If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

How about a retard channel? Basically a thread where the vapid attention-seekers can be funnelled to post their content-free crap, without disrupting the adults.

The haughty (and differently friendly) Mehta may superciliously pretend to normally "ignore the denizens of the Pit", or something to that effect, but he lifted and passed as his own most good points made here by pitters , down to Peezus's hypocritical treatment of Wellerman.

What a metacunt.

There's an interesting documentary starring Terry Pratchett dealing with assisted suicide. I'm a fan of Terry Pratchett, and tbh the last book I enjoyed from him was Nightwatch. I get the feeling his disease started to...affect his writing. He can't even type himself anymore, but has to use a proxy...

It's also not a ruling saying "You can't work for us if you use one of those four options we no longer cover.", it's a ruling saying "if you CHOOSE to use one of those four, then you CHOOSE to pay for it yourself." :doh: This is like saying, you can choose any colour you like as long as you don't c...

Oh I'm sorry didn't realize that we had gone back in time several hundred years. Welcome to the modern western world. Exploitation of workers? Yep it's always someone else's fault. These evil companies are out to keep the man down. Give me a fucking break. We don't live in victorian Britain. We liv...

As if exploitation of workers never existed. In fact, it tends to be the norm in places where the state is absent or doesn't intervene to regulate SOME work relationships. A society based on exploitation is bad business for everyone on the long term (see Victorian England or the fucking Middle Ages)...

Take some responsibility and pay for it yourself. I am fed up with people expecting everything to be done for them. Want to have safe sex? get a company to pay for it. No. Pay for it yourself. You want to do it, you fucking pay for it. If you can't afford it don't fucking do it. Take responsibility...

Also, abortion requires a miscarriage to occur. Miscarriage requires an embryo to exist. In the absence of either, the term "abortifacient" is misapplied.

Dick Strawkins, I was off with "months into gestation", but abortion and emergency contraception are two separate concepts. Think about it, fertilisation is a complex process that involves several intermediate stages before you even have an embryo. How the religious characterise the process is, or s...

The designation " abortifacient " applies only to drugs which terminate pregnancy months into gestation. Don't fall for the faith-based spin that's being thrown around these days. You are wrong on this one. The definition is as follows: An abortifacient ("that which will cause a miscarriage" from L...

Ad addendum, RU-486 used as next-day pill doesn't technically qualify. Not sure what the implications are with the SCOTUS ruling, but they can't wantonly ignore science.

The designation "abortifacient" applies only to drugs which terminate pregnancy months into gestation.

Don't fall for the faith-based spin that's being thrown around these days.

Comparing games with paintings doesn't make much sense. Copies of original paintings are either worthless shit or outright fakes. To meet the definition of "copy" a reproduction must come in a different size or technique, or being immediately recognizable as such. Reproducing the artist's signature ...

Aneris, I liked your comment.

Art is also the opposite of SJW fuckwittery - intent is magic.

Sorry, I've been out of the loop for a while. Can you put me a little up to speed?

If I understand correctly someone hacked the FTB's backchannel, but dumped the correspondence on an unindexed unsearchable site.

Any juicy bit so far?

I guess the problem I have is that killer audio quality is nice, but at what point does all the extra steps, and inconvenience for the users, present diminishing returns? Especially when you already have a "herding cats" situation where you would be grateful to just get everyone in, on time and get...

Mykeru, this article covers the workflow concisely and has links to hardware and software.

http://www.sitepoint.com/8-professional ... tion-tips/

Can you throw me up some specification how that is done? What programs for recording locally. Does it just record that one user's audio output? Make model for "proper mic"? Are we talking headsets here? We can make you the AV guy. Because everyone wants that job. Yes, each user records locally thei...

Did you want beauty?

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For outstanding audio quality, the individual tracks get recorded locally and separately from communication, then uploaded to the technician responsible for mixing and post-production. Each participant should have a proper mic, know how to set it up and how to create an environment conducive to the ...

For outstanding audio quality, the individual tracks get recorded locally and separately from communication, then uploaded to the technician responsible for mixing and post-production. Each participant should have a proper mic, know how to set it up and how to create an environment conducive to the ...

