Posts made by frimmel

Wow. That’s sort of overwhelming. All those stories buried in the ice.

@Gargantua:

Oh, so… who do you worship?

The Planet?

Larry Harris?

GAYa?

This suggests worship is required. Why is some sort of worship required?

Your responses to atheism suggest the argument that everyone has some sort of god. By characterizing atheists as “god-less” you resort to essentially ad hominem and simple ridicule for the idea. In order for me to be “god-less” I would need to believe that there were in fact gods. I can not be less something that does not exist. So your question above comes across as some sort of lame rhetorical trap stemming from a semantic game i.e.: You worship “The Planet”-> one worships gods -> “The Planet” is your god. -> Therefore you are not an atheist.

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

@Imperious:

I’m just against organized religion. I believe in God because it’s definition is tied to the existence of the universe. So God is all the scientific laws and everything that made the cosmos.

I can’t deny existence.

How is saying there is no God denying existence?

@rjpeters70:

@aequitas:

@rjpeters70:

@aequitas:

That was easy! Boba Fett of course! what were you thinking?!

You mean, Boba Fett, the man who died because a partially blind man accidently knocked the fire button on his jet pack with the back of an axe, then fell into a giant hole in the desert?

Yeah, that’s the guy I want to break me out of prison…

Let me give you an update:

But the Sarlacc could never hold Fett. Thanks to his iron will and Mandalorian armor, Fett was able to fight his way out of the beast’s belly, killing the Sarlacc.

So I would say HE is the man for this Job!! 8-)
If anybody is able and will finish the Job then it is most Def. BOBA FETT�  :-D

In the Expanded Universe, that is.  The Expanded Universe also had a smuggler that was a rabbit.  You can do a lot in the Expanded Universe.  Doesn’t mean that it was true to character.  Original character from the movies was a joke operationally.  He just had a cool suit that he got from his dead dad.

Actually in the Clone Wars TV series Boba Fett makes a couple of appearances and is not incompetent for a teenager. They certainly suggested potential.

@Gargantua:

It is my experience in general that the godless are the one with the hard-on bloodlust/bone to pick with the faithful.

I mean, it’s not exactly like the good old days where people are “rounded” up in witch hunts and burned at the stake.

:roll:

The Inquisition. What a show!

@ABWorsham:

Prisoner must remain alive and damage to property and personal is of no consequence.

Okay. Still going with Batman. Most of the others are blunt instruments and I tend to think finesse is usually the better option. Good chance Bats would have 'em back by morning roll call depending on why the prisoner was needed.

Lara and Rambo would just slow Chuck down.

The Predators and T-800’s would make a mess and likely let other prisoners that we preferred not be loose out.

The Fett? Maybe. Being on to one old smuggler’s trick isn’t really a stellar resume although I suppose we could assume a well earned reputation since Vader hired him at all. Cad Bane would be my pick before Fett.

@CWO:

“to break into a highly secure prison to secure and remove a prisoner”

Is there a requirement that the prisoner be removed alive or is there any operational flexibility on this point?

And speaking of operational requirements does this need to be done quietly? What sort of collateral damage limits are we looking at? Why is the prisoner in the prison/What sort of cooperation can be expected from the prisoner? What are our time limitations? High security federal prison or high security we’d lock super-villains up there?

I hope to get to this as well. “Ocean’s 11” meets “Kelley’s Heroes?”

@Gamerman01:

These are oft not compatible goals.

This is ambiguous.� What goals?� Not being misunderstood?� Not being misrepresented?� Your non-goal of converting me?� You are unclear, and don’t take this as a request to clarify.� I’m really not interested at all in what you think, and I am well aware that my worldview is very offensive to you, so what are you trying to do?� Sound smart?

I do not wish to be misrepresented or misunderstood. I do not wish to make arguments at people with no interest in hearing them. Those are my goals.

As what (from where I’m sitting, perhaps incorrectly it seems) is being misunderstood and misrepresented are my beliefs it is difficult to keep from being misrepresented or misunderstood without making arguments at people with no interest in hearing them.

What I’m trying to do is be diplomatic.  :-)

@Gamerman01:

And…. since this thread was obviously never going to accomplish anything from the get-go
it can be deleted any time now…

I was certainly interested to hear about the memorial so it has accomplished something.  8-)

Gamerman01 you’re making my point from earlier. By trotting out “God-hating” you misunderstand and misrepresent me. I have no interest in “converting” you or forcing things upon you. I do have an interest in not being misunderstood and misrepresented. These are oft not compatible goals.

@Gamerman01:

Wow!  There is a serious amount of God-hating going on here, and the cynicism is unbelievably thick…

You all ought to feel better since you found a nice little atheist support group nest and can vent all your frustrations against Christians who have pestered you so much.

Maybe you will be the ones sitting on Satan’s lap and your kids will be taking the pictures.  Seems you all need the comfort of sitting on a lap

I’d much prefer the comfort of receiving a lap dance.  :-o

@rjpeters70:

@Young:

@Flashman:

Except we’re expected to patronise religious folk because they have faith in things that aren’t real.

That makes them good people; they must be really devoted to believe in something that doesn’t exist.

I’ve got no problem with people who have faith, I believe in a creator myself… but I don’t go around telling people that my beliefs are right and theirs are wrong (which has become an epidemic among religious types these days).

Atheists, too…

The thing with that is for most believers simply telling them you’re atheist is saying their beliefs are wrong. No other comments are required. An argument is inferred when only a simple statement of non-belief was intended.

I recently came out of the closet as an atheist when I realized that I was claiming agnosticism primarily to ease and shorten the road to agreeing to disagree. It wasn’t what I believed but what I thought would avoid an argument that I wasn’t interested in having. That belief turned out to have been well founded.

