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The Lounge / Re: in honor of ride your bike to work day, i rode my bike home from work
« on: July 02, 2015, 07:21:49 PM »I've started to commute again after switching jobs. Commute is 106km per day.
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The Lounge / Re: Gay Marriage
« on: July 02, 2015, 07:19:58 PM »If you gave gay people the same benefits of married couples but called it something different than marriage I don't think religious people would give a shit nearly as much. . . . . I feel like most people who are for gay marriage don't see this side of the debate and the amount of religious bashing and in tolerance of peoples beliefs i've been seeing is ridiculous. Its all about tolerance.
Social union ideas have been tossed about but the fact was that people were still not giving it as much credence as marriage. Marriage is in the law, social unions are not. Plus, nobody thinks a social union is anywhere near as meaningful as a marriage.
That is a problem.
And where is exactly are you seeing the gays lash out at religious people? And are you really implying that gay people are less tolerant than religious people? Really? Gay people just want to get married.
The bible literally has about a thousand more things to say about how terrible divorce is. How many devout religious people have gone through that, and still think gays are going to destroy that holy sanctity of marriage? The bible also says consuming shellfish is a sin, so you can bet I get a laugh down here in Louisiana when the Catholics are sucking down tons of crawfish at boils during lent. Funny how no one is up in arms about these. . . .
For most religious people its not about pushing their religious beliefs on others or equality as it is about preserving a biblical definition.
This should not matter in the least. If you want to be religious and believe in the idea of marriage between a man and a woman, go ahead. You want to believe homosexuals are doomed to hellfire? No problem. No one cares. No one is going to force you to marry the same sex. No one will force you to change your views, because no one really cares what you think. It just doesn't matter. You could think the moon is made of fucking cheese or that the first woman was made from the rib of a man, it won't change a single thing anywhere in the universe.
Start pushing your ideas on other people, that is wrong, and that is where people have issue. You can believe whatever you want, but when you start pushing beliefs, you are wrong. That is why people have problems with religion.
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The Lounge / Re: Discussion: US 2016 Elections
« on: July 02, 2015, 06:02:17 PM »Sanders is the only one I would realistically consider voting for.
Vote for him in the primaries! He just packed a crowd of 10,000 in a 300,000 population town in Wisconsin. No one else has come close to that yet. His name is getting out there. He has a slim shot of making it through the primaries, but it gets better and better as more people hear about him.
If the young and other disenfranchised voters can make an appearance in the primaries, he has a good chance. Sadly, our generation currently sucks at voting.
Is there a law saying that the president have to be christian? This has always confused me.
No, but many people in the US would never even consider voting for someone who is not Christian. Below are the results of a recent Gallup poll.
Since Bernie is a socialist, this makes me sad.
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The Lounge / Re: Discussion: US 2016 Elections
« on: July 01, 2015, 08:51:30 AM »
Sanders is a fucking baller. He has a super solid voting record and is the best candidate by far (in my middle class, liberal, socialist opinion). I would definitely recommend checking out what he has to say.
He is planning on running under the Democratic banner so he will be in direct opposition with Hilary in the primaries. I really don't like Hilary. She, like almost all other politicians, is a fucking slave to money. It is honestly unthinkable at this point that she will not win: She is super-well funded, she would be the first women in office, she has "experience" (she is very experienced in foreign affairs, I'll give her that) and she is a Clinton. People fucking love Bill Clinton.
I personally think that it is ridiculous that we, as a nation of 300+ million, with only 43 presidents, could potentially have the wife of a past president and the brother AND son of past presidents running this year. How the fuck is that democracy? We essentially have ruling families.
And the people fielded by the Republicans, I mean, come on. Is it really that hard to find one person who kind of normal and possibly even sane? Donald Trump? Cruz? Jindal? Scott Walker???