None of that is really a SlymePit podcast. Right, not strictly speaking. On top of that, FFZ now appears to be entirely defunct. Season 1 had a quite punctual weekly roundup, though. Now, before someone patches up a barely-audible piece of crap presented by a voiceless hack, like most amateur podca...

Clownshoe wrote on twitter he wanted to de-drama and unfollowed people who have to do with the schism, even those who only sometimes tweet on such issues. And so he did. Their podcast is great though, but I often miss updates and haven't checked in for a while. Thanks, I had missed that, but I comp...

Not sure about FFZ, but Reap usually deals with SJW/skeptic schism issues only tangentially and not that often. Same with the Apartment J podcast. It's not their prime focus. SJW/schism issues are the prime focus in the Gender Bias podcast. Season 1 covered it almost weekly in some detail. Given th...

Dammit, we need our own podcast, just to bring that up for the umpteenth time. Zoe's and John's "Gender Bias" anti-SJW podcast is probably the closest thing to that. http://thegenderbias.com/ Though they're not affiliated with the SlymePit, they had pitter veteran SubmanUSN on as a guest not long a...

Sigh "I knew that I experienced something", as if it meant anything at all.

The only acceptable piece of evidence would take the form of the idiot retrieving previously unknown independently-verifiable information from what he calls "heaven". All he has is a bunch of hallucinations.

I think it will be available at IS.

http://intelligencesquaredus.org

Not to be missed , in little over one hour, Steven Novella and Sean Carroll debating afterlife with top-ranking (still silly) experts for the opposition. https://twitter.com/SkepticsGuide/status/463660909483663360 I hope the experts don't beat too much around the bush. Just recently heard the debat...

Not to be missed, in little over one hour, Steven Novella and Sean Carroll debating afterlife with top-ranking (still silly) experts for the opposition.

On the other hand, Classical and Romantic styles are often conflated.

The choir song, I posted yesterday Heyr, himna smiÃ°ur is typically touted as an 12th century song. That made me skeptical. I found such harmonies very unlikely, especially from Iceland which was christianized only about 1000 CE, easily 200 years after the continent. At the time Christians favoured...

The choir song, I posted yesterday Heyr, himna smiÃ°ur is typically touted as an 12th century song. That made me skeptical. I found such harmonies very unlikely, especially from Iceland which was christianized only about 1000 CE, easily 200 years after the continent. At the time Christians favoured...

Oh dear. Now we are going to have to explain how a constitutional republic works (again) , on top of everything else. http://www.graffitiwithpunctuation.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/tljncfom.jpeg Or not. Like I said from start, enjoy the US of Waziristan in the making and good luck with it. Dogma...

You realize, of course, that what made the North Hollywood Shooters particularly horrifying wasn't that they had "assault rifles" but that they had fully automatic weapons. They also had full body armor, some of it homemade. The list of perfectly fine rifles, and even pistols that can be illegally ...

You're a moron trying to argue with people who have actual military and combat experience, and extensive knowledge of firearms in general. Just shut your stupid fucking mouth already, you're wrong, you've been proven wrong on every occasion so far and you will continue to be wrong on every point yo...

Guest wrote: For safety. Like how they do it in Europe what with their elastic "constitutions" and all.

What do you mean by this?

How do you convert them, if you can't access them in the first place, fucktard? ANY semi-auto rifle can be converted to full auto, even a 100 year old Remington model 8. Are you going to ban and confiscate every semi-auto rifle in the world now? fucktard?? Round and round we go. Do your semi-auto r...

USMC 0311 wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout

Those were illegaly modified into full automatic. They're already laws prohibiting that.

Try again fucktard![/quote]

How do you convert them, if you can't access them in the first place, fucktard?

And here folks we have a textbook example of the burden-of-proof fallacy, where decius -- who made the original claim about how dangerous and insane open carry is -- is now trying to throw said burden onto his critics. Your premises: checked Intellectual checkmate: achieved My smug satisfaction sta...

Considering how it's a response to your baseless argument against open carry in a culture you're entirely ignorant of, I'd say it's as solid as a counterpoint could possibly get. Please, illustrate the benefits that open carry brings to your enlightened culture, other than some smug satisfaction to...

