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TRUMP - Just because.....................Naw, I just can't say it!
Friday, December 9, 2016 6:57 PM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Saturday, December 10, 2016 1:50 AM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Quote:Trump voters can show their deep concern for jobless Americans by NOT buying those pants or shoes or sheets NOT made in America.
Saturday, December 10, 2016 2:00 AM
Quote:Let me ask you something: when you shop for "X" and you see the same exact brand and item in several places, do you buy the most expensive one?
Saturday, December 10, 2016 2:05 AM
Quote:But Puzder sees automation shaking up industries well beyond his own.
Saturday, December 10, 2016 6:35 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: Quote:But Puzder sees automation shaking up industries well beyond his own. I hope you're not using somebody's guesses about the future - which may or may not come true - to explain away the analysis that 50% of manufacturing jobs that were lost in recent, real-life, factual history were sent overseas.
Saturday, December 10, 2016 6:37 AM
JO753
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Quote:Originally posted by second: Puzder serves as the chief executive of CKE Restaurants, the corporate parent behind fast food chains Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr.
Saturday, December 10, 2016 7:17 AM
Saturday, December 10, 2016 7:36 AM
Saturday, December 10, 2016 11:13 AM
Quote:Originally posted by G: There is this part of me that I admit (somewhat shamefully) is hanging by the edge of my seat waiting to see just what the eff this horror show is going to do once they are in office. In terms of writing a script, the last 3 weeks have been a pretty epic lead in.
Saturday, December 10, 2016 3:12 PM
Quote: Factory production was moved because of money. That is not a guess.
Saturday, December 10, 2016 5:27 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: Quote: Factory production was moved because of money. That is not a guess. No, it's just another one of your unsupported bullshit claims quoted from another unsupported bullshit claim. The manufacturing jobs that were lost were lost due to a voluntary choice by international corporations, not a matter of necessity. As my posts with all their links show.
Saturday, December 10, 2016 6:17 PM
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Sunday, December 11, 2016 6:50 AM
Sunday, December 11, 2016 8:12 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: After the Brexit vote, I wrote an article comprehensively detailing these dynamics, which I won’t repeat here but hope those interested will read. The title conveys the crux: “Brexit Is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions.” That analysis was inspired by a short, incredibly insightful, and now more relevant than ever post-Brexit Facebook note by the Los Angeles Times’s Vincent Bevins, who wrote that “both Brexit and Trumpism are the very, very wrong answers to legitimate questions that urban elites have refused to ask for 30 years.” Bevins went on: “Since the 1980s the elites in rich countries have overplayed their hand, taking all the gains for themselves and just covering their ears when anyone else talks, and now they are watching in horror as voters revolt.”
Sunday, December 11, 2016 10:13 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Sunday, December 11, 2016 11:06 AM
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Sunday, December 11, 2016 11:48 AM
Sunday, December 11, 2016 1:16 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Sunday, December 11, 2016 1:42 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Whatever happened to the concept of "critical thinking"?
Sunday, December 11, 2016 1:50 PM
Quote:But right now the schools are just droid-factories
Sunday, December 11, 2016 2:15 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: Quote:But right now the schools are just droid-factories Looking at the new hires, I have to agree.
Sunday, December 11, 2016 6:34 PM
Quote:But right now the schools are just droid-factories- SIGNY Looking at the new hires, I have to agree. - KIKI Maybe your boss should learn behavioral economics. It revolutionized the art of NBA draft picks. It could do the same with your boss’s picks for new employees. www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2016/12/how_daryl_morey_used_behavioral_economics_to_revolutionize_the_art_of_nba.html The worry for 1kiki is would a boss who knew behavioral economics have picked 1kiki as an employee?- SECONDRATE
Sunday, December 11, 2016 8:09 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: I read through the whole article carefully, thinking that it MUST have been linked for a reason related to this thread, and all I got out of it was Now there's 12 minutes of my life that I'll never get back! What did it tell me that Moneyball didn't?
Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: You linking that particular article tells me, SECOND, that you've lost the point about the value of people as independent thinkers. Because all of the article tells me is that "they" are working on metrics to pick the best tools out of a lineup of people: Who will never rise above, or fall below, or do anything unexpected, but be very predictable.
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: So tell me, SECOND, do you think you could pass a screening interview?
Sunday, December 11, 2016 10:06 PM
Quote:The worry for 1kiki is would a boss who knew behavioral economics have picked 1kiki as an employee?
Sunday, December 11, 2016 10:53 PM
Quote:But human beings are not going to follow and obey the exact people they most blame for their suffering. They’re going to do exactly the opposite: purposely defy them and try to impose punishment in retaliation. Their instruments for retaliation are Brexit and Trump. Those are their agents, dispatched on a mission of destruction: aimed at a system and culture they regard — not without reason — as rife with corruption and, above all else, contempt for them and their welfare.
Quote:Put simply, Democrats knowingly chose to nominate a deeply unpopular, extremely vulnerable, scandal-plagued candidate, who — for very good reason — was widely perceived to be a protector and beneficiary of all the worst components of status quo elite corruption. It’s astonishing that those of us who tried frantically to warn Democrats that nominating Hillary Clinton was a huge and scary gamble — that all empirical evidence showed that she could lose to anyone and Bernie Sanders would be a much stronger candidate ...
