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The more life points, the better job you end up with. The most points you can get for each subject is 99, the least is 0. Winning the teacher's mini game at school (See the Connect icon for more details) results in the Intelligence points getting higher. - The fourth page of the Health Meter displays how old and how heavy your tamagotchi is. It also displays the name to gave your tamagotchi at the very begining of its life. It ages one year every human day, but pausing it via the clock (Set time) stops it ageing so much. The tamagotchi will gain weight every time it eats (see the Food icon) and will lose weight every times it plays a game. (See the Games icon) - The fifth page shows your tamagotchi's generation and gender. It should say 'girl' or 'boy' underneath 'Gender', depending on which one it is. The Gen. number shows what number tamagotchi you have since you restarted your tamagotchi or it died. (If your tamagotchi has grandparents, but no great-grandparents, it's on Gen. 3.) - The sixth page shows how many GP (gotchi-points) you tama has got. Playing games and working gives you more points, but donating them to the King or buying something from the shop takes away points. - The seventh and final page of the Health Meter shows your username to TamaTown. This is the username you gave your tamagotchi at the very beginning, and the one it'll keep until it dies. (For more on TamaTown, see the Connect Icon) The Food Icon (Icon Two) The food icon shows all of the food you've bought and lets you choose which one to give to your tamagotchi. - The Meal section shows four basic meals, along with all the meals you've bought in the shop with your GP. (See the Games icon) Each meal you eat fills one Hungry heart, on the Health Meter. 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CAAA BACB= CD3= 0gp ~The last code you enter will not give you what the code is for! Instead, it will give you a RARE CELL PHONE. If you would still like to get the last item from the last code, you will have to re-enter the code and buy it. I recommend entering the code for "CD3" last because it is free! (Thanks Kyliesmum, TamaTalk) - The Password section enables you to put in passwords from TamaTown and other sources. The passwords are a mix of letters and numbers. Press the A button to change to the next letter/number, and press the B button when that certain letter/number is correct. - The Souvinier section shows all your souviniers from TamaTown. Once you have a souvinier, enter the password in (see above) and you have your souvinier! The Connection Icon (Icon Five) - The Work section lets your tamagotchi go to school, work, or be looked after by the nanny, depending on it's age. At the school, you can pick one of the three boxes. If you pick the right one, you'll get more Intelligence points. If you pick on wrong box, you get some poop instead. The job your tamagotchi gets depends on how good it was treated before it turned into an adult. The job agency comes every day. - The PC section gives you a code for TamaTown. (Click on V4) Enter in the code on your tamagotchi screen, and you will be allowed into TamaTown. (If not, check you've spelt it right) After you've got some points and presents, press the B button on your tamagotchi and click 'Log out' on TamaTown. Enter the code/s on the computer screen into your tamagotchi to come home and recieve your presents. - The Jinsei section lets you connect with other V4s. Make sure both tamagotchis are V4s (if not, see Others) and they both have selected either Game, Present or Visit. Then press the red connection bits at the top of each tamagotchi together and they will meet! - The Others section is nearly this same as the Jinsei section, but you use this if the tamagotchi you're connecting with isn't a V4, and you don't get to pick what activity you do. The Discipline Icon (Icon Six) If used at the right time, both discipline and praise can earn your tamagotchi one training bar. - The Time Out section is for if your tamagotchi has called out for no reason, given a bad present or refuses to do something for no reason. Select the Time Out section to tell your tamagotchi off. - The Praise section is for if your tamagotchi needs a pat on the back. (Esp. if s/he is crying) The Medicine Icon (Icon Seven) Use this icon if the Tooth or Skull icon is on your screen to make your tamagotchi better. May need a few doses. The Mail Icon (Icon Eight) - The Fortune section tells you what will happen to your tamagotchi's money, love and health. 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The NLRB made a rule that makes it easier for unions to organize by speeding up the process. There is a vote coming up on a Senate Resolution to block it, with Republicans saying that giving workers rights would "hurt job growth." The danger is that enough "centrist" Democrats will join with Republicans to pass this. So pay attention.
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The NLRB passed this rule to make sure workers get their legal right to a vote on a union. This has infuriated executives at the companies that are trying to block unionization. They claim this is a violation of their corporate "free speech rights" that will allow unions to conduct "ambush elections."
Business Week: AFL-CIO Urges Senate Democrats to Reject Challenge on Union Vote,
The AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. labor federation, is urging Democratic senators to reject a Republican effort aimed at killing a rule that regulators say will lead to speedier worker elections to form a union.
[…] Business groups such as the U.S. Chamber said the new rule would deny managers the time needed to discuss union membership with their employees before voting begins.
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The Hill: Business, labor groups gird for vote on controversial NLRB union election rule,
"The new NLRB rule makes modest, sensible changes to bring balance to the election process. A vote against the Resolution will ensure that the rights of working people to achieve economic security are protected," said Bill Samuel, the labor federation's government affairs director, in the letter.
Business groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce oppose the rule, which would speed up union elections. Glenn Spencer, vice president of the Chamber's Workforce Freedom Initiative, has said in the past that a vote on the joint resolution is likely the most significant labor vote this congressional session.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Panda Wars (as predicted here two days ago)
Hey guys, I have a few minutes in between leaving work and going to get a grill for the new house. Full review later but I wanted to get the new thread up
*Update* Phillies FTW!
Art - I really liked the drawing of the cameraman in panel 2 and the heli-RV in panel 4 (which is a cool concept). Nothing really much good or bad otherwise as Walt is drawn without any deficit and the shading is ok.
Story - Uh oh I smell I a diatribe from Scott coming on . . . (to be continued later)
And to prove my point I refer you to panels 1-3 as he is pegged as the ultimate delusional environmentalist. From the lines "there is a hole in my black embittered heart" and "return them to China where they can die naturally from loss of habitat" you can tell Scott doesn't plane like the guy and it takes the caricature away from being comical to just vitriolic. (Hey if the guy is named one of the 50 people who can save the planet by The Guardian he can't be that bad.)
From a practical standpoint, who the hell really knows who this guy is? I only recognized him as "the bearded dude from Whale Wars" and if Animal planet wasn't running consistent ads Id be SOL for the WHOLE arc. The show pulled in an average rating of .7, or 946,000 people a week and really how many of those people watch the show? That is the true definition of inside baseball, seeing as I had to look up Paul Watson for about 5 minutes on Wiki to see who the heck he is.
From a storyline standpoint I don't like the order of the strips as why did they break in and THEN film the segment for Panda Wars show? It seems very out of order. And to avoid the "reviewing a daily strip with a story arc" trap I'm guessing they kidnapped Brent (maybe to be SAVED by the panda?) and that will make it fall into place, but anything outside of that would make no sense
BTW Check out the Blackest Night storyline in the Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps comics. I really didn't get into comic until 2 years ago with the Sinestro Corps war and if you like comics with an epic feel (plus raising of the dead and addressing the repeated "resurrections" of superheroes in DC at least) I believe this is going to be a very good arc. It is a shame that this will likely be the last superhero movie that COULD be made because an extensive amount of technology would be needed to do all the light constructs on an epic scale without making the character look foolish or movie too expensive. Of the DC properties it would be nice to see a GL and/or a Flash movie, IMHO.
