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Tee See Em
02-08-2009, 02:59 AM
More big-picture than day-to-day for this thread, if you don't mind. We've all got a lot of catching up to do.

PariahKing
02-08-2009, 03:01 AM
I think I want my funeral broadcasted live on The Source.

Like they do for WoW players.

Quicksilver_Johny
02-08-2009, 03:02 AM
Mainly, I'm into my second semester of college; it's been fun so far.
Edit: Also, I ate a granola bar. ...Wait, is that too big-picture?

Tee See Em
02-08-2009, 03:05 AM
http://www.katimavik.org/images/logosite.jpgI'm currently participating in Katimavik, which describes itself as "Canada's leading national youth volunteer-service program". That seems accurate enough. Basically, I live with 10 other participants (actually 8, few groups actually have 10 for long) and do full-time volunteer work for an average of 3 months in each of 3 cities in Canada. My first rotation was in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, where I learnt that the prairies were more or less everything I expected, but colder. I'm currently in Drummondville, Quebec, which is very French.

Too tired to explain more without provocation, but that's the gist of it.

zorro
02-08-2009, 03:35 AM
hmmm im bored sitting here with mutt waiting on a drunken phone call in the katimavik house in Québec <really bored >

PariahKing
02-08-2009, 03:37 AM
Who are you, zorro?

WaterBurnFire?

Tee See Em
02-08-2009, 03:37 AM
Who are you, zorro?

WaterBurnFire?You mean Water/Firemark? Nope.

Tee See Em
02-08-2009, 03:38 AM
♥♥♥♥ big-picture.

Here, took this 30 seconds ago.

Tee See Em
02-08-2009, 03:39 AM
PK, you actually filtered ♥♥♥♥. I thought that was a joke. NONONO.

PariahKing
02-08-2009, 03:47 AM
It's an expression to make love. It needs to be ♥♥♥♥.

Kedster
02-08-2009, 04:45 AM
Still trying to get graduated from highschool despite being 18. Blame the terrorist institutional education. On a side note my gf's playing a large part in my life so I'm pretty cool.

Cloneysocks
02-08-2009, 04:50 AM
I'm always too far in the abstract to answer questions like this directly.

I'm currently pursuing a Grand Unified Theory of Mental Masturbation, though.

Kedster
02-08-2009, 04:50 AM
But very boring.

What I meant with "trying to" was that it's my fifth year, wtf. Preparation + 4 years of classes = ew. Luckily, I still get away with sleeping all lessons and still getting good grades, so go me!

Zindaras
02-08-2009, 05:29 AM
Third year of university (I study economics), just spent half a year in Lisbon as exchange student. That's pretty much the gist of it.

Besides the obvious fact that I like kittens.

Kedster
02-08-2009, 05:30 AM
Zindaras is third year, and I'm graduating fro high school this year.

This pains me gravely.

Jenius
02-08-2009, 05:32 AM
I'm halfway through my second year at a Uni (My major is Chemical Engineering). I work in research labs in the wide field of electrophoresis (my focus is dynamic field gradient focusing).

PariahKing
02-08-2009, 05:33 AM
I'm a major in public administration.

This is somehow appropriate.

Zindaras
02-08-2009, 05:35 AM
Zindaras is third year, and I'm graduating fro high school this year.

This pains me gravely.

Not as much as our next mod fight will.

*cracks knuckles*

Jenius
02-08-2009, 05:37 AM
How you all fairing in school? I'm top 3 in my class apparently (we have to submit CV's to sort out who is the top), chemical engineering isn't as hard as the name entails.

Zindaras
02-08-2009, 05:41 AM
I basically do very little and pass everything as one of the best students. Then again, there aren't that many students left in my direction (it's too mathematical for most), so meh.

Jenius
02-08-2009, 05:54 AM
Oh man for some odd reason chemical engineers have to take one semester of beginning econ (econ 101/102, I took 102 I think), so I was taking it and it was so hilarious how bad people were at math in that class. It was basically high school algebra and there were still people confused how to use a linear equation.

In high school I always thought a university was a mystical place where people went to learn and students were smart and applied themselves. In reality, it turns out they're all retarded.

