The Oklahoma bombing killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others. The 3000 dead at the twin towers far exceeds that. Are you going to try to push some silly distinction that flying aircraft into buildings isn't bombing?
Occasionally, there are "extra" parts used to speed assembly that are not needed in the finished product.. For instance, the 1966 Corvette had rivets in the rear brake assembly that were not needed. When repair work was done, the rivets had to be drilled out, but they were never replaced during reassembly.
A muzzle brake on a firearm directs spent gasses out radially from the end of the barrel, reducing the recoil to roughly that caused by accelerating the bullet. If the muzzle brake were designed to vent the gasses backwards, recoil could be reduced even more.
Modern advanced energy storage flywheels have tip speeds around 1000 m/s, or mach 3. Ignoring necessary details like a release mechanism, we're off by a factor of 7, not 1000.
The whole argument that people can get guns anyway is stupid.
Any good machinist can fabricate a gun. Small pistols are no bigger than a wallet; they can be easily concealed. An effort to truly rid the citizenry of firearms would require hourly searches of every household in the country. Assuming the effort would not set off a rebellion, would you want to live in such a country?
Complex chemical processes, ingenious electronic circuits, clever mechanical devices, are the creations of a productive mind. They are inventions. "Discoveries" are what you get walking in a cow pasture.
Downgrading the 1984 Corvette because it wasn't an economy car was silly. I had one, and given the sort of car it was, fuel economy wasn't bad. What was bad was reliability. It was a new version, and many things were terrible. Air conditioner failed twice in 2 years, power steering failed, clutch master cylinder failed, horns failed, pressurized struts for hood and hatchback failed, instrument console failed, temperature sender connector failed, car barely passed emissions testing, radiator fan control failed, upper radiator hose failed, paint cracked, and much more that I can't remember at the moment. I owned it from about 1989 to 1993 (odometer range 70,000 to 100,000) and spent $6000 on repairs, taking my life savings down to almost zero. A terrible car.
CR's car ratings have limitations that must be understood, and one big limitation is that they aren't enthusiasts. However, ratings from car enthusiast magazines are even more problematic; there's little attention to reliability and none to customer feedback. CR fills a niche, understand it and use it.
Your Chicago Tribune citation is full of hatred and insults. Of the several objections to Carson's statements, only two appear to have any merit. There's also an obvious Chicago Tribune lie, that climate change [as it is politically understood] is "established science".
Carson hasn't thought out his politics thoroughly and carefully enough. His economics are weak. He's far from a loony, some of his statements reveal fresh insights that would do credit to anyone, and unlike all the leading Democrats he's an honorable man.
Do you have some credible references to Trump committing rape, naming the victim? Bill Clinton's rape of Juanita Broaddrick and others has been public knowledge for two decades.
Hillary has knowingly violated secrecy and espionage laws. Apparently, this was just to hide bribery deals, security of government secrets was never given serious consideration.
Slave labor is not as efficient as labor for hire. Plantation owners would have been better off with the (then) never tried option of paid laborers. Poor farmers - whether they mismanaged their land or had infertile land - were not poor because of a lack of slaves.
The moral and political arguments on slavery are common. The economic argument - that a slave has negligible incentive to produce - is also important.
Present your standards of right and wrong behavior for human beings, and identify the foundation of your standards. Your bald claim of "absolutely wrong" means nothing.
My standard of right behavior is action that promotes the health and joy of human beings as individuals. Wrong behavior frustrates and opposes it. The foundation is the fact that we are human beings, intelligent animals that provide for our individual needs under the guidance and control of our minds.
say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just."
This shows extreme naivete. Most wars are a violent contest between a country whose people do not want to be killed or enslaved, and an aggressor. To view war as "settling differences" is missing the point.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
A nation that does not spend enough on defense ceases to exist and its citizens are dead. The subject of "social uplift" becomes moot.
Taking "nation" to mean "government": "social uplift" is not the proper realm of government because sooner or later "social uplift" becomes "agree with the exalted leader or spend your life in prison."
