The can smell cancer but still want to catch the laser dot on the floor.

No matter how difficult it is to teach the robot to do the laundry, it is going to be whole lot easier than teaching my teenager to pick clothes from the floor of her bedroom. "How can you sleep in the middle of all that squalor?" .. "chill dad, I can't see the floor once I get into my bed!"

Why talk as though evolution has a purpose, a mind , as if evolution itself is some sentient being?

Stop anthropomorphizing or deomorphizing evolution. Evolution hates such talk. :-)

Dualism vs non-Dualism is not unique to Christianity. Hinduism has its flavor of dualism (dwaitham) and non-dualism (adwaitham). But there the question are the souls of people same as the divinity (adwaitham) or is the soul of living beings distinct from the divine soul of the cosmos(dwaitham)?

BTW I don't believe creationists are the majority among the Christians or they speak for all Christians. But they do wield political power way out of proportion to their true numbers.

Thanks for the correction buddy. The less informed would just shrug it off. But for true afficianados committing a faux pas like mixing up blasters with phasers would be shameful.

The regular lead bullets from even a small caliber short barrel weapon is too fast for eyes to see. But the speed of light phasers being fired by the storm troopers leave a neat clean visible tracer lines. That leads straight back to the location of the gun which helps Harrison Ford ample time to find good spot to dive into, no antique plane needed.

They have rules, but mostly no one follows them. All traffic proceeds by no holds barred negotiation. "OK I move one feet forward, now your move". The only use for traffic rules is to set help negotiating the bribe with the traffic cop. "Come on, officer, 500 rupees for riding without a helmet? The actual fine itself is just 750 rupees. Come on, what kind of idiot you think I am to settle for a 33% discount. Take this 100 rupees". "What? 100 rupees, even beggars don't take 100 rupees anymore, how about not coming to full stop at halt-and-go sign, 1500 rupees fine, discounted to 200 rupees and we call it fair and square?". "OK, next time start with something reasonable we could have finished the transaction much sooner and saved time".

It is not just Satan who is planting all those evil evidence. Satan is being actively aided and abetted by the Omnipotent who is *not* removing the false evidence as soon as Satan does the planting. It am sure the Omniscient All Knowing God is just testing the faithful to find out how strong their faith is, which He already knows, by definition.

Please give yourself a few minutes to let the brain return from that complex Yoga pose to return to normal.

Clarifying the argument: It is not merely "I can't figure out how it happened". It is "If *I* can't figure it out, no one can, because I am the brainiest, wickedly smart, scientist ever to have walked on this planet".

Scenario 1:

Dear Investigator,

We understand you suspect our CEO was doing insider trading and want access to our server logs to find evidence of guilt or innocence. While we appreciate your conscientiousness, we regret, we do not allow third party access to our servers. We thank you for your understanding. Hoping this would buy us enough time to sanitize our server logs, Yours, Gofly Akite, for Dewy Chetham and Howe.

SEC investigator: eh? well, OK, Guess I tried, so I have covered my ass

Scenario 2:

"Hey Police officer, you want to search my car for pot? I know you are just doing your job, but sorry buddy, my policy is not to allow any third parties into my car. Hope you understand"

Police Officer: "Keep your hands visible, and slowly exit your vehicle, turn around put your hands on the hood and bend over..."

See? They can learn. After fully understanding it is stupid to slap a phone UI paradigm on desktops they have decided the right thing to do is cram the desktop UI on to the phone. Way to go Microsoft. Way to go.

There was always that off beat chance the battleship is hiding in some isolated bay, continuing the war, not knowing the war had ended, like some soldiers of the Imperial Army in that part of the world. . This discovery will put many people at ease.

You are right. But they are very funny.

Car talk guys had an interesting observation. The average extra "lifespan" you get by exercising seems to equal the time spent exercising. Something like: Exercising 30 minutes a day works out to some 1.6 years spent exercising over 76 years and that seems to be the extra lifespan you get by exercising 30 minutes a day.

For a guy who hates mistakes in number formats, you seem to have a very relaxed attitude towards spelling homonyms correctly.