Yes, most Christians don't like to think about sex and creationism even though we have prove that sex can lead to creating new people. They also don't like females involved in creationism though many old myths include females and some old cultures heavily worshiped women. Always amazed me that the Christian trinity substitutes a holy ghost for the female part. (Man, Women and Child)
Well if you're going to teach creationism you really should teach all of them but as that's impractical as every culture that has ever existed has come up with different ones each with the same amount of proof (someones vision, dream or such) then all the poplar ones should be taught concentrating on the ones that agree with reality, perhaps mostly the Hindu versions as they at least deal with realistic time lines. The Christian one can be used as an example of ridiculous unscientific theories of creationism.
The interior of the Earth would still be warm without the sun. I'd guess a couple of miles down on average, closer where there is volcanic activity including warm spots at the bottom of the ocean where geothermal energy is escaping from the interior. Those hot spots are likely to move around so probably not much of an ecosystem would be present as life would have a hard time moving from oasis to oasis. Life would be pretty simple and whether life could spontaneously form under those conditions is pretty questionable but if the Earth had its orbit perturbed enough by say a passing star to head into outer space there'd be life for quite a few billion years until the core cooled down. At that life would likely survive longer then if the Earth remains where it is as the Sun is heating up and in a billion or so years the oceans will boil, perhaps creating Venusian conditions which would make it very hard for life to continue.
That's included, only time I've ever had a weapon(s) intentionally pointed at me has been when the police did it. What I have had is bullets fly by close enough to hear though the weapon itself was far enough away to not hear the bang. I've also seen lots of targets setup in the bush with nothing behind them to stop the bullet along with empty shells showing stupid people were discharging firearms without knowing where the bullets were going to go.. I see I've been down modded as flamebait for stating the obvious that only responsible people should be allowed to own something that is as potentially dangerous as firearms. In my country it is illegal to sell a firearm to someone if they can't show a piece of paper showing they've had some minimal training in firearms.
The economy works just as much by trickle up as anything. If most people have no money, they're not going to be buying the stuff that the companies are producing so it's not like they'll have any incentive to produce stuff that no ones buying. There's also the fact that massive social inequality often leads to violent revolution which is really not good for business either.
What about the right of people not to be accidentally shot by some idiot who doesn't have the maturity to own a gun? Guns are like vehicles, a bit of stupidity can kill innocent people.
So it should be easier. Neighbours can actually see each other and observe that the neighbour is using metric so the" keeping up with the Jones" syndrome kicks in. You just have to make metric cool. Somewhat hard considering it was invented by the French and Americans have hated the French since they kicked the shit out of Washington, then saved your revolution.
Does America use any imperial measurements? Distance is now based on the Canadian inch of 2.54 cm (changed in the '50's, though a very small change), fluid is pre-imperial which is why you have little gallons and a weird number of fld.oz in a gallon. (Imperial gallon of water weighs 10 lbs and has 160 fld oz) I guess a pound is the same in American and Imperial, but not a ton or even a hundred weight.
Every one (but one) of those numbers I automatically converted to close enough metric equivalents. 75=120, 43=60, 33=50, 10=16, 76=120 though the 150 miles to shade I had to think about, 150=250. Not accurate but close enough. You're really stupid if you plan on sucking fumes when you get to that last gas station.
Canada, a larger nation then America, did it though we're mostly bi-lingual (a 2x4 is still a 2x4 as inches are better for carpentry). Population doesn't matter, just size. Suddenly when you got on the hi-way, the sign said something over 8000 km to the end. Of course you Americans never even changed over to imperial where a gallon of water masses 10 lbs and a fluid oz is an oz, though you did change over to the Canadian inch back in the '50's without problems (excepting the surveyors who still have a weird sized foot).
Here (Canada) when we converted there were lots of commercials with facts like 20=30,30=50,40=60 and 60=100 (or perhaps it was vice a versa, long time ago) and it became automatic 60mph is the same as 100km/h, no thinking needed. They also mailed out little stickers that you could put on your speedometer so that you could look and see, Since then most vehicles have both, usually large font is km/h and small print is mph.
