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  • KilarneyKilarney
    Don't worry about it - your point is well taken.
  • Johannes Uglyfred IIJohannes Uglyfred II
    Continuing with the factoids:

    In the United States, many pregnant women serving time in prison are shackled during labor and childbirth.

    I shit you not.
  • AndrewAndrew
    edited November 2006
    One time he and Rummy and I were out on a boat whaling, and he tried to make me squeal like a pig. I swear to God.
    That must have been after I video tapped Rummy doing heroin while holding two forms of government ID and making an 8 year old girl squeal like a pig. I swear to science that's the truth.
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  • HeavyCruiserLostHeavyCruiserLost
    Speaking of prison--and let's hope I'm saying this correctly--the highest rate of religiosity in the United States per capita is found within the confines of the penal system.
  • AndrewAndrew
    edited November 2006
    Speaking of prison--and let's hope I'm saying this correctly--the highest rate of religiosity in the United States per capita is found within the confines of the penal system.
    I am going to go out on a limb here. There is a strong relationship between being religious(a) and committing crimes being in prison(b). There is also a strong relationship between committing crimes being in prison and low intelligence(c).

    If a=b and b=c...a=c?
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  • evan15342evan15342
    An average of 15 people a year die from skydiving related accidents. Almost none of these are from equipment failures.
  • SailSail
    Jethro Tull isn't a person in the band. Ihaveheard people say this one. Off the top of my head, I think he was an agriculturalist.
    Jethro Tull invented the seed drill in the time of Britain's industrialization. I just learned this in history =P
  • HeavyCruiserLostHeavyCruiserLost
    Speaking of prison--and let's hope I'm saying this correctly--the highest rate of religiosity in the United States per capita is found within the confines of the penal system.
    I am going to go out on a limb here. There is a strong relationship between being religious(a) and committing crimes being in prison(b). There is also a strong relationship between committing crimes being in prison and low intelligence(c).

    If a=b and b=c...a=c?
    If you are suggesting that there is an inverse correlation between piety and intelligence you are correct--though I wouldn't follow your logical path using this particular example. The more intelligent and better educated one is the less likely they are to be religious, by a pretty significant margin. If I remember correctly, Dawkin's touches on this in The God Delusion.
  • AprecheApreche
    edited November 2006
    Speaking of prison--and let's hope I'm saying this correctly--the highest rate of religiosity in the United States per capita is found within the confines of the penal system.
    I am going to go out on a limb here. There is a strong relationship between being religious(a) andcommitting crimesbeing in prison(b). There is also a strong relationship betweencommitting crimesbeing in prison and low intelligence(c).

    If a=b and b=c...a=c?
    Sorry, the transitive law can only be used in cases of congruency. In this case we only have correlation.
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  • AndrewAndrew
    If you are suggesting that there is an inverse correlation between piety and intelligence you are correct--though I wouldn't follow your logical path using this particular example. The more intelligent and better educated one is the less likely they are to be religious, by a pretty significant margin. If I remember correctly, Dawkin's touches on this inThe God Delusion.
    Sorry, the transitive law can only be used in cases of congruency. In this case we only have correlation.
    Like I said, I went out on a limb.
  • SailSail
    Sorry, the transitive law can only be used in cases of congruency. In this case we only have correlation.
    Speaking of more stuff I recently learned in school, Scott you are absolutely correct. Nice try, though, WaterIsPoison.
  • tuttle88tuttle88
    Hitler thought keeping fish in fish bowls was cruel and outlawed it in Nazi Germany. Apparently gassing millions of people was fine.
  • KatsuKatsu
    The StG-44 Sturmgewehr was originally the MP-44. Development was officially stopped in late 1942, but was secretly continued. The results of field tests on the Eastern Front of WWII convinced Hitler to allow the MP-44 to be produced, after it was renamed the "Storm Rifle", becoming the first of what would become known as assault rifles.
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