Michael

Still early days. ;)

Which chapter are you on?

Family Guy's before your time?

There are a lot of kinky people out there doing all sorts of stuff that I'd never even dream of.

Well, according to this, "According to Ms. Lewinsky: 'e was chewing on a cigar. And then he had the cigar in his hand and he was kind of looking at th...

Well, green is greener than brown, so...

But... the green grass. Also, I'm OK with some MPs losing their limbs to ensure that the price of Marmite comes back down.

The U.S. election system confuses me. Are the Electoral Colleges obliged to vote according the people in their state, or can they vote for whomever th...

And the grass is greener on the other side. 8-)

Really? I don't. If they had then all you Americans would still be living in Europe. Maybe Trump would be leader of the Conservative party. :-O

Still, Parliamentary approval wasn't required under UK law for the Government to deploy military forces in Iraq. The illegality of the war refers to i...

Maybe those Native Americans should have erected their own wall and set up their own border control and stopped those "pale Europeans" from colonising...

That was different, though. Declaring war is a Royal Prerogative and Parliamentary approval wasn't legally required. So you might be right that an Act...

Well, I'd assume they'd vote on an Act of Parliament to trigger Article 50.

*cough* Brexit *cough* I also heard he might just be President Clinton.

Government loses Article 50 court fight So, Parliament must vote. Queue the appeal and then hopefully the Supreme Court agreeing with the ruling and e...

I was thinking about this earlier. Is that what he'd be called? First Man? How Westerosi.

Hillary's outrage being hypocritical wouldn't make Trump's claims (and actions, if his claims were honest) less terrible.

If he didn't ask first, probably Trump.

Heh, I sign up and find out that the only other member (besides you) is also called Michael. Interesting format, by the way. Kind of a cross between a...

I ran out of adjectives.

I thought they concluded that it wasn't, which is why she wasn't prosecuted. Whether or not these new emails are criminal is yet to be decided. Also, ...

Correction: (1) Clinton is a corrupt lying criminal and (2) Trump is a lying misogynistic egocentric criminal buffoon.

How are things looking now? I read that ABC's poll has Trump ahead. :-|

I see either a red cup or a cat on a mat.

England's first hotel is burning down.

That's a mirror.

The Lounge.

You need to understand the distinction between the ontic and the ontological in Heideggerian terminology. To offer a simple explanation from Wikipedia...

I suppose that means that various interpretations of quantum mechanics are not scientific?

I don't get what you're trying to say here. I casually remarked at the beginning that the word "intention" is misleading giving that it implies consci...

Yeah, she says "I take it that this much is essential: Laws of Nature are prescriptive, not merely descriptive, and – even stronger – they are suppose...

Well, according to this 7% of those surveyed regretted their vote to leave, which if an accurate representation amounts to 1.2 million.

I don't see what's psychological about that. Psychological stuff is all in the head, right, not publicly observable. Another explanation (from Google'...

Same could be said about Brexit if it precipitates Scottish independence and Irish reunification.

"Behave" isn't a psychological term, so I don't understand this.

Why would it give discomfort? I'm smart enough to know that the term "law" when used in the context of physics means something very different to the t...

Apparently not.

And I think that seeing motivation and purpose and intention in these (non-human) natural events is as mistaken as seeing Divine intervention in an un...

Binding in what sense? Legally, no. Maybe the government has a moral obligation to accept it? But then depending on the High Court case (or, rather, t...

It's not that it acts a certain way because it is the law. It's just that it acts a certain way. It's not a matter of intention or purpose or any othe...

There's currently a court case that seeks to ensure that Brexit requires Parliamentary approval, which will give MPs the option of not passing it. I'd...

So what's the thing with the intention? What's the thing with a motivation? God? Mother Nature? Unless you're arguing for some Higher Power or, again,...

Well, it looks like they're trying to sell the domain for $50,000.

I think you're reading too much into it. When I say that nature doesn't have intentions I'm not saying that human intention is non-natural. I'm just s...

I don't really see how. It's a natural propensity for a ball on a hill to roll down it. I don't think that tells us anything about moral behaviour. So...

So a better phrasing of your claim would be: "the difference consists in actually knowing the propensities of nature and thus being able to make some ...

I think "purpose" is the wrong word to use here. It suggests intention, which nature doesn't have (unless you count us wanting things as nature having...

When? All I said is that some people don't use the word "world" to refer to everything that exists, and that you must justify your (since corrected) a...

Given that I'm not a moral absolutist/objectivist, I don't believe that there's any absolute/objective standard for me to violate.