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Male and Female Imponderables - You & Me & the Bottle Makes Three

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:02 PM

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
Perhaps the better question to ask is this: With the historical, continued technological advancement of the human race, are we equally capable of advancing ourselves socially fast enough to keep up with the pace of technology in order to preserve the best (i.e., idealized, beneficial) parts of ourselves as a species?

Sadly, I'm afraid the answer is no...

We spend so much time, money, and energy finding new and exciting ways to kill people. Instead of trying to understand people, we just hate and destroy. I feel the future is not a happy one...

Clowns to the left of me…

...Jokers to the right...

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:05 PM

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

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One where we don’t blame video games and music for violent school shootings.

Thank you for this! It really pisses me off when people have to be all like "Oh they did this and this due to all the violent media they've been exposed to," But really, everyone in our country has been exposed to the exact same stuff!!! I mean for example, just because I watch Firefly doesn't mean I want to be like Jayne or Mal and just shoot people! But some people do that stuff whether or not they watch stuff with violence, and that shows that it is a violent person, not a violent society that causes that stuff.

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people no longer truly wish to invest the time to interact with people

This really bothers me too. Some people I know talk to their friends more on Myspace or on text messaging than in person. Then there are the people who just don't try. They might study relationships of people and whatnot, but not actually have any themselves.

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The question is, will anyone read mine?

The answer is yes!
You don't have to hide!!

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:10 PM

WHITEFALL

Firstly, MSG, while I appreciate the sentament and the cliche, it's really creepy cause "this too shall pass" is exactly, word for word what my 9th grade english teacher said to me for the same basic question.

Anyways...

Video games: argh, I play them but only as a substitution for human contact. If I could hang out with people all day (which during tech rehearsals, i essentially can) I would. but alas, not so much. So it's something to do i guess, and i do find adventure games at least an entertaining storytelling medium.

technology: yeah, this is true, we're as babes in this world, but somehow I don't really care. I have the greatest respect for the simpler skills, but as people never care whats gonna happen until it does, I dont really want to learn them. I figure, in the next 50 years humanity will either destroy itself (global war over the last of oil, global warming, etc) or save itself (new forms of energy, new inventions)... and either way technology will be a factor. We'll just have to see.

And my own silly problems: Odd day I had... for one thing, the ASB stalled my Firefly Club again, but this time its my fault: they were all set for me to present, and then I didnt show up because THEY DIDNT TELL ME... apparently they give you passes back to class, not passes TO the meeting... but since the ASB is about as reliable as jumping off a cliff and expecting to fly, I'm not going to risk cutting class to be told "nope, no meeting for you"... and besides, looks like they SHOULD have sent me a message or something and they didnt. I. Hate. Beuraucracy.

And then in yonder English, the annoying guy on ASB who informed me of much of the above was on my mind, and I combined what I was thinking about A Doll's House with him, and it came out rather insulting. What followed was an exchange between myself and my teacher, and could have been pulled from any high school drama... I was covering for myself, I was avoiding what I'd felt, all for the sake of the authority structure presented in front of me. For the first time (or at least it feels like it) I really felt like I didn't belong, that this life I lead, this school stuff is stifling my existance. Which ties nicely into my comment earlier: waiting around for my life to start.

And if anyone read this inane babble, I thank you.

/rant over

"But, these strong women characters?"

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:14 PM

HELL'S KITTEN

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Originally posted by yinyang:
I read it. The question is, will anyone read mine?

::feels like going to hide, too::

YES.
And I will have to get back to it. I'm so tired now, I can barely keep my eyes open. (We could always hide together, I guess.)

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Originally posted by Penguin:
Quote:
Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
Perhaps the better question to ask is this: With the historical, continued technological advancement of the human race, are we equally capable of advancing ourselves socially fast enough to keep up with the pace of technology in order to preserve the best (i.e., idealized, beneficial) parts of ourselves as a species?
Sadly, I'm afraid the answer is no...

AAaaaand... I'm gonna have to get back to this, too, cuz, for the most part, I think I disagree.

My bed is shouting sweet nothings at me. It apparently abandoned the subtlety involved in whispering, which means, along with this particular ramble, I ought to sleep now.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:23 PM

PENGUIN

Good night HK! Sleep well up north!

*goes to bed to dream of ninjas*

Clowns to the left of me…

...Jokers to the right...

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:35 PM

YINYANG

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
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Originally posted by yinyang:
I read it. The question is, will anyone read mine?

