A quick search about colors and bees, but I've heard similar advice about wasps:
"Colors to avoid? Bold, darker colors like red and black resemble natural predators and are likely to cause our little flying friends to become more aggressive towards you. And if you do get caught in a face-off, they're probably going to go for high contrast areas like collars and cuffs. Those are the areas that resemble weak spots like the eyes and nose of predators.
Instead you want to try and stick with solid white (beekeeper suits are white for a reason) or lighter colors that have a smooth texture. What difference does texture make, you ask? Well, in addition to dark colors, corduroy and other fuzzy clothes also resemble the fur of predators like skunks and badgers, and they'll attract bees just the same."
Most bug sprays are intended to mask you from the bugs, it does a piss poor job of actually repelling them. You're best off keeping something that you can light and put around you (flares, candles, the wife's fruitcake). Or just hold a lighter in front of the bug spray as it comes out and ward them off like that. Of course, Everglades mosquitoes are just as likely to keep biting after they catch fire.
Skeeters are the only insect I have a reaction to. Get stung by a bee or wasp and the swelling goes down in minutes. Get bitten by a skeeter and I have a bump for a day or two. I don't know if it qualifies as an allergic reaction because the proteins in a mosquito bite are intended to have that effect. Running a spoon under hot water and then applying it to the bump should make it go down, as it breaks up the proteins that cause itchiness and swelling, although it may remain a red bump for a while longer.
You sound surprised that the US tried to leverage geographic and political advantages during an era of tensions and proxy conflicts that, for the first time in human history, could wipe out civilization and possibly even the species, if it escalated. So yeah, damned right we didn't play fair. Even in hindsight, damned glad we did given that the Soviets built a Doomsday device (Dead Hand).
Cuba may not be an exporter of drugs itself, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a stopover point for drug smugglers due to its location.
And like you said, they could learn a lot even from a forty year old Soviet missile, so that may well be what's onboard. But it is more likely they got it from somewhere else.
You're kind of a moron, aren't you? Not even tenth grade English teachers are this nitpicky.
The country and canal is obvious from the headline. Which communist state is obvious from the context. And any other related news article you may have read in the last five or ten years.
It's the summary of an article, not an encyclopedia entry.
You assume the sugar would be going to the general people. Jim Jong-Un was planning on baking lots of cookies. To share with Dennis Rodman on his next visit.
It's no different than the US having jurisdiction over shipments on US interstates between Mexico and Canada. What, did you think every cargo vehicle passing through got automatic diplomatic immunity?
And I was asking the original poster to clarify what he considered "major". The list is what I got in return. I picked one at random that shows the list has very little to do with what the post was responding to.
I like to call him Herr Doktor and picture him with a monocle. Then I pretend he's the antagonist. It really makes you understand why everyone wants to kill him.
"2001 – On April 1, 2001, a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals surveillance aircraft and a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) J-8II interceptor fighter jet resulted in an international dispute between the United States and the People's Republic of China called the Hainan Island incident."
To be fair, a good majority of presidential candidates go unknown by the general public until they run for that office. Of course there are exceptions, such as Hilary Clinton, because she was the First Lady (she is a lady, right?) or they're involved in some major news headlines. But seriously, how many of our current 535 Congressman (assuming all the posts are currently filled, I haven't checked) or 50 state governors can you name? Especially ones that don't represent you? And those are just the two major pools presidential candidates come from, but they could come from many other places. So it should be no surprise that you've never heard of someone if they haven't given you a reason to.
You haven't been to an American public school lately, have you? You get a prize for showing up (even if you don't). Then another prize for competing (regardless of effort), then another prize for the winning (you didn't lose, you just got fourth place out of four). And then everyone gets some pizza and calls it a day.
That depends on your criterion for "largest". By defense spending? Most likely. By active military members, reserve members, paramilitary members or military members per capita, then not even close (although we are a distant #2 for active military).
And what do you consider a "major conflict"? There really hasn't been that many truly major individual conflicts in the last fifty years when compared to the fifty years before that. There's a lot of ambiguous statements there.
The point that they've found a cloud of the stuff billions of times the size of the Earth is a decent indicator it will exist in smaller, but still vast, quantities elsewhere. It's unlikely there's just one big cloud of water in all the universe.
The Pacific Ocean is a poor example because the poster I was responding to specified space, which generally means "not caught in a planet's gravity". The cloud I referenced is free-floating in space.
I rank toll collectors up there with the guy who turns the sign between Stop and Yield in construction sites as people that should have been replaced by computers and robots a decade ago.
The Interstate system has minimum standards for road quality. I-90 charges tolls for the majority of its stretch across NYS. All of the spurs (I-190, 290, 390 and so on up to 990) are not toll roads, but are still interstates. I've driven the entire length of I-90 in NY a number of times as well the full length (or close to) of most of its spurs in NY (excepting only I-990). The quality is pretty much the same on all of them. The Thruway does get more frequent repairs and upgrades, but it's also a much busier road so it deteriorates more quickly as well.
They could use the NYS Thruway model. "We'll only charge tolls until the road is paid off. And then just keep raising tolls long after the road is paid off."
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A quick search about colors and bees, but I've heard similar advice about wasps:
"Colors to avoid? Bold, darker colors like red and black resemble natural predators and are likely to cause our little flying friends to become more aggressive towards you. And if you do get caught in a face-off, they're probably going to go for high contrast areas like collars and cuffs. Those are the areas that resemble weak spots like the eyes and nose of predators.
