Fair enough. But I suspect AngryBeaver was using the term in the more strict sense (correctly, I might add), so I figured in your response that you were making a mistake.

No, AngryBeaver is correct. Your hangup is the definition of the word "random". Randomness and immeasurability get mixed up all the time, but they are very different concepts. Defined correctly, "random" means that there are no conditions at all that have influence on whether X event occurs or not. Quantum mechanics…

Yes, you are missing something. The whole point of the video is to get rid of this very misconception. The misconception that you have is that Chaotic = Completely Unpredictable. It doesn't mean that. It means more like, Unpredictable To The Point That We Can Measure.

Obama's lawyers have said that the 14th Amendment Solution is not an option, but maybe he'd change his mind if it got real bad. I don't know if you could continue to pay bondholders forever, even if you gradually erased the whole rest of the government.

Defining exactly what the debt ceiling means is a huge point in this. I give Obama credit for going on TV multiple times trying to give the American people the facts. It's too bad that after all his speeches, the news networks load up on political analysis but refuse to bring on a single specialist that knows anything…

True, you never did say that everyone should have a gun. But if you advocate an inalienable right to carry, then you have to be willing to accept the extension of that argument. I don't think it's wrong to envision a country where everyone is carrying when part of the debate is whether or not everyone ought to have…

"...nobody told Walker Audio that adorning your turntable in gold and black lacquer ceased to be stylish decades ago."

You haven't given me any solid evidence to back up your statement. You're just making the statement out of hand as if you expect me to believe it's true.

My go-to breakfast diner has a one of those, except it looks like it was built 50 years ago. It still does the job. So worth it.

This is old news. Not complaining about the post, because it's important, but it's still old news. Doctors, nurses, EMTs, veterinarians, whatever, it's a tenet of wound care that's been taught in schools for years.

The rinsing action of the liquid is more important than whether the substance you use kills the bacteria. You just want to rinse it and then rinse it some more.

Peroxide will also decolor certain clothes, however. Be careful dumping it on a blood stain. The best thing to wash off a blood stain is normal saline. Unfortunately, not many people have access to it, and it only works while the stain is still wet. But it takes the blood right off and won't bleach out your shirt.

Perhaps, but it could also be the Netherlands own more bikes and therefore get them stolen more often. Or that people in Australia get in more bar fights (ok, maybe that's just a stereotype). Or that people in St. Kitts like to key each other's cars. The chart counts all sorts of non-violent crimes.

Following a leader bot is functionally the equivalent of following a line. If the leader bot is moving randomly, then that has no real world application. If someone is directing the leader bot, then it's no different than following a line that someone else drew. Of if you want a more real application, it would be the…

Long comment coming up but I want to cover point-by-point:

I agree with what you say, I just believe that including the helicopter and the leader bot (neither of which are necessary to demonstrate the important activity here) makes it look more complicated than it is.

It's funny to think that all the stocked rainbow trout throughout America are descended from a select few that went through a selective process favoring only those that were highly impact-resistant. Do they realize that they basically have a superpower that they'll never get to use?

Not sure why this is awesome. The leader bot and the helicopter are completely superfluous to the exercise as far as I can tell. The only "independent" thing the platform bots are doing that requires individual orientation abilities is moving into the different formations. Maybe it's tougher changing formations while…

Comparing to other countries may not be perfectly valid, but it's all we've got. It's certainly better than settling the debate based on who waves their flags the hardest.

I think your voting analogy is a bad one. Deciding who can and can't vote is fascism. You say the educated should make the decisions; have you stopped to think that many of the country's uneducated are in that predicament by no fault of their own? Be careful what you wish for; maybe someone up the ladder from you will…