The general meaning of democracy has changed since the 18th century. Now a days when people say democracy they mean the Representative type, whether the republican model or parliamentary model. We get to democratically vote for people to represent us every few years and we call it democracy.
It is a fact that the North West Passage has been opening up in recent years. Calling it politically motivated makes you look pretty stupid. Perhaps you also call the Round Earth Theory politically motivated?
I'd think that any system with 2 Earth-sized satellites would have them spaced further apart or only one Earth-sized and the rest closer to moon-sized. Either way resulting in tides closer to what we experience. Hopefully one day we'll have real examples.
You're probably right about the clocks using an RF oscillator as they're particularly bad. But the point is that normally they use the mains 60 Hz to maintain time quite accurately. My cheap digital watch gains about 10 minutes a year, much like your example of a common crystal. This is barely acceptable and if I didn't regularly break and/or lose watches it would be in the garbage. And I guess I'm just old as it seems weird having a watch that syncs to an outside source though admittedly it does seem to be the norm now.
I understand that the reason that violent crime is dropping, at least in Canada and I'd assume most western countries, is due to the increasing average age of people. Young people are more likely to do something stupid including violence and as the population ages crime especially violent crime, goes down. Sadly here in Canada and I hear the States, people are more scared of crime then ever. I drive by elementary schools regular and it's amazing the traffic consisting of parents picking up or dropping off their children. Blocks of parked cars right in town where all the kids are in easy walking distance of the school. When I was a kid no one got a ride to school. As for guns, the big thing is gun owners knowing how to operate them. Now a days it should be a privilege like driving. You need to show some competency before being allowed ownership. I've never worried about being shot by a criminal committing a crime but I've almost been shot a half dozen times by people operating guns with no idea where the bullet is going to go. I don't like the sound of a bullet passing by my head and no one should have the right to stupidly accidentally shoot someone. The second amendment was passed at a time when everyone knew how to operate a gun.
It would be closer to the British monarch's copyright license required by anyone publishing, which we destroyed at great cost and risk in a revolution by which we previously established the government to protect our rights, not burden us with bureaucracy that protects private profits.
Huh? The US copyright was just a copy of the English copyright law, namely the Statute of Anne, with a few minor changes like replacing the advancement of learning with advancement of arts and sciences and expanding it to include charts and maps. Registration was required by both along with depositing a copy in a library. Actually the American version was potentially worse as registration was with a government agency whereas the British version was registering with a private group, the Stationers. Same with the library, British was Oxford or/and Cambridge which were relatively independent while America used a government run library. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne We also have to thank the unelected House of Lords for what was a reasonably sane copyright law as even back then the elected house was in thrall to business, in that case the Stationers.
My $10 dollar watch gains about a minute per month. I've never noticed any mains powered clock being out excepting power failures, the backup crystals are usually crap and only meant for short outages.
I've also owned a few alarm clocks that kept close to perfect time when plugged in. When the power failed and they used the battery backup they all kept crap time, often being out by a minute per hour. In the past I even tested by putting in a new battery, pulling the plug and checking the next day. Out by 20 odd minutes. Also another poster above mentioned that some clocks have an internal switch for 50 or 60 Hz. A simple crystal is cheap. A good calibrated crystal with temperature correction and such is not so cheap.
Tides would depend on whether there were other Satellites of significant size in a close orbit. Most of the major Satellites of Jupiter are heated by tidal effects even though tidally locked.
As you say, depending on where you live. Where I live muggings are pretty well unheard of but scams to get your debit information are heard of with depressing frequency. I don't want salespeople bugging me and even more important I don't want the government to be able to access much information about me.
I can pop in a loonie much quicker then swiping my card, sometimes reswiping, and entering my pin. Plus as an added benefit, no worries about a crooked machine stealing my card + pin and emptying my bank account and as a bonus, no one knows what I spend my money on.
When I was a kid, 40 odd years ago, a quarter bought more then a toonie does now. Chocolate bar was 10 cents, bottle of pop 15 cents plus 2 cents deposit. And no tax. Now a chocolate bar is $1.29 plus 12% tax in most small stores and I'd guess pop is comparable. Bought a can of V8 recently in a small store, $1.79 + deposit and tax so slightly more then a toonie.
Metric system has had official status since 1866 in the States, http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws/metric-act.html when it was hoped that shortly it would be used exclusively. Canada went metric in '73 and we still haven't finished. We buy food in pounds with the price per pound advertised in large numbers, Kilos in small numbers. You still buy an 8ft 2x4. I know my weight and height in imperial but not in metric. I think in terms of mpg for mileage. Of course we use imperial gallons so get better mileage then Americans:) Generally most Canadians are bi-lingual when it comes to weights and measures after close to 40 years since the switch. Some of this can be blamed on American culture crossing the border but a lot is just inertia.