Quote: Trump vowed to destroy the system that elites love (for good reason) and the masses hate (for equally good reason), while Clinton vowed to manage it more efficiently. That, as Matt Stoller’s indispensable article in The Atlantic three weeks ago documented, is the conniving choice the Democratic Party made decades ago: to abandon populism and become the party of technocratically proficient, mildly benevolent managers of elite power.
Sunday, December 11, 2016 11:46 PM
Monday, December 12, 2016 1:19 AM
SHINYGOODGUY
Monday, December 12, 2016 1:28 AM
Monday, December 12, 2016 2:05 AM
Monday, December 12, 2016 7:49 AM
Monday, December 12, 2016 8:06 AM
Monday, December 12, 2016 8:20 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: There are many articles like the ones I posted, above, and below, about what democrats did wrong. The problem is, they don't come from democrats - not the voters and not the politicians. Unless democrats can come to grips with what they did wrong, nothing will change the pattern of democrats being marginalized in national, state and local politics.
Monday, December 12, 2016 9:20 AM
Monday, December 12, 2016 10:29 AM
Quote:Originally posted by G: I'm sure your endless obsession with the Democrats will magically fix the problem that DEMOCRATS HAVE NO ORGANIZED PLAN TO OPPOSE TRUMP, AND NO AGENDA THAT PEOPLE WILL RALLY TO. So, what are you going to do about it? Whine some more? Carp some more? Pout some more? Yeah. That'll work. (not)
Monday, December 12, 2016 11:20 AM
Quote:Originally posted by G: Hopefully from the ashes of these 3 something new and better will emerge. It's hard to make progress when you're standing still.
Monday, December 12, 2016 11:25 AM
Quote:I read through the whole article carefully, thinking that it MUST have been linked for a reason related to this thread, and all I got out of it was Now there's 12 minutes of my life that I'll never get back! What did it tell me that Moneyball didn't? - SIGNY Moneyball did not realize the deeper reason for the inefficiencies in the market for players: They sprang directly from the inner workings of the human mind of the “experts”, not the players.- SECOND
Quote:Bill James was then busy popularizing an approach, rooted in statistical reasoning, to thinking about baseball. With some help from the Oakland Athletics...
Quote:And yet you completely missed that main idea, Signym. Quote:You linking that particular article tells me, SECOND, that you've lost the point about the value of people as independent thinkers. Because all of the article tells me is that "they" are working on metrics to pick the best tools out of a lineup of people: Who will never rise above, or fall below, or do anything unexpected, but be very predictable. With a couple of sentences, Signym, you gave a perfect demonstration of what is wrong with how your mind analyzes problems and creates solutions. I predict you can’t understand what you did wrong, but I will give you some clues: Daryl Morey is the independent thinker, Signym. And you got the article’s lesson backwards: people are NOT very predictable, despite all the data Morey gathers on players.
Quote:You linking that particular article tells me, SECOND, that you've lost the point about the value of people as independent thinkers. Because all of the article tells me is that "they" are working on metrics to pick the best tools out of a lineup of people: Who will never rise above, or fall below, or do anything unexpected, but be very predictable.
Quote:But he can make predictions such as the statistical likelihood that Trump will have conflicts of interests because he and his children are creating, with every new contract they sign, new possible conflicts between what is best for the Trump family fortune and what is best for America.-SEOCND
Quote:So tell me, SECOND, do you think you could pass a screening interview? - SIGNY I interviewed twice on the same day in Houston, near the Galleria. Both divisions wanted to hire me and I would have been happy with only one job offer. That was a very memorable day and is what happens when you graduate from UT Austin.= SECOND
Monday, December 12, 2016 12:01 PM
Monday, December 12, 2016 1:07 PM
Quote:A game show host is about to be sworn in as president of the United States and 1kiki and Signym are convinced that the Democratic Party is practically on its last legs.
Quote:That is not what the data says-SECOND
Quote:How Did Trump Win? The FBI and the Russians. ... I calculated a day-by-day margin using polling data from the Huffington Post
Monday, December 12, 2016 5:43 PM
Monday, December 12, 2016 6:19 PM
Monday, December 12, 2016 9:38 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: SECOND, you're just flailing - throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks. When one argument fails, you just dredge up another.
Monday, December 12, 2016 10:01 PM
Quote:A game show host is about to be sworn in as president of the United States and 1kiki and Signym are convinced that the Democratic Party is practically on its last legs. That is not what the data says.
Monday, December 12, 2016 10:06 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: If Trump blah blah blah ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 3:27 AM
Quote:Trump tweeted and Lockheed Martin stock moved
Quote:Do we really want the president of the United States calling out individual corporations and affecting their stock prices? Do we really want to be left wondering if maybe someone had a little advance knowledge of Trump's tweets?
Quote: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump The F-35 program and cost is out of control. Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th. 8:26 AM-12 Dec 2016
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 3:54 AM
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 3:57 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Can we move this to a (new) shorter thread? Something that applies to Trump as President-elect, and not Trump the candidate? Because I guarantee you NOBODY is going to look at the previous 26 pages ... or even the previous five posts (especially yours, SECOND) no matter HOW blistering you think they are! ----------- "Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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