Oxymoron wrote:
PS : funny how many mentions of "rule lawyering" there's in the rules, and how much the staff itself can be guilty of it...
*checks rules*
you mean that huge number of one mention
Huh ? Well, maybe. I didn't check back to count to be honest. I had read them only one time, but what I understood of it, in context, was "So we have these rules, but don't try to appeal to them when a mod has got you by the balls 'cuz it's gonna pisses us off more than anything else".
I may also have confused it with the number of time I've seen "rule lawyering" (or "arguing with mods") stated as a ban-able offense in parting shot.
I dunno, really...
TL;DR : I just love bitching about people's inconsistencies & hypocrisy, including my own.
I know at this point it's beating a dead horse, but really, I think one of SDN's biggest problem is the obsession people have with "winning" arguments, instead of simply exchanging ideas, like, you know, real people ?
But, honestly, it's really not that surprising, when your board has been born of Vs. debates based on gigatonz and canons and cannons, and it's populated by people with chronically low self-esteem with delusions of intellectual superiority trying to compensate on the Internet for their real lives shortcomings...
Ender posted a list of things considerate debaters are supposed in an academic setting that I guess he got as part of his schooling, and it had stuff like "give your opponent the benefit of the doubt" and stuff. I wish he had posted it in a public forum because it was pretty funny to see the disconnect between academia and the Crucible.
Aaron wrote:Ender posted a list of things considerate debaters are supposed in an academic setting that I guess he got as part of his schooling, and it had stuff like "give your opponent the benefit of the doubt" and stuff. I wish he had posted it in a public forum because it was pretty funny to see the disconnect between academia and the Crucible rest of the internet.
i love reinventing wheels that means i'm a philosopher myself just like all the greats
what i don't love is subconscious plagiarism. then i'm just some boring collection of other people's works. it doesn't take a great mind to repeat what someone else said
i guess i'm a little insecure and always in search of validation both from myself and from others
hey i just thought of a tng quote that rox from 11001001 in the first season
let me get the exact words from my script collection
wait a minute i can't find it in there
i'm sure this is the episode
well maybe its not in the script or maybe im wrong
but mr. data is making a composition of some sort, musical or painting. if could remember the details, even just a few exact words, i could probably find it in a computer search!!!!!! aaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh
anyway data is making something and he questions if it is really "him" because each part of his performance can be traced back to someone's style he studied
picard retorts: did any of them make that unique blend of styles before?
data says no
picard says that's data's creativity showing, in how he blended the styles, even if each part was from his vast databank
Indeed. This is why I mentioned queueing to the troll before he made it clear that he was just here to attack the "New Atheists" and not really to discuss secular morality at all.
oh my god i can't get over this
maybe if he poisons the well with enough personal attacks and appeals to motive his devotees won't realize he's completely full of shit and got called on it
See, I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of lolz because, in my old age, my attention span has dropped to such a degree that I can't be fucked to read five thousand word debates.
Or maybe I just don't give a shit about dumbass minutae (SP?)
man i really fucking hate darkwing duck's outrageous classism and misanthropy so much
that i am tempted to respond with amateur psycho-socioanalysis
"you're so convinced that the working class are all functionally I'M A JUGGALO WOOP WOOP because you're rationalizing the great disparity between your compensation, lifestyle etc. and theirs by saying that it's because you deserve it because you're smarter than they are. you're not smart enough to take the next step and become an outright authoritarian, as is the logical conclusion of the majority of the electorate being too stupid to brush their teeth properly, though, so maybe you should re-evaluate your ideology."
wonder how many replies i could go before drake mallard banned me? 1? 2?
Chadz wrote:See, I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of lolz because, in my old age, my attention span has dropped to such a degree that I can't be fucked to read five thousand word debates.
Or maybe I just don't give a shit about dumbass minutae (SP?)
Aaron wrote:He's in favour of iq tests to vote, so...seems he's already there.
Yet he thinks the system in starship troopers is dumb.
its because soldiers are more likely to be working-class and thus I'M A JUGGALO WOOP WOOP and anyways he probably secretly (or not-so-secretly) hates soldiers- i know that a lot of people in his position in the USA are ambivalent to hostile towards the soldiers and military. basically, fuck darkwing duck.
Oxymoron wrote:You know, for a time I honestly argued that Heinlein's Starship Trooper system made sense and could be considered an improvement over today's system.
Then I took some "classes" on Fascism, Democracy, and the results segregation and restriction of political rights can have on a society.
I know when I travel in foreign lands without an internet connection (or even just a PC for that matter) I start feeling mild withdrawal symptoms if I haven't been able to connect for more than a few days. It generally start to be less severe as times goes by and I find other things to do (like reading books or interacting with other humans), but I know the first thing I always do when I get back home is to start the computer...
Kustra, BA wrote:this is a natural part of growing up
Like I said to Shroom, for me the only constant in life is Change.
Indeed. This is why I mentioned queueing to the troll before he made it clear that he was just here to attack the "New Atheists" and not really to discuss secular morality at all.
oh my god i can't get over this
maybe if he poisons the well with enough personal attacks and appeals to motive his devotees won't realize he's completely full of shit and got called on it