Psion
02-08-2009, 07:57 AM
I'm becoming a stereotypical hippie and have devoted my time to various odd pursuits, such as the practice of Tuvan throat singing.

notallama
02-08-2009, 10:26 AM
second year cs. trying to double major in math.
i tend to do well in the classes that are supposed to be hard, and medeocre int he ones that are supposed to be easy.
(except databases. that's supposed to be easy, and it is. have 100% so far and i have not been to class)

also i'm thinking i want to dress up as summer glau when my hair gets longer. i think i could pull it off.

Naga
02-08-2009, 11:40 AM
I'm a major in public administration.

This is somehow appropriate.

There has never been more win than this.

I'm in my last year of high school right now. I kindof stopped caring about my marks, and they fell, but I still don't care. I'm moving to Ottawa next year to attend university there, in a joint honours philosophy/polisci program. I already got in, so ♥♥♥♥ school.

Tee See Em
02-08-2009, 11:59 AM
Still trying to get graduated from highschool despite being 18. Blame the terrorist institutional education. On a side note my gf's playing a large part in my life so I'm pretty cool.High School is not hard.But very boring.

What I meant with "trying to" was that it's my fifth year, wtf. Preparation + 4 years of classes = ew. Luckily, I still get away with sleeping all lessons and still getting good grades, so go me!Yay for not finishing high school!

Now 19, after 5 years of classes I was still two credits short (something to do with missing a lot of class and, in most cases, never hanging anything in) so I decided to do something else for a year, and actually get said credits next summer.

On the plus side, my self-education re: compsci has been coming along very nicely over the past year, so I don't feel entirely useless. Also, a year (fine, 9 months, assuming I finish the program) of volunteer work will also look good on a university or job application.

notallama
02-08-2009, 12:01 PM
discrete math is really fun/awesome.

SizzlingStapleCider
02-08-2009, 01:09 PM
Last year of high school... nothing really happens in high school...

Kant
02-08-2009, 02:18 PM
I'm majoring in Polisci, hopefully I'll be able to become either a bureaucrat in the Department of State or a diplomat.

Kant
02-08-2009, 02:18 PM
Last year of high school... nothing really happens in high school...

Who the ♥♥♥♥ are you.

Jenius
02-08-2009, 02:23 PM
Of course Jenius wants to compare grades what a high schooler.

Ok Jenius. I am a History Major at Vassar (BTW NON-AMERICANS, College does not imply that the institution is a bad school unlike your systems, just that we don't have a grad program) with like a 3.4 GPA. I know that's not nearly as good as yours probably is but at least my parents have the money to pay for any graduate school that I get into. Where are you attending college, out of curiosity?

Washington State University. Has a pretty good chemical engineering program but in the end it's nothing special. Though if I want to go to grad school it's not going to be an issue, between my grades and research I'm not even in my junior year and I have people bugging me.
:cool:

good news
02-08-2009, 02:27 PM
I'm a junior at the university of michigan- majoring in comparative literature and spanish. Thinking about picking up history or latin american and caribbean studies as a major too, because somehow they seem more practical than the other two but I don't want to be one of those assholes that triple majors.
I really like 20th century Argentinean literature and marxist critical theory. I don't know what I'm going to do with my life. I want to go to grad school. I shaved the side of my head and left the rest. I'm doing a semester in Chile next year. I hate the future but I love Adorno.

Keeper
02-08-2009, 02:28 PM
I failed so many classes during the first half of my senior year that I can't get a diploma from my high school if I want to graduate in June. So instead I'm just getting a city diploma. I'll probably get stuck going to a city college, too, but if that's the case I'll try to transfer somewhere good by junior year.

No idea what I'm going to be majoring in at this point.

Fluke Hawkins
02-08-2009, 03:12 PM
I got a jorb at GameStop over the summer. I'm single (again). I'm working on an academic essay comparing Bioshock to Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Gotta start looking at colleges here shortly. I just had the last swim meet of the season yesterday. Still working on getting my goddamn liscence (why can't suburban virginia have more sidewalks and places withing biking distance?). I'm really hoping 2009 proves to be a bit better than 2008 was.

notallama
02-08-2009, 03:18 PM
bioshock is lame. :(

it was $5 on steam, so i bought it. then i played it a bit and it sucked so i stopped.

