Everything posted by OldJoe
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Bono's 'One' Charity Under Fire
Hehe, this reminds me of the South Park episode with Bono. I don't trust charitys too much. And this article is a bit short, i would want more numbers and facts.
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Four Lokos
I figured someone would bring this technicality up... And there is a difference between mixing two legal drinks and making meth. I'm sorry. It's not like you're sitting here with a chemistry set making a vodka and redbull. No that's not what i mean. I brought it up as a ridiculous argument as the argument for "if this "loko" is legal why shouldn't meth be?".
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Four Lokos
So with your logic crack/meth/heroine etc. should be legalized and people should just be responsible? Oh god damn it. No they should not be legal. If you've never tried alcohol+energy drink before, why try a ready bottle? It would be better to mix vodka+energy drink on your own, since you'll know how much you've put in. Just because some [cabbage] happened to you, doesn't mean all others should pay. You could cross out energy drink and start on a crusade on alcohol, something that's caused an enormous amount of deaths and suffering, but just because it get's out of hand for some people doesn't mean we all should have to pay the price of getting the product banned. And speaking of meth, i can make it in my house by products in the store, should you ban them too?
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Four Lokos
Should not be banned. It's your own responsibility to drink responsible.
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Where have you ALWAYS wanted to go and why?
Maybe this discussion should take place in a new topic. To delete the off-topic-ness of this post, i would also like to go to Japan and do some Aikido training with them, of course i have to pick up my training first heh. A dream too, would be to meet a Japanese girl... Damn they are good looking.
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Should the Internet remain anonymous?
Flashback is not "/b/". One of the few places where you can speak my language without having mods remove your post because it's "inappropriate". Ironic, that their servers are abroad. I don't want any surveillance over the internet. You are "anonymous", unless you use something like VPN, you are still very very easy to track down. There's been suggestions that EU should introduce a censoring filter for child pornography. Great if it would be used for only that, but i fear that the governments could use it to block other servers hosting other material.
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Where have you ALWAYS wanted to go and why?
What do you mean by "work towards"? We don't really have any cities in the state that Detroit is in, but rest assured, they are working on it!
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Where have you ALWAYS wanted to go and why?
Liverpool to watch watch Liverpool - Everton. Scotland to play golf. Florence to check out the history of the city (why not catch a weekend when Fiorentina plays as well hehe?). Monaco to watch F1. The Kola peninsula to go fishing. New Zealand to go sea fishing. Hm, that's what i can think of now.
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Today...
I was early into town, so i managed to buy a new grip trainer before the store closed (CoC #1). Then i wrote a test today in a language course in school, i think it went well. Well, then i wandered to a store and bought two wool-caps and a pair of gloves. After that i jumped into another store and bought a new shirt, for the enormous price of 20€. I checked my watch and saw there was still 20min until the bus was leaving, so i crawled to the library and wanted a book about Germany's history. But my dreams were crushed, as i discovered the only history was tied to the first moustache chancellor and the second one, the only thing about Germany's history found was a 100-page chapter about 12-1800... Lame. This really annoys me, there is so much more to Germany than the wars... I guess i have to go to the university library or an internet shop if i want that. Well anyways, i settled for a book about Italian history 12-1600, which should be interesting... I tried to find a book about Firenze, but sadly didn't. Then i went home, went jogging and then lifting some weights and listened to the football game on the radio... Which didn't go well, damn Holland. Well, that's one more post to my number of posts.
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Columbus Day in the United States
Leif, not Lief.
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National Coming Out Day
Not to trivialise this, but how many of these official days are needed? There seem to be one for almost everything.
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New GPU Suggestions
Yep, will suit your needs. I don't remember which has the best warranty period, Asus or Sapphire (i think Asus has longer), so you might want to check out that before choosing.
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Thread Closed
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151094 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128451 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151188 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231180 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161338 =636$ You can obviously choose a stronger graphics card if you want to. The memory needs to be put to 8-8-8-21 in BIOS - just a note.
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Thread Closed
AMD/Intel/Nvidia all mix without shooting each other. I checked HP, and there was no proper gpu to choose from.
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The Running Thread
I sat a new personal best this week, which i'm happy about. Long story short: I started walking reguraly (4-6 days a week) in dec-jan and in june i started jogging. My first time was about [email protected]. I've been jogging twice a week since (+walking, and spinning on fridays), and steadily got lower times. This week i hit 12.25, after been around 13-13.20 for a few weeks. The negative thing is that winter is coming and it is dark at 18.30 here already. Might run off and buy one of those head lamps in a couple of weeks.
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Gay Marrige
Too controversial? This is like the 4th or 5th topic about this, this year (people can't bother to search).
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2011/12 Football Season
Nice with the first victory of the season for Everton... If i could dream i would have Landon Donovan+a striker in the January window. @Liverpool, it's not Roy, it's the squad. It just isn't good enough.
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My Opponent is a Demon Sheep
^The 68 Ferrari would be the only one which is hard to come by for the "common man".
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Graphics Card Help, Please?
You rejected the HIS 5770? Why? Every card has negative reviews, HIS is a well known and respected brand. So don't let that put you off. PSU sent back, why?
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Graphics Card Help, Please?
Link to psu thanks.
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Abortion
I won't contribute much, but i'll write as i've done in the many other abortion threads. It's your choice. If you want to have an abortion, do it, if you want to keep it, do it. But one must (and does of course) weigh in the consequences. I think however that it shouldn't be used as a contraception. I also think that if a couple has sex, and the condom breaks and the girl gets pregnant and wants to keep it. And if the man doesn't want to be a father, he shouldn't have to. Neither in love/passion/support or economic support.
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Internet Explorer 9
Looks quite nice. As i'm not a web-designer i won't complain about compatability, my beef with IE is that there's very little in the way of customization. Anyways, you can always hope it will cover a few more security holes. On the design, i don't like that big back-button, it's the same deal on firefox... I don't understand why. I hate it. I have small icons on firefox due to it.
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Does anyone else think about this?
Your post is pretty "black&white". I don't know what it's like in USA and high-school, but the equivalent would be gymnasium here. When going to gymnasium, you apply for different sorts of educations, depending on your future after gymnasium. Auto mechanic, construction worker, business, nature/biology etc etc etc. So you "weed out" the people there already. Personally i don't view it in terms of money (obviously it depends on how poor you are, if you're family is having trouble with money after paying all the bills for example), i view it in a personal preference. It's the attitude towards studying, slacking or not? A lot of what you are talking about is due to maturity, how you were brought up as a kid, what morales you were taught etc. Your motivation towards education is the key, except in the more extreme poor conditions, i don't see a real reason why your mothers&fathers salary would influence your studying. And on the comment about garbage men, the average salary is 3k here. I think this topic will be more about your post than a discussion about future.
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Vegetarianism
I don't eat meat 2 times a week. Reason? Well, to get a bit of a change in my diet. And because of some "new" slaughter methods which are appearing here, which makes it much more difficult to find a good slaughter company. I usually eat fish 1-2 times per week as well, but only select species.
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Hungry Jacks is better than McDonalds
I haven't eaten in such a place for a long time. But if i had to choose, Burger King. McDonalds have started with halal-slaughter method on chickens here, so they can go to hell.