Azure23 said:
However, I have never, EVER been harassed solely due to my being a guy or my masculine sounding username. You get what I'm saying? Because it's pretty damn obvious and self evident.
DUe to certain series of illneess in my youth, my throat is "damaged" and i got very deep voice (think so deep some voice programs filter it out as "Background noise"). One girl in a "onlaine vidja geim" started harassing me for it telling me that its sexy and shes going to drag me into her cave and so on. She did it to a few other guys, but we just brushed it of as "ok so shes not the regular girl" and left it at that, but if you take it at face value it was harrasment, we just didnt care.
Alex Ford said:
Strazdas said:
Evil Smurf said:
I find it frustrating that some people don't call computers with OSX PCs. a PC is a personal computer, the operating system has no bearing on that.
that depends on what you call a computer. for all intents and purposes Macs right now are nothing but smart tvs gone extreme. I mean if we call that a computer, we may as well call our phones PCs, consoles PCs and so on. I understand that when you have PC with OSX its a PC. but a MAC is hardly a PC.
Could you specify what disqualifies Macs from being PCs?
Having used both Windows and OSX quite a lot I can assure you, that aside from some OS specific software
there is basically nothing one OS can do that the other cannot.
first google result for PC [http://altair.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Pc.jpg]
First google result for MAC [http://blog.kace.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mac1.jpg]
See whats missing?
PC is the box that is your computer. if we take the broad definition, then your watch is a PC, your gfridge is a PC, your car is a PC, half the items you own arep robably PCs. the term looses meaning.
it has nothing to do with software (operating system).
Da Orky Man said:
NO worries then. Cato the Elder lived between 234 BC and 149 BC, a good while before the supposed date of the start of ecline.
Ah, then yes i agree. i didnt knew when he lived as i didnt knew about him, but that does make your point much more reasonable.
I'd alo like to ask exactly why the Empire was said to have started declining at a mere 40 years of age. Its greatest extent was at 117 AD, as seen here:
just like you, i rounded the numbers. its more like 1850 years than 2000, jsut like its more like 2200 for Cate the Elder.
But there are thoeries that the expansion was the cause. they expanded too much and had too large territory to secure, and they simply couldnt. for example the whole war in ENgland and its wall took a lot out of them for little gain. YOu could argue that downfall began before the largest territory because territory gain was part of the downfall.
super_mega_ultra said:
Buying new speakers? They will say; "You can't hear the difference in sound between one pair of speakers and another"
Well, to be honest ive seen plenty of people buy pimp speakers, conenct them to a decade old booster thats fit only for laptop speakers and pretend to tell the difference, when there is no real difference since the booster is too crappy and is limiting the quality.
also most people confuse Boss with quality.
Traun said:
"If it wasn't for the Church we would be so much more advanced"
No, no it wouldn't. Asia didn't have Christianity, why aren't they more advanced than us? The Native Americans didn't, the Africans did. In fact the Church is one of the best things that could have happened to the medieval European.
While church did have some advances (astrology, scholar) during the middle ages when Chistianity ruled europe Chinese were the most advanced country in the world. half of technological advanced in that period seen in Europe (for example high pressure ovens) were in fact brought from China and invented in china long ago. Chinese had A LOT of advancement and went over Europe in technology. Heck, even Arabs have outspit europeans in that time. Native americans had huge cities that could rival any european castle in their architecture, as well as african nation castles were amazing.
what happened is europeans came, decided to murder everyone, then add enlightment and exploitation and we are in the lead again.
actually, China lost the race due to their isolationism. they once send a group of ships out into the world. largest ships in the world mind you. half of african nations bowed to them and admited Chinas emperor as the supreme ruler. however the captain got malaria, died of it, and the emperor went isolationist again because "World is dangerous". back then china could ahve conquered the world had they wanted. but instead they decided to build great wall of china and close themselves in. heck, they ivnented gunpowder, but still used swords when we came with guns that they themselves made. they simply didnt use thier advances to their favour.
we would be much more advanced if christianity wouldnt have had ruled europe. how much is questionable, as we cant predict future, but it is undoubltedly true statement.