Naga
02-08-2009, 03:18 PM
I got a jorb at GameStop over the summer. I'm single (again). I'm working on an academic essay comparing Bioshock to Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Gotta start looking at colleges here shortly. I just had the last swim meet of the season yesterday. Still working on getting my goddamn liscence (why can't suburban virginia have more sidewalks and places withing biking distance?). I'm really hoping 2009 proves to be a bit better than 2008 was.

What's the essay for? School, or lulz?

Either way, I'm interested.

Kant
02-08-2009, 03:19 PM
bioshock is lame. :(

it was $5 on steam, so i bought it. then i played it a bit and it sucked so i stopped.

How's it like not having a soul?

Or do you not like it because it mocks your libertarian beliefs?

good news
02-08-2009, 03:21 PM
Using "academic essay" and any book by ayn rand is really really painful to my eyes/contradiction in terms.

Whenever I go home from school I listen to the blood brothers when I'm driving and think about writing a paper about them and their representation of the postmodern subject BECAUSE BLOOD BROTHERS ARE ACTUALLY REALLY SMART

notallama
02-08-2009, 03:21 PM
no, it was mainly the gameplay that sucked.
basically, it felt like a god damn xbox game.

kotor was the same way, but it had enough awesome that it was good anyway.

Naga
02-08-2009, 03:31 PM
Using "academic essay" and any book by ayn rand is really really painful to my eyes/contradiction in terms.

Whenever I go home from school I listen to the blood brothers when I'm driving and think about writing a paper about them and their representation of the postmodern subject BECAUSE BLOOD BROTHERS ARE ACTUALLY REALLY SMART

Rand and I have a long history together. I read the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged a long time ago, and I was one of the typical Rand-oids so hated by the internet nowadays. Since then, though, I've started to change how I feel about her and the books. They are highly sensationalised, and I've come to disagree with a lot of what she says, but the core of it still makes up my belief system today. I had read her before anyone else, and now, I've been able to identify a lot of the sources of her inspiration.

I still have the same libertarian ideals as her, but her implementation of a solution was really, really stupid and wouldn't work on any level.

Edit: Oh, I played Bioshock for about ten minutes before I got bored and went back to play Oblivion.

Kant
02-08-2009, 03:32 PM
I like how proud of herself she was that she could create a science fiction universe where her ideas made perfect sense.

good news
02-08-2009, 03:34 PM
The thing is, she's not good literature, and she's not good philosophy either.

Her books are kind of the most obvious example of the marxist notion of base/superstructure.

good news
02-08-2009, 03:35 PM
As a side note- as much as the recent economic crisis made me lose a shitton of money, anybody else really excited that it showed how capitalism obviously doesn't work?

Naga
02-08-2009, 03:36 PM
As a side note- as much as the recent economic crisis made me lose a shitton of money, anybody else really excited that it showed how capitalism obviously doesn't work?

No, it's not proof of that at all. it's just proof that the government needs to stop ♥♥♥♥ing with things and let capitalism run on its own.

good news
02-08-2009, 03:37 PM
No, it's not proof of that at all. it's just proof that the government needs to stop ♥♥♥♥ing with things and let capitalism run on its own.

Are you kidding?

Kant
02-08-2009, 03:40 PM
Are you kidding?

Well, the reason that we have to do the bailout is because we have no domestic options. If these banks/companies fail, there won't be smaller companies that take their place.

The regulations guys really ♥♥♥♥ed up, and they did a terrible job, is what this teaches us. Allowing most of our economy to be in the financial sector made us really prone to this kind of stuff.

Zindaras
02-08-2009, 04:36 PM
Oh man for some odd reason chemical engineers have to take one semester of beginning econ (econ 101/102, I took 102 I think), so I was taking it and it was so hilarious how bad people were at math in that class. It was basically high school algebra and there were still people confused how to use a linear equation.

