Please cite the "separation of church and state" clause in the constitution for us? You probably have no clue what the constitution actually says, so here, let me help you out:
From the first amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. "
The separation of church and state is an invention by the fascist progressive atheists who want to enforce their religion (the belief that there is no God, only the physical world) on the entire population. It has taken a while, but most of us are wise to the BS and it is now starting to be rolled back, as it is CLEARLY a violation of the first amendment as written.
And you are apparently proof that brainwashing and confirmation bias work, especially when schools also avoid teaching critical thinking and debate skills.
I agree, it is stupid to give evolution the same consideration as Biblical intelligent design, considering evolutionists believe in spontaneous generation, which was scientifically disproven hundreds of years ago. Their belief also violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics as it involves chemistry and biology, as well as evolution never being observed scientifically even once.
We should just make it illegal to even talk about evolution any more, since it is completely debunked and most people don't believe it anymore.
If the US and China swap dominance positions, you better kiss your kids goodbye and start learning Mandarin, because the rest of the world has no clue how good it has had it with the US shielding them from the world domination goals of the Chinese and Russians.
Maybe if they fired all the administrators and bad teachers and let the parents run the schools and focused on the basics those ranking numbers would be much higher. Pissing away hours a day learning about a garbage theory like evolution when you can't read or do basic math is a pretty big waste of time and resources, isn't it.
Education is not nearly as important as health care, as evidenced by all the kids who still manage to get a decent education out of our joke of a school system that is full of yet can't fire bad teachers no matter what.
I will even give you the point around lack of expertise, so how about we let the parents who hold BS or higher in the fields in question, along with 60 plus college level units in their field, plus real world experience, choose the curriculum instead of education majors who at most had one or two classes in that field. Your assertion that teachers have a better grasp of science than MS and PhD engineers, chemists, doctors, biologists, etc is laughable. Education majors are barely more competent than journalism majors, who are demonstrably incompetent across the board in the sciences.
I suggest you start with the Bible which is the most banned book on the planet. But then again your kids might grow up to love God and love their fellow human as they love themselves. Think of all the good things they might do...
I don't let my kids watch certain movies or read certain books for the same reason that I don't let them eat dog poop... Just because a book/movie/song was written doesn't mean it is inherently good or that banning it is inherently bad. That simplistic view of the world will lead to a lot of problems, especially for your kids.
There are literally mountains of evidence for Biblical intelligent design. If you are interested in having the discussion, please let me know or check out some of my other posts.
As far as I know, Islam ascribes to the same beliefs as Christianity and Judaism regarding creation. Taoism is a demonstrably false fairy tales (the earth is demonstrably not on the back of a giant turtle, for example, nor are the sun and moon of equal size or made out of some dead creatures eyes; they are vastly different heavenly bodies, nor are the heavens made of lighter elements; the moon and other inner planets for example contain much the same elements as earth).
The sad fact is that entire generations have been deceived into believing that evolution is science when it is not. It is a theory, and a garbage one at that, but the alternative that we are left with is Biblical intelligent design, and the atheists in academia just can't stomach that reality, so they cling to their garbage theory. They insist that the universe was created when "literally nothing" exploded (talk about irrational beliefs) and cling to spontaneous generation as the source of all life on earth, even though it was disproven by science hundreds of years ago.
- The fact that spontaneous generation was disproven scientifically several hundred years ago. - The fact that many structures in human and animal physiology contain irreduceable complexity, where you need 10, 20 or even more different structures to come into being all at once to have a functional system. This also holds true for many symbiotic reationships between animals, plants bacteria, etc. - The fact that evolution has never been observed or replicated in a lab (life from non life) - The fact that evolution violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics and how it specifically applies to chemistry and biology
I could go on, but you get the gist.
