I will be looking at my portfolio all day today and puking. I know it doesn't really matter since its for the long-term, but it still is gonna suck.
Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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Dave
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And this is what a lot of officers don't get. It protects THEM as well. Bad guys are sociopathic and lie their asses off.[DOUBLEPOST=1466771327,1466771070][/DOUBLEPOST]Bye bye Scotland, UK. Possibly bye bye France and the Netherlands, EU. Possibly bye bye EU.
And the new PM of GB is a guy who is the absolute worst. When Obama went there last year (I think it was last year) Boris called him a Kenyan who had an ingrained and genetic hate of GB. So you get your own Trump. Congrats, scared old uneducated white people.
I'm mostly scared for Northern Ireland. People seem to really have short memories. Sinn Feinn calls for reunification, but whether the Anglicans will like that...And N-I is probably too small to sensibly become its own nation - not to mention they have even less nationalism than Belgium.
GasBandit
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Every time you say GB I reflexively think you're talking about me.
Northern Ireland has had 20 years of relative peace, following the cease fire of 1996 and the recognition of Sinn Feinn in Parliament. An entire generation has grown up without The Troubles. I think reunification is definitely possible.
I don't see why not. After all, a court did make the decision, and that decision stands.That the highest authority within the judicial branch didn't really make a decision doesn't change the fact that the judicial mechanism designed to restrain the executive worked.
GasBandit
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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice," right?
Still, it would have been nice if Scalia was still around to have made it a fully official 5-4.
I hope so. I don't think people today understand just how bad it was, and how quickly things can flare up if someone merely wants them to flare up.
Yeah, because all social issues that are officially 20 years in the past are solved. Segregation and such are no issue at all anymore, there's no ill will towards the "other" side left, and all that jazz. I think you vastly underestimate the way people's thoughts are structured. Reunification with Ireland seems unlikely.
Asking whether you and your family were nationalists or loyalists is still a thing in Northern Ireland.
Well, the other side of it is that the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland do roughly 1bn Euros worth of trade per week. Unification might be one of the only ways to avoid impeding it via tariffs, hard borders, etc, that would cost BOTH sides of the equation, which neither can afford.
I dunno. As I said, becoming a separate nation (like Scotland wants to be) in the EU might be the better solution.
GasBandit
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Well, so far, a 400 point correction to the DJIA isn't as bad as I thought it would be (especially given that yesterday was a 200 point increase). I mean, still is ouchy for a single day's drop, but I was worried we'd be looking at the sort of thing that usually happens around Jan/Feb these last few years
Because rational economic arguments trump Nationalist/Religious feeling.
Someone should write a song about that.
So disappointed I don't have any risk capital sitting around right now.Well, so far, a 400 point correction to the DJIA isn't as bad as I thought it would be (especially given that yesterday was a 200 point increase). I mean, still is ouchy for a single day's drop, but I was worried we'd be looking at the sort of thing that usually happens around Jan/Feb these last few years
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Well, really, I'm only talking about my IRA here, which I wouldn't exactly call "risk capital"
And it's also in a mutual fund, which often takes an entire week to process any changes. Not exactly agile when it comes to buying and selling.Well, I lost a decent amount but I still beat the markets so thats something.Well, so far, a 400 point correction to the DJIA isn't as bad as I thought it would be (especially given that yesterday was a 200 point increase). I mean, still is ouchy for a single day's drop, but I was worried we'd be looking at the sort of thing that usually happens around Jan/Feb these last few years
GasBandit
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Contrary to what the public has been led to believe, the homicide rate in the U.S. has fallen to a 51-year low despite gun ownership having increased drastically.
Data sources:
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/table-1
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htius.pdf
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Data sources:
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/table-1
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htius.pdf
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Gun ownership has not increased; the number of guns per home has increased. People who own guns buy more guns, more people aren't buying guns.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/number-of-households-with-guns-on-the-decline-study-shows/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/number-of-households-with-guns-on-the-decline-study-shows/
Yay, the Supreme Court ruled today that abortion is still extremely legal and an option for women even in backwards-ass states
News titles are divergent between whether this is a new ruling or an upholding of another law, but in a nutshell, Supreme Court's other thing today was: convicted of domestic violence = no guns for you.
That seems fair enough. Being a domestic abuser indicates that you are willing to be violent to your loved ones. Seems like allowing a gun to enter the situation is just begging for tragedy.
GasBandit
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Ohhh ho ho ho no...
The supreme court's OTHER other thing today was unanimously, that is EIGHT TO ZERO, vacating the corruption conviction of former VA governor McDonnell and setting precedent for a much higher threshold being required to charge any politician with corruption. The hoi polloi have been rather uppity of late, what with their occupy this and tea party that and insurgency candidate support, and our robed masters needed to remind everyone that the establishment elite is just a higher class of being and can't be bothered to be shackled to things like ethics, oversight, transparency and accountability.
Strange how every other lower federal appellate court seemed to think the conviction should stand, but the entire supreme court disagreed to a man/woman.
If you can't convict Bob Fucking McDonnell (R-VA) of corruption, fact is, you can't convict any national politician any more.
Our descent into federal collapse just took another step.[DOUBLEPOST=1467083966,1467083875][/DOUBLEPOST]
This may surprise some people, but I agree. When you are convicted of a crime, you get rights taken away by definition, and the second amendment rights of violent convicts has always been one of those. This is different from the "watch list" debate because this requires a conviction.
Dave
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Yeah, 2011 sucked!! Actually, it was the end of 2011/beginning of 2012. That's when:
- My dad died after falling at home, breaking a hip, and discovering advanced cancer.
- My house went into foreclosure and repossessed by the bank.
- My mom had a stroke that impaired her cognitive abilities - one of the main reasons she slipped into dementia.
- Since my dad was the primary signer on the loan, they repossessed my car.
Judge dismisses piracy case; claimed IP address doesn't prove identity.
That's gonna set some serious precedent in coming years. Good decision though.
That's gonna set some serious precedent in coming years. Good decision though.
Bombings in Istanbul - 40+ dead at several bombings at the airport.
About similar size attack as Brussels, but I don't think we have any Turkish Forumites?
My sister-in-law, who left Brussels Airport hours before the bombing then, was scheduled to have been in Istanbul with my niece at the time of the bombings, but wasn't allowed to board her plane in Edinburgh because of paperwork issues - a document proving she was allowed to fly with my niece (attest from my brother) suddenly wasn't even though the same document had been OKed dozens of times in the past. I'm traveling with her from now on, I think...
About similar size attack as Brussels, but I don't think we have any Turkish Forumites?
My sister-in-law, who left Brussels Airport hours before the bombing then, was scheduled to have been in Istanbul with my niece at the time of the bombings, but wasn't allowed to board her plane in Edinburgh because of paperwork issues - a document proving she was allowed to fly with my niece (attest from my brother) suddenly wasn't even though the same document had been OKed dozens of times in the past. I'm traveling with her from now on, I think...
I wouldn't, sounds like they're after her.
My mistake, it's actually the CFAA, not the DMCA, that prohibits this, in case you were curious.
There are proposed revisions to the CFAA (these revisions are commonly referred to as "Aaron's Law") but so far they haven't really gone anywhere for over three years now.
--Patrick
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Fivethirtyeight.com forecasts Johnson to garner nearly 10% of the popular vote (but less than 10% chance of acquiring even one electoral vote.
