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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tyrian on January 20, 2008, 09:17:17 am
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3.1563166 × 10^10 milliseconds to go...
Guess.
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:confused:
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That would be one year from today. I shall Google it.
EDIT: This? (http://zoshchenko-theinterlocutor.blogspot.com/2007/08/january-20-2009-end-of-america_01.html)
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Yay! The World is finally relieved from it's biblic plague!
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Let me see. Does that blog entry mean that we should quickly form an alliance with at least Russia to get the necessary military might to battle against the American war machine? Cool, I'm in.
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I'm joining the rebels!
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Tyrian, you need to make more codes :(.
EDIT: I forget if that was you or not, actually. Whoever made the codes: make more.
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It was he with the T.
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Cookie to thesizzler. He was closest. It's the number of milliseconds until Bush is out of office, as of 10:16 AM this morning. ;7
And yes, I am the Cryptographer. :pimp:
EDIT: Haven't had time to make any new codes. Been busy with university. But I do have an idea for a good riddle that I will be posting soon.
EDIT2: I just realized that the number in my first post is very close to the value of Pi... I wonder if this means in 2008 everything will come full circle...
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I doubt it. As far as the Iraq war goes, he's more or less left his predecessor with an untenable choice. They can either stay in, or watch everything go to ****.
If they stay in, Bush is justified. If they pull out and everything goes to ****, Bush is vindicated.
But at the very least, the blame will be shifted some to somebody else, and Bush will be free to go on his way, having set the ball rolling to a point that the next president can't reverse Bush's plans.
Declaring martial law at this point would only set him up for open opposition.
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Nah. That's when The EndTM will come, but not because Bush & co. will refuse to give up power. It's because Hillary Clinton & co. will gain power. :shaking:
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Nah. That's when The EndTM will come, but not because Bush & co. will refuse to give up power. It's because Hillary Clinton & co. will gain power. :shaking:
I'm with Goob on this one...
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I don't understand why Hillary Clinton inspires such fervent hostility. I mean, I know why I dislike her, but I'm an actual liberal, so to me she's just another American Conservative LiteTM. I would think that anyone who's voting Republican would find her to be the most paletable of the Democrats.
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because they think all of her conservative qualities are just made up to make her seem like a centrist, and the first thing she is going to do is raise taxes and install a national health care system.
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Crazy Canadian up here...whats necessarily wrong with either if it means saving some money somewhere? Like if you had a proper national health care system then the extortionist prices you pay for health insurance would go away.
If this were a Canadian election we would have already selected a leader and setup a whole new government and got on with things :)
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Nah. That's when The EndTM will come, but not because Bush & co. will refuse to give up power. It's because Hillary Clinton & co. will gain power. :shaking:
Why?
Crazy Canadian up here...whats necessarily wrong with either if it means saving some money somewhere? Like if you had a proper national health care system then the extortionist prices you pay for health insurance would go away.
If the government feels the pain of the outrageous costs of our healthcare system, there would be much more incentive for them to actually do something about it. Of course that does mean pfizer wont be able to make their $9 billion in quarterly profits, but I would think that would be a small price to pay.
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I have not really researched the election at all...I've been to a rally for Barack Obama and caught the occasional new story, but that's about it. But I really don't like Hilary Clinton so far. She seems to be capitalizing on her status as (A) a celebrity because of her relationship with a former president (B) her sex and (C) she's not associated with Bush.
Obama, on the other hand, seems to be more of an idealist.
While both of them seem to be playing the 'minority' card (ie non-white-male president) and capitalizing on the discontent with Bush to do some social activism, Hilary seems to be acting in her own self-interest, Obama seems to be supporting the things he does because he believes it's right. I dunno, it's a subtle difference, and it's not based on concrete policies or anything, just the impression I get when they speak. I could totally change my opinion when I start seriously reviewing what they actually stand for and plan to do.
