Remember when we had a FTR tribe in that game Tribal Wars? Lukie ruined a lot of nerds' days in that game...
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Remember when we had a FTR tribe in that game Tribal Wars? Lukie ruined a lot of nerds' days in that game...
ha.. what a time sink..Quote:
Originally Posted by bigred
http://www.robswtfrant.com/2009/11/e...air-follicles/ "Ever Have That Craving To Smell Like Michael Jacksons Hair Follicles? Well now you can!"
Can we haz a FTR clan on COD?
Just ordered Windows 7. BOOM!
spoonitnow is making me crazy!
Watched Food Inc. tonight, some crazy shit - http://www.foodincmovie.com/
I just added that to my queue last night. Funny you say that. I'm kinda pumped to watch it.Quote:
Originally Posted by givememyleg
I just saw it on ninjavideo.net
Yea not pretty. It didn't give me any food issues like I thought it might, but it sure reaffirmed that the govt and business are out to fuck us in every way possible. I wonder what would happen if they did a Pharmacy inc.
Right, I've already known how messed up a lot of this stuff is, but the movie had some really interesting points I didn't know about. When corporations only care about profit profit profit, health and safety is going to drop way down. I think it is very fucked up how the big corporations control all of the farmers, and don't even let them clean/replant seeds. That's how nature works! Pretty messed too up that you can own a patent on seeds...
I think the part where they try to pity you to death about the 2 year old that died was kind of lame. Yes, sad story but the way it was presented was like "if you eat meat you support killing my child."
Also, long live corn!!
I really don't understand why people criticize Monsanto or pharmaceutical companies for wanting their products to be protected by patents.
Agricultural research is credited with saving over a billion lives in the second half of the 20th century, by developing improved seeds that can feed more people. If any corporation in the world deserves to make a profit, it's them. Blaming science-based food production for poor health and nutrition is about as misguided an opinion as it's possible to have.
The seeds that Monsanto owns a patent on, are ones that they engineered. When you invent something that has value to society, you earn the right to a patent on your invention. Also, a lot of the profits are being invested back into new R&D. I'm worried that if patent laws on drugs and seeds are weakened, we'll start to see a lot less of these life-saving innovations. As much good as pharmaceuticals and food scientists have done already, there's much more that needs to be done.
That isn't the part that shocked me the most, and I agree with you for the most part. However, the farmers that choose not to use Monsanto's seeds are also being prosecuted for cleaning and reusing their own seed. Also, it just seems strange that it is illegal to reuse seeds after you bought them from a corporation. Seeds produce plants which produce more seeds, that's how it works.
I doubt this practice is as common as the documentary may have portrayed, but yeah, that sounds pretty bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by givememyleg
That's how it works in nature, but if we were growing plants according to nature, the Green Revolution wouldn't have happened and most of us would be dead. I see no problem with companies wanting patents on their seeds when they produce new seeds that aren't naturally occurring.Quote:
Also, it just seems strange that it is illegal to reuse seeds after you bought them from a corporation. Seeds produce plants which produce more seeds, that's how it works.
mike, you could be right that its not all that common, and I dont have numbers so I dont know. But the fact that monsanto does have its only g-men that go snooping around farms to find people to prosecute is scary. Esp when they are actively prosecuting farmers that never bought or wanted their seed. If a neighboring farm with the same crop grows monsanto, all it takes is the right winds at the right time of the year and suddenly youve got monsanto seed growing on your lot.
Furthermore this is absolutely devastating for an organic farm. They pay insane sums to be certified organic, and if their crop is contaminated by genetically modified seed, they will lose their certification AND possibly face legal action from monsanto.
I do understand where you are coming from. However in the end international food monopolies are not a good thing. Even if we ignore any possibilities of truly evil schemes, the fact is monsanto would be happy to have one variety of edible corn, one variety of tomato, ect. Thats just a depressing world to live in :(
why you guys picking on the weak powerless corporations? the only thing they want to do is control all revenue and politics...
hahahah billo rly gets rolled
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIcx_...layer_embedded
LOOOOOL "that fucking thing sucks!"
is this the right thread for this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXc3x1zcipI
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD IM SO EXCITED FOR THE 20TH THROUGH THE 31ST OF THIS MONTH. I CAN'T WAIT!
