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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_(climate) Natural records of things that correlate with climate are used to measure earlier climate trends. They can be calibrated by using the remains from the last 150 years and comparing them to the recorded temperatures from those years. They aren't quite as accurate as thermometers, but they're pretty good. miscellaneous14 posted:he retorted with "you should take ECON101 because you don't know what you're talking about". He hasn't, has he? Next time I get that one, I think I'll point out that I never did; I took Econ 200 and 463. VideoTapir fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Sep 26, 2013 |
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What the gently caress! you can't take the square root of a negative number. It's loving MATH 101. Hemmingway is a lovely writer. Haven't you ever heard of a run-on sentence? ENG 101! Why the hell are you engineers doing differential equations to determine drag? There's no such thing as air resistance or friction. PHYS 101!
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Sep 26, 2013 03:03
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VideoTapir posted:He hasn't, has he? "Actually, I have. Also Econ 102, 281, 310A, 310B, 311, 308, 350, 322, 362, 331, 360, and 330. Plus Math 220, 224, 230, 234, 240, 300, 310A, 360-1, and 360-2. Because I majored in Economics and minored in Math, you loving idiot." I think said person had a political science degree. Edit: sorry, I know this probably sounds all "Sick burn, bro."  I just get so goddamned sick of people who have read an article or two on mises.org thinking they know all about Economics, and that they can shout down people who put in years of study.
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Sep 26, 2013 03:07
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CommieGIR posted:"We gave you the right to vote, what more do you want? Equal rights? Silly women" I find that simply explaining calmly to them what the SlutWalk is about is enough to get them to shut up. A lot of people really don't put much thought into how retarded the statement "Well, if she's dressed like that, she's ASKING to be assaulted!" is.
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Sep 26, 2013 03:39
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I'll just repost the ECON101 guy because wow he was a massive douche. It was before I started using Social Fixer, so I'm green. After that, my aunt offered to send me a copy of Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics, so all I got out of this argument was a libertarian paperweight.
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Sep 26, 2013 04:36
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CarterUSM posted:Literally had someone accuse me of never taking Econ 101 and not knowing how math works. People who claim something is part of "Econ 101" invariably make an argument that ignores the fact that Econ 101 simplifies every problem, while also sounding like they haven't taken it themselves. It's bizarre. No one says "you need to take Physics 101!" and gets incredulous about the concept of friction or air resistance. edit: I didn't even see that Dr. Arbitrary used this same example. Xombie fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Sep 26, 2013 |
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Sep 26, 2013 05:38
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So, this thing is sure a thing. It also popped up in my inbox at midnight, from an individual who recommended his Hispanic assistant(from a very poor family) a neat new book titled Atlas Shrugged. http://www.forbes.com/sites/harrybinswanger/2013/09/17/give-back-yes-its-time-for-the-99-to-give-back-to-the-1/ Have a choice quote: quote:Here’s a modest proposal. Anyone who earns a million dollars or more should be exempt from all income taxes. Yes, it’s too little. And the real issue is not financial, but moral. So to augment the tax-exemption, in an annual public ceremony, the year’s top earner should be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. And another: quote:Or if the moral praise showered on Mother Teresa went to someone like Lloyd Blankfein, who, in guiding Goldman Sachs toward billions in profits, has done infinitely more for mankind. I tried to convince myself that this was some kind of satire, but then I saw "Forbes" in my address bar and his post history. I'm almost uncomfortable with the amount of Rand that seems to be echoing around the conservative angersphere right now, it's :fuckyougotmine: personified.
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Sep 26, 2013 05:56
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Lord Girlyman posted:So, this thing is sure a thing. It also popped up in my inbox at midnight, from an individual who recommended his Hispanic assistant(from a very poor family) a neat new book titled Atlas Shrugged. There is nothing in the world that will convince me this isn't some sort of elaborate prank carried out by The Onion. Ha ha, guys, it's funny, you managed to sneak one of your satire articles into a supposedly serious newsmagazine, you can come out and admit the joke now. ...guys?
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Lord Girlyman posted:So, this thing is sure a thing. It also popped up in my inbox at midnight, from an individual who recommended his Hispanic assistant(from a very poor family) a neat new book titled Atlas Shrugged. This absolutely has to be fake. Mother Theresa was a disgusting vile human being, and "a modest proposal" refers to Swiftian satire where the poor sell their children to the rich to eat. It's cutting far too close to be accidental.
