The government does only what the lobbyists wanted and what the general public let go through unchecked, convinced by a F.U.D. campaign that it would be better to set those rules.
If the intend of the liberal media is to block any republican to ever become president in the near future, they do an amazing job. Overhyping the least probable candidate to every make inroads in democratic voting territory to manipulate the republican primaries and thus give any democratic candidate a clean route to victory.
Birds are actually pretty good at avoiding windfarms because of the noice -- with one exception: predator birds. But they are bad at avoiding any obstacles anyway. Large, single trees kill about the same number of predator birds hitting their trunk and branches as windfarms.
But one of the most important properties of resonance (that makes it different from similar phenomena) is the fact that it happens only in a small frequency band. Resonance happens if the cause has the same frequency than the effect, and both interfere, and the interference pattern increases the amplitude.
What we had with Galloping Gertie was a positive feedback loop. It would have happened at any swing frequency.
It's not that children are banned from using social media, though the article make it look that way. On the contrary, companies are forbidden to ask the children for personal information, compile a database of it and sell it to affiliates and third parties, except with parental permission.
So yes, 15 year olds will still access sites which require those by providing bogus information. But then, the value of the information is nil, and companies themselves will set up measures to weed out bogus information because that would diminish the value of their databases to potential customers.
The age limit is just for when companies can start to ask private information and build a profile from them and sell them to affiliate companies and third parties.
For that, any company needs parental agreement until the age limit. Any company that doesn't ask personal information and does not require them to access the services it offers is free to accept any user at any age (if the services itself don't violate any other age limits).
The creation of welfare states are the greatest threat to freedom because the actions of one person now affect the pocketbook of another. It's true that in societies, people who make poor decisions have always affected others: if the only blacksmith in town drinks himself to death, where are people going to get their horseshoes? But this is greatly exacerbated in a state full of subsidies and other shared burdens.
Before the welfare state, the actions of one person affected the bare life of another. It's the welfare state that allows people to recover from a sickness, to take time off to pursue some education or to take care of their children. All society is about is sharing the burden and sharing the benefits. If the older generation didn't share their experiences with us (we call this 'education'), we would be damned to reinvent everything again. If your blacksmith couldn't go to a baker to get some bread, he would never have the time to specialize as a blacksmith. I remember reading of some guy who as a project went out to built a toaster all on his own, from the resources he himself took out of Nature, and after 10 years, he still wasn't done yet (I don't know if he is now). It's sharing the burden that allows even mundane objects like a toaster to be manufactured.
Freedom as many libertarians understand it is actually a result of having a society which allows us to share burdens. It's the inherent welfare state that helps your parents while you are a toddler, that keeps you fed while you get an education, that protects you while you sleep and that provides you with support in all the situations you can't support yourself.
Anybody can enter into a legal contract, overseen by standard contact law, to live together and share stuff.
THAT is not "marriage" in any normal sense, but it probably is the view of marriage that some secular humanists have.
That is marriage in the sense most of Europe understands it. There, marrage is a civil contract and can only be performed by a public agent. No religious group is allowed to perform marriages. All they are allowed is to perform a service after the civil union has been established.
The hypothesis about the Christian faith created by the Romans, while intriguing, has some problems with well researched facts.
The christian faith was forbidden for most of the time of the Roman Empire, starting in the mid of the first century AD, and continuing until 313 AD, when the Edict of Milan was issued, while the three Jewish-Roman wars were fought between 66 AD and 137 AD, ending with the dissolution of the jewish society and the begin of the Diaspora. So during the whole time the Romans were "manipulating the Jews", the christian faith was forbidden and being punished by death.
If you read the last paragraph of the article, you find a more detailed picture. There were already birds populating all other continents before the KT event, the Enantiornithes. But they died out together with the other dinosaurs. It was just the population of the western gondwana island, that survived, already split into the main groups of birds we know today, and from there those groups conquered the continents and radiated into all the different species of birds we know today.
I didn't miss the passage. But if you want to go back to the '80ies fatalities rates, be my guest. And bad building quality is not an inherent electronics problem.
Science is not a belief system. There are some people who use it as one, but that doesn't make Science a belief system in itself. Science is literally about "making a cut" (Latin: scire = to know and scindere = to split), a collection of best practices how to discern between a good and a bad idea.
