It’s also their job regardless to protect public interests on the highway, even if their charges don’t stick, they’re still going to have to pay the impound and possible legal fees. Who gets blamed if a member of the public calls in and nobody responds and some jackass kills someone? The police. They don’t have the…

“Who in the hell is this Democrat-come-lately to scold Democrats on all they’ve done wrong?”

Nothing at all. I like the Evora. This looks a lot better and much more aggressive. I just thought the profile looked similar. It’s obviously lower, but it looks similar. The lower valance line, vent location, rear side window shape, nose and tail profile are all kind of similar. I like this Ferrari more and more with…

Thank you for that description! That’s better-stated than anything I’ve been able to say to explain why I still believe in free will.

@TimF101, for context, I have also explored a similar concept of reality. I am in agreement that empirical testing of Calvinism is not possible, but to understand why, one needs to understand what “empirical testing” is to begin with. Empiricism is based on science, and science is based on philosophy and mathematics. M…

I know this may be a pretty unpopular submission, but I have never been able to get over the preportions of the last generation CTS Coupe. There are just huge flat expanses of flat metal and plastic paneling. The belt line is awkwardly high and the rake of the car front to rear makes for odd disparities between the…

I'm just going to leave this here. Mongolians have made it into art.

I'm happy your grasp on English seems to be progressing and sex.

That interior is seriously hard on the eyes. Would it kill them to show some poise and lose the gaudy "Hey looky here!" colors?

Yes, my point was that a group of modern individuals are taking credit for Eastern spirituality. I think it's excellent that it's being recognized, but the 'credit' lies with the people of the past. If it makes it into mainstream western thinking than that's excellent no matter in what form.

I think Hameroff and Penrose are onto something. From a physics perspective, the notion of consciousness is the most absurd thing ever, yet we can't deny that we have it. So it seems very likely that consciousness is something that cannot be described in terms of physical entities, but is rather something that…

"Why would it exhibit different kinds of "defects"? If consciousness is received, and the reception is inhibited in some way by damages such as you mention, how could you tell what was the cause of the effects?"

This whole discussion reminds me of Alan Watts' lectures about the illusion of the ego and the truth of hyper inter-connectivity. Your 'soul' as it where is simply the infinite number of relationships that you have with the rest of the universe; it's the synapses in your brain, it's your mother's love, it's the…

that is unexpectedly reassuring.

Yeah, fuck you too.

That would certainly be true from a reductionist or materialist point of view. But science is still unable to determine where consciousness "resides" in the brain. They assume consciousness is created by a structure that has achieved enough complexity, ie neurons/brain, but that again is only an assumption. That…

Morgan Freeman.

Ok, gluten-free haters.

This isn't about you.

If someone goes gluten-free and feels better, how the hell is that any of your business? Are you wheat farmers? Do you have stocks in Shreddies? I'm sorry that you might have to deal with a gluten-free customer at a restaurant or feed a "picky" dinner party guest, but get…