SkyDekker

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    Except they can't do that if you do not provide the tools required. If your only tool is a hammer.....
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    Name a beer

    SkyDekker replied to 24fps's topic in The Bonfire

    You both make me puke
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    Don't hate me..... Hate math. 38% < 62% "We are 38% certain it is the warmest". Which means we are 62% certain that it is not. Your logic needs some work, cause that simply isn't true.
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    No, not entirely true. Though median is considered a form of average, the term average is most often used referring to mean.
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    I watche dthe movie on Saturday night. I can't say I am in any way an expert on Kyle, but knew the "basic story" if you will. The movie was good, but something about the movie rubbed me the wrong way. I have yet to be able to really figure out what that is, but it is there. I think I would have enjoyed this movie more if I didn't know it was based on a real person, as weird as that sounds. It felt like there just was too much "look at me, I am awesome".
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    Agreed, if there were more scenarios, or the scenarios weren't really in that order then my point is certainly less valid, or not valid at all. With regards to other tools, they could have been successful in the second scenario, but if all you are providing as a tool is a gun, then that is the only tool he can use. Baton, peperspray, taser were options that could have been used in that second scenario, but that wasn't available.
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    Reads like a temper tantrum I guess I care about things other than myself You should try it sometime Your anger might be reduced Yet of course the previous administration's illegal use of torture is quickly dismissed. Pretty selective with when you want to laws followed....
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    Not at all. But where any other tools provided than a gun? In the first scenario the participant is shown how quickly things can go south. The participant never stood a chance and got shot. In my opnion that helps create a mindset for the participant that in the next scenario he better react before the "perp" has an opportunity to. Anyways, I don't disagree with the message of the whole thing. Just stating that in my opinion the scenarios were clerverly set up to provide maximum opportunity to deliver the desired result.
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    I thought the sequence in the scenarios and the tools provided were a clever way to ensure an almost guanranteed trigger pull in the second scenario.
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    We have started adding EV charging stations in the parking lots of shopping centres to allow customers to charge their vehicle for free while shopping. So far they have been getting a fair bit of use.
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    You know us communists up north, we just hand our whole paycheck the the government. Have a good weekend!
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    Just the other side of the coin. Few other professions get so much recognition when they are killed on the job either. Not too many contruction workers get called heroes when falling off scaffolding.
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    I thought the video was good to see. Kudos to the activist and journalist for agreeing to do that. Unfortunately you didn't make the actual video or the scenarious, nor tools provided on topic, since I have some observations/discussion points regarding that.
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    Interesting. So technically a family member helping their ailing mother or father taking medication could get arrested. The way that is written, only the "patient" can remove the medication of the packaging.
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    you note three separate things here 1 - I agree, responsible budgeting is a good idea 2 - increased allocations for an system designed to support a beaurocracy instead of teaching kids is a completely other topic. But it might apply when you are arguing to take away even more money from parents that just might use it for their kid's educations if they had a better option. 3 - artificially mucking with the market and prices is subject for debate (read as hijacking a private market as an excuse to take more money from the citizenry) let alone the fact that the attitudes inherent in the thinking that gives us the problems behind #2 and #3 is a big symptom of why we have to deal with a system that doesn't get the concept of #1 No I was just noting that the concept you touted that increased taxes are never beneficial to "the people" is not something I agree with. Just like reducing taxes isn't always beneficial. Which leads me to full agreement that responsible budgeting is a good idea.
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    And the US granted pardons to the worst japanse offenders as long as they would share the outcome of their "research".
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    And it has begun: http://news.yahoo.com/schlumberger-cuts-9-000-jobs-due-low-oil-222259643.html That report must be false. Rush keeps telling me that industry in the US is in great shape.
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    You don't think that the government paying down debt, increasing emergency funds, increase allocations for education etc is "good for the people". Bill's idea to start smoothing out gas price fluctuations makes perfect sense.
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    Nice bail You brought it up. You could have just typed 'UKIP racist' into google and read through their litany of overtly bigotted fuck-ups for yourself, but instead you decided to go down this road and drag the Tea Party into it just for the sake of being argumentative. So here we are. Happy? All I am saying is many here call the Tea Party racist I know they are not I sure as fuck am not going to just believe you or the media for the most part either You use labels to dismiss differnt groups and people Fuck that I dont acept that Get over yourself Lol aren't you labelling him and dismissing him?
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    that's my point - taxing it will make it worse for those industries and their employees. Not better. I responded to the wrong post rehmwa...apologies. Taxes will go up in some locales, specially when their revenue was mostly based on the oil industry. Many people in that sector will lose their jobs....other sectors will see growth though. Overall I don't think it is as bad a thing for the US economy as it is for the Canadian economy, which is far more resource heavy.
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    In the mean time you can get ready to pay sales taxes like the rest of the provinces
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    No, I was agreeing with them. It is natural for output to be higher in 2015 than in 2014, since exploration was greatly ramped up, driven by the high price for oil. Industry like that doesn't just stop on a dime.
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    The more I've learned about Belgium, the less I understand why it even exists. Seems like Wallonia should be part of France, and Flanders should be part of the Netherlands. Different Royal family.
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    http://the-daily-digger.blogspot.com/2015/01/us-oil-production-expected-to-increase.html I think it is somewhat common sense that for those wells already producing the cost to extract is signifcantly lower than to start drilling new wells etc. If oil stays below $50 and there is no new magical technology making this oil cheaper to extract, production is going to fall dramatically.
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    I suspect that those that are really positively impacted by this change aren't in the market for new cars. They need the money for buying food and clothes. those that buy those new cars likely could do it before My concern is knee jerk tax increases that won't go away once the price of gas goes up. And the fact that so many will self-righteously applaud it. Obviously the thouands employed in the oil industry (and secondary industries) who are about to lose their jobs may have a different view on this.