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I work under tight labour laws, and if you insist on calling that tyranny, then yes, I am perfectly okay with at least this much tyranny.
I work under tight labour laws, and if you insist on calling that tyranny, then yes, I am perfectly okay with at least this much tyranny.
Let me see if I understand this correctly. You want people to remain ignorant so that they can trick themselves into thinking homeopathic treatments work. I'm too terrified by the prospect to even come up with a clever insult.
Maybe that's just as well, and there's no need for insults. It's not such a bad idea. We'd need precise data to decide it, but as far as myths go, homeopathy could be a myth with some social value - that is, if you get significant results with innocuous and inexpensive treatment. As this friend of mine said, the placebo effect is strong with this one...
The main thing is, information is and should be freely available. Anyone who can read can spend some time on the internet and find out the scientific viewpoint on homeopathy. That, of course, is very important. But for those who don't, why rub it in their face?
Yes, at an incrediby slow pace, and only until you reach the same partial pressure of helium inside and outside the container. Which will give you a ridiculously small amount of helium after a huge wait. That's why no one does that.
Nice job quoting sources. Try reading them next time.
From TFwikiA:
That statement, however, occurs nowhere in the book (...) Dworkin rejected the interpretation that "All heterosexual intercourse is rape" as a grave misunderstanding of her work.
Religious nutters tend to be unintelligent.
I wish they all were, I really wish. The problem would be so much easier to deal with.
Does the Consitution's "equal protection" clause imply that siblings can marry?
That's an interesting one. So far, no, because of the extraordinary risk to potential children, plus the cultural taboo of incest. Over long times, taboos change though.
Does is imply polygamy and polyandry?
It might eventually, provided that that you can properly document the consent of all parties, and that no one is getting abused in the process. There is also a cultural component to it.
How about rape, since I have a sexual urges to many women who aren't interested in me, but married people have conjugal rights?
That is clearly violating someone else's basic rights.
If I can find a willing mare in heat, do I we have an equal-protection right to marriage?
I don't think you can document the mare's consent, plus, it (she?) can probably not fulfill a number of legal responsibilities. Basically, it's not much of a citizen.
You can address all these questions. Some are trivial, some are much more subtle. But the ones that are actually at stake in the political debate these days are mostly on the simpler side of the spectrum.
When someone pushes a new law about polygamy, I expect to read some interesting arguments. The reason it's not going to happen soon is that there is very little interest for it in society, so it stays mercifully out of public debate.
This dialogue is very much to the point (probably despite its author's intentions). If you just grant lesbian and gay couples the *right* to have babies, there are plenty of ways they can have them. Like adopting them. The same way straight couples who can't make their own babies for medical reasons often find ways around that, and that is their right under the law.
I found the book "In the Belly of the Beast" very enlightening on solitary confinement.
One impression one gets from it is that given sufficient time in prison, many initially sane people may end up suffering from mental illness. At which point they become all the more "eligible" to solitary confinement.
I believe you meant to say "At what pint does the brawl start?"
Doesn't matter, it's pronounced the same in Ireland.
"Siri...write a program to do X."
Did you mean: "Sbaitso...write a program to do X."
Really? I have a choice of 278 different electric plans with over 40 different electric providers.
I've got approximately 277 fewer choices than that, and that's the way my utility likes it.
Too bad for you that you live in one of those socialist countries with no sense of how free markets work.
he was basically just going about his job, doing the right thing, but forgot they weren't HIS computers.
Isn't that the most unprofessional thing a sysadmin can do? Doesn't everyone in the business know that that is precisely the behavior that gets you in trouble?
Yup. You could rephrase the conclusion as: "there are an awful lot of crappy open access journals out there". It doesn't say anything about a difference in that respect between OA and non-OA journals.
Good point. And it wouldn't even have cost money, because for the journals I know of, you don't pay anything until the paper is accepted.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach