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  1. Re:T = snake oil [Re:for various definitions of in on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    As far as your comments on black IQ's, I've known plenty of smart blacks and plenty of dumb whites.

    Do you understand what "normally distributed" means?

    Social factors play too big a factor in IQ's to claim genetics is the primary factor.

    IQ is 75% - 80% inherited.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:Targeted Ads on Google To Revamp Policies, Hire Staff After UK Ad Scandal (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    it looks like Google thinks that Guardian readers are generally interested in Islamic propaganda.

    So, working as intended?

  3. Re:Con or Confirm on John Goodenough's Colleagues Are Skeptical of His New Battery Technology (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You know what I meant. If you publish a paper and others point out the flaws and you say "ah, yes, I was wrong, here's a better solution" you don't lose your career. That's a feature of science, not a bug.

  4. Re:Oh no that sucks! on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    GOP establishment get money from donors who want cheap labor. That doesn't do shit for GOP voters. Yes, the GOP establishment did nothing about illegal immigration. The GOP base was really, really pissed about it, and elected Trump, the first Republican presidential candidate in a long time to actually promise to do the thing that's (depending on the poll and how you ask the question) got the approval of 55-65% of Americans: build wall; deport illegals.

    There are lots of reasons for wanting to do this:

    1. Protecting borders is the most basic function of government (law and order).

    2. Some illegals commit crimes, and they shouldn't even be here. The government refusing to deal with the problem is betraying the citizens. When Jamiel Shaw Jr was gunned down by an illegal mexican who'd been deported 3 times telling his dad "well they're not all criminals" is cold comfort.

    3. Illegals are exploited by greedy businessmen for profit, and drive down wages for everyone else. Especially bad for our poor blacks and legal hispanics.

    4. Illegals consume public resources paid for by citizen taxpayers.

    5. 80% of central and south american women and girls who cross the border illegal are raped during the process, and that sort of thing is frowned upon.

    6. Open border allows for easier drug, gun, and sex trafficking. The profits from this fund monsters like the Zetas, turning Mexico into a blood drenched hell hole. Not a good thing to have next door, and the violence spills over the border.

    7. They fucking vote Democrat.

    These are all really good reasons to oppose illegal immigration, but Dems (both establishment and voters) will ignore or make excuses for 1 through 6 because 7 while the GOP establishment ignores 1 - 2; 4-7 because 3. Trump (and Trump voters) make no excuses and dropkick the illegals back over the border.

  5. Re:Con or Confirm on John Goodenough's Colleagues Are Skeptical of His New Battery Technology (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems like something really stupid to lie about. We're talking engineering here, not politics.

    If it turns out not to work, I would assume error, not fraud. And in science there's no harm in being wrong. The entire enterprise is based on admitting that you are wrong and are attempting to become less wrong.

  6. Re:Yeah, the bubble will pop long before that on In 18 Years, A College Degree Could Cost About $500,000 (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    You see, we eventually got sick of the whole "we know what you did last world war" guilt tripping. It's kinda hard to pull that stunt again with us now.

    I don't know about that. Have you seen the state of Germany?

  7. Re:Yeah, the bubble will pop long before that on In 18 Years, A College Degree Could Cost About $500,000 (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    And why do you suppose that is?

    The proposition was "gifted students should get however much 'free' money they need." Average IQs in the US by racial group are:

    Blacks: 85

    Latinos: 92

    Whites: 100

    Asians: 106

    Ashkenazi Jews: 115

    Standard deviation is 15 for everybody. If you're going to call "gifted," say, 130 IQ, then you've only got to be 1 standard deviation above the mean for your race if you're a Jew to count, but 3 standard deviations above the mean if you're black. That's really rare. So if you're giving free money to the gifted, that's going to go disproportionately towards Jews, whites and asians, not blacks and latinos. If you attempt to enact such a program you will immediately be called out as a racist and your political career likely ruined. So it's unlikely such a program will be implemented.

    Treat the underlying cause rather than fucking the system up for everyone.