Anyone got some good sandwich suggestions for a toastie maker?
soooo Im in this donkament that I didnt really look at when I regged. Its a deep stacked tourney which I knew... but blinds only go up every 30 mins. Its 430am, the tourney has been running 3hr15min and the blinds are at 100/200. Average stack is 15k, I have 21k, 44/132 players left. Im pretty sure Ill be heads up in another 4 hours...
Still alive?
yes
i just bought some blow fish to cook up and eat tonight. i'll get back to you on that question hopefully.Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
http://www.chow.com/ingredients/488
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Originally Posted by flomo
uh.. good luck..
I busted 16th after getting massive ADD and playing really poorly post flop. I felt like shit going to sleep, because my equity in that tourney if I just tough it out and focus is probably ~$600 because of how bad the field was playing and how slow the blinds were. But I felt like I was going to have a panic attack... it probably took another 1 1/2hr+ after I busted for the thing to end.Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
lol damn. It's the game of degenerates.Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
Wat. There is a 0% chance that I would ever prepare blowfish for myself.
ya...Quote:
Originally Posted by mcatdog
NOTE: Do not prepare blowfish at home. Eat blowfish only at the most reputable establishments that specialize in this fish, and be aware that it is a risky undertaking.
flomo ain't scurred!
Racist Explains Hip-Hop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY2UF...1&feature=fvwp
I lold several times.
haha! you need to have class to kill yourself after you murder people, amirite?
i should have taken pics. fail on my part.
i was not planning on buying or cooking this fish when i went out to get some shallots for a shrimp "scampi" i was preparing tonight. i stopped in the store that sells shallots loose and was thinking of trying monkfish for the first time if it looked good. the monkfish looked great and so did this other fish in the case and i asked the fishmonger what it was and he said blowfish " chicken of the sea". My brain wasn't clicking that this was the blowfish(pufferfish) that is poisinous. It just looked so damn tasty. i get home about 20 minutes later and tell my mother-in-law that we will have monkfish and blowfish for dinner and she instantly asks if that is that poisious fish. --my brain clicks in that i bought BLOWFISH, japan's leading killer of foodies.--------WTF who sells blowfish in the US, the most scared consumers with gov't warnings on everything.
well we lived.
resul.ts the shrimp and monkfish played wonderfully with the lemon, wine and shallot sauce. the blowfish needs a lighter sauce than what i cooked up.
wait so you went in, bought blowfish and there was no warning on the package and the guy didn't even say it was poisonous?
google came up with no recipes, just don't eat it is what they saidQuote:
Originally Posted by givememyleg
FUCK GOOGLE
yes, that statement is correctQuote:
Originally Posted by givememyleg
no package though, fresh display case at this market (fish on ice)
Maybe the poisonous parts were already removed.Quote:
Originally Posted by givememyleg
*I know virtually nothing about blowfish so this might be a completely ignorant post
You can eat blowfish. When we went to the beach last month people were cleaning them, there is only two pieces of meat that you can eat from them.
you can eat lots of things.. doesnt make it a good idea..
do drinks out of cans taste a lot different to you than from bottles?
glass bottles > cans > plastic bottles
Why is it that when I log into FTR on, say, the FTR Community page, it brings me all the way back to the Forums page? OMGTILT!
Hi my name is GMMBB and I'm too cool to ever be on AIM and play people hu17rollz and shit, I'm going to go back to my kitchen and continue to do all the housework for my wife.
Why did GMMBB cross the road? Who cares why he crossed the road; how did he get out of the kitchen, and where did he get those shoes?
GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN GMMBB BEFORE THE WIFEY GETS MAD YOU DON'T WANT THAT
what will the year 4050 be like for humanity?
prosperous?
slums?
extinct?
replaced by genetically enhanced humans and/or machines?
confined to earth? solar system? galaxy?
how many people from 2009 will still be alive, in some form?
probably extinct :-\
if you could live for exactly 70 years (consecutive) throughout earth's existence, what 70 years would you pick?
If you figure man-kind prospers til the year 4000, I'll swing for around there. Unless you meant any time in the past. Really it comes down to how cool life is when I turn 21. So long as I avoid war or famine or strife of any kind, I think it'd be a great time to live.
any time through out history or into the future, also, let's say you're 25years old the entire time
can your 70 years be cut short?
too many variables I guess, just pick a 70year stretch where you would have liked to seen 1st hand what the fuck went on
Unfortunately, I think it's a distinct possibility, although I wouldn't say it's a forgone conclusion or even likely. It would take something very large (astroid impact, massive nuclear war) or very small (runaway nanotechnology, genetically engineered super-virus) to do it. And if it does happen, I bet it will be the latter.Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
Of course that's all in the context of 2009. In the future (and probably much faster than people realize, do to the exponential increases in computing power over the last many decades), there will be technologies that are unthinkable now. For example, a weapon that makes current nuclear weapons look like a firecracker in comparison.
Has anyone read Physics of the Impossible?
The next 70.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigspenda73
holy shit you guys are like my goddamned kids at school
I ask a question of the day every day to start class. It gives them something to do while I'm taking roll, but they enjoy it because we have fun with it. My kids sometimes kill me, though, with the "what if this" "what if that" nonsense you see up there. JUST ANSWER THE GODDAMN QUESTION YOU LITTLE BASTARDS! lol
to answer the question, Spenda, I don't know which 70 years I'd want to live during, but I know it'd be in the past. I'd want to be around for some of history's biggest moments, just traveling the globe and watching stuff....I'm not sure if I'd fuck with anything and change history, but it'd be neat to be able to see the things I teach on a daily basis firsthand.
I'd rather see some of history's biggest moments of the future
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Originally Posted by bigspenda73
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Originally Posted by UG
:tsk:Quote:
Originally Posted by UG
haha, well played sir!
Without thinking too much about it, I'd want to be in some Native American tribe about 70 years before the white man showed up
Something like Apocalypto, just not during a time or in a place of that kind of oppression. Living a simple life, in a simple tribe, with a simple family, and simple pleasures has got to be better than anything anybody could ask for
isnt the world supposed end dec 31st 2012?
i think it wont last that long if we keep screwing up our enviroment
As for what life is going to be like in the year 4000
If humans aren't extinct it will be because AI didn't ever feel like acquiring our resources at the cost of our lives. Nobody can even come close to predicting the characteristics of AI, however. Humans will be cyborgs though. Perhaps not all humans. It's entirely possible that there will still be a huge enough gap between rich and poor.
There will be no galactic travel. Physics just don't allow it; time, space, energy, etc constraints. At the very least there will be some habitation on the Moon and Mars, and probably some attempts to terraform that went awry. Terraforming is theoretically possible, but economically ridiculous, and I think it's a several thousand year process. Instead of terraforming, space life would involve elaborate ship-biospheres. This is also economically ridiculous, but is what would happen if Earth was no longer a viable place to live. Colonizing other planets isn't much of an option because finding the perfect one and getting there would be silly when we could just live in a biosphere, not to mention that a planet good enough for humans will also have its own indigenous life which we would have to largely destroy if we were to take up residence
We will likely have discovered many strains of life in our solar system, but the xtians will ignore it like they ignore everything
Science will be pretty much figured out. There are always things we won't figure out, but the more nuanced those things are, the more impractical to our lives they become. We may not know what's outside of the Universe, but that won't change any of our practical tech. The entire human body will likely be understood. We will be somewhat ageless, disease-free, and super smart simply by manipulating genes and hybridization with machines.
