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When do presidential candidates usually announce running mates? Only if they get the nomination, or could they potentially pick them in the next couple months?
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Feb 29, 2016 21:09
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El Jeffe posted:When do presidential candidates usually announce running mates? Only if they get the nomination, or could they potentially pick them in the next couple months? If you're the presumptive nominee (ie, convention hasn't happened, but you have the delegates) then you announce your running mate before the convention since you're effectively already running your general campaign. If you're coming into a contested convention (ie, hasn't happened in forever), you still might announce a running mate beforehand to try to woo some delegates.
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Feb 29, 2016 21:21
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dupersaurus posted:If you're the presumptive nominee (ie, convention hasn't happened, but you have the delegates) then you announce your running mate before the convention since you're effectively already running your general campaign. If you're coming into a contested convention (ie, hasn't happened in forever), you still might announce a running mate beforehand to try to woo some delegates. Makes sense, thanks!
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Feb 29, 2016 21:25
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 what do you think of my new well whatever you call it...meme i guess? (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Feb 29, 2016 21:33
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Elliot2lazy posted:what do you think of my new well whatever you call it...meme i guess? maybe dont post genitals inline in the thread for one
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Feb 29, 2016 22:08
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I really hope this doesn't appear as a troll post / I've posted in the right place. I was watching the Nye / Ken Ham debate on the 'differences' between observable science and historical science. My degree is chemistry and so this bullshit washes over me, but my friend who was watching too believes there's a chance Ham might be right. She asked how we knew that processes such as rock formation, snow-layer buildup. light distances travelled, have always occurred at the same rate. How do we know they haven't slowed radically down? Is it possible that the speed of light could have ever been different? That conditions on earth could have been such that rocks could form quicker? My only answer is "Well, surely someone would have seen this slow down", but I haven't got enough physics knowledge to talk about stuff like the speed of light and its potential to change. I talked about diamonds and how people could tell the difference between artificial and natural specimens because the crystals are so subject to conditions that they couldn't've been formed in a rapid way. Of course, there's no way for me to prove this negative; I can't prove the crystals couldn't be made quickly. What I am fundamentally asking is how can we know that the natural laws have always been the same. I really hate that I am unable to find an answer myself, and that I am having to convince someone of something that is so logical. So thanks for your patience of this kind of stuff.
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Mar 1, 2016 15:25
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Fruit Smoothies posted:What I am fundamentally asking is how can we know that the natural laws have always been the same. I don't think we can know that natural laws have always been the same - especially since they aren't really laws at all but rather descriptions of our current understanding of how the universe works, necessarily framed in the context of our observation/perception - but since there is an absence of any evidence that said laws have changed during the period in question (from Earth's formation to the present) and an absence of any reason that such a change might have occurred, we can assume that things functioned as they do today. Until contrary evidence emerges.
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Mar 1, 2016 15:33
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Fruit Smoothies posted:I really hope this doesn't appear as a troll post / I've posted in the right place. The short answer is yes, some physicists do believe that it is possible that the "constants" of physics have not always been constant (see for example the fine structure constant), but certainly not to the extent that young Earth creationism could in any way be validated. You might get a better answer for this in the Physics questions thread.
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Mar 1, 2016 15:37
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My line of of thinking goes: 1)Assume there is an all knowing, all powerful god 2)God made man in his image 3)Thousands of years of data show mankind is capable of being a huge rear end in a top hat 4)Therefor, God is a huge rear end in a top hat who likes loving with us This theory really explains everything.
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Mar 1, 2016 15:59
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PS: my new startup "Church of the Enormous rear end in a top hat" has meetings every Tuesday at the YMCA locker room, all are welcome. Bring money.
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Mar 1, 2016 16:01
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bongwizzard posted:My line of of thinking goes: Alternatively if you don't want to pore through thousands of years of data, you can just read the Bible in which it is plainly obvious how much of a huge rear end in a top hat God is from His own actions.
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Mar 1, 2016 16:03
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There's a good discussion and put-down of any Creationist bollocks on RationalWiki, which basically exists to counter pseudo-science, in the case of the speed of light, you'll want their page on Creationist theory of c-decay which does do a little to explain why such a proposal is not merely unlikely but would have terrifying consequences.
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Mar 1, 2016 16:08
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Earwicker posted:Alternatively if you don't want to pore through thousands of years of data, you can just read the Bible in which it is plainly obvious how much of a huge rear end in a top hat God is from His own actions. The existence of god is pretty hard to dispute unless someone can explain why other animals are not malevolent jerks constantly acting against their own self interest. Serious question: Why does my dog only seem interested in eating poop when it is frozen? When it is above freezing we can walk past any number and types of turds with just a quick sniff but as soon as it hits 32f he tries to gobble up every loving one. Is the dog God just loving with him or what?
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Mar 1, 2016 16:13
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Same reason you don't want a hot whisky that poo poo is painful as poo poo. As-is or on the rocks only.