Rand Paul's tax idea was good and bad. Taxing the lower class less, since they have less, good - they will just put this money back into the economy. Removing loopholes, also good - but this plan doesn't remove as many loopholes as you would expect. Taxing the rich and corporations less? Not good, and would lead to multi-trillion dollars of deficit in a decade unless the government is gutted. His plan favors the rich. It also "favors" the poor with the tax break, unlike almost every other plan out there, so it might actually get him some votes.
Sadly, it is probably the best tax plan to date. It is a step in the right direction.
He is planning on running under the Democratic banner so he will be in direct opposition with Hilary in the primaries. I really don't like Hilary. She, like almost all other politicians, is a fucking slave to money. It is honestly unthinkable at this point that she will not win: She is super-well funded, she would be the first women in office, she has "experience" (she is very experienced in foreign affairs, I'll give her that) and she is a Clinton. People fucking love Bill Clinton.
I personally think that it is ridiculous that we, as a nation of 300+ million, with only 43 presidents, could potentially have the wife of a past president and the brother AND son of past presidents running this year. How the fuck is that democracy? We essentially have ruling families.
And the people fielded by the Republicans, I mean, come on. Is it really that hard to find one person who kind of normal and possibly even sane? Donald Trump? Cruz? Jindal? Scott Walker???
Rand Paul's tax idea was good and bad. Taxing the lower class less, since they have less, good - they will just put this money back into the economy. Removing loopholes, also good - but this plan doesn't remove as many loopholes as you would expect. Taxing the rich and corporations less? Not good, and would lead to multi-trillion dollars of deficit in a decade unless the government is gutted. His plan favors the rich. It also "favors" the poor with the tax break, unlike almost every other plan out there, so it might actually get him some votes.
Sadly, it is probably the best tax plan to date. It is a step in the right direction.
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The Lounge / Discussion: US 2016 Elections
« on: June 30, 2015, 07:30:00 PM »
This place is dead. Let's pick it up and argue about some shit that everyone likes to argue about. Politics.
I'll start. The fearless leader of my state, Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, recently announced his presidency with something over Twitter and this video.
Look at that fucking video. Who thought that was a good idea? You can't even see good ol' boy Piyush behind the tree branch.
This guy wants to be president. He has taken Louisiana from a $800 million SURPLUS to a $1.6 BILLION deficit in 7 years. He has gutted health care and education. He is the reason Louisiana was the last state to come around to the gay rights ruling. He went to Brown for biology, became a Rhodes Scholar, and now does not believe in evolution. He once attempted to perform an exorcism on a person. I can't make this shit up. I honestly can't believe he can even talk with all the big business/religion nutsacks he has in his mouth at one time.
Man, I hate this dude. All you U.S. Americans need to register and vote to make sure this piece of dog shit never gets anywhere near a Washington elected office.
I'll start. The fearless leader of my state, Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, recently announced his presidency with something over Twitter and this video.
Look at that fucking video. Who thought that was a good idea? You can't even see good ol' boy Piyush behind the tree branch.
This guy wants to be president. He has taken Louisiana from a $800 million SURPLUS to a $1.6 BILLION deficit in 7 years. He has gutted health care and education. He is the reason Louisiana was the last state to come around to the gay rights ruling. He went to Brown for biology, became a Rhodes Scholar, and now does not believe in evolution. He once attempted to perform an exorcism on a person. I can't make this shit up. I honestly can't believe he can even talk with all the big business/religion nutsacks he has in his mouth at one time.
Man, I hate this dude. All you U.S. Americans need to register and vote to make sure this piece of dog shit never gets anywhere near a Washington elected office.
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The Lounge / Re: Gay Marriage
« on: June 30, 2015, 07:01:58 PM »
The most fucked up thing I have been hearing about this gay marriage ruling is that it "opens the door" for pedophiles (and others like this) to get the same "rights" as gays. Really makes me mad. Homosexualism and heterosexualism are between two consenting adults. Pedophilia, one of the parties 1) is not consenting or 2) cannot legally give consent. Big difference there.
It is super fucked up.
