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Forum: Politics 12-19-2005, 12:04 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 1,776
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Toyota: \"No Financial Justification in US for Buying Hybrids\"

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Toyota had set a target of reducing the extra cost of the hybrid to a level where it could compete on value with ordinary cars by 2010 at the current US petrol price of just over $2 a...
Forum: Politics 12-19-2005, 11:54 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 187
Posted By Bjorn
Re: what is torture

I find it interesting that no one has mentioned that the use of "questionable" and potentially cruel techniques for interogation are quite detrimental to the psychological wellbeing of the person...
Forum: Politics 12-06-2005, 11:43 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 463
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Top Ten Nations in Terms of Land Combat Power

Well it all depends on what you wanna use your land forces for I guess. My guess is that the russians even in their current state are awesome for defending their own turf but pretty much useless to...
Forum: Politics 12-06-2005, 05:57 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 463
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Top Ten Nations in Terms of Land Combat Power

My guess

1) U.S.
2) U.K.
3) China
4) Russia
5) Israel
6) India
7) Pakistan
8) North Korea
Forum: Politics 12-05-2005, 08:30 AM
Replies: 80
Views: 370
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Scandinavia - working socialist economies?

I don't know about GDP but one of the big slogans of the Social Democrats (who has been ruling in sweden for most of the post-WW2 era) allways used to be "Full Employment". So jobs have definitly...
Forum: Politics 12-05-2005, 08:25 AM
Replies: 80
Views: 370
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Scandinavia state of mind

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I did not imply that everyone in Eruope is in agreement. Europeans have not been unanimous or nearly unanimous about anything in the last two millenia, bless their inventive, belligerent,...
Forum: News, Views, and Gossip 11-28-2005, 09:33 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 69
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Why do people need backers?

I would also like to add

4) The logistical costs can be quite high

I.e. even for players that have a substantial edge in a certain tournament that edge can be substantially reduced if to play...
Forum: Small Stakes Hold'em 11-22-2005, 09:14 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 63
Posted By Bjorn
Re: My favorite game : Raise-A-Donk

If he likes to donk you really can't fold a hand like this. Remember that if you fold a hand that has been 3bet like this preflop as little as 17% of time the donkbet is automatic for him. In...
Forum: Small Stakes Hold'em 11-22-2005, 09:06 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 70
Posted By Bjorn
I find six misstakes in this hand

Between the 3 players whose hands we get to see I can find six misstakes in their play.

Preflop:
LP should have openraised, and when he didn't our hero should definitly raise.

Flop: BB should...
Forum: Small Stakes Hold'em 11-22-2005, 08:47 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 70
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Flopped A Set... Did I Miss A River Bet?

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Let me start off by recognizing that my preflop call with 8-8 was probably poor given that the pot was small. I probably should have either raised or folded preflop.

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Forum: Politics 11-17-2005, 11:00 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 138
Posted By Bjorn
Re: I don\'t think we should extradite anyone to the USA...

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I think this is a bit presumptuous, actually. If someone's being extradited to the US, it's because he committed a crime in the US or against Americans. Given that, I'm not sure where...
Forum: Politics 11-17-2005, 10:14 AM
Replies: 222
Views: 1,490
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Brand Spankin\' New Glock 19

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You're absolutely right. Nobody is going to threaten me with a shotgun, and then turn around to try to rob the store. It's a shame the two guys in the example weren't better shots - and...
Forum: Politics 10-28-2005, 07:01 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 101
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Germany and poker tax?

From what i heard (and don't take this as cold hard facts) playing online poker is illegal in germany. If this is true perhaps it's not such a good choice.

/Bjorn
Forum: Small Stakes Hold'em 10-26-2005, 06:47 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 59
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Three-Betting A9s and Other Silly Shenanigans

I like it.

Provided the button has a relativly generous raise-distribution i think 3beting is correct. (And I guess a lot of good TAGs would consider this a raise or fold situation.)

Did some...
Forum: Politics 10-24-2005, 10:19 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 190
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Too easy

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The system has to go by the stats and the stats are making that man's battle all uphill.

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On the other hand there are some pretty strong stats showing that kids that grow...
Forum: Internet Gambling 10-10-2005, 07:10 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 62
Posted By Bjorn
Re: player counts on various sites right now

Crypto about 4.5k
Prima about 5.5k

/Bjorn
Forum: Politics 10-03-2005, 06:58 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 120
Posted By Bjorn
What\'s to stop this quasi-stasi

That is stop them from becoming a de facto state? They have the power to do a lot of the things a state would do (a very small townsized state but none the less).

Let's say for instance that for...
Forum: Poker Theory 09-30-2005, 04:41 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 84
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Hand groups on web sites

May laymans (i.e. i'm not a layer) view considering what I've read about copyright law and also how it relates to various other fields is that it is almost certanly to post the groups themselves as a...
Forum: Texas Hold'em 09-27-2005, 07:35 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 93
Posted By Bjorn
Re: What kind of school did Ed Miller teach at before he went pro?

This is a pretty weird way to try to explain it given that (usually) water flowing trough pipes involves much more complicated math and physics than the electrical stuff they're trying to explain....
Forum: Small Stakes Hold'em 09-27-2005, 07:23 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 91
Posted By Bjorn
May I reraise?

If I thought that could get it heads up vs the SB i might be inclined to reraise here. But I guess these cats are loose enough to make that a lost cause so I'll just call.

But then again that's...
Forum: Politics 09-20-2005, 06:29 AM
Replies: 92
Views: 476
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Same Thing?

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The founders were quick to notice though -- that if I don't want to give up my rights, that third party will have to take it up with my Creator. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

The...
Forum: Politics 09-20-2005, 06:16 AM
Replies: 92
Views: 476
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Same Thing?

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Finally, I wanted to ask you about children. Say I'm driving with my 4-year-old son. He takes off his seatbelt. Do I have an obligation to put it back on? Do I have an...
Forum: Small Stakes Hold'em 09-16-2005, 07:31 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 64
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Flop bottom pair, checked around

On a night when i'm in a LAGish kind of mood i migth be overaggresive enought to occasionally bet the flop as a semibluff here. (This is probably not recomended.)

But even when I play sane I...
Forum: Books and Publications 09-14-2005, 05:08 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 99
Posted By Bjorn
Re: A review of your pre-review

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Go to the casino and start with $4-$8, don't play online because you can lose too much too fast

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On page 11 where the advice is given to begin by playing in a...
Forum: Small Stakes Hold'em 09-08-2005, 07:44 AM
Replies: 15
Poll: Book
Views: 55
Posted By Bjorn
Re: Book

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I voted for "good."

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I think you might be sligthly biased.

I do however agree with your judgement, in fact I think SSH is probably the best of the twenty odd poker...
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