Ranking: -2
You incredibly stupid sack of shit. If it was a parabolic curve then at some point in the past it would go to a minimum, and before that it would have risen more and more as you go futher back in time. It isn't a parabolic curve.
You can't prove a historical trend going back hundreds of thousands of years because some points in the last 50 yrs match part of a parabola. Jesus if you were any stupider you would have to be watered twice a day.
All that graph proved is that you are even stupider than I thought.
------------------------
Well, considering you can't read it, that's a pretty good start for you.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:52:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:22:04 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:07:50 (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:01:40 (#)
Ranking: 0
They invented the pie chart for people like me. To MAKE IT OBVIOUS....and it IS!
-----------------------------
I suggest you take a basic statistics class. The charts you toss around are obviously too complicated for you.
Especially if you think a weather station in Hawaii less than 50 yrs old can prove that atmospheric models from ice cores going back 600,00yrs.
----------
It's supplemental data...(that just happens to follow the same parabolic curve as the ice core data).
---------------------------------------------
You incredibly stupid sack of shit. If it was a parabolic curve then at some point in the past it would go to a minimum, and before that it would have risen more and more as you go futher back in time. It isn't a parabolic curve.
You can't prove a historical trend going back hundreds of thousands of years because some points in the last 50 yrs match part of a parabola. Jesus if you were any stupider you would have to be watered twice a day.
All that graph proved is that you are even stupider than I thought.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:52:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:13:58 (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:03:23 (#)
Ranking: 0
That's funny, Caul, considering I can't remember the last time you gave a real debate with me a chance.
===
Why would I?
Anytime I or anyone tried to put forward an argument that makes you usually ignore it or you'll select small parts of it and say: "FUCK YOU, YOU'RE FUCKING STUPID, YOU SICKEN ME! I AM SUPERIOR! I READ A LOT MORE THAN YOU! BLAH BLAH!"
How come NO ONE here is interested in wasting their time with you? Have you ever asked yourself that?
Is it because we're ALL stupid?
----------------------
Not "interested in wasting their time"?
...and this all coming from the guy who has rated me 477 times. I don't know about everyone being stupid necessarily, but Im pretty sure your true colors are shining through, Ms. Lauper.
How Caulaincourt has rated other users
electrictoothsyndrome (user info) -279 on 477 = -0.58
By the way, that's more than you've rated any other user but Apollo.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:45:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:18:07 (#)
Ranking: 2
Avoiding Caul? http://www.ubersite.com/m/86315#1920617
You don't need to be anything to have ideals. You're giving wealth way too much credit because you live in a society which idealises it. If you lived in Africa, for example, your ideals would be different; perhaps you'd idealise about having enough food to feed your family, either way, they're there."
guess what? i *did* live in West Central Africa, for three years straight. you're full of shit, and so is MistressFist if she REALLY believes ideals have nothing to with wealth. ideals and philosophy are intellectual stagnation, that only come about in societies where people have too much fucking time on their hands. you're right, people in third world countries and ruined societies worry more about finding fucking food and breeding. that doesn't make it a goddamn ideal, you mongoloid. it's called surviving. they don't worry about making the world a better place, they don't really give a shit if oil is running out, and there's no such thing as a society that DOESN'T idealize wealth. know why? because wealth equals comfort. it's not an idealization, it's cold hard fact. take this bullshit spiritual message to the masses of Zaire or Ethiopia and see just how much of a warm friendly reception you'll get. you're not going to find any stimulating intellectual conversation on the higher reality of an ethereal consciousness. it's fucking bullshit that's invented because it makes whoever accepts feel better about themselves. when you don't have to worry about just staying live, when your life is comfortable in every way, you get fucking bored, and start to feel that your life is meaningless. it has everything to do with wealth, stop being such an arrogant dickwad and fucking get a brain.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:37:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 13:52:02 (#)
Ranking: 0
Yes, that would be nice, but it's not necessary in order to assess the state of the environment in which we EVOLVED and came into being. The oldest homo sapien bones ever found are estimated at around 120,000 years. That's a long time in terms of CLIMATE. Air, atmosphere, rain cycles, ocean cycles...these things aren't going to have major wave changes last over 120,000 years, at least not without some outside force introduced into the system. The chance encounters with asteroids, meteors, comets, major volcanic eruptions, pole and magnetic pole shifts...these things are the exceptions to the rule. NOT the rule themselves."
