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Agents are GO! posted:Yeah, that's why I was asking (google turned up nothing.) There's also this: http://www.wideasleepinamerica.com/2010/12/phantom-menace-fantasies-falsehoods-and.html Iran has been a few years away from having a nuclear weapon since 1984. quote:An April 24, 1984 article entitled "'Ayatollah' Bomb in Production for Iran" in United Press International referenced a Jane's Intelligence Defense Weekly report warning that Iran was moving "very quickly" towards a nuclear weapon and could have one as early as 1986. quote:A report by the U.S. House Republican Research Committee, released in early 1992, stated with "98 per cent certainty that Iran already had all [or virtually all] of the components required for two to three operational nuclear weapons made with parts purchased in the ex-Soviet Muslim republics," and suggested Iran would acquire these weapons by April 1992. quote:Speaking on French television in October 1992, then-Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres warned the international community that Iran would be armed with a nuclear bomb by 1999.
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BUSH 2112 posted:
The non-BENGHAZI bit is pretty stupid too. The song didn't get its nomination retracted because it was Christian but because the guy who composed it used his position in the Academy to unfairly boost it.
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Jan 31, 2014 18:02
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BUSH 2112 posted:
I keep seeing this pop up. It seems to be on everyone's minds lately, but no one can explain it to me. I have to ask: 
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Jan 31, 2014 18:12
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muscles like this? posted:The non-BENGHAZI bit is pretty stupid too. The song didn't get its nomination retracted because it was Christian but because the guy who composed it used his position in the Academy to unfairly boost it. That's an AV Club headline; in the tradition of The Onion their headlines are sarcastic and jokey. The actual article explains the reason the nomination was rescinded correctly.
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Elder Postsman posted:There's also this: http://www.wideasleepinamerica.com/2010/12/phantom-menace-fantasies-falsehoods-and.html And who could forget? 
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I would have followed up the Neville Chamberlain / appeasement comparison to, again, the fact that ANY DAY NOW has been going on for about as long as you've been alive. The comparison falls apart because that poster is from the 1970s. Counting back ~34 years from Sep-1939 would put you ... 9 years before the FIRST World War.
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BUSH 2112 posted:
The onion is on point as usual. 
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borkencode posted:
Children spring into existence fully formed, didn't you know? The whole "pregnancy" and "birth" and "permanent biological changes" things are irrelevant to the discussion.
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OAquinas posted:Children spring into existence fully formed, didn't you know? The whole "pregnancy" and "birth" and "permanent biological changes" things are irrelevant to the discussion. The mother doesn't even have to be alive.  I'm glad they at least stopped that nonsense, but it was pretty creepy.
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A guy on my wall just posted this link from Reason.com on how stupid liberals are for banning plastic bags when a drought in CA is on the horizon and those darn hippie canvas bags need to be washed regularly: http://reason.com/blog/2014/01/31/hey-california-want-to-conserve-water-th Considering Reason is basically a propaganda wing for the Libertarian Party, exactly how full of poo poo is this article? I don't plan on debating this guy any time soon since he has a hair trigger temper when it comes to talking politics (even though all he posts on his wall are links to Fox News and Drudge), but I was still wondering. So far, two easy answers would be "just wash it along with the rest of your clothes when you can; it's not like you won't be able to wash your clothes period if a drought hits," and "plastic bags are most certainly NOT fully recyclable, what the gently caress." ProperGanderPusher fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Feb 1, 2014 |
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*completely destroys the water supply with plastic waste and byproducts*
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A good washing machine uses about 50 liters of water and 0.75 kWh of energy. Divide that by 50 and wash it 12 times a year and it's going to cost you 12 liters of water and 0.2 kWh (20 grams of oil) per year. That already looks favorable. Besides, the real point about plastic bags isn't just their resource use, it's also the fact that plastic trash is a permanent pollutant and that making items with an expected lifetime of less than an hour out of a material that takes thousands of years to decay is probably not a good idea.
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peak debt posted:plastic trash is a permanent pollutant and that making items with an expected lifetime of less than an hour out of a material that takes thousands of years to decay is probably not a good idea. Sort of along these lines, I use plastic grocery bags to pick up my dog's poo poo when we go walking etc but I think making little plastic -sealed bags of poop is not any more ecologically sound than just throwing the bags away to begin with. Anybody know of more green methods to dispose of dog poo (ignoring the obvious of just leaving it as that would piss off the neighbors)?
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andrew smash posted:Sort of along these lines, I use plastic grocery bags to pick up my dog's poo poo when we go walking etc but I think making little plastic -sealed bags of poop is not any more ecologically sound than just throwing the bags away to begin with. Anybody know of more green methods to dispose of dog poo (ignoring the obvious of just leaving it as that would piss off the neighbors)? Bury it? I don't know. The park in my town has these stations set up along the walking paths with dog bags set up for people to take. It's a rectangle of cardboard, with a hole cut into the center and a brown paper bag attached to the hole. You use the rigid cardboard part to slide under the poop, then it falls into the paper bag. You can then fold the cardboard closed. I have no idea if these are available commercially, because they look homemade or at least locally made.
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Plastic bag decomposition estimates are actually more on the order of 10-20 years, or as little as a year if it's in the ocean. Naturally this is still plenty of time to do harm to animals, but in most of them won't be kicking around in 4014. Edit: VVV I'm not entirely familiar with the mechanism, but that sounds about right. TerminalSaint fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Feb 1, 2014 |
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Don't they degrade into microscopic particles that become a geologic marker for industrial civilization?