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- TheOriginalJes said...
Now that I know that Scott see's Whale Wars like I do, I think I'm going to like this.
- July 8, 2009 at 2:03 PM
- Jai said...
As I've said, I'm not familiar with the show (Beyond the concept)... but I have a hard time imagining that the last three strips parodying "Whale Wars" has brought a huge smile to anyone's face. It would be funny to see a video of someone just enjoying the shit out of -- in particular -- Come To My Window and Night Shift, because the repeated "OHH LOOK IT'S THE GUY FROM WHAAAALE WAAARS AHAHA" gag at the end of each couldn't possibly be strong enough to merit that kind of response from someone. Although, this is the internet. I should know better than to question what "anyone" might enjoy to an seemingly-impossible degree.
Panda Wars: Part One is definitely better, as a comedic piece, than the first two. But I couldn't get any enjoyment out of the final two panels, which contain the punchline. I'd like to know if it's because I don't know more than a paragraph's worth about Whale Wars.
I'd also like to know what that thing on the cameraman's camera is. Does Kurtz know what it is? I doubt it! If you Google Image search for "cameraman", the sixth image is this silhouette which has obviously been traced over and mildly edited for today's panel 2. I've gotta say, Kurtz did a good job of adding highlights to the cameraman... but either the POV we're seeing panel 2 from is something so unexpected and unusual that I can't envision it, or the proportions of Walt Paulson and his cameraman have been drawn (Heh, well, "drawn" in one case) thoughtlessly. I'm gonna go ahead and go to town on this one, since the last time I didn't like the point-of-view and proportions the case was mildly defensible.
Panel 2 is just bad, and I don't say so because the obvious trace-over art causes me to be outraged -- it really doesn't, for some reason (Possibly because it's just a silhouette. I don't LIKE it, but I don't much care. Because I expected this to be the answer to my "What is up with the camera thingy, and why isn't the camera guy pointing it at Walt" question). I say this because the cameraman is clearly facing due right (Although the highlights of his body do incline him gently away from the 4th wall, it's not enough), while Walt is only barely canted towards the camera. Yet, presumably, he hasn't moved from his panel 1 position -- where he's fully facing the camera. Sorry.
Oh, and the RV is also taken from GIS (8th result for "RV"), but has had more creative liberties taken with it instead of an obvious flat-out tracing. I'm cool with that, until such time as I feel we should be expecting Scott Kurtz's versions of real objects -- you know, original artwork? -- as opposed to him using GIS as a heavy-handed guideline (Or a lifeline, depending on how closely he sticks to what he finds. Using it as a lifeline is not respectable at all, speaking as an artist).
- July 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM
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- July 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM
- Scott said...
One more thing, Jai...
For the record I also google image searched and copy/pasted the Animal Planet logo.
And I always re-use the same panels. I never redraw those, so you can't count the panels as part of the art.
Also, I don't hand letter. I use fonts. another cheat from a lazy artist. When will I learn?
- July 8, 2009 at 4:32 PM
- birdman said...
Quickly coming to the defense of photorefs: they're completely acceptable. Encouraged, in fact. Their use should be commended. They're not as good as drawing from life, of course, but unless Scott lives next to an RV dealership, one could hardly expect him to find one from real life to draw.
- July 8, 2009 at 4:55 PM
- birdman said...
I do have a question though: was the RV with a helicopter on top supposed to be the the million-dollar sweet helipad? A regular RV couldn't hold the weight of a helicopter, I'm sure. Or is he stupid and putting the copter on the RV in lieu of the sweet helipad? And what did the competent crew he could supposedly hire in that case say about that? Or is he corrupt and pocketed the money and running a panda rescue mission without a sweet pad or competent crew?
- July 8, 2009 at 5:22 PM
- Brett Schiller (Sage) said...
Now Now Now, like I said before let's be civil with everything. I don't mind sarcasm at all but the only thing worse than a flame war is a cursing flame war.
From Scott:
Oh Jai,
you've foiled me again. You've deftly pointed out how bad I am at art because I use google image search for referencing important things like....RVs.
The humanity.
- July 8, 2009 at 7:35 PM
- Jai said...
Oh dear! That's not gentlemanly at all! Perhaps there's a misunderstanding?
I didn't say (Or imply) that using photographs as references was bad, at all! And expecting someone to only draw from references seen in real life is silly.
However, I am fairly against tracing. To do so takes someone else's work and passes it off as your own. Which using someone else's logo (As their logo) does not apply to in the least -- nor does copying your own work (Not even, gasp, big empty squares), or using fonts (Few people make those themselves), or using reference material. What I hope to see from your strip is originality and effort, and tracing is at the opposite end of each of those scales. It is unfortunate that you feel that makes me an asshole, Kurtz.
- July 8, 2009 at 7:58 PM
- Jai said...
Hm, quoting myself here (Regarding tracing): "To do so takes someone else's work and passes it off as your own." I should add that it is possible to create this effect unintentionally, and I certainly can't claim that Kurtz has done it with some outlandish, mustache-twirling malicious intent. That, too, would just be silly. But tracing DOES pass off something that ISN'T your own work AS your own work -- and I don't see why someone who has become very well known for creating an illustrated strip should be bothering with it. I don't see a need for said artist to get extremely irritated that the proof of his dipping in the shallow end of the pool got brought up. Is it not a valid point of discussion? So sorry! When I said, earlier, that the alterations to the tracings were good... I was not being sarcastic. They ARE good, and certainly help each of the tracings come to life and fit in better with the PVP world. Kurtz HAS artistic chops, and veteran ones at that. He's been tilling the internet's soil with graphite plows and watering rows of originality with digital ink for years. And THAT is why I'm disappointed to find this kind of thing, and -- hell -- why PVPMMS exists. And I have difficulty believing that Kurtz is unable to understand that disappointment. Perhaps he's just upset because he's mildly disappointed in himself as well? That would be human, although it's unfair to try passing judgement on that kind of thing. It's kind of an asshole thing to do, because whether I'm right or wrong it's probably only going to rile him to say that kind of shit.
I still want to know what that camera attachment is (And the other questions from the comment I made to the previous PVPMMS post).
- July 8, 2009 at 8:27 PM
- R.W.McGee said...
To understand these strips requires, I think, some working knowledge of the show 'Whale Wars.'
I'm not really viewing them as jokes per-se, so I haven't been looking for a punch-line...as setup, however, they are starting to drag...so I'm glad it looks like something is finally about to happen.