There are actually 66 books of the Bible. Some are historical, some are poetry, some are laws, some are letters to others. There were, however, thousands to millions of witnesses to many of the events in the Bible. Those same witneses were willing to die rather than recant the events that they witnessed. That is a pretty solid testimony of the veracity contained in the Bible. The books of the Bible were not secret history, but rather the commonly known history of millions of people. Furthermore, we have archaeological evidence to support many of the stories as well:
- Hundreds of global flood legends, over 60 of which describe a boat with a single family of survivors supports the global flood. - Literally the entire planet covered in fossils and sedimentary rock, including fossilized shells at the top of Mt. Everest. Flash frozen mammoths and palm trees buried in ice in Antarctica and Siberia, respectively, also supporting the global flood. - The discovery of Sodom, where all life in the city was destroyed for 700 years around 2000BC http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015... - Thousands of fossilized chariots at the bottom of the Red Sea to support the parting of the Red Sea story. - The city of Jericho, with it's walls collapsed outward (unique in all of archaeology, besieged cities walls are collapsed inward when they are assaulted).
How much evidence staring you in the face do you need before you accept the truth?
Regarding pornography in the Bible, please cite examples. The Song of Solomon is the closest you will get, and it is a collection of love poems from husband to wife that are the opposite of explicit. Outside of that book, the Bible is pretty straight forward about sex and child birth, which happens to be a biological and historical fact. It does not go into lurid details which is the hallmark of pornography. I am afraid you are misinformed.
Your teacher showed an R rated fictional, sensationally violent movie about Vietnam that you liked and happen to agree with. In my book (and probably most parents) that is unacceptable. There are plenty of documentaries out there about Vietnam that would have been more informative, and if you want to expose yourself to the horrors of war, that is your choice, but there were probably a number of kids in your class who were not ready for it. (Just because you CAN be drafted into war at 18 doesn't mean that being exposed to war is good, it is a necessary evil; just look at all the Vietnam/Gulf war/Iraq vets who came home and committed suicide or have permanent emotional problems.) You might be a sociopath who enjoys other people's suffering, but most people, at least initially, are sensitive to that level of violence, and it leaves permanent emotional damage.
As far as your history teacher, it was wrong to prohibit any discussion of Watergate or the Vietnam War (unless he was blowing smoke and had gotten in trouble for blatant America bashing in a prior year, I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case). However, if you are going to discuss Watergate, you need to actually discuss all of the surrounding facts and other national and world events of the time for context (for example that the Democrat party was very friendly to the communists and there was real concern that they were working together to interfere in the election or leak classified documents; we know for a fact that Teddy Kennedy tried to steal the election from Regan with the help of the KGB in 1984 at the height of the cold war). http://www.newsmax.com/Reagan/...
Regarding the Vietnam war, the same is true. Most people don't even know the state Vietnam is in today, or that it was a defensive war, or how many people from south Vietnam were murdered after the US pulled out (hint: over 900,000 plus MURDERED). We didn't do well in Vietnam, but we were trying to protect millions of people from tyranny and murder by the fascist communists supported by China who were attempting to take over Vietnam. Were there human rights violations on both sides? Yes, as in every war. Did our soldiers deserve to be treated the way they were by politicians and liberals alike? Hell no.
As a Christian engineer, I would love to see reading, writing, math, hard science, logic and debate taught early on, rather than indoctrination on evolution. (19% of current HS graduates are essentially illiterate, but we make sure to shove garbage theories like evolution down their throats). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
If the students learn logic and debate, then they can learn about irreducible complexity, the correct application of the 2nd law of thermodynamics (how in non-living nature it applies to every system at any level, and only with living, intelligent intervention can we create pockets of higher order/energy).
They can debate logically how evolution has never been observed in a lab experiment, and it is basically the old, debunked theory of spontaneous generation (rock soup became alive) with the added ingredient of "millions or billions of years" which conveniently puts it out of reach of our ability to duplicate scientifically (at which point it becomes a belief/theory only and not science, no matter how hard the left screams that it is). If it ever is duplicated in the lab, that will in and of it'self prove that it takes intelligence to create life... Though somehow many evolutionists cant figure out that they are in fact an intelligent being.
