Rebdragon
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I remember you. You were such an obnoxious little [bleep] all the time.
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I'm 165 at 5'8", which is healthy. Aiming for 175 muscelwise, and around ten or ideally less than ten percent bodyfat.
You guys are young, so your metabolism is absurdly fast. You shouldn't worry about weight at your age, but when you hit college be prepared to change that. Slowed metabolism combined with abundant bad food and a lack of varsity athletics creates the Freshman 15. Hell, mine was a freshman 20, though I was putting on mostly muscle there.
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And good to see you back Reb. At least now I can put a face to the sarcastic and wise user I looked up to. :3
Ha, I'm not that old yet, don't use that evil word with me
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If you have a serious clinical speech impediment, people will probably notice. If you talk through it though it's not really an issue; people are generally very understanding/don't think much of it as an problem. Just don't stop talking because of your stutter, that's letting it get the better of you and people will notice that even more than the stutter itself..
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Meh felt like putting up a new pic, love this place
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Cars. Stop buying foreign cars and buy GM, Ford or Chrysler, they make plenty of nice cars.
My family owns four cars. All of them are Japanese. My dad was a MechE. I'm a MechE. Americans make crap cars. By German and Japanese if you want a good one.
Or you could take jobs from foreign companies that are actually good at making cars and give them to the [cabbage] companies back home.
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This is the kind of mentality that has people getting sued for 75 trillion dollars. Do you live in 1960, or in 2011?
It's not really worth it getting into detail on your little argument about the clothes shop, it's just irrelevant and preposterous. This isn't about thieving, this is about sharing, I suggest you do pick up a dictionnary if you don't understand the difference. The internet is a place to communicate and exchange information, and socialize with other people. Exchanging information isn't breaking some stupid, selfish laws, it's before anything a human necessity, unless you're an anti-social caveman.
Sharing music isn't new to the internet. People have been giving away their old CD's to friends for ages, that's also theoretically illegal. Yeah, many small things out there are theoretically illegal. Sharing video games with friends is illegal, riding a bicycle on the sidewalk is also theoretically illegal. And let's not get to the greater details such as smoking cannabis or gay marriage. And yet many people out there do those kinds of things. Just because there is a law, doesn't mean it makes sense. Many laws out there are corrupted by corporations, politics, traditions, religion. Sometimes, not even the police cares that you do such things - smart people know that we don't live in a courthouse, we live in reality. We are not machines following orders, we are humans who need to communicate and socialize.
You speak of laws, but do you even know your rights? If you have enough dignity to understand that corporation's rights end where yours begin, you should know they're stepping on your rights much more than you're stepping on theirs. They have been turning every bit of your freedom and pleasure into merchandise for more than a century. If you can't see that, I'd assume you're either naïve or just down right submissive. Do you have any dignity and will to live a free life, instead of living crushed under corporate propaganda, defending the rights of some megalomaniac moron who makes more money every month than you make in your entire life wether or not people download their music? Even assuming you prefer to live chained to massive corporations, do you think they need you to defend themselves? They wouldn't be suing people for 75 trillion if they didn't have most of the people believing that they're gods and unable to stand up for themselves. They don't care about you. Maybe you should think about your rights first and considering theirs after, before coming here and bashing on people who are defending their sharing rights. There's a clock counting your days down and when it's all over it's not like downloading a stupid song is gonna have an impact on the world.
The RIAA, VEVO & company are a bunch of greedy bastards who need to be stopped. Five years ago, you could watch a video on Youtube without getting spammed with propaganda. Nowadays it's getting ridiculous. They invade our real life, and now they invade the little world of freedom we had here, spam propaganda everywhere and take down our sharing communities.
Do you believe in the legitimacy of patents?
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As to your second point, no need exists for insane hard-left groups like socialists or a green party because Americans in general can't stand such nonsense. They exist, but they are on the crazy fringe where they belong.
See, this is why I can't believe you. You got your American Pride so far up your ass, I'm surprised you haven't left these slightly-leftist forums.
No, he's right. Americans are a far more conservative people than the populations of other developed nations. For once the ultra-far left gained control of the Democratic party, and as soon as that happened they got massacred in the Congressional elections. Americans as a whole believe in self-sufficiency and capitalism, not welfare nets and redistribution of wealth. It's why nations like Singapore and Hong Kong do so well and have such higher standards of living; the chance to make it big, "greed," fuels a strong economy.
This is not to say that the USA doesn't have it's fair share of left-sided politics. Wealth is fairly concentrated in the top 20% of society (i.e., the only part of the population that innovates, takes risks or creates), so the less wealthy section of the populations often is very much for wealth redistribution.
