Gods, aliens, who cares?

Let's get back to the mead. I've some in the bottle, and some in the works.

ivan

The trials in Germany don't behave anything like trials in the US. It's even beyond the Napoleonic system, where precedent isn't as big a deal. They don't do the whole adversarial thing. Basically, people talk until the judge decides s/he knows what actually happened, and produces a ruling.

Obviously, this is all based on on thing I over[mis]heard a while back.

I like to think that he'd read that damn book, look up, and say, "This is bullshit. Where did the idea that value could exist outside the mind which perceives value start?"

But, I've always been a hopeless optimist when it comes to fictional supermen. Zarathustra, now there's a fictional superman whose opinion on this topic I'd like to hear.

Are you talking about Fords and Chevys, made in the US, but American workers, or Toyotas and Hondas, made in the US, by American workers?

Or, about Fords and Chevys, made in Mexico, by Mexican workers, or in Canada, by Canadian workers, and all the same again for the Toyotas and Hondas, and Beemers, Benzes, and VWs?

I think you'll find that it's not as simple as "American factories make junk," or "American workers make junk." The connection between quality and geography is tenuous, and much of the real difference is related to labor costs. But that only really works in a negative way. Companies making cheap shit go to cheap labor markets. Companies making quality feces can consider a greater range of factors when locating manufacturing.

The other great thing about a watch is that I don't look quite as stupid when I look at my watch every time I have to think about time. I look at my watch as a sort of self hypnosis. It signals my brain to think in terms of time, even when the time involved was never registered against my watch, or is on a scale which does not register on my watch.

Truthfully, for a couple of years I wasn't wearing watches, and I'd still look at my wrist to think about time.

Here's why I still have a watch: I sync it to the clock which matters.

"A man with one clock always knows what time it is; a man with two is never sure."

I don't have to worry about which clock is accurate. I know that I only have one clock in my life which is unforgiving. Every other random clock can be either close enough that people running off it will not be inconvenienced by my running off a different clock, or ignored.

That book was easy to read, but hard to care about.

It also featured a little disclaimer at the beginning, distancing the author from the views expressed. I hope we can do better.

are you suggesting that believing in God might change God? That may be the single most blasphemous thing I've ever heard.

ivan

The temperature difference also improves the efficiency for energy reclamation systems. Whether you end up mimicking geothermal on a small scale, or put turbines in exhaust stacks, the sustained savings over the lifetime of the DC should be considerable.

ivan

If you built houses and bought a DeWalt, you'd be a fool. Makita is a far superior product, with better support.

GP was posting about an active Jammer.

ivan

I assumed that "brazillion" was some hint as to one possible hiding place...

ivan

Not firearm free zones, unenforced firearm free zones. Federal courts, prisons, any place there are people our government spends money to specifically protect, these places are free of gun violence.

I don't actually think that we should be banning guns and searching people routinely, but your argument is incomplete.

Ivan

(reporting from the home of "Vermont carry")

I, too, thought of the death tolls of "bush wars." Something, perhaps a "TED Talk," about how modern violence is less deadly than the tribal and bush wars that were prevalent before the advent of the nation-state. Who knows?