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eviltastic posted:Personally, when I think of biblical epic films from Hollywood, the first ones that come to mind are ones that made a shitload of money. I have only seen parts, but growing up there was always a channel playing The Ten Commandments at Easter.
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Air is lava! posted:I don't know what to think of this. On the first glance, that elephant looks sorta educated. But if you examine it more closely you'll see that he is talking about the laffer curve which doesn't even make sense in this context. The laffer curve is complete bunk. . I mean, it sounds nice and simple (and we're what, 22 points behind it?) and it's a good way to appear economically literate while promoting fundamentally decent public policy leading to social democracy... but it's still not real economics. Though the logic is certainly consistent, (as even econ profs will admit) that logic is very flawed in some instances - humans have never nor will likely ever function on perfect reason and information. Basing policy decisions of a hypothetical curve of rate v return derived from logic that often contradicts empirical evidence is lovely policy making, and it bothers me that the vast majority of the anti-tax crowd nonetheless trot out a hypothesis. Also, Laffer is a crock and his theories aren't considered to be at all useful by most schools because he has absolutely no quantifiable data to support his claims. The Laffer curve has the academic evidence of Young Earth Creationism. The Iron Rose fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Feb 24, 2014 |
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eviltastic posted:Personally, when I think of biblical epic films from Hollywood, the first ones that come to mind are ones that made a shitload of money.
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You've been pushing too many pencils, Dillon. Had enough? 
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eviltastic posted:Personally, when I think of biblical epic films from Hollywood, the first ones that come to mind are ones that made a shitload of money.
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Fulchrum posted:Doesn't Passion of the Christ hold the record for highest domestic box office earnings?
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Fulchrum posted:Doesn't Passion of the Christ hold the record for highest domestic box office earnings? Yeah but that wasn't made by Atheist Hollywood, it was made by the small-time indie Christian filmmaker Mel Gibson, bless his heart.
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Fulchrum posted:Doesn't Passion of the Christ hold the record for highest domestic box office earnings? A quick googling tells me it's #25. Unless you adjust for inflation, at which point it's beaten handily by films like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:I've been looking over international cartoons trying to see if anyone was defending Yanukovych, to no avail. Maybe Russian cartoonists would, though I don't think Cagle has any on his site and I don't know where to find any Russian political cartoons. If anyone can find any, please post them. I checked a few online versions of Russian and Ukrainian papers and couldn't find much in the way of cartoons at all. Novye Izvestia has a gallery but 95% of them are boring Olympics drawings. (Though there is one guy who really likes suggesting that Russian men would rather watch soccer than look at naked women) I did find a few from the last elections:  "For what?" "I only stole" The most "pro-Yanukovych" one here is just an attack on Yulia Tymoshenko.  The puppetmaster on the left is labeled "Donetskians." Donetsk Oblast has a pretty big Russian population and Yanukovych was the governor for a while. The puppetmaster on the right is "Gasmen" - a reference to Gazprom and Russian influence presumably.  "You are lying!" "You won't take it!" This is what I imagine Dees's photoshops would look like if he were sane
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Air is lava! posted:I don't know what to think of this. On the first glance, that elephant looks sorta educated. But if you examine it more closely you'll see that he is talking about the laffer curve which doesn't even make sense in this context.
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I was considering in what ways you could read this cartoon, since it feels somewhat ambigious. I'm sorry, if that sounded weird. Was that post really that bad? 
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Mordiceius posted:Unironically this. Most people that are out there arguing religion only pay attention to or disregard the New Covenant as it suits their argument. I'm pretty sure the only part of the New Covenant that those types ever pay one iota of attention to is that Jesus delivered it and that he is the Christ. That way that means they get to go to heaven while ignoring everything he taught in order to cling to the more vicious proscriptions of Leviticus to justify their personal hangups. e: Or so they think. I'm atheist myself so maybe I'm way off base, but it seems to me that an all-powerful being wouldn't be thrilled by a cadre of shitheel followers purposely ignoring what "accepting Jesus" actually means because they think they're super smart and found a loophole in the divine system.
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Lenisto posted:
To be fair, Tymoshenko's corruption record makes Yanukovych look almost tolerable.
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D.N. Nation posted:[quote="Ammat The Ankh" post="426153558"] Why the gently caress did his boss hire an unnecessary employee, sounds like a lovely businessman.
