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| Topic | Confirm or Deny, Money= Happiness |
| darkknight109 02/13/18 2:07:56 AM #43 | Johnny Eagle posted... Muscles posted...Money definitely helps but its not everything Yep. Money might not be able to buy you happiness, but it can buy you a lot of stuff that will facilitate that happiness. And, as a corollary, money may not equal happiness, but a lack of it can absolutely make you fucking miserable. I'm a pretty happy guy and when I think about all the stuff in my life that makes me happy, almost all of it would not be possible if I didn't earn a decent wage. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Say what you will of Necron... FF12 has the worst final boss |
| darkknight109 02/12/18 5:55:48 AM #5 | Honestly, Necrons have been shit since the 5E codex wrecked their background. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Hate microtransactions? Better get used to them! |
| darkknight109 02/10/18 6:11:06 AM #10 | InfestedAdam posted... likehelly posted...Mead posted...I see nothing wrong with them selling cosmetic items Why the fuck not? They're nickle-and-diming gamers by doing that shit. Once upon a time costumes were available for free by completing sidequests or doing something related to the game that didn't involve a credit card number. Why do you want that to go away? It's not like this is a huge investment of resources, either - amateur modders can pull together a decent looking skin in an afternoon, so this isn't something where there's a large monetary cost that needs to be recouped. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What did Sonic say on Yom Kippur? |
| darkknight109 02/09/18 8:51:03 PM #10 | Bagamak posted... LinkPizza posted...Bagamak posted...Sonic was better when he didn't talk I think his first (admittedly limited) game speaking roles were SegaSonic the Hedgehog and Sonic CD, which were also both in 1993. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What did Sonic say on Yom Kippur? |
| darkknight109 02/09/18 7:34:52 PM #7 | LinkPizza posted... Bagamak posted...Sonic was better when he didn't talk He had two shows in 1993, so I think the last time Sonic didn't talk was 1992. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What was the first song you listened to that really made you like music? |
| darkknight109 02/09/18 12:21:21 PM #46 | AllstarSniper32 posted... darkknight109 posted...Enter Sandman by Metallica. My first step into a much larger world. No, of liking music in general. Sandman may have been pop-rockish, but through it I got into heavy metal, then began branching out into other varieties of music. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What was the first song you listened to that really made you like music? |
| darkknight109 02/09/18 5:20:50 AM #43 | Enter Sandman by Metallica. My first step into a much larger world. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Why are democrats destroying themselves |
| darkknight109 02/08/18 6:17:33 PM #29 | TheWorstPoster posted... darkknight109 posted...I love how impervious conservative dogmatism is to facts. Like, say, the fact that seven of the 10 states with the highest household median income are democratic strongholds (Maryland, New Jersey, Hawaii, Conneticut, Massachusetts, California, and Minnesota) versus only one for Republicans - Alaska, helped in no small part by its significant natural resources (the other two states - Virginia and New Hampshire - aren't strongly affiliated with either party). Yes, that's what happens when you have high median income - the cost of living rises, because everyone else wants to move there to enjoy the high pay and the laws of supply and demand work their magic. That happens everywhere, regardless of who's in charge. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Why are democrats destroying themselves |
| darkknight109 02/08/18 6:05:33 PM #27 | Troll_Police_ posted... because the liberal platform is absurd and everyone knows it. therefore self destruction was the only possible outcome. I love how impervious conservative dogmatism is to facts. Like, say, the fact that seven of the ten states with the highest household median income are democratic strongholds (Maryland, New Jersey, Hawaii, Conneticut, Massachusetts, California, and Minnesota) versus only one for Republicans - Alaska, helped in no small part by its significant natural resources (the other two states - Virginia and New Hampshire - aren't strongly affiliated with either party). Or the fact that nine of the ten poorest states are Republican dominated (Mississippi, Arkansas, West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Oklahoma), versus one (New Mexico) for the Democrats. Special mention to Oklahoma, which is in full-on fiscal crisis because years of Republican fiscal planning have left the state unable to pay for basic services to the point where some schools only run four days a week and police have a strict mileage limit because the departments can't afford gas. (source on wealth numbers: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF ) Or, y'know, that there are dozens of examples of democracies around the world that are much more left-wing than the US and somehow haven't descended into anarchy. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Coruscant the largest fictional city? |