how can you possibly be this fucking STUPID? human evolution doesn't start, or stop, with homo sapiens sapiens, Ms. Keller. the first woodland apes to diverge into a branch that would develop into our own species are estimated to have done so about 5... ready... *million* years ago. our physiology is still, today, nearly identical to that of chimpanzees -so much so that chimpanzees are more genetically similar to us than to gorillas. chimpanzees are also an extremely evolutionarily conservative species, having displayed little change over time in ratio to other species' evolutionary development.
although humans are extremely quick to evolve(i've read somewhere that the only mammalian species known to evolve at a faster rate was the polar bear), the differences between us and chimps -the closest apes to our ancestral line- are so small that any climate changes would affect us equally. figure it out, or in case you can't(or, more likely, simply won't): even using a conservative value of a mere 2 million years ago, and knowing that chimpanzees are largely identical to our mutual ancestors, exactly how do you presume to explain your use of such a limited timeframe to justify your crackpot bullshit? of course, we already all know the answer, which is 'because it justifies my preconceived notions rather comfortably.'
but the thing is, as retarded as you can be, we derive enjoyment from it. looks like your life may just have a purpose outside of sitting in a darkened basement after all. you entertain us. you're a pathetic little puppet strung along by others who, like you, are so involved in thinking that they have some sort of access to a higher knowledge that the rest of humanity denies, they'll sponge up any intellectual diarrhea that comes along faster than they can microwave another Hot Pocket. funniest thing of all is, you're exactly the kind of individual the global rulers -assuming such a thing exists- hope to create. have fun being the most insignificant person on the planet, Miss Priss.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:13:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:03:23 (#)
Ranking: 0
That's funny, Caul, considering I can't remember the last time you gave a real debate with me a chance.
===
Why would I?
Anytime I or anyone tried to put forward an argument that makes you usually ignore it or you'll select small parts of it and say: "FUCK YOU, YOU'RE FUCKING STUPID, YOU SICKEN ME! I AM SUPERIOR! I READ A LOT MORE THAN YOU! BLAH BLAH!"
How come NO ONE here is interested in wasting their time with you? Have you ever asked yourself that?
Is it because we're ALL stupid?
Or because you're a raging psychopath with serious attitude problems and that the only person who thinks you're worthy a debate is yourself?
I must leave so I'll let you figure that one out for yourself.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 18:03:23 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
That's funny, Caul, considering I can't remember the last time you gave a real debate with me a chance.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 17:59:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
So, yes, talk of it seems pathetic and not worth our time, but it's better than the alternative by a long shot. """
Talking is all fine by me. But if we want these ideals to spread, it'll take a little bit more humility than ETS or MistressFist show who pretend to have the solution for everybody.
People like ETS are extremly counter-productive to any debate. They let their massive egos get in the way and then it all turns into a circus. They make other people to turn their back on the discussion or they simply bully them out of it.
You have to be humble if you want to share view points. Saying you're above everyone and that you hold the Truth is not exactly the way to do it. ETS is the prime example of why we can't get any healthy debate nowadays.
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 17:42:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 17:33:18 (#)
Ranking: 0
But just so you know...
http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/idl/mtgz/20060326/233219-77795.jpg?size=l
_____
Cheap shot! You bitch!!! :~(
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 17:34:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I see at least someone gets it. Thanks Yellow Dart. You're a credit to your species.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 17:33:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 17:24:16 (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:47:31 (#)
Ranking: -2
Way to nit-pick on words.
____
<<Hoping you'll argue with this. Nothing beats a good argument between geographical foes>>
===
I don't have time too. I must go see my accoutant because I'm too lazy to do my own tax report.
But just so you know...
http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/idl/mtgz/20060326/233219-77795.jpg?size=l
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 17:24:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:47:31 (#)
Ranking: -2
Way to nit-pick on words.
____
I can't let my franco neighbour off easily! I agree with what you said, by the way.
Theories and high-level hypotheses are what changes people's states of mind, which slowly trickle throughout the world and eventually can change a whole lot. Granted, the theories have to be popular and gain enough momentum, but thinking and talking about such things as a peaceful world or one without poverty or famine or whatever you envision are a lot better ways to bring those ends about than telling people off or that it'll never happen. It's awfully regressive if all we do shoot down possibility. So, yes, talk of it seems pathetic and not worth our time, but it's better than the alternative by a long shot.
