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Chinese, or Indians?

Though there's something to be said about being ruled by a culture that procuded a book outlineing neat ways to have sex. And if you give my wife mango chutny you can get her to agree to anything.
 
Dinwar said:
Chinese, or Indians?
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Well it's a close call, but I think the consensuses is that the Chinese got a couple hundred million or so more.


Dinwar said:
Though there's something to be said about being ruled by a culture that procuded a book outlineing neat ways to have sex. And if you give my wife mango chutny you can get her to agree to anything.
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Yep, not everything's about having the raw numbers.


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Which is to say that we also need better organization. We must free ourselves first from the groupthink mindset of servitude in order to embrace the groupthink mind set of absolute adherence to some doctrine. Only then can we unshackle ourselves from the traditional bonds of douchebaggery and express a new freedom of douchebaggery on an unprecedented scale.
 
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It's an asterisk, douchebag*

* A term of endearment signifying a likeminded approach to everything we don't differ on.
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Dammit! That means I have to admit you've shown my argument to be fallacious so I don't get "marginalized and kicked out," huh?

Oh, well... I think I'm used to that by now. :p

P.S. I find the different pronunciations (?) of programming characters extremely fascinating. For instance, I usually say splat, but I guess star is more common (and, as a GNU/Linux admin, Asterisk usually refers to a PBX distro). The bang (!), hash (#), and pipe (|) characters have some interesting pronunciations as well.
 
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Yah, one of the few upsides of being in a minority is the moral highground over the majority no matter what they do, except become an ex-majority, which will take another fifty years or so, and another fifty for the majority stigma to fade.
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Note to self:
"I was an old white man before it was cool."

(now, just waiting for my chance to use it...)
((if I live that long))
 
Merton said:
Dammit! That means I have to admit you've shown my argument to be fallacious so I don't get "marginalized and kicked out," huh?

Oh, well... I think I'm used to that by now. :p

P.S. I find the different pronunciations (?) of programming characters extremely fascinating. For instance, I usually say splat, but I guess star is more common (and, as a GNU/Linux admin, Asterisk usually refers to a PBX distro). The bang (!), hash (#), and pipe (|) characters have some interesting pronunciations as well.
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Yea, I've heard all three pretty much interchangeably and generally say "splat" or "star" myself when referring to putting in a wildcard.
 
If I might put forward a slice of personal philosophy, I feel that the monochrome's have ruled atheism as stumbling demented child-kings, long enough! And as their empire crumbles my precious freckled muti-pigments will rise as their most fitting successors.
 
The Man said:
If I might put forward a slice of personal philosophy, I feel that the monochrome's have ruled atheism as stumbling demented child-kings, long enough! And as their empire crumbles my precious freckled muti-pigments will rise as their most fitting successors.
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Urrggh Chromoatheism, yet another splinter group.
 
I really don't understand what is the impetus behind this new organization.

Does the skeptical/atheist movement really have a problem with sexism and racisim? I understand there have been a few idiots who have sent death or rape threats, but how big is the problem?

Are 10% of JREF members racist sexist trolls and I just never noticed? Have these allegations been quanitifed? Did I miss a poll which said, "do you think women should be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen?" and a majority said yes?

Nearly all of the posts I have viewed on this forum have been for equality and against irrational discrimination. The atheist movement always struck me as intuitively "progressive" but not dogmatic.

I simply don't get it, could someone explain it to me? :boggled:
 
lopeyschools said:
I really don't understand what is the impetus behind this new organization.

Does the skeptical/atheist movement really have a problem with sexism and racisim? I understand there have been a few idiots who have sent death or rape threats, but how big is the problem?

Are 10% of JREF members racist sexist trolls and I just never noticed? Have these allegations been quanitifed? Did I miss a poll which said, "do you think women should be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen?" and a majority said yes?

Nearly all of the posts I have viewed on this forum have been for equality and against irrational discrimination. The atheist movement always struck me as intuitively "progressive" but not dogmatic.

I simply don't get it, could someone explain it to me? :boggled:
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As a movement, atheism + would be like herding brats.
 
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