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    2 Hours Ago
    leemajors replied to a thread New XBOX!!! in Tech Forum
    uhh they can easily do he same thing they did with Bungie. Take a promising FPS PC game, make it exclusive and ruin it with console controls. Worked great for the OG xbox tbh
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    Going back to this: Sort of. The guy was way too hand wavy. PERS is underfunded, per their most recent 2011 lookback. In 2006, it was more than adequately funded though. For that kind of thing you need to look at the actuarial report by Milliman (great firm, BTW, if you ever need...
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    http://www.oregon.gov/treasury/Reports/Documents/Oregon%20Employees%20Retirement%20Fund.pdf Equity listing. Funds galore. No Apple. :P Actually earned them a pretty darn good return. http://www.oregon.gov/treasury/Reports/Documents/1994_001.pdf Looks like a long history of socking...
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    If you thumb through PERS most recent finances, even with the financial crash, their rolling averages don't deviate much from that 8% Gotta go digging: http://www.oregon.gov/pers/Pages/section/financial_reports/financial_status_statistics_actuarial_studies.aspx from there to here:...
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    Here is where the principles of intellectual honesty force me to go back and re-read the thing. Further, I feel compelled to admit: Going back through, and re-reading it a bit more carefully, once one gets past the hand waving it doesn't read quite so badly. Had to take a crash course in the...
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    5 Hours Ago
    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    I know that. I am assuming he made a rather bad mistake. In that, I could be wrong, as I just noted. Our problem in figuring out what HE bases his figure on is that he didn't show his math.
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    To be fair: Mr. Starkey's assumptions are based on his assertion that long-term: He could very well be calculating based on his preferred narrative. If you actually look up the rolling averages since 2006 in the financials available from the Oregon treasurer, they do indeed stick to...
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    The heading of the column is: "Male life expectancy at birth" A 58 year old man is not an infant. 2007 actuarial tables: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html Currently a 58 year old man will probably live another 22 years. Not 16.
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    Setting aside the fact that he doesn't know what the time value of money is... he was looking at "average life expectancy" He went somewhere like wiki and got a number to figure how much money he thinks would be necessary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy ...
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    Hint: 58+16.47=???
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    Here is the first stupidity. How much savings/capital is needed to fund a single life annuity for $53,000 (106% of $50,000) in the private sector, for a male, at the age of 58? The answer: $873,000.00. 873000/53000=16.47 Why is 16.47 important?
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    You did.
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    Your calculation is also wrong. Re-check your math.
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    His first mistake is far more fundamental, but you are on the right track.
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Heaven? in The Club
    That logically flawed arguments like "there must be a creator" die hard, because they are assumed to be true, without evidence. Evidence and critical thining shall set you free.
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Heaven? in The Club
    You wanted to be stepped through it, because a few minutes of audio was more than you wanted to sit still for. The answer is yes, five is possible to roll on one die. The next step is to acknowledge that seven is impossible to roll with one die, no matter how many times you roll it. In...
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    scott replied to a thread Attn Lawyers: Is this legit re Lerner waiving her right in Political Forum
    Can you waive your right to invoke your right in the future? Serious question.
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Islamist nutters hack UK soldier to death on streets of London in Political Forum
    Yeah, I saw that. It is a British thing. I don't understand. Ok, maybe I do, given the British colonization of India, and the indelible imprint that country made on tiny Britainna.
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=214754&p=6586853&viewfull=1#post6586853
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Islamist nutters hack UK soldier to death on streets of London in Political Forum
    Christians in general don't. At some point though, one does have to ask why is it that islam seems to lend itself to radicalization. While I tend to view most religions with some distaste, and feel no need to play apologist for Christianity, it would seem that one would have to ask that very...
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread That awkward moment when Wolf Blitzer wants to mock a Bible-banger in Political Forum
    LOL "mock" Darrin, Darrin, Darrin. You try so hard, and fail so spectacularly. You don't even make a good troll.
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread That awkward moment when Wolf Blitzer wants to mock a Bible-banger in Political Forum
    An "out" atheist in Oklahoma? No way!
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    RandomGuy started a thread Islamist nutters hack UK soldier to death on streets of London in Political Forum
    A man has been killed in a machete attack and his two assailants shot by police in Woolwich, south-east London. The government is reported to be treating the assault as a suspected terrorist incident and the prime minister said it was "truly shocking". Footage has emerged showing a man...
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    I am an accountant. I audit insurance companies that issue annuities for a living. I have approximately 50 hours of graduate level, directly applicable education in finance and economics, as well as about six years of professional experience in evaluating reserves for such things. I told you I am...
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Teachers in Political Forum
    His basic principles were deeply flawed, and demonstrate a shocking ignorance about how these funds work. That is what is undeniable. I will assume that you cannot tell me why the given passage was incorrect? I did not see you attempt to show why I might think so. Do you not know?
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Heaven? in The Club
    20 seconds? that's it? Ok, then. Lets see if we can get at the truth here. One, step at a time. Each step builds, logically, on the last, and the final conclusion bears directly on why your post was flawed. I have a standard six-sided die. Is it possible, to roll it and get a result...
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    leemajors replied to a thread HTC actually had a pretty awesome December in Tech Forum
    Not so good recently with execs leaving in droves: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/several-senior-htc-employees-depart-following-htc-first-disaster/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29
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    leemajors replied to a thread New XBOX!!! in Tech Forum
    Ehh if they have enough exclusives that will be fine, isn't that all it comes down to anyway?
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  • RandomGuy's Avatar
    16 Hours Ago
    RandomGuy replied to a thread Heaven? in The Club
    Ouch, that was painful to read. You really don't see the flaw in that reasoning, do you? Do yourself a favor: Listen to the first, 10 minutes or so of this MP3: http://www.atheist-experience.com/archive/AtheistExp-2013-05-19.mp3 Stop whenever they take the first caller or so, but they...
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    RandomGuy replied to a thread Hypersonic Weapons by 2025 in Political Forum
    Billions. We will end up with hypersonic weapons that don't need explosives to devastate targets. Kinetic energy weapons. The other thing that we will get out of it, is much cheaper access to space. Re-useable boosters seem to be pretty practical once the tech is matured a bit more.
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    Caught the TED talk. Nifty. Let me know next time you give one, I'd like to go.
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    Hey Scott, that Big Texas Beer Festival is using a Freetail taster glass image on their site, and you guys are not listed on the brewery list. Just thought you might wanna know:

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    Just randomly came across your tweet because Matt Bonner was trending. Well played.
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    What's up Scott? Been a while since I PM'ed you. I haven't gotten a response from you to my Beer Tasting emails but are you showing up on Saturday? I'm trying to get a final count. Joe said you sounded like you were a "for sure" but Ulises said he wasn't sure if you'd be able to. Thanks.
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    Hey, I don't know how much you check Linked In, but someone there wants me to connect you to them. The guy is legit and wants to talk to you about expanding your business to the River Walk area. Check your Linked In account or email me at koriellis@gmail.com
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    Check out yesterdays "Pearls Before Swine" comic strip.
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    Had John Phillip Santos, an author from SA, stop by and give a lecture to my Chicano Lit class (@ UNT in Denton), and he mentioned that you can usually find him hanging out at the Freetail Brewery in SA. I thought to myself, "Where have I heard of that place before?" 'Course. Scott's place.

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    start participating in the college forum brah. I know you're rich and working hard now but I see you online in the forum, what prevents you and your elite phone from posting in the forum????

    We need more sooners in this piece
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    Hey scott, just letting you know the sig is coming down. Its been a month
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    My boys kept talking about how good the beer we had at your place was the rest of the day.

    Good job.
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