What Do You LOVE About America?

[bigflamer]

[quote]tonypluto wrote:
I love how America has the largest percentage of its population behind bars.

I love how the majority of Americans spend their “free time” glued to the TV.

I love how in America you can graduate High School just by being white and showing up.

I love that in America You’re free to complain and protest as much as you want, as long as you don’t actually expect to change anything, you do it where most people can’t hear you do it, and the authorities allow you to do it.

I love that in America you can break any law you want, provided you have enough money to pay for it.

I love how in America you become a Felon for possessing drugs, you have to pay for this offense with money or time in jail, and then no one will hire you because of said felony which makes it more difficult to pay off the fines and leads to more jail time and even greater difficulty finding work, which can lead to actual crimes like stealing because you can’t make an honest living and pay off the fines.

I love how the American prison system puts people in jail to create criminals to fill its prisons.

I love that America puts fluoride in its tap water and allows BPA in its bottled water.

I love how American women speak only in thoughts or sentences they’ve heard on TV, in magazines, or from mass media in general.

I really love how I’m allowed to type this shit on the interweb in America but am too Apathetic to do anything productive about it except lift weights.[/quote]

I love how you have the right to fuck off and leave if you don’t like what you see…

[LIFTICVSMAXIMVS]

[quote]bigflamer wrote:

[quote]tonypluto wrote:
I love how America has the largest percentage of its population behind bars.

I love how the majority of Americans spend their “free time” glued to the TV.

I love how in America you can graduate High School just by being white and showing up.

I love that in America You’re free to complain and protest as much as you want, as long as you don’t actually expect to change anything, you do it where most people can’t hear you do it, and the authorities allow you to do it.

I love that in America you can break any law you want, provided you have enough money to pay for it.

I love how in America you become a Felon for possessing drugs, you have to pay for this offense with money or time in jail, and then no one will hire you because of said felony which makes it more difficult to pay off the fines and leads to more jail time and even greater difficulty finding work, which can lead to actual crimes like stealing because you can’t make an honest living and pay off the fines.

I love how the American prison system puts people in jail to create criminals to fill its prisons.

I love that America puts fluoride in its tap water and allows BPA in its bottled water.

I love how American women speak only in thoughts or sentences they’ve heard on TV, in magazines, or from mass media in general.

I really love how I’m allowed to type this shit on the interweb in America but am too Apathetic to do anything productive about it except lift weights.[/quote]

I love how you have the right to fuck off and leave if you don’t like what you see…[/quote]

But that’s not really true. One must give up everything one works hard all his life to acquire and still when he leaves the US government will try to claim his future income.

I can piss all over, anywhere I want and if you don’t like where my urine happens to be splattering you are free to leave.

[tonypluto]

[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:

[quote]bigflamer wrote:

[quote]tonypluto wrote:
I love how America has the largest percentage of its population behind bars.

I love how the majority of Americans spend their “free time” glued to the TV.

I love how in America you can graduate High School just by being white and showing up.

I love that in America You’re free to complain and protest as much as you want, as long as you don’t actually expect to change anything, you do it where most people can’t hear you do it, and the authorities allow you to do it.

I love that in America you can break any law you want, provided you have enough money to pay for it.

I love how in America you become a Felon for possessing drugs, you have to pay for this offense with money or time in jail, and then no one will hire you because of said felony which makes it more difficult to pay off the fines and leads to more jail time and even greater difficulty finding work, which can lead to actual crimes like stealing because you can’t make an honest living and pay off the fines.

I love how the American prison system puts people in jail to create criminals to fill its prisons.

I love that America puts fluoride in its tap water and allows BPA in its bottled water.

I love how American women speak only in thoughts or sentences they’ve heard on TV, in magazines, or from mass media in general.

I really love how I’m allowed to type this shit on the interweb in America but am too Apathetic to do anything productive about it except lift weights.[/quote]

I love how you have the right to fuck off and leave if you don’t like what you see…[/quote]

But that’s not really true. One must give up everything one works hard all his life to acquire and still when he leaves the US government will try to claim his future income.

I can piss all over, anywhere I want and if you don’t like where my urine happens to be splattering you are free to leave.[/quote]

I’m also grateful for that right
And am excited to one day do so
They make it so easy especially if you’re a felon.
Not to mention the wonderful process involved in getting a Visa when you have felonies.

I also love that once you’re a convicted felon, Your right to vote is stripped away so you’re not even able to try to change anything.
Not that it matters anyway cuz in Merica We vote with Dollars!

