Posts by Lanny

2015-11-13 at 8:20 PM UTC in Just buy a camper and you're pretty much set for life...

Lanny Bird of Courage

Yeah but then you've gotta live in a camper

2015-11-13 at 7:05 PM UTC in I kinda think shower beers are a little overrated...

Lanny Bird of Courage

Yeah, I don't even really like alcohol and showers in any kind of proximity, I usually end up feeling overheated and uncomfortable by the end. Work beer and breakfast beer/drinks are far better

2015-11-13 at 6:17 PM UTC in Punk and Punk SubGenres

Lanny Bird of Courage

FoT's Doppelganger was a little "scene-y" for me but I have to admit it was fabulously consistent and well put together.

2015-11-13 at 6:06 PM UTC in Canada > U.S.

Lanny Bird of Courage

If you like -40F and 105F temperatures, with a lot of really shitty weather in between, then northern Canada is for you.

I can deal with weather pretty well. Grew up in the tropics so I can deal with the heat and I actually enjoy cold weather (since I don't have to be outside for longer than 20 minutes at a time like, ever, if I worked outside or something I'm pretty sure I'd kill myself once it started snowing). But the big cities are all in the south and most of them are costal right?

2015-11-13 at 6:01 PM UTC in If you were walking down the sidewalk and some frat boys pulled up alongside u

Lanny Bird of Courage

I'm pretty cucky on the whole, not really prone to getting angry to the point of physicality about things but for some reason this particular kind of wankery really is infuriating, I've actually witnessed pretty much this exact situation before and it's such a douchey pointless thing. I'd probably try and throw a rock through their window or kick a nice big dent in their door or something. I wouldn't try to actually fight them since I'd be guaranteed to get my ass kicked but a nice bit of property damage would be pretty satisfying.

2015-11-13 at 5:36 PM UTC in Canada > U.S.

Lanny Bird of Courage

Vancouver is a pretty cool town. Never been to Toronto but I've heard good things, cool people seem to live there. Canada still seems a little provencial for my taste but I've lived in far worse places. If I wasn't living here it'd be one of the other major west coast cities probably, Portland, Seattle, or Vancouver. I know there's cool shit on the east coast but it's too familiar to be exotic (they're still north americans) but not familiar enough to feel like I have a strong shared culture/experience/background with the people who live there. Vancouver might have the same problem but I've lived/traveled in other commonwealth countries before and I feel like I have a sense of what it's like, what they're about.

2015-11-13 at 5:30 PM UTC in Do fast food workers deserve a $15 wage?

Lanny Bird of Courage

In Florida an Electrician helper/apprentice can get a max of about $15/hour. There are many skilled ND semi skilled positions that are in the same as range. If some burger flipping dumbass has his pay practicality doubled the skilled workers will demand and get more. Now the skilled positions are getting $20-25/hour.

You'll need to demonstrate that's actually the case. Consider there's more that goes into employment negotiations than money, office jobs are generally considered more desirable than manual labor so even if manual labor pays more than secretary or whatever it doesn't mean the value of manual labor going up means the cost of hiring a secretary will go up proportionately (that is to say the workfoce is not unconditionally plastic). The kicker of course is that even if you are right here (you're not) it still doesn't imply

When minimum wage goes up all is driven up.

Indeed there doesn't seem to be any reason for the price of a lawyer, or software professional, or doctor to be significantly impacted by an increase in minimum wage. Even support staff for professionals who might be at or near minimum represent a nearly vanishingly small portion of the cost of operations. More than half the population is pulling better than your proposed $25 hourly rate for manual labor, we wouldn't expect these people wages to be significantly increased by a minimum (and again, I'm highly skeptical of the manual laborer wage increase you've proposed) so the relative earning power of the lower class would still be significantly improved.

2015-11-13 at 5:17 PM UTC in Ok guys help me own this network.

Lanny Bird of Courage

Eh, got my shit on there, yet their python won't run my scripts. Any thoughts anyone?

What happens when you try to run your python script? Syntax error probably indicates python 2/3 conflict (the vast majority of prod servers only run 2.x, often a major version or two behind) . If it's "permission denied" then you'll need to set the execution bit on the file (chmod +x PyCat.py), which you should be able to do since you're the file owner.

2015-11-13 at 7:55 AM UTC in Kreepykay: dead

Lanny Bird of Courage

She may as well be, girl looks like a dang skeleton these days- her and litemex alike. Little cringe skeletons. Skel skels. Ole skels skels those two. Like two peas in a casket.

doing meth again or what?

2015-11-13 at 7:53 AM UTC in Do fast food workers deserve a $15 wage?

Lanny Bird of Courage

When minimum wage goes up all is driven up. Wages, goods, and services. For a smart guy you sure are stupid.

Did you not read my post? People working at minimum represent a part (not the entirety of) the demand that drives market prices. The rest is composed of people making more than minimum whose wages are not increased by increasing the minimum. Thus while we would expect some increased demand/prices as a result of higher minimum wage it's still an equalizing force, it brings the poor closer to having the spending power of the comparatively wealthier.

2015-11-13 at 6:56 AM UTC in Stay on the third circuit

Lanny Bird of Courage

what's postutilitarianism?

2015-11-13 at 3:48 AM UTC in Do fast food workers deserve a $15 wage?

Lanny Bird of Courage

I support the idea of basic wage but a higher minimum is at least a step in the right direction. A higher minimum does not inevitably lead to higher costs of living since people earning minimum will still be in the same market for housing/food/consumer goods as those working above minimum whose wages will not be increased.

