Give Me a Urinal or Give Me Death!

#14041

CommanderTuvok wrote: "Tom Bloke",

Ah, 21Logician, who's name I assume to be a very arch joke.

#14042

Kirbmarc wrote:
DrokkIt wrote:Good Thunderfoot video wherein he observes that many of the youtube sceptics are indeed now doing the things they accuse SJW people of doing:
[.youtube][/youtube]
In the comments of the video I've spotted a familiar face:

http://i.imgur.com/9SVQYub.png

She went off on Jonathan Pie's latest as well.

#14043

Actually, second latest. He's had a new one since then.

#14044

Lsuoma wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:Oh for fucks sake! I go the "dedicated forum" just now and what do I see? Those are changed too.
It's temporary, done on rendering the page. When you take this shit out of the main thread, it'll magically go back.

When I take it out of the main thread? So, in other words you are now doling out some extended gripe punishment because of my Monty Python picture and it would have been put back by now if I hadn't posted it? Because other than that, I only answered a side topic branching off from a BANNED NAME topic, but which was not actually discussing him at that point.

Holy fuck, you've gone insane. What's with these weird little behaviour mod punishments? Was I supposed to eventually realize that I had walked on thin ice around you and then learn to change my ways by better predicting where your petulant angry whims will take you?

Well, don't worry. I won't post BANNED NAME anymore here. You've given him some sort of religious-like Satan status though. I mean seriously, my little picture joke upset you? That wasn't exactly arguing about BANNED NAME in a boring manner (that's what you told me my 'crime' was - boring you). That was just a picture laughing about there being a banned name. On that one, you actually got triggered by his name and not the boredom you originally said was upsetting you.

And like I said earlier, I'm just going to stick around and finish off some conversations in a BANNED NAME-free manner, so you have your BANNED NAME-free safe space again. What's surprising is how differently I'm seeing the Pit now compared to only being mildly annoyed back when you used to do this before every now and then. Now, it feels more like I'm visiting pharyngula with PZ's tyranical devoweling tantrums. So, obviously it's me who's changed, not the Pit so much.

At one time this place seemed like, and probably was, one of the main free speech and anti-editing-after-the-fact and anti-censorship sites on the net. Oh well, what can you do? The only consistent thing in life is that there's always change.

#14045

Kirbmarc wrote:
DrokkIt wrote:Good Thunderfoot video wherein he observes that many of the youtube sceptics are indeed now doing the things they accuse SJW people of doing:
[.youtube][/youtube]
In the comments of the video I've spotted a familiar face:

http://i.imgur.com/9SVQYub.png

Aye yes, I do see her cropping up now and then.

The way it occurs to me is that there are (at least) two common rationales for being "on our side". One is opposition to the values and tactics used by the SJW, the other is a cultural rejection of them as people.

I'm in the former camp, I object to the SJW rhetoric because I think that it is wrong, and thus I don't wish to use their same tactics.

Different strokes, I guess?

#14046

shoutinghorse wrote:Chris looks at Indy and sees the future :?

http://i.imgur.com/1lrKYZS.png

Hope so. It'll give him reason to grab the dog and run.

On the other hand, these two would be happy to add 4 new pendants to Rebecca's surlies.

http://imgur.com/TUHxmHa.jpg

#14047

CommanderTuvok wrote:BTW, the anti "New Atheist" nutjobs (all violently obsessed with how "racist" Sam Harris and the "new atheist threat" is) are all pissed with the "Conceptual Penis" hoax.

These nutters include Dan Arel (new member), CJ Werleman, Andy Kindler, "Johnny Spooner", "Sacha Saaen", "Tom Bloke", and a few others who all masturbate one another on Twitter.

Their squealing turns me on, good and hard.

http://i.imgur.com/rkNgfTR.jpg

#14048

Rifts within rifts within rifts...

#14049

So the argument is given that the paper got rejected by a "real" journal and was scooped up by a fraudulent one.

