There are plenty of banks that have adjusted hours to their communities. Some are open as late as 8 PM on selected days, Some are even open on (GASP) Saturdays.
My dictionary (Funk & Wagnalls) gives about a dozen definitions for moral and 3 for ethical, and there's very little to distinguish one from the other (ethics seems to be a bit more technical).
Anyone can be moral. Simply do exactly what society expects you to do and no more.
So in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia morality consisted of snitching on your neighbors. In modern "liberal democracies" it consists of living on the dole.
Actual morality (and ethics) in its highest form consists of striving to become a great person; to be someone who would have been considered honorable by Plutarch.
Many colorings are added to create a brand identity or to meet expectations. Do you really think that bubbling brown stuff looks safer than bubbling clear stuff? I've seen sodas in all the colors of a pack of 8 crayons except black, and come to think of it colas are pretty close to black.
Yes, sometimes food coloring is added to dishonestly make stuff look good, particularly flesh. There's a good argument for making that illegal.
I don't know how long you'd live on "all the vitamins and minerals we need in a day can be found in a vitamin pill taken with just enough carbs for energy." but I bet it wouldn't be a year. Protein isn't optional, especially when you're growing. There are such things as "essential fatty acids". And if you don't eat enough volume to flush stuff through your intestine, you're asking for serious trouble.
Would you be kind enough to take the actual meaning of the four words in that phrase, and tell me how you distort them to make your statement true, or even not silly?
Most restaurants are private property. If you don't like their atmosphere, it is proper not to go there. It is not proper to have your state send in a trooper to arrest the owner when he refuses to buckle under to no-smoking laws.
Unflavored "club soda" is just carbonated water, and if you don't trust the manufacturer, make your own. Add your own flavoring or fruit juice to suit your taste.
Your example is completely defective, because 2ml of liquid has C(2n,n) different ways of making 1ml of liquid, where n is the number of molecules in 1 ml.
But as a first approximation, the low dose linear model is the standard for risk assessment.
That's true but incomplete. The standard is linear and passes through the origin. (i.e. zero in implies zero out.)
Alas, the standard does not reflect reality. It ignores both "spontaneous" cancers at zero dose, and repair mechanisms. The linear-through-the-origin model is used for economic and political reasons: Testing low dose response when a million samples are required to achieve statistical significance is too expensive. And "no tolerance" laws possible with "extrapolate to epsilon" techniques are manna to fear mongers and political extortionists.
In the U.S., John Wyndham is rarely mentioned these days, yet each book that I've read has been a monument. The Midwich Cuckoos. The Day of the Triffids.
If you're looking for gentle and humorous adventure, try the three books in Alexei Panshin's Thurb pentology.
I recently read The Dispossessed, a book which is confusing, confused, reaches no conclusion and ends without anything really happening. If it's representative of LeGuin's work, I can't recommend her.
Capsaicin is used as an ingredient in topical pain relievers; although the initial reaction can be pain (and blistering when used in high concentration.) It seems like a poor choice for a chemical to test pain response.
Sorry, you're wrong. I'm 63 now, but up until my late 20's I could hear up to to about 27 kHz. In some stores with "ultrasonic" burglar alarms, I could detect the active alarm during business hours, and in one department store in midstate Connecticut it was so loud as to be painful. I've spoken to another person with similar hearing range.
I don't think it's a real advantage to be able to hear that high, and it's not all that common, but genetic variability does exist and some people can hear well above 20 kHz.
That's a profound misrepresentation of how hearing works.
Here's an oversimplified and inaccurate explanation. The ear's mechanism relies on different frequencies providing the highest level of excitation at different places. Your trained nervous system recognizes each different place as a different tone.
For most people, there is no place where sounds above 20 kHz will irritate a nerve ending enough to send an impulse to your brain. Thus, no sound higher than 20 kHz is audible, and 20 kHz corresponds to a 40 kHz sampling rate. (One sample at the low point on the wave, the next sample at the next high point, etc.
Many herbs are extracted for a particular concentration of the active ingredient, listed on the label. This can be either better or worse than a synthetic, completely purified chemical. It's worse in the case of some herbs where the remaining components are unknown and not necessarily beneficial. It can be better, for example, in the case of vitamin E: the synthetic chemical is alpha tocopherol; the "natural" form frequently includes the beta, gamma, and delta forms, and the gamma form has been demonstrated to be important, particularly at higher dosages.
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There are plenty of banks that have adjusted hours to their communities. Some are open as late as 8 PM on selected days, Some are even open on (GASP) Saturdays.
Having young children going between home and school in the dark is a really bad idea.
Wow. What dictionary do you use?
My dictionary (Funk & Wagnalls) gives about a dozen definitions for moral and 3 for ethical, and there's very little to distinguish one from the other (ethics seems to be a bit more technical).
