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(Sorry for taking so long to respond... I was genuinely thinking about it.)

You seem to simply be saying: "your form of morality cannot coexist with traditional morality". This is greatly missing the point. The purpose of my idea is not to provide an empirical basis for traditional morality, but rather to create an entirely new form of morality based on objective reality.

So, yes, in your thought experiment according to my idea, letting the adults live is probably better. Under ideal circumstances, we would feed both, but regrettably the premise doesn't allow it.

So in conclusion, I'm not trying to conform to regular morality, bur rather to create a new morality to replace "regular" morality.

To be honest, Vista isn't too bad. I'd say you upgrade your RAM, since Vista's a pretty good improvement over XP. Also, if you're not willing to buy Windows 7, Vista's the next best thing.
And I love the Aero theme as well. XD The Winows 7 Aero theme is even better. <3

I don't think I'd ever want to work at Kumon Tuition. It's so uninvolving for both the students and the teachers. It's like a McDonald's for learning. Fast-food education. XD You'd probably get paid really well there, though.

Okay, I'll watch it after the exams. :3
also what does ymmv mean XDDDD

That bit in EL brought out emotion in me. XD; It was really sad. It wasn't that gory, but it was really shocking. It was especially sad to watch Lucy staring at her dog being pummeled to death.
On another note, have you read the manga as well?

I was referring to Higurashi.
I have so much anime to catch up on. XD

That'd be what puts me off most girls' shows. Especially little girls' shows. Like My Little Pony. Maybe it'd be bearable, but I don't think it's something I'd get addicted to. XDD

Who says you have to invest money into a new OS? >:3 totally not implying piracy
I understand your pain. I ran Vista Ultimate on 1GB of RAM. Bad idea. XD This computer I'm using now had Windows Vista 64-Bit but had 3GB RAM, so I had no problems with it. Now that it's got Windows 7 64-Bit, it runs smoothly and quickly. I wish I could say the same about my laptop. XD;
Do you know any of its other specifications? Processor speed, HDD, graphics?

Well from what you're telling me, I think it's better for people with a lot of time on their hands. I don't have much at all.
Speaking of part-time jobs, I'm going for one tomorrow~ I have to submit a resumé along with it. It's a job at the pharmacy at the end of my street as a delivery boy. It's not the best job ever, but I really need money if I want to stop relying on my parents for going-out money.

Intense matches/battles are where I think ecchi is inappropriate. XD; I don't know about others, but I think when nudity or panty/boob shots are ecchi, they're used excessively, like in HotD. Air Gear doesn't have a lot of that (at least in comparison to HotD), so someone wouldn't watch it for the fanservice. Something like HotD, however, has a main purpose to arouse the target audience. At least that's the way I see it.

I'm planning to get started on Air Gear soon, so no spoilers for me. Once I get up to the latest chapter, I'll probably have a look, though. :3
And thanks for the good luck. I'll need it (and some good study habits).

I really don't like gore. In anime it's fine, but in live-action movies I get really grossed out. It's just that I've never watched those kinds of movies very often in the past. The mainstream horror is basically just stuff popping out at people. XD

I will. :3 But apparently it's scary. >.<

Why is it that the most random things become memes? It's a cartoon aimed at little girls. LITTLE GIRLS. I wouldn't even watch the first episode. I'd rather die. (Okay, not really, but you get my point.) But seriously, there are more addictive things to watch on the internet than...that. *shudders*

I told you computers were getting cheaper. :3 4GB laptops are actually getting old now. XDD I'm seeing 8GB RAM laptops around that aren't more than AUD$1000. I'm not sure how much that is in pounds, but it's pretty cheap for a laptop, compared with the prices a few years ago. :O

It's better than a part-time job, but it sure burns away a lot of your time, since you spend a lot more time proofreading than you would working at a part-time job.
My friend actually asked me to proofread an essay we have to do for school, but I'm not sure how much to charge him. XD;

From your description, I'd say HotD's more ecchi. The point of Air Gear's ecchi is probably for comedy, not like HotD's ecchi which is pretty much for fanservice.

The ecchi there wasn't to highlight the desperation so much as to arouse the viewer. XDDD It's the same all throughout the anime. It didn't interfere too much in the story (except in episode 6 [avert your eyes!]), but it was distracting. XD; It's not that it's a bad thing; it's just that it's really distracting to the plot when the story's in a moment of suspense and then oversized shiny boobs pop out at you and the suspense just disappears. XDDDD
I really want to start on it, but I don't have any time whatsoever. XD; I have exams at the end of this month, and I know that when I watch anime, I burn up a lot of time. I'll probably watch it as soon as my exams are over and done with~

It never will. XD If it will, it'll be severely toned down. Like, all the nudity and the gore will just get censored. :[
I started it during the day and I was still creeped out. XD I remember, during the first episode, my mouth was hanging open in horror because of all the flying heads and limbs. The weird thing was that it turned out to be a love story in the end.

