"Most people simply do not have the mental capacity to comprehend the meaning of 1 + 1 = 2, and if you do not believe me, go ask the people around you, why 1 + 1 = 2, and not 1 + 1 = 3 ?"

Are you suggesting that we hide maths entirely? Look, there are some things I maybe understand a little, many things I don't understand, and probably an infinite amount of things I don't know about. Just because I don't understand something doesn't mean you should hide the problem from me. If maths is the best way to understand something then it should be used. If an article refers to data or a paper then it should be referenced. If you hide things from me (lies to children?) then I have to repeat the work of others to come to the same result. That is called a waste of time.

You, and I, (if you and I exist) are in a situation where the supposed greatest minds of our race understand maybe 2% of the rules. Probably far less. Although it is far more comfortable to sit in frount of media, dealing in made up social structures, assuming that what I can see is real, pretending I know it all and living in a fantasy land. I would quite like to have an inkling of what I don't know. It makes me humble, and it makes me careful.

The map is not the terrain. The rules are not the reality. Shine me a torch to see. And if it is dark, tell me of the possibilty of light.

You forgot to add this oath;

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

(Also as a New Zealand citizen) I would like to add an apology for the rule of law going to hell here. The GCSB was caught out spying illegally on NZ citizens. Nobody was charged, no-one was even fired. We have become a country for the rich and by the rich, subject to foriegn powers. Our property is being sold out from underneath us, our laws have become mutable. There is little responsibilty in government, and even less in the corporate sector.

"Fact is, if youre in a public place, you dont have an expectation of privacy."

Untrue. Otherwise we could ask people to remove their clothes and they would comply.

"....temporarily thrust the nation into its most severe maelstrom of productivity since 1992."

From the Onion.

So why not make it illegal to protest a funeral? Who will be disenfranchised by that?

Err....I dunno.

I am not saying that America is Bahrain. I am merely using it as an example of how you may be shooting yourself in the foot with a law like that.

My mother died a little over a year ago. Photo's are great, but in my case the videos don't do a huge amount for me (although it is interesting to watch how she moved). My brother has her cell phone though, so when we call him we get her voice-mail message....I really miss that voice. Dad went through her travel diaries and typed them up so we all have a copy of those. That's nice because it records the way her mind worked in some of the happier times of her life. The smell of perfumes may also be important, coconut cream always reminds me of her and that phase happened when I was a very young child. Shopping lists, notes, and such are also important. Sometimes it is the way we do little things are say the most about how we were.
Beware of recording to much of her in her final stages. They need to remember her as she lived, not as she was dying. Good luck though. You are in for a rough ride and it will take a long time to regain some sense of balance.

"that you are black and some is chanting "nigger nigger nigger nigger" in your face"

You're at a Rap concert?

Or we Pluto it :)

"It is utterly unmeritocratic: no matter how hard you work, you would be unable to succeed because you were genetically inferior. You fail because you simply aren't smart enough, or haven't enough stamina, or lack the inbuilt emotional intelligence or what have you"
No, that's evolution.

The question asked is rather easy actually. As per normal turn it around. Is it moral to refuse treatment to a colour blind person knowing that you can fix the perceived problem?

Oh, and btw, the universe doesn't give a shit. There is no god. Morals are just another social construct to protect the inferior and the dominant.

You forgot;
"William Hayward Pickering ONZ KBE (24 December 1910 — 15 March 2004) was a New Zealand born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space."*

I emailed Rocket Labs for a better time table as I should be able to get a good view of the launch, and they said;

"Thank you for your interest.

We have a media contingent going and one of them may be doing something,
but we have no plans at this stage to provide live updates.

If the weather is good, it'll likely be between 6am and 7am Monday 30th."

*quoted from Wikipedia

Redemption. It is hoped that this act will haunt the perpetrators for the rest of their lives because they are human. If you don't believe they have a chance to redeem themselves, if only in their own eyes or in the eyes of the people who love them, then they should have been killed as soon as they were found guilty. A lifetime is a very long time though, some of us make mistakes. Some of us make horrendous mistakes.It is hoped that we would learn from them.

Don't go hacking my heart
I could if I tried
Honey please forget my wireless
Baby I'm not that kind
Don't go hacking my heart
You take the beat out of me
Honey when you knocked on my port
My heart gave you my key
Nobody knows it
When I was down
I was your pawn
Nobody knows it
Right from the start
You stopped my heart
You stopped my heart
So don't go hacking my heart
I won't go hacking your heart
Don't go hacking my heart


On a slighly different note. I wonder if Captain Crunch could freak an ear implant?

"Everyone knows that Jesus was born to Mary after she immaculately conceived him by receiving God's seed somehow."
Whilst simultaneously being of the line of David.........Work that one out.

"It's another thing to not consider putting the car in neutral when something like this is encountered."
People panic. I was in a car where a friend had his shoelace closed in the door and panicked about not being able to reach the brake. It never crossed his mind to use his other foot, or the handbrake.