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That's not exactly accurate - it means it should be half as bright after it's half-life, and then half-as bright again after another half-life. IOW, after 2 half-lives it's 25% as bright as when it first started. After 3, it's 12.5% as bright as when it first started. It's an exponential...

In 2005, there were 9.89 deaths per 100,000 people due to firearms. (Or just shy of 30K.) There were 5.67 deaths per 100,000 people (roughly 17K) due to suicide by firearm - so just over half. There were 4.15 deaths per 100,000 people due to firearm-related homicide. There were almost twice...

I'm in Ohio, and my experience pretty closely matched the descriptions given by other Ohioans. The guy I was sharing a lane with during our practical failed. He was dreadful. We did some low-light shooting in our class, and he actually managed to completely miss the target - and it was a big...

You don't know how good you've got it, brother. I pay 100% of my income to my wife. If this goes thru, my check is paying down debt.

Sadly, I was too late to this thread. My jokes were all already taken or ruined by existing posts. However, I can proudly say I love curry. Vindaloo FTW!

:rolleyes: That's not at all condescending, and will surely help bring people together on common ground.

Huh? I'm a liberal atheist gun owner - who scored in the 96th percentile on the cognitive reasoning portion of the GRE - who has absolutely no issue reconciling atheism, gun ownership, and liberalism. There's no faith involved in any of it. You haven't learned the correct lesson. Statistics...

I'd just like to point out that the two things I've marked in bold are not the same thing. In fact, the overwhelming majority (70%) of murders are not random acts of violence. So if your brother is not participating in illicit activities or doesn't have an intense personal conflict, feeling...

About what? That parties views migrate? 50 years ago, southern Democrats were racist bastards (AL Gov George Wallace was a Democrat), and when northern Dems pushed for civil rights, the southern Dems said "stuff it" and switched to the GOP. George Wallace wouldn't be able to sniff a...

Not really. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a political ideology that has "ban guns" as a core value. While there are some extremists (as there are in any political movement), the "gun control" advocates are only advocating gun control because there is a problem with violent crime...

Sigh. Yet it was enthusiastically supported by the KKK. Look, "left" vs "right" is not about particular issues, they are about approaches to problems. It's not that hard to find people all over the political spectrum that agree on varying issues.

This meme has a certain ring of truthiness to it, but it really doesn't hold up under inspection. The less education you have, and the less money you make, the less likely you are to vote. By a huge margin. There just aren't that many poor, uneducated people (the kinds who are eligible for...

Absolutely correct. Reduce poverty, and you reduce the incidence of crime. This is a cold hard fact. While there is a place for welfare, is it a reliable way to reduce poverty? Probably not. So now you start talking about how to reduce poverty - and different people have different ideas...

No, he's not - he's making fun of Presidential photo ops. This is pretty much exactly equivalent to the punditocracy's reaction to Hilary Clinton's manufactured laughing fits on the Sunday morning talk shows. It's about "image management" and Presidential campaigns, and why for some reason...

Actuaries eat obscure data for breakfast. If it's statistically relevant to the probability or amount the insurance company may have to pay out, they want to know about it. Actuaries are an odd bunch of math-obsessed statisticians. Oh, and insurance companies are evil. I used to work for...

Can we dial down the paranoia? Please? This is a commentary about Presidential photo-op politics, not a desire to take people's guns away. It's a little bit off to use Huckabee to launch on this screed - I actually believe he's likely a hunter. Mitt Romney, who's probably actually never...

That's a fair characterization of my political position. Thank you. I'm very involved in the vocal liberal community, and I'd just like to point out that the vast, overwhelming majority of us fall into this category, rather than the common strawman perception of liberals as wanting a nanny...

You got me - I, like most liberals, support gay rights because it furthers our agenda to oppress straight people. It's the same reason we supported the civil rights movement. And women's sufferage. And abolition. And equality of opportunity. :rolleyes: It's right there in FDR's "Four...

Sure it does. Read the 2nd Amendment, then read the Supreme Court caselaw. It's pretty well agreed upon (by the courts, anyway) that the 2A does not mean guns should be treated like ice cream. So the question becomes - what is reasonable and constitutional? Personally, I'd like to see less...

What a steaming load. There are lots of other issues besides "gun rights" that factor into the equation when deciding who to vote for. The odds are low of finding a candidate that matches your views 100% - so you have to do the best you can. Trying to browbeat people by saying they don't...