I don't want the hotel crew to ruffle through my belongings, and I don't want the park operators to track my behaviour. It's that simple.
And yes, I happen to have dirty laundry in my bags, when I am travelling.
And the melting point of titanium dioxide (titanium white) is at 1829 Celsius, making this surface coating surprisingly well suited against Laser attacks. Zinc white is even better with a melting point of 1975 Celsius.
It doesn't need to exactly mirror the incoming beam, it is fully sufficient to reflect the energy. So a zinc or titanium white coating with a reflectivity of about 97% would do wonders.
Yes, it neither worked for the monotheists in Persia (Parthians were mostly zoroastrists) nor for that small tribe in the later so called province Syria-Palaestina (small enough to simply be destroyed completely and the remaining people settled somewhere else, Hispania or Germania Inferior looks like a good idea...).
And it seems not to have worked for the Germans, but not because they were monotheists. No. It was because Germans required ongoing successes from their gods and their leaders. Romans did not only killed off the top brass of the enemy, they took the children of the next-in-line hostage to Rome, and educated them there, thus holding their parents back from uprising and creating a new pro-Rome generation of local leaders.
But for German tribes, a leader who was not getting them enough booty, was worthless, and they either overthrew him or just deserted him and went for the next tribe with a more profit oriented leader. So most German tribes were not necessarily big family clans, they were a collection of all the people who decided to join the tribe for their personal gains. Whenever the Romans thought to have captured the right hostages from the most influencal clans, the conquered German tribe either dissolved completely and the people joined other tribes, or they just toppled the ruling clans and replaced them with new ones.
And interpreting the local german gods as an aspect of Roman gods didn't work either, because Germans didn't have a fully hierarchical pantheon. If a German prayed to lets say Odin, and Odin didn't help, the German just stopped to pray to him and went for the next god. It was no use to declare Odin the german version of Iuppiter, and the Emperor in Rome the earthly incarnation of Iuppiter. If praying to the Emperor didn't get the expected success, Germans just shrugged and went for the next one. Germans were loyal only to successful warlords, and only as long as they were successful. No way to ever reconcile that with the thoroughly organized patria-et-familia-system of the Romans.
Thus Germans, differently than most other conquered tribes and people, were never allowed to become Roman citizens. Intermarriage between Romans and Germans was forbidden. Germans became foederati, contracted tribes, paid to keep the peace at their assigned part of the Limes, and paid to help the Emperor in his military campaigns.
When Rome didn't pay up for the services, German tribes didn't hesitate to ransack the next roman town and look for other places to settle. The Franks plundered the northern parts of Gallia in 257 AD. Alamans ransacked Augusta Treverorum in 275 AD. Constant attacks by the Saxons forced the Romans to built a chain of forts on both sides of the English channel around 300 AD, the Litus Saxonicum. The Visigoths laid siege to Milan in 402 AD, and finally plundered Rome in 410 AD.
The Romans were advanced. They had indoor plumbing, flush toilets (of a sort) and aquaducts that could transport water for hundreds of miles (most stretches of the aquaducts were enclosed in water mains similar to what we have today)
You know why we call this "plumbing"? Because it was done with plumbum, the latin word for lead.
Counterfeiting is covered by other laws, and it depends on what you are counterfeiting. Printing fake money is quite different from counterfeiting contract signatures or selling cheap copies of design bags.
I read mostly ebooks now, it's just so much more convenient compared with the paper version. One single, light piece of hardware instead of several easily crumpled books, prone to get stains, rip or fall apart. And if I get sleepy while reading, the ebook just stays where I left of reading, instead of the paper book closing itself, dropping down or pages being folded.
I wonder why eBooks outsell hardcover books, if they just don't take off.
Must have to do with eBooks being too expensive and not versatile enough. People are masochists and buy expensive and clumsy eBooks instead of cheap and easy to handle hardcovers.
It is still news, even if it is biased.
Each retelling of a story is an interpretation, and even the selection of a newsworthy story shows bias.
Get over it.
It's still news even though your strongly opiniated neighbor tells it.
For some reasons, a lot of people still believe that news, told by the wrong person, somehow aren't true. It's still news.
Actually, the BBC is not owned by the british government. For some reasons, some US-Americans have a problem with grasping the difference between "public" and "governmental".
This is plainly wrong - Warning labels are part of the natural selection. We survive better as a species by limiting the risk of falling victim to freak accidents by warning each other.
This would be akin to claiming that birds warning each others against predators would mess up the natural selection process. They don't. They just introduce additional complexity.
