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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: If the models are all wrong
« on: July 21, 2014, 09:29:22 PM »
US summers used to be much hotter.

https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/summers-used-to-be-much-hotter-in-the-us-2/



I wouldn't reference the Steven Goddard blog (pseudonym for Tony Heller), where he has made several multiple fallacious claims. He was forced to admit his erroneous claim about a flawed NSIDC graph on sea ice, and has even been outed by fellow climate change denier Anthony Watts regarding his claim of data manipulation. The summer US argument is flawed in and of itself...it shows that one doesn't understand the core tenet of the argument it is against (i.e., GLOBAL mean).

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: "Inequality For All"
« on: July 21, 2014, 09:17:44 PM »
KSUW: is inequality not a problem or is it just any proposed remedy that is bad?

We're not all equal. Blame mother nature. Unequal gifts, unequal talents. The best we can hope for is equal opportunity, not equal outcome. Liberal efforts to put a thumb on the scales in order to balance things out are both immoral and failures. They involve redistribution of weath and opportunity (see, e.g., race-based college admission standards).

You should give the article below a read. This Plutocrat himself, a multibillionaire and unapologetic capitalist, argues that it's not that there is inequality; of course that is bound to happen in any capitalistic society. It's that it is occurring at an unprecedented rate and magnitude. He states something to the effect, "you show me a society with this much inequality and I'll show you a police state or imminent uprising". The entire premise is that it's true...the game is rigged. His take home, however, is that they need to start favoring their employee base as much as they do their customers, that they ARE their customers (the Henry Ford model). He argues that this is not only conducive to long term profits, but that the inevitable alternative as evidenced throughout history will not be kind to them. He further cites the fact that Seattle, being one of the fastest growing city economies for start-ups and small business, is an example to this fact as they have one of the highest minimum wages limits in the Nation. Anyway, it's a good read and offers a lot of unapologetic truth, while allowing one to see the issue without so much as getting defense for the feeling of misplaced guilt.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#.U83G__ldWVM

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8/30 Stephen F Austin   W
9/6   @ISU                   W
9/13  BYE
9/18  Auburn (thu)         W
9/27  UTEP                   W
10/4  TTU                    W
10/18  @OU                  W
10/25   UT                    W
11/1     oSu                  W
11/8     @TCU               W
11/15    BYE
11/20    @WVU (thu)      W
11/29.   KU.                  W
12/6      @BU                W


I don't give a damn what anyone thinks. This is probably Snyder's last real chance to do something really special here and he knows it. First undefeated regular season in school history.
:crossfingers:

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I wouldn't at all be surprised to see him redshirt.  In fact, I'd encourage it.

If he's the best at his position, he's playing now.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Israel - Hamas peace process
« on: July 15, 2014, 01:13:10 PM »
Never understood what the Palestinians beef with Israel is.
Then you haven't been paying attention history or the present.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: "I'm so fancy!"
« on: July 08, 2014, 11:31:18 AM »
I'll take Ms. Minaj over this girl anyday.
:confused:

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It's hilariously anticlimactic, but I could see a purpose for everything except the nail polish; though I'm sure there's some DIY use hidden in the catacombs of pinterest if you dare to make the journey.  :horrorsurprise:

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: states you have been drunk in
« on: July 05, 2014, 09:58:52 PM »
KS - yep, 8+
MO - yep, 8+
NE - meh, 4
TX - meh, 3
CO - meh, 3
IL - yep, 6
NV - yep, 8+

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Wilfred
Derek
Battlestar Gallactica
House of Cards (forgot this one)

The Office (not so much anymore, but worth the honorable mention)

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Kansas State Football / Re: Big 12 Logo
« on: July 03, 2014, 09:48:18 AM »
it's basically the opposite of timeless.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: July 03, 2014, 09:39:47 AM »
Luked?

Looks like we offered this kid recently:

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Joshua-Little-160406

Isaiah Zuber is trying to recruit him here via the twitters.
Looks to short, small and slow to be effective.  But the Fatman and the Pirate like him, so maybe he would be a good get.  :dunno:

Measured 6'4 at a camp.  If that is too short to play DE then Dwight Howard is too short to play center in the association.

