Pepper sprayed for public safety.

This is exactly what you think it is, and it's done brilliantly.

Spree: video with sound, seems SFW to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by ironweed

This is exactly what you think it is, and it's done brilliantly.

Spree: video with sound, seems SFW to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE

ok, so you don't click on my links.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

ok, so you don't click on my links.

I've been busy ....

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by ironweed

I've been busy ....

If you were Hank, I'd know that you weren't clicking on those links because my Avatar is a black man.

But you must have some other reason -- do you hate me because I'm pretty?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

If you were Hank, I'd know that you weren't clicking on those links because my Avatar is a black man.

But you must have some other reason -- do you hate me because I'm pretty?

the implication from your avatar that a black man is posting the drivel you post is the most insulting thing to the race that has ever occurred here, including the notme years.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Dahlia Lithwick wrote this for Hank.

Did em read the repeated Circuit Court decisions that kill the beast?

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Did em read the repeated Circuit Court decisions that kill the beast?

Dahlia is taking a long to time to say that: (1) because Kennedy will uphold it; (2) so too will Roberts because he is concerned about how he will be viewed by history (same will go for gay marriage), and he will want to be on the winning side of a 6-3 majority (and probably write the opinion to control it scope).

LessinUdiapur

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Dahlia is taking a long to time to say that: (1) because Kennedy will uphold it; (2) so too will Roberts because he is concerned about how he will be viewed by history (same will go for gay marriage), and he will want to be on the winning side of a 6-3 majority (and probably write the opinion to control it scope).

LessinUdiapur

If you believe so, then put $$$ Romney winning in November. It will be a 5-8% win for him if the supremes don't kill it. The senate will be 60 R's. And it will be dead by March that way.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Did em read the repeated Circuit Court decisions that kill the beast?

Did you read that piece?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

If you believe so, then put $$$ Romney winning in November. It will be a 5-8% win for him if the supremes don't kill it. The senate will be 60 R's. And it will be dead by March that way.

Is there a single person in the country who would vote for Obama if the Court strikes HCR down but will vote for Romney if they don't?

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

If you believe so, then put $$$ Romney winning in November. It will be a 5-8% win for him if the supremes don't kill it. The senate will be 60 R's. And it will be dead by March that way.

Barring a double dip, Obama will win. It is that simple. I will take all bets.

More interesting is whether Mitt will choose an asshole as his running mate:

Marco Rubio 11/4
Chris Christie 9/2
Bob McDonnell 10/1
Rick Santorum 11/1
Paul Ryan 14/1
Bobby Jindal 25/1
Jon Huntsman 20/1
Newt Gingrich 25/1
Mitt Romney 25/1
Tim Pawlenty 25/1
Condoleezza Rice 25/1
Ron Paul 50/1
Rick Perry 50/1
Michele Bachmann 80/1

LessinUdiapur

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Did you read that piece?

I read one piece you send me a week. this week I read the one you picked for me personally.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Tail risk in the gold market:

You don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist to find this worrying: a 1kg gold bar, certified as 99.98% pure by XRF (X-ray fluorescence) tests, turns out to have been drilled out and largely replaced with tungsten. This bar was discovered only because it was 2 grams lighter than it ought to have been: the forgers failed to add quite enough gold to the outside of the bar to make up for the weight lost when they replaced gold with tungsten. But if they’d gotten the weight right, it would probably still be circulating today.

Of course, there are means of testing gold bars beyond just weight and XRF. If you can weigh the bar accurately, then you can test for purity by essentially dropping it in a bucket of water and seeing how much the water level rises: a gold-covered tungsten bar will displace more water than a pure gold bar. Alternatively, for $3,000 or so you can buy a micro ohm meter, which is easily sensitive enough to tell the difference in conductivity between a pure gold bar and one which is largely tungsten.

But as far as I know, these tests are not particularly commonplace among gold dealers, and in any case only a minuscule fraction of the gold bars in the world are physically traded… the obvious point at which tests like these would be conducted…. [E]ven if you’re just a Ron Paul or Glenn Beck type with your own personal stash — then there’s no realistic chance at all that you’re going to go bar by bar through your own holdings, testing each one. In the case of gold, then, what JK Galbraith famously called “the bezzle” — the amount of wealth that people think they have, which in fact they don’t have — could be truly enormous….

On the other hand, it’s also possible that the number of salted 400 oz bars is zero, that the 1 kg bar recently discovered was an amateurish aberration, and that there’s nothing to worry about at all. But the economic incentives here are so enormous, for people looking to make a fortune in the fake-gold-bar industry, that I very much doubt no one has tried. And statistically speaking, if a bunch of people have tried, then some subset of those people will have succeeded.

So what to make of the fact that no salted 400 oz bars have yet been found? On the one hand, it can be viewed as very worrying — as being an indication that the gold markets are very bad at uncovering such things. On the other hand, you’d think they’d be good enough at it that they would have uncovered at least a small percentage of the salted bars outstanding — and if they’ve uncovered no such bars at all, then that can be taken as an indication there aren’t any salted bars outstanding.

In any case, there’s clearly now serious tail risk for anybody in the physical-gold market. And like most tail risks, measuring and/or insuring against it is extremely difficult…

Felix Salmon

[sgtclub]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Barring a double dip, Obama will win. It is that simple. I will take all bets.

More interesting is whether Mitt will choose an asshole as his running mate:

Marco Rubio 11/4
Chris Christie 9/2
Bob McDonnell 10/1
Rick Santorum 11/1
Paul Ryan 14/1
Bobby Jindal 25/1
Jon Huntsman 20/1
Newt Gingrich 25/1
Mitt Romney 25/1
Tim Pawlenty 25/1
Condoleezza Rice 25/1
Ron Paul 50/1
Rick Perry 50/1
Michele Bachmann 80/1

LessinUdiapur

He will pick one of the following or someone not on the above list:

Rubio
Ryan
Pawlenty
Daniels
Christie

Demographically, he'd be a fool not to pick Rubio.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sgtclub

He will pick one of the following or someone not on the above list:

Rubio
Ryan
Pawlenty
Daniels
Christie

Demographically, he'd be a fool not to pick Rubio.

So you'd have Rubio step down and leave an open Senate Seat?