Recent content by Swan

By posting. Back in the day I was mainly just active in off topic and programming rather than anything specific to do with RS. It just piles up over time if you care less about postcount and more about participating.

Every now and then I come back here just to check if I've missed anything funny or interesting. I recovered my password just to reply to this comment, it's fucking hilarious. Can be difficult and expensive to get in Australia ($300/Oz) but I do enjoy it when I get the chance.

It's a self-perpetuating misconception that if you don't go to university you're a failure. In reality, people who don't go to university are often more successful. In some ways not going to university has been the best choice some people have ever made. My brother is in a senior role at an...

その返事の意味はなんだ？一緒に笑うことは良いけど、別に元の質問に関係ないん&...

I don't respect soldiers simply because they're soldiers any more than I respect the people they're fighting against simply because they're soldiers. My grandmother was a prisoner of war in World War 2. She didn't hold any grudges against the Japanese despite that, because she knew the simple...

Flawed logic. If you had even BOTHERED to read the replies to this topic you'd know why.

Blue light is relatively much higher in energy than red or green light. You notice this particularly if you go diving in a reef. You see pictures of coral reefs on the internet and they're very colourful, however if you go diving they appear mostly blue-green. This is because red light has the...

Speaking of re-quoting the bible...: According to the Bible it's okay to rape someone, you just have to buy her afterwards. There are also commandments against eating pork, against wearing garments of mixed fabrics, and for stoning your son to death if he disobeys you. Do you HONESTLY think...

Why? Personally I'm a huge supporter of GMOs etc. - organic farming is a fad, and an unsustainable fad at that given the amount of additional crop space you need for an organic farm. As for how they operate corporately, they're really not much different from other companies such as DuPont...

argumentum ad antiquitatem

"It's not natural" is one of the stupidest counter-arguments in this topic. The appeal to nature fallacy falls flat on its face when you realise that if you were to apply it to everything, you'd probably be dead. Life-saving medicine? No thanks, it's synthetic. Car to drive to work? No thanks...

My ability at manufacturing, and my connections and resources within industry. I'm studying engineering and I see it both as a profession as well as a hobby. I have all of these ideas all of the time for prototypes (e.g. I'm currently throwing around ideas to build a home-made extruder to...

And not necessarily for the worse, which I assume is what you are implying. A quick flick through this thread would show you that much. Would you mind elaborating? This is a discussion forum, so unless you can actually put forward an intelligent response to the question at hand then your...

Seems you have a rather skewed moral compass then. Hitting ANYONE is wrong without provocation, but are you suggesting you can't defend yourself either? What a joke. Just because you were taught something as a child doesn't make it right. I was taught that Santa Claus was real as a child. I was...

The two statements are not mutually exclusive. What he's suggesting is people have the potential to abuse tobacco and alcohol, however most do not, and cannabis is the same in that regard.