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Boredom Zone / Re: donation of blood to the blood bank?

« on: January 24, 2018, 07:25:45 AM »

Not unless I can get Money for My Blood Donations which is only for Rare Blood Types And Not in Canada though.

Yeah next time your in a car crash and you're bleeding out on the side of the road I hope the EMTs ask for a credit card before they save you.

(EDIT)

Oh and yes, BTW.

Over here they have big buses fitted out with beds and stuff that they drive around and park in like mall carparks or whatever. They test your blood then take some, give you a cup of tea of coffee, a bite to eat and a lie down for 10 minutes or so. No you don't get paid, im pretty sure thats not even legal. Over here people just do that stuff cos we're not a bunch of freakin' assholes.

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General Discussion / Re: My Bitcoin Friends

« on: January 24, 2018, 07:22:25 AM »

i will hire u but only pay in poopcoin (new crypto i just invented - don't worry it'll be worth a billion dollars soon for absolutely no reason)

@foonat Dude! My corporation was just about to register the name poopcoin...... now we had to have a board meeting and we're going with smegcoin instead, but we already had 10 million virtual e-brochures made and now they all have to be changed.... thanks for nothing

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General Discussion / Re: My Bitcoin Friends

« on: January 24, 2018, 07:13:56 AM »

Planning on making big moves, need advice pls. (self.personalfinance)

I've been a big fan of this subreddit and I've gotten lots of insight from reading posts here and I am in a dilemma rn and thought it would be wise to reach out to you all.

I do apologize if this is a bit off topic, this is my first post on here.

I'm 21 yo and live in Washington state. I have a lot of money invested into crypto right now and I'm expecting a return of roughly 200k by the end of the year. I want you to go through the entire post with the assumption of this, I do realize that crypto is volatile asf but I'm certain of my investments.

I've been going to college to get into corporate law but honestly, I think that college is just a trap. My brother in law recently offered to put 50/50 into a house in California. I've been thinking about this for quite some time and I honestly don't think there are any drawbacks in this. California has a lot of job opportunities and I could be making around 60k driving a truck and Uber a year. I know this is a huuuuuuuuuge downgrade from being a corporate lawyer but still, I'd have that much of a head start and no debt. Plus on top of that, I'd have property. We could sell the house and split 50/50 if the price rose or just rent it out and buy another house.

My brother in law is a really trust worthy person and I wouldn't be hesitant on trusting him on such a thing.

Thank you all.

OK. My advice. If you have gambled money on something risky (be it CC, a poker game or anything else) and have actually made enough out of it to make a genuine improvement to your life - stop gambling and improve your life. If it happens that later on you discover that you could have made more money, just be happy with your enhanced life.

If you have enough money to invest it in real-estate I would 1000% suggest you do this.

If you are thinking about investing with (or going into business with) a friend or family member I reccommend this:

    a) Don't
    b) If you do, then of course it will be with someone you trust - this is a given, but make VERY sure that your idea of what you want to do with the business/investment is the same as what your partner's is. Regardless of trustworthyness: People change, their lives and goals change over time. In 5 or 10 years time will you and your brother still want to be doing the same thing with the property? What happens if say for example, in 10 years you are living there and have a life in Cali and he has got married, moved to Alaska and wants to cash in his investment and start a business? ...or the positions are reversed etc.

You must have discussed and put in writing a clause for what is to happen in these situations. If you have money someone will always have an idea of how you should spend it. Listen to everyone's ideas, then do the right thing for you.

IMHO the right thing for you is almost NEVER going halves in anything with anyone, perhaps your case is the exception, but TBH it doesn't sound like you have put that much thought into it.

Hope this helps.

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General Discussion / Re: Leftism thread for forum.war2.ru (Communism itt)

« on: January 24, 2018, 06:54:44 AM »

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." - John Kenneth Galbraith


Made me lol

 

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Cartography & Custom Maps / Re: Not a POS map competition entry.

« on: January 24, 2018, 06:43:06 AM »

Hello @Lambchops. 
Really like your editor's features.
Would u like to make it a portable version of it and just do nothing to the registry so that the AV software doesn't say anything wrong?
btw, does your editor have a feature like press Ctrl+Z to retreat action in Photoshop. Add it if you like.

Hi person who doesn't want to use their real name but wants me to rewrite a dodgey 15 year old program.    ( @halala  )

I'm glad you like the editor It's really rough and I'm not planning on devoting any time to it. Every now and then I think of something I want to do to a PUD file so I add 'feature' to the old editor and usually then just use it once to do the thing I wanted to do.

If you read the About -> GrimEdit it explains this and a few other things. I reccomend reading that.

The editor is VERY simple. It does not access the registry or network. It doesn't read/write ANYTHING apart from PUD files, compressed PUD files, and BMP pictures of PUD files. It is 100% portable and requires only the exe file to run.