Funny enough, here (west coast of BC) there is a movement to make daylight savings time permanent. Really it depends on where in a timezone you live whether standard or daylight time makes more sense. Of course for basement dwellers who only interface with the outside world through computers it doesn't matter.
You're lucky. Every few months it seems I get a text detailing how some fee is going up. Last one I believe was text messages to the States going up to 30 cents a text. Of course I'm in Canada, the one country that makes the American Cell providers look cheap and reasonable.
Why and how would Saddam have attacked the States? Christ he even asked America's permission before he attacked Kuwait when Kuwait was apparently stealing Iraq oil. What a surprise he got, one day shaking hands with Cheney over a weapons shipment so he could gas the Iranians and the next attacked over weapons of mass destruction that the Americans sold him.
Darwin stood on others shoulders, as do most all great thinkers and natural selection wasn't a new idea though Darwin did express it very well in his writings. One example is his grandfather Erasmus Darwin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Darwin ) who amongst other things wrote "the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved" in Zoonomia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonomia ) and he based his ideas on earlier proto-evolutionists such as James Burnett, Lord Monboddo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burnett,_Lord_Monboddo ).
Even in hardcore physics there are lots of things that can't be stated precisely.When will an atom of Uranium decay. When a positron and electron annihilate each other, how many gamma rays will be emitted (there's even a very small chance that just neutrinos will be emitted) so you get statistical measures, given a gram of Uranium, half will decay in X years. Same with mercury, X ppm will kill half the population. The LD50 (lethal dose for 50%) level is pretty consistent though for ethical reasons it's usually extrapolated from rats or such and varies depending on route to exposure and the exact chemical formulation.
It wouldn't be so bad if they were spending it on healthcare and collage but those are getting cut back as well. They're spending it on advertising to tell us how fiscally responsible they are so we don't think about how they blew a surplus into a huge debt. They're spending it on prisons and filling them up with mandatory minimums as our crime rate is to low. Note that even the Texas Republicans have told them that it don't work. They're spending it on anti-terrorist stuff including losing track of billions of dollars, which of course is OK as it's just paper work, and gives them lots of surveillance powers over the regular Canadian Citizen. What really pisses me off is just how they blew the budget surplus they inherited and the amount of debt they've entered into. When times are good you pay off your debts, not quit working.
And they have a point. Whenever I want to check the weather and can't remember the page I google environment Canada. When I talk about it, I refer to it as Environment Canada. The new pages are ugly the accuracy has dropped since they got rid of so many meteorologists. The worst is that the Conservatives inherited a balanced budget, a budget that had been running a surplus for close to a decade and they squandered it, are now getting rid of all the parts of government that don't fit their agenda in the name of balancing the budget while we go into debt because they can't manage money.
Lots of stuff in medicine, environmental science, psychology, and criminology are facts. Simple example relating to all those fields, the effects of mercury. For a bonus, put enough small drops of mercury in the sky and it also affects climate.
As I said "numbers etc pulled from my ass" that included the name example to cover various IP that they do pay for. The numbers were also pulled out of my ass. The point is that they find things to pay for to reduce their profits to zero so they pay close to no tax in France (actually the article is about the UK but I was following your example)
For falling you want a sharp axe as you want to cut through the fibers. For splitting you want a dull axe as you're wedging the fibers apart and a sharp axe will get stuck much easier then a dull axe. By dull I mean the edge rounded, not square. The last Arvika I bought. I was really pissed off that someone had given it a razor edge, much worse for splitting, which is what I purchased it for. If I wanted to use it for throwing, cutting down hardwoods or building a log home then it would have been up to me to put my preferred edge on it. Makes a difference what the angle of the V is as well. Some pictures of an Arvika being sharpened, http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1026125-Arvika-grind
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Yes, most Christians don't like to think about sex and creationism even though we have prove that sex can lead to creating new people. They also don't like females involved in creationism though many old myths include females and some old cultures heavily worshiped women.
