You can't stop idiots from voicing their opinions, so there will always be "debates" on subjects that aren't really debatable. The sun revolving around the earth, atheism being a religion, or copyright infringement being theft, whatever. You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
The vast majority of those injuries happen during training
Then that's some piss poor training, if you're more likely to be concussed or tear a muscle than when facing someone who's actively trying to win by KO/TKO/submission.
Also, a lot of the "career ending" injuries are actually treatable, and the reason it is career-ending is because the fighter doesn't earn enough money fighting to warrant investing in the corrective surgery.
Nice distinction. Where's the difference?
Amusingly, your link doesn't even talk about fight-ending injury, it talks about a fighter getting old and losing his edge, and losing his ability to take a punch without getting knocked out, and having to retire
Why did Liddel retire - or more accurately, was forced into retirement, ending his career? Because he suffered too many concussions to go on fighting. What are concussions? A type of injury to the brain. Injury, career ended....looks like it's all there to me.
In China, people do not start work at 8am in the US. They start work at the time they start work at.
You mean....just like in the United States? People go to work at 6 am, 8 am, 10 am, 2 pm, etc. Most, however, do not work the overnight shift, so you can be reasonably certain they will be sleeping or working at certain times of the day. So WYP, pedant?
Further west, in India, people start work at the time that suits their nation. In England, the same thing applies.
Let me guess...circadian rhythms was a banned subject at your alma mater, Arrogant Deushbag U?
This was the point being made by the GP
The point was that you have an idea what people are doing based on what time of the day it is, based on this little known concept called a generalization.
not that 3.2% of th US workers are night shift workers.
Are you ten pounds of dumbfuck stuffed into a five pound pretentious jackass, or fifteen pounds? The point of night shifts is those are the only people likely to be asleep when the rest of the population is awake or working. You call up Bob's Colon Blow at 10 am, and you can be reasonably sure that they'll be open for business and can thus try to help you with your FOS problem. If you feel like giving your old friend Joan Crawford a call, you probably wont do it at 2 am because she's likely to be asleep. Unless you know she has a night job and that's her most active time of the day.
You just assume that everyone is on your schedule.
His schedule, or one in line with 97% of the work force?
Police officers, hospital workers, truck drivers, and factory workers are among those working the "third" or "graveyard" shift that keeps the country moving along 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They make up 3.2 percent of the work force,
So yeah, you do have a pretty good idea, based on the time, if people are likely to be working, awake or sleeping at certain times of the day. At 7pm someone is likely to be awake, or at work if they work second shift. At 3 am, someone is likely to be sleeping, unless they are a college student or work overnights. That all goes out the window with universal time.
American Football has more career ending injuries then MMA does.
Of course there is, when there's a thousand football players for every MMA fighter. You can find football programs at most colleges and high schools in the U.S. - can you name a school that has one for MMA?
...and skipped right over the fact that Hillary would be talking about nothing but WMD's if they had actually been found in Iraq. Because the reason she hasn't been president the last 6+ years is her vote to invade Iraq.
To stop Saddam from using/possessing WMD's.
As to JEB Bush, it is hard to imagine him coming out touting wmds found in Iraq, when his own brother did not do so as President.
Clown. Shoes. Iraq is why Democrats took back Congress in 2006, and Republicans across the country took a beating in 2008. Do explain why everyone from the Bush family and the Bush Administration wouldn't be talking about these discovered WMD's if they vindicated W's war.
I wont hold my breath, because you'd first explain the workings of a perpetual motion machine before you could square that circle.
Oh, I don't suppose it occurred to you that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is unlikely to want to bring attention to the fact that ISIS came into being on her watch.
You do know that Hillary was at State, and not the Pentagon, right? The Hillary that was all set to "obliterate" Iran back in 2008? The Megathatcher would have re-invaded Iraq two years ago to fight the monster her boss's administration created.
