Statistics of Darts

A mathematical look at expected outcomes of darts, including where to aim for best results.
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Electoral College

How the Electoral College works (or doesn't)

Happiness and Advertising

The killer quote:

People who watch a lot of advertisements appear to save less, spend more and use more of their time working to meet their rising material aspirations.

Palestine

A brief history of Palestine

Most American's Prefer Sweden's Income Distribution

92% of American's would prefer a society with far less income disparity than the US currently has.

Women Don't Drown

Turns out only men drown....

Mission Accomplished

Mission Accomplished

Sexperience

A British sex survey of 1000 people

The Doublethink of the CIA

Okay, CIA, I think it was kinda cool that you invented LSD and used hookers to inject their clients. Well, mostly cool. But lately the crap you've been doing is just ridiculous. I just want to call attention to one particular quote from this article mostly:

A spokeswoman for the C.I.A., Jennifer Youngblood, said, “The suggestion that the Central Intelligence Agency has requested redactions on this publication because it doesn’t like the content is ridiculous. The C.I.A.’s pre-publication review process looks solely at the issue of whether information is classified.”

She noted that under the law, “Just because something is in the public domain doesn’t mean it’s been officially released or declassified by the U.S. government.”

So what if the CIA decided to classify the axioms of mathematics? Would all math textbooks have to be redacted?

It's so ridiculous that I can hardly even find the words to explain it. The CIA is claiming the ability to redact anything they want at any point in time simply because they say that it's classified information. Even if it's something that already knows. And apparently they see no contradiction or hypocrisy in the idea that something everyone knows is no longer classified.

Fuck.

The Criminalization of Poverty

This article mostly gets to it at the end (it's somewhat long), but it's really kicks it home by the end. Has a few good points in it about racism, socialism, police insanity and more as well.

"The second — and by far the most reliable — way to be criminalized by poverty is to have the wrong color skin. Indignation runs high when a celebrity professor succumbs to racial profiling, but whole communities are effectively “profiled” for the suspicious combination of being both dark-skinned and poor. Flick a cigarette and you’re “littering”; wear the wrong color T-shirt and you’re displaying gang allegiance. Just strolling around in a dodgy neighborhood can mark you as a potential suspect. And don’t get grumpy about it or you could be “resisting arrest.” "

" “Can you imagine?” asked Eric Sheptock, the homeless advocate (himself a shelter resident) who introduced me to Szekeley. “They arrested a homeless man in a shelter for being homeless?” "