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the truth shall set you free
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Posted by brandan on November 30, 2007 @02:31 PM
(1:31:49 PM) uepuejq: why don't you convert to islam then
(1:31:53 PM) liltmasp: well
(1:31:55 PM) liltmasp: because it's intolerant..
(1:31:58 PM) liltmasp: and muhammad is a fag
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The Fake Equation
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Posted by daryl on November 23, 2007 @08:39 AM
A few days ago, I was inside of a Wal-Mart (imagine that), and there was a girl who caught my eye. I'm a lonely person, but that's mostly by choice: I don't like people. Still, though, I am a hapless romantic at heart. One of my new favorite films is Buffalo '66. I also liked Garden State [if you are going to flame me, please use my GMail address instead!!!!].
At the same time, I'm a pretty confident person, atleast when it comes to girls, because I don't give a shit really, if nothing else. Normally, then, I don't go obsessing over some chick I barely know anything about. In fact, I don't think that's necessarily what I'm doing now. What I'm doing now is just reflection. I am, on the other hand, a somewhat socially anxious person, in that I almost always go home and consider every line I've uttered that day, in detail (the difference being I always see my conversations with the female sex in a positive light, for whatever reason, as opposed to the horrible torture that is me mulling over my attempts to have an actual friend [because everyone knows you can't be "just friends" with a girl]).
But I see these as missed opportunities. It isn't focused on an individual. In fact, it's shifted since that day to yet another lady I didn't meet. Many, many girls out there accidentally glance my way, smile, and then shyly turn away, and many of them flirt with me, on the rare days that I actually see the light of day, and manage to remind myself what a female looks like with her clothes on. However, one of the reasons I don't like people is because I know very few people who I think of as not being stupid. Since females happen to be a subset of people, depending upon your beliefs, that means females are pretty stupid, too; I'm much more interested in having a partner that might not quite fit in with the rest of the bunch, and the last two candidates I've spoken of to this point, in my mind, seemed to be somewhat interesting to me -- and how many more interesting ladies am I really going to meet, given the likelihood of most of the girls I encounter being stupid (and to disregard, here, the fact that I'm too lazy to go out so as to increase the chance I'll find more who aren't)?
I see it, then, as just another day wasted, in what's going to amount to my pathetically short and boring life. If you're stupid: I've seen the goal posts, but I didn't go in......
So, in the interest of feeding my appetite of romanticism for the day, I've decided to take action. I don't intend on doing something as extreme as what this guy did, but I do intend on doing some serious math. And math is serious.
To be honest, I don't know the first thing about mathematics, but I do know how to be a passionate, devoted, hard-working individual, and, if you don't like it, you can go to hell. I've managed to come up with an equation to calculate my chances of meeting this chick once again:
Cm = Pt / Nw * Pr * Pg * Pf * Pd * Ht * (Ss/St) * Pva
Pt: Number of total people in my city of residence
Nw: Number of Wal-Marts
Pr: Percentage of population in permanent residence (alternatively percent chance of the girl being a resident)
Pg: Percentage of 15-25 female demographic
Pf: Percentage of young females who have families they go shopping with
Pd: Percentage of people who visit Wal-Mart daily
Ht: Average number of hours these people spend in a Wal-Mart each day (some go more than once)
St: Size of Wal-Mart, total, in square feet
Ss: Size of the spot where the chick was found sitting
Pva: Number of days (out of any arbitrary time frame) I will visit Wal-Mart for the average amount of time
Cm: chance of meeting chick (alternatively Cogl, with a term that describes in joules my ability to charm females, which is like 200 trillion)
Here are the numbers I have plugged in to the equation:
Cm = 100,000 / 2 * .98 * .30 * 1.00 * .75 * .08 * (5.0 / 300,000) * 1.00
= 0.0147
= 1.47%
If you disagree, you're stupid, and you probably don't believe in aliens either.