IIRC it used to save the display bitmap to a temp file then reload it to display on the editor window, simply because that was the easiest (first) way I found to do it at the time. I meant to fix that later, can't remember if I actually got around to it.

I believe the open/save as dialog boxes save the last accessed file in the registry, but this is just normal windows behaviour and not explicitly done by the editor.

There is no undo/redo function. I reccommend doing the following:

1) make what you want with the blizz editor
2) copy the PUD with a new name ... like add XX to the end of it or something - just in case.
3) edit the nameXX.pud file with grimedit
4) select SAVE from the menu regularly then if you want to revert (undo), select reload

HERE is a post I did a while back about anti-virus false positives.

I can guarantee you that the editor is:

    a) old.
    b) shitty and buggy.
    c) sometimes useful for some things.
    d) contains no malicious or nefarious code of any kind.


                               

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Question for U8t3ior2d2c3polastjedi....

« on: January 12, 2018, 10:53:39 PM »

* Lambchops enjoys the view despite having to crane his neck to see past the enormous elephant in the room

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General Discussion / Re: 'Murica thread

« on: January 12, 2018, 10:47:02 PM »

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/7psmgr/so_this_just_happened/

how long has american media been like this? i've mostly avoided mainstream media for a long time now.

I would laugh, but the sad truth is that this will probably win him votes.

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General Discussion / Re: Some people

« on: January 12, 2018, 10:28:51 PM »

Ok, just briefly:

on the molten sea:

The words in the bible, which you say are infallible, are describing a molten sea and giving its dimensions. People can draw as many pretty pictures of excuses as they like. Which page of the bible is that illustration on?

If the bible is describing the diameter of one part of this vessel which contains the 'sea' then describing the circumferance of another part of it and attributing them both to the same thing, then that is an error intself.

Why would GOD in his perfect wisdom choose to provide these irrellivant dimensions in his all too brief accout to his beloved creations. Maybe GOD suggested to some MAN that "hey you should tell them about the molten sea, that's pretty cool" ... and then some man did his best to describe it, and just kinda roughed out the dimensions eh? Seems a bit more likely than the holy spirit commanding someone to accurately measure completely different parts of an odd shaped vessel then attribute the measurements to the contents of the vessel. Doesn't sound like the kind of mistake GOD would make, more like that of a man.

on wives and commandments.

Thats all nice and you can interpret it with nice unicorns and rainbows or as "her body is my body" i.e. "she is my property" and should respect me. That is about the interpretation, not the words.

Just please direct me to the passage in the bible that mentions consent, I mean if the holy spirit in its perfect wisdom thought we needed paragraphs incorrectly describing some old pot, surely there's a word or two in there on consent? As we are describing the perfect morals for all of humanity, I'm pretty sure that will be in there somewhere (hopefully carved into a stone tablet )

on multiple prefixes for the word "evolution".

Ok. Firstly, I'm not in a tizzy. I wouldn't tizzy at you
There was no confusion. The introduction of all these "diferent types of evolution" is just a word game that attempts to obfuscate the issue (hence propoganda). The fact that it comes from a religious source is evident because every one of them is described as being "the origin" of something. This is obviously written from a religious viewpoint as that is what gets creationists in a tizzy (lol) the origin of life.

As I said immediately prior to the quoted section "There is only one meaning for the word evolution, and that is not it. Evolution describes a change that happens over time, it does not describe the origin of any basic object, only how a system changes."

Even Darwin (who was neither prophert nor messiah, just a man with the start of an idea) entitled his book "on the origin of species" NOT "on the origin of life". It attempts to describe how life evolves over time, thereby how new species come about, it has nothing to do with how life was created in the first place.

on "proof"

There is an absolute mountain of evidence that proves evolution. Fossil records dating back millions of years. Just because you dont live long enough to see it happen in front of you does not mean it doesn't happen. I believe last time I had this discussion I ended up saying: I don't have to actually throw myself into the sun to prove I will be burnt, just knowing it's hot, and that hot things will burn me is sufficiant.

So how are you going at proving the existance of GOD? .... not like oh the world is so wonderful therefore GOD must have made it, I mean like maybe a fossilised GOD footprint or something?

      .... and BTW which page of the bible describes the computer you're using to post these messages?

on hey you missed a bit

The bible was written by men right? I mean even if they are writing down what they remembered hearing Jesus say or whatever else was going on at the time, they were all just men ya? There is no gospel of Jesus, let alone a gospel of GOD. So then after these men wrote it down the way they remembered it, then other men transcribed what they had written multiple times, and into multiple languages. Then a bunch of men sat down and decided which of these stories they thought were best and which ones they didn't like, then they put those stories into a book and called it "The Bible" and declared it to be the word of GOD. Men did that right?

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Server.War2.ru / Re: Question for U8t3ior2d2c3polastjedi....

