The Glade 4.0

Absolutely. IFF means Identification Friend or Foe and is the primary means for identifying aircraft as friendly or not. The radar "interrogates" a transponder and waits for a "squak" of the proper code.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Yes, I knew which interpretation of iff you were referencing. I wanted to make sure you knew it also stood for 'if and only if'.

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7%... still think i'm right though... stupid religion question...

No, but I was well aware he didn't mean IFF in the sense the joke meant.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Lol you cannot have a quiz about contradictions when you include subjective qualifiers like "unnecessarily" because the viewer will always use their own standards.

Its all audacious hope for change. Your mind does the filling in.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

The abortion one espically bugged me. It was a terrible example. Opening my window and a spore coming in implies to me that the spore is uninvited vs consentual sexual activity where both people have a reasonable expectation that their action could result in pregnancy. Maybe theyre trying to draw a parallel to risk in action, but its different types of risk.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Philosophy without rigor is as useful as a brand new BMW to a brown dwarf.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I miss Red Dwarf

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Tension Quotient = 27%

I am fairly sure it was for the same reason as Vindi...

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Exactly.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

While I see (and to some extent agree with you) what you mean, I think the act of opening the window was what they were using to show an invitation. The way it was framed, though does show an inherent bias by the writers of the question, no doubt.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Actually I found it to be a good example. Opening the window parallels intercourse. The window screen parallels contraception.

Counter to some opinions here, the vast majority of the time people have sex for fun, not procreation. Speaking personally, I've gone to some fairly great lengths to prevent pregnancies when I'm intimate with my wife. Any fetus that were to develop would be completely uninvited and unwanted by us both. Our act of sexual intercourse in no way what so ever is concent to have a child.

Yeah, you could just keep your window closed.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Having a short skirt parallels consent then, right?

No, in the same way that the "window" and "intercourse" are not analogous. I agree that the window and intercourse appear to be analogous: they both have risks, the risks can be mitigated, the both require proactive action on the part of one or more parties. Here's where it fails though: intercourse (for the purpose of analogy) requires two-party consent and two-party action, opening the window does not.



Counter to your opinion, sex exists for the purpose of procreation. The fact that people engage in it for other reasons is irrelevant in a philosophical discussion of abortion, unless one or both parties are literally unaware that pregnancy is a causal result of sex.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Eggs exsist for hatching and not eating, water for drinking and not showering, mouth for eating and not swearing, etc etc etc...

Humans have created our own purposes for many things not intended for that purposes, thats how the human race evolves... maybe it's part of evolution? I mean the dolphins are catching on pretty quickly

Interesting example, given that dolphins are sex fiends (no, really).

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Um.... false analogy on all accounts. In fact, trying to create an analogy of a physical act to a noun is bound to fail, given that physical objects can largely be used to whatever end to which we can use them.

Beyond the false analogy though: eggs are clearly a food source, as evidenced by any number of other animal's dietary habits. Water is clearly used for the purposes of bathing, given its excellent natural propensity to cleanse an item and the empirical evidence indicating its use as such throughout the animal kingdom. Finally, the mouth is critical to human communication, of which "swearing" is a part.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

I agree my analogies were somewhat bad, but just what ever I could think of cause there was cake downstairs. In this case it’s blueberry cheese and not a lie.

Humans by nature seeks thrills and pleasure, while I agree that there is always some sort of consent. But to say the deviation from an intended purpose of an act has no philosophical ramifications on the out come of said deviation… that I can not completely agree with. I guess the question is more, if there is an advantage to the deviation from the intended purposes and is widely accepted, tried and tested, does the deviation then become part of the intended purposes.

Once we could agree on that, then the philosophical discussion of the outcome could continue.

Water exists because that is how individual atoms of hydrogen and oxygen interact.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville