Political Boneyard

Best of Anti-virus software

ExoticWhiteMan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:50:56 GMT

http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2008_08.php

For yourself, please, look at this chart. It looks nerdy, but it's awesome, and I hope to find more like it. The AV Comparatives site has other charts and data, but this is the most recent one. I always wondered which programs were the most effective, and this chart breaks down how well the programs spot different types of viruses, and other useful info. AVG did pretty good for a free program, which is what I use :-).

Awesome Bike

ExoticWhiteMan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:05:17 GMT

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/19/chainless.bicycles.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

I don't have a bike, but when I get one it'll probably be one of these. Uh oh, the lubricant industry might lose sales, we should bail them out! Oh wait, there are a lot of jerk offs in this country.....j/k :-). We should probably make a post ranting on the bailout sometime soon. Anyway, this does look pretty cool. The bikes I had had problems with chains popping, coming loose on gear shifting, and getting ...

Al Qaeda is doomed

ExoticWhiteMan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:31:01 GMT

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/19/obama.alqaeda/index.html

Thankfully, despite how you feel over tax plans and health care and all the other issues that divided us this election, Obama will still carry on our ruthless hunt for Al Qaeda, specifically in Pakistan. He's said before, that he would be willing to carry out attacks across the border to go after Al Qaeda, essentially what Bush is doing now with Predator drones. So, although many oppose the handling of the war, at least Obama won't ...

Convoluted bitch of a patriot

ExoticWhiteMan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:03:32 GMT

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453011,00.html

All I can say is.........what the hell. Please, read this article. This woman's actions are so utterly despicable and deserving of such severe punishment, I could make a whole post of the horrible things she should go through for treating someone so horribly. But, for now, onto the issues.

As for the woman's actions, they cause me to be hugely ashamed to be her fellow American. People like her inspire mishaps in political speeches (Palin ...

New "Regions of Interest" Topic

Church1ll — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:29:40 GMT

This is a little late as I added the new topic before the weekend, but if you haven't yet noticed there is a new topic in the "Regions of Interest" section called "Global." Anything that affects the world as a whole can be discussed in there if you are having trouble figuring out which region to place your topic.

Enjoy.

-Matt (Church1ll)

Smog Seen From Space

Church1ll — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:53:22 GMT

There is apparently a massive cloud of smog that is in our atmosphere currently spanning from the Persian Gulf to Japan and is approximately three kilometers thick. It flows through the jet stream, which means it will make its way here rather quickly. The results of this unimaginable cloud of pollution poses more severe threats than the global warming nuts could ever scare you into believing. And here's why:

Less sunlight: This sounds somewhat contradictory to global warming, but remember ...

The Sheeple

Church1ll — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:56:03 GMT

Maybe I'm just really slow and don't grasp concepts very well, but why on earth is our country and possibly other countries (I've never left the US) so obsessed with celebrities? And why, exactly, do people worship these other people who do nothing more than act or sing or play a sport(s)?

Perhaps it's the money, which also makes zero sense to me as well. Why, exactly, do actors/actresses, musicians, athletes, whatever make millions and millions of dollars while people who actually contribute ...

Buying Online? Death of retail?

ExoticWhiteMan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:18:43 GMT

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/circuit-city-files-chapter-11/story.aspx?guid={D9CB8DE9-943F-4C3F-A007-24081B471F20}&dist=TNMostRead#comments

So, Circuit City is tanking. About two years ago, they fired many well paid employees, hence their stores are no longer worth walking into. This got me thinking, though, of how people are turning to buying stuff online, rather than going to Best Buy, Walmart, Target and the like. There's also been articles about people using just plastic, ...

Very strange

ExoticWhiteMan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:08:10 GMT

http://z9.invisionfree.com/Pokeclipse/index.php?s=95464b8ec693027f5b728c9d6c4d98dc&

I feel much better about the appearance and coherence of our forum after looking at this forum Megan showed me. After you scroll past the big red letters and cool looking animal, there's an actual forum that looks........bad. It's not censored, and I've only read a few posts, but it looks like you can get a few laughs (or many laughs) by reading some posts. Sounds like a few of these people are mentally ...

Mel in the HOUSE.

PokerFace — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:33:28 GMT

Okay, I must admit that subject line was more than a little corny, but I figured I might as well do it. Loosen the atmosphere a little. =] Anyway, time to introduce myself.

