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7441
« on: February 17, 2015, 04:59:48 AM »
7442
« on: February 17, 2015, 04:51:23 AM »
Jesus. I didn't think the new government could sink that low.
7443
« on: February 16, 2015, 06:15:36 PM »
in places like the U.S. I do think that the wealthy pay a disproportionate amount into the public purse. What's the alternative though, raising the taxes on the middle and lower classes?
Nope, just not spending as much (yes, I know how politically difficult that is). I'd never advocate raising taxes on the less well-off just to finance reductions on the most well-off. It's either a proper tax cut, or bust.
7444
« on: February 16, 2015, 06:07:27 PM »
I don't know anybody who promotes a truly flat tax. Even I, at one point, wouldn't go beyond a two-tier system of income without tax and then taxed at a certain percent (I still flirt with the idea occasionally). The data is divided, at best. Countries like Estonia have had considerable success with the flat tax, and in places like the U.S. I do think that the wealthy pay a disproportionate amount into the public purse. Speaking of revenue, too, Russia is often regarded as the poster child for the flat-tax as revenue from their flat income tax rose fairly consistently, although the reasons behind this re disputed.
7445
« on: February 16, 2015, 05:56:35 PM »
Every so often for me. Not in enough social situations to warrant an enjoyment of drinking for me, really.
DUDE
what the fuck was that pizza/pie shit you made with cookie dough as a base and bacon and shit
i lost where you told me how to fucking make it
tf nigga cookie dough? You mean this?
There's not much of a recipe for it really. Was basically an experiment that ended up being really good.
Just get your basic breakfast biscuit/scone dough that's in the cardboard tube containers and mold the dough into a deep dish crust. You might have to use some extra flour. Then just crack maybe 6 or so eggs and stir them up good. Pour them over the crust and then sprinkle on ham slices, cheese, bacon, whatever omelet toppings you prefer. Also a bit of salt and maybe pepper and/or onion salt over the whole thing if you like it. Bake it at the temp recommended on the biscuit/scone container until the crust is golden.
omg thank you
7446
« on: February 16, 2015, 05:46:05 PM »
Every so often for me. Not in enough social situations to warrant an enjoyment of drinking for me, really.
DUDE what the fuck was that pizza/pie shit you made with cookie dough as a base and bacon and shit i lost where you told me how to fucking make it
7447
« on: February 16, 2015, 04:49:53 PM »
Regularly. I usually have a beer after work and just decompress.
my nigger
7448
« on: February 16, 2015, 04:27:22 PM »
Regularly. Not to the point where I'm noticeably drunk, however. The amount I drink also varies.
7449
« on: February 16, 2015, 04:24:23 PM »
What's the demarcation between frequently and regularly?
7450
« on: February 16, 2015, 02:01:32 PM »
No.
But if you told me, I'd just tell you to shut the fuck up.
7451
« on: February 16, 2015, 01:31:39 PM »
Roses are red. Violets are red. Everything is red. Communism.
7452
« on: February 16, 2015, 01:03:43 PM »
Is the pound strong?
It's too strong at the moment.
7453
« on: February 16, 2015, 12:59:07 PM »
Good job, West Midlands.ITT: Place bets on how long it takes for me to get shot.
7454
« on: February 16, 2015, 12:12:25 PM »
I will make the point that Chicago is surrounded by guns so trying to control guns in that city is impossible.
A better point to make is that Chicago has been one of the crime capitals of the US for decades before gun control even became a thing. Those bringing up Chicago as a point that gun control doesn't work are the same kind of people who put a bandaid on a gun shot wound and then claim that bandaids don't work because it didn't heal the injury. I'm not going to bother looking up the statistics again, but both gun and "ordinary" violence strongly declined in Chicago after the gun control measures were implemented.
tl;dr: It's an argument only the most uninformed people make.
The entire point of the Chicago argument--at least when I make it--is that gun control is not the prime determinant of gun crime.
7455
« on: February 16, 2015, 12:05:19 PM »
Insidious 1 + 2
Fucking kill yourself.
7456
« on: February 16, 2015, 12:03:36 PM »
we're also cutting him some fucking slack.
Well, America isn't. The western Euro countries are, but not America which wasn't involved in this. They want to arm Ukraine, thus another proxy war is started due to a wanna be Czar trying to make a Eurasia union.
And yet John Kerry is willing to go on record and indicate an interest in rolling back the sanctions.
7457
« on: February 16, 2015, 12:00:25 PM »
My amazon wishlist: Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter. The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide by Jean Hatzfeld. Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A.C. Grayling. The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen. Average is Over by Tyler Cowen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider by Ishmael Beah. Four Laws that Drive the Universe by Peter Atkins. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark. Flatland by Edwin A. Abbot. Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God by Paul Copan. Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman. While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within by Bruce Bawer. Moral Minds: How Nature Designed our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong by Marc Hauser. The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain by James Blair. The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and For Humanism by A.C. Grayling. The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson. Greenmantle by John Buchan. Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio. Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick. The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes. The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and the Natural History of Religion by David Hume. The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris. By Sword and Fire: Cruelty and Atrocity in Medieval Warfare by Sean McGlynn. The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. The Anglo-Saxons: At War 800-1066 by Paul Hill. The Anglo-Saxon World by Nicholas Higham. Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814. The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge. Tombstone: The Untold History of Mao's Great Famine by Yang Jisheng. China: A History by John Keay. As you can tell, I have far too many interests.