Kid looks decent.  I don't think he's too slow for a strong side DE.  He certainly looks active.  The analysis in these threads is certainly either underrated or over my head.  I know that I always get quality (my money's well spent) whenever I stop by.

:lol:
:dunno:

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apparently the athletic dept. is calling directly to sell their holiday and conference ticket packages (during the blowout to Georgetown lol).  was an easy chance to tell them I'm not buying till Weber is gone.  I felt bad for the girl calling, though it seems she was well prepared for the response.
Stupid. I can't wait until the end of this season when these people have to eat crow...again.

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President George W. Bush, for example, made his position on negotiating with terrorists crystal clear. On April 4, 2002, he said, “No nation can negotiate with terrorists. For there is no way to make peace with those whose only goal is death.” Bush said that the United States would work for the return of kidnapped American military personnel and civilians, but will not pay any ransom: “We, of course, don’t pay ransom for any hostages,” he stated firmly.

In fact, a month earlier in March 2002, the Bush White House had helped arrange a ransom payment to the radical Islamic group Abu Sayyaf. ABC News reported that the U.S. government helped pay $300,000 in cash to the group, known to be part of Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network. The ransom was arranged to secure the release of two American missionaries, Martin and Gracia Burnham, taken hostage at a resort in the Philippines on May 27, 2001. The Burnhams were Protestant missionaries who traveled widely handing out Bibles and spreading the gospel. The ransom was paid, but the hostages were not released; one was later killed.


http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/negotiating-with-terrorists-whats-the-big-deal-140604.htm

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: If the models are all wrong
« on: June 16, 2014, 04:59:30 PM »
I'm not an alarmist by any means, but the Earth is indeed warming.  Climate change is a real thing.  14 of the last 15 years have been the hottest average global temperatures on record.  The chance that that is just a coincidence is less than 1 divided by all of the stars in the universe.


 :nerd:

You should probably be made aware that the graph starting this thread shows that your punitive carbon tax would have little to no affect on global temperatures.  I don't thinks it's even in dispute that a punitive carbon tax would have a devastating effect on the US economy.

Are we just buying a 4 balloon average and 2 satellite average with no reference as indisputable evidence now? For one, the graph below paints a much more accurate representation.


Note: The global mean annual temperature deviations are in the source in relation to the base period 1961-1990. The annual deviations shown in the chart have been adjusted to be relative to the period 1850-1899 to better monitor the EU objective not to exceed 2 oC above preindustrial values. Over Europe average annual temperatures during the real preindustrial period (1750-1799) were very similar to those during 1850-1899.

Of course the models are wrong! As someone who works with multivariate modeling techniques...ALL MODELS ARE WRONG. Yet, SOME ARE USEFUL! To imply the models being wrong as evidence to the contrary is just a sign that you misunderstand the statistical analysis. Also, we can argue all day about pre-historic temperatures. No one will deny their existence and relatively high values. What will be argued is this significance to the current debate. It's all about rate of change and ecosystem adaptation. Using these values out of current context is an obfuscation technique used to separate the real issue: current potential of human-dependent ecosystem collapse from too rapid of change. Change that, no matter the dispute on degree, is impacted by human actions. Only someone with a sophomoric understanding of organic chemistry and the magnitude of our impact on the carbon cycle would deny this influence.

To add, in 2006 Evans and Puckrin showed that the heat signatures responsible for the increase in temp was largely due to CO2, with additonal influence from other man-influenced gasses such as CFCs (https://ams.confex.com/ams/Annual2006/techprogram/paper_100737.htm). Right there is the empirical evidence for warming from organic and inorganic compounds largely increased in atmospheric concentrations from human actions. Yet, continue to ignorantly debate based on some misunderstanding or appeal to statistical or sampling error without comprehension of the methods themselves.

