The bill is posted at . It does not have anything to do with government-paid flood insurance. It primarily has to do with the distance that structures must be set back from high tide lines and the replacement of structures damaged by stories (Section 3). The rest of the bill has to do with defining various environmental impacts (Sections 4 and 5).
No, Jerusalem is considered to the third holiest site in Islam because this is where Muhammad is supposed to have ascended to Heaven from. There is no question that Jerusalem has always been an important city to Islam. And in the early years Muslims did face towards Jerusalem when they prayed. It was changed to Mecca after about 10 or 20 years for reasons that are not (as far as I know) well known.
No. A myth is still a myth no matter how many people believe that it is not. If two billion people started to believe that the world was gnawed out of a carrot by The Great Rabbit, it would still be just a myth.
One cannot see the gamma-ray part of a gamma-ray burst, but one can see the afterglow, and afterglows can be very bright. A typical optical afterglow from a gamma-ray burst lasts for several days, and can be brighter than a supernova. If a gamma-ray burst did cause this burst of radiation then it is quite reasonable that the optical afterglow would have been seen. However, if the burst did occur behind the Sun then, because the afterglow fades very fast, it is possible that the afterglow would have faded to the point that it was no longer obvious by the time the Earth-Sun alignment had changed enough for it to be seen.
>>>Except that they feed that natural milk to their kids, and it has a tendency to do severe and permanent damage.
> Bullshit. People have been drinking natural milk for 10s of thousands of years without harm.
Rubbish. Lactose tolerance in humans is a very recent development. The mutation is only about 5000 years old, and far more recent in some populations. It is also not true that drinking raw milk did not harm people. For example, raw milk was one of the primary vectors for tuberculosis. Illness from milk was one of the leading causes of bacterial infection in pre-industrial farmers and herders. There is a reason that the world adopted Pasteurization as quickly as it did: it saved a lot of lives.
My experience is that most Danes have very little experience listening to bad Danish, so they have a lot of trouble understanding it and would rather switch to English. However, I also found that in order to have a social life with people outside of the foreigner community I had to learn Danish. It is possible to live in Denmark without understanding Danish, but I would strongly recommend learning it to anyone who moves there. I also found that most Danes were very willing to help me learn, as long as I was making an effort (or buying them beer).
> How easy was it to find work in Denmark without speaking Danish?
I lived in Denmark for a few years in the late 1990s and my experience is that it depended a lot on what type of work one is looking for. The more technical your skills are the easier it will be to find work without being fluent in Danish. In fact, some workplaces even used English as much as Danish. However, if you want something like a blue collar job then you will need to learn the language. Regardless of where you work you will need to learn enough Danish to carry on a conversation as soon as possible. Most Danes under the age of about 50 are fluent in English, but speaking the language is the key to being accepted into Danish society.
You are assuming that most pulsars are in the Galactic disc. However, pulsars are born with kick velocities that can cause them to move far out into the Galactic halo. The true distribution of pulsars in the Galaxy is not known, but it almost certainly does not follow the distribution of stars. Now, because pulsars have limited lifetimes, they are probably much more common near the Galactic disc than far away from it, but this has nothing to do with their rotation axes.
This is largely an illusion. Most space-based telescopes are run either by NASA or ESA, and both of those organizations have very large public relations offices. These offices issue a lot of press releases and put a lot of effort into getting results from their satellites into the media. The Space Telescope Science Institute was one of the pioneers of this approach to popularizing astronomy, and they were very successful at it. Ground-based observatories tend not to have big public outreach budgets, and usually do not have large numbers of people dedicated to getting their results into the media, so we do not see their results on the front pages of the New York Times or the Economist as often.
Space- and ground-based observatories generally do very different things and complement each other instead of compete with each other. For example, I have used ground-based observatories to take spectra of very faint sources and combined them with X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical observations from Swift and Hubble. The science that comes out of these observations would be impossible without observatories both on the ground and in orbit.
In general, Americans, from Big Bush down to the Marine Corp, and on down to the average Joe handled the Canadian flag incident very well at the time. It is amusing, though, that now some people are trying to pretend that it never happened.
It is hared to believe that the US Marine Corp could get something that simple wrong. On the other hand, it is hard to believe that the US Marine Corp would do that deliberately.