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Spangly A posted:This absolutely has to be fake. Mother Theresa was a disgusting vile human being, and "a modest proposal" refers to Swiftian satire where the poor sell their children to the rich to eat. It's cutting far too close to be accidental. Harry Binswanger posted:I am a philosopher who was an associate of the late Ayn Rand, and am a member of the board of directors of the Ayn Rand Institute. The real revelation here is that objectivists don't understand satire. My guess is he see A Modest Proposal as a decent boot straps strategy. He also has an article calling for the legalization of insider trading and another purporting to show the objective, absolute, secular reason why capitalism is the only moral social system. Shalebridge Cradle fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Sep 26, 2013 |
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Sep 26, 2013 08:40
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Spangly A posted:This absolutely has to be fake. Mother Theresa was a disgusting vile human being Most people don't believe that and would have no idea what you're talking about when you say that.
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Sep 26, 2013 10:33
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VideoTapir posted:Most people don't believe that and would have no idea what you're talking about when you say that. On it's own, sure. But I don't think I've ever seen someone use the phrase "a modest proposal" without the awareness of what they're referencing. In the context of the Austrian School? I just can't bring myself to the conclusion that people throw the phrase at him constantly, mocking him, and he's too stupid to realise yet still able to breathe.
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Sep 26, 2013 10:37
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I love Econ 101 because all you do is adjust the scale on a graph and then x should equal y and now you are perfectly efficient.
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Sep 26, 2013 12:18
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miscellaneous14 posted:I'll just repost the ECON101 guy because wow he was a massive douche. It was before I started using Social Fixer, so I'm green. Holy poo poo, what a child. Green: Here's a legitimate question. Red: I will not answer it because you're too dumb to understand. Green: I'm not too dumb, just answer the question. Red: You're too dumb! Green: ...I quit. Red: Good because you're dumb!
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Sep 26, 2013 13:12
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Spangly A posted:Mother Theresa was a disgusting vile human being VideoTapir posted:Most people don't believe that and would have no idea what you're talking about when you say that. I have never heard this before. Does anyone have a link to a good source about her?
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Sep 26, 2013 17:14
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Look, I found some good ol'Islamophobia on my wall:
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Sep 26, 2013 17:23
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I contrast, I got a dollar bill about a month ago that had the phrase "Protect the Second Amendment" stamped on it. I just rolled my eyes, thought nothing of it, and spent it somewhere. Does this mean we are at war with the gun nuts that are defacing our God-blessed currency? 
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Sep 26, 2013 17:34
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VitalSigns posted:I have never heard this before. Does anyone have a link to a good source about her? I don't have sources off-hand, maybe someone else can drop them later, but basically she had her hospitals deny patients basic treatment because she believed the suffering brought them closer to God, and she also took donations from lots of shady sources including dictatorships and allegedly used very little of the donated money on actual medical care, instead focusing on evangelism.
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Sep 26, 2013 17:34
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VitalSigns posted:I have never heard this before. Does anyone have a link to a good source about her? Here's a wiki link- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa It has already been discussed upthread.
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Sep 26, 2013 17:36
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Troll Bridgington posted:Look, I found some good ol'Islamophobia on my wall: If I still lived in the States I'd buy a stamp like that and stamp every dollar bill I could find. My token Ron Paul guy on my Facebook posted this, which is dumb enough in and of itself but I find it hilarious the author went to the trouble of adding the cigarette.  Also, this is probably the worst thing he's ever posted. 
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Sep 26, 2013 17:37
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VitalSigns posted:I have never heard this before. Does anyone have a link to a good source about her? It was covered earlier in this thread. Basically she was into "suffering like jesus" and against painkillers for surgery/treatments, her charity 'somehow' had more overhead than pre-ACA healthcare companies (87% or so, meaning out of every dollar contributed only pennies made it to aid), and a few other questionable issues.
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Sep 26, 2013 17:42
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Soviet Commubot posted:If I still lived in the States I'd buy a stamp like that and stamp every dollar bill I could find. Whoa! Obama's OFFICIALLY the worst President in American history? That's incredible. Where can I find a white paper from this International Organization of American Presidential Evaluation group? I want some accredited certification for my ObamaHate!
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Sep 26, 2013 17:42
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VitalSigns posted:I have never heard this before. Does anyone have a link to a good source about her? She believed suffering to be a way to share the pain of christ. So much so she let, on one occasion, a person suffer their own de-maggoting under no anesthesia. Also multiple reports of general abuse in the places she ran.
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Sep 26, 2013 17:44
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CarterUSM posted:Whoa! Obama's OFFICIALLY the worst President in American history? That's incredible. Where can I find a white paper from this International Organization of American Presidential Evaluation group? I want some accredited certification for my ObamaHate! It's actually a pretty effective way of portraying their view like it's the majority view. Anyone who would believe that would probably just assume that Obama has the lowest approval ratings in history. It's like those "Only 87% of people will send this, it should be 100%" things tagged onto the end of stupid emails. e: Sorry, I'm bad at English today.