    The underlying system is called "biology." It's nobody's fault. Except maybe our ancestors. If 50,000 years ago your ancestors left Africa and moved to colder/harsher climates, then you lost an awful lot of great^n uncles and aunts or ith cousins jth removed because they weren't smart enough not to eat their seed corn in winter. But your ancestors that survived were smarter on average. If your ancestors stayed in Africa, though, then no real selection pressure against the less intelligent combined with regression to the mean resulted in little change in group IQ.

    How do you fix this underlying system? If you can figure out a way to raise people's biological intelligence you'll win a nobel prize and save the world, so, have at it.

  8. Re:Oh no that sucks! on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If I'm baiting, then that just means you were/are baiting too.

    Do you know what a strawman argument is?

  9. Re:Something stinks on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh shit an internet tough guy! I'm skeeeeered now!

  10. Re: Oh no that sucks! on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Gee let me think. Fuck congress. Happy now?

  11. Re:Oh no that sucks! on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Ahah! So it's not really about crime itself, but a political power battle to you. Your true colors are shining through.

    And I'm saying this is why the Dems are so recalcitrant about stopping any flow of 3rd worlders into the US. Because they vote Democrat. Imagine if there were a magic portal from Fundieland, where productive safe white fundamentalist Christians were being persecuted and killed by evil atheists. So if we started taking Fundieland refugees and shoveling them by the millions into California, changing the voting demographics there to Republican, I guarantee all of this "refugees welcome" crap would turn around really fucking fast.

  12. Re:Something stinks on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    because You like Trump so you want to pretend everyone else likes Trump, even people who didn't vote for him.

    You're just flailing all over the place here. No, I absolutely know lots and lots of people do not like Trump.

    You were the one who asserted that Trump voters no longer liked Trump. I said that was bullshit, and cited a poll of conservatives (Trump voters) showing that they love him. I'm a Trump voter, I love what he's doing, and every Trump voter I know loves what he's doing, because he's doing exactly what he said he would do.

    Now you're claiming that I'm stating that "everyone loves Trump." What the fuck? You're not even moving goalposts, you're installing a basketball hoop at the 50 yard line and chucking hockey pucks through it. You're deranged man.

  13. "Comrade Trump, we might have some information very damaging to the Clinton campaign, and we're not sure what to do with it. We could publish it, in the interest of fairness and openness between our two countries, be we would expect the US to reciprocate by removing the silly and unfair Ukrainian sanctions."

    And Trump, being a shrewd deal maker who understands leverage would say "ha! You know and I know that Hillary wants Assad removed because she's getting paid by the Saudis and Qatar so they can run their pipeline through Syria instead of yours. You know I don't give a shit about that. So it doesn't matter what I say about sanctions, you're going to release those things anyway."

    There's nothing Trump needs to give Vlad to make him release the emails. And doing so would be retarded, because then you're making a deal with the devil. Now Putin can tank Trump's presidency at any time by revealing their collusion.

    So it just doesn't make any sense. If Trump doesn't collude, Putin releases the emails. If Trump does collude, Putin releases the emails and can now blackmail Trump. Trump doesn't gain anything by colluding, and risks everything. Very bad deal, and I think even Trump's worst critics have to admit he always makes sure he comes out ahead in deals.

  14. Re:T = snake oil [Re:for various definitions of in on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Enact tariffs to move manufacturing back here. Even if the robots are making the products, the robots need service, raw materials mined and shipped, etc that can't be automated yet. That's something. Also it means the robot expertise is here, not in China, so if we ever get to the post-scarcity society where the robots are doing all the work, at least the robots are in-country.

    But education is a red herring. It doesn't matter how much cash you cram into the schools, you can't significantly raise anybody's IQ. And not having these low-skill jobs especially hurts blacks because the average black IQ in the US is 85. That means half of blacks have a below 85 IQ. 90 is about the cut-off for "able to read and follow directions." If we don't have jobs for them to do, then they're just going to rot on welfare, and that's the spiritual death of a race. Not good.

  15. The law in question requires the actor to have intent.

    It literally does not.

    18 USC 1924:

    (1) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, (2) by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, (3) knowingly removes such documents or materials (4) without authority and (5) with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location [shall be guilty of this offense].