No comment on the art, other than to say over the past year I think Scott has pushed himself in the art department, and it tends to range from clear and serviceable in the daily strips to really excellent when he does the Binwin Bronzebottom stuff and Ombudsmen. My problems with PvP at this point are pretty much exclusively with the storytelling aspect.
- July 8, 2009 at 8:27 PM
- TheOriginalJes said...
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- July 9, 2009 at 6:49 AM
- TheOriginalJes said...
Jai, the Whale Wars aspect is just a much an inside joke as any other pop-culture reference. It's nice that you can acknowledge that you don't know the subject matter, but please, just leave it at that.
Your insistance that it isn't funny is just as annoying as when someone has something bad to say about Batman/LOLBat and having never read a Batman graphic novel. Just because "you" don't get it, doesn't make it "not funny".
I suggest you just go watch an episode. It'll only cost you an hour.
- July 9, 2009 at 6:52 AM
- Brett Schiller (Sage) said...
I understand I'm not going to say it sucks because I dont watch Whale Wars, but I had to research the guys to find out who he was.
The Doctor Who stuff was good, but I've never seen it before, so some of the nuance is lost for me and I don't get some of the jokes. No Scott's fault in terms of Doctor Who but Whale Wars is even less widely known and making fun of PAul Watson seems odd.
But we'll wait and see
- July 9, 2009 at 7:39 AM
- TheOriginalJes said...
The interaction of satirical mediums help to make something more well-known.
Or is this not "The Best PVP-Enhancing Prosthetic Around".
- July 9, 2009 at 8:01 AM
- Jai said...
@ TheOriginalJes:
So, are you saying that you found the first two Walt Paulson strips to be hilarious? Or are you only finding what I said about them annoying because I admitted I don't know much about Whale Wars? Because the punchline in both couldn't possibly have so much to do with insider knowledge of Whale Wars that it changes from "LOOK THERE'S AN UNEXPECTED CHARACTER AT THE END" to... something funny. It seems more like your response is aimed at what Sage thinks of bringing up a Whale Wars story (Which, incidentally, is not at all what I think. I don't think he has a valid point).
And can you explain what the two sentences in your last message have to do with each other? :/
- July 9, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- TheOriginalJes said...
The first two strips were a build-up. Major laughs aren't required.
As for my last two sentences, they don't need an explanation. They're pretty straight-forward.
Here, enjoy a Whale Wars clip.
- July 9, 2009 at 9:38 AM
- Brett Schiller (Sage) said...
If you ask the creator no, if u ask the Time blogger, he would say yes, to the "best PVP enhancing . . ."
- July 9, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- Jai said...
God, I'm thick. Why did I have to go and make it obvious that I didn't even come close to catching the PVPMMS joke!
- July 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM
- TheOriginalJes said...
The last panel in Panda Wars: Part Two gives new meaning to running off at the mouth. And, it seems to be a progressive condition, based upon the previous panel.
Otherwise, things seem to be progressing it a steadily safe and predictable rate. Which isn't too bad, considering that PVP has been solidly built upon a stereotypical sit-com format for some time.
But, I'm missing the stink bomb, the preferred weapon of the bio-terrorist. ;) We could probably see the end of this arc by Friday.
Unless, Scott's friend Jason Salsbury (apologies if I misspelled that) decides to bring the Pet Professional out of retirement. A dead panda would make for a very un-PVP punchline, though.
Still need to see some bamboo. For natural habitat, and all.
- July 9, 2009 at 6:27 PM
- A Nonny Mouse said...
I thought they were already making a Green Lantern movie...
- July 9, 2009 at 10:56 PM
- TheOriginalJes said...
Part Three: The panda's hand really jumps out as awkward.
That's all I really notice, today. Everything else is as expected.
- July 10, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- Jai said...
It's not too awkward, even though the panda's body is prone instead of upright. That's still probably the most comfortable of holding yourself up, because placing your hands in any other direction will start pulling the skin from the tips of your fingernails. Also, we could assume the panda has claws and is using them.
And I watch the hell out of Ninja Warrior, so I'm not just blowing smoke rings with my butt.
Unless you mean the panda's hand is "awkward" because it shouldn't be human-shaped. Because that is pretty darn awkward.
- July 10, 2009 at 4:05 PM
- rdy said...
"Unless you mean the panda's hand is "awkward" because it shouldn't be human-shaped. Because that is pretty darn awkward."
Look at the first strip in this arc. His hands go from 'human' to 'stumps-with-claws' and back again over the space of a single strip.
- July 10, 2009 at 9:02 PM
- game said...
I just wanted to let you know that they pretty much have decided on the actor for the in the plans green lantern movie. It is Ryan Reynolds as hal jordan doing jordans orging story. So frickin dissappointed. check darkhorizons.com for full story.
- July 10, 2009 at 11:37 PM
- game said...
- July 10, 2009 at 11:38 PM
- A Nonny Mouse said...
Darn, I hoped that you meant "orgying story." It's a story I was previously unaware of, but would have surely entertained.
- July 11, 2009 at 2:07 AM
- game said...
yes the problem with the orgying story is that alfred huxley still retains all rights to the use of the literary device. Many hopeful writers thought that those rights would be void after he died but turns out the courts upheld them on the notion that Huxley simply made the best one and all other attempts would be cheap imitations. as a side note and little known fact this is actually what caused Stephen King to get itno horror, His original ptitle and plot for The Long Walk was actually The Long Orgy.
- July 11, 2009 at 9:07 AM
- rdy said...
Since Justin Timberlake was also in the running, I'm happy anyone other than him got the job.
- July 11, 2009 at 11:25 AM
- Jai said...
But I wanted Reynolds to be Deadpool in a Deadpool movie! Surely he can't do both? Maybe he can. He was already Deadpool for a little bit, after all... and if that didn't stop him from being cast as Green Lantern, then being Green Lantern shouldn't stop him from being cast as Deadpool again.
But, really, a Deadpool movie would interest me quite a bit more.
- July 11, 2009 at 6:42 PM
- A Nonny Mouse said...
Maybe Reynolds decided it would be preferable to show off his pretty face instead of scarring it up and then covering it with a mask.
What makes him so desirable for the part of Deadpool, though? The aforementioned scarring makes facial appearance irrelevant, and surely there are plenty of people with the appropriate build who would be capable of filling the part.
As for the Green Lantern orgying story- it's a shame, but I guess that's the world of intellectual properties for you.
- July 11, 2009 at 9:35 PM
- Eric said...
Reynolds is perfect for Deadpool for two reasons:
1. Comedic timing and personality
2. Love for the character
A Deadpool movie is in the works, and Reynolds is heavily involved in all aspects of it.
- July 12, 2009 at 7:17 AM
- Russ said...
Remember Scott went on a tirade because someone "copied" his generic-looking panda for an eats-shoots-and-leaves gag?
Plagiarism is plagiarism. If it's fair use for Scott to copy something off of google, it's fair use for someone to draw a panda that looks a bit like his.
