Profile for Najosz Thjsza Kjras
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| Displayed name | Najosz Thjsza Kjras |
| Member number | 6388 |
| Title | Lifecrafter |
| Postcount | 794 |
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| Registered | Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 21 2007 08:22
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLiyglcRcCA Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 20 2007 13:50
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I'm afraid I don't speak any Dutch. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, November 19 2007 15:19
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5. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, November 19 2007 08:29
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quote: [ Monday, November 19, 2007 08:29: Message edited by: Najosz Thjsza Kjras ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, November 18 2007 21:08
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quote:  Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Sunday, November 18 2007 21:03
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If anyone is interested, we can resurrect Reloaded. After the beginning of December, I've got a good, solid month in which I have little to nothing better to do. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, November 17 2007 17:22
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P.S.:  Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, November 17 2007 17:14
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You people are funny. You're such raving neophiles that you ignore the one set of games you *can* do something about in favor of Nethermon (GOTTA SHAPE EM ALL) and Spiderweb's Catalogue 2: This Time Almost 3D, And For More Money. BoE is open source. If someone really wanted to they could add XFire compatibility into it themselves. But no, Heaven forbid you play a game older than a decade. You'll be the laughingstock of the sixth grade. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, November 17 2007 17:01
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Pro tip: the Deep Ones were Africans. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, November 17 2007 16:55
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quote:As a general rule, Americans prefer idle barking about how awesome the war was to actual remembrance of the military personnel's struggles. At the very most, you can get pseudo-fascist maundering about the nobility of the Troops in the Greatest Generation and similar hooah nonsense - usually from the same people who think people with PTSD need to shape up and fly right, and who support slashing funding for the VA and other such benefits. Give chickenhawks a choice, and they will talk the biggest game they can get away with about killing the enemy - but don't much care to discuss either the horrible accidents or the horrible costs inherent in war. Similarly, when people bother celebrating the two days we have for veterans, oftentimes they use them as an excuse to engage in apology for militarism or snap at whoever they feel is responsible for the US losing its unwinnable misadventure in Indochina. I'm not pro-military and I don't honestly accept the position that there's anything exceptional or inherently noble about soldiering, partially because there are more difficult careers that involve saving lives rather than ending them. On the other hand, there's no disputing that the work they do is nasty and occasionally necessary, and a strong majority of those killed in the military in a major war were there because they felt they were fighting for their country. Always be careful about high talk about noble struggles masquerading as remembrance. We've been ruled by cowardly, bellicose savages for so long that the two bleed together and it's difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins; but one is human decency and the other is its opposite. [ Saturday, November 17, 2007 16:57: Message edited by: Najosz Thjsza Kjras ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Saturday, November 17 2007 16:40
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quote:  [ Saturday, November 17, 2007 16:42: Message edited by: Najosz Thjsza Kjras ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Friday, November 16 2007 10:32
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The Arena is dead; history is over. Get used to it. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Friday, November 16 2007 04:37
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written Friday, November 16 2007 04:36
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Two more and I'll give you failures another. Jeez, guys, don't tell me you've been listening when Vogel talks. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 15 2007 18:02
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quote:Technically, most of us have a little Salmon in us. God, this place is like a prison. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 15 2007 17:59
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quote:*raises hand* Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 15 2007 01:54
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quote:Somebody's accusatory all of a sudden. :P Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 14 2007 16:03
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quote:You could, technically, say that, but to argue he's not would more or less require one be an idiot as well. Incidentally, they have bumpkins everywhere. They call 'em bogans in Australia. [ Wednesday, November 14, 2007 16:05: Message edited by: Najosz Thjsza Kjras ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 14 2007 15:56
