Re: Officer shooting in Ferguson

2015-03-12 Thread Judah McAuley
7;t think _anything_ will > > happen without being dissected by all parties involved (police, > > anti-police, press, lawyers, general public) > > > > But this didn't throw off any major "cannot have happened" flags for me, > > yet. But awaiting more deta

Officer shooting in Ferguson

2015-03-12 Thread Judah McAuley
So I heard about the shooting of the two police officers in Ferguson as I was heading into work this morning. Later, I read a couple of articles and there are some details in there that strike me as incredibly suspicious. The officers were standing near a protest that was dwindling, down to a cou

Re: lol AmericanThinker

2015-02-25 Thread Judah McAuley
54% of Muslims believe that, deep down, Obama is a Republican. On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Vivec wrote: > > So, 54% of republicans believe that deep down Obama is a Muslim lol lol ^_^ > > http://www.vox.com/2015/2/25/8108005/obama-muslim-poll > < > http://www.vox.com/2015/2/25/8108005/obam

Re: lol AmericanThinker

2015-02-25 Thread Judah McAuley
No bacon in the muslim snackbar, but on the other hand, halal butchers usually have some really good cuts of beef. On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:02 PM, LRS Scout wrote: > > Shhh, aloha snackbar ;) > On Feb 25, 2015 3:59 PM, "Zaphod Beeblebrox" > wrote: > > > > > Sorry to tell you this Tim, but tha

Re: lol AmericanThinker

2015-02-25 Thread Judah McAuley
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:54 AM, LRS Scout wrote: > > We need a commission > > Something something un-American activities > Oh, Tim, you and your Big Government solutions! Always has to be a committee for everything to make you happy, right? :) Judah

Re: Planning a visit

2015-02-09 Thread Judah McAuley
airfax County and > not the best neighborhood. > > We're you perhaps at the King Street Metro? > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > > > I had a really good experience with an apartment on AirBnB in Old Town, > > right by the farthest

Re: Planning a visit

2015-02-08 Thread Judah McAuley
I had a really good experience with an apartment on AirBnB in Old Town, right by the farthest out stop on the Metro. Super convenient and a decent rate for the week we were spending there. On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:15 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > Nevermind, found a great little spot on AirB

Re: Lucee

2015-01-30 Thread Judah McAuley
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > > The Lucee website is nice looking but has some serious flaws. It says > "hey, > > we're a cool j2ee scripting language!" and ment

Re: Lucee

2015-01-30 Thread Judah McAuley
The Lucee website is nice looking but has some serious flaws. It says "hey, we're a cool j2ee scripting language!" and mentions tools and cool stuff, which is great...but no where on the site is there anything that gives a run down of the language. I happen to know that it is cfml, because of Rail

Re: Study: 60 percent of 2014 job growth caused by expiration of unemployment benefits

2015-01-27 Thread Judah McAuley
When we say things like "didn't take jobs" that implies that there were jobs for the taking. There were not a lot of unfilled jobs out there, so how could unemployment benefits have any affect on whether or not an individual got a job? If there were a bunch of unfilled jobs and people were choosi

Re: Study: 60 percent of 2014 job growth caused by expiration of unemployment benefits

2015-01-27 Thread Judah McAuley
That article made no sense at all to me. "The new new working paper found that the expiration of benefits was responsible for the creation of over 1.8 million jobs. Nearly 1 million of those jobs were created by workers who would have otherwise stayed out of the labor force if unemployment benefi

Re: This may sound silly but..

