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Thread: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

I haven't had a chance to look at Vek's video, but can someone tell me did it mention Utopian ideals? I'm just curious who brought it up first. A certain amount of inequality is most likely the human condition. But there's a difference between accepting the presence of certain inequalities and allowing them to get as severe as they currently are. The rich are richer than they've been since the robber barons and the labor riots of the early 20th century. Which is about right, considering we've been suffering a Depression not entirely unlike that earlier one. Seriously, Hahvy... what the hell kind of school did you go to? There's yet to be one thing you've told us about what they taught you that I agree with in any scientific or philosophical sense. If that's what they've put into your brain, it's no wonder we don't see eye to eye politically.
Thread: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

This isn't even a matter of politics, it's a matter of basic human decency.
Thread: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

NihilisticImpact said This isn't even a matter of politics, it's a matter of basic human decency. Click to expand... I agree. But I also have to admit that it's politics specifically businessrich favoritism that led to this current development, however.
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I know, it's also why America has never actually had a liberal party. It's conservative and very fucking conservative.
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NihilisticImpact said This isn't even a matter of politics, it's a matter of basic human decency. Click to expand... Yeah. .. I don't think I could ever turn to someone and say you should be poor for the good of society. I also probably wouldn't be able to tell them that they have an aversion to hard work or effort, and that's why they're poor, because I know too many people who are homeless or near homeless who do a hell of a lot more than me. I just lucked out being born where I was.
Thread: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

I'll say this from personal experience I've lived in a variety of neighborhoods, but pretty much all of them have been in the lower half of the scale. Nothing too horrible or dangerous, thank goodness, but still. And I've never seen any of my neighbors particularly lazy. Working shit jobs, yes, or unable to find work, maybe we know people on the board like that, as well. Never had a chance to learn things to get themselves out of their rut, yes. Exhausted after work, so just sitting around in their off time, sure. But lazy? Not so's you'd notice.
Thread: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

I think the divide between the rich and poor is getting pretty damned rediculous, but at the same time, I don't think everyone should have millions of dollars to throw around. The rich may not deserve to be rich, and th poor may not deserve to be poor. Conflict and need have been the two main things that have driven human development. Remove need, and you will largely remove conflict. Remove them both, and what's left for us? It is a sad fact of humanity that when you removethe need to advance, people tend to stop trying to do so. There are a few exception in hisoyry, sure, but these are just that. Exceptions. The idea of a level playing field sounds great, but really, it's a pipe dream. You can't do it. Where would the funding come from. And when you do find the lazy bastards who don't care, how many resources and how much money was pissed away so they can screw around? Life is what you make of it largely. Yes, there are some people who really do just have the worst circumstances and luck, and get jerked around, and are denied what they need to get ahead. At the same time, I know just as many people who were handed no dvantages, and they busted their asses for years to make it. And you know? They managed it. Will I look someone in the eye and tell them to be poor for the good of society? No. But show me someone who is in a poor situation, and I'll ask them what they are doing right then to help themselves out of it. If they answer they're just trying to get by, my hat is off to them for doing just that. But if they want change, then the change has to come from their end as well.
Thread: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

I don't think anyone's saying we all need to be enforceably equal. No, I'm a believer in a meritocracy to a degree it would certainly eliminate a great deal of trust fund babies, that's for sure. But I think it's more of the fact that the divide is so great, so insurmountable. The rich can get literally everything, and the poor are finding it harder and harder to get anything whatsoever. A certain level of difference is good. It's good to have something to strive for, and it's good to earn what you get. However, the point is that the divide is deep, and that's weakening us as a society. We're in the they have no bread then let them eat cake territory, and that's not healthy for us as a culture. We can have socioeconomic differences without letting the least of us and most numerous of us fend for themselves. There was an article about The Wire that had a very telling point. In the introduction, it spoke about the American Dream. Part of what we're told is that if you work hard, if you have the idea, if you can be just a little faster or better or more skilled, you have the ability to come out on top in America. Which, with corporations and the rich exerting interference and nepotism and so forth, is more difficult, but still true. But the other part is, if you play by the rules, if you support the society and do your best, there's a place at the table for you, too. You, too, can partake in the success of America, not to the same degree, but by playing your role and doing your best, you could do all right, you would be supported by America just as you support America. And that second part is a total lie these days. As a society, we don't support anyfuckingbody, no matter of they deserve it. And that's to our detriment.
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I will honestly say that I'm not 100 on how easyhard it would be to make things work in the US, as I've been a Canadian all my life, and most of my friends are the same. Earlier posts made it sound as though the idea of everyone having the same opportunityadvantages does very much sound like a forced equality, but I've already weighed in on that, so I'll drop it now. I've reviewed the post above several times, and I cannot find a single thing you've said that I can really disagree with with very much enthusiasm.
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Not everybody posting previously in the thread was talking about the same things. I think most folks were saying there ought to be an equality of opportunity what is done with that opportunity is up to the individuals involved. However, in our current USA Canada is demonstrably different, the less-advantaged get far, far fewer opportunities. There are programs and such that try and help, but even with all that, it's a drop in the bucket, just on sheer numbers. And the wealthy don't really understand that, which is why I think we're sailing into a danger zone.
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With that in mind, I will agree more completely that something, somehow, should be done to adress the divide. But with all of this in mind, now that the problem is more adequately identified, what would you recommend be done to adress the problem?
Thread: So, I've Never Kept a Journal Before

