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05-22-2012 , 04:28 PM

#601

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05-22-2012 , 04:44 PM

#602

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http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/55...13/index9.html

05-22-2012 , 05:15 PM

#603

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I can't even bring myself to say "LOL" about this article b/c it's just sad.

Berkeley police chief assigns 10 officers to find son’s missing iPhone

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The San Francisco Chronicle reports that when Meehan's high-school son announced that his phone had been taken from his locker at Berkeley High School, several officers were dispatched to look for the phone, which was equipped with tracking software.
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However, officers apparently did not actually file a report about the incident, which occurred in January, which Kusmiss described as "an oversight that came to our attention" after questions from the Chronicle.

Officers from the property crimes and drug task force departments were assigned to the missing phone case, according to Kusmiss. In addition, four detectives were paid overtime for two hours of the unsuccessful search.

05-22-2012 , 05:24 PM

#604

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Just listen to the lady in the background, so ololol.

05-22-2012 , 05:34 PM

#605

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Money2Burn

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/22/even...n/?mobile.html

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For now, however, that whopping $931 billion for fiscal year 2013 will have to do. If our national security budget were its own economy, it would be the 19th largest in the world, roughly the size of Australia’s. Meanwhile, the country with the next largest military budget, China, spends a mere pittance by comparison. The most recent estimate puts China’s military funding at around $136 billion.

This doesn't take into account interest payments on money we've borrowed for defense spending, either.

The defense spending is jaw-dropping, but comparing US $931b to China $136b is rather disingenuous. For 2011, an apples to apples comparison done via SIPRI would be US $690b (or 4.8% GDP) to China $129b (or 2.1% GDP).

05-22-2012 , 05:43 PM

#606

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

I can't even bring myself to say "LOL" about this article b/c it's just sad.

Berkeley police chief assigns 10 officers to find son’s missing iPhone

i'd rather have police doing things like this (even for the chief's son) than kicking in doors in the middle of the night or of underground poker games.

05-22-2012 , 06:36 PM

#607

EricLindros

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So, people like this apparently exist.

I'm again him.

05-22-2012 , 06:37 PM

#608

FlyWf

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pvn- That's not the broken window fallacy. We went over this during the first round of "people who learned economics from Youtube find it difficult to understand basic concepts" broken window fallacy posts.

05-22-2012 , 06:37 PM

#609

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Originally Posted by seattlelou

Your trainer doesn't seem to fit the strong Republican profile. Is it just Obama he doesn't like? What does he think about Jerry Brown or other Dems? Maybe the question is he just a racist?

He runs the standard Fox News playbook. Whatever they're pumping for the day he's pissed about.

05-22-2012 , 06:38 PM

#610

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Sounds like a hell of a party (@Eric's post).

05-22-2012 , 06:40 PM

#611

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

He runs the standard Fox News playbook. Whatever they're pumping for the day he's pissed about.

Seems weird for a Canadian/Californian to be a fox ideologue but it takes all kinds I s'pose.

05-22-2012 , 06:40 PM

#612

suzzer99

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Yeah 40 million people in CA, all moonbat liberals.

05-22-2012 , 06:42 PM

#613

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^Polarize much?

05-22-2012 , 06:45 PM

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Any candidates seeking to depose BDDVO as king have to beat his recent BQ marathon time.

05-22-2012 , 06:53 PM

#615

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Originally Posted by seattlelou

^Polarize much?

wat, you're the one who made the silly broad stereotype

05-22-2012 , 06:53 PM

#616

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Man faces five years for ‘God does not exist’ Facebook post (in Indonesia)

05-22-2012 , 07:04 PM

#617

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ElliotR

Any candidates seeking to depose BDDVO as king have to beat his recent BQ marathon time.

I did 26.2 miles in 23 minutes yesterday

05-22-2012 , 07:28 PM

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And the Facebook train wreck continues with an investigation into disclosure violations by Morgan Stanley. With the stock doing so horribly, damages could be huge in civil suits.

05-22-2012 , 07:33 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Man faces five years for ‘God does not exist’ Facebook post (in Indonesia)

Im gonna choose to blame Facebook for that. Just cos **** them is all.

Quote:

Originally Posted by PoppaTMan

How does the spending look when measured per capita? How about per 1000 miles of perimeter?

05-22-2012 , 07:34 PM

#620

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Can't see Morgan get the lead on another IPO in this decade. Facebook got cheap should have just paid Goldman the moneyz.

05-22-2012 , 08:08 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by [Phill]

How does the spending look when measured per capita? How about per 1000 miles of perimeter?

US:

$2200 per capita
$13.415m/mi land border and coastline
$35.628m/mi land border

China:

$95 per capita
$2.187m/mi land border and coastline
$3.619m/mi land border

05-22-2012 , 10:20 PM

#622

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Uncommitted beats Obama in the Arkansas primary.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...two-more-wins/

05-22-2012 , 10:24 PM

#623

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

lol

sorry, broken nuclear reactor fallacy

totally different

05-22-2012 , 10:50 PM

#624

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I can't wait till I'm not stuck riding in circles in a tractor for 9 hours a day so I don't get sucked into making stupid nitty arguments in the TM thread.