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Nope, no TV. I was thinking of getting them a 29" screen... big enough to watch but small enough they won't complain.

So we just chatted about laptops, anybody got experience with really tiny builds for mostly tv boxes? My folks are using a laptop for movies and I'd like to surprise them with a really tiny case pc with a nice monitor so they can enjoy movies better and also have a better desktop pc than whatever ol...

Last week I got 142 and haven't touched it since. If I travel I'll try to catch the region-specifics, and will keep an ear out for legendaries. It was a fun month.

Congratulations on getting paid for writing what you want to write about! That's living the dream buddy. I'll follow along for sure. Stay true to longform format. Team rivalry is silly but natural. I'm a Braves fan. (RIP Bobby Cox) ... Not a good season for me. But I know I will stay true, even if i...

It's really frustrating that you don't label your charts, there's no indication of what order states are listed in assuming states are one of the axes... so... you don't know what a scatter plot is? or you didn't understand the titles, saying what x and y axes were? what do you even mean: "wha...

Thanks for more data! But you haven't done a good job of interpreting it. Here's what's actually going on with those green and red bars. ( just using your data with 2004 survey ) First, let's look at the gun suicides, and correlate it with ownership rates. (the red bars) http://imgur.com/0aC7pyN.jpg...

What if 90% were committed without guns involved, even though your unlabeled chart doesn't change? Would you still say guns "enable" more suicides? No, I'd find the data especially bizarre in that alternate universe. Because that's not reality. In reality, about 50% of suicide deaths use ...

That's not a citation. That's a snippet of a screenshot of an unnamed spreadsheet with two columns of numbers in it. Jeez, I query the CDC, export it and tidy it up in a nice spreadsheet, and this is the kind of thanks I get? Next time you can query WISQARS yourself. And frustratingly, it still doe...

I know that's a little off-topic, but I'm very much interested in both points of view and I keep reading Deacon and NC thinking "how do two people in the same country have such wildly different and polar worldviews when both prove constantly that they're intelligent people who put a lot of tim...

No, I don't believe you have posted that citation. http://i.imgur.com/2yLDr7D.jpg Higher gun ownership rate = higher suicide rate. You claimed this was false. Check the numbers. I posted the one that shows that half of successful suicides were carried out using a gun, and half were not. And this da...

It's impossible to say whether gun owners kill themselves more than others, as there is no forced registration of gun ownership in this country. Ever heard of a survey? Yep, they use those fancy surveys and can determine gun ownership by state. Who knew that all you had to do was ask people! It see...

OK, I need to be more specific. Let's piece this back together. I stated that gun owners commit suicide at higher rates, which is true. You said this was false, and said the CDC said it was wrong. Here is the exchange: Gun owners commit suicide at a higher rate, since the combination of speed and po...

Gun owners commit suicide at a higher rate Yes, that's the fallacy the CDC says is wrong. But maybe the CDC is working for the NRA to stage a cover up? Most (~79%) suicide deaths are men, and about half of men use firearms. There is a linear correlation between gun ownership per capita per state an...

Are you lumping in suicides and such into that kind of number? Because I bet Saudi Arabia has a lot more camel-related deaths than the US, too. Suicides are included in that number, for both the US and UK. Nitpicking suicides vs. murder numbers is a very old and very cynical NRA talking point. The ...

the gun-free utopia of merry old England... While I understand it is your instinct to mock other nations for their gun control laws, the UK enjoys one of the lowest gun homicide rates in the entire world. Per capita, the US has 45x more gun-related deaths than the UK. It's a serious topic and hones...