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Sure, I'm willing to sacrifice hypothetical lives who are saved from a hypothetical working future drug to get fraud out of government. Some of them may die, but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make.It's interesting how much you lot care about embryos.
some idiot nazi cosplayerSaw Stephen Fry tell a good joke about this - which I think he said wasn't his:
Why is there "zero chance" to find the hard drive?Dear Lord, Is there anything you won't pick a fight about? Do you really not understand rhetorical devices or are you just pretending not to?
I don't see any proof that representative experts are better.I would have thought that it's pretty self evident that laws which affect the citizens of an entire country should be made by a group rather than an individual.
The fact that the four years of incompetence has ended shows that the system works.You're now talking about a different system - one where there are regular elections which can change the government if the population decides they want to change it.
Learn more history.Another irony-meter explodes...
The Ancient Greeks experimented with direct democracy and failed. They were asking people to vote on and decide directly on questions such as "Should we go to war with Sparta?"I guess you're talking about a referendum. I have no issue with the idea that those should be used sparingly, and they mostly are. The Brexit thing was a dumpster fire - whatever side of that debate people are on, it was not a decision arrived at by a well educated and informed population who knew and understood all the issues involved. Which is why you have a government. But you have a government, not a king or emperor. Were you happy with the last 4 years of Biden as an "elected king"? That worked well, did it? You need some checks and balances and that's why you have a government.
If it was left to Congress they would just argue about it and have a hard time getting the required votes and essentially do nothing.That depends on the make up of Congress. Right now in the UK Labour have a strong majority. Which means they can basically do what they want unless a significant number of their MPs rebel. But they still have to go through the process and allow parliament to debate things before anything becomes law. I can see that your system is more efficient but the trade-off is the President can do things unilaterally which doesn't feel right in a democracy. Yes yes, people voted for him to be President but they also voted for a government which should provide some checks and balances.
Allowing the US President great freedom to act, react, and dictate policy is partly why the US is the richest and most powerful country on earth.No it isn't.
This is also why the English Crown has lost an incredible amount of world power after the Monarchy decided to stop governing directly and leave most things to democracy.No it isn't.
It still has the same problem. If the Moon's shadow is traveling at that steep of an angle then there should be steep Southward or Northward vertical shadow movement in all eclipse shadow paths. Yet we see many with relatively horizontal Eastwards paths for the same duration.Firstly, I can't find any horizontal ones.
Basically, the president has control over the executive branch. The part that does the actual work of implementing laws. So as president he can dictate how those departments do their job.Right. Interesting.
Pardoning is part of the constitution and has no real limits.
But Trump is also doing things he's not allowed to do and is being stopped by the courts.
Trump was the one who made this political by immediately insisting without evidence (and incorrectly, as it turned out) that this was caused by DEI policies.The issue for me isn’t whether he was correct or not. One of my issues with him, other than him being a narcissistic self-serving bigot, is he seems to base his opinions on gut feel and hunch. Or what he sees on social media or TV - which is all heavily filtered because of the channels he chooses to watch which all pander to his worldview.
when do gas and groceries get cheaperWhen all those other countries have to start paying tariffs which then have to be passed on to people in the US…er…hang on a minute!
Yes, thinking about it you are correct.But one thing to note is that because the earth is rotating you're not looking at Mars from a fixed point, I guess that must have some effect in what we observe.I think the effect would be immeasurably small (or maybe just on the edge of measurably small). Imagine drawing a line from the observers point on the surface of earth to the center of Mars at 8am, and then draw that line again from the observers point at 8pm. Those two lines will be different, certainly, but the angle distance between them will be miniscule. Less than a percent of a degree I reckon. I don't think our point of view of Mars would change drastically over the course of the day (until of course it's hidden entirely - that's a pretty big change)
50 persons qualified (based on merit) for any position, will outperform 10000 persons hired using any other metric.Well, there's no way of arguing with made up numbers like that.
I'm interested what would make the layers of clouds rotate in FET if the planet itself is not.QuoteThe Martian rotation is increasing by 4 milliarcseconds per year squared. That means the Martian day is shortening by a fraction of a millisecond per year.
60 degrees in 3 hours = 480 degrees in 24 hours, a gain of 33% in the rotational speed.
Of course, in FET it is the layers of clouds which are rotating, not the planet itself.
Weird considering the images he's been posting of flat earth eclipse paths on this thread, which are all Gleason based.Indeed. Tom has never been troubled by the thought that one should be logically consistent
What happens to the sun in the bipolar model? How does it go from west to east?Literally no idea. Does it spend 6 months circling the north pole and then 6 months circling the south each year? I don't think there's any pacman stuff going on. But for me while the bi-polar FE model does solve some problems in the southern "hemisphere" it creates a load of new ones which are bigger problems for a coherent FE model. It would be interesting to see eclipse paths mapped on to the bi-polar map.