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ddrueding
Fixture
From what I can tell, the electoral system is primarily about math, what would be the better framework?
Another interesting bit, about getting economists into politics is this from Planet Money, where they got all kinds of economists together and only posted the changes that they all agreed on.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Economics, as a science, frequently models human behavior using the supposition that consumers/markets are rational and proceeds from that point. Which, of course, they aren't.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
It is more than ironic and a little sad that he feels that a valid response to being forcefully controlled and helpless is in turn forcefully controlling one who is helpless.
Even one who was raped found a better solution: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-rape-victim-pens-open-letter-Todd-Akin.html
And if the article is to be believed others make the same choice by as many as 5-1.
Even one who was raped found a better solution: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-rape-victim-pens-open-letter-Todd-Akin.html
And if the article is to be believed others make the same choice by as many as 5-1.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Are you seriously suggesting that the option should be taken off the table just because you and Todd Aiken and Richard Mourdock are OK with the idea?
Ok; don't ask Reddit.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Pop over to their dating advice section. That board has a long ass list of what's appropriate to post. Some thing should go in /relationships rather than /dating. Some things should go in *_advice. Some things should go in /sex or /loneliness or /okcupid or /depression or whatever. Many of those boards have tens of thousands of readers. Others have a few dozen. There's very little in between.
reddit has done an awesome job convincing me that there's no reason to try to post anything there.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Yeah. This is an example of why Merc does not have anyone to take to the show.
I don't have anyone to take because I live in a shitty place that entirely devoid of appropriate social outlets. Were I 15 years older or had I interest in sports and beer rather than arts, I might be better off but neither of those thing are true.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
Are you seriously suggesting that we don't already restrict people's rights to stop at the "tip of my nose?"
The fallacy for the writer is that he wants to discuss the power dynamics of a rape while glossing over the power dynamics of a pregnancy. He himself recognized the events are intertwined but doesn't recognize the power dynamics are intertwined.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
A clump of cells isn't a person. If you want to argue about where to draw that line, be my guest, but the fact is that this is something that's happening in a person's body that will impact the rest of her life, whether or not the pregnancy is terminated. Neither one of us should be the person to tell an expecting woman what options she should or should not have in that regard, though I suspect either of us is better qualified to have that discussion than certain Republican legislators presently on the House Science committee.
I understand that your religious values suggest a different perspective on this matter, but those who share that belief need to understand that religious views are not shared by everyone in this country and we do not live in a theocracy.
You also don't discuss a plan to try and do something about this so-called shitty place you live in. I'm not saying it's simple, but I only hear how shitty it is and never how you want to try and do something about this problem. You said elsewhere that you love your job which is a deterrent from leaving but if this side of things is making you miserable, isn't it worth considering a different job to balance out these two things?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
My job is awesome and I know full well that I'm never going to get anything like it if I leave. If I had a concrete reason to leave it, I might do so, but I'm too risk averse to consider leaving for the possibility that someplace else might suck less and/or have better social options.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
The whole area is like this, really. I suspect a campus town or some kind of gentrifying urban area would be more appropriate, but Northwest Indiana is doing the opposite of gentrifying.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Personally, I would have gone with Kermit, Hulk, and Yoda
ddrueding
Fixture
For some reason I ended up watching some Bill Maher for the first time, on YouTube. His position on Religion is hilarious.
My favorite: "Calling atheism a religion is like calling abstinence a sex position."
My favorite: "Calling atheism a religion is like calling abstinence a sex position."
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
That's a bit of a sore subject 'round these parts.
ddrueding
Fixture
'salright, I omitted the part about the Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins lectures at Oxford.
Here is a lovely TED talk.
Here is a lovely TED talk.
ddrueding
Fixture
I love the TEDs. I'm just bummed that I discovered them the year after they moved to LA; they were 16 miles from my house.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I've been looking for more stuff to put on my phone since I finished listening to This American Life in sequential order. Not every TED talk is available in audio-only. I could probably strip the audio from Youtube copies but I don't know if I'm that motivated.
