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I guess it's the is it intolerant to not tolerate intolerance kind of question. In any case, when it comes to hate, tunnelcat would seem to be one of the least guilty of hate on this board, and Rush, in general, would seem to be one of the most guilty. I guess I don't know where saying this puts me...

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Rush however, isn't even a human being. He's some kind of robot that spews hate and fear like it's burning hot oil. He's never had an original or nice thought in his head except to bash all things, all ideas or all people who do not believe what he believes. People who listen to him and soak up his...

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and, that would infer this to be the foremost criminal issue facing the nation. Pathetic. No doubt, you will be so charitable when she demands 20 years of IRS audits be fast-tracked,because that's the executive's prerogative, right? Not quite apples to apples and you know it. I would contend in a g...

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callmeslick wrote:No, she won't, I have great faith, yet his 'first act in office' would be to start another witch hunt investigation.

(Don't mistake this as supporting Trump) Isn't that the leader of the executive office's job - to lead law enforcement efforts?

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callmeslick wrote:No, what is being displayed in this tape is Trump's view of the ENTITLEMENT that comes with power. He says as much, "I'm a star, so I can.....".

You are aware that you could substitute Clinton's name in your statement and it would remain true, right?

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This issue can resolved by instead of normalizing by the murderer's race you normalize by the entire population. Otherwise, the bars on the graph are, while mathematically correct, deceptive and prejudicial. Yeah, I think ultimately the motive is to make the one with the big red arrow look as small...

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Returning to my example, suppose that someone from X or Y has a 1% chance of murdering a person chosen randomly from the entire population. We would then expect the # of X killed by Y per |X| to be (# of X killed by Y) / |X| = |Y| * Pr(Y murdered & the person murdered was an X) / |X| = |Y| * Pr...

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Thunderbunny has also skewed the numbers in order to fit his narrative. Namely, why are the numbers per murderer's race? That makes the racial majority look less murderous of other races than they really are just due to their numbers. Imagine a rare race of people that only had 10 surviving members...

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Thunderbunny has also skewed the numbers in order to fit his narrative. Namely, why are the numbers per murderer's race? That makes the racial majority look less murderous of other races than they really are just due to their numbers. Imagine a rare race of people that only had 10 surviving members...

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I guess I missed the out of thread context...

If the questions is simply "If I gave you a bowl of skittles and three of them were poison would you still eat them?" - then I'd answer no... but then what does that have to do with E&C?

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callmeslick wrote:how complex is the solution, as you see it? Accepting that there is both racism and white privilege is all it should take. Not real tricky there.

Okay, I accept that it exists. Now what?

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I am angry with idiots who think a concussion in 2012 affects, in any way, the woman's fitness in 2016. It's not at all about a concussion... it's about hiding behind a concussion to avoid accountability to American public. If she's used the concussion as an excuse to avoid answer self-incriminatin...

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Top Gun wrote:Do you have to actively try to be this patently offensive, or does it just come naturally to you?

Why are you offended? He's clearly riffing on what she pulled when speaking to the FBI.

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It appears that about 6% of the donations actually make it charity... I checked that article's sources. If you believe anything on that site, I'm sorry, but you've been had. It's typical of conspiracy sites. It's an propaganda piece with lot of circular links either linking directly to itself or ot...

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It appears that about 6% of the donations actually make it charity... so while maybe you can legally call it charity, I call it the Clinton's personal spending fund.

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The irony I find with the whole vegan ideal: How do you objectively draw a line between living organisms that are "okay" to kill for our uses, and those that aren't? I realize that there's a fairly each subjective line to be drawn - if it walks/swims/flies around and looks "aminal-ish...

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I think the confusion comes from language. For instance, there are Nazi beliefs (Hitler, eugenics, holocaust), and if you espouse those beliefs, then you are a Nazi. But the belief that Nazism is wrong, that in a weaker sense can be called a Nazi belief insofar as it is a belief concerning Nazis. B...

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My crochet circle is organized and has regular meetings where we talk about stuff. Yes, but my local secular humanist group doesn't talk about "stuff" - they talk about the merits and the furtherance for their philosophical beliefs. ( link ) I didn't bother asking whether your crochet cir...

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where are these regular meetings held? My local library on Sunday afternoons. My main point: I think we naturally tend to poopoo beliefs different than ours while giving ones similar to ours the benefit of the doubt. (Isn't that part of where you started, Grendel, when you said they want to declare...