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Axetrain posted:Why the gently caress did his boss hire an unnecessary employee, sounds like a lovely businessman. See businesses hire as many people as they can afford not as many people as they need to turn a profit and meet their demand, whenever wages or taxes go up they fire all those extra people because they are forced to by the evil government.
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eviltastic posted:A quick googling tells me it's #25. Unless you adjust for inflation, at which point it's beaten handily by films like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur.
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The Iron Rose posted:The laffer curve is complete bunk. . I mean, it sounds nice and simple (and we're what, 22 points behind it?) and it's a good way to appear economically literate while promoting fundamentally decent public policy leading to social democracy... but it's still not real economics. Though the logic is certainly consistent, (as even econ profs will admit) that logic is very flawed in some instances - humans have never nor will likely ever function on perfect reason and information. Basing policy decisions of a hypothetical curve of rate v return derived from logic that often contradicts empirical evidence is lovely policy making, and it bothers me that the vast majority of the anti-tax crowd nonetheless trot out a hypothesis. Is there any relation between the Laffer curve and its related theories and the Efficient Market Hypothesis?
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Basic math here. Three employees at 7.25 USD/Hour = 21.75 USD/Hour Two employees at 10.10 USD/Hour = 20.20 USD/Hour The employer is saving FIFTY-FIVE CENTS an hour! Why do republicans hate job creators?
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JaggerMcDagger posted:
Libya is under controll of Terrorist...What the gently caress is this mental midget on about now!?
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Lysdexique posted:
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itskage posted:Where the hell is RusselBrand.jpg?  I thought of that too. Brand's a rare example of someone who I prefer as an activist - never got into his comedy but he seems like a real stand-up guy. 
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colonel_korn posted:Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" is indeed the athiest movie I've ever seen. Uh, Titanic like the boat. Not the historically successful movie. Hmm, maybe this wasn't the best metaphor.
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Mellow Seas posted:This movie is going to be a TITANIC-scale disaster! Well, there weren't any other movies which focus on a boat sinking that he could have used instead. Especially not any in recent memory. Especially not massive failures. What? No, that wasn't a thing.
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I'm still mad at this one. Businesses just don't do this, apart from small businesses run by idiots who can't balance books. Not only because a well-managed business already has a workforce appropriate to its needs, but because if you fire a dude you need (and you need him, that's why you hired him, idiot), you overextend your other employees, which results in
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Somfin posted:Well, there weren't any other movies which focus on a boat sinking that he could have used instead. Especially not any in recent memory. Especially not massive failures. You and I have very different definitions of recent.
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Mehuyael posted:Funny edit, but I knew immediately that something was wrong about it. Catching up on 150 new posts and you already beat me to this edit
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KillerJunglist posted:I too get songs stuck in my head sometimes. I can't believe I was beaten for this exact edit.
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:I'm still mad at this one. If you wanted a lovely anti-minimum wage talking point, wouldn't the easier one be something like "now I make $200 more a week... and then spend $210 more a week on food, paying to employ people with a higher wage" It's still bunk but at least it's kind of related to how a business might act.
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Purchasing power isn't a zero-sum game, hope that helps you in your quest for knowledge.
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achillesforever6 posted:People were pissed at the apparent "environmentalist message" in the film, but this movie is also taking stuff from the Book of Eibon and also having angels that are bibically accurate aka loving terrifying divine abominations  FEAR NOT
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WarpedNaba posted:
There's a drat good reason that's almost always the first thing an angelic manifestation says, in all books of the bible.
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Fulchrum posted:Doesn't Passion of the Christ hold the record for highest domestic box office earnings? ...For a rated-R movie. The back and forth on this kinda bothered me.
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The Iron Rose posted:The laffer curve is complete bunk. . I mean, it sounds nice and simple (and we're what, 22 points behind it?)  )Lysdexique posted:
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:I'm still mad at this one. Plus, in the US at least, it is fairly expensive to lay someone off. You're charged a certain amount per prior employee collecting UI.
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Ego Trip posted:Plus, in the US at least, it is fairly expensive to lay someone off. You're charged a certain amount per prior employee collecting UI. What if you fire someone forever instead of laying them off, then do you have to pay UI?
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The "GOD MICHELLE OBAMA IS SO FAT" cartoons are so patently absurd. It feels like the cartoonists thought "poo poo, I could make a million cartoons about how she's a hypocrite for supporting healthy food if she was fat. ....gently caress it, I'll do it anyway."
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