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And the band droned on
"Brave New World" is here!— January 16, 2015 12:51 p.m.
Not just a bump in the road
Sentence the unthinking to wheelchairs and walkers, and have them negotiate said obstacles. PS: I don't understand Graves' comment.— January 16, 2015 12:47 p.m.
New sewer lines or new stadium fro San Diego? Your choice.
They're still using the stadium in Verona--for opera.— January 15, 2015 10:14 a.m.
San Diego lawyer helps defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
100 percent with you.— January 14, 2015 4:57 p.m.
San Diego lawyer helps defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Hypothetically, you might be right--and you might not be. That's the trouble with hypotheses. But, scientific methods can be used to test hypotheses; the trouble is the research design in this case. One has to "fall back" upon reason, using all the facts available.— January 14, 2015 4:55 p.m.
San Diego lawyer helps defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
These ideas aren't all bad; with a little refinement and more detail, they might work in the real world. But getting them passed into law might be a bit difficult. Still, that's pretty much what we have in CA.— January 14, 2015 4:52 p.m.
San Diego lawyer helps defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
I think your sources may be better than mine. Perhaps I am presuming too much, so correct me accordingly. In combat, time is everything--had there been a true security set-up, there would have been enough warning for the guards in my scenario to act.— January 14, 2015 4:48 p.m.
San Diego lawyer helps defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
You are committing the fallacy of exaggeration (pleading absolutes) along with the straw-man.— January 14, 2015 4:44 p.m.
San Diego lawyer helps defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Unless my information was faulty, there were guards present because of prior threats. Maybe I'm wrong. I would absolutely agree that, in a military-style attack, having guns merely available would most likely not have been enough. However, if guns, other than those of the guards (which were shot first, as they always would be, because being visibly armed makes you a prime target) were available, SOME of those killed might not have been and the terrorist MIGHT have been neutralized. However, if guards on duty were concealed behind shields and equipped as I suggested, the odds would have been improved. When it comes to combat, there is no perfect world, only a less horrible one.— January 14, 2015 4:40 p.m.
San Diego lawyer helps defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Don, my response to this disappeared somehow; I'll try to rewrite it here. I agree with you--mostly. I disagree that the issues could not have been resolved among reasonable participants. I agree that they have not, and more's the pity. When emotion reigns over reason, as it so often does in any culture of stitched-together beliefs, reason must be adhered to strictly to break through HELD "views." I decided to try to bring the passion onto the side of reason, to pit reason against emotion, as it were, but as you point out, in this case emotion has so far blinded the participants to reality, preferring fantasy, or "my ox," which shall not be gored by reason. If the participants persist in refusing to address relevant points raised and hide behind the fog of denial, the discussion will be "executed" but not executed. The great composer, Brahms, was once sitting in a room where someone was at the piano, idly playing notes and chords. In the middle of playing, the pianist abruptly left. After a few moments, Brahms got up, went to the piano, and finished the progression. “We cannot let that chord go unresolved forever,” said Brahms. Source: “The Organizational Learning Cycle: How we can learn collectively” by Nancy M. Dixon— January 14, 2015 4:30 p.m.