The other fucked up shit is that with the ACA and gay rights being in SCOTUS (and SCOTUS doing a damn good job on both) and with the confederate flag bullshit, everyone has forgotten all about the underhanded shit going on in the government right now/recently (an even shittier version of the Patriot Act going through, TPP being fast-tracked, etc.).
I don't think it will be that big of a deal. This same argument comes up every time something "new" gets added to the constitution. You know there were people bitching about slavery not being in the first 10 Amendments, so maybe that should have stayed a state issue. Or if inter-racial marriage was still against the law. These are clear denials of human rights.
It is super fucked up.
The other fucked up shit is that with the ACA and gay rights being in SCOTUS (and SCOTUS doing a damn good job on both) and with the confederate flag bullshit, everyone has forgotten all about the underhanded shit going on in the government right now/recently (an even shittier version of the Patriot Act going through, TPP being fast-tracked, etc.).
What does that mean for people who don't know what the amendments are?
I'm sure that you know that the US Constitution is the highest law, so everything we do must be in line with the intent of the text (not the interpretation of the text, as some politicians like to think).
The 10th Amendment reads: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
This means that if the Constitution doesn't specifically give power to the Federal government on an issue, the States are responsible for that issue. All 50 states have the authority to handle these issues as they see fit, and can handle them in 50 different ways if each state so chooses.
The 14th Amendment is a long one, but the passage of Section 1 applied in this case states: "... No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States... nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The Supreme Court ruled that this passage of the 14th trumped the 10th in this case. This logic, now written as Case Law, can be legally applied in future cases where any person feels that a State's law denies them equal protection and can override State law.
It will be interesting to see how this case law is applied in the future.
I don't think it will be that big of a deal. This same argument comes up every time something "new" gets added to the constitution. You know there were people bitching about slavery not being in the first 10 Amendments, so maybe that should have stayed a state issue. Or if inter-racial marriage was still against the law. These are clear denials of human rights.
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The Lounge / Re: I'm gonna be a daddy!
« on: March 23, 2015, 06:02:39 PM »I know this thread is very old but this is the place to post this. My son is now four and his favorite thing in the world is to go to the skate park and pump around the bowl on his strider. It is awesome to be able to share BMX with my son. He has pretty good park etiquette too.
Dude, you sold me a T1 SFA frame like 5 years ago. I don't ride as much as I used to but when I do that is the frame I am shredding on. Probably the best BMX purchase I ever made.
Saw your username and wanted to say thanks (again)!
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The Lounge / Re: Sharkmartin/A22 Insta-beef
« on: February 03, 2015, 06:18:47 AM »I dont really like Adam either. But I just dont read anything he post or follow anything he does anyway, so he has no impact on my world of BMX. People should just stop care, that is was BMX is to me, no caring...
I agree with this. If you don't like Adam, just don't follow him at all. Any press he gets short of something that would ruin him (like child molestation or some shit) just feeds the fire. He is like a Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton of BMX, easy to hate but really fucking good at building his brand.
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The Lounge / Re: go to india or live rent free?
« on: January 17, 2015, 08:19:24 PM »
Would not go to India. Other places for sure but not India.
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The Lounge / Re: Louisiana
« on: November 25, 2014, 03:57:55 PM »
As someone from Louisiana, I am sad because I thought this thread would be about finding people to chill with.
But of course it is about Ferguson.
I absolutely agree that police think they are above the law and get away with a lot of shit. Who watches the watchman? The watchman does, of course, and he isn't going to throw his own in jail (unless they go against the grain and "whistleblow," then they just leave you to die, as Frank Serpico can tell you).
HOWEVER, police use of force in Ferguson may have, perhaps was even probably, justified. Micheal Brown turned out to be a bully and a thief, who resisted arrest and assaulted a policeman. Under Missouri law, lethal force was justified.
Not that we will know, however, because the case never went to trial, which is kind of fucked up.
