OTOH, there were zero legitimate uses for assault rifles in the US in that period. It sort of seems an obvious win to ban assault rifles, or at least the sale and import.
However the numbers are small, and could be seen as a distraction from the much bigger problem of handguns in America. Which of course is tried up with Race and Drugs... good luck there.
Usenet died when it was opened to the great unwashed masses. AOL was the start. The golden age of usenet was only possible because it was largely restricted to intelligent educated grown-ups. Or at least college students who were a minority enough that they soon got pulled into line with netiquette. That was the day with everyone used their real names, and many had their phone number in the.signature footer.
happens to contain a lot of convincing chemical names.
Which bit of "fatty acids, wheat gluten and enzymes" do you not understand? These are all terms commonly used by laymen. Fatty acid is just fat/oil, gluten is protein, and enzymes are chemical catalysts, such as used by your gut for digestion, or in washing powder. But whether you know that or not, the list provides a starting point for reading.
Anyone who cares about what they eat should know (now is your chance) that monoglyceride and diglyceride oils are emulsifiers. The one you want to avoid is trans-fat.
Bottom line: none of those additives are controversial*, much less shown to be harmful. The only arguments are over taste and texture. In most countries, you can read the ingredients on the packaging.
(*excluding such sites as stopkillingmykids.com - you can decide from the domain name if it is a hysterical alarmist nutter-blog. Hey hippy - your kids are dying because you had a breech homebirth with no qualified midwife, or they ran around with other feral unimmunised plague hosts.)
The US Energy Information Administration claims that the US dependence on oil from The Persian Gulf is approximately 22%, so even if they dropped off the face of the planet (ie immediately/suddenly, tomorrow) it would not make all that much of a difference.
Surely a US government agnecy could not possibly so stupid. Nothing on the website supports your ludicrous claim that they think "t would not make all that much of a difference.".
No, vaccines and antibiotics work very differently. But even with abuse of antibiotics, the worst they do is reduce the effectiveness of antibiotics. The "superbugs" are no worse than regular bugs were before antibiotics were discovered. That is, the days when the simplest wound or surgery was often fatal. It would be a shame if we cure the common cold at the same time that tuberculosis and infected paper cuts start to kill en-masse again.
Do you believe a democratic society can exist which has no form of religion in its laws, or within government?
This is Richard Dawkins! Your question is like asking Stephen Hawking if the sun goes around the Earth. Plaeas ask something a little more challenging.
If you sign the NPT, you have agreed not to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for peaceful nuclear technology... You've lied.. you've committed fraud to every country and foreign scientist that assisted you.
Then the US has lied and committed fraud. You cannot seriously believe the US has complied with their NPT obligations? Its hard to argue straight-faced with Iran on that one: http://english.irib.ir/voj/news/nuclear/item/79030-iran-lambasts-us-non-compliance-with-npt-undertakings Not to mention their further hypocracy with their support for Israel. The US could easily pressure Israel if it had the will, as good faith with the NPT would require.
Once upon a time, Al Quaeda grand-grand-grand parents used to rule the world.
No, the Ottomans were Turks, and they ruled the Arab Al-Quaeda ancestors, while adopting their religion. A bit like the Romans and Greeks. Fortunately the Turks were rescued from religious decadence by Atatürk. The Arabs, and maybe even the US, could use somebody like him.
1) names that "sounded" white vs black and (Dan vs Jamal)
This is about social class - race is just correlated. I'll bet that intelligent and educated black Americans do not give those names to their kids. In Australia we have "bogan" baby names. Whites with these "yoonique" names are just as likely to be judged.
But didn't Freakonomics decide that "black" names are not a problem in the real world, after comparing them to their traditionally-named siblings? That suggests that in the real world, when interviewers meet the applicants they are more able to judge them on their merits. The studies above rely on a contrived situtation of artifically limited information to create more gender or name bias than exists in the real world.
The point was that shutting down the reactor is not so bad because they have redundancy at a higher level. For the same reason, if you have a large farm of redundant servers, you do not need redundant PSUs on each.
They do have redundancy. The power station is connected by a grid to other power stations. Normally they also have multiple reactors at one site, but for some reason TMI #2 has had an extended outage.
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OTOH, there were zero legitimate uses for assault rifles in the US in that period.
It sort of seems an obvious win to ban assault rifles, or at least the sale and import.
However the numbers are small, and could be seen as a distraction from the much bigger problem of handguns in America. ... good luck there.
Which of course is tried up with Race and Drugs
Usenet died when it was opened to the great unwashed masses. AOL was the start. .signature footer.
The golden age of usenet was only possible because it was largely restricted to intelligent educated grown-ups. Or at least college students who were a minority enough that they soon got pulled into line with netiquette. That was the day with everyone used their real names, and many had their phone number in the
I'll volunteer! Love the uniform with the black pants and red shirt.
happens to contain a lot of convincing chemical names.
Which bit of "fatty acids, wheat gluten and enzymes" do you not understand? These are all terms commonly used by laymen.
Fatty acid is just fat/oil, gluten is protein, and enzymes are chemical catalysts, such as used by your gut for digestion, or in washing powder.