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a point for wikipedia
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Posted by brandan on July 05, 2007 @06:03 PM
for the past half year i've heard a lot about how shaky the integrity of wikipedia information is. you're not supposed to use it because something could be false, or somebody could be injecting untruths into otherwise honest representations of fact.
i don't understand the platform supporting attack of wikipedia. there may be documented history of misinformation at your local library! open a newspaper up and see if they print a corrections section. open a magazine up and see if they print corrections or letters to the editors. misinformation is a natural trait of information where a mind capable of abstraction is concerned.
unlike the untouchable print media, however, wikipedia is freely editable to everybody, and has so far thrived and survived many data integrity surveys (* [url=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wikipedia+information+research&btnG=Search]*[/url], etc.) the biggest issue i have with the criticism of wikipedia is that it seems to assume that those who write for print media are infallible. there are entire books created as fiction and represented as truth ([url=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bible&btnG=Google+Search]the searchable bible in over 50 versions, each one the ultimate truth![/url]), and nobody has a problem, but as soon as a free source of information pops up that is easily accessible and utterly socialist in nature, people suddenly assume that the rate of misinformation will increase, as though the abundance of good information does not outweigh the bad.
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someone's thoughts on fanaticism
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Posted by daryl on July 05, 2007 @01:36 PM
I just watched an absurdly retarded video on youtube, in which an Islamic extremist was lecturing a rather large crowd. I tried to post a reply to it, but apparently youtube has the worst comment system ever: you can only post 500 characters, the video author can moderate your posts, and you can't post links.
it looks like they've covered just about all the bases for suppressing my free speech, short of me defacing the website, atleast. I can't write what I want in a single comment, and even if I segmented it into multiple comments, they probably wouldn't all be approved by the poster of the video, and it would take a huge effort to go back and forth to the page whenever it was convenient for the video poster to admit my comments to the page. finally, I'm also not allowed to just simply link a posting on my website there so that interested readers can be enlightened by my enormously dazzling intellect. that limitation is pretty easily defeated, though, since youtube's horrible programmers don't seem to know much of shit about regular expressions.
so I figured I may as well post my reply here, since I actually took the time to write it, and I don't see any good reason to just let it disappear forever. there aren't any particularly new insights in this, but just precisely because I'm annoyed I've been disallowed from putting my thoughts down, I'm going to exercise my true freedoms to say whatever I want on my own page.
if a piece of machinery of unknown origin and purpose were brought before my eyes, I would not attribute it to an intellgent creator. the watchmaker analogy is retarded and an absolutely weak teleological argument. please read a book other than the Qur'an.
also, whether or not the Qur'an mentions the moon not having its own source of light or the sun rotating about its own axis, what exactly is your point? the Qur'an may or may not say lots of things (and I'm not going to read that garbage to find out), but that has no bearing whatsoever on whether Allah exists.
finally, I'm not even watching the rest of this ridiculous video, but I'd like to say that we did _not_ first know the earth was spherical because of Sir Francis Drake. I'm not even sure that a flat earth was ever really commonly accepted by any society in history. the hypothesis of a spherical earth extends back many millennia, and was not unique (or even distinct) to any one culture. it was empirically proven that the earth was round by Eraosthenes in 276 BCE. get your facts straight, and, again, pick up another book -- preferrably a factual one.
I guess I'd also like to take the time to address the video author's questions as a post-script, if I may:
You don't believe in God?
that's right. I don't believe in god.
Islam provides you the answers.
islam provides the answers to what? I didn't ask islam anything.
Also, do you really think the Islamic Law is barbaric
yes.
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damming time
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Posted by brandan on July 04, 2007 @05:12 PM
dear person,
my name is brandan glendenning, and i am sending you this email completely on a whim. i am prefacing it with my motivation, so that you may see that it is entirely honest. it is simply a copy of some points i made and ideas i have about time and space; some that i am not familiar with, and have never heard mentioned before. i want you to know that i am sending this to multiple people. here are my reasons for sending this email, and they alone may be interesting to you (they are interesting to me, and that means there's got to be at least a statistically insignificant probability that somebody else out there is interested in it; this is more obvious to people who are not me, so you may not often think about it from that perspective [but if this email is getting to smarter people than me, the way i think it is, then you probably already do think of that, so am i actually boring you with this preface when you'd rather simply read my idea? is it not possible for intelligent people to enjoy banter and 'little talk' [the sort you might exchange with your hair stylist of choice]? why must intelligent people be seen as not having anything to talk about? it's not that we don't have anything to talk about, we just have a lot MORE to talk about. imagine a 10th grader trying to hold a conversation about algebra with a 2nd grader. sure, the probability exists that there's a second grade child out there who is fluent in algebra, but let's assume this one isn't, and let's assume the tenth grade child is. the conversation doesn't work, because you're telling each other things that neither comprehends. when a new user to computers can't figure something out, they become frustrated, and that frustration leads to violence [if you've ever helped anybody with a computer issue you can confirm this scientifically for me, please! it would be a great study on how religion works and causes violence]. when somebody tries to help a person with computer issues over the phone using their language, the person who doesn't understand that language gets frustrated and often times can't figure it out, then gives up. is there a certain ratio of people who will give up while trying to find out how to fix a computer issue to people who persevere? is that a fundamental separation in the current status of humanity?). i am a certified spinner of tangents.
