Yeah, except for the US, Britain... and pretty much every other western country apart from Germany and some eastern European countries (if that counts). Just because birth rates are below 2.1 per female doesn't mean population size will stabilise or decrease -- you need to factor in population momentum and immigration.
Firstly, your assumption that I despise those I refer to as 'uneducated masses' is unfounded. I have many good friends that would fall into that category, and I have no desire enslave them (at this stage anyway). I am simply saying that because these people tend to base their opinions about what their government should do on what is best FOR THEMSELVES in the SHORT TERM, they can be a barrier to progress/improvement. Maybe this doesn't happen in the US like it does here, but I doubt that. When I vote, I make my decision based on what I believe will be best for the country as a whole, regardless on how that may affect me personally. My belief on what is best may well be incorrect or flawed, but at least I am trying.
Google 'population momentum' for an explanation of why your second statement is quite incorrect. Basically, a birthrate of 2.1 or below doesn't stop population increase until around one average life expectancy after it was reached -- which, if I'm not mistaken, was only around 35-40 years ago for your country. That assumes that the birth rate is maintained at or below that level -- and if current trends are anything to go by, you may not ever make that one life expectancy.
Problem is that modern democracy is too far in the other direction. Very little gets done because it might interfere with what the uneducated masses think is best for them. I can't see how big problems like global overpopulation can be solved while we are trying to keep everyone happy -- in the end, some people will have to make sacrifices for the greater good. Obviously going about this in a Stalin like manner isn't the solution, but some changes are going to need to take place. Say what you will about China, but you can't deny that they are one of the very few countries with their population size under control.
It's predicted that the human population will reach 9 billion by 2040. That rate of growth simply cannot be sustained indefinitely, and by ignoring the problem we are condemning our descendants to a life of food and water shortages -- and not just those living in third world countries.
Exactly. There is no excuse for letting a stuck throttle escalate into a runaway car scenario. I too used to drive a car that had a sticky throttle cable, it's no big deal. The cause of these accidents is not bad electronics or anything like that, it's just bad and/or stupid drivers.
False. There is a check valve either in the brake booster or on the line to the brake booster that prevents this from happening -- even after you've turned the engine off, you can depress the pedal about three times before you loose vacuum assist. Once you push the pedal, no vacuum is 'used up' no matter how long you hold it.
It sounds like the check valve in the line to your booster may have been faulty. Again, stopping a car at full throttle at speed is no problem for a set of brakes in good condition. The only issue that can arise is if you attempt to maintain a constant speed using the brakes while the engine is at full throttle. Brakes can't dissipate that much heat at reasonable temperatures, so they can't provide the torque necessary to hold the engine indefinitely. You wouldn't want to take more than ~30 seconds or so to stop, but unless you're traveling phenomenally fast with standard brakes that's not an issue.
That's a good anecdote to show that you should keep your vehicles brakes in good order, nothing else. There is absolutely no way that a brake system in reasonable order wouldn't provide enough torque to stop the engine -- even in 1st gear, let alone a higher gear.
Further, races are social constructs. As in "constructed by societies." As in "not based in actual biology."
OK, that's ridiculous. I'm not arguing that one race is smarter than another or anything like that, but seeing as you can quite easily tell different races apart, there is obviously some biological difference.
Under tools>appearance you can set different skins. By default, it has the default and a 'windows native' one, that looks terrible, but may be easier to see? I don't know. There are a large number of others to choose from if you select the "find more skins" button.
Surely you mean move toward our planet? In any case, I imagine the energy required to shift the moons orbit any significant amount would be rather astronomical..... can someone be bothered calculating it out?
Great Idea, with the small exception of the fact that you'd need to travel to the said far off planet first with an entangled particle. At which point it would be pretty clear whether there was life there or not.
So how big of an antenna would it take for, lets say, a civilisation on a remote solar system planet to detect the day to day RF activity on this planet?
As I understand it, an impossibly large one. And it still wouldn't work. It just gets lost to the background noise of the universe at any real distance...
Interesting point -- I can't give any examples of explicit incompatibilities with the existence of ET life (although I have little knowledge of religion), but plenty of religious types seem to THINK that their religion states states that ET life does not exist. My guess is it's like the only-child faced with the prospect of a new sibling -- Their god gives them so little attention as it is, they don't want another 'child' vying for his/her attention!
