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comhcinc wrote:
Gumby wrote:A) Is it a pain in the ass to access and participate? Do I have to set up an account of some kind if I already have a google account?
If you have a google account you are good to go.

Would anyone watching be able to see google names? (And thereby know your email address.)

The refund is in the mail! I warned ya she would do that. (You should have .@ her, that than just @ her, so that others would have seen it. But thanks for doing it anyway. Blocking you shows she read it.) BTW, she actually also blocked one of her suckers kickstarter backers from viewing her page on...

Who do the SJWs hate most of all? Is it okay for whatever people that includes to react against that as a group? I think this is something that really calls out the bullshit here so carry on with LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU :clap: Do you think it is better to judge a person by the color of their skin...

If you stay still for a minute or two you can feel the disturbance in the force, as if dozens of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly butthurt. https://twitter.com/heinousdealings/status/699000224912519169 Anyone able to tweet back something like "Did you refunded all that money t...

If you stay still for a minute or two you can feel the disturbance in the force, as if dozens of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly butthurt. https://twitter.com/heinousdealings/status/699000224912519169 Anyone able to tweet back something like "Did you refunded all that money t...

Just spent 2 hours watching the Sargon 'Pit thing. Amazed it kept (sorta) my interest for the whole thing. The Pit reps did a great job. [youtube]O6MgnlUbRZI[/youtube] BTW, For the last few years "Brive" has always been pronounced "BrEYEve" in my mind. So quit trying to erase my "in-my-head" lived e...

Where can I find this? I dont see the update on the Kickstarter page http://www.ipgbook.com/a-skeptic-s-guide-to-islam-products-9781634310284.php?page_id=32&pid=PTS Odd. No mention on her Kickstarter or the book's Amazon page.... :think: :think: :think: She doesn't do updates but ~once a year now. ...

Bad news, Heina Dadabhoy literature fans: the release date of her future best seller just got pushed back another 4 months. [brive_mode] [snippity snippity snippity so Steers don't engage me in conversation of my quoting style] February 2016. Project Publishing date moved again from March 31, 2016 ...

Bad news, Heina Dadabhoy literature fans: the release date of her future best seller just got pushed back another 4 months. [brive_mode] For those who aren't up on the time line: here's an overview of this project: Heina Dadabhoy kickstarter: raised ~$10K by the end of her campaign to support her wr...

Scalia died

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/supreme- ... 20293.html

This the video is the AM panel with Paula Kirby from the now-infamous 2011 conference in Dublin: [youtube]2_O33OsA-vM[/youtube] In the 1st few minutes: 1) It's titled "Women Atheists" but RW wasn't on it 2) Paula Kirby speaks 1st (after the intro), says right away that she doesn't see a need for a ...

Doh! :nin:

Here's a handy site - it tracks Patreon earnings and subscribers. R. Watson: https://graphtreon.com/creator/rebecca Brianna Wu: https://graphtreon.com/creator/user?u=439829 Both are nosediving. There's something odd about those graphs—both Watson and Wu show two dips in mid-November, a large fall i...

Coyne on the "atheism+" phenomenon

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.co ... -atheists/

https://twitter.com/Metamagician/status/693614051922849794 Speakers' fees are pretty much all these people have. They're not sacrificing them for a principle. That should make them more concerned about de-platforming. It should, but it is much more likely that it will make just them more concerned ...

Inspired by the Bloom County cartoon at WEIT I have a question for the sciencey here. If dark matter is composed of WIMPS which only interact with normal matter through gravity, then shouldn't be accumulating in the centers of stars and planets, making them heavier over time? Dark matter doesn't cl...

She submitted the manuscript no later than fall of 2014 (I know this, because she said she would refund all the kickstarter money if she didn't, and she didn't refund the kickstarter money, so she certainly got them the manuscript by that time). You don't think she might have been FIBBING do you? N...

https://twitter.com/pzmyers/status/692109461360623618 But... but... you supported an accusation with no corroborating evidence before... No he didn't. IIRC, Shermer's victim told her story to Carrie Poppy, who then told PZ that she had told him too. With that, PZ had the corroborating evidence he n...

Sunder wrote:

That's hyperscepticism. :naughty:

But her book is definitely a ninja. You'll never see it. :rimshot: Blame Amazon, those Islamophillic bastards! She announced last march that her publisher set a hard release date of Dec 2015, but Amazon apparently still is refusing to sell it (although they will take your money, and tell you they w...

An apology is written in the first person. If there's no "I'm sorry" or "I apologize," then it's not an apology. And if the thing you're apologizing for is falsely claiming (on air, no less) that somebody has called for an assassination, then your apology probably shouldn't include any new unsubsta...

comhcinc wrote:
feathers wrote:
Ape+lust wrote:Carrie Poppy Surlyramics photoshoot, May 2010.

http://imgur.com/2bDy2Xa.jpg
Not bad. But it's as with those breathtakingly beautiful-coloured frogs: toxic.
I think she has a goblin face.