Maths in basic economic subjects is barely high school level, yes, but it gets quite a bit more difficult later on.

No, it's not proof of that at all. it's just proof that the government needs to stop ♥♥♥♥ing with things and let capitalism run on its own.

Oh, c'mon, that's just ridiculous. The very absence of rules is what caused this crisis. They let it run on its own, and look what happened. If letting capitalism run its way is the best thing to do, there should have been no bailout: they should've left the banks alone and let the strong survive.

The regulations guys really ♥♥♥♥ed up, and they did a terrible job, is what this teaches us. Allowing most of our economy to be in the financial sector made us really prone to this kind of stuff.

You can't regulate the size of the financial sector. The financial sector is the main sector that's been allowing the economy to grow. What they really need to do is regulate the financial sector better.

Kant
02-08-2009, 04:38 PM
Oh, c'mon, that's just ridiculous. The very absence of rules is what caused this crisis. They let it run on its own, and look what happened. If letting capitalism run its way is the best thing to do, there should have been no bailout: they should've left the banks alone and let the strong survive.

This

You can't regulate the size of the financial sector. The financial sector is the main sector that's been allowing the economy to grow. What they really need to do is regulate the financial sector better.


Of course not, I was making 2 seperate points.

Zindaras
02-08-2009, 04:43 PM
Yeah, but how are you going to prevent the financial sector from growing? It's cutting your own wrist. The financial sector is great. When it works, it gives us wealth beyond belief. The main problem is that markets fail, something a lot of economists (especially on the American/English side) have trouble believing, and some regulation is necessary to keep them from failing.

Keeper
02-08-2009, 04:48 PM
Laziness, or is Stuy actually hard?

It's probably harder than the average high school, but mainly I'm just a lazy shit.

Kant
02-08-2009, 04:51 PM
Yeah, but how are you going to prevent the financial sector from growing? It's cutting your own wrist. The financial sector is great. When it works, it gives us wealth beyond belief. The main problem is that markets fail, something a lot of economists (especially on the American/English side) have trouble believing, and some regulation is necessary to keep them from failing.

Precisely. The reason that the financial sector grew so quickly (I agree that it gives great amounts of wealth, but the problem is when firms that have no business in the financial sector get most of their money from it--one of the big 3, for example, got 40% of its profits from financial stuff) was that our regulations committees were formed for an earlier generation of corporations--and it's still true. Our regulations are probably 10 years behind.

Jenius
02-08-2009, 04:52 PM
It's hard to get motivated in highschool. For the most part, nothing you learn will be relevant for the rest of your life unless you count going from high school math to calc or whatever.

Edit: This was directed at Member #6 which I think is MoD but I really can't be bothered to remember.

Kant
02-08-2009, 04:54 PM
It's hard to get motivated in highschool. For the most part, nothing you learn will be relevant for the rest of your life unless you count going from high school math to calc or whatever.

Precisely this. I'm realizing now that the reason I was so unmotivated during HS history was because I had generally learned the stuff a year in advance.

Yurgs
02-08-2009, 05:27 PM
My post secondary seems to be on track, after I pissed away a semester, and sent my GPA into freefall (I'm at a 2.1), followed by another semester off. I think I want to go into marketing analysis. Quitting my current job and I want to find employment at a financial institution or other office type work.

Now I just need to get myself a girlfriend!

Prole
02-08-2009, 05:55 PM
My life has seen an severe rise in drug use, drinking, being out all night, graffiti and other things of a normal nature. I seem to have fallen in with the get trashed every night and party crowd. Other then that, I've decided to get off my ass and continue a college education and enjoy all that fun stuff. In fact, As I sit here at panera I'm waiting for my sociology group to show the ffff up so we can get some work done, but it doesn't look like they are going to show. I've also lost a shitload of money due to the financial bullshit, So I'm a bit irked with people running around saying that those that lost out big time deserved it for being greedy assholes. :V

In a less big picture thing, Holy hell this green tea is delicious.

