Specifically, concerning this video.

I hope you realise that this video is basically stating "Gays shouldn't get married because it'll mean people will have to tolerate them" ... you could basically use the argument they used for proposition 8 for restricting the rights of --ANY-- minority.

"Black people shouldn't be free because that would mean people would have to tolerate free black people"
"You shouldn't be allowed free speech because you'd have to tolerate people talking"

It's the same argument that people have used throughout history to suppress minorities, making the claim that we have a civil right not to tolerating people based on a factor of their lives that they (in most cases) can't control. It was used in america to suppress black people, it was used in britain to suppress women, it was even used during the time of the crusades to suppress muslims in europe.

"We can't let the muslims get the same treatment as us! We have a civil right to burn and torture them!"

Sound a little extreme? Not for those days. With the rate at which bigotry is dying out in the world, people in a hundred or so years, we will look on the "we have a right not to tolerate gay couples" argument like we today look on the "we have a right not to tolerate muslims/woman voters/black people/etc." from hundreds of years ago.

And on a side note - the quote from the bible often used to justify bigotry to gay people, correctly translated, says "You shall not lie with a man in the bed of a woman, it is frowned upon". Note that nowhere does it say (or even imply) that it's a sin, only that it's frowned upon, and it's specifically referring to "in the bed of a woman" meaning you shouldn't sleep with a man if you're currently married to a woman - a simple extension of the "you shall not commit adultery" commandment.

I'm not a christian, but I read the bible when I was. (It was, in fact, reading that bible that put me off christianity)

Good news is that I've been learning more about a useful plugin recently for Logic: The Compressor. You may start to notice you don't have to turn the speakers up full-blast to hear one of my songs at half-blast any more.

Bad news is that my headphones are broken and I'm short on cash. They're cheaper now than they were when I bought them though ... Looks like it's time for an upgrade ^_^

Just copy+pasting a reply I was making to this thread, but couldn't post it because the thread got locked before I was finished typing.

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At 10/25/08 07:08 AM, CyberCr33d wrote:
: At 10/25/08 07:06 AM, AlmostDead1 wrote:
: : At 10/25/08 04:47 AM, CyberCr33d wrote:
: : : look at the "F" buttons right next to "F12" is "Print Screen"
: : : click it, go to paint or whatever you got and then press "Ctrl" and "v"
: :
: : Thats not a fucking mac, thats for a pc you retard GTFO!
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: no u, and FYI I figured it out when he had a fucking LAPTOP, jeeze read EVERYTHING before posting, mainly if the topic is small as hell like this

Whether or not it's a laptop or a desktop is irrelevant - it's the software that controls the screenshots, not the hardware.

A couple of tips for you (the OP): You can set custom hotkeys for taking screenshots from the Keyboard Shortcuts part of the Keyboard and Mouse preference pane - I have mine set to take a full screenshot when I hit f11 and a designated screenshot when I hold down command and hit f11.

You can also take a screenshot of a specific object (ie a menu, a window, an icon on your desktop, etc.) by pressing the command for a designated screenshot, mousing over what you want to take a picture of, and clicking when the thing you're taking a picture of becomes highlighted. If you've told your system to save automatically to PNG files, this will produce a translucent picture as opposed to a picture of something translucent with all the gunk behind it when you took the picture.

This

In no particular order:

-The U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Baker Islands, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, The Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Palmyria Atoll, Wake Island, and American Samoa are american territories, not countries.
-Christmas Island and The Australian Antarctic Territory are australian territories, not countries.
-French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion, French Guiana, and The French Southern and Antarctic Lands are (obviously) french territories, not countries.
-(The Balwick of) Jersey, Bermuda, Tristan da Cunha, The Cayman Islands, The Pitcairn Islands, Ascension (Island), Saint Helena, South Georgia (and the South Sandwich Islands), The British Antarctic Territory, The Falkland Islands, Turks and Cacos Islands, and Gibralter are british territories, not countries.
-The Cook Islands is a self-governing part of New Zealand
-The Ross Dependency is a territory of New Zealand, not a country.
-Antarctica is a continent, not a country
-it misses out Kurdistan, Holland, Sealand, A ton of Micronations, and possibly others.
-Trinidad and Tobago make up the same country.
-The independence of Northern Cyprus (or The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) from the rest of Cyprus is officially recognised by only one other country - Turkey.
-The Isle of Man (properly spelt as Mann, not Man) is a self governing part of the united kingdom - not a seperate country.
-The Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico are self-governing parts of the US.
-Hong Kong is part of China, Previously a British Territory bought from China, and then part of China before that.
-The Faroe Islands and Greenland are currently Danish territories. (although Greenland is vouching for independence)
-The Aland islands are a finnish province.
-Aruba and The Netherlands Antilles are Dutch territories.
-Svalbard is a Norwegian province.
-Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land are Norwegian territories, not countries.
-The Virgin Islands are actually split into the British Virgin Islands (which is a british territory, not a country), and the U.S. Virgin Islands (which, once again, is a U.S. territory, not a country)

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Maybe I just feel like picking holes in things, k? <.<

Use the free Boldt instrument packs - they're especially handy if you have Garageband, probably one of the best free instrument packs out there :P

I'm not american, nor do I live in america, so I suppose I don't really have much say in the matter - but because the the British Labour Government is the US's lapdog and butt-buddy and the fact that I have friends in america, it does affect me.

