The low density "solids" that are good thermal insulators are (generally) not really solid: they're mostly air kept from moving by a mess of tiny strands of glass or wood particles, or bubbles containing gas or vacuum.
They should amend the Constitution where the government cannot ask questions like that. It's not their business.
You can't be that stupid, it has to be deliberate malice.
Let me make the question a little clearer: "Have you ever belonged to an organization that is trying to kill me?"
According to you, that's none of my business.
Making sure teachers are well paid and have the resources they need is the way to improve education.
Up until students reach about 12 years of age the requirements for their teachers are pretty trivial; the supply of potential elementary school teachers far exceeds the demand. Hence fairly low pay,
Resources? Don't be funny. Keeping a schoolroom warm (or cool in Florida) costs more than a chalkboard and a couple of hundred public domain texts.
Common Core is a partnership of business and government, i.e. fascism. Regardless of its origin, for several years it has been pushed hard by the federal government onto the state governments and lower government levels. One hook being used is that implementing Common Core standards releases a state from the restrictions of Bush's terrible "No Child Left Behind" program.
CC is very deceptive. Read the promotional material, and it looks like a substantial improvement in public education. Get into the details or listen in a classroom, and understand where things used to be 50 years ago, and you'll see substantial degradation.
The actual details of CC are slippery. When something bad comes into widespread public recognition, it disappears and is replaced with something worse, all the while with the promoters saying "That's not in Common Core." When Common Core is widely despised in some region, turds like Mike Huckabee advocate changing the program's name without changing its content.
Current primary public school education cost is $13,000 per student annually. 20 students per class is still considered a small class by most reasonable people. If 20 students cannot be taught well for $260,000 a year, then something is very badly wrong that throwing money at will not fix.
Common Core is attempting to make things much, much worse. History under Common Core is disjointed, ignores or downplays most important people and events while emphasizing the unimportant, plays to the PC crowd and the anti-capitalist mentality. Math under Common Core is complicated, obfuscated, and crippled. Literature is de-emphasized, fragmented and uninspiring. The unstated goal of Common Core is to make docile employee drones and bureaucrats, the kind Bill Gates would love to have.
Defense Department is only 18% of the federal budget. The other Constitutionally legal expenses (courts, salaries on Capitol Hill and in the White House) are trivial by comparison. When the numbers are much smaller, it's easier to get the money. Require each state to send to the federal government an amount of money proportional to its population; no "tax too much and Uncle Sugar will send back the excess" because that's an invitation to corruption and extortion. Other funds from import duties.
The smaller government is, the less of a draw it is to people who want to steal or beg, and people who want to be the boss.
You'd be surprised at the government agencies and departments that do have guns. Agriculture has had guns for 80 years or more. The FDA has performed armed raids. Your claim to the contrary notwithstanding, I'd be very surprised if the EPA doesn't have some armed division.
Some of this is recent; there has been a great deal of firearm and ammunition purchasing by the federal government during the Obama administration, with resultant shortages in the consumer market.
Ah, I miss the good old days of dates and names. Today's history is taught as the names of historians and their crackpot opinions; history has become the study of "historiography".
Makes sense. Blu-Ray discs cost the consumer about 50% more and the players are about twice the price. Most people don't even have a Blu-Ray player, and even those that do may balk at paying more for a movie that they'll only see a few times, or that only their children will watch.
Many people don't buy a new TV until the old one breaks. It's going to be another 10 years before the CRTs are for all practical purposes gone, and they can't even accept the output from common Blu-Ray players. I expect high resolution to continue gaining ground, and that might mean that Blu-Ray (or an even higher capacity format) eventually dominates physical media.
Part of a possible protection for species of high economic value is the definition and protection of property rights. If a dozen whales and their offspring can be owned, the owner makes more money maintaining a herd than killing them all off at once.
WWII deaths were about 60 million, about half of which were the result of Hitler. Malaria deaths run somewhat below 1 million a year, some large portion of which is due to restrictions on DDT use. As time goes on the number of deaths due to inadequate supplies of DDT rises. Looks like Crichton might have been correct, and if not, he wasn't far off.