Naga
02-08-2009, 06:00 PM
Yeah, but how are you going to prevent the financial sector from growing? It's cutting your own wrist. The financial sector is great. When it works, it gives us wealth beyond belief. The main problem is that markets fail, something a lot of economists (especially on the American/English side) have trouble believing, and some regulation is necessary to keep them from failing.

I still stand by what I said before, about capitalism not being broken, but that I do recognise the need for some regulation. Things went wrong, definitely, and something needs to be fixed, but will giving money to the people that started this mess, so they can pocket it really help?

Zindaras
02-08-2009, 06:29 PM
I still stand by what I said before, about capitalism not being broken, but that I do recognise the need for some regulation. Things went wrong, definitely, and something needs to be fixed, but will giving money to the people that started this mess, so they can pocket it really help?

A regulated capitalism isn't really capitalism any more, though that's debatable. I think the banks really do need the money. The problem there is not that the banks have or haven't done anything wrong, but trust is essential in the financial system. Banks borrow short but lend long: we can get our money from the bank any day, but the banks can't immediately get the money from the people they loaned it to. So, if people don't trust a bank, they'll all get their money and the bank won't be able to pay them even if they do have enough outstanding loans. So bailing out the banks restores some faith in the financial system (they're not just helping out some banks here, all banks are connected to each other through inter-bank loans) and prevents bank runs, which means that the trust will remain intact. The banks themselves have been horribly stupid and some of them will be unhealthy anyway, but giving them money prevents the whole system from collapsing.

If I am correct, the actual bonuses for the bankers are not part of the bailout plan. Of course, they're still indirectly paying for them and the bonuses are absolutely ludicrous, but there's really little that can be done about that: it's in all the contracts. I will admit that economics has failed in determining rewards for managers. We look at indicators that managers can influence through accounting, we look at indicators that have nothing to do with long-term viability of the company (though we also look at some that do), we stimulate and stimulate the managers and that makes them do things they wouldn't normally do just to get money. I actually just read a funny article that says that the British are going to investigate the possible link between the risk managers took and the bonuses they got. I predict that there will be a positive relationship.

Psion
02-08-2009, 06:37 PM
ffff, guys. When did Random General become Serious?

ggd
02-08-2009, 06:42 PM
Ive been out of highschool for a year now, completed a Certificate of Audio Engineering. Was great, this year I'm going to do first year Bachelor of Audio Engineering... Should be good, I've played bass on an album, I've been in 5-6 bands.. I pretty much revolve my life around music and audio...

What else.. Oh Ive moved into an apartment, it's awesooome.

MoD
02-08-2009, 07:04 PM
First off it's good to hear about all of your lives. Second off this thread probably isn't the best place for a discussion on economics.

Now, my life since the last incarnation of Teh Source...

I graduated high school 6th in my class and ended up leaving little Rhode Island for the south. I'm a Jazz Studies freshman now in my second semester at Loyola University in New Orleans. At the moment, my life consists of 3 to 5 hours of practicing the trumpet (almost) every day, dealing with 19 credits worth of classes, going to see as much live music as I can, participating in as many musical projects as I can, smoking a slightly more than moderate amount of pot, drinking on occasion, meditating, reading an ambitious number of books, and otherwise exploring CHOCOLATE CITY. I've made a number of friends here, some of whom have become fairly close, but I've yet to fall into a group of close friends. My thoughts about alot of things have changed quite a bit, and so have I as a person. My hair has grown past my shoulders and I like that.

Life is pretty pleasant. Stressful at times, but fun.

Edit: I'd also like to point out that I've stayed in varying degrees of contact with a number of you. I talk to Clone, Psion, JB, and Shady fairly frequently (though I haven't talked to JB in a while D:). Which has been nice.

Penner
02-08-2009, 08:34 PM
(Barely) Gradded high school, playing rugby and doin' what I want.
Travel, going to go to University of Victoria for a teaching degree. With any luck I'll be teaching your kids.
..
Scary thought? You have no idea.

notallama
02-08-2009, 08:54 PM
i'm not going to have kids, because when they're babies, they smell and they look like turtles without shells.

disgusting, slimy, mucus covered creatures.

Fluke Hawkins
02-08-2009, 08:58 PM
Sweet. I derailed the thread!

