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    Thread: Private video of private Romney Fundraiser leaked
Post: Private video of private Romney Fundraiser leaked

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IceCream Off topic 459 44,662 2013-05-14, 2:17 am
    Thread: Dark skinned Japanese?
Post: Dark skinned Japanese?

girls dye their hair black in sweden out of fear
IceCream Off topic 77 21,169 2013-04-27, 6:25 pm
    Thread: Dark skinned Japanese?
Post: Dark skinned Japanese?

did you get that from stormfront.org (white pride worldwide)? Because that's what comes up when i google those terms. I'm not going to link it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront_%28website%2...
IceCream Off topic 77 21,169 2013-04-27, 6:20 pm
    Thread: Dark skinned Japanese?
Post: Dark skinned Japanese?

arghhh Do you even understand what a PCA chart is? It's cluster analysis. Like i've been talking about all day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_clustering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl...
IceCream Off topic 77 21,169 2013-04-27, 3:45 pm
    Thread: Dark skinned Japanese?
Post: Dark skinned Japanese?

toshiromiballza Wrote:IceCream Wrote:Yes, there are overlaps, but that doesn't mean you can just take any old overlap and break it down into a classification. Again, there are overlaps between taxonom...
IceCream Off topic 77 21,169 2013-04-27, 1:21 pm
    Thread: Dark skinned Japanese?
Post: Dark skinned Japanese?

hehe true. I'll bring some icecream and great books!!! :D
IceCream Off topic 77 21,169 2013-04-27, 12:45 pm
    Thread: Dark skinned Japanese?
Post: Dark skinned Japanese?

toshiromiballza Wrote:IceCream Wrote:This doesn't mean you can divide humans into subspecies, because the borders are way too fuzzy, and there is too much overlap between different populations. Wrong....
IceCream Off topic 77 21,169 2013-04-27, 12:35 pm
    Thread: Dark skinned Japanese?
Post: Dark skinned Japanese?

Stian Wrote:IceCream Wrote:Stian Wrote:EDIT: I thought "race" was "ethnic group" in layman terms? That's my interpretation of it... It can be if you're just talking in laymens terms, yeah, but Toshiro...
IceCream Off topic 77 21,169 2013-04-27, 11:49 am
    Thread: Dark skinned Japanese?
Post: Dark skinned Japanese?

Stian Wrote:EDIT: I thought "race" was "ethnic group" in layman terms? That's my interpretation of it... It can be if you're just talking in laymens terms, yeah, but Toshiromiballza is using the term ...
IceCream Off topic 77 21,169 2013-04-27, 10:16 am
    Thread: Dark skinned Japanese?
Post: Dark skinned Japanese?

ahahah. ok. seems like it's worth replying to you just to watch your head explode and you flail around so absurdly. You do know that the multiregional hypothesis was made before the genome was decode...
IceCream Off topic 77 21,169 2013-04-27, 9:42 am
    Thread: Dark skinned Japanese?
Post: Dark skinned Japanese?

toshiromiballza Wrote:I don't care that much, I'm just trying to be factual and scientific about these things. It's hard to be factual and scientific when you don't have a basic grasp on what constitu...
IceCream Off topic 77 21,169 2013-04-27, 8:24 am
    Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination
Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ...

toshiromiballza Wrote:@IceCommie (clever, I know!): is that supposed to be an insult? Cute. toshiromiballza Wrote:Quote:... Heritability ... Please tell me what concept of it I haven't grasped, since...
IceCream Off topic 88 14,270 2013-04-24, 5:19 pm
    Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination
Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ...

@toshirominazi: Again, learn some science. You need to understand what it is that heritability is a measure of. You don't seem to have grasped the basic concepts about heritability which are written ...
IceCream Off topic 88 14,270 2013-04-24, 7:30 am
    Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination
Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ...

Also, i just want to point out again, a large part of the problems with social mobility and overcoming disadvantage has nothing to do with intelligence levels and grades whatsoever. Good grades and a ...
IceCream Off topic 88 14,270 2013-04-24, 5:36 am
    Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination
Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ...

