Judi S.

Ted Cruz does a great job of explaining what CRT absolutely is not. I am sure he is equally as good at explaining to black people how unprivileged he really is. I will leave it to Bill Maher to inform us about Ted, the man.

@Davis – ….it just seems like “fairness” is a half-hearted concept in sports.

Any Olympian with a medal would say “I won my Olympic medal because I was ruthless in my pursuit of it”.  There might be less than once second between first place and last place in the 100M final. When Usain Bolt won his, who finished 4th in any of those races? I can’…[Read more]

On the whole, though, a previously male athlete is likely to have a physical advantage over most of the female competition.

It feels intuitively true that males who have transitioned would have an advantage. I will stand corrected on what follows as I have not investigated it too deeply but…..I don’t think this is necessarily the case.

When a m…[Read more]

I once told somebody that the odds of me winning the rollover lotto in Georgia are the same whether or not I buy a ticket 🙂

If you get the computer to produce the sequence then it is not really a random number as it is based on a program written to generate the numbers.

If you were to rearrange the numbers on the number pad ( The zero key could be anything from 1-9) and then allow your office cat to walk on the keyboard (as they do!) then is that number “more random”…[Read more]

Always have time to make Christians feel the Paine…….

Thomas Paine, in 1775, when he wrote his article on “Justice and Humanity,” was the first to demand emancipation in a lucid manner. The campaign for liberation of the slaves was therefore inaugurated by a freethinker, and triumphantly closed by another freethinker, Abraham Lincoln. In this…[Read more]

@jakelafort – How does theology advance?

Kant destroyed the “proofs” for the existence of god(s) and that was a crowbar to divorce theology from philosophy. Modern philosophy is secular by nature and has no concerns about ancient gods.

Thomas Paine advanced theology to its correct place in intellectually reasoned thought.

“The study of t…[Read more]

Yes, I was thinking about that. The FBI or NSA would be unlikely to disclose how that was done. I am speculating here but I suspect that the code used to transfer the funds had a “bug” attached to it that told the FBI the bank (or digital wallet) the bitcoins were sent to. Similar to a bug placed in a briefcase given to kidnappers in the movies…[Read more]

Much of the bitcoin ransom paid over the Continental Pipeline attack has been recovered. Next week, President Biden will be telling Putin that he has enough of this malarkey already!