The issue that people cling to is, "it's been warmer in the distant past". Yeah, but not when we were rough ridin' here in a globalized, modern economic society that has 7+ billion people to support! Such a rapid change creates a selective pressure on ecosystems that would not be beneficial for man-kind! Why would you want to speed that process up? It's going to happen, but why would you speed it up by a factor of several thousand? It's like a gas leak...a slow, tiny one would not even be felt (the rate of change is so small that acclimatization would be stress-free), but crank that bitch up 10,000 times and now you have an issue.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Michael Beasley
« on: June 16, 2014, 04:19:42 PM »
Tbh, I think his best option is to stay with the Heat and develop under Lebron. It seems that Lebron has taken B-Easy under his wing, which is probably the best thing for him (i.e., guided by someone he clearly respects).

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: how many states have you lived in?
« on: June 12, 2014, 05:43:12 PM »
4
TX, KS, LA, and IL

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I liked it. It was just like she did it in the book.
She killed the Tickler in the book (who is now already dead in the show, killed by Jakken) not Raff the Sweetling, who should still be alive at that point in the books.  Also, she goes all postal in the books and isn't so cool and collected as in the show.

Still, that scene was really satisfying.

Yeah, I had actually completely forgotten how that scene went down in the books. That was about 3000 pages ago. It was perfect, regardless. The show does a lot of things better than the books did them.
100% disagree...the show is great, but it misses a lot of connections that the books setup for later.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Who's your guy?
« on: May 30, 2014, 06:52:49 PM »
There's still a lot more. Ppl just need to think Moore!
Word...I'll snag Cre!

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K-State makes up most of my non-professional wardrobe. However, I do have a couple shirts from FHSU and Pitt. State...went to both as well as K-State.

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Saw this on Reddit this morning. Here's the original post from u/MuffinTopBop:

"It can be really annoying to view articles that are slideshows so if you happen upon one you can just use http://deslide.clusterfake.net/ to have all those slides on one page. For example you can take http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2071372-ranking-every-state-by-their-college-football-teams and use deslide to turn it into this (see link below). I hope this helps if like me you also hate slideshow articles."

http://deslide.clusterfake.net/?o=html_table&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbleacherreport.com%2Farticles%2F2071372-ranking-every-state-by-their-college-football-teams

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: "You're welcome" or "No problem" ??
« on: May 28, 2014, 05:29:37 PM »
I use both interchangeably
Word

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One of the things I loved best about Sams is how he was never the starting QB who lost to a D2 school.  Also never threw an interception in a game against a D2 school. Also never threw two interceptions in a game against a D2 school.

What's your sample size? I assume regression to the mean would inevitably change that bogus stat. Look, it sucks he's transferring...I really think he would have helped us out in a big way, but not at QB. D-Sams is a rare athlete, but not a good QB for what our system is setup to do now...it's different. Lockett gives us the best chance to win. We need to pass, and we have receivers and lineman who can set that up. Our run game may be very weak, and not just for the lack of a RB; we don't keep gaps long enough. We need just enough of a threat to run (Jake may do that himself)...DS could have been huge on jet-screen, or any screen for that matter. His the epitome of a hybrid player who is finding his best chance for the next level...I could be wrong, but I don't think that is at QB though.

Shut your face and keep it out of this thread.
Why, because an internet douche-bag laid claim to a thread? It's not like I said "good riddance"...I said "it sucks" and noted his RARE athletic ability. Idiots hate rational discourse. So here...eff off.

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One of the things I loved best about Sams is how he was never the starting QB who lost to a D2 school.  Also never threw an interception in a game against a D2 school. Also never threw two interceptions in a game against a D2 school.

What's your sample size? I assume regression to the mean would inevitably change that bogus stat. Look, it sucks he's transferring...I really think he would have helped us out in a big way, but not at QB. D-Sams is a rare athlete, but not a good QB for what our system is setup to do now...it's different. Lockett gives us the best chance to win. We need to pass, and we have receivers and lineman who can set that up. Our run game may be very weak, and not just for the lack of a RB; we don't keep gaps long enough. We need just enough of a threat to run (Jake may do that himself)...DS could have been huge on jet-screen, or any screen for that matter. His the epitome of a hybrid player who is finding his best chance for the next level...I could be wrong, but I don't think that is at QB though. 

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Man, I just read through this thread for the first time. OK_cat is definitely the bitb at what he does. Sheesh. The Webb clean up was pretty good.

Too bad "what he does" is about as meaningful as a snail pissing on a pebble.

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