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Old 06-04-2007, 02:19 AM   #1
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Being rude again Radar?
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Old 06-04-2007, 02:25 AM   #2
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Being rude again Radar?
Only to those who richly deserve it and who have done all they can to earn it.
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Old 06-04-2007, 02:42 AM   #3
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Only to those who richly deserve it and who have done all they can to earn it.
Ah, thank you for showing me how your personal perspective is universal. Anyone that Radar thinks deserves punishment must deserve punishment.

Why doesn't everyone agree with Radar because he surely knows how everyone should run their lives.
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Old 06-04-2007, 10:48 AM   #4
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Being rude again Radar?
It's all he knows. He obviously doesn't know shit about rights.
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Old 06-04-2007, 05:49 PM   #5
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It's all he knows. He obviously doesn't know shit about rights.
If my head were severed in an accident, I'd know more than you about rights, and pretty much everything else too.
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Old 06-04-2007, 10:02 PM   #6
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Being rude again Radar?
He's just trying to get Pierce to grow beyond nineteen, but at an unnatural speed of forced growth -- to more closely match Radar's late-thirties. Trouble with that idea is that to become mature, you've got to do the time, day for day, year for year. So the immediate result is mutual irritation, glaringly visible. (Kid, Radar's always going to have about fifteen years on you until the day he dies -- though when you're into your twenties the gap will be smaller in all ways except calendric.)

And experiences too: people raised like hothouse plants don't do so well out in the fields. An experience that would teach Pierce why I talk the way I do around here would be at least one hitch in any branch of the Armed Forces but the Air Force (their SpecWar specialties excepted -- which would take him beyond the way I go at things). Some people will tell you the military is not for them. Only in a few cases are they right. A military is very much one-size-fits-all, and you will be called upon to adapt. Of course, it's about an equally poor or equally good fit on those all, which is to say there's only a small group for which it's perfect and a larger group who for reasons nearly as varied as the individuals who find it a fit that's close enough. Those two groups are the career military.

That's enough digression upon the digression. We return now to the previous digression... popcorn, popcorn, who's got the airpopped popcorn with extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, and grated parmesan cheese sprinkled on...?

What, no :Popcorn: in the Smiley window?? Ah, -- and doughnuts with...
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Old 06-04-2007, 02:21 AM   #7
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I was not being sarcastic. Everyone dies. That's just part of life.
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Old 06-04-2007, 02:27 AM   #8
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What's the point? It only makes them feel bad (if they need some kind of validation from you). Does it make you feel good?
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Old 06-04-2007, 02:38 AM   #9
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You do not have the right to kill another person to survive yourself unless that person is trying to kill you.
That works only for humans, and this right has to either apply to every animal or no animals to be universal.

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If you are in a plane crash and there's only enough food for one person to survive, you do not have a right to kill the other person.
I agree with this except the natural right part, we made that up.

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I don't even know why I'm wasting my time trying to tell an ignorant kid like you about rights, when you're too dim to even know what they are despite having it spoon fed to you dozens of times in this thread.
Umm….I was spoon fed this since I was three and throughout my school years. I, with many other people, just don’t buy into it and see the contradiction with it.

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We have the right to life. Part of life is dying naturally (which does not include being murdered)
This is a good point that you have finally brought up. This I agree with (except the natural vs. man-mad right thing). Like I said, this right has to apply to every animal or no animals for it to be universal, and you have to kill other animals to survive, which contradicts the right.

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Life is a natural process. Not only do you not understand natural rights, you don't even understand the process of human life.
I understand it, I just find it funny that we say only nature can take away our natural right to life. I see what your point is though, nature taking away our life is part of the natural life cycle.

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I can't believe you even got into a weak school like the University of Minnesota. You're not even bright enough for community college.
I know, and I’m actually doing pretty well too. This is all going into civil engineering which is a very tough major.

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Your lack of age is only partially responsible for your willful ignorance and glaring stupidity.
Pulling out the age card again? But I forgot everyone that disagrees with you is a liar and an idiot.
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Old 06-04-2007, 01:37 PM   #10
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i'd settle for intercom systems that would allow us to dial up and bitch out the jerk in front of you that just ran a stop sign to pull out in front of you.... telephone number= lic plate ? something.
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Old 06-04-2007, 02:18 PM   #11
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i'd settle for intercom systems that would allow us to dial up and bitch out the jerk in front of you that just ran a stop sign to pull out in front of you.... telephone number= lic plate ? something.
Isn't that what your gun is for???
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Old 06-04-2007, 07:02 PM   #12
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Isn't that what your gun is for???
my paint ball gun ...that jinx won't let me buy, yes.
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Old 06-04-2007, 09:39 PM   #13
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Isn't that what your gun is for???
You think that's funny, Spexx?!
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Old 06-04-2007, 05:40 PM   #14
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i'd settle for intercom systems that would allow us to dial up and bitch out the jerk in front of you that just ran a stop sign to pull out in front of you.... telephone number= lic plate ? something.
I think that every day. That would rock. And I want one of those trailing message bars in my rear window so I can tell those I just cut up exactly what I think of them too
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Old 06-04-2007, 06:31 PM   #15
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I think that every day. That would rock. And I want one of those trailing message bars in my rear window so I can tell those I just cut up exactly what I think of them too
One of these, Preprogram 16 messages, scrolls up to 80 characters each or text with the help of a library of 100 words and phrases.
Can be set to run all the time, on a switch, or with your brake lights.
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