What's wrong with the world today?

[DakAttack]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

4chan

'nuff said

[Telera]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

also, telera, clientcopia. google it.

You are my new favorite person on the internetz.

[Eiyoko]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Olorin wins 10 internets!

The hell are you going to do with ten internets? You can buy a ten foot long frozen McDonald's french fry off of Ebay with just one. O.o

[Akashimo]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Olorin wins 10 internets!

[Olorin401]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Yeah, but do we want the possibility of Khan to appear?

[Mhurron]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

This is why they created routers.

A) You mean NAT
B) NAT is horrible for this type of thing, whereas routable addresses are not.

[Rain_Blade]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Comic books and rap music!

I'd like to speak on that. Sadly, I sort of stay on both sides of defense. Back then (hopefully some of you know how far back), rap music wasn't what it was today. Some of you (I assume) believe it's all about sex and violence. Although, I can't fault you for that because that's your natural sense of thought from what you've seen in the rap videos. Some have half-naked girls shaking their butts, some talk about "the hood" (to be honest, some people still don't know what that EXACTLY means because people have completely different meanings about it), and some talk about violence. Yes, I believe it's wrong and young people shouldn't be exposed to this content because they may become too attached to what's going on in the video. On the other hand, I believe rap has still made a positive difference in lives and I believe everyone is seeing this this negativity rather than seeing other rap videos. Rap is such a strong genre. Some artists may express their lives through rap, some artists may make a fun and energetic dance feel to a rap song, or they may talk about life in general. Rap can be misunderstood, but, at the same time, it's misunderstood because some artists are putting out videos that seem to be changing what true rap is all about. So, like I said before, I don't blame what "others" think about rap today since a lot of negative content is revealed to them, but I wish real rap can be shown more often (yes, real rap still lives) to show it's true meaning.

[Evion]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Yeah... My avatar is sweet. I thought you were going to mention my new sig... Damn

[Yellow Mage]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Comic books and rap music!

FTFY.

God I love the pythons have all the DVD's, met Micheal Palin and Neil innes (the idiot song on hollywood bowl and also co-rote a few songs) and another thing they were british! i still stand by my argument that we gave the best comedy shows and comedians during 1960-2000 period (then it went down hill)

Meh, pretty much everything went downhill come turn of the millenium (sp?).

Now for something completely different.

Let's see, what to rant about . . . China? No, Malacite pretty much covered that . . . cars? No, I think I would be a minority in my opinion of them (maybe I'll save them for later) . . .

Ah, I know! Pride. That's going to be my main peeve of this post.

So, yeah, what's with people and their pride nowadays? It never leads anywhere except dillusion and conflict. Yet, why does society look upon it as a virtue? Just because rampant gluttony was socially acceptable in in the Greco-Roman times (vomitoriums, et al), doesn't make it any more right. And I have the same to say with pride in society today.

(And before anybody pulls any bull about "the sin is different!" I want somebody to grab a Webster's Dictionary and show where there are two clearly distinct and different meanings of the word. Otherwise, shut up.)

Nationalism has to be the worst of it all, as well. It's how a select few justify the mass killing of the peoples of which they are supposed to be protecting, all throughout history. (Though, as a vice, I find it kind of ironic that, even with all that, Human population is just way too dang large, but, I digress, and world population is a rant for another time.)

Why are people "proud" to be a part of a concept that's just entirely made-up, anyways? I'd blame the Old World European school of thought, what with the "conquering" of lands, justification of crimes against humanity through racial myths (two times off the top of my head: the enslavement of the Africans, et al, and the Holocaust), and so on, but there was obviously at least one European mind that thought differently, and that mind, as silly as it may sound, was King Arthur of England. Fact or myth, the point still stands, and let me pull out a story which emphasizes my point:

Arthur was taught about life by Merlin, usually by changing Arthur in to different animals, or so the story goes. The final lesson involved Arthur becoming a hawk, flying up in to the sky, and reporting what he saw. After flying around for a while, looking as hard as he could, he just couldn't see anything out of the ordinary. When he said "he saw nothing," Merlin left Arthur to make it in England by himself.

Fast forward to after he became the King of England. He and his knights (not just yet of the Round Table) were at war, and Arthur was questioning the concept of "Might is Right," as in, to the stronger side recieves what land they were fighting for, to expand their boundaries, et cetera. This is where Arthur recalled that last lesson with Merlin, and how he saw "nothing." It dawned on him then: that was exactly what he was supposed to see. The wars they were fighting: all for some land that ultimately wasn't even "theirs" anyway? So why bother fighting at all? Of course, after conversing with Guiniviere about it, he decides that the end justifying the means, or "Might is Right" isn't what he'll fight for, but he'll be then dedicated to the cause of "Might for Right," and from then on put his power to good use to help create a better world for all of mankind, instead of just for Britain. To assist him in this cause, he decided to create an order of knights, and to symbolize the egalitarian cause, he wanted a table which had no head, to show that they were ultimately all peers and equals. Thus began the Knights of the Round Table, as best as I recall.

Unfortunately, we are living, nay, trapped in a nationalistic fallacy that we are so deeply in to, that if we were a boot shoved in to someone's butt, that someone could easily taste leather. What reason has humanity to be "proud," even by its own twisted double-standards? Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Neit. Zero. Diddly. Jack. X minus X. One over infinity. Actually, better make that last one "zero" over infinity, just in case.

Every time someone mentions the term "pride," especially on a nationalistic scale, I just get so peeved. But, I'll end my rant here. This one's dedicated to 2.

[WishMaster3K]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Listen to the lyrical content of Lupe and compare it to Lil Wayne. Then you'll understand why I said what I did.

Or it could just be that Lupe goes over everyone's head.

GDI Evion, your Avatar still distracts me.

[Evion]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Its probably because Lil' Wayne has been featured in Multiple #1 hits and Lupe? whoever hasn't...

[WishMaster3K]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Obviously it wasn't a big deal Evion, but I dramatized it up.

One of my concerns is why a rapper like Lupe Fiasco isn't as influential as a rapper like Lil Wayne. Both are talented, both rap about different things. But that's a side rant.

[Evion]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

If the worst problems of your world consist of having to answer the phone to help you mom decide whether to buy a whole pizza or just slices, then you should probably live a little longer before posting on this thread. IMHO...

[Feba]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

IPv6 would have to come first.

This is why they created routers.

[Mhurron]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Also, we need wi-fi operated appliances, or just appliances that connect to the internet and can be monitored/adjusted. That way, we wouldn't have to drive home from the airport to check to see if my mom left the stove on..

IPv6 would have to come first.