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  1. Daverino

    Hammond Indiana police sued over smashed windows, use of Taser during traffic stop

    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...
  2. Daverino

    Hammond Indiana police sued over smashed windows, use of Taser during traffic stop

    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...
  3. Daverino

    Hammond Indiana police sued over smashed windows, use of Taser during traffic stop

    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.'
  4. Daverino

    *NonOfficial* Ongoing states striking down same-sex marriage ban thread

    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/
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    Supreme court refuses to hear gay marriage appeals

    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...
  6. Daverino

    Supreme court refuses to hear gay marriage appeals

    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...
  7. Daverino

    I'm the 1%

    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.
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    Supreme court refuses to hear gay marriage appeals

    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...
  9. Daverino

    Do you find yourself locked into one/few games?

    I can't stop playing FTL. . .
  10. Daverino

    Economy GDP revised down to negative 2.9% first quarter

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

    Economy GDP revised down to negative 2.9% first quarter

    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.
  12. Daverino

    Economy GDP revised down to negative 2.9% first quarter

    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%...
  13. Daverino

    Economy GDP revised down to negative 2.9% first quarter

    The Iron Bank of Braavos is doing it. . .
  14. Daverino

    Economy GDP revised down to negative 2.9% first quarter

    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...
  15. Daverino

    Economy GDP revised down to negative 2.9% first quarter

    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.
  16. Daverino

    Looks like Charlie Rangel might get Cantored - Primary

    Ahhahahah, no. Rangel is NY13. That's Harlem, Morningside Heights and the Upper West Side. That's as Democratic a district as this nation has.
  17. Daverino

    Uber-Putin surrenders to Obama's weak chin and furious blinking.

    Putin has renounced his right to invade the Ukraine Pro-Russian rebels agree to ceasefire Peace talks begin in the Ukraine I find this all unbelievable. The limp-wristed American-driven foreign policy of isolating Putin and his supporting oligarchs politically and economically has forced...
  18. Daverino

    Federal Judge Upholds NYC Policy Barring Unvaccinated Students During Illnesses

    Yeah. . . you are. . . I'm not mad. You wasted all of 30 seconds or so before posting more anti-vax responses in this forum after getting done replying to me that you aren't. I need not do anything. You shoot your own feet with frightening regularity. Saying you are pro-vaccination and...
  19. Daverino

    dude gets trapped in german vagina

    I was certain there was at least one typo in the headline when I entered this thread. I was wrong.
  20. Daverino

    Federal Judge Upholds NYC Policy Barring Unvaccinated Students During Illnesses

    No, you're being hypocritical as usual. This is your modus operandi here. Vociferously argue your various anti-gay, anti-birth control, anti-vaccination, anti-abortion views in the forums but claim you actually hold the contrary point of view when called out. You're like that guy who hasn't...
  21. Daverino

    Federal Judge Upholds NYC Policy Barring Unvaccinated Students During Illnesses

    What what? This became a Texashiker anti-vaccination Straw Man thread? I am shocked. Shocked!
  22. Daverino

    2014 Steam Summer Sale Thread

    I have gotten more game time per dollar out of FTL than any game I've paid for. Only World of Tanks (free) has more bang for the buck. According to Steam, I have 1,020 hours playing FTL. . . Yikes!
  23. Daverino

    [MMO] World of Tanks

    Yeah, each tank has three camo ratings. Not moving, moving and firing. The TD 'camo bonus' which was removed last patch was that TDs had a considerably better firing camo rating than a comparable firing tank. The difference between the firing and not firing camo rating is based on the...
  24. Daverino

    2014 Steam Summer Sale Thread

    Use this as a guide:
  25. Daverino

    Presbyterian Church U.S.A recognizes gay marriage

    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/presbyterian-pastors-preside-gay-marriages-24218717 The evolution of marriage from the purchase and sale of one or more women to a man to the loving relationship between two humans continues. Every one of these small steps adds up to bigger strides...
  26. Daverino

    A pc gaming lounge in NYC

    Still haven't seen the OP post WHY he thinks folks in NYC would want to go to a PC Gaming lounge. Then again he hasn't even said WHERE in NYC he wants to open it. It'd be out of business in 30 days in Chelsea or the West Village. Anyone who is into PC Gaming there would have their own rig and...
  27. Daverino

    Cheney Announces formation of anti-Obama group and calls president ‘dangerous’

    It's NOT OUR FUCKING WAR. Can't you get that through your thick skull? These people have wanted to kill each other for years, no different from the Tutsis and the Hutus in Rwanda or the Bosnians, Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Yugoslavia. We needed to stay the fuck out in the first place...
  28. Daverino

    Cheney Announces formation of anti-Obama group and calls president ‘dangerous’

    Got US forces out of Iraq. Getting American forces out of Afghanistan. Risked his presidency to kill Osama bin Laden. Intervened in Libya as a player in a coalition and killed no Americans. Did NOT give American weapons to the Syrians which would now be in the hands of ISIL. Saved the auto...
  29. Daverino

    Cheney Announces formation of anti-Obama group and calls president ‘dangerous’

    A good thing, because if you want to pressure a nuclear power like Russia into doing anything you need to do it by political and economic isolation. Threatening Russia with military consequences is a laughable option. Which is also a good thing. Iran is a country which does not yet have...
  30. Daverino

    Hell Freezes over. Glenn Beck admits: Liberals got Iraq right

    More or less, yes. Was invading Iraq a monumentally stupid idea that history had shown was monumentally stupid when tried in other places? Yes. Did people make a lot of money off of the downfall and subsequent chaos in Iraq. Sure. Was there a secret economic cabal was pulling the...
  31. Daverino

    A pc gaming lounge in NYC

    As a long time resident of NYC I can tell you that the costs would be enormous and the demand is non-existent. There have been few of these places down around Chinatown and the Bowery in the past but they never last. There are maybe three cybercafes in the whole of Manhattan now? And they're...
  32. Daverino

    Benghazi Suspect Said He Was Moved To Take Revenge For American-Made Video

    Come on people, the only real reason he said this was to distract everyone from Benghazi. Soooo obvious.
  33. Daverino

    Hell Freezes over. Glenn Beck admits: Liberals got Iraq right

    It was never really about any of that either. It was about "better, smarter, wiser men" who believed they knew how to change the world into the image that they thought was better, smarter and wiser. Oil, jobs and all that would take care of itself once America had rightfully established...
  34. Daverino

    Rape victim is coveted status - George Wills

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/let ctrl+f 'To give permission' Phrase not found! ctrl+f 'conesnt' Phrase not found! 'Iraqi forces were in retreat today, letting ISIS capture the town of Sammara.' 'I forgot to close my window and let my books get wet from the rain.' 'I had...
  35. Daverino

    Rape victim is coveted status - George Wills

    So you choose the one definition of the word that has (looking at Merriam Webster here) at least six as a transitive verb that fits your world view of wanting to rape women. . . You're really fucking sick.
  36. Daverino

    Rape victim is coveted status - George Wills

    Which gets to the core of the 'let' argument. You can let someone do something, without resistance, but it doesn't mean you consented to it. If you've got a gun to your head, you're going to 'let' people do a lot of things you would not normally 'let' them do. And when you're a young woman in...
  37. Daverino

    Rape victim is coveted status - George Wills

    Yay. Someone who is desperate to justify rape putting me on ignore. I'm ok with that.
  38. Daverino

    Rape victim is coveted status - George Wills

    No that is NOT what I said. I said that the word 'let' is independent of force. So her 'letting' him have sex with her after she said no is equivalent to me 'letting' you take my wallet after I said no. If you 'let' someone do something it doesn't imply consent.