Recent content by Daverino

This right here. There's a level of bullshit that other races, especially Blacks, go through daily that White folks like myself just simply don't. We can sympathize with racial profiling, but we cannot empathize. And that lack of empathy gives us a very skewed view of events like these...

Hey, whatever. . . I'm white and have been pulled over four times for speeding in my life. Got four tickets. Never once did I think the officer was going to pull his gun on me. Also, I didn't really give much thought to what I was doing in the car. The laws of probability say that if race...

So we should add 'Moving while Black' to 'Driving while Black' to the list of things that 'concern the safety of officers while making a minor traffic stop.'

Time for another update: Nevada and Idaho's laws went down today. Link: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/07/federal-appeals-court-gay-marriage-idaho-nevada/16872117/

Well that's your problem right there you neanderthal. You might as well believe that water is dry as well. There is no evidence, ANYWHERE, that homosexuality is a mental illness. So if you're basing your conclusions on a demonstrably false premise there really is no point engaging you. You...

Sigh. Now I remember why I stopped posting on this site. I spent a few minutes typing out a run down on how the non-ruling affects gay marriage laws throughout the country and they likely long term consequences. Instead we get pages of Texashiker explaining that allowing gay marriage is the...

You answered 12 of 12 questions correctly. You scored better than 99% of the public and the same as 1%. The only one I sorta guessed on was the Americans living under the poverty line question.

You have a number of sincerely conservative justices on the Supreme Court who could not rule in favor of gay marriage. Scalia, Alito and Thomas, for example, would never be on the supporting opinion. At the same time, all Circuit Court rulings to reach the Supreme Court has been the same...

I can't stop playing FTL. . .

Best part of it all is that I'm making a killing in the markets today. . .

10 is 25% more than 8 10% is 25% more than 8% is meaningless. A percentage is the division of two numbers normalized to a fraction of 100. It is bounded by zero and 1. You cannot treat a percentage as a real number mathematically speaking.

HOLY FUCK NO. You're trying to calculate a percentage error of a percentage? Ratios do not work that way. By your mathologicification, an estimate of .0001% compared to an actual of .1% is a thousand-fold error while an estimate of 50% is only a mere doubling error if the actual is 100%...

The Iron Bank of Braavos is doing it. . .

I'll answer that because it's easy. Q1 ended in March. Today is June. The economic contraction between January and March worked itself out of the valuation of the markets months ago. Everyone knew that the economy contracted in Q1 despite the estimate made in the winter of last year. The...

The Dow is a measure of the value of the companies that populate it. It's not an estimate. . . it's an actual. If you're looking at a benchmark as a predictor, you really don't know what a benchmark is for.