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> It most certainly does. Feel free to show a citation to the contrary.

Hi, this is someone else. You don't know what the hell you're talking about.

look up the curve yourself. salt water doesn't have the 4 degree C density minimum that fresh water does. Due to the additional ions in the water and what not that part of the curve is shifted beyond the freezing point.

Since I doubt you'll look it up yourself, lmgtfy.com

"...the density maximum is above the freezing point for salinities below 24.7 but below the freezing point for salinities above 24.7."
    -- http://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/IntroOc/lecture03.html

Oceanic salinities are generally in the range of 32-36.

The Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (BTRE) suggests that the main issues for rail safety in Australia are suicides, level crossing accidents and pedestrians struck by trains (BTRE 2002).

This is directly from a report published using data obtained (link to full PDF) from our Bereau of Transportation.

Oblig link

http://blogs.flinders.edu.au/flinders-news/2009/01/23/shoe-phone-offers-medical-device-potential/

And, for the record, "they" didn't take away a bunch of guns; only extremists assert that they enforced it. If you want a gun in Australia you can buy one just about
as easily as anywhere else in the world.

Please don't lie it makes us all look bad.

You can't legally buy *any* semi-automatic or automatic firearm in Australia. Many bolt action long arms are banned as are most side arms. To purchase and own a gun you have to have a signed letter from a rural landholder saying you can shoot on their property, or be an accredited sports shooter (where the guns you are allowed to buy are a heavily restricted subset of the above).

Finally the agreement to getting a gun license gives the police the power to access your home at any time without a warrant.

The fact that they tried to enforce the gun ban (which it effectively is) and failed miserably as can be seen by the ridiculous amount of gun violence in the country for the last few years doesn't mean they didn't try their hardest. Just that they're incompetent.

Oh but at least people don't use a gun when they commit suicide now...they're just hanging themselves instead - Trends in hanging and firearm suicide rates in Australia: substitution of method?.

So long as they kill themselves with rope and not a gun makes the anti-gun nuts all warm and fuzzy I 'spose.

You have produced yet another set of statements without proof that this has anything to do with man-made global warming. Sea-levelss have been rising for more than 10,000 years and somehow you've just noticed?

In any case,

a) living on a delta is a great way to see the sea rising relative to the land, but the sea-level has hardly changed while those deltas continue to sink. Ask the Mayor of New Orleans. If the deltas are not replenished then you get severe coastal erosion and deltaic islands sink into the water.

b) Tuvalu's problems are entirely caused not by rising sea-levels (because there isn't any) but by overpopulation and overextraction of water making the wells become brackish.

Here's what the scientists say:

"The historical record from 1978 through 1999 indicated a sea level rise of 0.07 mm per year." and

"The historical record (from Tuvalu) shows no visual evidence of any acceleration in sea level trends."

So the sea-level rise is just barely measureable and shows no acceleration due to global warming, man-made or otherwise.

You can. http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/wac5/smithtour.htm

rj

On Highways I agree that speed limits do seem restrivtive, however, in town they are very intelligent. The speed of a vehicle has a large impact on the severity of accidents when pedestrians are impacted.

http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/pubs/bulletin9/b9p 7.html check paragraph 6

In areas where there are many driveways, pedestrians on the side of the street, cyclists, etc, speed needs to be regulated.

Here are a few sections from another article:
Are pedestrians at risk from speeding vehicles on city streets and suburban roads? Yes. The second largest category of motor vehicle deaths, after occupants, is pedestrians, and 69 percent of pedestrian deaths occur in urban areas. The speed of vehicles involved in pedestrian impacts is a major determinant of the severity and outcome of injury. There is a much higher ratio of deaths to injuries where speed limits are higher - nine times as high where the speed limit is 55 mph as on roads where it is 30 mph or lower. A federal study of pedestrian crashes found a positive correlation between speed and injury severity. In addition, vehicle speed influences the likelihood that a pedestrian will be struck in the first place because a driver cannot stop quickly enough. One study found that, even in residential zones, almost 20 percent of vehicles were traveling at more than 30 mph when they struck pedestrians. Some cities are using new approaches to slowing urban traffic to reduce pedestrian crashes, especially in school and work zones.

