MigL

Quick question for those who understand American Governance a lot better than I do. Now that Democrats control the Presidency, House, and Senate ( tie-break ), is it possible for them to change election rules and make elections a federal jurisdiction ( instead of State ), so that elections across the country follow the exact same rules ? Or is it a Constitutional issue, and requires a super-majority for a Constitutional Amendment. And while they're at it, address the 'big money' influence, and distribution of voting districts ( if not the whole Electoral College issue, and change to majority of popular vote )

You're seriously using my quote as an example of duplicitousness in my stance?! Are you saying these courageous patriots were just challenging the unjust laws that protect our national institutions, by arming themselves and breaking into the Capitol building? That's a pretty slimy way to argue, if you don't mind my pointing it out, MigL. Wow ! You got all that from "Phi for All replied" ? I said nothing else ! Where you get the duplicitousness and slime, I have no clue. But, if you didn't mean that those idiots who broke the law on Wednesday, should be able to argue it in court as to why it was the 'right thing to do', maybe you should explain and clarify YOUR post. If you don't mind my pointing it out.

Put down those knives guys ...

Always glad to oblige INow . That was the first thread I found, and may not be the best for the point I'm trying to make, but I was rushing before you and Koti get into a knife fight . They are not that different, CharonY; both protests take away others rights. The Canadian one takes away freedoms to move about and/or conduct business, and the American one takes away the right to have everyone's vote count in a fair election. And although all unlawful behavior is not violent, all violence is unlawful behavior. So what are you suggesting, that if there was no violence involved, Wednesday's insurrection, where a group that felt themselves to be wronged tried to take away the rights of the rest of the populace, would then be justified ? If not, then please explain to me where the line is, between protesting, and taking away other's rights, versus protesting, but taking away other's rights is merely an inconvenience. PS If I didn't have to get up early for work, tomorrow morning, I might go through the G Floyd/BLM thread to find more appropriate examples. Maybe tomorrow night.

In the thread I started, 'Canadian Protests', in Feb 2020, where no actual violence occurred because police chose not to enforce the law, and allowed unlawful behaviour for months, your reply was "Like in Hong Kong, at some point we need to realize the protestors have a poor and that its worth fighting for." Phi for All replied "I don't know about Canadian law, but in the US, the courts don't overturn bad laws on their own, they need people to break them and then argue in court why it was the right thing to do." Dimreepr said "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter; it depends, in general, on which side of the poverty line he resides." Do I need to find you more ? I imagine D Trump thought that the reason for inciting this protest ... "Because that’s the only way enough people will begin paying the required attention to actually change things. If the status quo is too comfortable for you, you’ll act as an obstacle to the change" I assume the protesters, at D Trump's urging, attempted to make Democracy too uncomfortable for Americans. Oh, and I'm not suggesting any equivalence between the above mentioned Canadian protests, and what happened Wednesday in the Capital. But both were unlawful, and only differed by degree.

We do have people who have served on nuclear subs. At least Swansont claims to have one so. ( personally, I think he just watches 'The Hunt For Red October' over, and over; he's got a crush on Sean Connery )

What ??? No gun ? That's pretty lame for a red-neck !

In a Democracy , everyone has the right to cast a vote for the Government of his/her choosing. And everyone has the right to peacefully protest what they see as unjust. No-one has the right to violent protest, although far too many ( some on this very forum ) will excuse, or turn a blind eye, to the violence and rationalize it as 'the protesters are powerless and have no other option'; but only when they agree with the cause of the protest. We have now seen how rationalizing violence, no matter how noble the cause, can be corrupted by a self-serving, unscrupulous President, in an attempt to deprive people of their Democratic right to a vote. The good thing is that D Trump has ruined the current incarnation of the Republican party; almost half of Republicans are shocked and dismayed by Wednesday's insurrection, or attempt at a coup. Quite a few of his Cabinet have already resigned. I would think a lot of D Trump backers will have trouble getting re-elected, and the GOP will have to do some searching, before they can find the next 'R Reagan' that will make them contenders for the Presidency again. And it would be an even better thing if the person responsible for this coup attempt ( America is now officially a 3rd world country ) is removed from office ( either 25th or another impeachment ), and does some serious jail time.

Sorry about your friend's parent, CharonY. I was off of work, myself, for quite some time, and there hadn't been a single infection at my work. On my second day back, we get notification that a female in the research department has tested positive, and several people ( not me ) who had been in contact with her, are now also isolating. Unfortunately, I am one of the 'older' people there.