- July 12, 2009 at 5:39 PM
- Jai said...
Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for commenting.
Bad Felling: The joke is pretty good, if not exactly stellar when you consider the two characters involved are both masters of spinning the truth (Or masters of "trying to"). The artwork is solid stuff, with a couple of exceptions: First, in panel 2 the giant's woolly tunic has been shaded much more sloppily with a bunch of missed cleanup work when compared to the same garb in the first panel (Then, in panel 3, the tunic loses the dappled shading effect entirely as Kurtz must have been fed up with the effort it took or running short on time by then). Secondly, the village is extremely small. I'm talking "forest sprite"-scaled, or maybe "uncommonly large ant"-scaled. Binwin, the DWARF character, would never be able to get inside of an entire house from panel 3. It's easy to tell, because the frost giant is the same size in panel 3 as he is in panel 1. If this wasn't supposed to be a town of "normal"-sized people, then an indication of such in the last bit of dialog would have been nice. I can ignore that the "town" is only comprised of three structures, because the giant is unlikely to have died yet from a broken toe (Although those suck, and I feel compelled to enforce the idea that broken toes SUCK because I just snapped one under a door last night) and will probably summarily destroy whatever bits of the town are off-panel. Oh, and there is also some white stuff being thrown about randomly in panel 3 and around the foot in panel 2... which isn't snow, because the snow is colored. Panel 4 makes me think it's somehow ALL "breath fog", although that doesn't make any sense (But some of it clearly IS, so... my educated guess is that the remainder is "accidentally uncolored snow").
The joke is also losing some "freshness" points since any inventive adventurer would be drooling at the thought of an entire town's worth of loot now being available to them -- not just whatever reward the town was going to give.
I love that the giant's belt buckle is probably an adventurer's shield.
- July 12, 2009 at 8:58 PM
- rdy said...
Noticed the scale thing too. Couldn't understand what that stuff under the giant was meant to be because of the size disparity until I read the last panel.
But yeah, the house with three windows (floors?!) in height at the front of the panel is about the size of Binwin and like you say, he's a Dwarf of all things.
PS. Shouldn't SK have removed the link to the old Crispy Gamer Ding! by now? I mean, as entertaining as some of it was, I doubt linking to a thread of a few hundred comments moaning about how slack you are is what someone would want on their site.
- July 13, 2009 at 7:52 AM
- A Nonny Mouse said...
"He was a man-eater when I met him because he was a wild animal."
What the freaking hell?
As for Deadpool, the way he's been written in recent years they'd probably get a more accurate portrayal from Jim Carrey or Rik Mayall.
- July 14, 2009 at 1:49 AM
- TheOriginalJes said...
Aside from the technical bits, I think felling giants is always good RPG humor.
As for Part Four, it's starting to feel generic, to me. I'm hoping it's just my mood.
- July 14, 2009 at 7:02 AM
- Jai said...
Yeah, pandas are notorious man-eaters in the wild. Very few people come face-to-face with a vicious panda and live to tell about it! Because the pandas EAT them!
I would have sworn that most people, including Kurtz, would know that pandas eat bamboo shoots and leaves, not meat. Even the wild man-killer ones (With questionable understandings of punctuation) that eat, shoot, and leave.
I suppose that doesn't mean that all -- or any -- of the comic strip characters have to know this as well, though. But that's kind of an "out there" defense, and unlikely as a possibility.
- July 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM
- Dave... or IS IT? said...
Wow. This is a pretty hateful caricature. I guess Scott really doesn't like the Whale Wars guy...
- July 14, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- Jai said...
I feel that the caricature is starting to lose its connection to the reality as this story continues. What does killing the animal to save human life have to do with the Whale Wars guy? Why is Brent suddenly horrified by the thought of the panda dying? It's like the "Brent suddenly cares deeply about Skull" fiasco (Later revealed to be a reimagining of Brent and Skull's connection) from the paintball arc all over again. It's like Brent and Mr. Whale Wars have suddenly swapped sides over the panda issue, making both characters harder to understand. It's too bad we didn't see the panda maul the guy in a sequence of bizarre, unexpected attacks that imitate how he impossibly appears out of nowhere to maul Brent.
Hey look! The camera doesn't have that crazy attachment I'd never seen before on top of it, anymore!
- July 14, 2009 at 11:45 AM
- R.W.McGee said...
This is all so F*ing boring. You know, it's cool to reference pop-culture or whatever, but enough is enough. The Whale Wars guy was maybe good for a two strip gag; tops.
- July 14, 2009 at 12:40 PM
- TheOriginalJes said...
If not two strips, then a to-be-continued until better material is written.
- July 14, 2009 at 12:51 PM
- TheOriginalJes said...
But, you had to have seen Brent's change-of-heart coming. Remember the awkwardness after Brent knocked out the Panda with and elbow.
- July 14, 2009 at 12:52 PM
- A Nonny Mouse said...
Other wild animals include rabbits, moles and mice. Given the revelation that wild=man-eater, I'm going to be worried about being eaten no matter where I go (or possibly, depending on the intention of the usage, be worried about becoming entrapped in a destructive relationship.)
- July 14, 2009 at 1:12 PM
- TheOriginalJes said...
...and koalas.
- July 14, 2009 at 1:43 PM
- Jai said...
Pandas are bears... and KOALAS are ALSO bears! Better steer clear!
Oh, wait, koalas are actually marsupials. But they throw crazy sex parties, so the other "man-eater" definition might apply!
I bet that Brent would get along much better with the Panda Wars guys if he told them that he literally had sex with a female panda to try and save the species.
- July 14, 2009 at 4:22 PM
- hnm said...
Actually, Jai, not to be a spoilsport but pandas are technically classed as carnivores and DO eat meat, fish, etc, when they can get it. They eat MOSTLY bamboo, but that's why they're so damn lazy. They get almost no nutrition from their food.
Also they're huge bears, so no matter how lazy they are, they're still dangerous and do occasionally attack people (see http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/09/panda.attack/index.html ).
- July 14, 2009 at 6:17 PM
- rdy said...
I think the most disappointing thing about this arc is it hints at a more kinetic story but we're told about the fat, bearded guy's encounter rather than shown. Maybe this 'kill it!' twist will have some action down the line.
So far though, for all it's tease/build-up, it's been a dreary missed opportunity.
- July 14, 2009 at 8:35 PM
- Jai said...
You don't mean "omnivore", Hnm? Pandas (And most other bears) belong to the Carnivora order, but aren't "carnivores".
Sure, it seems that pandas can, technically, eat a human. But even the panda that was just linked to sounds like he's only bitten humans (On three separate occasions, no less)... doesn't much sound like the chewing and swallowing thing was going on. All the evidence I can find shows that pandas just do not eat people. I can't even find an example where a panda has KILLED a person. So I'd say the circumstances under which a panda would kill and eat a man would have to be absolutely extraordinary, involving the panda feeling threatened the whole time... and starving... and the man has bamboo leaves glued all around his body... and he's a mute quadriplegic. Maybe then?
