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by Gooberman
Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:02 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Please welcome one of the DBB's newest Moderators
Replies: 22
Views: 2000

Re: Please welcome one of the DBB's newest Moderators

dissent wrote:so when you get moderated in E&C, do you say "curses ... Foil'd again ?? ............."
hehe
by Gooberman
Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:16 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Bee's request has been granted ...
Replies: 48
Views: 5124

Re: Bee's request has been granted ...

KoolBear wrote:
Bet51987 wrote:
Edit... Someone needs to change my avatar back.
Not back but changed :) and added you into this list.

memberlist.php?mode=group&g=36094

That reminds me, you guys didn't get me anything for my 10-year, i mean come on, don't be cheap. ;-)
by Gooberman
Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:45 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Bee's request has been granted ...
Replies: 48
Views: 5124

Re: Bee's request has been granted ...

Edit... Someone needs to change my avatar back.
You should at least ge tthe Alumni title. :)
by Gooberman
Fri Feb 11, 2011 8:18 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Last Post
Replies: 89
Views: 9314

Re: Last Post

I understand that I'm not the most popular or well liked member of this forum. Hell I'm a conservative republican, who's not afraid to stand up for his faith or his God. and that makes me controversial. No way, I think your a good choice, I just felt like you needed some unfair bs thrown your way b...
by Gooberman
Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:18 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Last Post
Replies: 89
Views: 9314

Re: Last Post

I have already approached CUDA to assist you in the E&C I had hope that you and he would bring a balance to each other and that you could learn from him.
WTF thats a horrible choice, what are you guys blindly throwing darts or something?
by Gooberman
Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:49 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Last Post
Replies: 89
Views: 9314

Re: Last Post

I agree with woody in the sense that previously I seem to recall a thread and discussion, etc, I liked that proces. *ALSO* I liked the spirit of the Lothar/Birdseye team, each leaning more in opposite directions, so to that effect I would nominate CUDA as well. With that blurb being said, "give...
by Gooberman
Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:20 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Reagan Again
Replies: 38
Views: 3830

Re:

woodchip wrote:Must resist the urge to reply
FAILED! :P
by Gooberman
Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:24 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: And guess who bows again?
Replies: 56
Views: 7790

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You expect any better results with the government handling Health Care like they did Education? I think this is a really interesting question. Without a doubt, if education was privatized, the kids of the more well to do would benefit. On the other side, in the poorer communities, I think education...
by Gooberman
Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:52 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Reagan Again
Replies: 38
Views: 3830

I could buy that a son would know something is \"different\" when doctors couldn't. But Will's point is dead on, Alzheimer's is not a switch, there is a reason it is referred to as \"the long goodbye.\" It is an incredibly painful disease for family members. And I am willing to b...
by Gooberman
Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:51 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Psychopath attacks congresswoman
Replies: 137
Views: 11856

There are two realities: Did this map cause him to shoot a congress woman? No. Does Sarah Palin hold any blame? No. Will it affect her chances in politics....\"you betcha\". The political consequences: The difference between the maps are that one has names on both sides, I.e. \"from S...
by Gooberman
Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:42 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Psychopath attacks congresswoman
Replies: 137
Views: 11856

Not saying you are wrong Cuda, but can u post a link/img.....words like \"nearly identical\" tend to bother me.
by Gooberman
Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:10 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Psychopath attacks congresswoman
Replies: 137
Views: 11856

I think its too easy to try and lay this at the feet of Beck/Palin/FNC. Even if the Killer had FNC on 24/7, so what? People are allowed to be controversial on TV, it doesn't give license to shoot people. That being said, if because of this Beck/Palin start choosing their words more carefully, well, ...
by Gooberman
Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:20 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Our brains are wired that way
Replies: 31
Views: 2624

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Are you talking about idiot political conservatives, or the rest of us? I live in a state with a lot of ye old religious people…Pennsy Dutch, Amish etc. These people don’t show fear and react to everything through a prism of fear…in fact quite the opposite. Pacifists in fact. There is no way you co...
by Gooberman
Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:57 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Our brains are wired that way
Replies: 31
Views: 2624

