6" ICF definitely counts as a _real_ wall, especially if you assembled them yourself so getting extra real man points. Definitely beats straw-bale, which I suspect is used mostly by quiche-eaters. No matter how strong, well insulated and vermi-proofed, you still have a house of straw, which is worse than sticks, as we all learned in childhood.
You might be in an earthquake zone, but termites and bush-fires are a far bigger problem in these parts. Termites may not be spectacular, but can do massive damage before you notice them. And every house gets them eventually.
I need to use more smileys:-( . Just sayin', walls built of sticks or straw are not real walls as the GGP claims.
Japanese houses, like American houses, are not built to last. But I understand that Japanese and Californians have good reason not to build solid walls.
How else would you frame up a house if not using timber?
Around here "real walls" are clay brick. Preferably double-brick with cavity between. So I took "real wall" to mean a solid wall. Stone or concrete are acceptable alternatives, but more expensive.
I take it houses are made of wood-frame where you live?
If it's dangerous for the mother, think of the child in the womb
Babies born by older mothers have much higher chances of having being born with many types of defects. Down syndrome is just one of them.
But you have completely missed the reason. It is because of the old eggs. If a 45yo woman is pregnant using a donor egg from a young woman, all those risks go away.
But even weak magnets have a biological effect. They must do - magnet therapy is a billion dollar industry. If a $2 ferro-magnet can cure cancer, the massive field of an MRI must be able to cause disease. This relationship is proven by the homeopathic principle.
Sanctity of life, indeed. "If the fetus is a Downs, grip it out by the crown" is my motto.
I know a little about disabled kids, and Downs is a piece of cake compared to severe autism. Downs kids are demanding, but typically cute and lovable, compared to the family-wrecking nightmare that is autism.
Still, we did amnio, and if it was a choice of Downs, or terminate and try again for a chromosomal normal child, it's no contest.
Sure, there may be less problems over the life of the car, which todays seems to be not anymore than about 10 years.
Really? 10 years is the average age of registered cars in Australia. So privately-owned cars (non-fleet) are even older. Average lifetime must be substantially over 20 years, as the car population is growing, and more if you discount early deaths from wrecks.
Probably helps that we do not salt our roads.
in English (and most languages I speak, actually), when you refer to next + day of week, you mean X day, next week.
So if it is Monday, "next Thursday" is 10 days away, and on Fridays "next Thursday" is 4 days away, not 11 !? Never heard that one.
Not to this native speaker (in Oz). I'd usually say "next Thursday" on a Thursday, to mean a week from now.
If you want to talk 10 days ahead, that is "a week from Sunday", or some people would say "Sunday week" for short. I have heard the "next Sunday" usage for that somewhere (immigrants?) but it is unusual and confusing.
d it was bouncing up and down off the ground in what must have been horrific pain until my friend got close enough to blow the rest of its brains out.
Still a much kinder dead than most wild animals get. e.g. slow starvation, disease, or having your guts ripped out by a predator. The only animals than can expect a quick dignified death are our pets. Certainly not us.
A sandwich and chips may be enough for one meal, I'd think...
Seriously ? Nobody thinks chips is a bad thing to put in a school lunch? As a parent I'd consider both chips and fruit-juice as treats for odd occasions. My preschool discourages both, though I admit they can be a little P.C. on occasion. I do sympathise with the difficulty of getting some kids to eat vegetables unsupervised, but that does not mean you need to give them junk food.
40% of American is Catholic, but we've had only 1 Catholic President, whereas 13% of America is African American, and we've had only 1 African American President),
But to be fair, he hardly represents the slave-descended demographic. White mother and upbringing, foreign father. He represents Black Americans about as much as Newt Gingrich represents Catholics.
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6" ICF definitely counts as a _real_ wall, especially if you assembled them yourself so getting extra real man points.
Definitely beats straw-bale, which I suspect is used mostly by quiche-eaters. No matter how strong, well insulated and vermi-proofed, you still have a house of straw, which is worse than sticks, as we all learned in childhood.
You might be in an earthquake zone, but termites and bush-fires are a far bigger problem in these parts.
Termites may not be spectacular, but can do massive damage before you notice them. And every house gets them eventually.
I need to use more smileys :-( . Just sayin', walls built of sticks or straw are not real walls as the GGP claims.
Japanese houses, like American houses, are not built to last. But I understand that Japanese and Californians have good reason not to build solid walls.
How else would you frame up a house if not using timber?
Around here "real walls" are clay brick. Preferably double-brick with cavity between. So I took "real wall" to mean a solid wall.
Stone or concrete are acceptable alternatives, but more expensive.
