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"The GOP has chosen Congress as a Battlezone, even though they do not control the full field of battle. The republicans should have waited until they had a majority of the House and Senate, before attempting to unilaterally defunding or dismantling the Affordable Care Act."

They never would.

1981 "Gee too bad we don't control the House! If only!"
1982 "Gee too bad we don't control the House! If only!"
1983 "Gee too bad we don't control the House! If only!"
1984 "Gee too bad we don't control the House! If only!"
1985 "Gee too bad we don't control the House and Senate! If only!"
1986 "Gee too bad we don't control the House and Senate! If only!"
1987 "Gee too bad we don't control the House and Senate! If only!"
1988 "Gee too bad we don't control the House and Senate! If only!"
1989 "Gee too bad we don't control the House and Senate! If only!"
1990 "Gee too bad we don't control the House and Senate! If only!"
1991 "Gee too bad we don't control the House and Senate! If only!"
1992 "Gee too bad we don't control the House and Senate! If only!"
1993 "Gee too bad we don't control the House and Senate or White House! If only!"
1994 "Gee too bad we don't control the House and Senate or White House! If only!"
1995 "Gee too bad we don't control the Senate and White House! If only!"
1996 "Gee too bad we don't control the Senate and White House! If only!"
1997 "Gee too bad we don't control the Senate and White House! If only!"
1998 "Gee too bad we don't control the Senate and White House! If only!"
1999 "Gee too bad we don't control the Senate and White House!"
2000 "Gee too bad we don't control the Senate and White House!"
2001 "Gee too bad we don't control the Senate! If only!"
2002 "Gee too bad we don't control the Senate! If only!"
2003 "Gee too bad we don't control the Senate! If only!"
2004 "Gee too bad we don't control the Senate! If only!"
2005 "Oh...you thought we were serious?"

^ They still haven't come back from this. This party is not something you bring home to mother.

And because they can't admit they just want votes for complaining about crap they won't fix when they could, they would never get that majority again.

"The republican regulars will be replaced by the next election by either Tea Party backed hopefuls, or by Democratic candidates."

Good riddance.

"They're butthurt about a bill that was passed years ago, and upheld in the supreme court last year. "

So was blacks-to-the-back.

"Imo this is just their way of showing one last time that they're against the ACA. "

Nope, this is from now on. The same people will give orders to 300 million people to pay more for less insurance, and then say we can't deport 20 million illegal aliens cause enforcement is impossible? Get bent.

""That has to be the most disfunctional family ever." Pretty much the statement of the Democratic party and the vast majority of americans, and the rest of the world."

"Functional"? We doubled our national debt in six years, tripled our minimum wage in ten years.
You have to have $10,000 in the bank to earn enough interest to cover the monthly service charge - if you have less than that, you're paying the bank to save your money. When my dad was my age, he earned 7% on every $100 in savings - his savings doubled in 7 years just sitting there.
4 in 10 adults don't work, but we're talking about importing more labor to keep us "competitive".
Compare prices on anything since you started playing this game. And the government reports inflation is 1% a year.

And the Democrat solution to our problems is to order people to pay AT LEAST $400/month on insurance they can't use. I say again you can EITHER use the female birth control package OR the prostate cancer coverage, but you MUST buy both.

1) It's wrong
2) Can't make me x300 million.

Obamacare is a civil rights violation.

Obamacare orders everybody to get the federal minimum insurance plan. It is unisex, so men have to pay for neonatal coverage and women have to pay for prostate cancer coverage. (1/3rd of men get prostate cancer, so that's a fat charge). You then have to swear under penalty of perjury on your tax return, whether you have it or not. If you don't, you have a penalty set against you.

Illegal aliens are exempt but not US citizens. This is a violation of the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection.

You can claim a religious exemption, but only if your religion ALSO objects to all insurance AND Social Security payments. This is a violation of the 1st Amendment ban on government restriction of the free exercise of religion. The federal government is forbidden to create "qualifiers" for rating religions as "real" based on their reaction to government.

It punishes people administratively without hearing. This is a violation of the 4th Amendment guarantee of due process. (It is not assessing a tax based on income - it assigns a penalty for conduct totally unrelated to income - a punitive fine. Then it says poor people don't have to pay that fine at all.)

It requires people to testify about their own conduct, under oath, so they can be punished without trial based on their admission. This is a violation of the 5th Amendment guarantee against self-incrimination. It is not assessing a tax based on income. It is making inquiry about BEHAVIOR, and then assessing a FINE.

