Recent content by Uskis

Yeah, danish history can be sort of nationalistic at times. Especially in the understanding that "we" were a super-power once (something that can easily be disputed if you look at the power-relations in the period). Being half-swedish I constantly had to listen to "yeah, but we owned half of...

I had a discussion in History in high-school on wether or not the welfare system in my country was based on the christian values of loving the next of kin, or a result of the politicization of the working class in the unions after 1871 and rise of the socialists and social-democrats. My teacher...

It's simple: Piece of wire heated over a flame-thrower put to a sample of blood. If the blood tries to run away screaming the subject isn't human.. (Hasn't anybody seen The Thing??!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqVbOSEsJ

I forgot how much weird nationalism you have in Eastern/Central Europe. I was half a year exchange-student in Lithuania, and watched a Slovak and Hungarian dude having an awkward moment when they found out where they were from. It went something like this: Slovak: "Yeah, nice to meet you, where...

No way white males are the most discriminated demographic. Even though the "white man" is constructed by many oppressed groups as being the perpetrator, in my experience, this doesn't evolve into discrimination of any significance in Western countries. When you are a heterosexual white male, you...

I don't know too much about that period, but it could be interesting around and before the rise of Islam. I think the region was very divided at that time. Turkish and Greek tribes in Western Anatolia, different arab warlords on the golden crescent. Halfway through or earlier in the game Islam...

I'm not excited about it. I didn't get the Halo feeling from watching the trailer, and to me there was no need to continue the story of Master Chief. What the hell can he do on that alien planet?? It seems totally out of place. In my mind, MC was kind of the physical manifestation of human kinds...

The problem with these characters is that not everyone is in on the joke. I have seen many cases of "ironic" exaggerating that people miss and start taking serious. I'm not talking about the "parents" or "feminists" here, but the men who don't get that he's a joke and think he's un-ironically...

Oh Jimmy, I almost forgot to mention how you were also "inspired" by that rant by Steve from "Couplings" a few years back. Thought no-one would notice did we? VERY naughty! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKGK2fplV_w It's around 4:25. I wouldn't call it ripping off though, maybe more of a...

My, my, my Jimbo. Knicked a month old joke from "The punchline is machismo" webcomic did you? Naughty, naughty! http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/777 Maybe it wasn't rip-off, since many people probably made the same connection, but it was still a lazy observation. Oh, and nice...

I refer to my post above. We can't communicate on an equal level with animals, and as long as they cannot relate their experience themselves, we are ascribing them feelings based on our own experiences. They are reacting to being exposed to harm, but we interpret their reactions in our idea of...

How can it be "proven" that animals feel pain as we do? They are unable to communicate their experience in a common language with us. We are ascribing our concept of "pain" to he reactions we read when they are exposed harm. "pain" is a nerve-pulse response with the intention to change...

"Pain" is an abstract social construct relating to human experience and human perception. It makes no sense to try to quantify it and analyze it in a natural-science discourse.

I generally feel like people should respect a DJ's set, but if he is the kind of bastard that plays lady gaga and has no artistic integrity, he should shut up and play what the people who pay him asks him to play. It's not necessarily racist what he did, if me and me friends who dress like punks...