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Banned for not giving me a decent reason to ban you other than your post being a prime number (2943).

Misplaced Priorities? in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

So we can find a gene responsible for hair loss , but with all the billions of dollars pouring into the world's research facilites we can't seem to isolate the gene(s) for prostate and breast cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and hundreds of other fatal diseases? And yes, I understand the entire concept of one discovery leads to another to a seemingly unrelated discovery, etc, etc, etc, but it still PISSES ME OF

Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Banned for not realizing that mine was the first one pointed out to be large. And for not realizing that space, size, and time are all relative, though perhaps not related.

Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Banned for having a prejudical attitude towards 90's toys. And the Magick 8-Ball is not dead! Long live the Magick 8-ball! "Magick 8-Ball are you dead?" *shake* *shake* "Yes" "Noooooooo.......say it ain't so!" CURSE YOU FILTHY DRENGIN!!!! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!.....

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Banned for being able to be forced to answer "yes" when clearly you wanted to answer "no", or "maybe", or "try again". In fact, you're banned for trying to imitate a magic 8-ball. :)

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Banned for being able to eat waffles when I can't.

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Banned for getting way to serious with this game. :(

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Banned for too easily agreeing to ban people for questionably bannable offences.

Reply to Call Me Cowboy One More Time in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote who="MasonM"]Nothing better than a friendly local saloon. I have been sitting here at the bar knitting on the sweater I've been working on and have several local cowboys and cowgirls ask about it, compliment the work, and so forth. Nice folks. One lady did ask me if I was "gay or something" but I just responded by offering to give her a roll in the hay if she was looking for such. Actually, my exact words were "No, and I'd be happy to f-ck you right here, drop yer

Reply to Preloaded Anti-virus sucks in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" comment="1"]PC manufacturers often strike deals for software which requires them to pre-load software. I hate it too, I wiped my PC when I got it and clean installed XP, but it's the way things are. And what's wrong with SpaceBalls? Maybe the power of the Schwartz was a bit weak but it was worth it for the Barf gag...[/quote] It isn't actually the pre-installed AV that bothers me, it's the fact that it is (usually) only a 90-day license and oft

Preloaded Anti-virus sucks in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Arrgh. Having just dealt with yet another PC which had a preloaded 90-day trial AV when they bought it - three years ago -, I had to vent. DELL, HP/COMPAQ, SONY, pretty much everybody who does this, I hate you. You both suck and blow. Like Megamaid. Go watch SpaceBalls. :) I doubt that 3 in 10 people actually go buy the AV package (assuming they understand that the need

Reply to The irony of 'human rights' in Politics Stardock Forums

@Leauki Really? So theoritically speaking, what are rights? Is there even such a thing as a "right" in the context of that which is deserved by any individual representative of a species? Also, is ANY discussion pointless if someone's thought and thinking can be sharpened or challenged? It may be pointless for you perhaps, but to call it pointless as a general blanket statement strikes me as a tad arrogant. Who are you to judge what conversation another person considers pointful

Reply to Civil marriage is a flawed premise in Marriage Stardock Forums

[quote who="Leauki" comment="9"]So here we go. The original form of marriage was a civil marriage (i.e. a marriage ceremony with no religious officials involved) and the church wedding was invented by the Catholic Church in the 1600s. Protestants, who I understand are strong in American history, insisted on civil marriage.[/quote] Thank you Leauki. This clarifies and corrects some of my reasoning and some of my statements, but I think reinforces my basic argument that the entire p

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[quote who="AldericJourdain" comment="3"]2. I'm amused that you skipped over part of my reply.[/quote] Well partly because I'm not sure that your first statement is true but I haven't chewed it over enough to make an argument yet. It makes some basic assumptions about rights that are really fundamentally sociological/cultural issues as opposed to rights. After all what is a 'right' ?

Reply to Civil marriage is a flawed premise in Marriage Stardock Forums

[quote who="AldericJourdain" comment="1"]Also, if we accept marriage to be a religious institution then we would have to ask ourselves the question: Whose religion gets to define marriage? There are by now, millions of religions in the world - which one gets to be the basis for what marriage should be.[/quote] That's the point I'm trying to make though. By eliminating the entire concept of marriage as a civil function, the only civil part become the legal contractual portion, and remov

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[quote who="Leauki" comment="2"]Incidentally, am I correct in assuming that the person who told you that Darwinism does not allow for human rights was NOT, in fact, a Darwinist?[/quote] That wasn't what he said, that was what I said. Darwinistic evolutionary theory totally invalidates the very concept of human rights. Look up the meaning of 'right' as a noun. 'Right' is an arbitrary semantic invention with no grounding in any objective reality. Under the entire concept of

The irony of 'human rights' in Politics JoeUser Forums

I had a conversation the other day which lead me down a long train of thought I won't bore you with, but it ended here: Isn't it ironic that so many proponents of "human rights" are Darwinists? Ironic in the sense that under a strict Darwinism or Evolutionary Humanism, there can be no such thing as "human rights". Am I the only one to see irony in this? [e digicons]o_O[/e]

Civil marriage is a flawed premise in Marriage JoeUser Forums

I see in this whole debate a fundamentally flawed assumption that few seem to be willing to address. This assumption is (I believe) actually the core problem and there is a simple solution – which means that it will probably never get addressed. Granted the solution isn’t without its own flaws, but it is probably better than the morass of laws and lawsuits we are heading int

Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

Banned for not having a fist under your beard. Wait...banned because your avatar doesn't even HAVE a beard. Or a fist. BRING ME A SHRUBBERY!

Reply to Oh for the day's of OS/2 in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote who="psychoak" comment="9"] The real question to ask is how shitty OS/2 would be today if they were still around. Companies have a habit of degrading in quality. I doubt OS/2 today would be the clean system it was then.[/quote] Good point. The virtue of a highly competitive enviornment is that it does force one to be 'leaner and meaner', but once the leanest and meanest wins out, they tend to get a bit flabby. :) [

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Banned for uttering an entirely incoherent ban.

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Oh for the day's of OS/2 in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

As I look at the RC of Windows 7, I have to wonder (longingly) where - no how - did IBM screw up so badly? I'm not just talking about the loss of their OS/2 user base (which they screwed over), but all the smaller developers that invested so much into OS/2, which was the most stable PC OS platform (except for AmigaOS) for its time, with application segmentation that is still not even approached by Windows. And Win32s wasn't such a bad API. Really...it wasn't. Honest. :) <p

Satellite TV sales people in Humor JoeUser Forums

So explain this to me: Why is it SO hard for cable and satellite TV resellers to understand that WE DON'T HAVE TV AND DON'T WANT IT? Sheesh. My wife and I went to a home and garden show looking at some plants this weekend, and one of the vendors there was Direct TV. As we were passing by one of the guys asked us if we had TV, so we responded, "Nope, we don't have TV." Talk about a deer in the headlights. I followed that up with "Well we used to have Direct TV, but got ri

Reply to Mormon Church Fire Accompanied by Gay Rights Photo in US Domestic Stardock Forums

Curiously enough, that seems to be washington post specific layout. I checked a couple other sites, and while the article is identical (AP Wire), the photo captionioning on most of the actually relates to the fire.