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Comment on Friends and Family by Uncle Robbie

Uncle Robbie — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 23:27:44 +0000

Your writing must be therapeutic for you, it certainly is for me. Thank you for sharing.

Comment on Hotel Hospital by Uncle Robbie

Uncle Robbie — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 09:25:54 +0000

Yes, you are well loved , but most importantly, He love you.

Comment on Dang you Adam by Uncle Robbie

Uncle Robbie — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:56:31 +0000

Thank you, Pat

Comment on You’ve Got the Wrong Garage by Uncle Robbie

Uncle Robbie — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 01:13:35 +0000

Thank you Pat

Comment on Which way to the Cooks? by Uncle Robbie

Uncle Robbie — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 23:11:24 +0000

Thank you, Pat for sharing this.

Comment on SRO License Class by Nojh

Nojh — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 02:28:25 +0000

Wow. That really sucks. I mean it’s good that you’re going to finish. But it really sucks that they’ve made the industry as poisonous for someone as motivated as you.

Comment on Why I’m voting for Romney and not Obama. by Nojh

Nojh — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:17:42 +0000

The only problem with this decision process is that I can’t support the national republican party at the moment. I just can’t. It is full of the extreme right, who I personally feel will likely run this country into a new civil war. Romney, for all his experience, is the push over guy. He does what the people around him want him to do. He’s proven that to me. And I don’t want the people who are against civil liberties based upon (some) religious doctrine, are for treating large corporations as if they were more important than a human being, and many other views that actually anger me. Romney is a figurehead for his party and it is his party that I can’t support.

Comment on Logic and Science by Nojh

Nojh — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:17:12 +0000

My gut instinct wants to argue with you. That the study of dinosaurs is a science. Or that Indiana Jones was a scientist. But neither paleontology nor archaeology are sciences by use of the scientific method. So what are they? I agree with the your article, although I don’t want to exclude these academic pursuits simply because they are unable to test their results.

It seems to me that fields such as these are limited by time, in two major ways. Most of them, especially those dealing with history, or large time scales like meteorology and geology, require extraordinary time scales in order to story. This would be made easier should we gain some ability to control time, as you mentioned, but even so. Efforts could be made to study these areas scientifically through recreation, as you mentioned, but would require multiple generations of humanity to finish.

The other limitation of time is advancement. To quote a movie. “This is the key to the future. I’m limited by the technology of my time, but one day you’ll figure this out.” We advance our technology with the sciences, both observational and testable, which unlocks ways for us to test more, and observe more. This advancement creates tests that could not be done by humanity prior, such as testing particle physics.

This is why I think it is unfair, if technically correct, to exclude these fields of study as science simply because they are limited by time. It may, and seems likely. come to pass that these areas will be testable in the future. This is why there are branches of the “hard sciences” that are effectively purely theoretical. I would then propose we make this an argument of semantics and allow for the term science to include pursuits of study that strives to use the scientific method or that may one day use the scientific method. And we could then further sub-categorize sciences by their use of the whole scientific method versus only using observational and logical parts.

Comment on Back at it (7) by Bucket

Bucket — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:31:02 +0000

I worked well for the Seinfeld Show

Comment on London on Fire! by Nojh

Nojh — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:31:54 +0000

Well after digging through a lot of news, there seemed to be one plausible instantiation of the riots, that being the pre-planned arrest of a know gang member who drew a gun and was shot to death by the police raiding him in a neighborhood filled with gangs, poor, and citizenry allgidly regularly abused by the police force. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/09/london-riots-mark-duggan-inquest) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/09/tottenham-riots-youths-police)

After the initial riots in Tottenham, more started springing up somewhat at random supposedly thanks to social networking and the use of cheap blackberry smart phones to quickly organize not protests, but actual riots. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/in-london-riots-blackberry-messenger-gets-starring-role/2011/08/09/gIQAwxmW4I_blog.html)

But apparently the majority of the riots are more looting oriented. Pillage, then burn.