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Im in total agreeance with Gensanity. I love talking to people with more knowledge than me I feel enlightened almost. And usually when I get somewhat "owned" in a conversation I usually go on the net and begin to research and inform myself about that topic so that the next time I can come back with something to say and more established and well opinionated arguement.
I remember my friend was talking about turbochargers one time and I didnt know the mecanics of them. So I went and informed myself as much as I could about them, and pretty much everything else on a car and then when he brought it up again he got tottally owned. I knew when he was talking about them in the first place he didnt know anything about them, but neither did I so I shut my mouth. He had also talked about Spoon engines once, saying that they were inverted engines (imagine an engine, then flip it upside down), only for me to inform myself that all Spoon engines were was Honda/Acura engines built and/or tunes by a company called Spoon! Some people are idiots
Terra Flata
Re: Post a picture of yourself posted on 2006-08-03 06:19:27
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Beer at McDics. You Americans prolly dont think this is too strange. LMFAO
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Medium Pimpin!
In over my head? posted on 2006-08-03 06:08:48
So yeah....it seems everyones had girl troubles now and then. I broke up with my ex a little over two months ago. It was to the point that I saw myself married and with kids to this girl....I still love her, she's awesome.
I'll be as frank as possible not to waste your time. I cheated on her, lied to her, told her after we broke up and she hates my guts....so I thought. Three weeks after we broke up she had a new boyfriend, I think as an emotional pillar.
I hadnt spoken to her in 2 weeks. She sends me a message on Myspace saying :"Ugh...even just seeing a picture of you makes me sick to my stomach thinking about you being a cheater... "
Then yesterday she sends me messages on my MSN while I was out. As follows:
********@hotmail.com says:
hey can i have marc's number
********@hotmail.com says:
anyway, i kind of want to talk to you about something...i promise i won't yell or say i hate you...so call me when you can 1-613-331-4504"
I called her a couple hours later....it turns out she is coming to MTL for the weekend, her and her friend need a place to stay. I say yes. Question:
1)Am I a complete fucking retard?
2)How does she even ask me something like that?
She has a B/F (I think, unless things have changed in 2 weeks) and I dont think anything will happen....I just started feeling good about myself again....and now I can't sleep, knowing that she will be here tomorrow. I feel like I have no backbone, but at the same time I told her that I would always be there for her.....I guess this is just me not breaking a promise.....tell me what you think of my drama.
Terra Flata
Re: I am all fucked up today. I need some advice... posted on 2006-07-28 17:26:06
Write. You should just take some time to sit down and right. It helps you become aware of several things you don't really realize. Even id it starts off shitty, just keep writing, thoughts start coming out that you never realized. Besides that friends, family, partying, working, riding, training.....keep yourself occupied It's a whole time thing. Music really helps too.
terraflata
Re: Bikes to buy posted on 2006-05-16 22:16:22
Buy my bike, Ill sell it cheap, in respect to how much it costs, and how much its worth.
You wont have a brand new bike, but you'll be under budget.
I suck
Terra flata
Re: HALO 3 posted on 2006-05-16 10:44:44
Nintendo won't die. They still dominate the little kid market. Like -13, and are still present in the higher feild. They are the original, and don't overbudget or overcharge themselves or the people who buy them. The were still using cartridges while everyone was switched to Cd's. And have had the ability to save without the use of a memory card longer than and earlier than any company I know of, (the SNES being the first I beleive).
Playstation is retarded, their PS2 was getting its ass kicked by the original XBOX, they had to come out with PS3 to keep up with that market. They are just now introducing an online experience, which is for one late, and probably under-developed. Their PS3 will be coming out nearly a year after Xbox 360. When it does come out It will be worth 400-600 (unconfirmed) and the Xbox 360 will be considerably less by that point.
Playstation will also get very fucked if Microsoft wins the disc battle between their HDVD and PS's Blue-Ray technology. Right now we are using DVD-9. HDVD will give 25 G I beleive, while blue-ray will be 40+G. With one of the largest games today being 7 G I beleive, blue ray is ahead of it's time, unnescessary, expensive, and not nearly as reliabe. If PS loses this battle, they will experience a huge loss of income. Think about it.
The PS3 runs twice the output of Xbox 360 unless they are making games that tap into that kind of power it pointless to have such a powerful machine. If they do use that power (because they need to) it means that the games will be extremely more advanced, more advanced means more work. All the work being put into a single games graphics, and the way they are exploited will bring up the costs of games. You'll be paying a shitlload of money, and I mean a SHITLOAD, for any game that actually needs a system that powerful.