When I did a Google search of her comments about ISIS, her statements were mostly supportive of Obama's strategy
Too bad you stopped your Goolgling. Because yes, the USG under Obama did create ISIS, by arming, funding and training extremists to fight Assad. Echoing the strategy of the first modern right-wing president, Carter, who funded the proto-Taliban in Afghanistan to provoke the USSR into stating what American Exceptionalists would call a "humanitarian intervention".
But that's the ever-present problem for right-wingers: the only legit criticism of Democrats comes from the Left.
when in fact the primary justification given at the time was Saddam's refusal to abide by the agreement he made at the end of the first Gulf War.
Agreements which entirely revolved around...Saddam's WMD's. Like I said, clown shoes.
It is interesting that the Huffington Post does not use the "degraded over time" argument.
What's interesting is that your own link never mentions WMD's, or Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Because it's not a weapon of mass destruction if it's incapable of causing mass destruction.
Because it's not a weapon of mass destruction if it's incapable of causing mass destruction.
Because it's not a weapon of mass destruction if it's incapable of causing mass destruction.
Because it's not a weapon of mass destruction if it's incapable of causing mass destruction.
Repeated so it might sink in this time, even through the clown shoes.
The question you have to ask yourself is, are there reasons to dislike Obama other than the color of his skin?
You could write an entire encyclopedia about such reasons, but the legit ones all come from the left. There is some Venn overlapping with Libertarians, who are refreshingly not FOS when they object to Obama's drone wars, unconstitutional spying, or continuing the War on Poor Drug Users.
But then there's the rest of the time, where Libertarians want to bring back all the worst aspects of the 19th Century, save chattel slavery. But they'd be just fine with the next best things: indentured servitude, sharecropping, and workers living in Company Towns and being paid in Company Script.
But I'm not FOS like an Obamabot. I will happily work with Libertarians who want to see bankers prosecuted for fraud or ending the War on Poor Drug Users. It's just that will also happily tell them to pound sand when they want to turn the U.S. into another Libertarian Paradise.
Classic butthurt, classic non-response. You guys should throw a party with the Obamabots, who are running around right now insisting that anyone pointing out Hillary's hypocrisy on using private email accounts for state business is suffering from Clinton Derangement Syndrome. You have so much in common.
Or, you could try a response-response. How do you explain the Birther obsession and being a secret muslim without racism. What's your justification from snoozing through 8 years of Bush's signing statements, record deficits and attempts at immigration reform to suddenly lose your minds when Obama continued on the same path.
Face it, the teabaggers are hacks, just like the Obamabots who will suddenly start objecting to Patriot Act extensions and drones the second it's President Jeb Bush at the helm.
Sorry, but you're wrong on that, or didn't know how to shop. By the time Dreamcast came out CD-R's had been available for 10 years and had dropped in price significantly.
Only if you were living in Taiwan as the son of an electronics exec. And 4k screens have been out for 10 years and dropped in price significantly - but they're still rare and expensive. And yes, I do have fond memories of burning CD's in dorm rooms at the time - and it would cost me $3 bucks per disk plus pizza for the guy who had invested in a blazing fast 2x burner.
And it's still a red herring for other reasons: Napster was around at the time, but bittorent did not exist, and the only people with decent net connections for downloading ISO's were college students. And the most widely pirated games of all time were also best sellers, for their time, like Warcraft and Starcraft.
Let's go with your premise that the DA was incompetent, biased, corrupt, or whatever.
What part of "no defense attorney would let his client testify at his own grand jury hearing unless the fix was in" did you have a hard time with?
I've always thought that rioting was an odd response to injustice in the system - whether perceived or real.
Why don't you ask the cops that start them? From the 60's through Occupy, most riots can accurately be described as police riots. But that's a part of the gameplan: cops brutally crack down on protestors, and authoritarians such as yourself blame the protesters. It's a time honored tactic, honed to perfection. The only way to cause change is to make life inconvenient enough for the bourgeoisie and the the politicians is to inconvenience them until they do something about it.
