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Infiltrated != conspiracy. Learn words.

I can't really see how Lancel can be considered a gift to Olenna. Petyr has no control over Lancel, and if anything, Lancel wants to see Petyr imprisoned for his crimes against the faith of the seven. Lancel can't be used to free Olenna's grand children. Olenna also probably knew about Lancel before Petyr talked to her. I can see how some people could be mislead based on the order of presentation though. Gendry as a 'gift' makes more sense imo. I understand that Petyr knew about Lancel, but I don't really see how he can keep it in his back pocket. Lancel is controlled by the faith militant and Olenna would not benefit by having Cersi accused on incest (since it would not free her grandchildren and if Tommen becomes illegitimate then Margaery has no claim to the iron throne). What about Robert Baratheon's will that he wrote with Ned Stark in the first season? Is she even in a position to go to Westeros any time soon? Seems like things would have to move quite rapidly in 3 episodes (even including a supposed conflict between Tommen and the faith militant). Seems like there will be way too much downtime where very little will happen in king's landing. He probably wants to put Sansa on the Iron Throne, although I don't think that's his only goal (otherwise he wouldn't put Sansa's life at risk sending her to the Boltons). But to do that he needs more power, and that can be difficult if the faith militant are running around making prostitution illegal. Also, if he doesn't help Olenna, she will reveal his role in the death of Jeoffery. Another wild card is the mountain, who has probably become a zombie or something.

Nope. That is your imagination.

You mean adding a quadratic interaction term? That doesn't 'solve' multicollinearity, which isn't even a problem.

New video looking at performance of solar bikeways. Putting non-tracking solar panels on a roof has about twice the performance. There you go. This idea is stupid.

You sure about that? http://www.mapleleafweb.com/forums/topic/24550-penile-pumps-men-face-gender-bias/?p=1057446 WestCoastRunner clearly supports 1 of the 5 myths about male rape on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_rape#Males_always_want_sex

Wow. This is literally one of the 5 myths of male rape on the wiki page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_rape#Males_always_want_sex

Thank you for backing me up. Sigh, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicollinearity "Multicollinearity does not reduce the predictive power or reliability of the model as a whole, at least within the sample data set" Multicollinearity doesn't cause the OLS estimators to be biased, or the estimates of their errors to be biased. It doesn't cause hypothesis tests using OLS estimators to be invalid. Things like endogeneity do, but not multicollinearity. Yes, yes it does. So what?

Wow... This is probably the most sexist thing I've read recently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_rape

You know this how? You asked most men you know if they want to be treated as a sex object? Or are you just basing this off the sexist stereotype that men want sex all the time?

I don't think it's impossible for the public's opinion of nuclear power to change though. Look at how public opinion has changed on gay marriage over the past decade for example.

I never used the word conspiracy. Strawman argument. Still waiting for a suggestion of what you expect MRAs should do that they are not already doing...

There are ways of controlling for culture or genetics. For example, North Korea and South Korea are very similar culturally and genetically, so differences in cognitive performance are most likely due to nurture, particularly nutrition.

I understand the meaning of independent variable in the context of what I said, you are the one who doesn't understand the meaning. Look, if I do a linear regression, y = XB + error, where y, B and error are mx1 matrices and X is an nxm matrix, then X is the independent variable(s) and y is the dependent variable, regardless of what I choose y and X to be. See wiki link you math n00b: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_and_independent_variables#Independent_variable Incorrect, I finished my undergrad years ago.

As far as I know, most MRA groups would support this. But they don't have any political power to enact legislative change. Most of the population is convinced MRA = traditionalist misogynist and the fact that the SJW have infiltrated the media and the education system doesn't help. It is far more politically fashionable to pretend that women earn 77% of what men earn for similar work, or claim that 1 in 4 women will be raped in their lifetimes. You mean like how Anita Sarkeesian has received half a million dollars in donations? Also, I don't understand this 'criticism' that MRAs are trying to compete in the free market place of ideas to spread awareness about men's rights issues. What do you expect them to do? They have 0 political power, unlike the mainstream feminists.

