I've seen and heard this phrase, with insignificant variations, about practically every city there is on the world map.
Yes, you have, but the one time it is definitively true is Washington, D.C. FYI, if you've never been there: prepare for traffic that reflects the old saying that Washington is the city that combines Southern efficiency with Northern charm.
Actually, you need a spark for hydrogen and oxygen to ignite. Hydrogen and chlorine will ignite with light only, however.
As for your near-expulsion, that's strange. I went to a private high school and on the recruitment night the chemistry lab had hydrogen ignition as one of the two major features - the other was blowing soap bubbles full of natural gas which we then ignited with a candle attached to the end of a dowel. It was 20 years ago, though.
Not everyone went to public schools. My elementary, secondary, and college educations were all at private institutions, paid for with private money. Funnily enough, the city never gave my parents (or me) a refund on our property taxes for that unused "service". (Scare quotes because the schools are so ghastly.) My neighbor is about to have to leave the city for the suburbs because he can't afford private tuition for his two kids, the elder of whom is approaching school age.
the long term effects of paying children money for marks in school is not clear, and in many ways seemingly dangerous.
The compensation is deferred, but we already do pay students to do well in school. I had a full ride plus in college; that was a direct result of doing well in high school. I am a physician now, and the very good income I make is only available to people who did very well in school. "Study hard and you'll get a scholarship to college and a good job afterward" may be a lot more indirect than "Here's some cash, kid" but it pretty much only tested whether I was able to handle delayed gratification - otherwise it was very much paying me for doing well in school. This proposes to push that payment scheme down to kids who can't do decades-long delayed gratification, i.e. most of them., in order to improve their outcomes from education.
Unless you're a really big author - Stephen King, James Patterson, Sue Grafton - no one of your books will pay your bills. Genre fiction like SF/F, for example, is just not the same as the mass market, and you might need three or four books generating royalties at a time in order to keep you going.
That's a fine philosophy for a book you write at 40 if you die at 90, but under your method we'd never have seen A Confederacy of Dunces, which was published after the author died. Artists and writers should have some expectation that their family will continue to get royalties should they die an untimely death. Otherwise, you start wondering how much it would be worth to kill Stephen King.
A piece of music written today may still have relevance 14 years from now, but a piece of software probably won't.
They're still selling classic video games on the Wii, most of which are older than 1996. I think you'd have to provide a method for extension of copyright by payment of a tax for certain properties (which do remain commercially viable).
If Italy, using 1930's technology, was capable of developing, delivering, and deploying chemical weapons in Ethiopia, I will go on record and make the claim that Venezuela could do the same to the US, using 2010's technology.
What, you expect Venezuela to exert air superiority over the US? Chlorine gas only works over very, very short distances.
Power brakes have at least two full presses worth of stored energy in them if the car is turned off, FYI. And I have personally driven a car with broken power steering - not just manual steering, but broken power steering- meaning that I was turning both the wheels and the power support mechanism. At a dead stop, that's an enormous pain; once you're moving over 10 mph, it's trivial. Guiding a car takes very little power.
I listened to that This American Life, too, and there was a pretty significant change in worker behavior at NUMMI (vs when it was GM-Fremont) that could not be replicated at other GM plants because... (drum roll) workers at other plants didn't really think they'd be closed if they didn't reform. Aside from that episode, however, there are plenty of stories out there of sabotage by auto workers. The management was insular and came up with uninspiring designs, but the workers also did a truly awful job of building cars. (And it took more like 2 years to reform the place.)
The world does not consist entirely of large cities. Many rural areas have nonprofit corporations that provide water, and volunteer-only firefighting squads - there is no government entity involved at all.
Corporations need electric, garbage collection, and sewage treatment. Corporations need highly trained employees educated by public schools and universities.
I hate to break your bubble, but my power needs are provided by a private company, not a government. Garbage collection, too. And public schools? You must live somewhere nice, because the public schools where I live are awful.
Property tax is one of the most fair taxes imaginable. You own something of value, the government guarantees its value by protecting you from people who would steal it from you by force, you pay for said protection based on the value of what is protected.
Key point: wealthy people don't generally pay much in taxes, because they are rich. They can buy congressmen. Taxes are paid by upper middle class professionals who can't sneak out of them.
That kind of stuff is important, but unless Canada's a lot different from the US (and since both countries' med schools are accredited by the same folks, I doubt that) it's still possible to brute-force your way into med school with a high MCAT and GPA. You just won't make it as an edge case. So if you've got the numbers, go for it.
Wow, way to miss the point, AC. He really did do those things, by his own admission right here and now, and his response to "well, don't do life-sentence crimes and you won't get a life sentence" was "Fuck you". He did it, he freely admits he did it, and he's just pissed that he had to spend a few years in jail for measly crimes of shooting and robbing people. He thinks he deserves a pass because he was 17 years old and high. Fuck that. I've known a lot of 17 year olds that got high, but funnily enough none of them were armed robbers.
Oh, yeah, one thing I learned in prison was this little saying, "Fuck You!"
Makes me glad I just robbed, stole and shot people, along with slinging drugs, guns and explosives.
Paid back all the money you stole yet? Paid off the hospital bills you caused when you shot people? And you dare curse those of us who elected to spend ridiculous sums of money to keep you away from society rather than have you take a long drop from a short rope?
Looks like they called it right the first time around - you are a sociopath.
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He said it was perfectly legal to remain in the intersection after the light turned red until it is finally safe to turn.
You should have asked him to put that in writing for you, with his name and precinct #, just to have in the glove compartment.
I've seen and heard this phrase, with insignificant variations, about practically every city there is on the world map.
Yes, you have, but the one time it is definitively true is Washington, D.C. FYI, if you've never been there: prepare for traffic that reflects the old saying that Washington is the city that combines Southern efficiency with Northern charm.
