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Do you interpret that to mean that if for public use, it must be compensated, but if taken arbitrarily, it's free?

Don't forget to mention your dancing unicorns.

The Takings Clause is limited to "public use" as I recall, so the justification would need to be to secure the weapons perhaps for use to defend the p...

I asked because it's a general social skill to follow up with a question like "what sort of business do you do" when the person is talking about his b...

What sort of business do you run?

Operant versus classical conditioning. Wouldn't the former require voluntary behavior, implying an understanding of outcome and some sort of belief?

Thank you. This is the greatest day of my life.

Nice.

Puff the Magic Dragon is the most sentimental of songs. It's about little boys growing up. It gets me every time.

We all engage in self limiting and self defeating behavior all the time, often falling into repeating destructive patterns. Ultimately we must learn w...

I had a dark joke about my dog still not having come back, but I self censored it.

Someone took your cat in. He's two timing you.

Nah, it's the greatest city in the world. You can't smoke in public in the US, and the neighborhood bars are friendly. Crowds, sure, but that's all pa...

Yeah, but NYC is a great place to be.

67 degrees here.

Picked up a Skeptic magazine. Interesting read. A lot of pretty well written anti-PoMo articles and good articles on PC issues. I had never run across...

In the US, the vast majority of tort cases are handled on a contingency, where the client pays nothing up front and the attorney receives usually 33% ...

Will that fertilize the mushroom growth?

The funny thing about this website is that when you edit your post to remove it, it still remains saved when you check "mentions," which means I was a...

I don't have sweaty hands. The testicles though, a humid south Georgia swamp.

A Google search turned up Carpe, an anti-perspirant for hands.

:broken:

I'm sure there are. Pragmatically, it's irrelevant whether you're 99.99% sure or 100%. I don't think that's denied. Very well, we now have a new defin...

Into the Wild is a really good book about traveling to Alaska. https://www.amazon.com/Into-Wild-Jon-Krakauer/dp/0385486804

Sure, but the cradle to grave protections afforded by the government provide a safety net if they don't fly. Here, you sort of hit the ground.

I'm going to try my old standby: Is it "I want to fuck you like an animal"?

Because you could be confused. What is "certainty" to you other than stubborn insistence? Do you concede that one may be certain yet be wrong? If so, ...

Why? You've been wrong before?

How is it a type of belief? It just seems like a highly probably true belief as you're using the term. "I am eating sardines" is a different type of b...

Obviously people have varying degrees of innate intelligence, none of which would be identifiable by brain analysis. Even should I accept your conclus...

Thanks for the kind words. She was a minature pinscher. Losing pets is the tough part of having pets.

When my son was 3, he wandered off at a pool. I noticed him missing and found him at the bottom of the pool flailing his arms but holding his breath. ...

My 15 year old dog died today, just laid down in the yard, in the rain, and my son found her when he got home. :sad:

I don't disagree with anything you said here at all. For some, working for others is the best option. My advice was to Bitter, not Posty. I don't thin...

And now a teaser designed to solicit additional facts.

You must pick them from the cow manure. There is value in those.

My guess is that some form of corruption is involved in everything Russian, and it's never clear who is the mob, the government, and an ordinary citiz...

Here's my analysis, as I'm still feeling insightful: For someone who wants to be himself above all else, employment will be an oppressive, depressing,...

Alcohol?

Your lack of traditional masculine qualities (self-sufficiency, emotional resiliancy, sense of duty, work ethic) leads me to believe you lacked a stro...

You're welcome. For the record, I don't see you as a troubled soul, just someone curious as to why you see and do things like you do. It's like 2 am a...

You consistently place employment as the source of your past unhappiness and that seems to define your world view in many ways. Just another observati...

So there's some irony in saying the you in you doesn't exist yet you desperately want to discuss you. In fact, your wanting to hear from me about you ...

No, just an observation.

And so our egoless poster creates a thread about himself so we can all discuss all that is him.

My first concern would be in getting a bill in Euros. I guess I can see if my bank will exchange dollars for Euros, but this is highly unusual and I'm...

That's what I was picking up on and what instigated my prior post. Your system appears less concerned about assigning responsibility and more about pr...

Sure, Planet of the Apes.

What a terrible rule. Damages are damages, regardless of ability to pay. Why don't you guys just mandate liability insurance, go to a single payer sys...

As to the question of whether someone with Down's Syndrome can vote, it varies by state (for a full breakdown: https://www.866ourvote.org/newsroom/pub...