The students can stack all that and many other problems with evolution against the evidence of intelligent design by an all powerful, extra dimensional being who has revealed Himself to literally millions of people in very public ways throughout history, people who wrote down their experiences and were then willing to die for what they had observed.
In the court of logic and debate and historical evidence, evolution doesn't stand a chance.
Parents, who invest $1M per child and blood, sweat, tears and sleepless nights having input on what their child learns?? This concept is anathema to the fascist progressives and alt-left who believe they know better what your child should learn than you do, never mind that at best most of them hold a BA in philosophy or education, while there are many parents that hold MS and PhDs in hard science fields.
Regardless of what you think of this rule, the libtards in black robes are out of control and it is high time they start getting thrown out of office for this kind of crap. As a judge, you are required to rule on the law, not your personal opinions (as is clearly the case in this instance as well as the travel ban), and doing so in any situation should get you thrown off the bench permanently. Trumps travel ban was completely legal and the US SC will uphold it when they hear the case, but there will be no consequences for little fascists in black robes in Oregon, Hawii and Washington subverting the rule of the very laws they are sworn to uphold...
The reality is that gas/oil companies have always tried to prevent leaks, but if you want cheap energy, which is key for the US economy to function, you can't place massive fines on them every time two cow farts worth of natural gas escapes... For large leaks, there is already a financial incentive to prevent the leak, and for small discharges, it is inconsequential (methane is a NATURAL gas, it comes from a myriad of sources, including the mud baby you leave every time you squat on the toilet.)
The problem with this study is it was biased from the start. By starting with couples seeking IVF to begin with, your sample is people having difficulty conceiving, rather than a cross section of the general population.
The conclusion to this study should be: Of people with problems conceiving, IVF is less effective at helping couples where the man is over 40... There are plenty of examples of rich old shriveled bastards getting their 22 year old trophy wives pregnant with normal, healthy babies. And that is the other side to this coin. For women, not only does the pregnancy rate go down, but the risk of fetal genetic defect goes up exponentially after 35.
Granted it is a simple model, but I also gave real world efficiencies for real systems like this (actual peak realized energy recover efficiency is up to 87%).
Hmm, you apparently missed the part that these are almost completely recirculating plants, I guess? Beyond that, you are correct, they don't have to be built in the Rockies, any mountain range with sufficient lift to a lake would work...
Regarding the Columbia river, California should have stopped paying all federal taxes (California is a big donor state, Oregon is a gimmie state) until the Feds forced Oregon to allow the pipeline, and blacklisted all food and tech exports to Oregon during the recent drought/water shortage (water and food are both critical for people, water more so) as well as banning all commercial and vacation travel to Oregon. If you want to benefit from all of the good things about California, you should be a good neighbor and help out when your neighbor who grows much of your fruits and vegetables, pays the taxes for your welfare state, along with designing your shiny new smart phone, almost all the tech you use, a lot of the medical advances, and more than half of all the internet services you use, needs water so their cities don't collapse. Oregon acted like a bunch of selfish assholes, refusing to sell a tiny fraction of something that they currently piss into the ocean on the potential risk that California might want to buy more water in the future... If Oregon and California were countires (36M in Ca vs 4M in Oregon and GDP of ( $2,460M in Ca vs $226B for Oregon), California would probably have invaded, and that would have been the end of your selfish bullshit.
Working more than 40 hours for 40 hours of pay is a suckers game. Unless you work for yourself, you are essentially taking a wad of bills and handing it over to your employer. If they can't stay profitable with you averaging 40-42 hours per week, they are incompetent and you should look elsewhere, or come back as a consultant.