<<Hoping you'll argue with this. Nothing beats a good argument between geographical foes>>
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-06 17:19:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Plus you're a degenerate drug addict, so your opinion holds absolutely ZERO value in my eyes and any other rational persons eyes.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-06 17:16:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
What you fail to realize is that the human race is doomed. We are genetically pre-disposed to destroying ourselves. We are greedy, selfish monsters. Neither you nor anyone else can stop it. It's on such a grand scale that no amount of blathering you do, or anyone else does, and has done for ages, for that matter, will help. We apparently WANT to go out in a blaze of glory. You can't mobilize people enough to do a total 180 and reverse the process. it just can't be done.
If the macrocosm is too big for your tiny little brain, consider the microcosm. We are prone to do things that are harmful. We smoke, we drink, we do alot of things in EXCESS that is just plain stupid. Now apply that to the macrocosm, and politics, and the state of world affairs in general and you'll see that we're in the middle of a giant pot of "we're fucked in the ass" tomato soup.
Stop wasting your breath, especially on issues that are 5 years old. Focus on the here and now, and help in any way you can, however little it may be. Arguing on the internet is THE most counter-productive thing you could do.
If you can help one person, do it. Make an effort. If you can change one life, that's all that anyone can ask of you. You can't do that on Ubersite.
You're still a fucking loser, though, and will disregard this and every other rational statement someone throws your way.
You're your own worst enemy.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:49:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
1. GETTING A JOB (I have a job. I'm there right now.)
You seem to work hard.
2. WORKING FOR UNICEF (Might do that after my lease is up.)
No you won't.
3. WORKING FOR THE RED CROSS (See above.)
See above
4. GETTING A HAIRCUT (Got one last week.)
Your mom scisors do not count.
5. BLASTING HIMSELF IN THE FACE WITH A SHOTGUN (Don't own a shotgun.)
How are you kill your senator?
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:47:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:18:07 (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:50:28 (#)
Ranking: -2
===
Yes, I get it. You didn't invent anything here, just about everybody on this planet imagined this better world you described already. But it's easy to speak of ideals when you're on a full stomach, under a roof, with more luxury than you'll ever need and with virtually no threat to your security.
+++++++
Avoiding Caul? http://www.ubersite.com/m/86315#1920617
You don't need to be anything to have ideals. You're giving wealth way too much credit because you live in a society which idealises it. If you lived in Africa, for example, your ideals would be different; perhaps you'd idealise about having enough food to feed your family, either way, they're there.
===
Way to nit-pick on words. You basically said what I said. Perhaps I expressed myself wrong.
By "ideals", I was referring to this whole sprititual experience where we all share and kiss and love each others.
Yes, anybody can dream of something. But I'm not sure someone whose starving, is homeless or is in a war zone gives a shit about giving back to the Earth and have compassaion for his neighbor. I'm not sure that someone who was raised under the tight grip of religion cares about overreaching to you either.
It's easy to envision a cute beautiful world from our DIFFERENT viewpoint.
You can't ask others to do the same if you don't understand that...that's all I'm saying.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:47:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
what the hell? how does a giant dildo crush a sun? first of all, that's like completely impossible -- you should know that being the man of science that you are... okay, time to go coach! toodles!
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:45:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:24:44 (#)
Ranking: 0
If my cause is to spread awareness of how our government is fucking us everyday of our lives, I already am.
Thank you.
----------------------------
i'm getting fucked every day? huh? I'M GETTING FUCKED EVERY DAY?!?! FUCK YEAH!!! THANK YOU? NO THANK YOU SIR I'M GETTING LAID EVERY DAY!!!!!
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:44:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:33:48 (#)
Ranking: -2
I'm glad you finally got some airtime though, you deserve it! You're a winner! Things are gonna change, I can feel it!
----------
I pay no mind to you, Method. You're a giant dildo crushing the sun.
Submitted by DavyJones (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:44:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Nothing to say about the truth of our MASSIVE WTF OMG SKY IS FALLING deficit then?
Didn't really think so.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:40:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
yeah ets, despite your intentions, your actions and posts are pretty much counter-productive to any change you seek, soley based on the fact that you're a complete tit.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:33:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
I'm glad you finally got some airtime though, you deserve it! You're a winner! Things are gonna change, I can feel it!
http://www.nymethod.com/ets_live_video.html
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:31:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
You're not someone I or anyone else would listen to, so you're wasting your time. You're not a credible source.
'Hey, this guy on the soap box is talking about stuff like the government and pollution and global warming!'
'Oh yeah? What's he do? He a scientist?'
'Nah, I think he works at the Stop-n-shop bagging groceries.'