@Michael Hardner - I was talking in the context of a linear regression model, whether independent variable = explanatory factor. Income and education are correlated and cause each other, but that doesn't result in a biased estimate for the specific regression model I was suggesting. You are playing semantics. I didn't invent the terminology, I just use it. "In statistics, linear regression is an approach for modeling the relationship between a scalar dependent variable y and one or more explanatory variables (or independent variable) denoted X." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_regression

People just didn't talk about it. This is especially true if you are a SJW and you wish to manipulate words in an Orwellian manner and change the meaning of words whenever it is convenient for the ideology.

Give males the legal option to opt out of being a legal parent if they did not consent to having children. I already told you that.

Petyr Baelish is in a position to really take advantage of the chaos in King's Landing that Cersi created via the Faith Militant. Petyr is the only one in a position to save Cersi, Loras and Margaery. Firstly, the 'young man' that Petyr Baelish was telling Olenna Tyrell is obviously Gendry Baratheon. We haven't seen Gendry Baratheon since we escaped from dragonstone on a rowboat (this was during the same time Petyr had boats in that area as we saw when he snuck Sansa out of King's Landing). Regardless of whether or not people believe that Tommen is a bastard, Gendry Baratheon is the eldest son of Robert Baratheon. As we saw in Season 1, Robert Baratheon left his eldest son as his heir on his death bed with the help of Ned Stark. In the last scene for the last episode, the leader of the faith militant mentioned 'simple, solid and true' as his hand was near a book. This was the book Ned Stark was reading in season 1 about how all the Baratheons had black hair, therefore it is unlikely for Robert Baratheon's son to have blonde hair since blondness is a recessive trait. So the faith militant is going to accuse Cersi of incest, which would suggest that Tommen is no longer king (so likely the faith militant will not listen to Tommen's orders). However, if Tommen is not the legitimate king, then no legitimate king allowed the faith militant to rearm, which means that the faith militant wouldn't have had the ability to delegitimize Tommen in the first place. Gendry allows for a way out of the paradox as he is the legitimate king. I expect that Gendry, under the suggestion of Petyr, will order the faith militant to disband. The leader of the faith of seven told Olenna that she is the few and he is the many, indicating that the faith militant have more popular support than the nobles. This means that nobles will have difficulty confronting the faith militant, this means that Gendry (raised in flea-bottom) and Petyr (not of noble birth & runs a prostitution ring) are able to truely confront the faith militant. Most of King's Landing are not religious fanatics, as we see by the popularity of alcohol and sex outside of marriage, and likely the people will support a 'King of the people' like Gendry. Lastly, Petyr really only has 2 enemies at this point: The faith militant and Varys. Varys is all the way in Essos, so Petyr's only immediate enemy is the faith militant. If anything, the faith militant represent an existential threat to Petyr because Petyr is a heretic that ran a prostitution institution. So Petyr absolutely has to annihilate the faith militant quickly before they get out of hand (fortunately, he used to be master of coin, so probably has the financial loyalty of a lot of sell swords in kings landing). So Petyr will probably defeat the faith militant at the end of this season and establish Gendry Baratheon as the new king. This leaves a few questions though: 1. What happens to Cersi and Tommen? They might be eliminated, or they might be allowed to live as pawns. Given that Jaime is a King's Guard, Tyrion is exiled, Twyin is dead, Joffery is dead, and Lancel is a member of the faith militant, Tommen is the logical heir to the ruler of the Westerlands. So maybe Gendry might befriend Tommen as brothers and convince Tommen to be the ruler of the Westerlands. 2. What happens to Margaery? Will she be engaged to Gendry Baratheon? Or will she stay married to Tommen? She wants to be queen, but she has already invested a lot of time in Tommen. If Tommen is given control of the Westerlands, then the Tyrell's might want to cut their losses (given how dangerous King's Landing is) and decide to settle for control of the Reach and the Westerlands. 3. What will Petyr's 'reward' be? He mentioned to Cersi that he wants to be lord protector of the North, but he already has other ways to control the North via Sansa, and being the protector of the North might ruin his relationship with the Boltons. Perhaps Petyr will be given control of the Westerlands, although this would involve the Tyrells deciding to throw the remaining Lannisters under the bus. Another option is the Petyr will become the ruler of the Stormlands, although this would put him in conflict with Stannis. 4. How will Stannis react to Gendry becoming king? Stannis already accepts Gendry as his nephew, but Gendry is a bastard. However, Robert Baratheon left his eldest son as his heir, so Stannis might make peace with Gendry (and therefore Petyr). Although I doubt the fire priestess will accept Gendry as king. 5. How will the worshipers of the Lord of Light play into this. We haven't seen Thoros of Myr in a while, and Thoros did meet Gendry. Given that the faith militant is his enemy, Petyr might try to replace the faith of the seven with the faith of the lord of light as the state religion of Westeros. Fight religion with more religion, I guess. So right now, Petyr is: -allied with the Boltons, via marriage of Sansa -allied with Sansa, and therefore the northerners that don't agree with Bolton rule -controls the vale, as well as Harrenhall (so a fair amount of the riverlands) -allied with the Tyrells, and therefore the Reach -allied with the Lanisters, and therefore the Westerlands -allied with Gendry, so potentially Stannis -may potentially become ruler of the Westerlands, Stormlands or the North depending on how he deals with the faith militant and the Stannis-Bolton conflict. -probably has a good relationship with the Iron Bank, and therefore Bravos. -is neutral with respect to Dorne and the Iron Islands. -is an enemy of the faith militant and Varys (and therefore Daenarys... eventually).

