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Topic | Who are your favorite characters in each of the Star Trek TV shows? |
Duck-I-Says 10/03/17 8:05:01 PM #5 | I just realized I forgot about Garak. I'm going to amend my DS9 character to Garak with the caveat that O'Brien is my favorite main character. |
Topic | Does the United States of America need stricter gun control? |
Duck-I-Says 10/02/17 4:49:24 PM #14 | Peterass posted... Criminals that want to use guns will obtain them regardless. It's weird that we don't apply this policy to rogue nuclear states. |
Topic | Damn my friend just had to run from a shooter in Vegas |
Duck-I-Says 10/02/17 2:26:48 PM #135 | Noop_Noop posted... Aaaaand queue people standing on graves to promote political agendas. You're right. We should never have any sort of political discussion about the causes of a tragedy. Everything exists in a bubble. Let's just mourn and never, ever learn from anything or strive to improve as a society. |
Topic | Popular Restaurant Owner said people who take a KNEE should be EXECUTED!!! |
Duck-I-Says 10/02/17 4:02:49 AM #5 | It's not really that surprising to see that fascists are unhinged psychos. |
Topic | Girls on dating sites make no sense |
Duck-I-Says 10/01/17 1:02:13 PM #6 | They respond to attractive people and don't like being insulted by randos. It's not complicated. |
Topic | do movies and game having bittersweet ending bother you? |
Duck-I-Says 10/01/17 5:57:31 AM #15 | ParanoidObsessive posted... It's why I used to get annoyed at the people who tried to defend Mass Effect 3's ending There is no way anyone seriously tried to defend that ending. I refuse to believe you. |
Topic | Most badass person of the 20th Century? |
Duck-I-Says 10/01/17 5:47:03 AM #11 | Jack Churchill or Audie Murphy |
Topic | George Lucas should have been involved in the newer Star Wars movies. |
Duck-I-Says 09/30/17 7:00:13 AM #8 | kind9 posted... I've never been a sci-fi guy I hate how Star Wars sneaks into scifi just because it's in space and has lasers. |
Topic | Who are your favorite characters in each of the Star Trek TV shows? |
Duck-I-Says 09/30/17 6:58:22 AM #2 | Honorable mentions: Gul Dukat and Shran |
Topic | Who are your favorite characters in each of the Star Trek TV shows? |
Duck-I-Says 09/30/17 6:57:28 AM #1 | TOS/TAS: Commander Spock TNG: Lt. Commander Data DS9: Chief O'Brien Voyager: Tuvix... ok Lieutenant Paris Enterprise: Dr. Phlox Discovery (so far): Captain Georgiou IB4: |
Topic | White Kid caught URINATING on Black Lives Matter Writing!!! |
Duck-I-Says 09/29/17 9:53:55 PM #20 | Lil69Leo posted... That's not true at all and either you're willfully ignorant or completely lying. Cops literally shot a guy trying to calm down a autistic man and his arms were up and he was far away and not even the ones they were after. I think he was talking about systemically not saying that there has never been a murderous cop who has murdered people for the hell of it. |
Topic | Elaine from Seinfeld has cancer |
Duck-I-Says 09/29/17 3:41:31 PM #9 | JanwayDaahl posted... greater problems happening across the world on a regular basis never cease to amaze me. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AppealToWorseProblems |
Topic | Elaine from Seinfeld has cancer |
Duck-I-Says 09/29/17 2:57:35 PM #3 | I think she's a billionaire now that her father's died, so at the very least she has access to the best possible care in the world. |
Topic | Thoughts on Russia allegedly agitating BLM via social media? |
Duck-I-Says 09/29/17 5:45:37 AM #9 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics." Russia probably has their fingers in groups on all sides of every contentious issue. |
Topic | Jim Carrey has officially gone nuts |
Duck-I-Says 09/28/17 3:09:31 PM #22 | eating4fun posted... He's an artist now, and those guys are a mixed bag of both nuts and being grounded. "Behind Closed Doors He's An Amazing Artist" I guess it's true what they say. Art is subjective, because I thought his art was terrible. He should have stuck to comedy. |
Topic | So I just got a membership to Planet Fitness. |
Duck-I-Says 09/28/17 3:08:05 PM #28 | green dragon posted... How will I dead left? (I hate smith machines) dumbell deadlifts with 75 pounders. Do a ton of reps and a very slow eccentric phase. It's far from ideal, but beats nothing. |
Topic | Jim Carrey has officially gone nuts |
Duck-I-Says 09/28/17 2:30:55 PM #9 | We believe in nothing, Lebowski! |
Topic | HuffPost: White Players Standing for Anthem are White Supremacists |
