Bay 12 Games Forum

Fortunately the girl had to go home. I have enough time to prep the hallway with some stinefall traps before she comes here again.

You have any cash / tools? Seriously just put a bolt inside the door, bolt the door closed, and blast metal music on your stereo to cover their annoying rap. Ignoring idiots is the #1 best way.

I think one ought to consider the world these people grew up in before condemning them.  They were probably great folk for the times they lived in, if not so great by modern standards.  Ah, progress!

Richard Dawkins talks about this in this video, where the most enlightened, liberal writers of the late 19th century sound a far right as Hitler to our ears:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwz6B8BFkb4

Quote from: mainiac on February 11, 2013, 08:15:48 am

You guys should do what the Japanese did.  Threaten the independence of your central bank until they stop being morons.  We'd all be much better off for it.

Japan: An example of success in interventionism to be emulated.

Gonna have to admit, that's a new one.

Japan may have high debts, but they have the third highest national wealth per capita of any country in the world, their spending supports that. You have to factor in their absolutely humongous private wealth.

As an example, what was the last time you heard of a foreign corporation buying out a Japanese company? It's not very common. If they were really that weak, people would be buying out their asset left, right and center.

I've seen some of the KKK higher-ups robes, you'd swear they were RPG LP'er wizards:

Quote from: Leafsnail on February 13, 2013, 07:55:06 pm

Quite a lot of murders are drug related but it's nowhere near a majority.  I think the rate by assault weapon varies wildly according to what you count as an assault weapon.  The reason that legislation is restricted to "assault weapons" is probably due to the political difficulty in legislating against the guns that are used in most murders.

Yeah?

Well, yeah, if you actually take a second to look up the statistics, rather than "gut reaction".

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/the-single-best-anti-gun-death-policy-ending-the-drug-war/266505/

Reliable statistics on the number of drug-related murders in the United States are hard to come by. A 1994 Department of Justice report suggested that between a third and a half of U.S. homicides were drug-related, while a recent Center for Disease Control study found that the rate varied between 5% and 25% (a 2002 Bureau of Justice report splits the difference).

If you don't believe the official estimates, you need a better reason than "coz i said so".

Whilst they're not the majority of gun murders, they're still a significant fraction, though. Mind you, the vast bulk of actual gun deaths in the USA are suicide. Leading to the question of whether guns in households make suicide too easy ... which is a whole other gun debate.

He is misunderstanding/misrepresenting the statistics.

There ARE more people murdered each year with blunt objects than are murdered with "Assault Weapons". But that is not the case when you expand that to include all guns.

I wonder if the federal assault weapons, etc., already had some impact on those statistics.

Like saying the polio vaccine was a waste of time because where's the polio?

Pffft, tiny compared to the Siberian one. Call me back when you got a real big one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Traps

Lasted 1 million years, covered half of modern Siberia.

A lot of the immunization/autism belief seems to be related to the fact that there are immunization shots which occur about the same time parents start noticing signs of autism, so inevitably a fair percentage of parents will start noticing the autism signs right after the immunization shots. Finding patterns where are none is a very old human foible.

This has also been shown to occur in lab animals, where a random food dropping device is erroneously believed by a lab animal to be connected to a lever. The animal develops the false belief and thereafter persists in pressing the lever and looking for food, even though there is zero correlation. This shows the tendency to notice when there is a coincidental correlation, and ignore the times there was no correlation.