::feels like going to hide, too::

YES.
And I will have to get back to it. I'm so tired now, I can barely keep my eyes open. (We could always hide together, I guess.)

Have fun at the nighty-night place! Get lots of deep sleep now. And may your pillow be extra soft!

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Originally posted by Whitefall:
Which ties nicely into my comment earlier: waiting around for my life to start.

And if anyone read this inane babble, I thank you.

Don't feel bad, it's not your fault, but you just reminded me of that horrible new (?) John Mayer song, "Waiting on the World to Change." Although it doesn't really apply, and I'm pretty much in the same boat as far as it goes (if school would just end so I could get on with my life!), that's what it reminded me of.

Sorry you are having difficulties with the Firefly club and the bureaucracy.

I wish there was a Firefly club at my school... but, that would involve people... meeting at lunch (the most sacred of times because it's pretty much all the social interaction I can handle for a day, give or take)...

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This really bothers me too. Some people I know talk to their friends more on Myspace or on text messaging than in person. Then there are the people who just don't try. They might study relationships of people and whatnot, but not actually have any themselves.

My locker partner stays up until ridiculous hours to talk to her boyfriend on her cell phone. They hang out, too (although they go to different schools, as long as she's still dating the same one), but...

I don't know where I'm going with this. Thank you to all who did read or will read my stumblings and such. I'm going to go eat.

Oh, and this one's for all the troubled folk:

Toodles until tomorrow's ridiculously lengthy thread!

Can you tell I'm addlepated?

Edit: And, yo homies, Nathan Fillion has buzzed in on our technology Impoderable:

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The iPhone has been announced. Jodie Foster was right, "So beautiful. Should have sent a poet." I had no idea until yesterday how empty my life has been. I am but a husk, a brittle shell of a man desitined for mediocrity and speling mistakes. I am incomplete. iPhone, (sotto) you complete me. Two megapixels? Desktop class OS? One button merge calling? Point and pick voicemail? Leave it to the Brainiac 12's at Apple to give us scolling that is reminiscent of The Price is Right's big wheel. You princes of silicon, who first brought me the gift of drag and drop, now give unto me "the pinch". Oh, Apple. You had me at "slide to unlock".

Now, I really am leaving. (Right... <.< >.>)

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:42 PM

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

G'night YinYang and HK...
I think I'll hafta be headin' off for tonight as well. See y'all tomorrow, hopefully.

EDIT: Hah, Nathan Fillion is discussing the same stuff as us....weird.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:51 PM

VERSEEXPLORER

HK, YinYang, Whitefall, Asorta, and Penguin,
I read every word. I enjoyed your comments. I am a night owl, and there are very few people that I know that are up at this time of the evening. It's nice to feel the technological connection to real people even if you are all a great distance away from me. I even feel connected to those day people that have posted earlier during the day. It doesn't replace the real life connections that I have, but it helps when they aren't awake.

I don't think technology is the problem, but it's the commercialization that tries to convince people that they have to purchase an item in order to be happy. You have some good points, YinYang.

Most of us grew up with electronic things that had only one function. We have progressed to a point where every techno item has become a Swiss army knife. We have TVs that can broadcast network and cable shows, play and record - DVDs and VCR tapes, search the net, text message, and I'm sure soon to make phone calls. We have computers that do everything that a TV, phone, tape recorder, camera, video camera can do as well as all of the computer stull. We have cars that do so many techno features that I don't think I can list all of them. Do we need an iPhone? No. Will people buy them? Yes. Why? It's the army knife of phones.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:02 PM

JPSTARGAZER

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Originally posted by asortafairytale:

Hah, Nathan Fillion is discussing the same stuff as us....weird.

Yes, I started that topic because I am secretly Nathan Fillion...okay, not really. I knew he'd get a kick out of the iPhone though because his profile on Myspace states that he loves gadgets and the iPhone fits the bill.

Well, I'm going to follow suit and go to bed. New thread tomorrow? I look forward to it.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:06 AM

JONNYQUEST

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

First thoughts before diving in (in other words I ain't read nuthin' yet but gots to get this out before I go on.):

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Originally posted by JamesTheDark:
Technology: I have rudimentary understanding of sewing, cooking, and carpentry. If (when) the Zombie Apocalypse(tm) occurs, I'm fairly sure I'll be able to survive, if not comfortably. Still, that said, out of five people asked, usually only one has all five skills at any level. We are a society utterly dependant upon technologies we have no comprehension of the workings of. It's sad, and a bit dangerous. The amount of damage an EMP explosion would cause in an urban center is almost too much to concieve. Moreover, more widescale application of the same could cause starvation on a scale never before seen in history, as (in my estimation) 80% of the current population of North America hasn't the foggiest conception on how to feed themselves if the underpinnings of their society were to suddenly give way.

