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Yes I do. Completely and totally absurd. Cases in history of exactly this occurrence (you'll forgive me if I allow the built in spell checker to do it's work) do not exist so I can't find one. I guess by "exactly" you're discounting that it is an iPhone, a court order to unlock it, dealing with...

I didn't know it was a joke. If I new you better I may have worked that out. Also I misunderstood your statement (Can't quote you because this freaking iPhone won't copy your text) Words to the effect of: In the spirit of other posts I'm changing my answer to say he's a no good liberal... So...

I believe the days of foisting sweeping deceptions on the public where shareholders, courts, and government agencies are all in on nefarious conspiracies are long gone. Hundreds if not thousands of people (all with Facebook accounts) would have to be in on it. It's absurd to think this is a...

Needless to say, I agree with both Alc and Steve. There are a number of things at play here. I believe that this issue in front of us now, has ENORMOUS implications. There are implications beyond the most obvious ones. How about the fact that - well, did you actually KNOW that the FBI could not...

Trump has been very successful in finding the words to deflect the fusillade of arrows shot at him after each outrageous statement he makes - I'll give him that. But I didn't really want to discuss Trump. I'm editing my OP to get him OUT where he belongs.

I think he's a hero. His courage is admirable, in an extremely tenuous position. I've suddenly developed a profound respect for the man I had heretofore considered a mere clone of Steve Jobs. If you don't know what I'm talking about (highly unlikely, but who knows)...

What is happiness? Is it a process or a destination? Seems to me that most people would describe it as a destination: After I do X, Y, and Z I’ll arrive a place where I can be happy. I want to look at the state of being happy and examine whether or not it’s all that it’s cracked up to be...

I'm opting for "early" retirement. My "full" retirement age is 66. I'm pulling the trigger at 65. Seems to me, there is always some incentive to go on just a little longer. As anyone who is considering claiming Social Sec benefits has realized, waiting longer gives you a higher monthly benefit...

Thank you, AB. Just think, I'll be able to hang around, post threads, and quibble with Frothingslosh even more than ever! Won't that be just dandy?

Well, let me clarify. There were things that I clasped on to, to get me through. The first was mechanical drawing. That was what appealed to me about the career in the first place. I always enjoyed drawing - but I don't have much talent in that direction. Also I like complex looking inventions...

I've spent my working life at a job that has been marginally rewarding but for the most part, it's been a tedious bore. It's been a distraction from my actual calling in life - music. I've had to deal with - and answer to - bosses/supervisors/managers who could not think their way out of a paper...

I just had to do a search to find this one again after having read it hours ago. Good one, Dick7!

It's an informative article for the layperson but: 1- it was written nearly 20 years ago and there's been a lot of study on climate change in the last 20 years; 2- the lack of any discussion about the relationship of human activity and climate is conspicuous by its absence. By neglecting any...

Another thing is - somebody figured out those tolerances. They could have screwed it up - seen it happen many many times. Another thing is - you don't always design for worst condition tolerances. There are statistical approaches that allow interference or non-assembly in certain cases.

Doc Man- So we agree that whether or not the 99.9% solution is acceptable, depends largely on the type of investigation being conducted. In a pure research setting, ANY discrepancy between the observed and expected results could yield entire new branches of knowledge and therefore should not be...

Please excuse me then, Frothingslosh. I apologize. Felt to me that I was the one being dismissed but I'm letting that go. I got some good replies and the point of the thread was not about fact finding - but about raising a question that might get a discussion going. Is it inappropriate? As...

Eh? This is a civil discussion. I think you're in the wrong place. First of all, you don't know what "overreact" means. At no time has my tone become any more animated than at any other. You're the one that's suddenly going off the deep end. Second of all - it's good that you went to...

Unless, of course, you are not seeking to find a solution for a specific problem and are embarked on a quest to simply improve or increase your knowledge. Oh, so the concept of 'philosophical skepticism' has been debunked? I hadn't heard. It's nice that somebody finally discovered the true...

Well, now that you mentioned Zeno - I'll say that he was the guy who raised the questions - and disputed the hard won knowledge - and pissed everybody off. They had no way to answer him. It takes calculus to even approach an answer to his paradox, and even then it doesn't quite satisfy...

You brought a lot of "stuff" into the discussion - stuff about Kant and philosophy, engineering and traveling to other planets - but you didn't address my question: Are your fingernails growing? And now I have a second question based on your statement: Second question: Can you trust your...