Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
5th August 2021, 02:31 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 5,454
The holy grail of vaccines is so-called...
The holy grail of vaccines is so-called "sterilizing immunity" which is caused by "neutralizing antibodies".
When virions invade your body, the only become dangerous when they actually enter your...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
12th August 2018, 04:15 PM
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Replies: 171
Views: 9,686
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
12th August 2018, 04:10 PM
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Replies: 171
Views: 9,686
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
12th August 2018, 04:08 PM
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Replies: 171
Views: 9,686
I thought it had to do with English/British...
I thought it had to do with English/British tradition that a monarch doesn't abdicate for old age but dies on the throne? Which, I think, is a silly tradition.
Personally, I like the idea that...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
11th August 2018, 02:30 AM
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Replies: 200
Views: 9,338
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
11th August 2018, 02:10 AM
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Replies: 112
Views: 11,305
Don't you know that the quote button sends a...
Don't you know that the quote button sends a message to the CIA and the NSA, so they can track what rlopez is doing and what nefarious plots of them he's revealing?
<sarcasm off>
I'm back to...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
10th August 2018, 04:41 AM
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Replies: 171
Views: 9,686
Let's hear it from the horse's mouth...
Let's hear it from the horse's mouth (https://www.royal.uk/greeting-member-royal-family):
So (a) it wasn't needed, and (b) if this is May's idea of a curtsy, she's doing it wrong. But we already...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
8th August 2018, 05:10 PM
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Replies: 200
Views: 9,338
We'll have to see. There are CT nutjobs in all...
We'll have to see. There are CT nutjobs in all kinds and sizes. The average moon hoaxer (*) or flat earther doesn't spew hate speech against gays or blacks or etc., or induce violence in their...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
8th August 2018, 03:44 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 882
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
4th August 2018, 06:30 PM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
4th August 2018, 06:22 PM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
4th August 2018, 04:14 AM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
4th August 2018, 04:12 AM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
I remembered that Boris had gone AWOL the whole...
I remembered that Boris had gone AWOL the whole long weekend after the referendum. But you mean this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VLvT8H6Vu8), where he's leaving his house? You wouldn't be...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
4th August 2018, 02:12 AM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
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Forum: USA Politics
3rd August 2018, 09:04 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,437
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
3rd August 2018, 05:42 PM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
Back in the 1970s, various pro-EC politicians...
Back in the 1970s, various pro-EC politicians quite openly made statements that with the EC, people would be voting on an ever more tighter union. That was no secret at all.
And back then, people...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
3rd August 2018, 05:36 PM
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Replies: 108
Views: 11,393
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
3rd August 2018, 01:00 PM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
3rd August 2018, 12:51 PM
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Replies: 108
Views: 11,393
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
3rd August 2018, 12:47 PM
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Replies: 119
Views: 5,256
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
3rd August 2018, 09:25 AM
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Replies: 108
Views: 11,393
The Nazis also had seats in the Reichstag.
...
The Nazis also had seats in the Reichstag.
Hitler's government was also a coalition government.
So they're not Nazis, just racist scum?
The quality of your arguments keeps amazing me....
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
3rd August 2018, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
Great point.
And if the UK after it crashes...
Great point.
And if the UK after it crashes out of the EU with a no-deal Brexit, imposes no tariffs on various EU goods in order to forestall food or drug scarcity, then the UK will be obliged to...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
3rd August 2018, 06:38 AM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
Moreover, it's not simply possible to roll over...
Moreover, it's not simply possible to roll over these "free trade" deals as for many goods, they contain maximum quota, and it is not clear how these quota should be divided between the EU-27 and the...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd August 2018, 06:00 PM
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Replies: 119
Views: 5,256
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd August 2018, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 119
Views: 5,256
Oh, they would be a match made in heaven. From...
Oh, they would be a match made in heaven. From Whitman's Yelp reviews:
and:
and I remember there was also one that complained he had installed a second hand unit and charged for a new one, but...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd August 2018, 03:43 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 2,308
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd August 2018, 03:31 PM
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Replies: 119
Views: 5,256
"We also heat your lawn with our special...
"We also heat your lawn with our special cross-fire system"
There's more in the Yelp reviews (https://www.yelp.com/biz/uriahs-heating-cooling-and-refrigeration-powell-2). :D
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd August 2018, 03:23 PM
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Replies: 119
Views: 5,256
Yes, I know. I was objecting to Brainster's...