here are my reasons for sending this email to you:
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no more 'white' chocolate
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Posted by brandan on June 22, 2007 @10:21 PM
uhh, i'm tired of the high expectations set for me by the name 'white chocolate,' which is applied to chocolates with less 'color' than those chocolates that are considered darker than 'white' chocolate.
i am a 'white' person. that doesn't mean my skin is white, that's absolutely crazy. it just means that i consider myself white. i associate myself with being white, because i have been told i am white all my life, both by people who aren't white like me, and people who are white like me. i am actually more of a very light brown, sometimes darker or lighter depending on my exposure to certain frequencies of light, or whatever.
white chocolate is sweet, and lots of people tend to like it. i believe the further reference to chocolate as 'white' when it is lighter than other chocolates causes the masses to expect me, a white male, to be sweet. i am constantly expected to be sweet when people see me and classify me as a white person.
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dear political compass test
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Posted by brandan on June 02, 2007 @03:29 PM
i am trying to use your website to find out what direction the needle on my 'moral compass' points to, which i should imagine would always be north, hence the questions serving no purpose other than to waste time. i am in a time wasting mood, however, and am trying to finish your test.
for some reason, though, i cannot seem to pass on to the next page. i believe it has something to do with my inability to formulate a response for all but one of the questions on the first page.
here is an example of a question i cannot answer:
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a retarded thing about computer games
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Posted by brandan on June 02, 2007 @01:53 PM
i purchased a copy of dungeon siege a few years ago. today that copy of dungeon siege was installed to play on my hard drive. when i tried to run the game, it asked for disc 1.
why? why did it ask for disc 1?
i'm not entirely sure. was it because it requires files on the disc? i certainly hope not after the 1.5GB worth of data planted on my hard drive during the installation. was it to ensure i'm playing a legitimate copy of the game? that's doubtful, there are copious processes by which a person can circumvent such 'protection,' if it is indeed the case that the reason for requiring the disc during play is a form of protection.
so why must i insert disc 1 when i play? is it microsoft's way of telling me it's time to disable cd autorun?
i am so confused. i just don't understand the intent. this problem has really got my goat by his swinging dick.
assuming i purchased a copy of this game, and assuming the game transferred all files required to properly run to my hard drive, there should be absolutely no reason to require disc 1 during play. the only options i really see as potential resolutions to this issue (at least in the following moments in which i transcribe these options from my mind [which will be the previous moments i transcribed these options from my mind to you]) are:
the game does not transfer all the required files to play without disc 1
i could almost understand this as an accident, but accidents usually don't generate the programming intentionality required to create a windows dialog that requests for the disc to be entered into the disc reading drive. if it weren't an accident, which is an idea i'm inclined to give more credit than the afforementioned potentiality, so if it is the case that files were not transferred from disc 1 intentionally, the question becomes 'why were files from discs 2 and 3 not not transferred? this assumption is based on the observation through the various times i've played the game that disc 2 and disc 3 are never required.
so why should files not be transferred from disc 1? it doesn't make sense. disc 1 should not have all the files require to play through the entire game, because all three discs are required to install the game so that it functions properly.
it could possibly be the case that the developers predicted this issue and placed all the files required from the discs by the game in its various states onto disc 1, thus eliminating the need for inserting discs 2 and 3 during the game. that is a plausible explanation that i am willing to accept. it does not, however, explain why a disc is required at all. we still have not answered the question 'why?'
disc 1 is required to dissuade by mechanical and subtle means those who possess 'illegitimate' copies of the game from playing
as mentioned previously in this body of text, there does not seem to be a reasonable explanation for why this should be the case. there are far too many circumventive measures available to bypass such a barbaric form of protection. it may even be the case that a copy of the disc is all that is required to place in the drive to get the game to run. intrigued as i may be by this conundrum i simply am not willing to waste an inexpensive disc to copy and prove this theory; or maybe not, i'm not really sure.
why should a company like microsoft, which has available to it plenty of information on the mechanics of an operating system developed by microsoft, knowingly require the disc with autorun information to be inserted each time one decides to play dungeon siege? it circles back to the previous argument, in which i addressed the idea of some files not being transferred, hence the requirement for the disc, and the idea that the developers placed all the files required by the game during run time on one disc for some sense of 'ease of use.' the question now becomes 'why shouldn't the files have been placed on discs 2 or 3, which don't utilize the autorun feature of windows?'
microsoft wants me to be annoyed every time i play the game
this would, in my mind, make the entire issue worth appreciating if only for the idea of an entire company laughing at me every time i play their game.
microsoft wants me to download a nocd crack so that i can enjoy the game
quite an absurd idea, especially considering microsoft's stance (1, 2, 3) on piracy, and the relation of such nocd cracks to the free trade of legally copyrighted software.
this has all really served to further confuse me. i must not be capable of understanding the issue. why should any developer of anything want to cause any undue stress to any assumed legitimate (at least in regards to the current legal and social standards in regard to the free trade of legally copyrighted software) purchaser of their wares? these practices of instilling ineffectual copy protection schemes are not only humongous annoyances to people who have gone through the trouble of ensuring they possess legal copies of software, they are enormous wastes of money and work time related to the development of the software.
it would be my guess, and i stress guess, that microsoft has an entire development team dedicated to creating the 'please insert disc' dialogs that plague many pc video games, and those dialogs are only serving to waste my time as a legal consumer. they do not prevent the copy of play of the software, not even theoretically. why are such shoddy, ineffectual, bloated and useless business and development practices allowed by a corporation such as microsoft? a company that develops computer software and hardware would hardly seem to me a business that should ever fall prey to such stupidity, but i guess that's my own stupidity or wishful romanticism ascribing some property of high levels of intelligence to people who develop and maintain these practices.
i suppose once an intellectual idea because a function or a technical trade the intelligence required to understand the process is no longer necessary, as those people who did understand the process (and indeed used that understanding to develop less rigorous means of exploiting such an understanding for intentful purpose) also created easier means for the processes to be utilized by less intelligent people, hence microsoft's ability to hire employees of lower intelligence and exploit them to mass produce such garbage as the requirement for dungeon siege to require disc 1 during play.
that's just one hypothesis, i guess.
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make a decision
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Posted by brandan on May 14, 2007 @10:12 PM
be a man. make a decision and stand up for it no matter what, and if you're wrong, you're wrong; but if you're right, you're just that much more of a man.
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musings
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Posted by brandan on May 11, 2007 @02:10 AM
okay, the day i start feeding my vehicle corn is the day i start eating kashi in gasoline. we really are the fattest nation in the world. i don't think there's a fruit bearing tree for miles in any direction around here, and i live in the natural state. what the hell is wrong with me and everybody around me? why do we live the way we do?
we're just a bunch of assholes being shit on by a very select few old rich people. OLD PEOPLE run this country! if our president were your grandpa, would you think he looked dignified in any way? hell no, you'd think he looked like an ordinary old person, especially if he were clearing brush on his vacation with his hunting buddies. what,the,fuck[i] were the voters who voted for president bush thinking? he [i]is a good guy, but so is duane down the street who beats his wife, and anybody else who does anything really. at least george w. bush is doing something! at least he's sticking to his guns and manning them, as well. like it or not, united states of america, we're going down.
we're going down so far, that nobody is going to even remember us. we've been fucked too many times by the people who are untouchable. at any time they could all just have a secret meeting behind everybody's back about buying another country, shipping the citizens out, and taking it over to start a new government?
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