2015-11-13 at 3:45 AM UTC in HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Lanny Bird of Courage

AOTY?

2015-11-12 at 8:06 AM UTC in Don't you know that Satan is the man?

Lanny Bird of Courage

~~ two cups of tea ~~
~~ one for you and one for me ~~

2015-11-12 at 3:55 AM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Light can have an objective wavelength regardless of perception, but the colour that wavelength corresponds to in your mind is clearly perceived and is not objective, as the scientific experimentation has demonstrated.

That's not even coherent. Colors don't reside in your mind, color is a property of things.

My use of the word "colour" doesn't actually violate anything at all, for example when I say, "the car is giving off light of a specific, objective wavelength that your visual system interprets as the colour red. However, your girlfriend may look at the car and see it as more of an orange colour. This is because men and women evolved to perceive colours slightly differently," I do not violate any usage of the word colour.

You're right, using that lengthy and awkward digression in the middle of an everyday sentence doesn't immediately show of wrong your usage of color is. Some sentences like "that car is blue" and "blue light is part of the visual spectrum" however do demonstrate that "color" doesn't mean a subjective artifact of perception but rather something objective.

Also, your logic is ridiculous, claiming that rainbows have an objective existence is exactly like claiming a desert mirage has an objective existence.

But mirages do exist objectively, anyone can see them under the right circumstances, we can capture them with cameras. Sure we may sometimes mistake mirages for something else but if I told you I sometimes mistake someone else's car for my own in the parking lot, would that maen that cars are subjective?

2015-11-11 at 9:26 PM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?

Lanny Bird of Courage

If that were true, specific wavelengths of light would appear to be the same colours to everyone regardless of perception. Since specific wavelengths of light appear to be different colours to different people, perception is completely relevant.

You're begging the question. Aldra is saying light has the quality of color regardless of perception. Your response is "color[by your definition as a perception] is subjective, so it can't be a property of light". We reject your definition of color as mere perception to start with.

So whose definition is correct? Well yours violates both common (no one talks about "that car emits light in the 450â€“495 nm range", they say "that car is blue") and technical ("infrared" does not describe a perception nor does it describe the subjective non-perception of light at longer wavelengths than is visible) usage so I'm inclined to say you're in the wrong here.

And the funny thing is the "is color a property of light" question is actually irrelevant. Color could be 100% subjective (it's not) but that wouldn't change the fact that rainbows objectively emit light in certain frequencies, be they colors or not (they are), that will hit observers, regardless of whether they perceive it subjectively or if they perceive it at all. A stone is hit by and reflects a certain amount of light emitted from a rainbow, with or without a human observer, and this is why rainbows have an objective existence.

2015-11-11 at 2:31 AM UTC in Morrowind vs Skyrim

Lanny Bird of Courage

For a game that's hailed as one of the best RPGs of all time, there isn't very much to do. For every 2 minutes of questing you spend the other 58 minutes being a GPS.

Again, navigation is part of the reason people enjoy the game. Exploration where you can actually get lost is a great mechanic for generating legitimately unscripted player experiences. Also morrowind had more quests than oblivion, likely more than skyrim but I haven't played it enough that I can say with certainty.

What does skyrim have for you to do? You can fight or you can... fight while exploring linear dungeons? The money is worthless after a few hours so any economic activity is meaningless, the house furnishing thing is a gimmick that morrowind mods outdid literally a decade ago.

2015-11-11 at 2:24 AM UTC in Who are you guys voting for president?

Lanny Bird of Courage

The globalists/corporate terrorists put both Trump and Clinton in there to make sure people like Paul don't have a chance. We The People are dumb as stumps, so they'll step right in line, exactly as predicated.

Actually Paul, father and son alike, are just horrible candidates and for all the failings of american democracy not electing either of those wingnuts is not among them.

2015-11-10 at 5:11 PM UTC in Morrowind vs Skyrim

Lanny Bird of Courage

I actually enjoyed tundra navigator 2000, finding stuff when you had consistently shit directions felt a lot like what exploring sparsely populated deserts would feel like in real life, but in a good way. What about that make it not a game? What's your idea of a fun game?

2015-11-10 at 7:38 AM UTC in Who are you guys voting for president?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Wiping the war with Sanders is incredibly easy. I mean look at the first Democratic Debate, he literally gave Hillary his blessing. And Obama was not in the same ship. He was a new face, he didn't have any of the stigma Hillary has.

Obama was hardly a "new face" but I'll admit, he didn't have the name recognition Hillary does but that's not inherently a bad thing. Clinton is probably the most fondly remembered living president, Hillary has a successful political career whether or not you personally approve of it. I'm willing to bet the majority of voters couldn't even tell you one salient detail about â€‹benghazi.

I don't see why you think the Republicans are fucked, its overwhelmingly obvious that the people want Trump. He has been ahead in the polls basically the entire time. You know why? Because he is in touch with the majority of America that realizes how corrupt and insane our politicians actually are.

Lol, it's overwhelmingly obvious that many people are amused by Trump, and he has won some support with angry people with an axe to grind over particular issues. He has not managed to impress his own party ideologically or make a meaningful appeal to moderates. The best he's done is some vague rumbling about tax policy that tends to fool the uneducated but even then he's failed to push it nearly as hard as he should, choosing instead to stoke the flames of the base he didn't even have to campaign to secure. The guy starred in a reality TV show for chrissake, he's a novelty that probably won't even see the end of the primaries.

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