« on: January 12, 2018, 04:36:01 AM »

* Lambchops looks at his feet, whistles, then looks out the window for a while, says nothing, and wanders away.... 

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General Discussion / Re: Some people

« on: January 11, 2018, 10:52:50 PM »

I have a moral code that does NOT include lying, cheating, stealing, raping, killing, bullying, racism, homophobia and a whole lot of other stuff that the bible is quite ok with.

The Bible isn't okay with these things.

Not all of them, and ....a whole lot of other stuff... and the bible has a very long history used of being used to justify hate crimes.

Tell me about your moral code?

I believe I just did give you a very simple outline above, but further to that....

What is right and wrong and how do you know?

What is that code based on?

.... the entire point is that we are required to take resposibility for our own deeds, to weigh the consequences of our actions and interactions and make judgement as to their virtue or malevolence based on what we find in our own souls. Life if far to complicated to just look up all the answers on a cheat-sheet. 

Furthermore no such cheat-sheet exists to cover all possible moral dilemmas. The obvious ones (Tho shalt not kill) seem easy but life is not always black and white.

If the physical is all there is, and there is no author of the universe, then how can there be a basis for morality?

How can there be a basis for reason, if our existence is a chance accident? How can we trust our thoughts? And why does it even matter?

If we randomly evolved following the explosion of nothing billions of years ago, on what can the concepts or ideas of "right" and "wrong" be based?

Now we are straying out of ethics and into general philosophy. I'm sorry if these questions are keeping you up at night, but I have no problem whatsoever with the notion that I have a moral obligation based simply on the fact that I am a sentient being that knows right from wrong, therefore I should behave appropriately or I am denying my own essece.

Neither a rock floating through space nor a venemous jelly-fish know right from wrong so cannot be judged for either wiping out the dinosaurs or fatally stinging a surfer.

I do, therefore I am, and should.

Also, if the device is "clearly very simple" as you suggest, then it should be an easy task for you to make one. I invite you to post pics and videos of your very simple creation.

Haha, nice. If I still had my shed and all my tools actually I could reproduce that device. It would take many many hours of painstaking work, and I would never even consider doing it, but it is quite possible.

But as we are just talking about the complexity of the device, I (or you) could quite easily cut out scaled replicas of all the components out of construction paper without very much effort and thus demonstrate its relative simplicity.

None of us, with or without a shed, tools or construction paper is going to create an accurate representation of the complexity of a multi-core processor.... nice try


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The real dilemma for me here is that I don't actually want to argue against your religion. I like you, bible and all. I am not the mean kid in the schoolyard that wants to take your bible and throw it on the roof, but please excuse me if I just read my science book ok?

                                                             

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General Discussion / Re: Some people

« on: January 11, 2018, 09:46:15 PM »

Collins also contains the "word" MILF, that does't mean it isn't a term invented by people peddling online porn in the late '90s.

Are you saying your definition of evolution is different from the one in this dictionary?

My point was about the term "evolutionist" not the word "evolution". In fact that was the first dictionary definition you quoted. Pretty sure you are just trolling me now.

There are a number of different meanings for the word evolution and the different things that have come into existence.

No. There is only one meaning for the word evolution, and that is not it. Evolution describes a change that happens over time, it does not describe the origin of any basic object, only how a system changes.

Stellar evolution: the origin of stars
Chemical evolution: the origin of the elements
Cosmic evolution: the origin of time, space, matter from a "big bang" of nothing exploding into the universe
Organic evolution: the origin of life from non-life
Macro-evolution: the changing of.....
                                                ......ONLY micro-evolution is scientific

Ok if you really want to know then pay attention to this bit: None of those things are scientific. I'm pretty sure you've sourced them from some religious propoganda material or other, but I do know they didn't come from science or the correct definition of the word "evolution". This is just someone trying to construct a house of cards on top of a bed of split-hairs in order to deny the blatently obvious.

There is no known scientific mechanism that allows for the creation of new information required for new features, like wings or lungs or bones or kidneys or a mouth or feathers.

I believe it's called "evolution". It's a very well known, well studied and well documented process.

And the wings have to work properly the first time or the creature will just be carrying around extra weight and baggage that is both useless and cumbersome and would have no reason to be retained. Wings are clearly a designed feature that can't come into existence randomly or by trial and error or chance.

Spend enough time jumping from one tree to the next and the guy with the best surface area to mass ratio has an advantage --- SUGAR GLIDER

Same with an eye. You can't have a non-functioning eye that serves any purpose, being half-complete. The eye needs all the parts functioning correctly out of the gate for it to work.

Not if you are a simple prehistoric creature living in a swamp full of similar creatures and you just want to find the sun. Then all you need is a single photo-sensative cell and you can tell which way the top of the swamp is. This would be so helpfull that your offspring would continue to develop more of these cells.