But whether you know that or not, the list provides a starting point for reading.
Anyone who cares about what they eat should know (now is your chance) that monoglyceride and diglyceride oils are emulsifiers.
The one you want to avoid is trans-fat.
Bottom line: none of those additives are controversial*, much less shown to be harmful. The only arguments are over taste and texture.
In most countries, you can read the ingredients on the packaging.
(*excluding such sites as stopkillingmykids.com - you can decide from the domain name if it is a hysterical alarmist nutter-blog.
Hey hippy - your kids are dying because you had a breech homebirth with no qualified midwife, or they ran around with other feral unimmunised plague hosts.)
What could they be possibly putting in there that lets it last ten days, let alone sixty?
Anti-staling agents used in bread are fatty acids as monoglyceride and diglyceride and wheat gluten and enzymes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staling#Countermeasures
1) It would still become more expensive for Greece to borrow because bond buyers aren't dumb,
Then how do you explain people buying US T-Bonds at such low yields?
Ask him anything you like, but please limit yourself to one question per post.
What part of one question per post did you not understand?
He doesn't quite grasp the meaning of "a couple" either. Maybe he is a Morman.
You do realise that Shuttleworth is not in any sense American? (unlike Tito)
$6 each. They were not smuggling one at a time.
The US Energy Information Administration claims that the US dependence on oil from The Persian Gulf is approximately 22%, so even if they dropped off the face of the planet (ie immediately/suddenly, tomorrow) it would not make all that much of a difference.
Surely a US government agnecy could not possibly so stupid. Nothing on the website supports your ludicrous claim that they think "t would not make all that much of a difference.".
> or is it part of some kind of war???
Of course it is. And there is a lesson: People who live in glass houses should not throw Stuxnets.
No, vaccines and antibiotics work very differently. But even with abuse of antibiotics, the worst they do is reduce the effectiveness of antibiotics. The "superbugs" are no worse than regular bugs were before antibiotics were discovered. That is, the days when the simplest wound or surgery was often fatal.
It would be a shame if we cure the common cold at the same time that tuberculosis and infected paper cuts start to kill en-masse again.
Do you believe a democratic society can exist which has no form of religion in its laws, or within government?
This is Richard Dawkins! Your question is like asking Stephen Hawking if the sun goes around the Earth.
Plaeas ask something a little more challenging.
If you can find any name that's not related to murdering your wife, go for it. Bonus points if it's catchy.
I though they were changing it to "Open Journaling FileSystem".
If you sign the NPT, you have agreed not to develop nuclear weapons in exchange for peaceful nuclear technology ... You've lied.. you've committed fraud to every country and foreign scientist that assisted you.
Then the US has lied and committed fraud. You cannot seriously believe the US has complied with their NPT obligations?
Its hard to argue straight-faced with Iran on that one: http://english.irib.ir/voj/news/nuclear/item/79030-iran-lambasts-us-non-compliance-with-npt-undertakings
Not to mention their further hypocracy with their support for Israel. The US could easily pressure Israel if it had the will, as good faith with the NPT would require.
I understood that most surviving dinosaurs can fly.
Al Qaeda reads their holy text in the original language.
So do the Republicans. If Olde English was good enough for Jesus, verily it is goode enough for them.
Have you ever heard of the Ottoman empire?
Once upon a time, Al Quaeda grand-grand-grand parents used to rule the world.
No, the Ottomans were Turks, and they ruled the Arab Al-Quaeda ancestors, while adopting their religion. A bit like the Romans and Greeks.
Fortunately the Turks were rescued from religious decadence by Atatürk. The Arabs, and maybe even the US, could use somebody like him.
I guess cancer is kind of like a super power.
or so Lance Armstrong would like us to believe.
Why is it that USA space tech prefers water splashdowns instead of dry land like the Russians and Chinese?
So the Navy can get a piece of the budget. Or for whatever reasons the Navy lobbyists told them they prefer it.
1) names that "sounded" white vs black and (Dan vs Jamal)
This is about social class - race is just correlated. I'll bet that intelligent and educated black Americans do not give those names to their kids.
In Australia we have "bogan" baby names. Whites with these "yoonique" names are just as likely to be judged.
But didn't Freakonomics decide that "black" names are not a problem in the real world, after comparing them to their traditionally-named siblings?
That suggests that in the real world, when interviewers meet the applicants they are more able to judge them on their merits.
The studies above rely on a contrived situtation of artifically limited information to create more gender or name bias than exists in the real world.
Mod parent higher than it's current score +
Don't be silly. It would take an infinite number of mods to pass the +5 singularity.
The point was that shutting down the reactor is not so bad because they have redundancy at a higher level.
For the same reason, if you have a large farm of redundant servers, you do not need redundant PSUs on each.
They do have redundancy. The power station is connected by a grid to other power stations.
Normally they also have multiple reactors at one site, but for some reason TMI #2 has had an extended outage.
Why not? You might be surprised to hear that the Chernobyl power station operated until 2000, 16 years after the well known incident.
Fukishima may not do so well. Losing a single reactor, as the US and USSR did, may be seen as bad luck. Losing three of them is an embarassment.