Ed Seedhouse

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• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Actually I believe "grok" first appeared in Heinlein's 1949 "juvenile" novel "Red Planet". The Martian "elder race" featured prominently in that novel and was used later, largely unchanged, for "Stranger in a Strange Land". It's been a long, long time...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  Which the post to which I originally replied did not mention....
• Commented on Pushing it back
  Absolutely, and that is precisely why nothing wants to have 30% of it in their diet, in particular not if they have to spend a lot of energy pulling it out of a polymer-mesh. I don't see the relevance of...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  All very interesting, but the post I was replying to didn't say anything about that. It just said living things can't process chlorine. I just pointed out that they can....
• Commented on Pushing it back
  PVC is about 30% Chlorine by weight, and so far nobody has shown the least inclined to eat that. Er, chlorine makes up much of your body and is utterly necessary for your life to continue, in common with all...
• Commented on Place your bets
  "If he wins, he'll pardon himself" Current charges are under state law, not federal. The president has no power to pardon a state conviction. No supreme court and no congressionally passed law can change that. Of course he might just...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Conviction of any State crime would not preclude anyone from running for any Federal office, and serving if elected. Contrawise, the POTUS cannot pardon any conviction of a State crime. Very few Federal crimes prohibit running for and serving in...
• Commented on Place your bets
  A google search only returns links to a Lady Gaga song. Back in the 1960's there was a song "Lord of the Dance" which had airplay in Canada, and perhaps elsewhere. This was a hymn written by English songwriter Sydney...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Also SkyTrain in Vancouver B.C. has always been fully automated. I believe it first ran in 1986, which I think was later than BART....
• Commented on Place your bets
  Either young earth creation theory (YECT) is wrong or just about every science is utterly wrong. Among others, thermodynamics must be wrong because if it is right any credible model of the Noachin flood would heat the crust of the...
• Commented on Place your bets
  14th amendment to the constitution of the USA: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or...
• Commented on Place your bets
  "I believe there are bibles translated by Jewish folk, who are following the proper Hebrew to the best of their ability. The bad news, such as it is, is that they don't care much about the New Testament, and probably...
• Commented on Place your bets
  "Don't be absurd. The USA doesn't have slavery, and hasn't since 1865." Er, the constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery specifically exempts convicts....
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  That should have said "what eventually became the southern United States", although of course slavery in North America began long before there was such a political entity. As worded it could be taken to refer to the continent of South...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I used to sing that song as part of a boys choir nearly 70 years ago. It is based on a bible story found in Ezekiel 37:1-28 The song itself is a "spiritual", that is a folk song originating with...
• Commented on WTF
  "Congress passed a bill just before Christmas that funds the Federal Government through September 30th, 2023." Yes, but there is a separate law that sets a limit on how much the government can "borrow". When that limit is reached the...
• Commented on WTF
  "As best as I can tell, the $1.7 trillion appropriations bill Congress passed just before Christmas did not raise the debt ceiling. Unfortunately..." I believe you are right. Well, there's still the trillion dollar coin trick....
• Commented on WTF
  The "invisible hand," as you well know, is another way to express the idea that in a rational market* supply and demand reach equilibrium. An idea for which there is no credible evidence and thus, IMO, a religious belief....
• Commented on I can't even
  "I have trouble seeing that region as having any 'old growth' forests at this time" You might want to tell that to the protestors at the Fairy Creek watershed. As of 2021 the B.C. government said that there were "13.7...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  "He might live to be a hundred ... some people do." Both of his parents lived into their late 90's, and at least one of his grandmothers made 100. On the other hand one of his grandfathers died young, thus...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  I'd just like to point out that here on Earth leaves are green because they reflect those wavelengths. if they used green light for photosynthesis they'd be another colour. As it is they use the red frequencies for photosynthesis, and...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  Beryllium is also used to form very stiff dome tweeters for very expensive "high end" loudspeaker systems. I have even heard of it being used to form cones for lower frequency drivers....
• Commented on Abolish the monarchy!
  Actually, most car fires don't do that I don't think I said they do. "Often" doesn't mean "most of the time" so far as I know. I fail to see any reason to suppose that electric vehicles would be any...
• Commented on Abolish the monarchy!
  "Oil-based fires, indeed nearly all carbon-fuel fires (absent explosives and solid-fuel rocket mixes) can be put out by depriving them of oxygen and cooling the as-yet unburnt parts so they don't light off in turn" Car fires often trap drivers...
• Commented on Abolish the monarchy!
  This is for Canadians only, obviously. Wouldn't work for the U.K....
• Commented on Abolish the monarchy!
  My idea (which is mine) is that the people of the First Nations decide whom the incoming Monarch is to be, and that she will reign for only one decade....
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  "But in the mean time we'd make spree killings a whole lot harder." And likely save a whole lot of lives....
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  "But they're not founders of one of today's world-wide religions. Which is what we've been discussing." There were many "founders" of Christianity. Paul was much more a founder than Jesus. Jesus seems to have been a mostly observant Jew who...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  "If this is the case, why are you so focused on Jesus?" Why are you putting words in my mouth? Your post appears to me merely a fantasy about someone. Whoever that someone is, it is certainly not me. I...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  "none of those governors - or any other Roman citizens - are claiming to be the Son of God. Lofty claims require lofty evidence" Factually incorrect. Roman Emperors commonly claimed to be descendants of Gods and often to actually be...