Lighten up. If you're willing to pay ~$100k for a flying toy, I'm sure you can pay a mechanic to rebuild it if you can't cope with more than a screwdriver. The engine has been purpose built for the application, but it's nothing overly special, basically just a large-ish motorbike engine.
It has a ballistic parachute for when the shit hits the fan(s). Not much good at low altitude, so you woulnd't want to be hovering about the rooftops for too long, but no light aircraft is overly safe.... I'd imagine that for most of the people buying this device, that would be the point. It's dangerous, therefore fun.
Obviously our countries have a different way of going about things -- We do have a private healthcare option in addition to public healthcare. Our government will also provide food, shelter, and clothing to people if needed.
How is health care, and more generally looking after the country's citizens, not mandatory spending? To those of us who have grown up with tax funded health care, your statement sounds ridiculous.
I believe Richard Dawkins stated in one of his books that to make it statistically likely that one molecule of the active ingredient were present, you would need an amount of solution equal to the mass of the entire Solar system.... Makes 'a drop in the ocean' sound like a pretty strong brew.
Of course the infection had gone. If it hadn't, he would most likely have been hospitalised well before two weeks. Doctors put tubes/grommets in the ears to stop new infections occurring, not to cure existing ones. They are used in children with narrow passages within the ear that allow fluid to build up and become infected. These children can often have almost constant ear infections. Tubes are inserted to allow the fluid to drain until the child has grown to a point where the narrow passages are wide enough. Since the child in question was four years old already, it's very likely that his ears were starting to open up enough to allow fluid to drain adequately.
The tubes may have been unnecessary in his case, but that doesn't mean that some purified water (which is exactly what a 'homeopathic remedy' is, don't kid yourself) magically cured him.
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Yeah, except for the US, Britain... and pretty much every other western country apart from Germany and some eastern European countries (if that counts). Just because birth rates are below 2.1 per female doesn't mean population size will stabilise or decrease -- you need to factor in population momentum and immigration.
these are just nazis without the cool uniforms
Hmmm, doesn't really leave much appealing does it? For all their faults, Nazis did at least know how to dress to look awesome.
Firstly, your assumption that I despise those I refer to as 'uneducated masses' is unfounded. I have many good friends that would fall into that category, and I have no desire enslave them (at this stage anyway). I am simply saying that because these people tend to base their opinions about what their government should do on what is best FOR THEMSELVES in the SHORT TERM, they can be a barrier to progress/improvement. Maybe this doesn't happen in the US like it does here, but I doubt that. When I vote, I make my decision based on what I believe will be best for the country as a whole, regardless on how that may affect me personally. My belief on what is best may well be incorrect or flawed, but at least I am trying.
Google 'population momentum' for an explanation of why your second statement is quite incorrect. Basically, a birthrate of 2.1 or below doesn't stop population increase until around one average life expectancy after it was reached -- which, if I'm not mistaken, was only around 35-40 years ago for your country. That assumes that the birth rate is maintained at or below that level -- and if current trends are anything to go by, you may not ever make that one life expectancy.
The population of the US is predicted to reach 400 million by 2040. I'm not sure how that could be considered equilibrium.
Problem is that modern democracy is too far in the other direction. Very little gets done because it might interfere with what the uneducated masses think is best for them. I can't see how big problems like global overpopulation can be solved while we are trying to keep everyone happy -- in the end, some people will have to make sacrifices for the greater good. Obviously going about this in a Stalin like manner isn't the solution, but some changes are going to need to take place. Say what you will about China, but you can't deny that they are one of the very few countries with their population size under control.
It's predicted that the human population will reach 9 billion by 2040. That rate of growth simply cannot be sustained indefinitely, and by ignoring the problem we are condemning our descendants to a life of food and water shortages -- and not just those living in third world countries.
Exactly. There is no excuse for letting a stuck throttle escalate into a runaway car scenario. I too used to drive a car that had a sticky throttle cable, it's no big deal. The cause of these accidents is not bad electronics or anything like that, it's just bad and/or stupid drivers.
False. There is a check valve either in the brake booster or on the line to the brake booster that prevents this from happening -- even after you've turned the engine off, you can depress the pedal about three times before you loose vacuum assist. Once you push the pedal, no vacuum is 'used up' no matter how long you hold it.