Despite my masculine sounding username, I'm actually a girl. You can call me Mel, because most people do. I am currently 19 years old (birthday September 21) and my hometown is in Southern New Jersey. At this moment, I am a sophomore marketing major at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA and I plan to be a market ...

The T-Cell

Church1ll — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:10:42 GMT

Here's something I found while bored:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27633307

Now, anyone that's experienced Resident Evil in movie or video game form will find something eerily familiar here. I'm not saying that the zombie apocalypse is upon us, but really they could have picked a better name for their potential cure to HIV. Obviously T-cells and T-virus are different, but they do essentially the same thing, thus creating a bit of paranoia for the sci-fi crowd (but then again what doesn't ...

Shalom From Gustavus

Gustavus_Adolfus — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:15:48 GMT

Yo guys, its Aaron...no shit?

Yea so this forum rocks.

I like long walks on ze beach....AND AGGRESSIVE POLITICAL CONVERSATIONS.

wordski

Putin on Georgia's president

ExoticWhiteMan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:45:23 GMT

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,451426,00.html

Kind of disturbing and a little funny, I guess, but it's a bad sign that a nuclear power would like to do that to another country's leader. Although, there are probably many leaders who think this way, and Putin is just coming out with it. The thing I found more interesting, though, was their mention of Bush. That other countries look down on our president this way and use him as an example for doing wrong definitely says something about ...

Reaganomics alive and well

ExoticWhiteMan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:52:54 GMT

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/finance/wall-street-bonuses-expects-come-season-despite-bailout/

Call it a reverse of socialism, but this article will definitely anger people suffering financially. Banks are still going to give out bonuses to top execs and others, amounting to billions of dollars. Their excuse, is that if one bank doesn't give bonuses, top performers will be pissed and go to work at another bank that does give bonuses. The idea is that banks use bonuses ...

Power Beneath Our Feet

Church1ll — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:15:10 GMT

Since the economy is sunk at the moment and our dependence on oil has yet to change I figured it was time to do an energy-based post. This one is based more on theory than anything but stick with me because it makes sense.

Iceland is probably the only country that comes to mind in terms of purely clean energy. Nuclear power is clean but produces nuclear waste, which unfortunately is expensive to contain and also has the extremely low risk of meltdown so I won't refer to it in this post. ...

Gay Marriage Debate

Church1ll — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:31:10 GMT

This is a special post which shows a conversation I had with Scott (ExoticWhiteMan) over AIM about...5 minutes prior to posting this. It was so good we decided to post it, and then follow it up with our arguments in postings so each side can be viewed independently. Here ya go, in red and blue glory to make it easier to see who says what:

scotttttttie (11:36:17 AM): looks like california voters are banning gay marriage through one of their public questions

maT7 E (11:36:43 AM): florida ...

Spamming Hijack

ExoticWhiteMan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:12:05 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7719281.stm

Seven computer guys hijacked a chunk of the botnet called Storm to launch their own spam campaign, fake pharmacy website and all, to see just how many people they could nab. They sent out 350 MILLION emails in 30 days, got 28 responses, and would have made about $100 a day (their operation stopped short by not having a working payment system). Using this rate of profit, they estimate that spammers make about $3.5 million a year with all their ...

I'm an exotic white man :-)

ExoticWhiteMan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:40:03 GMT

If you saw my aim and skype names, you can tell my name is Scott. I'm in my second year at Drexel as an undecided engineer, but I'll probably go for some type of civil, since I'll always have modest-paying work. I'm interning at the moment, and some days they don't have anything for me to do, like right now, so I post a lot sometimes. I'm not good at this introduction stuff, so I'll cut it a little short :-).

New "General Conversation" Topic

Church1ll — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:12:24 GMT

Matt here, informing you all of a new topic located in the "General Conversation" section. It is called "Research & Development" and focuses on the medical and technological breakthroughs of our time. Enjoy.

What we have to fear

ExoticWhiteMan — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:16:05 GMT

What is pasted below is a comment off a site called Soda Head. I found it when I clicked on an ad that said, "Did Obama buy the election?"

http://www.sodahead.com/question/183578/did-barack-obama-buy-the-election/?link=GCPA_BuyVote_q183578_lb1&gclid=CPb_r_aZ55YCFQhMGgod6UiYOg

One of the comments I read is extensive and conservative. It doesn't name sources for what it claims. However, much of it seems believable. Before you cry "racist", "sore loser", ...

