mkempe

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by mkempe 9y ago
Associations of individuals do not have fewer rights as associations than they do as individuals. Individuals have the right to free speech, so does any association of individuals. Why is it so problematic?
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Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Is Greening Earth(nasa.gov)
2 points by mkempe 9y ago|1 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
Physics and its development is not the sole, nor the primary, reference for man's means and acquisition of knowledge. Ohm's Law is valid within certain limits, and these limits are also facts. (I misstated something earlier -- Ohm
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by mkempe 9y ago
The facts subsumed by Newton's laws. Laws themselves are not the facts they are identifications of facts.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Irrelevant. Things are what they are regardless of what you think, pray, ask, claim, test, or emote. If you truly want to learn about the factual basis of individual rights, there is ample literature for you to look up and read. If you wi
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by mkempe 9y ago
You're muddying the water and completely missing the point: Facts are what they are, regardless of what people may say or feel about them. The laws of physics, such as Ohm's Law, can be discovered and are facts even were people to
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by mkempe 9y ago
Not at all. The concept of natural rights merely means that by our nature we have rights. The schools of thought that led to that identification and to the foundation of the US based on the ideal of a government exclusively tasked with se
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by mkempe 9y ago
I agree, militia is a wider concept and there can be many such free-formed associations. I merely wanted to mention that the National Guard are also known as militias, and they have always had very powerful weapons at their disposal.
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by mkempe 9y ago
I agree that it is not the only militia.
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by mkempe 9y ago
We already have the National Guard [1] --aka militias-- which provide ample check from the State level against a would-be dictatorship at the Federal level. For further self-education, one may want to read The Federalist Papers, in particul
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by mkempe 9y ago
You're quite incorrect. The state properly has a monopoly on the retaliatory use of force (and none other) under objective laws and legal processes. But self-defense is an emergency, and there is no rational argument to claim that on
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by mkempe 9y ago
Yes, the entire Bill of Rights in fact pertains to our inalienable, universal rights. There is no difference from what one may term "fundamental" or "human" rights. It doesn't matter what the UN or anyone in other c
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by mkempe 9y ago
Sadly there are many stories of people who kill their lovers, whatever their gender. You can read about them in the tabloids, every day.
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by mkempe 9y ago
That's a bizarre question. Why are you asking?
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by mkempe 9y ago
If only they cared about protecting our rights in the first place, as much or more than they apparently care about alleged spying by foreign powers.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Here is what the EFF says: "[Stringrays] can also intercept metadata (such as information about calls made and the amount of time on each call), the content of unencrypted phone calls and text messages and data usage (such as websites
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by mkempe 9y ago
And if the NSA and FBI had devoted less energy to turning this country into a corrupt republic on its way to a totalitarian nightmare, I am sure they would have had the ability and resources to ensure that such stingrays were impossible t
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by mkempe 9y ago
My understanding is that all stingrays are by definition hostile.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Pedantic is "lagom" here. The closest approximations to "lagom" in English are "feels just right" or "contenting because it feels comfortable" with an implied caveat of "for me/us". It
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by mkempe 9y ago
On the one hand I commend you for wanting to learn about the role of phytoplankton in carbon fixation -- if you don't know about it, what else might you not know? On the other hand I am disheartened that you confuse lignin with cellulo
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by mkempe 9y ago
It was, confusingly, a computed dashboard -- not an actual tracker.
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Reentry is confirmed one hour before this link was posted.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Turns out we have a confirmed reentry at 00:16 UTC, over the Southern Pacific, and this is not a good platform or format for live-tracking.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Ok. Maybe then we should abolish such asinine laws. If there is one thing the Romans got right it was caveat emptor.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Oh, looks like their calculations and dashboard crashed past their predicted reentry time. It was reentry theater, on par with security theater.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Possibly now entered its last orbit. It's been losing altitude somewhat more slowly than predicted, so I don't envision it falling immediately W of Chile at the predicted time. [Update at 00:12 UTC -- definitely not crashing there
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by mkempe 9y ago
The current uncertainty path travels West to East; it passes three times over Southern South America; and twice over Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Tiangong-1 Dashboard, reentry predicted 20180402T00:30 UTC +/- 1.7h(aerospace.org)
2 points by mkempe 9y ago|4 comments
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by mkempe 9y ago
I agree with the insight that being does not arise out of non-being; and being is not --and does not become-- non-being. Parmenides would be the first philosopher that comes to mind for this metaphysical perspective, but we only have fragme
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Real-time classification of auditory sentences using evoked cortical activity(iopscience.iop.org)
2 points by mkempe 9y ago|0 comments

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