Valefor.Sehachan said: »
:P
Meanwhile, At The Huffington Post:
Meanwhile, at the Huffington Post:
not what I meant, but I guess it was hard to infer without really any context.
:P
If only the forums had a report post feature.
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Odin.Zicdeh said: »
If only the forums had a report post feature.
fonewear said: »
If you are looking for a point might need to step outside a video game forum.
I recommend CNN comments they are amazing.
I recommend CNN comments they are amazing.
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It is sorta like going to bodybuilding forums and trying
to avoid trolls. It is impossible.
Know what type of people use the forum and set your expectations so low that you aren't disappointed.
to avoid trolls. It is impossible.
Know what type of people use the forum and set your expectations so low that you aren't disappointed.
Odin.Zicdeh said: »
That rule derail is broken by page 2 of every thread. Sometimes even on the first page.
They have a term there called you've been Yahoo'd. It's when you click a story about a picture or a video and there's none there. All the comments say something like, "Where's the picture?"
The response, "You've just been Yahoo'd"
The response, "You've just been Yahoo'd"
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Odin.Zicdeh said: »
Hell often they go full circle about 10 times before hitting the infamous page 9.
I haven't used a Yahoo affiliated site since I was twelve.
fonewear said: »
Know what type of people exist and set your expectations so low that you aren't disappointed.
Life lesson right there.
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Odin.Zicdeh said: »
I haven't used a Yahoo affiliated site since I was twelve.
Asking people to stay on topic is an impossible feat that maybe only Superman or Batman could accomplish.
Who would have thought a thread where we could post random Huffington Post articles would end up like this?
Leviathan.Chaosx said: »
Who would have thought a thread where we could post random Huffington Post articles would end up like this?
Everyone.
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Leviathan.Chaosx said: »
Who would have thought a thread where we could post random Huffington Post articles would end up like this?
Never I thought it would turn into a global warming gay fascism / min. wage should be 15 dollars an hour. But off topic get out of here.
See by posting random stuff aren't we confirming that Huff Post is no better than we are ?
Asura.Kingnobody said: »
This thread should be stickied because it's the Huffington Post.
Garuda.Chanti said: »
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
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Ok let's get serious and tackle this issue that's presented in this story.
California Drought Linked To Global Warming In New Study
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The new study blames an unusual "dipole," a combination of a strong Western high pressure ridge and deep Great Lakes low pressure trough. That dipole is linked to a recently found precursor to El Nino, the world-weather changing phenomenon. And that precursor itself seems amplified by a build-up of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, the study says.
It's like a complex game of weather dominos that starts with cold water off China and ends with a devastating drought and memorable winter in the United States, said study author Simon Wang, a Utah State University climate scientist.
Wang was looking at colder water off China as a precursor to an El Nino. The colder water there triggers westerly winds in the tropical Pacific. Those westerly winds persist for several months and eventually push warmed up water and air to the central Pacific where an El Nino forms, Wang said.
An El Nino is a warming of the central Pacific once every few years, from a combination of wind and waves in the tropics. It shakes up climate around the world, changing rain and temperature patterns. Wang saw the precursors and weather event coming months before federal weather officials issued an official El Nino watch last month.
Then Wang noticed the connection between that precursor — cold water off China, Vietnam and Taiwan — and the recent wild winter. He tracked similar combinations of highs and lows in North America. And he found those combination extremes are getting stronger.
Wang based his study, soon to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, on computer simulations, physics and historical data. It is not as detailed and doesn't involve numerous computer model simulations as more formal attribution studies. Still, Wang said his is a proper connection.
It's like a complex game of weather dominos that starts with cold water off China and ends with a devastating drought and memorable winter in the United States, said study author Simon Wang, a Utah State University climate scientist.
Wang was looking at colder water off China as a precursor to an El Nino. The colder water there triggers westerly winds in the tropical Pacific. Those westerly winds persist for several months and eventually push warmed up water and air to the central Pacific where an El Nino forms, Wang said.
An El Nino is a warming of the central Pacific once every few years, from a combination of wind and waves in the tropics. It shakes up climate around the world, changing rain and temperature patterns. Wang saw the precursors and weather event coming months before federal weather officials issued an official El Nino watch last month.