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Mar 1, 2016 16:16
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bongwizzard posted:The existence of god is pretty hard to dispute unless someone can explain why other animals are not malevolent jerks constantly acting against their own self interest. A huge amount of animals are indeed malevolent jerks. The few that aren't, are heretics. Those are the ones we eat.
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Mar 1, 2016 16:16
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What's the proper name for this type of Rubik's Cube? Moreover, how can I solve those annoying four squares? It's called an X-Cube: https://www.vat19.com/item/x-cube-puzzle-toy TITTIEKISSER69 fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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Mar 1, 2016 17:47
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Earwicker posted:...there is an absence of any evidence that said laws have changed during the period in question (from Earth's formation to the present) and an absence of any reason that such a change might have occurred, we can assume that things functioned as they do today. Until contrary evidence emerges. That c-decay article from the rational wiki a few posts up is a bit wordy. Regardless of what it says, Earwicker's explanation here is adequate. Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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Mar 1, 2016 17:56
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Mak0rz posted:That c-decay article from the rational wiki a few posts up is a bit wordy. Regardless of what it says, Earwicker's explanation here is adequate. I suppose I should qualify that RationalWiki is a good place to look for the answer yourself, not to link to other people and say "DIGEST THIS KNOWLEDGE, FOOL." If I hear something that sounds bullshit but I'm not sure, I check RatWik.
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Mar 1, 2016 18:12
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Hey excel wizards, I have a question about making a crappy implementation tolerable: So every day here we have to track how many gewgaws we give each client. So like, client a takes a gewgaw on Monday and Wednesday, client b takes one on Tuesday. We currently have a spreadsheet with like client a and client b in column a then dates from columns b-ak. Then we just total at the end with a sum function. The problem is that we have like 200 clients a month and it becomes unwieldy to figure out on like day 24 whether a client is new and then add more gewgaws to their tab. We also don't have MS Access or any other DB software. Is there any way in excel or any other program to like check to see if a client is currently in the sheet and add to their tab if so and create a new entry if not?
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Mar 1, 2016 20:03
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bongwizzard posted:PS: my new startup "Church of the Enormous rear end in a top hat" has meetings every Tuesday at the YMCA locker room, all are welcome. Bring money. I assume Kirk Johnson is one of your holy figures?
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Mar 1, 2016 20:16
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bongwizzard posted:PS: my new startup "Church of the Enormous rear end in a top hat" has meetings every Tuesday at the YMCA locker room, all are welcome. Bring money. Dicks out from the start, or only once the service starts?
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Mar 1, 2016 21:52
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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tuyop posted:Hey excel wizards, I have a question about making a crappy implementation tolerable: You can just Ctrl+f search for anything in a spreadsheet if you only have to occasionally find/add a client. You can also use pivot tables to sum up your client list in various ways. You also use conditional highlighting to make any duplicates red. To add a new entry you'd either have to do it manually, or write a VBA script. Its not too hard to make a weird-excel flavored DB thing if you're willing to spend some time figuring out VBA. (There's also an excel thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3132163 if you need more wizardry)
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Mar 1, 2016 22:21
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razorrozar posted:I assume Kirk Johnson is one of your holy figures? Saint Kirk split from the church over a dispute about who got the last popper at our easter party last year. kapalama posted:Dicks out from the start, or only once the service starts? Respectfully flaccid to start, then energetically engorged as the service progresses.
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Mar 1, 2016 22:46
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tuyop posted:Hey excel wizards, I have a question about making a crappy implementation tolerable: Assuming you only want to find out if they're new for the current month, you can use conditional formatting to fill in a month with a colour as soon as a client has started taking a... gew...gew. If you want something to be less manual then you'll probably need VB, in which case the previously linked thread is your best chance.
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Mar 2, 2016 00:44
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I thought there was already a Deadpool movie starring Ryan Reynolds like 6 or 7 years ago. I have a pretty distinct memory of him playing Deadpool and being disappointed he didn't even have the cool suit in it. Am I crazy or did he play Deadpool in another movie? It seems pretty obvious that this movie I'm imagining didn't exist. E: can a mod please edit the vag picture out? I click on this thread at work a bunch since it's usually pretty tame and it keeps popping up on my screen. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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Mar 2, 2016 00:54
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NESguerilla posted:I thought there was already a Deadpool movie starring Ryan Reynolds like 6 or 7 years ago. I have a pretty distinct memory of him playing Deadpool and being disappointed he didn't even have the cool suit in it. Am I crazy or did he play Deadpool in another movie? It seems pretty obvious that this movie I'm imagining didn't exist. Xmen origins wolverine had silent "deadpool" as the villain...it was awful. There were a few scenes with Ryan Reynolds acting like deadpool prior to becoming deadpool, just to rub salt in the wound.
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Mar 2, 2016 01:01
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Douche4Sale posted:Xmen origins wolverine had silent "deadpool" as the villain...it was awful. There were a few scenes with Ryan Reynolds acting like deadpool prior to becoming deadpool, just to rub salt in the wound. Ok that was what I was thinking of. Thanks. Yeah that was super lame.
