Recent content by steve_bank

Are we playing ping pong or badminton? Volley for serve?

Israel for years systematically bombs buddings to rubble, some housing hostages. Hamas can't find hostage bodies fast enough so Israel again bombs civilians. I do not see much difference in brutality between Hamas and Israel. The words to describe Israel is blood lust. Israel will contuse to...

IMO more side stepping the issue. We know who the leaders are. Kill then like we killed Bib Laen Only cartels use the semi submersible boats designed to evade detection. There were national long protests after Floyd about police brutality. Given the deathad misery from drugs drugs why is there...

I listened to a BBC report with interviews lasr night. Someone who was part of the South Sudan independence fight and who served as a foreign minister in the first first government was interviewer. He is is not happy with the government he helped create. Now he is forming another militant...

People on the left vigorous rationalize drug use and not being aggressive in different ways.. So, if you are one of the addicted or casual tweekers who thinks they are cool who think they are handling it who cares about the cartels? I have no doubt some get off on doing something illicit. No...

I do not see a difference in going after Obama Bin Laden and the drug cartels. We did not inform Pakistan of the raid. Maduro is a bus driver who managed to became dictator. That there is collusion between his government and drug cartels is a given...

Human imagination is near limitless. One can look at photographic plates and see patterns where there are none. Invoking data science means nothing.

Pood An astrophysicist says ... argument from authority. It is how you tend to make your arguments. Sometime back Ipitrich posted a link to a repository for papers. A lot of papers get written every year. When I livedb in Portland I went to Powell's Books, a huge mostly used book store ...

From the sports radio pundits. La has a lineup of DHs and poor defense. I can see it from the games. Key bungles on defense leading to runs by Toronto. But as Yogi said, it ain't over till its over.

I was driving out in the countryside when I saw these lights, my car was engulfed with a bright lighht ... When I was iivng north of Seattle before devilment and light pollution looking south towards Seatac you could imagine pasterns in the moving lights, jets. Sometimes it would look like a...

I asked what is it tat you are trying to prove? You said it was peer reviews and that means????

There is investment and work being done on small sealed playable community scale reactors. https://inl.gov/trending-topics/microreactors/ Simple designs hat can produced on an assembly line so to speak reducing costs, economizes of scale. It proceeding because there is penitential return on...

Spence influencing art ? Let me think .. could this be aesthetics in philosophy? Does philosophy guide art? I thumbed through Hagel years back. One thing I thought he was saying is that tere is ore to philsohy than logic and debate. Escher's impossible waterfall and gravity Perpetual Motion...

I like the analogy.