This is Church1ll

Church1ll — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:35:35 GMT

If you click to view my profile you'll notice that my AIM screen name is maT7 E...take a wild guess as to what my name is.

If you guessed anything other than Matt then you must either be retarded or think I have some sort of fetish for foam-filled plastic rugs. Seeing as how I don't have a fetish for foam-filled plastic rugs then that only leaves the other option. Not really sure where that came from but what the fuck roll with it.

Anyway if you couldn't guess from that stupid little ...

DarkLord =D

DarkLord — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:40:16 GMT

Hey guys, Allison here. Yes, that�s right, I said Allison. My username pretty much implies I�m a guy, but that is not so. I�m 19 years old and I pretty much live where everyone else here lives, so no need to go into that too much. I�m an Electrical Engineering major at Virginia Tech and plan to concentrate in power. I also LOVEEEEE video games (especially ones that involve killing zombies)�just though I should mention that.

As far as politics go, I usually consider myself Republican, although ...

Only a Matter of Time

ExoticWhiteMan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:12:45 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7712936.stm

This article pretty much speaks for itself. It's only a matter of time before the Taliban is routed by anyone supporting it. I know I'd turn on a group if they were killing my community's leaders, and eventually the tribesmen, though lawless, will stop putting up with massacres like this.

On Debates

Church1ll — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:46:27 GMT

Technically every post is a debate. Some, however, can be expanded well beyond the confines of the site. The first debate that took place over AIM has been posted recently in relation to when this post was posted. This is one way to have a debate outside the site. If you come up with a topic that can have many supporting arguments for both sides, feel free to place "Debate" in the title of the subject and go from there. Since files can be attached to posts, you can have the debate via ...

Because It's There

Church1ll — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:13:58 GMT

So here's my thoughts on why people do stupid things...or rather anything:

"Because it's there."

There you go. The basic philosophy as to people do what they do. Why live in a house? Because it's there. Why figure out something? Because it's there. Why work? Because it's there. Why steal? Because it's there. Why bother doing anything? Because it's there.

Here's another good one:

"Everything that can be made can be unmade."

This one sort of expands ...

african countries...who?

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:28:21 GMT

I have a problem with the government systems all around the world, but especially ours.

The USA is supposedly "giving Iraq democracy" and they don't want to leave until "the job is done" or "the war is over" people who truly believe in these statements are in my opinion crazy. There is nothing to win.

if our government really truly wanted to help out nations and human kind we would be in Africa or Asia. The fact is that there is truly more violence due ...

Gun control?

ExoticWhiteMan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:26:35 GMT

So, the supreme court recently took a pretty conservative move and struck down a handgun ban in Washington DC. Many have criticized the decision as belonging in another century, but as for me, I think it's a practical solution to a problem this country has. We can outlaw handguns all we like, but bans have failed to keep dangerous criminals from being armed and dangerous. While we can make it hard to get a weapon or illegal to have one in 'gun free' zones, there's physically nothing stopping ...

How to End The Obesity Epidemic

Church1ll — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:13:59 GMT

There are a few very simple and logical ways to end what is now a major problem in this country: obesity. Before I get into some solutions, I'm going to point out that I am very aware of the very low cost of fast food which in turn leads to a much higher consumption by the lower class and the convenience of a quick and cheap meal fast food provides. Now for my main topic, in which I'll divide into two categories:

Childhood obesity:

This one really has no excuse. Children should never become ...

BBC's awesomeness, info on a worldwide scale

ExoticWhiteMan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:33:27 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7654647.stm

Yes, I know I post URL's regularly, but I try to keep them relevant/interesting. This article in particular is the most insightful information concerning the crisis that I've seen, in that it gives details concerning the economies and actions of over a dozen countries. It's essentially a list of countries with some short, pertinent details for each. Geeze, I've posted a lot today.

On Disclaimers

Church1ll — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:22:24 GMT

Just a quick note to anyone new to the site. You don't have to put disclaimers in your post about not being political or knowing about politics and whatnot. The general purpose of this site is to put your opinion out there, hear other opinions, learn, and debate.

Remember: it's not bad to be proven wrong, but rather great as you have achieved a new level of understanding.

Also, opinions are not facts unless specifically stated and backed by evidence that agrees with multiple sources.

So ...

