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Good. These are men who haven't forgotten the consequence of lying is that people shouldn't believe you so much next time. Seriously?! It says right in the article is was Russian hackers. You didn't frikkin read it. The US intelligence community concluded Russia meddled with the US election. The evidence they have is not circumstantial. When Russia hacks both the Republicans and the Democrats but only leaks the Dems stuff, it's not hard to see who they favored, unless you've got orange wool pulled over your eyes.

But it IS the intelligence community, so you're wrong. Multiple agencies weighed in on this. The FBI dissented because their purview is national (where the hacking DID NOT take place), not international. You see, Russia is a different country. CIA territory. It is NOT merely an inference, so you're wrong again. They have direct evidence: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/11/politics/russia-hacking-conclusions-donald-trump/ I don't know why you've stuck your head in the sand over this. It's a bad habit. And I have to say this. I really hate that so many Trump supporters have picked up his habit of lying and not checking facts. It's one of the most frustrating things to see people like you in your idiotic justifications of this stain of a human being. Why do you think lawful recounts are attempts to overthrow an election? Why aren't you more concerned that Trump has always favored Putin's government, and they're at the heart of this hacking attempt? Trump lies like he breathes. He won't release his taxes (if you give me that bullshit about being under audit, I'll gladly ignore anything else you ever have to say). He won't turn his companies over to a blind trust. He has had more lawsuits against him than there are episodes of TV shows about lawsuits against people. He's already gone back on most of the things he promised in his campaign, and he hasn't taken office yet. I'm not going to bother with his loathsome behavior towards women and minorities because I'm assuming you feel the same way, but surely you can't trust his business ethics are going to be good for our country, do you? I also wanted to mention that if Trump takes office, wouldn't that mean Russia could threaten to reveal their involvement if Trump doesn't play ball? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/10/how-russian-hackers-can-blackmail-donald-trump-and-the-gop.html

Have you contacted universities? http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/08/10/new-gene-editing-technology-being-researched-at-university-of-alberta Don't forget businesses in your area. http://www.pbr.ca/index.asp

My solution was to find somebody local who had the qualifications my 12yo daughter was interested in. It didn't work out exactly as I thought I hoped, but I do think it was successful. This professional's mentoring insights led her to change her focus slightly, and I think she's happier with her choice.

That disturbs my delicate economy/effort/satisfaction ratios. 2-3 times the cost and effort. Can you guarantee me 4-6 times the satisfaction? That seems like the sort of thing that has a rapidly declining astonishment level for the amount of presents I wrap. I could be wrong, of course, but my observation is that the gift is the fruit, and the wrapping makes it unknown/forbidden, which makes the fruit taste sweeter. Can you maintain enthusiasm for origami-wrap? Do your friends and family still tear the paper, or do they carefully take it apart since you haven't ruined it with sticky tape? Oddly, I have a relative who uses an obnoxious amount of tape when wrapping gifts, yet also insists on carefully unwrapping her own gifts without tearing. I've always found the behaviors at odds with each other. It's impossible to unwrap her gifts without a pair of scissors or the Jaws of Life.

! Moderator Note This thread moved away from Quantum Theory to take up residence in the slums of Intelligent Design. If you start another thread with a hidden religious agenda to waste everyone's time with, you'll be suspended, pittsburghjoe. We're a science forum.

Wow, the first part was excellent. Second part tonight. What is it about those sites in China that gives them such fantastic soft tissue capture in the fossils? It's so exciting seeing more than just skeletal outlines. Was there no bacteria eating the soft tissue?

Sure. Buildup of gases from bacteria as it rots. Eggs are fairly tough when pressure is applied outside, but swelling from the inside busts them open eventually. I've never raised chickens personally, but some good friends did for a while. Those hens always manage to sneak some into great hiding places.

Mordred could fund a lot of science if he'd invent a way to spot weld paper on paper without using tape. Something like a hot glue gun without the glue.

Yes, it'll warp them at the very least, which weakens the adhesive so they don't sit right. In fact, I think ethyl acetate became more widely used when nail extensions got to be more popular. Smells better and works on real and fake nails. The acetone is a pretty strong solvent.

