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Archive for November 14th, 2008
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"those sky-grids" – you're about to get the works on that from ME.
"scientific evidence proves that a great increase of planes cannot affect the upper stratosphere" – NO, IT DOESN'T AT ALL. Few aircraft fly in the UPPER stratosphere. They fly in the lower stratosphere, just above the tropopause. The stratosphere is easily affected by combustion exhaust water, because it is stable, and has only sublimation into water vapor, and the force of gravity upon the ice crystals, causing them to fall, as mechanisms for removal. Contrails spread in saturated or supersaturated conditions to cover the whole sky. What scientific evidence is this?
"you're implying that air-layers combine suitably within an hour" – stratospheric layers don't combine at all, but they may be filled with ice crystals as the planes' wave vortices stir the layer contents.
"50's, 60's and 70's disseminated all over Britain (millions of ppl affected)" – YOU'RE MISTAKEN AGAIN. Didn't you know that WATER, KILLED BACTERIA, and a PHOSPHORESCENT DYE are HARMLESS? Please refer to me the records indicating that millions of people were affected. And, anyway, wasn't this to do with finding out how to combat Russian germ warfare attack? Before you make free with the FALSEHOODS you should look up contrailscience.com and find out how your blathering stands up to reality. And for a further perspective on Man versus Nature you could look up my blog on:
I've debated the contrail vs. chemtrail theories with jazzroc for the past couple of months. I did present a well researched and thought out scientific argument to him. His response was to delete my comments from his weblog, and to block any comments I post.
That's because:
a) you didn't debate anything: you posted using an anonymous email address – once. That isn't a debate. If you look in that inbox you'll find letters from me still awaiting your response.
b) your research was poor and your science non-existent. There was nothing in your post which advanced anything. Except sophistry.
Contrails are known and measured as part of atmospheric science. It is "chemtrails" that is a theory.
What about the Bergeron-Findeisen theory? Can persistent contrails exist if the Bergeron-Findeisen theory were true?
If there ARE differing vapour pressure requirements for deposition of water onto either super-cooled droplets or ice crystals, then the Bergeron-Findeisen Theory is true, and the droplets will evaporate in favour of deposition onto the ice crystals. The evaporation will then raise the humidity, making it even more likely that the next aircraft will leave a permanent trail. Super-cooled droplets are produced aerodynamically over the wings in marginally-warmer conditions: the exhausts produce ice crystals at -40 or colder, which is the general rule over 30,000 feet.
But that makes no difference to the final outcome, which is that persistent contrails are clouds of ice crystals which cannot evaporate into the fully-saturated atmosphere which surrounds them.
Nor to the conclusions one can draw, which are:
a) that persistent trails are natural, and not the confirmation of "chemtrails", and
b) all other "proofs" having been shown to be fraudulent, the case for "chemtrails" is non-existent.
Were you to study any physics at all, your "theory" would vanish, your "debate" disappear.
"tell not contrails" – NO YOU CANNOT. See below.
"My entire life this never happened" – It was happening BEFORE YOU WERE BORN.
"I watch planes/real contrails, and they disappear, but these chemtrails DO Not" – Your assumption is INCORRECT. Contrails CAN and DO persist in HUMID stratospheric conditions.
"only spray where the population lives" – Above every town is a RISING PLUME of HEAT and HUMIDITY. Contrails MAY persist in these plumes. Also you may care to check out satellite pictures from space, which show quite clearly that the trails form within humid atmospheric conditions.
"How stupid do they think people are?" – How stupid do you wish to remain?
"back and forth over the towns" – These are SEPARATE planes, each either COMING or GOING. No videos have ever shown a "spraying" plane circling to respray a town, because these aircraft are civil flights from one major airport to another.
"Why?" – Your answer's above…
"targeting these areas/get the full benefit of the poisons" – JUST BULLSHIT AND BLUSTER (LIES). Just dial up a satellite view and you will see contrails wherever the atmosphere is moist. That is, randomly over land AND ocean, wherever the conditions are HUMID.
It is YOU that has been handed a line – which you cannot handle.
Don't send me any more "information". I am a very fast reader and have read and seen everything you've seen.
You have a problem with reasoning. Any reasonable educated person would listen to Carnicom for about FIVE minutes, and then switch him off. The reason he would do that is that he breaks all the rules of journalism and science. Instead of supplying EVIDENCE and PROOF he makes further assertions, breaking the "legal" chain of evidence. If you cannot see that I am sorry for you, but I'm no longer prepared to help you.
What makes you think that airborne materials MUST have come from an airplane, for instance? Do you KNOW how far vapour trail materials DRIFT? I don't even need a calculator to tell you – from an altitude of seven miles it's going to be AT LEAST TWO HUNDRED MILES DOWNWIND.
What makes you think that as you read this, you are NOT ingesting pathogens and metals? I can tell you that, for sure, you ARE, AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN INGESTING THEM. YOU ALWAYS WILL.
Your body is a DYNAMIC device, evolved over 4 billion years to COPE with such stresses. It WILL eliminate those metals AND KILL those pathogens.
It's just a question of degree…
You lack the scientific understanding to prevent you from freely believing the UNBELIEVABLE.
"Namely, they persist for hours (eventually turning into a haze that doesn't go away"
They're in the stratosphere. That is, above five miles UP, about a fifth of atmospheric pressure, as warm as -40 deg C, maybe as cold as -80 deg, which is colder than the surface of Mars.
Passing planes laying 100lb of ICE per mile will SOON saturate the stratospheric layer they are in. Once that happens, the ice of the trail CANNOT SUBLIME ANY MORE INTO WATER VAPOUR. It MUST remain. It WILL persist for hours. The only reason it doesn't persist for EVER, is that it is HEAVY, and FALLING.
"water doesn't act that way" -You are WRONG. Water in the stratosphere is ICE. Not ice like in your fridge, more like finely powdered GLASS. I've lived in Germany, and deep in the continental land mass the temperature can fall very low in winter. I have experienced -40 deg C, and let me tell you ICE ISN'T EVEN SLIPPERY AT -40 DEG C. It is HARD and it is DRY. Say you were in a balloon at 32,000 feet and an Airbus came just by you at 575mph.
You'd be amazed at its speed, and also its colossal WAVE VORTEX, as it whirled the two trails around itself in two columns fifty yards across. The trail would sting your face like wind-whipped sand on a beach. Of course, your face would fall off with the intense cold as well…
"they are sprayed from unmarked aircraft" – WRONG AGAIN. They are marked, but the markings become invisible from the ground due to a phenomenon called "blue light scattering". Had the plane been painted BLACK, from the ground you would see NO PLANE AT ALL
"they stop and start in a manner not consistent with normal contrail formation" – WRONG AGAIN. They start and stop PERFECTLY consistent with normal contrail formation. The trails are created in saturated or supersaturated air. The "inconsistency" is firmly in your understanding of the nature of the stratosphere.
Your mistake lies in assuming that these AIRS are DISTINGUISHABLE: they are NOT. All types of air are TRANSPARENT, get it? INVISIBLE! Hence a plane flying through dry air leaves no trail. It hits a humid area: it leaves a trail. Stop, start, stop, start. This can happen for miles: stratospheric layers frequently form ripples as a consequence of atmospheric compressibility following on downwind from upward ground projections such as ridges and mountains…
"photographed as not even coming from the engines" – That's right. Either a) You don't understand that the time taken for the exhaust to cool down from +1100 degrees to -40 degrees manifests itself as a GAP, or b) the plane has hit SUPERSATURATED air, when the WHOLE AIRFRAME sets a trail and the tightest vortices (wingtips, control surface ends) will cause the MOST ICE to get dumped.
"I don't remember them as a child or teen" – I DO. I was always keen on aircraft, making them from the age of 7. Why would you? You wouldn't be LOOKING for them. In our lifetime we've seen a TREMENDOUS increase in low-cost air travel, and a VERY RECENT increase in cheap videocams, and reduction in educational standards…
"the media will not talk about the issue" – They only talk about things that increase their sales. They also have good scientific advice which deters them from printing unconsidered rubbish. Living on the Spanish Canary Islands, I don't read the media much…
"and some other reasons" – You better tell me what they are, for so far you have NOTHING…
It says IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA:
Contrail, streamer of cloud sometimes observed behind an airplane flying in clear, cold, humid air. It forms upon condensation of the water vapour produced by the combustion of fuel in the airplane engines. When the ambient relative humidity is high, the resulting ice-crystal plume may last for several hours. The trail may be distorted by the winds, and sometimes it spreads outwards to form a layer of cirrus cloud.
Broken Contrails
from "Uncinus" of "Contrailscience"
Contrails are clouds made from water vapor that condenses then freezes behind a plane engine. Since the engines are on constantly, it seems a bit odd when you see contrails with gaps in them, or even contrails that stop and start. If the engine is pumping out a constant amount of water, then why is the trail not constant? This puzzle is sometimes seized on by people who think that persistent contrails are actually "chemtrails", or some kind of deliberate spraying operation.
But it's actually very simple. The amount of water in the exhaust is pretty constant, but the amount of moisture in the air is not. The humidity varies with altitude in the stratosphere, and a layer of low humidity can be sandwiched between two layers of high humidity. As a plane climbs or descends through this layer, then the trail will only form in the areas of high humidity, and so look like it was "switched off" in the area of low humidity.
You can get the same effect with temperature. A warm layer of air can actually lay on top of a colder layer in what is called an "inversion" (you'll hear this on the weather sometimes, referred to as an "inversion layer"). When a plane flies through this inversion layer, the trail can be "broken".
It's not just climbing or descending flights either. The boundaries between these layers is not flat, and gravity waves or rising convection currents of air can create large volumes of air that differ in temperature and/or humidity from the neighboring air, and so can break (or make) the contrail when the plane flies through them.
Don't take my word for it though. Do a Google search for "broken contrail" and you'll find lots of examples, and similar explanations.
NOAA – "Occasionally a jet plane, especially if ascending or descending, will pass through a much drier or more moist layer of atmosphere which may result in a broken pattern to the contrail, with it appearing in segments rather than in one continuous plume."
AirSpace Magazine – "If the contrail stops, then starts up again, creating a broken line, chances are the airplane flew through a dry patch."
Doc Weather – "What is happening here is that warm air rising from the ground carries vast amounts of water vapor upwards into the highest levels of the atmosphere. This water vapor exists as massive, plumes of warm, moist air ascending to very high levels. When a rising plume reaches the upper atmosphere it condenses into high ice clouds known as cirrus or feather clouds. In the case of the jet contrail (condensation trail) in the first image, the condensing cloud formed where the aircraft passed through a rising plume of moist warm air. The air on either side of the plume was not sufficiently moist to support the formation of an enduring cloud. As a result the contrail only remained visible in the warm plume."
Now study the pictures above. The one on the left was entitled "broken contrail", the one on the right "broken chemtrail". If you know anything about analyzing computer jpg files, you will discover the one on the right to be FAKED (even though a telephone wire appears to pass through the "gap" in the "trail".
Interesting, isn't it? The "broken contrail" is honest, the "broken chemtrail" fake…
Sniker, you don't know the WHY so don't tell me the HOW.
It's a case of RELATIVE humidity and DEW POINT. HOT WATER VAPOUR, which is what "steam" is, can only MAKE UP the air's humidity to its 100% RH level as it cools down. Beyond that it MUST form droplets of water or crystals of ice, depending on the air temperature.
In either case (troposphere or stratosphere) if the air doesn't get to its 100% RH the water will evaporate or sublime into water vapour over a short period. Stratospheric air is MORE LIKELY to be saturated or supersaturated BECAUSE it is LAMINAR, whereas the troposphere is TURBULENT, being the BOUNDARY LAYER. Hence you sometimes get PERSISTENT TRAILS in the stratosphere.
Jets DO leave WATER contrails down below in humid 95%+ conditions where they occur (tropics mostly) but they are more difficult to see, and CT guys aren't videoing there. There is a YT CT vid which clearly shows the APU (auxiliary power unit – all passenger planes have them) laying a faint trail (in Canada!), before it makes its stupid claim.
Clifford Carnicom forswore Science with his website. From his "USAF lies to America", to his analysis (from the ground!) of a "chemtrail", his site is a FARRAGO OF DECEIT. If you had ever made a study of LOGIC or ANALYSIS, you'd KNOW.
"just swipe your finger on random sufaces and hold up to sun and see the metal particals!" – You live in an INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETY. You should expect CRAP in your air. Learn to spell.
Sorry to disappoint. Here goes:
"antagonistic to empire/super-state comprising pentagon/blah/nasa, why do you think population culling is off the table" – because while it may be possible to blow away a president, and even easy to blow away a nonentity, it becomes very much harder to blow away the vast majority. Wars are a mess, and the only quick and final war would be a nuclear spasm. Poisons and diseases are slow, and have poor coverage. Logistically they are impossible. Practically they don't work because people can move! Angry people (the ones you've missed!) become ferocious opponents. Ask the Germans about the Poles. Talk to Americans about the Vietnamese. To Israeli Jews about Palestinians. The Kurds about Iraqis.
"why not read history as if you were not immune to it" – I have done. It's the only way to develop an immunity.
"you are a pawn" – I may have been a pawn, but no longer. If necessary I shall simply sail away. If anyone interferes with me I shall interfere with them.
"the industrial age drawing to a close" – Give me strength! There is more industry now than there has ever been. Knowledge hasn't drawn to a close. Ability hasn't drawn to a close. Necessity is the mother of invention. Take a look at the Afghans. The Pacific Ring… …China…
"new game in the offing" – Yeah, yeah. Robots blah blah. There's a great lawnmower and a great vacuum cleaner. Get out the Gray Goo, let's off the peeps. You haven't a clue.
"much fewer pawns" – stop reading science fiction and take a look outside. Out, not up! Sorry about the missing caps.
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November 14, 2008 at 1:00 am
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In the case of most helicopter door and window modifications, necessity is certainly the mother of invention. An independent company talks with operators, surveys the market, and designs a modification that makes a product better or easier to use. Air tour operators want maximum visibility for passengers, so the OEM door is removed and replaced with a large window. This applies in law enforcement operations as well, where visibility is important. A door won't stay open, so someone designs a simple fix, has it STC'd, and markets it to the industry.
Many of the modifications independent shops have designed over the years have proven to be so popular that they have been incorporated by helicopter manufacturers, such as Bell, making it more of a challenge for some of modification shops to come up with new and innovative products. However, there is still a strong market for window and door modifications on almost every make and model of helicopter. There is always a market for an improved and better product.


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Thursday, October 13, 2011
happy (late) birthday to my dear friend, part one
After walking quite a ways from the tube station at Bethnal Green in London, we were crushed to find that the brick and mortar Ryantown was only open on weekends. So I thought this book might make a nice consolation gift for Robyn. It's a book from their shop about Rob Ryan's exhibition You Can Still Do A Lot With A Small Brain.
And see, the Man himself included a sweet thank you note and a lovely scrolly inscription inside the book. Wow. Just wow. I highly recommend their online shop if you can't jet to London. Wonderful service!