Don't be afraid, HK, I've got you.

Then again...

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
(Thread Post Count: #98)

Oh and welcome YinYang to the Hopelessly Longwinded Support Group.

"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:14 AM

RIVERISMYGODDESS

mornin' Imponderables. long-ish post ahead (mostly due to quoting you shiny folk).

mornin' JQ. I was wondering where you all were today (the last post was 2 am before I got on)

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Originally posted by msg:
ooh a space ship....what I really want is a way to give each student a laptop, headphones, etc and teach each directly so they can all go at their own pace and study what interests them...now that'd be technology

That sounds like a great way to work it out, as I am sure that keeping everyone's attention when some get it and want to move on while others need more explanation/teaching isn't easy (which is why I admire you and teachers like you so much).
Georgia teachers got a raise this week, which makes me happy, as they are one of several professions that I feel are grossly underpaid.

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Originally posted by Tristan:
Now, I have to admit being a bit of an ass when it comes to cell phones. I hate the bloody things, and I think they are the reason society has become more and more rude. How many times do you see someone in line at a store, restaurant, or whatever, jabbering away and not even acknowledging the person across the counter? Yes, I realize that cell phones are important for the emergencies they can get people out of, but IMHO, that is what they should be used for.

I am with you on that one. I don't have one, and my brothers and friends laugh when they see my little pieces of paper that have my phone number collection written down on them. I seriously want to develop some sort of directional EMP device to zap people's cell phone when they are driving and talking. Not sure if it is possible, but I want one.

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Originally posted by Tristan:
...and yet here I am typing away on a computer...hmm.

Ahhh, the curse of the internet. We meet such shiny people that we want to talk to and get to know but they are all over the world, so the computer and internet become more and more of a necessity. It's a mixed bag I suppose.

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Originally posted by jpstargazer:
Yeah, I am pretty impressed by the identity. I mean summation, multiplication, and exponentiation along with the ratio of a circle's circumference to diameter, the base of the natural logarithm, and the imaginary number equal to the square root of -1 all in one "simple" equation? It's pretty amazing. I had one professor tell me it was the greatest equation EVER.

I tend to agree with your professor, which is the reason I got it done in the first place.

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Originally posted by RugBug:
Or not even acknowledging the person they are eating dinner with? I'm tired of people answering their phone and jabbering away when I'm with them. If we are hanging out, WE are hanging out...not me, you and whoever decides to call during that time frame.

That is one of my biggest pet peeves, especially because I don't get to hang out with folks a lot. Tell them to call back later, or just go on and hang out with them, don't waste my time.

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
That'd have been too good a movie. *HK hearts Crowley*

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Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
JP - you are the first person to know what it is since I got it done
Maybe first one to mention it.

My current favourite is regarding the halting probability Ω. *nerd glee!*

After further research, the last official thing I can find about it on the internet is from 2003, leading me to agree with your assesment.

As for the tattoo, that's what I meant, first to mention it

(silly sexy Slythern)

HK, YinYang, I read all of both of your posts, and you made lots and lots of excellent points. I have one quotation to share with y'all, in reference to the survival of people using analog skills like hunting and sewing and such:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." Lazarus Long, in Heinlein's Time Enough for Love

If you read all of this, well, then you get a cookie. Chocolate chip. With pecans.

EDIT: Another quotation, this time having to do with the math discussion from yesterday:

"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:35 AM

JONNYQUEST

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

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Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
mornin' Imponderables. long-ish post ahead (mostly due to quoting you shiny folk).

mornin' JQ. I was wondering where you all were today (the last post was 2 am before I got on)

Been here lurkin' since about quarter to 8. Have yet to read my way through the last 1/3 of the thread (1/3 is a fraction; see I do know some real math...) which is about four posts altogether. I see now that it not technology per se that we need to worry about in this world. It's getting a bunch of math geeks in the same room till all hours of the morning deciding the fates of worlds.
So my options are:

Where's MsG's rocket taking off from???

"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:44 AM

RIVERISMYGODDESS

I like the a = b "proof", have seen it somewhere before. It reminds me of the following (and I'll probably get in trouble with someone for this).

