edit - I think I'm done here, bye Dang. You do a hard job, but this is utterly ridiculous. In the ongoing attempt to edit out anything contentious, this place has completely jumped the shark.

I've done that before, managed to fix it with silver based conductive paint.

I was utterly confused as to how someone could end up quite so disconnected from civilised society's established concepts of morality, that is until I read that the researcher works in marketing. Then it all made perfect sense.

Well, let us examine this possibility by reading the article.

That was in 2009 and according to the featured article, in 2010 he was promoted to the President and Vice Secretary of the Communist Party of Xinjiang University and he only recently disappeared in 2017.

So I am guessing it would be rather unlikely.

>It's a complex thing, as I know, there's too many media misleading, in both side.

This is also something of a problem in the commentary, it would appear.

I can think of one good comparison, from Catch 22 -

"For hours they stared relentlessly at the scarlet ribbon on the map and hated it because it would not move up high enough to encompass the city.

When night fell, they congregated in the darkness with flashlights, continuing their macabre vigil at the bomb line in brooding entreaty as though hoping to move the ribbon up by the collective weight of their sullen prayers. "I really can't believe it," Clevinger exclaimed to Yossarian in a voice rising and falling in protest and wonder. "It's a complete reversion to primitive superstition. They're confusing cause and effect. It makes as much sense as knocking on wood or crossing your fingers. They really believe that we wouldn't have to fly that mission tomorrow if someone would only tiptoe up to the map in the middle of the night and move the bomb line over Bologna. Can you imagine? You and I must be the only rational ones left."

In the middle of the night Yossarian knocked on wood, crossed his fingers, and tiptoed out of his tent to move the bomb line up over Bologna."

edit - wow that got flagged quick. Now we know what it takes to make HN uninterested in cartography.

edit2 - and then unflagged in the time the last edit took to write, funny.

edit3 - and the article is flagged again. Is up and down like the Assyrian Empire, this one.

Also, the dialog is not against writing, it merely states that dialog is superior for presenting and exploring ideas or knowing what someone is about.

It also says that writing is something you can do as a pastime in later years, but it is not the serious pursuit of one's life, which I also suspect is Plato commenting upon himself from the text.

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5099036

Hi from the UK. I think we are still in the running. Mind you, we did have a head start.

Unless they meant that the number of the beast is Nero's name when you attempt to write it in Greek, though that seems something of a stretch, even for numerology afficionados.

>We’ve reported that a squadron of 66 bombers were launched on August 6th (666) to bomb the municipality of Imabari, even though Imabari. had been bombed already, twice.

>This bombing squadron may well have fire-bombed Hiroshima instead, as Hiroshima was not far away.

According to early surviving versions of Revelations, the number of the beast is actually 616 - https://web.archive.org/web/20080110172555/http://news.natio... - however this revelation doesn't appear to have filtered through to the conspiratoraly minded as of yet.

Then again, I'm a man who sleeps with other men, went to a crumbling concrete block of a state school and often can be found working in factory environments and hanging around with bikers.

I guess it varies greatly according to one's milieu.

In the UK, 'fanny' is pretty much the least offensive term for female genitals available, other than vagina, however vagina is considered a bit clinical. A friend of mine uses the term 'foo-foo' instead, which I find hysterically funny.