Face? Was her face in those photos?

Secular Woman politely but firmly bitch-slaps Surly's ZOG conspiracy theory about the "heads" masonic moot. And Amy indicates she gets paid actual money from the org for mangles english yet again. http://i.imgur.com/gCM4qBn.jpg A WOMAN JUST TOOK OVER THE BIGGEST ATHEIST/SKEPTIC GROUP IN THE COUNTRY...

Late last night, I figured out who Jesus really was. More on this later. Got ya. You merely need a real archeological historian to look over your theory and tidy up the language (and maybe a mathematician to pretty up the equations). Then off to the peer reviewers (your sisters would probably do) f...

[youtube]ob-qmfvnQVo[/youtube] Day Two of this discussion and no-one has yet asked the critical question about the above: is that a pimple or a Herpes just below her lower lip? According to the worlds foremost expert on STDs, Dr Richard Carrier, Ph.D., 90% of the population already has herpes, and ...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:I have a 12" EP with an edgy version of "Putting Out Fire (With Gasoline)" that kicks ass and bears little relationship to the Georgio Moroni synth version.

That song be named "Cat People"
[youtube]n4xpdaIZyzs[/youtube]

His book was NOT peer-reviewed. The proposal for the book was peer-reviewed, but that's not the same thing. But, most of all: the few reviews of the actual book that I've seen have not been positive and his book is almost never cited in peer-reviewed articles. It has had zero effect on the field. O...

... Since the payoff is of $1,3 billion (1,300,000,000), the minimum bet is $2, the expected profit is: Ep= -$2* (292,201,337/292,201,338) + $1,300,000,000*(1/292,201,338) = -1.99999999316+4.44898715693 =2.44898716377 So for every 2 dollars you bet you stand to win (bet plus profit) roughly $4 and ...

Cnutella wrote:Noted skeptic Rebecca Watson spends money on Powerball tickets because it's buying a fantasy ...

Seems like a good use for that patreon money. (Probably what those who contributed were buying, too.)

...Interesting fight on an Aron Ra Patheos post from a few months back: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2015/09/15/richard-carriers-mythicism/ Bruce Grubb • 3 months ago "In 2004, with two Sheffield colleagues, David J.A. Clines and Keith W. Whitelam, she founded Sheffield Phoenix Pres...

Brive1987 wrote:All right I will draft an email to the uni.

Fuck it Jans. This is your fault. ;)

Something is missing in this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_u ... ed_Kingdom

Hm. I always thought "throw like a girl" was less about velocity and more about poor technique (e.g., stepping with the dominant foot, or "pushing" the projectile rather than "catapulting" it). Your first thought matches the data, but not the parenthetical. The key difference between how a typical ...

[youtube]4pGEu9N96EY[/youtube] A music mood, what always gets me about this song other than the beat and fucking brilliance of it is the imagery of the video, it transports me back to my childhodd, where i grew up in a poverty striken shithole catholic ghetto, where the bricks and sticks were our t...

Service Dog wrote:PZ and his tattered remaining horde clutched their pearls in response to "dolo".
But they all failed to recognize the nigga's face...

Something tells me the real Ta-Nehisi Coates twitter account would have more than 159 followers.

Tigzy wrote:... Just think, with an edit button I could have corrected this embarrasing little faux pas.

I used to have an edit button. Now all I have is a stupid red sticker. :(

Bored today, so I am going to dox everyone one the pit. All of the information is collected here on this website. https://libraryofbabel.info/ Go ahead. Look for it. I promise you that it includes everything, including your deepest darkest secretes. https://libraryofbabel.info/search.html (If you h...

Nah, it would still appear red. The color you see from Earth is the same as the color you would see up close (apart from the fact that star colors to the naked eye appear a bit washed out, since we sense the light from them mostly using the low-light-but-black-and-white rods in our eyes. That's why...

DOGEN PLEASE ANSWER THESE WHITE ONLY / COLORED STAR QUESTIONS 1) why aren't all stars just 'white'? (and I'm not talking about red shift, obviously) Star color is determined by its surface temperature. White stars are the hottest, slightly cooler stars are yellow, even cooler stars are red, and rea...

One Big Meandering Digression, coming right up... ...> As night ends, I find out the girl whose ass I smacked is in high school. Is artist's daughter. > She thinks it was funny. Dad thinks it was funny. Whew. > Google her now & find-out she's become a hot young actress & director in Hollywood. [you...

Aneris wrote:YouTube, and the Internet in general are still an honour culture. Since there is no watchful Leviathan that disarms everyone and metes out punishment when someone steps over the line, the individuals must do it themselves. ...

That is quite insightful.