Anyway, the essay's for school. IF 2k or whoever will give me a damn copy of the script to cite from, what I'm looking to do is show how Bioshock is a response to Rand's philosophy set out in The Fountainhead (individual creativity above all else) and Atlas Shrugged (unfettered captialism). I'm hoping to do this by using the characters (Ryan for AS and that batshit crazy guy for TF. Probably some minor characters to show unflawed examples of randian men, possibly the doctor as dagny, and the evil dude for a kind of anti-rearden. I HOPE i can get some comparison with the gameplay, like the fact that its got RPG/customization elements, and the bits where you've been conned into thinking you're doing this for yourself and when you lose controll when you kill ryan. Plus the whole "moral choice" with the little sisters thing runs completely counter to the randian idea of self-servance.

Bait the Bard
02-08-2009, 08:59 PM
Working full time at a web job I really enjoy, doing any and all kinds of web-related stuff.

Playing D&D again, which is good fun (still bait for ogres).

Getting into soccer a lot more.

Going to South Africa in April, volunteering on a game reserve. Should be awesome.

notallama
02-08-2009, 09:48 PM
like the fact that its got RPG/customization elements
stop perpetuating that lie you bastard!
it's asshats like you that made me waste $5. :mad:

got my hopes up, making me expect dues ex or resident evil or metroid or something, and instead it's just a plain old boring shooter.

Fluke Hawkins
02-08-2009, 09:51 PM
stop perpetuating that lie you bastard!
it's asshats like you that made me waste $5. :mad:

got my hopes up, making me expect dues ex or resident evil or metroid or something, and instead it's just a plain old boring shooter.

With amazing writing.

Van
02-08-2009, 10:00 PM
Graduated High School at some high number, managed to get a scholarship for a whopping $750 dollars.

Attending the University of Virginia's Engineering school. I'm leaning toward CS, but am considering Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering. ECE is hard as ffff, while. However, I'm failing all my classes so far for this semester. Just reallllllly lazy with homework, and I've been playing WoW instead of paying attention in class.

I've grown a beard as well. And I listen to Death Metal. Got drunk a few times, smoked pot twice (no effect on me), and currently my throat/chest feels like the beginnings of Bronchitis.

notallama
02-08-2009, 10:09 PM
@fluke:
i disagree.
it's quite possible that they had a good idea, but part good writing requires a good delivery of that idea. crappy scripted events blocking your way all the ffffing time does not make for a convincing environment.

maybe it was good writing before they adapted it to a game, but it's like a movie that's based on a true story: there's little to none of it left.

Caldera42
02-08-2009, 11:19 PM
Sophomore in high school. Trying to graduate in the top 10 in my class, currently 25th (Out of 500ish). I'm looking to get a major in Political Science at as good a college as will take me.

I'm on the debate team and I'm in a language arts-presentation hybrid class where I do a 45 minute presentation at the end of the year on the topic of my choice (Communism+socialism)

Also I'm lazy w/school.

Caldera42
02-08-2009, 11:37 PM
I saw this one coming. Why not do a more interesting presentation, like Lies about Hitler?No.

Jenius
02-08-2009, 11:39 PM
My senior project was learning how a MRI scanners worked. Prolly easiest thing ever to present on because no one knew what the ffff I was talking about so it didn't matter how accurate I was (though I had a good adviser so I actually did know what I was talking about).

Keeper
02-08-2009, 11:41 PM
I'm senior project

http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-smug.gif

Psion
02-08-2009, 11:48 PM
I saw this one coming. Why not do a more interesting presentation, like Seducing your Latin Teacher?

:juggle:

Jenius
02-08-2009, 11:54 PM
ffff if I know, I grew out of proofreading my posts to make myself look more intelligent years ago.

Edit: @ member #6

Caldera42
02-09-2009, 12:03 AM
Honestly, unless your presentation is about how Communism is a terrible, logically flawed systemk

that killed (by some estimates) 100 million peoplewut

Soviet Union =/= communism.

then your project is stupid and you're a typical high school faggot. ur a fgt

Communism is an awful, retarded way to run a market.

Period.

