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Permit investigations usually don't result in this: ***The officials said the visit triggered plans to execute a warrant at the home and have Austin police and fire personnel, including members of the police SWAT team, police bomb squad and Austin Fire’s search and rescue operations team, do a full sweep of the home, Matthews said. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Just goes to show how uninformed the public is. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

He supports whatever is right for the moment to get him re-elected. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows Mitt Romney earning 49% of the vote and President Obama attracting 44% support. Four percent (4%) would vote for a third party candidate, while another three percent (3%) are undecided. ------------ Generally speaking, women aren't as behind O. as they were in 2008. No group is, really. And the UAW and Gay vote? Really? You're going there? Like they wouldn't vote for a democrat? You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/04/steyn_on_our_presidents_curious_cool.html You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

shouldn't the male / female responses be the same? You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

I lolled You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Been there once, fun place to jump. As a side note, on the FB page they announced $15 fun jumps for the rest of the month. A few of us down in SWFL are going to head up there the 19th. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

My first jump was very surreal. In fact, those were my first words out of my mouth once I landed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpkDT8v34eY around 6:20). You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Congrats, and yes. My nerves have always disappeared once out the door :) You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

My first night jump was pretty close. One of my friends face planted on his first night jump. He said he'd never been so happy to be in so much pain because he knew he was alive and on the ground. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

I think I was more scared of my 2nd than my 1st (neither in a paralytic kind of way, but certainly amped up). The first I was nervous, but I didn't know what to expect or all the nasty things that could go wrong. Then I had 2 weeks off between jumps, read / watched a lot, and on the trip up for my Cat B, I was thinking, "God. WTH am I doing? I already survived it once..." :) You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Basically the Air America of TV? (in terms of performance) You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

that was great You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4pzCXMtt4&feature=related footage from a dive You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Congrats :) You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg5uPyn_gRM You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

Been using these for about a year now and love em. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

These are what I use. Love em. http://www.surefire.com/ep3-sonic-defenders.html You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

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Quantum mechanics, the most precisely confirmed set of laws in all of science, has no problem with something from nothing. And yes, quantum mechanics is weird, but weird is no reason to believe in a supernatural invisible friend. Every article I've read, including recent ones posted on here, still go back to a something from something model. Articles and speakers (like Hawking) usually end up saying something like, "The laws of nature themselves tells us that not only can the universe have popped into existence like a proton and have required nothing in terms of energy but also that it is possible that nothing caused the big bang" I bolded the something part that begets something else. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

No, I think solipsism. One of the few dogmas I have is the conviction that solipsism is stupid. Edit: Well, stupid isn't the right word, in fact it's an interesting idea, just like the idea that the whole universe, inclusive us and all our memories, came into existence 5 minutes ago. Great idea, huh? But it would be stupid to dwell on it. Well, to be fair, I figured more people saw Matrix than read Descartes (and friends). Anyway, my point wasn't to argue in favor of solipsism, just that we build our lives around assumptions, the foremost of which being our senses are true -- they reflect the outside world to our minds. But we don't *really* know that, do we? If we were a poorly made calculator, for example, we might always think 1+1=3. We'd test it over and over and over, and we'd say, "Yup! Reality is 1+1=3". You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

You're missing the game on this. The scientific method is 100% dependent on our experience, our senses. Anything you measure, experiment with, observe, etc. is ALL dependent on your senses. These senses only exist in your head. As such, if the inner experience does not match the real world, the scientific method is completely bunk for determining what is real and what is not. Well, correction, the method could be fine, but applying the method is impossible. This isn't a religious exercise at all. It's a pretty well known philosophical one, and one that everyone concedes that at some point, you have to just assume inner experience matches outer. Can't prove it, but we're going to believe it none the less. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.

I'll give you a hint how you can test such a thing, it's called ... the scientific method. Nope, sorry. Doesn't work and you haven't gotten the point yet. Anything you do, ANYTHING, played out in your head. You aren't actually "seeing" the world right now. Remember how you learned the brain flips the image after the light goes through lens in your eye and is projected upside down? What you are seeing is the end product (assuming we have things right on biology / anatomy) of neurons firing in your brain. The image you see is not the world, but some project in said brain. The same thing goes for all your senses. Everything you smell, taste, touch and hear is also just your brain interpreting signals arcing through those neurons. Once we agree on that, we can move on. The question is, if everything you experience is internal, why should that match anything that's going on outside your brain? The easy way to think about this is, let's say we really do have a brain and we have all these nerves, but instead of being hooked up to a body, they're hooked up to say a computer that's feeding us info. The outside world is completely different than what we experience. Think Matrix. Yes, its far out there, but how would you ever tell the difference? And then once that sinks in, why should the real world be anything like what we think at all? Maybe we don't have brains at all, but our experience lets us believe we do. The idea of the inner experience matching the out experience has been something that philosophers have been wrestling with for a long, long time. To date, no one that I'm aware of has been able to state why believing the outside world matches what we experience is not a matter of blind belief. It is, ultimately, a given / assumption we have to work with. You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions.