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Ultimate drop test for IPad case by TB January 10, 2012 10:24 pm
    More Pointless Philosophizing by ER January 6, 2012 6:02 pm
    • Where is Marcus Aurelius when you need him? by FrankC 2012-01-07 19:11:05
      • Perhaps the "good emperor" is an outmoded concept. by Robert 2012-01-07 23:15:22
        • Why stop there? by ER 2012-01-08 11:11:13
          • I noticed the gentle merging of "GOP" and "corporals of industry" again. by TB 2012-01-09 10:24:10
            • Tom, as you yourself love to point out, "no one put a gun to their heads." You can't blame the regulators ... by ER 2012-01-09 12:50:14
              • You've got a point. The Democrats can't win without corporate support, and the suits in the suites aren't shy ... by ER 2012-01-09 12:41:55
                • My philosophy says that you aren't going to get rid of human failings, such as greed, corruption, and power-lust, so ... by TB 2012-01-09 13:29:01
                  • Your view of history may be very realistic, but your expectations for it are adolescent fantasy. Businessmen do not want ... by ER 2012-01-09 14:49:25
                    • Polar bears in the South Pacific again. by TB 2012-01-09 16:55:04
                      • I stop in the mid 1800s because things only got worse between then and the beginning of the 20th century. ... by ER 2012-01-09 17:19:08
                        • Most of what you know about the "Gilded Age" is mythology. by TB 2012-01-09 20:36:39
                          • Like most Americans, you're provincial and apparently unaware of developments in the rest of the world. Those people ... by ER 2012-01-09 21:55:32
                            • Your first theory fell flat, so you came up with a different one. by TB 2012-01-09 22:58:25
                              • Post withdrawn. by ER 2012-01-10 06:06:56
              • Did you read my condemnation of party politics by FrankC 2012-01-09 00:30:07
                • I can't attribute the quote, it's not mine, but I can't remember who said it. "The Democrats don't have any ideas, ... by ER 2012-01-09 07:18:56
                  • Oh, the Democrats have ideas. Very specific ones. So does their opposition. by TB 2012-01-09 10:02:23
                    • Its like team sports. The teams are different, and they play very hard for the prize, but it really ... by ER 2012-01-09 12:34:41
          • Well we all know something... by RobVG 2012-01-06 20:37:58
            • I'm surprised it hasn't hit yet. Here's my reasoning. Inflation destroys the value of cash, so people with savings ... by ER 2012-01-06 22:11:59
              • Usually the first thing that comes to mind is TARP and the stimulus by RobVG 2012-01-07 12:02:13
                • Most of that stuff is out of my pay grade. Whether or not 'tis better to let a business, ... by ER 2012-01-07 13:05:47
                  • "A lot of problems just go away on their own”. by RobVG 2012-01-07 15:06:21
                    • I never had any illusions of ever using my house as a cash cow. If there is an economic crash, ... by visitor 2012-01-07 15:44:42
                      • Take heart.. by RobVG 2012-01-07 15:55:39
                    • An analogy by RobVG 2012-01-07 13:56:21
                      • I don't dispute your figures, but I do have a question. Just who is all that money owed to? ... by ER 2012-01-07 14:23:22
                        • Last time I checked, the majority of US debt is held by US corporations and individuals. It'd be interesting to ... by RobVG 2012-01-07 15:12:01
                          • You can find ownership of Federal Securities in this PDF document, page 51 (internal document numbering). by TB 2012-01-07 19:50:13
                            • Look it up? by ER 2012-01-07 16:08:21
                        • Corrected for inflation, the Federal government is spending more than the amount of the entire WWII debt every single year. by TB 2012-01-07 13:21:49
                          • That was my point too. If you borrow money or sell stock to build a factory, that factory will ... by ER 2012-01-07 14:01:36
                            • I'm well aware of how the mortgage industry created pretend money. It was aided and abetted by people who ... by TB 2012-01-07 14:48:22
                              • Shorter version: by TB 2012-01-07 14:49:28
                                • If you want to keep skunks honest, throw them in jail. by ER 2012-01-07 15:02:26
                                  • They didn't do that either, did they? by TB 2012-01-07 18:12:53
                                    • Start with this by RobVG 2012-01-07 18:59:24
                                      • So what you're saying is they knew this crash was coming as early as June, 2008? by ER 2012-01-08 06:14:27
                                        • I'm just saying that someone should have gone to jail. by RobVG 2012-01-08 11:04:05
                                          • Information is power. Even if you don't illegally profit yourself from insider trading, you can use your inside knowledge, ... by ER 2012-01-08 11:38:52
                                            • The struggles are what seem to get the publicity. n/t by RobVG 2012-01-08 12:34:07
                                    • √ by RobVG 2012-01-07 15:23:37
                    • Bowser's Rule: Things will never be better than they are right now. by bowser 2012-01-06 18:32:11
                      • "We are, by definition, at the center of the observable region." Or, we are suspended precisely at the intersection of past ... by ER 2012-01-06 18:53:24
                      Now this is a BIG surprise! by BuckGalaxy December 22, 2011 8:13 pm
