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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 22, 2014, 12:06:14 am »
Quote from: Dutchling on March 21, 2014, 11:50:42 pm
Well, it's a fandom about how cute she is, so talking about policy, history, qualifications, future plans, or other things wouldn't really be relevant.
The hell you say. Competency gets my motor running more than ba-dong-a-dong any day. Not that the latter hurts, mind.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 21, 2014, 08:10:25 pm »
Holy hell putin photoshopped with a body pillow.

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General Discussion / Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« on: March 21, 2014, 05:37:21 pm »
Also known as a representative democracy, yes.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 21, 2014, 05:06:12 pm »
The future is one of awe, splendor, and pastry dong necessitated ventriloquism.

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General Discussion / Re: [!!PIZZA!!] CAN YOU GUESS WHAT, ITS A MYSTERY (happy thread?!)
« on: March 21, 2014, 04:50:11 pm »
Mecha > Minion Murder.

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General Discussion / Re: [!!PIZZA!!] CAN YOU GUESS WHAT, ITS A MYSTERY (happy thread?!)
« on: March 21, 2014, 04:40:28 pm »
Over in the food thread, yes.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 21, 2014, 04:29:26 pm »
I hear you can do interesting things with cornflour these days.

Alternately, some variation of dickerdoodle. People might even accept sweet phallus being lobbed at them, in that case.

Totes honesty, if I managed to catch a gingersnap cock thrown at me, I'd eat it. Probably instantly.

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General Discussion / Re: UR's Post-USSR politics megathread
« on: March 21, 2014, 04:05:52 pm »
Quote from: Guardian G.I. on March 21, 2014, 03:48:25 pm
I don't think the book was translated into English. No one in the West would like to read a Russian book of questionable quality with them being the bad guys.
You'd... be pretty wrong, there. There wouldn't be the largest of markets for it, but it would exist. I would almost guarantee you there's been some of that stuff translated and sold in western markets already, if you dig hard enough. There'd be stuff sold untranslated, too. Plenty of folks in the west that would love to see some western nations getting shin-kicked.

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General Discussion / Re: UR's Post-USSR politics megathread
« on: March 21, 2014, 11:48:21 am »
Quote from: Sergarr on March 21, 2014, 11:25:39 am
Quote from: Ukrainian Ranger on March 21, 2014, 11:22:01 am
Russia is nothing but a very large gas station with nuclear missiles
Somehow I think you underestimate Russia. Very well, the more you underestimate us, the bigger the surprise will be.
Fixed that quote for you... and with that done, is it an underestimation? Basically every discussion in this thread involving Russian power projection so far, from either side, has hinged on its gas production or nuclear capability, and... basically nothing else. Hell, the whole reason being given for the EU not just saying FU to Russia and cutting everything off has been the gas dependency. Just about the only reason I've been seeing for hesitance in military intervention has been the worry Putin's willing to drop the nuke. Insofar as discussion here has been concerned, it's very much sounded like summarizing Russia as a large gas station with nukes is... fairly accurate.

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General Discussion / Re: Eye for an Eye punishment
« on: March 21, 2014, 10:07:53 am »
Quote from: Zangi on March 21, 2014, 09:54:30 am
@Crimes of Passion, maybe if we removed the ability to love or make society much more accepting of 'sharing' their loved ones.
... crimes of passion cover considerably more than stuff related to love/jealousy, etc. S'pretty much anything in which emotion significantly impacts reasoning capability, to the point the act wouldn't have occurred without the emotional state. You'd have to remove all emotion, basically.

Also not something that really gets past a court very often, though it may occasionally result in reduced sentencing. Still, despite it rarely messing with conviction or sentencing, it's still a major source of criminal activity. S'just the courts rarely give a hoot. Least that's how I understand the state of things t'be over here in the states...

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General Discussion / Re: Eye for an Eye punishment
« on: March 21, 2014, 08:24:28 am »
Quote from: Tawarochir on March 21, 2014, 08:03:01 am
Not that I agree (I don't), but this guy I know thinks crime rates would drop severely if punishment for all crimes was execution.

Thoughts?
Heh. I remember a little story in a larger story I read, a while back. Went something like this:
Quote from: The Open Door, chapter 60
There is a parable where I come from, about a minister who decided that since people fear death then if execution is made the punishment for lesser crimes then imagine the compliance against greater crimes! Unfortunately this then leads to the following situation. A platoon of troops has been delayed due to unforeseen circumstance and their captain asks his men 'What is the penalty for being late?' to which they all reply, 'Death'. He then asks 'And what is the penalty for rebellion?' to which they reply 'Death'. The captain then says, 'Gentlemen, we are late.'

My thoughts (beyond those on deterrence in general, which I voiced earlier in the thread)? You'd have less crime, but only because you would rapidly have no nation for crime to occur within.

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General Discussion / Re: Eye for an Eye punishment
« on: March 21, 2014, 01:57:37 am »
Hrnnnoooo. There are crimes that occur by letting the state of things remain unchanged. Stuff related to criminal neglect particularly, if my memory's not failing me. Relatively rare stuff, but not unknown.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: March 21, 2014, 01:20:38 am »
Sulfur poisoning for everyone, yaay!

I'm guessing burning sulfur gives off poisonous fumes, anyway. It almost certainly has an incredible stench...

That said, I can only guess doing to lava what's been done to evil biome weather is both possible and a thing of great awesome. Forget just sulfur, let it potentially be molten anything. Or at least molten rock of some sort.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Reflex Edition
« on: March 21, 2014, 12:48:05 am »
22,870,451,818 wouldn't exactly be the most helpful thing in the world, either. It's not even divisible by seven! Or doesn't end up with a whole number, anyway. But you wouldn't know that unless you actually divided it by seven (or, well, used some other heuristic for determining if something's divisible by seven), or ran through the process quite a few more times.

... point being, it's maybe helpful with (much) smaller stuff*, but seems like it doesn't take very long before it stops being a time saver. Unless there's something more to it?

*And, being fair, that might be just what C needs, if C's just working with multiplication table stuff. I still use the finger method pretty regularly for multiples of nine up to 90, m'self.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: March 21, 2014, 12:08:59 am »
Nap tends to help me, yeah.

Though... consistent and long-term stress can cause stuff like this to onset, even if it's rather low key at any one time. Persistent stress really isn't good for our heads, sometimes even worse than occasional or regular spikes of rather severe stress. We kinda' need regular downtime to stay at peak health, so to speak.

Doesn't mean that is the cause -- or that there's even a singular cause, or that work-related stress in your case is one of several causes -- but don't dismiss it as a potential contributing or causal factor just because it's been pervasive in the past without effect. Just because it wasn't then, doesn't mean it isn't now.

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