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General Discussion / Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« on: November 13, 2012, 01:51:50 pm »
Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on November 13, 2012, 09:23:24 am
But then you'd be unable to buy low, sell high. You'd have to buy high, and hope to sell higher.

It'd do away with the leeches and only leave the legitimate investors. Losing out the ability to make a "quick buck" with no labor investment isn't the best argument against something.

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General Discussion / Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: November 13, 2012, 12:26:02 pm »
I'll play devil's advocate here, since the article isn't saying that non-whites have lower targets individually, they're state targets for how many of each demographic group reach the same standards.

If 80% of whites were graduating, and only 50% of blacks were graduating, setting a goal by 2020 of 60% blacks graduating would NOT be racist, it would be realist.

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« on: November 12, 2012, 06:04:54 pm »
Actually since we have only RGB receptors in the eye, there are two ways to see e.g. "yellow".

Either clear yellow wavelength light, which stimulates the R and G receptors (wavelengths in between the receptor "core" values stimulate both types of cell proportionally to the wavelength), or a mix of R and G light, which stimulates each of the same cells.

Quote from: GreatJustice on November 12, 2012, 05:59:16 pm
Well light is actually just shades between red and violet, so it really should be RV.

Wavelengths too far from the core values which stimulate each type of rod/cone don't seem to work for additive color. RGB works because those values stimulate the cells the most. RV would not stimulate the Green receptor, so cannot create the full spectrum.

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General Discussion / Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« on: November 12, 2012, 05:36:11 pm »
Quote from: OREOSOME on November 12, 2012, 05:31:11 pm
By Christian Muslims, I sincerely hope that they mean the the parents were a Christian and a Muslim, and not actually referring to Muslims as a ethnic group.

Part of her confusion might be explained by her constant references to the "Muslim race" and the idea that Muslims wiped out the Islams. She started out as an anti-Asian campaigner. Australia being "Swamped By Asians" was her warning (never happened BTW).

To her, Muslims are a race because she comes from a backwards rural white ghetto. She's from Queensland, which is Australia's version of being from Alabama. It's also the state that had the most Japanese investment 20 years ago, so there was a backlash up there against Asians.

But that was on the coastal city areas, and she's from the rural part of the state which didn't get the Asian investment (nor the Asian immigration, so you have to wonder why she cared). Her profession was running a "Fish and Chip Shop" before entering politics, and all the locals knew and voted for her. It's that type of backwards, up North.

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General Discussion / Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« on: November 12, 2012, 05:29:38 pm »
I think 90% of the country just snickered and said "keep going, Pauline!". She's was worth too much as entertainment value.

A while back she moved to Britain.

To get away from all the Muslims in Australia apparently -_- despite the fact that Britain's percentage of Muslims is twice Australia's and goddamn Buddhists outnumber Muslims here, if you can believe that.

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General Discussion / Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« on: November 12, 2012, 05:13:47 pm »
Most Australians already know the Pearls of Wisdom that fall from (presumably) the mouth of our most famous right-wing ex-politician Pauline Hanson. I share them here to make Americans feel better about their own extremists:

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Ms Hanson said Malaysia had been “taken over by Muslims, despite a long history of Islam in that country”.

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    The former One Nation leader, who is having another tilt at politics, said she was wary of allowing Muslims to settle in Australia.

    But she would welcome some Muslims, she said.

    “There are Christian Muslims – there is no problems about that,” she told ABC radio yesterday.

    “But if people believe in the way of life under the Koran, that concerns me greatly.”

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General Discussion / Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« on: November 12, 2012, 04:27:46 pm »
Nah, if deflation kicked in, and you had bought a stock for $100. Then you could sell it for $100 still, but the $100 would have more real value. Inflation would reduce the "true" value of your stock.

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General Discussion / Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« on: November 12, 2012, 04:24:45 pm »
Duh, just pass a law banning the sale of any stock for less than you bought it for. Why has nobody thought of this?

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« on: November 12, 2012, 02:42:52 pm »
Quote from: Barbarossa TSG on November 12, 2012, 02:34:14 pm
Quote from: Reelya on November 12, 2012, 02:03:10 pm
Evidence of fraud:
It's not exactly unheard of for Mittens to get 0% in a vote. Remember this poll?

Note that your second link says...

05 = Barack Obama/Joe Biden (DEM)             420,953   68.74
06 = Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan (REP)              184,475   30.12

...for the state. That's not exactly 100%. There were quite a few area where Romney only got a handful of votes (541 to 4 in one such area) but also quite a few areas where they only differed by a hundred votes or so. I don't know about Cleveland, but here's how my college voted, according to student polling:

(D) Barack Obama: 90%
(R) Mitt Romney: 4%
(G) Jill Stein: 4%
Other: 2%

Cleveland probably isn't as liberal in its entirety, but some districts might be.