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The fact of the matter is that America doesn't really do a good job at representing people on the left-wing of politics, and to say that two parties and some token Independents are enough to resolve the opinions of the population is pretty insulting to Americans.
You need to have more parties to satisfy the people who think that the Democrats are too right wing, or the people who simply want to protest and demand democratic reform. Maybe people who would like a party that takes the best of the Democrat policies and the best of the Republican policies. Or a Green party, or a Socialist party, or a Communist party, or a Christian party, or a Monster Raving Loony Party (I love these guys). These things are necessary in a democracy. You need to get closer to asking everybody what they think, not whether they support Team A or Team B.
You do know that nearly the entirety of American news media is left wing right? The only right-wing media I can think of is Fox and the only true impartial one is the WSJ. Literally everything else is left.
Mhm. So where's the party/parties to match?
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Okay, barring the fact that the two-party system is extremely hard to dismantle, I don't think you got my point. Left-wing politics are not underrepresented- if you look at our last congressional elections you'll see that's definitely not true (and hey, the funs really going to start in the next one when even more seats are up for grabs). Left-wing opinion is overrepresented in the media.
Are you European? I know that America is more right than Europe (ha, a pun), so it may seem like Americas left isn't as visible.
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The fact of the matter is that America doesn't really do a good job at representing people on the left-wing of politics, and to say that two parties and some token Independents are enough to resolve the opinions of the population is pretty insulting to Americans.
You need to have more parties to satisfy the people who think that the Democrats are too right wing, or the people who simply want to protest and demand democratic reform. Maybe people who would like a party that takes the best of the Democrat policies and the best of the Republican policies. Or a Green party, or a Socialist party, or a Communist party, or a Christian party, or a Monster Raving Loony Party (I love these guys). These things are necessary in a democracy. You need to get closer to asking everybody what they think, not whether they support Team A or Team B.
You do know that nearly the entirety of American news media is left wing right? The only right-wing media I can think of is Fox and the only true impartial one is the WSJ. Literally everything else is left.
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Private sector jobs as a whole in the United States.
And let me get get this straight, I really don't feel like taking more time out of my day to look up documents for you. I read both the half-cuts fact and that article in the WSJ. If you believe me and you trust the WSJ's credibility, then hey, you learned something. If you dont, go research the comparisons for yourself. I'm not doing it for you.
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Grades matter for colleges (especially class rank for grade inflated schools), but don't sacrifice your high school years for a number. It's hard, but really try to have a good social life and good grades at the same time. It's a hard balance and generally most people make sacrifices towards one or the other (most towards the academic side), but, well, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. If you're smart high schools usually pretty easy anyways; I didn't study much at all for a lot of tests and they were generally pretty easy A's.
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Or you could just not be a [bleep] and say "source?". No, actually, be a [bleep]. That way I would actually have found a way for caring less than zero about someone's opinion, a phenomenon I once thought impossible.
I checked through the wsj.com database and couldn't find the article that stated that (I read it a week ago in the Wallstreet Journal). It was an article analyzing the benefits received by Wisconsin Union workers, their toll on the taxpayers, and how they compared to private sector benefits. If anyone else reads the WSJ, it was in there about a week ago, so if you know what I'm talking about help me out with the link please.
Edit: Found it:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703408604576164290717724956.html
I'm sorry, I meant that public sector employees receive triple what private sector employees do in benefits for every dollar that they receive in salary. And ya that $100,005 figure for teacher salaries is in their too.
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The cuts that WI wants to enact on it's public workers barely amount to half the cuts that workers in the private sector are taking.
Entitled union [kitties] need to grow the f**k up and shut the f**k up. Our budgets are heading to Greece, and this debate is one of the stupidest parts of why that's happening. Public workers aren't entitled to any more pay than private workers in these tough times. F**king children is what there people are. Christ.
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A lot of people are the same way. I used to be to a degree, and still kind of am. I just found brute forcing social interaction just kind of normalized me and others. It can be tough, but if you take the time with other people you'll feel less detached from the world emotionally and physically.
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Page 3, please stop inflating my ego.
I was never old school, but it's been a few years since I was active here, anyway. Long before the glass-eating topic, to which my sig still refers after all that time, heh.
I remember your name, vaguely. Rebdragon, Victor_Krum77, Goddess, Blue Lancer, How2PK, Ginger_Warrior and a few others I still remember as well. Have they all gone too?
Sup Sumpta, how's life?
