As an addition: www.periodicvideos.com/ One of The University of Nottingham's great video series. They're not exactly a chemistry textbook, but the author specified a 10 year old, and I think these are just the sort of thing to really cement the interest in chemistry and science in general in a young viewer. Plus they get bonus points because the main chemist professor Poliakov has mad scientist hair (not to mention a wonderful knowledge of the history of chemistry and decades worth of experience and humorous anecdotes).:-)
I highly recommend subscribing to all of their youtube channels, young aspiring chemist (astronomer, physicist, mathematician) or not.
They must be 50 years old (statistically least likely to have an accident) own a lightweight, under-powered car (or no car at all..), opted for basic liability only (legally required in most states to get a driver license), and told their agent they only use it to drive 3 blocks to church on Sunday.
Or they're lying.
Either way, practically nobody else in the country gets rates that low.
We need to energize that one percent to invest in its own future by creating an explosion of sustainable technologies and new industries that serve life and living as opposed to undermining life for billions while enriching dozens. Its time to turn things on their heads. Its time to kill the sacred cows, and shatter the broken paradigms that have been shaping this slow motion catastrophe for the last 30 years. Its time to put an end to business as usual, and making the kinds of changes that will ultimately serve the future.
BINGO! What do I win?
(Sorry, I couldn't resist. I agree with you for the most part, but that was awfully heavy on the buzz-words.)
Depends on what you mean by die. I bet they might care when the people who they've financially ruined for life with outrageous fines borrow their uncles rifle and go CEO hunting.
Disclaimer: I'm not condoning this, but when people get pushed into a corner (or off a cliff) revenge can become more important than legal victory.
I mean, with 9/11 you guys sure tried your very best to make every american feel that loss. Looking at the amount of taxpayers cash that went into it, afterwards.
And yet we still haven't rebuilt the damned towers. You'd think we could at least get a couple cool skyscrapers out of the damned trillion dollars we've pissed away on wars and homeland security.
My point is you don't even have to own a damn computer to get cyber bullied or slandered.
First of all, who said that cyber bullying means the person doing it doesn't know you in real life?
And even if none of your friends believe what's been said about you, that doesn't help if your unemployable for anything more than minimum wage jobs because on the internet your name is synonymous with "raper of animals." You cant just tell the people who won't hire you that they're being stupid and have them go "Oh you're right! Sure, we would love for "John the Sheepfucker" to be our chief engineer. Welcome aboard!"
"Pretend the problem doesn't exist" is almost never the correct solution to anything.
Please people write anything you want about me it means nothing at all, since again I don't have to read or care.
You posted this as an Anonymous Coward because you know this simply isn't true. Give your real identity and make the same request. See how things go for you when the top couple result for googling your name and address are people complaining about how you raped their poor innocent family pet or mentally challenged sister.
Potential employers don't even have to believe the accusations. They'll refrain from hiring you simply because they don't want your name associated with their business.
This is an extreme example but you could achieve the same effect simply by one person with a grudge making a couple of dozen sock puppet accounts and claiming your an antisocial jerk who likes to start fights over imagined insults.
True, you may be able to ignore their posts, but you can't stop them from spreading hurtful lies (or hurtful truths) to everybody else in your social circle. You can pretty well destroy someones life by making accusations of pedophilia, beastiality, etc.
Even if you can sue them for slander and win, your life will be pretty difficult when your potential employers google you and see "John Q. Target has been accused by several local farmers of sexually assaulting their livestock."
Perhaps Spain is where I'll head to. Good food (the olives in Heaven are disappointing) and wines, and the women are exceptional if you can stand the tempers.
I'd go for Portugal instead. Similar, but with all the drugs decriminalized.
Personally, I'm hoping that we get back on track with space travel, and then I can upload myself into an interstellar space probe. If nano-tech gets good enough, you could maybe even reconstitute a physical body if you find someplace interesting to land. With an electronic mind, you could alter your perception of time so the boring parts of floating between stars for years would only last a few minutes subjectively.
I think the biggest thing we could do is relieve law enforcement from the responsibility of arresting people with health issues. Persecuting and locking up drug addicts makes as much sense as locking up cancer patients and makes you just about as popular to boot. Of course the cops are getting crazy and violent. Everybody fears and/or hates them.