I'll have a look at it, but like I said, exams at the end of this month suck up all of my anime time. It's not that I don't have any time at all; it's just that I know that when I watch anime, I'll be glued to it until the anime is over or I run out of episodes.
Is it finished though? If it's ongoing, I'm not sure if I can watch it unless it's really good.

There's a craze over My Little Pony now? -.- I think it's probably because they can connect to the internet somehow? XD; There was a craze over Neopets a while ago because it was interactive and you could go on the internet and play games with your Neopets. Is there something like that for My Little Pony as well? :/

Hi. Well, uh... hi.

I'd like to begin my three-part apology by saying I think you're a wonderful person with great potential. The second part of my apology is my admittance that I have fallen off the boat here with my replies - it's been a crazy, what, week since I came back from vacation? Seems like much longer. I won't sit here and make excuses, I hate hate hate excuses, but I will say that I will probably continue this absence through next week and maybe halfway through the following - school has to come before everything else. I will conclude my apology by assuring you how much I still want to be a part of 1884. I think it's a positively marvelous idea and I wish I had less happening in my life so I could devote more time to it. I promise to make better effort in the future.

And, as a note from your last message to me, it's totally not creepy of you to ask about my vacation :) I had a great time, I won't lie. It was 90 degrees and sunny the whole time I was there, which was wonderful compared to my usual 50 degrees and rainy weather. I went to Disney World and met Peter Pan and giggled like a small child. It was a nice relief from school work and life in general, and I really wish I could go back, hahaha. I was with my friends the whole time, which was fun for the first few days and agitating the last couple because we were so fed up with constant exposure. I look back on it and laugh~

About the pay thing, it's a shame you didn't get what you expected. I can't really say anything constructive since I haven't ever actually had a job before except when I helped my family friends renovate their house (they paid me, but it went to an iPod XDDD).
And laptops are getting cheaper nowadays. A used one shouldn't be so bad, but I never trust used technology. Even new stuff is pretty shifty. But yeah, things are getting cheap. A dual-core laptop with Windows 7 shouldn't be too expensive, since there are the old dual-core processors that companies don't make anymore but are still pretty efficient. (Core 2 Duo and Pentium processors are old but amazing.) I'd say go with a used laptop if you trust the seller. I've just had some experiences with used stuff that weren't too pleasant. -.-

Oh? I figured it wouldn't be easy, but it'd require me to give up a lot of my time. I'd like money, but I'm not that willing to give up time I could use to study or work instead of proofreading.

The Air Gear anime? I can get my hands on that. :3 Is it as ecchi as HotD, though? HotD had bursts of ecchi when I least expected it and it was so distracting. XDDD

HotD would be perfect if it were toned down or at least modified so that there would be nudity that made sense like Elfen Lied (as in, to highlight emotions or the graphic violence). HotD just had random placings of panties or boobs. But it was an awesome story. :3 And yes, the opening was amazing. <3 I can never get bored of that song. XD
And I actually have that anime, Higurashi Naku Koro Ni. It's on my HDD but I haven't thought to watch it yet. Apparently it's scary, but I can't watch it because of school. -.- My friend dumped it on me because it was supposed to be awesome. Is it really? :O

I loved that scene. I loved how the flesh of the limbs was detailed so well. XDDD And it was really suspenseful. :O The thing is, if I were to watch the exact same thing in a live-action movie, I'd probably puke as well. XDDD
I remember the first time I watched Elfen Lied and the theme song crept me out because it was in Latin. XD;

I am an Atheist, though I usually claim to be a Pastafarian... You see, this is the idea I have. I'd say there's three possibility for morality. One is the arbitrary morality of society, which in the case of my own society is a religious one. There is also the arbitrary morality of the self, which is a sort of... Nietzschean ideal of morality.

Now - suppose there is a third sort of morality. One that isn't arbitrary. Suppose that we could draw morality from the outcomes of objective events. That is - that actions that create greater survival ability/happiness for the species are "good" and that actions that create death/greater sadness are "evil".

Just and idea I've considered. I'd be curious to hear your criticisms.

Alright. Now suppose that the so-called "objective" moral standards of society are arbitrary results of a long-told lie - what then?

Sorry, I'm trying to develop a sort of... theory of morality and I need input. You seem like a reasonably intelligent person.