2015-01-26 Thread Judah McAuley
Oddly enough, a friend of mine (Polly Superstar) is quoted in that first article and posted it on Facebook today. I had the same question as you and she didn't know why it was on money.cnn instead of regular cnn or whatever. So, no clue. Cheers, Judah On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:48 AM, C. Hatton

Re: New Years Resolution

2015-01-03 Thread Judah McAuley
Awesome, I'll have to give this a listen. I've been pretty open about it on the list but it might get lost in traffic now and then. But I've been in at least one ethical, non-monogamous relationship for the last 20 years and regularly participate in a variety of sex-positive groups, including rece

Re: Off topic - Best app development tools

2014-12-31 Thread Judah McAuley
PhoneGap (also the Apache Cordova project) had some significant limitations last time I looked. It basically compiles down to an HTML5/JS/CSS app with a couple useful JS libraries to do some native interaction and then it runs inside a browser runtime on the device. This makes for a pretty signifi

Re: Origami Star Wars - Rebel Alliance

2014-11-19 Thread Judah McAuley
That is totally cool, what a creative way to tackle the subject matter in a fun and informative fashion. Really brilliant idea and approach, mucho kudos to both you and your kid. As for the domain...hmm...Rebelgami? CommonCoreDump? I don't have any opinions on blog platforms that are at all usefu

Re: Ramptay va. Lutsay

2014-11-19 Thread Judah McAuley
Indeed. http://www.snowcrest.net/donnelly/piglatin.html On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 10:06 AM, GMoney wrote: > > So would that be an "ankskay ankflay" ? > > I'm not very good with pig latin. > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Judah McAuley > wrote: >

Re: Ramptay va. Lutsay

2014-11-18 Thread Judah McAuley
In addition to Tramp Stamp on the lower back/upper ass, I've seen a lot of tattoos recently going down the side to the top of the hip and we've taken to calling those Skank Flank. On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:12 AM, William Bowen wrote: > > Tramp stamp == rhyming slang... Slut Stamp, while allite

Governing: Don't do it, it's a trap!

2014-11-05 Thread Judah McAuley
So I'm spending some time today looking around the more conservative-leaning parts of the web to see what they are saying should happen now that they surpassed expectations in the elections. Obviously a lot of self congratulating, which is to be expected, but I wanted to see if there was much in t

Re: Nothing about the Democrats massive defeat?

2014-11-05 Thread Judah McAuley
So, now that Portland has legal recreational marijuana, gay marriage, the equal rights, the largest number of strip clubs per capita, and the best beer scene in the United Stateswho wants to come by for a CF-Community meetup? :) Cheers, Judah On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Judah McAuley

Re: Nothing about the Democrats massive defeat?

2014-11-05 Thread Judah McAuley
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:05 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > > I am already dreading the election in 2 years. It will be yet another > > election where we need to choose form the best of bad choices. We need > some > > serious campaign r

Learning new physics by doing special effects

2014-10-24 Thread Judah McAuley
Well done story about how physicist learned new things about black holes by collaborating with the special effects team on Chris Nolan's new movie, Interstellar. http://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole Cheers, Judah

Re: Before I forget.....

2014-10-23 Thread Judah McAuley
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > > Puddles is a heck of a performer. Also, he's 6'9"...so he's a very large > > clown. A musician and improv guy from Atlanta as I r

Re: Before I forget.....

2014-10-22 Thread Judah McAuley
Puddles is a heck of a performer. Also, he's 6'9"...so he's a very large clown. A musician and improv guy from Atlanta as I recall. The series/backup group, Post Modern Jukebox, is also worth a listen, they've done some great things. Cheers, Judah On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:27 AM, C. Hatton Hump

London Mayor trips child during soccer match

2014-10-16 Thread Judah McAuley
Boris is a fascinating bloke. This particular trip might be attributed to being slow and drunk but it is fun to watch and the bonus video at the bottom of the article is pure gold. http://www.espnfc.com/blog/the-toe-poke/65/post/2090243/boris-johnson-trips-small-child-during-photo-op-kick-about

Re: Ebola in our hemisphere, you scared?

2014-10-09 Thread Judah McAuley
The reason that Ebola gets the attention that it does is because it is very visibly horrific. It is a truly awful disease and very difficult to treat. However, there is not a long period of transmissibility before a person becomes symptomatic and the transmission of the virus is (relatively) diffi

Re: The Bitter Southerner

2014-10-02 Thread Judah McAuley
Looks like the sort of story telling I love. Can't get into it now, though, I've got work to do. Will read later. Thanks Cam! Cheers, Judah On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > Thought I'd share this. A few on the list might enjoy reading some of the > articles. Especi

Re: Playoffs!