Why, oh why are people still adamant that McCain will win? Even just judging by the fact that the elections between different democratic candidates were treated like "who's going to be the president?" as opposed to "who's going to represent the democratic party", it's obvious that McCain's not going to get in.

Let's look at the two, presidential candidates, shall we?

Obama:
- Is Anti-war.
- Is Equallist.
- Would be a milestone in american presidential history.
- Seems to be more open to superstitious swaying.
-- The fact that his surname rhymes with Osama is being used against him.
-- The fact that he bears some resemblance to a man predicted by Nostradamus to, basically, be a milestone in political history and bring world peace shortly after the turning of the millennium, after a long and pointless war is being used for him (although, not by him or his affiliates)
- has a good idea of the world within and without america.
- is well like by people outside america, and thus will bring much better foreign relations.

McCain on the other hand:
- Is pro-war
- Is a bigot
- Is pretty much just a clone of George W. Bush
- Barely has any idea of what the world is like outside america. (despite being in the military, which usually distorts a person's views as opposed to enhancing them)
- Is seen by people outside the US as a clone of George W. Bush, and not much liked either.

It's like trying to compare John Lennon or Wilfred Owen with Charles Manson or Jessie Pope.

Looking through my posts on the BBS, I've come to a conclusion.

Well done newgrounds, you've made a hippy pessimistic :|

I'd say less than half of all my posts on the bbs are made without a general feeling of disappointment in humanity.

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On a lighter note, Teenage Mutant Pirate Turtles owns :D (Pic by ESushi.)

Just a random thought, but something that annoys me about feminism: They'll go beyond common sense to prove their point. (same for masculinists, but feminists are less "ooh, look at the chest on that bitch" and more "THAT FILM HAS A FEMALE CHARACTER WHO DOES SOMETHING OTHER THAN STAND THERE OR PREACH FEMINISM, IT MUST BURN" )

for instance, the majority of the porn industry is run by women who preferred the industry to other industries, yet feminism still calls the porn and modeling industries pointless degradation of women. (despite the people doing it of their own will, despite the fact that there are male porn-stars as well, and despite the fact that there are many feminists (including, but not limited to, Kate Moss for instance) who are models themselves)

I was talking with one a while ago who said that we never have female leaders. "The Queen" - nope, she doesn't count apparently, because she wasn't voted in despite thousands of royalists having pledged allegiance to her. "Margaret Thatcher" - nope, she doesn't count since the person I was talking to didn't like her. Oh, sorry, I didn't know we were playing favourites. A leader's a leader, regardless of if they're good or bad, if they're male or female, or whether or not you happen to like them.

Could go on, but I have a birthday-dohicky to go to.

Inkubus Sukkubus and The Vampire Division own :P

Something that has been sickening me for months - maybe even years - has been when that people claim to be something - anti-drugs, royalist, feminist, christian, etc. - that they're not, purely for reasons that involve either following that label because of the connotations involved, or because they were simply brought up to believe they were.

So you're anti-drugs? So you believe that, not only heroine, pot, cocaine, etc. should be banned, but painkillers, coffee, cough-medicine, lemsip, alcohol, perfume, nutmeg, aspirin, sleeping and laughing gas, and anesthetics should be banned and we should revert back to using witch-doctors to heal our wounds before they're burned at the stake?

So you're Anarchist? So you believe that the world would be perfect in a world where you could be looted, killed, attacked, mugged, etc. without any form of justice?

So you're Royalist? So you believe that you should be ruled by a single ruler (or couple of rulers) who dictate every little thing that you can do from whether or not you have to fight other people for pleasure to what time you can be outside your house based purely on the king and/or queen saying they were told by God to rule, regardless of if you actually believe in God or not?

So you're feminist? So you believe that, not only should women get equal rights, but women should get more rights than men, get paid more, and be treated better (which, by the way, did happen in the days of Chivalry, which Feminism killed) purely because a single factor of your life of which you can't control? Do you really want to go back base your political beliefs off of the chieftains and rulers of roman-europe?

Just because you reject heroine and all it's appliances because you had bad experiences with it (either directly or indirectly) doesn't instantly make you opposed to every single for of drug, no matter what, it just means you're anti-heroine. If you believe everyone should be treated equally regardless of gender, you don't instantly become a feminist, it just makes you an equallist. Just because you've bought a nightwish single doesn't suddenly make you a hardcore goth, it just means you've bought a nightwish single.

Please, learn what it is you're going to call yourself before you commit to it. Otherwise you could find yourself being thrown in jail simply for thinking extremist religion was a noble cause.