I love that in Merica people would rather tell u to shut up n get out rather than hear y America is far from still being Number one at anything other than war, drug abuse, obesity, incarceration, anti-depressant use, fossil fuel consumption, rape and murder.

In Merica If you ain’t first yer last.

[Jewbacca]

[quote]bigflamer wrote:

I love how you have the right to fuck off and leave if you don’t like what you see…[/quote]

Sadly, that’s no longer true. The Obama administration just imposed a regulation to the effect that, if you have a dispute with the IRS of more than $50,000, your Passport is revoked.

A $50,000 dispute with the IRS is nothing and can be imposed without due process or just cause and dragged on for years. It’s especially troubling as critics of the IRS are routinely singled out for audits and disputes in admitted attempts to cow dissent.

[Dr_Matt581]

[quote]Tiribulus wrote:

[quote]Brother Chris wrote:

[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

1. It is not the Soviet Union.
2. I can go to the grocery store and find anything that I want as far as food goes.
3. I never have to worry about the store not having toothpaste or soap or toilet paper.
4. Nobody cares that I am in an interracial relationship (this is a much bigger deal in Russia).
5. The master bedroom in my house is larger then the entire apartment that I grew up in with 4 other people.
6. If I don’t like something the government does I can complain about it and not disappear.
7. I don’t need the government’s permission to travel to another city in America.
8. I don’t have to serve in the military if I don’t want to.
9. If I don’t like where I live, I do not need permission to move, and it doesn’t take years.
10. The amount of stuff I can buy is not rationed.
11. The rights guaranteed to me by the US Constitution. They may not seem like much to some who have lived here all their lives, but trust me they are very nice to have.

I could go on, but I think I have made my point: I love America, which is why I chose to live here.[/quote]

I just want to hug you.[/quote]You never talk dirty like this to me Christopher. No more chocolate rosaries for you =[
[/quote]

We’ll just have to have a group hug.

[thunderbolt23]

I’d love to answer the question, but I can’t stop staring at Dr.Matt581’s avatar.

[Dr_Matt581]

[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
I’d love to answer the question, but I can’t stop staring at Dr.Matt581’s avatar. [/quote]

If you want, check out “Things I can’t prove, but believe” in GAL. About 4 pages back from the current one, we had a very cool conversation about my avatar and I explain what it is.

[orion]

[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
I’d love to answer the question, but I can’t stop staring at Dr.Matt581’s avatar. [/quote]

If you want, check out “Things I can’t prove, but believe” in GAL. About 4 pages back from the current one, we had a very cool conversation about my avatar and I explain what it is.[/quote]

Its an intoxicated cube.

[tonypluto]

[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
I’d love to answer the question, but I can’t stop staring at Dr.Matt581’s avatar. [/quote]

If you want, check out “Things I can’t prove, but believe” in GAL. About 4 pages back from the current one, we had a very cool conversation about my avatar and I explain what it is.[/quote]

I seen something like this on “Through The Wormhole” last night. It has something to do with the fourth dimension doesn’t it?
The woman was talking about how if you look at the shadow of a three dimensional object its hard to see it as having more than two dimensions. Then said something like all people are like the subjects in Platos cave and are stuck looking at the three dimensional shadow of a four dimensional world.
She then showed a computer generated image of what something with four dimensions might look like and it was just like your avatar.

Am I Close?

[Dr_Matt581]

[quote]tonypluto wrote:

[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
I’d love to answer the question, but I can’t stop staring at Dr.Matt581’s avatar. [/quote]

If you want, check out “Things I can’t prove, but believe” in GAL. About 4 pages back from the current one, we had a very cool conversation about my avatar and I explain what it is.[/quote]

I seen something like this on “Through The Wormhole” last night. It has something to do with the fourth dimension doesn’t it?
The woman was talking about how if you look at the shadow of a three dimensional object its hard to see it as having more than two dimensions. Then said something like all people are like the subjects in Platos cave and are stuck looking at the three dimensional shadow of a four dimensional world.
She then showed a computer generated image of what something with four dimensions might look like and it was just like your avatar.

Am I Close?[/quote]

Kind of. Most of what you see on Through the Wormhole is bullshit from a scientific perspective. It is mostly just philosophy. Like I said in the other thread, the tesseract in my avatar is an example of a euclidian 4th dimensional cubic analog, but a euclidian 4th dimension does not exist. In reality, the 4th dimension is what is called a minkowski continuum and modeling objects for a minkowski continuum is very hard to do, and describing one to someone without the proper knowledge of advanced mathematics and physics concepts is like trying to describe a cube to someone who has been blind their whole lives.

