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My passenger side door is completely caved in. It's going to be at least 5000$ worth of damage. There's no way in hell I can afford the repairs myself. Also the dude I pulled in front of apparently has some great emotional attachment to his 20+ year old pickup, and flat out stated his intention to ...

Can't fix it yourself? Relying on insurance is pretty stiff when it's your fault. Or the fault of the person driving the car at time.

If you'll indulge me, (or forgive me if you already explained) why's that? Because evidence has shown that vast reordering of social structures in a short period of time as a forced effort from the top has time and time again caused large scale disorder which results in reductions in human health, ...

Well, I DO believe SOME things that other people find unsettling, but I'm sure that's true of everyone here. But I also don't believe that large-scale intentional change based on ideology to a pre-existing society is something that's ever acceptable, so that most of my "ideas" are nothing ...

After monday of next week I only have a paper to work on myself without any tests, so, then is fine.

I include terrorists because of their targets and their lack of organized identification by the laws of war. If the 9/11 hijackers had hijacked cargo planes, having pulled on shoulder patches immediately before producing their knives, forced the crews off at other airports, and then instead of fleei...

kinda of a Sorry, that's all I have to say right now, I don't really have a horse in the show so-to-speak at-the-moment and I'm tired but I saw that and smiled Heh, well, you try to be involved in your negotiating union for Graduate Assistants, work as a research assistant, and go to school more th...

Questor, I like the use of тела людей a lot. It's a very good connotation for what this means. Otherwise I have to use about five different terms in ways that they haven't really been used in for the past fifty years to string together an English approximation I'm really happy with.

I see it as basically crimes which can be considered a form of social violence resulting in death, yes. I do see serial killers in the same way and I would argue that the crimes in question really have a relatively common theme: 1. Guilt is RARELY in doubt. Oklahoma City, Boston, Jeffrey Dahlmer, Ho...

But you know exactly when you will be shot -- Dawn. After you have been offered a blindfold and a cigarette, and subsequent to a last meal the night before. I would of course not bother with the blindfold, and try to give the orders to the firing squad like Ney. The cigarette however would be really...

Sadly, Jung, there was a debate on SDN that was never had -- about the theories of a historian named Luttwack by me against Thanas. His argument was that actually the historical record shows that intermittent regular strategic suppression operations were in fact successful in indoctrinating foreign ...

The second argument of course is that it's better to just live in a society that rules by fear than a society that teaches you to hate yourself. If you're going to be oppressed, why the fuck sign up to be your own policeman? But that's exactly how society has evolved in the past 200 years.

I mean, in all seriousness, let's ask ourselves (taking the actual death penalty debate away for a moment) -- bullet to the head, or two hours strapped to a gurney while untrained people fumble for your veins by poking you with needles over and over again? Which is more humane? Is the fact that we d...

Because no matter how correct they may be, you may be assured that people will usually be holding their beliefs for kneejerk reasons rather than sincerely thought out ones, so instead of providing rational objections, will flip out and get angry when asked to think about what they believe... Even th...

The repulsion to your posted ideas is rational is what I'm getting at. I see it as evidence of the psychological neuroses of a society which has used clinicalism to isolate itself from the daily reality of life for the majority of people, and indeed, of the consequences of their own actions, like m...

I honestly do think so. I mean, I don't think I'm really making rational arguments myself, but I don't find the objections to them very rational either. Then again, I don't really find anything humans do to be particularly rational, and trying to make yourself rational against a few billion years of...

It's always funny watching duchess melt down at SDN. At least she isn't advocating rounding up poor people and executing them just in case they may behave criminally. You do realize that rather than some kind of emotional or mental melt down, I'm just endlessly bemused by how people on SD.net respo...

I love how it's easier to have a reasoned discussion about things like Foucault and philosophy and the differences in modalities of social organisation here than on TEO.

How sickeningly inappropriate is it for me to say in conclusion that the week has been like a Jihad add-on pack to GTA IV?

Board's never unbanned a person who dared a mod/admin to ban them.

Taking on Kim right EVER would be so fucking absurd. It would be like Desert Storm-- if we had decided to keep going to Baghdad. And the country was rugged mountains instead of flat open desert. Yeeeaaahh... I want Kim to have nukes, I think it's the best possible thing for improving the lot of the ...

I really liked the Zahn trilogy too, and then thought his subsequent Duology was boring and disinteresting. I winced my way through the first KJA book and never read any more of them. I hated the NJO for the way it treated the cosmic scale of the struggle in the earlier books as being so much of not...

Perhaps, but I've never been worried about escalation from a small nuclear war. A country like India would be vastly compensated for the fallout plumes and, well, it's their mortal enemy going away. I suspect likewise that anyone using nuclear weapons would face a very carefully planned concert--tha...

I think you're ruling out the fact that almost every country has targets of value which don't involve the nuclear destruction of a city or civilian population. Reading between the lines on HPCA and researching I many years ago came to the conclusion that a US city getting nuked by any country up to ...

Did you get out of your car with the dashcam rolling and beat the shit out of them with a lead pipe and then hold them up to it and laugh at them while swearing endlessly?

And is it on Youtube yet?