Mine's a box. Granted, it is made of metal and plastic, rather than cardboard, but that doesn't matter. Boxes can be made of all sorts of materials. Why do you think it isn't a box?

How, exactly, does that stop your friends from mailing you Christmas cards?

Because not being able to tell us is a data point as well.

Yes, it's the switches that go. Either they stop switching, or they double click on their own. That's the only reason I've replaced mice other than upgrading from ball mice to optical, and from PS/2 to USB.

The purpose of the government is to implement and regulate broadcast standards. It is the government's job to make them turn down the volume.

So how do you get your Christmas cards?

Ahh! So it's meant to mean we can't prove or disprove spiritual claims by looking at merely physical evidence?

If I'm trying to support a claim that is 80% extraordinary, does my evidence have to be 80% extraordinary too, or can I get by with two pieces of 40% extraordinary evidence? I mean, Sagan's statement is a nice sentiment and makes a great sound bite, and all, but the moment you start judging the ordinariness or extraordinariness of claims and evidence you start to stumble off the path of science. Science is simple: Either the evidence supports the claim or it doesn't. That's all that should matter.

Nonsense. That's not how science works. The basic idea behind science is that if an observation contradicts a conjecture, then the conjecture is false. That's it. If the observations do not contradict the conjecture, science makes no claim.

Their sky god has them blow stuff up by running our sky carriages into our sky scrapers. Our sky god has us forgive them, and even love them. No doubt in my mind which one needs to be destroyed first.

You're missing the point. The constitution is defended with the ballot box, not the ammo box. By the time you're defending the constitution with guns, you've already lost. At that point, it's time to revert to the Declaration of Independence "...whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

Any reason you can't seal the build chamber, flood it with the welding gas (about a couple of cubic feet should do) and use a simple wire feed welder? The reason the gas welder takes so much gas is that the gas escapes into the surrounding air.

As someone's tagline hereabouts says, "I don't have a problem with God; it's his cheerleaders I can't stand." :)

And technically, aren't the Ten Commandments a Hebrew/Jewish thing, not of Christian origin?

I am not an American, so if there is some American cultural reference linking "one single event" and the American Revolution, you'll have to forgive me for not picking up on the hint. Besides, the American revolution is not an example of the US government changing its policies because the US population is armed because there was no US, or US government, or US population (armed or otherwise) at the time.