It is then inconveniently pointed out that both journals have the same publisher.

#14050

There was another fora here (and it's probably still there) in which people gave what their definition of Social Justice Warrior.

Anyway, for me it's not the values (except where they use the law or regulations to enforce them) so much as the tactics.

Specifically:

1) Doxxing - particularly when it's used to get people fired or when it puts them at risk of real world harm. Though that said in cases where a crime has been committed - I would not be against someone following things up with the police.

2) Isolation of viewpoints - eg in not being willing to debate contentious issues or deplatforming opponents. nb I think that Dawkins not personally debating William Lane Craig (due to Craig's apologism for biblical massacres) is an exception rather than the rule.

Most other stuff is resolvable - even bad faith arguments are beneficial, not least because they can make you appreciate the good faith arguments all the more.

It's not what you think but how you think - as Hitchens said on more than one occasion.

#14051

Kirbmarc wrote:Rifts within rifts within rifts...

Schisms, factions, and rifts, oh my! Schisms, factions, and rifts, oh my! Schisms, factions, and rifts, oh my! :)

#14052

Sunder wrote:So the argument is given that the paper got rejected by a "real" journal and was scooped up by a fraudulent one.

It is then inconveniently pointed out that both journals have the same publisher.

The argument that they're making is that it's the same publisher, but two different editorial lines. Either way it's nitpicking. The article is blatantly stupid and nonsensical, it's a complete word salad, but it's impossible to tell apart from the rest of gender studies (like the "feminist glaciology" or "horse-girl assemblages").

I actually wish that Boghossian and Lindsay could have waited a bit before they revealed the hoax, so that other papers could have cited that the paper. But probably that would have been unethical under the publishing standards, so they had to pull the plug earlier.

#14053

MarcusAu wrote:There was another fora here (and it's probably still there) in which people gave what their definition of Social Justice Warrior.

Anyway, for me it's not the values (except where they use the law or regulations to enforce them) so much as the tactics.

Specifically:

1) Doxxing - particularly when it's used to get people fired or when it puts them at risk of real world harm. Though that said in cases where a crime has been committed - I would not be against someone following things up with the police.

2) Isolation of viewpoints - eg in not being willing to debate contentious issues or deplatforming opponents. nb I think that Dawkins not personally debating William Lane Craig (due to Craig's apologism for biblical massacres) is an exception rather than the rule.

Most other stuff is resolvable - even bad faith arguments are beneficial, not least because they can make you appreciate the good faith arguments all the more.

It's not what you think but how you think - as Hitchens said on more than one occasion.

I wonder what Hitchens would have made of all the events that happened after his death. Viewpoint isolation might be something that happens in all groups, not just sjws.

Lol, obviously I'm talking about the Pit in that last sentence. :D

#14054

MarcusAu wrote:Thunderf00t is free to associate with whoever he wants - and in that video is presenting his own opinion on the Skeptic Feminist shooting - without moralizing or lecturing others about what they should do. So, fair play to him.

I do have to say, for a murder the amount of videos, tweets and other talk seems extremely muted to me. And most people are really throttling their discussions.

#14055

deLurch wrote: I do have to say...

Did you really?

#14056

More like I felt compelled to say.

The amount of information and good analysis of the situation for a few days after the murder is extremely sparse.

#14057

CommanderTuvok wrote:Their squealing turns me on, good and hard.

You must have a very unique porn collection.

#14058

I actually quite like the fact that things are shifting around. I mean, just on Youtube (which has totally replaced tv for me) recently we've had Laci Green and Milo becoming Nazis, Shoe apologizing for being hard on Milo, Tf00t flouncing off, Sargon's having to admit being disturbed by the recent Conservative policy recommendations. In the wider world we even have Alan Dershowitz defending Trump on civil libertarian grounds. Cats and dogs living together, etc., etc., etc., etc., _et multae ceterae._

Good. Consensus is always suspicious, as I hope you'll all agree.

