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Too non-believable and too few statistics or facts that the person will (probably) not look up. I would go with... "BILL HR 3501 will make it illegal to criticize the new health plan" "It would create a new federal prison camp, some already under construction (picture) that would house prisoners from the new secret and unaccountable court system..." Or something to that affect.
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Isn't that all the Ayn Rand arguments? Ask him if he follows Ayn Rand, then ask if he supports the drug war. The funny thing about these emails, and the fact that whatshisname is creating a new fake one for kicks... is just maybe all the emails in this thread are sourced somewhere in the bowels of some other internet forum, with users cackling at the hilarity that their poo poo is getting sent around, and in turn sharing with each other the amazing stupidity of this new email they just got about federal prison camps.. 
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In 20 years, the majority of the US is going to be Muslim? MY GOD, I better get quiverfilling!
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That guy sure is scared of a lot of things He has pretty tight requirements of who can be the president. A president must have grown up in America, owned a company, been in the military, never have any friends with radical ideas, be in favour of non-renewable energy over renewable energy, something about geese, and must not believe he is God. I am scared because you are not the last guy!
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Vilerat posted:10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous, and Pfff, the man was RAD
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Sep 3, 2009 02:09
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You Americans are loving ludicrous. I wish you guys could send everyone to a foreign country for a bit to see that it's completely awesome.
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Sep 4, 2009 14:44
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That is one hell of a lot of adjectives.
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Sep 4, 2009 18:41
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Plom Bar posted:In Canada, our weirdos all come from Alberta. Haha, that's funny I'm from there too, and never ever want to go back. Alberta == the Texas of Canada. Though I'm not sure what you're talking about, since it still has universal health care. B.C. has the same health charges that you have pay which are only if you earn enough, same as Alberta. Although maybe it changed recently? I was there only 1 year ago though, and had 100% free healthcare, so I think you're definition of universal might not be the same as mine. They did try to abolish the system though, and Alberta was the only province in Canada to oppose gay marriage. The last Premier of Alberta was also a complete drunk  and famous for stumbling into a homeless shelter after a hard night of drinking, yelling at the homeless people to get a job, and throwing money on the floor. Alberta is also home to the some of the world's worst environmental disasters that no one talks about.  The capitol city is famous for tasering jaywalkers. I could go on. Glad I don't live there anymore. dphrag fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Sep 6, 2009 |
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:No, that's pretty much just-as-crazy. In the future, the cute sounding girl at the pizza place will be able to see that you are, in fact, impotent. Enjoy your sprout sub, loser!
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Chajara posted:My sister just sent me this: So... no oil for America? Sounds like a good plan actually! Though methinks they don't mean energy imports! Cardboard Box A posted:This map is a bit weird. I see the point, but you could redraw it in several ways and capture some other combination of income and population that may seem equally valid. And apparently the only wall holding away the masses of asia is..... the Korean DMZ? What about the Chinese-Korean border which keeps the more affluent Chinese protected from a flood of Korean refugees? Also, if the point is to get a high statistic of income vs. world population, you would want to include the high gdp per capita ratio countries of UAE, Brunei, and Singapore, though I guess that is the dot over near Aussie there..
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Sep 27, 2009 04:39
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ManoliIsFat posted:Christian groups are the ones filing all the FCC complaints against college radio and public radio stations all the time, too. They got crews of people to listen to your station 24 hours a day so they can file some complaints and hopefully get the station fined which will assuredly shut it down or at least make renewing the license a huge task. Then, when the independent station gets shut down, the Christians buy the bandwidth and pop up another Christian talk/music station. A group of people totally pumped about destroying independent media. The system you describe sounds pretty much antithetical to free speech. Sad.
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Hey, I saw a documentary with that Gene Robinson guy. When he was ordained as a bishop, he had to wear a bullet proof vest under his vestments in light of the flurry of death threats. WWJD? http://www.theonion.com/content/news/christ_kills_two_injures_seven_in
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Toasticle posted:
Hey once a treaty is signed, there is no earthly power that may unbind it! It'll be up to Jesus then... Though you can't beat the quote "your constitution says that [the treaty] takes precedence over your constitution." This guy is a nutbar. edit: his other problem is that it uses the word "government" to describe it's governing body, and is thus, the start of the world government. O lawdy. edit2: this guy is classy, calling for the permanent quarantining of HIV positive people, in an article called "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS" dphrag fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Oct 22, 2009 |
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Oct 22, 2009 04:49
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chesh posted:even women raped in Africa under the mistaken belief that loving a virgin would cure you of AIDS Interestingly, this point is debatable: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/babyrape.asp However Snopes' article is dated, and wikipedia links to a couple medical papers that describe single instances of an individual having been raped under the pretense it would cure aids, but I cannot find a wider based statistical study that confirms this is a widely held belief. Interestingly, it may have been the very media that threw up a storm about it that created the folk belief, not the other way around. From Snopes: "Their study found 60% of participants first heard of the cleansing theory in the media"
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Armyman25 posted:So there is no such thing as a group effort in their world? I would think that since the students are paying to be at the course, they would put forth enough effort not to fail. The students are there to earn a degree, not just pass one class. I'm pretty sure a class average of F is not the Nash Equilibrium.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Maybe I don't understand Nash Equilibrium very well but in this shared grades situation it seems like a class average of 0 would be the Nash Equilibrium. bgaesop posted:A Nash Equilibrium is when no action taken by only one person can improve their own situation. If no one person increasing their own scores could bump the class average above a 59, then that is a Nash Equilibrium. Well I just threw this NE out there for shits and giggles and was initially talking out of my rear end... but now that we're on it.... The NE is probably not 0, simply because it is not score that people are optimizing on, it's study time vs. free time and how much utility they get out of their grade compared to that time. People don't choose what score they want or choose 0, their score is based on some function score(n), and they choose to study 0,1,2,3..n hours, and their utility is a function of both score and time spent studying, some function U(n) = score(n) + time(n) or whatever. That is what they maximize on, not score. in this case, score is averaged out, so basically no one person can make a significant difference to the average score no matter how much they study, up OR down, then the score(n) portion of the utility function basically becomes exogenous and all utility is derived from time spent studying, that is U(n) = score - time(n). For all students to study 0 hours, we must assume all students derive only negative utility from studying. Then further, for them to all fail we must assume the average of score(0) for all students is < 59. Dr.Arbitrary would be right if score(0) = 0 for all students and time(n) was negative for all n for all students. bgaesop is right if score is the only part of utility (in which case, any score is an NE). None of these assumptions are likely true. Students study anyway because they derive pleasure other than their score (surprisingly some people go to school to learn!), and some students will score > 59 with 0 hours of studying anyway. Since, at the beginning of the game all students would realize that no matter how hard they did or did not study would not change their score (unless they're idiots), they would choose to study the amount based only on maximizing utility of time(n), and thus their first score was the score they would get on all tests. That is, the score outcome of the NE of U(n) in this case was a B. So basically, Armyman was on the ball (and in far fewer words). gently caress that was a seriously neurotic derail.
