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That Rome e-mail is hilarious. I think my favorite part is about the cripple leading a nation into war. Also, do fundies realize that the pilgrims weren't the first colonists?
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# ? Nov 13, 2009 17:39 |
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Naet posted:Also, do fundies realize that the pilgrims weren't the first colonists? I think they think they were the first because all the others (i.e. indians) don't count. Cause they're not white.
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# ? Nov 13, 2009 17:41 |
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White dudes landed at Jamestown over a decade before the religious-freedom-white-dudes came to Plymouth, though.
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# ? Nov 13, 2009 17:45 |
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Naet posted:White dudes landed at Jamestown over a decade before the religious-freedom-white-dudes came to Plymouth, though. Uhm...they didn't count because they were... not the right kind of christians. I'm pulling straws here but I'm sure it can't be hard to come up with.
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# ? Nov 13, 2009 17:47 |
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Naet posted:White dudes landed at Jamestown over a decade before the religious-freedom-white-dudes came to Plymouth, though. Yeah but didn't Jamestown pretty much fail as a colony?
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# ? Nov 13, 2009 18:00 |
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Dr. Tough posted:Yeah but didn't Jamestown pretty much fail as a colony? No. You might be thinking of Roanoke where the settlers seem to have disappeared without any definitive answer as to what happened. One of the leading theories is that they assimilated into a local indian tribe. Jamestown was a success. It was the capital of Virginia until 1699 when the capital was moved to Williamsburg(and later to Richmond).
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# ? Nov 13, 2009 18:39 |
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thefncrow posted:No. You might be thinking of Roanoke where the settlers seem to have disappeared without any definitive answer as to what happened. One of the leading theories is that they assimilated into a local indian tribe. He might have meant how Jamestown had a rough start, though - things didn't get rolling smoothly until several years after founding. It was eventually a success, but many colonists lost their lives on the way there. Speaking of, did anyone get hit with the republican talking point from months ago about how we already tried socialism: Jamestown and commune-style Pilgrim settlements showed liberal-minded welfare culture always ends with people eating boiled shoe leather and dying? Was famine to blame, ignorance of local environment, agriculture and wildlife? Bad relations with natives? New diseases? Could there possibly be any factors other than Socialism ? No. No context needed sweart gliwere fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Nov 13, 2009 |
# ? Nov 13, 2009 21:58 |
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Gramps posted:Let's see...a devout Muslim who infiltrated the Army just shot to death 13 of our country's best at Fort Hood . This morning we are warned by Obama not jump to conclusions as to his motives. Then this surfaces about our government's unreported Homeland Security summer appointments. Do you think Muslims are getting favorable treatment by our PC Administration and by the media? Do you think this might be dangerous? The answer should be obvious... I used to write responses to these and do a reply-all, but I just don't care anymore. I don't even know what to make of the one I got today. It doesn't even try, in the least, to make a valid point about anything. Muslims are bad I guess?
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# ? Nov 13, 2009 22:36 |
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quote:NOTE: Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a devout Catholic, a devout Jew or a devout Protestant...? Just wondering. No, I never heard John Ashcroft referred to as a Devout Catholic. Nope. And please. There's no such thing as a devout Protestant.
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# ? Nov 14, 2009 06:23 |
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Armyman25 posted:So there is no such thing as a group effort in their world? I would think that since the students are paying to be at the course, they would put forth enough effort not to fail. The students are there to earn a degree, not just pass one class. I'm pretty sure a class average of F is not the Nash Equilibrium.
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# ? Nov 14, 2009 12:01 |
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quazi posted:Just got this from my dad, who seems to be similar to nearly everyone else's dad:
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# ? Nov 14, 2009 15:44 |
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dphrag posted:I'm pretty sure a class average of F is not the Nash Equilibrium. Maybe I don't understand Nash Equilibrium very well but in this shared grades situation it seems like a class average of 0 would be the Nash Equilibrium. Considering that all scores from 0 to 59 are equally worthless it's doubly true.
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# ? Nov 14, 2009 18:10 |
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A Nash Equilibrium is when no action taken by only one person can improve their own situation. If no one person increasing their own scores could bump the class average above a 59, then that is a Nash Equilibrium.
