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botany posted:You're missing the point. The university cracked down on this poo poo because fraternities have a long history of sexual assault on women. I'm glad you and your buddies were the shining counterexamples to that trend, but it is entirely reasonable for a university to not want to take that risk. And -- this is the important part -- none of that is the women's fault. It may not be you who were the cause of taht university policy, but it was certainly someone like you, just maybe with lower moral standards or less self-control. Exactly this. Same thing happened at my university towards before I started and joined a fraternity (and yes, we, too, are a shinning counterexample of out-of-control frats). Pledge is dared to finish a bottle of hard liquor, passes out from alcohol poisoning, don't know what to do so they stick him somewhere until someone has enough common sense to take him to the hospital, but too late. This lead to a dry campus including all fraternity premises. Was this type of thing common in my fraternity? Hell no. Was in the Greek culture as a whole? Hell yes. I was actually helping part of a tour when I saw a guy passed out drunk at 3 PM on a sorority lawn.
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One of the quote:PUT A VETERAN IN OFFICE TO BATTLE ISIS
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# ? Oct 3, 2014 18:41 |
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A lot of vets talk about their military service like some potbellied retired mechanic reminisces about the time he scored the winning touchdown at Homecoming '73.
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# ? Oct 3, 2014 18:52 |
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I don't think he knows what asymmetric warfare is.
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# ? Oct 3, 2014 18:58 |
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Popular Thug Drink posted:A lot of vets talk about their military service like some potbellied retired mechanic reminisces about the time he scored the winning touchdown at Homecoming '73. In both cases, it was the high point of their life, so it makes sense.
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# ? Oct 3, 2014 18:59 |
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I don't think I've ever seen so many illogical arguments, technical errors, and writing mistakes packed into such a short article. Even the comments section thinks it's poo poo. http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/10/inventor_of_led_light_wins_physics_nobel.html Inventors of LED light win physics Nobel quote:The three scientists responsible for allowing governments to ban most incandescent light bulbs by inventing the LED have won the Nobel Prize in physics. MaxxBot fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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What do they mean by "light given off is weaker"? The whole reason LEDs are more energy efficient than incandescent is because they're brighter per watt.
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# ? Oct 8, 2014 07:17 |
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Every time I drop an LED light on the floor, CRASH! Toxic heavy metals all over the room!GhostofJohnMuir posted:What do they mean by "light given off is weaker"? The whole reason LEDs are more energy efficient than incandescent is because they're brighter per watt. Sure, there's more light. But it's that weak, limp-wristed, tree-hugging liberal light.
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# ? Oct 8, 2014 07:29 |
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VideoTapir posted:
All I know is that my old bulb said 75 watts and this one says 8 watts. Now I may now be a NOBEL physicsist , but in America 75 is bigger than 8!!!
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# ? Oct 8, 2014 07:37 |
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When they talk about breaking an led, do they mean just breaking the housing? Or is it the actual tiny led itself? How would you even break that?
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# ? Oct 8, 2014 09:31 |
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katlington posted:When they talk about breaking an led, do they mean just breaking the housing? Or is it the actual tiny led itself? How would you even break that?
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# ? Oct 8, 2014 09:45 |
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katlington posted:When they talk about breaking an led, do they mean just breaking the housing? Or is it the actual tiny led itself? How would you even break that? It's just laziness. The lightbulb conspiracy theorists claim that if you break a CFL, you and your entire family will die of mercury poisoning, even though CFLs contain only tiny amounts of mercury. Now that LEDs are beginning to supplant CFLs, they've just transferred the same arguments over wholesale.
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# ? Oct 8, 2014 14:38 |
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http://1000waystodie.wikia.com/wiki/Tapped_Out I think this proves that LED lights are bad and will kill you.
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# ? Oct 8, 2014 16:26 |
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Selachian posted:It's just laziness. The lightbulb conspiracy theorists claim that if you break a CFL, you and your entire family will die of mercury poisoning, even though CFLs contain only tiny amounts of mercury. Now that LEDs are beginning to supplant CFLs, they've just transferred the same arguments over wholesale. If your power comes from coal, an incandescent results in way more mercury release over its life than a CFL does over its life.
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# ? Oct 9, 2014 20:56 |
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VideoTapir posted:If your power comes from coal, an incandescent results in way more mercury release over its life than a CFL does over its life. Yeah, but that only effects poors who live by the coal fired plants hundreds of miles downwind of me. Your move libtard .