Sure, he called out the protesters, and threatened prosecution, but he always adds "even though we won the election … by a landslide … and we were robbed". The 'beacon' of Democracy, once a symbol around the world, has been turned into the 'laughing stock', of the world by D Trump, and his useful idiots. Last time we saw shit like this was the 20s, when B Mussolini marched on Rome to take power by fascist intimidation and violence, or the street battles and violence by Hitler's Nazi party, that eventually saw the end of the Weimar Republic, and forced von Hindenburg to appoint him Chancellor. I would be willing to bet, both Mexico, and Canada, will pay for their own border walls now.

Just making themselves seem environmentally friendly; full electric will only haul batteries, not very many people. Reminds me of early environmentalists, 40-50 years ago, touting electric clean power as opposed to dirty fossil fuels, at a time when a large portion of electric power was produced by burning coal !

I don't believe so. The last couple of months of the President's even crazier behavior, with the election fraud claims and tampering, and the mess with Covid relief payouts, has fractured the Republican party, and looks to have given democrats control of the Senate; something they wouldn't have even imagines 2 months ago.

Seems like a reasonable idea. After all we treat allergic reactions the same way; we treat the symptoms of an over-reacting immune system, instead of trying to 'control' the immune system to NOT over-react to essentially harmless substances. It would take a lot longer, so not the way to go during a world-wide pandemic, but a better understanding of the human immune system, how it varies with different people, and methods to control immune reactions, might be an alternate mechanism in the future.

It is much easier to tell if something is NOT random, than if it IS random. Take the 29 digit fraction .0000026535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 which seems totally random. Yet, if you add 3.14159 to it, you end up with Pi , to 30 significant digits; not random at all. So, was the fraction random, or did we lack information ?

Looks like somebody trashed the memory crystals in Superman's Fortress of Solitude. No seriously … very nice !

Isn't the act of a sitting President committing election tampering an impeachable offense ? Congress should immediately convene to start the process. Oh, wait … that's already happened !

I'm not sure if D Trump was the useful idiot of the GOP, or if the GOP were D Trump's useful idiots. Those people in INow's photos are there for D Trump, not the GOP. If anything, he seems to have fractured the GOP into the group that wants to cut him loose ( including M McConnell now ), and those who cling to his coat tails in the faint hope of retaining power ( no matter how crazy, and illegal, he gets ). Maybe the Democrats should be thanking D Trump, he has exposed the craziness of the current GOP, and may well end up wrecking their current organization.

???? Maybe if it was 'heavenly' bodies, instead of 'celestial' … ( is your mind always in the gutter ? )

Yes, you are ! Most accurate thing you've said, so far.

Maybe that 'pass the time' job you do for the Government. Certainly not this unpaid gig, which takes up most of your time, as a forum administrator.

I he didn't know, a 'reasonable' person would ask Studiot what he meant. Studiot would be more than glad to help, and explain further. A 'not so reasonable' person might start immediately making assertions about limits, derivatives, circular actions, angular momentum, and 'superimposing'. Which one are you ?

I do not like living in a society where Religious leaders 'interpret' scriptures to govern people, instead of people choosing their representatives to govern them. So I choose to live in the Western world, governed by elected Governments; not ruled by Religious Clerics, Kings, or Dictators. Apparently a lot of Muslims do also, as they are emigrating to Europe and North America in large numbers. I guess they don't like that 'way of life' either. By the way, most of us know 'jihad' means struggle, or effort, but what does it have to do with Sharia Law in the US, and how has 'jihad' been used in the past ? Words take on new meaning according to what they describe; if you use 'jihad' to describe religious wars, or violent actions, eventually that is what it comes to mean. PS Quite a bit of the Middle Age Islamic science was 'old' Greek science, which Muslims preserved, but Europe did not.

Santa must have been good to Phi, and he's paying it forward.

I guess you still need to do some work on your question posing. And forget your assumptions, or insights, or whether it 'sounds like' limits and derivatives, or circular and angular momentum. Also don't bother pointing anything out to people who understand this stuff much better than you can even imagine.

Don't make absurd assertions, which a high school student can prove false. Post ideas beginning with " I think … ", and then provide evidence for your ideas, which we can rebut. on this forum, preachers and bloggers usually end up getting banned.