Irixmark Wrote:That you feel that way just confirms to me that support in the sense of helping disadvantaged kids achieve the same learning outcomes in the school system is what's needed, not affirmat...
IceCream Off topic 88 14,270 2013-04-24, 4:00 am
    Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination
Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ...

toshiromiballza Wrote:IceCream Wrote:do you not think you should maybe try to actually understand the science involved before running around shouting your nazi remarks to anyone who'll listen? Yeah, t...
IceCream Off topic 88 14,270 2013-04-23, 6:14 pm
    Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination
Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ...

do you not think you should maybe try to actually understand the science involved before running around shouting your nazi remarks to anyone who'll listen? I'd be more worried about my own intelligen...
IceCream Off topic 88 14,270 2013-04-23, 5:52 pm
    Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination
Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ...

ahahah perfect response Tori. +1
IceCream Off topic 88 14,270 2013-04-23, 3:56 pm
    Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination
Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ...

the two aren't mutually exclusive though, and are done for different purposes.
IceCream Off topic 88 14,270 2013-04-23, 5:39 am
    Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination
Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ...

dizmox Wrote:I don't know why you keep saying I haven't grasped the concept... I understand it but don't agree with it. I agree with helping struggling kids equally regardless of their backgrounds. I ...
IceCream Off topic 88 14,270 2013-04-23, 2:49 am
    Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination
Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ...

dizmox Wrote:IceCream Wrote:@dizmox: affirmative action isn't for people who are lazy and not doing their homework. I don't think you've grasped the concept at all. I have grasped the concept. It's pr...
IceCream Off topic 88 14,270 2013-04-22, 7:50 pm
    Thread: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive Discrimination
Post: Encouraging People from Bad Backgrounds, Positive ...

i think some form of affirmative action is absolutely necessary if you want to see any social mobility. The problem is that it's not enough on it's own to really change things, and governments tend t...
IceCream Off topic 88 14,270 2013-04-22, 10:41 am
    Thread: What are your favourite sounds of japan?
Post: What are your favourite sounds of japan?

Of course, there's the famous ヒグラシ: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKYB86U1TQ] The ウグイス is amazing... sounds like the deepest of deep forests: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhXfQrKv...
IceCream General discussion 8 2,152 2013-04-21, 4:36 pm
    Thread: most beautiful anime animations?
Post: most beautiful anime animations?

i love cat soup too!! :) i finally got round to watching モノノ怪 that was suggested earlier in the thread, and at least visually, i am absolutely loving every second of it, it is amazing. I could watch ...
IceCream General discussion 49 21,143 2013-04-19, 5:39 am
    Thread: Japanese novels for the picky reader
Post: Japanese novels for the picky reader

For some reason i never really enjoyed The Master and Margarita. I mean, it was fine, but it just seemed like there wasn't anything really new to take from it. It may just have been my mood at the tim...
IceCream General discussion 55 16,725 2013-04-14, 11:22 am
    Thread: Japanese novels for the picky reader
Post: Japanese novels for the picky reader

it's the only response that is worth making really. Honestly i'd rather try to clean tottenham high road with a toothbrush than talk to you. It'd be far more entertaining. I mean, it's just absurd. I...
IceCream General discussion 55 16,725 2013-04-14, 5:11 am
    Thread: Japanese novels for the picky reader
Post: Japanese novels for the picky reader

ugh how ridiculous.
IceCream General discussion 55 16,725 2013-04-14, 4:58 am
    Thread: Japanese novels for the picky reader
Post: Japanese novels for the picky reader

Ok, i see. Yeah, if a strong plot is something that is really important to you, i guess i can understand. With Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, plot was more of a wire frame to hang their ideas on. It's more...
IceCream General discussion 55 16,725 2013-04-13, 2:25 pm
    Thread: Japanese novels for the picky reader
Post: Japanese novels for the picky reader

Stansfield123 Wrote:But, in my view, most of the world's great literature is written in Russian and German. The overwhelming majority of the Western world's philosophy is in German, for instance. erm,...
IceCream General discussion 55 16,725 2013-04-13, 12:34 pm
    Thread: Japanese novels for the picky reader
Post: Japanese novels for the picky reader

@Zgarbas: how can you dislike Russian literature?? that seems pretty crazy to me. i think you would have to try quite hard to dislike it. Good writing is good writing, and yes, most of the best liter...
IceCream General discussion 55 16,725 2013-04-13, 11:03 am