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Luigi Thirty posted:I'd love a technocracy if we get Italian futurist cooking. I can see this happening just replace the perfume with a tazer
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Good Citizen posted:My understanding is that Irans nuclear targets are so hardened at this point that any sort of attack from the air would be almost completely ineffective anyway This is why a lot of people are flipping out about Bibi sabotaging the Iranian nuclear talks, barring a full on invasion if the deal falls through there isn't really anything Israel or the U.S. can do to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
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Do we know any details about the Iranian nuclear talks? I'm not cheering Bibi on, but it's hard to imagine bargaining with Iran with any sort of good faith.
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:Do we know any details about the Iranian nuclear talks? I'm not cheering Bibi on, but it's hard to imagine bargaining with Iran with any sort of good faith. We are more than able to come to a deal with Iran at the current point in time, which is why Bibi and the Republican congress is doing it's best to mess things up. A Iranian nuclear deal holds far more power symbolically than it does practically, it proves that Iran isn't an insane rogue state which is something Bibi doesn't want.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 07:45 |
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Joementum posted:Nancy Pelosi has one weird trick for funding the Department of Homeland Security. Speaker John Boehner (secretly) loves it! Congress: It's Calvinball played by Ivy League law-school grads and "self-made small businessmen".
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 07:57 |
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skaboomizzy posted:Congress: It's Calvinball played by Ivy League law-school grads and "self-made small businessmen". You must have missed the parliamentary trick Republicans tried to get the Obamacare repeal on Obama's desk.
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KiteAuraan posted:If economics gets to be a science then archaeology is a super-science. It's a soft science because experiments can not be repeated. This is just the nature of the subject. Calling it "useless" demonstrates a lot of ignorance about what we've learned over the past couple of centuries.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 11:26 |
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Well, I can sleep easy tonight knowing that the story of Obama preventing World War 3 was just made up to make him look bad. Fox News crawler for today: Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli jets?
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:lets all move to canada Not so fast http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3533827
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 14:29 |
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So the SCOTUS is hearing a case today the looks to ban the use of independent districting commissions. The case is Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. In 2000, voters passed an amendment to the state constitution that set up an independent commission. This prevented the intense gerrymander seen in other states after the 2010 election. So the state Republican Party is suing. Because it is totally because the election clause says the power should lay with the legislature and they live the constitution so much, and not at all because they want to gerrymander the state to hell and back to secure their own power (In 2012 democrats won 5 of the 9 house seats but that is totally unrelated) I for one look forward to our 5-4 decision that further undermines our ability to have good elections.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 15:28 |
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Elections have consequences Fried Chicken. Really it makes sense the party of Jesus would be pissed at the literal interpretation vs intent/context of a document.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 15:34 |
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SnakePlissken posted:Fox News crawler for today: Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli jets? Of COURSE they add a question mark at the end to cover their asses over this likely BS rumor.
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Fried Chicken posted:So the SCOTUS is hearing a case today the looks to ban the use of independent districting commissions. The case is Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. In 2000, voters passed an amendment to the state constitution that set up an independent commission. This prevented the intense gerrymander seen in other states after the 2010 election. So the state Republican Party is suing. Because it is totally because the election clause says the power should lay with the legislature and they live the constitution so much, and not at all because they want to gerrymander the state to hell and back to secure their own power (In 2012 democrats won 5 of the 9 house seats but that is totally unrelated) And looking at the maps they're the places you'd expect them. Which seems exactly what you'd want in districting!
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Fried Chicken posted:F-16 has a range of 3200+ km dude. Just to expand briefly, the quoted ferry range of an aircraft is a one way trip at the most economical climb and cruise speed. "Combat radius" will often times be reported, this number will be how far from an air base the aircraft can travel to, drop weapons and return. It will be less than half the ferry range because fuel economy isn't considered. An even shorter number is the sometimes reported "high-low-high" range. This would be a mission profile where they cruise at high altitude to get close to the target then fly very low and fast to avoid radar, and return at a high altitude cruise. This range is going to be much shorter than the normal combat radius. Never mind that to avoid radar the Israeli planes would have to conduct the entire mission at nap of the earth which eats a ridiculous amount of fuel. Basically unless the U.S. is going to give Israel a B-2 or B-1 it can't happen. I guess Israel could use a conventional IRBM if they had one but no way Pakistan wouldn't go launch a nuclear one in response when they detected one coming their way.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 16:05 |
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Israel's got hella SLCMs (say it: slick-ems!) that could hit without setting off the Bad poo poo Happening alarms but they won't get down far enough to hit the buried facilities.