What I gathered is that they are actually testing possible smart electrical grid designs, and how such devices fit into the picture. When viewed from that perspective one can at least see the reasoning behind the project. Whether it's necessary or a good idea can be debated, but it's not quite as brain dead as 'build a city to test a washing machine'.
Most of the phones here are hard-coded to only work on a single carriers network, whose support line you have to call in order to switch to a new handset.
Use of the word "Heliocentric" = automatic loss of divinity.
Just because you don't agree doesn't mean you should immediately close your ears as soon as the speaker says a word you don't like.
In this case I wont go so far as to say I agree with the GP, but I think the idea has some interesting parallels if you substitute a geographic empire ruled by a state with an economic empire ruled by a corporation.
I dearly want us to stop banning people from living close to the businesses that serve them, as is common in the US.[...] poor zoning policies, [...] because we've gone out of our way to partition off neighborhoods from businesses
This sounds like a good idea in theory, until the crab shack next door has dollar margarita live music Wednesdays and you have work early Thursday morning. The problem is, you either can ban businesses from residential neighborhoods, place heaps of restrictions on businesses in said neighborhoods, or deal with all your citizens complaining of those other types of pollution, noise and light, at every town meeting.
The good news for you is that zoning laws are typically a locally controlled thing. If you can find enough people who prefer one of the lesser used options you are free to either start your own town or move into an existing one in significant numbers to become the voting majority.
The problem being of course that most of the people who don't mind noise and light during the night already live in such places: cities with high rise apartments with shops on the ground level. If this is the model you prefer, vote with your wallet and move into such a building.
Eliminate auto insurance, raise taxes a similar amount, and use the money to make raised (or tunneled) crosswalks standard issue in high traffic density areas.
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As an addition: www.periodicvideos.com/ One of The University of Nottingham's great video series. They're not exactly a chemistry textbook, but the author specified a 10 year old, and I think these are just the sort of thing to really cement the interest in chemistry and science in general in a young viewer. Plus they get bonus points because the main chemist professor Poliakov has mad scientist hair (not to mention a wonderful knowledge of the history of chemistry and decades worth of experience and humorous anecdotes). :-)
I highly recommend subscribing to all of their youtube channels, young aspiring chemist (astronomer, physicist, mathematician) or not.
at least with the gov't it's not somebody's 9 to 5 day job to make sure the victims don't get paid
You must not know anybody who's had to deal with the VA or Social Security/Disability.
Trust me, they've got plenty of warm bodies dedicated to not paying claims.
They must be 50 years old (statistically least likely to have an accident) own a lightweight, under-powered car (or no car at all..), opted for basic liability only (legally required in most states to get a driver license), and told their agent they only use it to drive 3 blocks to church on Sunday.
Or they're lying.
Either way, practically nobody else in the country gets rates that low.
We need to energize that one percent to invest in its own future by creating an explosion of sustainable technologies and new industries that serve life and living as opposed to undermining life for billions while enriching dozens. Its time to turn things on their heads. Its time to kill the sacred cows, and shatter the broken paradigms that have been shaping this slow motion catastrophe for the last 30 years. Its time to put an end to business as usual, and making the kinds of changes that will ultimately serve the future.
BINGO! What do I win?
(Sorry, I couldn't resist. I agree with you for the most part, but that was awfully heavy on the buzz-words.)
Depends on what you mean by die. I bet they might care when the people who they've financially ruined for life with outrageous fines borrow their uncles rifle and go CEO hunting.
Disclaimer: I'm not condoning this, but when people get pushed into a corner (or off a cliff) revenge can become more important than legal victory.
I mean, with 9/11 you guys sure tried your very best to make every american feel that loss. Looking at the amount of taxpayers cash that went into it, afterwards.
And yet we still haven't rebuilt the damned towers. You'd think we could at least get a couple cool skyscrapers out of the damned trillion dollars we've pissed away on wars and homeland security.
My point is you don't even have to own a damn computer to get cyber bullied or slandered.
First of all, who said that cyber bullying means the person doing it doesn't know you in real life?
And even if none of your friends believe what's been said about you, that doesn't help if your unemployable for anything more than minimum wage jobs because on the internet your name is synonymous with "raper of animals." You cant just tell the people who won't hire you that they're being stupid and have them go "Oh you're right! Sure, we would love for "John the Sheepfucker" to be our chief engineer. Welcome aboard!"
"Pretend the problem doesn't exist" is almost never the correct solution to anything.