Yes, I know. I was objecting to Brainster's feeble attempt to whine about blurring of the line between private and business life. He was doing this while being on the job. He was involved in a road...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd August 2018, 03:13 PM
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Replies: 116
Views: 4,106
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd August 2018, 02:20 PM
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Replies: 119
Views: 5,256
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
2nd August 2018, 02:10 PM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
How does that work? It's Brexiteers in the...
How does that work? It's Brexiteers in the cabinet, while it's Remainers making those forecasts.
How does that work? If you're blind and deaf, while I'm tied to a pole and see you running toward...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd August 2018, 12:04 PM
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Replies: 119
Views: 5,256
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd August 2018, 12:00 PM
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Replies: 119
Views: 5,256
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
2nd August 2018, 10:51 AM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
2nd August 2018, 10:49 AM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
Has Timothy Garton Ash gone bonkers?
He...
Has Timothy Garton Ash gone bonkers?
He wants us to look at an empire that during its existence was one slow decline into irrelevancy, with ever hollowed-out central authority, with subordinates...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd August 2018, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 119
Views: 5,256
Half a dozen time.
:confused: Are there...
Half a dozen time.
:confused: Are there positive ways to use the N-word?
And that too.
Even if you're wrong in a traffic incident, flipping a finger and then moving on is something nobody...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
2nd August 2018, 10:08 AM
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Replies: 119
Views: 5,256
Fixed that for him. It seems Jeffrey Whitman is...
Fixed that for him. It seems Jeffrey Whitman is utterly clueless to how modern electronic media work. His Yelp account is flooded with negative comments. Twitter and other social media are replete...
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Forum: Non-USA & General Politics
2nd August 2018, 08:58 AM
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Replies: 3,399
Views: 183,734
As we live in a post-fact world, it's very...
As we live in a post-fact world, it's very important we do not listen to the so-called "experts" but, instead, to the man in the pub. So, here's a video of three blokes in the pub discussing a...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
1st August 2018, 09:29 AM
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Replies: 70
Views: 3,188
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
1st August 2018, 04:43 AM
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Replies: 203
Views: 16,829
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
30th July 2018, 03:10 PM
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Replies: 203
Views: 16,829
Then you phrased that very poorly.
And...
Then you phrased that very poorly.
And likewise Magna Graecia.
I made a very rude remark about that upthread. But sheesh, I don't see the problem with attaching a bit of historical glamour...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
30th July 2018, 01:27 PM
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Replies: 203
Views: 16,829
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
30th July 2018, 12:44 PM
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Replies: 203
Views: 16,829
Yes, it is. Iotacism...
Yes, it is. Iotacism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iotacism): in modern Greek, about half of the written vowel/diphtong combinations are pronounced as in /i:/ This is a trend that started around the...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
30th July 2018, 10:43 AM
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Replies: 64
Views: 4,556
What? You want to profit off other people's...
What? You want to profit off other people's suffering?
She thought it was all tosh, though I don't remember the exact wording.
ETA: I see lobosrul5 has beaten me to it, with the exact quote.
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
30th July 2018, 10:08 AM
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Replies: 203
Views: 16,829
According to the Russian wikipedia...
According to the Russian wikipedia (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD), it is in fact written with the unvoiced Ч as its first letter, the same as...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
30th July 2018, 09:52 AM
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Replies: 204
Views: 11,439
Not immediate, no, but in general, the drugs a...
Not immediate, no, but in general, the drugs a pharmacist dispenses are essential to your health. Whether the butcher sells pork or not, not so much.
And for something that's immediate a matter of...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
30th July 2018, 09:06 AM
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Replies: 283
Views: 14,431
No, I don't, I purposely gave you a counter...
No, I don't, I purposely gave you a counter question. And I was first in asking you. It seems you studiously avoided answering my post while my answered all other posts.
The questions I asked...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
30th July 2018, 08:41 AM
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Replies: 283
Views: 14,431
Scenario 1.
I have an infinite hotel with ten...
Scenario 1.
I have an infinite hotel with ten corridors, A thru J. Corridor A contains the rooms with numbers 1, 11, 21, 31, etc., i.e., all numbers ending with digit 1. Corridor B the rooms with...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
30th July 2018, 08:26 AM
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Replies: 283
Views: 14,431
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
30th July 2018, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 204
Views: 11,439
It depends. Some will only serve kosher/halal...
It depends. Some will only serve kosher/halal food, others will serve anything. I'm pretty sure the Turkish proprietor of my local shawarma shop is Muslim, but the regular shawarma he sells certainly...
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