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Wondering why Bush wants Aljazeera to leave Falluja? Read (URL) this>: The main hospital apparently has been destroyed by bombing and the second largest is covered by US snipers - the Iraqis call it sniper alley. So Iraqi people are not able to get (...) (20 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Does the "writ of Wesayso" trump the writ of Habeas Corpus?
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote: (snip) Here is the WSJ editorial I referred to, now republished on the Cato site (URL) (20 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | The use of the death penalty against child offenders.
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(...) (URL) Key quote>: The use of the death penalty against child offenders – people under 18 at the time of the crime – is clearly prohibited under international law, yet a handful of countries persist with child executions. Since January 1990 (...) (20 years ago, 24-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: 18 children among dozens dead in Iraq car bombings
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(...) Well, what is democracy anyway? Even if USA had been located in Europe, it wouldn't even qualify to join the EU. Death penalty isn't worthy a democracy according to our standards. Don't know if it's an urban legend, but I've heard that in some (...) (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Ahh infinity, how I love ye! Was Re: George Bush has legitimised terrorism
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(...) I'd rephrase again--the path is theoretically infinite, for if you set up this exact scenario using real life lasers, ball-bearings nad spinning tools, within a set amount of time something will break down--or the path of the laser, over time, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Ahh infinity, how I love ye! Was Re: George Bush has legitimised terrorism
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(...) I think I'm guilty of an imprecision here. I meant that the path of the laser is effectively infinite, not that it would traverse an endlessly new part of the sphere's surface. Also, as long as we're talking about two dimensions instead of (...) (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Ahh infinity, how I love ye! Was Re: George Bush has legitimised terrorism
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(...) Yes, and I can sit in my swivel chair and spin from now until "the end of time", never stopping the spin (excluding such contingencies as death and parts on chair wearing out) but, again, that only works 'on paper'. IN real world applications, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: George Bush has legitimised terrorism
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(...) I dunno, baseballs seem to have no problem moving in differential calculus using dv's and dt's... but of course that is continuum mechanics. Some Lugnet physics guru is going to have to speak up about quantum mechanics with the Planck scales (...) (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: George Bush has legitimised terrorism
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(...) Like I said, Zeno's Paradox. But 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/32... equals 1. Additionally, your formulation demands that space be infinitely divisible, which it is not. (...) "Apt" is yet to be determined, but I admit that it's clever! (...) (...) (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Ahh infinity, how I love ye! Was Re: George Bush has legitimised terrorism
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(...) Christian historians, too: How many saxons on the head of a pin? -->Bruce<-- (20 years ago, 23-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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