With age, people tend to gain confidence...

i dont know about you, but i see few self concious octogenarians worrying about their hair and how their butt looks in a pair of jeans....

the whole lack of self confidence is a little more for young people

Alright. Here is the very last one that I am going to post on this website. If you are interested, I have lots more. www.youtube.com/sdjew

Check it out. Rate and comment some of your favorites even! :D

Reality is relative. For me, it's everything I can touch and see right now. Of course, I might be dreaming all of it - hence the qualifier.

Here is an AMV featuring an all out battle between the two greatest Gundam shows ever made. I worked a long time on this one. Hope you like it.

Not at all. He is on the up and up, but with age comes expierence

and with expierence comes wisdom

Obama is young with little expierence....thus would it not be fair to say, with little wisdom as well??

if you ask me, McCain is the perfect age

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It's not too intensive but it doesn't add anything for me. I could easily live without full-screen fades. Content is king for me. Don't get me started on Flash.

I just clicked 'submit' and guess what? 'Submit argument without a tag?' just faded in. The 'Don't show this message again' seems to ignore my wishes. Grrr!

Not at all. He is on the up and up, but with age comes expierence

and with expierence comes wisdom

Obama is young with little expierence....thus would it not be fair to say, with little wisdom as well??

if you ask me, McCain is the perfect age

Here is an AMV featuring One Piece.

A must have? Surely not. It now had 3G but so what? It's not like you can conduct video calls. You have to navigate to the phone functionality - on a phone! It's got lots of applications you can buy, configure, pfaff about with, move about - do you really want to waste your life doing this? Surely it's better to have a simple, cheap phone which makes and receives calls. If you lose it, there are no floods of tears, you're not bankrupt. If you get a scratch on it - it's character. Fight Apple's relentless throwaway hardware treadmill. You don't need the latest trinket. You don't need to duplicate functionality you already have e.g. digital camera, portable jukebox etc. Fight the Man!

"Jessald" its pretty sad taht you have to use wikipedia as your evidence.. most unreliable site

Iowa is a rich agricultural state. Tom Harkin, the Democratic candidate for the Iowa Senate seat, is well aware of the importance and invested interests his voters have in the agricultural and economic well-being of their state.

As Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and as a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and its subcommittee on agriculture and related subjects, Harkin has devoted himself to improving farm income, creating more, new jobs, strengthening the state's economy, and protecting it's environment and resources at the same time.

He is currently in the process of drafting a new farm bill that will enhance the progress made by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. While he understands the strain that the ethanol push has affected on the food industry (in light of his devotion to pursue clean, alternative energy sources,) Harkin is a firm advocate of the agricultural and economic vitality of the people and the state of Iowa and the United States of America.

I disagree. But really the only reason I am opposing you is because you spelled wanted wrong in the debate title.....

Well my personal idea, if you looked at the arguments that I put in that debate, was to have an effeciency score, because you are right, if you have more people on a side then you will most likely have more points, but the efficiency score is not suaded by how many people a side has. It only matters on how good of debates that side's supporters can bring up. You see what I'm saying?

why yes, it does. :D

Everyone has one reality, but there are many different experiences of it.

It's like watching a movie, everyone having a different set of glasses, and different headphones. Some people with extremely fuzzy glasses might think the movie sucks, some with broken earphones might think the movie sucks, some people might have perfect glasses and good headphones... the point is that everyone is watching the same movie, or trying to.

There is something there, we all are here and experiencing it... If that's not the case how are there things that we can all agree on?

There is only one reality; We simply each have our own perception of it, shaped by personal experience, knowledge, intuition, what we've been taught... Nobody has or will ever have a full perception of reality, but we all live in the same world which is factually one.

Haha, I know what you mean there. I sort of went on a vacation from CD when all of that was going on, and I'm glad I did.

If you need someone to tell you or debate for you who to vote for whereever, maybe just let everyone else vote... just stay home.

That's actually NOT a good idea, or at least I don't think so. There are too many debates that I see flipped to the wrong side, and not because the people on the "winning" side are right, but because they are backed by most people... You get what I mean? If it's a matter of opinion, you already sort of have this function by the voting or use of the tags... If it's a two sided, you have the problem that I mentioned up there, of having most (maybe) wrong people on one side, and few people on the other with better arguments.

You know there are a lot of philosophy IRC rooms that shoot topics out at the people in them and they'll debate until it turns into a troll party where everyone's just attacking everyone else.

Perhaps someone could set up an IRC room for CD? I would but I don't have anything that could act as a server... anyone else?

I think this is what the townhall's based on, and idk if that's still around, but I never see people there, or I never did... maybe just make that more accessable. I think that was a java based IRC thing on the page, so you wouldn't even have to have your browser open if that's the case. Just grab a varient of X-Chat and enter the channel.

The only issue with that is having a real-time joe cavalry...

Ha, I don't think this js is so intensive though. I have a mac, and js sucks for mac or just hasn't been implimented right yet for it... whatever it is, too much js will crash anything that it's running in if it gets too much. Flash is like that too...

I have an iBook G4 (1.42Ghz G4, 1Gb DDR333, 32Mb Radion 9550 @AGPx4) and it handles CD like a rag doll. I can't imagine anyone having a problem with it.

A lot of this would be solved by allowing people to vote on debates. The issue of quality debates would be taken care of if it was used right. This works fine on digg, and I think it would be essentially the same operation. Even if it's not an "intellegent" debate subject, if people like it they'll vote it and it'll be on the front page. People could still go argue in debates that aren't that important or likable to others and it won't make it to the front page. This makes me think that it won't actually detract from the usefulness of CD's frontpage, only bring things up that are argeeable. So in short there's no real downside, only an up. I might be missing something, so correct me if I'm wrong.

I still would like to see a philosophy category, but that's just me. Even 99chan had a philosophy category and all of the *chans are imageboards. I think there's more to debate about in philosophy than there is to post pictures on, and 99chan's philosophy board was always pretty active.

(99chan is sort of down right now or I'd link)

Even dreams are real. Even if life is a dream, what is producing it?

I get your point but you basically just barrel rolled that question. You said that it's subjective, and by that I take it you mean, because it's perceived by life that doesn't have the equipment to fully or perhaps barely grasp it.

Truth is just a way of saying reality then. This doesn't explain what you think reality is. If you mean that it's just truth, what is truth. Try explaining that and you'll find that it's a lot harder than it seems.

What is the truth? That's the question.

Put simply, Roggio is committed to doing the things that I care about-- like bringing home troops from Iraq and investing in renewable/ long-term energy solutions. There's a lot of rhetoric about change out there-- Roggio is a guy who will follow through on these ideas.

I got a chance to hear him speak to a small group about a month ago-- real down-to-earth guy but with a firm grasp of the big picture. Look forward to seeing him again on his 50-town tour.