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6661
« on: March 13, 2015, 07:51:19 AM »
So you just hate the majority of them (for reasons unrelated to their skin color), hate their culture and their music, and disagree with all of their political beliefs. And you're not racist.
6662
« on: March 13, 2015, 07:26:26 AM »
That was one of the primary reasons I was hesitant to like the decision. All we got was a small summary of a 400 page document. No chance for journalists or lawyers to evaluate it.
6663
« on: March 12, 2015, 10:53:08 PM »
Backdoor Sluts 9
6664
« on: March 12, 2015, 08:33:48 PM »
I'm sure they've already begun spending the £240bn in anticipation.
6665
« on: March 12, 2015, 06:07:32 PM »
Futurama's ending was pretty great.
6666
« on: March 12, 2015, 01:12:37 PM »
I prefer to see the retail price of something rather than its taxed price.
6667
« on: March 12, 2015, 07:31:50 AM »
I test drove a Paceman when I was car-shopping. They're definitely fun to drive and look at, inside and out. My biggest issue was the costly maintenance that comes with its BMW parts.
There are much better cars out there, to be sure.
6668
« on: March 11, 2015, 10:08:30 PM »
Smart tv?
I dunno, maybe? I'm not even sure what the distinction is.
6669
« on: March 11, 2015, 07:15:23 PM »
I looked to how to turn it off, and it's really easy, but it's still ridiculous that it's even an option.
6670
« on: March 11, 2015, 06:30:53 PM »
I recently bought a Panasonic TV, and I've noticed that when I use menus, or any option really, even changing the volume, a small ad appears.
What is this bullshit? How can it be okay for companies to do this?
6671
« on: March 11, 2015, 06:16:36 PM »
Can't imagine how that feels, sorry man. I hope you two find a good alternative. On the other hand, you don't have to worry about contraception.
6672
« on: March 11, 2015, 06:10:55 PM »
Fuck you.
6673
« on: March 11, 2015, 12:58:56 PM »
86 last count.
6674
« on: March 11, 2015, 09:23:46 AM »
Bush/Rubio v Clinton/DGAF
6675
« on: March 10, 2015, 06:44:34 PM »
In an ideal world, politicians would answer stuff like this. Adding so much content into each question just allows them to provide a less poignant response. I'd make them much more specific and short.
6676
« on: March 10, 2015, 02:18:34 PM »
80% Libertarian. Just right of dead center. Breakdown: Graph:
6677
« on: March 10, 2015, 01:57:10 PM »
The CEO stopped the donations pretty much immediately after the controversy anyway.
6678
« on: March 10, 2015, 10:32:30 AM »
OP didn't ask for pros and cons. Cons of inflation are that your money buys less and it can disproportionately affect more marginal companies. Benefits are that it increases production and prevents stagnation.
6679
« on: March 10, 2015, 06:28:41 AM »
What will you be studying? Arizona State University has a very good business school.
6680
« on: March 10, 2015, 06:26:13 AM »
I wouldn't say it's either good or bad. It's just an economy's aggregate reaction to fluctuations in supply and demand as well as the supply of money. Trying to regulate it prevents any of those factors from swinging wildly out of control -- in theory, of course.
6681
« on: March 09, 2015, 09:39:02 AM »
I'm not so sold. I lived in a border state (and a true one at that, not NorCal or some other area hardly affected) for 22 years and have a degree of anecdotal experience with illegal immigrants. On one hand, I know a lot of very smart, patriotic, and passionate illegal immigrant teenagers; in fact, in a nationwide high school robotics tournament, a local team started by Hispanic illegal immigrants is one of the top-performing teams in the country and is a strong source of STEM motivation for many Hispanic kids. On the other, illegal immigration (and legal immigration from Mexico) is a massive source of slavery, human trafficking, drug trafficking, gun trafficking, and violent crime.
It's difficult to assess the total utility of a person, as a unit. You can't just look at it as how much tax money they'll bring in, what jobs they can fill, or how much it will cost to deport. How much does it cost to incarcerate them for crimes unrelated to their immigration status? How much does it cost the state to provide schooling and medical and social programs that aren't being paid into because illegal immigrants don't file taxes? How much does it cost other agencies to deal with the massive amount of crime?
$500 billion over 20 years? How about the $100+ billion illegal immigration costs (not including deportation) every year? We can't just isolate figures like this, slap a rGDP loss on it, and say that's all there is to talk about. And at the end of the day, the Executive branch exists to execute the laws, not decide which ones to enforce, like ending DEA raids and stopping deportations. I'm all for an efficient and speedy path to citizenship and social programs to remove harmful socioeconomic conditions, but Obama's measure does none of that. It's purely an abdication of responsibility.
6682
« on: March 09, 2015, 08:05:06 AM »
It's cute that some people still don't understand how copyright infringement is theft.
6683
« on: March 09, 2015, 08:01:58 AM »
I wonder when Halo will devolve into an entirely multiplayer game. No campaign, just episodic Spartan ops at most, and yearly releases with updated graphics and polished gameplay. Like Unreal Tournament or Madden games.