2014-10-02 Thread Judah McAuley
Is this something you'd need to have a baseball team to know about? On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:50 AM, GMoney wrote: > > How sweet it is: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDMJyiHIaBY > > Some of you seriously get to do this every year Been 29 years around > here. > > > ~~~

Re: What the iPhone 6 does better than the rest

2014-09-26 Thread Judah McAuley
apple fan boys > around. There's still no perfect phone out there. > > > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > > > To be fair, that blog post is 2 years old and things have gotten a fair > bit > > better in the interveni

Re: What the iPhone 6 does better than the rest

2014-09-26 Thread Judah McAuley
To be fair, that blog post is 2 years old and things have gotten a fair bit better in the intervening time. It is true, though, that when I had a phone purchased through a carrier (T-Mobile) it lagged the official release of Android by several months. I'd eventually get it, but it was a reliable t

Re: What the iPhone 6 does better than the rest

2014-09-24 Thread Judah McAuley
rize.net and store the payprofileid as this > unique identifyer? > On Sep 24, 2014 4:04 PM, "Judah McAuley" wrote: > > > > > Answering part of my own question, it looks like ApplePay does have a > > couple of advantages over Google Wallet that are e

Re: What the iPhone 6 does better than the rest

2014-09-24 Thread Judah McAuley
e for some of the things you can do when you own the ecosystem in a way that Google doesn't. Cool stuff. Judah On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Judah McAuley wrote: > Couple of questions (and these are serious questions)... > > Is a 64-bit processor on a phone a good thing? It ha

Re: What the iPhone 6 does better than the rest

2014-09-24 Thread Judah McAuley
Couple of questions (and these are serious questions)... Is a 64-bit processor on a phone a good thing? It has historically been the case that 64-bit architectures were less efficient than 32-bit architectures unless you were running applications that needed more memory than a 32-bit architecture

Re: Couple's_threesome_with_homeless_man_turns_violent _with_hamburger_meat

2014-09-18 Thread Judah McAuley
s guy... > > > > > > > > There are so many other options... > > > > > > > > Also, if you're going down the threesome route, you gotta have your > > shit > > > > straight... You gotta have

Couple's_threesome_with_homeless_man_turns_violent _with_hamburger_meat

2014-09-17 Thread Judah McAuley
That headline will either make you read the article or never click on the link. Both are fine options. http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/228242/couples-threesome-with-homeless-man-turns-violent-with-hamburger-meat/ Cheers, Judah ~~~

Webservices for brewing data

2014-09-11 Thread Judah McAuley
A collection of tools, data and programming resources for beer nerds. http://brewerwall.com/ Sweet site. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoff

Re: Incredible Human Feats: The Barkley Marathon

2014-09-11 Thread Judah McAuley
Now that's a thing, for sure. Serious effort and really quite insane. Have you seen the Badwater Ultramarathon? 135 mile race from Death Valley up to an 8000 foot trail head on Mt. Whitney. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badwater_Ultramarathon People do some amazing and ridiculous things. On Thu

Re: Quotes on consistency

2014-09-11 Thread Judah McAuley
our win. > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Rick Faircloth > wrote: > > > > > When you've realized you've lost the argument, insult... > > > > > > On 9/10/2014 4:32 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > > Reading this: "It is impossible for

Quotes on consistency

2014-09-10 Thread Judah McAuley
Reading this: "It is impossible for anyone to perform a character assassination on you. You cannot assassinate something does does not exist." from Scott reminded me of a quote from the CTO of my new company when we were having lunch yesterday. He was talking about the code for a particular piece

Re: xkcd comic : it's NOT turtles all the way down

2014-09-10 Thread Judah McAuley
Dude. That is trippy. On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > http://xkcd.com/1416/ > > fascinating. use the scroll to zoom. > > infinitely. > > > ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www

Re: Apple live event is starting!!