All your nice polite protests in a limited area, for a limited duration accomplish is a continuance of the system. There was no independent DOJ autopsy of Eric Gardner's murder, nor an independent DOJ investigation, nor a personal visit from the Attorney General from the United States. That did happen in Ferguson, precisely because the people didn't bend over and take their oppression like you would prefer they do.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK
You make some good points, but Snowden is stuck in Russia, and I intentionally did not want to get in to "Who is Worse?".
But it's unavoidable. It's like trying to watch with a straight face as Chris Brown gets a lecture on how to treat women....by O.J. Simpson.
Murders of Politkovskaya, Litvinenko, and now Nemtsov are just the tip of the iceberg.
Pennies on the hundred dollar bill - and that's assuming Putin ordered or condoned their killings. Obama has killed thousands of innocent people with his drones, including barely 16 year old boys for political speech their fathers made.
If you are referring to Mohamedou Ould Slahi
I'm referring to the more than 50 people who are still being held in Gitmo, some of which have been cleared for release from when Obama was still a Senator. The cop-out that 'their home countries wouldn't take them back' never held any water, since the U.S. spent years ignoring Urugay's offer to take some in, before finally freeing six men late last year.
Sat photos are hard to fake, and sat photos of artillery/tanks entering Ukraine from Russia are pretty damning evidence.
You mean pictures on social media, which are very easy to fake. It's funny, Russia has been invading Ukraine for a year and a half now - after the American supported coup overthrew the elected government six months before the agreed upon early elections - but not one shred of evidence has been presented by the U.S. to back up it's claims.
All those spy planes, all those spy satellites, and not. one. picture.
Easy: if rioting ensues, the trial must have been unfair - just as in Ferguson.
What trial? The DA acted more like a defense attorney at the grand jury hearing, where Wilson actually testified. Which is as much of a clue as one needs to know the fix was in. A remotely competent defense attorney would break his client's leg before letting him do that....unless the whole operation was a CYA from the beginning.
So stick that in your police state apologist pipe and smoke it.
Yes, because writing an opinion that differs from yours is clearly only possible by being paid to do so.
Only because there are people who bend over backwards to excuse inexcusable corruption and government lawbreaking. Case in point:
Making public a lot of things that people suspected but didn't quite know did indeed damage relationships. Had he not released the documents, the relationships would have continued as before.
Abusive, domineering, illegal relationships. Do you apologists throw parties with the Stasi Boosters Club? If not, why not?
I mean Vlad could just order him killed by unknown assailants and then blame the U.S. for the purposes of some minor PR points. He's that kind of guy.
I have yet to see bitching about Putin that wasn't either a case of projection, or 'beams and 'motes. He's an authoritarian doosh, but he's not keeping people in gulag's that have been cleared for release for a decade, nor is he busy murdering people on the other side of the planet with robot planes for their political speech. Nor has he supported a coup in Mexico and then all but invited his newly created puppet government into the Warsaw Pact.
Putin, at his worst day, is a a molehill next to the mountain of American Exceptionalism on it's best day.
Balls? The U.S. has shown it has no qualms about having a diplomatic plane - even one carrying a head of state - forced down by puppet governments because Snowden might be on board. The same U.S. that is busy leveling sanctions against the governments of Russia and Venezuela for American-made problems - the successful coup in Ukraine, the so far unsuccessful coup attempts in Venezuela. The U.S. that has asserted the right to murder anyone on the planet at any time, even barely 16 year old boys for the political speech of their fathers.
It's not just taking in a political refugee. It's taking on Western Imperialism, and you have to have Snowden-sized balls to do that.
The Tea Party has issues with Obama's policy which are valid and have nothing to do with Obama's race, yet they get cast as racist by the political commentators in the media, and the media reports this as news.