Besides the actual mesmerizing artwork, the book gives a lot of insight into the workings of his studio and the techniques he uses to create his astounding papercuts. Look how he wraps his Xacto in tape so he can hold it at the very tip to cut the letters. Upward. I guess turning the hugemongous paper is not an option.
You can see more of Mister Rob's work here, and he has a new book coming out right now called A Sky Full Of Kindness. It's about two birds becoming parents for the first time, and I'd love to get my hands on a copy.
Part two of Robyn's late birthday present coming up next.
(Hey, Robyn, look:
Rob Ryan minus R then minus a = Robyn. There are only two degrees of separation between you.)
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I love Rob Ryan. The Gift is one of my favorite books. I know The Book Depository has A Sky Full of Kindness...and they offer free shipping on everything!ReplyDelete
Oh, Robyn, I'm so glad! Just sorry it was tardy.ReplyDelete
Mamalou, wow, thanks for the tip!
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#219 - Kim of One Krafty Kitty Momma
I love, love, love this collection! The prints and the colors are wonderful. I have many skills to improve---hmmm..organizing, time management...oh sewing? I would like to try machine quilting and paper piecing.
#37 - Ella of throw a wench in the works
I still want/need to learn free motion quilting. Thanks for a chance to win some of your lovely line!
One of the things I've recently been focused on is actually learning how to run properly. I was watching a comedy show on TV a while ago and heard someone describe their running style as '3rd grader with a giant backpack on'. Made me laugh like crazy and I'm pretty sure that's what my form is like.
So over the past 6 weeks I've been switching up my workouts to add in some running on the treadmill and signed myself up for a 5K with some fun obstacle courses thrown in. The race was a few weekends ago and I ran it with a group of girlfriends. It was my first 5K and the hills and uneven terrain were a bit of a surprise (aka I couldn't really use my calves the next day) but I ran it and finished! And it was actually pretty fun! I still think my form is pretty likely '3rd grader with a giant backpack on' but I'm considering taking a proper running clinic at some point. Here's a pic we snapped at the beginning of the race (on a cell so the quality is lousy) but loads of smiling faces on Team Awesome. That's me in the sunglasses towards the left. The rest of the ladies shall remain nameless to protect the innocent :)
In store news, I'll be listing some new goodies in the next week. Here's a few sneak peeks. I'll post here when they're up and ready to ship :) I hope everyone is having a great weekend!


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About Terry Hart
Mike, here is a link to the video of the panel that demonstrates that Sandra has been completely misquoted here and by your sources.
I'm including a transcript of the relevant portion below. To set this up, Sandra begins by noting that rhetoric around IP is more heated, but that might just be part of a larger trend of more heated political rhetoric. If you go back several decades you'll see many similar arguments on both sides.
Mark's question:
It seems like the ground is shifting in recent years regarding the perception of the value of intellectual property protection. From rhetoric vilifying "big copyright" to claims about so-called "patent trolls," the climate for those who own and assert intellectual property has become less friendly in Washington. Why has this happened, and what can be done to fix it?
Sandra's answer:
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The one thing that I think has truly changed and is something that we should all be worried about is that, different from 40 years ago, where I think the debates were occurring really between legitimate businesses on both sides (disruptive forces seeking to move aside, maybe move forward, in different ways than the existing industries had been moving forward), I think now there is an additional element to some of these arguments that we're hearing against intellectual property protection.
And an element that goes a little bit further than what we've heard before and almost seeks the entire elimination of intellectual property protection, and that element I think is coming in its most aggressive form not from any sort of innovative sector in any business, but is coming more from the, I'll call them "criminal elements," cyberlockers, entities like that who support and benefit from cyberlockers, and they are not interested intellectual property in any way, and I think those of us who rely on intellectual property in our business lives are just collateral damage.
What these entities are interested in is to use our works as a lure to get eyeballs to their sites, and they're not interested in what they're using as a lure, they're interested in what data they'll be able to gather on one end (and that's the least nefarious issue). More troubling are the sort of privacy violations, the fraud, the malware, the other scams that are perpetrated by these sites, and so I think that's the issue we need to worry about fixing, if we're worrying about fixing anything."
So, basically, "I don't care if there's a chilling effect on speech when I don't agree with that speech."
You jump through a lot of hoops to try to explain why blog posts providing explanatory information should be censored, but come on. I think we'd all agree that providing artists with information to help them in their careers shouldn't be a crime.
Terry, with all due respect to your lack of experience in this field, your analysis was one opinion. Multiple lawyers who actually work in the field have noted that your analysis was lacking, and that someone in Justin Bieber's shoes could easily face felony charges under SOPA.
Saying "I know a bunch of lawyers" isn't an answer.
Bieber won't face felony charges.
I'll be happy to debate you or your secret lawyer friends on that issue.
I find it interesting, however, that you position yourself as the final arbiter of interpretations of the bill, and then mock others -- including many who have been in this field much longer than you.
I didn't mock anyone. I didn't position myself as final arbiter. I offered my opinion, and I'm sorry your feelings were hurt by that.
Separately, the fact that you keep harping on the concerns people had about previous copyright laws, ignoring that many of those concerns contributed to the softening of those bills (and that other concerns turned out to be wholly prescient), makes me wonder when you switched over from your claim of objective analysis to one in which you simply parrot the dying legacy industry's talking points, come hell or high water.
I know, freedom of speech and constitutional rights, who needs them, right? Sorry, I think these are important. I'll keep hammering on them, come hell or high water.
Separately, voting for your own comments is considered pretty crass.
Ha ha ha! Thanks big brother. I must have missed the rules you laid down. I don't see them in the FAQ either. Is this a bootable offense? Cause I always thought 'crassness' was something the crowd would take care of.
I'm sorry your feelings were hurt by that.
If you don't want people voting for their own comments then block it, otherwise you sound like Emily Post.
If future Bieber faces any legal trouble, SOPA would have had nothing to do with it.
Mike, Justin Bieber isn't going to jail. The "story" panned out when journalists realized the claim was bogus.
With all due respect, this interpretation is incorrect.
(B) applies to "an offense referred to in subparagraph (A)".
The offenses referred to in (A) include 506 (criminal copyright infringement), 2318 (Trafficking in counterfeit labels, illicit labels, or counterfeit documentation or packaging), 2319A (Unauthorized fixation of and trafficking in sound recordings and music videos of live musical performances), etc.
So if you substitute those into the language of (B), you get:
"Any property used, or intended to be used, in any manner or part to commit or facilitate the commission of [criminal copyright infringement; trafficking in counterfeit labels, illicit labels, or counterfeit documentation or packaging; unauthorized fixation of and trafficking in sound recordings and music videos of live musical performances; etc.]"
The page on Jesse Feder's site is a scan of "Copyright Enactments of the US, 1783-1906". You can compare it to the Google Books version if you think it was created by Feder.
Or, if you think Google Books is in on the conspiracy, you can look at the University of Cambridge's scan of the Copyright Act of 1897, taken from the US Statutes at Large.
I don't know the guy, but I'm aware of his site, as are others. For example, here's an article from the Wake Forest IP Law Journal (PDF) that cites to it. And nowhere on the site is it claimed that the 1897 Act is still in force today.
My bad, that was supposed to be a reply to Jay's comment.
No. Harper concerned the adequacy of copyright notice on phonorecords needed to mitigate statutory damages.
The US Code is readily available online from numerous sources.
LII - US Code
GPO Access - US Code
FindLaw - US Code
Re-read the post, as it addresses precisely what you call a fatal flaw. The domains were not seized based on direct infringement or indirect infringement -- they were seized as property used to facilitate the commission of infringement.
