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Reply to Margaritas in Misc JoeUser Forums

Jamie, you're my type of guy. I too have my Margarita in hand as I write this. I don't like beer myself, but I love margaritas!

Reply to Steve Irwin Crocodile Man in Current Events JoeUser Forums

AR-15 - pretty hard to argue against the pictures.

Reply to People Watching in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I go to New York regularly, lots of fat people there too. Don't take my word for it though, there are obesity stats for every state in the United States. Michigan, btw, is one of the worst for obsesity and New York, for a northern state, is pretty good but still has its share.

Reply to 15 Common topics debated on the Internet in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Superpsych, there are obviously exceptions to any generalization. But college students tend to be the worse at debating because they seem to believe they are inherently more intelligent than others and hence not bound by any sort of need to do any fact checking or research on a given topic. In fact, often times you can't even get college aged debaters to even be specific about the assertions they make. Instead, you end up with a bunch of hyper-generalized assertions (if you think gener

Reply to Don't misunderstand the American character in Politics JoeUser Forums

I agree totally.

Reply to Steve Irwin Crocodile Man in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Steve isn't putting on a show? You're kidding right? Woha, the rationalization involved. You know, I wonder how the reaction would be if it were George W. Bush doing the same thing. I can't help but think that the same people would be calling for his head.

Reply to More Stupid People! in Current Events JoeUser Forums

One big reason why people can seem stupid is that some people seem inclined to make sweeping statements with nothing to back it up. In some cases I'd be satisfied with them simply being specific . When someone wants to start bitching about the United States would it really be so hard for them to actally be specific about why they think the US is so bad rather than stating it broadly? instead of someone snidely saying "You know, maybe the US should think

Reply to Don't misunderstand the American character in Politics JoeUser Forums

psychx: How people should behave is quite different than how they will behave. We can either close our eyes and wish really really hard that people will change the way they have been for thousands of years while armegedan closes in. Or we can recognize human nature and try to strive towards realistic solutions. In this case, the solution relies on the Islamists to recognize that they will not solve their problems by attempting to mass murder A

Reply to Many Reasons Why I'm Attractive in Blogging JoeUser Forums

For me, as a former BBS sysop and a now a "blog master" I have always found ti particularly interesting to see people talk about their personal views on issues. As for my particular interest, it's purely nosey, I'm taken already.

Reply to Steve Irwin Crocodile Man in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Mary: Please explain why one would need to put their 1 month old child feet away from a crocodile?

Reply to Stupid people in Current Events JoeUser Forums

In all honesty, i have strongly formulated opinions, not because of everyone else - as you can probably see, i am really against the common trend... I am actually quite a learned young lad on the matter, i just cant remember dates and numbers off the top of my head. Calling someone ignorant is not an argument... I would agree that

Reply to Stupid people in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Dont worry damouse... the feeling is mutual. we think you are stupid as well. If you think that 9/11 was just because of US pressence in the M.E you are very naive. You never cease to amuse me, Muggaz. Why not let us in on the secret then of why 9/11 happened. What? Cosmic karma? No one is saying that the US military presence was the sole

Reply to Progressive American Axioms for the Future in Politics JoeUser Forums

By what right does the government decide what is the proper amount someone should make? I thought this was a free country.

Reply to Don't misunderstand the American character in Politics JoeUser Forums

Brad is correct to say that the standard human response is 'an eye for an eye'. But Brad to use your analogy, 'Billy kicks Joe and then hides, and so Joe beats all Billy's friends, all his neighbours, all his family, and everyone with the name Billy.' This is what the America is about. They can't attack the terrorists directly so they go after anyone they eve

Reply to Don't misunderstand the American character in Politics JoeUser Forums

Let me boil things down: 1) I patronize people who make statements I know to be wrong. It is hard to respect people who have put little effort into actually learning the histories in which they talk about. I mean, sheesh, now we have people regurgitating nonsense from the democratic underground and elsewhere about how the CIA put Saddam in power. Please. When in doubt, blame the CIA. 2)I've spent most of my adult life debating history and politics on various forums. It's clear

Reply to Youth and melodrama is worse than it may be remembered in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Lunaticus: Information is not the same as wisdom. When it comes to the gathering of wisdom there is no substitute for time.

Reply to Youth and melodrama is worse than it may be remembered in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I was raised by a single mother. My dad left us when I was 4.

Youth and melodrama is worse than it may be remembered in Blogging JoeUser Forums

They didn't have blogs back when I was 18. Back when I was 18 (14 years ago), I had a BBS but that wasn't the same. But I kept a journal. Unfortunately. A journal is the same as a diary. Except guys don't keep diaries so we call them journals. It's about marketing. This past week I went back and read my journal which took place between the age of 17 to 20. I remembered how melodramatic life seemed back then. But until I re-read my journal I had no idea just how bad it was. Wh

Reply to Americans are humans in Politics JoeUser Forums

Well said Mason. And that's what I've seen here. Almost everyone who writes anti-American dribble is hard pressed to actually articulate a good reason for their rants. You end up with "America invaded Iraq for its oil" and other such nonsense. I suspect that most of these people are unaware that the United States is the world's largest oil producer. Oil, while vital, is simply not valuable enough to actually conquer a country for it.

Reply to Don't misunderstand the American character in Politics JoeUser Forums

What is this finger pointing you refer to? My entire article boils down to this: Based on history, if action X happens, response Y is very likely. It is naive for people to believe that some response Z will happen based on basic human behavior over the centuries. You don't like the idea that response Y would happen. You can either argue that response Y isn't likely to happen or you can complain that response Y shouldn't happen. You have chosen to argue that th

Reply to Is there alien intelligent life in the universe? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

The complexity of things are still limited by real world ecomorph issues. Ants and other "super organisms" still are limited by their ecomorph. Even if they had intelligence, they would still be unable (as far as I can tell, obviously if we want to just throw up our arms and say "Well there could be really alien life forms out there that we just can't imagine" then we might as well stop now and assume that there are crystaline based life forms or whatever) to build machines with movin

Reply to Americans are humans in Politics JoeUser Forums

Well not just religious freedom. But rather we wanted to create a country in which the people were in charge. Where we were free to live our lives however we wished without the government having the power to "Rule" us. We would invest what powers we felt the government needed to funtion and nothing more. The federal government ultimately does what the people of the United States want it to. The war on terror is something that the people of the United States not just want but dem

Reply to Steve Irwin Crocodile Man in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Having a 1 month old baby close to a croc is pretty poor judgement and totally unnecessary.

Reply to Don't misunderstand the American character in Politics JoeUser Forums

What is your problem? Seriously, if you could only see that this happens because of people like you who sincerly beleive that what is right for you and your compatriots must be right for everyone else in the world... I dont really care for all of your little numbers and statistics, my major gripe is with your 'we dont care, but we are going to make life hell for you if

Reply to Many Reasons Why I'm Attractive in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Actually on second thought I think her article is dead on. The title is "reasons why I'm attractive ". She is listing qualities about herself that she believes makes her attractive.