I think PS3 is trying to redeem themselves by throwing crazy new technology and a powerful system at the public and hoping it works. I haven't seen anything from Sony except cinematics, and even those cinematics ran slightly choppy on my computer. So how do they expect to render that kind of information in real-time, and on a Cable/DSL connection. People are gonna have to upgrade their internet services and hardware just to be able to fluidly run these types of games, good luck to Sony!
Terra Flata
Re: I shaved my chest........ posted on 2006-05-16 10:19:01
The assshole? Fuck yeah, no dingleberies thank you very much LOL!
I have crazy thick head of hair, barely any facial hair, I use trimmer under my armsMy chest I barely have hair, hell I dont have anything really. No back hair or arm hair really, just doesnt grow. I use the trimmer on everything below the belt, then the Mach 3. I swear dont worry when shaving your balls with a mach 3, as long as the skin is pulled tight, it won't cut.
I've waxed EVERYWHERE before, twice! LOL I even got it on video, the ass crack really hurts, like knees dropping on the floor hurt. Whatever you do never use tweezers, it's fucking long and possibly the most painful thing ever, highly ineffecient.
Why do I do it? When your eating out a girl, do you like having hair in your face, mouth, on your tongue? (If you answered yes your fucked up) I don't, and I'm sure she doesn't either when she's going down on me. It's cleaner, makes your johnson look bigger (check out all the peoples eyes widen reading that last one) LOL, and in my opinion more comfortable, I get rid of everthing but the legs. In fact all this talk has made me wanna go shave my nuts, see you guys soon!
Terraflata
Cow dung in japan posted on 2006-03-05 00:05:31
I did the calculations. And with there 551,155 tons of dung (1 ton equals 2,000 lbs), so 551,155 X 2= 1,102,310 (lbs of dung a year) = 499,999.405 KG.
If they extracted 1.4 Ml from 100 G of dung then that means that you get 14 Ml for ever Kg. 14 X 499,999.405 = 6,999,991.6 Ml of fuel for all that dung. since 1000 Ml makes a liter we divide 6,999,991.6 by 100 and get 6999.9916 liters of fuel every year from this method. divided by 52 equals 134.6152231 liters per week, which means maybe 3-4 cars a week depending on gas consumption.
Do you see why this won't work? They won't be making money off of gas but rather waste disposal. Just a thought.
Terra Flata
Atheism posted on 2006-03-04 23:24:06
Hey Nick I have that one and many.
Quotes:
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." -- Thomas Paine
"By the year 2000, we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God." -- Gloria Steinem
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." -- Benjamin Franklin
"The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see." -- Huang Po
"There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages." -- Richard Lederer (Anguished English)
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." -- Gene Roddenberry
"I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life -- our desire to go on living -- our dread of coming to an end." -- Thomas Edison
"Our ignorance is God; what we know is science." -- Robert Ingersoll
"Religionists claim that their truth is absolute and rock solid, while scientists concede that their truth is tentative and relative." -- C. W. Dalton
[The Bible] has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of thousand lies. -- Mark Twain
"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency." -- Albert Ellis
"In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people." -- James Madison
"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." -- Cardinal Bellarmine
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." -- Arthur C. Clarke,
All thinking men are atheists. -- Ernest Hemingway
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" -- Carl Sagan
"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business." -- Jesse "the body" Ventura
"If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.." -- Robert Ingersoll
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize [hu]mankind." -- Thomas Paine
"Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits." -- Dan Barker
"I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless." -- Peter Walker
"The fact that mankind has the capablity to discern logic from myth, and the fact that religon asks us to ignore this ability and accept faith is one of the many contradictions that make any faith-based orgaizations simply ludicrous." -- Vic Sinclair
"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated." -- Madalyn Murray O'Hair
"So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk." -- Thomas Edison
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." -- Susan B. Anthony
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." -- James Madison
"If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!" -- Clark Adams
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." -- Benjamin Franklin
"The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes." -- Martin Luther
"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer." -- Anonymous
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." -- Richard Dawkins
"I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man." -- Robert Ingersoll
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. -- George Bernard Shaw
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true." -- Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain"
"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no [organized] religion in it" -- John Adams
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." -- Stephen Roberts
"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis." -- Sigmund Freud
"The divorce between church and state ought to be absolute. It ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no church property anywhere, in any state, or in any nation, should be exempt from taxation, for if you exempt the church property of any church organization, to that extent you impose tax upon the whole community." -- Pres. James A. Garfield
"I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States." -- Thomas Edison
Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas. -- W.C.Fields
"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurences it cannot understand." -- Karl Marx
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." -- Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] *"The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail" -- Gustaf Lindborg
The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma. -- Abraham Lincoln
"I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion is a terrific meme. That's right. But that doesn't make it true and I care about what's true. Smallpox virus is a terrific virus. It does its job magnificently well. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing. It doesn't mean that I don't want to see it stamped out." -- Richard Dawkins (Interviewed in: Sceptic vol 3, no 4, 1995)
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." -- Chapman Cohen
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window." -- Stephen King
By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none. -- Sir Charles 'Charlie' Chaplin
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins (The Humanist, Vol. 57, No. 1)
"It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men." -- Carl Sagan
"I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." -- Woody Allen
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." -- Isaac Asimov
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." -- Thomas Jefferson
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." -- Albert Einstein
Just some stuff to think about.