The entire concept of bribing your employer with free work for an eventual raise is just disgusting. You are either good at your job and valuable and worth promoting on your merits, or you are not. The smart people make this case and get the raise, because if you do a CB analysis on working the weekends, even ignoring burnout, it looks like this:
Say you make $40/hour based on your salary and a 40h work week. Now you want to get a promotion and a raise to $50/h. So you work 70h per week for 12 months. You just donated almost $60k to your employer for a position that you may or may not get. If you don't get the position, your employer laughs all the way to the bank. If you do get the position, your simple payback on that investment is 3 years, but guess what, now your employer EXPECTS you to work 60h/week, so in reality, your pay rate is now $33/h, so not only did you give away $60k, but you are trapped working those long hours, which is, in essence, a pay cut. I have seen this time and again and I refuse to play the game. So far I have been fine. The key is to be competent and valuable and not a doormat. If you really want a meaningful raise, become indispensable and then get offers from other companies, just be prepared to switch jobs if you have to. Being your employers bitch is not a good strategy for advancement. Showing them that you are valuable and that other companies also think you are valuable is a much better strategy.
Yeah, I guess I was limiting my commentary to actual guns that people shoot. The 600 nitro is a rifle round. Just because someone made a revolver for that cartridge doesn't mean anyone should ever fire it... And like you said, wrist bones take a while to heal, assuming you didn't crack your skull with the barrel during recoil.
"Gun nuts and authoritarians generally go hand in hand."
Put down your crack pipe, there is not a successful totalitarian state on the planet that has encouraged universal gun ownership, so quit blowing it our your ass.
The Jews were exactly the group that Hitler disarmed and subsequently murdered... How you cannot grasp the simple concept of totalitarian states disarming and then murdering people is beyond me. Most Germans liked what Hitler was doing and despised the Jews before and during WW2. There was no armed uprising by the blonde haired blue eyed Germans because they, by the vast majority, followed Hitler. It was only after they lost and the subsequent Nuremberg trials that the German people turned away from the bill of goods that Hitler sold.
That is why we have the national RIFLE association, and regardless of the liberal BS, it is virtually impossible to subjugate an armed resistance with tanks and planes unless you are willing to flatten entire cities, in which case you will have literally the entire country, your own soldiers included, working for your removal. House to house searches/arrests (the kind used in all of the examples that I cited) become extremely dangerous for the occupying force because those tanks and planes do jack shit worth of good when you have to enter a house on foot. If you have two casualties for every house you raid, you will run out of Gestapo soldiers before you clear one mid sized US city, let alone the entire country.
Yet this is exactly what you do with every rifle on the planet, which incidentally (aside from the 22LR) are more powerful than the desert eagle (more muzzle energy). The butt of the 50 cal BMG with 25X more energy than the desert eagle is lodged against your shoulder and the equal and opposite force is only spread out over about 10 square inches, not nearly as wide as a book (roughly 100 square inches for 8.5x11)... Keep in mind that the larger the muzzle energy, the heavier the weapon to keep the acceleration into your hand or shoulder at a reasonable level. 50cal BMG rifles are around 30lb, while your desert eagle clocks in at a measely 4.4lb, which means it kicks.
You are neglecting the momentum/inertia transfer to the book. The actual kinetic energy transfer of a bullet to a heavy book is like someone throwing a baseball at a book you are holding firmly, as long as the ball hits and is stopped by the book, you have no trouble absorbing the slight movement of the book. Bullets don't kill you with impact, they poke holes in you... The kinetic energy transfer is the same as the recoil that the shooter feels on the other end, assuming the book is around the same mass as the gun.
This was 50 cal auto, a handgun round with 700 Joules of energy. What you saw was 50 cal BMG, a rifle round that has 20,000 Joules of energy. 50 BMG will put a hole through a phone book and the concrete wall you propped it up against...
No, there are dozens of factors that play into penetration, and chamber pressure is a key factor. Chamber pressure is directly responsible for virtually every rifle round being able to penetrate police issue kevlar body armor.
With tanks, the armor type, thickness, angle of incidence, penetrator mass, velocity and composition are all key factors.