Then Wang noticed the connection between that precursor — cold water off China, Vietnam and Taiwan — and the recent wild winter. He tracked similar combinations of highs and lows in North America. And he found those combination extremes are getting stronger.
Wang based his study, soon to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, on computer simulations, physics and historical data. It is not as detailed and doesn't involve numerous computer model simulations as more formal attribution studies. Still, Wang said his is a proper connection.
Next up on Huffington Post:
Meth is the solution for Global Warming. Bush and Limbaugh are both after your babies, which leads to Meth users discovering the final solution of Global Warming, a credible study shows.
Meth is the solution for Global Warming. Bush and Limbaugh are both after your babies, which leads to Meth users discovering the final solution of Global Warming, a credible study shows.
Here's a good one from today.
How Democrats Are Accidentally Helping The Koch Brothers
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Over the past two years, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has repeatedly wrestled with factions of his own party as he tries to bring traditionally uncontroversial bills to the floor, only to see a legislative war break out between tea party hard-liners and old-guard conservatives. But Cantor is currently prepping a bill that will incite a different kind of floor fight -- this time among Democrats.
It's supposed to be the kind of procedural bill that wouldn't raise hackles, even during an election year. The House Agriculture Committee cleared it by a voice vote, not even bothering to record the yeas and nays. Many of its major provisions have already passed the House with dozens -- in some cases, hundreds -- of Democratic votes.
But Cantor's legislative package is now packed with deregulation items long sought by Wall Street banks that would roll back key sections of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law related to derivatives -- the complex contracts at the heart of the 2008 economic meltdown. And as a result, the bill is at the center of a national struggle over the direction of the Democratic Party's economic policy platform -- how hard it will fight to preserve its 2010 Wall Street overhaul, and how a lengthy intra-party wrestling match over Wall Street campaign funds will be resolved.
In a bitter irony for Democrats, two of the people who stand to gain the most from the fracas are none other than Charles and David Koch, the Republican billionaires who have tapped one of the world's largest fortunes to cut down Democrats in elections and fuel conservative reforms. According to a lobbying disclosure form, lobbyists for the Koch empire have pushed for four of the most controversial deregulation provisions in Cantor's latest endeavor.
It's supposed to be the kind of procedural bill that wouldn't raise hackles, even during an election year. The House Agriculture Committee cleared it by a voice vote, not even bothering to record the yeas and nays. Many of its major provisions have already passed the House with dozens -- in some cases, hundreds -- of Democratic votes.
But Cantor's legislative package is now packed with deregulation items long sought by Wall Street banks that would roll back key sections of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law related to derivatives -- the complex contracts at the heart of the 2008 economic meltdown. And as a result, the bill is at the center of a national struggle over the direction of the Democratic Party's economic policy platform -- how hard it will fight to preserve its 2010 Wall Street overhaul, and how a lengthy intra-party wrestling match over Wall Street campaign funds will be resolved.
In a bitter irony for Democrats, two of the people who stand to gain the most from the fracas are none other than Charles and David Koch, the Republican billionaires who have tapped one of the world's largest fortunes to cut down Democrats in elections and fuel conservative reforms. According to a lobbying disclosure form, lobbyists for the Koch empire have pushed for four of the most controversial deregulation provisions in Cantor's latest endeavor.
fonewear said: »
Valefor.Sehachan said: »
This might be the worst thread of the month. If not the past 6 months.
Don't worry we are sorely lacking a global warming / gay fascism thread.
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A new report blames global warming for rising rates of infidelity, especially bad news for couples in Miami, where rising tides and raging hurricanes remind us all how much extracurricular sex we could be having on a daily basis.
Victoria Milan, a dating website for people looking to cheat on their significant other, surveyed 5,000 of its members, both men and women. A shocking 72% of them responded that yes, their own Al Gore-esque stress about unpredictable weather is the cause of their extra-marital dalliances. Guess the fact of their existing committed relationships was just an inconvenient truth.
Survey respondents also reported that they’re more likely to sneak a little on the side in hot weather than in cold.