None of these objections has been heardby the Supreme court, because nobody has had to do the reporting before this year. You cannot get a preemptive Shh from the Supreme Court.

If Obamacare is upheld, then we can get rid of the whole Penal code and the federal court system. We'll just make the tax return 5000 pages long.

"Worksheet 420:
Have you, within the last 12 months, used cannibis? If yes, enter $10,000.00 on line 420.
Have you, within the last 12 months, given computer files to Wikileaks? If yes, enter $10,000.00 on line 421.
Have you, within the last 12 months, used a destructive device on federal property? If yes, enter $100,000 on line 422.
Have you, within the last 12 months, robbed a federally insured bank? If yes, enter $50,000 on line 423."

Imagine what we'd save on criminal trials! We just save the courts for people who refuse to fill out the blanks on their tax returns. That's felony tax evasion. And lying, that's felony perjury.

Everybody else would be ordered to testify to a federal officer whether they were guilty or not, and then he'd punish them right there based on their answers! So simple! Why didn't we think of it before! Hey, let's have the IRS dress like Judge Dredd.

Now lawfully and constitutionally, they could have just said, everybody has a Obamacare tax, and you can get an exemption if you want, by proving you already have insurance. But they didn't. They went out and violated the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment. If you can obey the Bill of Rights and get the job done, then, that's every reason not to allow you to violate the Bill of Rights to get the job done.

In the 1920s when they first set up federal agencies to regulate the US economy, people sued to have them shut down as unconstitutional.

And the Supreme Court said they were constitutional, for a number of reasons. One was, they were limited to some parts of the economy. if you couldn't stand being regulated by the Food and Drug Administration,you could join the majority of Americans who aren't doing anything regulated by them. And they were optional, so the House and Senate and President could end the agency.

Or, the House could unilaterally refuse to pass funding for the agency. There would still be a law on the books creating that agency, but no money would be spent on it. Any 2 years, the American people could elect a new majority in the House of Representatives that woud refuse to spend money on that agency. So, go solve it that way, said the Court.

Back in 1800, the Democrats were so upset about military spending, they refused to pay for any US Navy warships. We had a Navy bureaucracy but no fleet.

It is a power the House of Representatives "inherited" from the British House of Commons. The King of England could make war as he liked and kill traitors, but he couldn't spend money unless the Commons voted for spending. Administratively, it balances out the fact that the military, law enforcement and diplomatic powers are all combined in one guy.

I'd point out that, by law, they're supposed to have 1 funding bill every year called a budget, and for 5 years the Democrats in the Senate refuse to pass one, because they would have to proclaim how much they want to spend over the next year, and then, if they went over that, come back and admit they couldn't control the spending. And if they did that, people would notice the US debt has doubled over the last 5 years.

Instead of a budget, they insist on temporary spending bills and debt limit votes, so we keep having this fight several times a year.

And the House has voted repeatedly to fund everything BUT those programs, and the Senate keeps refusing to go along.

As for shutdowns, there have been 12 since the 1970s. There haven't been any in Washington since 1995, because from 1995-2001 Clinton was President and the Republicans didn't think the 1995 shutdown was a huge success, and Clinton was more bendable than Obama is. Clinton passed the Defense of Marriage Act and the Welfare Reform law, so by Obama's standards he was a rightwing bigot.

From 2001 to 2007 there was a Republican House and Republican President, so there wasn't going to be a shutdown.
From 2007 to 2009 the Democrat House was trying to be popular and not make Democrats smell, so they'd win the 2008 Presidential election.

From 2009 to 2011 there was a Democrat House and Democrat President, so there wasn't going to be a shutdown.

From 2011 to today, there was a Republican House that is led by asshat wimps who preferred to look L33T by negotiating compromises with Obama, so there hasn't really been a shutdown yet. There is one now because they realized they will lose millions of voters for being lying wimps.

Senator John McCain, supposedy a Republican, got on the Senate floor on TV and said, Obama's election settled it, he won, he gets what he wants, it's up to Republicans to support his stewardship. Even if you agree with him, maybe especially if you agree with him, shouldn't the Democrat he ran against last election have won and been on the Senate floor to make that speech?

The House Republican majority was elected to stop Obamacare. That's what they're doing. We're under no obligation to keep paying for the same mistakes forever.

I'm 95% positive the heat has been sent back in time to the age of the dinosaurs

"It is more complicated than that. As I have said, people hold things to be true irrationally all the time."

To the degree they do, they are irrational.

