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The sit in is interesting. Perhaps the second amendment has more power as a restriction on our federal government because it only applies to state laws through the incorporation doctrine. The federal government could make black market exchange more difficult while leaving purchase restrictions up to the states. Require registered guns to be brought in regularly, and fine those who cannot present theirs. Allow lighter fines with evidence of a break in or stolen information. Use this fine money to subsidize the initial purchase. Additionally fine people caught with unregistered guns and force them to register. Make the distribution of any gun or instructions to make such a gun that can bypass a metal detector (e.g. 3-D printer guns) a serious offense.

The "soul" might be only a meaningless "weasel word". For example religious people make claims about when the soul, rather than the mind, is imparted (zygotes do not have minds). However, they really mean your mind when they talk of your "soul" being rewarded after death. It's not really that interesting to say that a meaningless claim cannot be test.

It would seem that if the soul evolved, then some people who are still technically alive could lose their soul through mutation or brain trauma, and the soul would probably be acquired at a certain phase in development.

Going to put this sh* on CD to play in my car as soon as my situation changes.

Science consists of claims arrived at through a particular method of investigating the world. Religions are probably best defined as consisting of statements originating from a common set of authorities or texts with no limit on the sorts of claims made as long as they include claims about non-animalian minds or other planes of existence and descriptions of recommended ritualistic behavior. The word "religion" ends up being pretty useless.

Okay, so the government takes control of the internet backbone in the US to sensor the instructions used by the 3-D printer. Anne GunnaMiss sees it is blocked and searches until she finds an unblocked upload or a third-party site to avoid a block. Regulation failed. Okay, so the government implements something similar to a NSA Quantum server ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa-users-online-anonymity ) to replace the genuine download and discussion with fake content. Anne doubts the authenticity of her printer gun and surfs some more. She finds another downloads, and a comparison reveals the files are not identical. Tada, except that content was compromised too. It still prints the same inferior gun or a slightly less inferior one. In the end Anne compares several printed guns in a variety of environments to determine the best gun, but the police are already watching her.

If you read the article, the machine really only finishes the unfinished gun piece, which can be freely purchased because it isn't considered a gun part yet under current law, and for some reason you can still buy the rermaining parts legally regardless. However cheapening CNC mills and already cheap 3-D printers sound like as serious obstacle to gun reform. We may have to ban the upload or download of the required printouts, and perhaps ban the bash sums while flooding with insidious look-alike versions.

I've vowed a one month break from the forum, but I wanted to propose a model of scientific thinking that can distinguish natural science from mentalistic science. In natural science, the scientific mind can be described as occurring in three steps. In phase zero, there is the unconscious, pre-sensory phenomena that precedes the sensory input of phase one. In phase one, the raw sensory input is conscious but passively observed. Furthermore, it is usually visual or auditory input due to the requirement of quantifiability. In phase two, the content is conscious but involves active processing, namely active processing of the passive sensory input in an attempt to create a mental representation of the unconscious, pre-sensory phenomena. In phase three, motor output is used to conduct the experiment. The experiment is necessary to tease out cause and effect relationships from the otherwise purely correlational input. Mentalistic science begins when we observe another potential agent with motor output like our own. This is when we can do processing on raw mental content other than sensory input in the formulation of a hypothesis. This is the only way we can predict the behavior of one another and test the hypothesis that other organisms are also conscious. This reasoning may be necessary for a test of theism, wherein the god is usually a mind rather than a physical force.

Two more The Antipsychotic Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Rats (2015) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26200950 A Randomized Placebo-controlled Trial of an Omega-3 Fatty Acid and Vitamins E+C in Schizophrenia (2013) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3906471/ FREE

Define mentalistic http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mentalistic Dr. Badcock likes to use it. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201605/autistic-vs-psychotic-spectrums-overlapping-or-opposite

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Give an example of bad psychological science. I recommend pubmed. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Perhaps this election will raise gender questions. Trump plays on the presumption that all politicians are liars, giving himself a free pass of authenticity by being the one who doesn't hide it. This lets him drown the big lies in a sea of little lies. The manipulative liar personality type is called narcissistic, and politicians exhibit a lot of it. However men tend to be, on average, a little more narcissistic than women. While Bernie Sanders may have been THE honest candidate, Hillary is a woman, which makes this interesting from a gender psychology standpoint.

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There are two kinds of disorders, those problematic to the sufferer and those problematic to others. The latter folk are more likely to have a criminal record than a hospital admission record. Maybe we need a better system for reporting abusive partners or family. Psychotic illnesses like bipolar have a gradual onset and progression, usually beginning in the early twenties at least for men, but I don't believe psychotic illness alone can cause such behavior.

42 shootings 59 shot 18 killed Most of them didn't even kill the guy they shot. Probably self defense.

Raider5678 might like this. T http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/08/world/prisons-in-japan-are-safe-but-harsh.html Describing a punishment of solitary confinement after a fight The upshot of all this is no gangs, no rapes and hardly any murder, and hardly any escapes. Alas the prisoners are still sueing the cruel system that kept them safe.

Okay, let us stop looking for patterns then. We're obviously doomed to find only false positives. Of course belief of any kind is a byproduct of the brain.

It bothers me that the image seems to sort by total count rather than a percentage. China contains more than one sixth of humanity.

More from WashingtonPost: "Yusifiy said her former husband wasn’t very devout and preferred spending his free time working out at the gym. She said in the few months they were married he gave no signs of having fallen under the sway of radical Islam. [...] But one friend said Mateen became steadily more religious after his divorce and went on a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ex-wife-of-suspected-orlando-shooter-he-beat-me/2016/06/12/8a1963b4-30b8-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html DailyMail: "Seddique Mateen said that his son got angry when he saw two men kissing in Miami a couple of months ago and thinks that may be related to the shooting." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3637968/Father-America-s-deadly-mass-shooter-wanted-Afghan-president-job-TV-showed-support-Taliban.html He didn't have a diagnosis. You can't do this and not be antisocial, which more or less implies narcissism, but he might have been bipolar or had a borderline or paranoid personality too, which obviously doesn't help. The personality disorders lie on a continuum.

More from WashingtonPost: "Meanwhile, Sitora Yusifiy, Mateen’s ex-wife, said in an interview Sunday that he beat her repeatedly during their brief marriage and that Mateen, who was a Muslim, was not very religious and gave no indication that he was devoted to radical Islam."

Five different mass shooters used AR-15 assault rifles. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/06/12/the_orlando_shooting_involved_yet_another_ar_15_style_assault_rifle.html Does intended death toll influence gun choice, or does gun choice influence death toll? Maybe they're copycats. A shooter-to-be who decided on the latter would become one more copycat. A copycat scenario entails the former being true while also suggesting the latter as well. Even if it's legal, what is forcing sellers to stock this particular item?

"Mateen's parents, who are from Afghanistan, said he'd expressed outrage after seeing two men kiss in Miami, but they didn't consider him particularly religious and didn't know of any connection he had to ISIS." http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/12/us/orlando-nightclub-shooting/

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A species splits when the population of animals gets split into smaller populations that are "reproductively isolated", meaning they can no longer interbreed. Because they don't interbreed, there is no transfer of genetic traits (" gene flow") between populations. Each new population has its own "gene pool" that accumulates different genetic mutations and does "natural selection" differently. This is why the populations develop differences over time. The in-between animals are called "hybrids". Hybrids aren't healthy and may be sterile. The mule is the hybrid of horse and donkey. The mule is sterile, so it cannot interbreed with donkeys or horses or other mules. Humans began this process, but now our populations on different continents are merging back together. Being born tan is an adaption to places with intense sun exposure.