goDel
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Phudo for president! Would be disappointed if Ryan wasnt already part of the watmm shitpost gang,btw
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Don't have much state experience (more sas), but what i've seen is that stata excels in simple code for creating statistic models (with useful output), but it's just not that handy in the data preparation department. Sas is the other way around. Although its biggest win is that you can use sql statements, i guess. I was hoping for R to be a good substitute. But I havent fallen in love, yet.
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How much smaller though? * intention to make penis size joke*
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0.1% of harddrive.....*all blood suddenly going to the anticipation organ .... faints because not enough ...in...head..*
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like the image. whatever. just saying the "soul responsibility" thing is just some imaginary invention for people who want to believe in some linear form of power structures. even though the system is explicitly built (different branches) to always have checks and balances. which basically implies an inherent non-linearity. but i'll start putting these goalposts back in my arse now. things go nowhere pretty fast. so back to the dark warmth beyond my own circular muscle down south i go.
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show me a rule requiring the president to defer to anybody (regarding the current topic). there most certainly are rules to take care of defense officials disobeying orders from the commander in chief. rules? what would happen in a situation like that? you think everyone apart from the president just behaves like some sort atomaton zombie slave in some system based on strikt rules? if that would happen, my guess there's obviously going to be some "you have to follow the rules" kind of nonsense at which point things soon escalate to the legal system. and this is exactly where power is taken out of the hands of this autocratic president with that holy "soul responsibility". and that's when democracy kicks back in again.
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oooo, like the scrolling thingy cute!
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that's not an established norm, that's how the administration works. a process. what do you think will happen as soon as some future president singlehandedly starts deciding important stuff like this? i remember some high-up defense people already saying they'd ignore certain commands from higher up the decision-chain if stuff like that (lets start a war...) would happen. the term 'soul authority' is a mostly symbolic term. 'soul responsibility' just as empty perhaps.
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Saw some talk about (political) power/influence recently. One of the points made was that many people have a linear idea about power, while in reality political power is often very non-linear and much more unpredictable. Very interesting idea to have this distinction. And when I hear people talk about the US president, for instance. Whether it's the "it's all the same/doesn't really matter who's in charge" idea, or the "the us president has the power to launch a nuclear missile/can single handedly screw everything up" kind of argument, in both cases there's an implicit notion of linear power structures, I believe. In a non-linear world neither is actually the case. It does matter who's in charge, but the outcome tends to gravitate towards some kind of equilibrium. The difference is mostly in how this equilibrium is reached and to a lesser extent perhaps which equilibrium. (not implying different equilibriae..(? is that the correct latin plural form??) are miles apart from eachother) And it's pretty rare for a single person in the administration to screw up so bad that wars could depend on it. I really find that hard to believe. Even if there's one guy with a final say, there are plenty of influences built into the system such that the decision-making is a multi-person/dimension thing, if you know what i mean.
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Enjoying this track a lot! Like the video as well. Although I seriously doubt Dublin boy made this by himself. This was a coproduction with some warp-officials or something (note all those t-shirts). Not just some fan-art. imooo Anyways, hope dicky james is making progress with mastering the rest of the soundcloud-dump
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We had something remotely similar happening in the netherlands roughly 10 years ago. An almost certainly winning populist candidate shot dead by a 'left' extremist only a week before the election. Since then the populist right refers to the "bullet coming from the left" from time to time. Nasty stuff.
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Just read those tweets and couldn't imagine what it would've been like to be in his shoes. Sounds like Idiocracy and the Third Reich put together.Clinton and Trump are both bags of shit as far as I'm concerned. Deciding between "the lesser of two evils"...the crook or the blowhard...just doesn't seem like a viable excuse anymore. AFAIK there are still around two million ballots cast by Bernie voters that remain uncounted in Cali. If he gets surreptitiously squeezed out the race, I'm voting Jill Stein again in the general election. Out of curiosity: how does clintons shittyness compare to trumps? They're not even remotely comparable. Not trying to stop you from voting for Stein, or anything. I just don't think the "lesser of two evils" argument is a strong one. Like you, but for a different reason. As it implies those two can be compared, which is completely rubbish, imo. Clinton is a serious politician, which people can disagree with. Trump isn't.
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can't edit post anymore. realise i shouldnt have made previous post. haven't actually read any of what went before it, so please ignore. i'm not interested in a discussion. certainly not on islam, etc. so please consider previous post as made by some ignoramus, if you didnt already. not discussion/response worthy at all. minus 2 cents
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"merely mentions the word Islamic or Islam" Understatement of the day? This is merely mentioning those words: "Islam or Islamic". See? This is not:"It's offensive to the truth, and its offensive to the countless people that have been slaughtered under brutal regimes that belong to those radical, militant schools of thought, for not following their twisted versions of Islam" That's a statement open to discussion. Perhaps you need to accept that?
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hate to give a rational response in here, but duuuude the friggin soundcloud dump...duuuude!
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*something about a duck*
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more concerned about the 10.000+ likeS, btw. hope these were twitter-like bots
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dude, it's not relevant. make your thread about the biggest shooting in (recent) US history.
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Have you not been following the story? Authorities are saying it was heavily planned and coordinated, the shooter had pledged allegiance to isis and was on a watch list, in addition to the mutilple eyewitness accounts saying there multiple shooters (up to 3). Sure, GoDel, it was just some bored kid who off the wall decided to plan and fund a massive operation that amounted to the largest shooting in US history. And even if it was a lone wolf not connected to any internation terror networks, which I highly doubt, I think its still reasonable to have it discussed. Sorry if it doesnt aualify as a talking point for you, but your opinion is not representative of everyone. what was a massive operation? he legally bought a couple of guns a week before and he called 911 20 mins he started shooting. i must be missing something, because all articles i'm reading talk about a loner who sympathised with the is thing. plus, make a thread already.
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? i haven't said the shooting isnt a relevant talking point, or unreasonable to talk about. what is unreasonable however is to start complaining about the lack of a thread and basically blame it on euro's. being unsympathetic to the oregon thing.
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paris: a group of people tried to bomb a friendly match where merkel and the french president were present, and a couple of km's (!!!) away some other people did a coordinated attack at a gig ..and people were spraying guns at some popular district. shooting in US: loner killing lots of people. if you want a thread about the zillionsts shooting in the us make one. and haven't there been plenty on gun control and the likes?
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just put your cat in a piano and listen carefully.