What is the role of speed in crashes? Speed influences crashes in four basic ways:
It increases the distance a vehicle travels from when a driver detects an emergency until the driver reacts.
It increases the distance needed to stop a vehicle once an emergency is perceived.
Crash severity increases by the square of the speed so that, when speed increases from 40 to 60 mph, speed goes up 50 percent while the energy released in a crash more than doubles.
Higher crash speeds reduce the ability of vehicles and restraint systems to protect occupants.
http://usww.com/homepage/starteam/speed.html#s1

The fact that you would draw a parallel between a guy who funneled money donated for that purpose into a political machine and a long series of dictators who have starved their people to fill Swiss bank accounts says much about your personal politics.

For anybody who actually believes this idiot's claptrap, here's a
great list of African dictators along with their various and sundry crimes.

Ok, AK47s, 20yrs and anarchy are bit over the top.

What I am trying to say ( as I did to someone else on ) is that the "CCW theory" and other nonsense gun theories are deliberate FUD. They select only the facts that support the message of nameless vested intrests .

I am 45 and I live, work and can still shoot as many ferral pigs as I want in Australia. We were fourtunate enough to wake up to the FUD in 1989 when common sense gun control was started in Australia. The restrictions were eased in over several years using a buy-back scheme and an amnesty. The laws came in to full effect in 1997, thats why I chose the 1998 fact link above. It was a mainly bi-partisan response at both state and federal levels to the massive and sustained public outrage over The Senseless Port Arthur Massacare .

I invite you to look at our governments stats and pretty graphs on the subject

"many will still commit the crimes"-Sadly yes.

Proponents of Process Physics claim that Einstien's original case for general relativity was built on a misinterpretation of critical 19th century experimental data and contend that the consequential abandonment of the ancient notion of Æther was wrong headed.

From their perspective, gravity should not be seen as a force field but rather as the cummulative effect of all massive bodies continuously absorbing/dissipating Æther. Locally the earth sucks most of the Æther and we experience the resulting downwards pressure.

Actually you shouldn't assume that I am from Europe simply because I am not from the USA. As a matter of fact, I am not from Asia or Africa or even North/South America either. "Where else is there?" the crowd calls - I am from Australia.

According to this data, back in 1999 (newest data I could find in a hurry) our national gun deaths (excluding suicides) was 84 (50 homicide,28 accidents,4 legal invention). How small a city in the USA do you need to look at to compare to our national gun death total? For everyones info the national population is about 20 million.

Now perhaps our road death toll might be a world competitive, but remember that we are the land of Mad Max.

Of course it is. If you hold the temperature and salinity constant, then the density of seawater increases with the depth due to progressively higher pressures as you go deeper - you can see that quite clearly by playing with this seawater density calculator (try 15 degrees and a salinity of 35, then increase the pressure from 1 to 1000 to 10,000 kPa, and watch what happens to the density).

Greater density means more seawater per unit of volume as you go deeper, which you can do because liquids are, in fact, readily compressible, albeit not as compressible as gases are. Bringing water up from a depth of 10 meters simply isn't deep enough to observe the effect you want to observe. Bring water up from 10,000 meters, say from the bottom of the Marianas trench, and you will indeed observe it expanding quite forcefully when you open its container - if you don't have a container that can withstand the internal pressure of that water trying to expand, it'll go pop as you try to bring it back up.

From the article:

"The research is an important step forward in a research area within Artificial Intelligence, to solve games with increasing complexity"

I don't quite understand why a big lookup table is an important step for AI. Humans don't play games by checking every possible move and picking the best one and never will.

The AI community really needs to stop looking for tricks that allow computers to solve problems in ways that humans never could and instead spend their time trying to understand how intelligence actually works.

Hint: scrap predicate logic (and in doing so the Turing machine) as the model for intelligence. Instead, define a model from which predicate logic can emerge (Reginald Cahill has more or less done this, but I'm not sure if he realizes it yet: Process Physics.).

-Chris

My point? Evolution is a non issue. The real debate is in the origin of the framework by which everything evolves. Scientists playing with DNA can make pretty much anything happen. But they still can't create matter with a thought.

Not necessarily. One of the possible answers - Process Physics.

Suddenly your conjecture isn't so obvious after all, eh?

you might also check out process physics and penrose's stuff on twistor theory.

Check out Reginald Cahill and Process Physics: Papers Homepage

I don't know about the US, but over here in Australia Flinders University has already been offering a Bachelor of Science in Nanotechnology (Honours) Degree. I don't know how popular it has been, but it seems that Australia may be ahead of the US in this one.

I don't know about the US, but over here in Australia Flinders University has already been offering a Bachelor of Science in Nanotechnology (Honours) Degree. I don't know how popular it has been, but it seems that Australia may be ahead of the US in this one.

Where do you think they test those ICBMs, anyhow?