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Re: 'Lonewolf' Review - Simple Sniper Supremacy

Brainster — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:50:20 -0000

Minor detail, but you've got the X- and Y-axis backwards. The X-axis is horizontal and the Y-axis is vertical.

Re: The Chen Formula | Starting Hand Selection Formula

Brainster — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 16:49:45 -0000

As others have said, it puts an excessive value on suited cards, which might be valid in limit games, but not so much in tournaments. For example, AQs is worth 11 points, while AKo is only worth 10. Of course, heads-up AKo is a strong (70%) favorite to win the hand. Sklansky's method, although likewise flawed for tournament play, does not make that particular mistake,

Re: Brent Budowsky: Hillary’s 4 aces in the hole

Brainster — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:15:50 -0000

The only poker game where you can have four aces in the hole is Omaha, and in that game four aces in the hole is a terrible hand

Re: Brent Budowsky: How Hillary can win big

Brainster — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:03:40 -0000

Humor and charm from Hillary? You are a dreamer!

Re: Kerry Blasts Netanyahu: He’s ‘Wrong’ On Iran Deal Like He Was On Iraq War

Brainster — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 01:17:45 -0000

Usual revisionist history. In fact, 21 Democratic senators voted nay, compared to 29 Democrats in favor.

Re: Kerry Blasts Netanyahu: He’s ‘Wrong’ On Iran Deal Like He Was On Iraq War

Brainster — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:27:52 -0000

Doesn't he actually mean that Netayahu is as wrong on Iran as Kerry was on Iraq? Kerry always seems to forget that he voted in favor of the Iraq invasion.

Re: Rethinking Conspiracy

Brainster — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 21:01:55 -0000

The usual quote-mining of Farmer; here's another quote from him you won't see 9-11 Truthers mentioning:

"Well, let me just say that I think the [9-11 Commission] report is, uh,
extremely accurate, and- and sets forth the facts of 9/11. And we
actually did point out in the report the discrepancies between the
accounts that were given and what we actually found."

See interview with Farmer in 2009 here:
http://www.bradblog.com/?pa...

As for Kean and Hamilton's "set up to fail" comment, Conspiracy Theorists always seem to forget the next line in their book:

"What we could not have anticipated were the remarkable people and
circumstances that would coalesce within and around the 9/11 Commission
over the coming twenty months to enable our success."

Re: Putting a 9/11 Mystery on the Ballot

Brainster — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 00:25:01 -0000

Here's my problem. You originally state that the fact that the core columns didn't remain standing was the evidence that supports the argument that it was controlled demolition. Faced with the fact that the core columns did remain standing you do not change your conclusion. This is the difference between a conspiracy theorist and a detective. A detective starts with the evidence and works with it to reach hypotheses which he can test in order to find conclusions. If a piece of evidence turns out to be incorrect, the detective will have to reach new hypotheses, which may lead to different conclusions. A conspiracy theorist, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and sifts backwards through the evidence looking for something to support that conclusion. Thus, even if the evidence (core columns did not remain standing) turns out to be incorrect, the conclusion does not change. Or, as Jonathan Swift once observed, you cannot reason a man out of an opinion that he was not reasoned into in the first place.

Re: Putting a 9/11 Mystery on the Ballot

Brainster — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:41:22 -0000

Well, Matt, I just read your five minute explanation, and have to comment on this point:

"It is the fact that the steel infrastructure so
thoroughly and rapidly gave way, allowing the buildings to collapse into their own footprints, leaving no core columns standing that is my five-minute explanation for why 9/11 was obviously an inside job."

But in fact the core columns did remain standing briefly after the outer superstructure had collapsed--as many as 40-50 stories high. This is known as "the spire," and can be vividly seen in the movie 9-11 Eyewitness, for example. They didn't remain standing for long; they toppled over with nothing to support them laterally.

Re: Putting a 9/11 Mystery on the Ballot

Brainster — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:14:50 -0000

The Truthers don't really care about WTC-7, nor should they or any thinking person. In the context of what happened on 9-11 it's trivia. Fact: Nobody died in the collapse of WTC-7, because the firefighters had cleared a collapse zone around the building hours before when they realized that it was quite likely to collapse.