'Oh. I'm hungry. let's go get nachos'
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:24:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:14:17 (#)
Ranking: -2
He would never actually volunteer anywhere, it's so much easier to sit around and do nothing. He's useless. If he truly believed everything he's saying, he would be out doing something about it. That is the biggest argument against anything he could say, and the inevitable downfall of this whole internet crusade.
The World: If you believe in your cause so strongly, ETS, why don't you go and do something about it?
-----------------------
If my cause is to spread awareness of how our government is fucking us everyday of our lives, I already am. And you people are my engine.
Thank you.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:22:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:07:50 (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:01:40 (#)
Ranking: 0
They invented the pie chart for people like me. To MAKE IT OBVIOUS....and it IS!
-----------------------------
I suggest you take a basic statistics class. The charts you toss around are obviously too complicated for you.
Especially if you think a weather station in Hawaii less than 50 yrs old can prove that atmospheric models from ice cores going back 600,00yrs.
----------
It's supplemental data...(that just happens to follow the same parabolic curve as the ice core data).
METHOD:
1. GETTING A JOB (I have a job. I'm there right now.)
2. WORKING FOR UNICEF (Might do that after my lease is up.)
3. WORKING FOR THE RED CROSS (See above.)
4. GETTING A HAIRCUT (Got one last week.)
5. BLASTING HIMSELF IN THE FACE WITH A SHOTGUN (Don't own a shotgun.)
DO YOU NOT REALIZE THAT USING UBERSITE AS A MEANS OF GETTING YOURSELF ON GOOGLE WILL GET YOU NOWHERE?
Not really.
YOU JUST DONT GET IT, YOU ARE SO FUCKING DENSE, IT'S UNBELIEVABLE
What?
AND CLIP YOUR FUCKING FINGERNAILS, THAT'S DISGUSTING
I play guitar and I fingerpick. So no.
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:20:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:14:17 (#)
Ranking: -2
He would never actually volunteer anywhere, it's so much easier to sit around and do nothing. He's useless. If he truly believed everything he's saying, he would be out doing something about it. That is the biggest argument against anything he could say, and the inevitable downfall of this whole internet crusade.
The World: If you believe in your cause so strongly, ETS, why don't you go and do something about it?
ETS: LOOK AT THIS PIE CHART, IT SHOWS THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR DEPRECIATING DRAMATICALLY AS THE RAIN FORESTS ARE CUT DOWN AND THE POLAR ICE CAPS MELT
The World: Well, are you going to answer our question?
ETS: WATCH THIS VIDEO ABOUT HOW BUSH IS CRUCIFYING US FOR OIL
The World: ................
---------
You forgot the part where he gets all pissy and calls everyone a bunch of fucking idiots before retaliating against the whole world with a -2 that doesn't even matter.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:18:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
or at least give blood. shit that's a once every three months commitment. if you haven't gotten anything pierced in the last 18 months you're eligible since it seems that you've never had any otherwise risky behavior cuz you don't do anything.
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:18:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:50:28 (#)
Ranking: -2
===
Yes, I get it. You didn't invent anything here, just about everybody on this planet imagined this better world you described already. But it's easy to speak of ideals when you're on a full stomach, under a roof, with more luxury than you'll ever need and with virtually no threat to your security.
+++++++
Avoiding Caul? http://www.ubersite.com/m/86315#1920617
You don't need to be anything to have ideals. You're giving wealth way too much credit because you live in a society which idealises it. If you lived in Africa, for example, your ideals would be different; perhaps you'd idealise about having enough food to feed your family, either way, they're there.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:14:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
He would never actually volunteer anywhere, it's so much easier to sit around and do nothing. He's useless. If he truly believed everything he's saying, he would be out doing something about it. That is the biggest argument against anything he could say, and the inevitable downfall of this whole internet crusade.
The World: If you believe in your cause so strongly, ETS, why don't you go and do something about it?
ETS: LOOK AT THIS PIE CHART, IT SHOWS THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR DEPRECIATING DRAMATICALLY AS THE RAIN FORESTS ARE CUT DOWN AND THE POLAR ICE CAPS MELT
The World: Well, are you going to answer our question?
ETS: WATCH THIS VIDEO ABOUT HOW BUSH IS CRUCIFYING US FOR OIL
The World: ................
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:10:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:57:51 (#)
Ranking: -2
Actually, you win the prize for the World's Most Unwise Choice Of Life Partner.
----------
Caul, that makes it sound like he's her lesbian lover.
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:10:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:46:31 (#)
Ranking: 2
And the prize for World's Clumsiest Metaphor goes to...
___________
The Bible!
