5 hours ago, The guy in France said:

Your health insurance company should choose to put in a waiver clause so they can live with your choices. Probably some trying to get a free pass by hoping enough get vaccinated to reach herd immunity while they sit in their ivory tower

 

You mean like the waivers you have to sign when you get the vaccine saying the companies can't be held responsible for any death or damage that the vaccine might cause?  

They probably re-sign sweat, but idk who else. Barnett will probably want more than he's worth, Graham is old and would need to take a really team friendly contract, Kerrigan will probably leave. 

10 hours ago, Swoop said:

Because he's a troll that was permanently banned from the old boards. Only a matter of time before it happens again.

 

Always gotta love that logic.  Someone disagrees with you therefor they are a troll.  Don't disrupt the echo chamber.  That's funny coming from the most disingenuous poster here.  

15 hours ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Faith and religion has nothing to do with the fact that fetus have beating hearts and they are life and would develop into a baby to be born.  That is 100% ending a human life.  It's very convenient for you to try to present yourself as some high holey virtuous person over your stance that everyone needs to be vaccinated or they will kill people, yet you support abortion when it 100% results in the end of a life that would otherwise come to fruition.  You're not the virtuous person you try to present yourself as.  

I have never claimed to be "virtuous," not even sure what that would entail. I'm wary of terms like good and evil (what religion, what philosopher?).

I just try to avoid absolutes that aren't embedded in science and supported by strong evidence.

Every 17 year old that jerks off destroys "potential life," shouldn't he be impregnating the girl next door instead of his pillow?

A zygote is a zygote, a fetus a fetus, if you consider them humans, shouldn't we routinely extract them and raise them in laboratories to avoid the high probability of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage)? We have the technology to do so, do we now have a duty?

Just pointing out the absurdity of an absolute stance.

Vaccination is common sense and a civic duty. I see no point in arguing the obvious.

12 minutes ago, austinfan said:

I have never claimed to be "virtuous," not even sure what that would entail. I'm wary of terms like good and evil (what religion, what philosopher?).

I just try to avoid absolutes that aren't embedded in science and supported by strong evidence.

Every 17 year old that jerks off destroys "potential life," shouldn't he be impregnating the girl next door instead of his pillow?

A zygote is a zygote, a fetus a fetus, if you consider them humans, shouldn't we routinely extract them and raise them in laboratories to avoid the high probability of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage)? We have the technology to do so, do we now have a duty?

Just pointing out the absurdity of an absolute stance.

Vaccination is common sense and a civic duty. I see no point in arguing the obvious.

 

If you want to make the bold claim that the cause and effect of an individual person X choosing not to get vaccinated will in result kill someone else who otherwise would not have died if person X were vaccinated then it is insincere to then turn around and say the cause and effect of person Y getting an abortion isn't killing someone who otherwise would have been born if not for person Y getting the abortion.  That is absolute 100% whereas your over the top accusation that someone not getting vaccinated will result in the death of someone else is not.  

58 minutes ago, austinfan said:

I have never claimed to be "virtuous," not even sure what that would entail. I'm wary of terms like good and evil (what religion, what philosopher?).

I just try to avoid absolutes that aren't embedded in science and supported by strong evidence.

Every 17 year old that jerks off destroys "potential life," shouldn't he be impregnating the girl next door instead of his pillow?

A zygote is a zygote, a fetus a fetus, if you consider them humans, shouldn't we routinely extract them and raise them in laboratories to avoid the high probability of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage)? We have the technology to do so, do we now have a duty?

Just pointing out the absurdity of an absolute stance.

Vaccination is common sense and a civic duty. I see no point in arguing the obvious.

Not to get any more divisive, but I think you did it wrong. 

15 hours ago, ToastJenkins said:

Nah it doesnt fail. Humans fail because we are short sighted and lousy at evaluating risk. Thus behavioral economics

Actually, I agree with BigEFly when it comes to Economic Theory, I tend to skip over theory articles, which are primarily written to pad resumes of academics, but are basically exercises in formal logic, not science.

The real action in economics the last two decades is sophisticated econometrics, some utilizing big data, some creative data collection and natural experiments. A lot of the new techniques don't require theory, they let the data talk instead of imposing artificial constraints on data based on economic theory. But you shouldn't trust "a" economic study, rather, you need to put the work in to read the literature, and see if there are enough related studies that develop a robust consensus. Robustness is more important than statistical significance.

Economies are evolutionary/dynamic systems, but most traditional economic theory is static, "dynamics" tend to be multi-period statics where it is assumed the underlying model remains the same or changes in a continuous, predictable fashion. So I'm skeptical of theory, but not economic intuition. That is, the real world is too complex to be modeled accurately, but economic intuition can tell you where to look.

11 hours ago, Allhaildawk said:

This is the selfishness states very clearly right here. Why bother getting to herd immunity when I’m not the one who’s going to die anyway.  This is the kind of selfishness that makes our grandparents wonder how our country went from dying on the beaches of Normandy and not having bread to this kind of selfish entitlement in two generations. 

Oh, they weren't that nice in the past. A classic history of the West is entitled "It's your misfortune and none of my own." The book's title comes from the lyrics to the traditional cowboy ballad Git Along Little Dogies.