Instead you want to try and stick with solid white (beekeeper suits are white for a reason) or lighter colors that have a smooth texture. What difference does texture make, you ask? Well, in addition to dark colors, corduroy and other fuzzy clothes also resemble the fur of predators like skunks and badgers, and they'll attract bees just the same."
Most bug sprays are intended to mask you from the bugs, it does a piss poor job of actually repelling them. You're best off keeping something that you can light and put around you (flares, candles, the wife's fruitcake). Or just hold a lighter in front of the bug spray as it comes out and ward them off like that. Of course, Everglades mosquitoes are just as likely to keep biting after they catch fire.
Skeeters are the only insect I have a reaction to. Get stung by a bee or wasp and the swelling goes down in minutes. Get bitten by a skeeter and I have a bump for a day or two. I don't know if it qualifies as an allergic reaction because the proteins in a mosquito bite are intended to have that effect. Running a spoon under hot water and then applying it to the bump should make it go down, as it breaks up the proteins that cause itchiness and swelling, although it may remain a red bump for a while longer.
Dark-colored clothes attracts most insects, including bees and wasps. From what I recall, dark blue is one of the biggest attractors.
One lab tech smart enough to get paid to sit around in his underwear.
Attract bloodsuckers of one species, attract bloodsuckers of all species.
You sound surprised that the US tried to leverage geographic and political advantages during an era of tensions and proxy conflicts that, for the first time in human history, could wipe out civilization and possibly even the species, if it escalated. So yeah, damned right we didn't play fair. Even in hindsight, damned glad we did given that the Soviets built a Doomsday device (Dead Hand).
Cuba may not be an exporter of drugs itself, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a stopover point for drug smugglers due to its location.
And like you said, they could learn a lot even from a forty year old Soviet missile, so that may well be what's onboard. But it is more likely they got it from somewhere else.
You're kind of a moron, aren't you? Not even tenth grade English teachers are this nitpicky.
The country and canal is obvious from the headline.
Which communist state is obvious from the context. And any other related news article you may have read in the last five or ten years.
It's the summary of an article, not an encyclopedia entry.
No, no, no. In Soviet Russia, you sneak missiles into Cuba. In non-Soviet era, Cuba sneaks missiles into you!
This is starting to sound like a prison joke.
You assume the sugar would be going to the general people. Jim Jong-Un was planning on baking lots of cookies. To share with Dennis Rodman on his next visit.
It's no different than the US having jurisdiction over shipments on US interstates between Mexico and Canada. What, did you think every cargo vehicle passing through got automatic diplomatic immunity?
And I was asking the original poster to clarify what he considered "major". The list is what I got in return. I picked one at random that shows the list has very little to do with what the post was responding to.
I like to call him Herr Doktor and picture him with a monocle. Then I pretend he's the antagonist. It really makes you understand why everyone wants to kill him.
I didn't realize that dog catcher was an elected position.
"2001 – On April 1, 2001, a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals surveillance aircraft and a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) J-8II interceptor fighter jet resulted in an international dispute between the United States and the People's Republic of China called the Hainan Island incident."
This is what you call a "major conflict"?
To be fair, a good majority of presidential candidates go unknown by the general public until they run for that office. Of course there are exceptions, such as Hilary Clinton, because she was the First Lady (she is a lady, right?) or they're involved in some major news headlines. But seriously, how many of our current 535 Congressman (assuming all the posts are currently filled, I haven't checked) or 50 state governors can you name? Especially ones that don't represent you? And those are just the two major pools presidential candidates come from, but they could come from many other places. So it should be no surprise that you've never heard of someone if they haven't given you a reason to.
You haven't been to an American public school lately, have you? You get a prize for showing up (even if you don't). Then another prize for competing (regardless of effort), then another prize for the winning (you didn't lose, you just got fourth place out of four). And then everyone gets some pizza and calls it a day.
That depends on your criterion for "largest". By defense spending? Most likely. By active military members, reserve members, paramilitary members or military members per capita, then not even close (although we are a distant #2 for active military).
And what do you consider a "major conflict"? There really hasn't been that many truly major individual conflicts in the last fifty years when compared to the fifty years before that. There's a lot of ambiguous statements there.
The point that they've found a cloud of the stuff billions of times the size of the Earth is a decent indicator it will exist in smaller, but still vast, quantities elsewhere. It's unlikely there's just one big cloud of water in all the universe.
The Pacific Ocean is a poor example because the poster I was responding to specified space, which generally means "not caught in a planet's gravity". The cloud I referenced is free-floating in space.
Jesus was actually a juvenile sasquatch. He had to fake his death because the hair started coming in as he reached sasquatch puberty.
It's definitely out there, in decent quantities.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/110726-most-massive-water-cloud-quasar-black-hole-space-science/
I rank toll collectors up there with the guy who turns the sign between Stop and Yield in construction sites as people that should have been replaced by computers and robots a decade ago.
The Interstate system has minimum standards for road quality. I-90 charges tolls for the majority of its stretch across NYS. All of the spurs (I-190, 290, 390 and so on up to 990) are not toll roads, but are still interstates. I've driven the entire length of I-90 in NY a number of times as well the full length (or close to) of most of its spurs in NY (excepting only I-990). The quality is pretty much the same on all of them. The Thruway does get more frequent repairs and upgrades, but it's also a much busier road so it deteriorates more quickly as well.
They could use the NYS Thruway model. "We'll only charge tolls until the road is paid off. And then just keep raising tolls long after the road is paid off."