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With your incarceration rates I actually believe you. I'd love to visit the USA again but I'd never want to live there.

Is it really that important which year? It seems to me there was good progress prior to 1890 possibly 1870 and that got overturned either starting in ...

I thought some of these vids were funny... It's the bigness...

I think Raza's comparison between illegal immigrants and rapists was not well thought through but I don't read any necessary racism in it. The zero-to...

That's too simple and dismissive. Koch brothers and their ilk voted Conservative because of the tax benefits, some voted because they've always voted ...

So when will it ever be a post - post 9.11 world? Even children grow up and stop hiding under the blankets some day.

Separating children from their parents if those parents are criminally prosecuted is within the law. So basically nothing needs to change based on tha...

how about this. Until 60 years ago, borders were not patrolled and there was no such thing as an illegal immigrant. The problem is the idea of nationa...

Those aren't real conservatists. Tssk. Edmund Burke on the other hand... Also, as to everything going on in the world and what Trump's doing: just wai...

They're not cages you whiney, left-wing, tree-hugging hippie. They're chain-link fence enclosures. :rofl:

You're right, I wasn't aware that entering illegally could be prosecuted. However, it doesn't really make sense. You want to have them leave the count...

Simply being in the US without the appropriate documentation is not a crime, it's considered a civil matter under US law. Deportation is a civil penal...

It's in fact in breach of the ICPCR treaty that the USA signed up to:

Really? I'd touch him with a 2-by-4. Repeatedly.

While they said that, they did this (from Wikipedia): Phase I 1956: The Soviet Union begins training North Korean scientists and engineers, giving the...

Yeah, on the basis of that we can all rescind on the UN Charter and any human rights agreements out there. Sunset clause for the win!

Yeah, I know those planes. The aviation school at Rotterdam - the Hague airport has loads. If you're ever in the Netherlands and my dad has time, I'm ...

is that a real plane or a model? My dad owns a vans, which you can see pass here : https://youtu.be/1coH8eg-fXg

For what it's worth, I do hope the summit in Singapore will lower regional tensions.

While I agree that right wing xenophobic parties have been more widely accepted in Europe, it's more of a polarisation here. Former centric parties mo...

thanks. Pretty nuts.

You'd need a party to represent you to be able to have done anything wrong and you live in the wrong country for that. If you're under the illusion th...

So, the Trump administration is pissed off at Trudeau but after reading 5 articles trying to divine what it was Trudeau said, I'm still non the wiser....

that's a definition, which I disagreed with above. Stating it's nonsense isn't an argument. If I take 5 years longer to become better at chess than yo...

If IQ test measure any type of intelligence, it is only abstract thinking. There are quite obviously different types of intelligence. People that are ...

Ah, so you admit that what you claim hasn't yet been borne out by the facts. I guess that's something.

No, he's not fumbling. You just refuse to take his initial statement at face value as only pertaining to the report. And then when he tells you "that'...

Ok, I can see that but that seems a meta-position. I thought this was about what credence Beauty gives to the question. That makes the difference to m...

Ok, let's look at what Clapper said: Clapper: "We did not include any evidence in our report, and I say, ‘our,’ that's NSA, FBI and CIA, with my offic...

She knows it's either Monday or Tuesday but not which day it is. I understand from previous posts you cannot apply a probability to which day it is. N...

uhmm... err... chiropractic is nonscientific Also, it's been known to cripple people.

No, you claiming that statement entails there is no such evidence is baseless assertion. Clapper has later clarified he does not know if such evidence...

I liked the solution I read on the physics forum from PeroK. Let's change the story shall we? Given these facts, what answer will Sleeping Beauty give...

what? I couldn't care less about it. It's like watching a soap opera and a decent amount of Schadenfreude to me. You're an excellent example of what I...

That's a misrepresentation of Clapper's statement. The report did not contain any evidence of collusion, which didn't mean no such evidence was with t...

Which people are those exactly?

What's unproductive is taking sides and not accepting valid counterarguments.

It's nonsense that you cannot seem to accept the very clear arguments in favour of dismissing some of your purported paradoxes. Just because you're ab...

How does triage deal with an adult and a child with the same illness and equal likelihood to survive? Or two adults one of which is a man the other a ...

A lot of you are missing the point when they start applying Zeno's paradox to real world circumstances. It was an allegory for a mathematical argument...

Much appreciated! :starstruck:

Oh, I found it in google-cache in the past already and therefore have the proof it was there and was removed by him. Also, nowadays his measurements a...

Yeah, that works thanks man!

Can a computer whizkid help me? I'm about to start proceedings against a realtor who sold me a house that was significantly smaller than he said it wa...

Mathematically, Zeno showed a finite number can be divided infinitely and there's no mathematical "atom" or Planck distance. That's fine. He showed th...

Only in America. That's the phrase that comes to mind when thinking about the US. The US is a country of extremes, both the good and the bad and that ...

I quit Facebook in 2012 or 2013 or something right about when there were issues with my adblocker. I use Instagram since two years and have a private ...

I think Meghan got scammed. She kissed a prince but he's still turning into a bald frog.

So Starbucks calling the police isn't typical at all? Just a fluke? :lol:

It wasn't intended as equivalence in that respect but to illustrate how people speak and how that is interpreted using other social groups. There isn'...