Christmas is simple. If you aren't religious, and you try for goodwill throughout the year, it's about watching someone open a gift you wrapped, and opening gifts others wrapped for you. The gift doesn't matter. In addition to specific gifts, I also wrap things I buy regularly if I get them close to Christmas, like shampoo or toothpaste. I bought a set of 6 mugs for the household this year, and I'm going to take them out of the box and wrap each separately. They'll be gifts from the dog and the cats. I've tried being smart ("Instead of getting 20 gifts worth $10 each, we should draw names and get one person a $200 gift!"), I've tried being frugal, I've tried donating gifts to charity, I've tried just about every variation of "This holiday has become too commercial!". When I stopped bitching about it and started watching people, I noticed that the most fun part about gift-giving is the unwrapping. Opening wrapped presents, anticipating "the reveal", destroying the secrecy, acknowledging a job well done by giver and recipient, this seems to be the part that you can't recreate at any other time of year, not even your birthday. I like the songs, too. Some of them still make me leak with their power, even though I don't share any of the faith-based beliefs. So I get teary for the poor little drummer kid when he gets to play, but I tend to ignore the birthday boy.

Acetone can't be used with fake nails because of its strength. Learned that one from the wife. I'll bet for regular nail polish it's the smell. Nicer is better with nails. Oddly, that's not the case when deciding between mineral oil and baby oil for your cutting board.

I consider Christmas and Valentine's Day to be for amateurs who don't practice goodwill and love daily.

Sounds like a job for the first tool, a stick. I have an 8' board, 1"x2" that would be perfect. You could use a broom handle but it might not be long enough. Slip the stick into the access, and slide it back and forth across the floor, and hopefully you'll break all the eggs. Major smell, all at once, but hopefully no more unexpected surprises. That's the bomb dispersal method. If you want to try bomb retrieval, you need another 1"x2"x8' stick and some rope. Tie the ends of the rope to the ends of the sticks, leaving 6' or so between. Now you push both sticks through the access, with the rope at the basement end. Separate the sticks, and the idea is to have the rope stretched between the ends so the rope carefully corrals the eggs as you slowly pull the sticks back out of the access opening.

For much the same reason, I make a distinction between reasons and excuses. One often has reasons for doing something bad or unlawful, but almost never has an excuse for doing so.

I find more irony in the fact that you value truth so highly, yet you have such misconceptions about many things, and seem predisposed to fixing your beliefs strongly based on those misconceptions. You don't know what atheism is (it's a lack of belief, not a strong belief), you don't know what science is, yet you think you're seeking Truth by fooling yourself. Ironic. You remind me of a joke: Randolpin: "You look familiar, and I never forget a face. What's your name?" George: "It's George." Randolpin: "No, that's not it."

FTFY.

A common wish. You consider yourself creative instead of scientific, and now want to shortcut the science part. Are you saying you don't have to work hard to be creative? That you don't have to learn things?

It seems more like you aren't satisfied because science doesn't give "answers" to questions, but rather it offers explanations using a preponderance of evidence to support them. You've misunderstood science, but instead of trying to understand it, you've decided it should look like your misunderstanding of it. You will fail, because what you want isn't the way the universe works.

This seems trivially untrue.

There are some instances where an offense from ignorance can't be overlooked. I once made a U-turn on a bridge in Vienna (so wide I didn't realize I was on a bridge), and apparently the signs are posted at the beginning (it was a long bridge too) and it's just understood by everybody there that you don't EVER make a U-turn on ANY bridge (and most of the time you can't, or it would be obviously a stupid thing to do). I didn't seem to be doing anything dangerous, I had the room and the opportunity for the maneuver. But people honked at me, pedestrians looked at me like I was a lunatic, and if the police had seen me, I probably would have had a very harsh punishment while on vacation. In general though, ignorance is ethically offensive only when it's persistent and willful, I think. Most societies are willing to teach you if you're willing to learn.

It's called a "society", and if you're complaining about its necessary guidelines for behavior, I would ask you to consider the alternatives.

Thank you for sharing that, Sensei. That's amazing!

Fossils are petrified. Petrification is easily identified.

Clever engineering, like figuring out how to make a solid surface to work on?