If someone had actually managed to get cold fusion working, we would know by now. It's a too good idea to let it pass by. And no, in general there is no established theory that forbids cold fusion. Of course watching Sisyphos carrying the same rock again and again up the hill is fun to watch, and it's easy to make a joke about it. And of course arguing that grants should not go to Sisyphos for better rock carrying equipment, but for some other causes is easy. Both does not mean that people think Sisyphos will never manage to get the rock on top. It just means that people think there are more low hanging fruit to get where one should go first.
No. Some people actually set up a news organisation because they want to sell news they get easily by to other news outlets, which don't have such an easy access to the same news. And then there are people who saw a market for a certain type of journal, and to get new stuff to publish, they have to look for news that fit the profile for the journal, and finally end up in gathering those news themselves.
Actually, Brontosaurus is no longer recognized, because some Camarasaurus fossils were lying at the same place as the Apatosaurus ones, so Brontosaurus actually was a misreconstruction made up from two different species.
Not necessarily. A modern diesel engine has a thermal efficiency of about 40%. The whole chain from coal and oil to the power socket in your wall has a thermal efficiency of about 30%. Building smaller power plants closer to the consumers of electrical energy would increase the thermal efficiency because the loss due to grid inefficiencies would be greatly reduced.
But supercomputers are supposed to automate large parts of research. Imagine modelling a whole planet system coming into being from a stellar dust cloud without computers!
If someone actually granted that as a patent, then what constitutes a patent? Just because I do something different than my neighbor I am not an inventor. Otherwise I just build a random tournament generator and every schedule it throws out which is not played anywhere yet is patentworthy.
Not entirely. The Christkindl is a south german tradition - existing only there and traditionally nowhere else. No one for instance in Saxony would have thought of having a Christkindl giving presents for Christmas.
No. It's simply wrong and probably a messing up with another character which indeed was created by a marketing campaign.
I can show you Santa Claus pictures going back at least to 1822 showing a white bearded, red clothed Santa Claus (the german "Struwwelpeter" for instance has one).
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) was bishop in Myra, a small town in today's southern Turkey. As a bishop, he is wearing a red gown on all depictions of him - showing him with the red ornate of every catholic bishop. In the european catholic countries Santa Claus is still wearing a bishop hat (a mitre), but everything else is very similar to the US version.
And an editorial piece of the New York Times from 1932, several years before the marketing campaign from Coca Cola, already complains about exactly that standardized Santa Claus picture the urban myth attributes to Coca Cola.
No, Coca Cola has nothing to do with the creation of Santa Claus or any of his modern image. It just took the iconography that was already there for a marketing campaign.
But one Christmas character indeed comes from a marketing campaign of that time: It's Rudolph the Rednoosed Reindeer.
It's still an onsided alteration of an existing contract. One service you paid for (being able to restore the copy from the Amazon store) is no longer offered without recompensation.
She was governor of a state with a number of inhabitants so small that other states have small rural counties that are larger. The only reason Alaska is a state of its own is because it is too far away from any other state.
Or to make it more clear: You got the etymology of the number of the year wrong, not the church people. They call the Year 2000 actually "the 2000th year of the Lord", and the 2000th year had not finished until Dec 31 2000. Not until Jan 1 of the 2001th has started, 2000 years are over.
No, church people set the Christmas event in the twelve nights between Dec 24 and Jan 6, and called the year until Dec 24 "the last year before Christ (1 BC)" and the year after Jan 6 "the first year of the Lord (1 AD)", with AD meaning "anno Domini" = year of the Lord.
There was no ambivalent year which was neither before Christ nor being a year of the Lord, so no "0 BC = 0 AD".
But every sport is somehow a fake or at least an abstraction of some real event. Track and field happens on simulated paths (tracks), with artificial obstacles (hurdles, high jump) and not very real weapons like spears (javelin), rocks (shotput) and slings (hammer throwing). Lets call them laboratory conditions for a controlled environment to make the results less dependend on random chance. The same is true for car racing.
The probability that I will die from a fishbone stuck in my throat is about 10,000 times higher than falling victim to a terrorist attack. And I don't stop eating fish.
The basic reaction in the german Spiegel forum about the U.S.'s opinion of german politicans was: "Nothing new to see here. Just my opinion being confirmed." I guess this is generally true for most other countries. Or to put it differently: If the U.S. assessment was widely different from what most people were thinking anyway, I would have been wondering if the U.S. diplomats and the world were living in parallel universes.
To be honest, during the golden 60ies in the U.S. the top tax rate was 91%, and the country was wealthy and strong. To be able to earn such a big income means that there are lots of external factors you can make use of, as in a stable society, a well maintained infrastructure, a strong military and low crime. And the more money you make, the more you use this infrastructure. People at the top easily forgot how much the country is supporting them, they live under the surreal impression that somehow they pay for everthing themselves.
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Reuters, founded by Paul Julius Reuter in 1850 in the german town of Aachen to send stock market news via messenger pigeons.
If someone had actually managed to get cold fusion working, we would know by now. It's a too good idea to let it pass by. And no, in general there is no established theory that forbids cold fusion.
Of course watching Sisyphos carrying the same rock again and again up the hill is fun to watch, and it's easy to make a joke about it. And of course arguing that grants should not go to Sisyphos for better rock carrying equipment, but for some other causes is easy. Both does not mean that people think Sisyphos will never manage to get the rock on top. It just means that people think there are more low hanging fruit to get where one should go first.