Duck-I-Says 09/27/17 2:50:32 PM #4 | Unsurprisingly the article, possibly the whole website, doesn't have comments. Wouldn't want to have the authors opinions challenged afterall. |
Topic | HuffPost: White Players Standing for Anthem are White Supremacists |
Duck-I-Says 09/27/17 2:48:51 PM #3 | But not the black athletes who are still standing, huh? The apparently have more nuanced reasons for not kneeling? Every white person of course must be reduced to a binary caricature. |
Topic | This 30 YEAR OLD was told he was TOO OLD to be a New York FIREFIGHTER..Is He??? |
Duck-I-Says 09/24/17 9:56:28 PM #12 | KStateKing17 posted... This. He puts a lot of men ten years younger to shame. I'd go as far as saying the overwhelming majority of men ten years younger. |
Topic | Anyone here use Panda Antivirus? |
Duck-I-Says 09/24/17 9:10:55 PM #8 | thecolorgreen posted... Common sense is the best antivirus This guy trojans |
Topic | I just discovered Patrice O'Neal |
Duck-I-Says 09/24/17 7:43:55 PM #8 | Cacciato posted... 'Elephant in the Room' is one of the funniest specials I've ever seen and still might be my favorite. Yep, loved every minute of it. Listening to him talk about Donkey Punches and the Angry Pirate on Fox News was also fucking hysterical: ignore the terrible video title |
Topic | Is you exiting abut new Star Track show? |
Duck-I-Says 09/24/17 7:33:40 PM #21 | |
Topic | I just discovered Patrice O'Neal |
Duck-I-Says 09/24/17 7:14:53 PM #6 | Zeus posted...
Did you read the description of how he died? "During the early hours of October 19, 2011, O'Neal phoned his girlfriend to inform his inability to move his legs. He was rushed to Jersey City Medical Center, and later Englewood Hospital, where doctors performed surgery to remove a blood clot in his head.[1] He lost his ability to speak, and later his ability to move, for a time communicating by eye movements before losing that ability as well. Doctors warned that if he survived, he would likely remain permanently paralyzed and unable to speak." If he'd lived he'd likely have been totally locked in and unable to communicate. That's probably my single greatest fear right there. Horrifying. |
Topic | I just discovered Patrice O'Neal |
Duck-I-Says 09/24/17 6:57:28 PM #1 | Then after going through his stand up learned that he died years ago. The guy had the best repertoire of pussy jokes I've ever heard. Why do the good ones always die young. |
Topic | Condoms only working 97% of the time seems like a low ball |
Duck-I-Says 09/23/17 11:42:41 PM #15 | EclairReturns posted... Well, to be honest, I'm just using stuff from the probability class I'm taking this semester. In this case, the experiment (sex) is repeated 97 times until a condom failure occurs on the 98th try. Whereas your code repeats it many more times, and doesn't stop the experiment even after a condom failure has already occurred. The probabilistic equivalent to this would be the binomial distribution, I think. Ohhhhh that makes a lot more sense. Yeah I totally misinterpreted what you were saying and thought you were somehow implying a 3% failure rate meant a 0.16% chance of failing in 100 tries, not the chance that it occurs on exactly the 98th try. Thanks for the clarification. |
Topic | Condoms only working 97% of the time seems like a low ball |
Duck-I-Says 09/23/17 11:32:29 PM #11 | EclairReturns posted... Actually, the event you're describing can be modeled using a geometric distribution. I was curious so wrote a quick some quick and dirty code that generates a random number (the languages built in random seed isn't perfectly random, but it's close enough for our purposes) 1-100 10 million times where 3 of the numbers (representing a failure and a failure rate of 3 in 100) increment a counter. After the 10 million iterations I determine what percentage of the 10 million random numbers landed on one of the three failures. The result every time I run it is approximately 3%. I'm terrible at probability, but do you have any idea why that would be? Is there something inherently wrong with my test methodology? |
Topic | "White" is an offensive word... |
Duck-I-Says 09/23/17 8:23:29 PM #19 | RCtheWSBC posted... Let me pour one out for the poor persecuted white men ;________; "other people have it worse therefore whitey isn't allowed to complain about anything." |
Topic | Endless shrimp is back at Red Lobster |
Duck-I-Says 09/23/17 4:07:14 AM #35 | |
Topic | Trump called Colin Kaepernick (and other football protesters) a son of a bitch. |
Duck-I-Says 09/23/17 3:48:04 AM #3 | To be fair Obama called Kayne West a jackass. |