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TerminalSaint posted:Plastic bag decomposition estimates are actually more on the order of 10-20 years, or as little as a year if it's in the ocean. Naturally this is still plenty of time to do harm to animals, but in most of them won't be kicking around in 4014.
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andrew smash posted:Sort of along these lines, I use plastic grocery bags to pick up my dog's poo poo when we go walking etc but I think making little plastic -sealed bags of poop is not any more ecologically sound than just throwing the bags away to begin with. Anybody know of more green methods to dispose of dog poo (ignoring the obvious of just leaving it as that would piss off the neighbors)? You can buy oxo biodegradable dog poop bags. I know this because I left an unused one in my car after bringing the dogs to the park and it basically turned into dust after I forgot about it for a few months.
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ProperGanderPusher posted:A guy on my wall just posted this link from Reason.com on how stupid liberals are for banning plastic bags when a drought in CA is on the horizon and those darn hippie canvas bags need to be washed regularly:
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Guilty Spork posted:Do reusable bags really need to be washed that often? I've had two of them for over a year with no real need to wash them. I don't know if there's any data, but I strongly suspect my usage pattern is closer to the norm than "hippies wasting tons of water putting bags through the wash." Yeah they are just flailing now if the they are trying to paint hippies as people that do laundry too often. Shalebridge Cradle fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Feb 1, 2014 |
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Guilty Spork posted:Do reusable bags really need to be washed that often? I've had two of them for over a year with no real need to wash them. I don't know if there's any data, but I strongly suspect my usage pattern is closer to the norm than "hippies wasting tons of water putting bags through the wash." I only rewash bags that produce gets put in, and only then once in a blue moon, if only because it seems like common sense anyway. There was a big to-do in the media a while back about how reusable bags can harbor dangerous microbes and should be washed at least somewhat regularly (which conservative bloggers naturally jumped on as proof that A Liberal Thing is dumb and should never be used).
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Guilty Spork posted:Do reusable bags really need to be washed that often? I've had two of them for over a year with no real need to wash them. I don't know if there's any data, but I strongly suspect my usage pattern is closer to the norm than "hippies wasting tons of water putting bags through the wash." If you're putting packages of meat in the bags and aren't wrapping them in plastic first, then washing those bags more often is probably a good idea. Sometimes slabs of beef are still bloody and it's not a good idea to leave that lingering.
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Look at those hippies wasting water by wearing clothes!
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VideoTapir posted:Look at those hippies wasting water by wearing clothes! Heh, like hippies wash anything including themselves.
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And this is why I keep semi-conservative Facebook friends, because some of their friends' comments are gold "Oboingo can suck it!" *Is bankrupted or dies from a treatable illness* "Take that, NObama, I sure showed you!"
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VitalSigns posted:And this is why I keep semi-conservative Facebook friends, because some of their friends' comments are gold All that's ignoring the whole fact that you don't have to sign up for healthcare if you actually can't afford it, and no fine will be assessed. I can't even tell you the number of people I've had to explain that to. Then again, they're "poor and proud" types who wouldn't take the Medicaid expansion even if our Governor hadn't refused it.
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VitalSigns posted:And this is why I keep semi-conservative Facebook friends, because some of their friends' comments are gold
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Defenestration posted:What's with all these people that got paid $0-$3,000 all year and still manage to live? Could it be that there is another earner in the picture they are sponging off? The OP is a student, I'm sure it's financial aid because the only moral Socialist Obammunism is my Socialist Obammunism. I don't know about the other guy, but he looks older so maybe he has savings or a working spouse or something. Edit: Oh my God, tonight is a gold mine 
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Feb 1, 2014 06:48
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VitalSigns posted:The OP is a student, I'm sure it's financial aid because the only moral Socialist Obammunism is my Socialist Obammunism. I refuse to believe this is genuine. I simply cannot accept that there is someone in this country so mind-blowingly stupid that they really, truly believe that taxation as a concept didn't exist before 1913.
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I think that's referring to the federal income tax, not taxation in general. To troll them I'd say "Yeah! We should have a capital gains tax instead!"
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Yeah ask people in the early 1900s how awesome the roads were before the Road Act of 1916 (they were poo poo) and how many highways we had for all the John Galts to ship their products on (none). Although they have a point on the schools if they are apparently making GBS threads out people that stupid. Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Feb 1, 2014 |
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The revolutionary war was partly bankrolled by France, partly financed by a huge pile of debt. That debt was so huge the only way they could pay it back was by enacting tariffs so onerous it immediately sparked new insurrections, by inflating the poo poo out of their currency and by stealing land from Indians and selling it to European immigrants for hard cash. So you could ask conservatives which of these three options would be the most realistic way of paying for the Iraq War debt.
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I have a Facebook friend who is arguing that, by the Quantity Theory of Money, an increase in the minimum wage would cause a spike in prices due to higher demand, and thus cause job losses. I retorted that the theory has been put into question by modern economists, but I want something more concrete. Ideas?
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Negative Entropy posted:I have a Facebook friend who is arguing that, by the Quantity Theory of Money, an increase in the minimum wage would cause a spike in prices due to higher demand, and thus cause job losses. I retorted that the theory has been put into question by modern economists, but I want something more concrete. Ideas? Why would a spike in prices/demand lead to job loses? Higher demand means more sales for companies for higher profit, which, last I checked, is a good thing.
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