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12-02-2016 , 01:03 AM
I officially have given up poker this summer, now I'm just going to write millions of letters both real and electronic to people begging for money. Also if anyone is doing carryover from November you should respond to my big post
12-02-2016 , 01:11 AM
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Originally Posted by pvn
ITT people are mad that a rich guy got "screwed" because someone else making hamburgers didn't have to pay a license fee to him for every hamburger they sold just because he had the idea to put extra carbs in the middle of the burger
Maybe he should open up a hot dog stand instead.
12-02-2016 , 04:12 AM
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib
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Originally Posted by zikzak
pvn's fault
12-02-2016 , 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
Creator of the Big Mac, responsible for billions (more?) in revenue for McDonald's, died yesterday.



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12-02-2016 , 11:46 AM
Campaign mechanics junkies might find this discussion from Harvard with the campaign managers on both sides interesting. The first part is kind of a rehash of the early campaign dynamics that degenerates into kind of a pissing match, but at about the 1:50 mark there is a very interesting discussion of turnout models, social media, late poling, etc.

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12-02-2016 , 11:57 AM
REVITALIZING LIBERALISM IN THE AGE OF BREXIT AND TRUMP:

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Intellectual and moral infrastructure depreciates. There are ongoing costs of maintenance. You can’t successfully defend liberalism once and for all, just like you can’t install a sewage system and flush happily ever after without giving it another thought.

A liberal social order requires a favorable intellectual and moral climate—a supporting cultural infrastructure. But liberal norms and institutions are under constant corrosive pressure from natural, deep-seated illiberal tendencies that we’ve only recently managed to suppress and/or harness at all. These latent atavistic instincts cannot be effectively neutralized in general or in advance because they constantly find expression in novel, unpredictably powerful guises as our culture, economy, and technology evolves. If we fail to constantly refurbish the case for and commitment to liberalism, reinforcing it against the specific damage of the age, our institutions will drift toward generalized opportunistic corruption and declining popular legitimacy. Our culture will drift toward defensive avidity and mutual distrust. Our politics will drift toward primal zero-sum tribal conflict. All of which creates a fat political opening for would-be despots and ends-justifies-the-means zealots. Fascism and communism arose in liberal Europe because the liberal elites got complacent, nobody fixed the pipes, and then awful people with awful ideas rose to power promising to fix damage—and then caused massively more damage.
Related, How Stigma Sows Seeds of Its Own Defeat:

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Whether wittingly or unwittingly, they were totally reliant on the stigma against homosexuality to preserve their notion that marriage was between a man and a woman. As it turned out, most Americans had long since stopped caring about preserving marriage as an institution focused on procreation. As the stigma against homosexuality faded and their status quo bias was challenged by persuasive arguments in favor of gay marriage, large numbers were willing to change their position. They realized that they had no rational reason to oppose gay marriage.
12-02-2016 , 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
There's almost no chance he could have gotten a utility patent on a Big Mac, if it makes anyone feel better.
Dude just straight up stole it from Frisch's anyway. Next week i am going to dress up in a Big Boy costume and dance on that mother****ers grave.
12-02-2016 , 12:10 PM
First the Big Mac guy, and now General Tso!

Chef Peng Chang-kuei (彭長貴), the founder of the famous Hunan-style restaurant chain Peng's Garden Hunan Restaurant (彭園湘菜館) and inventor of the world famous Chinese dish General Tso's Chicken, died on Nov. 30 at the age of 98 from Pneumonia.

... and yet another reason to hate Nixon, delicious "fake" Chinese food. Nixon, have you not caused enough harm?

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After the thawing of relations between China and the U.S. after Nixon's visit to Beijing in 1972, the film pointed out that there was a resurgence of interest in Chinese food and there were a number of restaurants that began to try and cash in on the new craze. Among them was Michael Tong, who opened Shun Lee Palace in Manhattan, and in 1973 introduced General Tso's Chicken to the menu for which his establishment received a four-star review from the New York Times.
12-02-2016 , 01:15 PM
CA governor appoints Rep. Xavier Becerra to replace Kamala Harris as Attorney General

He'll be the first Latino AG of CA and was a surprising pick (to everyone, including Becerra). Probably a not-so-subtle "bring it" to the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

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Becerra would be the state's first Latino attorney general. The son of Mexican immigrants, he was the first member of his family to attend college, earning a law degree from Stanford Law School and a bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford University. Elected to a two-year term in the state Assembly and then to the House in 1992, he rose through the ranks to become the highest-ranking Latino in Congress.

Becerra worked in the civil division of the state attorney general's office, writing advisory opinions for former Gov. George Deukmejian, a Republican, and defending the state’s constitutional officers from 1987 to 1990 before entering the Assembly. He said he had always wanted to return to the office.
12-02-2016 , 02:27 PM
12-02-2016 , 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by bobman0330
I demand royalties
12-02-2016 , 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
He was a franchise owner when he invented the Big Mac, dude was successful already. He's lucky that he was already an owner when he came up with the idea and not a line cook or else he really would have had nothing for it.

Worth adding to this that in all (I think) software jobs I've worked at so far, you sign an agreement when you join the company that they own all IP (patents, etc) you come up with while working for them.

Of course, most software jobs also involve stock compensation or incentives so that individuals can share in company success, unlike most industries.
It's not just software that you sign that kind of IP contract. It is usually limited to IP connected to company business and not developed using company equipment or using company time. In reality, if your IP has any large scale monetary rewards, prepare for a lawsuit.
12-02-2016 , 04:04 PM
Great article well named.
12-02-2016 , 04:05 PM
I think you mean to thank bob
12-02-2016 , 04:07 PM
Maybe he means the article is great and well named.
12-02-2016 , 05:00 PM
From The Atlantic story.

