Zierro

Watch me. Eh, not so bad. 7/10

This. Although I'm inclined to believe it has more to do with entropy than mere bad luck.

Tell her parents to go [bleep] themselves and pick her up outside her bedroom window with your Harley-Davidson.

Too many that I can't just stick to one. -There was the time when I smoked with my best friend for the first time (we smoked before, but never together) and it was a blast. We had laughing fits for minutes over who knows what. We had discussions about how 'first-person' real life was. Then we went driving around the town and I felt like the car was a bubble - like nothing else in the world was there except for us, the car, and the view out the window. It was that weird disorienting feeling you get right before you're about to dose off, but it lasted hours. Thank god our driver wasn't as much of a lightweight as us at the time. -Then there was the night I asked my current (and pretty much only) girlfriend and she said yes. It was just such a feeling of comfort and excitement knowing that when I went to school in the morning the next day, I'd have a pretty girl to meet up with and claim as my territory. -There was the time I passed a class that I was 99% sure I was going to fail. My teacher didn't really like me, and my grade was dangerously low at the end of the term. It was a shame too - I was doing perfect the first half of the Economics class. Well, he told me the only possible way I could pass his course, and graduate high school (Economics was required in order to graduate at my school) altogether, would be to get a 100% on the final exam and he even said it wasn't going to be an easy one. I never study, but this time I did nothing but ingrain every bit and piece of Economic-related knowledge mentioned throughout that term into my brain. In every one of my classes before the exam, I read over my study guides and mentally asked myself some random facts about each of the terms. I made sure not to just memorize it - but to make it a part of me. Then I took the test. I breezed through the majority of it, but I came across some questions that were never brought up in the book, class, or study guide. I used some simple deduction skills and picked what sounded like the best answer. I go back to school the next day... Turns out I missed one question, but I still managed to scrape a 60% which is passing. He didn't share my enthusiasm. Instead he scolded me about how I can't live life doing things at the last minute. But hey, procrastination didn't stop me from graduating. :wink: -Those times when my buddy and I stayed up til 9 am drinking, watching tv, listening to music, cooking our own burgers, and philosophizing. I'm at absolute peace with myself when I'm at his pad, no matter where that happens to be at the time. -Then there were all those times in Halo when the match is going to [cabbage] and we're losing by at least 10 to a team of cocky humpers, but then, as enraged as we were, my team and I make a whopping comeback - even getting in the last humps of the match. :thumbup: -Those times when my dad and my brother would stay up all night watching Pink Floyd videos and talking about politics, conspiracies, aliens, you name it. This is basically what popped my logic-cherry. -Trolling at the Mall at Millenia in Orlando. -Eating delicious dinners with my family members during Holidays. -Goofing off with my pals in high school/loathing my enemies. -Going to Disney with my friends and my girlfriend. Going to Disney with my family for the first few times when I was a child. Sorry, family. You're just not as fun in public. :-# -Waking up at my grandmother's as a kid and watching the old Cartoon Network while she made me eggs, toast, and strawberry milk. -Having little adventures in the woods when I lived up in Pennsylvania. -Staying out all night playing kickball and gradually watching every kid in the neighborhood join our game. -Learning about Pokemon for the first time in Elementary school. My friend gave me a Machop card and let me play on his Blue version to start me out. -Getting two interceptions and a touchdown in a football game at gym. I was actually quite athletic in Elementary and Middle School. -Composing music and discussing future video game projects with my brother. -Helping my friends with the paper route at 4 am, feeling nihilistic and cool at the same time. It's a strange feeling - definitely a life experience. This post is making me realize how good my life was. Thank you. Needed this. <3:

My post would come out almost exactly the same as Tripsis'. And while that specific class Ginger mentioned might not be for everybody, I do agree with his point that classes should be more relevant to today's standard of living.

I don't understand how people can skip so many driving precautions while sober, let alone actually get behind the wheel while your entire world is spinning. Truly [developmentally delayed]ed. That doesn't make it any less tragic however. I mean, the car's remains looked like a [bleep]ing piece of bacon.

Illegal drugs are technically a breach of the rules, but nowadays the moderators are laid back when it comes to pretty much any subject, just depends on the context. "SWIM IS ABOUT TO BUY X AMOUNT OF Y AT Z" would probably get you in trouble.

Don't get me wrong - once I couldn't get a single kill with the UAV missiles despite plugging their crowded com station about 10 times. But yeah, my point was that, in relativity to every other multi game, there seems to be less "WTF??? moments".

The obligatory "ur gay" but I don't recall people spreading blatant misinformation about me across the school. In fact, rumors weren't such a big thing in the schools I've went to. The main concern of my high school was hardcores picking fights with other hardcores to prove how hardcore they were.

People with RESPECT.

Finally achieved the Brigadier Rank last night - on a great match too. Asylum Squad DMR, snatched the sniper right off the bat for once, jetpacked up, headshot their sniper. After that he must have been craving some revenge because he was sniping at me for practically the rest of the match. Then I started craving some revenge so I assassinated him while he was camping in the center. The score ended at like 75-63. He got 30-5 (and 4 of those deaths were from me lol) and I got 25-15. He was a great adversary and probably would've won the match if his team weren't holding him back.

What on earth are you comparing to? It's definitely not perfect, but I've noticed far less faulty kills/should-have-been-kills in this game than in any other multiplayer FPS - even less than in Halo.

Looking forward to: Bioshock Infinite Battlefield 3 Gears of War 3 Halo 4 TLoZ: Skyward Sword I agree with the people here about how they should probably be more focused on core gameplay as opposed to bell and whistle gimmicks. Example: I thought the last Mario Kart game was horrendous in comparison to the one for N64 because I just couldn't get comfortable with the controls.

