Posts by Sindwiller

  • Daw of War 2 *Poops Pants*

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    Yeah, sorry but Dawn of War is entirely superior to Starcraft. To say otherwise is a clear indication you haven't played both.

    Starcraft was the first game I bought and probably the game I've spend most time with. It has an important place in my heart and it is awesome, hence stating otherwise is blasphemy to me.

  • the daily "how was your day?" extravaganza 2008

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    Mandatory service has always seemed pretty weird to me in that respect. It's not like the old days where countries just saw other countries as faceless enemies; thanks to the internet and television, etc, we know there're real people with families on the other end of those bullets. I'd imagine there's a lot of cases of mandatory servicemen who simply couldn't do it and would end up either getting themselves or their squad killed. No amount of mandatory hardening (which is also wrong IMO) can make you a killer if you have no such inclination, unlike those who sign up of their own accord.

    The saddest chapter of a man's life

  • Anne Diamond blah blah violent games blah blah photoshop lol

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    ...outside on their own....

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    Holy shit. That is really dangerous.

    Yeah indeed. That single line just blew any credibility she might have had left for me. There is nothing damn wrong with playing outside on your own, it is actually because of the over concern in the last decade, with parents trying to protect their children at all times, that keeping your child indoors is kind of promoted, in turn actually promoting video games. I wonder if she figured that out already.

    Problem with parents these days is they grew up in the 60's, took too much acid (I know it's hard to believe there's such a thing as too much acid), and when they finnally came down 40 years later they said "oh shit. wtf just happened" and are afraid their kids will do the same. They never grew up fully.

    Sadly, I know a bunch of parents meeting those criteria. Of which one couple has a severe WoW-addict (the kind of addicts screaming "karazhan" while running through the school halls). Oh the irony.

  • the dollar

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    And back on the topic of depleted uranium. The toxicity is in no way related to its radioactivity, rather the fact that it is just a heavy metal ala lead.

    And that's why we have to bury it dozens of miles under the ground?

  • Fitna

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    the bible, bullshit or not, still has some good points about how to live life in peace, and i know many atheists that live by those advices.

    I can only agree to that.

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    I was a bigger LOTR fan than Chronicles of Narnia.

    meh, Narnia accompanied me in my childhood. It's way more awesome than LOTR

  • the dollar

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    Its all automated these days, humans have very little input to cock things up. Chernobyl was a flawed reactor design with human incompetance controlling it, Three Mile island was mechanical flaws overlooked and ignored by humans. Lessons have been learned and things like this are a rareity. The weakpoint in systems like these are the humans in charge and especially these days the humans have been taken out of the process and the stations are run by computers which do not have hesitations and know what is the right course of action instantly.

    And if the computer algorithms get to be wrong. What if they handle a new, so far unknown situation the wrong way (this applies for both human and computers). I mean, sure, nuclear power plants are much safer these days, no doubt. Computer technology is a huge step forward, no doubt. Though fully relying on them would increase the risk of something bad to happen, as there would be more power plants having the potential to go "boom"

  • Fitna

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    I disagree that atheism is dangerous. You have to see that all religious people who actualy believe in their fairy tales have delusions. A delusion is a neurotic mental disorder. Atheism is no delusion. It's a normal state of mind and therefore cant be considered dangerous. All trouble between religious and atheist people is caused by the religious delusions in the first place. If an atheist uses force to make his point then this is a problem of his individual character and not his atheist view of the world.

    So, basically more than 90% of the world - all the theistic people around the world - have delusions? Man, this really explains a LOT. Also explains why delusions lead to virtues and morality, as religious people mostly bow before them in order to be a good human (or to please the god - or the spirits - or the ancestors - or whatever tool that religion utilizes to bring them to do good things), whereas many atheist people tend to be immoral (I know from experience - I'm an atheist ). It's a difference when talking about, e.g., fundamentalists killing people, because they adhere to those principles they were being hammered from the beginning on, which tend to be horribly wrong in general. As you may know, the Bible (and the same goes for the Quran and the Tora, actually) can be interpreted in many ways. There are just as much different interpretations of one religion as there are religions or countries. Not everyone is a fundie. And not everyone truly believes in their religion's story just as if they would believe in a historical document.

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    I brought up the soviet-russian communism to prove the point that cruelty and suppresion can be done by so called atheists as well and that unhumanity does not depend on religion. That is not about cold-war-fear but about historical examples.

    Just as there are and were secularist dictatorships (the CCCP wasn't a communist state btw - it was a socialist state) not being bound by religious beliefs or anything else, there are and were religious reigns and movements under which the religion was used as a tool to mobilize people for war, hatred and all that. It's not that simple.

  • the dollar

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    Good that nobody would ever blow up depleted uranium....oh wait - Iraq? Entirely different story I guess, but also sad...

    Yeah, if nuclear reactors or nuclear waste disposals become targets of military strikes, and that's very likely to happen in a war, where especially one party likes to break the boundaries, we're all screwed.

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    You can't have a meltdown without the fuel rods hitting critical mass, something that modern day reactors are not very likely to ever see. Not to mention that's not an issue when you are storing depleted fuel rods. The only danger in storing the waste material is if someone was to break in and steal some and then make a dirty bomb out of it, which in the end would cause more hysteria than environmental damage. Which is why storing it in one big place is safer.

    Something can always happen. Always. It doesn't matter if it's a meltdown like in Chernobyl or something else. People are going to pay for it. Nuclear reactors are a huge risk.

  • the dollar

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    Those solar plantations may supply many people but you can supply many more with atomic energy, while taking less space.It's maybe not that ecologically friendly but if you think realistic, that's the solution.

    It's not that simple. You would have to mine uranium minerals (which could get short, too - just like oil), isolate them and make depleted uranium in facilities, and come to think of all the nuclear waste we're supposed to put somewhere. History has proven many times (also here in Switzerland), that many nuclear waste disposals aren't safe enough or are lacking certain security measures due to cheapness. I do not like the idea of my life being threatened by the cheapness of some firm. Hence why atom reactors are not the ultimative solution.

  • Grand Theft Auto IV

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    New (and the last) trailer coming out today. Can't wait, only a month to go and we'll be all playing this.

    Heh, it feels like it was yesterday when they announced GTA4 to the public - although it was, like, October 2007? Man, time passes really fast when you don't care