Fiery_penguin_of_doom Posts

I suggest things like Pingo and GO-Sim

Pingo is a calling card with excellent rates and the go-sim is a provider of global sim cards for "unlocked" cell phones. You can find ways to unlock your normal cell phone or you can buy one off eBay. Both of these are highly recommended by Clark Howard who is a self made millionaire and a host of a consumer advocate radio show.

People are spending far too much on their cell phones nowadays. Hell, my ex had a cellphone she bought for $20 and the monthly payment was $20. Then again the phone was bare bones basic with calling and text message. All I use my phone for is calling and the occasional text message so I think a lot of this shit is useless bells and whistles to fluff up a horrible service and a phone that may or may not be all that great.

Angelus, I'm sure there were far better deals out there than the iPhone. Frankly, I think you bought it just for the status of saying "I have an iPhone" but whatever, it's your money

You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how asinine it is. People like you have lead to the moral hysteria about child predators that a father can't even take pictures of his own children in a park without being harassed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035315/Father-branded-pervert--photographing-children-public-park.html

People have gone too far when trying to link lolicon= Pedophilia. The main difference is one is a bunch of pixels/ink/paper while the other is flesh/blood/bone. We are literally trying to punish people for holding this. What's next? Jailing guro fans for murder?



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I have a collection of lolicon and yet, I hate children. Well, not really hate but, I find them extremely annoying and especially not sexually attractive. The whole hysteria about child predators has me debating if I would even help a child in danger due to incidents like these

http://indecent.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/29/810522-man-sees-two-year-old-alone-drives-by-did-pedophile-hysteria-cause-a-childs-death

This whole thing is outrageous. Lolicons won't not will they ever go out to molest a child or harm a living child in any way. While some child predators look at lolicon, lolicons don't look at child porn (A=B B≠A).



I know you were trying to help but, you basically shot our foot off with this post. You are SO paying the medical bill.

What is keeping me alive? Possibly the fear that ziggy would kill me if I died. That and I am pretty sure hell isn't filled with prinnies.

Welcome to the real world. As the band NOFX says

I believe he is speaking of a member that has drifted away from the community a long time ago. I don't know the details but, she met some guy and got married but, I don't think he was a member here.

At least you and I can agree on that. I only support the block user because of how it seems that misbehaving is not discouraged but, in fact it seems to be rewarded. Rules aren't universally applied which basically gives a green light of know the right people and the rules don't apply to you.

The elders and by that I mean the people who have been active members since before Rukia92 got hitched. We've seen the community go downhill and we would really prefer that we stop the trend before it gets much worse. In other words, we don't want Fakku becoming another 4chan.

The mods and admin will never get too iron fist here so I don't see what you are worrying about. Though, I can understand your concern since you haven't been here as long as the ones complaining about the problem but, as you spend more time here you'll meet some really awesome people. Hell, I'm living with someone I met here on Fakku.

Well put. Especially the part about trolls. I like the idea of simply ignoring the people I deem too stupid to waste my time on. A lot of older members will remember Chuu and his various other forms and by simply hitting "ignore" then I wouldn't be bothered with his posts for the rest of my time on Fakku. I see no down side to how I would use this system but, as others have pointed out the system is flawed in several ways that will ultimately bring it downfall and these are not flaws that can be tweaked or tinkered away from the core entity.

Edit; everybody likes a good troll to stir things up. Especially, when they are funny but, we don't have any of those trolls here.

So, the rules don't apply as long as it's funny. Makes perfect sense...

We aren't trying to judge "quality of post". To be completely honest I don't even recall that ever being mentioned. I guess maybe you are referring to the "debate" as to what kind of post or topic qualities for Random or I.B. Which really isn't that difficult.

If the topic is serious and you want a lengthy serious discussion then it goes in S.D. (Religion, Politics,etc)

If you want serious replies but, the topic isn't very series. Tattoo topics,

If you don't care about the replies and even care about what people reply with then this is where it would go. Memes, video topics and the like would go here. This is about as close to 4chan Fakku will ever get.

yet, some people can't seem to grasp the concept that Random ≠ I.B.

This is about the only thing I can think of when people talk about "Quality of posts"

I'm not asking for an iron fist crack down where bans are unloaded on people like gats. I want this place to be just as fun as it is but, flaming, harassing other users and generally being a douche shouldn't be a part of "the fun" of the community. You want that sort of community 4chan is right here.. Fakku isn't 4chan, so lets stop trying to make it such.

For the sake of argument: I would like to hear a "reason" as to why flaming and such negative behaviors actually benefit the community as a whole.

We have rules and they should be enforced. If something like "It was funny" counts as a valid reason to let somebody break the rules then we shouldn't even have the damn things in the first place.

From my perspective, the admins have taken far too long to address the problem of trolls and other trouble makers. The community as a whole seems to encourage this behavior. This leaves maybe, a couple dozen members out of all registered member to even bother reporting anything which may or may not have any action taken. So I would prefer to just outright block these people so I don't see their posts or threads instead of having to make a conscious effort to "avoid" them.

While I applaud Nikon and others for taking some action it'll take more than a polite request to make a change in this community.

From what I have heard, the movie will be directed or produced by the guy behind Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon & Jet Li's HERO. Not exactly 100% sure on that but, still. At least the director is respectable, it could be worse.

Ignoring trolls will result in Elitism? That's a new one. The admin seem to neutered when it comes to handling trolls. Reporting them won't do anything if nobody with authority will seriously do anything about the problem. Hell, Lolol-whatever was only banned because he went too far. That basically set a "guide" for troll behavior. You can be an asshole, racist, sexist, douche bag so long as you don't go quite that far. If he had toned it down a little bit then he would have stayed regardless of the fact that he was harassing users and generally being a douche.

At least ignoring them will get them out of sight and out of mind but, the problem of people quoting them thus being able to see what they posted in the first place still lingers. It's a good idea but, not one that can be implemented effectively.

I think the whole topic is a general statement of "The trolls are a problem, do something about it!"

The fireworks near here were alright but, the night was basically ruined due to the idiots that felt that acting like drunken frat boys and sorority girls was the epitome patriotism. These people didn't understand the concept of personal space or what constituted proper behavior in public. I even had beer spilled on me...

Just the kind of idiocy that makes you wish that you had the authority to arrest them or just shoot them in the face. Either works fine.

At least I got to see some pretty lights and hear some loud booms.

Theoretically, yes. Though the probability of carbon based lifeforms such as ourselves coming into existence is highly unlikely. We need water and in this "new" universe water may not even be physically possible to make as the structures and characteristics of the atoms themselves are changed. This extends to ALL elements in the universe.

The theory rests somewhere between the Big Bounce and a Multi-verse theory.

First lolicon then hentai in general under the guise that they "look" underage when the represented character is said to be over the proper age. This is how censorship works, not by wildly hacking at the material but, slow and surgical cuts. First they take away what everybody dislikes then they take away what most people dislike,etc,etc all the way until only that which everybody agrees can be shown.

These sorts of things are always the first stepping stone to larger censorship.
As others have said before:

That's what I was looking for, The Truman Doctrine. Thank you PD for finally ending my curiosity.

Due to actions of Truman and others we have the mentality that America should police the world. That we should be the ones who lead the world to democracy and freedom. Which isn't exactly a popular idea outside of the "leading" country.

I'll admit that I wasn't exactly clear when I started this thread but, when I said religion I was really referencing institutionalized morality.

The reason I question this is because of how morality and ethics differ from person to person. Without an institution to keep morality and ethics anchored to a standard then they would fall apart and I assumed people would eventually just become moral nihilists but, that is probably my cynical pessimism talking.