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Title: Off Topic
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Users activity: 55 posts per thread
Forum activity: 51 active thread during last week
 

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Threads: 51 159 547
Post: 346 1,031 2,998
 

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trackstar
56
user's latest post:
2009 Awards
Published (2009-12-01 23:18:00)
The Pynchon Prize for Obscure Literary References - Hamilton enhanced Hamilton's Prize
jawabean
35
user's latest post:
2009 Awards
Published (2009-12-01 17:14:00)
Quote Originally posted by: trackstar The Skeptic's Prize for Unflinching Use of the Socratic Method - jawabean this one's better. Hidra's heads are string-theory, supersymmetry, astrophysics, etc.
Traden4Alpha
30
user's latest post:
2009 Awards
Published (2009-12-01 21:01:00)
Quote Originally posted by: trackstar Yes, you're probably right. Anyway, here is Paul's Award and that is all for now. The First Amendment Award - 2009 NICE!
ppauper
30
user's latest post:
Iran, land of lies
Published (2009-12-01 16:26:00)
Quote Originally posted by: daveangel Quote And no, I've never paid for relationships or sex. Hence your lack of both in fact, I have had ample over the years
rmax
23
user's latest post:
2009 Awards
Published (2009-12-01 16:29:00)
N was great. But I thought that this was a 2009 Awards, and hence prior years could not be counted otherwise Cuchulainn makes some great posts (out of the ones I understand that is), and Daveangle and Martinghol did some great stuff last year when the world was going to shit. But this was a 2009 awards and hence did not feel I should nominate.
zerdna
22
user's latest post:
Swiss Voters Accept Ban on Minarets
Published (2009-12-01 21:44:00)
Quote Originally posted by: Fermion I couldn't give two hoots for minarets or bells. But I would love to ban the abuse of children by religious indoctrination. On the other hand, I notice how those who demand tolerance for their own preferred brand of superstitious indoctrination are super-quick at finding all sorts of ways to taunt and provoke and exploit fear of those of a different persuasion. I am the one, i guess, who is having a...
farmer
20
user's latest post:
Swiss Voters Accept Ban on Minarets
Published (2009-12-01 10:42:00)
Quote Minarets have been described as the "gate from heaven and earth." Sounds like fraud, which was probably already illegal.
Cuchulainn
18
user's latest post:
2009 Awards
Published (2009-12-01 17:42:00)
W.B. Yeats Poetry Prize - Papercut
daveangel
15
user's latest post:
2009 Awards
Published (2009-12-01 19:58:00)
Quote Originally posted by: rmax N was great. But I thought that this was a 2009 Awards, and hence prior years could not be counted otherwise Cuchulainn makes some great posts (out of the ones I understand that is), and Daveangle and Martinghol did some great stuff last year when the world was going to shit. But this was a 2009 awards and hence did not feel I should nominate. will try to do better in 2010 - just give us a crisis. a real...
Marsden
13
user's latest post:
Swiss Voters Accept Ban on Minarets
Published (2009-12-01 22:51:00)
Quote Originally posted by: CrashedMint The Shoa is a way to horrible and one-of-a-kind event as that you could use it in this discussion to score easy points. How quaint that you think the Holocaust was a one-of-a-kind event.
 