As long as we're considering the cost of social uplift, why is it a never-ending undertaking? Reasons include:
__Those engaging in "social uplift" don't want it to ever end. If everyone were "uplifted", the professionals would be out of a job and would have no way to push their personal and political agendas, no way to exert power over others.
__Some of those receiving "social uplift" recognize it as a free ride and don't want it to end
__Some recognize "social uplift" as indoctrination, and by rejecting its message, will never be "uplifted".
"Social uplift" as a government program is theft administrated by the immoral to benefit the immoral, to the detriment of the moral who have to pay for it. Uplifting individuals should be done by individuals and private charitable organizations.
Brain size does not equal intelligence. Porpoises have relatively large brains, but most of it is irrelevant to intelligence and has more to do with being aquatic mammals. Similarly, the Neanderthal brain may not have had the proper structures to promote high intelligence, we don't know. There's been speculation that Neanderthals interbred with other human subspecies, so the "are now gone" claim is dubious.
There's no reason to believe that pandas don't eat flesh as the result of a moral decision.
Jefferson's relationship with his slave is not adequately documented, and cannot reach the conclusions you claim even with DNA evidence. Keep in mind that the alleged sex would have occurred after Jefferson's wife had died. Jefferson could not have legally married the slave even if they both wanted it.
Modern prejudice notwithstanding, there is absolutely no evidence that any alleged sex was non-consensual
The Koch brothers political contributions tend to be pro-freedom. Buffet is pretty consistent about contributing to the anti-freedom side, and using political influence to continue the practice of shipping crude oil on his trucks. Buffet is corrupt.
Gates' record is mixed. The anti-malaria campaign is good. The development of Common Core, which Gates contributes to, aims for politically ignorant worker-drones.
I read of testing that showed a longbow could be fired repetitively faster than a crossbow. The longbow isn't moved between shots; all that's required for reloading is reaching back to the quiver for a new arrow, nocking it in place and drawing it back.
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If, as a pedestrian, you insist on your right-of-way in a crosswalk, you can end up dead. Don't act stupidly.
The Oklahoma bombing killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others. The 3000 dead at the twin towers far exceeds that. Are you going to try to push some silly distinction that flying aircraft into buildings isn't bombing?
Occasionally, there are "extra" parts used to speed assembly that are not needed in the finished product.. For instance, the 1966 Corvette had rivets in the rear brake assembly that were not needed. When repair work was done, the rivets had to be drilled out, but they were never replaced during reassembly.
A muzzle brake on a firearm directs spent gasses out radially from the end of the barrel, reducing the recoil to roughly that caused by accelerating the bullet. If the muzzle brake were designed to vent the gasses backwards, recoil could be reduced even more.
Modern advanced energy storage flywheels have tip speeds around 1000 m/s, or mach 3. Ignoring necessary details like a release mechanism, we're off by a factor of 7, not 1000.
Any good machinist can fabricate a gun. Small pistols are no bigger than a wallet; they can be easily concealed. An effort to truly rid the citizenry of firearms would require hourly searches of every household in the country. Assuming the effort would not set off a rebellion, would you want to live in such a country?
Another option is to change the specific gravity of the fluid the brain floats in, to match the specific gravity of the brain.
Complex chemical processes, ingenious electronic circuits, clever mechanical devices, are the creations of a productive mind. They are inventions. "Discoveries" are what you get walking in a cow pasture.
Downgrading the 1984 Corvette because it wasn't an economy car was silly. I had one, and given the sort of car it was, fuel economy wasn't bad. What was bad was reliability. It was a new version, and many things were terrible. Air conditioner failed twice in 2 years, power steering failed, clutch master cylinder failed, horns failed, pressurized struts for hood and hatchback failed, instrument console failed, temperature sender connector failed, car barely passed emissions testing, radiator fan control failed, upper radiator hose failed, paint cracked, and much more that I can't remember at the moment. I owned it from about 1989 to 1993 (odometer range 70,000 to 100,000) and spent $6000 on repairs, taking my life savings down to almost zero. A terrible car.