7458
« on: February 16, 2015, 11:34:52 AM »
Is the story's placement in the 27th century necessary or contingent?
I would revise down the time, if it isn't necessary.
7459
« on: February 16, 2015, 11:32:32 AM »
The oldest book I own is a 1936 copy of C.H. Firth's 1901 book Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England.
I got quite a few books recently for my birthday, but I can't be assed to list them. The ones I'm reading at the moment, however, are:
- The Age of Turbulence (2/3rds through)
- The Wealth of Nations (nearly finished)
- FDR (1/3rd through)
- Also, Atlas Shrugged, but it's really fucking boring.
After that I'll be starting this lot (yes, simultaneously):
- House of Debt
- The Wealth of Nations: Books IV-V
- The Quest for Cosmic Justice
- Logic
- A Universe from Nothing
- Napoleon the Great
Amazon's down at the moment, so I'll have to post my wishlist later.
7460
« on: February 16, 2015, 10:48:46 AM »
Long guns are better than handguns. Why not advocate for less gun restrictions so you can enjoy them as a sport, not just as a tool to feel safer?
Because you can already own shotguns and rifles.
7461
« on: February 16, 2015, 09:28:02 AM »
. . .
Oh yeah, I'm completely with legalising things like batons and mace in the first instance.
7462
« on: February 16, 2015, 09:16:11 AM »
You've never lived in a Pro-gun environment?
Yet despite that, I am exceptionally pro-gun in comparison to most British people.
7463
« on: February 16, 2015, 09:14:06 AM »
What I would rather see is proper protection for homeowners I'm with you, there. suddenly the UK has turned into another USA. The problem with this is that it's two-dimensional. Like I've said before, Plano is a lot safer than Chicago. Challenger has explained this in the past with the differences between those two places in terms of gangs--which is correct. It's more the culture of a place which determines things like gun crimes, not the stance of gun control. That being said, there is quite a clear empirical basis for not jumping the gun (hue) and saying that the legalisation of handguns will turn England into Fallout: New Vegas.
7464
« on: February 16, 2015, 08:02:14 AM »
Came across this interesting paper from about a month ago. The most accepted theory for the drastic decline in violence between 1500-1900 is known as the "civilising process", which describes a growth in centralised state power over fiefdoms and the establishment of a monopoly on violence. The problem with this theory, however, is that there are some rather large holes it would seem. For instance, both Belgium and the Netherlands were essentially leaders in this decline, yet they lacked such strong centralised governments deemed to be the progenitors of said decline. The same is true of Sweden. Contrast, also, with Italy which were lagging behind the trend despite the presence of large, bureaucratic governments. Homicide was increasing before the invention of concealable firearms and decreasing after. While there may be many other theories, the sudden and spectacular decline in violence around 1505 and again around 1610-1621 is consistent with the theory that the invention and proliferation of concealable firearms was responsible, at least in part, for the decline in homicide. The landscape of personal violence was suddenly and permanently altered by the introduction of a new technology. The handgun was the ultimate equalizer. The physically strong could no longer feel confident of domination over the weak. And, indeed, there is some evidence to suggest that criminals' behaviour is influenced by the possibility of their victim being armed: Even in the United States today, criminals are reluctant to encounter armed victims. In 1981 Wright and Rossi interviewed 1874 incarcerated felons in ten states. Eighty-one percent agreed with the statement, “A smart criminal always tries to find out if his potential victim is armed.” Thirty-four percent report being, “scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim. (Wright and Rossi 1986, pp. 132-155) Using the same data, Kleck found that, among criminals who had committed violent crimes or burglaries, 42 percent had been deterred during an attack by an armed victim and 56 percent agreed that, “most criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police.”(Kleck 1997, p. 180) I'm not at all making an absolute prescription, since there is no clear correlation between gun control laws and murder rates, but in the U.K. handguns used in crime have doubled since they were banned in 1997. Evidence from America also suggests that, while it may not result in an overall decline in violent crime, easier access to firearms decreases the murder rate. And again in England specifically, some studies have demonstrated a correlation between a high density in firearms and a low number of violent crimes. While we oughtn't go around handing out pistols to everybody, I think the option of liberalising our handgun laws deserves time and attention.
7465
« on: February 16, 2015, 07:00:42 AM »
Either AI or digital.
7466
« on: February 16, 2015, 06:33:34 AM »
Simon looks like he wants to fucking off himself.
7467
« on: February 16, 2015, 05:29:19 AM »
Sounds quite Nietzschean, I like it.
This is no time for brevity.
Your sentence was shorter than mine.
Technically untrue, both were six words.
Did you do that on purpose?
7468
« on: February 16, 2015, 05:24:45 AM »
This is probably one of those instances where I'd support the federal government over a state government.
Well of course, you live in Europe.
What the fuck does that have to do with anything?
7469
« on: February 15, 2015, 06:05:07 PM »
The movie was pretty good
Holy fucking shit are you fucking insane
Probably a bit.
I think you're a twat though.
Why's that?
o bae im only messin gimme a hug
7470
« on: February 15, 2015, 06:03:46 PM »
That third picture, man.
That's a fucking triumphal frog.
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