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Ostroeuropa
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Postby Ostroeuropa » Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:55 pm

Norsklow wrote:
Ostroeuropa wrote:
I disagree, it's when you push the people too far and someone snaps back out of fear of punishment.
Hit your dog every single day. I guarantee you one day he'll bite you, and once he's done that, he'll be so shit scared of what you'll do to him for biting you he'll straight up try to murder you.
By letting people know that any further action cannot possibly give further punishment, you legalize EVERYTHING.
If mass protest = death, you have just made it legal for mass protestors to do WHATEVER they like. You cannot punish them further


How many mass protests were there under Stalin?


Stalin wasn't insane enough to make it known that the smallest infraction resulted in an instant death sentence.
If someone jaywalks and realizes part way through their life is forfeit, they have no reason any longer to obey any laws, and will become in effect an outlaw/rebel.
It's knowledge of outlaw status that causes mass protest, not the outlaw status itself
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Postby Norsklow » Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:57 pm

Ostroeuropa wrote:
Norsklow wrote:
How many mass protests were there under Stalin?


Stalin wasn't insane enough to make it known that the smallest infraction resulted in an instant death sentence.
If someone jaywalks and realizes part way through their life is forfeit, they have no reason any longer to obey any laws, and will become in effect an outlaw/rebel.
It's knowledge of outlaw status that causes mass protest, not the outlaw status itself


Protest happens if and when there is a belief that you can get away with it. But that is a hypothesis.
We could test it in the name of Science.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:48 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:I fap. For science!

its not true unless there are pictures
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
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Postby Straughn » Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:56 pm

Norstal wrote:Because real science is boring.
THAT is bitch talk. How dare you. You're making me turn the bill around on my cap and pulling off my wife-beater top.

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Postby Straughn » Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:56 pm

New Sindo wrote:
United Fallcrest wrote:I would like to cut open Obama and see if he has a soul. Cause he don't care about America...

What do you mean? He does care about America!

*note their flag*

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Postby Straughn » Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:58 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:I fap. For science!

This. Is. Truest. Essence. Of. Goddess.

even better a eschatological conundrum than that cat and the peanut butter~

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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:32 pm

Big Jim P wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
i think we had a city councilman who was a satanist


Really?


[url]http//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Halloran#section_4[/url]

no i got it wrong he is a theodonist.
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Postby Grenartia » Sun Nov 11, 2012 12:55 am

United Fallcrest wrote:I would like to cut open Obama and see if he has a soul. Cause he don't care about America...


Please tell me you're joking.

Ostroeuropa wrote:
Norsklow wrote:
Yi kow tow, erh kow tow, san kow tow.

Revolutions happen when the Iron Fist is relaxed.


I disagree, it's when you push the people too far and someone snaps back out of fear of punishment.
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I can verify this from my own personal experience. No, I didn't beat a dog.
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Postby Mike the Progressive » Sun Nov 11, 2012 1:23 am

Shave with my left hand holding the razor, drink from a pitcher of beer from my right, and masturbate with my feet.. all at the same time.

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Postby Christmahanikwanzikah » Sun Nov 11, 2012 1:31 am

Determine how to best optimize a passive/semi-active damper scheme using magnetorheologic dampers, accelerometers and an electronic control system in order to reduce the amount of energy dissipated within a building's structural frame in order to reduce both seismic damage and the required amount of time for the building to be fully operational again.


...



Er, I mean, dip dry ice into water.

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Postby Norstal » Sun Nov 11, 2012 2:01 am

Straughn wrote:
Norstal wrote:Because real science is boring.
THAT is bitch talk. How dare you. You're making me turn the bill around on my cap and pulling off my wife-beater top.

Not sure if serious or not. Finding the unknown frequency of a Lizzajous figure and comparing it with the other method of finding unknown frequencies is not something most people find fun.
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Postby Crogach » Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:03 pm

Norstal wrote:
Straughn wrote:THAT is bitch talk. How dare you. You're making me turn the bill around on my cap and pulling off my wife-beater top.

Not sure if serious or not. Finding the unknown frequency of a Lizzajous figure and comparing it with the other method of finding unknown frequencies is not something most people find fun.


No, but certain forms of recreational chemical syntheses are (particularly the ones that result in loud bangs and bright colors).