Large dogs have the potential to attack and kill people. Therefore, we should ban people from owning large dogs. Sure, I am a responsible dog owner and my dog has never attacked anyone, but why should the majority of people's responsible behaviors make up for the actions of a minority of gang membe...

In these pictures you keep sharing of open carry, do you see anyone else inside the picture freaking out like you are just looking at it? Because the impact of a social problem can be evaluated only through reactions of those in the immediate vicinity. And since they do not appear in the picture, t...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Only in Murka...

http://aattp.org/cliven-bundys-militias ... ts-images/

Yeah, what about this shit?

You really are arguing for bans on all guns, aren't you? So allowing people to responsibly own guns until they do something bad with them, that's horrible and needs to stop because it enables these very rare spree killers, but pointing out the huge flaws in gun bans (that people get the guns anyway...

I guess what I'm trying to say is your depiction of the U.S. as a place where people walk around with assault rifles slung on their backs as a general occurrence, as the norm, is just so much propagandist horseshit. Good, then. So do you agree that if it were the case it would negatively impact the...

Down here, possessing firearms is illegal for 99% of the population, and yet, criminals armed with AK-47 is a pretty common occurrence. Precisely because they are freely available to non-criminals. Guess why such shootouts never occur in Europe. Uh? They're not available to non-criminals. Nobody ca...

James, bans may not be the perfect solution /, but that's the Nirvana fallacy. Also, the problem with the Hollywood shootout wasn't that some of the weapons had been modified, but that they could be acquired at all because freely available to the public. Why did you fail to quote that most of them h...

Now, let 200-300 brothers/mexicans/middle-eastern looking fuckers show up armed like that, and watch the different response from the nice conservative white folks and the local PD. That thick layer of hypocrisy and double standards is another great point. But I guess you've never been to the States...

Let me guess, your extensive military training can detect that weapon about to go off all by itself and killing everyone inside that McDonalds. My idea of a night out doesn't involve rubbing elbows with some mental case who thinks carrying an arsenal to a restaurant is kosher. Knowing zero about th...

Right, because you wankers would totally enjoying dining out in this distinguished company. This is normalcy only to a delusional mind. You are a fucking idiot troll. You have obviously never been to the states. I will ignore you now. Should I scan my visa? As if me having been there made the pictu...

Right, because you wankers would totally enjoying dining out in this distinguished company.

This is normalcy only to a delusional mind.

http://thefirearmreport.com/wp-content/ ... 499177.jpg

So, you like your backyard to look and feel like Kandahar. What is the added value for the unarmed citizens, pray tell. Have you ever been to the states? You find one fucking picture of a dude with a pea shooter on the web and your a-hole puckers up. God-damn. You really have no clue do you? I have...

Dunno about all of them, but the US ground forces have a rather nice selection of shotguns to work with. one advantage is that buckshot tends to not have the "what's behind the target and the wall behind the target" worry of rifles, big handguns and assault rifles. Right, but I don't dispute the sp...

If you think this scene should be regarded as acceptable by unarmed passer-bys, you don't have your priorities straight. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QM4GaRfSkMI/UbANuFhALDI/AAAAAAAAAWw/fgSuppm0-_c/s1600/HermosaGunNut.jpg Oh no a condition four weapon EVERYBODY PANIC So, you like your backyard to look...

Isn't it amazing how real, but unarmed, men such as NatGeo reporters never succumb to nature in the wildest of places, whereas rednecks fall prey to all sort of ferocious beasts in the primitive American countryside? I believe that simply is not true. Just off the top of my head there was Michio Ho...

Southern wrote:
Down here, possessing firearms is illegal for 99% of the population, and yet, criminals armed with AK-47 is a pretty common occurrence.

Precisely because they are freely available to non-criminals. Guess why such shootouts never occur in Europe.

Here is my point. It is not up the the government to ban something because they don't like it. It can only be controlled if it is a clear risk, and that the risk is severe enough to restrict individual freedom. Reasonable steps towards the prevention of grave crime isn't the same as not liking some...

The denialists are refuted by history.

This, without assault rifles in the hands of the criminals, could have never happened the way it did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout

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