SergeantMatt Posted June 30, 2018 Report Share Posted June 30, 2018 14 hours ago, Donward said: It is completely asinine and there is no logical reason for those values other than idiots haven't learned from the last real estate bubble. At least it's not the Bay Area, they block any new development so the median price of a single family home is like $1,000,000. You could buy 4 houses in my state's capital, Providence, for that price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted June 30, 2018 Report Share Posted June 30, 2018 5 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said: If the future is queer then I know what the Nazis felt like in 1944 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 (edited) Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a leftist who won on Sunday after two previous attempts at the presidency, wants to rewrite the rules of the drug war, aides said, suggesting negotiated peace and amnesties for some of the very people currently being targeted by security forces. edit: better source Edited July 2, 2018 by Ramlaen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 Putin hacked World Cup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted July 8, 2018 Report Share Posted July 8, 2018 NATO's contribution to the war on drugs: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/07/no-need-for-nato/ Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägerlein Posted July 8, 2018 Report Share Posted July 8, 2018 2 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: NATO's contribution to the war on drugs: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/07/no-need-for-nato/ Whiles the only factual thing shown by this statistic is a rise in ha of farmed land. The Corn Belt and the Wheat Belt would look far more dangerous in this kind of statistics Ramlaen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted July 8, 2018 Report Share Posted July 8, 2018 2 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: "potential" Mr. Murray is at best being intellectually dishonest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 13 hours ago, Ramlaen said: Mr. Murray is at best being intellectually dishonest. Considering NATO's involvement starts in 2002, so are you.....Massively so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 26 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: Considering NATO's involvement starts in 2002, so are you.....Massively so. You presented a chart of available cropland as actual production numbers, you have no place to say anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägerlein Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 54 minutes ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: Considering NATO's involvement starts in 2002, so are you.....Massively so. Someone with an opposite opinion could read this statistic like: "Oh the Nato intervention massively improved the situation because the agricultural sector is booming". Yes, that's BS, too. But this statistic is just not suitable for these kinds of conclutions. Percantage of cropland used for poppies, est. production of raw opium in tons - this is what you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted July 9, 2018 Report Share Posted July 9, 2018 18 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: NATO's contribution to the war on drugs: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/07/no-need-for-nato/ Do you have a permit for that graph?? Mighty_Zuk, Donward, Sturgeon and 1 other 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted July 11, 2018 Report Share Posted July 11, 2018 On 7/9/2018 at 2:50 PM, Ramlaen said: You presented a chart of available cropland as actual production numbers, you have no place to say anything. On 7/9/2018 at 3:39 PM, Jägerlein said: Someone with an opposite opinion could read this statistic like: "Oh the Nato intervention massively improved the situation because the agricultural sector is booming". Yes, that's BS, too. But this statistic is just not suitable for these kinds of conclutions. Percantage of cropland used for poppies, est. production of raw opium in tons - this is what you need. On 7/9/2018 at 4:28 PM, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said: Do you have a permit for that graph?? Oh FFS.....Are you lot under the impression that the Afghan opium growers deliver their produce up to government checkpoints so it can be precisely measured & weighed? The reason the figures are estimates is that the so called authorities in Afghanistan don't have a fucking clue what is going on in half the country, that being due to the fact that they don't control it.....The best they can manage is to tell you roughly how much of their former arable land they don't control any more and give you a rough guess at how much opium that could yield (based upon the amount they grew when they did still control it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägerlein Posted July 11, 2018 Report Share Posted July 11, 2018 1 hour ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: The reason the figures are estimates is that the so called authorities in Afghanistan don't have a fucking clue what is going on in half the country, that being due to the fact that they don't control it... You are a bit pessimistic! Karsai and his relatives were probably well aware of what is happening and at least partially in controll of the opium industry...family buisness. His successors might not be as efficient in this area like the Karsai administration was but "no clue" and "no control" is a serious defamation for the current administrations ability to earn some baksheesh Honestly, I don't doubt the probably all time high of the Afghan opium production. But Mr. Murray is just a punch who's not able or to lazy to find proper statistics - because the one he used is completely useless in this context. At least for anyone who knows that the word "potential" means that every ha of farmable land would be used to plant poppies. Butt well...he also postulates that the Russian state is behind all the opium traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted July 11, 2018 Report Share Posted July 11, 2018 The old switcheroo eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägerlein Posted July 12, 2018 Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 Nope. My argument was about the statistics not the subject. Questioning the validity of arguments for set answers is a occupational disease in my profession. A discussion about the outcome of Astan 2.0 would be pointless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted July 12, 2018 Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 It seems the 'Emperor in Orange' doesn't like NATO much either: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/12/how-trumps-nato-summit-meltdown-unfolded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted July 13, 2018 Report Share Posted July 13, 2018 Yeah well NATO sucks ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzoc Posted July 13, 2018 Report Share Posted July 13, 2018 And now he's calling dibs on the UK and that the wouldn't mind seeing his fellow clown (British version) take May's place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 14, 2018 Report Share Posted July 14, 2018 Quote In the south of Iraq, probably the most large-scale unrest since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein are happening. Government and party offices are being thrown up, there are clashes with the police, now there are reports that the Internet has been cut off in these provinces. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted July 17, 2018 Report Share Posted July 17, 2018 Israel's march towards fascism is almost complete: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/17/israeli-parliament-votes-to-ban-state-and-army-critics-from-schools In other news, they are warming up the AA Guns and starving the dogs in Best Korea: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44855699 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 Almost time to hang out the swastikas on the Knesset: https://news.sky.com/story/israel-approves-contentious-jewish-nation-state-law-angering-arabs-11441345 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 Pretty bad dam collapse in Laos today; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/24/laos-dam-collapse-hundreds-missing Now's the part where I'm an asshole and make a political point out of this; what's the total number killed by dam failures / accidents vs nuclear accidents? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SergeantMatt Posted July 25, 2018 Report Share Posted July 25, 2018 3 hours ago, LostCosmonaut said: Pretty bad dam collapse in Laos today; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/24/laos-dam-collapse-hundreds-missing Now's the part where I'm an asshole and make a political point out of this; what's the total number killed by dam failures / accidents vs nuclear accidents? Nuclear plants are a couple hundred IIRC, where there are individual hydroelectric dam failures that have killed 20,000+, so... a lot more on the dam failure side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 Today on "He's WAY Calmer than I would have been". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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