John Cuthber

So, let's be quite clear about this. " Those lost lives are the price we pay for keeping all of our rights thereby enabling the rest of our population to achieve their full potential as human beings. Freedom isn't free. Americans have always understood that. " You really think that dead children are not as important as your "right" to carry a gun? You might want to think carefully about that before you answer, because many people will see an affirmative reply as utterly perverse. Every now an then, a facebook meme actually nails it.

Every day I fail to exercise my right to jump of a tall building. I relinquish the right to own a gun for the same reason.

" How much cooperation should we have on abortion rights? How much cooperation should we on gay marriage rights? How much cooperation should we have on voting rights? " We could start with enough cooperation to stop killing people. You need to realise the killing isn't a right; it's a wrong. "How about this. In order to register to vote you have to supply your own weapon, ammunition, pass a safety test, and qualify on a shooting range. Your voter registration card would now be multi purpose. It would act as your gun registration, concealed carry permit, and guarantee that our militia is well regulated. Can't supply your own weapon, ammunition, pass your safety test, and range qualify, well then you can't vote. So how do you like compromise now? " That's not compromise though, is it. You are just being silly. "Those other countries have never been as dedicated to human rights as we have been. " Waterboarding. Texan 3 necked flasks Etc. Shucks it took you this long to legalise gay marriage.

"as good as it gets " in the very real sense that practically every civilised country in the world does better. A dead kid every day is "as good as it gets". This is "as good as it gets"

A statement like "You are already obsolete, have a nice day." suggests to me tha the author is trolling. After all, he must know that many or most of the people who post here are not involved in repetitive manual labour or whatever. So,until there's a robot that can do complicated creative work, he's plainly wrong; and he should know it.

If the relative humidity is higher than about 75% the one with salt water won't evaporate at all- it will pick up water from the air.

Why do people say that reversing an amendment is "extreme" ? It happened before.

A safety catch wouldn't have helped at Sandy Hook either- but it's still a good idea for some other circumstances. It's silly to condemn training because it doesn't help in every possible case. But this "People move from sane to insane quickly." is a good reason not to let anyone have guns.

Has that ever happened?

Or we can say there's still one Universe. We live in the local bit of it which we can call the observable Universe. Without needing to redefine any words. So, how did the observable universe come into being? Well we don't really know- but wee can go with the big bang as a reasonable guess- which seems to fit the data so far. How did the unobservable bits of the Universe come into being? We really don't know- perhaps we never will because we can't observe them. Did the unobservable bits of the universe give rise to the observable bit? We will presumably never know, but it's possible.

OK When it comes down to it, America still has a lot of guns because many people think that a dead disadvantaged poor kid every day is an acceptable price to pay for owning guns. All the rest of the debate is window dressing to that fact. It still seems odd to me.

When it comes down to it, America still has a lot of guns because many people think that a dead kid every day is an acceptable price to pay for owning guns. All the rest of the debate is window dressing to that fact. It seems odd to me.

We aren't.

Unless they are already in trouble https://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/buychem.igor.html

What does the "uni" bit of "universe" mean?

Famously they are denied the right to peaceful enjoyment of their possessions- they are not allowed to buy three necked flasks. http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/HS/htm/HS.481.htm I guess not many of them lose sleep over it,but it illustrates the point that the state is quite capable of removing rights for no good reason. Remember folks; if you outlaw three necked flasks then only outlaws will have them.

So Texans are not fully human then. I will let you explain that to them.

So, both the imposition and the removal of prohibition were absolutely right? Slavery was fundamentally right and so was its abolition. Or the constitution is a product of its time and can legitimately change. However the real doozy is this "Advocating that the Constitution be set aside because it could be amended is one of those irrational and threatening extremist stances that render the whole US situation a dysfunctional mess. It's a threat. Don't threaten people you need to gain trust from. " Nobody suggested setting aside the constitution did they? Because it can be amended is precisely the reason why there is no need to set it aside.

What are you replacing aluminium cookware etc with? Iron's toxic, chromium and nickel are carcinogenic so I hope you are not using stainless steel. Borates and silica are toxic so pyrex type glass is out (and most enamelled or ceramic materials too).

"It's based on the KKK never getting started in its lynch habit if its targets had had guns handy. And that is a reasonable, evidence backed, viewpoint. It should be treated as such. " And if both sides had guns handy? We will never know- so it's hardly "evidence based". You just demonstrated my point- the group with the big guns got away with a lot of killing and in a way they still do. Have a look at the stats for the colour of people shot by the police. (Thought I'm not altogether sure that the KKK are a realistic model of the government.) Hitler's rise to power wasn't hindered by the fact that plenty of decent law abiding citizens still had guns (and the knowledge to use them) from WWI Tyranny is most likely to turn up with a smiling face, offering to protect you from the "outsiders". Now imagine that the "outsiders" are the government and the smiling faces are those of the NRA. It works both ways. Oh boy! I see the constitution is still popping up as a "reason" for things. It can be rewritten. It has been. It could be again. So, if you think those rights come from the constitution and the constitution comes from [whatever group or individual has the authority to rewrite it] then your rights are at the whim of that group. Well, yes they are, and what if that group decides to change its mind and ban guns? What if they decide to enforce that whim by military power?

It seems that I can summarise this thread by saying that sometimes if you add an even number to a prime you get another prime.

So, what you are saying is that to do something different, somewhere else would need something different.

What do you mean by "presage "?

In many cases the answer is "thousands of miles of supply lines". In the case of Ireland, the UK still essentially occupies 6 counties and there's an uneasy peace there of sorts. Give it a while and the occupation will be seen to have succeeded. In France the government also only had "toys".

Understanding thermite reactions and amalgamation is a tiny part of chemistry. re. "With a handwave and some jargon we dismiss ANY U being amalgamated in the core, " No we don't- not if we are competent chemists. That's simply not how partition equilibria work. Most of the rest of what you say just doesn't make enough sense to comment on except this "I believe a negative gravitational (but not inertial) mass for the electron would begin verification and explain much besides, even in meteorology. Can this be done yet?" You might believe that , but it doesn't agree with the experiments. In Mass spectrometers the inertial mass is measured, but the watt balance measures gravitational mass. The two agree to very high precision- much better than they would if electrons had negative mass The actual evidence shows that your idea is wrong. (It was never good enough to be called a theory) . Reality doesn't agree with you and it isn't because reality has made a mistake.