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If the police have decided not to press charges, could be a brown envelope was donated by said lecturer. Civil action is a different matter. AFAIK the police are not involved. A good lawyer should be able to get you substantial damages for pain and suffering. The twerp may even settle out of court.

Perhaps you should think more carefully about what you say before you type, no?

ER - no. Most of the world's population is not overweight or obese, your knowledge is faulty. Here's the real picture. Put simply, Americans are obese because they eat too much. When I first visited America, I was shocked by the size of the portions in restaurants. Insane, just like gun policy - or lack of it. According to the map, 50% of Americans are obese. Statistically, that means it's the toss of a coin if someone fronting up to a gun counter is a fat waddler.

Personally, I find "How much land does a man need?" by Leo Tolstoy depressing. Too much greed nowadays.

i don't disagree. However, it's interesting there are still flaws in the machine. Several World Champion chess players ( Kasparov, Kramnik ) have been beaten by chess AI.

It's official, I AM smarter than Gemini. The word is DECREE. Yes!!!

It's why many countries have travel advisories.

I won't get up myself about it. A good friend once told me "It doesn't matter how smart you think you are, there will always be someone smarter than you".

It means you shoot your toes off trying to do a fast draw on debate/discussion. A manager I remember quite fondly. There was also a guy we used to call Wet Cement, because he could talk through it. Your posts remind me of him.

Can't you read? Bard provided two words to my prompt, so it must have understood my prompt. It also understood the word recede had already been used. I won't claim I am smarter than Gemini until I have solved the required word. The title of the thread is "Bard/Gemini is not so smart" If it was really smart, it should not matter what prompt I use.

"And will increase in every nation that has guns" My point exactly. Has anyone ever called you No-Toes?

Was it not Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman " who complained his washing machine consumed belts like a maniac? I bought my GF a Samsung washing machine about 6 years ago, she loves it. Much easier than beating wet clothes on the concrete sides of the local klong, although I do miss the wet T-shirts.

I can be terse , or expand a bit more if I feel it is necessary. Double spacing is a courtesy to other people who don't like reading sentences packed like sardines.

I recently asked Gemini for a word #E###E. The letters available to fill are E,P,C,D,E,E,R. It's a word puzzle, I have done 1351 of them. RECEDE is already used. Gemini gave me two words, PEREDE and PEDERE. Both are unacceptable. If I can solve the word, IMO I can say I'm still smarter than Gemini.

You were a gun dealer? Might I suggest there is some bias in your postings? If you were selling semi-automatics ( I know, if you didn't someone else would ) did it occur to you that you were facilitating mass shootings? Do you understand basic ratio math? More people, more deaths, yes. It's the number of them per 100,000 population which is significant. Whitewashing the problem with vague assertions and look over there deflection does not rebut facts, data and statistics. I've posted the data which proves you are a violent society. What's your proof it is not.? Your experience is a single data point.

I have kept a diary on the back of my autobiography which records what I regard as highlights or significant events, only add to it about once a fortnight. I occasionally add to the autobiography with new recollections.

As you are sedated, why would it make any difference to you.? You can't hear them.

Gun deaths in Australia are about 0.9 per 100,000 population. In the US, it is 4.5. Five times as high. The US Virgin Islands tops the table at 32. Singapore is a distant last with 0.003. You can rationalise all you want. The fact is you live in a violent society, and Australia and other countries demonstrate it is self-inflicted.

Please explain the difference to me between liking guns, and liking drugs. They are both addictions. Using your logic, everybody should have a right to drugs as well. What kills more in America, guns or drugs? The self defense argument is BS. I have never needed a gun for defense in Australia, and it's far more likely you will be killed in your home if you are toting a gun, than if you don't have one.

Perhaps Americans need a God who will tell them to repeal the Second Amendment. Given 50% of Americans still believe in angels, it's an even chance.

Noted you declined to respond to my question. What is especially sickening is the politicians who take NRA donations to support their campaigns, then offer their "thoughts and prayers" to the bereaved. <deleted> hypocrites.

IIRC there was a technical flaw in the finale of "The Last of the Mohicans" when the hero reloaded his rifle, with nary a ramrod to be seen.