@curvy that simply doesn't stack up against contrary evidence. Australians surrendered 600,000+ guns back in 1996. The number of deaths by gunshot wound, which was already declining at a rate of 3% a year before the reforms, declined at a rate of 6% a year post-1996, Yours is specious reasoning indeed.
@phat you like to distract - this hearing is about specifics and no matter how you want to divert attention from 6th Jan, it occurred, not by chance but by plan, and much more than Dixon at Watergate, Trump was a/the driving force. Unlikely though it may be, he should be tried!
@op as to spirituality vs religious - again I am neither. Yet I am observant, understanding, sympathetic and empathic. I emphatically have no god/gods. I have no 'spiritual self' either unless you like to provide a circular definition. Yet even without a 'spiritual self I can think deeply, philosophize, calculate, understand maths science philosophy psychology - spirit too seems to me unnecessary.
@phat the tenets of mathematics are also unproven, and can neither be proven or even shown to be consistent, as demonstrated by Goedel. However they do work well enough, deliver rockets to Mars and Pluto, and rarely need extension - maybe every hundred or so years. Darwinism likewise is close to reality, permitting exceptions, but provides no certainty. Creationism achieves nothing and explains nothing, and we can opt for Occam's razor - discard it entirely as a nice fairy story, nothing more, similar to the Greek myths or other creation stories, basically.
Well the rabid Trump'eters fall rather silent in the face of considered evidence, don't they. No doubt they'll resume baying and braying soon enough however, never fear!
@galr you may be thinking of another New Zealand horse Phar Lap who did indeed die young. Tulloch lived to 14 yo racing till 6 yo. 19 Group One wins, with two years out for illness. I was following him through my high school years
@chat I had not heard of this sport before searching yesterday, but I see Australia takes part without notable success. There is also a gridiron association here in OZ. I guess the flag football is somewhat related to our 'touch football' with little physical contact.
... but I see it predates gridiron by several hundred years. Snookered myself so to speak. I see moreover that there is Flag football, with an international 2022 competition in Alabama.
The first problem I sensed in America was the 'tipping culture' I just felt the employer should pay the wages. Later we heard about the Starbucks case. That's a strange way of doing things, don't you agree. As a 20 year old in the mountains, tips were never a part of life in Australia or NZ!
For example why can't a 7 for the 56x go in row 2? Because then there could be no place for the 7 in both the 4200x and the 112x, so 7 must go in row 1 ...
@MICLEE the comment about Anne Frank's Diary is gross even by your standards. Rock bottom! Watched a movie? Did you read the book? What on earth does that have to do with murdering children in the USA? Come on, speak up!
@conr a puerile demand; Australia only had about 20% of US per capita arms - this article says 650,000 were handed in. Australian Arms per capita is now about 1/9th that of America., 0.14 per person compared with about 1.3 per person in US. Gun deaths about 10 per million in Australia, 120 in USA. Got the numbers? Any more questions, any assertions? Buy a breadknife and go on a rampage? Mind you the Kunming/Xinjiang Knife attack was certainly that.
Oh, and by the way, I had already surrendered my rifle 20 years earlier in New Zealand - unfired.
@conr Kitchenknives - renewals of such are due, but they are for the kitchen and not for defense, just cutting bread, slicing fish. Idiotic reply, consider it! Automatic assault chefs' knives. Grow a brain! Knives can kill, but how many die in USA of bullets versus knives and what was the intent?
Trying to prove each 3x3 has diagonal corners adding to 17 - haven't quite tumbled yet, but that certainly implies what @ted said about 17's and give 9, 2. I got there by other means, but the additional property makes life easier.
But then, where is the better good served? Protect the people, or protect the 'constitutional' right to use murderous weapons to bear arms and kill them if you please?
@OP so the constitution guarantees the right of gun ownership for protection or defence. How then does it protect the citizen from gun ownership for murder, where there is no thought of defence, just of murder? Constitutional right to buy a murder weapon having murderous intent? Oh, but then that would be excusable madness, wouldn't it?
I was thinking about the diagonal abcd with a+c=b+d=17 as ted mentioned, and it wasn't immediately obvious to me but it is simple algebra. Each solution has variants based on rotation and reflection or the symmetry group of a square The image is of a spreadsheet in which ordering the bcde or 2481 can generate all variants which have R1C1 = a =1 (or R1C4=a=1) - there should be 16.
Personally I believe in nothing and need nothing. A belief which will never change. I would simply paraphrase Descartes as 'sum, ergo sum' being unsure about the 'thinking/cogito' aspect. Allow me to go back to my current Kenken problem and 'think' about it!
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RE: The Problem With Guns…
@curvy that simply doesn't stack up against contrary evidence. Australians surrendered 600,000+ guns back in 1996. The number of deaths by gunshot wound, which was already declining at a rate of 3% a year before the reforms, declined at a rate of 6% a year post-1996, Yours is specious reasoning indeed.