harrystottle

I've tried it a few times. Not yet grabbed me. I hate the stress of trying to conduct a meaningful conversation by keyboard in real time. And the bandwidth requirements for using microphones are more than my isp can handle. And not many SLers want to use microphones anyway, presumably due to the obvious privacy/identification issues. An obvious compromise would be using a microphone to do the typing but none of the voice recognition software is good enough to operate in real time. Also not that impressed with the cartoony look and feel. Still, it's only version 2 or 3. Check back when they're on version 15 or 16...

hmmm... a tasty example of Trusted Surveillance...

excellent instance of Trusted Surveillance. Where there's a will...

well that answers that question... I was trying to judge that photograph myself a couple of weeks ago.

Even had my wife judging the shadow angles made by the torch I was holding in various positions to simulate the position of the sun. We came to the tentative conclusion that the sun being at near mid heaven and about 80 degrees declination could produce both the apparently short nose shadow and the apparently long body shadow.

Our next step was supposed to be to consult the ephemeris for the year (63) to see what time of year it should have been for the sun to be capable of being in that position in Dallas. But we never got round to it.

However, the question I'm now most interested in is "What kind of rifle is Oswald holding in that photograph?". Was it the Mauser 7.65 found by the Dallas cops in the North West corner of the book depository? Or the Italian Manicher which we know Oswald bought in March 63. It was the Manicher. So where did the Mauser come from? And why haven't we heard anything more about it since? Even though there are at least 3 separate mainstream news recorded broadcasts of the VERY short term official police line...

We also know that the shells found in the South East corner were from the same Italian rifle which suggests pretty strongly that Oswald was at least involved but unlikely to be alone - even if he didn't know that.

It is fascinatingly easy to find your own way into the maze of conspiracy and it is so often credible and self validating that it is tempting to give more of it the benefit of the doubt. But that would be dangerous. Hold everything in doubt. Then check it out.

If you do that, and dig a bit deeper, we find that the Mauser does indeed evaporate. The rifle found and photographed in situ, was the Manlicher. So *poof* we've lost at least one major contender for co-conspiracy.

And around and around we go. Where it stops, noone knows...

Stunning

naive but pretty.

baiting them is such fun. I've done it myself though though I've never been quite so articulate as this author. (My written words always flow more freely than the spoken ones because, here, I have time to think about what I want to say and to correct (most of) the cockups).

My favourite was the Moonies. Accepted an invitation to one of their recruiting interviews. Listened, rapt, to a two hour description of how the history leading up to the birth of the Rev Sun Myung Moon closely mirrored the history leading up to the birth of Jesus the Nazarene and how this provided evidence that he (Moon) was the promised second coming. Then asked a few pointed questions like who was the equivalent of Einstein in pre Nazarene history. What great war stood in place of The Great War. And so on, till I was ejected as the "son of Satan". Strangely, they kept writing to me for a year or two after that encounter in the hope that I'd join them for one of their more intensive weekend retreats...

This is a bit more like it. Sympathetic but still revealing the diseased brainstem of her belief structures. As to the question of why she appeals to so many Americans, that's probably a PhD job, but my stab at it is that a) it justified the inherent selfishness that lies at the core of the economic theory which begins with Hayek and Von Mises and reaches its peak with Milton Friedman and the Neocons and b) it was bitterly opposed to "Communism" which all god fearin Amerkins are s'posed to be...