2014-09-10 Thread Judah McAuley
sweat ? > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > > > I gave up on wrist watches for that reason. They would stop running. I'd > > take it off, put it on the dresser, look at it a couple days later and it > > would be running again.

Re: Ray Rice

2014-09-10 Thread Judah McAuley
She is a victim of domestic violence...you can tell because there is a video of domestic violence. Now, how she chooses to frame that for herself, what she chooses to believe and how she wants to respond to it, that is totally up to her. I may have my own personal opinions but that doesn't matter,

Re: Apple live event is starting!!

2014-09-10 Thread Judah McAuley
I was going to get the FitBit Force before the recall. Waiting for them to reintroduce it (supposedly this fall) as I haven't seen anything else with the price range/feature set combo that I want. On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > For me it is going to be about the

Re: Apple live event is starting!!

2014-09-10 Thread Judah McAuley
I gave up on wrist watches for that reason. They would stop running. I'd take it off, put it on the dresser, look at it a couple days later and it would be running again. Totally weird. On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:44 AM, GMoney wrote: > > Has that phenomenon ever been studied? > > I know several

Re: Two bad choices

2014-09-09 Thread Judah McAuley
If you haven't listened in to EastCoastConservative podcast, you should. Good stuff. Not always in agreement, of course, but well put together and pretty thoughtful as a general rule from the episodes I've checked out. As for the original question, I tend to first go for perceived ability to gove

Re: Democrats set to lose the senate

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
rties we'd be able to get more functional engagement. Judah On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:53 PM, LRS Scout wrote: > > Haha, Judah, sheep > On Sep 8, 2014 11:48 PM, "Judah McAuley" wrote: > > > > > Cool. Your statements about me pretty obviously show you are utterl

Re: Democrats set to lose the senate

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
cool. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:48 PM, LRS Scout wrote: > > I'm not in the last, I'm saying using untested technologies on us is wrong. > > That is the current plan. > On Sep 8, 2014 11:45 PM, "Judah McAuley" wrote: > > > > > I agree completely

Re: Democrats set to lose the senate

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
ocked in the rest of the world and no one takes us seriously as a > superpower, because Obama believes that America should be considered > only an equal to any other country in the world, be it Russia or Somalia. > > American is distinctive and unique and will be a force for

Re: Democrats set to lose the senate

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
n Sep 8, 2014 11:38 PM, "LRS Scout" wrote: > > > I'd sooner trust it to the private sector where both medical research and > > care belong. > > > > With proper legislative oversight. > > > > You can't use stem cells but you can and HA

Re: Democrats set to lose the senate

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:38 PM, LRS Scout wrote: > > I'd sooner trust it to the private sector where both medical research and > care belong. > Uh, no. > With proper legislative oversight. > > They do. The legislative branch oversees the FDA, the NIH, and Veterans Affairs. > You can't use s

Re: Democrats set to lose the senate

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
y, September 08, 2014 9:08 PM > >> > > To: cf-community > >> > > Subject: Re: Democrats set to lose the senate > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > There is a hardcore liberal didn't running roughshod over the > >> >

Re: Democrats set to lose the senate

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
There is definitely the potential for misuse and abuse. We need to be vigilant, no doubt. The technologies themselves have some truly wonderful applications, though. Cheers, Judah On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:28 PM, LRS Scout wrote: > > To control ptsd and tbi, the woods are in there. > > The Japa

Re: Democrats set to lose the senate

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
gt; > > > There is a hardcore liberal didn't running roughshod over the > > > consortium in the white house right now. > > > > > > Have you seem some I'd the attempted gun control legislation? > > > > > > Don't forget chairman Obama&#

Re: Ray Rice

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
that knocked her out. > > Since they are exactly equivalent in every way. > > =) > > > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Rick Faircloth > > > wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: Democrats set to lose the senate

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
> >>> From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] > > >>> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 9:08 PM > > >>> To: cf-community > > >>> Subject: Re: Democrats set to lose the senate > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> The