Because so,many of them ARE racist. Your excuses aren't helped by the fact that every issue they've whined about for the last six years was done first by Bush, from deficit spending to pushing immigration reform to signing statements. But they DGAF till the black guy was in office. They only alternative is that they are as willfully stupid as the Obamabots who spent six years bitching about Bush and the Patriot Act only to yawn when Obama not just extended it but signed the NDAA into law.
They're either idiots, or racist idiots. Take your pick.
Anarchists aren't against rules, they're against rulers. Libertarians are just fine with rulers, so long as they are "job creators", otherwise known as robber barons and oligarchs. Oh, and the "property rights" fetish, when the property is owned by the aforementioned barons and oligarchs.
The Saudis voted to keep OPEC overproducing for the time being, probably at the prodding of the US Sec of State to hurt Russia in retaliation for the Ukraine thing.
Retaliation for not rolling over and accepting the western-backed coup, and yet another NATO state on Russia's border.
Ever since, until this year, the Republicans controlled the house and the Democrats the Senate and Reid basically played bad cop to Obama's good cop.
On the contrary, Obama finally has the Congress he's always wanted. Now he doesn't even have to go through the motions of supporting his party's platform, as he did his first two years in in office. In public, it's all meaningless gestures that he knows will go nowhere, like minimum wage increase/free community college/sick leave. Behind the scenes, it's full steam ahead for the TPP and a new cold war with Russia.
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You can't stop idiots from voicing their opinions, so there will always be "debates" on subjects that aren't really debatable. The sun revolving around the earth, atheism being a religion, or copyright infringement being theft, whatever. You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
Then that's some piss poor training, if you're more likely to be concussed or tear a muscle than when facing someone who's actively trying to win by KO/TKO/submission.
Nice distinction. Where's the difference?
Why did Liddel retire - or more accurately, was forced into retirement, ending his career? Because he suffered too many concussions to go on fighting. What are concussions? A type of injury to the brain. Injury, career ended....looks like it's all there to me.
You mean....just like in the United States? People go to work at 6 am, 8 am, 10 am, 2 pm, etc. Most, however, do not work the overnight shift, so you can be reasonably certain they will be sleeping or working at certain times of the day. So WYP, pedant?
Let me guess...circadian rhythms was a banned subject at your alma mater, Arrogant Deushbag U?
The point was that you have an idea what people are doing based on what time of the day it is, based on this little known concept called a generalization.
Are you ten pounds of dumbfuck stuffed into a five pound pretentious jackass, or fifteen pounds? The point of night shifts is those are the only people likely to be asleep when the rest of the population is awake or working. You call up Bob's Colon Blow at 10 am, and you can be reasonably sure that they'll be open for business and can thus try to help you with your FOS problem. If you feel like giving your old friend Joan Crawford a call, you probably wont do it at 2 am because she's likely to be asleep. Unless you know she has a night job and that's her most active time of the day.
He has a pretty good idea, pedant.
His schedule, or one in line with 97% of the work force?
So yeah, you do have a pretty good idea, based on the time, if people are likely to be working, awake or sleeping at certain times of the day. At 7pm someone is likely to be awake, or at work if they work second shift. At 3 am, someone is likely to be sleeping, unless they are a college student or work overnights. That all goes out the window with universal time.
Even when retirement is a synonym for "career ending injury"?
Of course there is, when there's a thousand football players for every MMA fighter. You can find football programs at most colleges and high schools in the U.S. - can you name a school that has one for MMA?
...and skipped right over the fact that Hillary would be talking about nothing but WMD's if they had actually been found in Iraq. Because the reason she hasn't been president the last 6+ years is her vote to invade Iraq.
To stop Saddam from using/possessing WMD's.
Clown. Shoes. Iraq is why Democrats took back Congress in 2006, and Republicans across the country took a beating in 2008. Do explain why everyone from the Bush family and the Bush Administration wouldn't be talking about these discovered WMD's if they vindicated W's war.
I wont hold my breath, because you'd first explain the workings of a perpetual motion machine before you could square that circle.
