RuledByNone

It was already on the ground. Here's the video: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=27a_1448375727 FSA just got another 500 TOW missiles from Saudi. US made armaments are being used against forces who are actually fighting ISIS, instead of just play-acting.

Yeah, but that's just hollywood. Nothing but the sun or a nuke can move enough charges to knock out a city with emp/cme.

Surface tension probably. Water molecules stick together. Gasses don't. Water is a tiny sub-nanomater molecule so if whatever much larger pot molecule can exit through a defect in the polymer bag then water would be able to as well, unless it was stuck to other water molecules. or Gasses at room temperature are actually moving extremely fast. Hundreds of mph if I remember. A heavier pot molecule moving at high speed is much more likely to force its way out of the bag than the docile water molecule. or Water actually does make it out of the bag in small amounts but when it goes to water vapor, unlike the pot molecule, it doesn't smell like anything.

The congressional report on emp has some good info: http://www.empcommission.org/docs/empc_exec_rpt.pdf We dodged a very large CME in 2012 by a few days. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/02may_superstorm/ A CME only couples energy into very large arrays so most electronics would be spared. EMPs fry everything big or small, especially anything built with mosfets or finfets. Car ecu's might survive because they are surrounded by the metal of the car but I wouldn't bet on it. EMPs create about a 50,000 volt per meter gradient. When you have millions of volts pushing current through wires designed for low current the wires will fail. Transformers are somewhat fragile to begin with. They aren't off-the-shelf components, especially the very high voltage ones. Replacing every transformer over a large area wouldn't take weeks it would take years. Some could be imported but most would have to be manufactured. Cyber attacks shouldn't even be an issue with properly air gapped control computers. The only reason grid control would ever be attached to an internet connected network is if someone wants the grid to be vulnerable. These are unlikely events but people purchase insurance for unlikely events all the time. Having stores of food and water for a few months is just insurance (and cheap).

My nephew attends Princeton. I wonder how many of those protesters are on the hook for a quarter million in tuition? My bet is none. Woodrow Wilson sold the country and its people to central bankers and they are pissed that he was racist?

Road pirates who call themselves cops are now responsible for more theft than all burglaries combined. $4.5B compared to $3.9B. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/11/no_author/cop-theft-exceeded-burglaries-2014/

Did you hear about the chinese Godfather? He made them an offer they couldn't understand.

"During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets." I don't get to read this board very much but elsewhere the farm animals seem to be very interested in determining which psychopathic mass murderer to "vote" for next year.

This team is showing some magic. My 96 year old grandma got a big thrill out of the Trout catch. Isn't there some live armed 20 year old with a great slider they can call up from A ball for the bullpen? Would be nice.

Definitely a Captain Stabbin episode gone bad.

Which theory breaks down under scrutiny? You can't just say that it breaks down without providing examples of how and when it breaks down. Is your argument against the existence of rights from a moral/ethical nihilsm perspective or do you accept the existence of rights but just require a more authoritative "source". Lacking divine stone tablets or golden plates, human reasoning will have to do. The study of human action (praxeology) and how that action fits into the natural world allows us to come to conclusions that are more than "just assertions". Using the "Each person owns themselves" axiom as an example, it is a simple exercise to consider other possibilities and how/if they fit into the natural world and the implication on human action of each. 1-Each person owns themselves. 2-Some people own themselves and other people. 3-Everyone owns everyone else. 4-Nobody owns themselves or anyone else. There are a few other permutations but nothing really interesting (ie some people don't own themselves but own other people...) #4 would mean that human beings are just natural resources within the commons, to be used by whoever has strength and inititative. An example of "might makes right". Of course this condition doesn't exist in nature. People would quickly revert to the desire to control ones own actions. #3 obviosly makes no sense and doesn't exist in nature. A simple trip to the fridge to get a beer would require permission from everyone else. #2 is slavery. In truth, the slaves still own themselves. Only the initiation of terrible force on them allows them to appear to be "owned". It's easy to deduce from the examples that self-ownership is not only compatable with the natural world but also minimizes human misery. As for your initiation force is always immoral? question, I think that is well supported as well. Can you think of a situation where the initation of force is moral? The only exceptions to that axiom are in an extremely unlikely situation where a choice must be made between initiating force against a single person or many people. Had Capt. Sullenberger, following flameout of his engines, been forced to land his plane in the Hudson river, but instead of being able to land in open water there was a guy in a small fishing boat in his way. Seeing the man, his choices would be to land on the guy or, lacking power, dip a wing to avoid the fisherman but likely cartwheel his plane into the river. Landing the plane on the fisherman would have been the moral choice (saving the many lives in the plane) despite the technical initation of force on the fisherman, but I also see that this "initiation" is very different from the common initiation of force where other options exist. The overwhelmingly vast number of human interactions every day benefit from peaceful, voluntary cooperation. Those interactions that include some initiation of force don't usually work out so well.

The origin of the right is founded in self ownership. If you accept that each person owns themselves then that person can choose what to do with their property(person) as long as the action doesn't harm someone else's property. Choosing not to wear a helmet or seat belt, choosing to prostitute yourself, choosing to possess or use drugs, or even choosing to kill yourself is at the sole discretion of the owner. None of those actions involve the initiation of force on another person. The "state" tries to prohibit those actions by threatening force (coercion) and will initiate force if any of their "laws" are broken. As the initiation of force is always immoral it is they alone that are committing a crime.

1st pitch double last night. 1st pitch homer today. Trout is coming around.

That was a bomb. Over both pens and then some.

100 pitches thrown by keuchel through 5 innings. Some good quality at-bats. 21 pitches to Kole in 3 at-bats gets it done.

Well, that was 4 hours of high adventure.

Shocking result. Sosh bringing the LOLs.

Wright actually pitched very well there. He struck out Utley twice and then Gonzalez. Better than anything I've seen from Awfulrez in a long time.

Sweet hit Cole. Hopefully it stands.

Awfulrez. There has to be some better arms in the system for middle relief next season.

He usually plays good defense and has a .383 OBP. Oh wait, that's his OPS....