@Jermofoot:

Which is nonsense when Azathoth comes to devour us all anyway.

The FSM will save us with the power of his noodly appendages.

That is one of the most awesome things I’ve ever heard. This could eventually be a reason to go to Oklahoma.

I doubt it goes though. The OK ACLU will win their lawsuit and they’ll remove The Ten Commandments and no monuments of this sort will be allowed. Judicial precedent on this sort of thing is pretty robust.

@ABWorsham:

Will any of you miss complaining about the BCS system? I’m a hard core playoff fan, I would like to see at least eight teams playoff. But I will miss the discussions that the BCS brought.   :-o

I was against the BCS and I’m against a playoff. If you want playoffs watch the NFL. The BCS did what it was supposed to do very well create a way for number one to play number two within the bowl system. The biggest problem with it is the human voters were allowed to game the system and at least crown a somewhat less mythical national champion than what came before which was entirely a vote.

This selection committee is going to be way worse than the human polls. Hopefully the Sooners and 'Noles will have taken a bit of sheen off the SEC but I don’t see any season where a one loss SEC team that couldn’t win the conference gets in over one loss conference champions from other conferences.

We haven’t eliminated the arguments. Just created new ones.

@gign89:

so this is a simple but obviously important bit of info to know. and i dont wanna get it wrong so i wanted to ask everyone:

after paying a supply token to attack from a hex do you have to pay an additional supply token to move the units from that hex into the enemy hex attacked once the movement phase begins???

sorry if this is retarded to ask but truth is im a little confused and wanna get this right.

Yes. You need to pay for both attack and movement. You pay a supply for each hex you want to attack from a single hex and you pay a supply for each hex you wish to move from (even if the units are to be picked up by a truck.) Supplies alone in a hex may be picked up by truck (the only way supplies can move) for “free.”

@Yavid:

I thought if they rotated which bowl got the championship game and the other bowls got different spots in the playoffs. one year the rose and cotton bowls would be the semi-final round and the orange gets the championship game. In an 8 team playoff fiesta would be in the first round. the next year orange would get a first round and the rose would get the championship game and it would rotate every year.

The NCG in the 4 team playoff format will be a “for bid” system like the Final Four. A particular city and venue will have to put forth an application to host the event. It will not rotate throw the various bowls. The various bowls in the playoff format will rotate through having the semi-final games. This is explained in my earlier link.

Part of the reason they’re only going to four teams is they want to see the attendance from semi-final to finals. Most fans will not be able to attend both games. As much as a I might like I could not go to a semi-final game in Pasadena and then the Finals in Dallas.

With eight games I’m sure there is a fear that those first round games will not be well attended. Not to mention really putting the bowl system out to pasture as it were.

It will be eight teams soon enough. Some one loss conference champ gets rolled after a one loss not conference champ Bama or LSU or whichever SEC team can’t get it done but has been touted at the best all season got passed over for that slot and the hew and cry for eight teams will be deafening.

@hkytown1:

Yea, a four team playoff is what people have wanted for a long time.  BCS honks have always believed that the current system in place works. This year it did but in past years there have been many questions as to who belongs in the championship game.  A four team playoff eliminates any question as to who should be in the title game.

Not really. It just makes more questions because more teams are going to be good enough to be number 4. The guys in charge of the thing said so. And it seems this is also at the behest of the SEC.

So why did it take us so long to get to this?

SEC commissioner Mike Slive started thinking about a four-team playoff in 2004 when Auburn went undefeated, won the SEC championship but got shut out of the BCS title game in favor of Oklahoma and Southern California.

“I just felt that there should be a place in the postseason structure for an undefeated or one-loss champion from our conference,” Slive said. “So over the long haul, it became clear to me that expanding the structure was going to serve us better.”

Everyone calls the BCS a “mythical” national championship but forget that it had always been mythical before. The BCS simply created a structure where number one could play number two. With the new playoff format unless they take four conference champs it will be more political and more mythical than ever.

@Yavid:

They said on Good Morning America that next years National Champion will be decided by a 4 team playoff. Is this news to anyone else?

It isn’t to me.

But it will probably be Bama if SEC Champ, SEC Champ and Bama (if not SEC champ,) and 2 or 3 (depending on Bama) of PAC-12 Champ, B1G Champ, ACC Champ, BIG12 Champ or undefeated Notre Dame. Probably two SEC teams no matter what since to some people it seems to make sense to give a shot at the title to teams that don’t win their own conference. Hopefully it will be four conference champions and not two or three SEC teams but I won’t hold my breath.

Pre-season AP rankings.

There are five teams from the SEC there. Auburn isn’t in the top 25. Florida is tenth and finished with 8 losses including one to an FCS team. Georgia has 4 losses. The SEC is good sure but they’re benefiting from a “pass” that other conferences just don’t get.

For frell’s sake. Bama got a shot at the NCG two years ago without even winning their conference. Without even making the conf. championship game to play a team that had already beaten them in an ugly bad football game. Just look back to the talk before the Big Ten conf. championship game this season. They were talking about a one loss Auburn jumping Ohio State. Granted Ohio State lost to the number 1 defense in the country but no one suggested that one loss MSU get to play FSU. Because the Big Ten is “bad” and the SEC is “good.”

And where was the biggest fount of that – ESPN or rather ESECPN.

The SEC benefits from a bias in perception and they’ve got their share of bad teams like any conference and A&M and Missouri are new arrivals to the SEC but seems to be holding their own quite well.

To be the best, so goes to the old sports adage, you’ve got to beat the best. But since only SEC teams are consistently declared the best, only SEC teams get the chance to prove themselves against “the best.”
It’s a chicken-or-the-egg situation. Does the SEC get favorable rankings because it’s so good? Or is the SEC so good because it gets favorable rankings? I argue for the latter.