Topic | Rate that food ~ Day 1504 ~ Jalapeno |
Duck-I-Says 09/23/17 1:41:45 AM #4 | KJ StErOiDs posted... and the heat often too intense. Damn you've got a sensitive mouth. Jalapeno's are pretty low on the scale for a hot pepper. |
Topic | I hate having to use the restroom in public places with others in there. |
Duck-I-Says 09/22/17 10:17:31 PM #6 | DocDelicious posted... grabbing their hips, and asking if they need lumbar support. Good way to get elbowed in the face. |
Topic | I hate having to use the restroom in public places with others in there. |
Duck-I-Says 09/22/17 10:02:49 PM #3 | Most people aren't know, but enough are that it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paruresis |
Topic | Do you know anyone who doesn't believe that Jews are a race? |
Duck-I-Says 09/22/17 9:14:59 PM #10 | Ordinarily I'd say they're an ethnic group and not a race, but these days I don't even really know what race means. I've heard people earnestly say that Mexican is a race, so sure Jews are a race I guess. |
Topic | How important are looks to women? |
Duck-I-Says 09/15/17 7:26:09 PM #29 | RCtheWSBC posted... No one was even referencing stats until my post. Two people implied that it was a largely pointless area of study. One of them because the demographic was too large and the other because they don't understand aggregation. |
Topic | How important are looks to women? |
Duck-I-Says 09/15/17 5:54:56 PM #26 | RCtheWSBC posted... https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/What-Men-and-Women-want-in-marriage.png Hey watch it! You're apparently not allowed to make generalizations based on statistics anymore! |
Topic | How important are looks to women? |
Duck-I-Says 09/15/17 5:03:56 PM #17 | Jen0125 posted...
That's true, but when you aggregate those behaviors you start to see apparent trends. So yeah, you're right in that it's stupid to apply those trends to the individual, but it's also stupid to claim that those trends don't exist at all because individuals are different. |
Topic | Hulu totally screwed up their user interface with this update |
Duck-I-Says 09/15/17 3:29:40 PM #11 | I don't like things that are different |
Topic | Kefka vs Pennywise vs Joker |
Duck-I-Says 09/15/17 3:17:11 AM #26 | Kimbos_Egg posted... Guys. Pennywise is a god/demon of impossible strength. He won't lose. Doesn't Kefka become a God of impossible strength? |
Topic | Floyd Mayweather said that Trump spoke like a REAL MAN for GRABBING WOMEN!!! |
Duck-I-Says 09/15/17 3:12:30 AM #8 | UraRenge2005 posted... Single handedly making boxing an unwatchable sport because of how he fights is a good place to start. Clearly you've never seen Wladimir Klitschko fight. |
Topic | Where do you live, and what's your favorite hot sauce? |
Duck-I-Says 09/14/17 12:23:41 PM #15 | I don't know how you guys could prefer Frank's over Texas Pete |
Topic | English is English not American. |
Duck-I-Says 09/14/17 12:07:33 PM #2 | Certain American dialects of English are apparently closer to the English of the 1700s than any dialect of British English, though, so you're moving away from purity quicker than we are. |
Topic | Suppose Rorschach and The Question were on a team together |
Duck-I-Says 09/13/17 8:53:25 PM #4 | Rorschach was based on The Question, right? |
Topic | canada needs our american sperm |
Duck-I-Says 09/13/17 7:53:43 PM #2 | Would children of American sperm donors be American citizens by default? |
Topic | Adblock Plus seems useless nowadays. |
Duck-I-Says 09/13/17 2:56:37 PM #13 | Lokarin posted...
You really don't understand the Internet if you don't think Javascript is a valuable component of it. |
Topic | Adblock Plus seems useless nowadays. |
Duck-I-Says 09/13/17 1:53:06 PM #9 | Lokarin posted... find NoScript works better than actual adblock Noscript also totally breaks 80% of the Internet |
Topic | If I worked on the set of Arrow, I would never get anything done. |
Duck-I-Says 08/02/17 1:51:55 PM #28 | Tezlok posted... You guys should keep watching. Season 5 is really good It really wasn't. It was incredibly mediocre and overacted. Also his new team is cringey as hell especially the "hoss" guy. It's just that it came after one of the worst seasons of TV to be on any show ever. Anything would look great by comparison. |
Topic | If I worked on the set of Arrow, I would never get anything done. |
Duck-I-Says 07/30/17 3:37:11 AM #15 | You should watch the Flash. Candice Patton (Iris) blows her out of the water. |
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