Like if the cops seized a getaway car. It's irrelevant who owns the car, or if the driver is the actual bank robber, an accomplice, or just a buddy doing a favor. What's relevant is whether the property has a substantial connection to the commission of the crime (with an exception for the "innocent owner").
Eric Goldman posted the affidavit on Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/48058882/HQ-Streams-Affidavit
So Arcara does not apply. Glad we finally agree.
I'm dying to know what you think the holding in Arcara was then. Closing down a book store doesn't involve free speech?
You're leaving a lot out. One case was in 1972, the other in 1973, before copyright law was totally re-written. There were explicit seizure rules in Title 17 that do not exist today.
The copyright law changed, but the Constitution didn't.
Furthermore: one of them was that, when something was being seized, "a copy of the affidavit, writ and bond are served" to the defendants - something that did not happen in the ICE cases. And unlike these cases, the defendants had an opportunity to contest the seizures. This is why the judge ruled in Jondora:
Here provisions exist to apply for relief from seizure. These are deemed sufficient to comply with Constitutional mandate.
No such provisions exist in the ICE cases. No affidavit, writ, or bond was ever served to the defendants. They still have not been given an opportunity to contest the seizures.
The domain owners were given notice and were given opportunity to contest. Additionally, the due process safeguards afforded to property owners in seizure cases are stronger than they were back then. Prior to CAFRA, the government needed to only prove probable cause before property was forfeited. Now they have to prove by a preponderance of the evidence. Prior to CAFRA, the "innocent owner" defense was not available, now it is. Those cases were upheld as Constitutional under far less stringent procedural safeguards.
So, there was indeed an adversarial hearing prior to the preliminary injunction. Exactly like there was in Napster and Aimster, and exactly unlike the ICE seizures.
I don't know why you're ignoring my previous point, but I'll say it again: in non-copyright speech cases, preliminary injunctions are seen as impermissible prior restraints. Yes, both plaintiff and defendant can make their case, but the decision to grant a preliminary injunction is based only on the likelihood that speech is allegedly unprotected. It is only with a final judicial determination that speech can be blocked without running afoul of the First Amendment.
To say that the mere opportunity to contest a preliminary injunction in noncopyright speech cases satisfies the First Amendment goes against the vast majority of case law and does damage to free speech.
In other words, why do you think the fact that the defendants had the chance to testify before the issuance of a preliminary injunction in New Line Cinema satisfies the First Amendment when courts have repeatedly struck down preliminary injunctions in libel and obscenity cases even though defendants had the same chance to testify?
I don't believe this is actually a correct statement of the law, Terry. We've now cited numerous cases that all say seizing speech requires greater scrutiny. I find it odd that you keep denying this.
All those cases involving seizing materials that were allegedly obscene, not infringing copyright. True, both involve speech, but there's a distinction between how courts analyze them. Speech concerns are handled internally when it comes to copyright, as the Supreme Court has held twice (Eldred and Harper & Row) and as tons of lower courts have approached it.
In New York Times v. US, the Supreme Court alluded to permissible restraints based on copyright:
The Congress has authorized a strain of prior restraints against private parties in certain instances... Such orders can, and quite often do, restrict what may be spoken or written under certain circumstances. See, e. g., ... Article I, � 8, of the Constitution authorizes Congress to secure the "exclusive right" of authors to their writings, and no one denies that a newspaper can properly be enjoined from publishing the copyrighted works of another.
On the constitutional issue, defendants further state that a seizure and impounding of their duplicating material without an adversary hearing prior to the seizure is a clear violation of the defendants' rights under the first amendment, citing Quantity of Copies of Books v. Kansas ... and Freedman v. Maryland. Since defendants concede they copy the creative works of others I perceive no first amendment issue.
We do not find any denial of freedom of expression to the "tape pirate". What he seeks is not the freedom to express himself artistically or otherwise, but the right to make exact and identical copies of sound recordings produced by others. We fail to see as any protected first amendment right a privilege to usurp the benefits of the creative and artistic talent, technical skills, and investment necessary to produce a single long-playing record of a musical performance. (US v. Bodin, 375 F.Supp 1265).
Um, if content is authorized, copyright infringement cannot occur. It does not need a fair use defense or the idea/expression dichotomy, it is not and never will be infringement.
Say I want to do a Beatles cover. I pay the statutory rates to the Harry Fox company, and release it. Can I be sued for infringement? No. It is authorized. It is, by definition, not infringing. If the government seized a domain where I was selling my CD, would it be prior restraint? Yes. Since it's not infringing, my cover song is protected expression.
That is exactly what happened in one case. The songs listed in the affadavit were sent in by label representatives, with the express purpose of being posted on the music blog. They are not infringing. No defense (fair use or otherwise) is even necessary.
Yes, the existence of a valid license means no copyright infringement occurred. But that doesn't subject the seizure to heightened First Amendment scrutiny, requiring a preseizure hearing. Agree or disagree, that's an accurate statement of the law.
And the seizures should have followed those conditional prohibitions. They did not. The cases we are talking about (blogs, forums, search engines) absolutely fall under the category of those "specifically defined online service providers." Blanket injunctions against those sites would have been denied.
Again, safe harbors are a defense. Defenses have to be asserted by the defendant, not investigated by the law enforcement agency making the seizure. But even if it turns out a web site qualifies for a safe harbor, that doesn't affect the seizure, and it doesn't have any bearing on whether the First Amendment requires a preseizure hearing.
Not prior to an adversarial hearing, they're not. A full trial may not be required, but an adversarial hearing is. Even for tort cases, where the burden of proof is significantly lower.
Preliminary injunctions are routinely awarded in copyright infringement cases. See Napster and Aimster, for example.
A preseizure hearing is required by the Constitution in all cases where the seizure has the effect of adversely effecting potentially protected speech. A warrant is insufficient. See Fort Wayne Books v. Indiana.
Nope. Preseizure hearing is only required for large-scale seizures -- where it has the effect of taking the speech out of circulation -- of presumptively protected speech because of their content. It's not required where the impact on protected speech is incidental to the seizure.
I don't see why not. The case itself makes it perfectly clear: it only applies in cases that "manifest absolutely no element of protected expression." Note that it doesn't matter if the activity is not protected in the final analysis; it must only have an "element" of protected expression.
It applies where the conduct at which the law or regulation is targeting has no element of protected expression. Facilitating the infringement of entire songs or movies has no element of protected expression.
Even if it does, that doesn't mean the seizure is prohibited without a preseizure hearing, it just means the constitutionality of it is analyzed under the O'Brien test. I think even under that test, these seizures would be constitutional.
Furthermore, even laws against acts completely unrelated to free expression can be prior restraint, if they "impose a disproportionate burden upon those engaged in protected First Amendment activities." Blogs, search engines, and forums are all "protected First Amendment activities," so according to Arcara itself, these seizures are unconstitutional. Indeed, the seizures could not be carried out against anyone other than those engaged in potentially protected expression.
That doesn't make sense. It means every internet regulation is entitled to First Amendment scrutiny because every internet regulation disproportionately burdens web sites. That's like saying every law violates equal protection because humans are a class of people and every law disproportionately affects that class of people.
It's not a bad article, but it misses some fundamental points.
Mike brought one up. I'll bring up another: If it is authorized content, it cannot possibly be infringing - and materials that are not infringing are absolutely, positively protected by the First Amendment, Copyhype's claim to the contrary notwithstanding.
Authorized content is protected by the First Amendment, but through copyright law's internal mechanisms (idea/expression dichotomy and the fair use doctrine) rather than through separate First Amendment scrutiny. So, unlike with cases involving obscenity, a seizure before a hearing is not a prior restraint.
He also ignores that copyright law has very clear and explicit rules for dealing with injunctions against Internet infringement. (To refresh your memory, it's Title 17, Chapter 5, Sec. 512.)
