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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 291/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| *thumbs down* I concur with most of the opinions already stated. My primary complaint, though, is that your layout lacks direction. It looks as though you just randomly added "stuff" (animated GIFs, marquees, gratuitous AB rank/posts/etc counters) to the layout until you decided it was "done"... there's no direction, no goal, no cohesion (beyond having a general "Sonic" theme). It's one giant orgy of "look what I just learned how to do!!1".
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 292/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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Originally posted by HGanonOriginally posted by windwaker Celibacy is unnatural as well. After all, humans have a libido (sex drive) and that is natural (God-given, if you want to view it that way): it is natural to want to have sex. Yet we are taught to suppress that, especially by the Christian Right. You cannot invoke nature if you do so only when it supports your position ("same-sex relationships are unnatural and therefore bad") and dismiss it when it does not ("you ought to be celibate despite celibacy being unnatural"). (Note: I'm not saying "celibacy is bad".) (edited by Vystrix Nexoth on 04-02-05 10:37 PM) |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 293/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| Of course, whether or not any religion consents to same-sex relationships and/or marriage can be debated ad infinitum, but it's a moot point in the context of civil marriage. Allow me to explain. See, there are two (count 'em, two) institutions which are referred to as "marriage". Though they have the same name, they are separate things. I refer, of course, to religious marriage and civil marriage. A religious marriage depends on the religion. To use Catholicism as an example, a catholic marriage is a relationship between a Man, a Woman, and God, and is recognized by and performed under the auspices of the Catholic Church. The State has (or should have) no interest nor jurisdiction in these matters. A civil marriage is recognized by and performed by, and under the auspices of, the State (e.g. the United States). This is a relationship between two consenting and qualified adults, and the State, and confers benefits such as visitation rights, joint custody of children, and so on. The Church has (or should have) no interest nor jurisdiction in these matters. These types of marriage are (or at least ought to be) wholly independent of one another: you can get a Religious Marriage without a corresponding Civil Marriage, or vice-versa, or, as usually happens, both. Religious marriage is (or should be) outside the jurisdiction of the State, and conversely, Civil marriage is (or should be) outside the jurisdiction of the Church. Now, what does this all mean? It means that if the Church doesn't want to recognize same-sex relationships or permit same-sex couples to marry, that's OK. The State has (or should have) no say in that matter. The State only has jurisdiction in Civil marriage, where I think it ought to allow for same-sex civil marriage; not "civil union", but civil marriage. And, again, I don't think the State should impose same-sex marriage upon any religion against its will, and will speak out if it attempts to do so. Now, whether the church ought to adopt same-sex religious marriage can be debated ad infinitum, and for religious same-sex couples who wish to get married, they'll have to come to terms with that on their own (note that Christianity is not the only religion; there are religions |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 294/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| Make the edit box larger, or even better, allow the user to specify how large they want that box (since people have different screen resolution + window size + font size combinations). Oftentimes I wind up exceeding the width of the edit box if I add a link to a long URI, which fucks with the text scrolling as I continue to type stuff into the box. Another advantage of having the user specify the size would be to make them more cohesive; as it is, the box varies in size between making a new post/thread and editing an existing post, etc. |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 295/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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Originally posted by XkeeperNow, now. If it wasn't Firefox he had switched to, I don't think you would have responded. We might be riding on the Firefox bandwagon |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 296/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| Jesper: not to mention that Opera is commercial software. Xkeeper: I agree, the premise of the thread was rather pointless. |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 297/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| ||bass: 111GB? that's nothing. a real man, one with a large penis, would measure his swap space— let alone the actual storage partition(s)— in petabytes. any loser who measures their hard drive space in gigabytes has a small penis, is a virgin, and is probably gay. (edited by Vystrix Nexoth on 04-08-05 11:35 AM) |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 298/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| so far the only one I've tried (besides the occasional fling with Knoppix) is Slackware 10.0, which I chose because it struck me as a "generic" distro, i.e. without some distro-specific distrubution/upgrade system like RedHat/Debian/Gentoo/etc. Plus, Slackware 10 had just come out at the time when I was looking for a distro, so I had a go with it. Been using it since. | |||