Public Questions on NJ's public ballot

ExoticWhiteMan — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:32:47 GMT

I've gotten that big piece of paper awhile ago, and tried in vain to understand the 2 public questions.

http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2008results/08generalelection/08-pq1-state-appropriations.pdf

http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/2008results/08generalelection/08-pq2-method-selection.pdf

These pages were somewhat helpful, because they show both the question (in large, not small friggin print) and an interpretive statement to help understand it. I'm not entire sure of ...

I though the Chinese were smart

ExoticWhiteMan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:14:36 GMT

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-hacking-computers-in-china/

Everyone knows China is a hub for pirated software. About 80% of their computers have a stolen copy of Windows. And, they use Windows Update, so Microsoft launched an update for XP that turns the desktop background black and shows a little warning that their software is ingenuine. The computer isn't otherwise affected, though, so this really amounts to nothing when it comes to functionality. China's attorney general ...

North vs South Korea

ExoticWhiteMan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:46:25 GMT

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444369,00.html

Wanna hear something cool? Civic activists in South Korea attached anti-Kim Jong pamphlets to about 100,000 balloons and sent them across the border, and the North threaten to reduce the South to rubble. With our luck, we'll be sending troops to fight the north and maybe even China by the time the Iraq war is over. Amazingly, the north and south have been at war for over 50 years, and it's not over religion. I do find it really strange, ...

Barack Obama, Marketing Mastermind

PokerFace — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:18:50 GMT

I must give it to the Democrats, they've created a pretty good campaign for their leader. I'm not going to try to masquerade as someone that has a lot of political experience. Actually, I can only call it as I see it and I don't claim to know everything that is humanly possible about politics. There. That is my disclaimer. I am but a humble marketing major, surrounded by Obama signs everywhere I go, virtually eliminating even the IDEA that there was another candidate involved. I must say, ...

Spreading the Boneyard

Church1ll — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:11:20 GMT

So here's what the 3 of us who actually post on this site can do to spread this thing extremely quickly in a digital sense. Get a note on facebook up and tag people, or just find some people who have alot of notes on politics and invite them to join.

Another way is posting fliers and whatnot around our campuses for the site. We all go to pretty big schools...well Rutgers and VT are big I'm not sure how big Drexel is and I'm not going to look it up to compare since I'm being lazy.

North Korean Prison Camps (gulags)

ExoticWhiteMan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:51:54 GMT

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444672,00.html

There are 23 million people in North Korea, and the government uses the threat of going to a prison camp to keep them under control. Some of the descriptions of the camps in this article are pretty disturbing, and offer proof that the same kind of insanity and evil that was found in Nazi Germany and the USSR is still alive and well in governments today. These atrocities and injustices, found on a smaller scale in places like China, Iran ...

Overclocking

ExoticWhiteMan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:04:28 GMT

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/t261409.html

Once again, I'm straying from the purpose of this forum to post on something I think is really cool. This is a link to a tutorial on overclocking. It's long, complicated, and difficult to understand, despite the author claiming it's for noobs. Basically, smart overclocking involves optimizing how much you push your processor, the voltage you put into it, and how hot you allow it to get. I'm using folding@home, which uses your cpu for scientific ...

A Reconsideration of Obama's tax plan

ExoticWhiteMan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:22:53 GMT

I've been thinking about Obama's tax plan, and I'm think it might be a better idea than Reagan's trickle down policy. Although I don't think businesses should face a heavier tax (it's heavy enough, and they would pass the cost to us, consumers), the rich themselves should definitely face some heavy tax. Even if they are taxed severely, they'll still have make many times more than the average income. And, as we all know, many of the rich, specifically celebrities, easily fall into wasteful lives ...

Developments over there

ExoticWhiteMan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:12:13 GMT

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444101,00.html

This article essentially details a US cross border attack. This time, we went across the Iraqi border into Syria and killed a bunch of militant/civilians. Also, as you probably know, we attack militants in Pakistan across the Afghan border on a regular basis, and there are still reports of CIA drones launching missiles and killing over a dozen people at a time. Our problem with Syria is that, unlike other Iraq-neighboring countries, Syria ...

Why Obama won't be effective against Russia

ExoticWhiteMan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:46:06 GMT

http://www.247wallst.com/2008/10/russia-tells-op.html

Yet another article. This one is short and sweet, though, unlike others I've posted. It's actually pretty interesting, discussing how OPEC and Russia have control over the cost of oil and how they probably won't work together, which is good news for us. Essentially, if oil costs a lot, the economy will suck more, but if it's cheap, it will suck less. By controlling supply, Russia could raise oil prices quite a bit, if it needs to send ...