| darkknight109 02/08/18 1:40:26 PM #37 | Revelation34 posted... darkknight109 posted...Revelation34 posted...I never said anything about numbers. Lucas himself said the expanded universe was canon. No, he really didn't. "There are two worlds here. There's my world, which is the movies, and there's this other world that has been created, which I say is the parallel universethe licensing world of the books, games and comic books. They don't intrude on my world, which is a select period of time, [but] they do intrude in between the movies. I don't get too involved in the parallel universe." - George Lucas, 2001 "I don't read that stuff. I haven't read any of the novels. I don't know anything about that world. That's a different world than my world." - George Lucas, 2005 But there's no story past Episode VI, there's just no story. It's a certain story about Anakin Skywalker and once Anakin Skywalker dies, that's kind of the end of the story. - George Lucas, 2008 In terms of comments from other people in Lucasfilm: "When it comes to absolute canon, the real story of Star Wars, you must turn to the films themselves -and only the films."- Chris Cerasi, 2001 "The only relevant official continuities are the current versions of the films alone, and the combined current version of the films along with whatever else we've got in the Holocron. You're never going to know what George's view of the universe beyond the films at any given time because it is constantly evolving." - Leland Chee, 2006 (worth noting that Chee was the guy Lucas hired to oversee canonicity in the Star Wars brand, so this is literally his job). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Coruscant the largest fictional city? |
| darkknight109 02/08/18 2:29:41 AM #32 | Revelation34 posted... I never said anything about numbers. Lucas himself said the expanded universe was canon. Except... no, he didn't. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I get to see Justin Trudeau speak live today :o |
| darkknight109 02/07/18 7:30:42 PM #47 | Zikten posted... darkknight109 posted...I mean, he has Canada leading the G7 in economic growth and the country is now ranked as having the most positive influence globally based on a poll of 18k people in 25 countries, so I guess he's doing something right... If you have solutions, please, share. The FN situation is pretty fucking terrible, no bones about it, but successive governments from both of the major parties have attempted to fix it for decades without success. There's a lot of complex treaty issues that get in the way and which have proven stupidly difficult to sort out (especially when piled on top of the poverty that's already endemic). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I get to see Justin Trudeau speak live today :o |
| darkknight109 02/07/18 7:02:57 PM #45 | Zikten posted... what's more disturbing than his comments is how the woman reacts. she just laughs and goes along with the correction, like what he did wasn't highly innappropriate, condescending and cringy That would be because he was joking. If you listen to her full comments, you'd understand the context for what he said. xjayguyx posted... Anyways JT is a max level SJW that loves Muslims.. especially if they are part of isis. I mean where else in the world would a terrorist get over 10m but Canada? Conveniently leaving out that the kid was a child soldier, was tortured in gitmo in order to extract a confession (that was immediately recanted as soon as he left), was convicted by a discredited military tribunal, and all of the witnesses to his "crime" (Speer's squadmates) have since recanted their testimony and stated that they do not know who threw the grenade that killed Speer. Also, I love your implication that "loving Muslims" is a bad thing. Very open-minded of you. Stupid Pirate Guy posted... Has there ever been a less qualified person to run a country? I mean, he has Canada leading the G7 in economic growth and the country is now ranked as having the most positive influence globally based on a poll of 18k people in 25 countries, so I guess he's doing something right... --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Coruscant the largest fictional city? |