I have been enjoying Marc Maron's WTF podcast, which is a long-format interview with some comedian or other. The interviews themselves aren't super-funny, but they can be quite interesting. The Jimmy Walker interview was really fascinating, for example.
For the same reason, I also just downloaded all of NPR's Fresh Air podcasts. I'm not sure how far back they went, but I used Juice and got all the ones that were available.
TEDtalks and WTF and Fresh Air and for that matter This American Life are all in the same sort of category where I might not necessarily be super-excited to hear one particular topic, but there's enough interesting content that I'm almost always glad that I listened.
Ironically, I have a hard time exercising and listening to music. I do a lot better with people just talking.
I have been enjoying Marc Maron's WTF podcast, which is a long-format interview with some comedian or other. The interviews themselves aren't super-funny, but they can be quite interesting. The Jimmy Walker interview was really fascinating, for example.
For the same reason, I also just downloaded all of NPR's Fresh Air podcasts. I'm not sure how far back they went, but I used Juice and got all the ones that were available.
TEDtalks and WTF and Fresh Air and for that matter This American Life are all in the same sort of category where I might not necessarily be super-excited to hear one particular topic, but there's enough interesting content that I'm almost always glad that I listened.
Ironically, I have a hard time exercising and listening to music. I do a lot better with people just talking.
ddrueding
Fixture
I'm the opposite. I can't focus enough to listen to what people are saying when I'm exercising so music is my preferred option. The beat/rhythm keep me focused. I also don't do very well with multitasking/listening when I'm trying to focus on something brain intensive. If I'm reading or doing so code work on the PC, I drown out everything around me.
Some things I listen to exercising
Freakonomics radio
Planet money
Car Talk
Roderick on the line
Wait Wait don't tell me
TAL
Lets Make mistakes
Hypercritical
WNYC radiolab
Decode DC - just started
Incomparable
You look nice today
running from the law
I only listen to the episodes that seem like they might be interesting from the description. Some of them only the parts I'm interested in.
Freakonomics radio
Planet money
Car Talk
Roderick on the line
Wait Wait don't tell me
TAL
Lets Make mistakes
Hypercritical
WNYC radiolab
Decode DC - just started
Incomparable
You look nice today
running from the law
I only listen to the episodes that seem like they might be interesting from the description. Some of them only the parts I'm interested in.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
TAL in particular has taught me that sometimes, even if I'm not terribly interested in a subject, the producers offer enough of a hook that I usually can't stop listening once I start.
The Moth, Radiolab and the Third Coast Audio Festival are all very good examples of the sort of long-format spoken-word productions of similar caliber.
In other news, Deviantart.com has free shipping right now, so if anybody is interested in some cheap art, now is the time to get it.
The Moth, Radiolab and the Third Coast Audio Festival are all very good examples of the sort of long-format spoken-word productions of similar caliber.
In other news, Deviantart.com has free shipping right now, so if anybody is interested in some cheap art, now is the time to get it.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I was seven or eight years old the last time I did anything for Halloween. I stopped going when my brother got too old for it.
A couple weeks ago, I had a short conversation with one of my friend Brittany's co-workers (while I was waiting for my friend to put her civilian clothes back on) that included the phrase: "Oh man, you don't LOOK older than my dad..."
Anyway, today after work, I stopped by that place wearing this, carrying the stuffed version and with a Pumpkin Pail with "Free Candy" scrawled on it with red sharpie.
No one got it. They all thought I was dressed up as a teddy bear. Which is probably for the best.
Since Lunar won't get the reference anyway, here's the relevant Know Your Meme.
I left the strippers with a pumpkin pail full of Cadbury Creme Eggs (that have been in my fridge since Easter) and other full-size candy bars.
