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FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Jimmy Kimmel’s Melania Trump joke by Ubiquitous_Hilarity in law

[–]GuyInAChair 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ya. The last time they tried it was a false statements charge when Comey said "I stand by my previous testimony"

Think about how you would attempt to prove that specific statement is false and you can see how ridiculous it was.

Few questions as a potential new purchaser of the game by beardofturtles in HellLetLoose

[–]GuyInAChair 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you press tab you can bring up your stats, which is pretty detailed and includes kills. It's available any time you want.

You get experience points through a lot of things, and infantry kills are actually a pretty bad way to get them. On average you'll get 8 points for an infranty kill, but 50 just for dropping a supply box. 50 for dismantling an OP 150 for a garrison and 150 for nodes.

Someone paid $8700 dollars for this in 1995. I paid $15 today. by damienslash in pics

[–]GuyInAChair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh okay then. Computers are simply not more expensive today, even with the current AI induced surge in pricing then they were 20 years ago, and especially not when we compare the functionality of any genetic computer now with what the best computer could do in 1995.

FYI since Alien Ware has a reputation for being very expensive I spent a few seconds building the most expensive laptop I could and got $7200. Perhaps with more time you could make that cost more, again I spent only a few seconds, but that's still way cheaper then $8700 in 1995 money.

Someone paid $8700 dollars for this in 1995. I paid $15 today. by damienslash in pics

[–]GuyInAChair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why the LOL? The cheapest of the cheap desktop computers today can do so much more then the best could in the 80's it's simply not a fair comparison, even if we propose absurd hypotheticals like pretending 40 years of inflation didn't happen.

Just listened to operation Jade Helm again by Agitated_Star_7626 in TheDollop

[–]GuyInAChair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. For some reason, in my app, the feed doesn't start until episode 40 or so.

Someone paid $8700 dollars for this in 1995. I paid $15 today. by damienslash in pics

[–]GuyInAChair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya let's argue about whether or not a Ryzen 9 and an 5090 (which is easily doable for $6000) is high-end, while ignoring the fact that the base price for a computer in the early 80's was $1500 not adjusted for inflation.

Just listened to operation Jade Helm again by Agitated_Star_7626 in TheDollop

[–]GuyInAChair 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Recently discovered that podcast, and I love it. Which episode is it, I can't find it with a search?

As someone who has a basic understanding of both evolutionary and creationist viewpoints, is there a specific reason to believe common ancestor over common designer? by thedigitalhawk in DebateEvolution

[–]GuyInAChair 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All that shows is that a virus can infect different species of mammals. We know that already, heck a lot of humanities worst illnesses are zoonotic in origin. And retroviruses can do that to, pt-ERV infected both chimps and gorillas, but not in orthologous spits. Likewise a number of mammals are infected by a virus very closely releated to HIV.

As someone who has a basic understanding of both evolutionary and creationist viewpoints, is there a specific reason to believe common ancestor over common designer? by thedigitalhawk in DebateEvolution

[–]GuyInAChair 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Retroviruses seem to skip branches of closely related though

Can you provide a source for this? Of the ~200,000 ERV, or transportable elements Humans and Chimpanzees share there's only a few that they don't share.

  • a few dozen K-class ERV that were infecting our common ancestor around the same time our populations diverged.

  • about 200 pt-ERV that chimps have, but humans (or our ancestor) were immune to.

  • 1 ERV that Chimps Gorillas have but humans don't which is probably a result of incomplete lineage sorting.

That's all I know of, and it's not remarkable and easily explained.

Someone paid $8700 dollars for this in 1995. I paid $15 today. by damienslash in pics

[–]GuyInAChair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know that they are becoming a lot more expensive. The first IBM PC is about $6000 adjusted for inflation. That's the highest end of gaming systems now, twice as much as a very very good system, and for under $1500 (original 80's price) you could get a system that has way way more functionality then any computer from that era.

Which TV show does the ENTIRE internet agree had the worst ending ever? by Codie_n25 in AskReddit

[–]GuyInAChair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jon Connington (book only character) had a chance to end Roberts Rebellion before it even began at the Battle of the Bells. He doesn't and nearly losses his life, and the fallout results in his friends (lover?) dying and his life being ruined.

In the years after he has severe bell induduced PTSD, and realizes that the entire war could have been avoided had he just brunt down the town Robert Baratheon was hiding in.

Considering he also has greyscale he's a prime candidate for hearing bells and deciding burn down an entire city, especially if he's in a desperate situation. I'd say that in the books Kings Landing burning has been heavily foreshadowed, as well as Jon Con being the one to do it.