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 299/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| FreeDOS: I recognize the difference between "commercial" (making money off it) and "proprietary" (keeping things secretive). I believe I used the correct term. Which leads me to... Jesper: I take no issue with the Opera development team making money off it. The trouble is that it's not a browser where someone can get the full version, legitimately, without paying money. Not everyone has the means or desire to pay money. This, coupled with the fact that there are a host of other browsers (very good ones too) one can get for free (many with source code available if desired), would hinder widespread adoption of Opera. It's not a show-stopper, but it would slow it down more than if the same browser were free. (And yes, I do realize that it may well not be the same browser if the development team weren't being paid.) |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 300/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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I can't help but wonder if ||bass realizes that not everyone does things requiring hundreds of gigabytes of disk space.zerosoul@zeromachine:~$ df -h(/dev/hdb1 = ~384MB swap. and yes, I realize I could do with a more elaborate partitioning scheme) 0.158 GB free space on my main partition; a little under half a gig on the windows partition. And that's quite sufficient for most of the stuff I do. Not everyone deals in lossless DVD rips or other such things. (edited by Vystrix Nexoth on 04-10-05 06:54 AM) |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 301/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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Originally posted by FreeDOSYeah, I know what you mean. When I got this hard drive (/dev/hdb, cf. my last post), it said "10GB", though it turns out it's actually 9.3GB (the .3 serves as swap space).  |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 302/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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Originally posted by BladesPerhaps the latter can join Washington and Oregon (and parts of northern California) to form The Republic of Cascadia. Glorious Revolution! *raises fist* |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 303/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| As it stands, the United States does not have a de-jure official language, though obviously English is the de-facto official language. What would be the implications and relative merits of making English the official language of the U.S.? Such an action would not "outlaw" or otherwise suppress other langugaes, it would just mandate that legislation, etc be conducted in the English language. Immigrants and others who don't speak English would be expected to learn the language in order to deal with the "outside world", but would of course be free to speak in any language they wish for private purposes (for example, they could speak Spanish in their household, but be expected to speak English, or have a translator, if they go to the local supermarket). To me, this makes sense, and it's virtually how things are already: many languages are spoken here, but all things revolve around one common language, and not knowing that language would put someone far behind if they wish to live here. However, this view could, understandably, be interpreted to be exclusionary or anglo-centric or anti-immigrants or whatever; to which I would respond that many countries have official languages (including neighboring Mexico (Spanish) and Canada (English and French)), and in fact the U.S. is unusual in that it does not. Not having made English an official language to begin with is, I think, just an oversight; as it is, English is the de-facto official language, so is there really any compelling reason to change from English de-facto to English de-jure, other than for its own sake, or as a gesture of exclusion of others? Discuss. |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 304/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| Keikonium: to my knowledge, he draws all these things in MS Paint. | |||
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 305/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| While Benedict XVI's diehard conservativeness will have little to no affect on me personally, it will have a strong effect on places such as third-world countries, what with e.g. John Paul II's anti-contraception stances and such, which I'm sure Benedict XVI will continue. Oh well. Pity; I was hoping for a younger, more liberal Pope. At least with such a conservative Pope, he's older so he's not going to be The Man for as long as John Paul II was. I was reading some of the stuff Ratzinger was saying about Moral Relativism and such (prior to the commencement of the Conclave)... let's just say I disagree with President Bush's assessment of Benedict XVI as a "man of great wisdom and knowledge". For starters, he doesn't seem to know what Moral Relativism is; he seems to be under the impression that it's tantamount to conformity, and is inherently egotistical, rather than being a view that, basically, "right" and "wrong" depend on one's point of view, and to be a relativist is not to exclude oneself from this definition. How is that "egotistical"? And believing that not everyone holds the same opinion as yourself does not preclude having your own opinions. The irony of Benedict XVI's assessment of Relativism is that I consider it an apt description of his views. Perhaps he does know what Moral Relativism