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Plom Bar posted:The story is also a complete and utter fabrication right from the word "An". Just sayin'. oh yeah. The REAL equilibrium is that everyone drop the loving class and complain to the dean.
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"Christ is ?The Reason' for the Christ-mas Season!" Is not the origin of Christmas a pagan holiday?
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Nov 16, 2009 09:16
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Saying hello in another language: sign of weakness. You guys can expect to be invaded by the Japs tomorrow. Pearl Harbour 2: Bow Down.
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So when you get flung from a car in a car accident and raced to the hospital, you better hope to god your wallet with proof of citizenship didn't fall out of your pocket or you'll be left to die like the non-citizen you are!
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Nov 26, 2009 13:09
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Or for that matter, just work under the table.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:And lo Jesus said "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and then be sure to make a huge stink about it and never stop playing the victim. In fact if you want you can even poo poo on obvious concessions to your religion in some snarky disingenous attempt at imaginary self-harm, really try it. It's hilarious." Completely irrelevant, but this reminds me of supply side jesus: http://www.beliefnet.com/News/2003/09/The-Gospel-Of-Supply-Side-Jesus.aspx?p=1
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Gripen5 posted:Supply side Jesus is never irrelevant. Leprosy is a matter of personal responsibility!
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Anything that starts with "Maybe he's wrong... BUT WHAT IF HE'S RIGHT" can be safely ignored. I think AIDS is caused by aluminium. Maybe I'm wrong... BUT WHAT IF I WAS RIGHT?!?!? 
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I'm pretty sure millionaires have email addresses?
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ducttape posted:Economics classroom, now with 30% less straw: Hey, another "game" for me to rip apart.. heh.. This does remind me, however, of a horrible game called "capitalism" that my philosophy TA played in a seminar class... basically the game will end with one person "owning" everything, and several people dying from starvation. At the time I was but a first year econ student, but in retrospect, it was blatantly retarded. Make a game in which people "die" and one person ends with all the power, then name it whatever ism you don't like. Education!
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Strudel Man posted:I strongly suspect that the equilibrium point would not be anywhere near an F. A few pages back I was tweaking out on coffee and wrote an analysis of the game for shits and giggles.
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Schweig und tanze posted:Seriously...the implication that lazyass coloreds sit around with their thumbs up their asses while hardworking white amurricans bootstrap it on up is insulting, racist, and ridiculous. So what´s the deal anyway, has the "for the people" part of government been completely eliminated? I mean, wtf is even the point of government if not to help in times of crisis. In fact, I believe I read an academic theory on sovereignty somewhere that stated the very *definition* of government is the body which is called upon in time of crisis. But gently caress... hurr... coloureds!
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Yeah, good old belief perseverance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_perseverance#Persistence_of_discredited_beliefs I always find the psych experiment where they tell people one set of information, then a week later tell them it was completely false (it was), and then a week later ask the people to answer some questions, and it always turns up that some people still believe the first thing they are told. I think this is why religion targets the young.
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RagnarokAngel posted:You're making an assumption that the leaders of religions are pushing false information on people they KNOW is false rather than honestly believing it. Actually, I wasn't making that assumption at all. If the top adherents do truely believe, they still want to "spread the word" most effectively by getting in before the youth are "poisoned" by other ideas. They may not be purposefully taking advantage of belief perseverance.
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burritonegro posted:Islamic law taking over Europe: Nice timing, news just came out buddy is now being prosecuted for inciting hatred and discrimination. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7842344.stm
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:When the closing ceremony ends and nothing has happened, be sure to "reply all" this back to whoever sent it to you, with a picture of you rolling your eyes attached. Well obviously they couldn't execute it because these internet detectives were onto their game!
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No my favourite part is:Vilerat posted:Hopefully China isn't one of them. Is the U.S. at war with China?
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Jeeze dude, read the link he posted dummy LOL OMG
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So I just found out my friend died of cancer recently, though they passed four months ago. I posted on my facebook, and my friend who... homeschools his children, and doesn't vaccinate them, and has 3 so far... responds... http://i.imgur.com/N1kxu.png FFS. Can't I just post my quirky RIP status post without being told IT'S THE GUVMENTS FAULT?
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