No. Some people actually set up a news organisation because they want to sell news they get easily by to other news outlets, which don't have such an easy access to the same news. And then there are people who saw a market for a certain type of journal, and to get new stuff to publish, they have to look for news that fit the profile for the journal, and finally end up in gathering those news themselves.
Actually, Brontosaurus is no longer recognized, because some Camarasaurus fossils were lying at the same place as the Apatosaurus ones, so Brontosaurus actually was a misreconstruction made up from two different species.
SuSE Linux GmbH is still a company, and it is not part of Novell Germany, but a separate corporate entity, while wholly owned by Novell Corp.
It's Citroën 2CV.
The pronounciation "deux chevaux" (two horses) is just a little gag.
Not necessarily. A modern diesel engine has a thermal efficiency of about 40%. The whole chain from coal and oil to the power socket in your wall has a thermal efficiency of about 30%. Building smaller power plants closer to the consumers of electrical energy would increase the thermal efficiency because the loss due to grid inefficiencies would be greatly reduced.
But supercomputers are supposed to automate large parts of research. Imagine modelling a whole planet system coming into being from a stellar dust cloud without computers!
If someone actually granted that as a patent, then what constitutes a patent?
Just because I do something different than my neighbor I am not an inventor.
Otherwise I just build a random tournament generator and every schedule it throws out which is not played anywhere yet is patentworthy.
Not entirely. The Christkindl is a south german tradition - existing only there and traditionally nowhere else. No one for instance in Saxony would have thought of having a Christkindl giving presents for Christmas.
No. It's simply wrong and probably a messing up with another character which indeed was created by a marketing campaign.
I can show you Santa Claus pictures going back at least to 1822 showing a white bearded, red clothed Santa Claus (the german "Struwwelpeter" for instance has one).
Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) was bishop in Myra, a small town in today's southern Turkey. As a bishop, he is wearing a red gown on all depictions of him - showing him with the red ornate of every catholic bishop. In the european catholic countries Santa Claus is still wearing a bishop hat (a mitre), but everything else is very similar to the US version.
And an editorial piece of the New York Times from 1932, several years before the marketing campaign from Coca Cola, already complains about exactly that standardized Santa Claus picture the urban myth attributes to Coca Cola.
No, Coca Cola has nothing to do with the creation of Santa Claus or any of his modern image. It just took the iconography that was already there for a marketing campaign.
But one Christmas character indeed comes from a marketing campaign of that time: It's Rudolph the Rednoosed Reindeer.
What balls do you need to call a single person without any physical power over you sitting in a cell in another country a douche?
If that's all you can say about the balls of American politicans, you are doing them a disservice. They probably can better than that.
It's still an onsided alteration of an existing contract. One service you paid for (being able to restore the copy from the Amazon store) is no longer offered without recompensation.
They don't have the balls to cover women's soccer.
She was governor of a state with a number of inhabitants so small that other states have small rural counties that are larger. The only reason Alaska is a state of its own is because it is too far away from any other state.
She probably quitted counting fertile days because it was too hard.
Or to make it more clear: You got the etymology of the number of the year wrong, not the church people.
They call the Year 2000 actually "the 2000th year of the Lord", and the 2000th year had not finished until Dec 31 2000. Not until Jan 1 of the 2001th has started, 2000 years are over.
No, church people set the Christmas event in the twelve nights between Dec 24 and Jan 6, and called the year until Dec 24 "the last year before Christ (1 BC)" and the year after Jan 6 "the first year of the Lord (1 AD)", with AD meaning "anno Domini" = year of the Lord.
There was no ambivalent year which was neither before Christ nor being a year of the Lord, so no "0 BC = 0 AD".
But every sport is somehow a fake or at least an abstraction of some real event. Track and field happens on simulated paths (tracks), with artificial obstacles (hurdles, high jump) and not very real weapons like spears (javelin), rocks (shotput) and slings (hammer throwing).
Lets call them laboratory conditions for a controlled environment to make the results less dependend on random chance.
The same is true for car racing.
But I personally are less concerned about terrorist attacks than I am about the daily risk of being alive.
The probability that I will die from a fishbone stuck in my throat is about 10,000 times higher than falling victim to a terrorist attack.
And I don't stop eating fish.
So what?
The basic reaction in the german Spiegel forum about the U.S.'s opinion of german politicans was: "Nothing new to see here. Just my opinion being confirmed." I guess this is generally true for most other countries.
Or to put it differently: If the U.S. assessment was widely different from what most people were thinking anyway, I would have been wondering if the U.S. diplomats and the world were living in parallel universes.
To quote "The Fifth Elephant" from Terry Pratchett: "Diplomat is another word for spy." What are you thinking diplomats are doing during their time?
Me and my wife are not elected to work in your interest. That's a big difference.
To be honest, during the golden 60ies in the U.S. the top tax rate was 91%, and the country was wealthy and strong.
To be able to earn such a big income means that there are lots of external factors you can make use of, as in a stable society, a well maintained infrastructure, a strong military and low crime. And the more money you make, the more you use this infrastructure. People at the top easily forgot how much the country is supporting them, they live under the surreal impression that somehow they pay for everthing themselves.