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# ? Nov 14, 2009 20:07 |
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"tek79"'s crazy e-mail posted:Obama and Janet Napolitano Appoint Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development Source for announcement: Homeland Security Press Room. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad..com...retary-dhs.html I like how the source appears to be a blog. I assume this is because no news agency is interested in who the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Policy Development (which is what his real title is). Seriously, how can people believe this crap?
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# ? Nov 14, 2009 21:16 |
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Brennanite posted:I like how the source appears to be a blog. I assume this is because no news agency is interested in who the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Policy Development (which is what his real title is). Seriously, how can people believe this crap? Edit: Shockingly, Simon & Schuster's conservative imprint, Threshold, is publishing a book she co-wrote. Megiddo fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Nov 14, 2009 |
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Maybe I don't understand Nash Equilibrium very well but in this shared grades situation it seems like a class average of 0 would be the Nash Equilibrium. bgaesop posted:A Nash Equilibrium is when no action taken by only one person can improve their own situation. If no one person increasing their own scores could bump the class average above a 59, then that is a Nash Equilibrium. Well I just threw this NE out there for shits and giggles and was initially talking out of my rear end... but now that we're on it.... The NE is probably not 0, simply because it is not score that people are optimizing on, it's study time vs. free time and how much utility they get out of their grade compared to that time. People don't choose what score they want or choose 0, their score is based on some function score(n), and they choose to study 0,1,2,3..n hours, and their utility is a function of both score and time spent studying, some function U(n) = score(n) + time(n) or whatever. That is what they maximize on, not score. in this case, score is averaged out, so basically no one person can make a significant difference to the average score no matter how much they study, up OR down, then the score(n) portion of the utility function basically becomes exogenous and all utility is derived from time spent studying, that is U(n) = score - time(n). For all students to study 0 hours, we must assume all students derive only negative utility from studying. Then further, for them to all fail we must assume the average of score(0) for all students is < 59. Dr.Arbitrary would be right if score(0) = 0 for all students and time(n) was negative for all n for all students. bgaesop is right if score is the only part of utility (in which case, any score is an NE). None of these assumptions are likely true. Students study anyway because they derive pleasure other than their score (surprisingly some people go to school to learn!), and some students will score > 59 with 0 hours of studying anyway. Since, at the beginning of the game all students would realize that no matter how hard they did or did not study would not change their score (unless they're idiots), they would choose to study the amount based only on maximizing utility of time(n), and thus their first score was the score they would get on all tests. That is, the score outcome of the NE of U(n) in this case was a B. So basically, Armyman was on the ball (and in far fewer words). gently caress that was a seriously neurotic derail.
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# ? Nov 15, 2009 00:22 |
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dphrag posted:The story is also a complete and utter fabrication right from the word "An". Just sayin'.
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# ? Nov 15, 2009 01:31 |
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Plom Bar posted:The story is also a complete and utter fabrication right from the word "An". Just sayin'. oh yeah. The REAL equilibrium is that everyone drop the loving class and complain to the dean.
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# ? Nov 15, 2009 08:39 |
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quote:Subject: Happy Something? In the requisite Papyrus font and green and red color.
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# ? Nov 15, 2009 21:05 |
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I love how all this boils down to "My beliefs are more important than everyone else! Why are some people different!?"
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# ? Nov 15, 2009 22:02 |
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Pungent Mammy posted:In the requisite Papyrus font and green and red color. I've never heard of a "dream tree" before. Is that something that really exists?
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# ? Nov 16, 2009 00:51 |
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muscles like this? posted:I've never heard of a "dream tree" before. Is that something that really exists? It might. And that's good enough for me.
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# ? Nov 16, 2009 02:04 |
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"Christ is ?The Reason' for the Christ-mas Season!" Is not the origin of Christmas a pagan holiday?
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# ? Nov 16, 2009 09:16 |
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dphrag posted:"Christ is ?The Reason' for the Christ-mas Season!" Well, you know how the Greek and Hebrew versions of the bible are basically translations of the KJV Bible through miraculous time travel? The winter solstice works pretty much the same way.
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# ? Nov 16, 2009 09:44 |
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Well, you know how the Greek and Hebrew versions of the bible are basically translations of the KJV Bible through miraculous time travel? The winter solstice works pretty much the same way. Imagine four December-based celebrations on the edge of a cliff...
