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That's what this whole news story is about. A dignified and successful author is against homosexuality, and the progressive community can't handle any opposition to their views so they tar and feather their reputation. So much for tolerating other viewpoints...

This is like the made up term "homophobia". Just because I disagree with you and use my free speech to do so, does not give you the right to assume my opinions are coming from negative attributes. On the contrary, I care deeply about the future for my children.

lots of older couples, infertile couples, 'normal' couples get married

And they certainly can get married and consummate. It's unfortunate they won't be able to have children but perhaps they can adopt. I do not think same-sex couples should adopt, because this kind of terrible things happen[1].

Why do you keep making it?

This is the first time I've posted about gay marriage on HN.

I cannot imagine what kind of marriage you are describing, but it is not a marriage of joy and commitment.

Any parent will tell you: children are the greatest joy and a huge commitment. That is exactly what I'm describing.

[1] http://rt.com/news/pedophile-syndicate-russian-boy-481/

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russias-duma-...

So your balloon, to fully described its length, you have chosen to describe it relative to meters. Here's the kicker - how well you can measure the length of the balloon depends also on how well you can measure a meter. In the real world, if you try to measure both, the decimal number that describes how relative a meter is to your balloon will only be limited by how accurate your methods of measuring are. You can develop better measuring technology that will forever approach but never reach the True value (only God knows). It is if you try to measure an analog signal, you can only get a digital estimation. But extracting knowledge requires energy, so you need greater computing power to measure an analog signal but all the computing power in the universe couldn't acquire the True value. This is the result of the real world being nondiscrete and containing infinite knowledge. You can measure things by proportion (such as tau (2*pi) being the relative constant of circle circumference to radius); these numbers are transcendental and we don't know their True value. Your "indescribable" numbers are as indescribable as transcendentals. So yes the decimal goes on forever, but you can still describe it in terms of itself and just give a constant name (like pi).

Of course you can describe them. But describe them in terms of what? I think that's the key. Let's say you have a pencil and you want to describe its length, which will be a unit multiplied by a number. If I were to try to describe the true length in meters it will be: 0.0178(...) * meters. This would be an "indescribable" number the author talks about.

However, I can just describe it in terms of itself and call it one pencil long - we use the pencil itself as the basis of the unit so the number we multiply the unit to is just: 1 * pencil long.

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The bad guys are the ones initiating aggression - it doesn't matter what uniform they wear (or non-uniform).

The 4th amendment is being destroyed because other amendments are also being weakened that would normally protect it. The 1st and 2nd amendment could easily protect this shocking situation from occurring. The 1st allows us the free speech to inform the public of what's happening. In terms of the 2nd amendment - if this woman had been carrying a pistol in her purse (which is common in the South) to protect her from being overpowered, she would have a chance to defend herself. Just one incident of a citizen defending themselves would see the immediate halting of these kinds of thuggish tactics.