Ha ha, Geek lost.

How can they stay away from something that so many people have told me aren't really there?

How is "I feel sorry for you" in any way a relevant reply to what he just said?

My anger is managed well, but that doesn't mean I'm not angry, it just means that I don't physically act it out. But I'd be willing to make an exception in your case...

You should change your handle to Dweeb, you are no Geek.

Violence is not always the answer, but when it's impossible to have a battle of wits with such a brainwashed individual as yourself, there's really nothing else a dummy like you understands.

I wouldn't say I'm violent, but I don't suffer intolerant fuckheads like you with much patience.

Can't beat me so you're resorting to picking apart my choice of words? How lame.

Being from severely Christian families, and being young, there was no way to have a serious conversation with our parents about responsible sexuality. See that law of unintended consequences in action there with your bullshit social conservative mentality. Maybe I should have had sex with the farm animals instead? Would that have been better for you.

There was no ignorance of biology, simply bad aim.

Since 20 years ago, when has anyone but myself been supporting me? I've paid probably a million dollars in taxes in the last 20 years, so if anyone's supporting anyone, that would be me supporting you.

Is that all you have for an argument, or is your world view really that small?

How is it "entitlement" (A bullshit numb term if I ever heard one) if I've paid back 100x what I took out?

I really don't care what you believe, but it's very much the truth. I guess I could show you my resume, but you probably wouldn't believe that either. (Hell, looking back at it, I'm pretty amazed myself that I got this far in the corporate world with nothing but a GED, some college, and a lot of determination.)

As far as the "beat some sense" comment, so it's only OK if some idiot Tea Partier like Ted Nugent said it? I dunno where else to go with this sub-argument, but it strikes me as hypocritical.

I view the social safety net as a great accomplishment of our species. Nothing ever goes as planned. To me, the whole point of a "society" is to increase the living conditions of all who partake in that society. I understand and fully support that now that I've gotten my shit together that I have to pay into that same society that helped me when I was in need. I don't hide behind the facade of "the taxpayers" when I make my point either. I'm a tax payer, you are a tax payer, and a whole bunch of other people are taxpayers. Right now, I just hope that the miniscule amount of my taxes that go towards people in need of assistance are going to people using it as a temporary jumping point to get their lives together too, and not the stereotypical lazy slob. You act as though most of the money you pay in taxes goes to welfare recipients. It's a fleeting drop in the bucket compared to funding the "privatized" wars/industries/prisons that we've been suckered into, so I'm not sure why you're assigning it so much importance.

I don't see where 'pride' fits into the issue either, at that point it's do or die. I could have given up, I could have turned to crime, but instead I took the money essentially as a loan against my future. I've paid that money back about a hundred fold since then too, so you've got zero right to give me any shit.

And your weirdest points: Where was the mom? Where was my family?

Well, the mom was right next to me for the first few years, finishing her senior year in high school, working a job, and we both made it work. We eventually broke up, but are friends these days.

My family? They went with the standard conservative Christian Republican mindset: Ostracism. It was all on me since I'd 'embarrassed' the family by having a child out of wedlock. Made me turn against that whole mindset. It is evil at it's core.

Thank you :)

> most geeks, can't just auto convert hex in their head or spot patterns easily in hex, its just not how we work.

As it was once, so again it shall be.

You couldn't be a geek prior to 1980 without knowing how to convert hex to decimal to binary to octal.

Yes, because the ionosphere isn't constantly recharged by radiation from the sun and interstellar radiation...

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