There are methods like experiments and also methods like trying to logically compare an idea to things already known. In the end, any idea you throw Science at gets evaluated, and that's the point where some people might think that it has something to do with a belief, the belief that any idea should be evaluated by Science in general, and that the evaluation results are valid and in some way important to us.
On the other hand, the 35 year old Ford probably sucks at any crash, while the Chevy gives you decent survival rates. Most of the increased weight and thus the increased energy consumption for anything else than cruising along a straight highway is mostly caused by the enforced body structure to withstand diverse impact scenarios, and another cause is the increased glas surface compared to a car from the late 1970ies/early 1980ies. The electronics got introduced when emission standards forced the introduction of engine characteristic maps to control the ignition, and the widespread adoption of anti locking brakes.
Tokamak type reactors are impulse based, the Stellarator is not. In TFA, they point out exactly that:
But tokamaks have serious drawbacks. A transformer can drive a current in the plasma only in short pulses that would not suit a commercial fusion reactor. Current in the plasma can also falter unexpectedly, resulting in “disruptions”: sudden losses of plasma confinement that can unleash magnetic forces powerful enough to damage the reactor. Such problems plague even up-and-coming designs such as the spherical tokamak (Science, 22 May, p. 854).
Stellarators, however, are immune. Their fields come entirely from external coils, which don’t need to be pulsed, and there is no plasma current to suffer disruptions.
On the other hand: remote control of and communication between infrastructure items is nothing new. The VMEbus ANSI/IEEE 1014-1987 does the same, it just uses no 802.x link layer and no IP protocol.
A credit card is a method of payment, not a currency. There have been virtual currencies before (e.g. the Ecu), but they were never publicly available.
Ironically, you won't see any AK-47 around except at shows of historical weapons. The gun most people call the AK-47 is actually the AK-74. Yes, switched ciphers in the model number, pointing to a major overhaul of the concept in 1970, and the new gun together with a new type of ammunition, 5.45×39mm replacing the 7.62×39mm of the AK-47, got introduced to the Red Army in 1974, hence the name. On the other hand, even the AK-74 is also more than 40 years old now.
If it were just logic, barely anyone would wear a wrist watch anyway. Wherever I go, publicly visible clocks are aboundant, and even my cell phone and my car have one too. I gave up wearing a wrist watch ten years ago, they just got in the way.
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The government does only what the lobbyists wanted and what the general public let go through unchecked, convinced by a F.U.D. campaign that it would be better to set those rules.
No, schizophrenic is something completely different. John Forbes Nash (as depicted in A Beautiful Mind) is a schizophrenic.
You are right, they are already on the premises of the neighbouring town of Wilsdruff, about 9 mls west from downtown Dresden.
If the intend of the liberal media is to block any republican to ever become president in the near future, they do an amazing job. Overhyping the least probable candidate to every make inroads in democratic voting territory to manipulate the republican primaries and thus give any democratic candidate a clean route to victory.
Birds are actually pretty good at avoiding windfarms because of the noice -- with one exception: predator birds. But they are bad at avoiding any obstacles anyway. Large, single trees kill about the same number of predator birds hitting their trunk and branches as windfarms.
The city of Dresden, Germany (500,000 inhabitants) has windmills on its territory. Not quite rural.
What we had with Galloping Gertie was a positive feedback loop. It would have happened at any swing frequency.
It's not that children are banned from using social media, though the article make it look that way. On the contrary, companies are forbidden to ask the children for personal information, compile a database of it and sell it to affiliates and third parties, except with parental permission.
So yes, 15 year olds will still access sites which require those by providing bogus information. But then, the value of the information is nil, and companies themselves will set up measures to weed out bogus information because that would diminish the value of their databases to potential customers.
For that, any company needs parental agreement until the age limit. Any company that doesn't ask personal information and does not require them to access the services it offers is free to accept any user at any age (if the services itself don't violate any other age limits).
The actual rules are that if the member states don't set an age limit, the default is 16. Individual member states thus can have lower age limits.
The anti-christian policies started under Nero in 48 AD, 200 years early.
The creation of welfare states are the greatest threat to freedom because the actions of one person now affect the pocketbook of another. It's true that in societies, people who make poor decisions have always affected others: if the only blacksmith in town drinks himself to death, where are people going to get their horseshoes? But this is greatly exacerbated in a state full of subsidies and other shared burdens.