End of discussion.If communism needs to be run, it isn't working.

Psion
02-09-2009, 12:04 AM
If communism needs to be run, it isn't working.

Wait...isn't that how the free market works?

Zerg
02-09-2009, 12:05 AM
If communism needs to be run, it isn't working.
So, basically you're saying that communism is a great system in theory, it just has never been implemented properly and thus never worked?

You're still a typical high school fgt.

Jenius
02-09-2009, 12:05 AM
Perhaps he's saying that for communism to work everyone in the system has to want it and therefor it wouldn't really have to be forced.

Which is as previously mentioned, something highschoolers with little to no polisci experience actually believe.

good news
02-09-2009, 02:11 AM
guys ahhhhhhhh

Caldera42
02-09-2009, 08:01 AM
Um, are you retarded? BTW I'm talking about all communist dictatorships with the 100 million figure. That's what the big black book of communism on my shelf tells me.Talk to kedi about this kthx.

Perhaps he's saying that for communism to work everyone in the system has to want it and therefor it wouldn't really have to be forced.

Which is as previously mentioned, something highschoolers with little to no polisci experience actually believe. Which is exactly why it won't work. No society is ready for communism, and European-style market socialism has developed to a point where it's nearly as good as idealized communism, but works in the real world.

Notice this part:

Honestly, unless your presentation is about how Communism is a terrible, logically flawed system
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Kant
02-09-2009, 10:21 AM
Communism is a system that works beautifully in human minds.

So is laissez faire capitalism. The fact is that because of basic human behavior, neither system works, and attempting to make either work has ended in the death and poverty of millions of people. Which is why I love people who suggest that communism has never been tried (it's been tried by several different countries, a bunch of whom don't even claim to be socialist, and it's only worked even vaguely close to well in Cuba), and love EVEN MORE people who suggest laissez faire capitalism has never been tried (19TH CENTURY LOL)

Shadow
02-09-2009, 12:11 PM
I was going to post here but you're all just being faggots.

ohwait.

.Rikku.
02-09-2009, 02:23 PM
I got accepted into 4 different colleges. yay me!!!

Naga
02-09-2009, 02:24 PM
I got accepted into 4 different colleges. yay me!!!

So I guess that makes you a man now.

Psion
02-09-2009, 04:16 PM
Does belief in a gift economy make me fundamentally more retarded than Caldera?

Shadow
02-09-2009, 04:30 PM
Does belief in a gift economy make me fundamentally more retarded than Caldera?

Only if you're easily trolled for believing it.

LegendShark
02-09-2009, 04:46 PM
I'm in my third year of High School, which blows but my grades are up. During the summer I might be helping a guy who works at the local television station and puts together my school's television news program shoot one of his movie projects, which would be ffffing awesome.

Kedster
02-09-2009, 05:00 PM
hahaha ok

Kedi is like the last person whose logic I'd trust on these boards. He has the politics of a high schooler.Well yeah, I stopped caring about politics long time ago.

But those states were socialist, not communist, there Caldera does have a point.

I seriously don't care about it either way.

Kant
02-09-2009, 05:07 PM
Regardless, ok, we've established that though mutliple countries have tried, none have successfully been communist, and all have killed millions of people in trying to acheive an unachievable ideal. Look at the Sino-Soviet split. We nearly had a world war over two countries arguing which was closer to an imaginary wonderland.

You didn't have shit like that in the free world, because neither capitalism nor democracy are imaginary systems without flaw.

SizzlingStapleCider
02-09-2009, 05:25 PM
Who the ♥♥♥♥ are you.

A friend of Jeremy and Spam Elemental.

MoD
02-09-2009, 08:56 PM
I'm in my third year of High School, which blows but my grades are up. During the summer I might be helping a guy who works at the local television station and puts together my school's television news program shoot one of his movie projects, which would be ffffing awesome.

Who are you?


And who the ever living ffff is Caldera?

Shadow
02-09-2009, 08:58 PM
Who are you?


And who the ever living ffff is Caldera?
He's some tard from wotc.

and ffff you, nigger.

