This raises questions about using radioactive decay for dating things. However, there are no answers for those questions until more research is done that helps us understand why this variation in rate of decay occurs. Is it a fairly regular variation that is directly related to the cycles of the Sun? How much does whatever the Sun is doing this vary randomly? What other sources are there for the energy or particles that cause this? How significant are those sources (that is, might a supernova in galactic proximity generate enough to make a noticeably difference)?
Currently there is not enough known to throw out our current dating of things based on radioactive decay, but this finding means that those dates need to have a question mark in people's minds, especially in those circumstances where other dating clues suggest a discrepancy in the radioactive dating of an object. I cannot remember what it was, but I remember seeing a documentary on something where historical records and radioactive dating gave a significantly different age for an object. At the time, the conclusion was a significant, previously unsuspected, discrepancy in the historical record, this puts the dating of that object back into the "subject to further review"category.
If Daylight Savings is such a wonderful idea (which as some other posters point out is questionable based on more recent studies), why don't we make it the standard time (especially since now more of the year is under Daylight Savings Time than Standard Time).
Actually there is a recent (last 30 years) development that is an improvement over rammed earth and only marginally more expensive. That is cement-mud bricks. Using a little bit of cement mixture in mud allows the development of bricks suitable for building a small structure that will withstand the elements very well and does not require the sealing coat to protect against water in a wet climate. Sorry, I do not have the details anymore, but it is a building process used by some aid agencies when working with some of the very poorest in third world countries.
Every single time I wanted to do something "odd" I got questioned and quizzed. If you aren't doing it standard eyebrows go up.
If that doesn't happen, you have the wrong contractors on the job. There is a reason that "standard" is standard. There are two possible reasons why somebody isn't doing it standard: one, they don't know what they are doing, or two, they have done a lot of research and do know what they are doing. The real problem for the contractors are the pepole who have done a lot of research and still don't know what they are doing.
To go back to my original point, if you are doing something as big as the project you described, you want your contractors to question everything oddball you want to do, because they know a lot more about building then you do. There might be something in their knowledge base that did not turn up in your research that indicates that what you wanted to do is not the best way to accomplish what you have in mind. If you respect their knowledge (which you appear to have done) and show that you have already researched their objection, or go back and do further research on the basis of what they bring up, they will have a lot of respect for you and will work harder to make the job come out for the best.
Can someone explain to me why the mushrooms inhabiting Foggy Bottom continue to do things that they *know* are in direct contravention to existing law before addressing those conflicting laws *first?*
It is because they are utter idiots, or is it because they really didn't mean it to succeed in the first place?:\
I am confused. What does the State Department have to do with this story?
There has never been any restriction on private funding of embryonic stem cell research. The state of California explicitly set up a multi-million dollar fund to fund embryonic stem cell research after George W. Bush decided to allow only limited federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. That fund resorted to claiming results from adult stem cell research to justify its existence.
There are no laws "restricitng what is available to work with", there are only laws restricting what federal funds can be used for.
There have been numerous cases where pregnant women were charged with a crime for drinking heavily or doing drugs, solely on the basis that they were pregnant. Sorry, I do not remember what the charges were, however they all involved endangering the unborn child.
Spoken like a true Male. Why should any women care what you think on this topic? Its their bodies not yours.
And if you look at various polls on the subject, you will discover that more women believe that abortion should be illegal than that it should be legal.
The problem is that while the Executive Branch can decide not to enforce the law, it cannot decide how money is spent. According to the separation of powers in the Constitution, Congress decides how money is spent. Congress has explicitly said that money may not be spent in this manner. So it is not within the perogative of the Executive branch to decide that money can be spent this way.
What is the basis for making murder ilegal? Isn't that based on a religious belief? Please explain why killing a person and killing a cow are different without using metaphysical(religious) reasoning.
That was not part of an official speech. It was never presented as being official policy, unlike the "wipe Israel off the face of the earth" statement.
I get more hits for "Church Burnings" than for "Mosque attacks" and Mosque Burnings" combined and most of the Mosque articles were about things that took place in Muslim countries. I get a few more hits on "Synagogue attacks" as I do on "Mosque attacks". Considering the number of national media members who have been decrying the "backlash" ever since 9/11, I am pretty sure that any such cases that were significant would make national news.
I am not the one who claims "It has reportedly resulted in real-world violence against Muslims" and then has no examples to back it up.
No, it isn't the same thing. "Wipe off of the face of the earth" has implications approaching genocidal. "Overthrow the regime and build democracy" taken at its most cynical means nothing worse than remove the current government and install one more to our liking. There is a massive gap between those two.