It's reminding me more of what intellectual life was like before SJW-ism got such a stranglehold on public discourse roundabout the mid 2000s. You have to have passed through the damp squib period of Political Correctness in the 90s to appreciate how this recent period was starting to become frighteningly Borg-like. I was getting quite scared in the run-up to the US election. Now I'm actually quite cheerful on the whole.

We've just been passing through a period of quite extraordinarily sheepish conformity, but you have to have lived through a time when One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a cool movie to really get how bad things were getting. It heartens me to see glimmers of revolt and rethinking here and there, from all sides. It's actually part of what I hoped would happen if Trump was elected - both from the point of view of the Left being in opposition again, and suddenly remembering about critical thinking, and from the point of view of Trump's insouciance re. Wrongthink emboldening ordinary folks to shuck off the mental chains.

Frankly, to me it matters less what people think and argue about (the truth will come out in the wash, over time) so long as they think and argue (and thereby give that process a chance). From either side of the spectrum this might seem callous, in that I'm bypassing the question of the validity of their particular doomsaying hobby horse, but I think we have to recapture the sense of shared unity and pursuit of truth at a meta level, even if we're swearing at each other till we're blue in the face while we're in the trenches - just like the principle of us all sharing confidence in the democratic process, in the long run, even while we may despair at our opponents being in power in the short term.

I mean these two meta principles - the value of openness of debate and the value of the democratic process as a means of avoiding civil war - were wisdom hard-won, in periods of history much more bloody and brutal for the average person, taken at random, than our own. We need to rediscover respect for them if we want to avoid bumping our collective heads against the Great Filter in the near future.

#14059

Shatterface wrote:
CommanderTuvok wrote:Their squealing turns me on, good and hard.
You must have a very unique porn collection.

He's got it and he deserves it - I think H L Menchen said that.

#14060

Funny how these people claiming that you can't denigrate the whole field of gender studies because of a few ludicrous papers - hoax or otherwise - are the same ones who are quite happy to lambast the entire field of evo psych for precisely the same reason.

#14061

deLurch wrote:More like I felt compelled to say.

The amount of information and good analysis of the situation for a few days after the murder is extremely sparse.

Has this been tested under controlled circumstances?

#14062

Kirbmarc wrote:Rifts within rifts within rifts...

Have you just folded space from Ix?

https://media.giphy.com/media/UZU6cXXrY3usU/giphy.gif

#14063

Nice Mangoes criticizes an ex-muslim woman (Yasmine Mohammed) for pointing out Linda Sarsour's hypocrisy.

Because apparently criticizing islam as a whole, and the contradictions of its believers, is dishonest, and you should only stick to criticize single interpretations, because otherwise it's "cringe-worthy".

I really don't get what's Mangoes' angle here.

#14064

CommanderTuvok wrote:I remember when Ophelia Benson had a crying fit when her dog, Cooper, had the cone of shame. I think she then found out you can get alternatives, some kind of doggie hood, and was crying that vets should use them instead.

That might be my imagination making that up, but it is a memory I have. Ophelia suffering tends to get stored in the memory banks.

Ophelia has a dog? I'd reckoned she's more the type to have a cat or fifty.

#14065

Scented Nectar, addressing the FT wrote:Holy fuck, you've gone insane.

Mirror, Scented, mirror.

What's with these weird little behaviour mod punishments? Was I supposed to eventually realize that I had walked on thin ice around you and then learn to change my ways by better predicting where your petulant angry whims will take you?

Weeell, some ten pages of droning on about the merits of the Blond One versus all of the world turning communist might have been an indication to the more self-aware.

I didn't believe in subliminal messaging, but you went away playing No Man's Sky 24/7 and returned after a while seeing communists behind, no in, every tree. It was really like one of those old Avengers episodes where John Steed is kidnapped by an unnamed Enemy and returns fully brainwashed.

I wonder now what game Aneris was obsessively playing.

