Recent content by CTSV

It seems odd to me that out of all of the billions of humans who ever lived these few managed to sus out that their souls were in peril in order to warn those gathered around them. Note further that all of these folks had some pre-death fame or notoriety. I'll know myself in five or six...

My bad, I got them confused....thanks for the lesson.

I'm going to tell you my plan so you can help me fine tune it before electing me POTUS in a few years. First of all this is "BIG" Mid East (BME) ISIS, Egypt, Iran Iraq, Saudi, (Shia / Sunni) thousands of years of hatred and betrayal. It's not "Little" Mid East (LME) Israel, Hamas. My plan is...

I woke up too early this morning and spent a couple of hours watching various news channels. I would speculate that this is a reasonable summary of the situation: - The command structure of the "Russian Separatists" is largely comprised of former Russian special forces - This command...

Again I think the real questions are: - how do we define "Race"?...variation in genome or skin color or culture? - If we choose a definition of "race"....how many different races will there be?...if we go with genome each one of us is by definition a race. - If we go by skin color, there...

The damage done to birds by wind towers is insignificant compared to other - forms of wind energy generation - Cats - Windows The last two in particular are thousands of times more deadly. This is a simple trade off equation, you'll get less avian deaths with wind than you do with oil.

An few interesting questions would be - how many races do you believe existing the world? - what is your definition of race?

So I was about to wade in on the Race IQ thread going on, but there is an issue there on how do you define race....which got me thinking about how controversial the subject can be, and how easy it is to get off track. Instead I switched my focus to gender and IQ, and there is some interesting...

You can't just say "consent aside" - children cannot give consent, thus they cannot legally engage in a homosexual or heterosexual relationship We are a society with laws, and until we redefine a child or an animal as an adult it will be impermissible to engage in sex with actual adults...

I am an atheist, but have no problem with this cross at ground zero deal....have at it. If there are atheists out there who want to pursue this using the court system, our great country provides for that. (Majority rule is not a good tool to use for enforcing the rights of the minority)...

Science and logic and the accumulated wisdom of my 50 years.

I personally like brane theory as a thought model for how our universe came into existence. There are many theories out there, none is particularly provable at this point, but they are fun to debate from time to time. I personally do not believe our lack of understanding of this huge and...

The Fortune 500 part was just to let you know I'm used to the type of rules associated with huge organizations....not to bolster my own credibility. I frankly don't have an opinion of Lerner's credibility personally. My OP in this thread was intended to highlight how silly the IRS sounded...

OK...I did a bit more research, and my post above was too aggressive. - The IRS backs up their employees personal computers daily (Just like my company) - The IRS allows their employees a pretty limited amount of space to store both active and deleted Microsoft office files on their laptops...

Frankly I'm stunned that the IRS would even trot this out as plausible. I work for a fortune 500 company and my hard drive is backed up to the corporate servers on a continuous basis. The program is always running in the background. And we've been doing that for a decade at least. If this...