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Verified - 1861 State of the Union message
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# ? Dec 31, 2012 14:53 |
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Best movie review ever.
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She later backpedalled using the "I'm sorry you misunderstood me" form of "apology" EDIT RAPE TRIGGER WARNING And this is why I don't like the mentality of reddit Experto Crede fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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# ? Dec 31, 2012 17:06 |
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Crasscrab posted:This could have been our future if Ron Paul had won in 2008! Now we can only hope to glimpse even a portion of this libertarian utopia! Who'd want that future, we'd have floating fireballs just waiting to happen!!!
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# ? Dec 31, 2012 18:28 |
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7c Nickel posted:There's already a fascist analogue in Skyrim and it's not the Empire. According to Altmer religion the existence of a physical world is an abomination carried out by traitorous human-sympathizing gods. Since Talos is an aspect of Shezzar/Lorkhan/Shor, the Aedra responsible for creation, wiping out the worship of him is only one step on the way to destroying Shezzar/Lorkhan and eventually the entire physical world. The human and creation favoring gods aren't necessarily good-guys either. For example Pelinal Whitestrake, human avatar of Shezzar/Shor/Lorkhan, freedom fighter, and crusader, was a genocidal maniac that had a thing for massacring Elves and anything that looked Elves. It's basically a battle between humans who favour a physical world versus elves that wish for a return to a eternal formless spirit world with racists and zealots on both sides. Actual non-nerd content: Suffragette Evelyn Manesta refused to allow police to take her picture when she was arrested. They forced her to comply and then edited the picture to hide this. FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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Fractal Cat posted:Who'd want that future, we'd have floating fireballs just waiting to happen!!! Uh, excuse me, that right there is a rigid airship, not a blimp. Second, it is a rigid airship utilizing hydrogen. A true libertarian uses helium for their lighter-than-air craft! Unfortunately the United States government REFUSES to release its stranglehold regulations on helium gas, for which it could be used to its full potential by the free market!
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Crasscrab posted:Uh, excuse me, that right there is a rigid airship, not a blimp. Second, it is a rigid airship utilizing hydrogen. A true libertarian uses helium for their lighter-than-air craft! Yes, highly inflammable helium! One person lights a cigarette and the whole thing blows up!
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# ? Dec 31, 2012 20:04 |
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Fractal Cat posted:Yes, highly inflammable helium! One person lights a cigarette and the whole thing blows up! I mean, seriously, why didn't they just call that thing the Hindenberg II? All that helium in one place, it makes me shudder.
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# ? Dec 31, 2012 20:36 |
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Been seeing this around Facebook. There's literally no way those numbers are right, are they? Over 400,000 deaths every year prevented by guns?
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# ? Dec 31, 2012 20:41 |
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Crasscrab posted:Uh, excuse me, that right there is a rigid airship, not a blimp. Second, it is a rigid airship utilizing hydrogen. A true libertarian uses helium for their lighter-than-air craft! You mean the helium of which there's almost none left and whose loss will cause a significant impact on future generations? Seems apt for a Libertarian then MinionOfCthulhu posted:
I guess it depends on how you base your statistics. If they consider every crime where a gun was used to end it as possibly leading to death regardless of what, if any weapons the perp had then yeah. Don't forget the whole "SELF DEFENCE! MAH GUN! " argument needs strong backing. Besides, note this is based on answers by victims who own guns (What, you expect the gun lobby to used balanced statistics?) and probably think "Well, he tried to pull a quick snatch and grab on me unarmed. I'd have died were it not for my semi-automatic 9mm!" Experto Crede fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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Fractal Cat posted:Yes, highly inflammable helium! One person lights a cigarette and the whole thing blows up! Helium is a noble gas, IE inert. It's hydrogen that's flammable. Experto Crede posted:You mean the helium of which there's almost none left and whose loss will cause a significant impact on future generations? The sad tale of helium's selloff by the government in the 90s is a sad one indeed. Although I guess having party balloons that float outway any scientific research that utilizes helium...
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# ? Dec 31, 2012 21:09 |
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Crasscrab posted:Helium is a noble gas, IE inert. It's hydrogen that's flammable. It's a quote from the spy cartoon Archer where he refuses to believe that helium is not flammable. MinionOfCthulhu posted:
Defensive uses idk, but predicting what would have been a murder is sketch. You would have to know where every event occurred and cross reference it with local hospitals and emergency response time since one of the biggest factors in murder vs. assault is how close you are to a hospital. It's why cops just get wounded or paralyzed but are rarely shot to death, they got a direct line to ambulances. It's possible but it's unlikely. This is why it shouldn't be illegal for the CDC to have funding to research guns just like they do every other dangerous thing. A group of drum circle hippies ignored by the press during OWS.
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Crasscrab posted:Uh, excuse me, that right there is a rigid airship, not a blimp. Second, it is a rigid airship utilizing hydrogen. A true libertarian uses helium for their lighter-than-air craft! See this thing? It's an MRI instrument. The business end is a giant, gently caress-off magnet. It uses the response of a proton's spin, on water molecules, to the generated magnetic field and how they respond to radio waves. The environment the water molecules are in determines what kind of picture is generated. Basically, the water molecules in, say, a tumor will be appear different from the surrounding tissue. Now what does this have to do with helium? Well for that giant magnet to generate the required magnetic field, it needs to be cold. Like cold cold. Thankfully, we can get liquid helium that boils at 4K to cool these things. You'd think this resource would be a bit more closely regulated. Nope. Sold off to let the Almighty Free Market decide.