Those are conditional prohibitions against injunctions for certain specifically defined online service providers. 512 certainly isn't a blanket prohibition on injunctions for all "internet infringement."
Whether or not the sites seized qualify for these safe harbors is certainly an issue, one that can be raised as a defense. But this defense is irrelevant to the question of whether a preseizure hearing is required by the Constitution.
If, as he claims, we can "think of seizures as cousins of preliminary injunctions," then the seizures themselves should follow the same procedures. They did not even come close to doing so. In fact, I suspect that the very reason they were called "seizures" is because if they were injunctions, they would be explicitly unlawful.
They would not be. Preliminary injunctions are routinely awarded in copyright infringement cases.
He also brings up the old canard of Arcara v. Cloud Books, which has been debunked as irrelevant so many times that it's starting to become a bad joke.
No offense to Mike or the TD community, but I don't find the "debunking" of Arcara in any way persuasive.
If you're arguing that criminal law never recognizes indirect liability, that's just flat-out wrong. Aiding and abetting -- or facilitating the commission of a crime -- makes you as guilty as the person actually committing the crime; that's basic criminal law. And just to be clear, 18 USC � 2 expressly says so.
Note that portion of the decision speaks only to Google's liability for direct infringement. As far as liability for indirect infringement goes, the court affirmed the finding that Google was not vicariously liable but remanded on the issue of contributory infringement.
Seizure is taking property into custody, forfeiture is deprivation of property without compensation. This article had 7 paragraphs explaining the difference. It indicated the separate constitutional requirements for each required by law.
Um. No. The content is taken down *PRIOR* to an adversarial trial. You know that. It does not require the owner of the website be informed of the action or give them a meaningful chance to be notified of the hearing.
Huh? There certainly are notice provisions in the bill: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-3804&version=is&nid=t0:is:29


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August 04, 2017
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers believe they've found a way to use widely available blood pressure drugs to fight the muscular weakness that normally accompanies aging.
The discovery draws on research linking the loss of muscle mass with age-related changes in the behavior of the hair-thin blood vessels, or capillaries, which supply muscles with the amino acids they need for growth.
"When a young person eats food, insulin secretion causes the blood vessels in the muscle to dilate, so a lot of blood goes into the muscle and a lot of amino acids are available to build muscle proteins," said UTMB professor Elena Volpi, senior author of a paper on the work ("Pharmacological vasodilation improves insulin-stimulated muscle protein anabolism but not glucose utilization in older adults") now available in the "Online Ahead of Print" section of the journal Diabetes. "Older people's blood vessels have far less response to insulin, but we found that if you give them a drug that causes them to dilate, you can increase the nutritive flow to the muscles and completely restore normal growth."
Drugs that induce blood vessels to widen, called vasodilators, are commonly used to control high blood pressure and prevent angina. The UTMB study used sodium nitroprusside, a drug used in hospitals and administered intravenously.
The researchers enrolled 12 healthy older volunteers for the study, and separated them randomly into two six-person groups. Working in UTMB's Clinical Research Center, the investigators performed the delicate task of inserting catheters into the arteries and veins feeding and draining the subjects' leg muscles, and then used the arterial catheter to infuse the muscles with insulin at levels similar to those generated by a meal. One group of volunteers was given the vasodilator drug, while the other received a placebo.
Blood sample and muscle biopsy analysis produced estimates of muscle protein synthesis and breakdown. The results were impressive: virtually normal muscle growth in the older subjects given the vasodilator with insulin.
"By giving them this vasodilator, we were able to make our 70-year-olds look like 30-year-olds, at least in terms of muscle growth," said postdoctoral fellow Kyle Timmerman, a lead author of the paper. The study was co-led by medical student and graduate research fellow Jessica Lee.
While the researchers cautioned that larger studies would be needed to confirm their findings, they expressed optimism about vasodilator drugs' potential as tools for keeping older people from falling into frailty, and living happier, healthier and more independent lives.
"If by improving blood flow during and immediately after eating we can improve muscle growth in response to meals in older people, then we're going to have a major new tool to reduce muscle loss with aging," Volpi said. "By itself, that could mean a substantially decreased risk of physical dysfunction and disability."
Other authors of the paper include assistant professor Satoshi Fujita, senior study coordinator Shaheen Dhanani, assistant professor Hans Dreyer, graduate student Christopher Fry, assistant professor Micah Drummond, professor Melinda Sheffield-Moore and professor Blake Rasmussen.
The National Institute on Aging, the UTMB Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and the UTMB Clinical and Translational Science Award supported this research.
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Jacaranda is known as the flower of good luck. Did one drop on her or was it her A&E doctor. Legend of Jacaranda in Pretoria, South Africa.
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"The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered,
and in order that the sick may have the benefit of advancing knowledge,
union of forces is necessary
…it has become necessary to develop medicine as a cooperative science."
Friends moved to
They were extremely pleased with the Health Care they received from their doctor locally. After all, not long ago, French Health Care topped the WHO rankings.
Then our lady friend had some gynaecological condition. She consulted the local doctor who referred her to the regional hospital: a beautiful new hospital with the best in modern equipment. In no time, arrangement was made for her to be admitted and a key-hole procedure performed. The French government paid for 70% and the rest was covered by insurance they took out.
They were thrilled.
We did not see them for a while and then they came to visit us in one of our holiday places in a warm country.
They have moved back to
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What happened?
Four months after the operation they were back visiting family in
. She was constipated and then developed severe abdominal pain. She was in England so went to A & E at one of the major teaching hospitals. London
"I was seen by a young doctor, a lady doctor who took a detail history and examined me. I thought I was going to be given some laxative, pain killer and sent home."
"No, she called her consultant and I was admitted straight away."
To cut the long story short, she had acute abdomen due to gangrenous colon from the previous procedure.
She was saved but she has lost a section of her intestine.
They sold their place in the beautiful wine region and moved back to
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Thank goodness for a well trained A&E doctor. Or one with the Jacaranda flower.
It looks a though we are moving as far away from those ideals in the New NHS. It is indeed most obvious with our A & E department of hospitals in
. In the new market driven system, A&E is indeed the loss leader in Supermarket terms. If we are honest, there has not been any drop in demand. It is the one thing the NHS CUSTOMERS will buy! England
Government would like us to believe that this has nothing to do with OOH service. Perhaps there is a belief by the average citizen that they will be seeing real doctors at A&Es.
Guardian latest: Study says it costs hospitals more to treat accident and emergency patients than they are paid to deliver service.
Guardian latest: Study says it costs hospitals more to treat accident and emergency patients than they are paid to deliver service.
In a Market system, A&Es are run by Hospitals and OOH by CCG/GPs; business rivals so to speak. Hospitals wants to maximize income and CCGs did not want anyone to attend A & E if at all possible. NHS A & E: Unpredictable, Unruly & Ungainly
Looks like the battle is over as no doctor will want to work in A&E.
A top doctor from
claims emergency patients could be at risk because half of the country's A&E departments are understaffed. Somerset
Dr Clifford Mann, registrar at the College of Emergency Medicine and a consultant at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, said hospitals were increasingly struggling to find enough medics.
He told the Mail on Sunday that junior doctors were unwilling to train to become emergency medicine specialists because of the intense workload and failure of hospitals to increase staffing levels to match the number of patients admitted.
The situation is worsened by the fact that 10 per cent of all full-time consultancy posts in the country's 220 A&E units are unfilled as many training in the NHS have preferred to go abroad to work.
He said the shortages will "undoubtedly" have contributed to the closure or downgrading of casualty departments.
