No, I don't think that's it. If the suit actually had no merit, the judge could easily have said so and explained why. This looks more like the judge had decided to throw out the suit and was looking for a plausible excuse. It's going to be interesting to see what the Appellate Court has to say about it.
You are, of course, correct. The point I was trying to make is that the idea of an asteroid impact came from the original discovery of the Iridium layer in (I think) Calabria, and later discoveries of similar deposits in other locations confirmed it. The OP made it sound as though the discoveries confirmed an existing theory, rather than gave us a reason to create a new one.
Actually, no. Nobody predicted the anomalous amounts of Iridium or other evidence of a meteorite impact. They were observed, and a theory was constructed from those observations that the timing was right to explain what happened to the dinosaurs.
That might actually be a good idea in some parts of the country. I live in Southern California, and that's earthquake country. So's Oklahoma, where there's also lots of old oil wells. I'm sure that there are parts of the country where something like that would be safe, but you do have to take tectonic activity into account when picking where you're going to do something like this. And, just for the record, if I lived someplace with old oil wells and little worry about earthquakes, I'd have no problem with having the waste dumped in my area, because when it comes to this, I'm not a NIMBY.
I had a sleep study done early this year. After two weeks of keeping track of my sleep patterns, we found that at 66, I personally need about 7.5 hours of sleep per night. I have a friend who's 80, and for most of his adult life he's only needed about 5 hours per night. There's an awful lot of variation in how much sleep people need, and the important thing is, do you feel properly rested and refreshed when you get up, or don't you?
How does that change if you remove those who die before their fifth birthday? The infant mortality rate is almost certainly high, and that's going to lower the average age at death.
Back in '72, when I was in the Navy, one of my friends was a Quartermaster's Mate. (Bridge crew, navigation, that kind of thing.) Most of the navigation was done by LORAN, but they still regularly used celestial navigation both to keep in practice and as a backup. And, they still had two different, hand-wound chronometers as the official time source for navigation. The ship used (I think.) steam turbines for propulsion, but we could still navigate if all the electric power was down, or the LORAN equipment was damaged by wind, wave or enemy action.
Another good thing about that way of doing it is that by the time you've built the fuel-making plant, you've had to learn how to live there without constant resupply of air and food. Once you've done that, you have the beginnings of a colony there, and you can use what you've learned once you reach Mars. And, building a self-sustaining base on Mars will be easier than on the Moon because Mars has an atmosphere, making pressure issues simpler and giving you some protection against the smaller micrometeorites.
I can only presume that you don't know much about Type II, or how to live with it. I was diagnosed back in March of '02, so I'm more than a little familiar with the subject. Living with Type II doesn't mean eating a low-carb or no-carb diet; that's just as bad for people like me as stuffing myself with carbs would be. I need to eat enough carbs to keep me going, but not too much. Depending on how active I am, I need anywhere from 30 to 60 grams of carbs (after fiber is subtracted) at each of three meals a day and, if I'm active, an afternoon snack with about 15 more. For breakfast, at least, two slices of toast give me most, if not all of the carbs I need to start my day, and I suspect that most other people with Type II would say pretty much the same. Please, if you don't understand the subject, do everybody including yourself a favor by finding out instead of just shoving your foot down your throat.
I don't know your tastes, of course, but have you tried grilled eggplant and/or portabella mushroom caps? Not only do they taste good that way (assuming that you like them at all) they're good for you. In fact, some brands of portabellas are a good source of Vitamin D because they're exposed to UV light to develop the dark brown color, causing the same reaction that sunlight does on human skin. Brush them with a little olive oil before putting them on the barbie, and they'll come out nice and moist, but not too much, because they'll soak up more than you'd expect if you let them.
I'd have said the same thing at 46. Alas, that was 20 years ago. I may not be able to bike 50 kilometers (Of course, I never was much for biking once I'd learned to drive.) but I can still walk farther than most people my age, and look at least a decade younger. It may help that my father lived into his 80s, and my mother reached 90.
Think of it this way: what makes a single "mature" depends on who's looking. For a teen, it's anybody over 20. For a twenty-something, it's somebody in their mid-30s. For a senior citizen, it's somebody around their own age.
Cops should have to prove self defence to the same standards...
Yes, I agree, and in some parts of the USA, they still do. Alas, having them convicted of using deadly force a year after your funeral is rather cold comfort for your friends and family. There are times when it's correct to insist on your rights, but it's probably not a good idea to try when you're looking down the barrel of an excited cop's gun.