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Fractal Cat posted:Who'd want that future, we'd have floating fireballs just waiting to happen!!! Don't lose heart! http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Rise-of-the-Blimps-The-US-Armys-LEMV-06438/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9472952/US-Army-tests-new-blimp-like-military-airship.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z72GPZ3MI2M
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It makes me sad that otherwise intelligent people don't know that helium is not what was in the Hindenburg and that it's inert. It's also pretty when you pass a current through it. Then again, so is hydrogen.
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BUSH 2112 posted:It makes me sad that otherwise intelligent people don't know that helium is not what was in the Hindenburg and that it's inert. Yeah, I mean what about that are they not getting? Duh and/or hello!
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Manifest Dynasty posted:Yeah, I mean what about that are they not getting? Duh and/or hello! "Well, obviously the core concept, Lana. Sorry I didn't go to Space Camp."
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:
As far as I can tell, the statistics for the first claim are originally taken from the 2000 NCVS (repostings of these numbers cite it), and then horribly mangled beyond all recognition. The prevented rape claim seems to be taken from Table 72. Percent of victimizations in which self-protective measures were employed, by person taking the measure, outcome of action and type of crime where they took the total number of Rape/Sexual Assaults, 199,440, and divided it by 365, which is about 550. This number actually represents the number of times a victim or potential victim of rape or sexual assault employed self-protective measures. The self-protective measures utilized in the data are: Attacked offender with weapon, attacked offender without weapon, threatened offender with weapon, threatened offender without weapon, resisted or captured offender, scared or warned offender, persuaded or appeased offender, ran away or hid, got help or gave alarm, screamed from pain or fear, or took other measures. The dumb macro thing decided that all of these self-protective measures are actually just "showed gun." Dumber still, the number includes both attempted and completed rapes and sexual assaults. Just because the victim employed self-protective measures does not mean that the crime was avoided. I actually don't know where the murder one is coming from; it is certainly not from the NCVS, which of course does not measure murders because it is a loving survey of crime victims. I am not sure what potentially real statistics may have been butchered to come up with that insane number. None of the numbers in the 2000 NCVS seem to match up. For reference, the number of murders in the US in 2010 was 14,748. The second claim is definitely not from the NIJ, but probably taken from a 1992 survey by Florida State University professors Gary Kleck and Mark Gertz and attributed to the NIJ to make it appear more legitimate. The NIJ was, of course, extremely critical of the projections made by Kleck and Gurtz, which you can read here Here is a small excerpt: National Institute of Justice posted:
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Apparently a Swedish rape victim. http://www.expressen.se/gt/jennys-valdtaktsman-slog-till-igen---mot-84-aring-3448854/
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SpaceMost posted:Iceland seems like such a dynamic place. I need to learn more about it. Chamale posted:The empire works best as a metaphor for fascism in World War II. I have no clue why you'd want to support foreign imperialism in that game, considering how the Empire wants to ban traditional Nord religion and destroy their culture. I have no idea why you would support the Empire - they support an illegitimate King, broke their treaties with the Nords, and promote male supremacy. The Stormcloaks have a problem with racists in their ranks, but I see this as similar to the Americans imprisoning Japanese citizens. It's wrong and inexcusable, but the Stormcloaks are the lesser of two evils. / Oh, and it was Gamlárskvöld here, which meant that everyone was firing up fireworks like mad. At midnight it is literally as bright as during a noon sun. (Well, used to be. Now it's only as bright as maybe dusk, due to lack of money) This, btw, means a shitload of pollution; both air pollution and CO2 pollution. Graphs about pollution in Iceland are pretty funny because of that and the bonfires. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd-nZ8yQdc4
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(She never got to do anything. The storyline was cancelled.) Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Jan 1, 2013 |
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:
If a cop with a gun in his/her holster stops a crime, it counts! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:If a cop with a gun in his/her holster stops a crime, it counts! post a picture Here are some Latuffs on Bahrain
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# ? Jan 1, 2013 08:24 |
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Here's the latest facebook trend
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Rand alPaul posted:Here's the latest facebook trend Ah, so America now has an equivalent to "SOLDIERS SHOULD HAVE FOOTBALLERS WAGES!". All it's missing is the "99% of people won't share this" bit.
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Experto Crede posted:Ah, so America now has an equivalent to "SOLDIERS SHOULD HAVE FOOTBALLERS WAGES!". All it's missing is the "99% of people won't share this" bit. Let's take this back a few years...
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Rand alPaul posted:Here's the latest facebook trend I genuinely see no problem with this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJtHNEDnrnY MIT Gangnam style, featuring Noam Chomsky
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Cahal posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJtHNEDnrnY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n281GWfT1E8 Ai Weiwei style p.s never read comments
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Anyone remember carbon debits?
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Exclamation Marx posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n281GWfT1E8 Or twitter: Context: Mitchell Brook is a primary school in Neasden who, every year, put on adorable plays for Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz of the Year. That, and Jon Snow's deadpan newsreading of song lyrics, make the Quiz watchable if you can deal with the awful comedians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je7rpVJVBFQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaHrVWwDCRY
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