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Post by Koumei » Thu May 12, 2011 6:45 pm

It's America, Stahlseele, she probably will.
Not that I disapprove if she does. School shootings are the natural result of:
A) Vending machine assault rifles
and B) No real action being taken to curb bullying/sexual assault
Hell, I still consider the possibility that, had I solved a problem in high school with a 50-cal, then I would probably be out of prison now, happier and more fucking employable. So I wish her the best of luck in her retribution, doubly-so if she does it Casey-style and piledrives them.

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Post by Stahlseele » Thu May 12, 2011 7:02 pm

sure hope she does.
i'm a big fan of darwinism.
not saying euthanize assholes and idiots, just remove warnings from stuff and have them deal with the consequences of their life . .
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Username17 » Fri May 13, 2011 4:44 pm

Star Trek rebels kill Bin Laden.
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Post by Stahlseele » Fri May 13, 2011 8:57 pm

Eye for an Eye . . LITERALLY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/no ... sharia-law
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Maj » Sat May 14, 2011 12:57 am

> Stahlseele wrote:Eye for an Eye . . LITERALLY
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/no ... sharia-law

I have to admit, there is a very cynical part of me that says yay when I read this. Not for any other reason than that I half expected the article to say something like, "The court decreed that the woman would have to marry her attacker," or something.
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Post by RobbyPants » Sat May 14, 2011 1:26 am

Holy shit. Lucky for him they're just going for his eyes. Her whole face is pretty messed up.
I can't imagine being one of the guys who has to carry out that sentence.
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Post by Juton » Sat May 14, 2011 1:54 am

> Stahlseele wrote:Eye for an Eye . . LITERALLY
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/no ... sharia-law

I read about this a while back. I can't believe that throwing acid in the face of a woman who's spurned you has turned into a thing happens. While splashing acid in the attacker's eyes seems a tad barbaric, if they publicize it well enough so that it acts as a deterrent then maybe it will be a net benefit.
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Post by Doom » Sat May 14, 2011 4:34 am

I know it's not exactly news, but this is just plain hysterical:
http://www.galacticempiretimes.com/2011 ... #idc-cover
(don't forget to read the comments!)

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Post by Maj » Thu May 19, 2011 9:23 pm

Assistant Surgeon General Ali Khan explains on the CDC's blog how people can prepare themselves for a zombie apocalypse.
Link {OK, CDC, Zombies, I'm not even joking about this}
The blog has become so popular, it crashed the server.
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Post by Stahlseele » Thu May 19, 2011 9:33 pm

> Maj wrote:Assistant Surgeon General Ali Khan explains on the CDC's blog how people can prepare themselves for a zombie apocalypse.
> Link {OK, CDC, Zombies, I'm not even joking about this}
> The blog has become so popular, it crashed the server.

I present to you:
WHEN ZOMBIES ATTACK!:
MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF AN OUTBREAK OF ZOMBIE INFECTION
http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/Zombies.pdf
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Maxus » Tue May 24, 2011 6:04 pm

A mom tried to sell her 11-year-old daughter's virginity. Howdy from Utah!
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Post by Doom » Tue May 24, 2011 7:56 pm

Hey, hey, hey, that article says THIRTEEN.
You said 11...that's just plain nasty.

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Post by Prak » Tue May 24, 2011 8:50 pm

Yeah, I mean, 13 is almost the point where it's no longer pedophilia, but ephebophilia.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

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Post by Maxus » Wed May 25, 2011 2:06 am

Haven't a clue how I messed that one up. Typo? Whoops.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
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Post by Koumei » Wed May 25, 2011 2:49 am

Well this is America, where underage strippers are legal, right?
(That's a news link, not an ad for their services. It's clean but you'll still feel bad after reading it)
I originally read it on sankakucomplex (not linking, it's built out of NSFW pixels, even the binary behind it all looks suggestive), where I assumed it was just made up for "Tabloid Rage" or "See, isn't the West even worse than Glorious Japan?" factor. But no, it linked to the source there.
So I don't think you could possibly shock me with a tale of paedophilia in America.

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Post by Cynic » Sat May 28, 2011 6:07 am

Speaking of underage strippers and pedophilia, leave it to the Rodeo Queens.

> Rodeo queen wrote: A stick horse is a lot different because you have to do all the work and i think it's going to be a lot more tiring than with a real horse.

Wow...

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Post by Prak » Sat May 28, 2011 6:33 am

> Cynic wrote:Speaking of underage strippers and pedophilia, leave it to the Rodeo Queens.

> > Rodeo queen wrote: A stick horse is a lot different because you have to do all the work and i think it's going to be a lot more tiring than with a real horse.