Turns out Jesus was just trying to promote the virtues of wood (rather than hay or dirt) and even tied himself up to show its ergonomic back straightening qualities. He made a bundle and promptly skipped town (you know how those Romans taxed). Little bastard chose words that could also be interpreted to the likes of "burn your neighbour's house" and "kill the gays" through translation. And the kingdom of heaven? - only the most glorious doll house built at the time by our main man.
(I have reminants of this house that I'll sell to the dye-hard woodsmith in all of us. Worship your local wooden benchs, chairs, and splinters!)
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:09:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:06:02 (#)
Ranking: -2
HERE ARE A LIST OF THINGS THAT ETS COULD BE DOING THAT WOULD BE MORE PRODUCTIVE HAVE MORE OF AN IMPACT ON WORLD AFFAIRS THAN ARGUING ON THE INTERNET:
1. GETTING A JOB
2. WORKING FOR UNICEF
3. WORKING FOR THE RED CROSS
4. GETTING A HAIRCUT
5. BLASTING HIMSELF IN THE FACE WITH A SHOTGUN
DO YOU NOT REALIZE THAT USING UBERSITE AS A MEANS OF GETTING YOURSELF ON GOOGLE WILL GET YOU NOWHERE? NO ONE, AND I REPEAT NO ONE, WILL LISTEN TO YOUR INSANE RAMBLINGS BECAUSE YOU ARE A SELF ABSORBED, UNKEMPT, UNEDUCATED, INSANE GOOBER FROM INDIANA, NO MATTER HOW MANY FUCKING HITS YOU HAVE OR HOW MANY TIMES YOU APPEAR ON GOOGLE.
YOU JUST DONT GET IT, YOU ARE SO FUCKING DENSE, IT'S UNBELIEVABLE
AND CLIP YOUR FUCKING FINGERNAILS, THAT'S DISGUSTING
----------------------------------
You forgot salvation army, peace corps, and countless other ways to voulenteer. But that would require work, and actually believing the horse shit that you are shoveling.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:09:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
hahahah, that was a pretty harsh débonktion method!
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:07:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:01:40 (#)
Ranking: 0
They invented the pie chart for people like me. To MAKE IT OBVIOUS....and it IS!
-----------------------------
I suggest you take a basic statistics class. The charts you toss around are obviously too complicated for you.
Especially if you think a weather station in Hawaii less than 50 yrs old can prove that atmospheric models from ice cores going back 600,00yrs.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:06:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
HERE ARE A LIST OF THINGS THAT ETS COULD BE DOING THAT WOULD BE MORE PRODUCTIVE HAVE MORE OF AN IMPACT ON WORLD AFFAIRS THAN ARGUING ON THE INTERNET:
1. GETTING A JOB
2. WORKING FOR UNICEF
3. WORKING FOR THE RED CROSS
4. GETTING A HAIRCUT
5. BLASTING HIMSELF IN THE FACE WITH A SHOTGUN
DO YOU NOT REALIZE THAT USING UBERSITE AS A MEANS OF GETTING YOURSELF ON GOOGLE WILL GET YOU NOWHERE? NO ONE, AND I REPEAT NO ONE, WILL LISTEN TO YOUR INSANE RAMBLINGS BECAUSE YOU ARE A SELF ABSORBED, UNKEMPT, UNEDUCATED, INSANE GOOBER FROM INDIANA, NO MATTER HOW MANY FUCKING HITS YOU HAVE OR HOW MANY TIMES YOU APPEAR ON GOOGLE.
YOU JUST DONT GET IT, YOU ARE SO FUCKING DENSE, IT'S UNBELIEVABLE
AND CLIP YOUR FUCKING FINGERNAILS, THAT'S DISGUSTING
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:03:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
they invented the pie chart so that bill gates could make millions off of excel... duh...
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:02:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:47:25 (#)
Ranking: 0
These people actually worked their whole lives in their particular fields.
-------------------------
Edison perfected the incandesent lightbulb at age 32 despite having no formal education whatsoever.
Einstein wrote the Special Theory of Relativity at age 26 despite being a hoodlum at school and teaching himself euclidian geometry.
Adam Smith was in his middle to late 20s when he first began expounding his laisse faire economic theory. Again, in case you missed it the first time around, he was NOT trained in economics. He was a philosophy student and lecturer.
Anything else?
-------------------------------------------------
Edison had been a "tinkerer" his whole life.
Einstein was far from a hoodlum at school, just a bad student. He went to secondary school where he studied Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. He wrote his first paper on capillary forces of a drinking straw when he was 21. He was involved in this stuff his whole life.