"The key message isn't so much the vacancies out there, but that there's no one coming through to fill them," said Dr Mann, an emergency medicine consultant.
There is of course a solution: remove the payer system and rotate GP and other trainee doctors through A & E as a compulsory part of training of any doctor and have full back up of the A & E consultants.
Prof Waxman in an earlier post:
The internal market's billing system is not only costly and bureaucratic, the theory that underpins it is absurd. Why should a bill for the treatment of a patient go out to Oldham or
Oxford, when it is not Oldham or that pays the bill — there is only one person that picks up the tab: the taxpayer, you and me. Oxford
…….Instead let them help the NHS do what it does best — treat patients, and do so efficiently and economically without the crucifying expense and ridiculous parody of competition.
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union of forces is necessary
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A series of papers released this week by the international scientific collaboration known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey depended heavily on supercomputing performed by Yale astrophysicists.
The four papers — which shed new light on galaxy clustering, and the expansion, structure, and composition of the universe — involved the examination of nearly one million distant luminous, or bright, galaxies.
Nikhil Padmanabhan, an assistant professor of physics at Yale, and Antonio J. Cuesta, a postdoctoral student in his lab, used the BulldogM supercomputer in the Yale High Performance Computing Group to compare theoretical and observed patterns of galaxy clustering. This work helped narrow the number of theoretical models likely to describe clustering, and contributed to findings in all four papers in the series.
The results were presented Jan. 11 at the American Astronomical Society's winter meeting in Austin.
"These studies allow us to look back six billion years, close to a time when the universe was only half as old as it is now," Cuesta said of the research results, which have been published on the arXiv preprint server and submitted to Astrophysical Journal.
The SDSS-III Collaboration is mapping the Milky Way, searching for extrasolar planets and investigating the nature of dark energy. The collaboration, which involves researchers from Yale and dozens of other major research institutions around the world, began gathering data in 2008 and will continue through 2014 using equipment at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.
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New album: The Big Dream
Artist: David Lynch
Label: Sunday Best
Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
David Lynch is known to most as the film director responsible for �Eraserhead,� �Blue Velvet� and �Twin Peaks,� among others. While his visual style is without question, his attention to the audio component of his film work is legendary as well.
From his collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti to the recordings of backward footsteps played in reverse in �The Black Lodge,� Lynch has always looked for ways to tickle the ear.
�The Big Dream� is Lynch�s second solo album � the first being �Crazy Clown Time� from late 2011. Whereas �Crazy Clown Time� was a collection of pop songs of the crazy-as-an-outhouse-rat variety, �The Big Dream� sounds like the type of blues album Stephen Hawking would come up with.
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Lynch�s take on Bob Dylan�s �The Ballad of Hollis Brown� is mildly genius. Whereas Dylan channeled Woody Guthrie for his stark original version, Lynch�s creepy roadhouse version gives the song a new life. Listening to Lynch �sing� about Hollis Brown living on the outside of town over death march drums and tremolo-affected guitars is invitingly sinister.
Like his film and his own brand of coffee, �The Big Dream� is an acquired taste. If Lynch weren�t known as a filmmaker, little if any attention would be paid to his late-in-life career swerve into music.
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Classic album: 50th Anniversary�The Singles 1962/1972
Artist: Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
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Late Goals Lead Drew Past Rams in ECAC
Drew - 2, Farmingdale State - 1
Newark, N.J. - Seniors John Jabar (Oakland,
Maine/Waterville) and Jonah Silk (Woodbridge, Conn./Amity) scored
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Men's Soccer Championship. The Rams closed out the 2009
season with a 10-9-1 record.
The second-seeded Rangers (11-5-5) needed both goals as Farmingdale freshman midfielder Joe Brantmeyer (Center Moriches, N.Y./Center Moriches) put back the rebound of a penalty kick in the final minute, recording his fourth goal in two games. Brantmeyer scored all three goals in the Rams 3-2 victory over (1) Rutgers-Newark in the semifinal round.
Drew controlled play on the offensive end for a majority of the
game, building up a 26-9 advantage in shots and an 8-2 edge in
corner kicks.
Farmingdale State goalkeeper Patrick Gubbins (East Patchogue, N.Y./Bellport) made four saves, while senior David Brigandi (Harrington Park, N.J./Northern Valley) stopped six shots in goal for Drew.
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An honor guard carries the coffin of a soldier killed in an attack in the city of Aden during a funeral in Sanaa, Yemen, on Aug. 20, 2012.
Reuters reports - Suspected al Qaeda-linked militants killed at least 14 Yemeni soldiers and security guards on Saturday in a car bomb and grenade attack on the intelligence service headquarters in the southern port city of Aden.
The United States has been pouring aid into Yemen to stem the threat of attacks from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and to try to prevent any spillover of violence into neighboring Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter. Full Story
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True to form this year…..I have been taking my time posting my weekly hunts for new treasures to add to my collection. I haven't updated my purchases since the end of November, and I haven't set foot in a record store in about a month! There have been some great sales online lately through some of my favorite online shops, and I've been searching Ebay as usual for those rarities I crave, so here's everything I picked up online in December…..
For most of 2009, CD Inzane has been my only online Metal retailer. I have found the best prices, selection and shipping there consistently all year long…..up until the last 4 weeks. I started my final orders on Black Friday (11/27) and December's Black Saturday (12/12 )when CD Inzane had their 30% off sales. Not one to miss a bargain, I placed a $100+ order on Black Friday that came to $70+ after the 30% off but I got shut out of all but 2 of my picks. I woke up late that morning and got my order in 4 hours into the 5 hour sale! On the Black Saturday sale I was up an hour BEFORE the sale began and had everything I wanted the previous sale in my cart, along with a few more new releases, and was ready to log in at 7am sharp with a $150+ order. Unfortunately, I only got one of my selections. Don't ask me how I didn't get what I wanted the second time around but I was more than a little disappointed…..hopefully I will catch a few breaks next year with these great sales!
Winger – Karma (2009) – $14.99: I wasn't too high on the last Winger CD so I went into this purchase a bit wary. One of my good friends picked this album up and recommended it highly so I decided that I would buy it during the 30% off sale. My version is the European that has the bonus track 'First Ending' and the video extra on the making of the album. I'm not sure if my friend's copy is the same, he bought it at a local big box store, but I paid the same price he did after the 30% off.
Helix – Vagabond Bones (2009) – $12.29: Helix is one of those bands from my formative Metal years that I still love to this day. Who am I kidding? I love ALL the bands from when I was growing up! In the last couple of years though I have been slowly picking up Helix's back catalog and buying the new records straight from Planet Helix. The price was $15 at most online retailers, at the band's website and even in the weekly ad from Newbury Comics so I added this to my order to save some cash!
Jeff Scott Soto – One Night In Madrid (2009) – $22.09 (3 disc value pack): The Winger & Helix CDs were part of the first order on Black Friday, this Jeff Scott Soto release was the only item I received from my order on the December Black Saturday sale. The regular prices for the double CD and the DVD separately was $20 but the package deal was $36…..already saving $4! Add the 30% off and this was a no-brainer of a purchase!
Billy Idol – Happy Holidays (2006) – $22: I have this thing for buying up different holiday albums, especially from Rock bands, and the Billy Idol holiday album has been on the Want List for a couple years. I just wrote a WANTED post for this album a few weeks ago and I just couldn't wait when I saw a BUY IT NOW for $19. I have been watching this album go well over $25-$35 over the last year or so so $19 + $3 shipping was a good deal to me!
