Comment Re:How about the 2012 Red Dawn showing? (Score 1) 230
This isn't Alamo Drafthouse's fault. Paramount chickened out.
This isn't Alamo Drafthouse's fault. Paramount chickened out.
The Nerdist blames Paramount.
Indeed, though antagonizing your opponents like that probably isn't going to help the cause.
There is no long a point in trying not antagonizing them. Pretty much anyone who is still actively lobbying against private ownership of guns is either ignoring the evidence, incapable of uncerstandng it, or has a hidden agenda (such as creating victim-rich zones for govenment or criminal activity).
These people are not going to be converted. Things are far enough long that we no longer need them as straw men to raise the bogus argumets to be knocked down with logic. (Those who can be convinced with logic are now mostly either convinced or subject to information shortage). But they remain useful as targets of ridicule, so those who are more interested in being with the in crowd than making smart decisions can be converted.
For those still uncertain on the issue: Do you want to reduce murder, rape, assault, robery, criminal victimization, and institutional suppression of minority groups? Or do you want to want to reduce gun possession? There is no longer any question: More guns mean less of all those things.
This is a job for every indian.
Not for 'the government' or 'the space agency'.
As long as a two year old toddler can sit on the middle of a road crossing, with cars navigating around it, and no one picks it up, and calls 'authorities' or tries to find the mother, there is something seriously wrong in the attitude to live, other people, children etc. Nothing a 'government' can fix over night.
Same for a dead man lying on a road, all the passing people and car drivers consider him sleeping. Even if he is, what is the damn problem to get him off the road to the pedestrian side walks? No one cares about anything in india, only 'outsiders' care about corruption, that is so sad, it is not even funny!
The 'power' of the USD comes from the time when Nixon abandoned the 'gold standard' and forced the middle east to sell oil for USD only. So the dollar was more or less till the late 90s 'backed' by oil, the most important commodity of the world.
Otherwise the dollar has no power at all, hint: 85% of the world population pay their taxes not in dollar.
The idea that a currency has 'power' because you are 'forced' to pay your 'taxes' in it: is just ridiculous.
The Dollar in Russia? What a laugh!
If at all they use Euro or still: 'Deutsche Mark'.
Likely China, or Brazil.
A cirtual currency to, be used mainly by 'the rest of the world' but not so much by their own citizens (at least in the case of China).
Regardless of your beliefes: they are not.
They don't strive on 'catching more people' and no one forces the later comming poeple to make payments to the older ones.
It has absolutely nothing to do with a pyramid scheme.
They establishment Republicans have already rolled over with the passing of Cromnibus. I expect that if the push Jeb Bush to the front there will be record apathy among conservatives in the 2016 election.
To amplify on that point, never underestimate the ability of the Republican Party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
the composition and political thrust of the parties changed dramatically with the Republican southern strategy of the 60s
Let me put you some f'in knowledge.
On top of that, how do you explain the Democrats' only really starting to lose their stranglehold on southern-state governorships and legislatures in the '90s and later?
Yes, but now we can find out whether we read Slashdot because we are nerds, or we are nerds because we read Slashdot.
So if Z causes both X and Y, I assume that this amazing test gives garbage?
Perhaps in some cases it would be possible to detect that both X and Y were being affected by the same noise, implying the existence of some unknown Z?
The standard t-test for detecting an effect is already probabalistic. In science and medicine a 95% confidence value is commonly used, which means a 1/20 of detecting something that isn't there.
And wait 5-10 minutes waiting for them to get there.
Nothing worse than waking up in the drunk tank with a bullet wound in the chest.
I think being dead would qualify as "worse".
What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? -- J.M. Barrie