I don't know shit about Adam smith, so I will give that to you. But you are still too fucking stupid to get the point.
This guy whips out a theory that has backing from no major news sources, no credible economists, and you take his unrespected theory as the TRUTH. You are a fucking idiot who jumps to any idea that suits your half assed arguments, and when it flies in the face of common sense, the rest of the world, and trained professionals you say you found a Genius.
I just want to know if you bought the magnetic bracelets from the asian guy who say it will make you live forever. He has no formal training, and the establishment doesn't report on him, so he must be a genius too, right?
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 16:01:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by jimmiss (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:53:14 (#)
Ranking: 0
ETS:
My argument was against Indoninja's assertion that a person can't be an expert in a field of study without a formal education in that field.
I think I have successfully disproven that.
---------------------------------
Read: I'm an expert.
------------------------
How do you arrive at that conclusion? Did you miss the part where I talked about Edison, Smith, Einstein and Einstein?
I never said I was an expert AT ALL. In fact, through all of this the core message has been IT'S COMMON SENSE. All a reasonable person with ANY understanding of basic math has to do is look at the numbers in both the environmental data and the economic data and see that things are fucked up.
They invented the pie chart for people like me. To MAKE IT OBVIOUS....and it IS!
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:57:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:46:31 (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm not sure the world needs to be 'saved' - the earth has the ability to fix itself. We can only push the pendulum so far in one direction before it swings back to knock us out. We're just bacteria in a petri dish that will start dying back as soon as we're living in too much of our own shit.
I think most people could use a healthy dose of the realisation that we're lucky to be here at all, and as the present is all that we have, we should make sure we're getting some enjoyment out of it. Like all things, it comes down to balance - there's no point smelling the flowers whilst your house is burning down, but if you're spending all your time stocking up on fire extinguishers you'll be overrun by weeds.
And the prize for World's Clumsiest Metaphor goes to...
===
Actually, you win the prize for the World's Most Unwise Choice Of Life Partner.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:54:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:47:25 (#)
Ranking: 0
These people actually worked their whole lives in their particular fields.
-------------------------
Edison perfected the incandesent lightbulb at age 32 despite having no formal education whatsoever.
Einstein wrote the Special Theory of Relativity at age 26 despite being a hoodlum at school and teaching himself euclidian geometry.
Adam Smith was in his middle to late 20s when he first began expounding his laisse faire economic theory. Again, in case you missed it the first time around, he was NOT trained in economics. He was a philosophy student and lecturer.
Anything else?
===
They still WORKED you stupid idiot! "90% of success is showing up" ~ Woody Allen
What do YOU do? You surf the web and you already convinced yourself that you're superior to everybody. WOW! SURELY YOU WILL SPARK A WORLD-WIDE REVOLUTION!
Quit implying that you're a genius on the rise. You're a fucking deadbeat.
Submitted by jimmiss (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:53:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
ETS:
My argument was against Indoninja's assertion that a person can't be an expert in a field of study without a formal education in that field.
I think I have successfully disproven that.
---------------------------------
Read: I'm an expert.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:51:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
http://www.ubersite.com/m/86315#1920602 -- apparently you ignored this? seriously, you're taking a few people out of BILLIONS!! know what the odds are? PROBABLY AROUND THE SAME ODDS THAT A TINY, MINISCULE FRACTION OF DATA CAN BE EXTRAPOLATED OVER BILLIONS OF YEARS!!! weeee!!! and you still haven't answered a few of my questions...
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:51:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by jimmiss (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:44:42 (#)
Ranking: -1
Dude, I agree with lots of what you say. But you are a bit much.
No, you don't need a formal education to be an expert.
BUT... Your not an expert, and neigther am I. None of this information is new to me but that sure doesn't make me an expert.
BUT... You don't need to be an 'expert' to understand this sort of stuff.
------------------
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
*calms down*
That's EXACTLY my point. THANK YOU.... I guess.
Thank you for failing to understand the difference between defending yourself against what SOMEONE ELSE had said, and espousing the idea yourself.
Submitted by jimmiss (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:50:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I think the fundamental divide between right and left when it comes down to most things, is right wing people are more optimistic. Maybe that's good, maybe it's bad.
Left wing people say I'm right wing, and right wing people call me a hippie. I think that the environment is in terrible danger, and I think the US is acting like a bully. (Intentional or not). But I think they should build a wall between the states and mexico, and that hiring and illegal immigrant should warrant jail time. Etc. Who am I?
