Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
31st January 2017, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,052
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
31st January 2017, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,052
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
31st January 2017, 07:30 AM
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Replies: 375
Views: 41,016
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
28th January 2017, 08:26 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
28th January 2017, 08:08 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 8,569
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
28th January 2017, 07:58 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 9,805
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
28th January 2017, 06:19 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
It really is too good to be true. I was so...
It really is too good to be true. I was so desperate, I was going to schedule an appointment at an accupuncturist if this didn't work, but this was about 1/10 the cost for a test size from the...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
28th January 2017, 07:50 AM
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Replies: 375
Views: 41,016
I don't know how I'd feel if I were a Christian...
I don't know how I'd feel if I were a Christian (whatever that would mean) and an atheist, rather than just being an atheist, but I don't see as big a problem there. Everybody makes mistakes; this...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
27th January 2017, 09:39 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
Yeah, it's not really much of a discovery on my...
Yeah, it's not really much of a discovery on my part. I mean, I read a few articles on my condition, found one that mentioned a different treatment, found the treatment was being sold by some guy,...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
26th January 2017, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 375
Views: 41,016
Yes, all those could be and are inspiring too....
Yes, all those could be and are inspiring too. But I think it's especially inspiring when someone says: this is what I try to do, in this book here, and then comes close to actually doing it. That's...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
26th January 2017, 10:31 AM
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Replies: 1,215
Views: 196,741
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
25th January 2017, 01:35 PM
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Replies: 375
Views: 41,016
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
25th January 2017, 10:13 AM
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Replies: 89
Views: 14,014
Good point, and I don't recall seeing it....
Good point, and I don't recall seeing it. Blackface became increasingly stereotyped in the US, with the large lighter lips especially, and the emphasized eyes. Blackfaced performaners didn't look...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
25th January 2017, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 375
Views: 41,016
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
22nd January 2017, 10:49 AM
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Replies: 240
Views: 21,165
Didn't they make a movie about that? There was...
Didn't they make a movie about that? There was this kid that could see the Dunning-Kruger people and he gave the quote that's been the tagline in longer or shorter forms for the movie: "I see dumb...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
22nd January 2017, 10:06 AM
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Replies: 375
Views: 41,016
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
21st January 2017, 10:24 PM
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Replies: 240
Views: 21,165
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
21st January 2017, 09:37 PM
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Replies: 375
Views: 41,016
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st January 2017, 09:19 AM
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Replies: 89
Views: 14,014
Is there even a tradition in Australian of...
Is there even a tradition in Australian of putting on blackface shows of whites dressed up as, and pretending to be blacks or slaves in some area similar to the US antebellum south? If there were...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
21st January 2017, 08:50 AM
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Replies: 375
Views: 41,016
From that one link that was the more colorful...
From that one link that was the more colorful ones (http://www.precious-testimonies.com/Exhortations/u-z/WhatDoesItMeanToBeInChrist.htm)came this:
"And what of sin? When sin accuses we say, ‘Yes,...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
21st January 2017, 08:24 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 8,237
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
21st January 2017, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
17th January 2017, 12:34 AM
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Replies: 375
Views: 41,016
"Brothers in Arms" works well when a group of...
"Brothers in Arms" works well when a group of people implies that they are brothers fighting for the same cause. But does it work when it arrays all those on one side with all those on the other...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
16th January 2017, 07:48 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 4,669
I've never been to the bigtime Ringling/Barnum...
I've never been to the bigtime Ringling/Barnum circuses but I went to a smallltime one-ring back when I was a teenager, and it was what it was. I wasn't over-impressed, or under-impressed either....
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
16th January 2017, 07:04 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 8,237
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
15th January 2017, 07:01 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
Yeah, I know what you mean. As I told the...
Yeah, I know what you mean. As I told the chaplain, being dead is easy--you're just dead. No instructions needed. Going on living is the hard part. I feel bad for her. We always thought she'd die...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
15th January 2017, 06:39 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
Nope, not correct at all. Horatius nailed it.
...
Nope, not correct at all. Horatius nailed it.
