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Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

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Further proof that sudden disasters have very little effect on the long term stock market.

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Outrail
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Wtf, I used that Australian radar map all the time when I lived in WA and it never looked like that. Weird weather they're getting I guess.

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Next time please ask 'Representative of what?'. I've pushed at managers when they do stupid poo poo and occasionally get them to admit 'because it gets done what we need done, I don't care', or similar. It doesn't change or fix anything but you get to feel smug and right for a bit.

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Might as well combine it with a Venn diagram while we're at it.

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Maybe I'm straight up retarded but that kinda makes sense. Might have been better to go with the flow diagram though.

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LethalGeek posted:

My GF said gently caress this and wrote a table that is a hell of a lot easier to read. Cheating? Don't care :colbert:

I think you're now required to post the table for review and critique.

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Judge Schnoopy posted:

You'll be terribly disappointed to learn that there is literally no correlation between any of these maps at all.

If you squint the porn region outlines match up pretty well with state boundaries.

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mobby_6kl posted:

Ok, because for a moment I was worried this was becoming the "guess the unlabeled map" thread now that D&D frowns upon such things.

This sounds great. Link?

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Same problem with std rates.

I think I read somewhere that Canada has much worse rates of chlamydia or something than America even though it has more readily available health care. The answer was that better health care means better reporting as more people are going to the doctor.

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Pendragon posted:

Quoting this so it doesn't get lost with the scale chart, because... god drat, how does this even make sense? Who looked at this and said, "Yup, that describes political philosophies perfectly."

Yeah, I can't figure out why anyone would think this represents the Republican party. Its a badly organized and illogical mess of poorly thought out opinions on something that makes no sense.

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That made me want to grab my screen and shake it really hard.

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That answer is to draw a something obscene on the test page and/or assault the teacher.

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Pakled posted:

Best use of pie charts I've seen in a long time.



No cross reference that with salary and benefits.

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Pakled posted:

Even so, anyone who says that a teacher is a more prestigious job than a congressman is lying to themselves.

It seems that within government jobs a general rule is the more vital they are for the continued functioning of society the less they pay.

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He said interesting, not pleasant.

Can we illustrate this with a graph?

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Zemyla posted:

If it's longer than it's wide, then it's phallic
If it's longer than it's wide, then it's phallic
If it's shorter than it's wide
Then you turn it on its side
Now it's longer than it's wide
And it's phallic


I sung this for my softball team last night using a bat for a prop and all I got was blank stares.

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How do you generate negative energy? Or is that from a norm?

V: durr, it says it right there.

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Outrail
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Behtues?

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Where does a one night stand fall on that? Friendship, romantic love or infatuation?

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They should include all homicides. Idiots will say 'well yeah, there's no difference between rates, they just use alarm clocks instead of guns'.

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Whiz Palace posted:

I guess they were trying to make a point similar to this Onion article.

Scroll down, they've got the same story repeated a half dozen times with different locations and people. Excellent gimmick.

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What exactly happened to cause the drop?

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kalstrams posted:

On an unrelated note, Puerto Rico uses kilometres for distance, whilst using miles per hour for speed limits.

Prime example of trying to do the right thing but lacking the will to finish the job is worse than doing nothing at all.

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Stop ruining the tonne of the thread.

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Positioning aside why whales? Ask anyone how long a blue whale is and they'll answer "uh, pretty long? I guess". Which completely misses the point of a size analogy.

That's a big dick! It's as big as three Australian pygmy possums laid end to end!

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Blue Footed Booby posted:

Blue whales are widely known as not just big, but the biggest (known) animal to have ever lived. It's actually not the longest (some sauropods are longer if you count the tail) but that's still enough for folks to go "wow holy poo poo" even if it doesn't give them an exact idea of the size.

US supercarriers get used the same way. Incidentally, the Nimitz class carrier is 1,092 feet (332.8 m) long. That's longer than whatever the hell is being represented in that graphic. And we have 10 of them.

By the by, here's a life-size blue whale for you to scroll around on.

That's kind of my point. Noone (virtually) knows how big a whale is, just that it's big. Probably "as big as a school bus?" is as accurate as anyone is going to get. So why not just use school buses, every dipshit in North America has a good idea how big a bus is.