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:50:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by MistressFist (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:27:01 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 14:46:31 (#)
Ranking: -2
===
It's easy to have ideals when you live in the richest nation on Earth.
=============
you totally don't get it. this isn't about money or living in a rich country.
===
Yes, I get it. You didn't invent anything here, just about everybody on this planet imagined this better world you described already. But it's easy to speak of ideals when you're on a full stomach, under a roof, with more luxury than you'll ever need and with virtually no threat to your security.
You and I may have time to think about these paradize scenarios but the majority of people on this planet, poor people, act on survival instinct.
You speak of love and compassion...I suggest you get started with sympathy and humility first.
It's easy to have a solution for everything when you speak only from your narrow view point. Ask ETS, he's good at that.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:47:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
These people actually worked their whole lives in their particular fields.
-------------------------
Edison perfected the incandesent lightbulb at age 32 despite having no formal education whatsoever.
Einstein wrote the Special Theory of Relativity at age 26 despite being a hoodlum at school and teaching himself euclidian geometry.
Adam Smith was in his middle to late 20s when he first began expounding his laisse faire economic theory. Again, in case you missed it the first time around, he was NOT trained in economics. He was a philosophy student and lecturer.
Anything else?
Submitted by jimmiss (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:47:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I don't mean to say it will 'ruin anything'. But the US still doesn't like it very much, it's a sign of the times. At the very least its unprecedented.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:46:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm not sure the world needs to be 'saved' - the earth has the ability to fix itself. We can only push the pendulum so far in one direction before it swings back to knock us out. We're just bacteria in a petri dish that will start dying back as soon as we're living in too much of our own shit.
I think most people could use a healthy dose of the realisation that we're lucky to be here at all, and as the present is all that we have, we should make sure we're getting some enjoyment out of it. Like all things, it comes down to balance - there's no point smelling the flowers whilst your house is burning down, but if you're spending all your time stocking up on fire extinguishers you'll be overrun by weeds.
And the prize for World's Clumsiest Metaphor goes to...
Submitted by jimmiss (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:44:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:05:00 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:01:29 (#)
Ranking: -2
Bradley Linzy woke up at 30 years old, realizing that there was more to life than pot and Kurt Cobain and now he thinks he sees himself as a fucking milestone in mankind's history.
I can't believe he just compared himself to Franklin, Einstein or Lennon and whatnot...all men with tremendous talent and of course, the ability to live outside their parent's basement.
---------------------
I didn't compare myself to them, you just did.
My argument was against Indoninja's assertion that a person can't be an expert in a field of study without a formal education in that field.
I think I have successfully disproven that.
---------------------------------------
---------------------------------------
Dude, I agree with lots of what you say. But you are a bit much.
No, you don't need a formal education to be an expert.
BUT... Your not an expert, and neigther am I. None of this information is new to me but that sure doesn't make me an expert.
BUT... You don't need to be an 'expert' to understand this sort of stuff.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:44:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by jimmiss (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:42:26 (#)
Ranking: 2
How does acknowleding global warming make you left wing? Also, if selling oil in euros is no big deal, then why does the goverment keep freaking out about it?
-----------------
Where is the Govt freaking out about it?
Where is a reputable economist saying it will ruin the US?
People don't pay for billions of $ worth of oil in cash, it is electronic, adding a conversition to the price will probably be the biggest impact.
Submitted by jimmiss (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:42:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
How does acknowleding global warming make you left wing? Also, if selling oil in euros is no big deal, then why does the goverment keep freaking out about it?
Submitted by MistressFist (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:27:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 14:46:31 (#)
Ranking: -2
===
It's easy to have ideals when you live in the richest nation on Earth.
=============
you totally don't get it. this isn't about money or living in a rich country.
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:19:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:03:00 (#)
Ranking: 0
And judging by that goofy fuck in YOUR picture, I guess that puts you in the three to four year range.
PS: You are an idiot. Your arguments are one dimensional and they lack substance in ALL respects. One only need read my arguments and compare them to your two-sentence nuggets of pure, crusty, petrified dogshit to see who's the fucking idiot here.