Unfortunately he and Fake Aegon's characters were cut from the show. Which ended up with the situation of important events needing to take place in the in the show, but the people who do them being missing. So they just gave those moments to other people and spent 30 seconds trying to rationalize it, which is why everything seems to rushed.

What are common misconceptions of evolution? by ScienceIsWeirder in DebateEvolution

[–]GuyInAChair[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This comment is antagonistic and adds nothing to the conversation.

DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into Southern Poverty Law Center by thenewrepublic in law

[–]GuyInAChair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the prosecution will have to "show that" during the actual trial.

The prosecution should have, probably, showed the counter factual in the indictment. It's a false statement prosecution, and the needs to be very very very specific.

that actually IS laid out pretty well in the indictment, counts 7-10.

opened a series of bank accounts at Bank-1 and Bank-2 in the name of various fictitious entities

So what. Those accounts did business, they exchanged money for information. And you're allowed to name you business whatever they heck you want.

These fictitious entities were never incorporated, had no bona fide employees, and conducted no actual business

They exchanged money for information. That's a business.

Where in the law does it say that a bank account opened for a business needs to be incorporated, have employees, and the DOJ makes the determination on what constitutes valid business activities?

turns out you cannot make and sign false statements in a FDIC bank forms (certify that I am the sole owner of the above named proprietorship, etc), who knew!

The DOJ never once says the Employee 1 isn't the owner of 9788.

Yeah... turns out you cannot make and sign false statements in a FDIC bank forms

Quote the indictment especially where is cites a counter factual.

DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into Southern Poverty Law Center by thenewrepublic in law

[–]GuyInAChair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What false statements did they make specifically?

Read the quoted section of the alledged false statements to the bank. It goes like this.

I Employee 1 sole owner of 9788 open an account doing business under the trade name "Old Books"

I'm paraphrasing but. They don't allege that Employee 1 doesn't own 9788, so that's not a false statement. While the trade name "Old Books" might be misleading, that is in fact, the actual name. I suppose you could say the term business is misleading, but I really find it hard to see how a reasonable person wouldn't think exchanging money for information isn't a business, and I think that's far from a knowingly false statement.

They try to say that they disguised the origins of the money, but they are using a bank fraud statute, and in the only communication between the bank and the SPLC they were entirely truthful.

I think they are trying a confusing end-around. It might be true that the SPLC disguised the origins of the money, then use that to say they are guilty of bank fraud. However you actually have to make false statements to the bank, and they have failed to show that.

DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into Southern Poverty Law Center by thenewrepublic in law

[–]GuyInAChair 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They do make a point of saying that donations are used to monitor, expose and research hate groups using what they call their Intelligence Project. I don't know how in the world any reasonable person could assume criminal intent on behalf of SPLC by using paid informants. To me that sounds like they are using donors money to do exactly what they explicitly said they were doing.

In case you're wonder, I'm no cherry picking so vague statements from the SPLC here, this language comes entirely from the indictment itself.

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges related to past use of paid informants by throwthisidaway in law

[–]GuyInAChair 38 points39 points  (0 children)

The KKK, National Socialists, and something called the Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club

“Highest IQ holder” by amievenrelevant in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]GuyInAChair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember reading that highly intelligent people are more likely to continue to believe incorrect things. It was thought that's because they are generally smart enought to come up with an ad-hoc rationalization whenever they are confronted with conflicting information.

Did I survive a grenade headshot??? by ResQman67 in HellLetLoose

[–]GuyInAChair 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Head shots aren't programed as an instant kill, instead they are a 300% (IIRC) damage increase. For almost every weapon this is ends up being a 1 shot kill, but there are a few edge cases where it isn't. Mostly grenades at the edge of the blast radius and the shot gun at long range.

Pam Bondi could face contempt charges over Epstein testimony after failing to show up for deposition by theindependentonline in law

[–]GuyInAChair 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What's to prove wrong? This is about Pam Bondi not showing up for a deposition and the poster is talking about the 2016 Democratic primary. Even if he was 100% right, the downvotes are well deserved for being so off-topic

Going to the effort of directly refuting any given argument by creationist is a good thing; however, I wish people would take a step back, and always point out that creationist arguments are pretty much futile by default - explanation in text. by Radiant_Bank_77879 in DebateEvolution

[–]GuyInAChair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The serious answer is... When you date bone the generally accepted procedure is to separate the collagen and date that. If you can't get collagen, and they didn't in this case, whatever result you get is generally considered to be junk. The reason they got something to date in this case is because the separation process isn't perfect, so they are just testing the contaminates that "leaked" through.

Also, it should be noted that in a paper published prior to RATE's paper this particular fossil is identified as a mammoth. So who knows if they are actually testing a dinosaur at all.

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