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In the Western world, the percentage of people who say that it is essential to live in a democracy is in precipitous decline. In the United States, only 19 percent of millennials agree that it would be illegitimate for the military to take control of government. The president-elect routinely speculates about authoritarian policies, like stripping citizenship from those who burn the American flag in protest.
When I read that article earlier, I marveled at this statement.

So really?

81% of millennials are ok with the notion of the military taking over the US Govt.?

Really, really?!

That's like AA vs. KK.

Imagine some weird poker dream where you wake up one morning and you see on CNN that the military has taken over the government. At first, you are aghast, but then you look down at your hand, and you see KK and you think, "OK, cool, this won't be a problem at all."

Then you look outside your front door and you see a bunch of 20-somethings running around with AA supporting the military junta.

If 81% of millenials are ok with this, what does it say about their education and life experience to date?

And yet, you think the deplorable Trump supporters are the problem?
12-02-2016 , 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Lapidator
If 81% of millenials are ok with this, what does it say about their education and life experience to date?
While you probably think this is self-serving, this is something I've worried about for awhile and I think the statistic you cited is evidence of that worry coming to fruition:

It says that they largely grew up in the post-9/11 world.

A lot of us remember life before then. For younger adults today - maybe hard to pinpoint exactly who that is but probably anyone in elementary school or younger in 2001, and maybe a couple years older too - the Patriot Act world is not the exception, but the norm. Why wouldn't they fully trust our heroes who went to Iraq and Afghanistan to Kill The Terrorists and Protect Our Freedom? They don't know any other world but this one.

So, uh, yeah, kinda seems like maybe all that rah-rah patriotism, shut-the-****-up-liberals-why-do-you-hate-America stuff might have been a little shortsighted.
12-02-2016 , 05:20 PM
I should say...

I'm giving The Atlantic the benefit of the doubt that the number is somewhat reliable.

Though it boggles the mind if it is.
12-02-2016 , 05:22 PM
It's far more likely the number is unreliable.
12-02-2016 , 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Lapidator
I should say...

I'm giving The Atlantic the benefit of the doubt that the number is somewhat reliable.

Though it boggles the mind if it is.
it likely is reliable, and millenials aren't the only ones. A shockingly huge number of Americans don't really like democracy and want an authoritarian professional to handle the reins of gov't. (No, this isn't a commentary on Trump's election)
12-02-2016 , 05:30 PM
The Boomer attitude towards Millenials is both hilarious and infuriating. They seem like totally puzzled as to why our generation isn't cool footing the bill for their lazy, entitled, narcissistic asses to live beyond their means. I mean, bad enough that these ****ers have run up $20T in debt, at a more granular level they are totally miffed by millenials having very little tolerance for their bull****. Like basically every person I know who works in a white collar job has a boomer boss who is a complete disaster, who doesn't actually understand what their people do, who doesn't ever question their role/contribution/etc., who is inevitably political and devoid of intellectual curiosity, and who makes good money despite adding little to no value. They wonder why they can't keep good people, why millenials constantly leave and have the nerve to ask for more money, time off, etc. And don't even get me started on student loans.
12-02-2016 , 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Lapidator
81% of millennials are ok with the notion of the military taking over the US Govt.?

Really, really?!

That's like AA vs. KK.

Imagine some weird poker dream where you wake up one morning and you see on CNN that the military has taken over the government. At first, you are aghast, but then you look down at your hand, and you see KK and you think, "OK, cool, this won't be a problem at all."

Then you look outside your front door and you see a bunch of 20-somethings running around with AA supporting the military junta.
Jesus christ, you are hereby banned from ever making a poker analogy ever again.
12-02-2016 , 05:39 PM
Lefties think this orange monster taking over is going to destroy the planet so how would the military be worse?

Last edited by 2/325Falcon; 12-02-2016 at 05:39 PM. Reason: Rhetorical, bro.
12-02-2016 , 05:43 PM
White people want Democrat policies with Republican views on race. The problem is not Obamacare or entitlements or food stamps, it is lazy blacks and welfare queens getting a free ride. Without race, the Republican policies are completely inarguable... "you see, we gotta give all the money to billionaires so that some of it can trickle down and then you get it, ya see son?"

Gee wiz, pop! Why not just give me the money why does it have to flow down through the billionaires first?

Gosh son, I just don't know!
12-02-2016 , 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
While you probably think this is self-serving, this is something I've worried about for awhile and I think the statistic you cited is evidence of that worry coming to fruition:

It says that they largely grew up in the post-9/11 world.

A lot of us remember life before then. For younger adults today - maybe hard to pinpoint exactly who that is but probably anyone in elementary school or younger in 2001, and maybe a couple years older too - the Patriot Act world is not the exception, but the norm. Why wouldn't they fully trust our heroes who went to Iraq and Afghanistan to Kill The Terrorists and Protect Our Freedom? They don't know any other world but this one.

So, uh, yeah, kinda seems like maybe all that rah-rah patriotism, shut-the-****-up-liberals-why-do-you-hate-America stuff might have been a little shortsighted.
Why would you say that?

Should I have expected you to yell, "GTFO" or "that sh*tty place where Lapidator lives..."?

Naw, brau... stigma no workie. But you're welcome to use whatever methods you like to effect progress.

      
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