The word "exascerbated," aside from containing one s too many, has about as much chance of showing up in a teaser as the less asexual word with which it rhymes. Also, was your teaser in the form of a question? Keep readnig to find out!
I'm not -- I was explaining (or trying to) that the pool of probable clientele is extremely shallow, even if you assume they all want to go, which I very highly doubt.
Since the average gross income is somewhere below $50k, $20M is still "really that big a deal." Just because.0000001% of the population is billionaires doesn't mean there are plenty of people who can afford to blow $20M just to see what earth looks like from near-orbit. Also, the catch-22 with rich people is that if they had frivilous spending habits, many of them wouldn't be rich to begin with.
Evolution is a theory the same way relativity is a theory -- with well-documented, logical, observed/observable evidence. The "theory" of relativity is telling your Tom Tom where you are, and the "theory" of evolution is the reason you can read these words. To disbelieve evolution is to ignore facts. Changes in species have been well documented, and it occurs both naturally and artificially every day. From cows to ligers, selective breeding and interbreeding have created both new variations and entirely new species. Plants are hybridized all the time. DNA is constantly being mutated by cosmic radiation, disease, and random errors in reproduction.
Evolution is to species what growth is to individuals -- a seemingly impossible transformation that is occuring all around us, all the time. If you can accept so-called micro evolution, then extrapolate those changes over millennia, that species wouldn't diversify seems almost impossible. Indeed, the number of plant and animal species which exist both in present day and in fossil records -- so-called "living fossils" -- could probably be listed on a single sheet of paper.
The Wikipedia article on evolution is extremely informative, and provides a diverse, although far from exhaustive, set of examples. The EvoWiki has more information.
I'm not sure that paying more for food is necessarily a bad thing, especially considering the epidemic of obesity. Killing, or at least wounding, two birds with one stone might be good for us in the long run, much the way people believe higher pump prices would help wean us from oil. Getting the added value of safe food seems like a win-win.
If they'd just make the natural transition to Dunkin Starbucks and shut down every other location we'd half half our land back AND we wouldn't have to walk across the street to complement our pastry with a latte.
Dairy subsidies are one of the most hotly debated, so using them as a "perfect example of government" is far from adequate. You could make a case for their existance (as you did), but there are plenty of legitimate reasons against.
Old ice is very dense - it's been compressed over thousands or even millions of years, and contains more water by volume than the newer ice being laid down above. The main contributor to this is that the new ice has a lot of gas dissolved into it, or caught in bubbles. What this means is you can melt a million cubic meters of old glacial ice to get a bit less than a million cubic meters of water.
There are exceptions to the basic classifications of matter, but water-ice is not one of them, and solids generally do not change shape. You can't squeeze a bubble out of ice any more than you can out of solid epoxy, so unless you're referring to snow, "new ice" is no different from "old ice." Indeed, scientists use the air trapped in "old ice" to observe past atmospheric conditions. Even if it were possible for the air to somehow teleport out of the ice, and/or for the solid to somehow fill in the voids to increase its density (despite the fact that solids don't change shape by definition), liquid seawater varies by only 1.8% in density from the surface to a depth of 4km.
I also managed to find an article that applied specifically to your claim (despite the fact that it's answering a different question). From http://ak.water.usgs.gov/glaciology/FAQ.htm, emphasis mine:
3. Is glacier ice colder than regular ice?
No - indeed, all of the physical, thermal and electrical properties of "regular icebox ice" and glacier ice are identical: density, viscosity, heat of fusion, latent heat, heat capacity, dielectric constant, thermal conductivity, absorption, emissivity, etc. The few small differences in characteristics are solely due to grain size differences (see 3.1). NOTE: High pressure forms of ice with different properties have been produced in laboratory experiments, but none occur naturally on earth, not even at the base of the Antarctic or Greenland ice sheets.
3.1. But doesn't glacier ice last longer in drinks!!!???
Yes - a little, but only because the ice crystals are larger. Crystals melt from the outside and large crystals expose less surface area per unit volume of ice; therefore, ice with larger crystals melts more slowly.
you're either an idiot or a troll.
I didn't bother to read the post to which you replied, but perhaps you should be a bit less condescending considering you don't seem to have your own facts straight.
I still think it's the best drama on television, and easily soars above the 99% of TV that's just utter cultural garbage.
I dunno, I think the reality TV boon has largely ended and things are on the upswing.. While Lost and BSG seem to be meandering, they're still both watchable, however several other shows have caught my interest -- namely Heroes and Day Break. Heroes manages to portray the same-old superpowers in a new light, and has a lot of potential, but a lot of hard work for script writers to keep it interesting. It's also intriguing because it's not always easy to distinguish between "good" and "evil," which have traditionally been very clear-cut in the superhero genre. Day Break also manages to put a new spin on the Groundhog Day thing, although I don't think it could possibly last for more than one season. (The popularity of the absurd antics in "24" may be proof to the contrary though). Prison Break is also okay, but not great. Again, the first season was the best, and it seems to have lost its way. It may have jumped the shark when one of the characters got his hand sewn back on by a veterinarian, and probably should have ended after one season.
The other things that irritates me about BSG (aside from the recent plot floundering) is that I'm getting tired of overexposed/overbright scenes, and it's disappointing that it isn't aired in HD.. The letterboxed SD format leaves much to be desired, and looks terrible when stretched to fit a 16:9 set -- worse when recorded and further artifacts are introduced.
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but it was from my bff! :(((
The word "exascerbated," aside from containing one s too many, has about as much chance of showing up in a teaser as the less asexual word with which it rhymes. Also, was your teaser in the form of a question? Keep readnig to find out!
