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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 06:12 PM) It was in the 1880's and 90's. when gold was bad and SILVER was GOLD

there was a strange tilt to that article I can't quite put my finger on. But god I hate the gold standard talk. Was this around in the 80s and 90s?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 13, 2011 -> 05:38 PM) Are you talking about the .com where you seek cheap places to stay? The idea seems sort of faddish/hyper modern to me...and potentially dangerous. I'm not sure what I think of services like this, it's basically a more evolved version of CouchSurfing, which is/was "free", and I put that free in quotations because nothings free. I've read some oddball stories of people that have done this, and "paid" in other ways. I can't speak for everyone on this, but I personally wouldn't use a service like this, because frankly the idea scares me. The risk/potential for meeting some wackado would weigh too heavily on my mind and I'd never get any sleep. If I were to ever do something like this I'd probably roam the countryside camping on my own...I know I should trust people more, but I don't...and the world around me gives me plenty of reasons why. I don't know. I did couchsurfing when I was in Brazil and it was fine. The ratings system allow people to regulate pretty well and most won't stay with someone who isn't rated. Renting apts for short terms is something pretty common elsewhere that often isn't an option here.

Institutions apparently don't matter, so it's okay.

didn't an airline company just ban kids from first class too? KIDSISM

y2hh what do you think of airbnb?

Same. It's tough when you are making enough money to live but are still putting off major stuff.

it sucks b/c i let my girlfriend get the delivered movies while I got the streaming.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 09:48 PM) no you go to hell. no steve, you.

xrt isn't trash. go to hell.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 07:22 PM) And I call complaining about gay people being loud with their homosexuality reaching. You have to meet someone on their grounds. I can see J4L probably making the most flamboyant of gay culture in his idea of a gay person (see: big gay al post). And I think he's using that as a shield. And when it's pointed out he wouldn't want to hang out with bros either, it's beside the point, which is that that stereotype really has nothing to do with them being gay as much as having a loud personality.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 07:29 PM) Why are you being so loud with your heterosexuality? I find it offensive. Well, I mean, I wouldn't want to live with a huge Bro. A very flamboyant gay person might not fit your personality. But it also doesn't have much to do with them being gay.

QUOTE (Baron @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 06:39 PM) http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writ...ml?eref=writers This was from yesterday but I didnt see it posted yet. Not surprising,but what does everyone want for him? Dan Hudson (sorry)

I really hope you do live with a gay person J4L, you'd probably soon be on our side. Plus you'd probably go to a lot of fun parties.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 04:58 PM) And you're naive if you don't think 99% of fathers or future fathers don't agree with me. I just come out and say it without trying to look like a nice guy. If I came home one day and saw my 6-year old son kissing another 6-year old boy, I'd go f***ing apes***. I'm not going to try to be understanding. I'm gonna be like WTF is going on and attempt to put an end to it immediately. Anybody who disagrees, I'm going to pull a Balta, you're lying to me and yourself. No, we're not lying. While I have a problem with kids kissing each other that young, there is nothing abnormal or wrong about being gay. I'd love my son for who he is.

A common line when people were participating in white flight was "I don't care if they work with me or can go anywhere, I just don't want to live next to em (black people)". Was that racist?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 03:54 PM) For a totally new idea, that's likely true...but we've seen more than a few times that companies with a significant consumer base have put out a solid product and used that product to butt into territory seemingly dominated by a different company. The smartphone market comes to mind there as an example. As does the browser market. Hell, Google has done pretty much exactly that in both of those cases...they're not the first person to the party like they were with their search, but they put out a solid system and people adopt it for that reason. But the things you listed do not depend on others activity in the way that social media does. Those are products. My email host can be great regardless of whether others use it, see phone. In fact, if you put some google + features as just add ons to the phone operating system it would probably see more success.

thread makes me sick to my stomach.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 03:55 PM) I have always found it bizarre that people in many minority groups seem to be the least tolerant of gays. You'd think groups with experience of being the targets of discrimination would be more supportive of different people, not less. It's probably more intuitive than you think but a lot of it comes out of power. But in the case of gays it mostly comes out of ignorance. I have no doubt that the reason attitudes of acceptance toward gays has skyrocketed in the past decade is the bravery of so many more who have come out. It's easy to hate something you never come into contact with, but when it's someone you love it's a completely different perspective.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 03:51 PM) FWIW, there are tons of hetero (both male and female) that I don't want to think about having sex in the next room either. Pretty much. I dont' want to hear my roommates having sex regardless of the fact that they are straight.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 04:01 PM) I just find it interesting that a poster who claims he was depressed and thought about eating a bullet wouldn't want his future child to share depression with him to avoid those same feelings (as well as say, possibly loving someone of the same sex... FOR SHAME!) Jeez, have sex with and love whomever you want, people. Just be safe. Oh, and don't kill anyone. as long as they are of consenting age.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 03:52 PM) I think he means normal in this case in the typical view of society at large via majority acceptance. My point is this -- if I can even put this into words effectively -- it's not only him that thinks a "normal kid" isn't gay/lesbian, because this is a social norm by majority as accepted by society at large. In this regard, people tend to relate societal "norms" as what the majority happen to be, and in this case, that's straight. Which would make non-straights fall in the non-normal category, BUT, that's not to say they're not normal people as individuals, but in relation to society they aren't. ^^ I hope that comes off as I intended it and can be understood. I don't think the bulk of society is anti-gay or anti-lesbian because they regard straight as the norm, and gay/lesbian as something else...it is what it is. Then where do you draw the line? If they have a bunch of tattoos? If they are huge nerds? If they are loners? Are all of those worthy of disowning?

My .02. Obviously I didn't care about it in the first place. But my problem with it is my same problem with all of these google social media products. Mainly: I dont' feel like social media apps can grow top down. I think they need a hardcore small following that gets their friends, so their friends have friends that are using it actively and it's interesting from the getgo. But with google apps you just sit and wait for it to be interesting. And nobody around me is using it. So yeah, it's a cool interface, but you'd be better off doing some astro turf campaign where you give this to some 22 year old and he acts like he invented it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2011 -> 01:31 AM) That is pretty funny after hearing about all of the ways that Obama won't compromise now. Why should he compromise. Congress is refusing to honor the debts it agreed to pay when it voted on them.