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Started 4 days, 9 hours ago (2009-11-30 17:48:00)  by rmax
Best thread? The careers one - you know about the guy getting frustrated after going out with girls Best post? trackstar's take on The Raven Best poster? Trade4Alpha Best avatar? Farmer's - whether it is Tupac, Sir Barxalot (whom I miss), or the evil queen her self Edited: Mon Nov 30, 09 at 05:48 PM by rmax...
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Started 5 days, 10 hours ago (2009-11-29 17:12:00)  by jawabean
not a big surprise, they allowed women to vote in 1971. they treat all foreigners the same - like damaged goods. one of the most xenophobic places on earth Edited: Sun Nov 29, 09 at 05:14 PM by jawabean
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Started 1 year, 1 month ago (2008-10-14 15:08:00)  by ppauper
Hanged for being a Christian in Iran
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Started 1 week ago (2009-11-27 17:22:00)  by farmer
I thought you said you could handle your acid.
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Started 4 days, 13 hours ago (2009-11-30 14:33:00)  by rmax
Posted this on another thread back on Nov 17th. Had a bit of a chance to read it. Neo Fuel One of the interesting asides he mentions is the idea that epoch changing ideas happen at a constant basis ~50 - 100bn man/years. Hence as the population increases the epoch changing events happen more often. I like this thought, however very difficult to prove as it is ...
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Started 4 days, 12 hours ago (2009-11-30 14:47:00)  by ppauper
I was wondering the other day how complicit mrs dash was in this scandal: was she merely an innocent stooge who was duped into coming on here and wailing like a banshee, or was she (like the rest of us) aware from the get-go that this was a scam, but a scam that suited her duplicitous agenda
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Started 5 days, 10 hours ago (2009-11-29 17:30:00)  by jawabean
her last name in English means a teacher. my guess is that there was no affair, but there was a wife beating. meaning that wife beat the hell out of Tiger with his woods.
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Started 3 months, 1 week ago (2009-08-25 14:12:00)  by trackstar
We should have wagered on this ! Obama Reappoints Bernanke as Fed Chief - WSJ August 25
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Started 4 days, 16 hours ago (2009-11-30 11:32:00)  by rmax
Quote Originally posted by: skeptible Oh, how the mighty have fallen. You read Alex as well?
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Started 6 days, 13 hours ago (2009-11-28 14:33:00)  by trackstar
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Started 5 days, 10 hours ago (2009-11-29 17:12:00)  by jawabean
not a big surprise, they allowed women to vote in 1971. they treat all foreigners the same - like damaged goods. one of the most xenophobic places on earth Edited: Sun Nov 29, 09 at 05:14 PM by jawabean
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Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-26 15:51:00)  by jawabean
why do they rape children? i understand why they almost killed Galileo. he was exposing their b/s. however, raping children makes no sense, imho. it's a strange religion anyways
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RE: 2009 Awards - 35 new posts
Started 4 days, 9 hours ago (2009-11-30 17:48:00)  by rmax
Best thread? The careers one - you know about the guy getting frustrated after going out with girls Best post? trackstar's take on The Raven Best poster? Trade4Alpha Best avatar? Farmer's - whether it is Tupac, Sir Barxalot (whom I miss), or the evil queen her self Edited: Mon Nov 30, 09 at 05:48 PM by rmax...
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Started 1 week ago (2009-11-27 17:22:00)  by farmer
I thought you said you could handle your acid.
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Started 5 days, 10 hours ago (2009-11-29 17:30:00)  by jawabean
her last name in English means a teacher. my guess is that there was no affair, but there was a wife beating. meaning that wife beat the hell out of Tiger with his woods.
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RE: Iran, land of lies - 14 new posts
Started 1 year, 1 month ago (2008-10-14 15:08:00)  by ppauper
Hanged for being a Christian in Iran
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Started 6 days, 13 hours ago (2009-11-28 14:33:00)  by trackstar
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Started 1 week, 3 days ago (2009-11-24 04:56:00)  by trackstar
A few data points: - Research that has been done on traders and testosterone (cited somewhere on Wilmott) - have any similar studies been done with estrogen or other hormones? - Something they may have used in Vietnam that made soldiers hyper-aggressive. (And not drugs that the soldiers bought for themselves) Was it in the movie Platoon? Several questions and too busy ...
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RE: Happy Eid - 5 new posts
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-27 22:43:00)  by daveangel
happy eid
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RE: Trailblazing - 3 new posts
Started 4 days, 13 hours ago (2009-11-30 14:33:00)  by rmax
Posted this on another thread back on Nov 17th. Had a bit of a chance to read it. Neo Fuel One of the interesting asides he mentions is the idea that epoch changing ideas happen at a constant basis ~50 - 100bn man/years. Hence as the population increases the epoch changing events happen more often. I like this thought, however very difficult to prove as it is ...
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