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He tends to focus on the religious clubs. This was a post in the secular part of the website.... I have noticed but don't really care as much as he does if people go off on crazy topics completely unrelated to anything. 
I blame this on our infrastructure not allowing threaded replies. 
Maybe someday forums will grow up and learn from social media.  .... oh wait I'm sure there is already a thread about this in here somewhere. Ooops

He tends to focus on the religious clubs. This was a post in the secular part of the website.... I have noticed but don't really care as much as he does if people go off on crazy topics completely unrelated to anything. 
I blame this on our infrastructure not allowing threaded replies. 
Maybe someday forums will grow up and learn from social media.  .... oh wait I'm sure there is already a thread about this in here somewhere. Ooops

He tends to focus on the religious clubs. This was a post in the secular part of the website.... I have noticed but don't really care as much as he does if people go off on crazy topics completely unrelated to anything. 
I blame this on our infrastructure not allowing threaded replies. 
Maybe someday forums will grow up and learn from social media.  .... oh wait I'm sure there is already a thread about this in here somewhere. Ooops

but.. no... seriously....
anyone have any good theories?

In 1969, I lived in the Hollywood Hills, on Pacific View Trail, and dated a gal from the famous hotel you mentioned, but I have forgotten its actual name.
.... but that's another story......

EVERYBODY learns fast when there is "outrageous and obscene profits"  to be made.
I remember when a computer with a 100 MEGABYTE hard drive cost $5,000. and was as big as a sewing machine.
I bought one, a laptop four inches thick ... with a black and white screen.
"Outrageous profits" made it happen  that you can get a TERRABYTE SD card, dirt cheap, etc., etc.

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He tends to focus on the religious clubs. This was a post in the secular part of the website.... I have noticed but don't really care as much as he does if people go off on crazy topics completely unrelated to anything. 
I blame this on our infrastructure not allowing threaded replies. 
Maybe someday forums will grow up and learn from social media.  .... oh wait I'm sure there is already a thread about this in here somewhere. Ooops

I am obviously not on that social network... but does this action against an entire people (group of thought) bother anyone else?
Talk about corporations exercising censorship and stifling free speech!
I am NOT comfortable with draconian tactics by corporations.

On Saturday, gunman Robert Bowers allegedly killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Moments before, Bowers posted on social network Gab, "Screw your optics, I'm going in."
Zoom out before we zoom in: It's the latest tragedy to shine a light on social media's role in acts of terror and violence—especially since Bowers had a history of antisemitism on Gab.
What Gab is: It started in 2016 as a no-holds-barred alternative to Twitter. There are few restrictions (as opposed to Twitter), so that's earned Gab alt-right users including Milo Yiannopoulos and Richard Spencer.
Now companies are rethinking their relationships with Gab...
PayPal banned Gab from its payments platform. "When a site is explicitly allowing the perpetuation of hate, violence, or discriminatory intolerance, we take immediate and decisive actions," PayPal told The Verge. And even before Saturday's tragedy, Apple refused to host Gab on its App Store, Google removed Gab from its Play Store, and Microsoftthreatened to bar Gab from using its Azure cloud service.

I am obviously not on that social network... but does this action against an entire people (group of thought) bother anyone else?
Talk about corporations exercising censorship and stifling free speech!
I am NOT comfortable with draconian tactics by corporations.

Amazing that China, for example, generally builds robots to focus on building things, and the United States builds robots to keep the status quo. These particular robots make a good metaphor for the silicon valley economy. They are kept so that rich people can't be bothered or disturbed after exploiting properties through gentrification processes. SF is notorious for extremely low new building projects to keep real estate prices high, where most adjacent counties in California have much more unimproved and untouched acreage than acreage that has been built upon. In fact, even where SF will begin to expand is not into newly zoned areas for new building, except by encroaching upon Oakland so that additional gentrification processes can be used to remove the majority black and latino populations to rebuild Oakland as a playground for the rich. Silicon Valley has even been finding ways to aid this specific type of gentrification, even through social media, military and law enforcement support -- and Oakland was one of the first targets.
 

