Also, it needs to be said, that although the S.African interpreter is probably completely faking it, sign language is actually different from country to country, just like speaking/writing language, so a reall S.A interpreter might not make sense to a US interpreter either. (Not saying the guy at the Mandela ceremony is real, but a real translater might be nonsensical to the rest of the worlds hearing impaired as well..)

My only problem here is that Jimmy Kimmel and similar shows do jokes like this all the time , by "interpreting" videos falsely ie: the "bleep and blur" thing, the miss america "translation", but this guy, as I understand it, is a real interpreter and translate the nonsense as best as he can?

I'm sick of disaster/monster/superhero movies now, but goddamn, this trailer is awesome. And Bryan Cranston.

Ok, on second viewing , you might be referring to the way she sort of grabbed him and shoved him into the car before the carjacking, but then again, she might have sensed that something was up and wanting to get out of there asap, also she has balloons, it is likely they were at some fun-for kids event and he wasnt to eager to leave. Parenting can be hard, and perhaps this was after a long persuation thing to get him to the car.. Anyway, sorry about the quick downvote, but I just think criticizing her parenting here was REALLY off the mark.

She was resolute and quick thinking, and did the only right thing a parent should do:protect her child. If that means dragging him kicking and screaming from the car.. Good.

According to the article, cloud cover, time of day etc had no effect on the success rate, things like that would drastically alter the results (evening them out) , if the shadow was the cause.

BTW, i'm still skeptical myself, as it seems pretty wild, but it sure is interesting if it is true that there is a constant, directional bias in the success rate..

http://phys.org/news/2011-01-predation-foxes-aided-earth-magnetic.html

Its not at all impossible, if it can sense a fixed point in front of it(the north pole) all thats needed is to compare the exact direction from which the sound originate and triangulate to get the exact distance, I suppose. it might not be harder for a fox to do then it is for us to intuitively calculate the path of an incoming ball so we can catch it..

EDIT: I reread the article, it seems the hypothesis is that the fox lines up the direction of the sound from the prey with the direction to the North Pole (which is below the horizon in most places), it then knows that the prey is at a fixed distance. its basically what I said, except its the simplest form of triangulation, with just a fixed distance and one line..

Well, we both agree on the non-existence of god, I am glad to say, but your point here is still nonsense, the idea that humans are the culprit of most human suffering is just wrong. Sure, there are some dreadful examples, but by far, most suffering comes from non-human controlled factors like disease, disasters, random accidents etc. Humans have actually done quite a bit to reduce the "naturally" occurring death and suffering visited upon us (like medicine or early warning systems for bad weather etc) We have also raised the living standards from a fearful, ignorant, dangerous habitat for at least some parts of the world.

This argument is certainly dumber by far. On this logic, we should never have invented vaccines or penicillin, after all, these medical advances, and countless others, means we are bereaved of thousands of opportunities to fuel our happiness with tragedy every day.. Trying to justify tragedy by Gods pragmatism is nonsensical on so many levels.

And yeah, there is more than one Christian denomination, and many of them contradict each other, I'm pretty sure Harris is aware of this fact. However, he is arguing against a common or at least widespread interpretation, and the logical consequences of such an interpretation. I believe this video is from a debate with William Lane Craig, who is a catholic, which may explain why it seems to be focused on classic catholic themes (Suffering of Jesus, threat of hell etc.) If you don't believe in hell, then obviously many of the arguments in this video does not apply. Fine. Many believe in hell, thus the arguments applies to those people.

Actually, and I havent done any maths at all here, nor do I know exactly what kind of test this is, but I suspect, on a hunch, that this a relatively close mix by the look of it too. Grossly simplified argument/examples :If one of your parents are black, thats 50%, if one of your grandparents, that 1 in four= 25 %, if one of your great-grandparents were black, thats 12.5%. So hes pretty black, that white supremecist asshole.

So.. "statistical noise" as in the kind of noise a couple of "mixed race" great-grandparents make when they have sex?

Thats just about the funniest interview I've ever seen, I mean, fuck me, that was funny. So akward. So so funny.

By the way, this guy kinda looks like Edward Current, and he like the perfectly serious version of him.

Basically : "Everything in the bible is true. No questions asked. Heres my humble, non-arrogant, thoughtful and logical interpretation of the conclusions we can draw from that arrogant, pompous, ignorant and completely unlikely to be true-assumption."

Well, what they could have shown, would be, for instance, video of collecting/ sampling of DNA from a crime scene, electrophoresis readouts in the middle , and say the doubling process in the PCR cycle expressed mathematically. This way the three windows would be directly linked and math would be involved and linked to the actual thing they were showing.