So in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia morality consisted of snitching on your neighbors. In modern "liberal democracies" it consists of living on the dole.
Actual morality (and ethics) in its highest form consists of striving to become a great person; to be someone who would have been considered honorable by Plutarch.
Didn't Pinky and The Brain do this already?
Many colorings are added to create a brand identity or to meet expectations. Do you really think that bubbling brown stuff looks safer than bubbling clear stuff? I've seen sodas in all the colors of a pack of 8 crayons except black, and come to think of it colas are pretty close to black.
Yes, sometimes food coloring is added to dishonestly make stuff look good, particularly flesh. There's a good argument for making that illegal.
I don't know how long you'd live on "all the vitamins and minerals we need in a day can be found in a vitamin pill taken with just enough carbs for energy." but I bet it wouldn't be a year. Protein isn't optional, especially when you're growing. There are such things as "essential fatty acids". And if you don't eat enough volume to flush stuff through your intestine, you're asking for serious trouble.
Glutamic acid and its sodium salt are for most people better consumed in moderation than not at all. It's a natural fraction of several healthy foods.
The US has been following EU political leads for years, and that's why we're now 3 years into tyranny.
"good for the Earth"
Would you be kind enough to take the actual meaning of the four words in that phrase, and tell me how you distort them to make your statement true, or even not silly?
Most restaurants are private property. If you don't like their atmosphere, it is proper not to go there. It is not proper to have your state send in a trooper to arrest the owner when he refuses to buckle under to no-smoking laws.
I don't suppose it occurred to you that people who think their job is unacceptably unsafe look for a job elsewhere?
Unflavored "club soda" is just carbonated water, and if you don't trust the manufacturer, make your own. Add your own flavoring or fruit juice to suit your taste.
Your example is completely defective, because 2ml of liquid has C(2n,n) different ways of making 1ml of liquid, where n is the number of molecules in 1 ml.
That's true but incomplete. The standard is linear and passes through the origin. (i.e. zero in implies zero out.)
Alas, the standard does not reflect reality. It ignores both "spontaneous" cancers at zero dose, and repair mechanisms. The linear-through-the-origin model is used for economic and political reasons: Testing low dose response when a million samples are required to achieve statistical significance is too expensive. And "no tolerance" laws possible with "extrapolate to epsilon" techniques are manna to fear mongers and political extortionists.
Sorry, the state language of California is Spanish. Not that anyone can read, anyway.
In the U.S., John Wyndham is rarely mentioned these days, yet each book that I've read has been a monument. The Midwich Cuckoos. The Day of the Triffids.
If you're looking for gentle and humorous adventure, try the three books in Alexei Panshin's Thurb pentology.
I recently read The Dispossessed, a book which is confusing, confused, reaches no conclusion and ends without anything really happening. If it's representative of LeGuin's work, I can't recommend her.
Capsaicin is used as an ingredient in topical pain relievers; although the initial reaction can be pain (and blistering when used in high concentration.) It seems like a poor choice for a chemical to test pain response.
Daffy refers to himself as "This little black duck."
Sorry, you're wrong. I'm 63 now, but up until my late 20's I could hear up to to about 27 kHz. In some stores with "ultrasonic" burglar alarms, I could detect the active alarm during business hours, and in one department store in midstate Connecticut it was so loud as to be painful. I've spoken to another person with similar hearing range.
I don't think it's a real advantage to be able to hear that high, and it's not all that common, but genetic variability does exist and some people can hear well above 20 kHz.
Says the bullshitter who's never heard of error correction.
That's a profound misrepresentation of how hearing works.
Here's an oversimplified and inaccurate explanation. The ear's mechanism relies on different frequencies providing the highest level of excitation at different places. Your trained nervous system recognizes each different place as a different tone.
For most people, there is no place where sounds above 20 kHz will irritate a nerve ending enough to send an impulse to your brain. Thus, no sound higher than 20 kHz is audible, and 20 kHz corresponds to a 40 kHz sampling rate. (One sample at the low point on the wave, the next sample at the next high point, etc.
Poppycock. America has been trending left for a century, and if Obama is re-elected we'll be in leftist slavery before he leaves office.
Many herbs are extracted for a particular concentration of the active ingredient, listed on the label. This can be either better or worse than a synthetic, completely purified chemical. It's worse in the case of some herbs where the remaining components are unknown and not necessarily beneficial. It can be better, for example, in the case of vitamin E: the synthetic chemical is alpha tocopherol; the "natural" form frequently includes the beta, gamma, and delta forms, and the gamma form has been demonstrated to be important, particularly at higher dosages.
That's an interesting anecdote. Just as a silly side note, $6,000 will buy over 200 pounds of vitamin C. Sigh, there are SO many bad people out there.