Andy9o8

Why should it only be incompetent Governors and Senators who get to run for Prez or VP? This way it's more more, uh, populist. Yeah, that's it.

Would it stop a person from enabling his PMs, PMing someone and then (re-?)disabling his PMs before the recipient could respond?

"Don't tase me, bro!"

Considering how much recreation and tourism contribute not just to the economy, but to the very identity, of Colorado, one would hope that perspective would have some real traction.

Technical point: In current times, 99% of the time the prosecutor wouldn't need to make that argument in the first place, because the judge would not allow the past-promiscuity defense in the first place, as not sufficiently relevant to the issue of the victim's consent or lack thereof. I understand both sides of the argument, I'm just telling you that the modern trend is to make it very difficult, if not impossible, for the defense to get away with raising that defense. I'll acknowledge that she probably was offended by the stepping-on of the flag, but I think it's probably more just a case of double-standard: she sees the desecration in others' acts, but rationalizes her own acts as something otherwise.

Libel? Defamation. sue me. Already in the works. So how may frivolous lawsuits would that make for you? It's so many I need Kallend to calculate it.

That's so true! Wait, no it isn't.

I put publicly burning bibles, staging a public "stepping on the flag" demonstration, and staging a "draw a cartoon of Muhammad" event as all subject to the basically same analysis, from every perspective. To do otherwise doesn't seem intellectually honest.

A plague on ALL their houses, IMO. (With the possible exception of Buddhists) https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/full-text-of-the-banned-time-story-the-face-of-buddhist-terror/

Yeah, there's a real shocker. Dershowitz is a serial self promoter who never passes up the chance to stage an interview, replete with quotable hyperbole, to nourish his public image.

Nice sin of omission, Ron. When this incident occurred she was a civilian and thus naturally wasn't in uniform. But when she was disciplined by the Air Force for posing nude, in some of those pics she was partially clad in uniform. Some would say she disgraced the uniform by doing that. And there are also pics of her posing nude with an American flag draped partially on her breasts. Some would say she was disgracing the flag by doing that.

Yeah, well, it was Americans who put a man on the moon. Er, I mean.....

I'm not going to debate Terry with you. I was studying Terry while you were still a rugrat. Get off my lawn. But I'll tell you this: every poor urban black and hispanic lives in a "high crime" area, it's right outside his front door. So geographically he's already automatically a suspect just walking down to the corner store. Most white people have no idea what it's like to spend a lifetime living with that every day.

The times are getting as ugly as they were a generation ago. I recently spent the day working with a whole bunch of clerk-level office personnel in a local government office. About evenly split among white, black and hispanic. The black clerks all wore wristbands that said "Black lives matter". The white clerks all had blue wristbands that said "Police lives matter". The African American community feels under siege. You bet they were applauding. The police community, not just the cops but all their families and friends (very much like military families), feels under siege. I'm sure they were not applauding. It's all really bad.

He actually did a lot of good for Germany before he got greedy and wanted Austria. The rest went downhill pretty steeply. You really think his evil was mainly in foreign policy? No. But that's where it started. Then it "went downhill pretty steeply." I typed that slowly so you could pick up on it this time. :P No, Austria isn't where it started. Hitler became chancellor in 1933. Enactment of the Nazi era of German anti-Jewish laws also began in 1933... and onward from there. The Annexation of Austria took place in 1938.

Libel? Defamation. sue me. Already in the works.

Yes, a spring-loaded pc can get delayed in a burble when the jumper is in stable fall; that's one of the reasons why hand-deployed pc's started hitting the scene, IIRC, back in the 70s. (Although as the other poster has said, you can usually break the burble and launch the pc by dropping a shoulder. That technique was commonly taught.) Burble-trap is less likely in unstable fall (especially a tumble), which is a kind term for my typical body position at pull-time on about 15 of my student jumps during S/L progression. But if a jumper (read: student) is very unstable at pull-time, a spring-loaded, ripcord-released pc is more likely to launch into the relative windstream and less likely (not impossible, just less likely) to have its bridle hang up on the jumper's body or gear than a hand-deployed pc.

I suppose I'd have to research the federal statutes and the statutes of at least 50 states plus D.C. & Puerto Rico. I'll send you my paypal info, you deposit a $3,000 retainer, and when the funds are confirmed I'll get right on it.

Our fathers use bedsheets! And they were thankful! You were lucky to have bedsheets! We only had some old palm fronds that we had to share among the 26 of us! Your palms had fronds??

Our fathers use bedsheets! And they were thankful!

A nickel ride in a police van.

Well, just to nitpick the definitions, there's discriminatory intent, and discriminatory effect. Example of discriminatory intent might be be prohibiting polygamy as an anti-Mormon policy. Discriminatory effect might be prohibiting polygamy as a policy of screwing hard-working lawyers out of the fees that would probably result from polygamous marriages, which also has the unintended effect of discriminating against Mormons.

It is an almost perfect example of a slippery slope fallacy. rationalwiki.org/wiki/Slippery_slope So it's a fallacious fellatio fallacy.

And then they proceed to publicly demonstrate their utter brilliance by reactivating threads that have been dead for a year and a half, in order to make the point. QED, fellow traveler.

Let me answer by imperfect analogy: what you've argued was pretty much the same argument used in the 1950s & 60s re: racial civil rights in the US, and the use of (in that case, mostly federal) courts to enforce those civil rights. The doom-predicting wasn't borne out then; it won't be now, either.