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Re: what the *beep* as america ever done
by spong_is_back 3 days ago (Sat Dec 30 2006 15:38:32 )
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one: diet shampoo
two:im not french im mexican born in mexico
Re: what the *beep* as america ever done
by markustbg 3 days ago (Sat Dec 30 2006 16:56:57 )
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Then WTF are you doing here in the states?! Go back and study burritos. This country can do without you.
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Re: what the *beep* as america ever done
by flapjack07 2 days ago (Sat Dec 30 2006 20:22:39 )
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I believe a better topic might be What the *beep* hasn't America done?
Re: what the *beep* as america ever done
by KidneyStone 2 days ago (Sat Dec 30 2006 20:56:52 )
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AMERICA HASN'T LEGALIZED EATING PUPPIES. NOR HAS AMERICA BLOWN UP THE MOON, AND YOU KNOW WE COULD.
I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS, ON BEHALF OF AMERICA, YOU'RE WELCOME. KEEP ON ENJOYING THE MOON.
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[January 01, 2007 @ 1:02am] |
Happy New Year!
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[December 30, 2006 @ 4:25pm] |
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[December 25, 2006 @ 11:05am] |
I GOT A NEW COMPUTER JDF;ASDFS
OMG
When I was connecting everything, I put the new tower on my bed...When I put the old one on my bed, the NEW one flew off of my mattress and CRASHED INTO MY DRESSER.
It was like in A Christmas Story where at the end of the movie Ralphie shot his eye out. ;O; When I picked it up, the space where you can put an extra drive just had the cover fly off...So all is well.
Omg, flatscreen <3 New Printer. 250 GB. So much more...
Merreh Christmas.
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[December 22, 2006 @ 2:23am] |
I haven't posted in a while...Shame.
I feel like ranting about a movie here, so here I go!
I was on the message boards on IMDB for The Pursuit of Happyness, and it is astonishing at the number of posts by people who are completely unsympathetic about the situation the protagonist is in. Here is a synopsis of the movie:
Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is a marginally employed salesman and a single father, struggling with the mother (Thandie Newton) of his five-year-old son (Jaden Smith). When they are evicted from their apartment, Gardner finds himself alone with his son in San Francisco and no place to go. Even when Gardner lands an intern position at a prestigious stock brokerage firm, it pays no money. Forced to live in shelters, enduring many hardships as he goes through their program, Chris refuses to let this dampen his spirits as he pursues his dream of security for himself and his son.
The figure this movie is based off of actually got paid $1000 a month for the internship, which is still basically shit money in terms of being in debt, becoming homeless, and having a child to have to take care of.
Some people have been complaining about how 'easy it would have been to live of of $1000'. Here are some posts:
I'm extremely disappointed to learn he was paid during the internship. I'm especially disappointed that he was paid $1,000 a month.
When you turn 1,000 1981 dollars into 2005 dollars that is 2237.58 a month. Multiply that by 6 and you're up to 13,425.48. What was he doing on the street with this type of money?
As a college student i am able to pay my rent, bills, food, textbooks, and clothes all for under half that. What the hell was he doing on the streets? Learning this has really ruined the movie for me.
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Chris Gardner is lying. It's an important issue because it says that he willfully stayed homeless, with his son, despite having alternatives. The rosy mythology surrounding this guy is quite sickening. The only reason he's propped up as a hero is because he was a black man trying to punch into a world of money dominated by white people. This struggle of his, while a commendable affirmation of the human spirit and it's ability to succeed in difficult situations, does not imply that he was a morally righteous guy. Quite the opposite really. But he must be a great guy if Will Smith is portraying him, right?
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I don't think the fact that I am a college student makes that big of a difference. I still provide for myself with less than half of what he had to provide for two of them. If i'm already paying my rent, utilties, and food(therefore i have the basics to keep us from being homeless) I believe with twice as much money I could provide food and daycare for a child.
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So the message of this movie is that money makes you happy. That's it.
Geez Louise. Stick a couple of shots into the trailer of Will Smith lifting his kid onto his shoulders in slow motion and half the world reaches for their hankies...the really sad part is that this movie says you are what you earn. Makes me sick.