No, it's not. It's a simplification, listing only the two extremes, to make a point. And, by implication, it only applies after the cop has decided to draw his gun because until he's done, he's not threatening to use deadly force. As long as that gun isn't drawn, you both have a large number of options, but once it's out, refusing to comply because you're sure you're in the right can easily get you killed. And, btw, since you're talking about strawmen, listing all of the things the officer could have done instead of threatening to kill you is irrelevant, because if he'd chosen one of them he wouldn't have his gun out.
So your solution to bullying is to teach the victims that they should submit to the bullies?
When the bully has a gun, and a legal right to use it, you have two choices: you can submit now and contest the issue later in court, or you can be dead right. Which would you choose?
I sympathize with you, but as a male, I don't personally consider that to be harassment because there's no threat, either explicit or implicit involved. When a professor treats a student like that, there's always the implication that the student's grade depends to some extent on what happens, but unless the student tries to blackmail the professor with false claims of impropriety, it's hard to see how it can be called harassment. ICBW, of course, but as of right now, that's how I see it.
Yes, a full moon was important, as well as acceptable weather conditions. However, the state of the tides was also important. The planners wanted the landing to take place before dawn, on a rising tide. Not only did that expose more of the beach obstacles, it meant that grounded landing craft would be afloat again sooner, making them able to bring in reinforcements sooner. And, if the landings didn't take place on June 6, the next time the tides would be right would be in two weeks, without a full moon.
That depends. If you mean financially, no way. If you mean the 1% of computer users with enough sense not to install Windows on their computers because it's broken and insecure by design, then yes, I am and have been for almost a decade now.
Neither my desktop PC nor my laptop has an Administrator account, and if they did, I'd have given them a password. They do, however, have root accounts and part of the installation is setting a root password. Hint: not everybody who uses a PC uses Windows; some of us install an OS that isn't designed to be as insecure as possible.
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No, I don't think that's it. If the suit actually had no merit, the judge could easily have said so and explained why. This looks more like the judge had decided to throw out the suit and was looking for a plausible excuse. It's going to be interesting to see what the Appellate Court has to say about it.
You are, of course, correct. The point I was trying to make is that the idea of an asteroid impact came from the original discovery of the Iridium layer in (I think) Calabria, and later discoveries of similar deposits in other locations confirmed it. The OP made it sound as though the discoveries confirmed an existing theory, rather than gave us a reason to create a new one.
Actually, no. Nobody predicted the anomalous amounts of Iridium or other evidence of a meteorite impact. They were observed, and a theory was constructed from those observations that the timing was right to explain what happened to the dinosaurs.
Take a look at Downtown Los Angeles. Same type of earthquake hazards as San Francisco, very strict building code and lots of high-rise buildings.
That might actually be a good idea in some parts of the country. I live in Southern California, and that's earthquake country. So's Oklahoma, where there's also lots of old oil wells. I'm sure that there are parts of the country where something like that would be safe, but you do have to take tectonic activity into account when picking where you're going to do something like this. And, just for the record, if I lived someplace with old oil wells and little worry about earthquakes, I'd have no problem with having the waste dumped in my area, because when it comes to this, I'm not a NIMBY.
It's even worse than that, because the trolls aren't just ignorant, they refuse to learn.
I had a sleep study done early this year. After two weeks of keeping track of my sleep patterns, we found that at 66, I personally need about 7.5 hours of sleep per night. I have a friend who's 80, and for most of his adult life he's only needed about 5 hours per night. There's an awful lot of variation in how much sleep people need, and the important thing is, do you feel properly rested and refreshed when you get up, or don't you?
How does that change if you remove those who die before their fifth birthday? The infant mortality rate is almost certainly high, and that's going to lower the average age at death.
Back in '72, when I was in the Navy, one of my friends was a Quartermaster's Mate. (Bridge crew, navigation, that kind of thing.) Most of the navigation was done by LORAN, but they still regularly used celestial navigation both to keep in practice and as a backup. And, they still had two different, hand-wound chronometers as the official time source for navigation. The ship used (I think.) steam turbines for propulsion, but we could still navigate if all the electric power was down, or the LORAN equipment was damaged by wind, wave or enemy action.
Another good thing about that way of doing it is that by the time you've built the fuel-making plant, you've had to learn how to live there without constant resupply of air and food. Once you've done that, you have the beginnings of a colony there, and you can use what you've learned once you reach Mars. And, building a self-sustaining base on Mars will be easier than on the Moon because Mars has an atmosphere, making pressure issues simpler and giving you some protection against the smaller micrometeorites.
