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The Soapbox allows you to stand up and have a rant, tell a bad joke, complain about someone or post stuff that that may not be appropriate for reading at work and/or isn't strictly IT industry related. It is rated M. Do not post anything offensive or which breaches the Terms of Use. Do not post programming questions (use the programming forums for that) and please don't post ads.
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I don't do religion.
Good cover, a clear line of sight, a smooth trigger, and a good supply of ammo. Those are my religion.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Good cover, a clear line of sight, a smooth trigger, and a good supply of ammo.
Those are my religion
No religion involved there. Just hard facts and common sense.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Distind wrote: defensive touchdowns
oxymoronic phrase? aren't touchdowns by definition and by nature offensive?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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You only noticed this just now?
Anyway, this site is pretty fun IMO. They're serious enough that they try to find evidence to support their position, but in doing so they often end up disproving (or at least damaging) their own position.
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harold aptroot wrote: You only noticed this just now?
Stumbled upon it while googling, never seen it before.
At first I thought it was satire, but I'm not sure it's meant to be..
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Poe's law applies 
But it's not satire afaik. Fun fact: you can get banned from editing if you're so conservative that they start thinking you're trying to make fun of them.
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One thing that gets on my mind a lot is the american way of hijacking political definitions.
Those people aren't conservative, conservative means that they want to keep things like they are.
They are radical per definition.
And most of the right wing people in the US are actually liberal.
And a lot of those calling themselves liberal aren't.
Rant over
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Those people aren't conservative, conservative means that they want to keep things like they are.
I am with you on this!
It drives me nuts when people talk about being conservative and wanting to ban abortion or add some regulation. First off, that is a change so it is not conservative. Secondly it even goes against the idea of small government (which is another hijacked definition of conservative).
Seems to me this is why politics are so messed up in the States. One side bootstraps an ideology they could never get pushed with one they believe will not fail.
Democrats tend to take social equality issues and bootstrap the idea of everyone getting taxed to death.
Republicans take the idea of limiting government growth and taxes and bootstrap social inequality.
If it wasn't for their strangle hold on each branch other parties would have destroyed them with the removal of this bootstrapping.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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Seems like Wikipedia's brother with a learning disability.
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