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TopicWho 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.
TopicDoes 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.
TopicDamn 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.
TopicPopular 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.
TopicGirls 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.
Topicdo 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.
TopicMost badass person of the 20th Century?
Duck-I-Says
10/01/17 5:47:03 AM
#11
Jack Churchill or Audie Murphy
TopicGeorge 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.
TopicWho 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
TopicWho 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:
TopicWhite 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.
TopicElaine 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
TopicElaine 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.
TopicThoughts 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.
TopicJim 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.
TopicSo 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.
TopicJim Carrey has officially gone nuts
Duck-I-Says
09/28/17 2:30:55 PM
#9
We believe in nothing, Lebowski!
TopicHuffPost: 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.
TopicHuffPost: 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.
TopicThis 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.
TopicAnyone 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
TopicI 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
TopicIs you exiting abut new Star Track show?
Duck-I-Says
09/24/17 7:33:40 PM
#21
Lokarin posted...
it also features the FIRST Person of Colour leading role


fCsUDVd
TopicI just discovered Patrice O'Neal
Duck-I-Says
09/24/17 7:14:53 PM
#6
Zeus posted...

Had wondered what he'd died of. Given his neglect, it's sad that he died from what would have been entirely preventable.


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.
TopicI 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.
TopicCondoms 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.
TopicCondoms 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.

So the probability of getting pregnant after the 98th time would be f(98) = (0.03)(0.97)^(97) = 0.16%, which is pretty damn low.


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."
TopicEndless shrimp is back at Red Lobster
Duck-I-Says
09/23/17 4:07:14 AM
#35
TopicTrump 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.
TopicRate 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.
TopicI 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.
TopicI 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
TopicDo 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.
TopicHow 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.
TopicHow 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

Source study: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0192513X13490404


Hey watch it! You're apparently not allowed to make generalizations based on statistics anymore!
TopicHow important are looks to women?
Duck-I-Says
09/15/17 5:03:56 PM
#17
Jen0125 posted...

Women, in general, aren't a hivemind. Neither are men. Every individual has their own preference as a person what they're attracted to.


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.
TopicHulu 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
TopicKefka 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?
TopicFloyd 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.
TopicWhere 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
TopicEnglish 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.
TopicSuppose 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?
Topiccanada 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?
TopicAdblock Plus seems useless nowadays.
Duck-I-Says
09/13/17 2:56:37 PM
#13
Lokarin posted...

Then 80% of the internet isn't worth using.


You really don't understand the Internet if you don't think Javascript is a valuable component of it.
TopicAdblock 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
TopicIf 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.
TopicIf 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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