In the Great Depression, voters turned conservative after 1936 when unemployment was still 15+% because those who had jobs were not longer afraid of losing them, and deflation due to the Depression had actually increased their real incomes, so many no longer supported government spending to help the millions who were destitute through no fault of their own. The Grapes of Wrath chronicles the treatment of the Okies who fled the Dust Bowl for California, only to be treated like "illegal immigrants."

The myth of rugged individualism (except in the Northeast and Midwest before the 19th century, and central Texas from the Comanches before the Civil War, settlers did not face much danger, and many were land speculators, not yeoman farmers, developing farms to sell to the next wave of immigrants then moving West to buy cheaper land to develop and flip) is embedded in American culture, ignoring the role of government in stealing land from the Indians, building infrastructure to get crops to markets (without that infrastructure, farmers would have remained impoverished with no way to obtain cash) and so on.

1 hour ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Always gotta love that logic.  Someone disagrees with you therefor they are a troll.  Don't disrupt the echo chamber.  That's funny coming from the most disingenuous poster here.  

There's disagreement and there's blatantly missing the point on purpose.

We should make a bet. Let's ask the rest of the board who's more full of crap between the two of us. Loser leaves permanently.

39 minutes ago, austinfan said:

I have never claimed to be "virtuous," not even sure what that would entail. I'm wary of terms like good and evil (what religion, what philosopher?).

I just try to avoid absolutes that aren't embedded in science and supported by strong evidence.

Every 17 year old that jerks off destroys "potential life," shouldn't he be impregnating the girl next door instead of his pillow?

A zygote is a zygote, a fetus a fetus, if you consider them humans, shouldn't we routinely extract them and raise them in laboratories to avoid the high probability of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage)? We have the technology to do so, do we now have a duty?

Just pointing out the absurdity of an absolute stance.

Vaccination is common sense and a civic duty. I see no point in arguing the obvious.

Abortion is a widespread phenomenon in both the plant and animal kingdoms. 

1 minute ago, Swoop said:

There's disagreement and there's blatantly missing the point on purpose.

We should make a bet. Let's ask the rest of the board who's more full of crap between the two of us. Loser leaves permanently.

 

You're a court jester that just seeks for people's approval.  

17 minutes ago, austinfan said:

Actually, I agree with BigEFly when it comes to Economic Theory, I tend to skip over theory articles, which are primarily written to pad resumes of academics, but are basically exercises in formal logic, not science.

The real action in economics the last two decades is sophisticated econometrics, some utilizing big data, some creative data collection and natural experiments. A lot of the new techniques don't require theory, they let the data talk instead of imposing artificial constraints on data based on economic theory. But you shouldn't trust "a" economic study, rather, you need to put the work in to read the literature, and see if there are enough related studies that develop a robust consensus. Robustness is more important than statistical significance.

Economies are evolutionary/dynamic systems, but most traditional economic theory is static, "dynamics" tend to be multi-period statics where it is assumed the underlying model remains the same or changes in a continuous, predictable fashion. So I'm skeptical of theory, but not economic intuition. That is, the real world is too complex to be modeled accurately, but economic intuition can tell you where to look.

The latter is why the former is a bad idea. Consensus is how you end up with black swan events. Unfortunately, economics isn’t physics. It involves math, but it is not a closed system with hard rules and known variables.

Just now, RememberTheKoy said:

 

You're a court jester that just seeks for people's approval.  

Ball-less.

Just now, Swoop said:

Ball-less.

 

The maturity is striking.  

Just now, RememberTheKoy said:

 

The maturity is striking.  

Coming from someone who's gotten banned for being an internet troll.

LMAO. 

 

 

Howie asleep at da wheel 

1 hour ago, austinfan said:

I have never claimed to be "virtuous," not even sure what that would entail. I'm wary of terms like good and evil (what religion, what philosopher?).

I just try to avoid absolutes that aren't embedded in science and supported by strong evidence.

Every 17 year old that jerks off destroys "potential life," shouldn't he be impregnating the girl next door instead of his pillow?

A zygote is a zygote, a fetus a fetus, if you consider them humans, shouldn't we routinely extract them and raise them in laboratories to avoid the high probability of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage)? We have the technology to do so, do we now have a duty?

Just pointing out the absurdity of an absolute stance.

Vaccination is common sense and a civic duty. I see no point in arguing the obvious.

 

1 hour ago, austinfan said:

 

A zygote is a zygote, a fetus a fetus, if you consider them humans, shouldn't we routinely extract them and raise them in laboratories to avoid the high probability of spontaneous abortion (miscarriage)? We have the technology to do so, do we now have a duty?

 

That technology doesn’t exist.  Stay out of the science discussion and stick to economics. 

27 minutes ago, Swoop said:

Coming from someone who's gotten banned for being an internet troll.

LMAO. 

 

As mature as you are wise.  

14 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

 

If Derrick Henry's body can hold up after the heavy load of the last couple seasons then the Titans are looking really nice.  

Titans landing Julio would be a good scenario for the Colts missing the playoffs 

18 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Howie asleep at da wheel 

Can Julio play QB?