As we all know, time is money.
time = money
We also know that girls take time and money.
girls = time * money
Thirdly, we know that girls are evil.

girls = evil
Substituting, we get
evil = time * money
Substituting again we get
evil = money^2
Which then proves
sqrt(evil) = money
In English: Money is the root of all evil.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:01 AM

JONNYQUEST

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

The purity of mathematics is such a beautiful thing. Brings a tear to my eye...

Edit: Just read up on the halting probability Ω, and should have realized how nicely it fits in with Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. *geek swoon*

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:38 AM

TRISTAN

Morning, all!
Hopefully I can get a quick post in before the thread moves...

Hello to all and sundry!
Qing ren,

Thank you for the phone message! Put a smile on my face first thing this morning.

Hell's Kitten...and everyone else too, I guess...
I am not anti-technology. I do not think we had it "better" in any golden age. People joke with me that I should have lived in the Middle Ages, and my response is always no, they did not have power tools. I do think there are certain things that go a bit too far too fast, and cell phone technology is one of them. They are not just things used to talk to people...they have internet connections, music players, cameras, etc...way too many bloody distractions.
That's it. My two credits. Just the cell phone issue.

The internet has made it possible for me to meet all of you, my family...so it is a good thing.

RIMG, I have discussed the EMP thing with my brother (another math person) in the past, and while plausible, it would be difficult to construct and move about. If it does get to a working model, I'll give you a call.

Qing ren!

And I see we are back at math...this is where I gallop off.

Good morning to those I missed, and hugs all around!

Coffee time....

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:49 AM

MAVOURNEEN

Morning, RIMG & JQ (and all others!)

Well, JQ's prediction of my house falling down did not happen. On the up side, Tidbit is better & went to school today. Downside, now Husband is sick and is home. I wouldn't kiss either of them yesterday for fear of the creeping crud getting on me. Probably too late anyway.

Technology? Love it. Fear it? Not really. I don't think anything will take the human out of the equation.

Look at books. Despite the advent of the Internet, e-readers, movies/dvds, and anything else I've missed, books still exist. Humans love books and will always want to hold on in their hand.
I reference as proof Star Trek: The Next Generation where Jean-Luc is reading a book and says almost the same thing to someone (Riker?) about physical books.

Technology is here and we must become more comfortable living with it. Will I get a HUD implanted in my head? Probably not.

Most of you are my age or older. I remember getting our first microwave oven. Cable tv. the VCR. Cell Phones.
Tidbit, RIMG's boys, LA's Space Monkeys...will never know a world without these things. Their comfort level is built in. It is you and I, mon amie, that have the discomfort.

Time to brew another pot o' coffee. Back soon.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:53 AM

RIVERISMYGODDESS

mornin' Mavs *hugs*

Good point about the books, and also about our kids having a comfort level that we did not know.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:46 AM

MSG

Morning all

Happy Birthday to Jonny and Tristan :) HUGS and much love

Yinyang- very well thought out statement.Bet you get great grades:)

Whitefall we both said it because as teachers we have learned that every moment/period in time, no matter how unwelcome or painful, is finite. It will end and better things will come...

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:17 AM

RUGBUG

Just to clarify: I don't think technology is evil. I do enjoy the possibilities it affords, from cooking up a dinner in 2 minutes flat, to real time chatting with people across the world from me.

I think the problem is the end user. When people allow technology to replace social interaction or when the boundaries of polite behaviour are eroded to a point that people are discussing some intensely private stuff in public places...we've got a problem. Future generations will never go backwards to a more polite society: those boundaries will continue to erode.

That, in a nutshell, is my problem with some of the new "personal" technology.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:40 AM

JONNYQUEST

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

Hello all my dear-hearts. Thanks for the birthday wishes, MsG. I expect another tomorrow...!

Observe as evidence. I remember when color TV was something very few families had and the screens were round-ish. I remember when we all had antennae on our housetops and bad reception inside. I remember when Pong first came out and we spent hour after hour marvelling at the technology. I remember when Microwave ovens were called Radar Ranges (people even put spaces between words back then). I remember my wide-eyed wonder at TV remotes and this cable thing my cousin in Vancouver had.

You know what? Before Beta and VHS, and that list of electronic gaming wonders Kelhil and Laurelin referenced, and Commodore64's (64!!)and AppleII's, I was a couch potato. There wasn't even a word for that back then. "The boy needs to get outside more. He needs to get some fresh air and sunshine."