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Not 99 Luftballoons, or 99 Red Balloons for that matter. You're at the right address, but in the wrong city. Keep guessing. [ Wednesday, November 14, 2007 15:56: Message edited by: Najosz Thjsza Kjras ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, November 12 2007 23:50
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With compliments to Babelfish; use a song title (or song-title-containing line, for instance 'Elvis ate America before America ate him' would be valid. Whoever guesses the song in question correctly gets to go next. The first one: Or the dog 90, which is problem of this highland Anh 9 thing inside but to that Hint: the last translation was through Korean. Try and ungarble that in your head and it's actually semi-obvious. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, November 12 2007 16:47
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quote:I think it was Cantonese originally, actually. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, November 12 2007 16:43
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re: the 'he shall surely die' thing: you're right there. But I'm fairly sure he was using that sort of language to justify use of the death penalty in an ideal judicial system - which is, uh, a little blasphemous, but hey. One of the more persistent habits of Protestants in general and evangelicals in specific is their coopting of random Jewish practices, and being fulsomely enthusiastic about the 'Jewish race' and so on. They call that 'philosemitism', and it's somewhat counterintuitive, but chances are fairly good it's actually at least as responsible for the Holocaust as anti-semitism. The only people in the intellectual mainstream defending the Jews from the Nazis' ridiculous propaganda didn't care about individual Jews much, but considered Jews in the aggregate some kind of theological instrument. Either which way, the Jews themselves weren't human - and they wound up being stripped of rights and murdered. It's difficult to treat someone as a human being with rights and privileges when you're thinking of them as part of a concept. If you haven't seen Rapture Ready, you definitely should. The lunatic fringe of the evangelical movement does a lot of weird things that people in a civilized society take the absence of for granted. Especially in an area like Israel politics, it's taken for granted a lot of the time by conservative Jews that evangelical support for Israel is a benign historical coincidence. And that... doesn't bear out so well, when you get right down to it. [ Monday, November 12, 2007 16:45: Message edited by: Najosz Thjsza Kjras ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, November 12 2007 15:53
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quote:I'm pretty sure the Noahide laws also nail the Hindus - I think 'polytheism' is one of those universal offenses. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, November 12 2007 11:50
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I don't generally like bumping topics, but I like that Synergy has gotten tired of pretending to know physics and medicine and has moved on to pretending to know climatology. Perhaps next he'll pretend to know economics and tell us about how welfare creates a disincentive to work and most black mothers have children so they can drive Cadillacs. Or maybe he'll pretend to know history and tell us the Holocaust was a big ol' myth perpetrated by the Elders of Zion, albeit a useful one because friendship with the world-dominating Jewish people holds the key to God's blessing. Any which way, his evidently inescapable compulsion to traduce science with his ridiculous, debased scholarship in contrarian buncombe makes him pretty entertaining. I love this guy. He's so wrong about everything of substance; it's like he couldn't be right if he wanted to. And he's ostensibly got a decade on me, which I suspect he spent landing on his head. [ Monday, November 12, 2007 11:55: Message edited by: Najosz Thjsza Kjras ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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written Monday, November 12 2007 11:45
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To add a little bit to the discussion: Mars Direct is a fairly feasible-looking, if somewhat overambitious, scheme to colonize Mars. It works by sending over an advance probe which uses the Martian atmosphere and some dry reagents to create simple rocket fuel - and sets up an unmanned fore-base; you send it over there, have it sit there for a couple of years, and then go over there with a manned probe and occupy it for a little while. Scale it up by several times and you get a fairly realistic scheme for colonizing Mars. However, there is one HUGE issue with interplanetary colonization: unless the place we're colonizing is a sunblasted hellscape in which no life could reasonably exist, we're going to contaminate it with Terran life; at best that goes a long way to arrest scientific progress on abiogenesis, and at worst it actually sets science back on the planet in question - as they say, once life emerges all potential life becomes potential food for life. Terran microorganisms, especially the most hardy ones, are going to crowd out the locals. This is bad for Mars, but absolutely prohibitive for somewhere like Europa, which has a large enough chance of native life and an environment conducive enough to terran invasion (water is easy to travel quickly through, as opposed to land and air) that exploring is almost beyond the pale, let alone colonizing. Regarding dark matter: as Jeff Rowland says, scientists proving it would be like Brokaw going on TV and telling us scientists discovered Hell was a real place and you went there after you die no matter what you do. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
