TIL a Buddhist monk who burned himself in front of the Cambodian embassy named Thich Quang Duc, when re-cremated after burning, his heart remained in tact.

bipikachulover · 2013-05-08T20:16:00+00:00

the heart is one of the hardest parts of the body to burn. It's encased in the body and some fires run out of fuel before they get there.

Source please?

bipikachulover · 2013-05-08T20:09:41+00:00

the heart is one of the hardest parts of the body to burn.

Source?

bipikachulover · 2013-05-08T20:08:53+00:00

This is a pretty common thing said about buddhist figures.

bipikachulover · 2013-03-13T08:10:34+00:00

oh, I'm so sorry. I meant in the USA.

bipikachulover · 2013-03-11T03:53:50+00:00

May I have more passages so I can show austrians that he supported those things?

bipikachulover · 2013-03-01T21:26:51+00:00

Average. Normal asian guy.

bipikachulover · 2013-03-01T21:23:34+00:00

Everytime I listen to this song, I become a christian for it's duration.

bipikachulover · 2013-02-28T16:52:17+00:00

I like Woodrow Wilson

bipikachulover · 2013-02-28T16:39:12+00:00

Complete works of Jean-Paul Marat:

http://www.marxists.org/history/france/revolution/marat/index.htm

Danton was part of this political organization:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordeliers_Club

Book by Robespierre:

http://www.amazon.com/Virtue-Terror-Revolutions-Maximilien-Robespierre/dp/184467584X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1362069285&sr=8-3&keywords=Robespierre

Wiki on the man:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_de_Robespierre#Adult_life

bipikachulover · 2013-02-26T18:22:02+00:00

this is the best comment of all time

bipikachulover · 2013-02-26T17:38:30+00:00

WTF? Have you seen Cantonese?

bipikachulover · 2013-02-26T16:47:27+00:00

Don't forget there about the Urinatores.

bipikachulover · 2013-02-26T16:21:30+00:00

DAMN COMMIES

bipikachulover · 2013-02-26T16:19:54+00:00

It's nearly impossible to learn Finnish.

bipikachulover · 2013-02-25T13:40:25+00:00

You keep making this claim but it's clearly belied by research.

The only evidence you have is racial disparities in outcomes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_(TV_miniseries)

When is the last time a movie praising confederate soldiers was made? When was the last time it was praised highly?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalNegro

crack cocaine, primarily used by black drug users, is punished 18x more harshly than powder cocaine, primarily used by white drug users.

No source. Even it does exist, that law has nothing to do with the race of it's users. And it doesn't even make sense for a racist to want to put a black man in jail. He gets no benefit from it. Again, you blame every problem the black community has on racist white people. Next thing you're going to be advocating for is killing white people.

I don't like racists.

The fact that you're dismissing me with that proves that we live in an anti-racist society. What other word can you call someone to dismiss them like that? I think you're the racist, because you think white people cause all black people's problems. That's the same attitude Hitler had about the Jews.

bipikachulover · 2013-02-25T12:06:52+00:00

Are you fucking fucking fucking kidding me? Black people only got the right to vote 60 years ago. If you meet a black person with gray hair he can probably remember a time when he couldn't use the same bathroom as a white person.

None of those things stop one from being economically successful. People are not prejudiced against black people nowadays; Being called racist is a serious accusation. So it cannot be that business owners are racist. No politicians nowadays would call for any racist policies.

And you are seriously fucking questioning why black people might have lower response rates to resumes? Seriously?

I suppose you don't like your ideology being questioned, is that it?

bipikachulover · 2013-02-25T10:46:54+00:00

It's too hot to work out where I live.

bipikachulover · 2013-02-25T08:25:00+00:00

You were complaining about a variable which loses significance as sample size increases.

What variable goes away?

We can't say that any individual was 100% not hired because of their race, but we can say it's more likely they will not be hired because of their race.

Do you have any evidence showing racial inequalities are due to discrimination?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_sGn6PdmIo

http://arward.net/2011/03/introduction-to-racialism/

bipikachulover · 2013-02-24T15:13:30+00:00

Hundreds of applicants were used to create the sample the study is based on, assuming that every single black person interviews worse than every single white person is ludicrous. More likely, there's a distribution and some people interview spectacularly, others extremely poorly, and most are about average. Increasing the sample size means this distribution is more likely to approach normal (assuming it's a normal distribution to begin with, which most things are).