Terra Flata
Just realized something... posted on 2006-02-20 15:58:15
Actually Religions aren't defined as ways of bettering yourself (debate starts LOL, jk)
"Religion (see etymology below) is commonly defined as a group of beliefs concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine, and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions and rituals associated with such belief. It is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system. In the course of the development of religion, it has taken many forms in various cultures and individuals.
Occasionally, the word "religion" is used in the more restrictive sense of "organized religion" – that is, an organization of people supporting the exercise of some religion, often taking the form of a legal entity (see religion-supporting organization).
(Important Part)
The definition of religion used here would exclude systems such as Advaita Hinduism and Theravada Buddhism, classifying them instead as philosophies."
(End of Important Part)
So you are both right and wrong, it depends on the context.
And the debate ends.
Terra Flata
Re: Riots? posted on 2006-02-20 15:48:06
[quote="daveG"][quote="JFos"]No idiot im saying its fucking hypocritical to be critical of one thats causing less damage in general to the worlds stability and NOT saying anything period about the other.[/quote]
what do you know...i nail you on your nonsense and you just say "no...." and repeat the same stupid crap again.
i AM just as critical of ALL religious idiots no matter what religion they are. maybe there are no threads about islam because there's really nothing to debate. they're murderous assholes (at least the jihadists are). we can all agree on that. it's pretty clear cut. there's no reason to restate the obvious over and over just so you can get the ok from right wing psychos to criticize christianity.
this is just another party line that you're parroting like the zombie you are.[/quote]
Dave your way off. He was simply stating how people openly judge selective religous following (such as Christianity) all the time in the press, entertainment, T.V./Media. But do not do the same to something such as Islam because of the extreme backlash it causes. And he never singled you out as one who only critisized in such a way, he was mearly generalizing or displaying a general opinion/fact.
To the point. It's ridiculous that any group of any kind should have a say in press. Joke have always been offensive to groups of people. Fat joke were offensive to fat people, mama jokes were offensive to the mom and the son/daughter. I mean they are comical insults, of course people are gonna get offended. These riots are a combination of extreme belief and an intolerance of free-thought. In the middle-east people are always following the mob, it's completely stupid. I have never like anyone who couldn't laugh at themselves. I found the ability to laugh at yourself was very mature, and when you see people riot like this, for the reasons they riot, it really makes them look like small children to me who cannot get over their own ego's to see that it's a joke, you laugh or you don't.
Terra Flata
The Meaning of Life posted on 2006-02-16 21:26:24
[quote="Jordan Pope"]The meaning of life is a long drive that only leads to death.[/quote]
Not long enough, experience is priceless.
Terra Flata
Fookin Con's won!!! ARRRGG!! posted on 2006-02-11 16:25:11
[quote="TrekFlatland"][quote="Brandon_Fenton"]My last post was in reference to a South Park episode, I was just being a goof, don't take it seriously.[/quote]
i dont think he has seen the episode.[/quote]
Sean Combs/ Puff Daddy/P. Diddy/ Diddy was pretty funny in that episode.
Terra Flata
The Bible posted on 2006-02-11 16:10:31
[quote="Voodstoc"][quote="TerraFlata"]I don't have any problems with religion or religious people. I believe the basic purpose (or my own assumption of it's purposes) is good, it explains good from bad, helps build morals and basic principles. But what you say is right, it's all in the interpertation of the reader. OR people interpet it in direct or in in-direct correlation with their own goals or ambitions. I understand this are the views of certain people and although I may not agree with them, I cannot and would not change them for this is the world I live in, an as fucked up as it may be, or as fucked up as the people in it may be, I can go on knowing what I believe to be true as merely a perception. That's all I need.[/quote] Would you say that christianity attracts or fosters people who feel the need to coerce and/or convert others to believe as they do? I always ask christians about the differences between "Religion" and "faith" and they usually tell me that religion is a bad thing, whereas faith is the goal. They tell me that, yes, they try not to get caught up in religion, that they would still feel god's presence even if they didn't go to church. But when I ask them if they could have that without the bible, they draw the line. To me, the bible symbolizes religion, embodies religion, and yet they will say something to the effect of, "The bible is the sourse of my faith."