No game breaking killstreaks. Vehicles that anyone can use at any time. A spawn system that doesn't suck (most of the time, base camping doesn't count tbh). Gigantic, expanding maps. Free DLC maps if you bought the game new. Not to mention some of the greatest gun-handling ergonomics and hit detection of any other military shooter. Battlefield is the only war game I can actually get into, mainly for that reason.

Keep them alive. They can learn everything else on their own.

The reason I'm on board is because it's not just some "Come on man I just wanna smoke!" hippie crap. They are approaching this by bringing actual rational points to the public's attention: government spending, harsh sentences, underground drug trafficking and the violence resulting from it, public health, a more effective and reasonable system of regulation, and they even brought up education. :thumbup:

Apparently there is a "war on drugs" petition with over 500,000 names that will be hand-delivered to world leaders today. We call on you to end the war on drugs and the prohibition regime, and move towards a system based on decriminalisation, regulation, public health and education. This 50 year old policy has failed, fuels violent organised crime, devastates lives and is costing billions. It is time for a humane and effective approach. http://www.avaaz.org/en/end_the_war_on_drugs/?rc=fb&pv=39

Do you know how much money Bill Gates has given to charity? I'm pretty sure in terms of dollars he is one of the most generous people in the world. He'd like us to think that.

1. Adolf Hitler (genocidist) 2. Thug Behram (strangled almost 1000 people) 3. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (raped and killed little boys in a clown suit) 4. Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (stabbed women and little girls while raping them to achieve orgasms) 5. Bill Gates (scam artist with eyes set on total world control)

"Published by Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the principle correctly implies that it is impossible to simultaneously both measure the present position while "determining" the future momentum of an electron or any other particle with an arbitrary degree of accuracy and certainty. This is not a statement about researchers' ability to measure one quantity while determining the other quantity. Rather, it is a statement about the laws of physics. That is, a system cannot be defined to simultaneously measure one value while determining the future value of these pairs of quantities. The principle states that a minimum exists for the product of the uncertainties in these properties that is equal to or greater than one half of ħ the reduced Planck constant (ħ = h/2π)." If it's defined as a "principle" or "law", then it isn't very random. There are still a set of objective laws governing how the particles travel. They just happen to be unpredictable.

I'll put it this way: Just because we have not found a pattern behind a sequence of events does not necessarily make it random - it only makes it practically unpredictable from a human being's perspective. I think that if truth can exist, then reason must exist along with it as that is the prerequisite for something to be true. It's just sometimes hard for beings with such limited perception over things like the universe, molecules, biology, psychology, etc. to find the reason behind certain truths, but that doesn't mean the reasons are not objectively there, written in stone by mother nature.

That's only generally true if you're thinking on the macro-scale and apply the uncertainties that our instruments introduce, and even then that's relying on a less than 100% probability. On the atomic scale, where the real meat and physics of the reactions happen, certain quantum effects like quantum tunnelling can alter the product compositions of certain reactions fairly significantly in a way that Newtonian physics can't account for. It's not uncommon for an electron in a bond in a molecule to tunnel to the next bond over, even if it doesn't have enough energy to escape from either bond. If I wanted to take it to the relative extreme, say I put a lump of sodium in a glass of water. I know every conceivable thing about the sodium, and every conceivable thing about the water that is possible to know. I still won't know if the sodium will just fizz in the water like lumps of sodium in water have always done in the past, or if the entire lump will suddenly quantum tunnel outside of the glass, until I try it. It's human nature to say that if something has always happened before, it will always happen again forever. But the universe doesn't work like that, and that's why I don't believe in predestination. But isn't the fact that some parts of nature function "randomly" a law of nature within itself (a "non-random" occurrence)? The way I interpret the word "predestination" is merely defined as every effect in the universe having some sort of reason/cause behind it.

This. If the taunts really were acts of malice, he's just showing us that he doesn't have remorse for raping little girls. Paired with the fact that he's already proven what he's capable of, his unwavering attitude is a pretty clear indication that there's a high possibility of another rape or similar crime. I don't know about any of you, but I'd rather have the mother roaming our streets than this man.

I don't see how my post doesn't relate to your point about society's "contradictory" response towards the two crimes. Society deems the rapist's behavior monstrous because the victim was an innocent little girl - the perpetrator threatened her life and raped her just for the purpose of getting his ding dong wet. Society deems the mother's behavior heroic because the victim was a man who raped her own daughter at knifepoint, caused their family a lifetime of grief, and allegedly bragged about it - she was doing it for the purpose of teaching people not to treat her daughter like that or there will be consequences. The article even said this specific occurrence gave her mental problems for the past seven years. By the look of your oversimplified posts, it looks like the context of the crimes are just being glossed over and treated completely equal when there are some vital key differences between the two. And I'm not arguing to convince you that what she did was justified (although I personally believe so) - just to point out how dissimilar the natures of the crimes are.

But how do you know that the choice wasn't predetermined before you made it? Because I can do whatever I want.... Within nature's constraints. In this case, you were born with the argumentative gene, and thus are compelled towards debating. Or do you care to prove me wrong? ;) Really what it comes down to is that our language has flaws. Think of the word 'selfish'. Everybody acts based on what they perceive to be the best option at the time. So by this logic, there is no such thing as an unselfish act. Then what is the point of the word? Well, when you don't get technical about it, the word is commonly used to refer to those members of society with much bigger egos and self-entitlements than your average members. It's just used for convenience - not for depicting absolutes. Same could be said for the word "choice". When you think about the term too hard, the meaning just kinda gets displaced. Loosely speaking, "choosing" refers to the act of a person picking out one option over one or more other option that they deemed less pleasing. So yeah, you can say we dictate what our choices are. But at the same time, the chemicals in our brains and life situations we were born into dictate what we are.