Being rational is too sexy to be defined literally! Then I couldn't belong! I'm rational! I'm also black on Fridays! /s

or to have it another way

much of your emotional argument in defense of Hungary would be negated, if I made my contrary arguments as a fellow Hungarian. Therefore it is rational for me to perpetrate the Magyar.

But the fact that I could gain some advantage by falsehood, does not relieve it of being false. And a worldview built on falsehood cannot enjoy the term "rational"

ion stream, it'll flow like ball lightning

ofc if you wore tinfoil with a static charge of opposite polarity, your armor would be too thick for blasters

hmm I bet we can get a DARPA grant for this stuff and abuse it to make a dozen droids with blasters shooting at two guys with lightsabers, and stage a fight at the lincoln memorial during the last 10 minutes of the Superbowl, and see how many stations cut away

nvm they'd just do an insert at the bottom of the screen. how embarrassing that I forgot that

RAWR

NO

when you do the opposite of a thing you are abandoning that thing. you don't "move Thing" over the river or "grow" it or "make it relevant" or "update it for the teens"

if you think it necessary to be irrational you abandon rationality

im sick of people saying "I'm a Bruce Springsteen fan but I prefer Elton John" NO NO NO NO OWN IT SUCKA

/rant

how can a rational person be deliberately irrational?

just realized

a blaster or bowcaster would not be a regulated weapon under any law of the United States, or any of the fifty states ....

AHA! Busted!!!!

/me grabs Sauron's lightsaber and puts it on the high shelf

we liked them 1955-1979!

well probably and despite all your promises, you'd take your lightsaber down the block to those kids you promised not to play with, and they'd disobey their mom and point their blaster at you, and you'd be like Hey Imma gonna deflect that shoot shoot, and blap bzzow you shot your eye out.

The Pentagon doesn't want to fight Iran either. They've been saying that for nearly 10 years. ( OK actually the truth is, anybody who thinks we could take Iran, doesn't get into the Pentagon.) This supposedly expert opinion gives cover to dumbass politicians.

What's the default on killing PEOPLE since Moses brought down the tablets? Those passages establish the personhood of the unborn.

If you want to pretend that the Bible has nothing about killing people with robots, or initiating a fusion reaction 10 miles over a city, or on the seafloor outside a port city, or mustard gas, or clay bombs full of fleas carrying bubonic plague, then you might as well save a lot of effort and jump off a roof

The Great Eye wrote:

Can I have a lightsaber?

you'll shoot yer eye out kid

the part where Jesus Christ was a fetus?

26 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth, 27 to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the descendants of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And coming in, he said to her, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.” 29 But she was very perplexed at this statement, and kept pondering what kind of salutation this was. 30 The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; 33 and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.” 34 Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?” 35 The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God. 36 And behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month. 37 For nothing will be impossible with God.” 38 And Mary said, “Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
39 Now at this time Mary arose and went in a hurry to the hill country, to a city of Judah, 40 and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 And she cried out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me? 44 For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy. 45 And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord.”
Luke 1: 26-45

