Michael

No. Why would I? It's irrelevant. So you won't answer a relevant question (did I even ask a question?) unless an irrelevant one is answered? Sounds li...

The Grimms' fairy tales, everyone.

Wall:

In the original he didn't turn into a prince after being kissed but after being thrown into the wall in disgust.

We'll put them to rest.

Let's just lock the Shoutbox and never speak of it again.

This is the Lounge. You posted your Star Trek gifs in on-topic categories.

It's actually John Wallis' definition from his Treatise on the Conic Sections, incidentally where the ? symbol was coined.

How I react to the act has nothing to do with whether or not the act is a crime. Your question is irrelevant, and so ignoring it isn't deflecting from...

'Twas a joke. Sure, but again, I was specifically talking about the case of Sleeping Beauty where a man kisses an unconscious stranger because he find...

"I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it, you can do anything... grab them by the pussy."

Seems like you're deflecting.

Even with finite states does it work? Given an ordinary coin and an infinite series, is it almost certain that there will be an infinite number of hea...

I don't see how my argument is any different to your argument here:

As I said, that was me being lazy. I didn't want to figure out how to do MathJax.

Is this the same with infinitesimals?

Which is why I wrote $$\lim_{n \to ?} f(\frac{1}{n}) = 0$$

Does it matter? My reaction does not determine the legal status of the act. A woman can be raped even if she doesn't report it. I can be sexually assa...

The example is of the Prince kissing Sleeping Beauty. Is that anything like the examples above, or is it sexual?

I might, but what does that have to do with what I'm saying? Even if I don't report her, and even if I don't care, it's still sexual assault.

Just a lazy way to write $$\lim_{n \to ?} f(\frac{1}{n}) = 0$$ Isn't this how to describe the probability that an infinite number of coin tosses alway...

Yes, because it would be. UK law defines sexual assault as: (1) A person (A) commits an offence if — (a) he intentionally touches another person (B), ...

I don't think your ridicule even works as a reductio ad absurdum (as it tries to be), as in the original the prince didn't know that kissing her would...

That's Snow White, not Sleeping Beauty. I was summarising the news report as Agustino didn't click through to read it. Presumably you disagree with th...

So the ends justifies the means?

Basically, the story glorifies a man kissing an unconscious women. It's sexual assault, and so not appropriate for children who might think that it's ...

This mum wants Sleeping Beauty removed from her child’s curriculum Kissing an unconscious woman. Sexual assault or not?

I'm not sure about this. I wonder if the principle behind the Boltzmann brain hypothesis can also apply here. It is more likely that an Earth-like pla...

The same is true of any particular outcome, as any particular outcome is as (un)likely as any other. Having an infinite number of every planet is no m...

I didn't say that. I said that any particular outcome (whether infinite Mars or infinite everything) is almost surely never going to be the case. Also...

It's exactly as likely as any other outcome: 1/?.

It might not. It might land on one face an infinite number of times. It might have been Mars all the way down. Any particular outcome (whether infinit...

If others don't eat then food production would stop, and I'd have to learn to hunt/forage/farm. If others don't have sexual desire then that wouldn't ...

He said platonic.

I don't know what you mean by this. It's a proposition if it's the meaning of a sentence. I suppose this is where we are at risk of equivocation. Some...

No?

If nobody said it then it can't be true.

I can understand this. Perhaps if we draw a distinction between sentences and propositions we can say that a fact is a true proposition.

Sure, so objects are one thing and facts are another (and sentences are a third). We have 1) the cat on the mat, 2) that the cat is on the mat, and 3)...

1 for me and 2 for everyone else.

Sure, but is the cat on the mat a fact? Surely it's more correct to say that the cat on the mat is an animal. Whereas that the cat is on the mat isn't...

I can drink from the cup on the table but I can't drink from the cup being on the table (or to put it another way, I can't drink from the fact that th...

To repeat a question talked about before, what is the difference between the cup being on the table and the cup on the table? I think that there are t...

Yes they are.

But Sacha Baron Cohen is also a Brit, so that example isn't a very good one.

It's ridiculous that you think this is justice.

I don't see anything because I don't know what it would be like, or even if it's possible.

I'm not an economist/mathematician, so I'm not sure. Is it even possible for the top 1% to own 99% of the wealth?

Actually the OP is "Why It's Wrong For 1% To Own As Much As 99%". So they own 50%, not 99%. Or at least that's how I read it. Besides, I was addressin...

Kinda like what we have now? From here: So that's £1,025,984 to £36,810. Remarkably close to my random example.