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10 Things That Are Insignificant, Yet Very Annoying
omg I think I just accidentally hid some of my own comment by using greater than or less than signs. won’t do it again. Just wanted to say I make no comments on Miley, cos… well, enough people do, don’t really need to xD and none on midterms, because… I’m pretty sure it’s an American word
Comment Posted By Prince On November 12, 2009 @ 1:47 pm
Yea, discussing politics with someone stubborn is WAY hard. I always tell myself not to bother but sometimes it’s just too annoying hearing someone say something clearly biased…
LOL I’m totally with you on Swine flu and the economy. The fuss over swine flu was way too much, and I get the feeling that effort should have been put into helping inform the people who are seriously at risk! You know? lol, and you’d think the ‘economic cycle’ wasn’t a continuous thing that’s been for who knows how long…
Comment Posted By Prince On November 12, 2009 @ 1:44 pm
10 Things That Could Better Society
Holy cow I didn’t know it was /that/ long. My bad.
Comment Posted By Prince On November 9, 2009 @ 11:11 am
lol, you’re both right in many ways. Seriously, I went off on one a bit there, so I’m actually pretty sorry for that. I was pretty bored at the time (I’m 200 miles away from home with little to do for a week…) and the way you seemed to be playing off a sort of 50 year old view of the old copper kind of irritated me. Anyway, this being the internet, I hope you don’t hold a grudge too bad and perhaps you won’t be upset if I continue to reply? There are sarcastic undertones but somehow it seems shadow him/herself seems to have taken it best, but oh well. Can I just say, to both of you, you do realise I agree about the religion thing, right? I’m just trying to be fair. I mean, even if you find it annoying, do you really find someone who’s a volunteer doing something they’re passionate about trying to share happiness with others… more annoying than someone who’s being paid to try and sell you and a hundred other people something you don’t want, for the benefit of a company with little to no accountable morals? I’m just saying, there are far worse evils, it doesn’t really help anyone to pick on the people who’re putting their heart out.
Uhm first thing I was thinking is about the police… I don’t really get why you’re hung up about police boxes? They don’t really use them anymore… and naw it wasn’t particularly ignorance, it’s hard to be ignorant of something when it was on the news for the better part of a decade, but yep I was pretty much playing to a counter stereotype. Like I said, this was the one that offended me most, largely because a lot of people seem to think the American police is so many worlds ahead of the English, even though they’re pretty much cut from the same cloth.
I think shadow got the idea with the shields… thieves could grab stuff and then walk away, all the while safe from the police. For the food, you caught me there! My bad. You know it was a typing error because nobody would underestimate the US population to exactly 0.1%. However I still doubt that it would pay for itself ever, let alone this type of machine in particular. Sure, it was a rough idea, but if there was to be a centralised solution I imagine it would be much wiser investing in bigger sources of food production and greater economies of scale. If they were to go so far as one per country, or even region, the savings would be unthinkable. Oh, and not to mention that the main work is surely not in the theorising or even in the machine, but in the actual process, much like the cost of operating the CERN LHC, teleporting atoms, or simulating invisbility cloaks.
Again, I side with you on this one, I was just trying to make a point. Punching someone trying to help you, no matter how much you may disagree with their opinion, is a bit over the top. This eighth point though, I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree with you both on, even though it will likely invoke some fire! I’m not defending this group of stereotypical girls for any particular reason, but I believe in being fair to all, and I really don’t think these people deserve the kind of scorn you’re giving them (much like the passionate religious). Okay I get it, you think it doesn’t represent them, and they don’t have a right. But facebook statuses aren’t the emblem you put on your family crest, nor are they the name you give your house. Facebook statuses went to hell a long time ago. They’re whimsical, fleeting. They’re more often than not applied by impulse, and more often than not completely ignored. If you have these girls on your list (why?), you’re free to ignore them, comment to them, or even delete them. I would suggest the latter as you seem to loathe them. Let them say what they like. School them if you feel the need. If you’re lucky you’ll change things. Nothing changes by ranting in private.
The space elevator is perhaps my last real antagonising point. I’m sorry but I don’t agree with either of your views- distorted because it’s hardly ‘dreaming’ when the idea is over a hundred years old (and it’s still not even possible let alone feasible), and shadow because, well, it’s just not a viable future for our lifetimes. the fact that the most greedy company in the world and the most money-wasting organisation in the world are both working on it really means nothing… heck, you didn’t even say NASA’s working on it, the competitions you mention are really more like school fairs in comparison to the kind of money a project like this would take. Realistically, even when the materials for the tethers are strong enough to hold (your department, by the sounds of it), they’ll be far too easy to break- stable strength is entirely different from the strength to withstand everything than can be thrown at it (and boy, there sure are a lot of things). One little occasion not prepared well enough for and boom, mil/billions of dollars will just collapse like that.
Last of all, and this is finishing on a somewhat lighter note (good, it better be after all that typing!), it was just because of the way you said knowledge and understanding. Omniscience would no doubt allow you ‘force will’ as you pleased anyway, but I just felt you were missing the word. I’m sure you would much rather have omniscience than omnipotence anyway. Yes distorted I know I typed the wrong word there, thanks for reminding us -_- but seriously, read it again if you don’t believe me, I wasn’t mocking him I wouldn’t even say I was correcting him like you’ve done, I was just putting the intended word (’the word you were looking for’) in. Because you see, other than the mistaken word, I pretty much get the sentence. Though you seem to understimate the potential of the three named ‘omnis’. Depending on what you believe the limits of the universe to be, omniscience is by far the most powerful, followed by omnipresence, and then omnipotence. Heck, if you want to count benevolence as one of the four, you could even say that’s actually the most powerful, though I suppose that’s a different matter.
distorted’s last comment was a bit rude and I’m not exactly sure why they felt the need (I feel it was a bit unnecessary…) but I guess I shouldn’t complain, my first comment was kinda rude in parts. SO yea, hope you guys/gals/guy+gal/gal+guy/both+one/etc (lol I’m just playing) reply without being too offended, ttyl.
-p.s. sorry for this comment being so much longer, guess I got kinda carried away, but didn’t wanna ignore any of your points…..
Comment Posted By Prince On November 9, 2009 @ 11:11 am
I know you’re going to dislike me and you’re probably going to say ‘it was a joke, now I’ll punch you in the face’, but I’m still offended by some of the ignorance in this. I tried to find one of your points that was relevant or meaningful but unfortunately there were none. First of all, (2) British police do have sidearms, they just don’t tend to shoot everything that so much as gives them a bad look/looks middle eastern, so I guess you wouldn’t have heard about it. I have to say this is what caused me to read on. Secondly, (4) if there were such shields, how do you expect the robbers to be stopped? (5) Not only would these ‘machines’ cost much more energy than they were worth, but this so called crisis is really no such thing. There are over 300 thousand people in the US, and less than a million in Africa, rich and poor alike. If all they need is a dollar a day, it would take next to nothing to save them. One less drink a day, one less meal a week, one less game a season. There is no ‘crisis’ when the people who can help stand by and do nothing. (7) I have one of those, it’s called choice. (8) Did you grow up ‘in the ghetto’? They’re lyrics, not a dying monologue; they were meant to be enjoyed by others. (9) Gundam 00 is fiction. It doesn’t take much effort to research how impractical this is. You can’t believe something you saw on sci-fi is your new idea to change the world… most scientists know what they’re doing, and it’s not that. Finally (10), omnipotent means all powerful, the ‘all knowing’ word you are looking for is omniscience. Even if you don’t know the Latin roots, the words potent and science should make it pretty obvious…
Comment Posted By Prince On November 8, 2009 @ 11:08 am