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#31
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 14, 2011, 08:14:15 PM
Quote from: Nph. Twid. on September 14, 2011, 08:10:46 PM
Sorry to end up providing an example. A little difficult to write something in depth from a phone. Something that would probably be good for me is to figure out how to more effectively post from work. I wont use the computers there while working so i'm fairly limited there. I dont have a cubicle just a table with a computer on it. What do you think lmno - try and avoid posting on my phone? I suppose i could try and work five to one and wait til i get home...

No, you don't have to write paragraphs of text to keep a thread going.  You can be provocative, ask a question -- hell, if you can write a haiku that addresses the situation, that still works.

Or, depending on how smart your phone is, write text on your work comp, mail it to your phone, then copy the email and paste here.  Ok, that takes some effort, but it's how I've been able to look at and post all the pics you fuckers post.

Hell, I thought you were referring to me.  :lulz:
#32
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 14, 2011, 08:07:50 PM
PD has hit the wall again. It happens, there's a lull in the creative, the discussion grinds to a halt this is nothing new but maybe, lately it seems to be happening more often. Is it because all the regulars know each other so well? Is it because a whole fuckton of subjects have been covered now. All of us know pretty much where everyone else stands on a lot of issues. Maybe we're running out of things to argue about?

What keeps me coming back is the creative side. the Nessie thread wasn't a one off. Shit like that happens around here from time to time and it's a buzz, everyone gets caught up in it but then, after the storm comes the calm. And it's depressing. One minute you can shoot forked lightning from your fingertips and the next ...

Back to quips and one liners. Knowing all the while that you can be so much more. It's a kick in the teeth but I've lived with it all my life. The creative streaks, the artistic blocks. Even at it's most unproductive, this board helps because someone always sparks a fire and suddenly it's a creative dogpile and it brings me out of my funk a long time before I'd get there on my own. In the meantime I hit F5, waiting for the storm to sweep me up again. Hell, sometimes just knowing you fucking freaks are out there takes the edge off.

Amen Brother P3nt, my creative juices are dryer than a 200 year old vagina right now. Too many other things IRL happening. I suspect that once the weather turns cold things will pick up.
#34
I'm working with Cram on a project at another place right now.
#36
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Help me understand the tea party
September 14, 2011, 04:56:05 PM
Quote from: Disco Pickle on September 14, 2011, 03:44:30 PM
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on September 14, 2011, 03:36:46 PM
Or Muslims, or a fuckload of other things...

You'll find people with those beliefs in quite a few political blocks other than the Tea Party.  The religiously intolerant are not somehow relegated only to the Tea Party.  Neither are immigration policies based entirely on racism, but ARE certainly very based in nationalism.

But ok, which Tea Party organization are you talking about, and please to provide links to support these positions.


    In a broad study  of adults in Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, and California conducted between February and March, the University of Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Sexuality (WISER) asked a number of questions about "racial resentment" — such as whether blacks don't try hard enough or have gotten more than they deserve. Conservatives are 23 percent more likely to be racially resentful, and Republicans 15 percent more likely than Democrats. However, the institute found that this racial sentiment isn't simply a byproduct of white conservativism:

       [E]ven as we account for conservatism and partisanship, support for the Tea Party remains a valid predictor of racial resentment.

    It is untrue, as political commentator Dave Weigel argues, that racism in the Tea Party is merely reflective of its conservatism. The WISER study found that compared to other conservatives, Tea Party supporters are:

       – 25 percent more likely to have racial resentment.

       – 27 percent more likely to support racial profiling.

       – 28 percent more likely to support indefinite detention without charges.