> Wow...

> Rodeo Queen wrote:Horse herpes is not sexually transmitted and is not considered a danger for humans...

....Did the implications of that wording just fly over their heads?
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Post by Cynic » Sat May 28, 2011 11:49 pm

Prak: I think the implication is that its unethical to use sick Horses. I can totally understand this sentiment. I just find it absolutely surreal that you switch a live breathing 500-600* lb animal with a lint-plagued, 3 lb toy.
I bet that they wouldn't do this with the cowboys. I mean who ever heard of horse stick loving cowboys?
*edit: I was told by my wife that Ponies are usually 500+ lbs rather than 200-300lb animals.
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Post by Prak » Sun May 29, 2011 12:13 am

> Cynic wrote:Prak: I think the implication is that its unethical to use sick Horses. I can totally understand this sentiment. I just find it absolutely surreal that you switch a live breathing 500-600* lb animal with a lint-plagued, 3 lb toy.
> I bet that they wouldn't do this with the cowboys. I mean who ever heard of horse stick loving cowboys?
> *edit: I was told by my wife that Ponies are usually 500+ lbs rather than 200-300lb animals.

No, I realize that. I realize what they're saying is that "Equine Herpes is not passed through sexual contact, but rather any contact, but is not a threat to humans." but to a filthy mind it can be construed in... other ways.
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Post by Psychic Robot » Mon May 30, 2011 7:37 am

so here's a more in-depth article of the cheerleader rape thing
link
tbh i side with the school in that was a frivolous lawsuit. if she wanted to go to the school board to complain that her rapist was still playing football (and even after he threatened to kill various persons) then yeah, that works. but suing because the school allegedly violated her freedom of speech? no.
fact is, she should have stopped cheerleading if it caused her so much emotional distress. she didn't have to make a giant fucking scene where she knelt down and refused to cheer. on top of that--which i realize sounds callous--but the grand jury cleared the alleged rapists of charges (later they reinstated them but they were cleared at the time of this incident from what I can tell).
so what is the school supposed to do? say "nope sorry you were accused of a crime and we totally think you're guilty so you can't play on the team"? sorry dawgs that ain't how law and order work. innocent until proven guilty and all that jazz.
and so let's pretend the school does kick the accused off the team. the article states that the NAACP started sniffing around. so they kick the black guy out and what happens? fucking massive lawsuit from professional race-baiters. oh boy wouldn't that be a joy to slog through. and then the school would undoubtedly lose the case and be fined and then the teachers would have to go racial awareness counseling
so yeah this story is more complicated than it seems from a first glance.

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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Mon May 30, 2011 1:17 pm

I figured there was more to the story than was previously reported; I find it hard to believe that a school could be so callous.
However, suing the schools is a useless gesture. There are legal maximums to how much money a judge will award someone in such a lawsuit, and it's way lower than the legal fees would be. It will take money from the schools and take even more money from the plaintiffs. I'm thinking someone didn't think their cunning plan all the way through.
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Post by MGuy » Mon May 30, 2011 6:44 pm

More complicated or no I threw my hat in with the school. I'm a tax payer, and it is bad enough that often times people get away with these damn frivolous lawsuits. I understand her plight but stealing public money over it was never the answer.
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Post by DSMatticus » Mon May 30, 2011 8:01 pm

There does need to be a mechanism in place for punishing bad decisions by people in authority. Stealing money from the school is perhaps a bad one, but if there were active charges (or investigation, or whatever) concerning the matter, it's completely understandable that she would have refused to cheer. And there's no reason for her to be kicked off the squad because of that, at all, because then we're punishing a potential victim.
Someone needs a brick upside the back of the head here. Being asked to cheer for someone you are currently accusing of rape in a court of law, OR give up that entire aspect of your social life, is pretty damn unfair.
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Post by Maj » Mon May 30, 2011 11:00 pm

> Psychic Robot wrote:she didn't have to make a giant fucking scene where she knelt down and refused to cheer.

I didn't see the incident, so I can't affirm my suspicions, but my sister was a cheerleader for years. Cheerleaders in formation who aren't actively cheering at the moment frequently hold a kneeling pose until it's their turn to start cheering again.
In my mind, the picture looks more like the student who stands but refuses to say the pledge, not a hysterical girl making a scene.
Really, I think the therapist was dead wrong when they told the girl to go back to the same school. If the school environment is so hostile that the sister transfers schools, keeping the victim in the same place as her attacker is just torture.
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Post by Maj » Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:07 am

World IPv6 Day is June 8th.
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