[tonypluto]

Tho I’d agree that most of whats on TV is Dumbed down to an astounding level, Why do you say TTWH is bullshit?
It seems like my explanation was at least close based on my interpretation of what i saw and remember.
I know nothing of the minowski continuum and probably don’t really need to either. But I’d say describing a cube to a blind man and showing a cube to a person who has only ever seen 2d images before are pretty similar ideas.
I am curious now tho. What is the minowski continuum and what is it used for?

[Dr_Matt581]

[quote]tonypluto wrote:
Tho I’d agree that most of whats on TV is Dumbed down to an astounding level, Why do you say TTWH is bullshit?
It seems like my explanation was at least close based on my interpretation of what i saw and remember.
I know nothing of the minowski continuum and probably don’t really need to either. But I’d say describing a cube to a blind man and showing a cube to a person who has only ever seen 2d images before are pretty similar ideas.
I am curious now tho. What is the minowski continuum and what is it used for?[/quote]

I wasn’t referring to your description, just the show in general. Sorry. And a minkowski continuum is just a fancy way of saying “4th dimension.” It’s mathematics are quite a bit different from a euclidian 4th dimension, which is closer to what the 4th dimension is described as to most people but is not correct. The differences are not really pronounced enough to make much of a difference in most conversations, though.

[tonypluto]

I understand your doctorate is in smurfology, But what do u think about dark matter just being high energy matter existing in the fourth dimension? This is the best explanation I’ve heard so far and would explain why it has such an incredible gravitational pull yet is completely invisible/ undetectable to us.

[tonypluto]

I love how in America people ask you what you think just so they can tell you what they think. lol

[Dr_Matt581]

[quote]tonypluto wrote:
I understand your doctorate is in smurfology, But what do u think about dark matter just being high energy matter existing in the fourth dimension? This is the best explanation I’ve heard so far and would explain why it has such an incredible gravitational pull yet is completely invisible/ undetectable to us.[/quote]

Dark matter is not really a valid area of research in physics, it is mostly just used in science fiction these days. Modern versions of string theory and other modern forms of resolving gravitation with quantum mechanics do not require vast amounts of invisible matter to work and I highly doubt any of its proponents were really all that serious about it.

[tonypluto]

[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]tonypluto wrote:
I understand your doctorate is in smurfology, But what do u think about dark matter just being high energy matter existing in the fourth dimension? This is the best explanation I’ve heard so far and would explain why it has such an incredible gravitational pull yet is completely invisible/ undetectable to us.[/quote]

Dark matter is not really a valid area of research in physics, it is mostly just used in science fiction these days. Modern versions of string theory and other modern forms of resolving gravitation with quantum mechanics do not require vast amounts of invisible matter to work and I highly doubt any of its proponents were really all that serious about it.[/quote]

So r u saying that if you cannot see or detect something by any possible means then it probably doesn’t exist nor does it need to exist?
What about God!?
Pow Boom explain that one Doc!
We all know he exists n u can’t prove it with your fancy Physics.

I knew Dark matter was purely speculation but I really liked the idea of there being massive amounts of undetectable matter in the universe. It was a theory and like all theories, they’re just ideas meant to be replaced with other ideas. I have a hard time swallowing string theory but probably because my understanding of it comes solely from the idiot box.
After having this conversation I now wonder if you may in fact be a doctor. If so, is it of Physics or something else?

[Dr_Matt581]

[quote]tonypluto wrote:

[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]tonypluto wrote:
I understand your doctorate is in smurfology, But what do u think about dark matter just being high energy matter existing in the fourth dimension? This is the best explanation I’ve heard so far and would explain why it has such an incredible gravitational pull yet is completely invisible/ undetectable to us.[/quote]

Dark matter is not really a valid area of research in physics, it is mostly just used in science fiction these days. Modern versions of string theory and other modern forms of resolving gravitation with quantum mechanics do not require vast amounts of invisible matter to work and I highly doubt any of its proponents were really all that serious about it.[/quote]

So r u saying that if you cannot see or detect something by any possible means then it probably doesn’t exist nor does it need to exist?
What about God!?
Pow Boom explain that one Doc!
We all know he exists n u can’t prove it with your fancy Physics.

I knew Dark matter was purely speculation but I really liked the idea of there being massive amounts of undetectable matter in the universe. It was a theory and like all theories, they’re just ideas meant to be replaced with other ideas. I have a hard time swallowing string theory but probably because my understanding of it comes solely from the idiot box.
After having this conversation I now wonder if you may in fact be a doctor. If so, is it of Physics or something else?[/quote]

I got my PhD in physics from Carnegie Mellon University and I am an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh. That is in addition to a PhD in Smurfology.