Suppose that the negative connotations carried by rain are arbitrary results of a flawed global psyche - what then?

Well I wanted to, but I wasn't sure if I could pull it off before you responded... Though now that I think about it, it really didn't matter if you responded.

Out of curiosity, why would you say that people don't like rain?

I was wrong. We have always been at war with Eurasia. Big Brother is always correct. Only Big Brother can bring happiness.

I Love Big Brother.

Good point?

But blackwhite and doublespeak are flawed concepts to begin with. Submission to him will only bring the proles continued suffering. I... I hear a sound outsi

Oh, then that's me. XD; I have a lot of stuff I just don't want to throw out, and I'm not that friendly with strangers. And I feel that a sentence without a smiley or a positive acronym is too boring. XD

Why not get a ULV laptop then? I don't actually have a laptop, I have a ULV, but it was only $100 more than the next best netbook and it had double the specs. Not sure what your budget is, but if you can, then why not? :3
I hate proofreading my own work, let alone anyone else's. XDD But does it get you good money doing it casually?

My friend's been urging me to read Air Gear, but I tried reading the first few pages and was like "this is boring lolbye" and put it to the side. XD; And the action mangas are only good if they have some drama, comedy or suspense tied in with them, like Bleach did until recently.

FINALLY. It's really good, isn't it? And I agree with the ecchi bit; it's too much. XD; It's even worse because I live with my family and I can't watch anything too provocative or people will burst in and wonder what the heck I was watching. My friend loves ecchi anime (the same one who also told me about Air Gear) and actually recommended this one to me. XDDD It's pretty good once you get past the excessive ecchi.
The thing about ecchi in an anime or manga is that the mangaka sometimes put it in the most unexpected places, just as things are getting good. I just want the story; not a pair of boobs to go with it. -.-

Elfen Lied's ecchi actually complemented the story and the suffering of the characters. It helped to either make the character helpless or look completely evil and rabid (like when Lucy murdered all the guards in the first episode/chapter). It wasn't fanservice like Highschool of the Dead or Air Gear.

It's okay, I love walls of text if they interest me. XDD

I assure you, my expertise is puny.

Consciousness is subjective perhaps, but more important that subjective consciousness is objective truth, right? And the truth is, the proles could have a better life. What does it matter who we are fighting? Everything. There is an objective truth, and that is that we have fought both Eurasia and Eastasia at various points.

I believe I have... I recall a certain painting that I haven't checked, though. It'd be too obvious, I'd say. Regardless, I have resigned myself to the inevitability of my capture. The truth is, I am dead.

I'm sure I'll receive a punch in the face.

Of course, the solutions proposed by the book cannot come into reality. The proles will not rebel until they become conscious, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Also, I'm aware of the telescreen threat. There's a particular shop that I frequent that allows me to get around it. That's how I'm messaging you now.

I thought it was punny.

I've read "the book". (Hopefully my anonymity will protect me)

Oh...I took it as you being scared of strangers. XDDD

That sucks. :[ But if the repairs cost 300 pounds, you could just buy another netbook? I know they're pretty cheap nowadays. And if you needed extra RAM, I know that most netbooks have an empty RAM slot where you can just throw some in when you need it. Mine has 2GB of RAM right now, and it also has a spare slot. I'm thinking of putting in some more when I can scrape some money together. :3

Well...manga is easier if you look at it like that. But I can never get too interested in manga for some reason unless it has a really gripping story. Like, I stopped reading the Bleach manga after following it for a long time because it just...got boring. XD
I think that the more drama or comedy-based mangas are better than action mangas because action on paper just doesn't come off effectively. XD

Oh...okay that's really different to me. XD I'm just really shy around strangers and I'm unwilling to start a conversation at first. :/

Why don't you just buy a brand new laptop instead? It'd save you the hassle of paying for repairs. That's what I'd do anyway.

All romances are pretty much the same for me. XD; But I'll have a look at Bakuman. And all the other anime you've recommended but I haven't watched yet.

I've actually stopped watching anime for a few weeks so far. I'm not so sure why, though. I just didn't really find the time. :[

I suppose it's in our nature? Idk

Also, just so you know, 2+2=4.

That's pretty much the same for me IRL and online. XD I'm actually quite social around my friends and people I know but I'm rarely willing to talk to strangers, which is why I only have a handful of friends. :[

How did it die? Did its battery run flat or did it actually die? XD; I have a friend whose laptop battery does not work at all and he has to keep it attached to the power or it won't work. -.-

It's basically a typical high school drama. This really quiet and shy girl who's always been excluded from the school social sphere falls in love with the most popular guy in school. And then it works from there~ I've only watched the first episode, though. I like it. :3