Thread: Random observations and questions that don't fit anywhere else. (at least not safely)

Keurig. Got one of these and man, I'm sold. Keurig means never having to suffer through a bad pot of coffee.

Why is it when the president decides to drop the corpse of a Muslim in the ocean in direct contravention of Islamic burial law it's NOT desecration despite the flagrant disregard of religious custom, but when marines piss on dead Taliban who were shortly beforehand trying to shoot said marines it sparks an apology from the pentagon TO THE PEOPLE THE TALIBAN ARE TRYING TO KILL?

Anyone who says, "I'm just sayin'" is NOT 'just sayin'. That person is in fact trying to start a fight. I'm just sayin'.

The final results are in and it IS in fact better to ask forgiveness than permission.

The same country that at one time laid the groundwork for democracy and provided us with some of our greatest philosophers is now being tanked by socialism.

The Matrix was a good movie. Too bad they didn't make a sequel.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from the consequences of speech.

Trying to solve illegal gun violence by banning guns is like trying to solve piss on the toilet seat by getting rid of the toilet.

If you want to live a good life, think of someone you greatly respect, someone you would never want to disappoint. Now live the rest of your life as though that person were watching.

Originally Posted by Cebelius

The Matrix was a good movie.It's a good thing they didnt make a sequel

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Originally Posted by Cojiro

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It must be said, you have an awesome avatar. :P

Originally Posted by AetheLove

Non-random responses that fit exactly here:

The worst coffee I ever had was from a pot. I agree with you that Keurig makes something that is consistently better than the absolute worst coffee I ever had.

But I don't know how anyone can call the brown juice that comes out of these things "coffee". It's like a hot-Kool-Aid maker, except that the sugar is already in the mix. I mean, Kool-Aid was fine when I was 8 and thought a bad sports mascot crashing through a cardboard wall was "Kool", but in pretty much any situation now I'm going to go with orange juice. Even the store-bought from-concentrate stuff is better than Kool-Aid.

Keurig does get points for being simple. If all you want in the morning is a fast shot of sweet expensive caffeine that you can't screwup no matter how hungover you are, then this fits the bill.

I'm hoping for better out of life. In the narrow slice of my life that has to do with coffee, that's working out really well.

There's only so much gourmet that'll fit into a forward deployed Army operations center. I take what I can get.

Originally Posted by AetheLove

For the same reason that the allies didn't execute every one who had ever worn a German military uniform or ever been a member of the Nazi party.

It sometimes makes sense to hold leaders to a different standard of responsibility than their followers.

Exactly. We executed the leaders in the instance of the Nazi's, not the followers. The response today is precisely ass-backward.

Originally Posted by AetheLove

It's a noble troll that admits to it up-front.

I think there's a decent quibble to be had here, but I'm not going to make it because this statement is what gave me permission to respond to you without worrying about being too antagonistic.

:P

Originally Posted by AetheLove

Being a douchebag is better if your goal is to get what you want and fuck everyone else. I'm not sure what you mean by "final resuslts", that's been true for a very long time. We fit people who follow this maxim on a scale that ranges from "anti-social" to "psychopath." ... and when I say "we" I mean, "those of us who take to heart basic principles of decent behaviour and are at least occasionally able to see past our own momentary desires."

You seem to be confusing getting results in the workplace with breaking laws in society. My comment, though not specifically addressed (which would have tanked any humor value it might have had) was to the former whilst your reply is clearly toward the latter. I do not advocate breaking laws at whim. I DO advocate completing projects without asking for approval of every needed change. To draw an analogy, you don't stop on the battlefield and refer to your commander when you run into unexpected enemy fire... you just change your plans. Ask for forgiveness later.

Originally Posted by AetheLove

France?

Greece

Originally Posted by AetheLove

Yeah. It was a great action flic, and also the best visual rendering so far of the sci-fi that Dick and Gibson made, and ALSO a wonderful meditation on western philosophy from Descartes right through the 20th century.

The other two shared the same name, but were made of much simpler stuff.

Indeed.

Originally Posted by AetheLove

If there weren't consequences, then what would be the point in the first place? That speech has consequences is the only good reason to engage in it.
That's why it's an insult to tell someone that what they are saying is of no consequence.
For example: has anyone ever responded to you in this forum by simply referring you to your own avatar?

The implication here that was avoided or missed was that you as the speaker do not get to pick and choose which consequences you wind up with. You can only take your best guess at what the consequences will be and hope that you're taken in the (to you) correct light. If you spoke with no intention of giving offense and in fact someone who heard you was offended, that's a consequence you have to deal with regardless of the fact it wasn't your intention. People always seem to confuse freedom of speech with the ability to disregard at will the reactions of the people to whom they speak.

Originally Posted by AetheLove

No, in your analogy it would be like banning penises.

That is incorrect on two levels. The first is in the assumption that women never pee on toilet seats when in fact they do so quite regularly, see "hovering" as it applies to women in public restrooms. The second is in the assumption that the penis represents guns when in fact it represents the ability to act. I didn't say, "solve gun violence." I said, "solve illegal gun violence." This implies that there is in fact gun violence that is quite legal and proper, just as it is quite proper to piss IN the toilet rather than ON it. The purpose of a toilet is to be pissed in and the purpose of a gun is to be the object utilized in violence. Eliminating the toilet is therefore correct in my analogy. You can still pee in whatever else you like, you would just no longer have the option of peeing in anything so appropriate as a toilet. Without guns you are still free to commit whatever violence suits your tastes, you just don't have the option of committing that violence with a gun.

Originally Posted by AetheLove

Can we call that person "God" ?

Clearly we could, but while it can be said that each of use has a deeply personal relationship with God and He does indeed see all our deeds, we also tend to have a vision of Him as being a much more forgiving sort than most of our earthly role models... so while you could do so, I hardly think it would be as effective.

Originally Posted by AetheLove

Cheers,
AetheLove

Nostrovia!

I stopped reading after "Just sayin"