Currently, death rate for driving is just a bit over one per one hundred million miles. Slightly more people die per year from suicide, slightly fewer from accidental poisoning. Transportation in the US just doesn't qualify as "horribly unsafe".
If you're walking in the middle of a lane of the Connecticut Turnpike or other similar major Interstate, you deserve to be road pizza. Under the law, both the pedestrian and the driver are at fault.
If the government developed and manufactured drugs, what criteria would determine which diseases are targeted for cures? It would be those diseases with the largest and most obnoxious lobbying groups. The incompetent government labs would be toiling away for cures to AIDS, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and maybe bowel cancer for Barney Frank. MS, heart disease, ebola? Not a chance.
The conspiracy is not "to reduce fossil fuel consumption", it's to gain political power. It's not a hidden conspiracy, mostly it's quite open in its actions; it's the motives that are somewhat hidden because few people lusting after political power have any need to communicate that lust.
And they haven't successfully hidden all evidence: East Anglia.
The central valley of California has good soil, warmth, and dependable sunshine. All that's missing for great agriculture is dependable water. The mid-west, America's breadbasket, suffers fairly cold winters and occasional severe floods.
People make do with what they have and operate in whatever economic conditions prevail. If water becomes too rare and hence too expensive, California farms will fail. Food prices will go up for everyone, and some California farmers will be impoverished. If water does not become too expensive, almost everyone wins.
Based on that statement and the unquestionable moral and scientific authority of Shel Silverstein, I've ordered a gross of square circles. The supplier claims to have found a way to make PI equal seven.
Translation: Experienced members of the most successful and technologically advanced people on earth. People who, except for their failure in raising the current generation, generally did things correctly.
Probably a couple dozen, evenly split between nuclear holocaust and enviro-catastophes, and that's just limiting it to those whose due dates are already past. Nothing interesting happened. (Calling them scientific is a bit of a stretch, however.) There are plenty of religious ones, too.
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The low density "solids" that are good thermal insulators are (generally) not really solid: they're mostly air kept from moving by a mess of tiny strands of glass or wood particles, or bubbles containing gas or vacuum.
Perhaps scientists should think twice about associating with terrorists.
You can't be that stupid, it has to be deliberate malice.
Let me make the question a little clearer: "Have you ever belonged to an organization that is trying to kill me?"
According to you, that's none of my business.
Up until students reach about 12 years of age the requirements for their teachers are pretty trivial; the supply of potential elementary school teachers far exceeds the demand. Hence fairly low pay,
Resources? Don't be funny. Keeping a schoolroom warm (or cool in Florida) costs more than a chalkboard and a couple of hundred public domain texts.
Common Core is a partnership of business and government, i.e. fascism. Regardless of its origin, for several years it has been pushed hard by the federal government onto the state governments and lower government levels. One hook being used is that implementing Common Core standards releases a state from the restrictions of Bush's terrible "No Child Left Behind" program.
CC is very deceptive. Read the promotional material, and it looks like a substantial improvement in public education. Get into the details or listen in a classroom, and understand where things used to be 50 years ago, and you'll see substantial degradation.
The actual details of CC are slippery. When something bad comes into widespread public recognition, it disappears and is replaced with something worse, all the while with the promoters saying "That's not in Common Core." When Common Core is widely despised in some region, turds like Mike Huckabee advocate changing the program's name without changing its content.
Want a conspiracy theory? Here's your conspiracy.
Current primary public school education cost is $13,000 per student annually. 20 students per class is still considered a small class by most reasonable people. If 20 students cannot be taught well for $260,000 a year, then something is very badly wrong that throwing money at will not fix.
Common Core is attempting to make things much, much worse. History under Common Core is disjointed, ignores or downplays most important people and events while emphasizing the unimportant, plays to the PC crowd and the anti-capitalist mentality. Math under Common Core is complicated, obfuscated, and crippled. Literature is de-emphasized, fragmented and uninspiring. The unstated goal of Common Core is to make docile employee drones and bureaucrats, the kind Bill Gates would love to have.
