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08:26:29 - arrival of off-duty fire fighter/EMT Hansen on scene. 20:33(?) Fire fighter/EMT Hansen. time of call - electronic voice date stamp. Exhibit...
March 30, 2021 at 21:49
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08:27:32 - arrival of paramedics. CCTV video camera timestamp.
March 30, 2021 at 19:00
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Is this some kind of exercise in public relations? Or is the prosecution seeking to enter "emotional testimony" into the proceedings? What pertinent f...
March 30, 2021 at 16:58
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4 more "bystander" type witnesses to testify to what is almost certainly stipulated in large part by the defence; such that their testimony will add n...
March 30, 2021 at 15:44
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20:20:11 ems code for injury 20:21:35 ems code 3 20:31:12 metcom ems location park/36 20:34:10 ***full arrest*** 20:34:44 phone call to Sergeant Pleog...
March 29, 2021 at 21:38
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Before lunch today we saw the opening statements of the prosecution and defence, and prosecution examination of the telephone despatch operator, Jena ...
March 29, 2021 at 17:38
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Is it ethical to comment whilst in progress? Maybe not, eh?
March 29, 2021 at 16:07
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56544239 Read this, and explain to me how he charts the course of energy development as key to the deve...
March 28, 2021 at 19:56
It's illegal.
March 28, 2021 at 19:42
How I imagine it, we commit to developing the energy resources to address climate change - using massive clean energy from magma to extract carbon, de...
March 28, 2021 at 19:15
I do not accept there is over-population, so I cannot answer your question, but I will say this: resources are a function of the energy available to p...
March 28, 2021 at 18:58
I rather rely on the influence of the thing I'm pointing at; whilst I hop about madly making hooting noises!
March 28, 2021 at 18:43
Over-population is not the problem. The mis-application of technology is the problem. Applying the right technologies, the world could support a large...
March 28, 2021 at 18:01
In the future I envisage, a petroleum crisis does not occur because we harness limitless clean energy from magma, and use that energy to extract carbo...
March 28, 2021 at 17:11
I am a real philosopher; insofar as I seek to communicate an idea abut how the world is, and how it might be - if we believed something else, in my vi...
March 28, 2021 at 15:29
Is that a rhetorical question? I do not doubt their piety - but rather suggest that they existed within a socio-economic and political context in whic...
March 28, 2021 at 00:41
Imagine Galileo, Hume, Russel, Kant and many others, with the blessing of the Church - had argued in course of the view that science is the means to d...
March 27, 2021 at 23:10
Okay, but we cannot ignore the unreasonableness of the argument! If you insist that, upon picking up a stone - and dropping it, I cannot know; which i...
March 27, 2021 at 20:50
You make the same argument here: but it only pertains if we have no other knowledge. We understand the mechanisms that cause the sun to "rise." In fac...
March 27, 2021 at 19:03
You're right, humankind may very well be destroyed in a big ball of nuclear fire; but take consolation in that, it proves certainly that E=MC2!
March 27, 2021 at 18:20
Or it could be that science doesn't require absolute and repeated proof of that which is proven to the satisfaction of reason - within the allocated b...
March 27, 2021 at 10:12
Nice computer Georgios! Science is true because it works. My question would be how do you not recognise science as truth? And why do you want so despe...
March 26, 2021 at 21:11
Yes, it is possible to imagine.
March 26, 2021 at 20:54
I think a herd immunity approach was considered and rejected as a non-viable strategy - and the lockdown measures put into place, and immunization of ...
March 26, 2021 at 12:15
Use of the word "systems" makes the instruction, to imagine two systems - non specific enough to allow you to race past with your conclusion while the...
March 26, 2021 at 08:14
I'd like to start to believe that's true but efforts so far look almost deliberately feeble. To my mind, if we want to keep using fossil fuels, and we...
March 25, 2021 at 23:05
I believe that a prosperous and sustainable future is possible, from where we are, by accepting science is true as common ground, and further I believ...
March 25, 2021 at 22:24
Is there anybody there? Is this thing on? Is it just me? :(
March 25, 2021 at 22:06
Yes, I do believe that in 50, 100, 1000 years from now the second law of thermodynamics, evolution, the bacterial theory of disease, h2O, will be h20 ...
March 25, 2021 at 20:55
Okay, deconstruct my knowledge claim that water is two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen! Deconstruct the bacterial theory of disease - such that it i...
March 25, 2021 at 19:27
If I might chip in to say - great thread, and I wholly agree - that both moral and epistemic relativism are toxic, and it's great to see that view bei...
March 25, 2021 at 18:48
Oh, right - you mean my determination to attempt always, to speak the truth, rather than blow smoke up your arse? That's why the friendliness, or othe...
March 25, 2021 at 18:07
Jacob Needleman you say? I'll have to look out for him. Because that seems broadly correct to me - although I say that, cautious of where he's going w...
March 25, 2021 at 17:20
What attitude? I'm thinking that's projection on your part. We'll see! Freedom is not all kinds of things in political theory; and it's in those terms...
March 25, 2021 at 16:48
Plato is closer. Concepts like justice are expressions of an innate moral sense that developed within hunter gatherer tribes that we homo sapiens live...
March 25, 2021 at 05:52
Well, so far - there has been no point to responding. As an attempt to educate you, it has so far proven an entirely fruitless endeavour. But I could ...
March 25, 2021 at 05:18
Right, but... ...I don't see how this follows. I think so too. Human reason naturally bridges the "is" and the "ought" I don't know what that means, b...
March 24, 2021 at 21:40
What does that have to do with the question - does anyone in the West still want to be free? There's zero implication to subjectivism in the question;...
March 24, 2021 at 19:57
I don't think it's truth versus pleasure. I think its power versus truth. I think there is an innate attraction to truth as a consequence of evolution...
March 24, 2021 at 17:54
I have no idea what you might possibly mean by this; even from context, relating it to limitations - what on earth do you mean? Do you imagine I was i...
March 24, 2021 at 17:29
I'm agnostic on epistemic grounds. I don't know - and furthermore, nor does anyone else. I'm content with that arrangement, and for whatever reason, a...
March 24, 2021 at 17:24
We are not free; so I don't think it a valid question. Freedom is an ideal; a starting point for thought that is then traded for social goods like law...
March 24, 2021 at 17:06
Oddly, in the picture of the Galton box, I see the exact opposite of your conclusion: The experiment itself relies on the fact that steel balls, poure...
March 24, 2021 at 16:34
I am not resorting to anything. It is my opinion - seemingly shared by others. My reasons for describing the LHC as a giant white elephant are slightl...
March 24, 2021 at 01:29
Very well, but that only raises another question about your question; particularly given that in general, children are indoctrinated with the idea of ...
March 23, 2021 at 19:54
I see. So your faith is not an expression of wanting God to exist?
March 23, 2021 at 19:19
I have a question about your question; are you implying that wanting God to exist makes it somehow more likely that God exists?
March 23, 2021 at 19:12
...latest data error from the giant white elephant! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-jU8k4wA8
March 23, 2021 at 11:14
Can I? Not a chance, no! I can use math to count my toes!
March 23, 2021 at 08:16
That sounds a lot like intellectual cowardice. By all means, prove me wrong!
March 23, 2021 at 07:39