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# ? Nov 16, 2009 16:35 |
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quote:Check out this latest picture from Veterans Day 11/11/09 at the Ceremony in Arlington National Cemetery. I don't know whether the National Anthem is being played, or the Flag is going by, or WHAT, but EVERYBODY in the picture is either saluting or has his hand over the HEART. I don't even know where to start. STEALTH MUSLIM, anti-Abortion propaganda and less than subtle middle eastern racism.
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 14:24 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:I don't even know where to start. STEALTH MUSLIM, anti-Abortion propaganda and less than subtle middle eastern racism. And even a threat to behead the sitting president. Thank god, no one is going to forward this to me.
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 14:40 |
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quote:Ever wonder why we have to go to the foreign press to read press like this? Our neighbor, Canada , in this case. I always like how the more rabid ones claim Obama is now hated by the dumbocrats who have come to realize their folly. Or still the messiah.
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Toasticle posted:
Ahh yes. Let's all take political advice from an angry Westmount Rhodesian.
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 16:24 |
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Toasticle posted:
Again with the random capitalizations - what the gently caress is up with that in these emails? It's like the part of the brain that specifically stores capitalization rules is tied into the part that rots first when exposed to right-wing nonsense.
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 16:33 |
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Howard Galganov posted:The Russians think he's a putz, The French think he's rude. And his poo poo STINKS! I mean, not like how your poo poo or my poo poo stinks, I mean it's like a melt the paint off your walls kind of poo poo STINK! Even my cat HATES HIM!
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 16:36 |
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Toasticle posted:The North Koreans think he's a joke, According to this email, the world cares what North Korea thinks.
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 16:37 |
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quote:In all fairness, it wasn't HARD to be RIGHT in my prediction concerning Obama's presidency, even in its first six months, so I'm going to make yet another prediction: In other news, I can't wait to see what batshit emails start circulating after Obama's horror show of bowing to the Japanese emperor. I swear to god, a line from news article on the subject: quote:The gesture appears to have touched a particularly raw nerve among Obama critics who said the president has hastened America's decline as a world superpower by being too apologetic and too deferential in his dealings with other world leaders.
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 16:38 |
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JodoKaast posted:HASTENED AMERICA'S DECLINE AS A WORLD SUPERPOWER BY BOWING TO SOMEONE. Am I really reading these words?? According to Fox it was a gesture of disrespect and weakness or some bullshit
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 16:40 |
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Even Dick Cheney's saying it "Former Vice President Dick Cheney told POLITICO that Obama was advertising “weakness.” ... But critics call Obama’s outstretched hand a miscalculation. Cheney said: "There is no reason for an American president to bow to anyone. Our friends and allies don't expect it, and our enemies see it as a sign of weakness.""
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 17:35 |
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Cardboard Box A posted:But critics call Obama’s outstretched hand a miscalculation. Cheney said: "There is no reason for an American president to bow to anyone. Our friends and allies don't expect it, and our enemies see it as a sign of weakness."" Yeah, I can just see the logic of some country deciding to gently caress with the US because the president bowed to another countries leader. Are people this loving retarded?
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 17:38 |
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LorneReams posted:Yeah, I can just see the logic of some country deciding to gently caress with the US because the president bowed to another countries leader. Are people this loving retarded? quote:OBAMA BOWS BEFORE JAPAN'S EMPEROR
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 17:50 |
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It's not just FreeRepublic posters. If the former Vice President said it, a lot of people will actually believe it, just because the former Vice President said it.
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 17:59 |
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Cardboard Box A posted:It's not just FreeRepublic posters. If the former Vice President said it, a lot of people will actually believe it, just because the former Vice President said it. Yeah, the US has the largest military force in the world as well as nukes with a historical precedent for using them....but the US is surely a paper tiger because the president bowed to a leader of a country.
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# ? Nov 17, 2009 18:15 |
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LorneReams posted:Yeah, the US has the largest military force in the world as well as nukes with a historical precedent for using them....but the US is surely a paper tiger because the president bowed to a leader of a country. That's the thing that burns me most about this line of thinking - they obviously care more about whether we look weak than whether we are weak. (And of course, if they think we are weak, they give no thought to their own role in making us so.)
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