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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Vanessa Hearings

« on: February 28, 2006, 09:09:07 am »

Heard ATM at a local mall in Birmingham, England.
Once again, I went o_O when I did!
But seems like Europe always plays ATM only...

That's funny, because we don't have any malls in England.

I've not heard ATM on the TV or radio over here for years

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Completely Off-Topic / Happy Birthday Will

« on: February 23, 2006, 12:38:42 pm »

I lose track of who hates birthday threads. So if you're one of them, sorry ;-)

Happy 19th dude. Enjoy it.

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Polls / Most Attractive Women?

« on: February 23, 2006, 01:53:27 am »

There are hotties everywhere!

Agreed.

Spain, Italy, etc. have the reputations, but if you actually go to these places, the hot/not ratios are all the same.

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Polls / abortion

« on: February 07, 2006, 01:42:06 am »

It's kind of strange that for once Kev isn't yelling back at me on this forum!

Uh-oh, the neo-nazi is back

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Polls / abortion

« on: February 06, 2006, 03:36:23 pm »

oh well nevermind...

I'm sure we're both sick of typing the word rape anyway :-?

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Polls / abortion

« on: February 06, 2006, 12:10:11 pm »

it really doesn't... *snip* ...my arguement does not generalise nicely to any crime.

I know that my articulation is generally poor.  Even so, your latest post (much of which I agree with and is entirely compatible with the point I've been trying to make) demonstrates a large misunderstanding of my arguments. Perhaps it's my fault, perahps not. Either way, I give up. Let others read the posts and decide what they will.

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Polls / abortion

« on: February 06, 2006, 08:33:29 am »

Would you also suggest that theft be licenced and regulated, such as that thieves should be required to keep accurate records so that victims of theft would be able to track down and repurchase their stolen items?! :?

No.

How could rape become "safer" ??

Well, the specifics of rape are largely irrelevant to my point (most crimes will work in its place) and its not really the kind of thing I'd enjoy discussing at any great length but, for example, rape could be licenced and a condition of the licence is regular STD tests.

Use your imagination.

Sounds like legalised prostitution to me! Which does exist.

The big difference is consent. Rape has one non-consenting party.

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Polls / abortion

« on: February 06, 2006, 06:04:28 am »

How could rape become "safer" ??

Well, the specifics of rape are largely irrelevant to my point (most crimes will work in its place) and its not really the kind of thing I'd enjoy discussing at any great length but, for example, rape could be licenced and a condition of the licence is regular STD tests.

Use your imagination.

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Polls / abortion

« on: February 06, 2006, 02:19:26 am »

Your argument generalises nicely to almost any crime.

No it doesn't.

Yes it does. You've presented a valid difference between abortion and rape, that victims of rape can decide for themselves and victims of abortion can not. But that difference does not affect the generalisation.

Your initial argument
* demand for abortion will always exist
* illegal abortion is dangerous
* abortion can be made safer via legalisation and regulation

The same argument for rape
* demand for rape will always exist
* illegal rape is dangerous
* rape can be made safer via legalisation and regulation

The will of the victim is irrelvant.

Obviously I'm not saying that rape should be legalised, just that the "legalisation will make [insert controversial issue here] safer" argument alone is absurd. Safety clearly isn't the only factor (if it was, then rape should be legalised). There are moral factors on which nobody has an equal frame of reference and consiquently on which nobody can agree, which is why the abortion debate never ends. It's a foolish waste of time to continue debating the issue without realising this simple fact.

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Polls / Have you done it? hehe

« on: February 02, 2006, 03:37:45 am »

The whole sex is only for marriage thing is BS anyway. If anyone's actually read the Bible, there's plenty of pre-marital sex in that book.

Obviousy (I would have thought) depiction and advocation are two very different things.

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Completely Off-Topic / The Lost Art of The Mix Tape...

« on: January 31, 2006, 01:39:31 am »

though, half the fun of making mixtapes was that you had to sit and listen to the music as it was being recorded onto the tape.... it was a time investment, and you learned to love the music.  It's not as involved now, but still fun.

Oh yeah, I remember that!
I used to write down the time of each song so I could fit as many as possible on each side of the tape! haha

I used to go to extreme lengths with the ordering to make sure that no song was split on the A-B side change. Nothing worse than having a song cut off half way through and restart after 15 seconds of silence.

Tapes suck and I'm glad they're gone, but it did seem that 90 minutes was the optimum mix tape duration. 60 -70 for Audio CDRs was too short and the many hours of an mp3 CD is just too long, ends up full of track skip fodder.

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Completely Off-Topic / Re: Run time Error 91

« on: January 26, 2006, 02:00:01 am »

does any1 know how to fix it?  :oops:

Ahh vagueness, mortal enemy of all tech support kind.

Hint: Most (if not all) people are unable to read minds ;-)

What causes the error?

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Introduce Yourself / Whoops!

« on: January 24, 2006, 01:20:37 am »

okay...I guess we're not going to kill you

*disappointed*


p.s. Welcome.

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Completely Off-Topic / Happy Birthday Ghisy!!!

« on: January 23, 2006, 01:22:13 am »

Happy Birthday Ghis

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Completely Off-Topic / Which bands can you find? This is sooo cool!

« on: January 20, 2006, 03:34:37 am »

Heh. Cool.

Scissor Sisters
Nine Inch Nails
The Vines
Radio Head

Possibles (but no idea if they're right)
Deep purple
Led Zepplin
The Pixies (is a pixie the same as a fairy? My folklore is a little rusty)

Better pic here