#14066

I see that ERV is doing a flyby visit.

So if she (or anyone else) has a recommendation for a DNA test (for ancestry rather than health) - let me know.

This book was recommended (by Matt, earlier, to read)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Isles-Pr ... 0593056523

and the author has a company called 'Oxford Ancestry' - so I might try that

#14067

feathers wrote: I didn't believe in subliminal messaging, but you went away playing No Man's Sky 24/7 and returned after a while seeing communists behind, no in, every tree. It was really like one of those old Avengers episodes where John Steed is kidnapped by an unnamed Enemy and returns fully brainwashed.

I wonder now what game Aneris was obsessively playing.

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#14068

MarcusAu wrote:I see that ERV is doing a flyby visit.

So if she (or anyone else) has a recommendation for a DNA test (for ancestry rather than health) - let me know.

This book was recommended (by Matt, earlier, to read)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Isles-Pr ... 0593056523

and the author has a company called 'Oxford Ancestry' - so I might try that

A bunch of my friends and family did 23andme-- they have kits on sale now and then, down to $79 for ancestry!

#14069

MarcusAu wrote:I see that ERV is doing a flyby visit.

So if she (or anyone else) has a recommendation for a DNA test (for ancestry rather than health) - let me know.

Perhaps some in-family murder and a bit of incest could make the police do it for free?

#14070

I'm sure they'll give a two for one deal too.

#14071

Spike13 wrote:
Teal deer (tl dr) made a vid along the same lines. T-foot and TD seem to do a bit of research when they make a vid ( TD deconstructs papers and provides citations) Most of the other crop do a more "seat of the pants" style of commentary. While some banter can be entertaining, there seems to be an over abundance of "her dee dur, cuck cuck cuck... laugh at the idiots" candy and not much new/different insight.

I used to like Sargon of Akkad, and he still occasionally will put out a video worth watching, but most of his content has devolved into boilerplate talk-radio bullshit. "Look at how stupid this leftist is. Oh my god left, why are you so RIDICULOUS". An occasional point and laugh video can be fun, but at this point anyone who lives in the western world knows what ridiculous sjw antics look like.

tl;dr is a cut above. I think harmful opinions is also interesting - he's another one who has decided for various reasons that he doesn't want to be part of the "skeptic community" as it currently exists.

#14072

Do office blocks and skyscrapers in America have a number 13 floor?

Also I heard that Americans are more superstitious because there were originally 13 colonies.

#14073

ERV wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:I see that ERV is doing a flyby visit.

So if she (or anyone else) has a recommendation for a DNA test (for ancestry rather than health) - let me know.

This book was recommended (by Matt, earlier, to read)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Isles-Pr ... 0593056523

and the author has a company called 'Oxford Ancestry' - so I might try that
A bunch of my friends and family did 23andme-- they have kits on sale now and then, down to $79 for ancestry!

Cheers Blog-Mother.

I shall do a bit more reading...

#14074

MarcusAu wrote:Do office blocks and skyscrapers in America have a number 13 floor?
Also I heard that Americans are more superstitious because there were originally 13 colonies.

It varies based on the building. Some do, some don't. If you think about it from sales perspective, might as well knock out the 13th floor and do what it takes to make the lease sale. When a company owns the whole building, you are less likely to see such silliness.

Also I have no clue what the 13 colonies would have to do with the 13 is bad superstition. The height of the 13 superstition boils down to a rare passing comment & perhaps a laugh. I think you are less likely to see 13th floors in hotels. But really, no one blinks an eye at it.

#14075

deLurch wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:Do office blocks and skyscrapers in America have a number 13 floor?
Also I heard that Americans are more superstitious because there were originally 13 colonies.
It varies based on the building. Some do, some don't. If you think about it from sales perspective, might as well knock out the 13th floor and do what it takes to make the lease sale. When a company owns the whole building, you are less likely to see such silliness.

