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Does anyone care that Glenn Beck announced today he is 100% through with the Republican Party? It's interesting because as far as a lot of tea party types are concerned, he's the only really honest news source left.
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Joementum posted:Quote of the night, “First of all, you have to recognize they go back thousands and thousands of years, really back to the battle between Jacob and Esau.” ~ Ben Carson, on Islamic fundamentalism. Is there some weird David Barton alt- history thing he is citing there, or did he just screw up that badly?
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Mar 19, 2015 00:51
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Does anyone care that Glenn Beck announced today he is 100% through with the Republican Party? is this the 3rd or 4th time he's done this now?
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Does anyone care that Glenn Beck announced today he is 100% through with the Republican Party? Freep does this every few weeks and still votes straight-ticket republican. It's really quite fascinating.
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Mar 19, 2015 00:53
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Does anyone care that Glenn Beck announced today he is 100% through with the Republican Party? This is at least the third time Glenn Beck has quit the Republican party.
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Mar 19, 2015 00:54
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Fried Chicken posted:Is there some weird David Barton alt- history thing he is citing there, or did he just screw up that badly? They really have no idea what they're talking about because all they know is Dave Barton history. Fried Chicken posted:is this the 3rd or 4th time he's done this now? At least, and yet he will hold his nose and vote Republican when the time comes.
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Mar 19, 2015 00:54
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Does anyone care that Glenn Beck announced today he is 100% through with the Republican Party? quote:Last Friday, the National Rifle Association’s website indicated it would investigate board member and right-wing activist Grover Norquist over possible sympathies for the Muslim Brotherhood. The move came after Beck aired accusations against Norquist during Friday’s broadcast. Haha, what the gently caress? How did I miss this?
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Mar 19, 2015 00:56
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Joementum posted:A quick civics point while we discuss the budget: Budget Resolutions are non-binding guideline documents for Congress, requiring agreement of both chambers, but not the executive. I'm confused, is this what was talked about earlier regarding the GOP using reconciliation to effectively repeal Obamacare? What are the odds that the GOP can essentially repeal Obamacare via a budget resolution?
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Mar 19, 2015 00:57
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Oh and, by the way, Senator Mark Kirk has now rejected the two state solution. I'm legitimately interested in what the Graham/McCain/Ayotte crew are going to do now.
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Mar 19, 2015 00:57
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Aerox posted:Haha, what the gently caress? How did I miss this? Norquist has turned into a lefty islamist-sympathizer after experiencing an existential awakening at Burning Man.
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Mar 19, 2015 00:58
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Mitt Romney posted:I'm confused, is this what was talked about earlier regarding the GOP using reconciliation to effectively repeal Obamacare? What are the odds that the GOP can essentially repeal Obamacare via a budget resolution? zero, because then it faces a veto
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Mar 19, 2015 00:59
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Mitt Romney posted:I'm confused, is this what was talked about earlier regarding the GOP using reconciliation to effectively repeal Obamacare? What are the odds that the GOP can essentially repeal Obamacare via a budget resolution? They can pass a budget resolution that recommends defunding Obamacare, but a repeal bill, even one passed through reconciliation (which they can do once a year) would require the President's signature.
