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Participant[quote=mike92104]I’m sorry, what exactly was my argument? I inferred that the article you referenced was published by an organization with a clear tendency to be biased toward liberal agendas.
Are you honestly asserting that the article isn’t biased?[/quote]
Absolutely. If you can identify bias in the article, do so.
Participant[quote=mike92104][quote=SK in CV][quote=mike92104]
Thanks for the clearly unbiased source of information.[/quote]If you have any data that disputes anything presented, have at it. Otherwise, that’s a horrendously ignorant ad hominem argument.[/quote]
I’m sorry, are you saying that the Huffington Post isn’t biased towards left leaning ideals? That sounds like ignorance to me.[/quote]
No, I’m saying that arguing that the source is biased without a shred of evidence that any of the data presented is inaccurate is not really an argument. Show me bias the article quoted. Show me inaccuracies.
I could make the exact same argument against the article paramount posted from the Harvard Review. It was written by two guys that are bought and paid for by the gun industry. I didn’t do it, because I have no interest in researching all the errors in it. I read the first couple pages and it was clear, it wasn’t a peer reviewed study and was written with a clear bias. I’m not going to argue it here, it’s not worth my time. So I didn’t even respond to it.
Participant[quote=ucodegen][quote=SK in CV]
I think they bought it for the streaming. Product is no better than upper end crap.[/quote]Streaming what? There is a lot of prior art on streaming audio.. so no moat there. The only thing I can think of is the association of ‘Dr Dre’ with ‘Beats Audio’, as well as the ‘cool’ business name ‘Beats’..[/quote]
Beats owns a subscription streaming business similar to spotify.
Participant[quote=ucodegen][quote=spdrun]Certainly a better product than Beats,also valued at 3 billion.[/quote]I would agree with that. I think Apple is trying to buy the ‘name’ and the perceived following, probably from late Gen Y, current Gen X types. Personally I prefer Bose equip. Amar was one really sharp cookie. Vanu is not too bad either.
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I think they bought it for the streaming. Product is no better than upper end crap.
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]google wine tasting is bullshit generally and this link to get to the study that blind tase testing experts cant even tell red from white with no visual cue.
i think i can tell abysmally spoiled wine from ok wine, and someotimes something tastes particularly good, but…probably i cant even tell that…[/quote]
There really are people that can tell the most minute differences. I went out with a woman that was a upper-tier chef school trained sommelier. To graduate, she had to taste wine blindfolded and identify the grape, where it was from, the vintage and all kinds of other shit. We were at a fancy restaurant and got to talking with the sommelier, and they were talking shop. They did a little parlor trick and between the two of them, they could still identify the details for about 8 out of 10 wines. They were 10 for 10 in identifying the grape and country of origin.
Funny think about her was, she didn’t even like wine. She only went through the training because her husband was very involved in a wine tasting group and she didn’t want to feel left out. (Peripherally related to other threads, her husband was the CFO for Smith & Wesson.)
Participant[quote=spdrun]I don’t think many people get stoned once per day. (!)[/quote]
There is that. And nobody smokes a whole joint by themselves at one time either. Not that I know from personal experience or anything about current stuff. Only that I’ve heard that it’s 100x stronger than $10 lids 40 years ago.
Participant[quote=mike92104]
Thanks for the clearly unbiased source of information.[/quote]If you have any data that disputes anything presented, have at it. Otherwise, that’s a horrendously ignorant ad hominem argument.
Participant[quote=paramount]
In the 50’s – when religion was still largely a part of the American family and before the libs took over – the problems we have today weren’t even on the radar screen.[/quote]I’m not sure what problems you’re referring to. Maybe you can identify the “problems” caused or brought about by liberals. But if religious participation leads to better living conditions, you’d think things would be better in regions of the country where religious participation is the highest. I don’t think that’s true.
The 10 most religious states are, in order: Mississippi, Utah, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia and Oklahoma
How are conditions in these states?