$700 BILLION

ExoticWhiteMan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:06:09 GMT

So, I was surprised when Bush announced a plan to basically hand over $700,000,000,000 to failing financial institutions. Even more surprising is the fact that the democrats are its largest supporters. 140 dems and 65 repubs voted aye, while 95 dems and 133 repubs voted nay. It only failed by 13 votes, and if 13 more voted aye, then companies who prey on people who don't spend above their means will be rewarded for giving out loans to people who couldn't handle them. This article: <http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/09/25/money.pushers/index.html?iref=newssearch> ...

folding@home

ExoticWhiteMan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:20:16 GMT

That title probably makes absolutely no sense, but it's an awesome cause I just stumbled upon. If you remember from a few years ago, it's a program that hundreds of thousands of people run in the background of their computers. Each person lends some of their CPU's processing power to perform calculations about protein folding. These calculations are sent to scientists, who use it to work on proteins, diseases and other medical research. Also, a version of the program was released for the PS3, ...

Powell and Joe the Plumber

ExoticWhiteMan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:31:26 GMT

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/19/rollins.powell/index.html?iref=werecommend

Unfortunately, Powell has endorsed Obama. Issues aside, Obama has pretty much crap for experience, and I don't know why Powell thinks he's the better choice. I guess these discussions will be winding down after the election, so I'll give a little shpeal over who I'm voting for. I feel that Obama's plans and ideas do not emphasize hard work, because his taxes are putting down business owners like Joe, who work ...

The Perfect Canidate

Gustavus_Adolfus — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:06:11 GMT

While I was canvasing for O Bama with a union I was talking to one of the union organizers. One of the things she pointed out was:

O Bama has to be the perfect candidate because of his race. He can not have any past problems etc, because it is understood that being a different color is intense as it is. And if you were really to compare Obama/Biden to McCain/Palin....the democrats look flawless when comparing bad back stories/family lives.

Just something to think about.

On a light note

ExoticWhiteMan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:45:02 GMT

Here's a funny comment: "The only encouraging news these days is falling oil/gas prices and now OPEC wants to eff that up.....and then they seriously wonder why we bomb their ass."

An Opinion on Religion

Church1ll — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:41:21 GMT

So this is my opinion on religion. As this is an OPINION, don't act like I'm an ignorant bastard and be like "you don't know what you're talking about!!! God is REAL" because, as stated, this is an OPINION. I don't really know why I actually need to state that, but people are idiots that think an opinion is a fact for some strange reason. Right.

Religion is, in a sense, a series of the greatest stories ever told. Depending on your religion obviously depends on which stories you've ...

Murtha second dem to piss off PA

ExoticWhiteMan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:40:30 GMT

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/23/murtha-race-tightens-racist-redneck-remarks/

This article is pretty short. Following Obama's lead, Murtha, western PA's house member, made comments like (paraphrasing), "Obama isn't winning there because of race" and "People in Western PA are racist rednecks." .......................................................

Yeah, um.............

That's kinda fucked up. Who I vote for is based on what makes sense to me and what the US ...

Biden v. Palin

ExoticWhiteMan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:25:46 GMT

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433314,00.html

Here's another somewhat tedious article, but the conclusions are spot on: many of Biden's statement during the vp debate were lies, and worse, the media failed to catch many of them. Palin gave a more accurate statement concerning the function of vp, and Biden was deceptive in many of his statements. Palin's honesty, however, will probably work against her in this election: same goes for McCain. The voters the candidates appeal too all too ...

Our Destructive Politics

ExoticWhiteMan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:51:03 GMT

As everyone knows, Barack Obama and John McCain are competing for the presidency. Also, our country is having some economic trouble; nothing too serious, but something in need of our politicians' attention. I wanted to bring up what, I think, is the reason our government has been seriously inept at using competent approaches to solve the many complex problems we face. Oil drilling, renewable energy, global warming, terrorism, hostile states, various moral issues, taxes, health care, I could look ...

The Candidates

ExoticWhiteMan — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:25:19 GMT

I'm not so sure about Obama. In articles, people have been complaining that dems in Congress have been standoffish with republicans, striking down any measure they try to pass without even looking at it. And while people say dems are gonna wipe the floor, their Congress has a way lower approval rating than Bush of 9%. I'm not so sure that Obama plans to work with the GOP, rather than just silence it and pass nothing but the dems' legislation. Also, McCain has promised to include dems in his cabinet, ...