Cap'n Refsmmat

If we can do it with particle accelerators operating at .9c, we can do it with a railgun.

If you're paranoid, switch to OpenBSD and check for updates daily.

It's not that it's phrased poorly, it's that it takes up half the screen.

Ordinarily I'd beat drochaid over the head for that comment, but it makes the point so well... The advantage of forums is that you can respond to posts whenever you want. This isn't a chatroom or, God forbid, an actual meeting of people, so you're not obligated to respond to everybody. Please remove your obnoxious signature.

Farsight, please stop using speculations as fact. The rest of us admit that we're not sure about time's nature, but you don't seem to. The same goes for other places where you interject with a speculation rather than a real theory.

Does he declare you as a dependent on his tax forms?

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/lifestyle/article2360313.ece Australia's already banning incandescent bulbs.

Back on topic please.

Maybe that was why I was acting so irrational...

You stinker.

A cat, one owned by a member of my family if possible. We've had neighbors say they'd like to be our cats as well

Well I suppose I'll defer to those who lean more than I do

No, not that I've noticed, though that's not exactly something I pay much attention to. And I doubt increased weight on one side will significantly wear it.

How does being left-handed shift your weight on the toilet?

An 11m wall?

Because that single point was everything that existed. Everything was in that point, so everywhere was the origin. There was no "outside" of the point. You can't look at it from the outside - it was everything.

ydoapscentrism?

Err, do go on, please.

You might not be able to read all of this, but: http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19325943.900-climate-report-was-watered-down.html

Tough one, but the best answer would be treat them as though they are a person. It's not fair to make a distinction between various people of the same potential just because one is temporarily incapacitated. Brains in jars have feelings too! I would argue that it is. People get upset over unplugging a person in a vegetative state, and the brain is probably doing more thinking than the person in the coma.

That wouldn't be sufficiently independent, unless they use machine learning to determine what the words mean and what the appropriate words for the response mean. It can't be pre-programmed with its response.

The argument would only have to be, "I'm arguing about this, thus, I am a person." That's close enough for me. They're arguing that they are a person, and the definition states that they must make an argument that they are a person, so that's all that must be done. If they can recognize that much, I'd call it good.

Here's the easiest definition of "person" I can think of: Person: Anything capable of independently making a convincing argument that it is a person. You'd have to apply it species/group/whatever-wide, as some members of the species/group may not be capable (mental problems, whatever).

Natural selection will eventually take over, don't worry about it.

Then go discuss it there.