But now might be a good time to start. For one thing, it'll save me from ranting at my rp partners and boring them to death. It'll also save me from sending out like ten different PMs ifwhen I get sick or if I go out of townaway from my computeretc, etc. Also, this will save the pet thread from being spammed by like twenty pictures of my pets. Right, today's rant Concerning Idiots with Leaf-Blowers Dear Neighbors Maybe you have a genuine and legitimate reason for starting up heavy garden work at EIGHT FUCKING AM ON A SUNDAY MORNING. Maybe you just think, Ah, what a lovely day! This is a perfect day to start out early with that heavy gardening work before it gets too hot to do anything! Why, I'm certain that my neighbors feel the absolute same way and they certainly don't have anything better to do. I'm perfectly confident that none of them go to workclasses very early in the morning for most of the week and thus want to sleep in on those few precious days that they can get. They're probably at Church or something. But, here's the thing you're a fucking moron with approximately the same amount of brains as a hammer. I have kidney problems which routinely keep me awake for very, very long hours. I'm also a very light sleeper when I wake up, I'm awake for hours. Leaf-blowers are those machines that make very loud noises, which is not something I want to encounter on a day that I actually get to sleep in. My father has a bad back he also takes hours to go to sleep. Lately, he's been operating on two hours of sleep a night. My mother ALSO has trouble sleeping since, during the week, she has to make sure my younger brother gets up on time to get to his classes. My little brother goes to class during the week he, much like myself, looks forward to the weekend as a time to catch up on much needed sleep. So, please. Use your goddamn brain and actually THINK before you start up heavy machinery. By the way, how long, exactly, does it take to blow all the leaves away? A few hours, right? You have been operating that fucking leaf-blower since nine am today. It is almost three pm now and there is no end in sight. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's a different machine that makes loud noises and keeps everyone awake. Maybe you're playing a game maybe there are two leaf-blowers and you two are competing with each other to try and keep the leaves in the air or something. All I know for sure is that there are very loud noises and they keep my family awake. But, most likely, you're just incompetent and have absolutely no respect or sympathy for anyone else other than yourselves. You're just going around with the damn blower, going all, HURP A DURP, I HAS A LEAF BLOWER, LOLOLOL I'M IN MI YARDZ, RUININ UR SLEEP! I've tried being nice. I sent a very polite note to you, talking about how much my family needs sleep. You never responded. And, as a very polite FUCK YOU, you started up leaf-blowing at FIVE FUCKING AM THE NEXT MORNING.
Thread: So, I've Never Kept a Journal Before

