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On 6/11/2017 at 6:38 PM, Rook said:

 

Wow do you think that was intentional?

no. Doesn't mean it basically gave GSW the series still.

16 minutes ago, Rook said:

Yes and that's my point. This is an almost impossible feat, and "if" they can pull this off it would be historic. 

 

I'm not a Cleveland fan, and I hate Durant for going to GS. But if Cleveland wins it would make nba history. If GS wins it's ehhh... You have 2 maybe 3 superstars on one team, what do you expect?

Also, Zaza Pachulia is GS MVP. Took out Kawhi Leonard when the spurs had a chance of winning.

52 minutes ago, Rook said:

You may be right. But if Cleveland and somehow comeback and win it..They will be one of the greatest teams in history.

You do realize that everything will have to go right for cleveland the next 3 games.

43 minutes ago, Mitsuru said:

 

Micchan is a bit messed up in the head.

Don't worry about it.

22 hours ago, Nizam Adrienne said:

I'm liking the casting choice for Aquaman so I'm optimistic. We shall see. 

The cast can only carry a film so far.

I honestly don't know. Pretty sure watching my life would be boring AF. Maybe a small level of comedy.

It'll take a miracle for DC to have multiple good movies in a row.

5 hours ago, Bear said:

Pick dog-sized cockroach, pray that "dog-sized" means the roach is about the size of a Chihuahua

Yeah.

Although if we're talking like 100 pound dog size, I'm probably still gonna take the cockroach, as a horse sized rat is probably gonna be stupidly hard to kill, and can kill you with it's teeth.

They can't take over slack though. Cause then Micchan would have to join slack.

It's gonna come down to how well can LeBron imitate MJ.

If he can, it's cavs in 7, probably with a few OT wins (MJ was the greatest crunch time player in NBA history)

If he can't, it's gonna be Warriors in 5 or 6.

LeBron is key. If he gets injured, every other game after that is a Warriors win.

1 minute ago, Queen M said:

Micchan would fight dirty. I'd put money on her.

True, but IC's legs would force them all to surrender to him.

Lol, micchan is so light I might be able to take her out, and I'm a distance runner. We're known for fleeing well.

IC would win because he would be viewed as non-threat by the others, and as such, they would all kill each other.

I feel like this is an act of futility.

Thus, I nominate Sargun.

We're gonna need to filter this content to allow for TKR forums to maintain their PG-13 rating.

Since this is a spam thread, as the King of Spam, I must participate.

Ayy

4 hours ago, Rin said:

 

A lot of that is anonymized data. So they will probably sell info like a 3 person household uses this much energy and when. But rarely the names and people involved. Statistics/big data is nice in that way.

 

Big difference to wiretapping where they track what you say about your boss. It's much less damage if they're just running numbers on how many people talk shit about their bosses.

 

Or Google and Facebook's business model is finding out that you have a stamp collection habit and then selling your personal info to people who want to look for stamp collectors.

Yeah, I guess I can see that. I just run an adblocker 24/7, and don't visit sites that require me to turn it off, so I've never really cared. As for the government tracking, I'm actually kinda curious to your response regarding tracking being done by research institutions for big data purposes. I know a number of people that oppose NSA's tracking because it's personal, but don't oppose the research institutions.

10 hours ago, Rin said:

 

Well more that you can actually avoid corporations doing it. I personally absolutely hate LinkedIn's privacy policies and boycott that. If you don't like Google doing what they do, you have the option of DuckDuckGo. Don't like Chrome, use Tor.

 

But if you don't like the US government reading your emails, you can't practically move to Norway or whatever. These things take months and force you away from family. It's not like changing your email provider.

 

But if it were something you can't avoid, like banks or utilities, it would be a very bad thing.

You do realize most US banks and utilities also track what they can right? That's why I've never really understood the argument. There's no realistic way around getting tracked at this point, as various corporations that you interact with are tracking your data in an attempt to try and maximize profit. Utilities and banks care about certain things due to the fact there is no data out there showing some interesting correlations regarding certain things.

50 minutes ago, Rin said:

I thought she was one of the best prime ministers. One of the very few who did what she thought was right and not what was popular.

In that regard, she would probably be considered a good prime minister. I've just never agreed with some of her policies, but that's probably an issue that is due to the fact that I'm pretty far on the left on most topics. I've always liked LBJ, and respected his decisions to take risks, such as the civil rights act, and as such can see how someone on the right can view Thatcher with similar regards.

46 minutes ago, Rin said:

 

That's exactly the problem isn't it? If everyone does it, there's not a lot of places left to move to. The same principle applies to every other rights violation. If some governments decide it's fine to strip search people in airports, it will become the norm.

That's true. I'm just kinda curious why people are so worried about governments doing it specifically. Because basically every major corporation that can does track your actions. For example, Google does it if you use chrome or google to conduct any searches, as well as any actions you do on youtube, etc.

They'd have to get past Lebron, and whatever the hell comes out of the west to win. Not likely.

I throw her in the shit that Reagan Spawned pile.

Literally starts a war to gain reelection (Falklands War)

I would hold the viewpoint of no, but given the fact that basically anyone can track your data if they care about it enough, there is no severe advantage/disadvantage to the government tracking your data, as most likely Google and other corporations are doing the same thing, and won't stop, even if we made it Illegal.

On 4/30/2017 at 4:10 PM, Woot said:

Does nobody see the irony that big unions are some of the strongest monopolies that exist in this country? Just because a cartel is controlling labor instead of oil or internet service doesn't make it a great idea for an efficient economy. Anything a union can do can be done better through law, so if we're dreaming up a perfect system then what's with the unions?

Union is strong monopoly...Only in Massachusetts. Seriously, union power throughout the country has declined massively since the 1960s, and participation in unions is either at or below 10%. There are like 5 states without right to work laws, and to top it off, most people refuse to join unions because it requires them to pay dues. This creates a free-rider problem, and as such, without laws to promote the presence/power of union, we would have coordination failures regarding trying to get companies to have reasonable worker standards or wages. Unless you're trying to argue that the presence of a union is a negative externality to the labor market, which I have trouble buying because minimum wage at 40 hours a week is barely enough for 1 person to be above the poverty line, and without Unions, companies don't have a major incentive to pay some workers above minimum wage.

My argument's mostly align with Sargun. Although, I think it is imperative to give him a minor amount of credit regarding the dissolution of the USSR and the soviet bloc. Beyond that, I fail to find any serious positives in his policies unless you're either a racist, an american nationalist that believes the US must enforce its will on other countries, or possibly his economic rhetoric/policies if you're a supply-side economist. As I find 2 out of those 3 groups intolerable, I hold the view that Reagan is in the running with Bush 43 for worst president since WWII.