Also I have no clue what the 13 colonies would have to do with the 13 is bad superstition. The height of the 13 superstition boils down to a rare passing comment & perhaps a laugh. I think you are less likely to see 13th floors in hotels. But really, no one blinks an eye at it.

\

Thank you - it's a relief to dump such passing thoughts out here - and not have them bouncing round inside my head.

#14076

MarcusAu wrote:There was another fora here (and it's probably still there) in which people gave what their definition of Social Justice Warrior.

Anyway, for me it's not the values (except where they use the law or regulations to enforce them) so much as the tactics.

Specifically:

1) Doxxing - particularly when it's used to get people fired or when it puts them at risk of real world harm. Though that said in cases where a crime has been committed - I would not be against someone following things up with the police.

2) Isolation of viewpoints - eg in not being willing to debate contentious issues or deplatforming opponents. nb I think that Dawkins not personally debating William Lane Craig (due to Craig's apologism for biblical massacres) is an exception rather than the rule.

Most other stuff is resolvable - even bad faith arguments are beneficial, not least because they can make you appreciate the good faith arguments all the more.

It's not what you think but how you think - as Hitchens said on more than one occasion.

Ah- I didn't mean "opposition to both the values and tactics", I meant "people in opposition to the values, people in opposition to the tactics, and people in opposition to both". I was trying to delineate between the general cultural/tribal movement against SJW and those who are focused on specific elements they don't like.

One could argue that it doesn't matter (and I guess it doesn't?) but I do personally hold myself to the standards I require of others, so using the shitty tactics (as you pointed out) is not what I will engage in. I also am opposed to *some* of the values of SJW-ism, namely the default association of maleness with negativity.

#14077

Well hopefully both the bad values and the bad tactics (maybe even on both sides!) will come out in the wash as people hold ideas up to scrutiny.

#14078

Old_ones wrote:
Spike13 wrote:
Teal deer (tl dr) made a vid along the same lines. T-foot and TD seem to do a bit of research when they make a vid ( TD deconstructs papers and provides citations) Most of the other crop do a more "seat of the pants" style of commentary. While some banter can be entertaining, there seems to be an over abundance of "her dee dur, cuck cuck cuck... laugh at the idiots" candy and not much new/different insight.

I used to like Sargon of Akkad, and he still occasionally will put out a video worth watching, but most of his content has devolved into boilerplate talk-radio bullshit. "Look at how stupid this leftist is. Oh my god left, why are you so RIDICULOUS". An occasional point and laugh video can be fun, but at this point anyone who lives in the western world knows what ridiculous sjw antics look like.

tl;dr is a cut above. I think harmful opinions is also interesting - he's another one who has decided for various reasons that he doesn't want to be part of the "skeptic community" as it currently exists.

I don't think Sargon's going the way he's going out of lack of ideas, I think he's just genuinely getting very, very exasperated with the insanity.

There's that danger in all this stuff: if you think about the implications of anything too hard, you can get yourself into an anxious, panicking, emotional whirlpool.

Maybe it's like how only people who aren't squeamish should do medical training, because if you're doing medicine stuff, you're going to be encountering a lot of icky stuff. Similarly, if you're over-sensitive to the fractal bursts of horrible implications and possibilities that spiral off a given piece of SJW insanity, you're not in the best position to criticize it surgically.

Or maybe he just smokes too much dope and it gets him into a bit of a tizz.

Anyway, I still like him, I still basically agree with him on most things, and now and then his exasperated mockery is just the emotional fuel I need myself, to have a laugh in these troubled times. But a lot of the time nowadays, yeah, it is getting a bit boring.

#14079

ERV wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:I see that ERV is doing a flyby visit.

So if she (or anyone else) has a recommendation for a DNA test (for ancestry rather than health) - let me know.

This book was recommended (by Matt, earlier, to read)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Isles-Pr ... 0593056523

and the author has a company called 'Oxford Ancestry' - so I might try that
A bunch of my friends and family did 23andme-- they have kits on sale now and then, down to $79 for ancestry!