It sounds like the check valve in the line to your booster may have been faulty. Again, stopping a car at full throttle at speed is no problem for a set of brakes in good condition. The only issue that can arise is if you attempt to maintain a constant speed using the brakes while the engine is at full throttle. Brakes can't dissipate that much heat at reasonable temperatures, so they can't provide the torque necessary to hold the engine indefinitely. You wouldn't want to take more than ~30 seconds or so to stop, but unless you're traveling phenomenally fast with standard brakes that's not an issue.
That's a good anecdote to show that you should keep your vehicles brakes in good order, nothing else. There is absolutely no way that a brake system in reasonable order wouldn't provide enough torque to stop the engine -- even in 1st gear, let alone a higher gear.
Further, races are social constructs. As in "constructed by societies." As in "not based in actual biology."
OK, that's ridiculous. I'm not arguing that one race is smarter than another or anything like that, but seeing as you can quite easily tell different races apart, there is obviously some biological difference.
Under tools>appearance you can set different skins. By default, it has the default and a 'windows native' one, that looks terrible, but may be easier to see? I don't know. There are a large number of others to choose from if you select the "find more skins" button.
Surely you mean move toward our planet? In any case, I imagine the energy required to shift the moons orbit any significant amount would be rather astronomical..... can someone be bothered calculating it out?
The aim is to generate 1.2 gigawatts
I think they'll find they need another 10MW to achieve what they're really after....
Come on, they also make a lot of good stuff along with all that rubbish.
Great Idea, with the small exception of the fact that you'd need to travel to the said far off planet first with an entangled particle. At which point it would be pretty clear whether there was life there or not.
So how big of an antenna would it take for, lets say, a civilisation on a remote solar system planet to detect the day to day RF activity on this planet?
As I understand it, an impossibly large one. And it still wouldn't work. It just gets lost to the background noise of the universe at any real distance...
OR maybe they have a series of tubes connecting their hydraulic computers, in which pressure waves are used to transmit data.
Interesting point -- I can't give any examples of explicit incompatibilities with the existence of ET life (although I have little knowledge of religion), but plenty of religious types seem to THINK that their religion states states that ET life does not exist. My guess is it's like the only-child faced with the prospect of a new sibling -- Their god gives them so little attention as it is, they don't want another 'child' vying for his/her attention!
Lighten up. If you're willing to pay ~$100k for a flying toy, I'm sure you can pay a mechanic to rebuild it if you can't cope with more than a screwdriver. The engine has been purpose built for the application, but it's nothing overly special, basically just a large-ish motorbike engine.
It has a ballistic parachute for when the shit hits the fan(s). Not much good at low altitude, so you woulnd't want to be hovering about the rooftops for too long, but no light aircraft is overly safe.... I'd imagine that for most of the people buying this device, that would be the point. It's dangerous, therefore fun.
The martin jetpack has a ballistic parachute system for such eventualities.
Obviously our countries have a different way of going about things -- We do have a private healthcare option in addition to public healthcare. Our government will also provide food, shelter, and clothing to people if needed.
How is health care, and more generally looking after the country's citizens, not mandatory spending? To those of us who have grown up with tax funded health care, your statement sounds ridiculous.
And just as well too. Most journalism these days is best forgotten.
I believe Richard Dawkins stated in one of his books that to make it statistically likely that one molecule of the active ingredient were present, you would need an amount of solution equal to the mass of the entire Solar system.... Makes 'a drop in the ocean' sound like a pretty strong brew.
Of course the infection had gone. If it hadn't, he would most likely have been hospitalised well before two weeks. Doctors put tubes/grommets in the ears to stop new infections occurring, not to cure existing ones. They are used in children with narrow passages within the ear that allow fluid to build up and become infected. These children can often have almost constant ear infections. Tubes are inserted to allow the fluid to drain until the child has grown to a point where the narrow passages are wide enough. Since the child in question was four years old already, it's very likely that his ears were starting to open up enough to allow fluid to drain adequately.
The tubes may have been unnecessary in his case, but that doesn't mean that some purified water (which is exactly what a 'homeopathic remedy' is, don't kid yourself) magically cured him.