----------------------------------------
hey jessica, how about we calm down for just a second here, okay? what picture are you talking about, and what's your obsession with me being three to four years old? if that was the case i'd probably be the smartest three year old on the planet, based on my superior typing skills alone!!
p.s. i know i'm an idiot, i've never said i wasn't. actually, if you read a lot of my posts (which i know you've done recently because you -2ed them), you'd see that in the majority of them i credit myself with being a self-proclaimed idiot. and yes, i think almost everyone that has read your arguments versus mine would agree that yours are longer. although, yours are often times filled with quotes or *facts* (and wow do i use that term loosely) and links to worthless websites, whereas my replies often simply ask you a question that you fail to be able to understand. oh, and there are times where i simply reply to you with common sense answers.. actually, that seems to happen a lot...
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:10:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:05:00 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:01:29 (#)
Ranking: -2
Bradley Linzy woke up at 30 years old, realizing that there was more to life than pot and Kurt Cobain and now he thinks he sees himself as a fucking milestone in mankind's history.
I can't believe he just compared himself to Franklin, Einstein or Lennon and whatnot...all men with tremendous talent and of course, the ability to live outside their parent's basement.
---------------------
I didn't compare myself to them, you just did.
My argument was against Indoninja's assertion that a person can't be an expert in a field of study without a formal education in that field.
I think I have successfully disproven that.
===
You did compare yourself. Besides, how many times have you called yourself a "genius"?!
These people actually worked their whole lives in their particular fields. You just skim the Internet in your basement and desperatly try to convince strangers that you're superior to them. So no, you're no expert...you're just a fucking loser.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:06:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:01:29 (#)
Ranking: -2
Bradley Linzy woke up at 30 years old, realizing that there was more to life than pot and Kurt Cobain and now he thinks he sees himself as a fucking milestone in mankind's history.
I can't believe he just compared himself to Franklin, Einstein or Lennon and whatnot...all men with tremendous talent and of course, the ability to live outside their parent's basement.
I am more and more convinced that his brain stopped thinking at 15 years old.
----------------
Actually I think he was calling Liu a genius, and himself the messenger.
I wish I was a genius so I could sell ads on late night TV about my get rich quick schemes.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:05:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 14:55:15 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 14:51:15 (#)
Ranking: 0
John Lennon - NO FORMAL MUSICAL EDUCATION.
Paul McCartney - NO FORMAL MUSICAL EDUCATION. "[My musical education] was very bad," says Paul McCartney. "I don't think the teacher was interested remotely."
===
Popular music and science aren't exactly the same thing.
----------------
Then how about...
Johann Sebastian Bach...
You might have heard of him.
He's the genius whose theories form the basis for virtually ALL modern western music.
NO FORMAL MUSICAL EDUCATION.
I think my other examples should be quite fucking sufficient in the science and mathematics realm without further elaboration; however, if you would like more examples where formal education and genius have not crossed paths, I would gladly oblige.
(This could go on for a while, just so you know.)
===
But you're none of these people Bradley. You're not talented at anything. Adn even if you were, you wouldn't use it. You're just a delusional loser who convinced himself that he's superior. I don't know how many times we're gonna have to tell you.
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:05:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-04-06 13:34:19 (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 02:16:22 (#)
Ranking: 0
Just passed 300,000 hits by the way. I'll be on MVA by next week.
This is why this douchebag is fighting with everyone, which makes this entire debacle even sadder.
----------
Is this really news to anyone? I thought everyone already knew this.
I see it like this, of course it's really pathetic and stupid and sure it only makes him look more insane. However, if his one goal in life is to compete with other internet geeks who will never know or care to know him for the title of the most popular geek on a fucking website that doesn't matter in real life(yes ETS, that's all the MVA list is), who are we to crush his dreams?
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:05:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:01:29 (#)
Ranking: -2
Bradley Linzy woke up at 30 years old, realizing that there was more to life than pot and Kurt Cobain and now he thinks he sees himself as a fucking milestone in mankind's history.
I can't believe he just compared himself to Franklin, Einstein or Lennon and whatnot...all men with tremendous talent and of course, the ability to live outside their parent's basement.
---------------------
I didn't compare myself to them, you just did.
My argument was against Indoninja's assertion that a person can't be an expert in a field of study without a formal education in that field.
I think I have successfully disproven that.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-04-06 15:04:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-04-06 14:48:44 (#)
Ranking: 0
What the fuck does a weather observatory on Mauna Loa have to do with the accuracy of Greenhouse gas models going back hundreds of thousands of years?
-----------------
SEE!!! You're so fucking stupid you don't know how to read a goddamn BAR GRAPH.
-------------------------------
I know how to read it you dumb fuck, what the hell does it have to do with anything? Does what they are seeing on Mauna LAu in any fucking corroborate what they are saying happened tens of thousands of years ago?
Maybe I missd t