sepultallica

you gotta watch out. us americans are a rare breed around here. sometimes its open season on us. welcome aboard. you'll find that there are quite a few people here that know what they're talkin bout, some that just sound like they know they're talkin bout, some that dont know what they're talking bout (and still decide to talk)and some that are just talkin bout the sound they hear when they talk.

to the casual music listener, speed can be everything. they'll be amazed if youre shredding away. a musician can see through it though.

i use alot of tremolo picking in my solos to try and sound like a bad ass since i didnt learn to play properly. learnt it by playing tab for a few years, now im paying the price. never timed myself. good thing about metal or rock is that you can go without playing for quite awhile and still be good. more endurance than technique. id love it to be the other way around, but you know us metal geetarists are lazy as heel.

that was a curve ball you just launched at me. are we talkin bout that centrifugal force and stuff? the part of the cable that is in the earth's atmosphere would have have great stress and the center of gravity would be located somewhere... i was going to say something that i have no knowledge of. besides, dont satellites have to orbit the eart and not remain in a fixed position in order to maintain orbit? unless it has a power source that can keep it in a fixed position indefinately. that would require some serious diesel fuel though.

i play the geetar. im in a band that plays the heaviest and fastest sh*t this side of the galaxy. i agree that something fishy is going on with all those smart people being musicians. except of course for drummers. theyre dumb as rocks.

i think that in certain circumstances, locking people up and throwing away the room does work. they cant return to society and continue breaking laws. of course, you wouldnt want to do that with everyone. i also agree that the small-time criminals can be sentenced to minimum security rehabilitation centers as opposed to full blown prisons.

i think the obligation to protect society would best be served if the murderer was kept behind bars. i would write off someone's life for one mistake if it were bad enough. however, theft and burglaries do not buy you a life imprisonment unless they are extreme or there is a history. im all for rehabilitation. i would support a release of a criminal pending rehabilitation. if doctors do not believe that a criminal is rehabilitated then he should not be released regardles of sentence. he woulld continue breaking laws as you pointed out.

i also consider it a top prioroty but you cant do away with the punishment. even if a person was legally proven rehabilitated, he must still be punished for crimes commited, even at the expense of rehabilitation.

the primary purpose of jails and prisons is to expedite punishment for criminals. all other reasons for having them must, and do, take a back seat to this primary objective. there can be no other way.

man, that cable would weight so much that it would probably drag down the craft that was holding it up.

i think that there was a conspiracy to kill kennedy but not on the massive level as portrayed by oliver stone in his movie JFK. there was only one gunman. more than likely oswald but definately more people inviolved in the planning stages. my conspiracy is that in california, CalTrans along with gas companies and local radio stations conspire to take commuter's money by clogging up freeways during peak traffic hours. the conspiracy is as follows: It all, starts with Caltrans. CalTrans recieves the order from the M.A.N. to execute a ????. Caltrans immediately dispatches crews to the busiest freeways and intersections, and they procede to block two lanes over a two mile stretch, on a four lane freeway. Caltrans crews then begin to core the asphalt and take excessively long breaks in the process. this of course ties up the freeway and traffic comes to a complete stop. we all know that when cars are idling, they begin to heat up and many eventually overheat, causing further congestion. so cars are stuck there, crawling, and wasting an enormouse amount of gas. that's where the gas companies come in. the cars are stuck on the freeway for hours (literally) and when traffic gets going, its time to gas up. gas stations make a killing from this tactic especially now that a gallon of gas costs $2.50 in southern california. in return for the additional customers, the gas stations pay a fee to caltrans. radio stations are in it because the drivers have nothing else to do during the drive so they turn on the radio. major bucks. that how the satalite radio company can afford to pay howard stern $500,000 bucks on his new deal.

for some wierd ass reason, i see bill doing things with the UN. He could be president if he wanted to be. hell if he started his campign right now he would probably win. but i dont think the US is big enough for him.