£149 in the UK - more than double even given the decline in £ sterling!

#14080

d4m10n wrote:
feathers wrote: I didn't believe in subliminal messaging, but you went away playing No Man's Sky 24/7 and returned after a while seeing communists behind, no in, every tree. It was really like one of those old Avengers episodes where John Steed is kidnapped by an unnamed Enemy and returns fully brainwashed.

I wonder now what game Aneris was obsessively playing.
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Jebus, people, Aneris is gone, let it go.

[youtube][/youtube]

#14081

A girlfriend of mine did ancestry.com. It had some interesting interactive online stuff to explore your results. She got 1% Irish and said that must've been residual me.

#14082

MarcusAu wrote:Do office blocks and skyscrapers in America have a number 13 floor?

Also I heard that Americans are more superstitious because there were originally 13 colonies.

Some.

No.

#14083

In the Inner Sunset district of San Francisco, the streets run: 12th Avenue - Funston Avenue - 14th Avenue.

#14084

Kirbmarc wrote:
d4m10n wrote:
feathers wrote: I didn't believe in subliminal messaging, but you went away playing No Man's Sky 24/7 and returned after a while seeing communists behind, no in, every tree. It was really like one of those old Avengers episodes where John Steed is kidnapped by an unnamed Enemy and returns fully brainwashed.

I wonder now what game Aneris was obsessively playing.
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Jebus, people, Aneris is gone, let it go.

[youtube][/youtube]

Aneris knows I bear them no ill will.

#14085

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:Do office blocks and skyscrapers in America have a number 13 floor?

Also I heard that Americans are more superstitious because there were originally 13 colonies.
Some.

No.

Who was the first European settler child born in the US - and did she have the ability to transform into a white hart?

#14086

fuzzy wrote:
DENVER - Police say a man faces felony assault charges after he used an Army surgical kit to remove the testicles of a transgender woman.
http://www.9news.com/mb/news/crime/co-m ... /441315045

That is pretty awful. Before I read the article I was thinking somebody got tired of a prancing princess like Moscato and decided to have said tranny ante up. But no, the victim asked for it, literally. One would think this would help dispel the myth that encouraging transgenderism is all harmless fun.

Also, am I the only one who gets tripped up reading "her testicles"? Does not compute.

#14087

MarcusAu wrote:
DrokkIt wrote:Good Thunderfoot video wherein he observes that many of the youtube sceptics are indeed now doing the things they accuse SJW people of doing:
[youtube.][/youtube]
Thunderf00t is free to associate with whoever he wants - and in that video is presenting his own opinion on the Skeptic Feminist shooting - without moralizing or lecturing others about what they should do. So, fair play to him.

That said - here's the point of view from the loyal opposition.

Vee Munro
[youtube][/youtube]

I, Hypocrite
[youtube][/youtube]

Harsh perhaps, but I can see their viewpoint(s) - though as I have not said much on the subject (besides prompting a bad taste joke from Service Dog on the Slympyt) - so I can't say I am really 'with' them.

nb I've enjoyed videos from Louis Le Vau (who was also on the stream with Vee & Sargon) in the past too.

Vee is also a favorite of mine. That theiving gypsy makes me laugh every time.

#14088

Speaking of TL;DR, he's just released this...

[youtube][/youtube]

#14089

Our favorite sociology grad student cries foul over the Penis Construct hoax:

Gender studies is such a huge field. I don’t think it’s fair to fault the entire discipline because of a potentially malicious journal.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingt ... construct/

And lagniappe: beta cuck laments that his cheatin', muff-diving wife can't come out to her fundie parents:

she knows that she can freely explore her sexuality as she sees fit and I will be there for her in any capacity she needs me. It’s not MY sexuality, after all; it’s hers.... I’ve come to understand that our love is absolute, but there are things that she needs that I simply am unable to fulfill for her. This is in no way an insult. I do not feel betrayed or that I am not good enough for her.... But I am not a woman, so I cannot hope to come close to fulfilling her desires in that arena of her sexuality. She deserves to be herself, to live fully and the ways that complete her.

