The prejudice against the southern accent is deep. I found it in myself at the my first tech job, taking tech support calls. If the caller had a southern accent, I'd immediately think they were stupid. It took me awhile to get over it.
Now I notice it everywhere in show biz with stereotypes, but also online with people insulting strangers just based off their accents.
Good scientists try to keep papers out of journals if they think it's bad science. Good scientists don't welcome ignorant criticism or criticism in bad faith. Good scientists would be aware when some nutcase in the energy industry is firing billion dollar bullets at them, and good scientist will fight back.
No thanks, if we're going to stick with some horrible frankenstein private plan like Obama care, I don't want insurance companies that only have to abide by Mississippi law operating in my state.
Christians used to be this bad and they're getting worse again. They are becoming increasingly insulated from other ways of thinking and increasingly bigoted. This is in the US, of course, but I have no hope that it won't spread elsewhere
So yeah, Christianity is a lot better now, and Islam is still the worst, but the trend isn't good.
Oh yeah, and let me also predict that Intrade's numbers for the coming election will swing several points more than the pro numbers from Nate Silver and the like. That won't prove anything, but at some point the variability means that Intrade is reacting to noise too much.
I think the real problem is that there's not enough money in Intrade, even on something big like Republican Nomination to attract the real smart guys. The price of Gingrich, for instance, shot up pretty high right before Iowa due to his status as the current Not-Romney, but really his chance of winning was never higher than a couple of percentage points.
Those of us who knew it could look at Intrade and calculate that by shorting Gingrich we might be able to make a couple thousand over a few weeks or months. Not really worth sending a money order off to some guys in Ireland.
Enough with the intrade promos already. Intrade is good at showing the summed wisdom of amateurs who pay attention. It's pretty darned at predicting election results... after it's already clear who is going to win. Go look at the price history for Gingrich.
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A song for lya. With morning comes mistfall.
This, or almost anything else she wrote.
Notice they didn't have much of an accent.
The prejudice against the southern accent is deep. I found it in myself at the my first tech job, taking tech support calls. If the caller had a southern accent, I'd immediately think they were stupid. It took me awhile to get over it.
Now I notice it everywhere in show biz with stereotypes, but also online with people insulting strangers just based off their accents.
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Exactly. I didn't know that.
There's no statute of limitations on spoilers for cult movies.
So that's why they called him Erik the Red
That's a dumb question. I'd rather have a high powered assault rifle, since the guy was armored and a little pop gun wouldn't have wounded him.
Wasn't that later?
"I don't even know you"
Which makes your ad hominem response particularly silly. You also don't seem to understand what I wrote yet.
Typical shift to ad hominem.
Good scientists try to keep papers out of journals if they think it's bad science. Good scientists don't welcome ignorant criticism or criticism in bad faith. Good scientists would be aware when some nutcase in the energy industry is firing billion dollar bullets at them, and good scientist will fight back.
How do you figure? It doesn't take a bigot to recognize a bigot.
No thanks, if we're going to stick with some horrible frankenstein private plan like Obama care, I don't want insurance companies that only have to abide by Mississippi law operating in my state.
But then you'd have to admit that they could be right.
Christians used to be this bad and they're getting worse again. They are becoming increasingly insulated from other ways of thinking and increasingly bigoted. This is in the US, of course, but I have no hope that it won't spread elsewhere
So yeah, Christianity is a lot better now, and Islam is still the worst, but the trend isn't good.
Not really. Mao didn't understand that courts are valuable for convincing people of the governments position than the guns that back them up.
Which shows how little the doctor knows about computerized strategists.
Not an arbitrary number of times there isn't.
If you can survive and reproduce, you aren't genetically defective.
Oh yeah, and let me also predict that Intrade's numbers for the coming election will swing several points more than the pro numbers from Nate Silver and the like. That won't prove anything, but at some point the variability means that Intrade is reacting to noise too much.
I think the real problem is that there's not enough money in Intrade, even on something big like Republican Nomination to attract the real smart guys. The price of Gingrich, for instance, shot up pretty high right before Iowa due to his status as the current Not-Romney, but really his chance of winning was never higher than a couple of percentage points.
Those of us who knew it could look at Intrade and calculate that by shorting Gingrich we might be able to make a couple thousand over a few weeks or months. Not really worth sending a money order off to some guys in Ireland.
Enough with the intrade promos already. Intrade is good at showing the summed wisdom of amateurs who pay attention. It's pretty darned at predicting election results ... after it's already clear who is going to win. Go look at the price history for Gingrich.