i havent posted any serious information here for a few months so ill try to stir the pot a bit with this one. i had read the other thread on guns and damn was that thing long. i didnt get a chance to add my two cents in it and i was really looking forward to it. anyways, the whole theme seemed to focus on someone presenting a reason for needing a gun or reasons for owning guns. i did notice that the thread on the UN gun... wasnt really what i was looking to discus so i felt starting a new .......... again these are only my ideas. I have some points that have always stuck with me. Before I start listing them check out my standpoint on guns. I love guns but I don’t own one. I have fired many rifles and hand guns. I have had a blast using them. I never have had a need for using them though. I have witnessed gun violence and crimes committed with guns. I support a ban on guns. I support stricter laws on gun ownership. After bustin a brain cell, I was able to think of a couple reasons why someone in the US might need a gun. Hunting for food. Im sure that there are still places in the US where people may need to hunt for food. I have never met someone that depends on hunting for their food source but I can see that happening in places like Alaska and maybe the central US. I don’t think that many people do it though. Killing a maimed animal. There may be instances where someone may be out in the wilderness and a horse falls and breaks a leg. It is common practice to shoot an animal to “put it out of its misery” in parts of the country where animal hospitals are not easily accessible. This could constitute a need for a gun in certain circumstances. I don’t believe that it warrants legalization on this basis alone. The only other reason that I see that someone may need a gun, is in the age-old dream that we need guns to defend ourselves from an oppressive government. If things ever reached the point in the US where we felt that we needed to really defend ourselves from the government in order to preserve our way of life, and if society as a whole was in agreement against the government, then I believe that a government as organized, tactful and skilled as this would have taken measures to protect itself from a militia. I cant seem to find any other reasons that would merit owning guns that aren’t geared towards entertainment. I cannot justify keeping guns legal strictly for recreational purposes. There are many other forms of entertainment available. Pick another one. I find it hard to believe that we need guns for protection of our property and life. I don’t know that brandishing a weapon during a hot break-in is necessarily going to make matters better. In the instance where a burglar breaks in to a home and begins to rob, I believe that his intentions are not to physically harm or kill any resident unless provoked. He may be carrying a firearm but that doesn’t mean that he is going to use it regardless of what happens in the house. If a burglar breaks in to a house at night he is doing so because he wants to remain undetected. He means to burglarize, not kill. Had he intended to kill or even confront someone he would not have entered at night. He would have car jacked or turned to robbing a person at gun point which is completely different than home burglaries. So when a resident hears an intruder in his home in the middle of the night, and responds by confronting the burglar with his weapon, he changes the burglars priority from burglarizing to self preservation and of course this can only end bad for someone. Instead of forcing a confrontation, the resident should avoid contact and call the police. The burglar only intends to burglarize, not kill or injure. More later. I have more ideas but I must return to work now. I will also post why i feel there is a gun problem in the US later.

its too bad this thread turned to economics rather than a gun debate. i just finished reading the other gun debate and realized that it was closed. damn did i have some points.

you know what i cant condone? a multi billion dollar space program in the us when we still have problems on earth. terrorism threatens our very way of life. blobal warming threatens our comfort and existance. hunger, povertyy, disease. i definately dont want to see us abandoning the space race. if there is potential for cost effective space travel and colonization then by all means we must explore the shit out it. but we cant do this when we have major problems on earth. we cant criple ourselves in the process.

well, what size screen we talkin bout cuz i dont know. my plasma screen is going to bring me enjoyment well past the vacation. besides, i could watch myself on the tv as im in space on vacation. wait, that doesnt help.

I feel that it's either them or us. if the testing has to be done for the benifit of mankind, and the researchers are unable to obtain volunteers, and it's not possible to aquire them, and the testing is necassary, then do it. It all comes down to survival of the strongest. we need the research to survive. i believe that most, if not all, would agree that animals would be subject before humans on dangerous testings. i do have a problem with unnecassary testing.

that definately sucks. can you really deny someone their request in that instance? is it still immoral to assist someone to kill themselves when you see this kind suffering?

the only way that i see this as happening is if a machine actually did the work for you and not an actual person.

a couple miles apart and wide is what i meant.