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Kyuubi4269 posted...

captpackrat posted...

The highest that any paid app could get on that list was #200 (Bloons TD 6, for those who were curious).

That's the standard. The best game worth paying for is called bloons.

I heard that if a bunch of people were jumping off a cliff Kyuubi4269 would too because he when judging something he only puts value on whether others are doing it too.

Samoyed

MICHALECOLE posted...

ShadosAtPhoenix posted...

fuji apples are the only apples worth having. Everything else is trash.

Wow. Apple snob. Impressive.

Someone stating that their favorite apple is some worthless commercial variety would not be indicative of an apple snob. If anything it just illustrates the degradation of society, where people are sacrificing taste in the endless quest of excess sugars so they can become amorphous blobs of fat. Fuji is a commoner's apple, along with Honeycrisp and the like, and anyone who recommends them should be looked down upon as the low class garbage that they are.

Any true apple snob would be referencing one of the heirloom varieties you aren't going to be finding in a supermarket.

WastelandCowboy posted...

However, by "eliminate all of the land", this implies that we're also eliminating the Earth's crust, mantle, and and core. This leaves just the outer core as the outer core is a liquid and technically not "land". So, now, we have massive amounts of salt water, pure drinking water, and outer core just coexisting together and I have no idea what'd happen.

Land is typically defined as the part of the Earth's surface that is not covered by water. While you could argue that when you remove the surface, the ground underneath the surface now becomes the surface and you'd have to iteratively remove the surface, when you strip enough layers that the land is now below sea level, the ocean would submerge it and you should never get below the outer layers of the mantle.

On the other hand, if we "eliminate all of the sea", that's 71% of the Earth's surface now exposed. Mankind will need to find other ways to obtain drinking water, which can be done via mixing hydrogen and oxygen gases and igniting the reaction. However, you've also killed off all fish and water species so a lot of countries will need to find new sources of food. The upside is that you will now be able to transverse the continent on foot, explore shipwrecks and areas never-before-explored by man (and not robot), and mine for minerals.

To permanently remove the sea either the Earth would have to purged of all forms of water, or the Earth's environment would have to change to the point that oceans couldn't form. Either option would likely imply extinction of most forms of life.

I'd say overall you're overestimating the damage of losing land, and underestimating the damage of losing sea.

Travel to this island is illegal due to the risk of wiping out the Sentinelese from exposure to outside diseases that their immune systems would not be able to handle. Chau got what he deserved from his reckless disregard for others' life.

Zeus posted...

Kinda fair, but the idiots who took him over there also deserve to be charged for that.

People that helped them are being charged.

Killing Christians is more of a Muslim and atheist thing than a Hindu thing. Plus are the island's inhabitants even Hindu?

No. The tribal people of the Andaman Islands have practice a religion that's roughly a form of monotheistic Animism. While the Sentinelese subset are largely an unknown due to their hostility toward outsiders, it can be presumed that what they practice is similar.

I hate turkey but love cranberries. Why must you make a bad poll? :/

rogerskg1979 posted...

TarElessar posted...

Depends on the degree to be honest

Liberal Arts degrees are useless.

Considering various states in the US require a minimum of a Bachelor degree for teaching, does that mean you consider teaching to be a useless profession?

Hey look, a bunch of people trying to push subjective opinions off as objective facts. Yay for fanboys.

Alex1976 posted...

Contrary to popular belief, farmers didn't make any demand for DST.

To go further, farmers were/are outright opposed to DST. DST is detrimental to farming in general.

Studies have also shown that not only does it actually potentially up electricity costs contrary to its point, but it has both short and long term detrimental effects on peoples' health. It's just a terrible idea that should be gotten rid of.

wolfy42 posted...

There are TONS of healthy, yummy foods you can eat that are not bad for you in moderation, just make them with real ingrediants and you should be fine.

As opposed to foods made with imaginary ingredients?

Pocophone F1? It has limited band support so you'd have to check whether you'd get decent reception with it and there are various concessions that they made with it that may or may not effect you, but it has top of the line specs and is only in the $300-400 range.

I always wonder about the people who say they aren't triggered, yet they post long winded replies and feel the need to aggressively attack anyone that replies to them. Are they just trolling, or do they seriously lack the self awareness and not realize that they're the ones probably being triggered? It's hard to tell these days...

wolfy42 posted...

It means you can ONLY buy things at launch, not that you buy everything at launch (which would be awesome cause then you would have everything!).

If he meant that then option one has no downside over option two. It's essentially a less restrictive version of option two. At which point this poll is stupid and pointless.

The other interpretation of course is essentially impossible to do, and like always he fails to clarify the cost of failing. At which point this poll is stupid and pointless.

TC needs to actually think before he types up this stuff.

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

wwinterj25 posted...

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

My doctor told me I will not die.

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

He doesn't know if this will kill me.

I just mean like, how can he REALLY know that I won't die? He was just trying to give me peace of mind, right?

If you get a paper cut you could theoretically die from it if the right scenarios played out. So when you run to the doctor and ask if you're going to die from the paper cut and he says you aren't going to die, he doesn't know that, but he can infer that the probability of you dying is minimal to the point of being able to say you shouldn't worry about dying.