And I know people (not my closest friends) who say that they don't like this political candidate or other because they remind them of their mean 2nd grade teacher...so I can imagine why people would dislike Hilary even if she is closer to the region that most all Americans inhabit. :p
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Let me see. Does that blog entry mean that we should quickly form an alliance with at least Russia to get the necessary military might to battle against the American war machine? Cool, I'm in.
bring it!! ;7
***Fearless Leader has just realized that generations from now, when some radioactive 3 armed man is cooking what was left of his dog after the giant rat made off with its innards, people will still be regretting this statement and blame him***
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I don't understand why Hillary Clinton inspires such fervent hostility. I mean, I know why I dislike her, but I'm an actual liberal, so to me she's just another American Conservative LiteTM. I would think that anyone who's voting Republican would find her to be the most paletable of the Democrats.
Lack of charisma, among other things. In most cases that's as deep as it goes, but it'd make her less effective in office.
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oh come on everyone knows that the world ends on 21st December, 2012.
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It's odd, but whenever I look at Clinton, I see the ghost of Thatcher over her shoulder....
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as a liberal... Hillary can go **** herself with a spiked dildo
pro-censorship
pro-corporate
pro-war
pro-idiotic-bleedingheart-gun control (i want gun control.. but appropriate and effective forms)
she isn't a liberal, not by any stretch. She was in the college republicans when she was in college then "Became a democrat"... but afaik she's never really been one.. always barely - bill was more of a dem and he still wasn't but a nudge left of center.
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So what happens if McCain wins the Republican vote and becomes their presidential candidate and Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic vote overall. McCain seems like the most liberal of the Republicans and Hillary the most conservative of the Democrats so somewhere in the middle has to be some sort of twilight zone, yes?
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So what happens if McCain wins the Republican vote and becomes their presidential candidate and Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic vote overall. McCain seems like the most liberal of the Republicans and Hillary the most conservative of the Democrats so somewhere in the middle has to be some sort of twilight zone, yes?
Imagine if both parties somehow reached a middle-ground and we had truly joint administration, granting the best of both ideologies and ending the bipartisanship that has been tearing the US apart for so long.
Of course, that's about as likely as the Earth undergoing spontaneous existence failure and blinking out of the universe in the next 20 minutes, but a man can dream.
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There is no "both ideologies"; the viable candidates run the gamut from very conservative to sort of maybe centrist with a little stretch of the imagination. American politics is calibrated so far to the neo-liberal, authoritarian area of the political compass that we have no idea what real political differences are.
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There is no "both ideologies"; the viable candidates run the gamut from very conservative to sort of maybe centrist with a little stretch of the imagination. American politics is calibrated so far to the neo-liberal, authoritarian area of the political compass that we have no idea what real political differences are.
Good point. The Democrats haven't been anywhere near left wing for a good while now.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQ7Prwh7Gc
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQ7Prwh7Gc
:eek2:
Be a lie, ...please?
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If this ruling was recent, wouldn't it have nothing to do with any past violations? :confused:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQ7Prwh7Gc
I'm pretty sure that was in early 2006, judging from his statements "if the democrats take control of the house in november they would not allow this".
But still, Bush abusing the legaslative process to pardon himself? Have we ever had a president do something like that before?
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I'm pretty sure that was in early 2006, judging from his statements "if the democrats take control of the house in november they would not allow this".
But still, Bush abusing the legaslative process to pardon himself? Have we ever had a president do something like that before?
Yeah, I remember a ruckus about this a good while ago. Sort of petered out, so I assume it was either defeated or it passed and was just forgotten apathetically by the collective US consciousness as it often does these days.
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There is no "both ideologies"; the viable candidates run the gamut from very conservative to sort of maybe centrist with a little stretch of the imagination. American politics is calibrated so far to the neo-liberal, authoritarian area of the political compass that we have no idea what real political differences are.
Sort of true. I'm looking in from the outside...we've got some truly liberal politicians up here and while I think you're sort of right I see some of the candidates, particularly coming from the Democrats as being decently liberal enough to deal with. A few of them you might even be able to stick into the Liberal party up here and they would largely blend in (although I think they would ultimately be horrified :)) although none of them are cut out for the NDP. The problem is that the whole freight train that is the American government has become a somewhat authoritarian system with allot of power at the top. More than I think there used to be historically. But thats not really a new thing...probably been going on for decades.
The best hope is for a moderate from either party to win and sort a few things out. Maybe get your spiraling national debt under control somehow :)