[tonypluto]

[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]tonypluto wrote:

[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]tonypluto wrote:
I understand your doctorate is in smurfology, But what do u think about dark matter just being high energy matter existing in the fourth dimension? This is the best explanation I’ve heard so far and would explain why it has such an incredible gravitational pull yet is completely invisible/ undetectable to us.[/quote]

Dark matter is not really a valid area of research in physics, it is mostly just used in science fiction these days. Modern versions of string theory and other modern forms of resolving gravitation with quantum mechanics do not require vast amounts of invisible matter to work and I highly doubt any of its proponents were really all that serious about it.[/quote]

So r u saying that if you cannot see or detect something by any possible means then it probably doesn’t exist nor does it need to exist?
What about God!?
Pow Boom explain that one Doc!
We all know he exists n u can’t prove it with your fancy Physics.

I knew Dark matter was purely speculation but I really liked the idea of there being massive amounts of undetectable matter in the universe. It was a theory and like all theories, they’re just ideas meant to be replaced with other ideas. I have a hard time swallowing string theory but probably because my understanding of it comes solely from the idiot box.
After having this conversation I now wonder if you may in fact be a doctor. If so, is it of Physics or something else?[/quote]

I got my PhD in physics from Carnegie Mellon University and I am an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh. That is in addition to a PhD in Smurfology.
[/quote]

I liked physics in High School and did well with math. My dads side of the family seems to think that I should obviously major in physics but I usually ignore them because I can’t think of any practical use for a bachelors degree in Physics. So Dr. Matt, what can one realistically do with a bachelors in Physics? How would it apply to the real world? What sort of jobs would be available? etc.

[tonypluto]

[quote]tonypluto wrote:

[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]tonypluto wrote:

[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:

[quote]tonypluto wrote:
I understand your doctorate is in smurfology, But what do u think about dark matter just being high energy matter existing in the fourth dimension? This is the best explanation I’ve heard so far and would explain why it has such an incredible gravitational pull yet is completely invisible/ undetectable to us.[/quote]

Dark matter is not really a valid area of research in physics, it is mostly just used in science fiction these days. Modern versions of string theory and other modern forms of resolving gravitation with quantum mechanics do not require vast amounts of invisible matter to work and I highly doubt any of its proponents were really all that serious about it.[/quote]

So r u saying that if you cannot see or detect something by any possible means then it probably doesn’t exist nor does it need to exist?
What about God!?
Pow Boom explain that one Doc!
We all know he exists n u can’t prove it with your fancy Physics.

I knew Dark matter was purely speculation but I really liked the idea of there being massive amounts of undetectable matter in the universe. It was a theory and like all theories, they’re just ideas meant to be replaced with other ideas. I have a hard time swallowing string theory but probably because my understanding of it comes solely from the idiot box.
After having this conversation I now wonder if you may in fact be a doctor. If so, is it of Physics or something else?[/quote]

I got my PhD in physics from Carnegie Mellon University and I am an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh. That is in addition to a PhD in Smurfology.
[/quote]

I liked physics in High School and did well with math. My dads side of the family seems to think that I should obviously major in physics but I usually ignore them because I can’t think of any practical use for a bachelors degree in Physics. So Dr. Matt, what can one realistically do with a bachelors in Physics? How would it apply to the real world? What sort of jobs would be available? etc.
[/quote]

Also, If u don’t mind, maybe PM me so I don’t further derail this thread.

[Dr_Matt581]

[quote]tonypluto wrote:

I liked physics in High School and did well with math. My dads side of the family seems to think that I should obviously major in physics but I usually ignore them because I can’t think of any practical use for a bachelors degree in Physics. So Dr. Matt, what can one realistically do with a bachelors in Physics? How would it apply to the real world? What sort of jobs would be available? etc.
[/quote]

A B.S in physics is actually a great degree if you still do not know what you want to do, especially if you pick a good minor. Computer science is a great choice. You can become an engineer, software engineer, teacher, network engineer, you can get a job in finance and other business related fields (this will be easier if you minor in business). You have a great shot at good graduate schools if you keep your grades up. Med school, dental school or staying with physics are popular. Law school is a great choice. I was chatting with a poster who was banned in the Great Purge on G+ and she told me about a classmate of hers from law school who had a technical undergrad degree who became a patent attorney and makes 300+ K per year. Keep that in mind.

EDIT: Go ahead and PM any more questions.