It really does suck that Micheal Brown is what made Ferguson blow up. The police in Ferguson have killed a lot of people. Mike Brown was the last straw, but Mike Brown may have been a case when lethal force was justified. We will never know, however, because it was not taken to trial. And that is what should be the main issue of the case.
The grand jury will send the defendant to trial if and only if there is probable cause. Because none of the testimony agreed, such as witness accounts, differences in autopsy results, the fact that Officer Wilson's story changed, etc., I find it hard to believe there was not probable cause to send this case to trial by jury to truly lay everything in the open.
However, that is why we have grand juries. They heard a lot more evidence than what we heard and they obviously felt that Wilson's actions were justified. Ok.
The part where this gets fucked up is that grand juries almost NEVER fail to indict (except against police of course). Couple this with the prosecutor, who had a clear conflict of interest (his father was a cop killed in the line of duty, his brother is a cop, several of his nephews are cops). He was the guy who came out last night, called the media cunts, told the lit pipe bomb that is Ferguson to calm down and jerked off a few cops. Yes, HE was the lawyer who was supposed to be AGAINST the cop.
So we have a cop who was justified to use lethal force, a prosecutor who is extremely empathetic to cops and a dead kid who was 6.5 ft tall, weighed 300 lbs and committed the crimes of theft, assault and resisting arrest. Not a good case to use to unite the people against the misuses of power of the police.
However, this case DOES seem to be pushing the use of police cams, which is AWESOME. Every city that has implemented body cams has fewer reports of mistreatment by police.
But of course it is about Ferguson.
I absolutely agree that police think they are above the law and get away with a lot of shit. Who watches the watchman? The watchman does, of course, and he isn't going to throw his own in jail (unless they go against the grain and "whistleblow," then they just leave you to die, as Frank Serpico can tell you).
HOWEVER, police use of force in Ferguson may have, perhaps was even probably, justified. Micheal Brown turned out to be a bully and a thief, who resisted arrest and assaulted a policeman. Under Missouri law, lethal force was justified.
Not that we will know, however, because the case never went to trial, which is kind of fucked up.
It really does suck that Micheal Brown is what made Ferguson blow up. The police in Ferguson have killed a lot of people. Mike Brown was the last straw, but Mike Brown may have been a case when lethal force was justified. We will never know, however, because it was not taken to trial. And that is what should be the main issue of the case.
The grand jury will send the defendant to trial if and only if there is probable cause. Because none of the testimony agreed, such as witness accounts, differences in autopsy results, the fact that Officer Wilson's story changed, etc., I find it hard to believe there was not probable cause to send this case to trial by jury to truly lay everything in the open.
However, that is why we have grand juries. They heard a lot more evidence than what we heard and they obviously felt that Wilson's actions were justified. Ok.
The part where this gets fucked up is that grand juries almost NEVER fail to indict (except against police of course). Couple this with the prosecutor, who had a clear conflict of interest (his father was a cop killed in the line of duty, his brother is a cop, several of his nephews are cops). He was the guy who came out last night, called the media cunts, told the lit pipe bomb that is Ferguson to calm down and jerked off a few cops. Yes, HE was the lawyer who was supposed to be AGAINST the cop.
So we have a cop who was justified to use lethal force, a prosecutor who is extremely empathetic to cops and a dead kid who was 6.5 ft tall, weighed 300 lbs and committed the crimes of theft, assault and resisting arrest. Not a good case to use to unite the people against the misuses of power of the police.
However, this case DOES seem to be pushing the use of police cams, which is AWESOME. Every city that has implemented body cams has fewer reports of mistreatment by police.
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The Bike Shop / Re: Frame History?
« on: August 06, 2014, 11:28:06 AM »
Crappy mongoose 2002-2003ish
Haro 540 Air (first real bike!) 2003-2004ish
S&M Warpig (bought on ebay ~2004)
FBM Livewire (sold to Gary on here) 2005?
FBM Deployer (had a removable head tube, only frame I ever broke, also conveniently one of the first FBM frames with 6 month warranty) 2006?