The older pennies, made before '96 that were 95% to 98% copper are for sure worth more as scrap. Newest copper ones were 2.5 g, pre'80 3.24 g. Coppers worth about $4 a pound so.88 cent a gram or at least 2.2 cents for a penny. Note these are Canadian pennies. American should be similar as the weight is the same and they stopped using 95% copper in '81
Unluckily Canada now has a pro-American government with a majority. They've already illegally extradited someone for political reasons to the States, have been caught admitting to the American ambassador that they can't pass the copyright law the Americans requested because it would make them unelectable (before the election) and have many plans to kowtow to the Americans and follow their lead into the abyss. Being a majority government in a system where the party always votes as a block it is basically a dictatorship for 5 years.
You should read your constitution one day. Says something like Congress will make no law abridging freedom of speech, doesn't seem to have any exceptions either. So you're advocating hanging someone for practicing free speech.
Does government have a (written) constitutional authority to tell people not to kill? I know there is nothing in my governments (not USA) constitution about that, it's all based on common law and statutes.
Or when people are so far gone that they can't choose for themselves, then their family making the choice. My mom has got very advanced Alzheimer's, can't do anything, doesn't know anything and always said that she'd rather be dead then in that situation. Us kids (I'm the youngest pushing 50) would put her down instantly if we could, especially if legal. Instead the best we can do is tell the medical people not to try too hard to keep her alive. A really shitty situation which does not seem moral. As you say, if we did the same thing to the dog, we'd be busted for animal cruelty.
I think it is more like a holograph then RAID. The holographs I'm familiar with, created by splitting a laser beam, one beam taking a longer route, recorded an interference pattern on film negative. You could cut the negative in half and get a slightly fuzzier holograph out of it. Rinse and repeat and the holograph is still recognizable, just fuzzier. A surprisingly small bit of negative could still produce a recognizable image.
Abortions are not necessary when there is no pregnancy. Stop unwanted pregnancies and the only abortions that will be left are ones where both child and mother are going to die. Therefore the logical thing to do if you're an anti-abortionist is to try your hardest to make sure there are no unwanted pregnancies. Most strongly anti abortionist types I've met don't want to do that.
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The general meaning of democracy has changed since the 18th century. Now a days when people say democracy they mean the Representative type, whether the republican model or parliamentary model.
We get to democratically vote for people to represent us every few years and we call it democracy.
It is a fact that the North West Passage has been opening up in recent years. Calling it politically motivated makes you look pretty stupid. Perhaps you also call the Round Earth Theory politically motivated?
I'd think that any system with 2 Earth-sized satellites would have them spaced further apart or only one Earth-sized and the rest closer to moon-sized. Either way resulting in tides closer to what we experience.
Hopefully one day we'll have real examples.
You're probably right about the clocks using an RF oscillator as they're particularly bad. But the point is that normally they use the mains 60 Hz to maintain time quite accurately.
My cheap digital watch gains about 10 minutes a year, much like your example of a common crystal. This is barely acceptable and if I didn't regularly break and/or lose watches it would be in the garbage.
And I guess I'm just old as it seems weird having a watch that syncs to an outside source though admittedly it does seem to be the norm now.
I understand that the reason that violent crime is dropping, at least in Canada and I'd assume most western countries, is due to the increasing average age of people. Young people are more likely to do something stupid including violence and as the population ages crime especially violent crime, goes down.
Sadly here in Canada and I hear the States, people are more scared of crime then ever. I drive by elementary schools regular and it's amazing the traffic consisting of parents picking up or dropping off their children. Blocks of parked cars right in town where all the kids are in easy walking distance of the school. When I was a kid no one got a ride to school.
As for guns, the big thing is gun owners knowing how to operate them. Now a days it should be a privilege like driving. You need to show some competency before being allowed ownership.
I've never worried about being shot by a criminal committing a crime but I've almost been shot a half dozen times by people operating guns with no idea where the bullet is going to go. I don't like the sound of a bullet passing by my head and no one should have the right to stupidly accidentally shoot someone. The second amendment was passed at a time when everyone knew how to operate a gun.
It would be closer to the British monarch's copyright license required by anyone publishing, which we destroyed at great cost and risk in a revolution by which we previously established the government to protect our rights, not burden us with bureaucracy that protects private profits.
Huh? The US copyright was just a copy of the English copyright law, namely the Statute of Anne, with a few minor changes like replacing the advancement of learning with advancement of arts and sciences and expanding it to include charts and maps. Registration was required by both along with depositing a copy in a library. Actually the American version was potentially worse as registration was with a government agency whereas the British version was registering with a private group, the Stationers. Same with the library, British was Oxford or/and Cambridge which were relatively independent while America used a government run library. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
We also have to thank the unelected House of Lords for what was a reasonably sane copyright law as even back then the elected house was in thrall to business, in that case the Stationers.