Re: Democrats set to lose the senate

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote: > > That's nonsense, Judah... at least the House votes and passes bills. > You mean the double digit votes to "repeal" the Affordable Care Act? > Wouldn't it be smarter for Reid to bring up bills for a vote, pass them > (if he could), > an

Re: Ray Rice

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote: > > I'm just going to jump into the middle of this, only knowing what has > been said in this thread: > > What should happen to the woman concerning her battery? > I'm not sure what you are getting at, Rick, could you clarify? What do you me

Re: Democrats set to lose the senate

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
nal direction on how to deal with severe dysfunction between the two houses of the Legislature. Cheers, Judah On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:45 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > I think that that article described the

Re: Democrats set to lose the senate

2014-09-08 Thread Judah McAuley
I think that that article described the situation well and concisely. I know that the House is killing anything that moves and that the Tea Party will not tolerate any compromises with Democrats. I still expect Democrats to articulate a positive vision and try and do something. Sitting around and

Re: The End of Agile Death by Over-Simplification

2014-09-03 Thread Judah McAuley
Agile is awesome. But no matter how good the process is, shitty people produce shitty code. Agile isn't dead but grumpy people are grumpy. Big companies have a hard time with flexible process, they aren't designed for it, just like McDonalds is not designed for ordering your burger a certain done

Re: Ferguson explained by John Oliver

2014-08-20 Thread Judah McAuley
Uh, multiple protestors have been shot and there have been many injuries on both sides, police and protestors. On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 5:34 AM, GMoney wrote: > > That's rich. Not a single protestor has been killed or even injured, and > we're going on 10 days of sometimes violent protest. > >

Re: emulating clicking javascript obtINED VIA CFHTTP

2014-07-26 Thread Judah McAuley
Two things. #1 is that you can't do that straight up with cfhttp, as already has been said. You'd need a more intelligent user agent, perhaps look at Selenium, which runs a full fledged browser, like Firefox, headless. You could also inspect the vote function above and see what that does. Presumab

Re: Israel rejects US/UN ceasefire proposal. Wants to continue fighting into Gaza.

2014-07-25 Thread Judah McAuley
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Hamas is not part of the PA. I think. The PA controls the West Bank and is the "voice" of the Occupied Territories of Palestine. Hamas is the elected government of Gaza, but they are a designated terror organization by the US (and other countries) so we have no direct

Re: Israel rejects US/UN ceasefire proposal. Wants to continue fighting into Gaza.

2014-07-25 Thread Judah McAuley
Do we have a concise guide to what the differences between the two proposals were and the stated reasons for rejecting them? On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:32 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > This is not the first cease-fire that has been rejected. Hamas rejected > the first one. > > > http://on

Re: Crossfit experiences?

2014-07-25 Thread Judah McAuley
That's pretty damn funny, Bruce :) On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > > Everything you need to know about crossfit. Hahaha. > http://youtu.be/qnjYyfkcaNI > Sent from my iPhone 5S > > > On Jul 25, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Judah McAuley > wrote: >

Re: Crossfit experiences?

2014-07-25 Thread Judah McAuley
decide to do it, please don't become one of those people for whom it > becomes their lives. I know several people who cannot carry on a > conversation without bringing up crossfit. > > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > > > I'm t

Re: Crossfit experiences?

2014-07-25 Thread Judah McAuley
14 at 7:35 AM, Scott Stewart wrote: > > I haven't done it, but I know people in the martial arts community that > have.They say that it's pretty dangerous, because of the emphasis on speed > and reps over form and safety. > > > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:28 AM

Crossfit experiences?