That's not a 'tipping point'. That's a point of marginal indifferent. A tipping point does not exist because runaway global warming is not possible for the next 1-2 billion years. A plant doesn't care about where CO2 comes from. CO2 is CO2. Greenhouses often have purposely elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 to enhance plant growth.

And what is wrong with giving males the legal option to opt out of being a legal parent if they did not consent to having children? Men get raped by women all the time. Although I've never heard of a case where the rape victim has ended up paying child support. Do you want to wait for this situation to happen before doing something? I gave examples at the beginning of this thread, but apparently you have ignored them. What is wrong with the Honey Badger Brigade; Karen Straughen in particular?

How is it a relatively recent concept? There have been asexuals since before humans existed (just like there have been homosexuals and bisexuals since before humans existed). Asexual is the logical name to use given that it means not sexual. What word would you prefer we use?

Most people also believe in an afterlife. Doesn't make it true. Also, the idea that CO2 is bad or good is too simplistic. If we had no CO2, most life on Earth would cease. The marginal effect of CO2 is good, up until a certain point, then it is bad. Me too. I've seen some very strong arguments using empirical evidence by economists on Judith Curry's climate blog recently that suggest that removing all this anti-nuclear phobia and all the absurd regulatory hurdles of building nuclear power plants in western countries would do more to combat climate change than a pigouvian CO2 emission tax.

To be fair, the question of the effect of CO2 emissions on the environment is highly debatable. The CO2 fertilization effect has increased plant primary production significantly, especially in places like the Sahal and Western Australia. The increase in global temperatures, especially in polar regions, have led to longer growing seasons. It makes no sense to look at absolute reductions, when the population of India is far larger than the population of Canada. Also, when looking at expansion of solar power, you have to take different latitudes into account.

@hernanday - I'm not particularly convinced that 'white people' have a disproportionately high rate of crime. Perhaps you should perform a linear regression where the dependent variable is the crime rate, and the independent variables include the different races as a percentage of the population, income per capita, the gini coefficient, life expectancy, average level of education + other factors that can explain differences in outcome in the crime rate between countries. Then you can test the hypothesis of if having a larger white population has a positive effect on the crime rate or not. If you can show that 'whiteness' has a positive effect on the crime rate at the 95% confidence level, then I will accept your claim (assuming the model used takes into account all of the relevant explanatory variables).