StrangeSox

I actually had a shot in my winless league until Brees put up 39 points against me.

And get elected to office, don't forget that part. that doesn't mean he represents "today's Republican party," that the whole party is that racist, but it's just the extreme end of a party that believes, on average, that white people face just as much if not more problems from racism and discrimination.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 9, 2012 -> 11:39 AM) No more #2 pencils! fun fact: Lead poisoning Although lead has not been used for writing since antiquity, lead poisoning from pencils was not uncommon. Until the middle of the 20th century the paint used for the outer coating could contain high concentrations of lead and this could be ingested when the pencil was sucked or chewed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil#Lead_poisoning

More stupid things, this time from Arkansas Representative Jon Hubbard: Slavery and over a dozen decades of institutionalized racism weren't so bad! Also, desegregation makes everyone else dumber thanks to blacks! wonkette

We'd have plenty of people like that if we disallowed the "dumb" to vote.

I rooted my way around Verizon's stupidty a while ago, but they got hit by the FCC for locking out third-party tethering/hotspot apps back in the summer.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 8, 2012 -> 12:04 PM) Strangesox, Does the emulator you suggest also play PS1 games? no, it has: SNES NES Genesis GBA GB-color GameGear amiga atari CPS2 (90's Capcom arcade, I think?) MAME (???) Sega Master System I tried a ps1 emulator (FPSE or something like that) but could never get it to work right.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 8, 2012 -> 10:12 AM) I'll have to grab that. I assume finding the game files online is a guick google search? I'm normally pretty tech savvy, but the emulator thing I just never knew about until a month ago. the premium ($4 I think) version also comes with an app called "droidEMUget" or something like that where you browse by platform and download what you want.

I know Balta has mentioned this before, but there's another study out linking lead exposure and mental/psychological development problems: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-k...ol-performance/

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 8, 2012 -> 04:55 PM) Hmm, interesting. I guess that means the bump is pretty meaningless It's not meaningless. It's the best week Romney's campaign has had in a long, long time. But at the same time, the overly emotional reaction of people like Andrew Sullivan to a couple of polls is a bit much.

yeah I almost highlighted that part myself.

another member of the house science committee had some brilliant things to say: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/10/08/b...oogle_news_blog

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 8, 2012 -> 06:48 PM) It went to the same place as the "polls are accurate" talk from the far left. "far left"?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 8, 2012 -> 03:52 PM) Pew has Romney up 4% now: http://www.people-press.org/2012/10/08/rom...es-obamas-lead/ Lol @ a plurality of dems saying Obama won

Nate silver has found an aggregate bump if just less than 3 points for Romney since the debate.

A. Jeffery was a good last-minute pickup for me this week!

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 12:10 PM) Fine, but that still puts them in the "too close to call" range, whereas before Obama was up a bunch (and growing) just a few weeks ago. from 538:

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 03:57 PM) If it's an Android tablet, there are a bunch of emulators on the Play Store. I'm not sure which one is actually good since I don't use an NES emulator (GBA FTW), but they will definitely be playable. Although you will need to find one that is compatible with tablets. If it's on iPad, you need to jailbreak and get it through Cydia. I'm not sure if they have a tablet mode one though. You might have to play it at an iPhone's resolution. that droid emu one I posted has a bunch of emulators built-in, NES, SNES, genesis, Gb, GBA etc.

Obama was caught off guard by Romney disavowing every position the president brought up. He never recovered and hit back at the multiple openings he was given.

Yeah, about time we stop cutting our own legs out from under us by laying of thousands of public sector employees.

RCP has new polls from Ras and WAA out for the states jenks mentioned.

Obsessing over day-by-day movements is boring as hell, but I like looking at the larger poly-sci/stats pictures.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 12:18 PM) Hasn't Rasmussen been closer to reality the past few elections in their polling results? No. They did pretty well in 2008 but missed really, really badly in 2010. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2...ormed-strongly/ http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2...ts-become-bias/ edit: and they were actually less accurate in 2008 than commonly thought. Not that they were bad, but there were other firms that ended up being slightly more accurate than Rasmussen was. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports edit2: because Rasmussen uses robopolling, they're not legally allowed to call cell phones. That was a negligible effect in 2004, but it's impact is only growing over time as more and more young individuals and families opt for cell phones only. That will skew your samples.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 5, 2012 -> 12:10 PM) Fine, but that still puts them in the "too close to call" range, whereas before Obama was up a bunch (and growing) just a few weeks ago. Not exactly. Being within the margin of error doesn't mean it's impossible to have any sort of confidence in your outcomes. Here's a helpful chart: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/...8_08/014294.php Polls that show a tightening race are still good for Romney, obviously. But one rounds' worth does not a trend make.

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