You do know that Hillary was at State, and not the Pentagon, right? The Hillary that was all set to "obliterate" Iran back in 2008? The Megathatcher would have re-invaded Iraq two years ago to fight the monster her boss's administration created.
Too bad you stopped your Goolgling. Because yes, the USG under Obama did create ISIS, by arming, funding and training extremists to fight Assad. Echoing the strategy of the first modern right-wing president, Carter, who funded the proto-Taliban in Afghanistan to provoke the USSR into stating what American Exceptionalists would call a "humanitarian intervention".
But that's the ever-present problem for right-wingers: the only legit criticism of Democrats comes from the Left.
Agreements which entirely revolved around...Saddam's WMD's. Like I said, clown shoes.
What's interesting is that your own link never mentions WMD's, or Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Because it's not a weapon of mass destruction if it's incapable of causing mass destruction.
Because it's not a weapon of mass destruction if it's incapable of causing mass destruction.
Because it's not a weapon of mass destruction if it's incapable of causing mass destruction.
Because it's not a weapon of mass destruction if it's incapable of causing mass destruction.
Repeated so it might sink in this time, even through the clown shoes.
You could write an entire encyclopedia about such reasons, but the legit ones all come from the left. There is some Venn overlapping with Libertarians, who are refreshingly not FOS when they object to Obama's drone wars, unconstitutional spying, or continuing the War on Poor Drug Users.
But then there's the rest of the time, where Libertarians want to bring back all the worst aspects of the 19th Century, save chattel slavery. But they'd be just fine with the next best things: indentured servitude, sharecropping, and workers living in Company Towns and being paid in Company Script.
But I'm not FOS like an Obamabot. I will happily work with Libertarians who want to see bankers prosecuted for fraud or ending the War on Poor Drug Users. It's just that will also happily tell them to pound sand when they want to turn the U.S. into another Libertarian Paradise.
Classic butthurt, classic non-response. You guys should throw a party with the Obamabots, who are running around right now insisting that anyone pointing out Hillary's hypocrisy on using private email accounts for state business is suffering from Clinton Derangement Syndrome. You have so much in common.
Or, you could try a response-response. How do you explain the Birther obsession and being a secret muslim without racism. What's your justification from snoozing through 8 years of Bush's signing statements, record deficits and attempts at immigration reform to suddenly lose your minds when Obama continued on the same path.
Face it, the teabaggers are hacks, just like the Obamabots who will suddenly start objecting to Patriot Act extensions and drones the second it's President Jeb Bush at the helm.
Only if you were living in Taiwan as the son of an electronics exec. And 4k screens have been out for 10 years and dropped in price significantly - but they're still rare and expensive. And yes, I do have fond memories of burning CD's in dorm rooms at the time - and it would cost me $3 bucks per disk plus pizza for the guy who had invested in a blazing fast 2x burner.
And it's still a red herring for other reasons: Napster was around at the time, but bittorent did not exist, and the only people with decent net connections for downloading ISO's were college students. And the most widely pirated games of all time were also best sellers, for their time, like Warcraft and Starcraft.
What part of "no defense attorney would let his client testify at his own grand jury hearing unless the fix was in" did you have a hard time with?
Why don't you ask the cops that start them? From the 60's through Occupy, most riots can accurately be described as police riots. But that's a part of the gameplan: cops brutally crack down on protestors, and authoritarians such as yourself blame the protesters. It's a time honored tactic, honed to perfection. The only way to cause change is to make life inconvenient enough for the bourgeoisie and the the politicians is to inconvenience them until they do something about it.
All your nice polite protests in a limited area, for a limited duration accomplish is a continuance of the system. There was no independent DOJ autopsy of Eric Gardner's murder, nor an independent DOJ investigation, nor a personal visit from the Attorney General from the United States. That did happen in Ferguson, precisely because the people didn't bend over and take their oppression like you would prefer they do.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK
Same shit, different decade. Next up: Santa is real, because every Christmas NORAD tracks him.
