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  1. Re:What? on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    The French still haven't recovered from Napoleon.

  2. Re:What? on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Just for comparison. Vatican city recently raised its age of consent, to 14 (from 12). Only priests, nuns and the swiss guard live in Vatican city.

  3. Re:Who would want multiple wives?!?! on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't know, maybe AC can lick his eyebrows.

  4. Re: Editor, You mixed the links on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, and Mormon Island just 'accidently' caught fire after they refused to tithe.

  5. Re: Editor, You mixed the links on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Watch yourself around Mormons. They all present as 'family/work/values, but it's sometimes pure bullshit.

    There is a significant % that are just flatout criminals. Mostly in the higher echelons. It's been that way since the beginning. With such an _obvious_scam_, you know that their are wolves among the trusting morons.

    Yes I know a number of ex-mormons. The 'Mormon mafia' is real, just well hidden.

  6. Re: Editor, You mixed the links on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Just the tip of the iceberg.

    Brigham Young also ordered the town of 'Mormon Island' outside Folsom CA (now under the lake) burned to the ground because they weren't tithing.

    Dumb dumb dumb dumb....

  7. Re:Man, he used "Balkanisation" properly on Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Have they turned down a _single_ warrant application yet?

    You should read how FISA actually works.

    You will, no doubt, be concerned when Trump has them tap his next opponents staff. But then it will be too late.

  8. Re: Editor, You mixed the links on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Was arresting Smith 'violence against Mormons' when he was just a conman? Did it only become 'violence against Mormons' when he became a prophet/conman?

    Was it 'violence against Mormons' when he was tarred feathered and run out of town on a rail for what he said to the 15 year old daughter of the town banker? That was AFTER he started his big religion scam.

  9. Did you even read my post?

    SingHa (Almost the same anglicised name as the Thai malt liquor)

    It's decent beer, wouldn't go so far as 'good'. Chinese 'SingHa' is polluted piss. I believe the Thai version has a space in the anglicised name.

  10. Re:Pot calling the kettle black? on Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    A quick look through your posting history tells us your opinion is _worthless_ in this regard.

  11. Re:Said... on Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1. No. Blacks are overrepresented as % of the population, but are UNDERREPRESENTED as % of violent criminal population. That is a FACT. The black community does have a bitch, not getting it's fair share of police protection. That isn't fixed until at least 40% of those being shot by police are black (the % of violent crime they commit).

  12. Re: Said... on Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your guy makes 'bad decisions', the other side has 'scandals'. That is the 'different'.

  13. Never trust an EE with a soldering iron. The guy in charge of the emergency cooling experiment at Chernobyl was an EE. He was apparently killed, never seen after.

    There are no technical means possible he couldn't have disabled. What he needed was a clueful boss.

    Yes, I'm an EE and own torches, guns, several soldering irons, a chinesium hot air rework tool and an arc welder. I'm allowed to talk shit about other EEs, it's expected.

  14. Re:As opposed to its money-losing ride hire busine on Uber Is Selling Its Money-Losing Car Lease Business (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn, I see no victims in this scam. No human ones anyhow.

    You'd think the VCs would force it public and let em roll. Must be distracted fighting over a nice juicy roadkill.

    Nice job 'redistributing the wealth', Uber guys.

  15. Re:Land value will go up $$$ on China's Shanghai Sets Population at 25 Million To Avoid 'Big City Disease' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Controversial social experiments: The cultural revolution? Red guards? Ghost cities? Currency pegs?

    We've tried them all but the ghost cities, you could have asked how they had worked out for us, or just studied the history. No need to repeat mistakes.

  16. TsingTao is good beer.

    About 20 years ago I tried another Chinese beer, SingHa (Almost the same anglicised name as the Thai malt liquor). It wasn't good, mentioned it to Chinese coworkers, was told. 'That's made in Shanghai with Shanghai city water, never drink that again, it will give you cancer.' They were surprised it could legally be imported to the USA.

    Shanghai water issues have been unmanageable for a long time.

  17. Re:cash costs money on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    He should see an immediate increase in 'inventory shrinkage' and a corresponding decrease in deposits. It's apparently what the IRS wants.

  18. Re:cards cost more on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If your doing it right, cash costs are negative your marginal tax rate plus your actual cash handling costs.

  19. Re:cash costs money on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hate keeps you warm fuckwit? Never change.

  20. Re:You have to pay for using an ambulance? on Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    We're not the one making up a private definition of 'first world' to make things seem simple.

  21. Re:Where's the story here? on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Versus government tit suckers and 'workers'?

  22. Re: Where's the story here? on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Double down on 'wrong'...

    Crack is _still_ punished harder than powder cocaine, but exactly the same as meth. People bitch about it, but they are rightly ignored.

    Car insurance rates often go up in fancy zip codes. Because your neighbors are paying crazy money on cars trying to impress each other. But 'race pimps' never go there.

    Your main point remains wrong: Racially skewed outcomes legally prove _nothing_, or every lender would be in deep deep shit. The credit reporting agencies in particular would be out of business.

  23. Re: Where's the story here? on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Every chance I get! You should too. You'll sleep better.

  24. Re:Experience from a working-class red state on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    People who think the world ends at the border of their hometown are hicks. Even if their 'hometown' is NYC. NY is full of hicks.

  25. Re:I pay with Credit on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to play that game when I was a 'road warrior'. It's not too hard to capitalize when your living out of airports and hotels.

    The downside is they can and will stick you with debt on your personal card if the co goes belly up. But the CC companies like to make you personally liable for company cards, so not much benefit. Submit expenses 'instantly', make friends in accounting.