dimreepr

Indeed, but the kettle doesn't attack. Danger much like heat is a continuum; there's a vast difference between walking down a street where there happens to be a dangerous person and walking into a gang's home and shouting wankers. Either way, the fault is the attacker, not the victim (A kettle has no choice how hot it is). Maybe, but I notice you haven't addressed the other part of the same post.

Quite the loquacious strawman, married or not, come hither look or "come get it sailor" any, supposed, contract is null and void as soon as she/he says "stop" or "no". Whilst it's wise to teach people to avoid potential danger, there's no reason blame them for being attacked if they don't.

There are several billion humans, to show your hypothesis 100% accurate you'd have to cut off all our heads, who's going to check?

Does it? Yes, you get people that give up and blame victims because they should know better. Do you know what you get when you fail to understand that determinism doesn't exist? Think about it...

Righteous indignation is a pre-requisite of any war, the army is strong and few rally against it...

Good point +1, notice Raider no -1 for you...

WTF are you talking about?

That may be true of governments because they have fiscal/public obligations; it doesn't matter who you vote for, you will always get the government. If I get over excited and punch you, in the face, because of your stupidity, I have no defense. If I get over excited and rape you, because of your dress sense, I have a defense. Where is the compromise?

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” ― Oscar Wilde

If I punched you, I couldn't cite your stupid question as a defense.

What price victory?

Every time I read one of your posts, I hear Micheal Palin prepping a grenade, but in a thread like this, I hear John Cleese threatening to bite your legs off. A moose once bit my sister...

I differ to your expertise, but it does seem to be both...

Look at your smartphone, it's not glass your touching, it's indium tin oxide.

The one that stuck in my mind is that there is no direct evidence that anyone, in history, has suggested the earth is flat, until now...

No such thing as fish is a rich source of material.

finally, something we can all agree on...

Personally, I find heat to be soporific. The only link I can think of is alcohol, spare time and hot weather and all my friends and I start thinking of an ice cold larger.

Now I feel foolish...

I'm not...

Given Maxwell's equations, it's reasonable to suppose that gravity, light and time are one and the same. I'm not saying you're wrong but it is a very interesting tangent, perhaps deserving its own thread.

But it doesn't mean they can't attain a reasonable facsimile.

That reminds me of this: It does bring up a very interesting point, however one wants to describe oneself there are fundamental limits to that description.

We were talking about physics and that our knowledge thereof is approaching an asymptote, but specifically about something other than light that can communicate knowledge at galactic distances; I don't disagree with your sand analogy other than to add, we're currently using tweezers to pick up more. I wouldn't dismiss completely the magic ray DrP talked of, just the probability seems vanishingly low.

LOL My poison is scrumpy, what's yours?