Sort of need evidence to lock people up. I'm assuming 'they' are the rappers, of course. Even hate speech is protected to an extent in the US, let alone something that's simply music with perhaps violent tendencies . We'd certainly not try to ban Stanly Kubrick's work in 'A Clockwork Orange', for his, positive from the perspective of the character, depiction of assault and rape.

Also, even if half of "those assholes" promoted crime, and misogyny, that's still half that didn't and should be free.

That's their accusation, but it doesn't look like they have anywhere near enough to make it stick. The prosecution is citing a law that makes it illegal to benefit from gang activity. And to the extreme broadness that it's being taken, is absurd -- that it has increased his fame. To be frank, I think it's cruel and unusual, and that the prosecutor should be disbarred. Even if he's under suspicion, they've not found anything in his 8 month imprisonment. I'd rather 10 criminals get away, than for a single innocent man to suffer... I mean, I'd rather everything were perfect, but if I had to choose, I'd side with not risking infringing on an innocent man's rights.

Star Wars Episode 3. Was just checking if I still didn't like it, confirmed that pretty well. So, GameSpot, hi. Been a year and a month since I last posted here.

Not sure how fun it looks, but that music is wonderful, and the art style is pretty dandy.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. There are nations with extremely limited gun "rights", who still have plenty of useful rights. I'd say that allowing donations to politicians, allowing of gerrymandering, and failing to regulate banks/industry, has done more to erode our rights than anything related to guns.

Neil deGrasse Tyson... like he'd ever consider running. Elizabeth Warren I suppose.

I don't know what people see in Hilary, she seems to me like the Mitt Romney of Democrats. Status quo, fake, uninteresting, dim...

http://myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli/

There are some easy to read papers if you search around a little.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430337/

This one's dandy. And I'll give you a brief summary, so you can be lazy.

The particular strain of E. coli could not use, an oxic, glucose-limited medium containing citrate, as a carbon source. Every day 1% of all 12 populations of E. coli was frozen and every 75days (~500 generations) a large sample were frozen, to preserve micro evolutionary states. Though remaining viable to unfreeze. All populations evolved larger cell volumes and lower maximum population densities.

The population Ara-3, after ~31 500 generations with every possible point mutation occurring multiple times, was the first strain of citrate using E. coli to evolve. The genomes of twenty-nine clones isolated from various time points in the Ara-3 pupulation, were sequenced to reconstruct the phylogenetic history of the population. They found that the population had diversified into three clades by 20 000 generations. Of that, the Citrate(Cit+) using variants were found in "Clade 3".

It was found that the Cit+ varients all had a duplication mutation of 2933 base pairs, involved for the citrate transporter protein used in anerobic(w/o oxygen) growth on citrate on the normally dormant citT gene. Creating a new regulatory module placing the citT gene under the control of a promoter for an adjacent gene called 'mk'.

The researchers conclude that the evolution of the Cit+ trait suggests that new traits evolve through three stages: potentiation, in which mutations accumulate over a lineage's history that make a trait accessible' actualization, in which one or more mutation render a new trait manifest; and refinement, in which the trait is improved by further mutations.

The waving flag is the "evidence" for us not being on the moon... oh dear.

http://youtu.be/bahFJhx5Z7s?t=6m57s

This is of STS-61, where they were repairing the Hubble Space Telescope. As you can see, the solar panel "flaps" as the space shuttle's thruster pushes it away. This is because some seriously basic laws of physics; every action has an equal and opposite reaction. When you push on something, and it bends, it is storing energy in the bends, and it's preferential to go to the lowest energy state (~unbent).

This is the same thing happening on the Moon, it's just instead of thrusters being at fault, it's a man's.

Also where the hell do you think they were going, with 6 million pounds of fuel in the most powerful rocket ever constructed?

The motion of the planets isn't some mystery to us, it's some complex maths, but nothing out of the reach of human understanding. To make it grossly simple; everything is falling towards the sun, but away from it at a sufficient rate as to not fall in. The reactions of the individual bodies are so minimal, because distances are so great, that they're "allowed" to have stable orbits. The Earth Moon system is just that they're sufficiently close as to be "tied" to each other. If the Moon moves far enough away (and it will, in an extremely long time) then it would escape Earth's orbit, and sort of just drift off into a solar orbit. And to a very similar effect, the motion of the galaxy itself.

Earth is the only planet that we know of which can naturally support life 'as we know it'. We can't explore other solar systems, nor have we explored "near by" places like Enceladas or Europa, and we've only barely scratched the surface of Mars. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, and over a hundred billion galaxies in the visible universe. Even if only 1 billion billionth of the stars in the observable universe had planets that had life, there would still be millions of examples.

The God hypothesis has no observable, falsifiable, or repeatable, data to back it up.