- July 15, 2009 at 11:05 AM
- Jai said...
Oops, new strip!
Panda Wars: Part Six: Ahahaha haha hah! Oh, man. Just LOOK at Brent's mangled arms! I was going to bring it up because of Part Four, but now it's just too obvious not to mention. There is just nothing that makes sense about how his wrists (?) are tied and held up in the air like that. And the arms, my god, what's happened to his arms. I'm sorry, it's just terrible. Maybe a Stretch Armstrong doll could pull it off, but even then gravity's going to bring those tied nubs down instead of holding them up in a ridiculously uncomfortable way.
And the panda kicked the doorknob off the door, I suppose. Both sides of it. And the door opened on the wrong side (For the love of god, just horizontally flip the first panel showing the door, man!).
And Brent is sitting on the floor, I guess... or his fallen enemies are piled waist-high? Somewhat over knee-high, if Brent is sitting.
But the panda looks good! Very funny "kicking in the door" pose.
I'm not sure why Brent is explaining himself to the panda, but whatever. Maybe we'll see a videotape recording of what transpired, later.
- July 15, 2009 at 11:19 AM
- TheOriginalJes said...
I completely missed the door. I don't know how. Now that you mention it, it's so obvious.
But, I don't see Brent's thumbs at all. I see two ends of the rope.
- July 15, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- rdy said...
Another tease strip? Gah.
- July 15, 2009 at 12:52 PM
- R.W.McGee said...
He flipped the door hinges. Before he kicks down the door, it is clear that if the Panda turned to face the door the knob would be by his right arm, and thus the hinges by his LEFT.
So, once the door is kicked in...the hinges are by his RIGHT arm.
The doorknob, as previously mentioned, has also mysteriously disappeared.
I also see two pieces of rope, not thumbs, for how Brent is tied...but still, the arms look horrible.
The story continues to have everything interesting occur off camera.
- July 15, 2009 at 12:53 PM
- TheOriginalJes said...
This arc is definitely not told from Brent's POV at all.
In that respect, if we're only seeing this unfold from the POV of the direct combatants (as introduced); then Scott's done the right thing by not showing the action.
The real disappointment is that we'll never see it, even as a flashback.
- July 15, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Jai said...
What's going on in here about thumbs? Nobody said the ropes look like thumbs. Is this because I said "nubs"?
- July 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM
- A Nonny Mouse said...
You know how rabid animal activists are really easy targets? The funniest thing about this arc is how the comedic ridicule actually managed to fail due to some sort of vitriolic vendetta that the author seems to have.
- July 16, 2009 at 3:15 AM
- Dave... or IS IT? said...
"Stupid Vegans" ? Seriously???
- July 16, 2009 at 4:09 AM
- R.W.McGee said...
what a brilliant ending to the strip. Good lord. It's difficult to be simultaneously boring AND offensive, but mission accomplished, I think.
Whether you eat meat or not, don't digest the current PvP story-arc...it's 99% Fluff...and that shit is pure sugar.
- July 16, 2009 at 6:01 AM
- Reader said...
Buh. Is this abrupt ending to the storyline just another example of Kurtz getting bored of a story and bailing before it's done? Or do you think it was planned to end this way all along?
Either way, that's a very unsatisfying ending to the arc.
- July 16, 2009 at 6:03 AM
- JSC said...
Wow, that was weak satire and a weak story arc. I've never seen the whale show, but there's likely plenty to satirize there without falsely suggesting that vegans are fainting all around us. If that was an exaggeration of some truth it might be funny but I see no underlying vein of truth in there.
Time to go back to the drawing board and write up some sharper story lines!
- July 16, 2009 at 7:39 AM
- TheOriginalJes said...
I think the fact that this last strip was posted so early in the day is a clear demonstration that this whole arc was supposed to lead up to that last panel/snap shot.
Which would have been much funnier had the Panda attacked Brent in the middle of his high-five.
And, I can't see Brent not taking credit for the victory. After all, there were no witnesses.
I suppose, in Texas (i.e. cattle country), this sort of vegan humor is considered hilarious. F-
This would have been so much better had Skull been released into the wild with or without Panda.
Hopefully we'll have a few good one-offs and guest strips between now and the end of San Diego.
- July 16, 2009 at 9:01 AM
- TheOriginalJes said...
Kudos to Brent for catching some serious air over Panda's head.
Who knew a desk-jockey could leap so high...?
- July 16, 2009 at 9:03 AM
- rdy said...
Vegetarians/vegans are weak because they don't eat meat... I know few days ago I likened SKs strips and jokes to trite stand-up comedian fare but I swear, he's now just lifting jokes from them?!
If you described this arc to me beforehand - "Animal activists invade the PvP offices in attempt to first free and then kill the panda!", I doubt I would have predicted this path-of-least-resistance style the strips took.
- July 16, 2009 at 9:10 AM
- A Nonny Mouse said...
And we were only just talking about pandas themselves being vegans despite being ill-suited to such diets!
I've been wondering when the last time there has been a panda attack. Have there been any incidents between the last panda story and this one?
- July 16, 2009 at 12:25 PM
- TheOriginalJes said...
- July 16, 2009 at 12:39 PM
- TheOriginalJes said...
In the first panel, Brent's arms must still be made of rubber.
- July 16, 2009 at 12:39 PM
- TheOriginalJes said...
Epilogue: I've decided to forget that Parts Six & Seven ever existed. This is a funny strip. We have the implication that Panda ate Peta. No need for action. No need for explanation.
It's funny. It has good rhythm. It's drawn well enough. And, it has regurgitated humor.
Throw away Six & Seven, and this saves the arc.
- July 17, 2009 at 5:57 AM
- JSC said...
I agree, remove 6 & 7 and the whole thing's OK.
- July 17, 2009 at 11:40 AM
- Chris said...
First time posting here.
I honestly have no idea what I've been reading for the past week.
I'm not so much an art critic. I actually really like the style of PVP and don't usually see the "mistakes" that get posted here.
But (and I've thought this for awhile) Scott really needs to find a partner to write for him. It's already pretty rare that his writing/jokes rise above decent, but this entire storyline was abysmally written. I had no idea what I was even reading half the time, and it's clear he didn't do any research/let his personal prejudices guide the writing.
Seriously, find a partner who has some writing chops. Then the comic would be hard to stop.
- July 17, 2009 at 12:05 PM
- R.W.McGee said...
That's exactly right, Chris. If the storylines were tight and the dialogue was consistently funny...nobody would waste their time nit-picking an art mistake here or there.
I'm also on the 'Kurtz needs to find himself a writer' bandwagon. He seems to work well with the guys from PA and that other group he podcasts with...so maybe it's just finding the right person.
- July 17, 2009 at 2:17 PM
- rdy said...
All those looking forward to the guest strips... :(
- July 19, 2009 at 8:59 PM
- TheOriginalJes said...