Because of Quantum Entanglement, and the speed of light in a vacuum being set, and the fact that all time is a LOCAL thing, and runs at local speeds, depending on local velocity and the gravity well acting upon the local matter, it is possible to communicate ( with pulses of on/off/on/off ... which can be made into Morse code, or constructed and deconstructed to and from speech ...) to and from the future, but not to travel there .... IF .... you can accelerate to near relativistic speeds.
To get one atom up to the exact speed of light would require all the energy in the Universe. This is why "light" travels in waves, and becomes a particle when it hits something.
The reason I don't, is I can't afford the long distance phone bill.
 

That is a semantics problem, and I disagree with that simplistic answer.  Velocity is measured by the distance traveled in a particular unit of time.  If you change the definitions, you can justify ANYTHING, as was done above.
For example, laser light through a particular Bose-Einstein condensate can be slowed down to about 38 miles per hour ... and whether it is passed along through quantum effects, or by Keebler Elves who got the day off from making cookies, it is STILL 38 miles per hour.
Time ON a photon is always ZERO, because at the speed of light, time stops.
That is why Quantum entangled particles can communicate instantly across ANY distance ... not limited by the speed of light.
Understanding WHY Cerenkov radiation makes that beautiful blue light in the water at the bottom of a swimming pool atomic reactor is the key to figuring it out.
 
 

@Colin Browne what a beautiful thing to do.  I am sure she would smile very widely if she saw it. 

I think the universe will expand to ultimate darkness and the loss of all energy. (Zero Kelvin)
There is no other evidence that exists to the contrary. 

Um... could they be birds? I didn't see wings or formations though.
Maybe ants on the lens? Nah.... didn't appear that way.
So... aliens... yes. ;-)

Those who don't have electric cars are genocidal "killers" of other areas of the planet.
 

What you see above is the setup for the biggest flim-flam con artist job ever perpetrated by the mind of man .... the brokerage of Carbon Credits .... whereas those who do not produce much CO2 can sell their artificially generated and assigned Carbon Credits to those that will be producing a LOT of CO2.
It's all about transferring hundreds of billions of dollars of money from industrialized nations to the lesser industrialized nations... and Carbon Credit Brokers getting their cuts of the action.
Armies will support this as the nations at the receiving end of this transfer are ALREADY of a Socialist bent, and they like free money, selling fantasy imaginationware certificates,, and the liberal Socialists in the capitalist countries get political power and a LOT of money, individuals getting tens of billions of dollars, in the brokerage of Carbon Credits.
You of course, know nothing about this ... because the lunacy of taking your money, and giving it to others, to get permission to pollute at YOUR end, and take it from you to give to socialist governments to influence the goal of global communism and socialism, would boil your blood if you correctly understood how this BRILLIANT scheme really worked.
It's all about the Priesthood of the "Save the Earth" religion consolidating money and power, from you, to them.
...and it's all based on your altruistic ignorance, and their greed .....  and absolute JUNK SCIENCE.
 

The United Nations are just thugs with diplomatic passports, and generous expense accounts, each doing what is in THEIR best interests.
NOT YOURS.
 

That is something else that pains me. My beloved wife died in 2014 after hardly any tribulation. 60 years, 7 months and 8 days. See the memorial I made:

Honey 2014 Field ministry.docx

May 5, 1961 ... Crying out loud in 7th Grade Math Class, as the First American Astronaut, Alan B. Shepard Jr.'s sub orbital flight retro-rockets failed, and it was thought he would die in space.
That ... and I wanted to be the first American in Space.
That, and on May 8, 1988, my mentor, Science Fiction Master Robert A. Heinlein died.

Being plagued during sleep by the memory of sins during early years. Knowing that these were forgiven does little to ease the pain. Happy is the person who is able to endure such pain.