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by lurquer 8y ago
As a practical matter, they are inaccessible. Nobody lives out there. There is nobody to arrest them. The ones that aren't remotely located are assimilated. In short, to View this as a 'zoo' or something similar to Star Trek-
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by lurquer 8y ago
"Have you ever watched a twenty-six year old commercial on your phone? You will."
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Your statement presupposes that there is an abstract notion of 'intelligence' that can manifest itself in qualitatively different types of systems. That might be true. But, so far, the only kind of 'intelligence' that se
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You clearly live in an urban area. You can see them on maps represented as little dots. Sometimes little blobs. All the other 'empty' parts of the map? Well, this may come as a surprise, but it consists of millions of acres of for
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by lurquer 8y ago
Billions of people are picking up leaves? The total area of ‘yards’ where leaves are picked up is so utterly insignificant that I wonder if you have ever been outside. In any case, the article is about D.C. and, regrettably, there will neve
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In some cases, once you flee/escape/skip-bail you will face additional charges (as well as likely getting a stiffer sentence for the underlying crime.) The miserable life of being on the run might not have been worth the original
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Socialism, at its core, is the governmental control (through extensive regulation of outright ownership) of the means of production of goods. A public library does not fit that description (or any other regularly used definitions of sociali
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Thanks for the response. It would certainly be sloppy logic to merge the statistical information with the poll data. Nevertheless, doing so reveals something not very surprising and illustrative of human nature: you can always find a majori
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Should a government have the power to dictate how many children we have? That does not seem abhorrent to you? Strange days when one is downvoted for criticizing China's immoral and brutal policy that violated the most basic of human ri
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"Saved" China and the world from what? What problem could justify such an abhorrent intrusion into a person's life?
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You may be right about doctors. Their subject matter is repairing or maintaining, essentially, a mechanism. Lawyers are different. Their subject matter is the interaction between human beings. A lawyer, for instance, must persuade a judge o
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Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems they artificially selected for single-celled organisms that are sticky and clump together (thus making them -- as a group -- too large to be eaten.) As the 'stickiness' doesn't
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The study involved horseflies in England... not tse-tse flies in Africa. As far as the effect of 'such diseases' on a zebra's fecundity, I have no idea. For all we know, a feverish lethargic zebra is EASIER for a stallion to
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> which helped previous generations of zebras who had stripes thrive and pass their genes forward. You don't know that. The article doesn't even bother to test it. They've observed that stripes lead to fewer horsefly landi
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I remember that aisle. All white labels with black block-letter words. When I was very young and st the store with my mom, she'd always tell me the aisle was for albinos. Scared the crap out of me.
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"Whipped Beef" sounds tastier. That's what I'd call it... or maybe "Creamed Beef" or "Beef Pudding". With a good food photographer, I'm sure you could make a cup of 'pink slime' look ta
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Maybe they buried the humans with the dogs. That would be creepy.
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>Obviously death comes for us all, but I would bet we don’t see as much of it first hand as we used to. What do you mean by 'we'? I don't know what you are trying to say. A very large percentage of the population encounter
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>It's probably a symptom of death these days in developed countries being so rare. In what sense is death 'rare'? Last time I checked, every single person in every single country - developed or otherwise - will die. The pe
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The teeth seem to be the give-away. There seems to be a bias of having the two top front incisors facing the camera, even when the head is turned.
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Funny you mention that... He was the fourth ophthalmologist I went to complaining of difficulty seeing. The first three recommended reading glasses. He, the fourth, was the only one that had me look at an Amsler Grid whereupon, for the firs
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by lurquer 8y ago
Agreed. I suggest all scientists/engineers working on Mars or Lunar habitability, office exclusively in Antarctica.... once they get their offices up and running and self-sustaining, I'll pay more attention to them.
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Lucky you. I've had injections into my eyeball every few years due to a retina issue. Imagine a metal clip holding your eyelid open, and watching the tip of a hypodermic needle approaching your eyeball, held by an older ophthalmologist
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Cite needed? Wallace, Willian Ross; "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World." http://www.potw.org/archive/potw391.html
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Men are shaped, in their most formative years, by their mothers. That's nearly universal. Consequently, you may want to consider Ghengis Khan's and Charlemagne's mothers... those two ladies, due to the manner in which the rai
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Be careful with this. I had a monthly charge from several vendors. Despite phone calls, letters, etc. cancelling the service, they would keep charging. So, I said, 'screw it' and got a new card. The next month -- on my new card --
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Joyce is intentionally written to be difficult. Never understood what all the fuss was about. I enjoy Paradise Lost because it is cinematic. It may be just me, but it seems like an epic sci-fi space opera. For any lurkers who haven't r
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I read Paradise Lost every year around this time. I have it in my briefcse right now. It is the greatest thing written in the English language. Period.
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I remember my Grandpa's last words on his deathbed: "Well, I'll see you'all later."
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Think this through. If there is a hard Brexit, the only hinderance to goods coming INTO the UK is the UK. Do you really think the UK will stop or hinder food imports to such an extent that there are "empty shelves" and "riots

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