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Rebuild Manhattan on an iceberg in Antarctica. You figure out how to propel it. Ice appears to have better structural properties than basalt, and likely steel if you can keep it cold. Oh yeah, stay in deep water since the depth of the keel won't allow you close to the coast. The berg created by the ...

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Fractal_Tangent wrote:Of course using this logic, if a sex worker rapes a client, that's 'aggressive gifting'1. No? Well, I'm glad we worked that one out.

When that situation pops up forget to call me.

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I do think of you as human. And I see no real point in continuing. Your default is that I'm a bigot in terms of what I think about sex workers.

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What is the source of the distress when a store clerk is robbed? It's loss of control, fear of injury, fear of death and so on. Whether the criminal makes off with $5 or $900 at the end of it is basically irrelevant to the degree of distress caused. Some people might bounce back and some might suff...

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Invent the Spindizzy.

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Well, MW was the one trying to claim that 'because someone charges money for sex, taking sex from that person without consent is purely a financial offence'. Not precisely. If I burgle your home it is one type of crime, if I shot you in the course of a robbery it is another. My point is to ask if r...

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You do know that men are also entitled to withdraw consent at any point, right? Edit: Also I'm not quite sure how changing ones mind a single time constitutes a "fluttering" I believe I made it clear that in the case I was discussing the male was the aggressor, so consent is not an issue ...

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everybody else is saying that it should be treated just like any other time you fuck someone who doesn't consent, i.e., rape. Trust me, I am well aware of it. If it weren't the case this discussion wouldn't be taking place. We'd all be setting in a circle nodding sagely, going yes, yes. And if I we...

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Going back to the surgery example, likewise it would be wrong if the patient's family held a gun to the surgeon's head and forced him to carry on against his wishes. They wouldn't have to, if he quit and the patient died he might be charged with manslaughter or worse, but using a doctor was a poor ...

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but i am not the commodity either. me being a commodity implies that i am for sale, which implies that i can't at any point before or during the encounter decide what i want to do with my own body during that encounter. This is an emotional position. But once you turn sex into a transaction then yo...

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Such is the price of being a commodity. Welcome to retail. Sure its classicist, but the motivation might be upside down. The customer has to feed their ego, you know, make themselves feel superior in the transaction. A lot like Apple snobs. Also a long term smoker might have tells no matter what kin...

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Don't feel to bad for the Russians, they've landed 2 probes on Venus, and currently have the only man rated rockets that can fly on a regular basis. On the other hand can India even attempt to launch a Tesla at Mars? :lol: Having said that India, also has ballistic missile technology that can strike...

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Thanks for the perspective.

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Sure this has criminal applications but consider scenarios like refugees who often have to leave everything behind and start from scratch. I don't know much about bitcoin, but refugees would have to convert cash to bitcoin in their native environment before they could run, and whatever bitcoin migh...

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What is the maximum KE an electron can have?

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The severity of the corruption in the police is to be expected. Look at who they deal with. I doubt that it can be quantified, but it isn't really new. A cop named Serpico turned on the NYPD in the 69's or 70's, speculation was that they set him up to be shot. The toy gun in this case is a distracti...

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Do what the military would do, use cluster munitions, contact activated. Use the body of your enemy to absorb the blast wave from small explosions rather than one large one.

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p1t1o wrote:I dont think science knows all that much about single electrons with a solar mass of kinetic energy...

Why would they?

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Obviously you aren't thinking it through. A stolen gun would be problematic if discovered, or maybe not in Baltimore, but a toy gun isn't illegal. Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person It is Sad. It is Frightening. And; From my limited experience, I believe e...

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The innocent will suffer with the guilty in any case and what she feels about it is not important. It happens every day in hundreds of different venues, whenever things happen out of sight. How many people in prison are not guilty? She's just tactless and showing poor tactics and zero empathy. She i...

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Unless they can shrink the power usage the xenomorph is going to have wiring coming out of its ass. Although why you would consider sex with it eludes me. Maybe they will get the technology shrunk enough. Rod Serling considered it. The earliest sex robot I know of in popular media was in an episode ...

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Yeah I hate auto correct. I was just checking to see if I missed something.

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It appears that it was MPR and not NPR who did the investigation. And the two parties(MPR and Keillor) are involved in mediation currently over contractual obligations and the status of the online archives of the Prairie Home Companion and other works. Or can you provide a link showing NPR's connect...

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Leovan wrote:Like you said, life's a bitch, and sadly what I've outlined is as far as I can see where life is.

As you say, it's sad.

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Thanks.

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As I said, if I felt I was in the right I would go to the mat and spend everything I had to clear myself. That's a character flaw of mine. That doesn't work with these kinds of accusations where the accused is presumed guilty and there is practically no evidence you can use to prove innocence. The ...

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Given the damage she has done to his reputation the only way to me to relate to it, is to consider what I would do were I in his position. I would sue her for defamation if I felt myself innocent of the charge. Almost certainly she has instigated damage to his contractual dealings with his home radi...

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I have no idea of what he did or didn't do. But there are an almost an unlimited ways to address someone other than I love you. And if it goes to court, and it sounds like it will, she will be unmasked. Her relationship to him, in its particulars will be in question, and how can he can defend himsel...

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Yeah. I get that, I guess. And I'm certain he isn't modeling elevator behavior.

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If the building is empty, other than him, the elevator will never stop and that combination, as stated, will turn up, ever. Exactly what is that calculation telling him?

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All the math in the world won't solve this problem. Nor will knowing the combinations of the places the elevator can stop. My math is crap, but my understanding of how elevators work is not.

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Is this must see TV for a Star Trek fan? I hate moral ambiguity.

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Ginger wrote:My faults entirely.

No.

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Women need to have the last word on this. Morris, there is some irony in you seeking to speak for all women on this when you have a woman posting in this very thread and you are not listening to what she has to say on the matter. Let me help you with this. I'll vote for it if the women I take couns...

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In the real world the controlling factor is time, or when you ride. Along with the total number of occupants and the speed at which the cars run. And of course how many wits punch all the buttons before you get on. Oh yeah, if you have a three story parking garage at the bottom of the stack and and ...

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... I don't think much of society. And I was ashamed of me on reflection, not her. What I'm tired of is over educated people who won't think it through. And it isn't like any other job. It's tied to the core functionality of what humans are. The Harvey Weinstein's of the world see all women through...

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I... don't want to shoot anyone? That sounds like a terrible situation, and I'm a bit creeped out by how you 1) Did this thing despite feeling like you were taking advantage of her, and 2) Are comfortable enough with it to share it with me -- a stranger -- in a public setting. Your privilege is sho...

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From the BBC

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Pimps likely exist for a reason; I'm sure some of them are horrible, just as I'm sure some of them aren't. OK, show me that it is more than a belief on your part. I once meant a pimp that was shopping his, what would you have me call her, in the booths in a sex shop. Other than what it says about m...

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The knowledge of Right and Wrong is not created by politicians. No they just do the punishment part. Right and wrong is a social construct, more or less. Unless of course you think it's handed down from the Great Random Number Generator. And if you do you believe in magic and lack only a wand. I be...

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