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  1. 49 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Pool team - Remember that you can't move tickets in or out of the pool during the week. BUT if you initiate a withdrawal on any day except for Monday, Yotta will drop your best ticket, whether its in the pool or not. Say the pool has a 4 match ticket on Thursday night with your ticket, and you withdrawal $25, Yotta will drop the 4 match ticket away from you and the pool.

    In short, if we have a strong pool ticket, don't withdrawal any money until the next Monday morning. 

    Finally, I'm looking forward to the problem on how we split the Tesla.

    @40acredropout @CDAK @Knoxtnhorn @Johnny Chimpo @CBT

    Not that it matters much, but is there a way to choose which of my tix I contribute to the pool? For example, if I have 300 tix and contribute 150 to the pool, I can't figure out how to choose which 150 I want to contribute.

  2. 1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

     I'm a free market guy but at some point, the free market does more harm than good, although the definitions of harm and good vary from person to person. 

     

    The "free market" is not the driver of housing costs in Austin. Local codes and regulations restrict the market. For example, the codes and regs prevent building a duplex or a building over X height in certain neighborhoods.

    [I don't think you're actually a "free market guy."]

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  3. I can't respond to all the comments. I can reiterate my position one more time. You're justifying the deadly force with all the comments about secret service, secured area, etc. That's a separate argument from whether they used more or less force compared to other protests. Killing someone is a higher level of force than hitting 100 with a baton in my opinion. Fee free to disagree as Hobbes did.

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  4. 3 minutes ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

    Well to start, it didn't look like the Capitol Police could protect the building they were assigned to. The time of the shooting, the Capitol had been overrun and the area that these police/ss were assigned was being breeched. I'll assume they had a reason to resort to deadly force (ie. protecting a Congressman/Senator). The lady was shot after breaking through a window, repeatedly told to stop or they would fire, I'll assume she saw the weapons pointed at her, yet she proceeded. And that's where it ended. At some point, you have to meet a threat with necessary force. 

    This is justification for a higher use of force, which may have been necessary (I don't know). But it's in tension with the guy's point that the cops used less force against the Trump protestors. 

    Your first sentence is interesting. I wonder if a smaller police presence results in more shootings.

  5. I'm not trolling or posting in bad faith. I think bullets are a higher level of force than batons, tear gas, pepper spray, etc. Killing a person with a bullet is a higher level of force than pepper spraying 1,000 people - at least to me. Did the woman killed have a gun or any type of weapon? 

    The police can protect federal buildings without shooting and killing people. Protestors in Portland tried to enter a federal building day after day. Shockingly, the police didn't have to kill any of them (again, please correct me if I'm wrong about that).

    [I don't know why you moved the post as I just disagreed with a take of yours on the other thread. I quoted you and disagreed. But you're moving the thread because I want to talk politics?]

  6. 2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    I think it's a little disingenuous to equivocate boots (and knees) on necks protesting police brutality in the street to a secret service agent in a suit plugging an insurrectionist literally coming through the windows inside the capitol building, while interrupting the constitutionally mandated counting of electoral college votes.

    But now you're arguing that the higher level of force used yesterday was justified due to the circumstances. Your prior point was that cops used less force against the white, Trump supporters. 

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  7. 10 minutes ago, gmr548 said:


    lol this is a troll bit, right?

    No, I guess I'm just that dumb. There were people trying to enter a federal courthouse in Oregon day after day. None were shot and killed by police. (At least to my knowledge please correct me if I'm wrong).

    I wish we could have less forceful police presence at protests but perhaps a smaller force results in a greater likelihood of shootings.

    12 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    FWIW it wasn't a cop who shot the woman, if the video is anything to go by. She was trying to climb through a barricaded window into a secure area that had a number of elected officials. A man in a suit stepped out, and calmly shot her once the second she put a leg through the window opening. 

    Getting shot by what appears to be a secret service agent while invading a secured space in the nation's capitol is NOT equivalent to what happened with the BLM protests and riots.

    So you're drawing a distinction between different types of law enforcement? Cops v. secret service agents. That's not compelling to me.

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  8. 20 hours ago, Captainant said:

    Police behavior against white trump rioters is significantly less violent than against BLM rioters. 

    I see this sentiment popping up everywhere. The police shot and killed one of the protestors at the Capitol yesterday. A white female Trump supporter. That's pretty fucking significant force. Across all the racial justice protests in 2020, I can't recall one person being shot and killed by the police. There was that guy in Oregon who shot and killed one of the proud boys who the police later shot and killed, but that wasn't at a protest. Were there any others (legitimate question)? I'd take pepper spray over a bullet every day.

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  9. Team Facebook. The FTC approved the WhatsApp and IG purchases when they occurred. Now, the FTC is saying the mergers violate competition law? 

    Many people and government actors dislike FB. Look at all the comments here about polarization, users are the product, platforms should be responsible for the content users upload, etc. These reasons for dislike have nothing to do with competition law. The FTC and state AGs shouldn't be twisting competition law to target FB because they dislike FB.

  10. Interesting article about the potential destruction of ancient Armenian cultural buildings, monuments, etc. in the disputed area.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/cultural-heritage-in-the-crosshairs-once-more-11605731198?cx_testId=3&cx_testVariant=cx_4&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s

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    Cultural Heritage in the Crosshairs Once More

    The resolution to the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan leaves irreplaceable treasures in harm’s way.

     
     
    By Christina Maranci
    Nov. 18, 2020 3:26 pm ET
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    A local resident kneels as he prays at the Holy Savior Ghazanchetsots Cathedral

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    Active combat in the 2020 Azerbaijani war against Nagorno-Karabakh (known as Artsakh to Armenians) may have recently ended, but Azeri aggression against the rich and irreplaceable cultural heritage of its indigenous Armenian people has only just begun.