After all, the anti-Islam hysteria surrounding the Community Center near the WTC site was started by a blog. It has reportedly resulted in real-world violence against Muslims.
Reported where? I have been following this story and this is the first claim I have seen to that affect.
When you take a group of people who had been culturally isolated so long, through slavery...
There are many flaws with your statement. However, I will only address one part of it. Several aspects of African American culture that were believed to be corruptions and homogenizations of practices from Africa have recently (in the last twenty years) been traced back to Ireland and Scotland. One such example is the style of singing associated with African American Churches such as that portrayed in the Church scene in the movie Blues Brothers.
People on here don't understand, there are only two things that are approved activities if you live in Philadelphia: collecting welfare and working for the City. If you work in Philadelphia they harge you a wage tax that it is 2-3 times higher than in the surroundign communities. If you actually live in the city and have a job, the local wage tax is about 1/2 percentage point more than for those who live outside the city but work in it. If you shop in the City of Philadelphia, sales tax is 1% point higher than in the surrounding communities.
If you are a productive member of society, they do not want you in Philadelphia.
Telling the a company that has been an avenue (or promoting) opposition communication that they provide Internet service is censorship. When the government does anything that is censorship they are the bad guy.
Here is like if there were only Fox News in the US... Terrible!
So, you appear to be saying that Grupo Clarin is the only news source that gives you the information that the current administration doesn't want you to know, why is that bad?
And you are OK with that? You are OK with the government deciding who can and cannot be an ISP?
This may come as a bit of a surprise, but government isn't treated as "them" everywhere in the world. In some places we consider government to be an extension of "us". And yes, I do like ISP's and other companies that control infrastructure vital to the well-being of my country to be accountable to "us".
That works fine until you are in the minority on some subject, then you have empowered the government to silence your opinion. See companies are already accountable to "us", if I don't like the behavior of a particular company, I don't do business with them.
I am unaware of any licensing or regulatory requirements to be an ISP in the U.S.. There are some regarding running wires or other infrastructure, but any company that has access to the infrastructure to provide Internet service is allowed to do so without any further government intervention that I am aware of.
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You do realize that the "rich and moneyed" overwhlemingly vote for Democrats, right? That the richest people in politics in the U.S. are Democrats?
This raises questions about using radioactive decay for dating things. However, there are no answers for those questions until more research is done that helps us understand why this variation in rate of decay occurs. Is it a fairly regular variation that is directly related to the cycles of the Sun? How much does whatever the Sun is doing this vary randomly? What other sources are there for the energy or particles that cause this? How significant are those sources (that is, might a supernova in galactic proximity generate enough to make a noticeably difference)?
Currently there is not enough known to throw out our current dating of things based on radioactive decay, but this finding means that those dates need to have a question mark in people's minds, especially in those circumstances where other dating clues suggest a discrepancy in the radioactive dating of an object. I cannot remember what it was, but I remember seeing a documentary on something where historical records and radioactive dating gave a significantly different age for an object. At the time, the conclusion was a significant, previously unsuspected, discrepancy in the historical record, this puts the dating of that object back into the "subject to further review"category.
If Daylight Savings is such a wonderful idea (which as some other posters point out is questionable based on more recent studies), why don't we make it the standard time (especially since now more of the year is under Daylight Savings Time than Standard Time).
Actually there is a recent (last 30 years) development that is an improvement over rammed earth and only marginally more expensive. That is cement-mud bricks. Using a little bit of cement mixture in mud allows the development of bricks suitable for building a small structure that will withstand the elements very well and does not require the sealing coat to protect against water in a wet climate. Sorry, I do not have the details anymore, but it is a building process used by some aid agencies when working with some of the very poorest in third world countries.
Every single time I wanted to do something "odd" I got questioned and quizzed. If you aren't doing it standard eyebrows go up.
If that doesn't happen, you have the wrong contractors on the job. There is a reason that "standard" is standard. There are two possible reasons why somebody isn't doing it standard: one, they don't know what they are doing, or two, they have done a lot of research and do know what they are doing. The real problem for the contractors are the pepole who have done a lot of research and still don't know what they are doing.
To go back to my original point, if you are doing something as big as the project you described, you want your contractors to question everything oddball you want to do, because they know a lot more about building then you do. There might be something in their knowledge base that did not turn up in your research that indicates that what you wanted to do is not the best way to accomplish what you have in mind. If you respect their knowledge (which you appear to have done) and show that you have already researched their objection, or go back and do further research on the basis of what they bring up, they will have a lot of respect for you and will work harder to make the job come out for the best.
Can you explain to me how reducing demand wil drive up prices?