Nine of these ten states still had racially segregated schools at the time of the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Five of these ten states are still among the worst states in the nation in terms of the continuing racial segregation of their public schools.
Eight of these ten states are among the eleven states in the nation with the highest rates of incarceration.
All of these ten states still have the death penalty.
Seven of these ten states are among the ten states in the nation with the highest percentage of their citizens living under the poverty level.
Six of these ten states are among the nine worst states in the nation in rates of obesity.
Nine of these ten states are among the twenty states in the nation with the highest rates of smoking.
Seven of these ten states rank in the bottom ten states in the nation in the overall health of citizens.
Nine of these ten states rank in the bottom thirteen states in the nation in life expectancy.
Seven of these ten states rank in the bottom ten states in the nation in the quality of healthcare.
Five of these ten states are the only states in the nation without a minimum wage law.
All ten of these ten states rank in the bottom sixteen states in the nation in minimum wage.
Nine of these ten states ranks in the bottom eighteen states in the nation in per pupil expenditures for public education.
Nine of these ten states rank in the bottom twenty states in the nation in the quality of high school education.
Nine of these ten states are among the twenty worst states in the nation in terms of gun deaths per capita.
Five of these ten states are among the ten states in the nation whose citizens watch the most online pornography.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/life-in-the-most-religiou_b_5494776.html
Participant[quote=ocrenter]
People turn to God and religion when things are out of control. That’s why people always pray and turn to whatever god they worship during earthquakes and typhoon/hurricane or other natural disasters.You are turning to your God because we have flooded this country with guns and ammo and things are unraveling and becoming out of control. Yet you still love your guns and too paranoid to support registration and control.
Given complete lack of control over this conflicting loveaffair with guns yet scared at the same time because of the uunraveling increase in gun violence, you turn to, of course, GOD.[/quote]
Interesting words, made me think. I’m an atheist. It really goes beyond “god”, I don’t believe in much of anything. But I didn’t get here without quite a bit of exposure to religion. I grew up in a pretty observant religious home and was exposed to (and at times very willingly participated in)a rigorous religious education. But there was very little spirituality involved, at least from my perspective. So despite this background, I never “turn to god”. I can’t remember any situation where it even occurred to me to do so.
I’m not claiming that any broad conclusions based on my experience. I’m not calling belief stupid, or blaming very human problems on god. Belief is a choice. I just found your words very interesting shit to think about. Thanks for sharing.
Participant[quote=paramount][quote=joec] Liberty/freedom, self-reliance and rugged individualism doesn’t amount to a whole lot if you can’t find decent work/job because there is limited opportunity. [/quote]
On the contrary, those are the very things you’ll need to survive – one way or another.[/quote]
Yep. FEMA camps are coming. Government is tyranny. Anarchy is freedom.
Participant[quote=paramount]The Tea Party stands for liberty/freedom, self-reliance and rugged individualism. That’s what built this country during the greatest generation.
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I don’t think so. What really built this country in the 40 years after the depression was union membership. It built the best economy the country has ever seen.
Participant[quote=CA renter]
FWIW, the good beers also don’t go through you like the cheap beers do. [/quote]
Umm….yes, they do. And because many craft beers have higher alcohol content than cheap beer, they go through you even faster. Alcohol is a diuretic. And that doesn’t matter whether the alcohol is in Pabst or in Arrogant Bastard. But if you drink less, you’ll pee less.
ParticipantCouldn’t possibly be that one of the fixes would be to reduce the number of available bullets.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]I have no interest in reading his manifesto or dig deeper…
From what I understand, Elliot Rodger certainly had mental issues.
But didn’t his parents indulge him with brand name luxury products thereby teaching him to value glam over all else? He wanted a glam life with a trophy girlfriend. Couldn’t have it so he hated the world and went crazy.[/quote]
Is that what a BMW teaches? Everyone that drives a BMW values glam over all else?
He did hate the world. But that hate didn’t make him go crazy. He hated the word because he was crazy.
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