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Basically, there is a copious amount of dumb fuckery in America. Anyone who has never had a child that claims that they could live off of $1000 a month is full of shit. And I don't care if the year was 1981. I mean honestly, do people really think about the things that they say? Imagine being in debt, having to pay for a child, having to pay for the child's DAYCARE weekly (not old enough to go to public school), having to buy food, buy deoderant, washing detergent for clothes, clothing in GENERAL, shampoo, soap, a place to live, ALL THE WHILE having PREVIOUSLY been evicted AND living in the city. You have no loving parents to fall back on, no friends that are going to be willing to let you live with them while you have a small child, and essentially no future stable career. Think and consider all of these things, then you tell me that $1000 a MONTH is PLENTY for you to get through life at this point and be comfortable.
I think a lot of people who are young who also have any moderate to large amount of wealth usually are ignorant towards the plight of others. I think mostly housed teens/college students say ignorant things like this when they obviously don't have to worry about being homeless. If you haven't seen poverty and the depression that it is or actually experienced it yourself, then of course it's easy to say how simple another way of life is.
People are so quick to say, 'money doesn't lead to happiness!' Of course not. But being homeless and having no real purpose for the rest of your life doesn't lead to happiness either. Economic instability leads to depression. If in your life you don't take a chance to make something better of yourself and to try to accomplish a dream, then what's the point?
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[October 23, 2006 @ 7:35pm] |
What It Takes to Be Great
Article on Yahoo! Yey.
The first major conclusion is that nobody is great without work. It's nice to believe that if you find the field where you're naturally gifted, you'll be great from day one, but it doesn't happen. There's no evidence of high-level performance without experience or practice.
Reinforcing that no-free-lunch finding is vast evidence that even the most accomplished people need around ten years of hard work before becoming world-class, a pattern so well established researchers call it the ten-year rule.
What about Bobby Fischer, who became a chess grandmaster at 16? Turns out the rule holds: He'd had nine years of intensive study. And as John Horn of the University of Southern California and Hiromi Masunaga of California State University observe, "The ten-year rule represents a very rough estimate, and most researchers regard it as a minimum, not an average." In many fields (music, literature) elite performers need 20 or 30 years' experience before hitting their zenith.
So greatness isn't handed to anyone; it requires a lot of hard work. Yet that isn't enough, since many people work hard for decades without approaching greatness or even getting significantly better. What's missing?
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[October 07, 2006 @ 10:37pm] |
I should make a regular update at somepoint...I'm okay for now.
I wonder things. Like the Race for the Cure. How long has that been going on? Is all of the money and effort going into the race actually helping at all? Are scientists getting any closer to a 'cure' for cancer? What else if the money being used for? Is racing a waste of time?
It makes me think of giving to charities and such. Like the Red Cross/Hurricane Katrina ordeal. All of the money given to the Red Cross...Did it actually help? Or is the majority of the money going somewhere else? Hmmr.
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[September 30, 2006 @ 2:00pm] |
| You Passed 8th Grade Science | 
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[September 09, 2006 @ 5:35pm] |
DISCUSS
For Stelios, the teletransporter is the only way to travel. Previously it took months to get from the Earth to Mars, confined to a cramped spacecraft with a far from perfect safety record. Stelios's Teletransport Express changed all of that. Now the Trip takes just minutes, and so far it has been 100 percent safe.
However, now he is facing a lawsuit from a disgruntled customer who is claiming the company actually killed him. His argument is simple: the teletransporter works by scanning your brain and body cell by cell, destroying them, beaming the information to Mars and reconstructing you there. Although the person in Mars looks, feels and thinks just like a person who has been sent to sleep and zapped across space, the claimant argues that what actually happens is that you are murdered and replaced by a clone.
To Stelios, this sounds absurd. After all, he has taken the teletransporter trip dozens of times, and he doesn't feel dead. Indeed, how can the claimant seriously believe that he has been killed by the process when he is clearly able to take the case to court?
Still, as Stelios entered the teletransporter booth once again and prepared to press the button that would begin to dismantle him, he did, for a second, wonder whether he was about to commit suicide...
Source: Chapter 10 of Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
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[September 04, 2006 @ 5:06pm] |
Victoria Brims, a shark and stingray expert, has said that Irwin’s death was only the third known stingray death in Australian waters. An Aboriginal boy died several years ago, while the previous record death was in Melbourne in 1945. Only 17 such deaths have ever been recorded worldwide.
Whua.
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SNAKES ON A PLANE IS THE BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE
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