>The sort of damage that could do to a teacher's career is unbelievable. And the parents are saying "my children shouldn't be punished so harshly." And threatening to sue the school.
Yes, but there is still nothing criminal about it at all. Libelous, sure, but not a crime.
It's not that I don't 'get' the idea, it's that the support for the concept of the trinity is very thin in the bible. The whole idea comes from a few sloppily pluralized pronouns in the old testament and a lot of butt-covering to make it ok to worship the man Jesus in the new testament. Nowhere is the idea explicitly laid out.
>Catholics have a trinity of people who are the same, and the Holy Trinity is one Go
It's all very mysterious!
Actually, it's always sounded like a workaround for the first commandment to me. With the idea of the Trinity, Christians can get away with putting this man before God because they are 'the same', which makes perfect sense if you're insane.
No, currency is whatever we decide it is. You are speaking only of one small subset of currency known as fiat currency. There is nothing intrinsic about currency that says it has to devalue over time.
>Yeah.... that and fucking mercury based preservatives sounds extra healthy doesn't
OMG Mercury!!! Run!
Seriously though, ethyl mercury is an entirely different chemical from methyl mercury. One bio-accumulates, the other doesn't. One is far more dangerous than the other. It would probably benefit you to learn the difference.
Imagine you're an ant walking around the surface of a balloon. Now imagine that balloon expanding just faster than you can keep up with so that you'll never be able to make the trip all the way around its surface back to your starting point. Our universe is kinda like that.;)
Not to get completely off the subject, but there are many perfectly understandable proofs of why 0.999... = 1. For instance, one of the things that defines what a real number is that it is not exactly the same as a different number. Seems pretty common sense, huh? So what number, exactly, comes between 0.999... and 1? Like you said, those 9s go on forever, so if there is nothing that you can add to the first term to turn it into the second, they must be the same. They are just 2 different ways of expressing the exact same number. You probably don't have a problem with the idea that 1/3 =.333..., so multiply both sides by 3 and what do you get?
There's even a wikipedia page that I'd totally paste in here if Chrome was able to do so.
Don't you know? Whatever god says or does is by definition good! If god thinks it's ok for that child to be raped to death, it *has* to be good. Our puny understanding of good and evil are meaningless when compared to god's version! All the human suffering in the world is literally insignificant to the good that is God.
This is seriously the argument I've heard against what you are saying. These people are crazy.
Yes, but it was absolute catastrophe for the life that was on Earth at that time. Hey, if you'd like to see most of the life on the planet wiped out so that the next wave of evolution can happen - more power to ya!
"Most recently, a headline-grabbing Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) paper published in January found that antidepressants worked no better than a placebo in patients with mild or moderate depression (but the study did conclude that medication helped the most persistent and severe cases)."
"Among 74 FDA-registered studies, 31%, accounting for 3449 study participants, were not published. Whether and how the studies were published were associated with the study outcome. A total of 37 studies viewed by the FDA as having positive results were published; 1 study viewed as positive was not published. Studies viewed by the FDA as having negative or questionable results were, with 3 exceptions, either not published (22 studies) or published in a way that, in our opinion, conveyed a positive outcome (11 studies). According to the published literature, it appeared that 94% of the trials conducted were positive. By contrast, the FDA analysis showed that 51% were positive."
It's not just each state that potentially has its own sales tax rate - it's not even consistent across zip codes or days of the week. Some places tax all food, some tax none, and some tax only certain food items. Why should Amazon care that Podunk, Ohio taxes twinkies at 6% and baby formula at 5%?
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So can you not fail a biology student for answering that god created everything on a test that asks about human origins?
>Former is legal. Latter is not.
How so? What criminal law is being broken by the latter?
>The sort of damage that could do to a teacher's career is unbelievable. And the parents are saying "my children shouldn't be punished so harshly." And threatening to sue the school.
Yes, but there is still nothing criminal about it at all. Libelous, sure, but not a crime.
It's not that I don't 'get' the idea, it's that the support for the concept of the trinity is very thin in the bible. The whole idea comes from a few sloppily pluralized pronouns in the old testament and a lot of butt-covering to make it ok to worship the man Jesus in the new testament. Nowhere is the idea explicitly laid out.
>Catholics have a trinity of people who are the same, and the Holy Trinity is one Go
It's all very mysterious!