What I found telling was that conservatives tended to react based on fear and were usually more pugnacious and aggressive in situations that were unfamiliar to them, while liberals tended to be more mellow and willing to compromise and make deals to appease and diffuse the situation. I just think y...
by Gooberman
Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:55 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Don't complain about tech service
Replies: 8
Views: 795

Tech support is just awful for most big companies. I recently canceled my internet/cable service with Timewarner, when after six years of giving them $110/mo, living in the same place, they wouldn't transfer my service to my new apartment because the previous tenant had not paid their Bill. I went r...
by Gooberman
Tue Dec 28, 2010 9:54 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Political Correctness, implement of destruction
Replies: 89
Views: 7107

Once again, you can always find some crazy who does or says something, that is where the FNC got their source. They take these crazies, and make them the \"norm\" and declare \"war\" and do \"FOX NEWS ALERTS!!!!!\", to such an extreme, that the first thing people think ...
by Gooberman
Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:57 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Political Correctness, implement of destruction
Replies: 89
Views: 7107

Fox news is responsible for the whole merry christmas/happy holidays shin-dig. Seriously, no one thought twice about saying merry christmas until they declared it a \"war,\" and brought a few exceptions of people refusing to say it into the center light. Such that people like me, ended up ...
by Gooberman
Mon Dec 27, 2010 12:52 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: The better nature of pedosexuals
Replies: 109
Views: 10050

Re:

Cautious is one thing, blind adherence quite another. To me, this definitly falls alongside the "yelling fire...." arguments. However, I am not sure that I buy STs arguments of "what possible good...." as a test for when we silence people. For example, I see no good in the KKK r...
by Gooberman
Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:46 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: The better nature of pedosexuals
Replies: 109
Views: 10050

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woodchip wrote:I suggest you re-evaluate the position you are taking as your credibility is plummeting.
Meh, I don't think you can fault a guy for being overly cautious when it comes to free speech.
by Gooberman
Thu Dec 23, 2010 6:24 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Apps are tracking and reporting on you.
Replies: 22
Views: 2563

There are four times in my life where technology has amazed me. 1. My first Commador 64 2. First time I dial'ed up and played co-op doom2 with my best friend. 3. First time I connected to the internet wirelessly. 4. Smart phones. Yup, they are trendy/expensive. But its my ipod/GPS/phone/digital came...
by Gooberman
Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:28 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: NK thread
Replies: 14
Views: 1337

...as he picked up his hammer and saw.
by Gooberman
Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:50 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Don't throw away the business card...
Replies: 3
Views: 528

The DBB centrist
by Gooberman
Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:01 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Your 3 favorite games
Replies: 36
Views: 8418

1. Descent1/2/3
2. Tribes II
3. DoomII
by Gooberman
Sun Dec 12, 2010 11:15 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Fall of an Empire?
Replies: 24
Views: 1762

...gets into their Japanese car... My current car is Japanese, my previous one was American, and the amount of repairs that it cost me was just nuts. I will try a (different brand) of American for my next car, the problem is, is that my current one is still running so well that I think it will be a...
by Gooberman
Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:34 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: The better nature of pedosexuals
Replies: 109
Views: 10050

I can buy that it is a mental disorder, but given the high repetition rate, I don't think anyone who acts on it should ever be allowed back into society.
by Gooberman
Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:24 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: \"Why is Obama acting like George McFly?\"
Replies: 24
Views: 2126

W.R. wrote:So the author just doesn't get it and although the repubs suck in many ways their standing firm to oppose any tax increases right now is a good thing.
Now if only they would support spending cuts.
by Gooberman
Sat Nov 20, 2010 5:31 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Call of Duty: Black Ops
Replies: 54
Views: 6763

Re:

As Halo1 had no online support, MP required you actually get together. I could had sworn it did, at least for the PC. The PC version did, but that came out a few years (iirc) after the xbox one (which definitely did not). There were online programs that made the xbox think it was on a LAN, but thos...
by Gooberman
Sat Nov 20, 2010 12:27 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: shovel ready projects have always been there
Replies: 19
Views: 1620