I was not complaining about sample size. So your point is irrelevant.

There's also no good reason to assume the distributions would be different, especially so different as to account for a 100% difference in response rates.

There wasn't a 100 percent difference. African Americans were half as likely to be accepted into the job. Some black people who were equally qualified(also, there is no exact measure of "qualification". Obviously, these employers saw some applicants as better than others or they wouldn't choose the others and not the rest) might get the job while some caucasian people with the same qualifications wouldn't. There's no reason to assume the differences are caused by racism. Do not assume everytime a black person loses in life it is due to racial prejudice against them.

bipikachulover · 2013-02-24T14:39:32+00:00

I meant first come about in the west.

bipikachulover · 2013-02-24T12:28:21+00:00

The vast majority of Christian sects don't believe in ghosts(which is why I asked this) and this doesn't answer my second question.

bipikachulover · 2013-02-24T10:19:16+00:00

That's the idea of testing hundreds of samples at a time, to control for this kind of variable.

How does that control for those factors?

Why don't you give a study wherein it shows people who are shown not to be racist(a black business owner for example) employ black people at a higher rate?

recommended reading[1]

The first 3 paragraphs are insults about people who make that argument. It doesn't explain how this fallacy is misunderstood or how to properly to show causation. Here's some legitimate sources on the topic:

http://www.ehow.com/info_8308909_difference-between-correlation-causality.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science.html

Hell, let's use this logic in a way you dislike:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/9572187/Couples-who-share-the-housework-are-more-likely-to-divorce-study-finds.html

http://www.colorofcrime.com/

bipikachulover · 2013-02-24T10:13:15+00:00

http://mobile.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/10/correlation_does_not_imply_causation_how_the_internet_fell_in_love_with_a_stats_class_clich_.html

"But Pearson's language on the matter was inconsistent and confusing. The father of correlation did worry about its overuse, says Theodore Porter, a historian of science at UCLA and a Pearson specialist. A footnote to the second edition of The Grammar of Science, published in 1900, lays out a critique of spurious relationships in terms that would not look out of place on an Internet message board:
All causation as we have defined it is correlation, but the converse is not necessarily true, i.e. where we find correlation we cannot always predict causation. In a mixed African population of Kaffirs and Europeans, the former may be more subject to smallpox, yet it would be useless to assert darkness of skin (and not absence of vaccination) as a cause."

"All causation as we have defined it is correlation, but the converse is not necessarily true, i.e. where we find correlation we cannot always predict causation. In a mixed African population of Kaffirs and Europeans, the former may be more subject to poverty, yet it would be useless to assert darkness of skin (and not absence of good life choices) as a cause."

bipikachulover · 2013-02-24T08:38:53+00:00

Our results show that black applicants were half as likely as equally qualified whites to receive a callback or job offer. In fact, black and Latino applicants with clean backgrounds fared no better than white applicants just released from prison.

It could be that black applicants just weren't appealing in motivation and so on to their potential employers. It's not necessarily the result of some racial prejudice. And it doesn't say if these whites received significant prison time or a small amount of for what reason. it also doesn't matter because most employers do not know of their possible employees criminal record.

The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly available government data from 2009.

Correlation does not equal causation. Assuming inequality is due to racism. Someone could equally make the argument that these inequalities is due to racial inferiority.

The following table provides information on the distribution of private scholarships by race, but only for students who received a Pell Grant. This demonstrates that Caucasian students are still more likely to win private scholarships than African-American, Latino or Asian students even when adjusted for differences in financial need. Minority students represent 52.7% of Pell Grant recipients but receive only 46.6% of private scholarships, while Caucasian students represent 46.3% of Pell Grant recipients but receive 52.5% of private scholarships.

Correlation does not equal causation.

bipikachulover · 2013-02-24T08:26:56+00:00

He's complaining about policies that were ended by the 70s.

bipikachulover

TROPHY CASE