I take it houses are made of wood-frame where you live?
We use real walls.
Not according to wikipedia, which says timber frames are popular.
If it's dangerous for the mother, think of the child in the womb
Babies born by older mothers have much higher chances of having being born with many types of defects. Down syndrome is just one of them.
But you have completely missed the reason. It is because of the old eggs. If a 45yo woman is pregnant using a donor egg from a young woman, all those risks go away.
But there is no evidence that he invented the concept of electronic messages between people.
I think some guy called Samuel Morse might have a prior claim on this one.
Once autism can be detected in fetuses, they will be aborted routinely. Count on it.
Thankyou Captain Obvious! You saved the day!
But even weak magnets have a biological effect. They must do - magnet therapy is a billion dollar industry.
If a $2 ferro-magnet can cure cancer, the massive field of an MRI must be able to cause disease. This relationship is proven by the homeopathic principle.
Sanctity of life, indeed. "If the fetus is a Downs, grip it out by the crown" is my motto.
I know a little about disabled kids, and Downs is a piece of cake compared to severe autism.
Downs kids are demanding, but typically cute and lovable, compared to the family-wrecking nightmare that is autism.
Still, we did amnio, and if it was a choice of Downs, or terminate and try again for a chromosomal normal child, it's no contest.
Sure, there may be less problems over the life of the car, which todays seems to be not anymore than about 10 years.
Really? 10 years is the average age of registered cars in Australia. So privately-owned cars (non-fleet) are even older. Average lifetime must be substantially over 20 years, as the car population is growing, and more if you discount early deaths from wrecks.
Probably helps that we do not salt our roads.
I don't know what time "bread-and-butter" cars still commonly had chokes, but I think it was earlier than the mid-70s.
You probably drove lots of cars with chokes, but they were automatic chokes. Still had the reliability problems that were solved by EFI later.
in English (and most languages I speak, actually), when you refer to next + day of week, you mean X day, next week.
So if it is Monday, "next Thursday" is 10 days away, and on Fridays "next Thursday" is 4 days away, not 11 !? Never heard that one.
Not to this native speaker (in Oz). I'd usually say "next Thursday" on a Thursday, to mean a week from now.
If you want to talk 10 days ahead, that is "a week from Sunday", or some people would say "Sunday week" for short. I have heard the "next Sunday" usage for that somewhere (immigrants?) but it is unusual and confusing.
The same idiots that think "Gulliver's Travels" is Swift-boating.
Or they think "Gulliver's Travels" is a book for children.
No, it will definitely end. About 70 years after the last lawyer died.
No, lawyers will still be scuttling about long after the human race has been destroyed.
d it was bouncing up and down off the ground in what must have been horrific pain until my friend got close enough to blow the rest of its brains out.
Still a much kinder dead than most wild animals get. e.g. slow starvation, disease, or having your guts ripped out by a predator.
The only animals than can expect a quick dignified death are our pets. Certainly not us.
Why didn't they just drop the .9?
Or attach a permanent stick-on .9 at the end of the sign.
If you get rid of the nickel, you essentially need to get rid of the quarter.
Interesting. Could this be why every other country on earth* has (or had) 20 cent coins instead of 25c?
(*except the semi-autonomous Northern Provinces of the US)
Of course, there's a trade-off to not tipping, such as the astonishingly poor service
Classic correlation/causation error there. Service is better in the US across the board, not just from people who expect tips.
A "real geek" already has a cron job that covers it.
A "real geek" would be using a high-pressure hose on his driveway right about now.
The banana is to keep the kid from dying of colon cancer.
I'm sure I remember every Fukushima thread on slashdot has at least one person reminding us that bananas are radioactive.
A sandwich and chips may be enough for one meal, I'd think...
Seriously ? Nobody thinks chips is a bad thing to put in a school lunch?
As a parent I'd consider both chips and fruit-juice as treats for odd occasions. My preschool discourages both, though I admit they can be a little P.C. on occasion.
I do sympathise with the difficulty of getting some kids to eat vegetables unsupervised, but that does not mean you need to give them junk food.
"only in America..."
At least more healthy than Coca Cola.
or cyanide.
Paul was referring to Jewish Scriptures and likely one or more of the Gospels.
Not so likely since if the letter really was written by Paul, it was written before the canonical gospels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_to_Timothy#Date
40% of American is Catholic, but we've had only 1 Catholic President, whereas 13% of America is African American, and we've had only 1 African American President),
But to be fair, he hardly represents the slave-descended demographic. White mother and upbringing, foreign father. He represents Black Americans about as much as Newt Gingrich represents Catholics.