09-12-2016, 07:10 AM
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#1201
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: The George
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On a work trip overseas... I was supposed to be in Harare but cancelled because of the riots. Switched locations to India in Bangalore. Day 2 and they've deployed 15,000 cops for riots within 20 KM of my hotel.
https://www.google.ca/amp/m.ndtv.com...?client=safari
Can't catch a break!
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09-12-2016, 08:00 PM
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#1202
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Hold on to your butts dudes, we got us a gamergater.
*writes overlong screed about my vidyagames* *FEEEEEMALES*
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You embarrass yourself.
Thats a commonly mocked quote all over the internet. Yeah, gamergate is/was dumb... both sides of the debate. That doesnt change her infamously brain dead quote.
Or do you actually support that idea?
Last edited by RyZ; 09-12-2016 at 08:13 PM.
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09-12-2016, 08:18 PM
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#1203
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Infamous because it's a quote mine? Lol...
The Weapons of Math Destruction book is actually on my reading list, the idea that big data can have a lot of unintended negative consequences is hardly new or controversial.
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09-12-2016, 08:29 PM
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#1204
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Clinching Party
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I don't think I'm getting the same vibe you are from these articles. Glad you posted them though.
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You must have actually read the articles, I guess. I did too and also got a different vibe.
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09-15-2016, 06:49 PM
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#1206
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
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Well they did adhere to his only specific spending request on the liabrary. I'm going to assume that he was an intelligent man and as a 50 year employee would have a good grip of how the university is run so I believe he would be fine with him allocating the funds as they see fit. If he didn't want it spent on the new stadium he could have requested it. I'm chalking this up as modern internet people loving to be outraged over nothing.
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09-16-2016, 10:01 AM
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#1207
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Franchise Player
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We are so screwed as a society.
http://youtu.be/konY_isZOLo
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09-16-2016, 10:22 AM
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#1208
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Well they did adhere to his only specific spending request on the liabrary. I'm going to assume that he was an intelligent man and as a 50 year employee would have a good grip of how the university is run so I believe he would be fine with him allocating the funds as they see fit. If he didn't want it spent on the new stadium he could have requested it. I'm chalking this up as modern internet people loving to be outraged over nothing.
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Gift agreements between universities and donors are pretty airtight, and come with very clear stipulations as to where and how the money can be spent.
However, in this case, he made some very general requests, and it really looks like the university took a lot of liberties.
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09-16-2016, 10:25 AM
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#1209
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Franchise Player
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I don't see what his actual request was. Was it along the lines of "use this donation on the library" or "use some part of it on the library and I don't care what you do with the rest"?
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09-16-2016, 10:30 AM
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#1210
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I don't see what his actual request was. Was it along the lines of "use this donation on the library" or "use some part of it on the library and I don't care what you do with the rest"?
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They probably won't release the gift agreement, but it sounds like he stipulated that $100,000 go towards his library branch, and then, the rest of the intent was probably cloaked in vague language like "up to the discretion ... for the better of the students... etc..."
I have no doubt it was completely legal, but a dumb PR move.
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09-16-2016, 10:30 AM
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#1211
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aka Spike
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The Darkest Corners of My Mind
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I don't see what his actual request was. Was it along the lines of "use this donation on the library" or "use some part of it on the library and I don't care what you do with the rest"?
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The only thing his request said to do was spend $100 000 on the library. People are just upset that a donation from a guy known for being an intellectual is partially being used on sports related things.
I'm sure the guy was smart enough to know this before he gave them money, hence the library stipulation.
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09-16-2016, 10:32 AM
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#1212
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Franchise Player
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Well then I don't really see the problem. If he'd wanted them to use the whole thing on the library, he would've said so. If he wanted them to spend $X on some department facility or lab he would've said so. Much ado about nothing.
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09-16-2016, 10:42 AM
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#1213
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Well then I don't really see the problem. If he'd wanted them to use the whole thing on the library, he would've said so. If he wanted them to spend $X on some department facility or lab he would've said so. Much ado about nothing.
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As I said, dumb PR by the university.
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09-16-2016, 11:32 AM
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Norm!
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http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...nine-overdoses
No sir, your son isn't a good boy, or a kid with a concience, he's a scumbag drug dealer profiting off of the misery of addicts.
This whole Fentanyl thing is getting out of control.
Personally, I think if you sell stuff laced with this crap knowingly or unknowingly and your cutomer OD's it should be attempted murder to second degree murder charges.
I have all the sympathy in the world for addicts, we should be doing whatever it takes to improve access to treatment. But people that profit on an addicts issues and are selling this poison. I don't care if we shoot them and feed them to the buzzards.
Nice job of raising a little sociopath Dad, well done here's your world's greatest dad mug.
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09-16-2016, 06:12 PM
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wittyusertitle
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I would love to know what the hell the judge was thinking in this case. The Brock Turner thing was bad enough--but molesting a toddler and getting out with a slap on the wrist? There isn't a punishment harsh enough for this kind of a monster.
Judges need to start being held accountable when they let rapists off with these kind of cakewalk sentences.
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Federal agents said Grooms had posted pictures to an underground child pornography website of himself having sex with a baby girl, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. There was also allegedly video of the crime.