Our current technology may seem like Buck Gordon and Flash Rogers--hell, even Dick Tracy--but the sloth we think it embodies was around long before. Before TV there was radio and movies and dime novels. And a funny little industry called Pulp Fiction. And comic books. Which are thriving more now than ever before. Go figure that!

As to technology and ethics, you have to wait for my ideas in my response to HK and YY.

Carry on.

"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:43 PM

HELL'S KITTEN

Komban wa!

While still parsing YinYang's and Penguin's posts, to which I said I would return / reply, I'm going to post this long-ass thing, as part of my new after-work habit.

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Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." Lazarus Long, in Heinlein's Time Enough for Love

I am, to date, incapable of comforting the dying. "Take orders" is... touchy, and I'm still working on "cooperate."

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If you read all of this, well, then you get a cookie. Chocolate chip. With pecans.

All right. So both you and Magda owe me cookies. These are things I do not forget.

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"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."

Excellent.

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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
I see now that it not technology per se that we need to worry about in this world. It's getting a bunch of math geeks in the same room till all hours of the morning deciding the fates of worlds.

Shhhhhhhit! He's on to us! QUICK!! Attack!!!!
Seriously.
Now.
Attack him, my minions...!

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Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
I like the a = b "proof", have seen it somewhere before. It reminds me of the following (and I'll probably get in trouble with someone for this).

There are so, so many flaws with your equations. Starting with, girl: While I admit to perhaps, on occassion, taking your time, I will not take your money. Therefore, you set your equation to being multiplied by 0, nullifying everything else. Perhaps you need an if/then statement of some sort to specify, exactly, which girl-brand is being submitted to the proof. Also, it's the LOVE of money that is the root of all evil, not money itself. That's an oft misquoted saying.

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Originally posted by Tristan:
Hell's Kitten...and everyone else too, I guess...
I am not anti-technology. {carefully edited by HK through the beauty of technology} That's it. My two credits. Just the cell phone issue.

No, no. I understand. It's okay. Luddite.

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Originally posted by RugBug:
the boundaries of polite behaviour are eroded to a point that people are discussing some intensely private stuff in public places...we've got a problem.

Not sure why it would be a problem. It used to be absolutely scandalous for a lady to wear a skirt so short that her ankles were showing. *gasp!* Discussing private things in public kind of tells me that we're no longer embarrassed / ashamed of these things. I'm not sure why it would be beneficial to be embarrassed / ashamed of personal things. Societal rules on what is embarrassing or shameful are continually in flux. The only unfortunate aspect to this is when it becomes acceptable - or there is no more sense of shame - when Someone A subjects another Person B to something to which B did not want to be subjected, yet Someone A feels no shame for their actions. That's where embarrassment / shame should come in, placed squarely on Someone A. (Yeesh, did that make any sense?)

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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
And comic books. Which are thriving more now than ever before. Go figure that!

... heh... heh heh... hee hee hee... BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! *snerk* Sorry. Didn't mean to laugh, but couldn't help it. Many's a folk who'd strongly disagree with that statement.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:17 PM

NVGHOSTRIDER

Hello everyone!

I would just like to say that I have no clue what is going on. I see math problems and Popeye. Whoa. Talk about out of the loop. I'm at work and just wanted to say hi.

HK- is there confirmation on the Done The Impossible Thing?

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:42 PM

RIVERISMYGODDESS

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If you read all of this, well, then you get a cookie. Chocolate chip. With pecans.
All right. So both you and Magda owe me cookies. These are things I do not forget.

If'n you want them I need to know where to send them. If you want, it can wait until D*C, as I will have a plethora of them with me.

Ponderables, I may not be around a lot tomorrow due to changing projects at work. If that's the case, I will talk to you shiny folk this weekend.

~jimi
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'cause the Roman Gods up to that point were crap. Jeff, the god of biscuits, and Simon, the god of hair-dos.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:55 PM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

Wooo Hooooo...

*Magda runs into the thread at top speed!!*

Hello everyone!! I am having serious computer access issues at the moment!! But I love you all and I am alive and well... Just... cut off from most of my friends and ... stuff...

*keeps running and waves and blows kisses as she disappears into the distance...*

Oh... Qing ren?

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:59 PM

NVGHOSTRIDER

I seem to be just missing everyone. Have a good day RIMG. I'm out folks. Goodnight.

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Friday, January 12, 2007 3:59 AM

TRISTAN

Morning, all!
NVG, thanks for the wishes!

Qing ren

! Thanks for the call.

Time for a new thread. Be back shortly!

Our new home:
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