I'm an awful person and laughed. But I think the right course of action is to punch your neighbor in the face.
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I'm seriously considering that. Either that or, you know, calling the police with a noise complaint. Course, if I do that, I'm pretty sure I automatically get like 15 to my Crotchety Cane-Waving Skill. It might be worth it, if it does something though. They've done this consistently for the past four weeks. I'm a pretty patient person, but this is ridiculous.
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Just don't hit them too hard. You'll break your knuckles, or worse, your hand. That is not a road you want to go down, lemme tell ya.
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Kitties 3 I have my cat Ziggy- very adorable and fluffy like crazy. But he's a nuisance somtimes and very crazy. He likes to nom on plastic bags and meow at me when I've been away longer than he likes. He's very skittish. He used to like my roommate but pretty much sensed that we were gonna get a puppy so he doesn't like my roommate anymore and just waits for me to get up in the morning to feed him. something I'm grateful for. But now he meows a lot when he didn't before. Dx
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See, the thing about cats is that they are crazy. All of them. A sane cat is merely a mythical beast. Ziggy sounds adorable. 3 I like fluffy cats.
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Ziggy one Ziggy two Ziggy three He seriously looks like a kitten but he's actually 7 years old.
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Not only does he sound adorable, but he is a cutie! He really does have kittenface still. I think it's the long hair that does it. Psst. Your third link isn't working.
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Stupid thing! -kicks it- I'll see if I can get it to work. But yeah, he's half maine coon and half short hair but the maine coon really dominates his physical appearance.
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It worked that time. God, he's gorgeous. Maine Coons are some of the most beautiful cats. Did you adopt him?
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Yes, I did. I got him...a year ago in the summer. I adopted him from a friend of mine who couldn't keep him because she was going to be living at college. He always waits by the door to my apartment when he hears me coming home. It's cute until he starts meowing like crazy.
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Awww... that's sweet of you. And of him too. I like it when pets wait by the door my cats are more like, Oh hey, it's you again. So, did you bring food? No? Then why did you come home already? or Oh hey, it's you ag-zzzz... So, did you end up getting a puppy?
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Trouble said Awww... that's sweet of you. And of him too. I like it when pets wait by the door my cats are more like, Oh hey, it's you again. So, did you bring food? No? Then why did you come home already? or Oh hey, it's you ag-zzzz... So, did you end up getting a puppy? Click to expand... Yup. We have a pure-bred blue nose pitbull. He's so adorable. He tries to make friends with Ziggy but Ziggy is like HIIIIIISSS...meow, meow, leave me alone. o He was declawed as a kitten so he's an indoor cat. If he had his claws, he probably would be more accepting of the puppy. He's getting better but the puppy is very I wanna play and be friends, which Ziggy doesn't like.
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D'awww... pit bulls are such sweet dogs. They've got a bad reputation, but the ones that I've met tend to be very sweet and forgiving animals. It's so cute when dogs are all, HI WE CAN HAS FRIENDS? 8D at cats who are more like, I'm sorry, do you see me drooling? No? Then go away. I haven't had my lobotomy yet. I've got a dog too, an eleven year old Dalmatian. Not too smart, but very handsome. He loves the cats, who tolerate him in a bemused fashion. Well, except Skitten. She adores the dog and follows him on walks.
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xD That's awesome. I love dalmations. 3 And P.D is very sweet but he likes to bite a lot but he's learning you do not bite Momma without consequences.
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Scooter will get his own entry someday. He's a great dog, in his own way, although he sheds everywhere. Awwr... is he in that bitey age?
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Yeah, he's still teething and what not.
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Have you tried bitter apple spray? Personally, I've never found it particularly effective Scooter isn't a biter, but I did have one German shepherd who chewed everything. She loved the taste of bitter apple stuff.
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We just give him doggy toys to chew on. He can get really nippy, but he's usually pretty good with chewing on his stuff and not ours. I managed to train him not to chew on our shoes.
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Omg, Pyrite was gorgeous. 33 I've never owned mice and I'm afraid to get some because of my kitty and also how to take care of them and such and mice make me tweak just a little bit. D But still, sooooo cute. And I have to agree with your little rant. Okaying animal abuse simply because you don't like the animal in question is just..wtf. If you don't like the animal, don't like the animal but leave it aloooooone. Here's some puppy pictures P.D one P.D two P.D three These are a few weeks old and he's gotten bigger since I took them but there's my boy.
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It wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be to keep the cats away. I just made loud noises every time they got too close to the mouse cage. They learned pretty quickly. But, yeah. They're not for everyone. Awwww... your puppy is one pile of adorable. I like his little worry lines, as though he's constantly thinking, But... you still love me, right?
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He gets in trouble with me all the time and gives me that face of B-but...Ily, you still love me right? Before he's like LET OFF THE HOOK BY CUTENESS B
Thread: What's the longest song you've ever heard?

I believe my longest is God palace, Method of inheritance from Versailles. It's 10 and 12 minutes longs.
Thread: What's the longest song you've ever heard?

Alice's Restaurant Massacree by Arlo Guthrie. 18 minutes and 34 seconds.
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Oh-em-gee 0.o!
Thread: What's the longest song you've ever heard?

