The energy applied to the target by a bullet is less than or roughly equal to the energy applied to the gun, flesh, other springy elements in between the bullet and hand or shoulder of the shooter.

FTFY. It's a small textual change, but has huge implications in terms of terminal ballistics. What you can easily absorb as the shooter is pretty significantly different than what you can absorb as impact on your flesh from the bullet side. Believe me, you can kill someone with the blunt force trauma that dissipating the energy from a bullet instantaneously would induce.

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'If I have nothing to hide, then DON'T SEARCH ME'

I also agree with your statement, although perhaps not the presentation. It's important that we share as much data and models as possible. If you're trying to hide your model because of some private interest, that's one thing. If your research is owned by the American people, it's not yours to censor, and you'd be surprised how intelligent other people are, and what interesting things they may glean from the knowledge you've cataloged.

If your models truly work (and they don't represent a trade secret), what, exactly, do you expect to gain by hiding them? If your models truly work, you'd certainly want everyone to see that they're indisputable.

FTFY.

Probably the best explanation I've come across in quite some time.

I've lived in the Sahara with no air conditioning. Hot? Yes. Livable? Yup. Is it worth our time and effort to pour billions into politicized science, when we will in nearly every scenario do better to invest those dollars elsewhere? Not. A. Chance.

You're missing the whole story. There's the issue of the 'Old Covenant' vs. the 'New Covenant', and how Christ fulfilled the law (this being God's plan all along: see Old Testament discussions of the Messiah). The idea is that there are repercussions for breaking God's laws, and Christ ended up paying the price for us through His sacrifice.

Perhaps a better understanding of what exactly the Old Testament represents to Christians would provide a better understanding of these conundrums? And perhaps the logic of a being that exists outside even time wouldn't necessarily have the same basis as our reasoning?

Damned Straight. I'm sorry, but who we elect as our leader is up to us, not Norway, or Sweden, or Africa for that matter. I'm not saying it doesn't affect them, I'm saying it's not their choice, and I don't need their approval. In fact, I could give a crap whether they approve of who I vote for or not.

While I'm glad the Nobel Peace Prize committee seems to like our current president, if he screws up now, he (and they) will have all sorts of mud on their faces.

Unabashedly American, EaglemanBSA.

Seconded. I haven't actually said anything about up 'til now but I'm not going to buy a game I have to log in to their specific server to play. The fun is in the LAN parties where it takes no time to set up and play a bunch of people at once.

If they're going to be Microsoft-esque in making sure my copy is genuine, I'll just go play something else. There are plenty of games out there that can be just as fun without the bullshit.

Not only that, but the ability measure longitude at sea was pretty much nonexistent until at least the 15th century, and latitude not that much before. The idea that a map from any time before that could be remotely accurate for absolute distances on Earth from a ship at sea is ridiculous.

The _readable_ transcription of Mark in this copy (if you look at the page, you can see that there are illegible marks at the end of the book) ends before discussion the resurrection, but Matthew Luke and John all describe the resurrection. FTFY.

A pretty good approximation for a society that usually measured them using their forearms, if you ask me. Round 3.14 to the nearest cubit, what do you have? Very closely, 3.