Someone somewhere is always saying the price of property is out of control and there's a crash coming, don't mistake that for prescience on your part, especially given you were four years early...
The chixulub comparison is quite interesting, it does make you wonder what would happen if you could have your 100 impactors of that size delivered in a short period of time, what effect would that much energy have on the core of the planet (minimal I suppose) and how long would it take for the atmosphere to settle dwon afterwards. Of course the Martian conservation movement would be up in arms.
That's exactly the point though, placebos do work, hence the placebo effect! Furthermore a variety of placebos seems more useful than a simple sugar pill, though the jury is out on the differences between their usefulness.
For the majority of ailments that people visit a doctor for a placebo would be the best treatment option, no-one is saying try and treat cancer with them. If you are being prescribed penicillin or anti-depressants or even mild painkillers you're probably better having nothing at all.
Again, I'm not saying that is better than most drugs, because after all that's how drugs are tested for effectiveness - they must be better than placebos (which are usually also effective!). However in many cases rather than increasing antibiotic resistance or risking addiction issues you'd probably be better having some quack waving a crystal over you.
Most of the posted speed Limits are that - upper bounds on speed. It's rare to see a minimum speed posted. So I'm afraid you're just showing your ignorance.
Most speed limits are intended to be upper limits road and situation allowing, it's actually quite rare to see a minimum speed limit marked. This assumption that you have to do that speed exactly regardless is more likely to make you a hazard.
anti-democratic patronage/rent-seeking system or the other massive, institutionalized abuses that governments do.
Yeah why can't the little guy (who is the biggest taxi company in the world) just be left in peace to break the law for long enough to form a monopoly and put all those guys who currently make a living driving a taxi out of a job?
The thing is if you ever get into a taxi with a new taxi driver they are usually quite friendly and enthusiastic as well, there's something about driving people like you around for a while that eventually turns them into sullen miserable gits. Just like your first day on the job you're going to be really excited about doing that stupid report that 2 years later you despise. Give the Uber drivers a few years to actually do the job and see how they are doing.
People enjoy the fact he acts an arse, him actually being an arse is a bit different. People often love "characters" on television they would despise in real life, sadly Clarkson let his idiot persona take over his real one.
Is that what he did then? And also warned them to lookout for falling drones? Or are you just imagining it that way because you sympathise with this guys description of how things happened? And I would strongly emphasise it's a description and not necessarily the way it happened.
Given the temperament of the man in the article lets just imagine it was one of the neighbours shooting in the air and his daughters having buckshot falling on them as they "lay out by the pool", how do you think he would have responded?
I think you're a bit confused there, try and reduce it to energy in and energy out, if you are generating less thrust than you are putting in energy you can't get free energy, the speed is irrelevant, I don't know what you expect to achieve by dividing input power by output power, but it's not a velocity. In this engine (Watts x Seconds >> Newtons x Metres) = No free Joules.
At some point though you have to stop being sceptical of the results and start being sceptical about the equations that are telling you what you are seeing is impossible. I think we are getting pretty close to that stage.
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You're inclined to stick your head in the sand as well then I assume?
I think you will find money lending goes as far back as society.
Someone somewhere is always saying the price of property is out of control and there's a crash coming, don't mistake that for prescience on your part, especially given you were four years early...
The chixulub comparison is quite interesting, it does make you wonder what would happen if you could have your 100 impactors of that size delivered in a short period of time, what effect would that much energy have on the core of the planet (minimal I suppose) and how long would it take for the atmosphere to settle dwon afterwards. Of course the Martian conservation movement would be up in arms.
I concede the point on my use of the word effective in that context, maybe I should have been clearer.
That's exactly the point though, placebos do work, hence the placebo effect! Furthermore a variety of placebos seems more useful than a simple sugar pill, though the jury is out on the differences between their usefulness.
For the majority of ailments that people visit a doctor for a placebo would be the best treatment option, no-one is saying try and treat cancer with them. If you are being prescribed penicillin or anti-depressants or even mild painkillers you're probably better having nothing at all.
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Again, I'm not saying that is better than most drugs, because after all that's how drugs are tested for effectiveness - they must be better than placebos (which are usually also effective!). However in many cases rather than increasing antibiotic resistance or risking addiction issues you'd probably be better having some quack waving a crystal over you.
Few medical treatments are as effective as placebos, and homeopathy seems to be a particularly powerful form of placebo for some people.
Those two statements are not mutually exclusive. I thought people on this site were supposed to understand basic logic.
Most of the posted speed Limits are that - upper bounds on speed. It's rare to see a minimum speed posted. So I'm afraid you're just showing your ignorance.
Are you counting speed limits? Whenever I'm cycling in 20 mph zone I get passed at crazy speeds.
I think you misunderstand the law or the concept of an upper limit. This may make you a hazard.
Most speed limits are intended to be upper limits road and situation allowing, it's actually quite rare to see a minimum speed limit marked. This assumption that you have to do that speed exactly regardless is more likely to make you a hazard.
After school clubs, sports clubs at the weekends, none of these exist/happen in your limited experience?
Where you come from kids don't play in the school grounds at funny times of the day?
I think you should do a city swap with this guy, if you think London is worse than Mexico City for cycling in I suspect you are deeply mistaken.
Shops on the high street cost a lot to buy as well, is that because they are venal and corrupt?
Do you have proof that it's venal and corrupt? Or do you just think taxi's are too expensive?
anti-democratic patronage/rent-seeking system or the other massive, institutionalized abuses that governments do.
Yeah why can't the little guy (who is the biggest taxi company in the world) just be left in peace to break the law for long enough to form a monopoly and put all those guys who currently make a living driving a taxi out of a job?
The thing is if you ever get into a taxi with a new taxi driver they are usually quite friendly and enthusiastic as well, there's something about driving people like you around for a while that eventually turns them into sullen miserable gits. Just like your first day on the job you're going to be really excited about doing that stupid report that 2 years later you despise. Give the Uber drivers a few years to actually do the job and see how they are doing.
People enjoy the fact he acts an arse, him actually being an arse is a bit different. People often love "characters" on television they would despise in real life, sadly Clarkson let his idiot persona take over his real one.
Is that what he did then? And also warned them to lookout for falling drones? Or are you just imagining it that way because you sympathise with this guys description of how things happened? And I would strongly emphasise it's a description and not necessarily the way it happened.
Given the temperament of the man in the article lets just imagine it was one of the neighbours shooting in the air and his daughters having buckshot falling on them as they "lay out by the pool", how do you think he would have responded?
I think you're a bit confused there, try and reduce it to energy in and energy out, if you are generating less thrust than you are putting in energy you can't get free energy, the speed is irrelevant, I don't know what you expect to achieve by dividing input power by output power, but it's not a velocity. In this engine (Watts x Seconds >> Newtons x Metres) = No free Joules.
At some point though you have to stop being sceptical of the results and start being sceptical about the equations that are telling you what you are seeing is impossible. I think we are getting pretty close to that stage.