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Mar 19, 2015 00:59
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They'll have to flip because Bibi winning is a repudiation of logic and radical Republicans are married to Jewish State of Israel spiel.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:01
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Aerox posted:Haha, what the gently caress? How did I miss this? Here's the background on the Norquist / NRA imbroglio. Wayne is in a bind because the NRA is essentially a Tea Party group now, so he has to pay lip service to Gaffney's racist idiocy, but wants to maintain the veneer of respectability that Grover gives him. I guess he could solve that problem by reverting his organization to a trade group instead of an arm of movement conservatism, but  Wayne's never going back.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:04
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Joementum posted:Oh and, by the way, Senator Mark Kirk has now rejected the two state solution. Kirk knows which way the wind blows for the Chicago Jewish donor community. Good on Kirk, taking a bold and pragmatic stand which recognizes reality over recognizing wishy-washy hopey-changey'ness. Rejection of a two-state solution will soon be a bipartisan issue. Thanks, Obama. Nonsense posted:They'll have to flip because Bibi winning is a repudiation of logic and radical Republicans are married to Jewish State of Israel spiel. The only thing radical about Mark Kirk are his morning steps.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:11
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Nonsense posted:They'll have to flip because Bibi winning is a repudiation of logic and radical Republicans are married to Jewish State of Israel spiel. It does make it impossible for the US to get much international support regarding Israel if that's actually official policy and that fact isn't lost on them.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:11
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Speaking as a former truck driver (and driving instructor) I feel that automating 18-wheelers is a very loving long way off. Aiming a truck between the two white lines on a fair day under a decent load is easy, anyone can be trained to do that in a couple hours. That isn;t what truck drivers get paid to do. Truck drivers get paid to do what is called "controlling space" which is a collection of abstract skills involving reading the psychology of the shithead drivers around you. If you have ever been slowly passing a truck on the left when he starts to drift towards your lane and you got scared and accelerated away you just got "the push", a common tactic every driver does 15 times an hour. The purpose is to keep that left lane open so the driver can change lanes and avoid an accident if possible, but whether you can do it successfully or not depends on a host of factors as well as being able to see if the driver of the 4-wheeler (trucker speak for anything not a semi) is even paying attention enough. There are dozens of cute little tactics like these that are massively situation depending and I just don't see an AI being able to handle them. And that is before we get into crisis management. I would like to see the AI that can react to a sudden drive axle blow out while going downhill around a left curve with a load of paper rolls on the back and traffic slowing in front of it(a situation that actually happened to me). Without a detailed knowledge of exactly how that specific truck handles in combination with exactly how the load is sitting in the trailer an accident is going to occur. I'm not saying it won't be possible for an AI to someday handle that, I am just saying that right now Truck Drivers are paid for their instincts in poo poo situations (that occur multiple times every hour in any sort of traffic because humans are loving retarded). And that isn;t getting into the bizarre one offs that can occur, like a rock slide/sandstorm/sudden blizzard/idiot 4-whjeeler three lanes to your left spins out on some black ice and panics. Also, as far as having a "drop in" remote driver, no, not gonna happen. Drivers are expected to be able to spot and react to a situation within 3/4 of a second. Even if you could have a driver drop in right perfectly instantly, they wouldn't have enough information to perform the instinctual reactions that a regular truck driver will have. (Load weight, distribution, height, wind speed and direction, tire conditions, brake conditions, road conditions, is the shithead in front of you yakking on his cell phone, etc etc etc.) And then there is the problem that outside of major cities, the Interstate system is pretty undeveloped. Back in 2006 there were long stretches of Interstate in the country with no guardrails and 500+ foot drop offs. I don't see those thousands of miles of roads being upgraded to handle automated vehicles anytime soon. Prester Jane fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Mar 19, 2015 |
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Prester John posted:Important hurdles for autonomous multi-axle longhaul vehicles This is true. But autonomous vehicles could create a cultural shift, where people live within range of public vehicle pools instead of owning a car that sits idle. This would change supply lines and the demand for truck drivers.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:15
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Fried Chicken posted:Is there some weird David Barton alt- history thing he is citing there, or did he just screw up that badly? This is a batshit Fundy thing. Jacob and Esau were both sons of Isaac. Its kind of a weird tale, wikipedia has decent write up. Wikipedia posted:
Basically in fundie crazyland Esau's descendants go on to found Islam (somehow) and Jacob's descendants founds Jews and later Christianity......somehow. Ever since then the "two nations" have been fighting each other. (Please ignore all of recorded history)
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Mar 19, 2015 01:19
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Important note on all of this: Ben Carson is a Seventh Day Adventist.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:22
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Duke Igthorn posted:You mean MORE rational than those 45 minute "employment tests" that ask you, over and over, if you think stealing is ok or if, in certain situations, it's ok to not blow every boss and customer??? Oh yeah, let me tell you about my mother
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Mar 19, 2015 01:23
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Prester John posted:Basically in fundie crazyland Esau's descendants go on to found Islam (somehow) and Jacob's descendants founds Jews and later Christianity......somehow. Ever since then the "two nations" have been fighting each other. (Please ignore all of recorded history) I was raised Presbyterian and I know this meme. I guess it isn't strictly the creation of Muslims, but the 'distinction' between Jews and other semitic people.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:25
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Aerox posted:Haha, what the gently caress? How did I miss this? That sounds like something you'd end up with playing Batshit Insane Mad-Libs
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Mar 19, 2015 01:28
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Duke Igthorn posted:You mean MORE rational than those 45 minute "employment tests" that ask you, over and over, if you think stealing is ok or if, in certain situations, it's ok to not blow every boss and customer??? i wonder if anyone has ever answered one of those things honestly before
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Mar 19, 2015 01:29
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forbidden lesbian posted:i wonder if anyone has ever answered one of those things honestly before Tons of people have. We call them "unemployed". 