Hydrogenium is half greek (hydro-) and half latin (-genium) and means "water creator", which is a completely cromulent name for the element. Where the strange notion comes from, that the ending "-um" or "-ium" means a metal is beyond me. Wolfram, bismut and cobalt have no -um ending and are metals, while helium has the -um ending and is a noble gas.
So I call this bullshit.
Come back when we call the noble gas "hel".
Of the earliest atoms in the Galaxy we have plenty, they are called Hydrogenium atoms. As they just consist of an electron and a proton, and an electron is (as far as we know) elementar, and a proton seems not to decay into other particles (experiments have shown a life span of more than 10^32 seconds without decay, which means protons stay stable for far longer than the Universe, whose age is a mere 10^18 seconds), it means that basicly all Hydrogenium atoms today formed just a few moments after the Big Bang.
So tell me why there are bacteria, which can only exist in our guts? We didn't exist 200-300 mio years ago. So how can a lifeform, whose evolution stopped 200-300 mio years ago, suddenly be adapted solely to an environment forming just 65,000 years ago?
No, the evolution of bacteria continues and continues and doesn't stop at an arbitrary point in time.
That's right, I just disputed the notion of the parent poster that the metric units weren't based on any real-world criteria. They were. The original designer even made the effort to make sure that all metric units can be gauged at any point on Earth - by basing it on something that can be calculated everywhere with some nautical and astronomical knowledge, the distance between Northpole and Equator.
It was just to prove that the point the parent poster made (0 F is friggin' cold, and my body temperature hovers around 100 F) are as arbitrary as any other point on the temperatur scale by pointing out two other points on the temperature scale that make as much sense.
There is nothing in the Fahrenheit scale which is inherently better than the Celsius one. And the only reason we use Celsius in our daily lives and not Kelvin is that it's nice to have something which includes 0 at a point that is relevant to our daily lives - while still being totally arbitrary, the triple point of water is important for the carbon based live all of us have.
Yes, it has, but it is quite different to an organisation which makes illegal actions the principal course, which is what the state attorney in this case wants to prove.
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I don't want the hotel crew to ruffle through my belongings, and I don't want the park operators to track my behaviour. It's that simple. And yes, I happen to have dirty laundry in my bags, when I am travelling.
And the melting point of titanium dioxide (titanium white) is at 1829 Celsius, making this surface coating surprisingly well suited against Laser attacks. Zinc white is even better with a melting point of 1975 Celsius.
It doesn't need to exactly mirror the incoming beam, it is fully sufficient to reflect the energy. So a zinc or titanium white coating with a reflectivity of about 97% would do wonders.
Try 17th century. Switzerland officially broke from the HRE in 1649 (as did the Netherlands).
To add insult to injury, the U.S. was a signee of the Metre Convention of 1875.
The metric system was adopted in most of Europe on May 20 1875 (the so called Metre Convention) - not a time famous for widespread french occupation.
I give my height usually in meters and centimeters, it would be "one - eighty" in this case.
Yes, it neither worked for the monotheists in Persia (Parthians were mostly zoroastrists) nor for that small tribe in the later so called province Syria-Palaestina (small enough to simply be destroyed completely and the remaining people settled somewhere else, Hispania or Germania Inferior looks like a good idea...).
And it seems not to have worked for the Germans, but not because they were monotheists. No. It was because Germans required ongoing successes from their gods and their leaders. Romans did not only killed off the top brass of the enemy, they took the children of the next-in-line hostage to Rome, and educated them there, thus holding their parents back from uprising and creating a new pro-Rome generation of local leaders.
But for German tribes, a leader who was not getting them enough booty, was worthless, and they either overthrew him or just deserted him and went for the next tribe with a more profit oriented leader. So most German tribes were not necessarily big family clans, they were a collection of all the people who decided to join the tribe for their personal gains. Whenever the Romans thought to have captured the right hostages from the most influencal clans, the conquered German tribe either dissolved completely and the people joined other tribes, or they just toppled the ruling clans and replaced them with new ones.
And interpreting the local german gods as an aspect of Roman gods didn't work either, because Germans didn't have a fully hierarchical pantheon. If a German prayed to lets say Odin, and Odin didn't help, the German just stopped to pray to him and went for the next god. It was no use to declare Odin the german version of Iuppiter, and the Emperor in Rome the earthly incarnation of Iuppiter. If praying to the Emperor didn't get the expected success, Germans just shrugged and went for the next one. Germans were loyal only to successful warlords, and only as long as they were successful. No way to ever reconcile that with the thoroughly organized patria-et-familia-system of the Romans.