Victoria Milan, a dating website for people looking to cheat on their significant other, surveyed 5,000 of its members, both men and women. A shocking 72% of them responded that yes, their own Al Gore-esque stress about unpredictable weather is the cause of their extra-marital dalliances. Guess the fact of their existing committed relationships was just an inconvenient truth.
Survey respondents also reported that they’re more likely to sneak a little on the side in hot weather than in cold.
And as to not derail from the Huff Post theme:
What If Cheating Actually Made Your Relationship Better?
The HuffPo linked me to this:
6 Rules for Cheating On Your Girlfriend, Because If You’re Going to Be a Scumbag You Might As Well Be Good at It!
Sorry, can't refind the original link.
Edit: There some GOOD rules there guys. Trust me on this.
6 Rules for Cheating On Your Girlfriend, Because If You’re Going to Be a Scumbag You Might As Well Be Good at It!
Sorry, can't refind the original link.
Edit: There some GOOD rules there guys. Trust me on this.
Here's one that will hopefully clear up some confussion.
***-Shaming Is More About Class Than Sexual Activity, Study Finds
Quote:
***-shaming is something all women deal with, whether in the form of criticism for the way they dress or being made to feel bad about their romantic and sexual choices.
But a new study published in the June issue of Social Psychology Quarterly has revealed that when a particular group of women call each other "***," it has little to do with perceived or actual promiscuity, and everything to do with social class.
Solciology researchers Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura Hamilton spent five years interviewing a group of 53 white female undergraduates as they went through their college careers at a Midwestern university. They found that the women who came from upper-class or upper-middle-class backgrounds -- a group they referred to as the "affluent" students -- used the term "***" differently than the "less affluent" women from working-class, lower-middle or middle-class families.
Armstrong told The Huffington Post that for both groups, the term "***" had relatively little to do with a woman's sexual experience or activities.
"The more affluent women tended to make a distinction between being 'classy' and 'trashy,' and that was very much about appearance" -- for example, "having the money to have fancy clothes, the right hairstyle, the right tan, handbags [and] jewelry," Armstrong told HuffPost. "If you looked 'classy,' you wouldn't be seen as a ***. You couldn't be 'trashy' if you looked right."
But a new study published in the June issue of Social Psychology Quarterly has revealed that when a particular group of women call each other "***," it has little to do with perceived or actual promiscuity, and everything to do with social class.
Solciology researchers Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura Hamilton spent five years interviewing a group of 53 white female undergraduates as they went through their college careers at a Midwestern university. They found that the women who came from upper-class or upper-middle-class backgrounds -- a group they referred to as the "affluent" students -- used the term "***" differently than the "less affluent" women from working-class, lower-middle or middle-class families.
Armstrong told The Huffington Post that for both groups, the term "***" had relatively little to do with a woman's sexual experience or activities.
"The more affluent women tended to make a distinction between being 'classy' and 'trashy,' and that was very much about appearance" -- for example, "having the money to have fancy clothes, the right hairstyle, the right tan, handbags [and] jewelry," Armstrong told HuffPost. "If you looked 'classy,' you wouldn't be seen as a ***. You couldn't be 'trashy' if you looked right."
Garuda.Chanti said: »
The HuffPo linked me to this:
6 Rules for Cheating On Your Girlfriend, Because If You’re Going to Be a Scumbag You Might As Well Be Good at It!
Sorry, can't refind the original link.
Edit: There some GOOD rules there guys. Trust me on this.
6 Rules for Cheating On Your Girlfriend, Because If You’re Going to Be a Scumbag You Might As Well Be Good at It!
Sorry, can't refind the original link.
Edit: There some GOOD rules there guys. Trust me on this.
Quote:
Rule 3: DON’T CHEAT WITH UGLY CHICKS
lol.
And this one... guys can't resist.
Quote:
Rule 6: Don’t tell ANYBODY
Site is called BroBible.com /dies from laughter.
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Lakshmi.Zerowone said: »
Site is called BroBible.com /dies from laughter.
I don't think I have ever laughed so hard as I have at some of these.
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