Mr Skeptic

This seems like it might have a better chance of working, especially if leaking some of the electric charge would be acceptable, though to keep with the spirit of the post it could be used on the surface of the balloon instead of as a gas. But then the weight of the insulator would become an issue.

Yeah, especially if we then have to worry about edited quotes.

People should know how to figure that out from the error message their compiler gives, and that should be far quicker too. Having a whole forum for asking about syntax errors is like begging for people to let us do their work for them. There might be an occasional syntax error that might be worthy of being discussed on a forum, but really most are quite trivial.

I think that A) Some of our text-only lists need fixing, specifically the second item using capital letters, and B) This smiley has to go.

There can only be one Cap'n

Our new Statue of Liberty:

dumb [duhm] adjective, -er, -est, verb –adjective 5. disagreeing with a politician on one or more issues. Depending on the circumstances, slightly more polite words might be used instead, or the accusation done only indirectly such as contained within a joke. 7. mute, silent -verb 3. To attempt to mute or silence by calling a person dumb.

Well there's the "active content", all the latest posts of the day. Hard to find though, it is way at the bottom. Or, you can log out, click view new content, and then log in or bookmark the page. Yes, we do need better lists of our content.

http://www.hol.com/~mikesch/tetzel.htm After Tetzel had received a substantial amount of money at Leipzig, a nobleman asked him if it were possible to receive a letter of indulgence for a future sin. Tetzel quickly answered in the affirmative, insisting, however, that the payment had to made at once. This the nobleman did, receiving thereupon letter and seal from Tetzel. When Tetzel left Leipzig the nobleman attacked him along the way, gave him a thorough beating, and sent him back empty-handed to Leipzig with the comment that this was the future sin which he had in mind. Duke George at first was quite furious about this incident, but when he heard the whole story he let it go without punishing the nobleman. Source: Luthers Schriften, herausg. von Walch. XV, 446.

The bolded parts contradict themselves. Something is unfalsifiable if and only if it makes no real predictions, which precludes it being tested or empirically validated. In any case, I too have a theory of everything but it does not fit in the 140 chara

Various DNA similarities can only be explained by having the creatures be modified copies, unless you are a believer in absurdly unlikely coincidences.

Yes, from well before we were human. This is why the same pattern is seen in other species, as unlikely as that would be to happen were they not modified copies.

I would suggest not breathing chlorine since it can and will kill you.

You can always rinse the stuff off the eggs, no? Rinse and centrifuge? I don't think any of those you listed will affect the DNA, and the other parts you need to remove anyways.

A good point, and one of the many reasons that we are not rational (or at least sometimes appear not to be). In part this is because the game of life has multiple rounds. If this one game was all there were, rejecting a proposal on the basis of unfairness might not be rational. But in a multi-round game you can make it clear that you reject "unfair" proposals, logic be damned. In the end, this sense of fairness can benefit you, as others fear to offer you an unfair proposal.