Caldera42
02-09-2009, 09:22 PM
He's some tard from wotc.

and ffff you, nigger.Thanks.

Psion
02-09-2009, 09:23 PM
How does WotC know about TS?

Zerg
02-09-2009, 09:34 PM
How does WotC know about TS?Someone broke the first and second rules of Fight Club.

Naga
02-09-2009, 10:12 PM
How does WotC know about TS?

Haven't they always?

Tee See Em
02-09-2009, 10:23 PM
Are there any posts/sigs referring to it yet? If so, links?

Tony3
02-09-2009, 11:23 PM
for a while i thought i had brain cancer

Naga
02-09-2009, 11:29 PM
for a while i thought i had brain cancer

Turned out you were just really bored?

Tony3
02-10-2009, 12:01 AM
Turned out you were just really bored?

turned out i had epilepsy and have to take meds that prevent me from remembering farther back than one day, cause me to be always tired, and give me headaches all day for the rest of my life.

Zerg
02-10-2009, 12:24 AM
Are there any posts/sigs referring to it yet? If so, links?I have 3 useful links in my sig and 4th as a rickroll/jizz in my pants/something stupid.

The 4th link is TS now.

:V

Fonzy
02-11-2009, 04:02 PM
I took my link out. Guess I should add it back? Or no...

LegendShark
02-11-2009, 04:17 PM
Who are you?

I'm a dood.

I was actually here for a little right before it died the last time, so I'm not completely new here.

MoD
02-12-2009, 02:15 AM
He's some tard from wotc.

and ffff you, nigger.

SHADOW!!!! <3

Shadow
02-12-2009, 11:28 AM
I aimed you, tard. check your internets more.

.Rikku.
02-12-2009, 02:23 PM
I'm going to graduate from school in a few months, and yes naga that makes me a man. :rolleyes:.

Tidal Kracker
02-12-2009, 02:35 PM
Someone broke the first and second rules of Fight Club.

haha yase i too have read that book by chuck palanhuk or w/e

Fonzy
02-12-2009, 02:40 PM
haha yase i too have read that book by chuck palanhuk or w/e

lolz dude i think u have it confused with that b pitt movie
Fuck you, Vinny

Tidal Kracker
02-12-2009, 02:51 PM
lolz dude i think u have it confused with that b pitt movie
Fuck you, Vinny

look at this fukken noob

Zerg
02-12-2009, 04:25 PM
naga makes me a man.wat?

.Rikku.
02-12-2009, 04:28 PM
I did not say that.

Sven_v2.0_LITE
02-12-2009, 04:52 PM
Yes you did. Otherwise it wouldn't say so in Zerg's post.

.Rikku.
02-13-2009, 11:30 AM
No, I didn't. Alleji remove some of the words i put in that post.
I'm going to graduate from school in a few months, and yes naga that makes me a man. :rolleyes:.

Naga
02-15-2009, 02:43 PM
Can we just ban her?

Jenius
02-15-2009, 02:48 PM
Can we just ban her?

I asked a bit back and TCM seemed tempted but PK white knighted her.

mrs_bun
02-15-2009, 02:48 PM
I don't want Rikku banned, but still, lol.

Naga
02-15-2009, 02:49 PM
I'm trying to ignore her but it's hard.

And ignoring her, as in the Ignore List, breaks everything so you don't know what's going on.

Jenius
02-15-2009, 02:50 PM
I'm trying to ignore her but it's hard.

And ignoring her, as in the Ignore List, breaks everything so you don't know what's going on.
Blame PK.

Shadow
02-15-2009, 02:51 PM
I asked a bit back and TCM seemed tempted but PK white knighted her.

I don't see how protection from black helps her.

Naga
02-15-2009, 02:52 PM
I don't see how protection from black helps her.

She'd need protection from white to save her from Jeremy or PK.

mrs_bun
02-15-2009, 03:33 PM
Rikku is good.

KaleiÐoscøpe
02-15-2009, 03:42 PM
After they're done with her, she needs protection from red

Jenius
02-15-2009, 03:43 PM
I'm not sure whether you people don't recognize SA lingo or you're just good at deadpanning ignorance.