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And yet you don't offer a definition. I don't usually try to be so pedantic, but discussion can't get out of the starting blocks without some agreeable common ground.

Carl, sorry I didn't acknowledge your posting earlier, I've been on the road this week. It is definitely a case of simultaneous observation from two different sensors, and using those observations to make the image. Calling the visualization a photograph might be a stretch, but they are bombarding it with electrons and photons. As it says in the original paper's abstract: "The resulting energy exchange between single electrons and the quanta of the photoinduced near-field is imaged synchronously with its spatial interference pattern." A lot of the physics here is over my head, though.

You ignore us when we correct your definitions, and then you claim one of Stef's definitions is incorrect you don't offer a proper one of your own? This is the reason I stop responding to you after a while.

What makes us better than the other animals is our ability to adapt, and of of the most successful adaptations is our ability to communicate ideas that promote mutual gain, rather than using force to take what we want. This is the core ability that has led us to such an amazing lifestyle in so short a time. The NAP captures this fairly succinctly. It is not a show of weakness it is a restatement of our strengths.

I've got the higher goal of getting past Bronze Age superstitions. For the most part I'd love a test of values, but barring that I'll take "if they couldn't pass the background check to own a gun, they shouldn't vote and shouldn't enter the country."

They should immediately ban the "double ROT13" system the terrorists used.

That's great if they are true believers... but most so-called religious folks cherry-pick the rules they follow, and that can include their oaths. A little lie is overshadowed by the greater truth, and so on.

The exclusion principle requires something to not be two different things in the same sense. The properties of light as a particle or a wave are not the same sense, which was the difficult hump to get over. No one here is "catching this" because evidence of the properties of light is so easily replicated. It clearly does have the properties.

If someone is a boisterous ass in a venue you are in, the trick is to convince them to be quiet or to leave. On the road, however, there is no useful method of communication other than the horn and signals on your vehicle. Unfortunately this means training your kids and friends to be courteous drivers is the long term solution. I got a lot of empathy for truck drivers, for example, just because my Dad used to drive me across the country to stay at my grandparents' house for the summer and I observed the difference between courteous drivers and their less stressed long haul driving and the stereotypical rush hour commuter.

Indeed, Bronze Age religions wrote dictates reflecting Bronze Age violent times. If nature wasn't trying to kill you, other tribes were.

Raising the minimum wage forbids students from selling their labor at market-desirable rates, yes.

Euclid, 300BC Theorem. There are more primes than found in any finite list of primes. Proof. Call the primes in our finite list p1, p2, ..., pr. Let P be any common multiple of these primes plus one (for example, P =p1p2...pr+1). Now P is either prime or it is not. If it is prime, then P is a prime that was not in our list. If P is not prime, then it is divisible by some prime, call it p. Notice p can not be any of p1, p2, ..., pr, otherwise p would divide 1, which isimpossible. So this prime p is some prime that was not in our original list. Either way, the original list was incomplete.

George Herbert Walker Bush, and he actually won that election.

Ever been to Ireland? Admittedly I lived through the 70s and 80s in real time so maybe it seems more real to me. Ever heard a candidate for president claim that atheists shouldn't have the right to vote? I did. Ever been promised eternal reward or threatened with eternal damnation when you were a child? Ever seen a funeral "protested" by Westboro Baptist Church? How about this pastor? https://boingboing.net/2015/11/09/famous-right-pastor-if-my-son.html Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of good things Christians do, but they have not forsaken the Bible yet. Why are we derailing on this? There is no redemption for the big lie of omnipotent god, no matter what his trappings might be.

http://phys.org/news/2015-03-particle.html

Moral self-licensing, such as feeling like you did something by changing your icon, is harmless until people try to shame you for not doing it. I ignore it, but if someone wants to call me to task for not doing it, that's when I point out how ineffectual it is.

I didn't compare them to one another, only to not having them. I don't care that Christianity is less violent than Islam, it's still more violent than not-Christianity.

I don't tell many people my tenet that all of the Abrahamic religions are bloodthirsty creations of the Bronze Age and need to be discarded. There are plenty of ways to keep the good things of the religious (the community, the protection and raising of children, the comfort of the suffering, the charity for the unlucky) without having a foundation of lies and manipulation.

Already reports that one terrorist was a "registered refugee". http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/11/breaking-paris-isis-terrorist-registered-as-refugee-on-leros-island-in-greece-in-october/

Keep the long perspective on this. Wikipedia states, but has no citation for the statement "Carbon dioxide concentrations dropped from 7,000 parts per million during the Cambrian period about 500 million years ago to as low as 180 parts per million during the Quaternary glaciation of the last two million years." http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/history.html makes it seem like 280 ppm is where we should be, instead of approaching 400.

As they say, Aristotle had four causes, and none of them were gods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_causes

I'm in the 'burbs of Seattle. There are so many Californians here that when snow falls from the sky the flakes get right out on the road and do burnouts.

Thanks! Don't worry. I'm not going to change it to Kasich's quote from last night: "Philosophy doesn't work when you run something."

r = "It's just a job"; k = "It's my career"

Indeed, I would have more fun playing people off each other so no one could win than I would by wiping them out. I had a goal of making a game of Risk take more than 4 hours, for example. Diplomacy was also great for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)