Grooms will have to register as a sex offender for life. He was released from custody after he pleaded guilty to the crime, and served time in juvenile detention and county jail between his arrest in March 2014 and his admission in July.
He originally faced up to 25 years in prison for felony sex abuse charges.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nati...101836107.html
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09-17-2016, 09:48 AM
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#1216
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by wittynickname
I would love to know what the hell the judge was thinking in this case. The Brock Turner thing was bad enough--but molesting a toddler and getting out with a slap on the wrist? There isn't a punishment harsh enough for this kind of a monster.
Judges need to start being held accountable when they let rapists off with these kind of cakewalk sentences.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nati...101836107.html
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I dont understand, arent people who do something like this highly, highly likely to re-offend?
There are statistics and psychological profiles of people who do this kind of thing and their recidivism rate is astronomical.
I dont understand how anyone in a position of authority could just content themselves with "put him on a list and call it a day."
And it works both ways too, I dont know anything about this guy but it may just be some irresistible, uncontrollable compunction for him, its best for society at large and him if hes removed from the general population.
And I see people calling for the Judge's head. I can get behind that. This seems just insanely lenient. Its careless. Its not justice for anyone.
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09-17-2016, 12:03 PM
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#1217
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Locke
There are statistics and psychological profiles of people who do this kind of thing and their recidivism rate is astronomical.
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Actually, the recidivism rate for molesting children is lower than the overall criminal recidivism rate.
Once a Sex Offender, Always a Sex Offender? Maybe not.
The popular perception of incurable sex criminals may be quite off the mark
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...The evidence suggests otherwise. Sex crimes researchers R. Karl Hanson and Kelly E. Morton-Bourgon of Public Safety Canada conducted a large-scale meta-analysis (quantitative review) of recidivism rates among adult sex offenders. They found a rate of 14 percent over a period averaging five to six years. Recidivism rates increased over time, reaching 24 percent by 15 years. The figures are clearly out of alignment with the public’s more dire expectations.
Also contrary to media depictions, most offenders do not “specialize” in one type of sex crime. Most are “generalists” who engage in a variety of sex and nonsexual crimes as well. Hanson and Morton-Bourgon found that sex offenders had a total recidivism rate (for both sex crimes and nonsexual violent crimes) of approximately 36 percent over a period of five to six years. Nevertheless, perpetrators of different types of sex crimes exhibit varying rates of repeat offending. The 15-year recidivism rate is 13 percent for incest perpetrators, 24 percent for rapists, and 35 percent for child molesters of boy victims...
- Scientific American
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The overall crime recidivism rate in Canada is roughly 35 per cent for men and 20 per cent for women.
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09-17-2016, 12:07 PM
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#1218
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Actually, the recidivism rate for molesting children is lower than the overall criminal recidivism rate.
Once a Sex Offender, Always a Sex Offender? Maybe not.
The popular perception of incurable sex criminals may be quite off the mark
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...The evidence suggests otherwise. Sex crimes researchers R. Karl Hanson and Kelly E. Morton-Bourgon of Public Safety Canada conducted a large-scale meta-analysis (quantitative review) of recidivism rates among adult sex offenders. They found a rate of 14 percent over a period averaging five to six years. Recidivism rates increased over time, reaching 24 percent by 15 years. The figures are clearly out of alignment with the public’s more dire expectations.
Also contrary to media depictions, most offenders do not “specialize” in one type of sex crime. Most are “generalists” who engage in a variety of sex and nonsexual crimes as well. Hanson and Morton-Bourgon found that sex offenders had a total recidivism rate (for both sex crimes and nonsexual violent crimes) of approximately 36 percent over a period of five to six years. Nevertheless, perpetrators of different types of sex crimes exhibit varying rates of repeat offending. The 15-year recidivism rate is 13 percent for incest perpetrators, 24 percent for rapists, and 35 percent for child molesters of boy victims...
- Scientific American
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The overall crime recidivism rate in Canada is roughly 35 per cent for men and 20 per cent for women.
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Okay, but overall recidivism rate is a watered down stat, it includes knocking over a 7-11 for a box of quarters and probably jaywalking.
Saying that recidivism for rapists is at 24% makes a quarter of them repeat offenders and over a third of child molesters are repeat offenders.
I think those stats are alarmingly high, to the point that basically just letting this guy walk seems irresponsible.
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09-17-2016, 06:38 PM
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Police are calling it the "lowest of the low:" A man gave a fake $50 bill to a southeastern Michigan girl who was running a lemonade stand to raise money for Alzheimer's disease research.
The Monroe News says the man on a bike didn't buy anything last Sunday in Monroe, Mich. He presented a note that said he was deaf and wanted to break the $50 bill into smaller bills.
Maya Leachman says she was a "little mad" over the incident. She and her mother didn't look closely at the phoney bill until they counted donations later that day.
Police Cpl. Terese Herrick says, "Hopefully, we'll be able to get him."
Maya, a fourth-grader, raised slightly more than $1,100 US after accounting for the $50 loss.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/lemonad...raud-1.3767541
Wow. People are the worst.
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09-19-2016, 11:25 AM
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#1220
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Franchise Player
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Ok, I change my mind. I want the death penalty in certain cases.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/...651/story.html
Is there a more deplorable crime than killing a toddler?
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