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Technically speaking (of course), your Photoshopping has gotten very good indeed.
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Please forgive me my choice of word. I often think of "stupid" more as a quality of ideas than of…
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Yes, steel-making is complex and interesting. The issue with steel and pig iron actually isn't so much heat as composition.…
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Explosives aren't a large heat source: burning an equal weight of gasoline produces more heat. Almost all of the heat…
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Life began billions of years ago: Since then, it has been one continuous flow. (Ooops, there goes that evilutionary thinking…
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Ooops -- I forgot the link for the quote; it's to a site done by a guy who melts iron…
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Coke (nearly pure carbon, basically the same stuff as charcoal) burning in air is hot enough to melt iron: Cupolas…
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Ooops. Copying html can lead to some odd errors. BTW, although one should be skeptical of arguments by intellectual association,…
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The stories, as told, certainly go beyond what was actually observed. This is an interesting commentary on the nature of…
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The central part of the standard "evidence" for controlled demolition of the towers is easily shown to be complete garbage,…
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To re-post a simple observation: The central argument behind this conspiracy theory is the unlikelihood of a symmetric collapse absent…
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If the question is how so many identities could be known after a few days, one answer is "Through databases…
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Republicans are increasingly seen as the party which has weakened our national security, rather than strengthened it Indeed. In the…
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That's quite a leap of interpretation and logic.
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"Thus, Socrates, injustice on a sufficiently large scale is a stronger, freer, and a more masterful thing than justice, and,…
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I vote for keeping the word in reserve to maintain its potency. Using it to describe the present conflict will…
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"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".  Why should one not read that as a prescription…
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Thinking about issues and generic responses, starting with the pattern discussed in the diary -- They're wrong and it's easy…
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The implied proposal -- that "decisions about war and peace [should be] left up to members of [group X]" --…
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Indeed. A verbal contribution to this effort -- hence one well-suited to blog-based action -- is to refuse to call…
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