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Please cite the "separation of church and state" clause in the constitution for us? You probably have no clue what the constitution actually says, so here, let me help you out:
From the first amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. "
The separation of church and state is an invention by the fascist progressive atheists who want to enforce their religion (the belief that there is no God, only the physical world) on the entire population. It has taken a while, but most of us are wise to the BS and it is now starting to be rolled back, as it is CLEARLY a violation of the first amendment as written.
And you are apparently proof that brainwashing and confirmation bias work, especially when schools also avoid teaching critical thinking and debate skills.
I agree, it is stupid to give evolution the same consideration as Biblical intelligent design, considering evolutionists believe in spontaneous generation, which was scientifically disproven hundreds of years ago. Their belief also violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics as it involves chemistry and biology, as well as evolution never being observed scientifically even once.
We should just make it illegal to even talk about evolution any more, since it is completely debunked and most people don't believe it anymore.
If the US and China swap dominance positions, you better kiss your kids goodbye and start learning Mandarin, because the rest of the world has no clue how good it has had it with the US shielding them from the world domination goals of the Chinese and Russians.
Maybe if they fired all the administrators and bad teachers and let the parents run the schools and focused on the basics those ranking numbers would be much higher. Pissing away hours a day learning about a garbage theory like evolution when you can't read or do basic math is a pretty big waste of time and resources, isn't it.
Education is not nearly as important as health care, as evidenced by all the kids who still manage to get a decent education out of our joke of a school system that is full of yet can't fire bad teachers no matter what.
I will even give you the point around lack of expertise, so how about we let the parents who hold BS or higher in the fields in question, along with 60 plus college level units in their field, plus real world experience, choose the curriculum instead of education majors who at most had one or two classes in that field. Your assertion that teachers have a better grasp of science than MS and PhD engineers, chemists, doctors, biologists, etc is laughable. Education majors are barely more competent than journalism majors, who are demonstrably incompetent across the board in the sciences.
I suggest you start with the Bible which is the most banned book on the planet. But then again your kids might grow up to love God and love their fellow human as they love themselves. Think of all the good things they might do...
I don't let my kids watch certain movies or read certain books for the same reason that I don't let them eat dog poop... Just because a book/movie/song was written doesn't mean it is inherently good or that banning it is inherently bad. That simplistic view of the world will lead to a lot of problems, especially for your kids.
There are literally mountains of evidence for Biblical intelligent design. If you are interested in having the discussion, please let me know or check out some of my other posts.
As far as I know, Islam ascribes to the same beliefs as Christianity and Judaism regarding creation. Taoism is a demonstrably false fairy tales (the earth is demonstrably not on the back of a giant turtle, for example, nor are the sun and moon of equal size or made out of some dead creatures eyes; they are vastly different heavenly bodies, nor are the heavens made of lighter elements; the moon and other inner planets for example contain much the same elements as earth).
The sad fact is that entire generations have been deceived into believing that evolution is science when it is not. It is a theory, and a garbage one at that, but the alternative that we are left with is Biblical intelligent design, and the atheists in academia just can't stomach that reality, so they cling to their garbage theory. They insist that the universe was created when "literally nothing" exploded (talk about irrational beliefs) and cling to spontaneous generation as the source of all life on earth, even though it was disproven by science hundreds of years ago.
Well, lets see, on the Creationist side, we have:
- The fact that spontaneous generation was disproven scientifically several hundred years ago.
- The fact that many structures in human and animal physiology contain irreduceable complexity, where you need 10, 20 or even more different structures to come into being all at once to have a functional system. This also holds true for many symbiotic reationships between animals, plants bacteria, etc.
- The fact that evolution has never been observed or replicated in a lab (life from non life)
- The fact that evolution violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics and how it specifically applies to chemistry and biology
I could go on, but you get the gist.
There are actually 66 books of the Bible. Some are historical, some are poetry, some are laws, some are letters to others. There were, however, thousands to millions of witnesses to many of the events in the Bible. Those same witneses were willing to die rather than recant the events that they witnessed. That is a pretty solid testimony of the veracity contained in the Bible. The books of the Bible were not secret history, but rather the commonly known history of millions of people. Furthermore, we have archaeological evidence to support many of the stories as well:
- Hundreds of global flood legends, over 60 of which describe a boat with a single family of survivors supports the global flood.