No, the Truthers only pretend to care about WTC-7 because they see it as the thin end of the wedge. If they can somehow prove that the building did not collapse from structural damage and fire but from controlled demolition, then they hope to move on to getting people to believe in controlled demolition for WTC 1&2 as well.

Re: Scientists Are Beginning To Figure Out Why Conservatives Are…Conservative

Brainster — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:38:13 -0000

I don't buy the genetic explanation, for the simple reason that plenty of people change their politics--they go from liberal to conservative or vice-versa. Obviously their genes did not change.

Re: Reinstall: Ultima Underworld - The Stygian Abyss

Brainster — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:26:47 -0000

This was the first game I bought for my then-spanking new 386. Unbelievably addicting. I remember rocking from side to side in my chair to dodge the rocks the goblins were slinging at me. Great puzzles, great challenges. You did level up and gain XP however your basic stats were fixed. The leveling up allowed you to get training points which you used to gain new abilities or improve existing ones by praying at the shrines.

Re: Truthers produce deceptive look-alike brochure for 9/11 Memorial Museum opening

Brainster — Mon, 19 May 2014 19:40:37 -0000

Actually the people who bought puts on United also bought shares of
American. Do try to keep up.

Re: U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists

Brainster — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:14:10 -0000

Frazier Glenn Miller ran for governor of North Carolina in 1984, but was defeated in the DEMOCRATIC Primary.

Re: School stabbing victim's selfie was perfectly fine

Brainster — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:06:09 -0000

Ah, I get it now.

Re: School stabbing victim's selfie was perfectly fine

Brainster — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:04:54 -0000

Isn't it sort of obvious that's not a "selfie"? Somebody else took that picture.

Re: Can Facebook Predict Who Wins the Senate in 2014?

Brainster — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:49:39 -0000

And according to his Huff Po bio, Erikson's "a Partner at MacWilliams Sanders Erikson a communications firm that works with progressive causes and candidates."

So they found a metric that seems to favor Democrats and they're going to flog it right up till election night when they will end up with egg on their faces.

Re: After a weekend of uproar, an apology for Dr. V

Brainster — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:23:31 -0000

Yeah, I suspect the real #10 is don't out anybody unless they're Republicans.

Re: Noam Chomsky slaps down 9/11 truther: People spend an hour on the Internet and think they know physics

Brainster — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:20:55 -0000

Actually this is untrue. Looking at the signature list, I see a great deal of electrical engineers, software engineers, chemical engineers, HVAC engineers, etc. and almost no structural engineers. Of the 74 engineers whose first name begins with A, 3 claim to be structural engineers.

Re: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/new-500-greatest-albums-20120501/486-earth-wind-and-fire-thats-the-way-of-the-world-19691231

Brainster — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 10:49:42 -0000

There are only four post-1980 albums in the top 30, and two of them are compilations of songs by guys who died before 1980--Presley and Robert Johnson. It's an incredibly navel-gazing list for the boomers, and ironically, I'm a boomer myself and love that era of music. But the idea that's the be-all and end-all of music is ridiculous.

Re: Why Hollywood's Anti-War Activists are AWOL on Syria

Brainster — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:52:42 -0000

Typical Hollywood idiot sounds like an idiot when he doesn't have his lines scripted for him. You don't "flaunt" the law, Farrell, you "flout" it.

Re: The Greatest Hero

Brainster — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 04:47:21 -0000

Ah, one of the things I forgot to mention in my review of WKTGCoH is the tribute to Bashful Benjy by Brick. So well done, Andrez!

Pat from Silver Age Comics

Re: Let's have the conversation about race

Brainster — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:22:40 -0000

The media don't really want to have a conversation on race. They want to give us a monologue on race.

Re: In wake of Zimmerman verdict, libs say it’s open season on black boys

Brainster — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:35:23 -0000

Open season, eh? What's the limit?

Kidding, but you can see the problem. What if some idiot (not necessarily racist) sees that column and says, hey, I can get rid of that black dude who stole my girlfriend?

Re: You know who was “Ready for Hillary”? Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

Brainster — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 02:20:23 -0000

Kind of reminds me of that "last Earthling" on the first episode of the 2005 Dr Who series, who had her face stretched out like a trampoline. That said, the perfect photoshop for this one is "Ready... Or Not!"