H2 + Cl2 -> 2HCl. Chlorine is even more reactive than oxygen. Check out demo here.
Actually, you need a spark for hydrogen and oxygen to ignite. Hydrogen and chlorine will ignite with light only, however.
As for your near-expulsion, that's strange. I went to a private high school and on the recruitment night the chemistry lab had hydrogen ignition as one of the two major features - the other was blowing soap bubbles full of natural gas which we then ignited with a candle attached to the end of a dowel. It was 20 years ago, though.
Would you leave if someone somewhere else offered you twice as much to do the same thing?
Why does its status as a fiat currency matter?
Not everyone went to public schools. My elementary, secondary, and college educations were all at private institutions, paid for with private money. Funnily enough, the city never gave my parents (or me) a refund on our property taxes for that unused "service". (Scare quotes because the schools are so ghastly.) My neighbor is about to have to leave the city for the suburbs because he can't afford private tuition for his two kids, the elder of whom is approaching school age.
the long term effects of paying children money for marks in school is not clear, and in many ways seemingly dangerous.
The compensation is deferred, but we already do pay students to do well in school. I had a full ride plus in college; that was a direct result of doing well in high school. I am a physician now, and the very good income I make is only available to people who did very well in school. "Study hard and you'll get a scholarship to college and a good job afterward" may be a lot more indirect than "Here's some cash, kid" but it pretty much only tested whether I was able to handle delayed gratification - otherwise it was very much paying me for doing well in school. This proposes to push that payment scheme down to kids who can't do decades-long delayed gratification, i.e. most of them., in order to improve their outcomes from education.
If copyright evaporated on the creator's death, who personally stands to gain by killing them?
The guy who wants to make a movie based on it.
Unless you're a really big author - Stephen King, James Patterson, Sue Grafton - no one of your books will pay your bills. Genre fiction like SF/F, for example, is just not the same as the mass market, and you might need three or four books generating royalties at a time in order to keep you going.
That's a fine philosophy for a book you write at 40 if you die at 90, but under your method we'd never have seen A Confederacy of Dunces, which was published after the author died. Artists and writers should have some expectation that their family will continue to get royalties should they die an untimely death. Otherwise, you start wondering how much it would be worth to kill Stephen King.
A piece of music written today may still have relevance 14 years from now, but a piece of software probably won't.
They're still selling classic video games on the Wii, most of which are older than 1996. I think you'd have to provide a method for extension of copyright by payment of a tax for certain properties (which do remain commercially viable).
If Italy, using 1930's technology, was capable of developing, delivering, and deploying chemical weapons in Ethiopia, I will go on record and make the claim that Venezuela could do the same to the US, using 2010's technology.
What, you expect Venezuela to exert air superiority over the US? Chlorine gas only works over very, very short distances.
Power brakes have at least two full presses worth of stored energy in them if the car is turned off, FYI. And I have personally driven a car with broken power steering - not just manual steering, but broken power steering- meaning that I was turning both the wheels and the power support mechanism. At a dead stop, that's an enormous pain; once you're moving over 10 mph, it's trivial. Guiding a car takes very little power.
it's not the workers, it's the managers
I listened to that This American Life, too, and there was a pretty significant change in worker behavior at NUMMI (vs when it was GM-Fremont) that could not be replicated at other GM plants because... (drum roll) workers at other plants didn't really think they'd be closed if they didn't reform. Aside from that episode, however, there are plenty of stories out there of sabotage by auto workers. The management was insular and came up with uninspiring designs, but the workers also did a truly awful job of building cars. (And it took more like 2 years to reform the place.)
The world does not consist entirely of large cities. Many rural areas have nonprofit corporations that provide water, and volunteer-only firefighting squads - there is no government entity involved at all.
Corporations need electric, garbage collection, and sewage treatment. Corporations need highly trained employees educated by public schools and universities.
I hate to break your bubble, but my power needs are provided by a private company, not a government. Garbage collection, too. And public schools? You must live somewhere nice, because the public schools where I live are awful.
Property tax is one of the most fair taxes imaginable. You own something of value, the government guarantees its value by protecting you from people who would steal it from you by force, you pay for said protection based on the value of what is protected.
Key point: wealthy people don't generally pay much in taxes, because they are rich. They can buy congressmen. Taxes are paid by upper middle class professionals who can't sneak out of them.
That kind of stuff is important, but unless Canada's a lot different from the US (and since both countries' med schools are accredited by the same folks, I doubt that) it's still possible to brute-force your way into med school with a high MCAT and GPA. You just won't make it as an edge case. So if you've got the numbers, go for it.
Wow, way to miss the point, AC. He really did do those things, by his own admission right here and now, and his response to "well, don't do life-sentence crimes and you won't get a life sentence" was "Fuck you". He did it, he freely admits he did it, and he's just pissed that he had to spend a few years in jail for measly crimes of shooting and robbing people. He thinks he deserves a pass because he was 17 years old and high. Fuck that. I've known a lot of 17 year olds that got high, but funnily enough none of them were armed robbers.
Oh, yeah, one thing I learned in prison was this little saying, "Fuck You!"
Makes me glad I just robbed, stole and shot people, along with slinging drugs, guns and explosives.
Paid back all the money you stole yet? Paid off the hospital bills you caused when you shot people? And you dare curse those of us who elected to spend ridiculous sums of money to keep you away from society rather than have you take a long drop from a short rope?
Looks like they called it right the first time around - you are a sociopath.
This is her company, not the government.
Hint: if the hard drive isn't in the suspect's computer, or even his house, when it's turned over to the police, that ought to be a HUGE red flag.
Those were cordless phones for the house, not cellular phones.