    It's strict liability. No intent required. Do the deed, you're guilty.

  16. Re:Yeah, the bubble will pop long before that on In 18 Years, A College Degree Could Cost About $500,000 (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    See, that sounds great. That's what we need here. And we kind of used to have it, but then the runaway free money cycle.

  17. Re:Yeah, the bubble will pop long before that on In 18 Years, A College Degree Could Cost About $500,000 (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    So ... Europe is still Nutsy-Land? Because that's basically the reality over here.

    You don't have nearly the minority grievance industry there that we do here. There are people who whose entire career is "find anything in which black people don't have a success rate proportional to their representation in society and make it a literal federal case."

  18. Re:Oh no that sucks! on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    8/8 gr8 b8 m8.

  19. Re:Oh no that sucks! on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, average population, period.

    Oh. So basically the selling point for the illegal mexican rapists is that they're slightly less criminal than blacks? Great, ship 'em on in.

    He's just obsessed with "outsiders" as a personality quirk.

    It's a couple of things. One is a general respect for law and order. You cannot have a nation that doesn't have borders. This is the most basic function of government. The first government was one caveman saying to another "okay, if anyone tries to come into the cave who isn't one of us, throw this rock at him." We're not doing that and there's really no excuse for it.

    The other is that the illegal mexican rapists or their anchor babies eventually vote Democrat. Trump talked about this at a speech to CPAC back in...I want to say 2013? Something about "look, they're never going to vote Republican." Lots of South American countries are socialist, they come here and they vote socialist. You're never going to keep any sort of restraint on government if you populate the US with South Americans. They will almost always vote for more government.

    Now if you're a democrat or a socialist (but I repeat myself) this is great. Bring 'em on in and ignore any negative effects until you've demographically conquered the electorate. If you're a Republican, then, well, as a wise man said, "you have to go back."

    Ultimately it is your value system (your goals) that determine what facts are relevant to you. If you're a Democrat and your goal is socialist control of the US, then you will excuse any amount of illegal Mexican rape (largely by lying with statistics). If you're a Republican then damn it these Mexicans have got to go, regardless of just how rapey the illegal Mexicans may or may not be.

  20. Re:Yeah, the bubble will pop long before that on In 18 Years, A College Degree Could Cost About $500,000 (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    We should means test the money. College shouldn't be for people who can pay but people who can think.

    Then you're going to wind up with far less money for blacks and hispanics than whites, asians and Jews. The media will never mention the asians and Jews, but if you try to implement your plan get ready to be called literally double mega Hitler.

  21. Re:T = snake oil [Re:for various definitions of in on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In the end, we'll probably need some amount of make-work programs, being it babysitting, non-medical elder-care (like taking them for a walk), landscaping/grounds-keeper of public buildings, tutoring young kids, and neighborhood watch (basic security).

    But at the end of the day you still have to actually produce wealth. Those jobs don't produce real, physical wealth.

  22. Re:FAKE NEWS! on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't say "leftist." I would call it "corporate left." You want to keep the public hyper sensitive about pointless social issues that effect almost no one so it's all tranny bathroom coverage all the time. But then they completely ignore factory closings, or they want to keep their cheap slave labor so some illegal mexican raping and murdering a teenager gets zero coverage.

    Its your value system itself that determines what facts are and are not relevant to you.

    Also, I said "average Americans in flyover country" and you said "Nazis." What the fuck. Do you think your average midwestern American is a Nazi? That says more about you than it does about them...

  23. 18 USC 1924:

    (1) Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, (2) by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, (3) knowingly removes such documents or materials (4) without authority and (5) with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location [shall be guilty of this offense].

    There is no malice required. This is a strict liability statute. She did the thing, intent is irrelevant, they chose not to prosecute. If you agree with that choice you're probably a Democrat and if you disagree you're probably a Republican.

  24. But isn't the FBI a law enforcement agency? If there's no potential crime, then what are they investigating?

  25. Re:Oh no that sucks! on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    There's NO evidence they commit more crimes than the average population

    Average white population?