- Literally the entire planet covered in fossils and sedimentary rock, including fossilized shells at the top of Mt. Everest. Flash frozen mammoths and palm trees buried in ice in Antarctica and Siberia, respectively, also supporting the global flood.
- The discovery of Sodom, where all life in the city was destroyed for 700 years around 2000BC http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015...
- Thousands of fossilized chariots at the bottom of the Red Sea to support the parting of the Red Sea story.
- The city of Jericho, with it's walls collapsed outward (unique in all of archaeology, besieged cities walls are collapsed inward when they are assaulted).
How much evidence staring you in the face do you need before you accept the truth?
Regarding pornography in the Bible, please cite examples. The Song of Solomon is the closest you will get, and it is a collection of love poems from husband to wife that are the opposite of explicit. Outside of that book, the Bible is pretty straight forward about sex and child birth, which happens to be a biological and historical fact. It does not go into lurid details which is the hallmark of pornography. I am afraid you are misinformed.
Your teacher showed an R rated fictional, sensationally violent movie about Vietnam that you liked and happen to agree with. In my book (and probably most parents) that is unacceptable. There are plenty of documentaries out there about Vietnam that would have been more informative, and if you want to expose yourself to the horrors of war, that is your choice, but there were probably a number of kids in your class who were not ready for it. (Just because you CAN be drafted into war at 18 doesn't mean that being exposed to war is good, it is a necessary evil; just look at all the Vietnam/Gulf war/Iraq vets who came home and committed suicide or have permanent emotional problems.) You might be a sociopath who enjoys other people's suffering, but most people, at least initially, are sensitive to that level of violence, and it leaves permanent emotional damage.
As far as your history teacher, it was wrong to prohibit any discussion of Watergate or the Vietnam War (unless he was blowing smoke and had gotten in trouble for blatant America bashing in a prior year, I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case). However, if you are going to discuss Watergate, you need to actually discuss all of the surrounding facts and other national and world events of the time for context (for example that the Democrat party was very friendly to the communists and there was real concern that they were working together to interfere in the election or leak classified documents; we know for a fact that Teddy Kennedy tried to steal the election from Regan with the help of the KGB in 1984 at the height of the cold war). http://www.newsmax.com/Reagan/...
Regarding the Vietnam war, the same is true. Most people don't even know the state Vietnam is in today, or that it was a defensive war, or how many people from south Vietnam were murdered after the US pulled out (hint: over 900,000 plus MURDERED). We didn't do well in Vietnam, but we were trying to protect millions of people from tyranny and murder by the fascist communists supported by China who were attempting to take over Vietnam. Were there human rights violations on both sides? Yes, as in every war. Did our soldiers deserve to be treated the way they were by politicians and liberals alike? Hell no.
As a Christian engineer, I would love to see reading, writing, math, hard science, logic and debate taught early on, rather than indoctrination on evolution. (19% of current HS graduates are essentially illiterate, but we make sure to shove garbage theories like evolution down their throats). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
If the students learn logic and debate, then they can learn about irreducible complexity, the correct application of the 2nd law of thermodynamics (how in non-living nature it applies to every system at any level, and only with living, intelligent intervention can we create pockets of higher order/energy).
They can debate logically how evolution has never been observed in a lab experiment, and it is basically the old, debunked theory of spontaneous generation (rock soup became alive) with the added ingredient of "millions or billions of years" which conveniently puts it out of reach of our ability to duplicate scientifically (at which point it becomes a belief /theory only and not science, no matter how hard the left screams that it is). If it ever is duplicated in the lab, that will in and of it'self prove that it takes intelligence to create life... Though somehow many evolutionists cant figure out that they are in fact an intelligent being.