That is an interesting graph. But I note that it only tracks 1 year ARMs in comparison to 15 & 30 year fixed loans. That means you would have to adopt the costs of refinancing every year . A "1 year ARM" merely means the initial interest rate is only fixed for 1 year, and then adjusts every year th...

"You've Come A Long Way, Buddy" A SNL skit from 1977 (couldn't find it on Youtube) Cast: Craig.....Elliot Gould Ted Meyers.....Dan Aykroyd Bob Lewis.....Garrett Morris Roy Matthews.....Bill Murray Sam Montgomery.....John Belushi [ Music Open: Beetoven ] Craig : Good afternoon, and welcome to "You'v...

Question: A man & a woman are out on a date, in a noisy bar. It's late. They're drinking. The man offers the woman a bump of Ketamine. She accepts. Aerosmith's 'Sweet Emotion' is playing, and the woman tells the guy she hears the music pulsating, "like a stroboscope". The guy offers her more K. She...

She also mentioned somewhere that she paid a retainer, so is a retainer possible at the same time that she's also saying that she paid a lawyer hourly? IANAL, but isn't it one or the other? Lies are so hard to keep track of. She should keep notes or something. A retainer is a chunk of money you giv...

John Greg wrote:Oh dearie me. Ophie has reduced me to just "some guy at the Pit."

Tears is ragin my Jimmies!

What?!!! Has Ophie slandered me? (I didn't do nuttin'!)

I don't think MN is going to go away.

Billie from Ockham wrote:
some guy wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote:
Massless things can't have any momentum, that much I do know.
Yes they can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%E2 ... m_relation
If I come back with "radiant momentum isn't really momentum" will you use this as a proof that I'm a TERF?

I think that would be "RMESP". ;)

Billie from Ockham wrote:
Guestus Aurelius wrote:*flying apart in opposite directions with equal |momentum|
Massless things can't have any momentum, that much I do know.

Yes they can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%E2 ... m_relation

Interesting piece in The Register about women in STEM being scarce because they're not encouraged towards mathematics. A colleague of mine told me that he surveyed (STEM) grad students to find out which ones grew up under the encouragement of a parent who was in STEM themselves. Turns out, the men ...

H/T Ryan Long: http://thoughtcatalog.com/alexis-caputo/2014/07/9-signs-your-mental-illness-is-made-up-for-attention/ Article banned as either hateful or abusive content. Awwww they so cute. Not banned. Its just a "trigger warning" screen. You can get to the article by clicking on "Continue" at the ...

d4m10n wrote:
Really? wrote:What do all of you think? Courtroom or blog?

d4m10n wrote:I don't think it is a remotely difficult question, given that the number of innocents in prison (and even on death row) is greater than zero.

Scented Nectar wrote:If you don't think it's a difficult question, then what's your easy answer?
Blog, obviously.

dear muslima

... However, reasonable belief of truth is generally regarded as just as exculpatory as truth itself. Not applicable where both parties are "private persons" where the issue is not a "matter of public concern", and where the defamatory statement was not made under circumstances where some sort of e...

... Of course, Nungessar can still sue her for libel. But winning that is a fairly tough burden. He'd basically have to prove by preponderance of the evidence that she knows it wasn't rape or that her belief that she was raped is not reasonable. This is much more difficult than proving by a prepond...

You could make the exact same argument about non-violent fundamentalist Christians who refuse to turn in anti-abortionist terrorists. Or about black people who don't "snitch" on their neighbours. Or about police officers which do not feel like reporting their colleagues (the "blue wall of silence")...

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote:
katamari Damassi wrote:Cool car? I thought she owned a Mini-Cooper. Did they become cool when I wasn't paying attention?
It's an S. I'm sorry, but it is a cool car.
My dad has one. He's 74.

Mini Coopers are beta-male cars.

Please dump the whole lot somewhere for everyone to search and laugh! :pray: Short answer: NO. Long answer: maybe. if: -somebody trustworthy was willing to sanitize a shitload of info (personal contacts, partial and complete email addresses) -somebody was familiar with how to convert a shitload of ...

Hornbeck is...a self-satisfied idiot. Also a koolaid-sloshing ideologue. I took the time to answer his first wall of text in the comments, and when faced with the next, just rolled my eyes and went off to do more important things, like spring-clean the chicken coop. Lots of useful shit and straw in...

Guest wrote:
guest wrote:so what is the take on the next TAM? Everybody Hates Sharon Hill?...
What does Sharon Hill have to do with this? She's never mentioned in any of these screen caps.

Quit talking to yourself

Still quiet over at Shakesville. ... They won't go after Carrier, because he's one of them. (Imagine how different their response would be if it was someone that hadn't been sucking up to them for the last few years. I mean, Carrier has basically admitted to being a PUA, albeit using an approach th...

deLurch wrote:[youtube]D_b6uKMVeEY[/youtube]

Freakin' brilliant!

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