The reason I didn't want to elaborate on it, is because it could give away the patented medicine I'm talking about. There's just one sort of thing...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
15th January 2017, 11:22 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 8,237
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
15th January 2017, 11:15 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
Thanks, and I'm sorry for you and your family....
Thanks, and I'm sorry for you and your family. But you made it through, and that's what I plan we'll do! I figure it'll be rough for my wife, and I do keep encouraging her to ask for whatever she...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
15th January 2017, 10:59 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
Wait... I was just going through my watched...
Wait... I was just going through my watched threads. You bumped a 2008 thread of mine to post the exact same thing today. Are you doing okay? No offence, but I don't recall that we've interacted...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
15th January 2017, 10:49 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 8,237
Wow, a blast from the past! That dog has died,...
Wow, a blast from the past! That dog has died, we've moved to the city where we can't let the new dogs or the cats outside of our fenced yard anymore because of traffic, and there's no place to go...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
14th January 2017, 10:20 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
Yeah, there's a lot of suckitude. I figure even...
Yeah, there's a lot of suckitude. I figure even if he did find out who I am, he's not going to care if I just use the medicine on myself, and it would do him a lot of harm to the brand, to sue a poor...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
14th January 2017, 07:01 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
Oh, yes, I love selling stuff. Writing...
Oh, yes, I love selling stuff. Writing advertising copy is what I used to do. I would definitely try to work with him and see if I could work out some sort of sales deal, where I get a cut of what I...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
14th January 2017, 10:42 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
It's so simple to make--one active ingredient,...
It's so simple to make--one active ingredient, one inactive ingredient--that my dog could almost do it. Good question about the patent age, but it's less than ten years old. I'd give a link to the...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
12th January 2017, 06:51 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
12th January 2017, 01:26 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,045
If a Medicine is Patented...?
Question concerning USA laws. Let's say a medicine is patented in the US. I'm in the US. I look at the patent and say, "That looks easy. I could make that up myself at home with a few simple...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
10th January 2017, 10:57 PM
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Replies: 102
Views: 13,003
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
9th January 2017, 07:12 AM
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Replies: 102
Views: 13,003
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
4th January 2017, 08:04 PM
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Replies: 572
Views: 73,027
You (I) can walk another route to avoid the...
You (I) can walk another route to avoid the homeless dude, or can tell off the ugly paperboy as loudly and soundly as desired.
A waitress has to be there, in a known location, every day, where the...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
4th January 2017, 12:12 AM
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Replies: 329
Views: 42,080
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
3rd January 2017, 11:37 PM
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Replies: 329
Views: 42,080
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
3rd January 2017, 12:42 PM
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Replies: 329
Views: 42,080
I've combined two posts and skipped some...
I've combined two posts and skipped some questions, to try to keep things to a manageable length. If I've missed something important, my apologies; please repeat it.
That's why I think...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
2nd January 2017, 06:30 AM
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Replies: 329
Views: 42,080
Well, a subpopulation could be "people I don't...
Well, a subpopulation could be "people I don't like." But I expect that scientists would be a bit more scientific than that, and say "individuals with African ancestry" is useless for their work...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
31st December 2016, 05:38 PM
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Replies: 329
Views: 42,080
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
31st December 2016, 01:27 PM
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Replies: 329
Views: 42,080
They rant against the old race definitions, as...
They rant against the old race definitions, as shown by the concluding sentence, "Racist political doctrines find no foundation in scientific knowledge concerning modern or past human populations."...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
31st December 2016, 12:37 PM
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Replies: 63
Views: 9,809
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
30th December 2016, 07:59 PM
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Replies: 63
Views: 9,809
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
29th December 2016, 08:40 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 4,090
This works! I've had a magnet on my desk for...
This works! I've had a magnet on my desk for years, and no sharks have ever come near it.
Edited to add: I wonder if there's a natural understanding of this phenomenon buried somewhere deep in the...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
29th December 2016, 08:37 PM
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Replies: 63
Views: 9,809
I asked the handy theist in the house, and she...
I asked the handy theist in the house, and she said putting her hand on the Bible wouldn't make any difference to her because if she swears an oath, it's in front of God with or without a Bible. Of...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
29th December 2016, 08:17 PM
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Replies: 329
Views: 42,080
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