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Originally posted by Lira Let's say that without the almighty ctrl+alt+del, I wouldn't be able to write this post after seeing that map

You know, there's a better way. The right way. Try installing a different operating system. Try installing a real operating system, rather than a buggy messy bunch of half-tested programs with more interdependencies than a human body. My system certainly slowed down a lot (I only have 256MB on this laptop), but it didn't falter and all the programs I was running kept running. After I closed the window with the monster map, everything ran fast again. No reboot necessary.

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Originally posted by Dervish Cos I'm at uni in Edinburgh but from Wick (8000 ppl I think actually) which is there. I just wanted to be the furthest north UKTA and screw up the map If we had a big map and genral locations for people it might work. I found a massive map on the net, maybe too big actually, dunno what it'll look like yet but I might try to mock one up. Might be a bitch getting everyones "exact" location. Monster Map Supose it's high enough res to add people, then scale down when used for viewing?

Eh, and it's still too small for Croatia to be properly named, there's only a small number above it

Hell, now that I'm looking at it, it's like almost every other country has been named wrong, and some weren't named at all. It's Albania, ffs, not Albany. And Diego GarCia. And LaoS...

And for some reason the Bosphorus strait has been labeled as a pretty solid landmass...

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So yesterday I once again had my philosophical course about "Human Rights, Democracy and Peace Keeping Measures". Now this course is one of the dozens of courses you take volunatirly in addition to the compulsory subjects on the law faculty. People form all kinds of faculties are welcome, too. I don't know if this is an exclusively Austrian phenomenen but there's a gigantic difference between the eloquence/vocabulary and general way of thinking of the Law students and the ones form the anthroplogist/philosophy/psychology/pol sci. faculaties. I tried to follow the debates yesterday but at one point I realized i'm witness to a classic "emperor's new clothes" example. Everybody was talking at cross-purposes and the whole class nodded understandingly. Maybe i'm already brainwashed by thos evil Lawyers but I guess i cannot accept vague, duffude and totally abstract argument anymore. It seems like each speaker wanted to get rid of some yet unheard super-long expressions with the counterpart repsponding with an equally confsuing statement which didn't match the first one at all, yet "sounded" like an appropiate answer.

A: "The thesis that human rights as they were declared in the 1948 charta are a Western fabrication, based on the European concept of an Indivdualist human,and is therefore not universally applicable, is wrong, considering Individualism is not a mere Western philosophical concept but a factual result of the dynamic process of Globalization. Therefore the culuture-relativst thesis that denies universal application fails to see the pragmatic necessity of Human Rights as an adequate answer to Individualism as product of MODERNIZATION."

Okay, I just realized i forgot the exact continuation of this debate, probably cause it lead nowehre, but i'll leave this statement nevertheless cause it made some sense at least.

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Originally posted by trancaholic I have a better idea: Seeing how great you are at boasting about your wealth, why don't you just get here ahead of your family? I'm sure paying for a hotel room in NYC for a week would be easily overcome for someone who's so rich

haha, well, YFU wouldnt let me

If you have no idea what im talking about, then it is the nazi exchange organisation that i talked about earlier in this thread, donno if you read about it tho.

I didnt want to drag up old threads again so ill post this here, Spain is to lead the way in Europe with a bill to allow gay marraige, the bill also allows gay couples to adopt, the Pope is obviously miffed, the head of the Vaticans Pontifical council on the family issued an appeal to all catholics in Spain.

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He said every profession linked with implementing homosexual marriages should oppose it, even if it meant losing their jobs.

Catholic values first and your families can all starve....so there..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4473001.stm

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Originally posted by trancaholic No reboot necessary.

I didn't need to reboot, I just closed Mozilla

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Originally said by Adolf Fleisch Hitler How naive can people be? Curing the COR with messy hair and philosophy?

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Originally said by Maurice Moss I came here to kick ass and drink milk... and I've just finished my milk

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Originally posted by trancaholic It's my experience that getting drunk with intelligent people can be quite terrible, if just one of them is eager to prove that he/she indeed is intelligent/more intelligent than someone/anyone else. It doesn't help if you are indifferent to other people's merits yourself (as a good liberal should be), you still have to suffer the interruptions and sermons of the arguing parties. In relation to my work at the university, I've walked out on quite a few parties because eristic (and loud) dialogue has erupted. Though maybe that's not such a big issue with people employed in more flexible environments, where excellence is recognized and can be rewarded more freely.

Hehe see it seems that people I've met off the internet (not from TA) have this expectation for me to be esoteric, introspective, etc., when all I really want to do is be drunk, stupid, and retarded. That's my normal state of mind.

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Originally posted by occrider Hehe see it seems that people I've met off the internet (not from TA) have this expectation for me to be esoteric, introspective, etc., when all I really want to do is be drunk, stupid, and retarded. That's my normal state of mind.

I believe that. After all, half your posts are pure jokes.
My statement was meant as a comment to your musings on intelligent people being more fun to drink with. In my experience the opposite can be true as well, i.e. drinking with intelligent people can be worse than drinking with average IQ more civilized people.

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Eh, and it's still too small for Croatia to be properly named, there's only a small number above it Hell, now that I'm looking at it, it's like almost every other country has been named wrong, and some weren't named at all. It's Albania, ffs, not Albany. And Diego GarCia. And LaoS... And for some reason the Bosphorus strait has been labeled as a pretty solid landmass...

And the "artic circle" has now become the "artic cirlce" apparently.

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Originally posted by Dervish And the "artic circle" has now become the "artic cirlce" apparently.

Have you thought about this map? It's a few times smaller, but it's still readable and it even has some cities on it. Correctly named, as a matter of fact!



As for those social science and philosophy people Trancegiant mentioned, yeah, they often just keep throwing around empty phrazes without any scientific/statistical/logical background. And the one who thinks up of more empty phrazes wins the debate.

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hey, I forgot where this post was and it only had arbitar on there, but somebody brought up a great point about what you think a person in the PD would look like and what they really do look like. I personally though arbitar looked like some badass schwazenager looking guy, I guess from his avatar, but was I wrong. Anyways, post your pics I'm interested. I hope renegade looks like some pimply prebubescent teenager with this awfull buzzcut.

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Originally posted by occrider Hehe see it seems that people I've met off the internet (not from TA) have this expectation for me to be esoteric, introspective, etc., when all I really want to do is be drunk, stupid, and retarded. That's my normal state of mind.

Seriously. Don't we all? Oh, wait...I just did. Me and a coworker just spent $350 on dinner for our wives! aye, make it stop!