| darkknight109 02/07/18 6:20:41 PM #23 | Revelation34 posted... You realize it doesn't matter if Disney does something like that right? Just because George Lucas sold it doesn't mean what he said is invalid. He said all of it was canon. Disney isn't the original creator just because they bought it. Really, if you ask me, the entire concept of "canon" is stupid to begin with - arguing about which fictional story is "more real" than another fictional story is the height of ridiculousness. I don't honestly give a shit if Lucas is the original creator or if Disney is the current owner, because neither of those things give them automatic license to rewrite reality - those stories were told and they're out there. But ignoring that for now, you're wrong on two points. For one, Lucas never said "all of it" is canon; canon under George Lucas (because... *sigh*... they have someone whose actual job is to oversee such things) was the most recent version of the numbered movies, plus any comments Lucas made. Everything else was in "continuity", but wasn't canon, because Star Wars insisted on having this bizarre "tiered" canon system which was even dumber than most. For two, those numbers didn't come from Lucas; they came from Karen Traviss, a (pretty bad) EU author. Disney declared all of the old EU non-canon (or "alternate reality", if you prefer), because they wanted to write a new expanded universe and didn't want the old one getting in the way of the films they were planning. I don't really blame them, honestly, the old EU got pretty bloated by the end. Anyways, point is the stories where Traviss put this information out aren't in the official timeline anymore, so the debate has kind of become a moot point. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Coruscant the largest fictional city? |
| darkknight109 02/07/18 2:02:57 PM #18 | Revelation34 posted... Blighboy posted...Ogurisama posted...I am just going off what the star wars wiki says Because all the materials that went into that debate were rendered non-canon when Disney wiped the old EU. Honestly, it was a dumb debate anyways, especially given how laughably lopsided the numbers were - something like 100 million battle droids vs. 2.5 million clones, if memory serves. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Coruscant the largest fictional city? |
| darkknight109 02/07/18 1:12:13 PM #13 | Ogurisama posted... Its a planet city, about the size of Earth, with a population of over 1 trillion. With over 90% of the usable land inhabited Nope. As usual, Warhammer has bigger. 1 trillion would actually be considered small for a hive world - various hive worlds have their population in the 10 trillion range. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | this agent just called and asked me the dumbest question |
| darkknight109 02/06/18 1:51:27 PM #6 | Rockies posted... I don't know, maybe she has authority to prevent them from doing inspections/repairs since it's her land? Doesn't seem that stupid to me but I'm not an expert in railroad maintenance laws Generally speaking when a public utility like a railway has passage through your land part of the agreement that you have to sign as the landowner allows them access for maintenance, inspections, and repairs. You are not allowed to deny them access, though they must compensate you for any damage they cause as part of their maintenance - for instance, if you are a farmer and a pipeline is buried in one of your fields, the operating company has to pay you for any crops they have to remove when excavating the pipe (generally speaking they also re-seed the soil when they backfill, so you basically get paid twice). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Do you hate shoveling snow more or mowing the lawn? |
| darkknight109 02/05/18 5:00:02 AM #24 | Don't have to do either. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Why call it a World Championship if it only got teams from USA? It make no sense |
| darkknight109 02/05/18 4:54:16 AM #3 | To counterbalance the National Hockey League, which is technically international. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Canada is changing its anthem to be gender neutral |
| darkknight109 02/04/18 3:22:01 AM #159 | OhhhJa posted... Funny coming from the guy who posts rants twice as long as mine about everything trying so hard to prove he's the smartest person alive Only twice as long? Either you post way longer posts somewhere I'm not looking or you haven't actually read many of my rants. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Canada is changing its anthem to be gender neutral |
| darkknight109 02/04/18 1:24:34 AM #155 | OhhhJa posted... Man, look at the spewing of rhetoric and propaganda going on. Defending speech even If it hurts someone's feelings equates to burning crosses on people's lawns... Give me a fucking break . Typical leftist identity politics garbage... anyone who disagrees with you is a murderous, racist, uneducated bigot. If anyone's brainwashed about what American people are like it's Canadians. What have the Canadian people contributed to the world... nothing compared to Americans. The only reason the rest of the world is obsessed with our culture and politics is because of our influence and importance globally. Pictured: someone who's totally not insecure guys, like, seriously! --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | How long do you think you can last at your current job if you stopped working? |