I'm not, rdy. But, that just means that there's potential to be pleasantly surprised.
I owe a half-apology to Scott Kurtz...
I went to Zoo Atlanta this weekend and saw the pandas. And, until I saw them, I had no idea that pandas had what amount to dexterous fingers on their front paws. I had believed that they had paws like any other bear.
I was somewhat out of line with my crack about the front paws being awkward during the last arc. They only needed claws.
So, Scott, I'm s.
- July 20, 2009 at 4:26 AM
- rdy said...
I'm not, rdy. But, that just means that there's potential to be pleasantly surprised.
That's my point. You're not going to be. SKs dumped the usual guest strips in favour of a week of his new style Ding! :(
- July 20, 2009 at 6:10 AM
- R.W.McGee said...
- July 20, 2009 at 6:26 AM
- TheOriginalJes said...
I read it as guest strips while he's away and Ding! for a week after he's back.
But, your way is better. A week of Ding!, then back to normal. Like a band-aid; the quicker, the better.
I'm not really down on Ding!, though. Just Giacomo. Reading about a bard is more annoying than campaigning with one.
- July 20, 2009 at 9:27 AM
- rdy said...
I'd have preferred guest strips, to be honest. The new Ding! isn't really clicking for me and given arcs aren't really SKs strong suit, I can't say I'm looking forward to a week of them.
- July 20, 2009 at 12:04 PM
- Jai said...
The writing is fascinatingly poor (Judging by this first one), but I'm impressed that Kurtz has worked ahead of schedule to produce a week of these.
Really, though. "GOO!", the dwarf is unable to tell that there's a dagger in his back after being told "You got a dagger in your back!", and the final punchline is "Okay what's all the commo-GAH!". Hilarious, right?
- July 20, 2009 at 3:51 PM
- R.W.McGee said...
I still can't get past 'GOO!' Really, shout that out...try different inflections, pronounce it like a drawn out version of the word 'Go'...nothing helps. It is utterly ridiculous.
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Family Fun Night
This summer, the library will offer a free picnic and activities followed by a family movie in Foundation Hall on four Tuesday evenings of the summer beginning at 5:30 PM. Sponsored by the New Cumberland Federal Credit Union.
The movie begins promptly at 6:30 PM.
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'Dreadful' day for Formula One
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A few months ago the prospect of a season opening without another Red Bull/Sebastian Vettel shutout would have led to many breathing a sigh of relief, but the seismic regulation changes brought in for 2014 have left many far from happy.
The Australian media were distinctly unimpressed - the race coverage was also almost universally low-key - and in their defence these views were expressed before Daniel Ricciardo's late-night disqualification.
"It might not have been the day formula one died, but on Sunday at an Australian Grand Prix that was lacklustre by most measures, it began what could be a terminal illness," wrote Mark Fogerty in the Age. "The sound of the cars was dreadful, the racing was somnolent and the spectacle completely underwhelming. F1 authorities, along with the teams, have to urgently address the failings of the radical new regulations that have neutered much of the cars' traditional visceral appeal."
Rather unfortunately, he concluded: "If it weren't for new Australian F1 hero Daniel Ricciardo finishing second … the big crowd attracted by his stunning performance in Saturday's qualifying would have had nothing to get excited about."
Kevin Eason in the Times was deeply unimpressed with the five-hour delay before the decision to disqualify Ricciardo was announced. "For all its smug, smart, intellectual brilliance, F1 is a basket case of the first order. To keep fans waiting to discover the result of a grand prix they had watched almost six hours before is humiliating and, well, plain daft …
"Australia's best day out in F1 for donkeys' years was to be ruined by a technical infringement that will sound like gobbledegook to even the most devoted fan."


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Brussels, 26 November 2012
Employment: Commission improves EURES jobseeker mobility network – frequently asked questions
What is the purpose of the EURES reform?
The present economic situation calls for bold action at European and national level to stimulate intra-EU labour mobility in order to remedy labour shortages and bottleneck vacancies in high growth areas and persistent high unemployment in other regions. The EU's need for more labour mobility nationally and across borders is therefore urgent.
EURES has not yet made full use of its direct employment potential. The Commission therefore aims to focus EURES on matching, placement and recruitment, giving it the biggest possible outreach and coverage capacity, including rolling out its innovative self-services in all European languages and full inter-operability in the exchange of national job vacancies and CV data under a revamped portal.
The shift to demand-led service delivery will also involve the use of targeted mobility schemes that will focus, according to market needs, on specific target groups, sectors, occupations and countries.
Consequently, EURES will become a demand-driven and result-oriented recruitment tool satisfying the economic needs of Member States and thereby contributing to meeting the employment target of 75% of 20-64 year olds under Europe's 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
What will the Decision change?
The new Decision revises Commission Decision 2003/8/EC implementing the Regulation on freedom of movement of workers from within the Union, Regulation No (EU) 492/2011. It lays down the operational objectives of the network, reinforces its governance, and lays the basis for a new EURES service catalogue. To improve coordination at national level, Member States are due to designate national co-ordination offices responsible for the organisation of EURES. These coordination offices will supervise national efforts to develop a demand-led service delivery, ensure the accreditation of qualified labour market actors as EURES service providers and supervise the contributions of those actors to the portal and the network activities.
To reinforce the focus on matching, placement and recruitment based on economic needs, the Decision will create a programming and reporting cycle on such activities for all its members.
EURES will extend its scope to cover new target groups. The new operational objectives of the Decision are to encourage youth mobility and to exchange information on apprenticeships and traineeships. This will require the development of new activities and services at national level, with a stronger focus on aiding the young unemployed, within the framework of the above programming cycle.
The Decision invites Member States to reflect on the organisation of mobility management at national level and to diversify and increase the number of actors operating in the current EURES network. The network will be re-established on the basis of an accreditation system at national level which would inter alia better regulate the role of private employment services wishing to participate in the EURES network. The accreditation system aims to achieve the best possible geographical outreach and labour market coverage and optimal service, for instance by ensuring the adequate participation of employment services and labour market actors other than the public employment services. Public and private employment services will be called upon to systematically cooperate when delivering EURES and set up a real European job vacancy platform to better cover the vacancy markets for services (public employment services' share of vacancies is currently estimated about 30-40%).
The Decision will diversify and strengthen delivery of EURES services. The shift to demand-led service delivery will be stimulated with other measures directly managed by the Commission such as a revamped EURES portal, updated training and communication activities and a reinforced co-ordination of the EURES network.
How will the EURES portal be improved?
The EURES web portal exists to support the overall objectives of EURES and in particular to help the network to provide its services in an effective and efficient way. The aim of the improvements is to ensure that the EURES portal is the natural first choice for any European citizen interested in, or considering working in another European country.
