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by Slansin
December 12, 2003, 9:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Hipocracy in high end guilds
Replies: 527
Views: 54531

The "My hobby is better than yours" defense, when the hobby itself was not under attack. The "My Real Life is better than yours" parry, combined with an ironic "Not enough attention" jab (against a guy with a VV account with a post count you'd get by dividing Aranuil's ...
by Slansin
March 25, 2003, 3:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the Canadians...
Replies: 65
Views: 4891

Maybe I should have posted the whole thing, since nobody seems to have bothered to read the link. Fact: The Canada-contiguous States would have a far lower rate than Canada, except that they include New York. New York is a special case; most of its homicides occur in the densely urbanized southeast ...
by Slansin
March 25, 2003, 2:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the Canadians...
Replies: 65
Views: 4891

You're still twisting the issue. This isn't about murder rate:population total. It's violent crime:population density. The link I provided dealt with this. It compared US cities with similar populations and population densities to ones in Canada. The crime rates came out pretty damn equal, if not le...
by Slansin
March 25, 2003, 1:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the Canadians...
Replies: 65
Views: 4891

Just the start of a simple google search: http://www.iuscrim.mpg.de/forsch/onlinepub/crimestatmanual.pdf http://www.popinfo.org/issues/econ04.htm http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cj/cjl21297.htm But you mis-read the data. The murder "rate" Moore uses in the film isn't per capita. It's murders ...
by Slansin
March 25, 2003, 1:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the Canadians...
Replies: 65
Views: 4891

http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html The above site does a very good job of picking apart Bowling for Columbine. This exerpt is relevant here: Fact: Canada is hardly comparable to the far more urbanized United States. Violence rates correlate strongly to population density. Canada has a...
by Slansin
March 24, 2003, 1:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Oscar night
Replies: 97
Views: 5098

I find that hollywoodhalfwits site hilarious. If questioning government policy is "Anti-American," I'd like to ask you to open your history books to the mid 1700s and look up such characters as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Samuel Adam...