| darkknight109 02/03/18 6:15:33 AM #28 | Well, let's see. At the moment I have four weeks vacation time saved up, plus another week and a half of banked overtime, plus a week and a half of sick time... and my company allows us to go up to negative two weeks of vacation time, so I can add that in too. Toss in the vacation/sick time I'm accruing while I'm away, plus a couple of stat holidays, and I can basically get nearly three months of paid time off right out the gate. I could probably add in a month of unpaid leave on top of that, although that would draw suspicion. After that... well, at the moment I could last maybe a month without doing something without anyone raising an eyebrow, but that's actually low for me because I'm not assigned to a major project at the moment. Most of the time I'm on long-term projects, so I could literally go months without doing anything and nobody would know until it came time to send in the deliverables. Even then, with my usual client I could feasibly string them along for another couple of months by saying analysis is taking longer than expected and I'm being held up by delays on document control. Honestly, under ideal conditions, I bet I could do no work for over a year before being fired. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Canada is changing its anthem to be gender neutral |
| darkknight109 02/03/18 4:06:26 AM #109 | FatalAccident posted... OhhhJa posted...Canada is already the laughingstock of the developed world. They don't need to further cement that legacy On a related note, based on a poll of 18,000 people from 25 different countries, Canada is seen as having the most positive influence globally of any country in the world, with 81% of respondents listing them as having a positive influence. The US ranks in at 9th place (out of 12 options) with 40%, putting it just below China (of note: the US numbers apparently dropped 24% since Donald Trump's election, the largest drop of any country on the survey). http://uk.businessinsider.com/countries-with-the-most-positive-influence-on-the-world-2017-8 --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Canada is changing its anthem to be gender neutral |
| darkknight109 02/03/18 4:02:00 AM #108 | OmegaM posted... FYI, as a U.S. citizen, I get the impression from most of the trustworthy media that anything the U.S. does, Canada does better. The only downside I can see---and this could be just a stereotype---is that Canadians seem inordinately concerned about not offending people, beyond the usual not using words that ethnic groups regard as slurs against them. Is that accurate? Depends on your definition of "inordinate". Personally, I don't think "people should get along" is a bad credo to live by, but that's me... --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Canada is changing its anthem to be gender neutral |
| darkknight109 02/01/18 8:43:25 PM #73 | shadowsword87 posted... I don't get all of the Canada bashing in this topic, most of the time everyone likes Canada. Mostly because nearly all the right-wing trolls on this board have a major insecurity complex towards Canada. Seriously, just casually mention it in any topic and you'll pretty much instantly get... well, most of the ones you see in this topic working themselves into a lather. It's kind of funny, to be honest. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | whats your favorite brendan fraser movie |
| darkknight109 01/31/18 7:27:32 PM #10 | BlueScum posted... Bedazzled --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | State of the Union Address incoming |
| darkknight109 01/31/18 2:06:54 AM #146 | Noop_Noop posted... Bro, NK is a problem. Whether your heart bleeds for its civilians, global safety, or national prosperity we should all be able to agree that NK needs to fucking go Sure, I think everyone agrees that. So let us know when you come up with a solution that doesn't involve millions of people dying, a humanitarian crisis larger than any the world has seen in the last 100+ years, and the recession that would almost invariably result from the world's 11th-largest economy being taken offline. Seriously, that's the problem. Everyone recognizes NK is a threat, everyone wants to see the Kims turfed. Even NK's backers in Russia and China now realise they're dealing with a volatile manchild who ultimately can't be controlled. The US absolutely has the capacity to win a war with North Korea and quite easily at that... but not before NK kills millions - potentially tens of millions - on its way out. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Woman gets upset 'emotional' support Peacock isn't let on Flight... |
| darkknight109 01/30/18 6:31:50 PM #21 | Far-Queue posted... Businesses and what not most certainly can ask if your animal is a service animal, they just cant insist you provide proof. The two big questions that are permitted are "Is the dog a service animal required because of a disability" and "What task has the animal been trained to perform". Also worth noting that the ADA is subject to "reasonable accommodation" clauses, which state that while the business must make reasonable attempts to accommodate a service animal, they are not required to do so if it would cause the business undue hardship or threaten the safety of others present (for instance, service dogs may or may not be allowed on ambulances due to the restricted space). Also also, to the best of my knowledge dogs are the only animals that can be trained as true service animals. While anything can be an "emotional support animal", those are not covered by the ADA. Noop_Noop posted... The only 2 exceptions to this that I am aware of are airports and federal centers Religious centres (churches, mosques, etc.) are also exempt, as are any businesses that can reasonably claim that the presence of an animal would fundamentally disrupt or alter their business (parts of zoos, for instance). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Woman gets upset 'emotional' support Peacock isn't let on Flight... |