I'm sure Pundit Press is wholly unbiased anyway.

I was mocking them actually, for highlighting the "precinct" where Obama got 100% of the votes with 100% turnout, and neglecting to mention that only 2 people voted there. So their bias is pretty clear. One "precinct" had zero voters. I'm guessing it actually is a table of voting places?

Both the cities they're claiming fraud in (Cleveland and Philadelphia) have an exceptionally high black population, so is it that hard to believe? XD

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« on: November 12, 2012, 02:03:10 pm »
http://www.punditpress.com/2012/11/what-luck-obama-won-dozens-of-cleveland.html

Evidence of fraud:

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In total, there are 21 districts in Cleveland where Mr. Romney received precisely 0 votes. In 23 districts, he received precisely 1 vote. And naturally, in one of the districts where Obama won 100% of the vote, there was 100% turnout. What a coincidence!

...except that I went over the linked data:

http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/pdf_boe/en-US/ElectionResults2012/11062012UnofficialResultsbyPrecinct.HTM

Do you know how many people voted in the district which had 100% turnout: TWO WHOLE PEOPLE. My god! And both of them voted for Obama.

It's a CONSPIRACY

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« on: November 12, 2012, 11:55:32 am »
Not necessarily that silly, the blue states pay quite a bit more in taxes than they receive in federal assistance.

What's far more loony is the Red States are even keener on secession even though they get massive federal subsidies (with the exception of a couple of places like Texas and maybe Utah).

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« on: November 12, 2012, 10:24:02 am »
The "anti-waste" argument can be made more effective to support solar/wind.

Coal is in the ground now, it'll still be in the ground later if we DELAY using it, it's finite and LATER we'll be able to utilize it cleaner and more efficiently.

Solar energy is all around us, in greater amounts than coal. It's infinite And if we don't harness today, that amount of energy that we COULD have harnessed is lost forever. Harnessing solar NOW gets us more energy in the long run.

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« on: November 12, 2012, 03:10:18 am »
http://climatecommercial.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/us-coal-subsidy-345-billion-harvard-study/

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US Coal Subsidy $345 billion: Harvard Study
February 22, 2011

Through incorporating externalities into their lifecycle analysis, Harvard researchers have discovered the true extent of subsidies to coal in the United States:  $345 billion.

This implies a real cost of electricity production by coal-fired power plants of $0.178 per kwh – several times the accepted and oft-quoted cost of electricity, thereby significantly eroding the coal industry argument that coal is the cheap baseload power option.

That's a pretty hefty chunk of change, and a lot more than combined investment in alternative energy technology. But that takes into account "externalities", so lets look at direct budget costs to the taxpayer:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Federal_coal_subsidies

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In June 2010, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said $557 billion was spent to subsidize fossil fuels globally in 2008, compared to $43 billion in support of renewable energy. In a July 2011 EIA report on federal fossil fuel subsidies, coal was estimated to have tax expenditures (provisions in the federal tax code that reduce the tax liability of firms) with an estimated value of $561 million in FY 2010, down from $3.3 billion in FY 2007.[2]

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« on: November 11, 2012, 03:23:14 pm »
Nobody was buying that "Benghazi-gate" crap except a small echo-chamber crowd.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226160/Benghazi-Murdered-Ambassador-Chris-Stevens-warned-Consulate-withstand-coordinated-attack.html

"Also last week, ex-Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, part of a small team at the CIA annex about a mile from the consulate, claimed he twice asked his superiors if he could go and assist the consular staff during the attack but was denied."

Who can spot the error in this Daily Mail quote? Maybe the fact that Tyrone Woods was the guy who died in Benghazi. I really wish this was the first time I came across dead people being cited as having opinions in the "daily fail" -_- but it isn't.

BTW there are also Daily Mail articles listing his father as "Chris Woods" when it's actually "Charlie Woods"

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General Discussion / Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: November 11, 2012, 09:10:49 am »
Quote from: ChairmanPoo on November 11, 2012, 09:07:36 am
I don't think that's their main product.

Actually, it is their main product. Marijuana is by far the biggest selling illegal drug, although not the one with the highest profit margins per kilo. Still, that one drug is over 50% of cartel profits.

http://tucsoncitizen.com/view-from-baja-arizona/2010/09/05/mexican-marijuana-fuels-drug-cartels/

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One of the major sources of income for the Mexican drug cartels is the smuggling of marijuana into the US. The marijuana is grown in the Sierra Madre, then hauled over the border in many devious ways, and sold on the streets of the US.

US pot heads are providing the cash flow to fuel Mexican drug cartel violence.  Some estimate that as much as 60% of the revenue to the drug cartels comes from marjuana.

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