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Mar 19, 2015 01:31
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Just took a class on the Easter Rising & Irish Civil War last semester, so this kinda jumped out at me. http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/biden-if-youre-wearing-orange-youre-not-welcome-in-here-31073377.html
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Mar 19, 2015 01:32
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The only thing those tests do is make sure you never hire a bad liar.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:36
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Are states like Florida, Oklahoma and others governor elections permanently in mid-term elections? Seems like a huge advantage for the GOP.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:42
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Mitt Romney posted:Are states like Florida, Oklahoma and others governor elections permanently in mid-term elections? Seems like a huge advantage for the GOP. Off the top of my head only Vermont, New Hampshire (every two years), West Virginia, Washington, either of the Dakotas and North Carolina hold their gubernatorial elections in the same year as the presidential.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:44
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Mitt Romney posted:Are states like Florida, Oklahoma and others governor elections permanently in mid-term elections? Seems like a huge advantage for the GOP. Bless Wikipedia, which says there are 39 states that don't hold Gubernatorial elections in Presidential years. Plus, New Hampshire and Vermont, which do only half the time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_%28United_States%29#Gubernatorial_election_timeline_schedule
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Mar 19, 2015 01:45
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Mitt Romney posted:Are states like Florida, Oklahoma and others governor elections permanently in mid-term elections? Seems like a huge advantage for the GOP. States get to set that, so its "permanent" in that it isn't going to change until their currently benefiting legislature and governor decide to change it. Which Florida is trying to do, but there is no chance in hell a governor who has won their position is going to sign a law to make their term even shorter, and very low odds you will have a legislature with a veto proof majority of the other party that is willing to take the political heat of cutting short the opposing party's time in office. I suppose a popular referendum might do it.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:46
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McDowell posted:I was raised Presbyterian and I know this meme. I guess it isn't strictly the creation of Muslims, but the 'distinction' between Jews and other semitic people. I am like 95% certain that Ishmael son of Abraham is considered the ancestor of the Arab peoples, not Esau son of Isaac. Edit: Traditionally, not, y'know, anthropologically or anything.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:51
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Fried Chicken posted:States get to set that, so its "permanent" in that it isn't going to change until their currently benefiting legislature and governor decide to change it. Which Florida is trying to do, but there is no chance in hell a governor who has won their position is going to sign a law to make their term even shorter, and very low odds you will have a legislature with a veto proof majority of the other party that is willing to take the political heat of cutting short the opposing party's time in office. Wouldn't you typically make it longer, or set the next term to be the short one?
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I am like 95% certain that Ishmael son of Abraham is considered the ancestor of the Arab peoples, not Esau son of Isaac. Yeah. That's right. It's not Esau.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:56
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Fried Chicken posted:States get to set that, so its "permanent" in that it isn't going to change until their currently benefiting legislature and governor decide to change it. Which Florida is trying to do, but there is no chance in hell a governor who has won their position is going to sign a law to make their term even shorter, and very low odds you will have a legislature with a veto proof majority of the other party that is willing to take the political heat of cutting short the opposing party's time in office. An outgoing second term governor might do it.
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Mar 19, 2015 01:56
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Does anyone care that Glenn Beck announced today he is 100% through with the Republican Party? A lot of tea party folks don't give a poo poo about glenn beck and haven't for a while.
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Mar 19, 2015 02:03
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:A lot of tea party folks don't give a poo poo about glenn beck and haven't for a while. Beck was a flash-in-the-pan with no staying power. Having him headline your event won't raise any more. Palin, now, there's a name with a reputation. You know what you're getting with Palin, and its something that draws a crowd.
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Chwoka posted:The only thing those tests do is make sure you never hire a bad liar. The companies know this. It's similar to the reason all the 419 scams are made to look so obvious. In the case of 419's you want to get gill net only the people likely to send you money, so making the e-mail obvious it's a scam cuts down on the costs of running the scam by ensuring only the most out-of-touch people respond. For these "personality tests," it's ensuring that the people you hire are going to be of a minimum level of lucidity. A dude saying he thinks it's sometimes okay to steal poo poo from work may not ever actually steal anything, but he might have trouble in a work environment if he has not mastered the basic social skill of adjusting himself to suit the person he is interacting with.
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