The off-topic thread

by J-C-D-P-C on 10/26/2004 19:49, 233 messages, last message: 03/21/2006 21:34, 138852 views, last view: 05/18/2024 21:42

Here you can talk about whatever you want, wheter or not it has anything to do with cube. Politics, your ex-girlfriend, your new computer, the latest game, whatever.

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#1: Election

by J-C-D-P-C on 10/26/2004 19:50

Who do you think will be our next president, and who are you voting for?

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#2: Re: Election

by J-C-D-P-C on 10/26/2004 19:52, refers to #1

err... I mean, if you were american. pardon my arrogance.

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#3: Re: Election

by sinsky on 10/26/2004 20:01, refers to #2

I'd hate myself for this but considering the alternative I'd vote for Bush - if I was American.

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#4: Re: Election

by dcp on 10/27/2004 01:16, refers to #2

@jcdpc: no, it's not arrogant, it only reflects the thoughts of mr. bush (he still thinks he is the president of the world)

'will der sherrif reiten geh'n...'

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#5: Re: Election

by J-C-D-P-C on 10/27/2004 01:19, refers to #4

heh. well, in a sense, he is the president of the world. The US does affect the world more than any other nation. (expect, perhaps, China)

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#6: I Love Cake

by pushplay on 10/27/2004 02:04, refers to #5

Yes.

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#7: Re: Election

by sinsky on 10/27/2004 02:08, refers to #5

I think the US is the future, if they go down we all do. The Chinese and the whole East Asian region only try to copy western civilization without contributing anything new to it and they hold too strong to tradition and beliefs at the same time (although Japan and especially South Korea are moving out of this trend).

But I'm too young to say such serious things ;)

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#8: Re: Election

by J-C-D-P-C on 10/27/2004 04:06, refers to #7

Japan is awesome. Tokyo has so much stuff coming from it into western culture (even besides hentai)...

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#9: ..

by CK|Davros on 10/27/2004 10:03

jcdpc, you mean anime ;) *cough*

Stuff we get from the east:

Martial arts.
Good cars(and some not so good :-).
Cool cartoons.
Scary food.
Monsters (chinese dragons and stuff).

The US isn't going to "go down"...
and that could mean anything.
Economy collapse?
Whole of America just sinks into the ocean?
I'm sure the world could survive without America (if it just disapeared), we managed before.

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#10: Re: ..

by sinsky on 10/27/2004 14:36, refers to #9

Stuff we don't get from the east:

- free 3D games :)

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#11: Re: ..

by El_waffle_negro (jcdpc) on 10/27/2004 15:24, refers to #10

lol, they come from germany :), but so does sauerkrout...

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#12: Re: ..

by sinsky on 10/27/2004 15:44, refers to #11

I'm serious :) DOOM and Quake all came from the US. They're not exactly free but they're open source and when it comes down to the waterlevel, it's pretty much the same. Men of the east tend to encode their stuff, no matter what it is - from poems to programs - so no one knows how they made it.

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#13: curiouser and curiouser

by J-C-D-P-C on 10/27/2004 22:34

i think it may have something to do with eastern philosophy being more like "you dont have to understand" while western philosophy is very skeptical and everything most be shown through logic. Im not about to say one is right and the other is wrong, they are 2 different schools of thought. But the eastern programmer by default will make everything confusing, while westerners will try to make sense. Am i right or am i a raving lunatic?

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#14: Re: curiouser and curiouser

by sinsky on 10/27/2004 23:11, refers to #13

Well people usually don't think too much, they tend to act. In the long run, maybe it has everything to do with religion, and particularly with Christianity.

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#15: ..

by A.T.O.M. on 10/28/2004 02:29

"Well people usually don't think too much, they tend to act."

so true. look at me, i use windowz :)

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#16: Re: ..

by sinsky on 10/28/2004 03:00, refers to #15

me too :PP

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#17: Re: ..

by J-C-D-P-C on 10/28/2004 03:06, refers to #16

lol. i do too.

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#18: Re: ..

by sinsky on 10/28/2004 03:33, refers to #17

we're all going to hell :o

Well there's still hope - after all Microsoft did release some software on Sourceforge..

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#19: Re: ..

by J-C-D-P-C on 10/28/2004 04:06, refers to #18

really? i want a link.

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#20: Re: Election

by D.plomat on 10/28/2004 15:07, refers to #7

There is somewhat no more west or east, economical and political weight are in USA, Europe, Asia and middle-East, and companies moving stuff between all those blocks.

With Bush you can include men, weapons and more oil in this "stuff"

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