Thus Germans, differently than most other conquered tribes and people, were never allowed to become Roman citizens. Intermarriage between Romans and Germans was forbidden. Germans became foederati, contracted tribes, paid to keep the peace at their assigned part of the Limes, and paid to help the Emperor in his military campaigns.
When Rome didn't pay up for the services, German tribes didn't hesitate to ransack the next roman town and look for other places to settle. The Franks plundered the northern parts of Gallia in 257 AD. Alamans ransacked Augusta Treverorum in 275 AD. Constant attacks by the Saxons forced the Romans to built a chain of forts on both sides of the English channel around 300 AD, the Litus Saxonicum. The Visigoths laid siege to Milan in 402 AD, and finally plundered Rome in 410 AD.
The Romans were advanced. They had indoor plumbing, flush toilets (of a sort) and aquaducts that could transport water for hundreds of miles (most stretches of the aquaducts were enclosed in water mains similar to what we have today)
You know why we call this "plumbing"? Because it was done with plumbum, the latin word for lead.
But eBooks actually make a dent into book sales. There was more revenue in 2012 in the U.S. from selling eBooks than from selling paperbacks.
Counterfeiting is covered by other laws, and it depends on what you are counterfeiting. Printing fake money is quite different from counterfeiting contract signatures or selling cheap copies of design bags.
I read mostly ebooks now, it's just so much more convenient compared with the paper version. One single, light piece of hardware instead of several easily crumpled books, prone to get stains, rip or fall apart. And if I get sleepy while reading, the ebook just stays where I left of reading, instead of the paper book closing itself, dropping down or pages being folded.
I wonder why eBooks outsell hardcover books, if they just don't take off. Must have to do with eBooks being too expensive and not versatile enough. People are masochists and buy expensive and clumsy eBooks instead of cheap and easy to handle hardcovers.
It is still news, even if it is biased. Each retelling of a story is an interpretation, and even the selection of a newsworthy story shows bias. Get over it. It's still news even though your strongly opiniated neighbor tells it. For some reasons, a lot of people still believe that news, told by the wrong person, somehow aren't true. It's still news.
Actually, the BBC is not owned by the british government. For some reasons, some US-Americans have a problem with grasping the difference between "public" and "governmental".
So, Honolulu is in Kenya now? It's good to know.
This is plainly wrong - Warning labels are part of the natural selection. We survive better as a species by limiting the risk of falling victim to freak accidents by warning each other. This would be akin to claiming that birds warning each others against predators would mess up the natural selection process. They don't. They just introduce additional complexity.
Steve Ballmer is an AI?
Hydrogenium is half greek (hydro-) and half latin (-genium) and means "water creator", which is a completely cromulent name for the element. Where the strange notion comes from, that the ending "-um" or "-ium" means a metal is beyond me. Wolfram, bismut and cobalt have no -um ending and are metals, while helium has the -um ending and is a noble gas. So I call this bullshit. Come back when we call the noble gas "hel".
Of the earliest atoms in the Galaxy we have plenty, they are called Hydrogenium atoms. As they just consist of an electron and a proton, and an electron is (as far as we know) elementar, and a proton seems not to decay into other particles (experiments have shown a life span of more than 10^32 seconds without decay, which means protons stay stable for far longer than the Universe, whose age is a mere 10^18 seconds), it means that basicly all Hydrogenium atoms today formed just a few moments after the Big Bang.
So tell me why there are bacteria, which can only exist in our guts? We didn't exist 200-300 mio years ago. So how can a lifeform, whose evolution stopped 200-300 mio years ago, suddenly be adapted solely to an environment forming just 65,000 years ago? No, the evolution of bacteria continues and continues and doesn't stop at an arbitrary point in time.
The impovered hellhole Cuba is so much worse off than the rich and prospering Haiti, which did the U.S.' bidding.
That's right, I just disputed the notion of the parent poster that the metric units weren't based on any real-world criteria. They were. The original designer even made the effort to make sure that all metric units can be gauged at any point on Earth - by basing it on something that can be calculated everywhere with some nautical and astronomical knowledge, the distance between Northpole and Equator.
It was just to prove that the point the parent poster made (0 F is friggin' cold, and my body temperature hovers around 100 F) are as arbitrary as any other point on the temperatur scale by pointing out two other points on the temperature scale that make as much sense. There is nothing in the Fahrenheit scale which is inherently better than the Celsius one. And the only reason we use Celsius in our daily lives and not Kelvin is that it's nice to have something which includes 0 at a point that is relevant to our daily lives - while still being totally arbitrary, the triple point of water is important for the carbon based live all of us have.
Yes, it has, but it is quite different to an organisation which makes illegal actions the principal course, which is what the state attorney in this case wants to prove.