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Chantilly Say posted:Israel's got hella SLCMs (say it: slick-ems!) that could hit without setting off the Bad poo poo Happening alarms but they won't get down far enough to hit the buried facilities. Well the conventional ones wouldn't...
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SnakePlissken posted:Fox News crawler for today: Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli jets? Please say you are teasing. Please.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 16:32 |
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Yeah it's some thing that showed up on Drudge this morning. Complete nonsense of course, like any other thing posted on that site.
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Obama to invade Canada? Obama threatens to nuke London? Obama caught sexting with Kim Jong Un? Obama forcing Secret Service to use steroids? … I just got a call from Drudge, hang on.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Really it makes sense the party of Jesus would be pissed at the literal interpretation vs intent/context of a document. Religious people, and conservatives, are idiots lol.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 16:45 |
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Israel has no airborne refueling capability? I'm surprised. No, we sold 'em some KC-135s, I believe.
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Warcabbit posted:Israel has no airborne refueling capability? I'm surprised. Airborne refueling is problematic to say the least over hostile territory.
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Meg From Family Guy posted:Religious people, and conservatives, are idiots lol. Good job getting jokes! Be proud of yourself. I imagine nailing a refueling jet with anything is much easier than an F16.
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baw posted:It's a soft science because experiments can not be repeated. This is just the nature of the subject. For example, we've learned how disastrous it is to give a huge amount of policy authority to people using models of rational actors and free information.
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berzerker posted:For example, we've learned how disastrous it is to give a huge amount of policy authority to people using models of rational actors and free information. I think the biggest problem with economics is that it's both a soft science and something that is an important part of the national political dialogue, so you're stuck with idiotic ideas surviving long past their due date because influential people benefit from them, and voters themselves being swayed by easily-falsified talking points because economics is extremely complex and a lot of proven ideas don't pass the common sense test at first glance. Add that in with the ability to always say "well that policy didn't work that time because they didn't do this thing, so it will be different if we try again" and the fact that the same policies can have varying degrees of effectiveness depending on when and where they are implemented and you come up with a partisan clusterfuck of opinions.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 18:22 |
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SCOTUS denied very to a case out of Maryland where a suspect was convicted on DNA evidence, with the DNA being collected by swabbing the arm rests of a chair the suspect was sitting in rather that the suspect submitting to a test. The appellate court had ruled this was acceptable so that ruling stands - the state can passively gather and indefinitely retain DNA records Fairly ominous in the big picture.
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baw posted:I think the biggest problem with economics is that it's both a soft science and something that is an important part of the national political dialogue, so you're stuck with idiotic ideas surviving long past their due date because influential people benefit from them, and voters themselves being swayed by easily-falsified talking points because economics is extremely complex and a lot of proven ideas don't pass the common sense test at first glance. Politics in general is the same way. It would be nice if we could all just do the rational thing and completely shut out 99% of people who use the words "socialist" or "fascist" in political conversation, but we can't because politics touches everyone and we have to give the idiots a voice too. Yet politics and political theory are real things that real people study and even read and write books about!
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Mineaiki posted:Politics in general is the same way. It would be nice if we could all just do the rational thing and completely shut out 99% of people who use the words "socialist" or "fascist" in political conversation, but we can't because politics touches everyone and we have to give the idiots a voice too. Yet politics and political theory are real things that real people study and even read and write books about! i hate politics for the same reason i hate driving - you're forced to participate in it (or else massively inconvenience yourself forever) and you have to participate with the general population, the majority of which are horrible at it at best and actively dangerous at worst
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Fried Chicken posted:SCOTUS denied very to a case out of Maryland where a suspect was convicted on DNA evidence, with the DNA being collected by swabbing the arm rests of a chair the suspect was sitting in rather that the suspect submitting to a test. The appellate court had ruled this was acceptable so that ruling stands - the state can passively gather and indefinitely retain DNA records I don't think so. It's no different than giving an interviewee a glass of water and getting prints from it.