The students can stack all that and many other problems with evolution against the evidence of intelligent design by an all powerful, extra dimensional being who has revealed Himself to literally millions of people in very public ways throughout history, people who wrote down their experiences and were then willing to die for what they had observed.
In the court of logic and debate and historical evidence, evolution doesn't stand a chance.
Parents, who invest $1M per child and blood, sweat, tears and sleepless nights having input on what their child learns?? This concept is anathema to the fascist progressives and alt-left who believe they know better what your child should learn than you do, never mind that at best most of them hold a BA in philosophy or education, while there are many parents that hold MS and PhDs in hard science fields.
Regardless of what you think of this rule, the libtards in black robes are out of control and it is high time they start getting thrown out of office for this kind of crap. As a judge, you are required to rule on the law, not your personal opinions (as is clearly the case in this instance as well as the travel ban), and doing so in any situation should get you thrown off the bench permanently. Trumps travel ban was completely legal and the US SC will uphold it when they hear the case, but there will be no consequences for little fascists in black robes in Oregon, Hawii and Washington subverting the rule of the very laws they are sworn to uphold...
The reality is that gas/oil companies have always tried to prevent leaks, but if you want cheap energy, which is key for the US economy to function, you can't place massive fines on them every time two cow farts worth of natural gas escapes... For large leaks, there is already a financial incentive to prevent the leak, and for small discharges, it is inconsequential (methane is a NATURAL gas, it comes from a myriad of sources, including the mud baby you leave every time you squat on the toilet.)
The problem with this study is it was biased from the start. By starting with couples seeking IVF to begin with, your sample is people having difficulty conceiving, rather than a cross section of the general population.
The conclusion to this study should be: Of people with problems conceiving, IVF is less effective at helping couples where the man is over 40... There are plenty of examples of rich old shriveled bastards getting their 22 year old trophy wives pregnant with normal, healthy babies. And that is the other side to this coin. For women, not only does the pregnancy rate go down, but the risk of fetal genetic defect goes up exponentially after 35.
Granted it is a simple model, but I also gave real world efficiencies for real systems like this (actual peak realized energy recover efficiency is up to 87%).
Hmm, you apparently missed the part that these are almost completely recirculating plants, I guess? Beyond that, you are correct, they don't have to be built in the Rockies, any mountain range with sufficient lift to a lake would work...
Regarding the Columbia river, California should have stopped paying all federal taxes (California is a big donor state, Oregon is a gimmie state) until the Feds forced Oregon to allow the pipeline, and blacklisted all food and tech exports to Oregon during the recent drought/water shortage (water and food are both critical for people, water more so) as well as banning all commercial and vacation travel to Oregon. If you want to benefit from all of the good things about California, you should be a good neighbor and help out when your neighbor who grows much of your fruits and vegetables, pays the taxes for your welfare state, along with designing your shiny new smart phone, almost all the tech you use, a lot of the medical advances, and more than half of all the internet services you use, needs water so their cities don't collapse. Oregon acted like a bunch of selfish assholes, refusing to sell a tiny fraction of something that they currently piss into the ocean on the potential risk that California might want to buy more water in the future... If Oregon and California were countires (36M in Ca vs 4M in Oregon and GDP of ( $2,460M in Ca vs $226B for Oregon), California would probably have invaded, and that would have been the end of your selfish bullshit.
Working more than 40 hours for 40 hours of pay is a suckers game. Unless you work for yourself, you are essentially taking a wad of bills and handing it over to your employer. If they can't stay profitable with you averaging 40-42 hours per week, they are incompetent and you should look elsewhere, or come back as a consultant.