                      • skeptical update (and bounce test) by podrock 2012-01-08 17:02:57
                        • damn local news redirect to their home page....arrgggg...you'll have to cut and paste the url... by podrock 2012-01-08 17:04:38
                          • Testing this link. by TB 2012-01-08 17:39:24
                        • DeSoto's map of his journey in the southeast United States contains place name that sound as if they could be ... by podrock 2011-12-23 11:49:34
                          • The Spanish transliterated Indian languages so they sounded Spanish. Indian names for geographical entities are very common in Latin ... by ER 2011-12-23 12:39:18
                            • PS: There are some nice little gold deposits in that region of Georgia. by podrock 2011-12-23 12:11:21
                            • When you think about it, with a huge Mayan civilization in Mexico, it is more surprising to me that there ... by TB 2011-12-22 22:13:58
                              • When I toured the Southwest, we visited some "Pueblo" ruins that contained features peculiar to Maya cities, specifically, a court ... by ER 2011-12-23 06:18:11
                                • Have you read "1491"? by podrock 2011-12-23 12:12:05
                                  • I had heard of it, but knew little about it. I suspected it was either a do-gooder lament about how ... by ER 2011-12-23 12:54:41
                                • No respect for the border even then. At least the neo-moderne variety comes by it honestly. by bowser 2011-12-22 22:17:39
                                Rock stars and brown M&Ms. by TB January 7, 2012 10:55 am
                                • Rock promoters are notorious scumbags. Ted Nugent once related that he had an aerial photographer overfly one of his ... by ER 2012-01-07 14:19:31
                                  On a Philosophical Note by ER January 4, 2012 12:04 pm
                                  • Science, knowledge and technology are indeed cumulative. Wisdom has to be learned by each individual, and usually isn't. Therefore the ... by bowser 2012-01-04 12:44:46
                                    • Taking a slightly different tangent. Let's assume for the moment that "science" can and does establish that homosexuality is ... by bowser 2012-01-04 15:20:08
                                      • Hubble actually brings up that same point, immediately after the quote I presented. Nevertheless, the atmosphere of scientific research--the disinterested curiosity, ... by ER 2012-01-04 16:30:42
                                        • Solidly Buddhist. The Universe "is", neither right nor wrong, not in the realm of that determination. Science is ... by bowser 2012-01-05 17:55:18
                                          • Heavy, dude. by ER 2012-01-05 19:04:20
                                            • And another one. Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. by bowser 2012-01-06 00:57:22
                                              • And Odysseus had his men lash him to the mast so he could hear for himself the Sirens sweetly singing. It ... by ER 2012-01-06 04:41:28
                                              • Well done. One further thought. The concept of "God" is an attempt by Man's ego to extend Man's ... by bowser 2012-01-05 20:10:08
                                                • Hey Bowser, your thoughts about God are a lot different than mine. Your question of, “(One is left to ... by johannes 2012-01-06 20:52:06
                                                  • What you are really saying is that Western Man would rather be a slave to god than free in an ... by ER 2012-01-06 06:51:15
                                                    • Exactly. It's human nature. As an example, consider the current state of affairs in the US. The ... by bowser 2012-01-06 14:15:23
                                                      • Consider the connotation if we had used the word *Universe* all along, instead of the word *God* by Jody 2012-01-06 07:44:17
                                                        • At first blush that sounds just fine. There may be more to the matter, however. What is "God"? A ... by bowser 2012-01-06 12:30:32
                                                          • Consider this: I am God. You are God. We are God. We make God whatever we choose. Freewill. by Jody 2012-01-06 13:23:36
                                                            • We discussed that above. That is exactly what Man has done, define "God" in whatever way meets Man's needs. However, ... by bowser 2012-01-06 14:07:23
                                                              • Predictability is in the religion Man creates to explain God. Collectivism. If every man and woman defined God according to our ... by Jody 2012-01-06 14:20:56
                                                                • Frankly, I'm not smart enough to follow your train of thought. Going back a ways, the "Universe" was defined ... by bowser 2012-01-06 14:58:11
                                                                  • What will the preachers do when the Devil is saved? by ER 2012-01-06 15:29:33
                                                                    • They are very, very versatile, much like neutrinos. Remember the Inquisition? Where the Roman Catholic Church was indistinguishable ... by bowser 2012-01-06 17:02:28
                                                          • Good point. My idea of god IS the universe, nature, the world, reality, the Laws of Physics, whatever you ... by ER 2012-01-06 09:32:05
                                                            • I agree with you ER...and as of late I have come to appreciate even *more*, the intricacies of the Universe, ... by Jody 2012-01-06 11:34:12
