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General Discussion / Re: What Is "Justice"?
« on: October 22, 2009, 02:59:42 pm »Typos aside, do you have a real argument, other than just to troll.
I'm sure you mean "contradicted" and "contradiction", BROJ.
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General Discussion / Re: What Is "Justice"?
« on: October 22, 2009, 02:41:54 pm »
Does justice exist in definition, and how does it mean one thing to everyone:
If it cannot be contradicted that Justice can have more than one (unique (quick def'n: inherently singular)) definition (or worse, it is undefined), does that not imply further, a contradiction of the term definition? If so, by the laws of logic, the opposite is true--Justice cannot exist, at least not definatively. And since justice is a subset of Justice, than it is a faccade of definition as well: a prevailing conjecture.
So, by substitution:
Justice (jes-tes) n: The administration of prevailing conjecture.
That is what justice means to me. It can only be viewed just collectively if, exhaustively, everyone agrees of their own volition; good luck with that one.
If it cannot be contradicted that Justice can have more than one (unique (quick def'n: inherently singular)) definition (or worse, it is undefined), does that not imply further, a contradiction of the term definition? If so, by the laws of logic, the opposite is true--Justice cannot exist, at least not definatively. And since justice is a subset of Justice, than it is a faccade of definition as well: a prevailing conjecture.
So, by substitution:
Justice (jes-tes) n: The administration of prevailing conjecture.
That is what justice means to me. It can only be viewed just collectively if, exhaustively, everyone agrees of their own volition; good luck with that one.
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General Discussion / Re: Stuff you LOVE, baby
« on: October 01, 2009, 10:00:15 pm »PATCH!! WANT LINK BROJ!!!I'll give you a few links.
Patches:
Update Patch-
PST v1.1 (4CD version ONLY)
Content Patches-
Fix Pack
Unfinished Business Pack
Tweak Pack
Widescreen Patches-
Widescreen+UI improvement
NVIDIA Patch(for graphical glitches-use only if you need it)
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General Discussion / Re: Stuff you LOVE, baby
« on: October 01, 2009, 06:42:42 pm »
Widescreen Planescape: Torment. Sexy. As. Hell... *ooh pillar*
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General Discussion / Re: Stuff you hate
« on: September 29, 2009, 11:34:04 am »
When people fail to define their terms properly(e.g. saying "that", when one really means "this") or at all(e.g. using acronyms and terms that are undefined to the layperson). It's careless at best, and rude at worst.
In mathematics, there's regulation for this kind of thing; in the world interpersonal communication, not so much. Gah!
In mathematics, there's regulation for this kind of thing; in the world interpersonal communication, not so much. Gah!
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General Discussion / Re: The $%*! frustration thread
« on: August 17, 2009, 11:58:19 pm »
Fuck torrent leeches. Like I'm going to upload to an IP who isn't going to return the favor--just slows down my download to serve those irreverent bastards.
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General Discussion / Re: The Chrono Compendium - <you fill the slogan>
« on: August 17, 2009, 10:14:43 pm »Lyrical error... phonetically it sounds like that.
A double negative? Seriously? Oh, well.
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General Discussion / Re: The Chrono Compendium - <you fill the slogan>
« on: August 17, 2009, 08:12:09 pm »
The Chrono Compendium -- You can check out any time you'd like, but you can never leave!
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General Discussion / Re: Abortion: This Should Be Fun
« on: August 17, 2009, 01:11:38 pm »Any arranged marriages that would be/have been blindly respected via the 5th commandment, I would assume....or its not cool to perform homosexual activities yet you can sell your daughter into slavery and take gods name in vain.
I'm just curious, what Christians are selling their daughters into slavery?
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]Now, apparently this topic wasn't completely run through last month, or else you wouldn't have people still arguing over it, would you?For people like you who don't know how to use the search function (let alone the tenacity to digest posts before voraciously looking for some detail therein to rebuke) you would realize otherwise if you actually did. That this even needs to be rediscussed exposes how close-minded you are. Read the fucking
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General Discussion / Re: The $%*! frustration thread
« on: August 05, 2009, 07:51:16 pm »The sad thing is that we, as a society at large, are just realizing the volatility of our insatiable hunger for distraction.As an experiment, it sadly might have worked out better than I thought. I suppose it would prove too much though, so it remains inconclusive why I achieved the desired results.