2014-07-25 Thread Judah McAuley
I'm thinking about giving Crossfit a try. They have a Jump Start class that is 75 minutes, twice a week for 4 weeks as an intro where they do body analysis, help figure out your personal limitations in movement, set up core exercises and such. Sounds like the sort of structured introduction I'd li

Re: Study Shows Children Raised With Religion Find It Challenging To Judge Fact From Fiction

2014-07-22 Thread Judah McAuley
The full text of the article requires an institutional subscription. Given that Sam has never once referenced a peer-reviewed scientific article of his own accord, I'd be shocked if he had access to the journal and bothered to go and dig up the source material (and not bother citing it). Here's t

Re: Study Shows Children Raised With Religion Find It Challenging To Judge Fact From Fiction

2014-07-22 Thread Judah McAuley
I think that this is the part in the Raw Story article that he may be talking about, as it references both Biblical stories and Tom Sawyer. As far as I can tell, we've got it right, the study shows that kids who uncritically accept the fantastical in Bible stories also uncritically accept the fan

Re: Study Shows Children Raised With Religion Find It Challenging To Judge Fact From Fiction

2014-07-21 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > > I study is an analytical outcome of a set of evidence collected in a > > planned and repeatable fashion. The actual collection of evidence may be > > observational or it may be automated and entirely mechanisti

Re: Study Shows Children Raised With Religion Find It Challenging To Judge Fact From Fiction

2014-07-21 Thread Judah McAuley
I study is an analytical outcome of a set of evidence collected in a planned and repeatable fashion. The actual collection of evidence may be observational or it may be automated and entirely mechanistically quantitative. The most important part of a study, however, is that it is planned ahead of

Re: Study Shows Children Raised With Religion Find It Challenging To Judge Fact From Fiction

2014-07-21 Thread Judah McAuley
It is only looking at young children, not adults who grew up in those situations. Very different populations, to be sure. On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Maureen wrote: > > I'd have to question this one. I was raised in an extreme religious > environment, and have studied theology for years.

Re: Study Shows Children Raised With Religion Find It Challenging To Judge Fact From Fiction

2014-07-21 Thread Judah McAuley
The study only looked at 5-6 year olds, so that tends to match up with your experiences. A much more interesting study would be follow ups at, say, 12, 18, and 24, to see whether this tendency persists or ends up being background noise due cognitive changes and exposure to a wider range of ideas.

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-18 Thread Judah McAuley
ee the propaganda that is > motivating them. > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > > If a significant portion of the population of Portland was involved in a > > resistance/insurgent movement, I could easily see there being 1,500 > targets >

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-18 Thread Judah McAuley
s. Casualties would > be massive. > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > > As I said, I don't know what the real numbers are, definitely not my > field > > of expertise. They could very well be including stores of small arms, >

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-18 Thread Judah McAuley
collateral damage. They are talking about an area roughly the size of > the City of Atlanta or just slightly smaller than Portland. Imagine > 1500 targets getting hit in either of those areas. Casualties would > be massive. > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Judah McAuley >

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-18 Thread Judah McAuley
rgets might be more feasible at point six (.6) per square mile. > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > > > If you have 1,500 rocket launchers, then put them in 1,500 different > > locations. Mix them in with civilian infrastructure as mu

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-18 Thread Judah McAuley
I broadly agree with the "strategic mistake" angle there, but as to the "1,500 legitimate military targets? Really?" part...the answer might be yes, really. I don't know about the numbers in this case, but as a general strategy, Hamas is likely to disperse their weapons as broadly as possible. The

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-17 Thread Judah McAuley
At least not for things in the path of said war. On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > Wars are never good. > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson > wrote: > >> >> right, which is why although the shelling was bad (250 dead),

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-17 Thread Judah McAuley
Wars are never good. On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > right, which is why although the shelling was bad (250 dead), this ground > attack will at least quadruple that number. > > ground wars in urban environments are never good. > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 5:42 P

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-16 Thread Judah McAuley
I think that we all know that Gel would not be talking smack about my wife, he'd be laying it on thick because he's a smooth Pimp Daddy, hyping all those Carnival bands he's tight with. And we all know that I'd be like, "alright, alright" because I appreciate game. Now my wife may not be picking

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-16 Thread Judah McAuley
hat you say but I don't harp on it and I don't berate you for > > it. Grow up. > > > > . > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Judah McAuley > > wrote: > > > > > > No, Eric, "they could get away with almost anything

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
ger tips. It is unhelpful, disgusting, and wrong. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > It's called exaggeration to prove a point...it is a literary device... > > -Original Message- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:ju...@