/drops bat
/trots around the diamond

Harvard and MIT scientists are challenging the conventional wisdom about light, and they didn't need to go to a galaxy far, far away to do it.
Working with colleagues at the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, a group led by Harvard Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin and MIT Professor of Physics Vladan Vuletic have managed to coax photons into binding together to form molecules -- a state of matter that, until recently, had been purely theoretical. The work is described in a September 25 paper in Nature.
The discovery, Lukin said, runs contrary to decades of accepted wisdom about the nature of light. Photons have long been described as massless particles which don't interact with each other -- shine two laser beams at each other, he said, and they simply pass through one another.
"Photonic molecules," however, behave less like traditional lasers and more like something you might find in science fiction -- the light saber.
"Most of the properties of light we know about originate from the fact that photons are massless, and that they do not interact with each other," Lukin said. "What we have done is create a special type of medium in which photons interact with each other so strongly that they begin to act as though they have mass, and they bind together to form molecules. This type of photonic bound state has been discussed theoretically for quite a while, but until now it hadn't been observed.
"It's not an in-apt analogy to compare this to light sabers," Lukin added. "When these photons interact with each other, they're pushing against and deflect each other. The physics of what's happening in these molecules is similar to what we see in the movies."
To get the normally-massless photons to bind to each other, Lukin and colleagues, including Harvard post-doctoral fellow Ofer Fisterberg, former Harvard doctoral student Alexey Gorshkov and MIT graduate students Thibault Peyronel and Qiu Liang couldn't rely on something like the Force -- they instead turned to a set of more extreme conditions.
Researchers began by pumped rubidium atoms into a vacuum chamber, then used lasers to cool the cloud of atoms to just a few degrees above absolute zero. Using extremely weak laser pulses, they then fired single photons into the cloud of atoms.
As the photons enter the cloud of cold atoms, Lukin said, its energy excites atoms along its path, causing the photon to slow dramatically. As the photon moves through the cloud, that energy is handed off from atom to atom, and eventually exits the cloud with the photon.
"When the photon exits the medium, its identity is preserved," Lukin said. "It's the same effect we see with refraction of light in a water glass. The light enters the water, it hands off part of its energy to the medium, and inside it exists as light and matter coupled together, but when it exits, it's still light. The process that takes place is the same it's just a bit more extreme -- the light is slowed considerably, and a lot more energy is given away than during refraction."
When Lukin and colleagues fired two photons into the cloud, they were surprised to see them exit together, as a single molecule.
The reason they form the never-before-seen molecules?
An effect called a Rydberg blockade, Lukin said, which states that when an atom is excited, nearby atoms cannot be excited to the same degree. In practice, the effect means that as two photons enter the atomic cloud, the first excites an atom, but must move forward before the second photon can excite nearby atoms.
The result, he said, is that the two photons push and pull each other through the cloud as their energy is handed off from one atom to the next.
"It's a photonic interaction that's mediated by the atomic interaction," Lukin said. "That makes these two photons behave like a molecule, and when they exit the medium they're much more likely to do so together than as single photons."
While the effect is unusual, it does have some practical applications as well.
"We do this for fun, and because we're pushing the frontiers of science," Lukin said. "But it feeds into the bigger picture of what we're doing because photons remain the best possible means to carry quantum information. The handicap, though, has been that photons don't interact with each other."
To build a quantum computer, he explained, researchers need to build a system that can preserve quantum information, and process it using quantum logic operations. The challenge, however, is that quantum logic requires interactions between individual quanta so that quantum systems can be switched to perform information processing.
"What we demonstrate with this process allows us to do that," Lukin said. "Before we make a useful, practical quantum switch or photonic logic gate we have to improve the performance, so it's still at the proof-of-concept level, but this is an important step. The physical principles we've established here are important."
The system could even be useful in classical computing, Lukin said, considering the power-dissipation challenges chip-makers now face. A number of companies -- including IBM -- have worked to develop systems that rely on optical routers that convert light signals into electrical signals, but those systems face their own hurdles.
Lukin also suggested that the system might one day even be used to create complex three-dimensional structures -- such as crystals -- wholly out of light.
"What it will be useful for we don't know yet, but it's a new state of matter, so we are hopeful that new applications may emerge as we continue to investigate these photonic molecules' properties," he said.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 … 132323.htm

Nothing good will come of it! I said so! I'll yell it from the skeleton frames of Manhattan skyscrapers after The Fall of the Cities!

WRONG!

It's funded by the Reverend Moon

and the Post is less credible

I think all the Democrats who signed that "free conscience" letter about 8 years ago should be banned, but practically it's up to each bishop to make the rules. St. Louis has already said they're banned but I don't think NY will lock them out. Dunno about Frisco.

Master of Orion 2 which came out in 1999

and Windows Solitaire

mostly I like costume roleplay. I dress up like Dilbert and pretend Republicans matter

its the HMS Bounty, the fastest way to reach New Zealand for 105 years! Bounty! The quicker picker upper!

if you believe american media then yes you come here peddling rumors!!

the Deep Ocean Heat Transferrence is about as "scientific" as Star Wars since it requires we speculate as to a thermodynamic reaction never observed, operating globally, intermittently.

It's a secret, it's everywhere, and it shuts itself off.
On the other hand, Occam's Razor says, before we explain the absence of retained atmospheric heat by imagining heat wormholes, we could believe the heat was never trapped here to begin with.

Air moves around easier than liquid. You don't boil water in an oven, because it's inefficient and takes too long. Heating water to 220F by heating air requires you to heat the air to about 400F. People heat water by sticking the water against the flame in a pan on the stovetop.

IF, big IF, IF you find hot sea floor water, we're all going to die. Because as I said, it didn't come from space. It came from the pan of the sea stuck against the stovetop of the earth's mantle, and we're seeing a resurgence of volcanic activity. Which is a known, global, intermittent, and in the case of undersea volcanoes, largely unmapped. And on a large enough scale it destroys all aerobic life on the planet. Google "Siberian Traps mass extinction"

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