>> You guys do know there are other countries, right? Stuff happens in them all the time that could arguably be called "news" and doesn't involve America at all.
> Yes, but for the most part...that news has virtually no effect on the common American's daily life...so we generally don't care that much what else is happening in the world.
Actually, a lot of what happens outside of the US has a strong effect on the common American's daily life. For example, most of the things influencing gas prices happen outside the US. The US is deeply integrated into the rest of the world, regardless of whether or not people in the US realize that or not.
I wish that I had some mod points today so that I could mod this as funny. Now that I think about it, I seem to remember that David Parness, years ago, proved that it is not possible to guarantee that code is bug free, but perhaps I am misremembering something.
Most people learn as much as they need to about something that they use, but no more. Most drivers have no real understanding of how their cars work, because they do not need to. Most homeowners cannot do more than basic home repairs without screwing them up, because they find it easier to hire someone instead of learning how to do it themselves. Most people invest in things like mutual funds because they are not interested in getting involved in the nitty-gritty of individual investment instruments. The same is true for computers. Most people never need to use them for anything more than simple tasks, so they never learn to use them at a level beyond what is needed to do those tasks. They do not need to, so they put their effort into learning things that they actually need to do on a more frequent basis.
The point is that many, if not most, Mac users like the simple OS X Ui, and like not having to think about it too much. Apple is, for the most part, giving them what they want. This is not good for power users, but we are not where the money is.
No, it means that he has not had to use any maths skills in years, or perhaps decades. Also, do not forget that the test that he took was not the same as the tests that the questions in the article were taken from. For all we know the maths questions in his test were significantly harder. They were, after all, 10th grade maths questions and not 4th grade ones.
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The bill is posted at . It does not have anything to do with government-paid flood insurance. It primarily has to do with the distance that structures must be set back from high tide lines and the replacement of structures damaged by stories (Section 3). The rest of the bill has to do with defining various environmental impacts (Sections 4 and 5).
Are ipads ITAR restricted? If not then the refusal to sell her the ipad had nothing to do with national security.
No, Jerusalem is considered to the third holiest site in Islam because this is where Muhammad is supposed to have ascended to Heaven from. There is no question that Jerusalem has always been an important city to Islam. And in the early years Muslims did face towards Jerusalem when they prayed. It was changed to Mecca after about 10 or 20 years for reasons that are not (as far as I know) well known.
The Great Rabbit will protect me.
No. A myth is still a myth no matter how many people believe that it is not. If two billion people started to believe that the world was gnawed out of a carrot by The Great Rabbit, it would still be just a myth.
One cannot see the gamma-ray part of a gamma-ray burst, but one can see the afterglow, and afterglows can be very bright. A typical optical afterglow from a gamma-ray burst lasts for several days, and can be brighter than a supernova. If a gamma-ray burst did cause this burst of radiation then it is quite reasonable that the optical afterglow would have been seen. However, if the burst did occur behind the Sun then, because the afterglow fades very fast, it is possible that the afterglow would have faded to the point that it was no longer obvious by the time the Earth-Sun alignment had changed enough for it to be seen.
>>>Except that they feed that natural milk to their kids, and it has a tendency to do severe and permanent damage.
> Bullshit. People have been drinking natural milk for 10s of thousands of years without harm.
Rubbish. Lactose tolerance in humans is a very recent development. The mutation is only about 5000 years old, and far more recent in some populations. It is also not true that drinking raw milk did not harm people. For example, raw milk was one of the primary vectors for tuberculosis. Illness from milk was one of the leading causes of bacterial infection in pre-industrial farmers and herders. There is a reason that the world adopted Pasteurization as quickly as it did: it saved a lot of lives.
My experience is that most Danes have very little experience listening to bad Danish, so they have a lot of trouble understanding it and would rather switch to English. However, I also found that in order to have a social life with people outside of the foreigner community I had to learn Danish. It is possible to live in Denmark without understanding Danish, but I would strongly recommend learning it to anyone who moves there. I also found that most Danes were very willing to help me learn, as long as I was making an effort (or buying them beer).
> How easy was it to find work in Denmark without speaking Danish?