Actually, it's always sounded like a workaround for the first commandment to me. With the idea of the Trinity, Christians can get away with putting this man before God because they are 'the same', which makes perfect sense if you're insane.
> Currency is IOU notes that devalue over time.
No, currency is whatever we decide it is. You are speaking only of one small subset of currency known as fiat currency. There is nothing intrinsic about currency that says it has to devalue over time.
>This opens the school up for a big "emotional distress" lawsuit
By whom? Unless she named specific children, who is going to sue?
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Is that the Rapping Duke?
>Yeah.... that and fucking mercury based preservatives sounds extra healthy doesn't
OMG Mercury!!! Run!
Seriously though, ethyl mercury is an entirely different chemical from methyl mercury. One bio-accumulates, the other doesn't. One is far more dangerous than the other. It would probably benefit you to learn the difference.
Imagine you're an ant walking around the surface of a balloon. Now imagine that balloon expanding just faster than you can keep up with so that you'll never be able to make the trip all the way around its surface back to your starting point. Our universe is kinda like that. ;)
>I can usefully define 0.999... as the largest number which is less than 1 and reason about it on that basis.
I believe those are called infinitesimals, but they are not a feature of 'standard' mathematics.
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Not to get completely off the subject, but there are many perfectly understandable proofs of why 0.999... = 1. For instance, one of the things that defines what a real number is that it is not exactly the same as a different number. Seems pretty common sense, huh? So what number, exactly, comes between 0.999... and 1? Like you said, those 9s go on forever, so if there is nothing that you can add to the first term to turn it into the second, they must be the same. They are just 2 different ways of expressing the exact same number. You probably don't have a problem with the idea that 1/3 = .333..., so multiply both sides by 3 and what do you get?
There's even a wikipedia page that I'd totally paste in here if Chrome was able to do so.
Don't you know? Whatever god says or does is by definition good! If god thinks it's ok for that child to be raped to death, it *has* to be good. Our puny understanding of good and evil are meaningless when compared to god's version! All the human suffering in the world is literally insignificant to the good that is God.
This is seriously the argument I've heard against what you are saying. These people are crazy.
Yes, but it was absolute catastrophe for the life that was on Earth at that time. Hey, if you'd like to see most of the life on the planet wiped out so that the next wave of evolution can happen - more power to ya!
Unless you're talking about antidepressants.
"Most recently, a headline-grabbing Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) paper published in January found that antidepressants worked no better than a placebo in patients with mild or moderate depression (but the study did conclude that medication helped the most persistent and severe cases)."
From the New England Journal of Medicine:
"Among 74 FDA-registered studies, 31%, accounting for 3449 study participants, were not published. Whether and how the studies were published were associated with the study outcome. A total of 37 studies viewed by the FDA as having positive results were published; 1 study viewed as positive was not published. Studies viewed by the FDA as having negative or questionable results were, with 3 exceptions, either not published (22 studies) or published in a way that, in our opinion, conveyed a positive outcome (11 studies). According to the published literature, it appeared that 94% of the trials conducted were positive. By contrast, the FDA analysis showed that 51% were positive."
Also, what's with the police using the term 'civilian' to describe everyone who isn't a cop? They aren't in the military!
Being elected to a higher office and just quitting are slightly different things.
She couldn't even handle serving out her term as governor of Alaska. How does anything think she's qualified to be President?
Well, there is still all the money that was made from those copyrighted works...
Hmm. Here's a graph of inflation for all items (including food and fuel) for the past 10 years:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?chart_type=line&s[1][id]=CPIAUCNS&s[1][range]=10yrs
While there was a little bump in 2008, the trend line has been steady.
Here's the same graph without food and fuel:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?chart_type=line=s[1][id]=CPILFENS&s[1][range]=10yrs
That one actually looks like the slope has decreased. So why don't you get your head out of Glen Beck's butt and look at some real data?
No, they are broke because the government decided to cover the private bank's debt to the tune of a hundred or so billion euros.
It's not just each state that potentially has its own sales tax rate - it's not even consistent across zip codes or days of the week. Some places tax all food, some tax none, and some tax only certain food items. Why should Amazon care that Podunk, Ohio taxes twinkies at 6% and baby formula at 5%?
Keep your cat inside and it won't be a problem.
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