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The American Nuclear Fallout Zone
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Postby The American Nuclear Fallout Zone » Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:06 pm

I'm conducting a social experiment. I'm going to change the name of my wifi network to "FBI Surveillance Van" and see what the people in my neighborhood do. Maybe they'll become noticeably paranoid... >_>
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Postby Christmahanikwanzikah » Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:36 pm

Norstal wrote:
Straughn wrote:THAT is bitch talk. How dare you. You're making me turn the bill around on my cap and pulling off my wife-beater top.

Not sure if serious or not. Finding the unknown frequency of a Lizzajous figure and comparing it with the other method of finding unknown frequencies is not something most people find fun.


http://xkcd.com/683/

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Postby Mike the Progressive » Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:43 pm

The American Nuclear Fallout Zone wrote:I'm conducting a social experiment. I'm going to change the name of my wifi network to "FBI Surveillance Van" and see what the people in my neighborhood do. Maybe they'll become noticeably paranoid... >_>


Or they are just smoking some pot. Either way.

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Postby The American Nuclear Fallout Zone » Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:51 pm

Mike the Progressive wrote:
The American Nuclear Fallout Zone wrote:I'm conducting a social experiment. I'm going to change the name of my wifi network to "FBI Surveillance Van" and see what the people in my neighborhood do. Maybe they'll become noticeably paranoid... >_>


Or they are just smoking some pot. Either way.

Or that.
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Postby Straughn » Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:06 am

The American Nuclear Fallout Zone wrote:
Mike the Progressive wrote:
Or they are just smoking some pot. Either way.

Or that.

Gonna be pretty popular, boy howdy.

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Postby Qazox » Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:15 am

Mike the Progressive wrote:Shave with my left hand holding the razor, drink from a pitcher of beer from my right, and masturbate with my feet.. all at the same time.


Everyone does that on Tuesday nights.


Serious: I'd like to donate my right ankle to science to find out why it cracks everytime i move it.
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Postby Apes in chainmail riding tyrannosaurs » Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:21 pm

HUMAN ANIMAL HYBRIDS

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Straughn
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Postby Straughn » Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:25 pm

Qazox wrote:Serious: I'd like to donate my right ankle to science to find out why it cracks everytime i move it.

Started as an adolescent injury (perhaps slightly before that) and has been exacerbated over time and driving.

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Postby Grenartia » Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:31 pm

The American Nuclear Fallout Zone wrote:I'm conducting a social experiment. I'm going to change the name of my wifi network to "FBI Surveillance Van" and see what the people in my neighborhood do. Maybe they'll become noticeably paranoid... >_>


Meh, my mother's roommate beat you to the punch. He named our wifi as an abortion clinic. And we live in the heart of the Bible Belt. We're waiting on a reaction, currently.
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Postby Individuality-ness » Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:33 pm

Grenartia wrote:
The American Nuclear Fallout Zone wrote:I'm conducting a social experiment. I'm going to change the name of my wifi network to "FBI Surveillance Van" and see what the people in my neighborhood do. Maybe they'll become noticeably paranoid... >_>

Meh, my mother's roommate beat you to the punch. He named our wifi as an abortion clinic. And we live in the heart of the Bible Belt. We're waiting on a reaction, currently.

:rofl: Please do, that sounds hilarious.
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Postby Blaat » Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:37 pm

Introduction
In the following experiment we'll measure the mod response time (MRT).

Materials and Methods
What we'll do is the following.

-We'll find a suitably old thread
-We post in it
-We measure the timestamp of the gravedigging post
-We observe when a mod locks it and measure that timestamp as well
-We calculate the difference between the two timestamps
-Afterwards we'll discuss the MRT and draw conclusions from it

Results
1. posted first post at 8:37 AM CET

Discussion
To be done yet. First gather all the results

Conclusion
Also still to be done yet
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Postby Dear Leader Kim Jong-Un » Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:16 am

Blaat wrote:Introduction
In the following experiment we'll measure the mod response time (MRT).

Materials and Methods
What we'll do is the following.

-We'll find a suitably old thread
-We post in it
-We measure the timestamp of the gravedigging post
-We observe when a mod locks it and measure that timestamp as well
-We calculate the difference between the two timestamps
-Afterwards we'll discuss the MRT and draw conclusions from it

Results
1. posted first post at 8:37 AM CET

Discussion
To be done yet. First gather all the results

Conclusion
Also still to be done yet


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Postby Viritica » Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:33 am

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