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Quote from: Pwnzerfaust on April 25, 2010, 10:12:05 pm

Quote from: cowofdoom78963 on April 25, 2010, 10:09:14 pm

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He did illegal drugs. Illegal. Against the law. Wrong. Understand yet?

I dont think doing illegal drugs is wrong. The law is wrong.

I do however think doing harm to others is wrong. He was doing no harm to anyone.

Good god you're naïve. Do you have any concept whatsoever of the crimes associated with the drug trade? The robbery by addicts trying to score some money to get a fix? The murder by dealers and users who are trying to knock off competition, or just go nuts from their drug usage? Do you have any idea at all?

Yeah I do, but this guy never robbed or murdered anyone. You cant associate him with things he did not do. He is innocent.

But if he's on illegal drugs, he's breaking the law. Laws which are there because people sometimes do that because of the drugs.

I'm confused, how do these kids in their apartment way up off the street know the guy is on illegal drugs and not just mentally compromised or drunk? How do any of us know he was on illegal drugs? It looks to me like people are making him out to be a social menace in order to justify enjoying his torment.

I don't think he would have been arrested if he wasn't under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Quote from: Pwnzerfaust on April 25, 2010, 09:05:08 pm

Because you'd rather see a potentially dangerous criminal on the streets than pranksters.

Whatever man. As far as Im concerned he hasn't done anything wrong.

He did illegal drugs. Illegal. Against the law. Wrong. Understand yet?

Quote from: Jackrabbit on April 25, 2010, 09:50:57 pm

As much as I hate it in general, Cow, they are right. If he's off his head on drugs then he needs to be picked up by the cops before he does harm.

I still dont think so. He has done no harm and should not be persecuted. I dont care what he's on.

Anyone can do harm, this is just profiling.

Profiling? HE DID ILLEGAL DRUGS! What is so hard to understand?

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So you'd rather have some drug-addled junkie out on the street, where he can do harm to himself or others?

I would rather have that junkie on the street then those kids.

Your priorities are amusing.

I think we have one perpetual motion device; It's called the Universe

Not really, no. Eventually everything will run out of potential energy and nothing more will happen. So it's not perpetual.

I mean, while perpetual energy is theoretically possible, it would simply be a system with 100% energy efficiency that produces its own reactants. Everything produced would be used and there would be no loss. As such, it would be completely useless for power as that would require removing energy from the system. I mean, all perpetual energy would be useful for would be as a desk lamp or something. Maybe a really weird desk object for some bigshot CEO. Of course, we'd have to stick a lightbulb in it so we could see what was going on as it would need to vent NO energy at all... maybe it could be a mystery opaque box labeled "perpetual" or something humorous. Wouldn't be useful, except maybe as a paperweight.

Even a desklamp wouldn't work. What do you think light is? Photons emitted by heated substances. How are they heated? Electrical current. The very act of producing light causes a loss in energy in the system. So there needs to be a continuous input into the system, as from the electrical system of the house, which in turn gets it from the wider electrical grid, which in turn gets it from the power plants, which in turn get it from the burning of fossil fuels.

The problem really is getting a self-sustaining fusion reaction that generates more energy out than energy put into it. Figure that out, and we're set for well beyond the lifetime of the sun.

It's possible to do it already, but there are technical limitations which prevent it from being commercialized at present. One experiment which shows promise is the National Ignition Facility in California. It shoots a couple hundred lasers at a hydrogen pellet, raising its temperature to levels normally seen only in the cores of stars. The problem, however, is maintaining the lasers. As you may guess, such powerful lasers generate a lot of heat, and that damages the lasers themselves, and the lenses and mirrors that focus and reflect them. So the problem now is (1) figuring out how to reduce wear and tear and (2) making it possible to shoot the lasers dozens of times an hour in order to put out constant energy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality

This link discusses it in very simple terms, and I think that when you distance the term 'spirituality' from 'religion', you will realize that it's probably something you value.

I just don't like the word "spirituality", myself. Its connotation seems too religious for me to label myself as spiritual.

Quote from: Dwarf on April 24, 2010, 06:12:39 pm

Well, if you're starving and your life is a general pile of crap, why believe in God then? He clearly gave a shit about you.

That's the whole point: You may suffer momentarily, but the meek shall inherit the earth, and you will live for eternity in bliss. Having such a "pension" to look forward to may make your misery more bearable.

I think it's something of a cop-out. If you convince yourself that you've got something waiting for you after you die, it almost seems like an exemption from trying to improve your conditions. And trying to convince people to just "accept Jesus and all will be fine after you die" seems not only dishonest but irresponsible in that sense. It seems it would do so much more for the person if you gave them practical advice on how to improve their life's conditions, rather than some unsubstantial religious fluff.

Yeah, I'm fairly certain there was a thread on this earlier, but for some reason Search seems to not be working.

Anyway, pretty awesome indeed. Never had Fun like that.