OT: what would really kill sitngo profitability

Answer

Letting the chinese population get in on the action. Once they figure out there is a way to make more than 20 cents an hour by playing a game we are all dead. Thank god for an oppressive communism government keeping our games as fishy as possible.

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I'm not saying they wouldn't be, but what makes you think the chinese will all be so good at poker?

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I'm not saying they wouldn't be, but what makes you think the chinese will all be so good at poker?

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this is something im always unsure about.

is it still racism if its a good thing about the race?

like the obvious implication is that chinese people are good at math, which is a stereotype that people like to bandy about. it's essentially a positive thing -- being good at something can't really be bad. but it's still racist, isn't it?

it's like saying black people have big penises (penii?), or are good at basketball. it's positive, but i'm pretty sure it's still racist.

[pooh74]

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I'm not saying they wouldn't be, but what makes you think the chinese will all be so good at poker?

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this is something im always unsure about.

is it still racism if its a good thing about the race?

like the obvious implication is that chinese people are good at math, which is a stereotype that people like to bandy about. it's essentially a positive thing -- being good at something can't really be bad. but it's still racist, isn't it?

it's like saying black people have big penises (penii?), or are good at basketball. it's positive, but i'm pretty sure it's still racist.

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Ohhh Donna Chang, did you say the rines were crossed?

If I LIKE their race, how am I a racist? good point Jerry

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I realize this takes this discussion further off topic. But assuming racial intelligence differences are negligable and general intelligence actually does exist. I wonder what percentage of the population has the potential(intelligence) to beat the game of poker at a high level. I dont know any substantial winners personally and I am not but I do believe some large percentage of the population might not be able to succeed in poker or be highly unlikely to do so.

[Mr_J]

"ike the obvious implication is that chinese people are good at math"

Because they study hard...

"it's like saying black people have big penises"

Blacks and caucasians are about the same, other races are a little smaller.

"or are good at basketball"

Look at the other top bball countries, they're mostly white.

All of these sorts of things are cultural, not racial.

[Bluff Daddy]

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"ike the obvious implication is that chinese people are good at math"

Because they study hard...

"it's like saying black people have big penises"

Blacks and caucasians are about the same, other races are a little smaller.

"or are good at basketball"

Look at the other top bball countries, they're mostly white.

All of these sorts of things are cultural, not racial.

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how many 6'9" white guys do you see running around with 40" verticals?

[Mr_J]

"how many 6'9" white guys do you see running around with 40" verticals?"

Are you trying to say that one race is better than another at bball??

[ChrisV]

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I'm not saying they wouldn't be, but what makes you think the chinese will all be so good at poker?

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this is something im always unsure about.

is it still racism if its a good thing about the race?

like the obvious implication is that chinese people are good at math, which is a stereotype that people like to bandy about. it's essentially a positive thing -- being good at something can't really be bad. but it's still racist, isn't it?

it's like saying black people have big penises (penii?), or are good at basketball. it's positive, but i'm pretty sure it's still racist.

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Everyone is so scared of the racism bogey today. The following statements are all, in my opinion, true:

- Blacks are on average better runners than whites
- Whites are on average better swimmers than blacks

Everyone is generally cool with that. But most people balk at the following, which I also believe is true:

- Asians have higher average IQ than whites, who in turn have higher average IQ than blacks.

Most people reject this out of hand without even knowing anything about the subject. Nevertheless I think it's true. There are basically no implications here, it doesn't mean we should treat races any differently, either in terms of public policy or individually. It just seems to be taboo to discuss the subject, after a century tainted by apartheid, the Holocaust, and numerous other racial crimes and biases.

Anyway my point of view is that it's not racism if it is:

(1) True, and:
(2) You don't treat individual members of races differently.

Sorry about the thread hijack. The most prestigious horse race on the Australian calendar, the Melbourne Cup, has just been run and tradition is to stop work and have a few drinks, which indeed I have done. More than a few, actually.

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Sorry about the thread hijack.

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I'm not =P The OP was pretty much absurd.

And I guess I have some issue with the "fact" of the relative IQ of all these races. I am not convinced that IQ (or any test, in fact) can accurately calculate "natural intelligence," whatever that actually means. This doesn't make it a useless test -- it just makes it limited.

I guess what I'm saying is, by the time children can be given an IQ test with any degree of accuracy, environmental factors have already substantially affected the development of the brain of the child. So it may not be the case that Blacks are *necessarily* less intelligent than whites -- it may simply be the case that, on average, blacks grow up in poverty more often than whites, and are therefore more often negatively affected by environmental standards, before (and probably after) they take their first IQ test.

Anyway, something to think about. Thanks for replying to my post though =).


And yeah, as a country we are way too PC. But generally the anti-PC people are anti-PC to a fault as well (because, I guess, they are trying to prove a point). There has to be a happy medium in there.