Before the welfare state, the actions of one person affected the bare life of another. It's the welfare state that allows people to recover from a sickness, to take time off to pursue some education or to take care of their children. All society is about is sharing the burden and sharing the benefits. If the older generation didn't share their experiences with us (we call this 'education'), we would be damned to reinvent everything again. If your blacksmith couldn't go to a baker to get some bread, he would never have the time to specialize as a blacksmith. I remember reading of some guy who as a project went out to built a toaster all on his own, from the resources he himself took out of Nature, and after 10 years, he still wasn't done yet (I don't know if he is now). It's sharing the burden that allows even mundane objects like a toaster to be manufactured.
Freedom as many libertarians understand it is actually a result of having a society which allows us to share burdens. It's the inherent welfare state that helps your parents while you are a toddler, that keeps you fed while you get an education, that protects you while you sleep and that provides you with support in all the situations you can't support yourself.
Anybody can enter into a legal contract, overseen by standard contact law, to live together and share stuff.
THAT is not "marriage" in any normal sense, but it probably is the view of marriage that some secular humanists have.
That is marriage in the sense most of Europe understands it. There, marrage is a civil contract and can only be performed by a public agent. No religious group is allowed to perform marriages. All they are allowed is to perform a service after the civil union has been established.
The christian faith was forbidden for most of the time of the Roman Empire, starting in the mid of the first century AD, and continuing until 313 AD, when the Edict of Milan was issued, while the three Jewish-Roman wars were fought between 66 AD and 137 AD, ending with the dissolution of the jewish society and the begin of the Diaspora. So during the whole time the Romans were "manipulating the Jews", the christian faith was forbidden and being punished by death.
If you read the last paragraph of the article, you find a more detailed picture. There were already birds populating all other continents before the KT event, the Enantiornithes. But they died out together with the other dinosaurs. It was just the population of the western gondwana island, that survived, already split into the main groups of birds we know today, and from there those groups conquered the continents and radiated into all the different species of birds we know today.
I didn't miss the passage. But if you want to go back to the '80ies fatalities rates, be my guest. And bad building quality is not an inherent electronics problem.
There are methods like experiments and also methods like trying to logically compare an idea to things already known. In the end, any idea you throw Science at gets evaluated, and that's the point where some people might think that it has something to do with a belief, the belief that any idea should be evaluated by Science in general, and that the evaluation results are valid and in some way important to us.
On the other hand, the 35 year old Ford probably sucks at any crash, while the Chevy gives you decent survival rates. Most of the increased weight and thus the increased energy consumption for anything else than cruising along a straight highway is mostly caused by the enforced body structure to withstand diverse impact scenarios, and another cause is the increased glas surface compared to a car from the late 1970ies/early 1980ies. The electronics got introduced when emission standards forced the introduction of engine characteristic maps to control the ignition, and the widespread adoption of anti locking brakes.
But tokamaks have serious drawbacks. A transformer can drive a current in the plasma only in short pulses that would not suit a commercial fusion reactor. Current in the plasma can also falter unexpectedly, resulting in “disruptions”: sudden losses of plasma confinement that can unleash magnetic forces powerful enough to damage the reactor. Such problems plague even up-and-coming designs such as the spherical tokamak (Science, 22 May, p. 854).
Stellarators, however, are immune. Their fields come entirely from external coils, which don’t need to be pulsed, and there is no plasma current to suffer disruptions.
Rights are granted by legislation. Try again.
On the other hand: remote control of and communication between infrastructure items is nothing new. The VMEbus ANSI/IEEE 1014-1987 does the same, it just uses no 802.x link layer and no IP protocol.
A credit card is a method of payment, not a currency. There have been virtual currencies before (e.g. the Ecu), but they were never publicly available.
Ironically, you won't see any AK-47 around except at shows of historical weapons. The gun most people call the AK-47 is actually the AK-74. Yes, switched ciphers in the model number, pointing to a major overhaul of the concept in 1970, and the new gun together with a new type of ammunition, 5.45×39mm replacing the 7.62×39mm of the AK-47, got introduced to the Red Army in 1974, hence the name. On the other hand, even the AK-74 is also more than 40 years old now.
Sorry for your phantasies. Are you seeing some expert about them?
If it were just logic, barely anyone would wear a wrist watch anyway. Wherever I go, publicly visible clocks are aboundant, and even my cell phone and my car have one too. I gave up wearing a wrist watch ten years ago, they just got in the way.