I can only presume that you don't know much about Type II, or how to live with it. I was diagnosed back in March of '02, so I'm more than a little familiar with the subject. Living with Type II doesn't mean eating a low-carb or no-carb diet; that's just as bad for people like me as stuffing myself with carbs would be. I need to eat enough carbs to keep me going, but not too much. Depending on how active I am, I need anywhere from 30 to 60 grams of carbs (after fiber is subtracted) at each of three meals a day and, if I'm active, an afternoon snack with about 15 more. For breakfast, at least, two slices of toast give me most, if not all of the carbs I need to start my day, and I suspect that most other people with Type II would say pretty much the same. Please, if you don't understand the subject, do everybody including yourself a favor by finding out instead of just shoving your foot down your throat.
I don't know your tastes, of course, but have you tried grilled eggplant and/or portabella mushroom caps? Not only do they taste good that way (assuming that you like them at all) they're good for you. In fact, some brands of portabellas are a good source of Vitamin D because they're exposed to UV light to develop the dark brown color, causing the same reaction that sunlight does on human skin. Brush them with a little olive oil before putting them on the barbie, and they'll come out nice and moist, but not too much, because they'll soak up more than you'd expect if you let them.
I'd have said the same thing at 46. Alas, that was 20 years ago. I may not be able to bike 50 kilometers (Of course, I never was much for biking once I'd learned to drive.) but I can still walk farther than most people my age, and look at least a decade younger. It may help that my father lived into his 80s, and my mother reached 90.
Think of it this way: what makes a single "mature" depends on who's looking. For a teen, it's anybody over 20. For a twenty-something, it's somebody in their mid-30s. For a senior citizen, it's somebody around their own age.
I have ocular implants, adjustable augmented hearing and am a member of SF Fandom. Does that make me a bionic fan?
Cops should have to prove self defence to the same standards...
Yes, I agree, and in some parts of the USA, they still do. Alas, having them convicted of using deadly force a year after your funeral is rather cold comfort for your friends and family. There are times when it's correct to insist on your rights, but it's probably not a good idea to try when you're looking down the barrel of an excited cop's gun.
Your whole argument is a ridiculous strawman.
No, it's not. It's a simplification, listing only the two extremes, to make a point. And, by implication, it only applies after the cop has decided to draw his gun because until he's done, he's not threatening to use deadly force. As long as that gun isn't drawn, you both have a large number of options, but once it's out, refusing to comply because you're sure you're in the right can easily get you killed. And, btw, since you're talking about strawmen, listing all of the things the officer could have done instead of threatening to kill you is irrelevant, because if he'd chosen one of them he wouldn't have his gun out.
So your solution to bullying is to teach the victims that they should submit to the bullies?
When the bully has a gun, and a legal right to use it, you have two choices: you can submit now and contest the issue later in court, or you can be dead right. Which would you choose?
I sympathize with you, but as a male, I don't personally consider that to be harassment because there's no threat, either explicit or implicit involved. When a professor treats a student like that, there's always the implication that the student's grade depends to some extent on what happens, but unless the student tries to blackmail the professor with false claims of impropriety, it's hard to see how it can be called harassment. ICBW, of course, but as of right now, that's how I see it.
Yes, a full moon was important, as well as acceptable weather conditions. However, the state of the tides was also important. The planners wanted the landing to take place before dawn, on a rising tide. Not only did that expose more of the beach obstacles, it meant that grounded landing craft would be afloat again sooner, making them able to bring in reinforcements sooner. And, if the landings didn't take place on June 6, the next time the tides would be right would be in two weeks, without a full moon.
That may be, but you must admit that an inactive map is easy to use.
They spend 20-30 minutes getting the audience ready with a stand-up comedian and other fluffers.
So what else is new? Judging by my own personal experience, studios (at least in Hollywood) have been doing that for well over half a century.
That depends. If you mean financially, no way. If you mean the 1% of computer users with enough sense not to install Windows on their computers because it's broken and insecure by design, then yes, I am and have been for almost a decade now.
Neither my desktop PC nor my laptop has an Administrator account, and if they did, I'd have given them a password. They do, however, have root accounts and part of the installation is setting a root password. Hint: not everybody who uses a PC uses Windows; some of us install an OS that isn't designed to be as insecure as possible.
the US had ridiculous nightmares about communists taking over the world.
To be fair, the Soviets were threatening to do exactly that. Later, of course, we learned just how empty those threats were.