Stavros Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 In my defense, I'm just as argumentative in real life with my friends Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Text messages implying match-fixing found on sumo wrestlers' cellphones source Is nothing sacred anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Sumo Wrestling was a chapter in the book Freakanomics and the authors found statistical proof that Sumo's actually do throw fights. It's because tournaments are based on a points system, and if a sumo qualifies for the next round with matches still to fight and comes up against someone they train with, in their 'stable', a friend, etc, they lose those matches a larger % of time then if they come up against those sumo's in earlier, points critical matches. Yeah, I'm a statistics and probability nerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Nothing was ever sacred. People have been throwing matches ever since the concept of sports was invented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Nothing was ever sacred. People have been throwing matches ever since the concept of sports was invented. Yeah, that was kind of the joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 I once met a guy whose last name was Dikshit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 All 16 Wisconsin Democratic state senators are currently on the run in order to prevent Walker's bill to slash collective bargaining rights for public employees. In other news, public schools are shut down for their second straight day of protesting, and the governor created the deficit within a month of his being in office that necessitated this by spending shit for his lobbyist cronies. This'll make a damn good movie when it's done. Run Dems run! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ava Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 I once met a guy whose last name was Dikshit. Yeah, apparently it's not an uncommon last name in India. My parents knew a few Dikshits back in the day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 All 16 Wisconsin Democratic state senators are currently on the run in order to prevent Walker's bill to slash collective bargaining rights for public employees. In other news, public schools are shut down for their second straight day of protesting, and the governor created the deficit within a month of his being in office that necessitated this by spending shit for his lobbyist cronies. This'll make a damn good movie when it's done. Run Dems run! It'll be just like the great escape. Meaning that the 16 congressmen will be played by respected British actors who all get caught trying to cross the border, but the fictional 17th congressman will be played by an american and he'll escape on a motorbike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 All 16 Wisconsin Democratic state senators are currently on the run in order to prevent Walker's bill to slash collective bargaining rights for public employees. In other news, public schools are shut down for their second straight day of protesting, and the governor created the deficit within a month of his being in office that necessitated this by spending shit for his lobbyist cronies. This'll make a damn good movie when it's done. Run Dems run! In related news, Fuck You Sarah Palin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 All 16 Wisconsin Democratic state senators are currently on the run in order to prevent Walker's bill to slash collective bargaining rights for public employees. In other news, public schools are shut down for their second straight day of protesting, and the governor created the deficit within a month of his being in office that necessitated this by spending shit for his lobbyist cronies. This'll make a damn good movie when it's done. Run Dems run! In related news, Fuck You Sarah Palin! Have you heard about the book that her former aid wrote that leaked out? Apparently she knowingly broke a few laws. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 ...And now, an all capslock rant of rage. Please feel free to take this personally, Republican-leaners. THE ONLY ONES NOT TAKING AUSTERITY MEASURES ARE THE POLITICANS, THE POLICE, THE FIREFIGHTERS, AND THE STATE TROOPERS, AKA LAW AND ORDER AND THE ONES WHO GOT HIM IN. THIS IS NOT ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY, DON'T YOU EVEN FUCKING PRETEND IT IS, YOU LYING WHORE, THIS IS ABOUT BREAKING UNIONS AND TRYING TO ELIMINATE DEMOCRATS' MAJOR SOURCES OF POLITICAL DONATIONS! WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOUR AUSTERITY MEASURES?! MY FATHER GAVE YOU ASSHOLES THIRTY YEARS PLUS OF HIS CAREER AND PLENTY OF DEATH THREATS FROM THE DRUG DEALERS HE FUCKING PROSECUTED AS A STATE PROSECUTOR, AND NOW WITH THESE MEASURES HE WOULD LOSE ALMOST 200 OUT OF HIS PAYCHECK, WHICH IS NOT SUSTAINABLE ON A FAMILY OF SIX, AND HAS TO LOOK FOR ANOTHER JOB, AND POSSIBLY LOSE ALL OF HIS RETIREMENT IF HE DOES! FUCK YOU, AND FUCK THE FUCKING CORPORATE SLAGS YOU RODE IN ON AND WHO YOU REGULARLY GET ON YOUR KNEES FOR FOR DONATIONS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Yeah, cuts suck ass. I could tell you 15 ways that they've hurt us in this country without valid cause, and that includes my home life, my university, my friends, my work, my parents jobs, etc. It's bullshit and the severity of cuts is totally ideologically motivated, it's nothing to do with the actual deficit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 This stuff going on in Wisconsin is pissing me off. They had a 121 million dollar surplus at the beginning of this year. What is really behind it? Source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Walker being a fucking crony and blowing the corporations, that's what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Yeah, cuts suck ass. I could tell you 15 ways that they've hurt us in this country without valid cause, and that includes my home life, my university, my friends, my work, my parents jobs, etc. It's bullshit and the severity of cuts is totally ideologically motivated, it's nothing to do with the actual deficit. I disagree with that last part, for the UK at least. But I don't think anyone's going to actually applaud cuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Every nation runs at a deficit, but they could have halved the cuts from what they are and still made an acceptable dent in it. There's no call for an 85% cut to higher education, or 25% cuts to police and the NHS. The higher education thing in particular was ideological. So was the forest sell-off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 ‎"Except with respect to sexual orientation, the contractor further agrees to take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunities." - p. 18, lines 8-9 of Scott Walker's 'budget repair' bill. What the flying fuck does sanctioning hiring discrimination against gays/lesbians have to do with the budget? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Every nation runs at a deficit, but they could have halved the cuts from what they are and still made an acceptable dent in it. There's no call for an 85% cut to higher education, or 25% cuts to police and the NHS. The higher education thing in particular was ideological. So was the forest sell-off. I should clarify that I don't think the targets of the cuts were politically motivated (particularly given that it's a tug of war between two diametrically opposed political parties in government, however badly the Lib Dems are coming out of this), although the severity probably is. It definitely DOES deal with the actual deficit as it means that it will have been more significantly reduced by the end of the Coalition's tenure in government than going for an acceptable dent. Don't get me wrong - the severity of the cuts is crippling the sector I want to work in and a lot of museums will actually go under because of the priority of cuts. But at the same time, I don't consider it as merely a smokescreen for the Tories to remould Britain/destroy the NHS/remove all forestry/disenfranchise unions etc etc. For one thing, I hope the UK never loses sight of the middle ground and becomes as partisan in politics as the US is. Simply put, Labour left the country with a huge economic problem and the Tories & Lib Dems combined have come up with a damaging solution of addressing the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Okay. I don't care what your politics are, whether you think unions are lazy freeloading hellspawn, or whether Walker is the devil incarnate. But this is absolutely unacceptable. The assembly Republicans moved up the vote. Didn't tell the Democrats. Attempted to vote it through. Without one Democrat in the fucking room. Illegally. Watch it happen here. ... Happily, they got there what they thought was early, and were able to get the bill back to an amendable stage. But, honestly? Fucking shame on you, Republicans. Fucking shame. Laws are there for a reason. You are not above them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 That was pretty despicable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Agreed, pretty damn low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Oh, look. Walker's pretty deep in the pockets of the Koch Brothers, aka the poster boys for corporate greed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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