Doesn't makes sense to me.
~J[/quote]
For most people, their faith was installed with the Bible. It's where they found clarity, and when clouded the road ahead is, seek the path in the bible they do. (I love Yoda) They draw the line because the Bible is the closest thing to their God that holds materialistic properties.
Terra Flata
Why is flatland not appreciated in the USA? posted on 2006-02-04 17:03:58
We've been doing that (well nto me, LOL) in Montreal during the Jazz Festival, guys like Clark and Marsan and stuff went riding for people, its a good way for people to see, I bike in public places all the time because everyone likes flatland, and seeing appreciation gives me motivation to ride and try harder stuff.
Terra Flata
flatland on 20/20 posted on 2006-02-04 16:07:47
[quote="Cheater"]It would have been stupid if the lady didnt say anything. You ran the red light didnt you?[/quote]
Thats what I was thinking....????? :?
The Bible posted on 2006-02-04 15:52:10
I don't have any problems with religion or religious people. I believe the basic purpose (or my own assumption of it's purposes) is good, it explains good from bad, helps build morals and basic principles. But what you say is right, it's all in the interpertation of the reader. OR people interpet it in direct or in in-direct correlation with their own goals or ambitions. I understand this are the views of certain people and although I may not agree with them, I cannot and would not change them for this is the world I live in, an as fucked up as it may be, or as fucked up as the people in it may be, I can go on knowing what I believe to be true as merely a perception. That's all I need.
What Positive things Bush has done posted on 2006-02-04 13:00:48
[quote="TrekFlatland"]TerraFlata why dont you assasinate him. That was just 100% obsurd of you to say.[/quote]
I don't want anyone to assassinate him. Death is not what I wish for him or anybody for that matter. I was simply questioning why so many presidential assassinations have occured, but to president's who were obviously less despised than Bush...the thought is obsurd yes, but true.
I mean you have thousands of soldiers who are against him, millions of U.S. citizens, and hundreds of millions if not a billion people who think that Bush is truly the white devil of western culture.
As much as he is despised, the right people are still backing him up (obviously because he got voted 2nd term), and to this extent I do not understand. I mean Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfeild, William McKinley and J.F.K. were all assassinated (there were other but were assassinated before they made it to office), I'm not entirely sure on the motives behind each one. But take for example Martin Luther King Jr. he was assassinated for trying to bring rights to people, black people yes, but people all the same. He was killed for bringing rights to people, Bush is taking them away. And he is taking away the ones that violate the constitution, which I don't understand as U.S. citizens, you could allow.
I never said I wanted him assassinated, simply what has he done to believe that it wouldn't happen. I honestly feel sorry the U.S. they had something like 9/11 happen to them, and rather than unite and have everything make a move for the better everything has gotten worse. And it sucks, I mean your dollar is only worth 1.14 of the canadian dollar, you don't even have a fairly negociable exchange rate. You have soldiers who have to BUY their armor, I guess it's easy to keep supporting Bush when it's not someone you care about dying for an injust cause.
Terra Flata
dream bike. posted on 2006-01-19 10:00:58
Actually you can get a hell of a lighter crank. If you combine ANSWER SX ALUMINUM CRANK ARMS at 11.9 oz and ACTION-TEC EUROPEAN BOTTOM BRACKET at 6.7 oz you'll get a 18.6 oz crank. That's a little over a pound. Pretty impressive except for the fact that the BB is weak only taking a 90 lb weight limit I beleive. Weight for strength as it goes.
I say people should start making stuff out of carbon fiber. It's strong it's light, you could make pegs, frames, seatposts, the rails in seats, forks, pedals, I'm sure you could build a chainwheel too, make a ring of teeth out of titanium and have the inside made of carbon fiber. Soo many things. I haven't really seen any companies playing with it much.
Terra Flata
Crankless> Tired of pushing? Check this out. posted on 2006-01-19 09:42:40
Bad part is, that most people who ride crankless, are back wheel oriented...no?
Terra Flata
