Prometheus98876
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Random Person # 42 : "Well, what if you are *wrong* and there is a God? You are going to roast in Hell then? Can you afford to take that chance?" Me : "Well if there is some other God that will put you in some other place like Hell, just because you believe in God? Can you afford to take that chance" Random Person #42 : "That is absurd!" Me : "Yes, you are right, your claim is absurd. I am glad you noticed." [ Conversation ends with opponent looking indignant ]
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I have more respect for the Mafia than the Occupy [Places] movement. The Mafia do not pretend to be champions of virtue and humanity in quite such a deceptive and offensive way. When they fuck you over, they are honest about it, they admit to fucking you over. They dont pretend to be doing it to save mankind. Given they are not spreading around a virulent ideological plague, they are also about a billion times less destructive.
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Agreed. Though of course I do not agree with the workings of organized crime, I do see where you're coming from. Your statement also applies to most politicians insofar as I am concerned. They, too, can be much worse than the mob.
I believe the national debt has now reached fifteen trillion dollars?
But the politicians can't be the only ones to blame for all this. We can also blame the apathetic American citizens who do not understand how their government i...
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"You know, there is something [wonderful ] about a man that can lick his own back...". Yeah, except its not wonderful, its really creepy and you are insane if you find this appealing. This has got to be...one of the most disturbingly idiotic movie lines ever.
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my last message is to be ignored. I NEVER fail to log off when I use university computers, or tell it to save passwords automatically. The last message was (barring FB deciding I told it to save my password anyway), a hack.
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its ok to admit a mistake
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Look, I learn how to track mosquitoes in my Calc 2 class : Question 2. [8 marks] Suppose that a mosquito flies with acceleration given by a(t) = ( 2 sin t) i + (2 cos t) k at time t. Its initial velocity is v(0) = 2i + 5j. (a) Find the velocity of the mosquito at time t. (
Determine the total distance traveled by the mosquito from t = 0 to t = pi. How useful...
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Oh, I didn't know that I can solve calculus II stuff. (a) One should integrate the acceleration for t and add v(0) instead of the constant; (
Simply distance of the two points in the double integral according to Pythagoras' Theorem and with no requirement to consider the constant.But maybe it is the mosquito which gives me inspiration: once it attempts to string me I will take it easy and derive its position. P,S., as I squash it and it collapses to the ground, is that an asym...
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What do you calll unoriginal calculus work? Derivative. Why did the dyslexic priest hate trigonometry? Cos the priest had read that trig was a whole load of sine.
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Not even I got that last one
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Unfortunately for all the progress Objectivism has made : It still has a long way to go in many "circles". At least in terms of people having the slightest ability to understand anything Ayn Rand has written. Too many people seem to read it and walk away without a CLUE as to what any of it really means. I suppose the modern education system and its multilation of brains would do that.
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You're awesome.
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anyone else here tried to use Avast antivirus on Win 7 these days? SEems to cause a lot of issues (especially on x64), or is it must on my system?
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I have been using Avast with win 7 x64 for quiet a while now with no particular issues.
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I wonder what would be easier : Making the current generation of politicians think or building intelligent and rational androids from scratch and having them take over? The politicians often make me wonder if the the latter is not easier.
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Exactly the same: impossible. I mean, aren't politicians androids at all?
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"There is nothing more enthralling, exhilirating, and cathartic than the organic, exuberant, effervescent behaviors that are released when you are thoroughly conditioned into public apathy. There is a whimsical joy in walking up to a complete stranger and speaking seriously to them: "I have something very important to tell you: Dave Chappelle is the granddaughter of Jesus Christ"." - WTH? I do not even know what exactly this suggests, but I am deeply disturbed by it.
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Lol.
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"Les Miserables is not about the policeman, it is about Jean Valjean : The victim of a monstrous injustice, a man that helps people, makes enormous sacrifices." *rolls eyes*
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A real quote: "The Fountainhead is a novel about a man who follows his truth even at the cost of self-sacrifice."
I got a better idea:
Howard Roark: Follows his own heart no matter what.
Peter Keating: Greedy, selfish, Jewish capitalist.
Ellsworth Toohey: Supposedly altruist, but it's just fiction. Represents the fact that USSR was called "communist" but it isn't really.
Dominique: Oh, she's pretty neat, I guess.
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The Universe is a boundless source of wonder - and Man can stretch forth into Space in order to know it all. What greater testament to the power of science do you need to see?
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What's on your mind? What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan
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There are no "unknowable truths" - only that which has yet to be revealed by future minds.
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All the intelligence in the world does one no good if they do not know how to use it - this is where philosophy comes in. And why so many smart people often say such foolish things.
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Mathematics is the science of measurement - not the algebraic description of wild fancy.
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LOVES nuclear power. Shame his country has an almost total ban on nuclear technology though.
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Almost ironic. I googled "using motion to measure motion" and it returned the wiki entry on "Parallax" which I just noticed on the dust jacket of the book in your picture.
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Ayn Rand said that there were Galts in her day. The fact that today so many of my friends are celebrating her birthday with such exaltation proves that there still are. If there are to be any in the future then good philosophy must triumph before it is forgotten.
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if what "economists" do today is still economics, then I shall henceforth start referring to Attila the Hun, as though he was an economist.
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thinks that Square Enix should be more honest with the marketing for their next Final Fantasy game. "Yet another generic party of emos goes on another cliche quest against monsters that look like random bits of things glued together. Also we pointlessly change the rules, just for the sake of variety. Also, it is far from the final."