CR's car ratings have limitations that must be understood, and one big limitation is that they aren't enthusiasts. However, ratings from car enthusiast magazines are even more problematic; there's little attention to reliability and none to customer feedback. CR fills a niche, understand it and use it.
I expect them not to rate it until it has a track record.
Your Chicago Tribune citation is full of hatred and insults. Of the several objections to Carson's statements, only two appear to have any merit. There's also an obvious Chicago Tribune lie, that climate change [as it is politically understood] is "established science".
Carson hasn't thought out his politics thoroughly and carefully enough. His economics are weak. He's far from a loony, some of his statements reveal fresh insights that would do credit to anyone, and unlike all the leading Democrats he's an honorable man.
Do you have some credible references to Trump committing rape, naming the victim? Bill Clinton's rape of Juanita Broaddrick and others has been public knowledge for two decades.
Hillary has knowingly violated secrecy and espionage laws. Apparently, this was just to hide bribery deals, security of government secrets was never given serious consideration.
Slave labor is not as efficient as labor for hire. Plantation owners would have been better off with the (then) never tried option of paid laborers. Poor farmers - whether they mismanaged their land or had infertile land - were not poor because of a lack of slaves.
The moral and political arguments on slavery are common. The economic argument - that a slave has negligible incentive to produce - is also important.
Present your standards of right and wrong behavior for human beings, and identify the foundation of your standards. Your bald claim of "absolutely wrong" means nothing.
My standard of right behavior is action that promotes the health and joy of human beings as individuals. Wrong behavior frustrates and opposes it. The foundation is the fact that we are human beings, intelligent animals that provide for our individual needs under the guidance and control of our minds.
This shows extreme naivete. Most wars are a violent contest between a country whose people do not want to be killed or enslaved, and an aggressor. To view war as "settling differences" is missing the point.
A nation that does not spend enough on defense ceases to exist and its citizens are dead. The subject of "social uplift" becomes moot.
Taking "nation" to mean "government": "social uplift" is not the proper realm of government because sooner or later "social uplift" becomes "agree with the exalted leader or spend your life in prison."
As long as we're considering the cost of social uplift, why is it a never-ending undertaking? Reasons include:
"Social uplift" as a government program is theft administrated by the immoral to benefit the immoral, to the detriment of the moral who have to pay for it. Uplifting individuals should be done by individuals and private charitable organizations.
Brain size does not equal intelligence. Porpoises have relatively large brains, but most of it is irrelevant to intelligence and has more to do with being aquatic mammals. Similarly, the Neanderthal brain may not have had the proper structures to promote high intelligence, we don't know. There's been speculation that Neanderthals interbred with other human subspecies, so the "are now gone" claim is dubious.
There's no reason to believe that pandas don't eat flesh as the result of a moral decision.
Gore Vidal hardly seems like a good character reference.
Jefferson's relationship with his slave is not adequately documented, and cannot reach the conclusions you claim even with DNA evidence. Keep in mind that the alleged sex would have occurred after Jefferson's wife had died. Jefferson could not have legally married the slave even if they both wanted it.
Modern prejudice notwithstanding, there is absolutely no evidence that any alleged sex was non-consensual
The Koch brothers political contributions tend to be pro-freedom. Buffet is pretty consistent about contributing to the anti-freedom side, and using political influence to continue the practice of shipping crude oil on his trucks. Buffet is corrupt.
Gates' record is mixed. The anti-malaria campaign is good. The development of Common Core, which Gates contributes to, aims for politically ignorant worker-drones.
Many cheeses are aged for several months. What you regard as "going bad" is probably mold that doesn't go in very deep.
One technique for preserving cheese is to coat it with wax.
Remember, cows produce milk all winter long, so cheese can be produced all winter long.
The VCR is a 1960s invention.
Busy people don't have time to bitch. Productive people aren't at "Occupy" meetings.
I read of testing that showed a longbow could be fired repetitively faster than a crossbow. The longbow isn't moved between shots; all that's required for reloading is reaching back to the quiver for a new arrow, nocking it in place and drawing it back.