I lived in Denmark for a few years in the late 1990s and my experience is that it depended a lot on what type of work one is looking for. The more technical your skills are the easier it will be to find work without being fluent in Danish. In fact, some workplaces even used English as much as Danish. However, if you want something like a blue collar job then you will need to learn the language. Regardless of where you work you will need to learn enough Danish to carry on a conversation as soon as possible. Most Danes under the age of about 50 are fluent in English, but speaking the language is the key to being accepted into Danish society.
You are assuming that most pulsars are in the Galactic disc. However, pulsars are born with kick velocities that can cause them to move far out into the Galactic halo. The true distribution of pulsars in the Galaxy is not known, but it almost certainly does not follow the distribution of stars. Now, because pulsars have limited lifetimes, they are probably much more common near the Galactic disc than far away from it, but this has nothing to do with their rotation axes.
The rotation axes of stars, and thus pulsars, are randomly distributed. There is no correlation with the Galactic Plane.
It is always a good idea to use ROT13 twice to double encrypt your files.
There has been opposition to building telescopes on some mountains.
http://mauisierraclub.org/?p=57
http://www.mountgraham.org/content/suit-launched-save-mount-graham-red-squirrel-university-arizona-telescope-project
This is largely an illusion. Most space-based telescopes are run either by NASA or ESA, and both of those organizations have very large public relations offices. These offices issue a lot of press releases and put a lot of effort into getting results from their satellites into the media. The Space Telescope Science Institute was one of the pioneers of this approach to popularizing astronomy, and they were very successful at it. Ground-based observatories tend not to have big public outreach budgets, and usually do not have large numbers of people dedicated to getting their results into the media, so we do not see their results on the front pages of the New York Times or the Economist as often.
Space- and ground-based observatories generally do very different things and complement each other instead of compete with each other. For example, I have used ground-based observatories to take spectra of very faint sources and combined them with X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical observations from Swift and Hubble. The science that comes out of these observations would be impossible without observatories both on the ground and in orbit.
In general, Americans, from Big Bush down to the Marine Corp, and on down to the average Joe handled the Canadian flag incident very well at the time. It is amusing, though, that now some people are trying to pretend that it never happened.
It is hared to believe that the US Marine Corp could get something that simple wrong. On the other hand, it is hard to believe that the US Marine Corp would do that deliberately.
Other countries have made similar error. For example, during the 1992 World Series.
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/military-honor-guard-displays-the-canadian-flag-upside-down-news-photo/51549719
"Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive."
>> You guys do know there are other countries, right? Stuff happens in them all the time that could arguably be called "news" and doesn't involve America at all.
> Yes, but for the most part...that news has virtually no effect on the common American's daily life...so we generally don't care that much what else is happening in the world.
Actually, a lot of what happens outside of the US has a strong effect on the common American's daily life. For example, most of the things influencing gas prices happen outside the US. The US is deeply integrated into the rest of the world, regardless of whether or not people in the US realize that or not.
I wish that I had some mod points today so that I could mod this as funny. Now that I think about it, I seem to remember that David Parness, years ago, proved that it is not possible to guarantee that code is bug free, but perhaps I am misremembering something.
Oh not this nonsense again. The Nazis were socialist in the same sense that the former East Germany was a democratic republic.
Most people learn as much as they need to about something that they use, but no more. Most drivers have no real understanding of how their cars work, because they do not need to. Most homeowners cannot do more than basic home repairs without screwing them up, because they find it easier to hire someone instead of learning how to do it themselves. Most people invest in things like mutual funds because they are not interested in getting involved in the nitty-gritty of individual investment instruments. The same is true for computers. Most people never need to use them for anything more than simple tasks, so they never learn to use them at a level beyond what is needed to do those tasks. They do not need to, so they put their effort into learning things that they actually need to do on a more frequent basis.
The point is that many, if not most, Mac users like the simple OS X Ui, and like not having to think about it too much. Apple is, for the most part, giving them what they want. This is not good for power users, but we are not where the money is.
I suspect that if you asked your average US middle-aged adult to take a high school English exam they would have trouble with it too.
No, it means that he has not had to use any maths skills in years, or perhaps decades. Also, do not forget that the test that he took was not the same as the tests that the questions in the article were taken from. For all we know the maths questions in his test were significantly harder. They were, after all, 10th grade maths questions and not 4th grade ones.