How about the circulatory system. Which came first? Blood, blood vessels, or the heart? If you have blood but no ....  (etc)

Ok this is a good one. 1) blood 2)blood vessels/heart
Many simple creatures dont have a proper circulatory system, they just have their organs floating around in a bunch of goop. When they move the goop kinda squishes around. the next thing that develops is valves, which just have a tendancy to allow more goop to squish in one direction that the other, which encourages the goop to actually circulate. at this point the entire creature can be thought of as a heart ... or a blood vessel. Obviously over many generations the creature with the best circulation has a definate advantage so the system becomes more and more refined.

How about male/female? Which came first, the male or the female? If the male came first, where did he put the sperm while waiting for the female to evolve? If the female came first, how did she get pregnant to produce a child while waiting for the male to evolve?

You'll like this. hehe. men are a virus. way back when life was very simple a chunk of dna came about that worked by sticking its dna into something else and letting that thing replicate it, instead of replicating by itself. This was a massive boon for life because it enabled the transfer of genetic traits and encouraged diversity which led to much faster and more efficiant evolution. The sperm, the womb and all the related naughty bits evolved later once this system was already in place.

This is why, despite the fact that asexual reproduction was around first, the forms of life that have evolved from the sexually reproductive branch (plants/animals/us!) have evolved much further in a shorter amount of time than the asexual forms of life like bacteria, which remain very simple.


Ok, now I've explained some evolution to you, here's a couple of questions:

The bible was written by men right? I mean even if they are writing down what they remembered hearing Jesus say or whatever else was going on at the time, they were all just men ya? There is no gospel of Jesus, let alone a gospel of GOD. So then after these men wrote it down the way they remembered it, then other men transcribed what they had written multiple times, and into multiple languages. Then a bunch of men sat down and decided which of these stories they thought were best and which ones they didn't like, then they put those stories into a book and called it "The Bible" and declared it to be the word of GOD. Men did that right?

As I understand it the bible tells you not to covert another man's wife (with the implication that she is his property), but it doesn't say you shouldn't rape your own wife ya? ... or famale slaves, or children?? (altar boys spring to mind!).... now I'm certainly not saying that GOD didn't forbid these things when he was spelling out our morals for us, but perhaps some MEN edited those bits out?

Hehe... also the bible says that PI = 3 ..... Yeah like I'm pretty damn sure GOD knows how to draw a circle, but I'm guessing that the men who were writing all this stuff down then rewriting it etc. probably didnt have the math skills to write down 3.14159265358979323846 so they just kinda rounded it down ya?.... the word of GOD.... they just kinda.... sorta... rounded it down a bit - ya? 

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Server.War2.ru / Re: serious question

« on: January 11, 2018, 10:19:30 AM »

I got a kitchenaid 4 slice toaster for myself for Christmas and it's really good.  learning that I like to set the darkness to 5 for Ego waffles, but only a 2 for poptarts.  I get these big soft Snyders pretzels from the freezer aisle and those i set the darkness to 3-4 and they come out nice and toasted on the outside and soft and warm on the inside.

Nice man, that sounds like a seriously above average 4 slice toaster

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Server.War2.ru / Re: serious question

« on: January 11, 2018, 09:34:41 AM »

Everyone knows "Allah" means "God" in Arabic right?

Yeah, and it's exactly the same GOD that the hebrews and the christians worship, they just bicker about the propherts.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: serious question

« on: January 11, 2018, 06:24:36 AM »

why do you think your opinion matters? youre juts frustrated because out of your home and at difficult time of life, is ok, but its stupid of you to think that i care about literally anything you idiots post about richard dawkins.
a wanna-be non-hacker and someone denying evolution

Ok, that was much better. Well done

.... and for the record I havn't posted anything about richard dawkins, whoever that is.

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Server.War2.ru / Re: serious question

« on: January 11, 2018, 04:11:39 AM »

well for starters you just called Lambchops a newb faggot whom I've never seen being mean to anyone.

Aww thanks @BabyShark I missed that one.

So for the record @jordan4385, I'm actually a non-homophobic newb hetro, so I don't actually take that as an insult. On the other hand if I was a gay newb I would probably take offence at the term 'faggot' and call you a cock-juggling lamer with the IQ of an average 4-slice toaster, but hey, I really don't care that much 

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Oh yeah on further investigation I think you meant to call Sentinal1 a newb faggot, not me. np stuff happens... and BTW I really don't give a toss who sucks who's weiner around here.

how can you be aware of richard dawkins..... almost made a point then totally blew it by spraying a bunch of inaccurate and irrellivant hate-fuelled abuse

Do you realise how utterly retarded you have to be to make me stick up for the fundementalist christian in a discussion like this? OMG how do you fail that hard? Ima call your mom right now and tell her to slap some decency into you.