In particular, the improved EURES portal will aim to support the need for a skilled, adaptable, and mobile European workforce in the coming years by providing the most relevant services possible towards its users – jobseekers, job-changers and employers – across Europe. In particular, the effective and speedy matching of skills with vacancies is a priority for achieving efficiency in the labour market.
To achieve this, the EURES portal will provide online recruitment tools which facilitate better matching of labour supply with demand, which create a bridge between work and education/training, and which offer the possibility for interacting virtually, in order to reduce the need for environment-unfriendly travel. In order to get the most out of these tools, they must be built in line with the latest state-of-the-art technology.
In particular, Web 3.0, also known as Semantic Web, will play an important role in the development of these tools. Semantic Web and Data Web solutions, together with the European Skills, Competences and Occupations (ESCO) taxonomy of occupations and skills, will help to enhance existing tools as well as develop new ones for the exchange and matching of vacancy and CV information. Personalisation and increased interactivity will make the information content of the portal considerably more user-friendly, attractive and useful for the users.
To implement the EURES objectives and strategies, the web portal will focus on five "target areas": matching, learning, lobility, image building, and internal network cooperation.
In the coming years, the EURES portal will undergo transformation within these five target areas in order to become the most established and reliable source of information and advice about job mobility across the EU.
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WOB's Jordan C. Allen Stars in New Webseries
Over the years, many in the Way Off Broadway family have gone on to appear in countless productions around the country on national tours and on Broadway. Now, for the first time, a WOB alumnus will be starring in a national webseries as Jordan C. Allen plays the role of Wyatt in Cinevore Studios' Nerd vs. Geek.
Jordan first appeared on the WOB stage during the summer of 2011 as Seaweed in the blockbuster musical Hairspray. This was his first stage appearance in the area after moving to Frederick from the West Coast. Since then he has appeared in a number of productions including Chicago, The Rocky Horror Show, Jekyll & Hyde - The Musical, Footloose, and as Angel in Stocking Productions' Frederick-area premiere production of RENT. Currently, Jordan is starring as the Genie in Disney's Aladdin in Way Off Broadway's Children's Theatre.
Not only is Jordan one of Way Off Broadway's hottest performers, he is the face of the theatre's "Famous in Frederick" Campaign. Along with friend and fellow actor Leah Bebee, they help Way Off Broadway launch FamousInFrederick.com in the summer of 2012.
Performing for nearly his entire life, Jordan has appeared on television screens and advertisements in homes across the country. His earliest work was in commercials and ads for Kraft Foods, Kohl's Department Store, and JC Penney. And in 2002, he played little Michael Reed in the motion picture Joshua starring F. Murray Abraham and Tony Goldwyn of Amadeus and Ghost fame, respectively.
In Nerd vs. Geek, this longtime performer takes on a brand New Medium. Produced by Philadelphia-based Cinevore Studios, the new series asks the eternal question: do you consider yourself a nerd? Or a geek? Or neither? Which is better, playing as a dinosaur in a video game, or going to a real-life museum to walk amongst their remains? Each of the characters in this upcoming web series struggles with these same questions, as they try to balance their love of all things intellectual and creative with their attempts to fit into a society that treats blue-painted sports fans as gods amongst men, but anime cosplayers as worthy of ridicule.
The series touches on every aspect of nerd/geek culture, including video games, comic books, math, science (fact and fiction), cartoons, board games, card games, theater, TV, and movies. It is a fiction steeped in the often true, even-more-often-sad actual lives of the series' two head writers.
In the series, Jordan plays Wyatt, an intelligent and smooth nerd. The most outgoing of the shows characters, Wyatt is brutally honest and will cut you to shreds with his quick wit, but is still a fierce defender of his friends when opposed by actual nerd/geek "haters."
Filming of the webseries began in Philadelphia during the end of 2012. At the time, Jordan was also appearing in Way Off Broadway's Season's Greetings: An Empire Christmas. During the overlap in his schedule, Jordan found himself filming in Philadelphia during the day, on stage in Frederick at night, and back on the set in Philadelphia the next morning. Just to turn around and make it back to Frederick for the curtain again in the evening.
"Jordan Allen is one of the most talented people I have ever been fortunate enough to work with," says Justin M. Kiska, Way Off Broadway's President & Managing Director. "Not only do I love seeing him onstage, he is also one of my favorite people. He's just a great guy."
Way Off Broadway's Executive Producer, Bill Kiska, added, "He's always so much fun to have around and he is such a hard worker. We're very lucky to have him at Way Off Broadway."
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I read posts here that call different things, "harmful to humanity." Others call something, "good" or "bad" or "evil."
A very simple question, who gets to decide the definition of "harmful to humanity" and what is there critieria? The same for "good," "bad," and "evil?" These are not material terms. If everything is material isn't there just "is" and not these moral declarations if one is being thoroughly atheist?
Help me understand your position so I am fair and honest about the views. Thanks.
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Dude, This is freakin' nutzo hahah. This post has gotten so derailed I had to go eat a steak medium rare and hang out with some only black scholars then some only white scholars. I think i need to start a part two where I explain my position....to do it on this particular post seems quite fruitless at this point. Advice?
I tire of people dissing each other here, but somehow I'm still learning as I read. We're still basically on topic wrt what Wretched's asked from us, and it even ties into the concept of Free Will.
I used to wonder if any notion of morality could have validity, as it seems so debatable, dynamic, easy to disagree with, and hard to pin down. In conjunction with my ideas about intelligent humans' over-emphasis on grammatical rules, I even see a relationship now between such dogmatic (grammar) rules vs moral guidelines. I.e., deviation from "standard" English elicits almost as much objection at an emotional level as does deviation from a culture's current agreement on what's morally acceptable behavior. (If you think I'm over-conflating these concepts, please bear with me.)
Another guide to human behavior is civil and criminal law, codified in writing, and officially adjudicated and enforceable by authority.
What these three sets of rules (morality, grammar, law) have in common is that they tend to be stable over time in one's particular culture. What's written is obviously more stable than what's not written. But for better or worse, what's written down is also more enforceable, just because it's physical form is permanent.
Now as far as this thread is concerned, bases of morality are both written and verbally dynamic. The interpretation of (e.g.) the Bible varies according to local custom or group or charismatic leader (etc.). So even the validity of morality as derived from the Bible is subject to dynamic interpretation. This doesn't make the morality in it invalid as much as it points out how dynamic morality really is.
Now as far as Free Will is concerned, the question always comes down to how much choice we have when it comes to our own behavior. It depends! It depends not only on the salience and enforcement of the local sets of morality/law/grammar rules, but it also depends on how much choice each of us believes we have wrt deviation from the norms imposed on us.
Finally, the important question (thanks Wretched) comes down to who decides these codes of behavior. It's not simple! But what I think I understand better now is that concepts of morality really are important (at least to some degree), in the sense that we should all be able to choose whether or not we agree with such dynamic concepts. And it's not just important to be able to adjust morality (and laws) based on current circumstances, but ideally we should try to codify such guidelines transparently (i.e. not covertly), and impose them as little as possible on those who would choose to live by different sets of rules.