Defense Department is only 18% of the federal budget. The other Constitutionally legal expenses (courts, salaries on Capitol Hill and in the White House) are trivial by comparison. When the numbers are much smaller, it's easier to get the money. Require each state to send to the federal government an amount of money proportional to its population; no "tax too much and Uncle Sugar will send back the excess" because that's an invitation to corruption and extortion. Other funds from import duties.
The smaller government is, the less of a draw it is to people who want to steal or beg, and people who want to be the boss.
You'd be surprised at the government agencies and departments that do have guns. Agriculture has had guns for 80 years or more. The FDA has performed armed raids. Your claim to the contrary notwithstanding, I'd be very surprised if the EPA doesn't have some armed division.
Some of this is recent; there has been a great deal of firearm and ammunition purchasing by the federal government during the Obama administration, with resultant shortages in the consumer market.
Ah, I miss the good old days of dates and names. Today's history is taught as the names of historians and their crackpot opinions; history has become the study of "historiography".
Makes sense. Blu-Ray discs cost the consumer about 50% more and the players are about twice the price. Most people don't even have a Blu-Ray player, and even those that do may balk at paying more for a movie that they'll only see a few times, or that only their children will watch.
Many people don't buy a new TV until the old one breaks. It's going to be another 10 years before the CRTs are for all practical purposes gone, and they can't even accept the output from common Blu-Ray players. I expect high resolution to continue gaining ground, and that might mean that Blu-Ray (or an even higher capacity format) eventually dominates physical media.
Part of a possible protection for species of high economic value is the definition and protection of property rights. If a dozen whales and their offspring can be owned, the owner makes more money maintaining a herd than killing them all off at once.
WWII deaths were about 60 million, about half of which were the result of Hitler. Malaria deaths run somewhat below 1 million a year, some large portion of which is due to restrictions on DDT use. As time goes on the number of deaths due to inadequate supplies of DDT rises. Looks like Crichton might have been correct, and if not, he wasn't far off.
The passenger pigeon is a blight on humanity. Bring back a bird worth having, like the Carolina parakeet.
Please think about the word "exponentially". It does not mean "lots and lots".
Currently, death rate for driving is just a bit over one per one hundred million miles. Slightly more people die per year from suicide, slightly fewer from accidental poisoning. Transportation in the US just doesn't qualify as "horribly unsafe".
If you're walking in the middle of a lane of the Connecticut Turnpike or other similar major Interstate, you deserve to be road pizza. Under the law, both the pedestrian and the driver are at fault.
If the government developed and manufactured drugs, what criteria would determine which diseases are targeted for cures? It would be those diseases with the largest and most obnoxious lobbying groups. The incompetent government labs would be toiling away for cures to AIDS, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and maybe bowel cancer for Barney Frank. MS, heart disease, ebola? Not a chance.
They'd need a new name: Ministry of Truth.
Being on the windward side of several mountain ranges doesn't seem to be helping California.
Take a look and think about this: http://xkcd.com/1338/
The conspiracy is not "to reduce fossil fuel consumption", it's to gain political power. It's not a hidden conspiracy, mostly it's quite open in its actions; it's the motives that are somewhat hidden because few people lusting after political power have any need to communicate that lust.
And they haven't successfully hidden all evidence: East Anglia.
The central valley of California has good soil, warmth, and dependable sunshine. All that's missing for great agriculture is dependable water. The mid-west, America's breadbasket, suffers fairly cold winters and occasional severe floods.
People make do with what they have and operate in whatever economic conditions prevail. If water becomes too rare and hence too expensive, California farms will fail. Food prices will go up for everyone, and some California farmers will be impoverished. If water does not become too expensive, almost everyone wins.
Based on that statement and the unquestionable moral and scientific authority of Shel Silverstein, I've ordered a gross of square circles. The supplier claims to have found a way to make PI equal seven.
Translation: Experienced members of the most successful and technologically advanced people on earth. People who, except for their failure in raising the current generation, generally did things correctly.
Probably a couple dozen, evenly split between nuclear holocaust and enviro-catastophes, and that's just limiting it to those whose due dates are already past. Nothing interesting happened. (Calling them scientific is a bit of a stretch, however.)
There are plenty of religious ones, too.