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Well that makes it slightly better, but the key difference is that only your clients would have grounds to sue you as a contract programmer and that w...
November 26, 2025 at 14:18
Zero overstating it. People make absurd or predatory lawsuits all the time. Judges make absurd rulings all the time with absurdly high amounts, and if...
November 26, 2025 at 14:01
Although this all seems good and necessary technical changes, I question the choice of the UK for the business jurisdiction. UK is restricting free sp...
November 26, 2025 at 11:24
To clarify one thing, in the above discussion we are investigating capacity, plans and intentions. Your model of a large global conflagration to the p...
November 26, 2025 at 10:11
Agreed that it was the case. Agreed that this is the case. I believe this defeat of Europe as a rival has been now accomplished, for the foreseeable f...
November 26, 2025 at 10:06
Point being the alternative to WWIII is consolidate imperial power over Europe and the Americas, let Russia and China have their corner of the cake. C...
November 26, 2025 at 08:28
Yes, they certainly have the capacity to start these wars, but it's unclear if they have the capacity to end them successfully. Agreed, but the sudden...
November 26, 2025 at 08:26
While I agree this was definitely the plan when all this started, I think it's less clear now to what extent the US has the capacity and will to conti...
November 26, 2025 at 07:23
Cutting off funding and arms and intelligence would not be crazy. Ukraine cannot win the war, that is clear. The more it goes on the more Russia will ...
November 26, 2025 at 07:21
Assuming you're talking about Trumps plan, it would be better than more war in my opinion. Odds of it being accepted as it is by Russia is basically z...
November 25, 2025 at 17:57
How exactly does the choice become between: A. unwinnable war and B. A favourable treaty ? Seems to me that an unwinnable war intrinsically creates th...
November 24, 2025 at 08:30
I don't think that's the issue here, but as has been pointed out by @"Outlander", the OP and some associates want their points to be taken seriously a...
September 26, 2025 at 09:41
Agreed, definitely also a good point to consider. It's also a consequence, I would argue, of not having a sufficient framework, not to speak of an act...
September 24, 2025 at 08:26
Well that's a shame. I thought for a moment there may finally be a quote that really captures my methodological approach to things in my formative yea...
September 24, 2025 at 08:14
... like.... after masturbation?
September 23, 2025 at 23:50
Exactly the point I'm trying to make. If you keep it leisurely it won't be analysis, if it is analysis it will quickly become non-leisurely. And yes, ...
September 23, 2025 at 19:41
You may simply be out of luck in that there's too few people engaged in leisurely analysis. Take Pinker for example, his whole thing is that "everythi...
September 23, 2025 at 06:43
Excellent.
September 20, 2025 at 19:43
No ... it's harmful, as is your premise. Proving it is harmful, how harmful it is exactly, who's causing the air to be harmful, what the law should do...
September 20, 2025 at 19:03
I've friend requested you both on chess.com, I'm the TheBluePawn https://www.chess.com/member/thebluepawn Feel welcome to add me too, and also anyone ...
September 20, 2025 at 16:11
You're question was: To which I answered: Note "once one is made aware of the data breach" is quite clearly in my first answer on this question. And t...
September 18, 2025 at 04:48
And to remind everyone, why I posted this information here is because due to the fact the data breach can be exploited by anyone in the entire world t...
September 17, 2025 at 20:37
I've answered this question of why a data breach which is also an invasion of privacy in this case (just in data form) is against the law (crime if in...
September 17, 2025 at 20:19
Zero obligation for anyone here to post anything at any time. As mentioned in my post above, there's actual investigations concerning this data breach...
September 17, 2025 at 20:09
Again your claim is: Which is simply obviously not true, and you obviously know that if I clandestinely hacked all your personal information I would b...
September 17, 2025 at 20:04
But this is true only in a formal system where everything really is completely specified. However, outside formal systems, there is no completely spec...
August 27, 2025 at 17:39
There is a branch of mathematics that deals with these kinds of issues, called fuzzy logic, as there's certainly nothing stopping us trying to make ri...
August 27, 2025 at 16:51
It's certainly understandable what is meant, but in so doing in ordinary language you will still have the problem of delineation and universals and so...
August 27, 2025 at 16:48
This is exactly true, contingent on the what we mean by the word "plausible". We can plausibly do a lot of things that on closer inspection can't be d...
August 27, 2025 at 08:45
We agree here. That people can be accused of something without merit is not a defence in a different matter in which there is merit to the accusation....
August 25, 2025 at 20:04
I'm confident the argument of the OP is not that beauty is a Western thing, but that there is a particular obsession with beauty in the West, far beyo...
August 25, 2025 at 19:18
Ethnocentrism seems pretty vague and presumably can include healthy relationships to one's own and others ethnicity; certainly a plausible argument ca...
August 25, 2025 at 17:19
This is often the case. It would of course be nice to have philosophical arbiters that could "make a ruling", but that just begs the question of how t...
August 25, 2025 at 05:27
Exactly what I'm getting at. "Philosophizing" I would say is exactly this process of starting to formulate justifications for things one had no need o...
August 24, 2025 at 22:13
As to the quotidian situation with your wife. Assuming your ordinary habits are just (I do not say above they are unjust, only that it is the critical...
August 24, 2025 at 22:06
Exactly as I say: a duel life of earning money during the day in service to assumed and unexamined objectives, and then philosophy as a pass time acti...
August 24, 2025 at 21:53
You're presuming a sort of duel life where a person has goals that are not up for philosophical scrutiny (presumably making money) and this daily acti...
August 24, 2025 at 21:21
No pictures.
August 24, 2025 at 17:40
August 24, 2025 at 16:01
The spring scissors are more flexible. But even so, they are called scissor hands so we must expect some reasonable combination of the characteristics...
August 24, 2025 at 15:46
The difference being the wrists are just placed next to each other, whereas knuckles are quite clearly fastened together, though if you put giant blad...
August 24, 2025 at 15:26
How would your wrists make a scissoring motion, and if so why wouldn't such a motion become scissors when blades are fitted?
August 24, 2025 at 14:39
Key word "knuckles" which are all connected to 1 finger and then 1 or 2 other knuckles connecting to more fingers thus providing articulation that can...
August 24, 2025 at 11:03
The basic scissor design is two blades connected, as you state in your OP, well obviously knuckles provide that connection of two blades. Most, if not...
August 24, 2025 at 10:08
The fingers are connected together at the fulcrum that is the knuckle, thus combining hands and scissors into scissor hands. The design is based on th...
August 24, 2025 at 09:51
Reality and facts is not "pro-Russian propaganda". If the fact is that Russia can defeat Ukraine because Russia is bigger than Ukraine, and the fact i...
August 23, 2025 at 17:00
Also, for those wondering: illegal, violation, offences, crimes, wrongdoing, are all technical legal terms and jargon to refer to different kinds of l...
August 23, 2025 at 09:49
I'll be checking in every few days to just point out that I have obviously answered this question multiple time, and you have yet to demonstrate you a...
August 23, 2025 at 09:27
However, if we agree on the relationship to racism, there is one caveat in that capitalism also promotes non-racism. Wokeism is a corporate philosophy...
August 23, 2025 at 09:16
No worries comrade; clearly still best practice to reply to the OP to avoid this happening. Good to see this is no longer the case, but I don't think ...
August 23, 2025 at 08:57