6684
« on: March 08, 2015, 02:26:40 PM »
Easily one of the most fun movies I've seen in a long time. But I disagree with Colin Firth: brogues > oxfords for anything but formal occasions.
6685
« on: March 07, 2015, 02:17:16 PM »
Well let's take a look at the ups and downs. Suspended animation would require a power source. An enormous power source, and a stable one. A power source that could not, in all likely possibilities, ever fail. Because if it did, then you lose the cargo of the ship. Okay, that's an issue on any ship. I think if we're talking a deep-space voyage, a stable power source is a given. Skeleton crews, small groups of people, would have to be 100% devoted in their convictions. They would have to be psychologically sound, and have to be almost unbreakable psychologically. Wouldn't everyone? I'm talking a rotating crew that would serve for a given period, then return to suspended animation, followed by another set of crew members. Mostly to do regular maintenance at set intervals. Like, every 3 months a few people would be awoken to do maintenance that can't be done by drones or the ship itself. It would take a few days, then they'd return to sleep. But what if you built a more welcoming environment? A ship so massive that it mirrored terrestrial life almost perfectly? Gravity, plants, environments and so on. Self sustained and managed ecosystems that not only serve as providers, but a homely environment? The only real downside is the scale of the project, and the careful regulation of population. With a rotating skeleton crew in suspended animation, you don't need a massive ship, you have drastically less power requirements, no need to regulate multiple generations of breeding, education, physical conditioning, etc.
6686
« on: March 07, 2015, 02:02:57 PM »
In my home state of Arizona, the legislature just passed a budget deal that many of my outspoken liberal friends are criticizing on social media. The biggest issue comes from cuts to education and social welfare, in the form of $99 million cut from university funds. http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/editorial/2015/03/04/arizona-budget-deal-universities/24397351/Within this deal, an anticipated $75 million cut to Arizona's universities has blown up to $104 million, or 14 percent of the universities' overall allocation from the previous year. The community college districts in Arizona's three most populous counties — Maricopa, Pima and Pinal — would lose all their state allocations, a total of $19 million.
Much has been made of the fact that these are tough times. State revenues are way down. Between fiscal 2015 and next year, Arizona faces an estimated $1.5 billion shortfall.
But this deeper-than-expected raid on higher education is not a consequence of scarce financial resources. It is the result of ideological absolutism — and misplaced ideology, at that.
[...]
The governor had planned to use the fees to increase state Department of Public Safety funding by $65 million. Some budget analysts believe the additional cuts to the universities are being used to offset the loss of those higher MVD fees. The cause of these cuts is a projected $1.5 billion reduction in state tax revenue requiring across-the-board cuts to nearly every facet of the budget. Democrats are claiming that the education funding would have been recouped if Republicans had passed a proposed bill to tack on an additional fee for vehicle registration at the DMV -- $7-9 per registration. Republicans claimed the fee was tantamount to a tax on vehicle use, which the democrats denied; ironically, this is the same party that decries requiring voter IDs, often provided free by the state, as a tax or discrimination on voting. What irks me the most is that our universities are doing fine; Arizona State University is beginning a $265 million renovation of its football stadium is on a long spree of constructing new buildings on all four of its Phoenix campuses. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2015/03/06/budget-balance-lawmakers-press-votes/24523317/Republicans applauded the budget as putting the state on a path toward a truly balanced budget, devoid of tricks and gimmicks to make state spending match state revenue.
But Sen. Katie Hobbs, D-Phoenix and the Senate minority leader, called the budget "a ransom note to the people of Arizona," decrying the cuts to education, health care and the social safety net. This just seems par for the course when it comes to Republicans making budgets during periods of economic slumps. Hard choices have to be made, and Democrats seem more than willing to begrudgingly pass budgets by a thin margin while simultaneously slamming Republicans for cutting necessary money. Debts and balanced budgets are serious issues, and money can't just magically appear from thin air and wishes. So it feels like fiscal conservatives are fated to always be the bad guys in the economy; when things are going badly, they'll push for the hard cuts that nobody wants but everybody knows need to be made.
6687
« on: March 07, 2015, 12:11:04 PM »
I think suspended animation would be a more successful route, with a skeleton crew rotation. The resources required to sustain multiple generations of people seems insurmountable.
6688
« on: March 06, 2015, 09:22:51 PM »
I'm conflicted about whether this actually belongs in Serious. I don't consider climate change denial to be a valid topic in Serious as it's grounded in non-science and is universally rejected by the scientific community. But back on topic: fuck.
6689
« on: March 06, 2015, 09:16:40 PM »
I consider Assad a puppet for his family more than anything else. The guy was a doctor in the UK before being called back to take the presidency, which his family clearly wanted to control through him.
6690
« on: March 06, 2015, 08:44:27 PM »
How is this newsworthy?
"They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time when somebody says your name for the last time."
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