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Blue Footed Booby posted:

I guess I wasn't clear. The point isn't to convey exactly how big it is; the point is to give something that sounds impressive so that people can go "wow." A really big thing that is also the biggest of its type is better for this purpose than an ordinary thing people can relate to because, again, the point isn't being repeatable.

If this still doesn't make sense you're just going to have to accept that you're not the target audience for random factoid wow soundbytes. This isn't a put-down or anything. I've just mysteriously picked up the ability to think in "science person desperately trying to communicate with apathetic normies."

Yeah I get it, I think we're arguing about the same thing.

This is why only the most backwards of countries use imperial units.

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15 minutes, The score showthread.php and City by The Sea.

Never heard of any of them so it uses he just gave up and took the money for whatever. I'd do the same once people someone offered me over a million for a few months work.

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I want to know more about arousal span.

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Judge Schnoopy posted:

Germany, France and Italy have higher populations than South Korea by about 10 million each, and UK is about even with all three. Australia and New Zealand combine to half the population of Italy. Yet those European countries (minus UK) only touch the leaderboard if they're combined, whereas the smaller nations are doing just fine individually.

EU combines to a population 750 million, a little more than half that of China. When the EU is allowed 20 individual teams in the Olympics they pull down three times the medal count of China. The advantage for numerous teams far outweighs the advantage of larger populations.

Partly because it lets one 'team' have like 50 people compete instead of the usual one or two per country. So that makes sense.

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Just drive very slightly slower than everyone else, unless it's a single lane, then go with the flow.

Unless the local police are dicks.

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Anyone who has the chance to choose the breed of their dog and doesn't want a mongrel of everything is stupid. Anyone insisting on a particular breed is either a herdsman or a vain twat.

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Catnipped posted:

I think that's a little unfair to say considering that not everyone wants a companion dog. Some people want agility dogs or hunting dogs or tracking dogs (or even protection dogs, though I'm kinda iffy on those personally), and want to have an exact health history that you don't get with a mutt. Assuming every breeder is just making show dogs isn't correct, some prefer working dogs, and mutts still have the possibility of inheriting whatever issues purebreds can get, so it's kind of a crapshoot. Ofc you're not going to see them on craigslist or whatever for obvious reasons, but saying "all dog breeding is bad" is just disingenuous.

That's what I mean by the herdsman comment. Breeding for a particular task is okay because they want them healthy, breeding for looks is what I was getting at.

edit: Wait, so homophobic men are basically aroused by pretty much everything equally (assuming there's some undefined standard deviations). And the dips and rises don't correlate with the X axis labels, it should be a bar graph. It's like she went out of her way to make it nonsensical.

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catfry posted:

Uhm, HELLO. God perhaps? Or do you dispute that he can write? May I remind you about a little book he wrote CALLED THE BIBLE?!?

Didn't Mathew, Mark, Luke, John etc write the bible? SO at best he dictated it. God is illiterate.

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Snowglobe of Doom posted:

He wrote the ten commandments directly onto Moses' tablets but the language used was pretty basic. He can write but he's no Hemingway.

Moses was up there a long time. Long enough to chisel some words into a stone slab. What I'm saying is that god dictated the commandments to Moses who wrote them down. This is why there's only ten of them.

"ARE YOU GETTING ALL OF THIS DOWN?"
"Yeah yeah, number eleven, Though shalt eat a balanced diet"
"ARE YOU SURE? YOU DIDN'T WRITE MUCH THAT TIME"
"Yeah look, it's right here, see? You can read can't you?"
"UH, YES OF COURSE I CAN, I SEE IT."

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At least it wasn't liters/gallons per 100km, the most pointless of fuel consumption measurements.

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You have to be kidding.

I get x km per litre. I have a 30 litre tank. Therefore I can go 30x km before I need fuel.
Or
How far is it to a place? It's 270 km. If I get x km per liter than I need 270/x litres to get there.

Using y liters per 100km just means additional equations that are less intuitive. Fuel is sold in liters, which is standard. Why use anything else as the constant variable?

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Cool, so the real danger is wind. Rain surge and tornado can be dismissed.

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I need some context here. It's a water cycle/weather diagram but mixing of species... something about airborne pathogens?

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$bn/Fraud

If the x axis was labeled 'Cases of fraud' or was something like 2001 to 2015 it'd make sense.

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