    Tea Party supporters are also significantly more likely to hold racial stereotypes, with a majority believing blacks are not hard-working, intelligent, or trustworthy. Their fear of others transcends race, however — the WISER study found that a majority of tea party adherents distrust Latinos, Asians, and other whites as well.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/08/09/891507/-Tea-Party-Bigotry-Not-just-for-the-Sign-Carriers-Anymore
#37
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Help me understand the tea party
September 14, 2011, 04:15:17 PM
If you're uninsured and on the brink of death, that's apparently a laughing matter to some audience members at last night's tea party Republican presidential debate.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a doctor, was asked a hypothetical question by CNN host Wolf Blitzer about how society should respond if a healthy 30-year-old man who decided against buying health insurance suddenly goes into a coma and requires intensive care for six months. Paul--a fierce limited-government advocate-- said it shouldn't be the government's responsibility. "That's what freedom is all about, taking your own risks," Paul said and was drowned out by audience applause as he added, "this whole idea that you have to prepare to take care of everybody ..."

"Are you saying that society should just let him die?" Blitzer pressed Paul. And that's when the audience got involved.

Several loud cheers of "yeah!" followed by laughter could be heard in the Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds in response to Blitzer's question.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/audience-tea-party-debate-cheers-leaving-uninsured-die-163216817.html
#38
Yeah, the more i think of it the better I like the idea. Enjoy Yatto guys.
#39
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on September 08, 2011, 10:37:59 PM
I won't speak for anyone else, but I am certainly not attacking Khara or her integrity.

I have no doubt that she saw what she saw and I also am fairly certain that Yatto didn't maliciously spam anybody with porn. I don't see those two things as being mutually exclusive.

I also understand why Khara is so pissed given that her kids were involved, inadvertently or not, and I don't see much sense in trying to convince her that she shouldn't feel that way. I know I'd probably feel similarly if I were in her shoes.

And I also agree with BadBeast. There's really not much point to rehashing this since we'll never know for certain exactly what happened and since it had nothing to do with yatto's banning and unbanning.

It certainly wouldn't break my heart if Dok wants this stuff split out into its own thread so as not to obscure the original awesomeness ITT.

Maybe it's time for me to take a few days off from PD again. I can't help it, a friend of mine gets attacked (Khara) and I flip. I always will.
#40
Quote from: Brian Fnord on September 08, 2011, 08:57:21 PM
Quote from: Hawk on September 08, 2011, 08:51:21 PM
Bye.

'And I say hello'

Why don't you just say nothing? I thought you weren't going to post in AT anymore. Liar.
#41
Bye.
#42
Binghamton, NY is just about to get royally fucked.
#43
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Financial fuckery thread
September 08, 2011, 06:05:21 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 08, 2011, 06:02:58 PM
It shows S&P's calculators are fucked up.

Also, this is depressing

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/roubini41/English

QuoteNor could monetary policy help very much. Quantitative easing is constrained by above-target inflation in the eurozone and UK. The US Federal Reserve will likely start a third round of quantitative easing (QE3), but it will be too little too late. Last year's $600 billion QE2 and $1 trillion in tax cuts and transfers delivered growth of barely 3% for one quarter. Then growth slumped to below 1% in the first half of 2011. QE3 will be much smaller, and will do much less to reflate asset prices and restore growth.

Currency depreciation is not a feasible option for all advanced economies: they all need a weaker currency and better trade balance to restore growth, but they all cannot have it at the same time. So relying on exchange rates to influence trade balances is a zero-sum game. Currency wars are thus on the horizon, with Japan and Switzerland engaging in early battles to weaken their exchange rates. Others will soon follow.

Race

to

the

bottom

Like an elevator in a 30 story free fall.
#44
Techmology and Scientism / Re: Missing Link found?
September 08, 2011, 05:44:37 PM
This debate could go on for years.
#45
Techmology and Scientism / Missing Link found?
September 08, 2011, 05:21:47 PM
An analysis of 2 million-year-old bones found in South Africa offers the most powerful case so far in identifying the transitional figure that came before modern humans — findings some are calling a potential game-changer in understanding evolution.

The bones are from Australopithecus sediba. The research places that pre-human branch of the evolutionary tree as the best candidate to be the ancestor of the human line, said Lee R. Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44438221/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.Tmjqc-zlhQ0

This could alter things quite a bit.