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Wait, MigL repeats my infrared herring joke (made in the post previous to his) and he gets the plus ones for it?? Do not quite follow the pecking order here, but it's not my cup of tea.

My comparison was that you had an opinion and I had an opinion, neither of which are germane to the Rittenhouse trial or the laws that decided the case. Thanks for the clarification as that is not what you said when I posted my comment. You said "A God fearing nation... deserve what they get." Perhaps you can understand why I misunderstood you.

I think it was the correct judgement, and feel that it is more important to show integrity within our legal system than to slap the living shit out of some pissant who so desperately needs it. I'm also confident that we will take no action to create a more sensible and safe environment due to the slavish worship of the Second Amendment. Yes, that is why I said "being "wrong" has no criminal consequences."

You are moving the goalposts, intimidation with the sight of a gun, not actually shooting people was the focus there... it's not relevant.

How do you sort out the idiots from reasonable thinking people. Simple, the idiots are carrying guns. ( and I 'm guilty of electing Trudeau, not Trump ) I prefer Canuck of Italian descent.

Yes, more or less. I'm doing what you suggested and counting the carbon atoms, then applying the normal organic chemistry convention that all unwritten bonds to carbon are occupied by H. So a zigzag line will be a chain of -CH₂- units, for example, with a methyl group on the end because of the extra bond.

Closed circuit would be useful for juries to review testimony: body language and tone are more informative than a dead transcript. Also, in some cases there may be a questions regarding possible jury tampering, irregularity on the part of legal personnel, coaching of a witness or the chain of custody of physical evidence. A video record, preferably from at least two angles, would be as useful in a courtroom as it is on the football pitch. As mass entertainment, I'm very much against it. Most trials are not interesting enough to watch, but in the high-profile ones, iNow is right: the advocates do play to the house, and sometimes the 'yard', rather than directing their argument to the judge and jury. Even when there is no obvious short-term effect, it's a very bad idea to expose jurors, officers of the court and junior law clerks to public scrutiny - with all the dangers of of social media and targeting by crazies of all kinds, from unwanted romantic advances to bribe offers to harassment to physical intimidation. The worst long-term effect on society is subtle: a general fear of exposure. Good citizens will not come forward to accuse, to testify or to serve on juries; thrill-seekers and self-promoters might come forward with bogus information. I don't know whether, or to what extent, that's happened. It's not permitted in Canadian courts, where the effects would be more easily measurable, due to the scale.

It’s not a thread about the 2nd amendment, folks. Not hard to remember this, is it? This is about more than guns. It’s about culture and extremism. For example, the father of the boy that Rittenhouse maimed… the boy who survived but is now paralyzed from the waist down… the father of this kid has been getting countless death threats since this all happened. Death threats. To the father of a boy shot and paralyzed. The 2nd amendment and our gun laws didn’t lead to that.

Anyway, they've changed the US constitution 27 times. The second amendment is much in the news, only because it is much abused. Rittenhouse and Jake Angeli were not in any "well-regulated militia". The gun lobbies like to wave that half-sentence at legislators, who promptly collapse in heap - not because they can't argue with the constitution, but because they lack an internal skeletal structure.

You are stretching it a bit, Sensei. He had a a brand new gun... it gave him a metaphorical erection. he wanted to pose with it in public. It's only designed purpose is to put a hole in people... it was an AR-15.... a copy of an assault rifle.

He defended himself because he was attacked, but he went out of his way to put himself in that position...clear?

I believe I addressed that. Sorry I wasn't more clear. I did not mean it to be an infrared herring 😄 .

The thread topic is how albedo levels impact warming, and not on the CO2 aspect of it. So it is not about greenhouse gases and infrared re-radiation but rather about visible light being reflected and never heating surface in the first place. I could be wrong but I think the perception was you were bringing in an infrared herring. If not, then sorry to waste time on this.

Another study looked at the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and found additional evidence poi tinting to the Huanan market. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454

They should get created in such events as e.g. neutron star mergers - we just can't look for them. This has several reasons: First, transuranes are terribly unstable, with half-life in the millisecond range. (see below for some more...). Then, these unstable superheavy nuclei would decay into lighter nuclei, eventually ending up in one of the four possible decay series. (One of these, the Neptunium cascade, is technically extinct in earths natural element composition, as the half-life of its most stable isotope is in the million-years-range - while Earth has a few billion years of age) So, unless you're thinking REALLY big, no chance that these nuclei are stable... (...and thinking really big means atomic weights in the 10^57 range - Chandrasekar * Avogadro... ...and these "atoms" are commonly known as "neutron stars". White dwarfs still have discernible elemental compositions AFAIK.) Nuclear physics, however, predicts that at certain nucleic weigths with appropriate proton numbers, the nuclei should again be more stable. The best known is the element 110 island of stability. The wikipedia entry concerning that is quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability. As of now, we don't yet have the techniques to get those isotopes with the sufficent neutron numbers, though, but the less-stable isotopes that were generated did AFAIK mostly behave as predicted. The question where trans-irons come from - after all, nuclear fusion kinda "stops" at iron - has been partially answered / demonstrated: The merger of neutron stars mentioned above. https://www.science.org/content/article/neutron-star-mergers-may-create-much-universe-s-gold But beware, that case isn't closed yet, there's much ongoing debate: Look here for a more differentiated take: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2026110118. Still, we know that NS mergers do generate heavy elements, and there's no reason that there should be a cap at somewhere around 100 Da. That superheavy stuff just tends to decay really, really fast...

I've been doing woodworking since college. My dad was an extremely talented cabinet maker and my first major project was to design a waterbed which he and I built together. One of my fondest memories with him. We drove to southern Missouri to buy white oak and black walnut directly from the sawmill. The past couple of years I've spent a lot more time building things for outdoor use. We have a cabin on the Black River and I've been building foot bridges, benches, tables, an outdoor shower, and other items. I find wood working extremely rewarding. I've also taught my kids and wife and they can all build things. Here is a picture of waterbed we've been sleeping in for over 30 years.

Not even the testimony of a survivor, apparently. If you can make sure yours are the only "feels" that are heard, the WI judge will set you free. Just remember that if you have a plastic bag, or a skateboard, or even a handgun, you shouldn't feel threatened by someone with an AR-15, because if you do, he can claim you were going to use it to take his AR-15 and harm or possibly kill him. To be on the safe side, others who shouldn't feel threatened include people with phones, people with water bottles, and people with hands.