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# ? Oct 9, 2014 21:35 |
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William Blum defends the Berlin Wall: http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/10/20/the-berlin-wall-another-cold-war-myth/quote:Finally, it must be remembered, that Eastern Europe became communist because Hitler, with the approval of the West, used it as a highway to reach the Soviet Union to wipe out Bolshevism forever
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# ? Oct 22, 2014 23:06 |
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Silver2195 posted:William Blum defends the Berlin Wall: http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/10/20/the-berlin-wall-another-cold-war-myth/ I started typing up a post with some actual arguments but really it all boils down to this: I was born in West Berlin, still live in Berlin, and I want to do bodily harm to this rear end in a top hat. The only other people I've ever seen buy into the SED party line re: the Wall this hard before were actual high ranking SED members. Even people who think the GDR was better in a lot of ways than the FRG and who are disappointed about how reunification was an annexation instead of a dialogue have nothing good to say about the Wall whatsoever. What an absolute piece of poo poo.
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# ? Oct 22, 2014 23:44 |
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Have a fantastic, in all senses of the word, editorial from Carly Fiorina:Carly Fiorina posted:In recent months, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been under siege by an army of professional activists. Its weapons: radically oversimplified arguments and online pressure campaigns. Its victim: free and open debate. The attacks have prompted Google, among other tech giants, to part ways with ALEC, an alliance of state legislators who advocate limited government, free markets, and individual liberty. Unfortunately, such shortsighted thinking all too often shapes corporate strategy at a time when policies with enormous, and potentially damaging, economic implications are gaining ground. The peasants have opinions that aren't in line with job creators! That's not supposed to happen! Aren't campaigns like this how you're supposed to change corporate policies in 'MURIKA, since government action is bad? Though I guess the real problem is that there's not just instant agreement with pronouncements from the corporate overlords.
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 19:19 |
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Won't somebody think of the capitalists?
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# ? Oct 25, 2014 19:45 |
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Its amazing to hear a CEO, who is basically famous for being a spectacular failure in pretty much every way, still pretending like they are a serious intellectual.
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# ? Oct 26, 2014 03:35 |
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N00ba the Hutt posted:Have a fantastic, in all senses of the word, editorial from Carly Fiorina: If you like that, you'll love the current CEO of Hong Kong. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/world/asia/leung-chun-ying-hong-kong-china-protests.html?_r=0 quote:Mr. Leung said that if “you look at the meaning of the words ‘broadly representative,’ it’s not numeric representation.”
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# ? Oct 26, 2014 04:01 |
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To be fair though, as an American, we shouldn't really pay attention to people making less than US$18K/mo. They can't really understand freedom, so at best we can be caretakers to keep them virtuous.
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# ? Oct 26, 2014 09:43 |
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N00ba the Hutt posted:Aren't campaigns like this how you're supposed to change corporate policies in 'MURIKA, since government action is bad? Though I guess the real problem is that there's not just instant agreement with pronouncements from the corporate overlords. Much like how the free market is the perfect the solution to discrimination, it's the perfect solution to environmentalism unless it actually starts solving environmental problems and then it's just like the Gestapo.
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# ? Oct 28, 2014 05:53 |
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The pope is a liberal CINO . I don't understand why these morons don't just convert to evangelical American Christianity rather than beg for the Church to spend more time bashing gays and shut up about the poor. quote:Can the Pope Shut Up Too?
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# ? Oct 30, 2014 17:11 |
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MaxxBot posted:The pope is a liberal CINO . I don't understand why these morons don't just convert to evangelical American Christianity rather than beg for the Church to spend more time bashing gays and shut up about the poor. Link, for the curious: http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2014/10/30/can-the-pope-shut-up-too-n1911589
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MaxxBot posted:The pope is a liberal CINO . I don't understand why these morons don't just convert to evangelical American Christianity rather than beg for the Church to spend more time bashing gays and shut up about the poor. The malevolent translation going on here is really, really lovely. Francis never said that God wasn't divine; he said that he wasn't a demiurge. Saying the former would be heretical and we would see a lot more press about it, but "demiurge" is a pretty technical term in the history of Christian theology as it descends from Neoplatonism. But of course, American evangelicals and angry right wing Catholics don't care about things like "history" and "doing your research."