God, am I making sense?! Sorry folks, I hate to leave my words here so carelessly and in such an unreviewed/unedited state, so if they don't make sense, just forget about it! Or diss it. I don't care. :)
You just asked God if you were making sense? Classic. Kidding and just giving you a hard time.
No problem, of course.
(But if anyone's wondering, the irony really was intentional humor. And no, I'm not equating prescriptions/proscriptions of grammar with morality, but just pointing out that maybe they both come from related loci in the brain, wrt value judgments, tribal behavior, prejudice, xenophobia, etc.)
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It is interesting that many here place judgment on God/god/gods (whatever) by using the very same moral standards that are given in divine revelation and reflected in natural law.
Few would espouse a universal moral ethic. Many more would see any ethical consensus as localized.
You all go on as many pissy rants as Christians do, which is quite comforting--hahaha.
That many have said their ethics are drawn from scientific evidence, but no one has clearly explained to me the scientific method used to absolutely determine ethics.
The is/ought chasm proposed by atheist philosopher David Hume has not been sufficiently crossed for me (and yes I watched the Sam Harris video like 6 times--not compelling from a purely rational sense to be a bridge). It was Hume who in fact said, There is no way to reason from facts about the way the world is, to statements about the way the world should be. You can't derive values from data." This atheist got it right.
Sam Harris misses it on his basic premise.
1. Morality is "all about" improving the well-being of conscious creatures.
2. Facts about the well-being of conscious creatures are accessible to science.
3. Therefore science can tell us what's objectively "moral" — that is, it can tell us whether something increases, or decreases, the well-being of conscious creatures.
Here's the problem. Premise (1) is a philosophical premise. It's not a fact of science, it's not a fact of nature, it's not derivable from science, it's not derivable from nature: it's a value judgment. You might think this is a good premise; you might not – and even if you think it's basically on track, there's a lot of philosophical work to be done to spell it out. (Exhibit A – how do you define well-being in the first place, "scientifically" or otherwise?)
So on to putting together my views, which many have asked me to do.
So far, so good. I mostly agree with what you say here. I don't yet see how science can determine objective morality. Science can help along those lines, in the same way science has helped us understand how to improve the human condition. But I think ultimately, morality can only be defined and determined by local agreement, and it can change depending on conditions/circumstances.
Meanwhile, in defense of science, science has certainly done more to improve the human condition in the past 200 years than religion has in the past 2000 years. And whether one believes that or not, the increasing power that science has over our lives has to be not just acknowledged by us humans, but understood well enough by enough of us to lower the risk of its abuse against us and our environment. It's power will continue to increase at an accelerating rate, whether pushed by good or evil people.
That is only if you them as antithetical though, correct. Vishal Mangalwadi has made numerous arguments of why a biblical worldview actually was the soil for the seed of the scientific method to develop. He makes quite a compelling historical case. Anyone read him?
You have yet to respond to my reply, wretched. I've asked you if you think it morally/ethically acceptable to kill non-combatants, without prejudice, and also to torture their animals. Do you?
Either you do, in which case you are a sicko - but at least consistent with your bible/divine moral code.
Or you don't, in which case you get your morals in the same way as the rest of us.
All things being equal, I think it not prudent to kill non-combatants. However, this is a leading question into the Old Testament Exodus so all things are not equal.
In other words, where your faith is concerned, you are intellectually committed to dishonesty - and THAT describes Christian ethics to a T. Thank you for illustrating that for me.
Wretched Saint wrote: All things being equal, I think it not prudent to kill non-combatants. However, this is a leading question into the Old Testament Exodus so all things are not equal.
@ Wretched Saint - So does that mean that this god you believe in, thought it prudent to tell humans to hack through horses tendons in order to hobble them since they belonged to "the enemy", as this is what seems to be described in Joshua scripture 11:6?
Man, what kind of god do you people believe in, anyway? This is supposedly an all powerful god of mercy, according Christians. Wow. What happened? Does he get a personality change when he gets bored? What? I simply don't get it.
What I think really happened was humans wrote the Bible inspired by their own psyches. The god they describe in the Old Testament seems to be based on the way great kings acted back then (like egotistical maniacs). That's all the Bible writers had to go on, I suppose.
Don't worry. Your god never did such a horrible thing because he doesn't exist.
And that doesn't even take into account dashing babies against rocks, slaughtering children for calling an older guy "baldy", saving young virgin girls from other communities where "god's chosen" slaughtered their families so they could be raped and made their "property". Oh ya, ywhw is a kind and merciful god. Sure it is.


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Ballot measures
Initiative 517 -- No
Initiative 522 -- No
8th District Senate -- Sharon Brown
State Court of Appeals -- George Fearing
Benton County
Benton Fire District 1 levy lid lift -- yes
Port of Kennewick -- Tom Moak and Don Barnes
Three Rivers Convention Center expansion -- Yes
Richland School Board -- Rick Jansons and Heather Cleary
Richland City Council -- Gregory L. Jones, David Rose and Sandra Kent
Kennewick City Council -- John Hubbard, John Trumbo, Greg Jones and Don Britain
Kennewick Public Hospital District -- Wanda Briggs and Erik Malson
Kennewick School Board -- Dawn Adams
West Richland mayor -- Brent Gerry
West Richland City Council -- Johan Curtiss
Franklin County
Franklin Fire District 3 levy lid lift -- no
Pasco City Council -- Mike Garrison
Pasco School Board -- William Leggett, Sherry Lancon and Amy Phillips
Port of Pasco -- Jean Ryckman
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In retaliation for the new Headmistress, Dolores Umbridge's tyrannical rule, the students used the Skiving Snackboxes sold by Fred and George Weasley to create temporary illnesses, with symptoms such as fainting, vomiting, developing dangerous fevers, or spurting blood from both nostrils. The illness can be traced back to Fred and George Weasley, the progenitors of the Snackboxes and who encouraged the students to rebel against Umbridge.[1]
These massive waves of illnesses led Umbridge to scream and shriek with rage upon entering the classroom. Despite her efforts to trace down the source, the students stubbornly told her they were suffering from "Umbridge-itis". Taking it as an insult, she put four successive classes in detention. But after she failed to discover their secrets, the headmistress was forced to allow the students to leave in droves.[1]
Known sufferers
- Many Hogwarts students
"Itis" is a suffix originating from Greek meaning "inflammation of" an organ (i.e. bronchitis-- inflammation of the bronchial tubes.)[2] It is also often used colloquially in the informal naming of illnesses, such as the so-called "senioritis" suffered by seniors in high school or college.[3] In this case, the naming is particularly apt, as Umbridge became more and more inflamed and irritated with each instance of a student who feigned this illness in order to get out of one of her classes.
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 30 (Grawp)
- ↑ Dictionary.com - Itis
- ↑ Senioritis on Wikipedia