NovemberS n o w said Oh-em-gee 0.o! Click to expand... That's what I said when it was on the radio a few weeks ago.
Thread: What's the longest song you've ever heard?

XD, that's too long to be on the radio.
Thread: What's the longest song you've ever heard?

One of my clients is a Wagner fan. Many of them are hours long.
Thread: What's the longest song you've ever heard?

Wow the almighty Vek has popped into my first thread in here... -is surprised and honored- Holy shit...I'd be saying every once an a while...damm when is this song gonna end?
Thread: What's the longest song you've ever heard?

Black Rose Mortal- Opeth. That shit was 20 minutes. The entire album was 66 minutes. Only five damned songs.
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Totally blew my song out the park . XDD
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Longest that can really be considered a single track? Thick as a Brick part 1 by Jethro Tull at 2240.
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Appalachian Spring, Aaron Copland. I'm talking about the orchestral suite, not the ballet. It's 40 minutes long.
Thread: What's the longest song you've ever heard?

Heh. This is the song that never ends. And thus I have shown a bit of my old age.
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sajuuk said Longest that can really be considered a single track? Thick as a Brick part 1 by Jethro Tull at 2240. Click to expand... The only reason it's split into parts is because it was originally on vinyl. The whole album is one song, clocked at 4328, and is my answer as well. Second place goes to Echoes, by Pink Floyd, which is 2328
Thread: What's the longest song you've ever heard?

And now I'm wondering, how the hell you guys make it through such long ass tracks. XDD
Thread: What's the longest song you've ever heard?

Jethro Tull is easy to make it through. What's annoying is when it's on the radio they only play about 8 minute snippets of it. Annoying to hear the DJ say And here's Thick as a Brick, minutes 12-20 or so.
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NovemberS n o w said And now I'm wondering, how the hell you guys make it through such long ass tracks. XDD Click to expand... Easy, listen to them while driving or at work. The other drivers on the road must think I'm insane since I treat my car like its my own personal portable concert hall. One of these days I'm going to tape a camcorder to the dash and film myself singing badly. Arcturus, I agree. Its like when they go to play Blinded by the Light and only play the beginning few minutes of it. If you're going to play a song, play the entire song. Homeworld The Ladder by Yes comes to mind as well, the radio edited version is around four and a half minutes, while the full version is nine and a half, and the song really doesn't make any sense unless you hear the whole thing.
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Most of my favorite songs run between 9-16 minutes P. To name a few Death, Come Near Me by Draconian - 1522 Fools of Damnation The Embrace That Smothers, Part IX by Epica - 842 ...A Distance There Is... by Theatre of Tragedy 851 The Promise by Within Temptation - 800 Beauty of the Beast by Nightwish - 1021 The Poet and the Pendulum by Nightwish - 1354 Dreamflight by After Forever - 1108 A majority of my favorite underground band, Envinity, just released a FREE downloadable album where a majority of the songs are 10minutes xD
Thread: What's the longest song you've ever heard?

Longest songs for me is 10,000 Days by Tool and Implements of Destruction by Chimaira. 10,000 Days clocks in at 1113 while Implements of Destruction weighs in at 1330.
Thread: What's the longest song you've ever heard?

I got Albuquerque by Wierd Al Yakovic at 1127 and Zombie by Fela Kuti at 1224 I got a techno Mega mix which is a combination of various songs by darude I believe and thats at 4039 those are my longest 3.
Thread: God Bless Mexico

I actually don't see this one being a 'debate' for long, as it's entirely one-sided in my mind, but I was so shocked and appauled at reading this that I'm immensely curious at hearing what others have to say. !-- m --a classpostlink relnofollow href m -- !-- m --a classpostlink relnofollow href ... yareacaa!-- m -- A handful of students at a California High School yesterday were threatened with suspension for wearing American flag apparel on Cinco de Mayo. They weren't rubbing it in, weren't disrespectful it wasn't their heritage, and so for them it was just another day. It was just a Wednesday. The administration claimed that it was 'offensive to students of Mexican heritage' and they either had to remove the clothing or be suspended. I have a feeling the news might really pick up on this over the next few days due to the volatility of the subject. Whether or not it does, I'm looking forward to the school administration and the protesting students getting slapped across the face in the form of an understanding of the First Amendment. As I already said, I really only see one intelligent side to this argument, though I'm curious on others' takes.