If you have something terminal you're going to die from it and there is nothing you can do about it. But for anything else your attitude plays a large factor into your recovery.

If you had a form of cancer that has a low chance of survival your doctor should of informed you of such. Since he didn't you should trust his judgment and stay positive about the situation. There's nothing to gain from a negative attitude where you assume you're going to potentially die.

The first option is impossible depending on the sites you use, due to incompatible requirements on passwords that are enforced by different sites.

No. If you want something better you're going to either need to mod the n64 or use an emulator.

Confirmation bias, the topic.

faramir77 posted...

For example?

Apparently they went and quarantined (not deleted) around 20 new subs, including a far left one. In other words TC is making an uninformed rant (and/or trying to push an agenda).

Well my mom is getting a mini scnauzher

https://goo.gl/images/WJdGY4

The arguments for docking and cropping in miniature schnauzers was mainly related to their place as a working breed. As a pet there is no real functional reason to perform either, and the procedures mainly remain for cosmetic reasons. I wouldn't consider doing either procedure if I was getting one.

zebatov posted...

No. It's because nobody can because they dont know which to side with. Defending open borders knowing that I'm right, or just admitting that I'm right.

Why would anyone bother trying? Your choice of language and rationalization reflect a confirmation bias, and any attempt to argue with you would just cause the backfire effect.

Which to be honest is an issue reflected in a lot of the political topics in this board. It makes me wonder whether people ever actually think that they are going to have an effect on another person's opinion, when it's likely they're just arguing to rationalize and reinforce their own opinion.

Anyway, I have no interest on commenting on the topic at hand itself, as it'd be pointless. For all those who do, have fun ranting I guess.

OhhhJa posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Mead posted...

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Mead posted...

Tardis2015 posted...

sure google is left wing

Where do people get this shit

um they are lefty as fuck lol

Only when you consider reality to be liberal bias

http://www.canirank.com/blog/analysis-of-political-bias-in-internet-search-engine-results/

It wont be long before someone displays their irony and says that it isnt a reputable site because it's not CNN or WaPo and doesn't show up first on google

I'm confused about the point that's trying to make with the link. The predominate sentiment in this thread by those critical of Google seems to be that Google is inherently biased. However, the link concludes that while the search results are slanted towards the left, the evidence isn't strong enough to conclude that there is an inherent bias within Google's algorithm.

Zeus posted...

Where's the option if you don't drink?

Shirley Temple is a non-alcoholic mixed drink.

OhhhJa posted...

Ivany2008 posted...

anyways, I'm done. Obviously we disagree on a few things, and I'm not going to take this any further than it has gone. You all have a nice day.

I'll just leave you with this. Just because you think something should be done a certain way, doesn't mean others think the same way. Money drives motives. More money can be made from a temporary fix than an overall cure. And I'm just speaking in general right now. Even assuming a cure doesn't exist. If it did exist, chances are companies would do all they could to profit off the quick fix, rather than the long term solution. Because once the long term solution is revealed, you will start to have competition to lower the price of the solution to the point where big companies won't be profiting anymore.

The problem with conspiracy theorists is that they always think they're smarter than everyone else. Actually, that's what drives conspiracy theorists. It's the need to tell everyone, "hey I know something nobody else does! You guys are all sheep and I'm Aristotle!"

DunningKruger effect

Zeus posted...

Plus you *need* to enforce copyrights to maintain them.

No you don't.

Golden Road posted...

You're not very good at these polls. Way too many of these polls have a really obvious answer, in this case, being invisible to everyone in every universe being far, far, far worse than becoming even an incredibly popular meme.

There are potential upsides to being invisible depending on your personality and on how invisible is being defined. I'd consider how poorly defined the scenarios have been to be a bigger problem. In particular the do this or else ones, that fail to define a time limit for the task and fail to clarify the results of failure, have left certain options to be either terrible or harmless depending on how you take it.

Hop103 posted...

There's booze in the Caribbean that's slightly more potent than this.

You can find 90%+ liquors if you really want it...

I wonder how many people that won't switch to 10 from 7 because it spies on you are actually aware of and disabled the updates that Microsoft back-ported to 7 so it does the same thing.

Dunning-Kruger Effect...

Overuse of salt (and sugars) is half of what's wrong with the US. Pepper's where it's at (along with other spices).

Trancer Hunter posted...

Bee's are cool... The other two should just go extinct... If I had a button to push to kill all the Wasps and Hornets in the world I'd push it without hesitation and without worry about how I screwed the world up.
Though from my understanding about the only thing killing them will rob of the world is youtube bug vs. bug videos oh and that hornets just look pretty bad ass in pictures.

Your understanding is lacking. Wasps and hornets play a vital role in pollination and insect control and you'd end up with catastrophic damage to various ecosystems and the global economy.

NightMareBunny posted...

so being told it's A British Conspiracy to sell more carrots is news to you?

Carrots contain nutrients that contribute to eye health, so anyone answering yes to your poll question would be correct in their beliefs. If you were specifically focusing on the myth that they'll magically improve your vision you should of worded your poll differently.

Pretty much any cookie that's available in a grocery store is garbage.