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greatn posted:I don't think so. It's no different than giving an interviewee a glass of water and getting prints from it. Except for that whole thing where you can refuse a glass of water lawfully, whereas you may not be able to lawfully refuse sitting down in a chair and talking to police. baw posted:I think the biggest problem with economics is that it's both a soft science and something that is an important part of the national political dialogue, so you're stuck with idiotic ideas surviving long past their due date because influential people benefit from them, and voters themselves being swayed by easily-falsified talking points because economics is extremely complex and a lot of proven ideas don't pass the common sense test at first glance. Which means it's pretty much garbage. Anything that works perfectly in theory but has zero predictive power and very little reflective power should be discarded. I say this as an Econ major.
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Radbot posted:Except for that whole thing where you can refuse a glass of water lawfully, whereas you may not be able to lawfully refuse sitting down in a chair and talking to police. Uh except if you cannot lawfully refuse to sit down then you've been arrested and they can take that sample anyways.
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Radbot posted:Which means it's pretty much garbage. Anything that works perfectly in theory but has zero predictive power and very little reflective power should be discarded. I say this as an Econ major. Economic theories are used to make predictions all the time. For instance the prediction that QE wouldn't be inflationary.
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baw posted:Economic theories are used to make predictions all the time. For instance the prediction that QE wouldn't be inflationary. I think the dude's saying economic predictions aren't as rigorous as say a chemistry prediction. Economists can't go out and measure 1,000 economies like a chemist could do that many titrations.
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DemeaninDemon posted:I think the dude's saying economic predictions aren't as rigorous as say a chemistry prediction. Economists can't go out and measure 1,000 economies like a chemist could do that many titrations. Yeah it's a soft science but it can still be used to make predictions, just like meteorology. It's a far cry from "zero predictive power."
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Fried Chicken posted:SCOTUS denied very to a case out of Maryland where a suspect was convicted on DNA evidence, with the DNA being collected by swabbing the arm rests of a chair the suspect was sitting in rather that the suspect submitting to a test. The appellate court had ruled this was acceptable so that ruling stands - the state can passively gather and indefinitely retain DNA records If you've been arrested I don't think you can lawfully refuse to give a DNA sample so this ruling just seems to suggest they can get the same through an available means without having to swab you. If the guy wasn't arrested yet and/or otherwise did not have to comply and give a DNA sample if requested then yeah it's kinda hosed up.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 19:23 |
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Cleveland's response to the Tamir Rice shooting is that Tamir was ultimately responsible for being perforated. Their response is literally "not our fault that black kids/blacks in general have a giant target painted on them".
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 19:26 |
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The Iran policy makes more sense on all sides if you work under the assumption that Iran will eventually obtain nuclear capabilities without a full scale invasion and take over of the country. And I think that's a pretty realistic assumption. No president wants it to happen on their watch, Israel is willing to do whatever to make sure it doesn't happen, and Iran wants as little damage to their economy as possible on their way there. And the republicans just want Obama to look as bad as possible at all times.
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Phone posted:Cleveland's response to the Tamir Rice shooting is that Tamir was ultimately responsible for being perforated. Can't even throw a clearly unstable cop under the bus..I wish I could say that it's unbelievable.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 19:37 |
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mdemone posted:Please say you are teasing. Please. Oop! Jeez, sorry, yes, It was a joke. Though it could be self-fulfilling by the end of the day, knowing Fox News.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 19:40 |
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Phone posted:Cleveland's response to the Tamir Rice shooting is that Tamir was ultimately responsible for being perforated. In those terms, Chris Kyle is responsible for his own death for bringing a guy with PTSD to a gun range. Or how Charlie Hebdo is ultimately responsible for being attacked.
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