| darkknight109 01/30/18 2:48:38 PM #5 | This woman must be taking the piss. Surely. Also, bless Delta for being the first airline to finally have the stones to stand up to this nonsense with their crackdown (for however ridiculous the peacock is, the real issue is people flagrantly abusing the "emotional support animal" system to let their dogs ride in the cabin). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Are men's dress clothes terrible or are mine just cheap/too small? |
| darkknight109 01/29/18 5:08:28 PM #11 | Yeah, most of those sound like sizing problems. I used to wear dress clothes to the office every day (work from home these days), and I actually found them pretty comfortable. The last time I had the sort of issues you're talking about, I was a teenager wearing dress clothes I'd probably started to grow out of. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Favourite type of warrior? |
| darkknight109 01/28/18 7:09:07 PM #4 | If you're going by classic gaming archetypes, ninja were rogues, not warriors. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | American woman gets in huge shit for calling a German Police officer a Nazi |
| darkknight109 01/27/18 4:52:41 PM #54 | Smarkil posted... But you, in context, were referring to the US by saying the US has laws against speech does. It doesn't. At least not in the way you presented them. Sure it does. That's what libel laws are. On the same topic, you're not allowed to threaten people (particularly government officials) or incite violence, you're not allowed to lie in an advertisement or while under oath, and even laws around obscenity and political expression (particularly when and where it's allowed) are surprisingly tight in the US. You act like restricting free speech is an automatically fascist act, but the truth is that every nation - America included - restricts free speech all the time. Smarkil posted... Literally in the article. Fair enough, I missed that. Still, ultimately a moot point because you can similarly be criminally charged for speech in the US, albeit not under slander laws so far as I know. Smarkil posted... My 'alarmism' is only 'alarmism' when things are good. Germany hasn't had an enemy to fight recently, nor largely has the US. Their economy is strong and their people are doing well. But what happens when that isn't the case? What happens when their market crashes and people's lives ain't so good anymore? Maybe a dude has a crazy idea that the jews are responsible for the economic downturn. They seemed to make it through 2009 just fine. Still sounds like alarmism to me. Smarkil posted... Can't call him a Nazi though, because that's illegal. In Germany, as elsewhere, it's not slander if it's true. If there are actual Nazis around you're allowed to call them Nazis. Hell, that's the entire point - it's not to purge the word "Nazi" from the German lexicon, it's to make sure the word is reserved for discussions of actual Nazis. Smarkil posted... Also it's worth noting that it seems like the country is actively trying to erase their past by banning speech related to Nazism. I can certainly see why they would want to. But this seems like a bad idea in the long term. Again, you're allowed to talk about actual Nazis within the context of historical discussion. That's not an issue. Smarkil posted... I also want to point out that I'm morally against calling people Nazi's or racists. I think it's an incredibly stupid moniker for something that's rarely if ever the case. But I also don't want the government to be able to enforce my morality. I'd rather just call the woman a dumb bitch and move on with my life. Yet your first post in this topic was implying that Germany was fascist for disallowing the frivolous use of the term "Nazi" - doesn't that go against what you just said in this paragraph? --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | American woman gets in huge shit for calling a German Police officer a Nazi |
| darkknight109 01/27/18 2:25:45 PM #48 | Blighboy posted... Sahuagin posted...the problem with this attitude is that it *preserves* the meaning of the word. Exactly. The comparison with a racial slur isn't really a good one because that's used as an insult to degrade people - depowering those words isn't necessarily a bad thing, although that does risk forgetting or trivializing the evil that is behind them. Nazi, on the other hand, isn't a slur, it's a real name of a real group of people who are responsible for one of the darkest moments of our entire species. Depowering it distorts the message - it makes the Nazis seem less like truly evil human beings and more like Saturday morning cartoon characters (or just a random term for someone we don't like). Germany is more sensitive to that than most, for obvious reasons. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | American woman gets in huge shit for calling a German Police officer a Nazi |