He probably gets off on her being bisexual. How will he feel when she next declares herself 'pulling-a-train-of-big-black-dick-sexual'?

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingt ... henticity/

#14090

I did a DNA test and I'm 98% chimp. That makes me more chimp than Irish. What the fuck?

#14091

MarcusAu wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:Do office blocks and skyscrapers in America have a number 13 floor?

Also I heard that Americans are more superstitious because there were originally 13 colonies.
Some.

No.
Who was the first European settler child born in the US - and did she have the ability to transform into a white hart?

VIrgina Dare. I believe she disappeared with the Roanoke colony.

CROATOAN

#14092

Shatterface wrote:I did a DNA test and I'm 98% chimp. That makes me more chimp than Irish. What the fuck?

Well I'm pleased to see that you overcame both handicaps tos rise to your current position of writing lines for Henny Youngman (or perhaps Steven Wright would be more apt).

Anyway, the juxtaposition of Irish and ape (not that they are mutually exclusive categories) put me in mind of 'The Gnarly Man' by L Sprague de Camp. It's about Neanderthal man living in the current year (current being 1939).

Track it down - or read the Wiki (spoiler) entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gnarly_Man

#14093

I see Mr Metokur has been rummaging around in the medical waste out the back of the Internet - and has come up with an interesting new specimen:

[youtube][/youtube]

#14094

Scented Nectar wrote:
rayshul wrote:No, I'm talking about automating processes so that someone can register or do various things online using their ID rather than having to wait or queue for ages to talk to people, etc. So being able to set up things simply online, understand all the work regulations you need to follow, get your accounting/financing sorted, etc, while sitting on your arse at home - dealing with government and understanding your responsibilities as a business/employer as part of the process.
Well, (he who apparently must not be named anymore at this forum, so strong is the power of just his name I guess), is very tech friendly, and a big thing of his is simplifying peoples' tax forms, and he also said recently that he wants to develop a cloud just for gov't branches because all the individually run systems out there are very insecure as far as hacking goes, so when something like that cloud's in place, and especially when combined with (he who apparently must not be named anymore at this forum, so strong is the power of just his name I guess)'s efficient nature and dislike of unnecessary bureaucracy, it could, I suppose, set the stage for people having a single online account that could be used across multiple gov't branches with all the needed online forms there, and with 'wizards' to take people through steps of registering or whatever else they have to do, as well as being an information hub.

That's probably my longest run-on sentence so far this year. :)

But, as far as that will affect those of us who are not fortunate enough to live in the US, we're probably stuck with whatever we have.

Shit I had no idea he was into that. That would be amazing for Americans and really encourage innovation. I have the feeling US government is very siloed so this is pretty cool. Would also have massive cost savings which again... will mean he'll kill it in terms of expenditure.

#14095

Rayshul

One Punch!

#14096

Shatterface wrote:I did a DNA test and I'm 98% chimp. That makes me more chimp than Irish. What the fuck?

Wait, you mean there's a difference?!?

#14097

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:
Shatterface wrote:I did a DNA test and I'm 98% chimp. That makes me more chimp than Irish. What the fuck?
Wait, you mean there's a difference?!?

Kinda ninja'd and I should have probably included a smiley.

#14098

Wild Zontargs wrote:Which part of "Fascist Tit" was unclear?

Scunthorpe test:

strumpet
trumpet
overtrump
.trump
trump.
tr.ump
"trump"
trump
trump
-trump-

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#14099

Secular Woman has scored its second block. PZ apparently didn't appreciate his first incoming:

Benson and Watson are still goers.

http://i.imgur.com/yq2rcFH.jpg

#14100

Btw I redid that vid to tidy it up. Hence the "redux"