is, and his problem is not that he misunderstands it, but that he understands that it challenges the assumption that his views are universally correct, and fears that (and/or rejects it as folly/blasphemy/bad) and so speaks against it. *shrugs* I |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 306/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| I'm neither left-handed nor right-handed, so I put "both". However, I'm not ambidextrous; some things I do left-handed, some things I do right-handed. I'm not sure what the dividing line is, though it seems more arm-oriented things I do right-handed, and more hand- or finger-oriented things I do left-handed. There are exceptions, though. For example, I would dribble a basketball, swing a bat, shoot a gun, throw a punch, etc., right-handed; however, I write (and thus draw), use kitchen utensils, etc., left-handed. The primary exception to the above rule is with using a computer mouse, which I do right-handed. Also, about the only activity I can think of at which I even come close to being ambidextrous is with holding a cigarette, which I can do with either hand, though I generally prefer my left. So I guess I'm bidextrous.  |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 307/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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Originally posted by blackhole89Sinistra, actually, from which "Sinister" derived: Wikipedia article on left-handedness. |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 308/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| They're already underway and there isn't even a thread about it yet? For shame! That said, things seem to be gearing up for a Heat–Pistons showdown in the Eastern Conference Finals; if the Heat are anything like the Lakers were last year, though, then Shaq's gonna need to stock up on those icy-hot sleeves*. As for the West, I think the Suns are a fairly safe bet, though the Nuggets should put on a good show; should be fun to watch, at least. I'm guessing the Finals will have the Suns against either the Heat or Pistons; the Pistons, as they very competently demonstrated last year, are more team-oriented, whereas it seems the Suns are somewhat dependent on Steve Nash (at least, so it went in Game 1 against the Grizzlies; the Grizzlies were catching up when Nash was on the bench, and suddenly fell behind when he was not)... a Suns–Pistons Finals series could prove interesting in that regard. I'm not as familiar with the Heat, though if the Lakers were any indication, the show is pretty much lead by O'Neal, so a Suns–Heat matchup may wind up a clash of personalities. But even then, O'Neal is a power player whereas Nash works best in assisting the other players. My cherished Trailblazers are, once again, just too damn good for the Playoffs (boo), and this time around, so are the Lakers (yay), so it's pretty much an open field for me this time around vis- |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 309/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| My conception of religions in general can be summed up with the following statement: "God is Santa Claus for adults." When our children grow up, we teach them of such things as Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and so on; we do this so they feel as though they understand the world, and that they have friends out there. We also teach them of such things as the Bogeyman, as a scare tactic to keep them in line when they're not inclined to listen to reason (being children and all). When they grow up and start to get a grasp on what the world is like, they are weaned from their fairy tales... they learn that it is not Santa Claus that puts the presents under the christmas tree, but rather their parents/siblings/etc; it is not the Tooth Fairy that exchanges their missing tooth for a coin, but their parents; that there is no Bogeyman waiting to eat them if they misbehave. They come to an understanding of how things work, since they're growing up and are more capable of rational thought. But there is one fairy tale that is usually not dispelled when they grow up. In fact, they are encouraged to cling to it, to not grow out of it, and then, when they have children of their own, the propogate this fairy tale. Unlike Santa Claus, or the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy, or the Bogeyman, whom children are eventually told do not exist, they are told that God does exist. It is such a simple yet profound tale, to which people cling so tenaciously: why, if I'm good to others, I'll get to live up in the sky with castles and mansions and no pain and worry and and and and... but if I'm bad I go to Hell for eternal torment! God is Santa Claus for adults. Satan is the Bogeyman for adults. That's my view of religion itself. The reason why I don't join them in believing it is, because, I know that that's not how the world works. I have no hope for a bright future, nor fear of miserable torment, after I die. I know that this, right here and now, is it; there's nothing after this life, because this is life. That must sound quite depressing to those who disagree with me, but I assure you it's not. Religious people exert considerable effort in using their life to prepare for the "next" life. We atheists are spared that effort.  Bottom line: I can't believe in God for the same reason an adult can't believe in Santa Claus. |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 310/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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Originally posted by Emperor ZiffatineI offered no speculation about how it started, only on how it is perpetuated. |
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