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Lothar

The lighter side: http://cheezburger.com/676613/starbucks ... -cup-memes

Lothar

now, Lothar, the question will be whether mankind will have depleted, or ruined, sufficient resources to make any life sustainable by that point. Probably not. But we probably will have to rely considerably less on fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources. Deer studies have looked at this ver...

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I think what they're suggesting is simply using our self-restraint and allow junk like this to die on the vine, unanswered. Exactly. Why intentionally give life to a thread you want to die, and then ask someone else to kill it? Why put in the effort to respond so that you can ask Foil to put in eve...

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The fact is that such smooth peaks only work when the ecosystem is balanced and there is adequate predation/limitation on all species. With humans, you don't have that. You don't need "predation" per se, you just need factors that reduce net population growth as carrying capacity is appro...

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I disagree with your disagreement. There's nothing "cushioning the crash", there simply isn't a crash.

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http://christandpopculture.com/lol-inte ... starbucks/

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Any continuation(and one cannot suppose this won't happen) of the even slight steady rise of Homo Sapiens on the planet inexorably will lead to a population crash I studied population dynamics in grad school. Humanity is not on its way toward a population crash. We are not the kaibab deer. The grow...

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Threads like this are the opposite of that, and produce exactly what they are designed to produce -- garbage. I'm trying to educate you on how to not produce garbage. It's very simple: if you judge a thread to be a garbage-producer, don't respond. Then you don't produce garbage. And you don't encou...

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Why do you think I'm quoting the Bible in this thread? You did quote Matthew 23 earlier and if I'm not mistaken, that is from the Bible. You misunderstood my question. Let me rephrase it: what REASON do you think I had for quoting the Bible in this thread? I didn't quote it just out of the blue; th...

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At some point, population control will likely be necessary. I disagree with this premise. Population growth has already slowed significantly, and will continue to do so as contraception improves worldwide. I see no reason to repeat the rampant "global starvation" speculation of the 1970s....

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If you don't think a topic is worthy of discussion, then don't discuss it. Or if a topic isn't worthy of discussion, and is clearly designed just to provoke a mindless inflammatory response, why should it even be allowed on here in the first place? If you really want this place to have basic standa...

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I've seen ZERO real people complain about the Starbucks cups. There are complaints, apparently coming from known muckrakers, but no normal people seem to be going along with them. I've seen lots of people complaining about the complainers, saying that the complaint is totally stupid and that we shou...

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there are people who don't believe in the Gospels or Jesus, don't like to hear about it, or want it pushed into their faces constantly. I am not a believer, never will be either. No amount of Bible quoting will change that fact Why do you think I'm quoting the Bible in this thread? Hint: these peop...

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Foil wrote:If you don't think a topic is worthy of discussion, then don't discuss it.

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you don't understand what the above post was saying. Ask questions instead of making assertions. (Hint: Jesus isn't criticizing "Jews", but people who twist God's teachings.) The Jews, ie., the Pharisees, were the main target of his railing, weren't they? One faction of Jews. Not Jews as ...

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According to Lothar's above post, there shouldn't be any Jews allowed in the Kingdom of God either.... Where's all that "love and peace" Jesus taught so much? you don't understand what the above post was saying. Ask questions instead of making assertions. (Hint: Jesus isn't criticizing &q...

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There are important differences between the candidates, and one of those is the ability to weather an onslaught of fast-paced negative media Sure, but "the web is full of this" is a far cry from "an onslaught of fast-paced negative media" pointing toward a campaign in disarray. ...

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what good is being a provocateur if your religion is supposed to be one representing peace and love? ... these people claim they follow the tenants of Jesus woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor ...

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the damage is done, from the political wonk standpoint, when the web is full of this, and far worse If you really believed dumbass memes about candidates showed that "the damage is done", you'd have called the campaign over for Hillary, Bernie, Cruz, Trump, basically anyone who's gotten m...

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There are electronic billboards in my area advertising things like "Emergency Room wait time: 7 minutes".

Both of the times I've taken someone in the last couple years, the wait has been about that long.

But of course these are all anecdotes...

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seem to There's those keywords again. Politico SEEMS TO be backing off of its statements pretty drastically. They've removed references to "fabrication" and replaced them with "conceded ... never applied". Which is a position perfectly consistent with his story that he was offer...

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seems to key words. There are lots of good reasons to not vote for Ben Carson. But if you drown those out by discussing bull★■◆●, which this "seems to" be, who is going to listen to your real concerns? I seem to recall you making a similar argument regarding Hillary and the Benghazi heari...

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... not-apply/

tempest in a teapot.

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The insurance system in this country is completely wack in every way. I wouldn't call it "Christian" and I wouldn't call it "sensible".

https://www.chministries.org/ is a much better approach.

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What's really interesting is that the best performance seems to be a Democrat president with a Republican congress.

It's almost like that thing I keep saying about "changing the rules" and "pushing through an agenda" being bad for the economy actually has some basis in fact.

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Ferno wrote:That would make a pretty entertaining movie, I think.

*president schmucky mctard: "I now institute... sharia law!"*

*entire US military points everything they have at him: "What did you say?"*

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This thread kind of reminds me of the CNBC Republican debate. The questions being asked and answered have little relation to each other and even less relation to the purpose of the thing in the first place. It's mostly people talking past or over each other. The biggest loser in the whole thing is e...

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"Those people." This creates such a ridiculous catch-22. If a white person tries to speak about issues that have a racial component inclusively, they'll be criticized for cultural appropriation or for trying to insert themself into a "black issue". If they describe themselves as...

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The 'moderators' haven't had any self-control, nor control over the flow from the get go. What a disgrace. I enjoyed this piece: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/yes-liberal-media-bias-is-real-and-heres-how-it-affected-the-cnbc-debate/article/2575340?custom_click=rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&...

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If you're tuning him out, just tune him out.

If you want to make claims about what he actually means, you have to take responsibility as a listener.

You can't both tune him out and claim to know what he really meant based on a tiny snippet.

Lothar

Ferno wrote:And given Trumps' behaviour over the past ten years, 'easier' usually translates into 'should'.

In other words, you're letting your dislike of the man change what he said into what you heard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

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Wasn't the point of his statement? My understanding is that he made the comments in opposition to us telling other countries to forbid burkas... saying it's their [women's] choice, plus it's practical, plus it's beautiful. I don't understand how he's being controversial unless you're trying very ha...

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http://store.steampowered.com/app/360950/ If you have any game package of any sort -- kickstarter, steam, or from the DS website -- you can start playing. Be aware that it is early alpha. There are only 2 primary weapons in the game, only 3 levels, stuff like that. It's incomplete. But it's interest...

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The AI in coop gets confused sometimes -- different bots will be controlled by different players' systems, and sometimes a bot will be locked on to your teammate and will completely ignore you. It's something we'd like to fix, but it's not top priority right now.

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Jim Webb slams the extremism of both parties on his way out the door

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http://descendentstudios.com/community/ ... uirements/

64-bit OS, 2.5 GHz CPU (dual core, but prefer quad), 4 GB RAM, I think some people are running cards as low as the GTX-560.

Also install DirectX 9, DirectX 11, Visual C++/Visual Studio 2013 redistributables.

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Tempting, but I should probably let someone who doesn't still have multiple packs to give away have the first shot

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as soon as I saw this, I wondered what side various activists would come down on.

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