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 15:24 |
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Bel_Canto posted:The malevolent translation going on here is really, really lovely. Francis never said that God wasn't divine; he said that he wasn't a demiurge. Saying the former would be heretical and we would see a lot more press about it, but "demiurge" is a pretty technical term in the history of Christian theology as it descends from Neoplatonism. But of course, fixed.
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# ? Oct 31, 2014 15:43 |
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double nine posted:fixed. Honestly, both are pretty accurate.
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MaxxBot posted:The pope is a liberal CINO . I don't understand why these morons don't just convert to evangelical American Christianity rather than beg for the Church to spend more time bashing gays and shut up about the poor. I know more than a few people who have converted to Orthodoxy over Catholicism with that in mind. That's not to say the Orthodox don't care about social justice. It's just that it's way easier to ignore a patriarch/bishop's call for caring for the poor if you aren't under his jurisdiction. That also doesn't negate the writings of church fathers like John Chrysostom and Basil the Great who basically said that private property is theft and that the only proper storehouses for food are the stomachs of the poor.
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Bel_Canto posted:The malevolent translation going on here is really, really lovely. Francis never said that God wasn't divine; he said that he wasn't a demiurge. Saying the former would be heretical and we would see a lot more press about it, but "demiurge" is a pretty technical term in the history of Christian theology as it descends from Neoplatonism. But of course, American evangelicals and angry right wing Catholics don't care about things like "history" and "doing your research." Especially funny if Francis was using the Gnostic definition of Demiurge, where the Demiurge is explicitly not divine which is why the world it creates is imperfect. I don't know too much about Neoplatonism but from what I understand of it, Neoplatonism doesn't require the Demiurge either, but in Gnosticism it explicitly isn't. burnishedfume fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Oct 31, 2014 |
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Grown man abandons his most deeply held politics because of something to do with video games, writes about it to influence an election that took place four days before: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/11/08/GamerGate-How-the-Media-Gave-Away-America quote:I hope character assassinating gamers without regard for collateral damage over the last 2 months was worth it. Extra! Extra! Reactionary turd discovers that he really doesn't care about anything other than indulgence in petty entertainments that nobody in government has ever even heard of, refuses to compromise on issues that affect only the masturbatory fantasy world he uses to shut out all his fellow humans. Checkmate, Democrats. Weird that Breitbart would call a conversion to the Republicans giving away America.
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 02:42 |
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Jesus, gamergate is the stupidest thing ever.
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 03:12 |
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On the plus side, I now have a non-ant-related link to send any time someone tries to ask about gamergate. "Oh, you mean that thing Breitbart's into?" Boom, "conversation" ender, right there.
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 03:38 |
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:Jesus, gamergate is the stupidest thing ever. What brought this on? I mean I agree, but there's so much stupid about it that you could aiming at one of a million different stupid pockets.
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 03:47 |
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rkajdi posted:What brought this on? I mean I agree, but there's so much stupid about it that you could aiming at one of a million different stupid pockets. Changing what should be deeply held political beliefs over video games is just so stupid I can't even understand the mindset that would allow it to happen. He went from a self described liberal to wanting the Republicans to dominate every aspect of American politics because someone mean words about "gamers".
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 03:57 |
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And he still talks about Republicans like they're bad, like he's decided to destroy America out of spite by voting Republican. He's not even saying that he's gone Dennis Miller because somebody made fun of him: he's saying that because somebody made fun of him, he's lashing out by refusing to support the political party he associates with the people who made fun of him. He's saying they'll all pay for what they did to him--that he'll make them suffer for laughing at him--and some moron at Breitbart saw that and said, "hot dog! This is just the sort of story we need to maintain confidence in American conservatism."
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 04:07 |
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I am mired in disappointment with myself for even asking this, but who are gamer manchildren supposed to be retaliating against by voting for Republicans? Is it simply a matter of, "women said mean things about me, so I will make sure that they perish while delivering a rape baby"?
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 04:18 |
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SedanChair posted:I am mired in disappointment with myself for even asking this, but who are gamer manchildren supposed to be retaliating against by voting for Republicans? They're finally standing up to the powers that be, and saying "no more!" to the group of people that basically sit on top in society, and who basically define what American culture is. Of course, I am talking about (Yes, it is basically that.)
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# ? Nov 9, 2014 04:26 |
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Women, minorities, liberals, same as it's always been, as long as the populist right existed. It's not like they're incorrect in viewing this as an ideological war. They've just finally figured out which side is best representing their views.
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Time can dull the pain...but it can never erase...the imgur memes
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