Sunday first Wave (still have it on a shelf) 2007ish-2009ish
T1 SFA (got it used from some guy on here, can't remember his name) 2009-present
Haro 540 Air (first real bike!) 2003-2004ish
S&M Warpig (bought on ebay ~2004)
FBM Livewire (sold to Gary on here) 2005?
FBM Deployer (had a removable head tube, only frame I ever broke, also conveniently one of the first FBM frames with 6 month warranty) 2006?
Sunday first Wave (still have it on a shelf) 2007ish-2009ish
T1 SFA (got it used from some guy on here, can't remember his name) 2009-present
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The Lounge / Re: RIP Brian Itzaina
« on: January 22, 2014, 03:12:57 PM »
Wow, haven't been on here in forever and this is stickied. This is rough, RIP Brian, you are missed.
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The Lounge / Steven Hamilton
« on: March 27, 2012, 09:48:24 AM »
A lot of that interview read like the stuff bluemeate writes, but was a bit more coherent. Needless to say, I thought it was a fucking awesome read.
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The Lounge / Post Your Edged Weapons Thread
« on: March 10, 2012, 07:58:03 PM »Quote from: jonathan;3520282
I have been considering buying a machete for clearing trails while mountain biking for a while. they are certainly very useful for other things than cutting holes in people! I just don't know how to carry it while riding. I think a folding saw would be more helpful.
They are pretty useful for cutting holes in people. Here is what I did to my leg when cutting brush with my machete. Deflected off a tree branch I didn't see.
Probably NSFW.
All stitched up
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The Lounge / Pets thread.
« on: January 28, 2012, 10:20:12 AM »Quote from: nitromors;3523159
you think you're being kind and lovely and nice to it by dressing it up like some attention seeking cunt,
but whats actually happening is you're forcing the animal to do something unnatural for YOUR own pleasure,
its a dog, it wants to run around,sniff things, lick shit, sniff other dogs and generally be a dog,
what it does not want is to be trussed up like paris hiltons handbag so other cunts can point and laugh at it.
if you love that animal then love it for being what it is,
it doesn't belong to you,
treat it with dignity and respect,
rather than treating it as a fucking glorified doll/object.
You know, it is funny you say all of this about dogs being sentient creatures, since you posted that bit about about not buying animals from pet shops a bit earlier. I honestly don't know why anyone that actually cares about dogs would say "DO NOT BUY A DOG FROM A PET STORE!"
Yeah, some pet shops get dogs from puppy mills. Puppy mills are bad. I think we all get that, and they should be shut down.
But for people to get all high and mighty about not supporting puppy farms by not buying a dog from a pet store, well. . . it is the dog that is losing. That dog in the pet store window has lived in shit hole it's whole life, been subject to neglect, etc., don't you think THAT dog deserves to go to a good home where it will be treated right? Nope, most people that actually give a shit about dogs will refuse to go in for it, because they think that somehow by ignoring that dog in the window, they have somehow stopped puppy farms from farming dogs.
So what happens? That animal instead will most likely go home with some utter asshole, who obviously doens't give a crap about dogs since he bought from a pet store. No one there will give a shit about that dog, and it will just suffer more, usually ending up a shelter, where then people that do care about dogs will adopt it. Why not cut out the middle man, yeah?
You want to do something to help? Then don't say shit like "Don't buy from pet stores!" Actually fucking do something about where those dogs come from and don't just be a lazy douchebag and refuse to take home a dog from a pet store that is just as deserving as a dog from a shelter. Fight puppy farms, but don't take it out on the dogs. It isn't the dogs fault he was bred at a puppy mill. Fuck.
I am not advocating buying a dog from a pet store vs a adopting a dog from a shelter or finding a breeder. It is just that people like you are really fucking irritating, going on about how dogs are awesome and need to be treated with respect, but refuse to give a shit about the dogs that are the most neglected.
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