Please people write anything you want about me it means nothing at all, since again I don't have to read or care.
You posted this as an Anonymous Coward because you know this simply isn't true. Give your real identity and make the same request. See how things go for you when the top couple result for googling your name and address are people complaining about how you raped their poor innocent family pet or mentally challenged sister.
Potential employers don't even have to believe the accusations. They'll refrain from hiring you simply because they don't want your name associated with their business.
This is an extreme example but you could achieve the same effect simply by one person with a grudge making a couple of dozen sock puppet accounts and claiming your an antisocial jerk who likes to start fights over imagined insults.
You can't "turn off" a cyber bully either.
True, you may be able to ignore their posts, but you can't stop them from spreading hurtful lies (or hurtful truths) to everybody else in your social circle. You can pretty well destroy someones life by making accusations of pedophilia, beastiality, etc.
Even if you can sue them for slander and win, your life will be pretty difficult when your potential employers google you and see "John Q. Target has been accused by several local farmers of sexually assaulting their livestock."
Perhaps Spain is where I'll head to. Good food (the olives in Heaven are disappointing) and wines, and the women are exceptional if you can stand the tempers.
I'd go for Portugal instead. Similar, but with all the drugs decriminalized.
Personally, I'm hoping that we get back on track with space travel, and then I can upload myself into an interstellar space probe. If nano-tech gets good enough, you could maybe even reconstitute a physical body if you find someplace interesting to land. With an electronic mind, you could alter your perception of time so the boring parts of floating between stars for years would only last a few minutes subjectively.
I'll be happy as long as modern medicine can keep me alive until we perfect mind uploading. Sometimes I get really sick of being a bag of meat.
Having lots of sex with random strangers sure doesn't depress me.
But then again I have my bi wife with me to add that touch of long term commitment-y emotional bond to the experience.
Hey, I said a car, not a good car.
You must be the life of the parties, eh? Making sure everybody there knows that the music they're dancing to is grammatically incorrect.
I think the biggest thing we could do is relieve law enforcement from the responsibility of arresting people with health issues. Persecuting and locking up drug addicts makes as much sense as locking up cancer patients and makes you just about as popular to boot. Of course the cops are getting crazy and violent. Everybody fears and/or hates them.
Cost more than a car? Check.
$17,455 ... Ouch!
carbon-less copy paper
How do you make paper without carbon?
Sorry I couldn't resist. :)
What I gathered is that they are actually testing possible smart electrical grid designs, and how such devices fit into the picture. When viewed from that perspective one can at least see the reasoning behind the project. Whether it's necessary or a good idea can be debated, but it's not quite as brain dead as 'build a city to test a washing machine'.
What sim card?
Most of the phones here are hard-coded to only work on a single carriers network, whose support line you have to call in order to switch to a new handset.
Problem being, try as we might, nobody has figured out how to get their long deceased ancestors to pay taxes.
Either we try to fix the problem now, or let our children try to fix it once it's gotten even worse (and therefore more expensive).
Use of the word "Heliocentric" = automatic loss of divinity.
Just because you don't agree doesn't mean you should immediately close your ears as soon as the speaker says a word you don't like.
In this case I wont go so far as to say I agree with the GP, but I think the idea has some interesting parallels if you substitute a geographic empire ruled by a state with an economic empire ruled by a corporation.
I dearly want us to stop banning people from living close to the businesses that serve them, as is common in the US.[...] poor zoning policies, [...] because we've gone out of our way to partition off neighborhoods from businesses
This sounds like a good idea in theory, until the crab shack next door has dollar margarita live music Wednesdays and you have work early Thursday morning. The problem is, you either can ban businesses from residential neighborhoods, place heaps of restrictions on businesses in said neighborhoods, or deal with all your citizens complaining of those other types of pollution, noise and light, at every town meeting.
The good news for you is that zoning laws are typically a locally controlled thing. If you can find enough people who prefer one of the lesser used options you are free to either start your own town or move into an existing one in significant numbers to become the voting majority.
The problem being of course that most of the people who don't mind noise and light during the night already live in such places: cities with high rise apartments with shops on the ground level. If this is the model you prefer, vote with your wallet and move into such a building.
I concede. You sir, Win.
Eliminate auto insurance, raise taxes a similar amount, and use the money to make raised (or tunneled) crosswalks standard issue in high traffic density areas.