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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: It's stupid when feminists say that porn is misogynistic |
| Ancalagon |
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Posted: 07 Jun 2013, 12:21 am
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| Men are subjects in traditional porn; they are active, they 'do something' to the women, who are passive objects which have something done to them. That is literal objectification. That's not really true. Women do stuff to men all the time in porn. You can even see this in the cliche "she does it a... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Simple numbers question... Or maybe not so simple. |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2013, 9:14 am
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Buxcador wrote: It does not matter how many symbols are used. What matters is how efficiently are these symbols used.
Why would that matter? |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Simple numbers question... Or maybe not so simple. |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2013, 3:57 am
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| Is wasteful in the sense that we introduce a new symbol, but we can't use any combination of the symbols to represent an unique number. What is being wasted? You might as well say base 10 is wasteful because it isn't base 11. Adding a bunch of new symbols to represent negatives avoids the "problem"... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Simple numbers question... Or maybe not so simple. |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2013, 7:41 am
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| But the system efficiency is ruined when we have decimals, or negative numbers. With these we have 2 extra symbols, the "." and the "-". The "-" can only be placed once, and only on one position. Meanwhile the "." can be on any place, but can be present only once. That's wasteful. That isn't really... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: It's stupid when feminists say that porn is misogynistic |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2013, 9:23 am
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| Shocker films are just that- shocker films. Back away from fiction and bring some reality in here. Cool. Would you dare to say that in front of an cinema audience after seeing "Schindlers list". "Schindler's list" is not evidence any more than "Requiem for a dream". They are movies. If I wanted to ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: It's stupid when feminists say that porn is misogynistic |
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Posted: 01 Jun 2013, 6:02 pm
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| I just can't see any pleasurable outcome from puking, neurologically speaking. The mind is where pleasure/displeasure exists. Physically, there are nerve signals that indicate hot/cold/soft/sharp/pressure/etc., but individual nerve signals aren't pleasure or displeasure, that's constructed in the m... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: It's stupid when feminists say that porn is misogynistic |
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Posted: 29 May 2013, 5:32 pm
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| I've debated my point perfectly well - you're the one resorting to insults and telling me to leave - I'd hardly call that a mature debating style. You have not debated your point well. What you've done is say repeatedly that porn is bad (as if saying so would make it so); question the morality, int... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Interested in learning to program... Help? |
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Posted: 29 May 2013, 10:00 am
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| 1998? No. It's common knowledge that Linux does not "just work" out of the box even today. It only works perfectly on laptops which ship with it, because the manufacturer manages to find all the appropriate drivers and tweaks and make sure it's actually workable for that fixed configuration. Again,... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: It's stupid when feminists say that porn is misogynistic |
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Posted: 29 May 2013, 9:50 am
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| Especially since most people who regularly view that crap completely deny the fact that they watch it in the first place IRL, but then casually defend/debate the issue with their alternate internet-personality. :roll: Why is that a problem? The internet allows anonymity, which means that people are... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: It's stupid when feminists say that porn is misogynistic |
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Posted: 28 May 2013, 7:58 pm
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| I barely ever see women in my porn, so I have no idea where 'violence against women' comes about, As someone who sees quite a lot of women in my porn, I think I know what they're talking about. You don't have to look terribly hard to find something described as "painful anal" as if that were a good... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Interested in learning to program... Help? |
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Posted: 28 May 2013, 6:37 pm
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| Linux is more stable than Windows? On what planet? 8O This one. Sure, it's more stable for heavy-duty server room work, where it is most used. However Windows actually has drivers that consistently work as expected, while in Linux having everything "just work" is sort of a freak accident. I've run ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do you post in PPR? |
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Posted: 19 May 2013, 8:04 pm
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| I chose "debate" as opposed to "pointless debate" and "intelligent debate". Not "pointless" because what's the point of that? Not "intelligent" because there are too few people around here that really think about the things they argue about (although they do exist). I have to disagree with the idea ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: IRS apologizes for targeting Tea Party groups |
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Posted: 15 May 2013, 8:22 pm
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Kraichgauer wrote: You underestimate how much power Congress has.
It isn't a matter of how much power they have, it's a matter of what they have power over. The commander-in-chief has power over the military. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Our Self-taught World: Will expertise continue to be valued? |
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Posted: 15 May 2013, 8:16 pm
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| I'm not saying there aren't problems with schools and schooling, but it is better than just not educating people. This. As the sheer volume of data increases, at some point we're going to have to go back to teaching people HOW to think and how to pick out the good information from the bad, rather t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Mark Steel on NRA reaction to Boston bomb. Genius |
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Posted: 15 May 2013, 7:33 pm
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| But someone who takes an anti-gun position cannot benefit from it in the way that someone who takes a pro-gun position often does. Why not? But what motivation do they have for being anti-gun in the first place? Nobody in their right mind would think "for my career I'm going to make it look like Me... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: IRS apologizes for targeting Tea Party groups |
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Posted: 15 May 2013, 7:27 pm
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| If you think I'm hold George W. Bush up as a role model, then you really aren't grasping what I meant. I can only respond to your words, not your thoughts. And why do you have a problem with that it's Congressional Republicans who have been blocking the closure of Guantanamo? "We're going to lead b... |
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