Recent content by Gokul43201

I concede that 'fire' was a poor example (but not firearms). Maybe Schenck would have been a better example. Or eminent domain powers. Will you go a step further and agree that there are?

I'm not sure the 'period' is justified. It seems to me like the Constitution goes to great lengths to protect individual freedoms but apparently stops short when it may be argued that a significant societal harm is done by going further. For instance, there are limits on the freedom of speech...

Camera on your device snaps a picture of the text on a menu/billboard/receipt/shipping label/product packaging/other document and a text recognition software renders the text that is then converted to speech.

Ironically, King replaced one of the few Republicans that was willing to cross the aisle. Let's hope King can do the same. Edit: Just after writing this I remembered that Warren also replaced another of the very small number of Republicans that voted against the party majority.

It's possible the OP's confusion about the diffracted intensity arises because s/he primarily works with proteins. For something with a lattice parameter on the order of 100A, the reflections happen at very small angles (ie, very close to the path of the direct transmitted beam).

Do you think churches should be exempt from having to file paperwork to show they have zero business profit?

Sure, feel free to make up your facts. I thought you were responding to me in all of that post. But I guess you weren't responding to me in any part of it.

Assertion without justification. Strawman. I didn't say anything about Obama winning a landslide in 2012. The argument is about whether or not this election reveals a RIGHTWARD shift in the political mood. Republicans losing seats in the House and Senate does not support the assertion of a...

First of all, you are comparing with the political mood 4 years ago, when we have plenty of data from mid-term elections 2 years ago that you've left out. Secondly, Obama won an easy landslide in 2008 because the incumbent (Republican) party had just presided over the worst economic and...

And this is why virtually every Republican commentator on the TV this morning is talking about what they desperately need to do for their party to survive? A Dem president wins fairly comfortably with nearly 8% unemployment. Republicans lose 2 seats in the Senate and will likely lose somewhere...

Same-sex marriage measures were on ballots in 4 states. Voters in WA, ME and MD passed measures legalizing same-sex marriage status in their states. MN had a mostly symbolic measure defining marriage as between "one man and one woman", which was safely defeated, but it doesn't do anything...

Every single person that said they would vote for Romney in the other thread predicted a Romney win in this one (ignoring the few that did not participate in both polls). Yet, there is not a single pollster I've seen (not even Rassmussen), that predicted a Romney win anytime in the last couple...

Most inept? You think Bachmann, Santorum, Trump, and Cain were more viable options?

Final numbers (with nearly 99% reporting): Popular vote = Obama 50.2%, Romney 48.3% Electoral vote = Obama 332, Romney 206 (assuming Obama's 46,000-vote lead in FL is sufficient) I believe Nate Silver (538 blog) came closest, calling for a 2.5% popular vote margin and being one of the few...

Also, CA is only reporting at about 25% so far.