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Only a few specimens remain.

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No, it does help my point. The talented self taught developers of whom you speak still took the trouble to dive deeper and learn the fundamentals of their art. Professional training can be had on one's own; it need not come from an accredited source. If that were true, Bill Gates would have been fucked. Any software engineer worth a damn should be able to quickly pick up what an 'instance' is. There is apparently one on this forum who a) has been too lazy to teach himself this basic concept of his profession or b) just doesn't have the mental faculties to grasp it. This inability to differentiate between historical events and the imperfect executions of the philosophies involved (which of course, are usually a minor part of the story anyway) is a theme that pervades his posts.

It's only a matter of time before people living in kibutzes and other coop communities start killing one another.

Communism IS inherently violent. Look at the body count and the track record, you worthless piece of shit. Wow, you really DON'T understand the concept of an 'instance'. I'd guess you must be dot.com minted icon monkey instead of a professionally trained software engineer. Hey, that's fine. There's nothing wrong with learning how to hunt and peck a pulldown for your living while being ignorant of even the most basic architectural fundamentals of your profession. More power to ya for faking it and snaggin the salary!

That makes two idiots who can't discern the difference between an inherently violent political philosophy and one that is not. By way of example, Democracy caused the escalation of the Vietnam war in the early 60s (after all, if we hadn't ordered the bombing and troops, there would have been no large scale conflict), which eventually killed 1.5 million Vietnamese and caused enough regional instability to kill hundreds of thousands of Laotians and Cambodians, therefore Democracy, and not a historical instance (manifestation) of Democracy, is inherently violent. Is that how the logic goes? Or do we have a software engineer who doesn't understand what an 'instance' is? Help me out here, I'm just trying to think below the empty box. Because when I talk to a communist, I can't assume that I'm conversing with someone who advocates violence and genocide, only collectivism. With a Nazi, it's a different story.

Yes, that's why our navy deploys no tactical nuclear torpedoes (which detonate on proximity, not contact, typically). They're just not effective. Having studied the effects of nuclear weapons on warships and been through NBC drills on them, it was made very clear to me in training that tactical nuclear torpedoes, which detonate underwater, are quite lethal. Even the crude Baker Test destroyed 8 (not 14) out of nearly 100 (not 120) ships with one blast: a mere 11 hapharzardly placed nuclear torpedoes could have sunk the entire flotilla. No, not effective at all. Now that the idiot has identified itself, perhaps it can explain to the ignorant proletariat the difference between communism, which does not, as a system, condone or require genocide (one can be a peaceful, egalitarian communist) and Nazism, which does (one cannot be a peaceful, egalitarian Nazi). Or can it not distinguish between historical instances and political philosophies? If not, then it must also condemn capitalism and democracy, which has also been responsible for the death of millions. Speak, idiot! We await enlightenment! PS The idiot fails to recognize that initial blast effects are not the only mode of lethality for nuclear weapons. Nearly all of the ships exposed during the Baker Test were highly contaminated afterwards, which certainly would have severely curtailed operations had it been a real flotilla.

with apologies to all incontinent Nazis, of course.

I've been finding that the approaches have been eating into my climbing time lately.

Proclaiming one's offense on a Spray forum is like proclaiming one's disgust after renting a German shiza flick.

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Boys, we've struck a gusher!

Well, that depends on just how much boring a woman requires, doesn't it?

I ran that one past a couple of Jewish friends, and their response was "so what?". It's best to present only your own opinions on this forum because, after all, you're confined to them whether or not you're aware of it. Speaking for others, i.e., pontificating, will only get the reception it deserves. As for Christians being offended, I've observed that my Christian friends practice their beliefs by living their values as proscribed by a loving god, not by wasting their time on pettiness. 'Sacred' (which has sadly joined 'hero' and 'freedom' as one of the most tiresomely overused and thus diluted words in the language) objects are simply not their thing. Perhaps your example reflects your own sensitivity to insult, which so often goes hand in hand with a willingness to dish out the same for others, more than any empathy for those groups you feel the need but lack the legitimacy to represent here.

Last time I checked, alcohol gives you a hangover if drunk faster than the average liver can process it (about a drink an hour). Wives tales about which form of booze produces the worst hangovers are usually just that. It's really about rate and quantity of alcohol consumed, the form matters little.

I added some abstact photos on the end of the TR. Just looking for feedback on those last four pics (they're various versions of the same scene)

See, we have these political entities called counties, you know, where the county sheriff works, which are smaller than states...oh nevermind.

Does communism somehow occupy the same low moral plane as Nazism now? Advocating a collective economic system and eventual withering away of the state now shares a level in Hell with genocide? Which idiot on this forum came up with that gem?

i got summadat and i don't even know it? damn.... You probably weren't breast fed. It's not your fault.

I took some, but the low contrast lighting just didn't do it justice. It's true; you're only as fast as your trail breaker, and they're only as fast as conditions allow. When you're having to make knee divots to provide clearance for the each foot placement, the scenery goes by REAL slowly.

Bromance happens. You hate yourself for it, but there it is.

The origin of the phrase "box your ears", perhaps?

That's a mountain of alcohol.

"Slander"? In spray? Heavens no! You're "uncomfortable, to say the least"? Stop the presses! Tough toenails, pardner. Don't like the thread? No one's forcing you to read it, brah. The Muslims are all jihadists, right? That seems to be OK here. But when it comes to what is probably the most whacked religious cult on the planet, home of the "end timers", the "tongue speakers", and the "take America backers", you're "uncomfortable" just because these kooks have managed to hijack the word 'Christian'? Somehow, I pegged you as being a bit more savvy than that. These Johnny Come Lately fanatics (how old is the Born Again movement, anyway?) have splattered shit all over two millenia of Christianity, and their critics are to blame? Please to give break, comrade. It's kind of hard to "slander" a fascist zombie world destruction cult. They're, um, kind of self sufficient in that regard. BTW, we've all got Christian friends, (even Muslim ones!). Yes, that even includes us Debbil Worsh'ppers. Kind of goes with the territory of living in this country. My Christian friends, however, don't think science is bunk, fags are evil, Bush was sent by God to take back the nation for Jesus, and the world's gonna end soon anyway so fuck it all anyway. As for the bowl full of assholes who do, and who want to force the rest of us to follow suite, they deserve every ounce of ridicule they solicite by their outrageously fascist behavior.