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Mar 2, 2016 01:08
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is it weird that i pee at a 45 degree angle to my right
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Mar 2, 2016 01:33
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I'm a left pee-er so I hope we never meet at a trough urinal. Jyrraeth posted:You can just Ctrl+f search for anything in a spreadsheet if you only have to occasionally find/add a client. You can also use pivot tables to sum up your client list in various ways. You also use conditional highlighting to make any duplicates red. It's pretty constant though and has to be updated every day, like a client will collect gewgaws for like ten days straight and then disappear, being shuffled out by new clients, hopefully disappearing before we run out of gewgaws. As it is we just control+f every client on our daily list and add to the tally manually, but this is just the kind of twenty minutes of daily computer task that I'd rather spend twenty hours negating with automation to never have to do again, you know?
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Mar 2, 2016 01:36
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Ezzer posted:is it weird that i pee at a 45 degree angle to my right Many perfectly normal people are right leaning, but if you find that it's actually Cruzing that way then seek political help.
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Mar 2, 2016 01:37
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So if Bernie Sanders drops out of the running today and then two weeks from now Clinton is indicted for the email thing or whatever, what happens then? Do the democrats find someone else to run as the leader? Does it default to Sanders? I don't need snarky "that's not going to happen" answers, I don't really care either way, I'm just curious what happens if someone running for president breaks the law and gets caught and indicted for it.
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Mar 2, 2016 01:46
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ChairMaster posted:So if Bernie Sanders drops out of the running today and then two weeks from now Clinton is indicted for the email thing or whatever, what happens then? Do the democrats find someone else to run as the leader? Does it default to Sanders? He can't 'drop out' necessarily but he would 'suspend' his campaign. Should Clinton somehow have that happen then the Democratic National Convention would either opt to vote Sanders in instead (assuming he's happy to accept the nomination / resume his campaign) or they can vote for any Democrat of their choice.
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Mar 2, 2016 01:50
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I'd say there's a fair chance of the DNC trying to shift it over to Biden in that scenario.
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Mar 2, 2016 03:06
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Earwicker posted:I'd say there's a fair chance of the DNC trying to shift it over to Biden in that scenario. He is the most likely choice. And my personal hope because I'll miss his Onion entries otherwise. 
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Mar 2, 2016 03:22
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A student at office hours yesterday gave me a flash drive he found in one of the computers, assuming someone had accidentally left it there. I sent an email to the class last night asking if anyone lost a flash drive, but haven't heard back yet. Is there a safe way to look at what's on that drive to sew if I can find the owner without opening myself up to potential nasty stuff? Would a VM be sufficient? I only have Windows machines available but I can do a live Linux CD if that's the way to go.
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Mar 2, 2016 03:37
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hooah posted:A student at office hours yesterday gave me a flash drive he found in one of the computers, assuming someone had accidentally left it there. I sent an email to the class last night asking if anyone lost a flash drive, but haven't heard back yet. Is there a safe way to look at what's on that drive to sew if I can find the owner without opening myself up to potential nasty stuff? Would a VM be sufficient? I only have Windows machines available but I can do a live Linux CD if that's the way to go. A live-CD is the most sensible suggestion if you're worried about potential bullshit, but even then do it offline if you are properly suspicious.
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Mar 2, 2016 03:52
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hooah posted:A student at office hours yesterday gave me a flash drive he found in one of the computers, assuming someone had accidentally left it there. I sent an email to the class last night asking if anyone lost a flash drive, but haven't heard back yet. Is there a safe way to look at what's on that drive to sew if I can find the owner without opening myself up to potential nasty stuff? Would a VM be sufficient? I only have Windows machines available but I can do a live Linux CD if that's the way to go. I'd just turn it over to lost and found, you could be opening yourself up to inconveniences if you try to read it.
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Mar 2, 2016 03:58
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Does anyone know how drug testing works for teachers in Colorado? My girlfriend is going to be looking for a job at a public school for next school year and she doesn't generally smoke marijuana, but she probably would sometimes if she could, plus I think she worries about second hand smoke since there can be a lot of it. From what I can tell it seems like just bus drivers and security officers and whatnot get tested, not teachers, but I didn't know if anyone knew for sure? Maybe I am googling shittily for some reason, but I can't find readily available answers.
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Mar 2, 2016 04:55
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Do any tech goons know what might make my PC's internet connection crap out after a few hops, but not impact other devices on the same network? The weirdest thing was happening; my phone and laptop were fine, but the internet on my PC was hosed. When I ran a tracert to google.com, it'd always fail after 7 hops, on the same comcast backbone server:code:
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Tesseraction posted:I suppose I should qualify that RationalWiki is a good place to look for the answer yourself, not to link to other people and say "DIGEST THIS KNOWLEDGE, FOOL." If I hear something that sounds bullshit but I'm not sure, I check RatWik. A bit late, but talkorigins.Org has some great readable info as well.
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