Y'all bringing back memories with these names. Sumpta, warri0r, Zierro, Goddess, Ginger_Warrior, Satenza, magekillr... he still around? Loved that liberal loony.
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YES.
I just celebrated my 21st, pregamed with Four Loko at the frat. God, nothing about last night was good. I went for the bars for the first time, don't remember it, and got kicked out within half an hour.
Admittedly I also had 12 shots of liquor (only hit 18 drinks), but the Four Loko started the night.
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Ive been gone foeva and my name got listed. Shweet, I should do name searches more often. Epeen maxing out.
warri0r,I_Goddess_I, tripsis, Satenza, Zierro
oh, and I've always got a special place for magekillr
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Magekillr, how many hours a day do you spend going over political data and slandering articles to pass off to everyone that half of Americans are soulless morons, and that the European method, which has done so well economically, is the only right and true way?
Im pretty sure you're going to take this as some kind of avoidance of the truth or something, so I probably won't bother responding. All I can is this: wait for November.
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Fox news continues to astound and amaze me. I also remember hearing a report on how that newscaster who "didn't know what ignoramus meant," went to Columbia University. As an English major.
I also don't believe there is any reason whatsoever to question their motives in building this community center, or to question who's funding it. I can probably link just about anyone to terrorists given enough time and knowledge of a person. It's not like they'll be secretly brain washing people and turning them into terrorists, seeing how the complex is open to the public, and if you believe that is it's purpose, then you've got to be plain stupid to think that they'd be stupid enough to build it where they are, and so openly.
Oh, I just remember reading about a similar thing happening in Hamburg or somewhere. There is (or was now) a Muslim community center there that secretly was a base for terrorists in Germany. The German government bugged it for like 9 years and got a ton of information from active terrorists before they came in and shut em down.
The historical reason for questioning the motive is in Muslim history; after conquering a city they'd first build a mosque on their newly conquered land. I think that's part of why this is so sensitive an issue, even if Islam itself is not a problem. I'm not saying that this is some kind of victory building, just that a lot of the people who live near their and lost love ones might. People aren't really legally against it from the data I've seen, just having it 2 blocks away is a little close for comfort.
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I didn't mean that literally (Should have phrased it better), I mean I know how to do a good in-place (i.e. from a level jump) front flip on a trampoline, and I'm trying to learn to do it on the ground properly.
E: Sorry something went wrong with the quotes.
Ah, in that case, one thing you can do is strengthen your legs so you can jump higher. Keep doing it on the trampoline until you can do it in your sleep so you can get some rotation down. Then keep doing it on the trampoline, but don't bounce. Stand still on the trampoline, and then do a front flip. The tension on the trampoline will give you some extra bounce than you would on the ground, but not so much as you would actually bouncing, so it's a good transition. Once you can do that, try standing on the bar of the trampoline and try front flipping. BE CAREFUL. I suggest jumping forward while doing this to prevent an accident on the bar. If you're not 100% confident, then DON'T DO IT. Once you're comfortable with these, then work on the ground. I'd recommend getting a spotter while you do it. The strengthening of your legs will allow you to jump high (high enough to get a full rotation), and the rotation practice on the trampoline will allow you to rotate faster.
I've done it a few times on the ground, I can do it "in my sleep" too. Also, I've gotten rid of most of my confidence issues. Here's the problem; My trampoline has a net (Which has saved my neck more than a few times), making it impossible to do a flip into the trampoline.
Wait a minute, that doesn't add up. I can take part of it down.
Thanks for the advice people. :-) Much appreciated.
If you're doing a front flip, for the love of God, put your hand up before you do the flip. I see so many people just chuck it without full raising their arms upward prior to jumping, and sometimes it's funny and the other times it's just scary. Raise you're arms so you can actually create rotational momentum, or expect butt pains for a while.
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Aaaaaah so many liberals on this forum :0
I heard that there was an unknown source of funding for the mosque, though I haven't really cared enough about the issue to look into it. Can anyone who's investigated it thoroughly (besides magekillr) tell me wassup with that?
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Stop calling him a deluded, programmer fanatic. I think he's wrong too but that's no reason to attack him for not agreeing with you.
Think of it simply. For whatever reason, he thinks that human life starts at conception. Thus he believes that the inconvience of a human is not worth the death of another human. To him it's murder. You might not think that, but he does.
This is basically the entire pro-life stance. Why are you treating it like an alien thing? At least listen to him instead of attacking.
If you were the perfect version of yourself...
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I'd have mastered double corkscrews, box cutters, cheat 720's and hyperhooks. Frikkin stress fracture.
Other than that I'm perfect enough.