| darkknight109 01/27/18 1:35:39 PM #43 | Revelation34 posted... Good luck suing somebody who's just going to return to their home country a few days later. It's not nearly as hard to do that as you're making it out to be. Once someone has been served with court papers, they're required to show up or at least make an application to the court for an alternate date. If you don't show up in court, the case is typically automatically awarded to the other party and they can then apply for the judgement to be enforced against you in your home country (I don't know if Germany and the US specifically have an agreement in place to do that, but most first-world countries do so I would be surprised if they didn't - basically they just have to go to court in the US and explain that you were successfully sued and unless you have a good defence as to why the judgement shouldn't be enforced, the court will accept the ruling and you'll be required to pay the same as if you were sued in the States). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | American woman gets in huge shit for calling a German Police officer a Nazi |
| darkknight109 01/27/18 4:14:47 AM #35 | Smarkil posted... Calling someone a nazi doesn't fall under the definition of libel or slander. It does in Germany. Smarkil posted... Libel and slander are very difficult to prove. Moreover, libel and slander cases are fucking civil. Not criminal. And you'll note that the woman at the centre of this story is being sued by the police department, not charged with a crime. Smarkil posted... How the fuck do you think it gets like that? Does someone just pop in and say "LOL IMA PURGE YOU NOW" More or less, yeah, actually. The 1929 German election was in essence the start of Nazism's true rise to power, and the country became a fascist dictatorship within a few years. By contrast, the laws you're objecting to have been on the books for decades and, last I checked, democracy in Germany is alive and well. I'm pretty sure if your alarmism on this was grounded in reality, something probably would have happened by now. Not to mention, I suspect the atrocious state of Germany's economy in the post-WWI years and the frankly moronic decision by the allies to seek reparations from Germany had a lot more to do with the rise of fascism in Germany than libel laws, but that's me... --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | American woman gets in huge shit for calling a German Police officer a Nazi |
| darkknight109 01/27/18 2:53:22 AM #30 | Metal_Mario99 posted... Well, everybody on this board loves abortion, so I figured it was a safe bet. So that's two strawmans (strawmen?) so far - care to go for the hat trick? Smarkil posted... Infringing on someones free speech is like, the most fascist thing you can do to someone short of putting them in jail or murdering them. Yeah, sure, telling someone they're not allowed to slander other people is totally the most fascist thing you can do. Other than instilling a totalitarian state, fostering a militaristic culture, committing acts of political violence, conducting purges of the opposition, and exiling or murdering those who do not match a nationalist, race-centric model of "the ideal". But yeah, telling people they're not allowed to frivolously and baselessly make use of one of the darkest monikers in human history is totally comparable. I mean, it's not like the US has libel and slander laws, right? Because that would totes be fascist, yo. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | American woman gets in huge shit for calling a German Police officer a Nazi |
| darkknight109 01/27/18 2:25:16 AM #25 | Metal_Mario99 posted... darkknight109 posted...Metal_Mario99 posted...darkknight109 posted...Zeus posted...The result of the altercation: preliminary criminal proceedings against the woman on suspicion of slander, plus a $260-bill (207) upfront for any subsequent legal expenses. And I've never done that, even accounting for your overdramatic language, so I'm not sure why you're bringing it up. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | American woman gets in huge shit for calling a German Police officer a Nazi |
| darkknight109 01/27/18 2:10:17 AM #20 | Metal_Mario99 posted... darkknight109 posted...Zeus posted...The result of the altercation: preliminary criminal proceedings against the woman on suspicion of slander, plus a $260-bill (207) upfront for any subsequent legal expenses. Nice strawman argument, but you completely missed my point. Whether you agree with Germany's laws on free speech or not (and, for the record, I never voiced my opinion on the matter one way or another), implying that a country is fascist because you're not allowed to call someone a Nazi is a completely ridiculous equivocation. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | American woman gets in huge shit for calling a German Police officer a Nazi |