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
n a time > On Jul 15, 2014 7:16 PM, "Judah McAuley" wrote: > > > > > As noted, I was a bit surprised that Eric went to toddler rape as well. > > But, there you have it. > > > ~| Order

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
§ > On 15 July 2014 18:18, Judah McAuley wrote: > > > > > I know what your point was, Eric, and it is a shitty untrue point and you > > expressed it in one of the worst ways possible. > > > > If you really think that there would not be an international outcry, the &

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
lind eye and do nothing against Israel. Ever. > That is a big reason why they act this why. The Israeli government is like > a spoiled child that has never been disciplined. > > -Original Message- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:ju...@wiredotter.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 15

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
I can dig that. I personally believe that there is plenty of blame to go around. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > > > > > Is your concern that by arguing that Israel took t

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
tionally > support them. That is the problem. > > -Original Message- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:ju...@wiredotter.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 12:03 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel... > > > We are talking about this parti

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
Btw, Jerry, if you haven't read the biography of the Smothers Brothers (Dangerously Funny), you should do so. Good book. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > Well, we all know who Mom likes best...Dicky Smothers.​ > > > ~~~

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
ng as Israel keeps encroaching on > Palestininan territory and the human rights of the Palestinian people...the > missiles will continue to come. They have violated every agreement that > has > brought peace. If you were in the Palestinian's shoes...what would you do? > Just gi

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
Very well said, Jerry, thank you. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > As with most things, I don't see it so cut-and-dry. > > You are not really talking "responsibility", you are talking "moral > culpability" I believe. > > And I don't think it falls on any one group

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
se they warned people ahead of time. > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > > > I get what you and Scott are saying, but what is Israel supposed to do? > > They are having a rather large number of missiles fired at them. Some of > &

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
he right God, but for the wrong reasons, and > > still be killed for it. > > > > I need to re-read my "Religion: Who Can Kill Who and Why" handbook. > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Judah McAuley > > wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
Given the conflict between Shiite and Sunni, I'm not entirely sure that would help. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:36 AM, GMoney wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Judah McAuley > wrote: > > > > > I get what you and Scott are saying, but what is Israel suppos

Re: Slaughter of civilians by Israel...

2014-07-15 Thread Judah McAuley
I get what you and Scott are saying, but what is Israel supposed to do? They are having a rather large number of missiles fired at them. Some of them to parts of Israel that no one thought they could reach. A ground force would be a huge escalation and the potential house to house combat could eas

Re: Yummy politics in Jerusalem

2014-07-14 Thread Judah McAuley
ever found anything even half as good. > > On Monday, July 14, 2014, Judah McAuley wrote: > > > > > I follow them on RSS, cuts out a lot of cruft. > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson > > > > wrote: > > >

Re: Yummy politics in Jerusalem

2014-07-14 Thread Judah McAuley
:21 PM, LRS Scout wrote: > > > > > That's cool, and these kinds of things are what can cause reveal lasting > > change in the region. > > > > There's a youth movement called YALA that's pretty interesting, but I > think > > swearing yourself to nonviol

Yummy politics in Jerusalem

2014-07-14 Thread Judah McAuley
As an antidote to the current shitstorm in the region, I'll give you something more hopeful and more delectable: a pop up restaurant collaboration by two chefs seeking to bridge the cultural and political divide that is segregated Jerusalem. http://magazine.good.is/features/an-israeli-palestinian

Re: how can people be this dumb?

2014-07-10 Thread Judah McAuley
Doesn't that mean that they elected a Pope? On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Scott Stewart wrote: > > They set up the fuel system with a switch that dumps extra fuel causing an > over rich fuel situation. I was sitting at a light in Winchester VA when > one of these knuckleheads pulled up an

Re: Striving for Perfection

2014-07-08 Thread Judah McAuley
Wow. On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > OMG I love this website. > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > > > > oh, it exists...here's the results of the first trial run > > > > http://www.lingscars.com/ > > > ... > > > ~~

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