My $10 dollar watch gains about a minute per month. I've never noticed any mains powered clock being out excepting power failures, the backup crystals are usually crap and only meant for short outages.
I've also owned a few alarm clocks that kept close to perfect time when plugged in. When the power failed and they used the battery backup they all kept crap time, often being out by a minute per hour. In the past I even tested by putting in a new battery, pulling the plug and checking the next day. Out by 20 odd minutes.
Also another poster above mentioned that some clocks have an internal switch for 50 or 60 Hz.
A simple crystal is cheap. A good calibrated crystal with temperature correction and such is not so cheap.
Tides would depend on whether there were other Satellites of significant size in a close orbit. Most of the major Satellites of Jupiter are heated by tidal effects even though tidally locked.
As you say, depending on where you live. Where I live muggings are pretty well unheard of but scams to get your debit information are heard of with depressing frequency.
I don't want salespeople bugging me and even more important I don't want the government to be able to access much information about me.
I can pop in a loonie much quicker then swiping my card, sometimes reswiping, and entering my pin. Plus as an added benefit, no worries about a crooked machine stealing my card + pin and emptying my bank account and as a bonus, no one knows what I spend my money on.
When I was a kid, 40 odd years ago, a quarter bought more then a toonie does now. Chocolate bar was 10 cents, bottle of pop 15 cents plus 2 cents deposit. And no tax.
Now a chocolate bar is $1.29 plus 12% tax in most small stores and I'd guess pop is comparable. Bought a can of V8 recently in a small store, $1.79 + deposit and tax so slightly more then a toonie.
Metric system has had official status since 1866 in the States, http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws/metric-act.html when it was hoped that shortly it would be used exclusively. :) Generally most Canadians are bi-lingual when it comes to weights and measures after close to 40 years since the switch. Some of this can be blamed on American culture crossing the border but a lot is just inertia.
Canada went metric in '73 and we still haven't finished. We buy food in pounds with the price per pound advertised in large numbers, Kilos in small numbers. You still buy an 8ft 2x4. I know my weight and height in imperial but not in metric. I think in terms of mpg for mileage. Of course we use imperial gallons so get better mileage then Americans
The older pennies, made before '96 that were 95% to 98% copper are for sure worth more as scrap. Newest copper ones were 2.5 g, pre'80 3.24 g. Coppers worth about $4 a pound so .88 cent a gram or at least 2.2 cents for a penny.
Note these are Canadian pennies. American should be similar as the weight is the same and they stopped using 95% copper in '81
Around here (BC) most stores have a small cup or similar by the till for leaving or taking a penny or a few. Simplifies things.
Sounds weird. I've accidentally washed Canadian notes a few times, doesn't seem to hurt them. Perhaps we have more cotton or linen in our notes.
Unluckily Canada now has a pro-American government with a majority. They've already illegally extradited someone for political reasons to the States, have been caught admitting to the American ambassador that they can't pass the copyright law the Americans requested because it would make them unelectable (before the election) and have many plans to kowtow to the Americans and follow their lead into the abyss.
Being a majority government in a system where the party always votes as a block it is basically a dictatorship for 5 years.
You should read your constitution one day. Says something like Congress will make no law abridging freedom of speech, doesn't seem to have any exceptions either. So you're advocating hanging someone for practicing free speech.
Probably the Molotov cocktails I saw on the news.
Vancouver Burrards were the lacrosse team. I followed them a bit as a kid but they were no where as popular as the Canucks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Burrards
Does government have a (written) constitutional authority to tell people not to kill? I know there is nothing in my governments (not USA) constitution about that, it's all based on common law and statutes.
Or when people are so far gone that they can't choose for themselves, then their family making the choice.
My mom has got very advanced Alzheimer's, can't do anything, doesn't know anything and always said that she'd rather be dead then in that situation. Us kids (I'm the youngest pushing 50) would put her down instantly if we could, especially if legal. Instead the best we can do is tell the medical people not to try too hard to keep her alive. A really shitty situation which does not seem moral. As you say, if we did the same thing to the dog, we'd be busted for animal cruelty.
I think it is more like a holograph then RAID. The holographs I'm familiar with, created by splitting a laser beam, one beam taking a longer route, recorded an interference pattern on film negative. You could cut the negative in half and get a slightly fuzzier holograph out of it. Rinse and repeat and the holograph is still recognizable, just fuzzier. A surprisingly small bit of negative could still produce a recognizable image.
... but no one is forced Not to do anything.
The fetus is forced Not to be borne.
Which in some circumstances is better then forcing the fetus to be born.
Abortions are not necessary when there is no pregnancy. Stop unwanted pregnancies and the only abortions that will be left are ones where both child and mother are going to die.
Therefore the logical thing to do if you're an anti-abortionist is to try your hardest to make sure there are no unwanted pregnancies. Most strongly anti abortionist types I've met don't want to do that.