| darkknight109 01/27/18 2:01:20 AM #16 | Zeus posted... The result of the altercation: preliminary criminal proceedings against the woman on suspicion of slander, plus a $260-bill (207) upfront for any subsequent legal expenses. Because equating the banning of a hate group and restrictions on offensive speech with an ideology responsible for tens of millions of deaths isn't sensationalist at all. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Early bird or Night owl |
| darkknight109 01/25/18 5:59:45 PM #5 | I have insomnia, so I'm a night owl by default. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I'm playing the greatest game of all time. |
| darkknight109 01/25/18 11:43:55 AM #12 | Krazy_Kirby posted... trick question. none of the above --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | cocoa pebbles vs fruity pebbles |
| darkknight109 01/24/18 8:56:18 PM #4 | They both taste like crystallized chemicals. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | another day in america without a gun violence issue |
| darkknight109 01/24/18 3:17:59 PM #137 | Kyuubi4269 posted... Even with your obvious intent to misconstrue, half those people wouldn't even bother spending one cent and the rest would not act any differently from usual. You could have one million tonnes of gold, but if it's particulate spread throughout the atlantic, it's not worth shit. Neither is $100 for one person, really. (And half of all people spending their one cent is still $35 million dollars). PaddysPub posted... are you seriously trying to give a dude shit for having MS because they disagree with your gun control politics? That's a pretty big stretch from what he actually said. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | another day in america without a gun violence issue |
| darkknight109 01/24/18 2:59:28 PM #128 | Kyuubi4269 posted... One cent for everybody or a hundred dollars for one, which do you think is more productive? One cent for everybody, because that's ~$70 million dollars. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | another day in america without a gun violence issue |
| darkknight109 01/24/18 2:43:59 PM #118 | So... how do you do this, Jen? I think you've managed to trigger every nutjob on the board with this topic. Do you have a superpower or something? C'mon, share your secrets! --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | another day in america without a gun violence issue |
| darkknight109 01/24/18 2:38:49 PM #110 | RedPixel posted... darkknight109 posted...Gun laws in Germany were pretty much at their loosest under the Nazi regime. Yes, they were. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_legislation_in_Germany#Gun_regulation_of_the_Third_Reich The 1938 German Weapons Act, the precursor of the current weapons law, superseded the 1928 law. As under the 1928 law, citizens were required to have a permit to carry a firearm and a separate permit to acquire a firearm. But under the new law: Seriously, do your homework. This sort of info is not hard to find out, especially when it's been pointed out to you. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | another day in america without a gun violence issue |
| darkknight109 01/24/18 12:53:36 PM #86 | RedPixel posted... Jen0125 posted...I was being serious. Other countries with strict gun laws aren't literally Hitler It actually isn't. Hitler substantially loosened gun laws for most of Germany (exception being the Jews and other minorities he was in the middle of trying to kill off) because he wanted his populace armed. Gun laws in Germany were pretty much at their loosest under the Nazi regime. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Which was the better console, PS2 or X Box? |
| darkknight109 01/23/18 5:27:24 PM #57 | bulbinking posted... Still doesnt cost over 300 bucks to play your console online before the next one comes out. I don't play online, PC or console, so this doesn't really affect me. That being said, PC games pioneered the "pay-to-play-online model" long before consoles ever got in the act. For over a decade every single MMO had a subscription fee - typically $15 a month minimum. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | another day in america without a gun violence issue |
| darkknight109 01/23/18 2:51:24 PM #71 | Noop_Noop posted... Jen0125 posted... Dude, you really badly need to take a high school-level social studies course and learn what communism actually is. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | another day in america without a gun violence issue |
| darkknight109 01/23/18 2:32:20 PM #50 | Noop_Noop posted... So I guess what I'm saying is that the world would suck a lot less if we had more people like me and less people like Jen the selfish. TIL not wanting kids to get shot is selfish. Noop_Noop posted... And no, you're just gonna have to accept the fact that socialism is communism lite, and you take it a step even beyond socialism so you are forced sure a communist TIAL reasonable gun control laws and a decent health care program are communism. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
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