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Too bad those 22.4% have to do the heavy lifting for the 77.6%.

 

 

Guns are magic.

I have magic dynamite for sale that protects you from earthquakes.If the earth starts shaking, light the dynamite and you are safe from everything.

The straightforward application of logic, that to see back in time we can reverse the dynamics we observe now, leads to singularity.
There are probably ways to work around the singularity,but only observation, not logic, can possibly distinguish the correct origin theory.
If the correct origin theory makes sense logically you still have a chicken egg. Did logic define the universe or does the universe define the logic.

It seems that for math to function, a foundation of logic must have preceded it, or else a 6 could be a 9 and reality would fall apart as equations fail, and the BB wouldn't have happened...(jimi hendrix joke withheld)

And the hippies cut off all their hair.

Since you can't use logic to prove boolean algebra is true, it seems like logic is philosophy and math a branch of logic.

But that's just my freak-flag waving high.

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edit:you can't stop jimmy

If the supreme court refuses to hear a case do they say why?
Slate magazine was wondering about this reluctance in the court to hear gun rights cases last year.

"These questions have bedeviled the lower courts over the past few years, with judges all across the country offering contradictory answers. One federal appeals court held that police can exercise broad discretion over who can carry a gun in public, while another held the opposite. Some courts have adopted a test for Second Amendment cases that gives lawmakers considerable leeway to enact gun laws, while others have insisted on a more strict scrutiny. In some ways, the current Supreme Court jurisprudence on guns raised as many questions as it answered."

Sitting on their hands may be an easy way to preserve the status quo.

 

I don't think it's strange at all. The court can only consider questions that are brought before it, and are supposed to be resilient to outside considerations affecting it. There has to be some matter of law or procedure to consider for them to take a case.

My impression was the court had refused several gunrights cases in the last 5 or 6 years. Is there a list of cases the court has refused somewhere?

It seems strange for the court to be so quiet on a hot-button issue like gun rights. Could the issue be more valuable as a wedge (to the divide and conquer forces that have us balkanized)?

The Atlantic has a bit of background and an iteration of your question.

Have you looked at/played with a wave tank? If you google "standing wave tank" you'll find some ideas.
Chiladni plates are a good way to visualize some kinds of sound waves.
For an idea of the difference between square waves and sine waves a good enough simulation is a light switch with a dimmer.
When the light goes on quickly stays on a short time, and turns off quickly that is approximately a square wave.
If you turn the dimmer brighter and dimmer periodically and continuously, that is approximately a sine wave.

Waves are great fun. You can even study them in the kitchen sink.

The gambler in me is wondering if I could maybe win a free drink betting the barkeep there are no 2p coins from 09/10 in their cash register.?

Joke's over folks move along please...

BUT if you have a minute,
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you think you know what a leader is? well i'm about to show you a new leader, a true leader, a leader like you've only dreamed about.
what's the biggest problem around your house? i bet it's pesky aliens am i right?
well this leader will make aliens dissappear like magic.
and i bet you can't stand those stubborn intellectuals taking all the fun out of teevee.
this leader can make them go away forever.
i know what you're thinking friends, it just can't be so easy.
but it is just that easy. even dummies like third world dictators can do it, and so can you.
gone - all those questions you can't answer any other way.
gone - disharmony and disorder
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all the details are listed in the package.

So many congresscritters spent the last 8 years making Obama a one termer, could Obama run for a third term or would they notice.
They've enjoyed so many successes recently,from un-electing Clinton to "re" electing W, do they really care about constitutional democracy anyway?

I could have sworn there is a philosophy section here.

Or maybe this is all a big solipsism.

can we say "real" means some impetus that has an effect in the objective universe. objective meaning available to anyone who makes the relevant observations.
or is there a contradiction lurking? like is the motivating force "real"?
hope you'll forgive me for being a blind man in the dark here.

How about: if i can measure it, it represents something real.

temperature is real in the sense that it's caused by mass and motion.

same for mr. coyote, the potential energy represents mass in a "field";

sorry for being dumb. just hoping to get the ball rolling.

TRIGGER A LERT: scary words and pictures
Nothing , mr. CIA man

Off-topic some more, but now we'll know which is worse: a broken jaw or being identified as a non-christian.

I think there may even be some correlation between the two.

keep us updated.

More bizarro IMO is that he and his trivially false beliefs appeal to a sizable enough number of Americans so as to be currently polling in first/second place within the GOP primary.

Some of my Neighbors no doubt.

I hope he's just there to make Trump look worldly.

I'd rather vote for Clint's empty chair.

I don't understand how somebody could think lying about something as inconsequential to the world as a blowjob is in the same realm of charactor flaws as a guy that doesn't care there is a real world out there, the one in his head is just great.
And all the instructions for solving problems in his world are in his iconic little book.

That his (Carson's) views are being expressed on a stage with the next republicant candidate for president is bazaaro.

Acme, did you go all meta and look at the page source or something?
I have noticed the "most online" counter spike up pretty high sometimes, and always thought spam spam spam spam....

i think a method is needed to distinguish between supernatural and natural but unknown.

If i understand your analogy, Laura can show her wrinkled pennies;
She can't show her feelings about anything. She can describe her feelings, and i might think i feel the same thing. but do i?
how do you standardize feelings?

So, it's definitely not cheese-nips per moderator day. didn't know if i should be concerned or impressed.

You are still missing the point.

What is 'unscientific' about abstinence ?

Nothing unscientific about abstinence.

What is unscientific is ignoring the failure rate of preaching abstinence to slow the spread of STD's.

There are some extreme examples in the OT. Take Solomon for example, we are told he had 300 wives and 700 concubines. Now that seems rather promiscuous IMO yet it didn't count against him.

It's good to be king.

It is taking responsibility for your actions that seems to be the message that I got from reading the OT.

That is a goal I wish more people shared.

Don't overeat, and deny your basic biology, because that may lead to obesity and heart disease.

Don't overindulge in alcohol/drugs, and deny any biological feel-good stimulus, because that is also bad for your health.

And there are many others which are preached to us daily by non-clergy.

 

Fact is, unprotected sex is dangerous.

One safeguard is protection,; another is abstinence ( and MOST of the time, that's not a choice ).

There are observations to support all that.

just like science, religion saw the ill effects of promiscuity,gluttony, and I can't remember what the bible says about drugs.

Unlike science, religion says don't do it or burn.

I'm not trying to deny faith is powerful, in the faithful. So screw everybody else?

Fact is, unprotected sex is dangerous.

 

Thank you for reinforcing my point about the unscientific foolishness of condom use being discouraged?

If "don't have sex because you can regret it for the rest of your possibly short unhappy life" does not convince people to abstain, "because i say so" is hopeless.