    For 20 years, I have studied the medieval Armenian architecture of Eastern Turkey (historically part of Armenia), including Ani, which was once an Armenian royal capital. Both Azerbaijan and Turkey have continuous, well-documented policies of destroying the Armenian cultural heritage found in their territories. Between 1997 and 2006, as a decade-long investigation revealed last year, Azerbaijan deliberately wiped Nakhichevan clean of its Armenian culture, destroying more than 89 medieval churches, 5,840 khachkars (carved cross-stones), and 22,000 historical tombstones. The video of Azerbaijan’s December 2005 destruction of Djulfa, which once was the world’s largest medieval Armenian cemetery and at its height housed 10,000 cross-stones, haunts Armenians to this day.

    Now a critical moment in Armenian history confronts us. Ancient national treasures in Artsakh are at risk of complete erasure. Like its Turkish ally, Azerbaijan has eliminated hallmarks of native Armenian culture, destroying any monuments that might undermine the false narrative of ancient and exclusively Azerbaijani presence in the region.

    While Russia may just have brought the war to a sudden end, the intentions of Azerbaijan and Turkey have been clear since they began it on Sept. 27. Continuous shelling with cluster bombs and other artillery laid waste to homes, hospitals and schools. The aggression also targeted heritage sites, with the goal of demoralizing the Armenian people during battles in the short term and erasing their physical and cultural existence in the long.


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    As a clear example, just one month ago, Azerbaijani forces launched two intentional assaults on the Holy Savior Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, causing significant damage. Located in Shushi, the cultural capital of Artsakh, the cathedral is a masterpiece of 19th-century Armenian architecture and a landmark of Armenian cultural and religious identity. Under the Russian deal, Shushi, along with many other regions of Artsakh, will fall under the control of Azerbaijan.

     
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    Because of this, thousands of monuments in Artsakh, most of which are much older than Holy Savior, will be vulnerable to the cultural erasure for which Azerbaijan is known. Some of the monuments date to as early as the fourth century, when Armenia became the first nation to establish Christianity as a state religion. These extraordinary architectural monuments feature ancient inscriptions, wall paintings, and sculpture. They are not only artistic and historic treasures, but also material proof of the long history of Armenians throughout the region. The bombings had also targeted pre-Christian archaeological sites and their precious artifacts.

    What will happen to Amaras, which preserves a fifth-century mausoleum to an Armenian saint, the grandson of St. Gregory, the evangelizer of Armenia? What about the medieval khachkars of Artsakh, testimony to Armenia’s ancient Christian religion? With their carved inscriptions, they are veritable history books of Armenian settlement in the region. Or the church of Tzitzernavank, a rare intact Christian basilica from the fifth or sixth century? Or the many churches in the region of Hadrut, such as 13th-century Gtichavank? Will these be destroyed outright or, after scraping off the Armenian inscriptions, proclaimed “ancient Caucasian Albanian” monuments, as many Azerbaijani websites contend?

    What will become of Dadivank, a large, picturesque monastery of the ninth to 13th centuries? Its conical roofs rise above surrounding woods, punctuating an extensive complex including a kitchen, refectory, winepress, library, a belltower housing exquisitely carved khachkars, and over 100 Armenian inscriptions. The cathedral, with its delicate exterior arcades, features sculpted portraits of princely donors, while the interior frescoes, recently renovated, show deep knowledge of Byzantine painting styles. Will the Russian peacekeepers currently occupying the site ensure Dadivank’s long-term protection?

    Sites across Artsakh are now vulnerable to intentional destruction; once gone, they are gone forever. The loss of any single culture constitutes a harmful impoverishment of the heritage of all the nations of the world. It is imperative that Unesco, the International Council on Monuments and Sites, the Blue Shield, World Monuments Fund and other international organizations committed to the conservation and protection of cultural heritage sites immediately help safeguard and monitor these monuments while documenting them for posterity. Such a mission may require a United Nations Security Council resolution, as Azerbaijan is unlikely to agree voluntarily.

    Every day that the international community stays silent and passive increases the likelihood that the world will lose these treasures—irreplaceable links to our common human past.

    —Ms. Maranci is a professor of Armenian art and architecture at Tufts University and consulted on the recent “Armenia!” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

     

  11. I think the market's reacting to the GOP holding serve in Congress, particularly if the GOP is able to maintain an edge in the Senate. The prospects of significantly increased taxes and regulations are down when compared to pre-election prognostications. Bulls like divided government. So, the market is up considerably over the past couple of days.

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  12. The classic Ayling flop. We dominated for stretches of the game but couldn't put anything away. Bamford should have had a goal or two. Leicester simply better when it counted.

  13. 15 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

      The same way people make annual reminders that Chris Columbus killed a whole lotta men and gave their women Old World Herpes.  

    I don't know about herpes but syphilis went from new world to old. I think it's the one disease that's been identified that the Europeans brought back from the new world, and then promptly spread everywhere else.

  14. I thought it was 8-4, maybe 7-5. The judge who had Lopez at 119 is insane and should be removed from further fights.

    Loma has nobody but himself and his camp to blame. Round 1 is worth just as much on the cards as round 11.

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  15. 8 hours ago, Wanker Bob said:

    ronald mcdonald lol GIF by McDonald's CZ/SK

     

    5 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

    Loma is the most technical fighter on the planet. He could certainly get knocked out but I really would doubt it. He’s only been knocked down once in his career. I would imagine Loma will wear Teo out over 7-8 rounds. Teo will know he can not afford to go the distance and will look for the knockout.

    Care to reassess? 

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