Always amazed me that the Christian trinity substitutes a holy ghost for the female part. (Man, Women and Child)
It's the lead in the solder that is leached and not so good.
And how they prepared and ate their (usually horse) meat. Put under the saddle for a days ride to tenderize then eat raw.
Well if you're going to teach creationism you really should teach all of them but as that's impractical as every culture that has ever existed has come up with different ones each with the same amount of proof (someones vision, dream or such) then all the poplar ones should be taught concentrating on the ones that agree with reality, perhaps mostly the Hindu versions as they at least deal with realistic time lines.
The Christian one can be used as an example of ridiculous unscientific theories of creationism.
The interior of the Earth would still be warm without the sun. I'd guess a couple of miles down on average, closer where there is volcanic activity including warm spots at the bottom of the ocean where geothermal energy is escaping from the interior. Those hot spots are likely to move around so probably not much of an ecosystem would be present as life would have a hard time moving from oasis to oasis.
Life would be pretty simple and whether life could spontaneously form under those conditions is pretty questionable but if the Earth had its orbit perturbed enough by say a passing star to head into outer space there'd be life for quite a few billion years until the core cooled down. At that life would likely survive longer then if the Earth remains where it is as the Sun is heating up and in a billion or so years the oceans will boil, perhaps creating Venusian conditions which would make it very hard for life to continue.
That's included, only time I've ever had a weapon(s) intentionally pointed at me has been when the police did it.
What I have had is bullets fly by close enough to hear though the weapon itself was far enough away to not hear the bang. I've also seen lots of targets setup in the bush with nothing behind them to stop the bullet along with empty shells showing stupid people were discharging firearms without knowing where the bullets were going to go..
I see I've been down modded as flamebait for stating the obvious that only responsible people should be allowed to own something that is as potentially dangerous as firearms. In my country it is illegal to sell a firearm to someone if they can't show a piece of paper showing they've had some minimal training in firearms.
The economy works just as much by trickle up as anything. If most people have no money, they're not going to be buying the stuff that the companies are producing so it's not like they'll have any incentive to produce stuff that no ones buying.
There's also the fact that massive social inequality often leads to violent revolution which is really not good for business either.
What about the right of people not to be accidentally shot by some idiot who doesn't have the maturity to own a gun? Guns are like vehicles, a bit of stupidity can kill innocent people.
So it should be easier. Neighbours can actually see each other and observe that the neighbour is using metric so the" keeping up with the Jones" syndrome kicks in. You just have to make metric cool.
Somewhat hard considering it was invented by the French and Americans have hated the French since they kicked the shit out of Washington, then saved your revolution.
Does America use any imperial measurements? Distance is now based on the Canadian inch of 2.54 cm (changed in the '50's, though a very small change), fluid is pre-imperial which is why you have little gallons and a weird number of fld.oz in a gallon. (Imperial gallon of water weighs 10 lbs and has 160 fld oz) I guess a pound is the same in American and Imperial, but not a ton or even a hundred weight.
Every one (but one) of those numbers I automatically converted to close enough metric equivalents. 75=120, 43=60, 33=50, 10=16, 76=120 though the 150 miles to shade I had to think about, 150=250. Not accurate but close enough. You're really stupid if you plan on sucking fumes when you get to that last gas station.
Canada, a larger nation then America, did it though we're mostly bi-lingual (a 2x4 is still a 2x4 as inches are better for carpentry). Population doesn't matter, just size. Suddenly when you got on the hi-way, the sign said something over 8000 km to the end.
Of course you Americans never even changed over to imperial where a gallon of water masses 10 lbs and a fluid oz is an oz, though you did change over to the Canadian inch back in the '50's without problems (excepting the surveyors who still have a weird sized foot).
Here (Canada) when we converted there were lots of commercials with facts like 20=30,30=50,40=60 and 60=100 (or perhaps it was vice a versa, long time ago) and it became automatic 60mph is the same as 100km/h, no thinking needed.