Can someone explain to me why the mushrooms inhabiting Foggy Bottom continue to do things that they *know* are in direct contravention to existing law before addressing those conflicting laws *first?*
It is because they are utter idiots, or is it because they really didn't mean it to succeed in the first place? :\
I am confused. What does the State Department have to do with this story?
There has never been any restriction on private funding of embryonic stem cell research. The state of California explicitly set up a multi-million dollar fund to fund embryonic stem cell research after George W. Bush decided to allow only limited federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. That fund resorted to claiming results from adult stem cell research to justify its existence.
There are no laws "restricitng what is available to work with", there are only laws restricting what federal funds can be used for.
There have been numerous cases where pregnant women were charged with a crime for drinking heavily or doing drugs, solely on the basis that they were pregnant. Sorry, I do not remember what the charges were, however they all involved endangering the unborn child.
Spoken like a true Male. Why should any women care what you think on this topic? Its their bodies not yours.
And if you look at various polls on the subject, you will discover that more women believe that abortion should be illegal than that it should be legal.
The problem is that while the Executive Branch can decide not to enforce the law, it cannot decide how money is spent. According to the separation of powers in the Constitution, Congress decides how money is spent. Congress has explicitly said that money may not be spent in this manner. So it is not within the perogative of the Executive branch to decide that money can be spent this way.
What is the basis for making murder ilegal? Isn't that based on a religious belief? Please explain why killing a person and killing a cow are different without using metaphysical(religious) reasoning.
That was not part of an official speech. It was never presented as being official policy, unlike the "wipe Israel off the face of the earth" statement.
I get more hits for "Church Burnings" than for "Mosque attacks" and Mosque Burnings" combined and most of the Mosque articles were about things that took place in Muslim countries. I get a few more hits on "Synagogue attacks" as I do on "Mosque attacks". Considering the number of national media members who have been decrying the "backlash" ever since 9/11, I am pretty sure that any such cases that were significant would make national news.
I am not the one who claims "It has reportedly resulted in real-world violence against Muslims" and then has no examples to back it up.
No, it isn't the same thing. "Wipe off of the face of the earth" has implications approaching genocidal. "Overthrow the regime and build democracy" taken at its most cynical means nothing worse than remove the current government and install one more to our liking. There is a massive gap between those two.
After all, the anti-Islam hysteria surrounding the Community Center near the WTC site was started by a blog. It has reportedly resulted in real-world violence against Muslims.
Reported where? I have been following this story and this is the first claim I have seen to that affect.
When you take a group of people who had been culturally isolated so long, through slavery...
There are many flaws with your statement. However, I will only address one part of it. Several aspects of African American culture that were believed to be corruptions and homogenizations of practices from Africa have recently (in the last twenty years) been traced back to Ireland and Scotland. One such example is the style of singing associated with African American Churches such as that portrayed in the Church scene in the movie Blues Brothers.
How does a blind person turn on VoiceOver?
People on here don't understand, there are only two things that are approved activities if you live in Philadelphia: collecting welfare and working for the City. If you work in Philadelphia they harge you a wage tax that it is 2-3 times higher than in the surroundign communities. If you actually live in the city and have a job, the local wage tax is about 1/2 percentage point more than for those who live outside the city but work in it. If you shop in the City of Philadelphia, sales tax is 1% point higher than in the surrounding communities.
If you are a productive member of society, they do not want you in Philadelphia.
I do not recall the President of the US proposing to "wipe off the face of the earth" any country.
They've succeeded in getting a nuclear reactor opened and unveiled a UAV bomber without making any explicit threats at all.
You mean other than promising to wipe Israel off the map as soon as they are able?
... interfering with EU affairs, as if the EU was a protectorate of the US.
Hold it, are you saying that it isn't?
Here is like if there were only Fox News in the US... Terrible!
So, you appear to be saying that Grupo Clarin is the only news source that gives you the information that the current administration doesn't want you to know, why is that bad?
And you are OK with that? You are OK with the government deciding who can and cannot be an ISP?
This may come as a bit of a surprise, but government isn't treated as "them" everywhere in the world. In some places we consider government to be an extension of "us". And yes, I do like ISP's and other companies that control infrastructure vital to the well-being of my country to be accountable to "us".
That works fine until you are in the minority on some subject, then you have empowered the government to silence your opinion. See companies are already accountable to "us", if I don't like the behavior of a particular company, I don't do business with them.
I am unaware of any licensing or regulatory requirements to be an ISP in the U.S.. There are some regarding running wires or other infrastructure, but any company that has access to the infrastructure to provide Internet service is allowed to do so without any further government intervention that I am aware of.