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This could all be abated if we went back to the old school and stripped all mentions of God off of currency and the Pledge. But that too is an attack on
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Sep 26, 2013 17:54
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OAquinas posted:It was covered earlier in this thread. Basically she was into "suffering like jesus" and against painkillers for surgery/treatments, her charity 'somehow' had more overhead than pre-ACA healthcare companies (87% or so, meaning out of every dollar contributed only pennies made it to aid), and a few other questionable issues. The stuff I posted had this at 97%, which goes from bad to just standard theft.
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Sep 26, 2013 17:56
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Rigged Death Trap posted:She believed suffering to be a way to share the pain of christ. As long as it was other people suffering, yes.
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Sep 26, 2013 18:01
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CarterUSM posted:Whoa! Obama's OFFICIALLY the worst President in American history? That's incredible. Where can I find a white paper from this International Organization of American Presidential Evaluation group? I want some accredited certification for my ObamaHate! Surely the Super American Grand Jury can give you the veneer of legitimacy you desire to declare Obama officially the WORST president EVER.
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I got asked the Econ 101 question before. I have a master's degree in economics. When I told the guy that, he said I just hadn't paid attention. What I had said to drive this: gas price increases are not solely attributable to domestic drilling policy, with increased global demand for oil being a more impactful factor.
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Emron posted:I got asked the Econ 101 question before. I have a master's degree in economics. When I told the guy that, he said I just hadn't paid attention. This is true, and it's also the case that not all oil development fields have the same mix of hydrocarbons, so theoretically oil production could go up, but if it's not the right kind of oil production (i.e. heavy vs light sweet crude), gasoline supply might not rise at the same rate. That's not even going into overall refining capabilities and demand for other petroleum distillates that could divert production from gasoline. But yeah, it's just a factor of DRILL BABY DRILL. The things I learn from internal industry-specific training curricula in the consulting world.
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Sep 26, 2013 18:26
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VideoTapir posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_(climate) I doubt anyone who posts garbage like those guys will understand the concept of paleoclimate proxy records, the Greenland ice cores and oxygen isotopes, palynology, or any of the other records used to examine past climates.
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Sep 26, 2013 18:28
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TheGrizzle posted:I contrast, I got a dollar bill about a month ago that had the phrase "Protect the Second Amendment" stamped on it. I just rolled my eyes, thought nothing of it, and spent it somewhere. Man, what happened to just drawing a B and R on the back so it says "bONEr"?
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CarterUSM posted:Whoa! Obama's OFFICIALLY the worst President in American history? That's incredible. Where can I find a white paper from this International Organization of American Presidential Evaluation group? I want some accredited certification for my ObamaHate!
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Oh hey, an oldie but goodie came back around onto Facebook:quote:
An interesting stage of development this go round; based on comparison with an earlier generation circa 2009, we can see that there has been minor rearrangement in the head structure of the email, as well as two identical tail sections that have formed. The earliest version of the "28th Amendment" that I found results for in Google was around November of 2009, and this increasingly prolific political meme seems to be capable of cross-breeding with a wide variety of other emails; I expect the duplicate tail is an aberrant mutation that will be culled over time, unless it finds a specific niche. The evolution of political email is full of mystery and wonder. 
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Pfirti86 posted:Surely the Super American Grand Jury can give you the veneer of legitimacy you desire to declare Obama officially the WORST president EVER. "What can we do to ensure that the courts treat us as a legitimate grand jury?" "I know! Let's call ourselves the SUPER AMERICAN Grand Jury! No judge could oppose that!"
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Soviet Commubot posted:If I still lived in the States I'd buy a stamp like that and stamp every dollar bill I could find.  and Green Eggs and Ham (a parable about trying stuff out before you decide you don't like it) is a model for what political speeches should be like.
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This is a doozy of crazy on my Facebook wall. I'm so full of rage, I just don't know how to get through to this people.quote:Me: posts in support of vaccines
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I don't know why I'm still friends with this person on facebook at this point:quote:"If non-essential personnel are non-essential, why the f#@k do we pay them in the first place? I have non-essential expenses here - a cleaning lady, my DSW allowance, pedicures. If I can do without them, I didn't really need them to begin with. Stop your whining." I haven't been following the news closely because I enjoy happiness and sanity but I'm assuming the GOP announced some plan to fire non-essential government workers or something?
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Ainsley McTree posted:
The GOP has basically said they are going to shut down the Government on Oct. 1st unless the Senate agrees to defund Obamacare. A government shutdown would mean all non essential employers get sent home, and all essential employees work without a paycheck until the shutdown is resolved.
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Prester John posted:The GOP has basically said they are going to shut down the Government on Oct. 1st unless the Senate agrees to defund Obamacare. A government shutdown would mean all non essential employers get sent home, and all essential employees work without a paycheck until the shutdown is resolved. In otherwords: "We're the GOP and we're a bunch of loving dicks! And because of us being loving dicks you'll all totally vote for us and make us be in charge!" 
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