They also mailed out little stickers that you could put on your speedometer so that you could look and see, Since then most vehicles have both, usually large font is km/h and small print is mph.
Funny enough, here (west coast of BC) there is a movement to make daylight savings time permanent. Really it depends on where in a timezone you live whether standard or daylight time makes more sense.
Of course for basement dwellers who only interface with the outside world through computers it doesn't matter.
You're lucky. Every few months it seems I get a text detailing how some fee is going up. Last one I believe was text messages to the States going up to 30 cents a text. Of course I'm in Canada, the one country that makes the American Cell providers look cheap and reasonable.
Why and how would Saddam have attacked the States? Christ he even asked America's permission before he attacked Kuwait when Kuwait was apparently stealing Iraq oil. What a surprise he got, one day shaking hands with Cheney over a weapons shipment so he could gas the Iranians and the next attacked over weapons of mass destruction that the Americans sold him.
Darwin stood on others shoulders, as do most all great thinkers and natural selection wasn't a new idea though Darwin did express it very well in his writings. One example is his grandfather Erasmus Darwin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Darwin ) who amongst other things wrote "the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved" in Zoonomia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonomia ) and he based his ideas on earlier proto-evolutionists such as James Burnett, Lord Monboddo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burnett,_Lord_Monboddo ).
Even in hardcore physics there are lots of things that can't be stated precisely.When will an atom of Uranium decay. When a positron and electron annihilate each other, how many gamma rays will be emitted (there's even a very small chance that just neutrinos will be emitted) so you get statistical measures, given a gram of Uranium, half will decay in X years. Same with mercury, X ppm will kill half the population. The LD50 (lethal dose for 50%) level is pretty consistent though for ethical reasons it's usually extrapolated from rats or such and varies depending on route to exposure and the exact chemical formulation.
Why is it nice not having any forests anymore?
It wouldn't be so bad if they were spending it on healthcare and collage but those are getting cut back as well.
They're spending it on advertising to tell us how fiscally responsible they are so we don't think about how they blew a surplus into a huge debt. They're spending it on prisons and filling them up with mandatory minimums as our crime rate is to low. Note that even the Texas Republicans have told them that it don't work. They're spending it on anti-terrorist stuff including losing track of billions of dollars, which of course is OK as it's just paper work, and gives them lots of surveillance powers over the regular Canadian Citizen.
What really pisses me off is just how they blew the budget surplus they inherited and the amount of debt they've entered into. When times are good you pay off your debts, not quit working.
And they have a point. Whenever I want to check the weather and can't remember the page I google environment Canada. When I talk about it, I refer to it as Environment Canada. The new pages are ugly the accuracy has dropped since they got rid of so many meteorologists. The worst is that the Conservatives inherited a balanced budget, a budget that had been running a surplus for close to a decade and they squandered it, are now getting rid of all the parts of government that don't fit their agenda in the name of balancing the budget while we go into debt because they can't manage money.
Lots of stuff in medicine, environmental science, psychology, and criminology are facts. Simple example relating to all those fields, the effects of mercury. For a bonus, put enough small drops of mercury in the sky and it also affects climate.
62% of the voting Canadians voted against the Conservative Party.
As I said "numbers etc pulled from my ass" that included the name example to cover various IP that they do pay for. The numbers were also pulled out of my ass.
The point is that they find things to pay for to reduce their profits to zero so they pay close to no tax in France (actually the article is about the UK but I was following your example)
For falling you want a sharp axe as you want to cut through the fibers. For splitting you want a dull axe as you're wedging the fibers apart and a sharp axe will get stuck much easier then a dull axe. By dull I mean the edge rounded, not square.
The last Arvika I bought. I was really pissed off that someone had given it a razor edge, much worse for splitting, which is what I purchased it for. If I wanted to use it for throwing, cutting down hardwoods or building a log home then it would have been up to me to put my preferred edge on it. Makes a difference what the angle of the V is as well.
Some pictures of an Arvika being sharpened, http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1026125-Arvika-grind