PK htiw klaw eriF Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 This has been doing the rounds. Reuters getting creative with statistics. Perhaps it is because I've just consumed a rather large amount of whiskey, but I don't get it. "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elerond Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 This has been doing the rounds. Reuters getting creative with statistics. Perhaps it is because I've just consumed a rather large amount of whiskey, but I don't get it. Chart is upside down, so with quick look it looks like that number of murders committed by using firearms, have severely lowered after "Stand Your Ground" law passed, even though chart actually says opposite. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valsuelm Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 (edited) I question the validity of whether Reuters actually published this chart. Either way, it's very misleading, as the crime rate has been steadily going down before and after 2005. The 'stand your ground' law has little to nothing to do with the state murder rate. http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/Content/FSAC/Menu/Crime-Trends/Violent-Crime.aspx As for something amusing: Edited April 19, 2014 by Valsuelm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elerond Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I question the validity of whether Reuters actually published this chart. Either way, it's very misleading, as the crime rate has been steadily going down before and after 2005. The 'stand your ground' law has little to nothing to do with the state murder rate. http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/Content/FSAC/Menu/Crime-Trends/Violent-Crime.aspx That link says that number of murder rise from 2005's 881 to 1129 in 2006 and continued to rise in 2007 when number of murders peaked in 1202. And number of murders are still higher than what they were in 2005. And population growth don't alone explain rise in these numbers. Also total number of violent crimes raise from 2005 to 2007. From 2008 and forward there has been noticeable degrease in robberies and aggravated assaults (also murders and forcible sex offences are decreased also but only lightly and are currently in rise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humanoid Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I question the validity of whether Reuters actually published this chart. Either way, it's very misleading, as the crime rate has been steadily going down before and after 2005. The 'stand your ground' law has little to nothing to do with the state murder rate. I was obviously a bit sceptical too, but the producer of the graph has owned up to doing so deliberately on Twitter, even if the defense is rather weak. (A personal preference to draw charts that way? Really?) L I E S T R O N GL I V E W R O N G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valsuelm Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 (edited) I question the validity of whether Reuters actually published this chart. Either way, it's very misleading, as the crime rate has been steadily going down before and after 2005. The 'stand your ground' law has little to nothing to do with the state murder rate. I was obviously a bit sceptical too, but the producer of the graph has owned up to doing so deliberately on Twitter, even if the defense is rather weak. (A personal preference to draw charts that way? Really?) I guess I must hate possums. haha. One wonders why the funk a pseudo journalist working in Singapore is making charts about the Florida murder rate in the first place. I'd probably fire her, knowing Reuters, they'll probably promote her. Edited April 19, 2014 by Valsuelm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 1 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted April 19, 2014 Author Share Posted April 19, 2014 Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tagaziel Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Makes you wonder if they are going to put themselves in concentration camps once they take over. Aren't Russians supposed to be untermensh Mongolians, actually. Russians were cool when the Reich and the SS realized they're facing kitchen sinks. HMIC for: [ The Wasteland Wiki ] [ Pillars of Eternity Wiki ] [ Tyranny Wiki ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Maybe it has something to do with Nazi archeology. They believed they had traced a proto arian to the area around Tibet. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Makes you wonder if they are going to put themselves in concentration camps once they take over. Aren't Russians supposed to be untermensh Mongolians, actually. Russians were cool when the Reich and the SS realized they're facing kitchen sinks. Kitchen sinks? "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 everything and Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Aren't you supposed to be at least somewhat familiar with ****ney rhyming slang. 1 Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woldan Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 (edited) I've read a few war novels and the SS troops often called Russians illiterate, mindless savages and clearly put the them into the category Untermensch. The double standard was pretty funny though, late in the war they accepted anti-Stalin Belorussians and Mongolians in their ranks. The normal Wehrmacht seemed not to care all that much about categorizing the people they had to shoot and blow up by the thousands. Edited April 19, 2014 by Woldan I gazed at the dead, and for one dark moment I saw a banquet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 And Polish 'volunteers' as well of all things. Most of them volunteering not to die of starvation. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Ice-skating rinks? "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmp10 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 And Polish 'volunteers' as well of all things. Most of them volunteering not to die of starvation.I think you mean Russian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I was going for 'everything but the kitchen sink' meaning a lot... of Russians. --------------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles_in_the_Wehrmacht It was a matter of signing a paper making you a naturalised German citizen, or possibly be forcibly deported to go live with the 'undersirables' In addition to those, penal battalions of Poles were part of the force opposing the D day landings, and of course the Polish paratroopers on the other side at Arnhem. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tagaziel Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 And Polish 'volunteers' as well of all things. Most of them volunteering not to die of starvation. There were no real volunteers, even per the article you cite. Conscripts and prisoners are not volunteers. Hell, Poland was one of the few European countries where an SS foreign unit completely failed to form. Poles didn't volunteer for the Nazis. Suggestin' otherwise, now that's a paddlin'. HMIC for: [ The Wasteland Wiki ] [ Pillars of Eternity Wiki ] [ Tyranny Wiki ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 hence the ' ' Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tagaziel Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 hence the ' ' BERSERK BUTTONS DO NOT NOTICE PUNY PUNCTUATION 1 HMIC for: [ The Wasteland Wiki ] [ Pillars of Eternity Wiki ] [ Tyranny Wiki ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 The Gods of the Internet... 9 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted April 20, 2014 Author Share Posted April 20, 2014 2 Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted April 21, 2014 Author Share Posted April 21, 2014 Humanity F*** Yeah! A subreddit, where a guy was collected various short stories from 4chan and present the better of them. Some of them surprisingly intelligent/creative. Here's the page. Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drowsy Emperor Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 This always makes me laugh 3 И погибе Српски кнез Лазаре,И његова сва изгибе војска, Седамдесет и седам иљада;Све је свето и честито билоИ миломе Богу приступачно. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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