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It's possible, but that's not good enough reason to believe that it's true. We have good enough reason to believe that it's true of the CIA. If someon...

What do you mean by "absurd"? Why would you have thought that? And why does it seem a bit queer to you? Also, why have you switched from "emerge" to "...

Assange doesn't have the ability to assassinate anyone driving a smart car, transform your smart TV into a surveillance post, and thousands of other g...

But it isn't that simple. This stuff comes out as an act of whistleblowing, which is an act of alerting attention to a perceived wrongdoing. The reaso...

Yet your conflation of appearance and reality hinders you in that respect, so my advice would be to stop doing that. No, you must be doing something w...

And this kind of thing is even more obvious if we go back to Michael's own example about the appearance of Johnny Depp on TV. No matter how you look a...

My criticism works because it doesn't follow from how something looks and what something is called that that's what it is. This is so obvious that it ...

I don't wear pants, I wear boxer shorts, and I wear them underneath my trousers. But if I did wear pants, I would wear them as underwear. Pants are de...

Ah, so it was the Falcons and not the Red Pants. And they didn't win a bowl. That's too bad.

Damn. I thought I'd have you with that one. I remembered you making some comment about sports which I twisted into a comment about socialism. It's sti...

Yes. For example, if we were all wearing glasses which made it appear blue, and we were all ignorant about the fact that it is red (because we never k...

Yes, yes, and yes. I agree with this. There's some irony here, because you're doing a similar thing to that which you criticise. One could just reply ...

Blew.

We're not all the same Hanover. I'm a different Hanover. And a winner.

Like watching grown ass men playing around with a ball for hours? What a stupid waste of time.

So does he (that was implicit in what he said), but not as much as what needs to be done. He might not have worded it in the best possible way, but it...

I like the anime series Naruto: Shippuden, which is by no means the best example of an anime aimed at an older or more mature audience including adult...

Yeah, that isn't the best analogy to get the point across, but nevertheless... I was thinking of adult fiction, with mature subject matter, which coul...

Just like with films and books, you can get ones which can be described as psychological thrillers, horrors, complex, intellectual, philosophical, int...

I don't need to answer that question. It's not too dissimilar to films. There are plenty of films that are rated 18+ because of content such as sex an...

Also, Dragonball sucks. X, Y, Z, GT, Super, Duper, Califragilistic, Expialidocious... Whatever. They all suck. :P

That's like questioning why a grown ass man watches films. You do realise that, just like films, anime and video games can be similarly categorised ba...

I know, right? It was unnecessary, uncalled for, and ruined what might have otherwise been a productive discussion. And coming up with a lame excuse w...

For the record, I would like to correct a minor accidental error in my previous post. I looked up a number of online definitions for several related t...

That's part of the very first definition that comes up if you google "destruction", but whatever. Don't be ridiculous. See for yourself if don't belie...

Yes, very good point. Although I was thinking of a better way of phrasing the original question, rather than scrapping it altogether in favour of a di...

Sounds interesting. The last game which reminded me of the old Zelda games was Titan Souls, which was unbelievably difficult, frustrating and repetiti...

Why not? That's what it means. Complete destruction or obliteration. To destroy something completely so that nothing is left. Destruction is the actio...

Completed Yesterday Origins. Am now playing The Bunker (£5 - another bargain): https://youtu.be/7cJHrC9a6Cg Prey looks really good: https://youtu.be/X...

So it's natural because it's man-made? As, I suppose, is everything except the supernatural? That's one way to look at it, but I think the man-made/na...

The poll is very poorly constructed. It isn't a "yes" or "no" question. There should be a "to some extent" option.

You'd be arguing against Kant, if I have understood him correctly, at least with regards to space and time. (The term "energy" wasn't even used in its...

These critics seem to think that he has made an obvious blunder. They described it as dumb and amateurish.

Isn't the money spent on the military already a massive drain on America's resources? And Trump has just recently declared what he has called a "histo...

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The Wikipedia article on Kripke says that it is proper names that he claims to be rigid designators, and "dog" isn't a proper name. But "Nixon", for e...

A parking booth shaped like a tooth. You could have them in carparks outside a dentist's. You'll hear more about it after my appearance on Dragon's De...

Blimey. They drive teeth instead of cars where you come from? Canada sounds like a fantastical place.

Has something made you change your mind since then? If so, what? If not, surely you can help by explaining how you think it's resolved by Kripke.

Who is this "we"? I reckon that there are a significant number of people who would not identify it as a new glass, but as the old glass remoulded.

Objectively, no axe is destroyed and each axe is different. Something about them is always different, even when you don't do anything to them. Time do...

There's another reason, @"Metaphysician Undercover". The glass that is smashed into pieces and then rebuilt from those pieces is an example of somethi...

The answer to this earlier question of yours would be that it hasn't been completely annihilated and it has all the same parts, and they are the crite...

Hahaha. Much of that was me last night.

Broken? Yes. No longer serves the purpose of drinking out of? Yes. But how has the object itself been destroyed or annihilated? If the object itself h...

Since it's anecdote time, I'll join in. Last night was a funny night in hindsight, but I didn't exactly see it that way at the time. My friend saw wha...

Chin up. Keep it going. At least when you've collected enough, your family will be grateful the next day when they awake to find your morning wood.

They named a mountain after a furnace? Are you trying to tell us that you're in danger of being in proximity to a volcanic eruption? Wait. I just goog...

Why do you think that it has been annihilated, rather than just broken? Is it just an exaggeration? Or something else? (Although, if it was just an ex...

If I caught him, I would invite him to come inside. But if it was Trump, I would consider shooting him and claiming that I thought it was a fox, and t...