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I am no lawyer, but a similar situation exists in medicine. Physicians are shielded by what are called "good samaritan" laws which give them immunity if they stop to help someone in distress who is not their official patient. You are correct in distinguishing someone who pays you for your...

As for the argument that equipment, training, etc are responsible: that would be true if we were talking about quantitative records, like longest drives, lowest scoring averages, fastest serves, etc. Advances in equipment, training and technology do NOT explain why ONE team or ONE player in a...

Tennis not a major sport? Are you joking??? Remember that what we call football is played only in the US and Canada, while tennis is a truly global sport. Look at the top 100 players in tennis and you will see players from several dozen countries, meaning that that many countries have enough...

The Steelers passed on Marino, too. Probably good for Marino, since he would have likely sat on the bench in Pittsburgh and, when he did play, would have handed the ball off 2/3 of the time. Thus, my point about individual records in team sports: they often do not reflect only the talent of the...

No, I don't hate the Patriots. They are a great team and will likely take it all. My point is simply this: it's about winning championships. That's why you throw TDs and win regular season games, etc. The Pats have done their share of that, so who can be too critical of them? It's all one big...

The one thing, perhaps the only thing bar injury, that can stop the Patriots is the weather. They look mortal in bad weather due their pass heavy offense. Brady is still an excellent bad weather QB, but snow, wind or ice can level things out quickly. Ironically, they might have been better off...

I've used SeaVisionUSA.com. I have severe astigmatism and can't use anything but prescription masks since the LDS lenses only correct for diopter. They also do bifocals, although mine aren't. Simply fill in the prescription on-line and they ship it to you. Mine work great. I am blind without...

Same for me, but in my case it is because my body is beginning to form its own major gravitatioanl distortion in spacetime (and the holidays aren't even over)

no; in relativity the "center" is whoever or whatever reference frame is defining the rules... and, in the end, the whole point of relativity is to define a set of laws invariant with respect to any observer, a world with no center at all, so to speak. I agree with your point, the earth is not...

First of all, I'm not even sure exactly what the heck you just said, but that may be just my literal mind at work. Second, yes, there are many cosmological models but they all must reconcile in some way wtih relativity theory. Third, GR remains the framework of standard cosmological theory...

the statement "relativity has little to do with cosmology" is, quite simply, absurd. The special theory has little to do with it, but the general theory has everything to do with it. In fact, modern cosmology is deeply intertwined with the general theory of relativity. At the distances involved...

Go to symbols.com and look up symbol 29.1, the Oudin's cross (a cross within a circle). Apparently, one of the earliest known human symbols, although it's modern use includes a symbol for a radar station on WWII era German maps. There is a detailed discussion of all the known uses of that exact...

Let's look at some facts: 1) the geological comparison of co2 and temp from ice core samples show that temp rises hundreds of years BEFORE co2 rises, suggesting that rising co2 is an epiphenomenon of temp rising, not the cause. This time lag has not been refuted, nor explained, by even diehard...

I was being sarcastic of course, but the issue remains: why does the cover art for the Gore movie have a hurricane arising from an industrial smoke stack? Is this not a not-too-subtle suggestion that hurricanes indeed come from pollution, or are at least worsened by pollution? Apparently, an...

If I am not mistaken, doesn't the cover art for "An Inconvenient Truth" feature a hurricane coming out of a smoke stack? So now hurricanes don't come from GW after all??? Climatologists may not have made this connection, but the propaganda from mr. nobel laurate sure does.

Other than the places already mentioned, there is the Tierra del Sol community at the upper tip of the island, around the golf course. Pricey, but not that much more so than the in season high rises which can be pricey too. Advantages of Tierra del Sol: beautiful condos and villas with multiple...

The threads may run non stop because people are interested in the topic and, contrary to Andy's post, they generally run on topic and don't get that personal. I would ask why SB has forums for non-diving related stuff at all? If the GW threads belong elsewhere, so do a thousand other threads...

Kim Exactly what part of Beck's bio invalidates his opinions and is laughable? The fact that he was once a drug addict but now has a best seller, the third biggest radio audience in the US, his own CNN prime time talk show and, I wager, could buy and sell you a thousand times over? The fact...

What I am saying is 1) the role of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in climate change is not established with acceptable certainty (even the IPCC report claims only 90 percent certainty, which is not only overstated, it's not even the degree of certainty required to publish a trend --- try...

I stand corrected. The world has indeed been warming since the glaciers receded 10,000 years ago. I wonder who was burning all the gasoline back then? Perhaps the mammoths...