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It shouldn't, since it's just a very poor, ignorant caricature of scientists some people have. When someone has no evidence to support their ideas, I guess it makes sense to discredit those who do, by any means possible. Unless you have a shred of intellectual honesty, that is.

In the US (where we have grown the business of law enforcement to its present 25% global market share), much of what a police officer asks you is trying to get you to somehow contradict yourself, to lie, or to appear nervous. This gives them probable cause, and empowers them greatly. I wonder if your friend didn't trigger some procedural response because he changed a previous statement by accident, or seemed more nervous than his basic grasp of the language would account for.

You're discussing atomic clocks with someone who builds atomic clocks for a living. For the US Naval Observatory. "Seem to be" is pretty understated.

Both this story and Eldad's underscore that this phenomenon starts with the behavior of the person whose delusions somehow allow them to dismiss that behavior. There is a violent reaction on one side, allegedly for no good reason, which doesn't make sense. We never hear the other side of the story, what that person did to initiate someone cursing them out, or a police officer beating them up, or bystanders objecting to being masturbated on. One way I can make sense of Eldad's story is to imagine he has a nervous habit of making a gesture with his hand that resembles masturbating. One of those things people do, like playing with a curl of hair, or tapping their finger on a desk. Only this one is inappropriate. He doesn't realize he's doing it, but people see him making that gesture and it's so out of place in public that they shout in response. I'm not saying this is the case, but it would explain the behavior. Or the whole thing could be imagined. Either are more likely than what Eldad described. We know there are those out there who are badly damaged, who rant and rave at strangers as if it's a rational thing to do. We also know there are those who function on a more mainstream level, like Marius, who are interesting and quirky, but still seem a bit disconnected with their role in reality. People adore patterns, and when someone behaves in a bizarre manner, it's tough not to come off as cruel in response. But is it cruel to at least start by suggesting that a diagnosis of paranoid delusions by a professional should indicate the person needs to avoid making decisions based solely on the bizarre things they think up?

There are things that were discovered before there was a practical application for them. Iirc, the steam engine was invented before there was a mechanical method to convert it's energy into work.

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This sounds like you've got a catch or loophole you think they haven't thought about, or that they haven't seen over the years, rather than actually trying to win the challenge on merit.

The Republican Party. THE PARTY. Stop moving the goalposts. We have listed reasons for why hate is a relevant response to what the party has done, but you can't handle them. You always try to make it personal, so you can trot out a racially motivated anecdote about black people needing white people's money, or how good a friend you are to minorities, and feel you've won.

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So no trousers either? You biologists are amazingly bold.

That's a pretty explicit thing to say to a stranger on the street, with no provocation. It makes no sense as a hurled epithet, and I've NEVER heard it here in the USA. It doesn't sound like something one would say idly. I feel we're getting only one side of a very weird story. I have to ask. Were you masturbating? Were you masturbating on them? Is that why they said those things? Don't you think it might have been the psychosis, aggravated by what you perceived as inappropriate comments thrown in your face?

I bet the sometimes when you don't, the mathematicians stop staring at their own shoes.

You'll first need to show some kind of process where the early universe could produce such a phenomenon. AFAIK, there isn't one, and that's why most don't take white hole formation that seriously. Take a look at this paper, and come back with some support for your idea. You don't have a theory. This is an idea you need to find some evidence for. It's good that you're asking questions rather than telling us this is the way it is, so good job on that. And welcome back after a long suspension. Let's talk some science here.

It's definitely a "have-your-cake-&-eat-it-too" mentality. They wield the Constitution haphazardly, using it only to reinforce what they want, ignoring the parts they don't. Ditto all their platform points as well. Small government only as far as regulations go, but lets give big business the keys to the vault and grow the gov their way. Welfare only if a private corporation profits, according to Christian values (What Would Donald Do?). It's hypocrisy on a national level. Hiding behind the flag, or the church, or whatever makes them feel secure as they pretend what they stand for is being represented by their leadership. I think the real terror is they know they're wrong, but their pride insists they double down on the crazy and stay the course, right onto the rocks. Good conservative captains, who honorably, ignorantly, want to go down with the ship.

FOX's picture of it was horrible. They slanted the whole thing to equate belief in God with patriotism, implying that you atheists aren't patriotic. I'm not sure why that doesn't disgust you.

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Excellent example of what's wrong with America! Everything went right in this story. Laws and traditions were both upheld fairly with regard to town property and the religious message, and all should be happy with the outcome. Even the atheist, who was just helping his neighbors enforce the Constitution. Remember that document? But you and FOX think it's a bad thing all around. You use a great example of the nuances of local politics to infer something is wrong. Something is wrong, and it's your perspective if you think this story somehow paints a bad picture.

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A recurring theme in this thread.

George Bush II, that bastion of fair trade, elected for the same reason the Donald is such a sweetheart, because he's a bidnessman, and his Republican Party, decided that America had too much clout when it came to buying prescription drugs. He did the equivalent of binding the feet of Medicare like a geisha, crippling our ability to buy medicine for sick people. He plainly put profit over health. No, I'm not. But I'm not surprised you misunderstood. Again. Probably purposely. You behave like an idiot in these discussions, and it's frustrating because I sense you aren't. It's getting harder to find evidence in support of that, though.

But you told us all earlier that this ability was more like pushing mentally, rather than creating air currents with it. A mustard seed weighs a fraction of your psiwheel. This tells me you're wrong, it's all about air currents pushing on a medium designed to take maximum advantage of any air current.

What will the source be illuminating? Is it a daytime effect, possibly with color and a brightness that can be seen in the day? Or is this to illuminate when/where it's dark? It makes a difference in what effect you need, but in both cases it shouldn't be difficult to set up some lights to come on at proper intervals to recharge the luminescence. Be aware that most LED lights won't have enough UV light to give the luminescence a good charge, but if you stay away from the warmer red ones, you should get enough energy from the bluer LEDs (5500K+). A UV light turning on and off at measured intervals, to coincide with how long the charge lasts, would be ideal. Renewable, but not self-sustaining. Is this along the lines of what you were looking for?

This is your core misunderstanding of the positions portrayed here. We've shown you how they're paid for. A government option like Medicare automatically costs us less (more taxes, but far less payroll deductions for private insurance). It would take many of the folks who currently work in private health insurance and re-employ them (it would have to, you see). You are supporting an industry that has no further function for us, and is actively blocking our path to health. Should we bring back Blockbuster too? Is that how your free market works? You see it as unfair to tax income heavily past a certain amount, yet it's worked very well in the past, and NOT doing it has hurt us obviously. You can't get past this image of robbing the robber barons. You consider them above the law (regulations are laws) just because they require workers, and you seem to be slobberingly grateful for that. It's the kind of mentality that led to workhouses. When reasonable People respond that things have gone too far, you respond with "Everything is the way it should be, no need for change". You preach about how great Americans are, but you have no faith in an investment in them. You don't think SOME of them are worth it, and to my mind, that makes you un-American.

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