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Kind of stating the obvious. Every organized religion is a cult in my eyes and many of them declare non-believers outlaws. ...Just curious... does that make secular humanism a cult? As far as I can tell it's a philosophy, not a religion. It's organized and people have regular meetings to talk about...

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Grendel wrote:Kind of stating the obvious. Every organized religion is a cult in my eyes and many of them declare non-believers outlaws.

...Just curious... does that make secular humanism a cult?

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It's interesting to me that this time it's the Republicans that have the "change" theme that IMO won it for Obama eight years ago. Isn't it the same dynamic every time, the only difference being who the incumbent is? Maybe I haven't been paying attention long enough... but the above two f...

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this Princeton histogram has proven to be a VERY accurate barometer, and is based on state by state polling data. Let's leave this up so everyone can follow along. Woody might not like the current graph: http://election.princeton.edu/todays-electoral-vote-histogram/ To me, the election is coming do...

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Wait... we're supposed to convict Trump of treason for some flippant remarks while looking the other way for Clinton who mishandled classified material? Nope, doesn't seem the least bit hypocritical to me...

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Link?

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What is astounding vision, is that you do not see Ms Clinton as consciously and voluntarily disregarding the use of reasonable care when handling classified documents. Even a child could see that she didn't. As a voter, the gross disregard for the freedom of information act is just as bad... I don'...

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I looked up a couple studies when I posted that, you are pitting the well to wheels efficiency of the electric against the strict engine efficiency of the gasoline vehicle. In well to wheels on a gasoline engine if you take into account obtaining the fuel, refining it, transporting it, and every ot...

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Top Gun wrote:This is why those of us blessed enough to live in Wawa country will never set foot in a 7-11 again.

X2, or sheetz.

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Chromosomes are actually the weakest of the three even from a measurability standpoint because they are the most invisible of the three. The average person has never measured anyone's chromosomes nor had their own chromosomes measured. Least accessible, yes. Most objectively measurable: yes. That's...

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If you're going to go around saying that men are born with the brains of women, or vise-versa, it leaves you to prove both that the brain is actually completely physically unique to the opposite gender, and then that the seat of their gender resides within the brain. Brains of course aren't complet...

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Nope. Ronald Reagan famously said: "Trust, but verify". For me, it's "Verify first, then trust". :wink: I think that's backwards... I don't think Reagan's subject was some unknown party... It was the people that he had already concluded should be trusted - and the point was neve...

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Hmm.. Orienteering in unfamiliar terrain I like a lot more, to be honest. Ugh, orienteering. I had a high school gym class whose final was an orienteering course. My group had the first time slot... we couldn't find the first way point for the first hour, kept going back the teacher and saying we r...

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A large marine application perhaps. I don't particularly see it... once you get larger than your typical outboard, you get into diesels that already have the higher compression ratios and the benefit of high maturity. Krom, on your numbers: I'm not sure... Sure, your gasoline engine maybe makes it ...

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I wonder what kind of efficiency and reliability they can get out of the design... the skeptic in me says there has to be a drawback of some type, or it would have already been done. FWIW I think Tesla's barking up the right tree, I just don't know if all of the technology is quite ready for mass ma...

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I'm curious to see how this goes. It really has the feel for a watershed case to me...

EDIT: It looks like we'll have to wait for another day: link

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Occam's razor says: we can't accurately simulate the universe yet Occam's razor says: if something very unlikely happened, your distribution is incorrect, in that we both agree. You, without any scientific substantiation, conclude that the distribution must be wrong because our science is flawed. I...

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The root problem is that knowing that we presently do not have the ability to detect an earth sized exoplanet period means we know here is an absolute deficiency in the quality of the data out there which this study is based upon. So when the study makes a conclusion like that out of the blue, the ...

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Something I find interesting, people will reject a model because of the sample size, but the exact same people will claim that their personal model of reality is correct, even though it contains many of the same kinds of limitations…sample size…personal bias…and so forth. Anyway I just wanted to sa...

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Yep. In fact, since the entire universe probably contains the same building blocks that we see locally, and it's a HUGE area, the odds are even greater that there are other planets just like Earth and that those other planets harbor complex life, maybe even intelligent life. Even if you believe in ...

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Um wrong, there are concrete reasons: http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog Which means that there are quite a few planets that can support life . That life may not be or look humanoid though. I don't think so. I think there's a pretty big step from habitable to capable of suppor...

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