I'm not -- I was explaining (or trying to) that the pool of probable clientele is extremely shallow, even if you assume they all want to go, which I very highly doubt.
Right, that was the point... he didn't limit it to the "fun" ones (although I'm sure some sick SOB thought it was "fun" to watch).
Since the average gross income is somewhere below $50k, $20M is still "really that big a deal." Just because .0000001% of the population is billionaires doesn't mean there are plenty of people who can afford to blow $20M just to see what earth looks like from near-orbit. Also, the catch-22 with rich people is that if they had frivilous spending habits, many of them wouldn't be rich to begin with.
What? You mean you've never heard of sarcasm before?
Evolution is a theory the same way relativity is a theory -- with well-documented, logical, observed/observable evidence. The "theory" of relativity is telling your Tom Tom where you are, and the "theory" of evolution is the reason you can read these words. To disbelieve evolution is to ignore facts. Changes in species have been well documented, and it occurs both naturally and artificially every day. From cows to ligers, selective breeding and interbreeding have created both new variations and entirely new species. Plants are hybridized all the time. DNA is constantly being mutated by cosmic radiation, disease, and random errors in reproduction.
Evolution is to species what growth is to individuals -- a seemingly impossible transformation that is occuring all around us, all the time. If you can accept so-called micro evolution, then extrapolate those changes over millennia, that species wouldn't diversify seems almost impossible. Indeed, the number of plant and animal species which exist both in present day and in fossil records -- so-called "living fossils" -- could probably be listed on a single sheet of paper.
The Wikipedia article on evolution is extremely informative, and provides a diverse, although far from exhaustive, set of examples. The EvoWiki has more information.
Hmm... Removing natural things... Nope, doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
Exactly! Leave the sacs in the blowfish, I say! Heck, why bother cooking things? The bacteria are 100% all natural goodness! Let's have some Potatoes!
I'm not sure that paying more for food is necessarily a bad thing, especially considering the epidemic of obesity. Killing, or at least wounding, two birds with one stone might be good for us in the long run, much the way people believe higher pump prices would help wean us from oil. Getting the added value of safe food seems like a win-win.
Thus sadly, the information is only available in the German version of wikipedia
Though sadly, in the same post with the dullest typo ever.
Anybody else think Prion is a terrible contraction for "Priory of Scion?" Who names secret societies after cars anyway?
Don't you mean a little harder?
There were no Craftmatic Adjustable Beds in the 1930/40s!
Although, if it was set in modern times, a Hoveround would kick a Craftmatic's adjustable ass.
Yeah, Schindler's List was a real hoot!
IMDb credits "someone" (3rd from the bottom), although Wikipedia credits Ford and claims dysentery instead of food poisoning.
Offtopic, did you post that with a Commodore 64?
I guess I just imagined it then. Sorry for the inconvenience.
You forgot WJWR: What Jesus Would Read
If they'd just make the natural transition to Dunkin Starbucks and shut down every other location we'd half half our land back AND we wouldn't have to walk across the street to complement our pastry with a latte.
Dairy subsidies are one of the most hotly debated, so using them as a "perfect example of government" is far from adequate. You could make a case for their existance (as you did), but there are plenty of legitimate reasons against.
Or Steve Jobs.
-- Steve Jobs
There are exceptions to the basic classifications of matter, but water-ice is not one of them, and solids generally do not change shape. You can't squeeze a bubble out of ice any more than you can out of solid epoxy, so unless you're referring to snow, "new ice" is no different from "old ice." Indeed, scientists use the air trapped in "old ice" to observe past atmospheric conditions. Even if it were possible for the air to somehow teleport out of the ice, and/or for the solid to somehow fill in the voids to increase its density (despite the fact that solids don't change shape by definition), liquid seawater varies by only 1.8% in density from the surface to a depth of 4km.
I also managed to find an article that applied specifically to your claim (despite the fact that it's answering a different question). From http://ak.water.usgs.gov/glaciology/FAQ.htm, emphasis mine:
you're either an idiot or a troll.
I didn't bother to read the post to which you replied, but perhaps you should be a bit less condescending considering you don't seem to have your own facts straight.
So... spot on, then.
You don't need a $300 card to get Aero -- pretty much any DX9 card will suffice, and there's a plethora available for well under $100.
I still think it's the best drama on television, and easily soars above the 99% of TV that's just utter cultural garbage.
I dunno, I think the reality TV boon has largely ended and things are on the upswing.. While Lost and BSG seem to be meandering, they're still both watchable, however several other shows have caught my interest -- namely Heroes and Day Break. Heroes manages to portray the same-old superpowers in a new light, and has a lot of potential, but a lot of hard work for script writers to keep it interesting. It's also intriguing because it's not always easy to distinguish between "good" and "evil," which have traditionally been very clear-cut in the superhero genre. Day Break also manages to put a new spin on the Groundhog Day thing, although I don't think it could possibly last for more than one season. (The popularity of the absurd antics in "24" may be proof to the contrary though). Prison Break is also okay, but not great. Again, the first season was the best, and it seems to have lost its way. It may have jumped the shark when one of the characters got his hand sewn back on by a veterinarian, and probably should have ended after one season.
The other things that irritates me about BSG (aside from the recent plot floundering) is that I'm getting tired of overexposed/overbright scenes, and it's disappointing that it isn't aired in HD.. The letterboxed SD format leaves much to be desired, and looks terrible when stretched to fit a 16:9 set -- worse when recorded and further artifacts are introduced.
If by stupidity, you mean "Using the default for the Ubuntu distribution," then yes.. it was stupidity.