Lord Grey – Lady Of The Lake (2002) – $35: I have been looking for this CD since 2002 when I saw it only once in my favorite record store (that is now long gone). I got into a local New England Melodic Rock band called Savannah in the late '90s and I found out that Lord Grey was actually the band that pre-dated Savannah for three of the musicians. This album saw a release independently on Shire Records in 2002, I saw 2 copies one day in 2 Guys Music and passed. A week later…..both were gone! I paid a few extra dollares on this one but the last couple of copies at auction have gone well over $50.
Lion's Share – Dark Hours (2009) – $11: The latest from Lion's Share was one of the albums I tried ordering from CD Inzane and got shut out from. I decided to give Ebay a look and I found a new, but opened, digipak copy for $8 from a reliable seller that I have bought from in the past. The grand total came to $11 with shipping and I saved $2 more then I would have if I had received this with my CD Inzane order.


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Liar, Lunatic or Lord
The liar, lunatic or lord argument attempts to present a case through process of elimination of all other options, that Jesus Christ must have been god. It was proposed by C.S. Lewis and popularized in Mere Christianity.
Even a number of theologians have pointed out that the "liar, lunatic or lord" argument is unsound. Apologists such as William Lane Craig cite this argument as a good example of a bad argument for Christianity.[1] This argument has also been referred to as the "trilemma" by Josh McDowell. The argument was originally used to show Jesus was not simply a wise moral teacher, rather than to demonstrate his godhood. However, C.S. Lewis goes on to use it as an argument for God. Despite this, the argument is widely used, and widely loved, by the more general Christian audience, as are many of Lewis' other equally flawed arguments such as the argument from desire.
- 1 Argument
- 2 Counter arguments
- 3 Additional notes
- 4 Links
C.S. Lewis version[edit]
C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity c.1952:
- "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
- p1. Jesus made certain claims
- p2. These claims are of a nature that has certain implications about his character
- a. Lunatic: Jesus was not God, but he mistakenly believed that he was
- b. Liar: Jesus was not God, and he knew it, but he said so anyway
- c. Lord: Jesus was telling the truth and is God
- p3. Through process of elimination we can exclude the possibilities of lunatic and liar
- a. Existential evidence
- b. Textual evidence
- c. Historical evidence
- c1. Therefore Jesus was/is the the lord and God in human form.
Counter arguments[edit]
The first problem with the argument is that it assumes the efficacy of the Bible. It assumes that the depiction of Jesus in the bible is historically accurate and an accurate depiction of his character, including (but not limited to) the words and claims attributed to him.
False dilemma[edit]
Based on the shaky grounds of the first premise, the argument creates a false dilemma to suggest that Jesus as appearing in the gospels is either telling the truth or not. This of course neglects the obvious possibility that he is a legend, in which case his claims (or those claims attributed to him) are neither true or false, but partially or entirely fictional.
Nearly everything that is "known" about the life of Jesus, or his claims of godhood, come from the Bible, which Christians regard as inerrant but atheists do not. Jesus may not have existed, or he may not have said all the things that were attributed to him, to the extent that his teachings were good he may have copied ideas from other people.
The premise also ignores hybrid possibilities. For instance, that Jesus may in fact have been a lunatic who said true things (much like an insane person who thinks he's Napoleon may still be able to tell you the correct day of the week or the prevailing weather conditions) or that he might have been the Lord and a liar (unlikely, but inconvenient for Lewis' intended point). At heart, the dilemma commits the genetic fallacy, of assuming that an idea from a bad source is itself inevitably tainted.
Jesus is a legend[edit]
Some historians question if Jesus even existed. Even if he existed, the stories about him are unauthenticated and of questionable accuracy. There is no first hand contemporary evidence that the words attributed to Jesus are his own as the earliest account was written after 60 AD. It can also be argued that due to the discrepancies between accounts no quote in the bible can be held as the true words of Jesus.
However, the claim that a person called Jesus was crucified for blasphemy is regarded by some New Testament scholars to be one of the most certain claims of ancient history (such as Bart Ehrman). This still leaves the rest of Jesus's biography open to question. As his death is the strongest claim the evidence might suggest, Occam's razor states that it should be assumed that Jesus held no divine relationship or power unless additional evidence can be provided.
Jesus was misinterpreted[edit]
Finally, the premise also ignores the very real possibility that Jesus existed and did say some of the things attributed to him, but may have been misinterpreted. Many believers will refer to themselves as "Children Of God" (or similar phrasings), but they presumably do not mean this literally. In a similar fashion, if Jesus did refer to himself as the "Son Of God," he may have intended it as a metaphor that was misunderstood by subsequent audiences. (In fact "Son of God" meant a righteous man, the Messiah or a prophet. Incidentally Christians sometimes describe themselves collectively as children of god while believing that they are ordinary human beings. This did not in any way mean the "physical" son of God, a very pagan belief that Jews considered very blasphemous.) Additionally, the term 'Lord' is a term of nobility and respect that has subsequently been confused to be synonymous with 'God'. When the disciples call Jesus 'Lord' they are not necessarily confirming a belief that he is God. Jesus did not explicitly claim to be God within the gospels[2] (although some apologists disagree[3]).
Weak evidence used to rule out the other possibilities[edit]
Apologists use weak evidence to rule out the possibility that Jesus was either a liar or a lunatic.
Jesus may have been insane[edit]
Many apologists, including some who are qualified psychologists, attempt to show that Jesus could not have been a lunatic. There are two major problems with this.
- First, is a complete lack of evidence. The idea of performing a real psychological diagnosis on someone that has been presumed dead for 2000 years, based solely on a few scarcely descriptive tales, from the very book that purports to reveal the truth of his divinity, is nothing short of laughable.
- Secondly, they make a case of special pleading. Despite the fact that Jesus isn't depicted as a rabid, uncontrollably raving maniac, doesn't mean he was necessarily sane. Any of the psychologists who attempt to claim Jesus was not insane would have no hang ups about committing a person today that made similar claims. Indeed if Jesus made his claims today, he would fit right in at the asylums full of other people that think they're God, Jesus, Napoleon etc. Lewis falsely claims that lunatics speak falsely, rave without moments of clarity, never say anything worth paying attention to, etc. In truth, one may suffer from a delusional belief or fixation and function adequately or even superlatively in society.
Jesus may have been a liar[edit]
Jesus could also have been a liar. Lewis disregards this because he claims Jesus was a great human teacher. However, much of Jesus' advice was bad advice. And regardless of his lesson content, being a great teacher doesn't by fiat logically exclude the possibility that he could lie. Jesus also had great motive to lie. Despite the trouble Brian found himself in, there are presumably a great many selfish benefits to being mistakenly considered a human deity.
Other religions[edit]
Incidentally, the leaders/founders of other religions can be postulated to be -whatever their religion claims-, liars or lunatics in a similar way and the different religions of the world cannot all be simultaneously true. This makes it a broken compass argument.
Basically, there are three scenarios possible:
1. Muhammad (S) was telling the truth and spreading the message of God.
2. He was lying to gain power.
3. He was crazy and believed he in what he was doing.[4]
Furthermore, many religious claims are of an extraordinary nature if taken literally, but it does not follow from this that all believers are either liars or lunatics. Though some faith healers are secretly dishonest, many of them do think they have access to miraculous powers and are visited by thousands who believe themselves to be healed. For the most part, neither the "healers" nor the "healed" are clinically insane. Instead, they are guilty of confirmation bias and compartmentalization, and the stories experience exaggeration in a similar manner as urban legends. These are all possibilities regarding Jesus's own faith healing and other miracles; mystics and shamans from antiquity to today have used classic magician's techniques while still believing themselves to have supernatural abilities.
Additional notes[edit]
Additionally, some forms of the liar, lunatic or lord argument further commit the fallacy of begging the question, by accepting the 'biblical miracles as evidence for the lord' option, which of course a priori assumes the conclusion of Jesus' divinity that the very argument attempts to prove.
