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Comment Re:I'm not a scientist... (Score 1) 99

Thing is, they are missing the research and citations...
For all we know, it could actually put kids who use both early at an advantage. They might not get dizzy in any situations. They might have better abilities to judge distances both real and virtual. They may have better hand eye coordination from "touching" things that aren't actually there. It might take a while to develop those skills just as a bilingual child takes longer developing language skills, but ultimately can get both languages to a near mastery level.
I'm not saying this is the case, but that there is no proof one way or the other.

Comment Re:Political science (Score 0) 265

Lets institute laws that apply to EVERYONE equally, it doesn't matter if you are a citizen, the rich, the poor, a police officer, a government official, or a corporate executive. If you are found guilty, the punishments actually apply (including prison time, I'm tired of listening to the excuses of judges who refuse to punish police who are caught red-handed committing perjury).

Ding ding ding, I think we have a winner here!

Comment Re:Why at a place of learning? (Score 1) 1007

I think you're looking for a Gnostic Atheist... Those would be the ones that claim they can never be convinced.
And Agnostic Atheist is explicitly telling you they can be convinced.

Fact is, probably both could be convinced. All it would take is for this magic sky man to actually prove it to them instead of disguising all his miracles as indistinguishable from random chance, hiding fossils in the earth, forcing everything to behave exactly in line with physics, and only communicating via an inconsistent, 2000+ year old fictional book written by people with agendas.

Comment Re:Ebola threat (Score 1) 478

I'll only agree with you to a point. There are a lot of old wives tails in latin america that people follow, but for the most part they would trust western medicine in the case of life threatening pandemics where the men/women in white suits start coming out... Also there are lots of doctors around, so if something that serious was happening then they would be be the ones really helping the uneducated people understand that this isn't just a "government scare" and really quite serious. Their social structure is quite good at disseminating information outside of traditional channels.

In short, my guess is that brujeria would be kept to a minimum if an ebola outbreak started in Latin America.

Comment Re:Perjury (Score 4, Insightful) 191

Actually, this is the US, the selling of the evidence and even its seizure is independent of the trial, in fact, it would be handled in a seperate civil trial under a much more leniant standard of evidence, allowing for all of his assets to be seized and kept EVEN IF HIS TRIAL RETURNS A NOT-GUILTY VERDICT.

He can actually be found not-guilty, let free, and they still get to keep his stuff.

I just want to be put on the record saying: "That is completely insane."

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