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- 06 Sep 2017, 16:05
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone want to examine my ethics?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1229
Re: Anyone want to examine my ethics?
Just want to note that if the principle is extended from one person to groups of people, then there's always the question of the rights of the individual vs. the well-being of the group. "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one." But, conversely, is it ethical to ch...
- 04 Sep 2017, 18:41
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone want to examine my ethics?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1229
Re: Anyone want to examine my ethics?
(Yeah, ethics thread!) Reformulated, I think your last statement could be written as: "Minimize the difference between the Universe and the Willed Universe", where "Willed Universe" means "the description of a Universe where a maximum of people are in a state of maximal sati...
- 30 Apr 2017, 06:08
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Eternal Crusade, a Warhammer 40k game
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2552
Eternal Crusade, a Warhammer 40k game
"It's the most fun I've had PC gaming in a long time." -Me "It takes some getting used to, but only because you have to unlearn the stupidity that other shooters have taught you."-Also Me Hi! Welcome to the LRR Eternal Crusade thread. What is Eternal Crusade? It's a team-based Pv...
- 09 Nov 2016, 20:06
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The voxlunch stream shelter thread
- Replies: 140
- Views: 40294
Re: The voxlunch stream shelter thread
Elomin Sha wrote:Sincere question: is covering oneself in a shell, repeatedly, a good idea? You're going to have to come out at some point and just deal with it like adults, falling apart isn't going to help.
The shelter protects the mind while it comes up with a coping mechanism.
- 28 Jul 2016, 17:19
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shameless Self-Promotion Thread!
- Replies: 86
- Views: 19187
- 27 Jul 2016, 19:27
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3542
Re: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
OK, this is the last thing I'll say about this: 1) I'm not asking you to work FOR me. I inquired as to whether you would be interested in contributing half a day's worth of your expertise a CHARITY PROJECT for a CHARITY, and you refused. That's fine. The point is, if you were WORKING FOR me, I'd be ...
- 22 Jul 2016, 15:48
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Limits on freedom of speech
- Replies: 69
- Views: 9334
Re: Limits on freedom of speech
Soooo, the joke was that he's annoyed that after all the years he's defended him saying he's living his dream because he's dying, that he hasn't died yet? Yeah. Pretty NOT funny, huh? :| Apparently the humour is that the syndrome the kid has is always mentioned but never explained , so everyone aut...
- 22 Jul 2016, 15:28
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3542
Re: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
Really? I think we can hash the 4 melodies in <3 hours, all the chords might take 15-30 minutes total (i'm just asking for root and chord number) and the 7 variations (well, actually it's just 6) are just descriptions like "play it backwards", "apply symmetry to it", "apply ...
- 22 Jul 2016, 14:39
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3542
Re: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
Because I don't want you to feel insulted, nor do I want to offend anyone reading this, I want to clarify that I'm not asking you, Bradley Rains, to produce 150 hours of music. I am asking you to inspire me with 4 melodies of music, each lasting no more than 8 measures, all the chords that go well w...
- 22 Jul 2016, 10:59
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Limits on freedom of speech
- Replies: 69
- Views: 9334
Re: Limits on freedom of speech
You know, americans talk a lot about the chilling effect of punishment on speech, but isn't cooling down sometimes a good thing?
- 19 Jul 2016, 17:59
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3542
Re: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
Please do, thanks.
- 13 Jul 2016, 11:02
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3542
Re: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
No... no! I can't go back!
- 13 Jul 2016, 04:05
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3542
Re: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
Hmm, 99 views on this thing and nobody's fetched Bradley Rains! I'm starting to think bribing people with hay-pennies doesn't work!
Oh well.
Oh well.
- 02 Jul 2016, 12:51
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3542
Re: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
No, the algorithm does have "a" root key, what you're hearing is akin to E and F being played at the same time in the C major key. It can happen in any key. I could make sure that it never happens, it would just involve some math which I wasn't in the mood for doing (actually, this is the ...
- 02 Jul 2016, 09:59
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3542
You there, boy! Go fetch me Bradley Rains
There's a hay-penny in it for you if you do! Hey, Bradley! I have a way to compose music very quickly, but I have very little in the way of music education. I'm thinking, you and I, we skype for a couple hours one day, and suddenly we get enough music for all of Desert Bus 10! What say you? If you w...
- 02 Jul 2016, 09:40
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The New Music Thread
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2881
- 24 Jun 2016, 00:46
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: So... About that Significant World Event that Happened...
- Replies: 55
- Views: 8584
Re: So... About that Significant World Event that Happened..
Much to the chagrin of Newfoundlanders who hoped it would make the trip to Toronto shorter, Quebec isn't going to separate from Canada. We just booted out the PQ (that's the leading national brand of separatist crazies) and they were replaced by the Liberals, who are pretty much the only federalist ...
- 23 Jun 2016, 20:50
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Battle of the Belly Buttons: Are You an Innie or an Outie?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2628
Re: Battle of the Belly Buttons: Are You an Innie or an Outi
I've never been to the EU, but I heard it's a nice place.
I vote in
I vote in
- 20 Jun 2016, 02:56
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Feminism general thread
- Replies: 1178
- Views: 99876
Re: Feminism general thread
I am a feminist, but... I am a feminist butt. Wait, let me start over. I am a man with opinions, and I fundamentally believe that it is by the expression of these opinions that we improve them. The problem is that I expect the same enthusiasm from other people, and so everybody gets really tired of ...
- 18 Jun 2016, 14:16
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: New Vanilla 1.9 Server!
- Replies: 249
- Views: 73387
Re: New Vanilla 1.9 Server!
Hey, can I join in? My username is Elarot.
- 03 Jun 2016, 18:28
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Limits on freedom of speech
- Replies: 69
- Views: 9334
Re: Limits on freedom of speech
The "essential" part of freedom of speech is the freedom to critique. Freedom to critique the government, freedom to critique an individual, etc. The thing is that critique is not harassment. A critique may be well or ill-founded, but at least it tries to point out or correct flaws in some...
- 02 Jun 2016, 09:32
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Limits on freedom of speech
- Replies: 69
- Views: 9334
Re: Limits on freedom of speech
I' m not trying to deflect the argument, I'm just saying that a) freedom is not inherently desirable b) that government is an intrinsic part of the human experience basically, what I was implying, and I'm sorry for not making it explicit, but I'm tired and I just realized this, was that she needed t...
- 02 Jun 2016, 08:53
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Limits on freedom of speech
- Replies: 69
- Views: 9334
Re: Limits on freedom of speech
What has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of our early freedom? We say this, that the sin our fathers sinned was that they did not trust liberty wholly. They thought it possible to compromise between liberty and govern...
- 31 May 2016, 17:49
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Limits on freedom of speech
- Replies: 69
- Views: 9334
Re: Limits on freedom of speech
Hey, I forgot a very important category of speech that should not be allowed: harassment and threats.
Imagine if we criminalized death threats on publicly viewable forums. Wouldn't that make the internet a nicer place?
Imagine if we criminalized death threats on publicly viewable forums. Wouldn't that make the internet a nicer place?
- 31 May 2016, 17:45
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Roko's Basilisk and the Dark Enlightenment.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1539
Re: Roko's Basilisk and the Dark Enlightenment.
Ah, an escaped thought experiment. Those things are dangerous! I remember a few years back scary articles on floating space brains outnumbering us and thus our view of the universe being all wrong. Despite some quite obvious flaws in the reasoning it got a lot of coverage. --- As for the best form ...