The reason for the use of dilemma in False premise p2. rather than the titular trilemma, is due to the fact that despite there being three options, two of those have effectively the same outcome as far as the argument is concerned. The multiple options are really nothing more than a red herring, as the argument's outcome is that the claims of Jesus are either true or not true.
Additionally, formal logic deals exclusively with dichotomies, not trichotomies. The overall argument attempts to prove he is the lord. So to actually express all three options, logistically it would need to be presented as two separate, but hierarchical dichotomies. (lord:(liar:lunatic))
- The main dichotomy: That he is either the lord or not-lord.
- The sub dichotomy if he is not-lord: That he is either a liar or lunatic.
- The main dichotomy: That he is either the lord or not-lord.
Stature of Jesus[edit]
Jesus is perhaps the most famous, beloved and revered figure in the Western world today. In this context, any suggestion that he was even a little bit deluded, dishonest, or misrepresented seems like a much graver accusation than if made about one of the more obscure messiah-claimants living in ancient Rome. The trilemma is not a circular argument, but it occurs in a circular context; the argument's emotional weight is almost entirely due to the significant pre-existing influence of Christianity on culture, yet Christianity's validity is the very thing being argued for.
An example of this may be found in this Tektonics apologetic essay discussing the trilemma. The essay examines the counter-argument that people can falsely believe themselves to be God incarnate without being thoroughly "insane" in other areas. The author cites a case study of three patients with a messiah complex, and quotes them to demonstrate how overtly delusional they are. One of the patients, Clyde, says: "Why, there's money coming from heaven and from the old country and from the sea of heaven. The carloads, trainloads, and boatloads... 7700 cars a mile and that runs from upper Stock Lake... God marked eight of our trails himself." What in this quote suggests insanity? Well, there's a semi-incoherent mixture of the physical and transcendent (money coming from heaven, God personally marking some trails), and some detailed and nigh-hallucinogenic imagery.
But what about this quote from Jesus? "The sun will be darkened, the moon will give no light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then at last, the sign that the Son of Man is coming will appear in the heavens, and there will be deep mourning among all the peoples of the earth. And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with the mighty blast of a trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from all over the world -- the farthest ends of the earth and heaven." Outside a Christian culture, this sounds like the elaborate fantasy of a schizophrenic, guilty not only of the same things as Clyde's quote, but some astronomical and geological errors as well. Inside a Christian culture, passages like that one are either a valid reason to prepare for the End Times they describe, or a very poetic metaphor — depending on the manner in which one wishes to present Jesus as a sane and respectable man.
Occam's Razor[edit]
The "Lord" portion of the "Liar, Lunatic or Lord" argument is a condensed expression of a very extraordinary claim: that in Roman Palestine there was born a person literally identical to the omnipotent being who created the cosmos, and that this person demonstrated his unlimited superpowers through miracles such as raising the dead, walking on water, and so forth. Given the extremity of this claim, it seems odd to even consider questions about this person's mental state.
Suppose Alice tells Bob she can magically fly. Bob tells Claire about this, and adds that he's inclined to believe Alice. Claire is trying to determine whether or not Alice's claim is true. Should Claire's first question to Bob be "Well, has Alice ever lied or seemed crazy to you? Or do the things Alice says tend to be true?" That would be an absurd line of inquiry, almost irrelevant to the matter. Even if Bob and a thousand other witnesses attest to Alice never having been incorrect about anything in the past, Claire does not have a decent reason to think that Alice can fly; what she needs is direct or indirect evidence of Alice actually flying.
Yet "Alice can fly" is a much smaller claim than "Jesus was and is God". It's one thing to trust the judgment of apparently trust worthy people, and it's another to grant their judgment with infinite evidential weight.
The Bible cannot be just a "good book"[edit]
- "If the Bible were not the Word of God, yet claimed that it was, it would be the most dangerous, blasphemous and contemptible book ever written, lying to use about our origin, giving us a false basis for human dignity [, etc.] [5]"
Apologists again make the false dichotomy that something is entirely truthful or entirely incorrect. Being the product of human authors, scriptures are probably never either extreme.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- The Trilemma-- Lord, Liar Or Lunatic? by Jim Perry at infidels.org
- Liar, Loony, or Lord; Or, How Atheists Make C.S. Lewis Cry by Greta Christina


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The Burgandine House has long been considered to be Culpeper's oldest dwelling. Architectural evidence suggests that as originally built, it was a story-and-half structure put up in the late 18th century or the first part of the 19th century, and was probably a laborer's residence. The original core employs plank log construction, a building material not unusual for area vernacular houses. It later received a porch and was covered with weatherboards. A wing (since removed) was added in the mid-19th century. At one time the Burgandine House was used as a tavern. Despite other modifications the original simple lines of the house
betray its early origins. The house was donated to the town of Culpeper in 1966 and has since served as the headquarters of the Culpeper Historical Society. This small, historic dwelling was restored in 1997.
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I'm a foreign player and I want to report a game bug. I used the translation software, so the statement might not be smooth. There are two ways to save the game. The first is to save the map information from the top right of the screen. The second kind is the backpack of characters, and they can be stored when they are opened. This can lead to a hole in the game. For example, after saving map information, without saving the backpack information, it will cause the object to be lost. Or save the map first, use the backpack to save things, directly close the game, the background re landing, lost map items will recover. It means you can copy a lot of things. So I want to fix this vulnerability and merge the two save methods. Finally, I wish this game a better job.


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Ali Landry's littlest guy is here!
The former model and actress, 39, and her husband, director Alejandro Monteverde welcomed their third child – and second son – on Thursday, July 11, PEOPLE confirms.
Valentin Francesco Monteverde was born in Los Angeles and weighed in at 9 lbs. The newborn shares a birthday with big sister Estela Ines, who turned 6.
After announcing she was pregnant with a baby boy in March, Landry told PEOPLE in June that her newest son's middle name was inspired by a meeting with the Pope she and her husband had earlier this year during a trip to Rome.
"We got to meet the Pope and he blessed this baby. So part of the name might have something to do with our new Pope," she says. "The other part of the name we came up with on our own."
Landry also admitted in July that the couple's children Marcelo Alejandro, 21 months, and Estela, were wary of their unborn brother.
"[Marcelo] wants to be with me all the time and he's very much still a baby," Landry told The Bump.
As for her firstborn, she's aware "double trouble" is on the way, joked the mom-of-three.
"We were at the doctor's office and the doctor said, 'How do you like your little brother?' And she said, 'He pulls my hair,'" Landry said. "Then the doctor asked, 'So what do you think about having a new brother?' And she's like, 'I'm going to be bald.'"
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Here are some dolls I have been making for an exhibition In Manapouri.
The exhibition theme is "Living in Manapouri!" A small town community of retirees, artists, readers, knitters gardeners and trampers! A little bit of eccentricity helps!
These dolls are conversationalists!
Someone gave me some knitted fabric that lends itself so well to dolls and makes them touchable!
This man is inspired by a good friend of mine - an artist who is a bit of a character! I didn't get the head shape right, but the facial features went quite well and certainly the 'stance'!


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The Fund's new Balance of Payments Manual: How the new version, that supersedes the 1961 edition, was compiled, what it contains, and the ways in which it differs from the earlier editions »
Source: Finance & Development, March 1978
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Publication Date: 01 March 1978
Keywords: finance, bank, developing countries, monetary fund, economic development
This paper highlights that 1977 was an eventful year for the IMF. Drawing on the IMF's resources during 1977 totaled more than SDR 3.4 billion. These were accompanied by a record volume of repurchases, which reduce...


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