StrangeSox

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 11:26 AM) Question: more and more, win probability is being mentioned in game. While I find win probability interesting retroactively to see how impactful a specific play was, I find in game it is a stupid stat. Wondering what other people think. I hope it goes away. Somewhat agree. I don't know statistics well enough, but to me it seems that you can't always apply the general "win probability" to specific games too accurately.

Ben Carson fabricated a story about getting accepted to West Point. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/ben-...st-point-215598

I think we're talking past each other there a bit on semantics. I'm meaning targeted literally, in that their bombs and bullets went exactly where they wanted them to go and it wasn't some technical malfunction or operator error that caused it. The US planes targeted and successfully bombed and shot up the DWB hospital. According to DWB, they absolutely should have known that it was a DWB hospital, but I'm more willing to believe that it was yet another intelligence failure rather than deliberately targeting DWB. The US, like every other country, criticizes other foreign countries for taking actions that the US and its allies/friends have taken regularly. We've supported horribly oppressive regimes while criticizing other horribly oppressive regimes. We've (rightly) criticized Israel for similar bombing "accidents" in the past, for example. Launching unprovoked foreign invasions and implementing torture regimes count as war crimes.

yes, my point was tangential to that

counterpoint: QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 23, 2015 -> 12:00 PM) The market cap for Facebook is now larger than the market caps for Johnson and Johnson as well as Wells Fargo. (edit: this isn't a well thought out critique! more of a general observation)

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 10:32 AM) I don't think so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States...ssy_in_Belgrade http://www.thenation.com/article/us-has-bo...g-parties-2001/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deh_Bala_wedd...party_airstrike http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...han-school.html It's hypocritical in that the US will criticize unfriendly country X for doing something friendly countries or the US itself does routinely. Like I said though, every single nation on earth does this. It's an argument for why those who pushed for some of these disastrous wars should be rotting in prison or, at the very least, never taken seriously again instead of continuing to hold influential positions, regular media appearances and be key members of Republican foreign policy teams. http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/10/08/...spitals-bombed/

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 10:28 AM) It is, but in a much more complex way. To lean heavily on terrible cliches, it's not connected to the "mainstreet" economy these days. The stock market was doing fantastically well and corporations were making record profits for years while employment was still high, and even with employment rates greatly improved, wages are still pretty stagnant and wealth is even more unequal these days. A robust financial market doesn't necessarily translate into economic improvements for most people.

Hermain Cain's "9-9-9" plan was from Sim City, Ben Carson's magical grain pyramids are from Sid Meier's Civilization Ben Carson's bizarre theory about the pyramids, explained Ben Carson, currently the second-place candidate for one of two national political parties in the United States of America.

Stock market isn't really connected to the real economy these days.

We've targeted schools, embassies and weddings, but not hospitals! If Assad had bombed a civilian hospital in Syria, the US would rightly be criticizing him for it. Absurd hypocrisy in foreign policy is standard for every single country on the planet, though.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 5, 2015 -> 09:20 PM) PSH I still have that on my mac. Ill dominate you with the persians. I may be dating myself but that came out when I lived in the dorms and we used to play hallway v hallway on that game. I just came across my original install CD for it this week. What's the cheat code for the machine gun-firing Cobra?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 5, 2015 -> 05:50 PM) I haven't tried one, but there are now controllers for charcoal grills that regulate the airflow onto the charcoal and allow you to take something like a Weber and turn it into a pretty constant temperature device. That linked one is just the first one I saw on Google. Replacing the stock charcoal pan in my bottom-of-the-line brinkman smoker cabinet with a stainless steel grill wok like the one below made a huge difference. Definitely recommend this dual-probe remote thermometer, too. Never, ever rely on the crappy bi-metal dial thermometers installed on grills or smokers. This one lets you have two probes, typically once for cabinet temperature and one for meat temperature. You can set alarms to go off if the temperature goes too high or low on either probe. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FQ1VTPI/?tag=a...amp;camp=211189

Last month, the US military bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan at the request of the Afghanistan military. DWB is also now allegeding that a US warplane gunned down staffers as they fled the building. http://gawker.com/report-u-s-warplane-gunn...orde-1740769146

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 06:41 AM) Weren't these things exposed as staged with a real soldier and a random hot chick, or am I confusing this with another thing? Not quite like that. It was a real couple, but he was stationed in Korea, and both are members of very wealthy and politically powerful families. http://deadspin.com/surprise-military-reun...bull-1727940877

Carson is pretty crazy, though. Being a skilled surgeon doesn't preclude you from believing all sorts of crazy things.

QUOTE (shipps @ Nov 5, 2015 -> 12:04 PM) Dude my wife is a big time breakfast eater. Its her favorite meal of the day so we will def check that place out. Thanks! Also is the biobay where they have the luminescent plankton? I really wanted to check that out. Yeah, that's where the water glows all around you. It's best if you're there when there's no moon (new moon) and/or a cloudy night. There are three biobays on Puerto Rico. Mosquito Bay on Vieques is the best in the world, but that requires a trip to a separate island. The one in Fajardo is the next-best, and my parents said it was great. There's also one on the southwest corner of the island in Paragua. We checked that one out on our first trip because we were over on that side, but it's definitely the worst of the three. I know they "go dark" every once in a while for various reasons and IIRC the one in Fajardo was experiencing that earlier this year or last year, so if you're going to do it make sure you check into current conditions.

The NFL (and other leagues) get paid by the DoD for their military tributes. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/defens...4b0411d306eda5e

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Nov 5, 2015 -> 08:00 AM) I'd add Tortola (BVI) to that list too. I agree with the sentiment about San Juan. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's not really Caribbean or unique. It's like a hot US city that speaks Spanish. Yeah, we definitely had more fun when we stayed on the west side and explored around there. A couple of people from my work have taken a few surfing trips to Auigdila area if that's what you're in to. If you ever get a chance, you can take a small plane to Vieques. It's just started opening up to tourism in the last decade or so. No hotel chains, no real rental car facilities or fast food, kids breaking in wild horses down the middle of the "main" streets etc. We spent our honeymoon at this place.

Hmm it's almost as if knife attacks tend to be much less deadly than mass gun attacks!

My wife and I went there and stayed on the west side (Rincon), and then we went back and got married in San Juan in 2011. If you're traveling out of San Juan, you can check out the Arecibo observatory (giant radiotelescope seen in Contact and featured in Goldeneye), check out the rain forest, and check out the "biobay" Fajardo. We did the one on Vieques, but it's a really unique experience. La Bombonera in Old San Juan has awesome breakfast. Other than that, we mostly just found little hole-in-the-wall places and they were all delicious.

QUOTE (LDF @ Nov 4, 2015 -> 01:24 PM) dang, are they really that freaking stupid that they can't think??? they the party have a golden opportunity to control this election with trump or any of the least fav's winning the Rep nomination. They'll probably be fine for the wh in 2016. But they don't seem to have a good strategy to win back statehouses and governorships that help you build a stronger overall coalition and implement your policies on a state level.

How many of them are dead?

Yep, the dnc does not appear to have a coherent strategy. DWS has been horrible.

Kenneth arrow won a Nobel for his work on Healthcare economics showing that it doesn't function like a normal market and fundamentally can't. Eta agree on your first two points though, obamacare is helping to bend the cost curve downward, but it's still growing too quickly.