But it's unavoidable. It's like trying to watch with a straight face as Chris Brown gets a lecture on how to treat women....by O.J. Simpson.
Pennies on the hundred dollar bill - and that's assuming Putin ordered or condoned their killings. Obama has killed thousands of innocent people with his drones, including barely 16 year old boys for political speech their fathers made.
I'm referring to the more than 50 people who are still being held in Gitmo, some of which have been cleared for release from when Obama was still a Senator. The cop-out that 'their home countries wouldn't take them back' never held any water, since the U.S. spent years ignoring Urugay's offer to take some in, before finally freeing six men late last year.
Trade places with Chelsey Manning and say that again.
You mean pictures on social media, which are very easy to fake. It's funny, Russia has been invading Ukraine for a year and a half now - after the American supported coup overthrew the elected government six months before the agreed upon early elections - but not one shred of evidence has been presented by the U.S. to back up it's claims.
All those spy planes, all those spy satellites, and not. one. picture.
What trial? The DA acted more like a defense attorney at the grand jury hearing, where Wilson actually testified. Which is as much of a clue as one needs to know the fix was in. A remotely competent defense attorney would break his client's leg before letting him do that....unless the whole operation was a CYA from the beginning.
So stick that in your police state apologist pipe and smoke it.
Only because there are people who bend over backwards to excuse inexcusable corruption and government lawbreaking. Case in point:
Abusive, domineering, illegal relationships. Do you apologists throw parties with the Stasi Boosters Club? If not, why not?
That's what's fucked over every whisteblower from Manning to Kiriakou: they aren't allowed to argue in court that their actions were justified.
I have yet to see bitching about Putin that wasn't either a case of projection, or 'beams and 'motes. He's an authoritarian doosh, but he's not keeping people in gulag's that have been cleared for release for a decade, nor is he busy murdering people on the other side of the planet with robot planes for their political speech. Nor has he supported a coup in Mexico and then all but invited his newly created puppet government into the Warsaw Pact.
Putin, at his worst day, is a a molehill next to the mountain of American Exceptionalism on it's best day.
Balls? The U.S. has shown it has no qualms about having a diplomatic plane - even one carrying a head of state - forced down by puppet governments because Snowden might be on board. The same U.S. that is busy leveling sanctions against the governments of Russia and Venezuela for American-made problems - the successful coup in Ukraine, the so far unsuccessful coup attempts in Venezuela. The U.S. that has asserted the right to murder anyone on the planet at any time, even barely 16 year old boys for the political speech of their fathers.
It's not just taking in a political refugee. It's taking on Western Imperialism, and you have to have Snowden-sized balls to do that.
FTFY. You know the Oath of Office swears you to defend the Constitution, not the bipartisan fascists trampling it, right? Right?
Because so ,many of them ARE racist. Your excuses aren't helped by the fact that every issue they've whined about for the last six years was done first by Bush, from deficit spending to pushing immigration reform to signing statements. But they DGAF till the black guy was in office. They only alternative is that they are as willfully stupid as the Obamabots who spent six years bitching about Bush and the Patriot Act only to yawn when Obama not just extended it but signed the NDAA into law.
They're either idiots, or racist idiots. Take your pick.
Anarchists aren't against rules, they're against rulers. Libertarians are just fine with rulers, so long as they are "job creators", otherwise known as robber barons and oligarchs. Oh, and the "property rights" fetish, when the property is owned by the aforementioned barons and oligarchs.
Retaliation for not rolling over and accepting the western-backed coup, and yet another NATO state on Russia's border.
On the contrary, Obama finally has the Congress he's always wanted. Now he doesn't even have to go through the motions of supporting his party's platform, as he did his first two years in in office. In public, it's all meaningless gestures that he knows will go nowhere, like minimum wage increase/free community college/sick leave. Behind the scenes, it's full steam ahead for the TPP and a new cold war with Russia.