(...)
Moreover, what's with all of these new smilies? I leave for a short stint, and there's already two new ones...
Moving on, my real frustration for the
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General Discussion / Re: The $%*! frustration thread
« on: August 05, 2009, 06:10:31 pm »Yes, indeed. The sad thing is that we, as a society at large, are just realizing the volatility of our insatiable hunger for distraction. By surrounding ourselves in this fugue of information that was, for all intents and purpose, supposed to make our lives more convenient, it has caused us to become ambitionless and vane creatures obsessed with the latest gossip and entertainment just to numb us of cognitive and civic responsibility...
Fuck this. News constantly covered in this unnecessary bullshit.
Isn't it deliciously ironic that, instead of taking care of more important things, I'm posting this in a personal frustrations thread intended to bring attention unto myself, if only for a moment?
Moreover, what's with all of these new smilies? I leave for a short stint, and there's already two new ones...
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General Discussion / Re: Pictures Thread
« on: July 23, 2009, 09:16:23 pm »Why are chicks so cute? They're like kittens. I wonder what it is about the human condition that makes chicks and kittens so adorable and scorpions not so much.Humans have an evolutionary desire to be helpful. Chicks and kittens are well... ostensibly helpless; scorpions on the other hand are avoided because it is evolutionarily advantageous to do so. Keyword being evolutionary.
EDIT: This abstract touches on the former: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T48-4VVN4M7-3&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=53b70934e99712cc282893289c86d113
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General Discussion / Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« on: July 17, 2009, 01:44:47 am »I hope the joke was worth the stain you had for the few minutes you espoused a position of total ignorance, and the lingering stain of trolling.I suppose you're right ZeaLitY, sometimes my desire to have fun gets the best of me. I apologize.
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General Discussion / Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« on: July 17, 2009, 01:37:41 am »BROJ, you are not this dense. Let me start typing in binary logic:Come now ZeaLitY, if you haven't realized it by now, I'm just starting shit. But, the arson/wiki vandalism comparison wasn't very good.
1. The education of humanity is good.
2. Wikipedia editors spend time adding knowledge to Wikipedia articles that can educate humanity.
3. Vandals interfere by adding junk to or deleting parts of articles, which a) require editors to spend time fixing or b) sit unfixed in some articles, misleading readers.
4. Vandals are interfering with the education of humanity.
5. Vandalism is bad.
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General Discussion / Re: The "WTF? Check this link out!" thread!
« on: July 17, 2009, 01:27:54 am »Your point being?By your reasoning, if I went out and burned down a library, I'd be helping society.If one burns down a library, everything is lost; with wikipedia everything can be restored. That's the difference.
No.
Not necessarily, because books are printed in multiple copies; the library could be rebuilt. My example is still valid. Here, have some more:
And not really, because the two do not correlate--the only way they could is if the server holding the information is destroyed. Pure strawman argumentation.GOOD SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH RIVALRYI do not see where arson's more or less permanent damage correlates with vandalism on a wiki, which can simply be reverted.
Two scientists who met in college share the dream of discovering renewable energy from nuclear fusion. They end up at different universities and research centers, but pour their passion into their work, dead-set on succeeding before the other. Their desire to succeed and stay ahead of one another lift their efforts significantly.
BAD SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH RIVALRY
Two scientists who met in college become famous for something, but one is an arson. The one who's not has the dream of creating renewable energy from nuclear fusion, but the arsonist keeps burning down his work. His efforts are lifted and multiplied to stay ahead of the arson, but in the end, he barely gets anywhere with his research because he spends all of his time either cleaning up ashes or installing fire alarms.
Simple. Every second a Wikipedian spends backpedaling to clean up vandalism is a second they can't devote to actually writing and improving articles. This is like the broken window economic theory paraded by certain idiots in the last century, in which a boy hitting a baseball through a window was held to be a economic stimulus because it employed a window-maker, driver, shop-keeper, etc. and so on to replace the window. Keyword is replace: the parable was a fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_windowWhat? Replace!=Revert. And giving people a job isn't what I'm talking about... If vandalism happens to a stagnant page, it forces a person to go back over, even if slightly, where an error in the original information could be recognized.