StringJunky

You need to stay here a bit longer, we don't agree on everything. Your snapshot of the members positions is too short.

No, his motive. New gun... party! As we say here, he's playing the the big "I am...". He travelled 20 miles into a trouble with a gun and you call it "standing his ground".

What he said was prophetic. He clearly saw his weapon as a means to sort his problems out and be more powerful... essentially it extended his immature penis. He was/is a wannabe tough-man. "When you have a hammer, everything is a nail" sort of thinking. I think this image reinforces the point. Note that he is not under attack.

Marvelous and clever movie . I wish I could write like the author.

Bit coincidental that his comments bore fruit. On a side note, I'm glad we didn't pick up this subject until now, after the trial. There would have been endless speculation. We can do a cleaner, more productive autopsy.

In this morning's AP: Yes, @iNow, asymmetric justice is what's causing much of this backlash. The guns and 2nd Amendment are aggravating factors that precipitated the ethnic inequity... the law is not colour-blind, as it should be. I couldn't believe the cops drove right by him with a rifle in his hands and arms up.

So, you are saying the re-radiated photons preferentially travel towards Earth? If photon scattering is random, half will head away and half towards the ground. By my estimation that is a 50% reduction in absorption by the ground, roughly.

If you were earning a living with it you would have a compressor and nail gun. :)

iirc James Lovelock in the 90's suggested dimming is delaying the real effects of climate change and mitigating loss of albedo on the ground. When we clean up the air the real problem starts.

Criminality doesn't fall along partisan lines, so we have to look through that particular type of noise here. E2A Although Ive asked the US guys the question, if anyone else wants to contribute, knock yourself out and do.

I didn't realise lower court judges are elected?! I'd rather avoid the subject of gun ownership in general, apart from him crossing state lines illegally with one... if it matters. We've done that subject pretty thoroughly in the past and I think we know where we stand on that. I think the takeaways from this verdict are much more than that. I think this is more about racism, in that white people can get off more easily than blacks and others as swansont noted. If it was a black person in the dock under the same circumstances, I think you would agree the judicial outcome would have been very different.

It's a symptom of a system breaking down. It's just confirmation in my mind.

I was wondering what you guys over the pond think of today's judgement?

It's not objective accuracy that matters with the naive audience, it's appearing to be confident and showing conviction. Scary really.

Egyptology is just a refined area or subset of archaeology, and all the disciplines it uses. Fundamentally, they argue with evidence, which is what scientists do.

But I think Charon's error bars are narrower than his.

In the case of this chap, I agree. Also, his contrition seems genuine and the judge said as much.

At least he dressed up for the part.

LOL! Good one.

Yes.

It's an occasional opportunity to see the Moon as a sphere instead of bright flat disc.

You would have thought the Russians would have learnt the lesson from the Chinese missile exercise some years ago. Some people are just thick... you can't fix stupid.

I think that too. Something insidious has affected Republican politics. It's not good in large parts the world either.

Where else?