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If you ask me they need look only to the great depression and its recovery to find out how we should get out of our current one. PUT PEOPLE TO WORK! Our infrastructure is falling apart. Repair it and improve it. Millions of potential jobs there. Screw government handouts to banks and unions. The ha...
by Gooberman
Sat Nov 20, 2010 12:19 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Call of Duty: Black Ops
Replies: 54
Views: 6763

Not to say that Halo is the greatest game on Earth either but I do enjoy some aspects of it and with the right group of friends, it can be a lot of fun on-line. Which is pretty much the only reason I have ever played any FPS. I think some of my college day Xbox lans with Halo1 were some of the most...
by Gooberman
Sat Nov 20, 2010 12:12 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: A Player's Review of StarCraft 2
Replies: 83
Views: 10035

I made it out of Bronze but then fell back into it. :(

I have to say I don't really play the main multiplayer game at all now. It just didn't grab me like WC3.

I do play some of the custom game \"TUGS\". Yes, they are cheesy, but a bit of mindless, low effort, fun. :)
by Gooberman
Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:31 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Glad to live where I do...
Replies: 11
Views: 980

Glad to live where I do...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/18/pakistan.blasphemy/index.html?hpt=C1 Itan Wali, Pakistan (CNN) -- In this village in Pakistan's Punjab province a tearful 12-year-old girl ponders if the Pakistani government will soon hang her mother. \"Whenever I see her picture I cry,\" Isham ...
by Gooberman
Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:39 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Call of Duty: Black Ops
Replies: 54
Views: 6763

Re:

Maybe you don't like it, and it doesn't appeal to you , but those sales figures indicate you're the minority. Well yes, we all loved Descent 3, without a doubt one of the more complex FPSs ever made. ;) Krom's comments don't surprise me, because anyone who spent that much time getting that good at ...
by Gooberman
Tue Nov 16, 2010 10:38 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: sigh... blockheaded TSA regulations
Replies: 92
Views: 8383

This has nothing to do with security, it has to do with whatever company is making those, probably not cheep, scanning machines.
by Gooberman
Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:23 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: sigh... blockheaded TSA regulations
Replies: 92
Views: 8383

^^ beat me to it :(
by Gooberman
Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:54 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Call of Duty: Black Ops
Replies: 54
Views: 6763

But seriously.. 60 bucks for these shooters by activision and EA, and they all look and play the same. They are robbing me. Their target demographic should only be tailored to idiots. In the maker's defense, there is only so much you can do to a FPS until people get freaked out. The ultimate extrem...
by Gooberman
Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:37 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Those idiots at Micro$oft do it again
Replies: 9
Views: 995

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Android will rule. Yup. I use droid2 myself, but if I would of had the choice, without switching networks, I would of gone with iphone. http://s1.postimage.org/27vv9s7ic/1288468031727.jpg jk jk... iphone does have some neat stuff. I only got one responce for you... http://www.mathworks.com/mobile/i...
by Gooberman
Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:20 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Those idiots at Micro$oft do it again
Replies: 9
Views: 995

Re:

Isaac wrote:
ThunderBunny wrote:Android will rule.
Yup.
I use droid2 myself, but if I would of had the choice, without switching networks, I would of gone with iphone.
by Gooberman
Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:40 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: sigh... blockheaded TSA regulations
Replies: 92
Views: 8383

Re:

Much as I want to praise him for protesting how ridiculous the TSA and airport insecurity has gotten, I'd also have to point out how utterly futile the entire endeavor was. This kind of protest only works when enough people do it that the whole system jams up, otherwise it just ends up being an ann...
by Gooberman
Fri Nov 12, 2010 11:48 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Liberal Media Myth
Replies: 53
Views: 5434

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Although Hannity "lost" Colmes, Colmes still appears on FOX news as a "contributor" on a regular basis. He appears on the ORLY Factor as well as other shows. As a matter of fact I think he moved in with Mara Liasson and Juan Williams. I agree, and admit to not being able to watc...