Incidentally, stripper Halloween costumes: Cat ears, Naughty Schoolgirl, Disco Dancing Queen (I kind of wanted to stick around to see how she stripped out of a pantsuit with the rollerskates and all), Fairy wings, Sexy Matt Smith-era Doctor Who-ette.
Then I went home and changed in to a blue hoodie and my Rainbow Dash hat and handed out another pail of full-size candy bars at my local McDonalds since my apartment complex doesn't allow trick or treating. I didn't think the Pedobear costume would go over so well there.
A couple weeks ago, I had a short conversation with one of my friend Brittany's co-workers (while I was waiting for my friend to put her civilian clothes back on) that included the phrase: "Oh man, you don't LOOK older than my dad..."
Anyway, today after work, I stopped by that place wearing this, carrying the stuffed version and with a Pumpkin Pail with "Free Candy" scrawled on it with red sharpie.
No one got it. They all thought I was dressed up as a teddy bear. Which is probably for the best.
Since Lunar won't get the reference anyway, here's the relevant Know Your Meme.
I left the strippers with a pumpkin pail full of Cadbury Creme Eggs (that have been in my fridge since Easter) and other full-size candy bars.
Incidentally, stripper Halloween costumes: Cat ears, Naughty Schoolgirl, Disco Dancing Queen (I kind of wanted to stick around to see how she stripped out of a pantsuit with the rollerskates and all), Fairy wings, Sexy Matt Smith-era Doctor Who-ette.
Then I went home and changed in to a blue hoodie and my Rainbow Dash hat and handed out another pail of full-size candy bars at my local McDonalds since my apartment complex doesn't allow trick or treating. I didn't think the Pedobear costume would go over so well there.
ddrueding
Fixture
Anyone who can recognize pedobear knows better than to be offended. Props to you for making an effort; I'm still at work and will be for the rest of the night. My neighbor's kids will need to be disappointed for another year running.
Something break? All-nighters are not typically fun.
ddrueding
Fixture
Not fun, but mandatory. I'm down to about one a month, and all kinda scheduled. Major upgrades to a software stack tomorrow, simultaneous with a switch from 100+ Nextel phones to 100+ Verizon phones. Currently installing a dozen "Network Extenders" made by Samsung to insure complete cell coverage to the offices while waiting for a complete backup of the VMs for the software that will be updated.
With some employees not leaving until 10PM and regular work resuming at 4:30AM, the service window is a little tight. Halloween allowed me to kick everyone out at 6PM.
With some employees not leaving until 10PM and regular work resuming at 4:30AM, the service window is a little tight. Halloween allowed me to kick everyone out at 6PM.
ddrueding
Fixture
That Smoothwall firewall I installed on the mountaintop the other day? In the secure and very hard to access location that I need to schedule an escort to reach? It decided to enable the onboard DHCP server and disable the web interface. Now half my machines are listening to the wrong server and collisions are everywhere.
Not sure how to fix this yet.
Not sure how to fix this yet.
Stereodude
Not really a
Hey, other people seem to be noticing ebays problems.
http://blog.danhulton.com/2012/11/01/fine-ebay-heres-your-two-dollars-i-hope-you-choke-on-it/
http://blog.danhulton.com/2012/11/01/fine-ebay-heres-your-two-dollars-i-hope-you-choke-on-it/
Is there any other alternative auction sites these days that are worth the time to use? I've only purchased 3 or 4 items through eBay and I've never even tried to sell anything.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I stopped selling on Ebay years ago. It's not worth the hassle. Craigslist isn't worth it either, to be honest. I have a bunch of electronics I know have real value, but I'm not giving them away to strangers, particularly not if they want me to drive to the north side of Chicago to deliver them.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I've just realized that tomorrow will be November 4th. Is it the election day in the U.S.?
Oh and tonight is my favorite night of the year : the one I get one more hour to sleep.
Oh and tonight is my favorite night of the year : the one I get one more hour to sleep.
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
Election day is november 6th this year (always the first tuesday in november)