                                              • You may very well be right, Bowser, (or at least, you may have little trouble getting others to agree with ... by ER 2012-01-04 14:21:38
                                              One of your better soccer saves by TB January 5, 2012 1:01 pm
                                              • Wow. And one of the worst, too. by bowser 2012-01-06 17:16:50
                                                Hell hath no fury, dept. by ER January 6, 2012 5:05 am
                                                • Good Lord! by bowser 2012-01-06 17:15:47
                                                  Lost DaVinci sketch to be tested in Milan. by Jody January 5, 2012 7:57 am
                                                    Tiz True by RobVG January 3, 2012 7:18 pm
                                                      "15 faith-based predictions for 2012" by bowser January 1, 2012 2:53 pm
                                                      • I get the impression America is a highly religious country. In most western nations, religion plays a much smaller ... by ER 2012-01-01 22:56:59
                                                        • I've become aware of an interesting aspect of religion. I assume this is more or less universal. In the hospice ... by bowser 2012-01-02 18:59:17
                                                          • Noam Chomsky calls it "religiosity". by bowser 2012-01-02 02:26:40
                                                            • Maybe this explains the strong negative correlation between church attendance and welfare spending. by ER 2012-01-02 07:54:30
                                                              • "Welfare spending" and "charity" are not synonyms. P.S. Here's the source of the chart. by TB 2012-01-02 10:12:00
                                                                • That's right. by ER 2012-01-02 10:21:16
                                                          "Gunsmoke", and some memories. by bowser December 27, 2011 11:22 pm
                                                          • I found myself in a lot of fights early in my life. In my mind I never started them but ... by FrankC 2011-12-28 18:49:29
                                                            • That puts you in my class, or a bit better. I didn't have the killer instinct. After the ... by bowser 2011-12-29 01:21:51
                                                            Answers by johannes December 26, 2011 3:38 pm
                                                            • Ahh... ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-12-27 01:12:26
                                                              • Thingamabobs I think that if there are “thingamabob” (Higgs bosons) they still must be composed of “something” and I suppose that ... by johannes 2011-12-27 15:24:47
                                                              • That question is used as the ultimate proof of God by evangelicals. How that leads to the Old Testament ... by bowser 2011-12-26 20:45:40
                                                                • Quantum Electro Dynamics, yes Bowser that leads directly to the Old Testament, if the following translation is used as a ... by johannes 2012-01-01 21:32:15
                                                                  • "Nonetheless, the greatest carnages this world has seen have been in the name of religion. And oil, or oil and ... by TB 2011-12-26 21:53:26
                                                                    • Cause of war: I suspect that there are many reasons that people will start a fight with each other. Some reasons ... by johannes 2011-12-27 15:27:34
                                                                      • Well, TB, I'd say they were. Here's a little factoid about WWII in the Pacific, which I'll bet you ... by bowser 2011-12-27 01:59:23
                                                                        • Plus, y'know, Pearl Harbor was a major strategic naval base in the Pacific. They probably thought that by taking ... by VelociraptorBlade 2011-12-28 12:34:38
                                                                          • One data point hardly makes your argument for you, particularly if you're tallying "carnage." by TB 2011-12-27 10:10:39
                                                                            • One data point serves very well as an example of my point, which is all I was trying to do. ... by bowser 2011-12-27 12:23:58
                                                                              • You made a broad statement that was patently false, by any method of counting. by TB 2011-12-27 12:38:36
                                                                                • "Patently false", eh. "Patently"! "Any method of counting". "Any". Well, last I looked there was no demonstration I ... by bowser 2011-12-27 18:22:23
                                                                                  • Yeah, I made a pretty broad statement myself. by TB 2011-12-27 18:55:06
                                                                            • So what you're saying is that Japan was determned to promote her commercial interests by securing her sources of raw ... by ER 2011-12-27 08:05:06
                                                                              • Well done. Exactly. I would only add that Japan regarded the Asian colonies of the Nazi occupied countries ... by bowser 2011-12-27 11:56:29
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