The entire concept of bribing your employer with free work for an eventual raise is just disgusting. You are either good at your job and valuable and worth promoting on your merits, or you are not. The smart people make this case and get the raise, because if you do a CB analysis on working the weekends, even ignoring burnout, it looks like this:
Say you make $40/hour based on your salary and a 40h work week. Now you want to get a promotion and a raise to $50/h. So you work 70h per week for 12 months. You just donated almost $60k to your employer for a position that you may or may not get. If you don't get the position, your employer laughs all the way to the bank. If you do get the position, your simple payback on that investment is 3 years, but guess what, now your employer EXPECTS you to work 60h/week, so in reality, your pay rate is now $33/h, so not only did you give away $60k, but you are trapped working those long hours, which is, in essence, a pay cut. I have seen this time and again and I refuse to play the game. So far I have been fine. The key is to be competent and valuable and not a doormat. If you really want a meaningful raise, become indispensable and then get offers from other companies, just be prepared to switch jobs if you have to. Being your employers bitch is not a good strategy for advancement. Showing them that you are valuable and that other companies also think you are valuable is a much better strategy.
Yeah, I guess I was limiting my commentary to actual guns that people shoot. The 600 nitro is a rifle round. Just because someone made a revolver for that cartridge doesn't mean anyone should ever fire it... And like you said, wrist bones take a while to heal, assuming you didn't crack your skull with the barrel during recoil.
"Gun nuts and authoritarians generally go hand in hand."
Put down your crack pipe, there is not a successful totalitarian state on the planet that has encouraged universal gun ownership, so quit blowing it our your ass.
The Jews were exactly the group that Hitler disarmed and subsequently murdered... How you cannot grasp the simple concept of totalitarian states disarming and then murdering people is beyond me. Most Germans liked what Hitler was doing and despised the Jews before and during WW2. There was no armed uprising by the blonde haired blue eyed Germans because they, by the vast majority, followed Hitler. It was only after they lost and the subsequent Nuremberg trials that the German people turned away from the bill of goods that Hitler sold.
That is why we have the national RIFLE association, and regardless of the liberal BS, it is virtually impossible to subjugate an armed resistance with tanks and planes unless you are willing to flatten entire cities, in which case you will have literally the entire country, your own soldiers included, working for your removal. House to house searches/arrests (the kind used in all of the examples that I cited) become extremely dangerous for the occupying force because those tanks and planes do jack shit worth of good when you have to enter a house on foot. If you have two casualties for every house you raid, you will run out of Gestapo soldiers before you clear one mid sized US city, let alone the entire country.
50 AE has a muzzle energy of 2000 Joules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... 50 cal BMG has a muzzle energy of about 20,000 Joules and 1000 m/s or 2x faster with 10x the energy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In the world of firearms, most anything from a handgun is slow.
Yet this is exactly what you do with every rifle on the planet, which incidentally (aside from the 22LR) are more powerful than the desert eagle (more muzzle energy). The butt of the 50 cal BMG with 25X more energy than the desert eagle is lodged against your shoulder and the equal and opposite force is only spread out over about 10 square inches, not nearly as wide as a book (roughly 100 square inches for 8.5x11)... Keep in mind that the larger the muzzle energy, the heavier the weapon to keep the acceleration into your hand or shoulder at a reasonable level. 50cal BMG rifles are around 30lb, while your desert eagle clocks in at a measely 4.4lb, which means it kicks.
You are neglecting the momentum/inertia transfer to the book. The actual kinetic energy transfer of a bullet to a heavy book is like someone throwing a baseball at a book you are holding firmly, as long as the ball hits and is stopped by the book, you have no trouble absorbing the slight movement of the book. Bullets don't kill you with impact, they poke holes in you... The kinetic energy transfer is the same as the recoil that the shooter feels on the other end, assuming the book is around the same mass as the gun.
This was 50 cal auto, a handgun round with 700 Joules of energy. What you saw was 50 cal BMG, a rifle round that has 20,000 Joules of energy. 50 BMG will put a hole through a phone book and the concrete wall you propped it up against...
No, there are dozens of factors that play into penetration, and chamber pressure is a key factor. Chamber pressure is directly responsible for virtually every rifle round being able to penetrate police issue kevlar body armor.
With tanks, the armor type, thickness, angle of incidence, penetrator mass, velocity and composition are all key factors.