Hopefully sometime before then they'll have good enough sex-bots so I don't have to put up with dumb bitches playing their dumb games thinking they're doing anybody a favor
Or everything will be for naught due to global warming. Logistically speaking, we are going to contact catastrophe; we just don't know exactly how bad it's going to be. I personally think that if we're unable to develop extremely powerful tech to actively suck GHG from the atmosphere and oceans, we will eventually reduce in population size by >80%, but possibly even >99%. People don't realize that Venus is the way it is due to climate and geography, it was once similar to Earth, and it's not impossible for Earth to go in a similar direction. In Earth's history, it's been both a snowball and a ball of noxious gas, and I think that we're going to find that the logistics of suddenly releasing GHG that has been gradually stored over hundreds of millions of years is going to create another one of those extremes if we're not able to turn it around via artificial sequestration
you worry me sometimes wuf.. like in a "oh man, hes gonna find himself a nice perch in a clocktower one of these days.."
his manifesto will be 1,000+ pages
Here's a before and after on a girl that just really made me legitimately sincerely sad last night. Before: http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_i...957288386.jpeg and after: http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_i...093896496.jpeg
god thats horrible.
Yeah, gingers are scary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chelle
thats not what your mother told me last night
thats pretty crazy rilla
the fun theory is one of the coolest things ive ever seen
The fun theory is brilliant.
wow fun theory is awesome.
'Cause I can't sleep I just invented a new game, called Holding My Drink Bottle Above My Mouth So The Water Drips into My Mouth Then Moving my Drink Bottle Progressively Higher and Higher So It Becomes Harder To Still Accurately Drip.
My face and pillow are quite covered in water.
http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/q...dSkullBeer.jpg
STONE COLD SAYS YOU DID NOT INVENT THAT GAME
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hahahha..
the image didnt work george, but it was still hilarious.
fuuuuuuuuuckkking christ!
Neither did Austin. He was in ECW for a short time as Stunning Steve Austin, and stole his character from the Sandman.Quote:
Originally Posted by UG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etF5Y...eature=related
http://twitter.com/newlywedsontjob
Best man secretly equips newlywed's bed to report to twitter when the couple is doing it.
haha that's incredible!
Why is joining the army, marines, etc, treated as the most honorable thing you can possibly do? It confuses the hell out of me when people default to "thanks for serving our country!" or "I'm proud of you!" A kid I know posted a pic of himself on fb in Iraq and it was flooded with these phrases.
Also I wonder what percentage of people join to "serve our country" compared to "free college". Probably something like 5 - 95, but I'm just making a guess.
Christmas Light Hero:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjbMIZzAgs
How he did it:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/200...ight_hero.html
According to the definition of propaganda, one of the factors in influencing a populous to do what you want is instilling unnecessary patriotism. The political right wing has been doing this at their best for quite some timeQuote:
Originally Posted by givememyleg
You can love it or leave it, hippies!Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
GMML Theorem #2 - If it's funny and found on FTR, it will inevitably be seen on Carl's facebook page.
cmon it's a black kids desk, that's ultra funny!Quote:
Originally Posted by bigspenda73
also i believe i missed the first theorem, what is gmml #1?
Man, I love revising old classics: http://spectrumzero.com/dj_trainwrec...eck_story.html
You all don't get my randomness because I'm too retarded to figure out how to use these crazy phpbb tags to post an image that's resized and so doesn't take up like fifty times my screen.
actually I might change this to Will641 theorem, he steals more shit from here than you doQuote:
Originally Posted by givememyleg
Is it just me or are Asian languages the most annoying languages in the world? They're so goddamn whiney.
honestly, i think japanese is the coolest language on the planet
just go through a list of famous japanese people, pronounce the names correctly, and you'll see why
toshiro mifune
megumi fujii
makoto nagano
kazushi sakuraba
way more awesome than shit like
will smith
george clooney
bill clinton
Thanks, I'm gonna hafta use thisQuote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
that pic is epic
Good luck getting your hands on one if youre not a business customer. Im so sick of att's service. damn you iphone...Quote:
Originally Posted by boost