first off whats with the name calling?! Second and more importantly dihydrogenmonoxide would be correct according to every chemistry textbook that I've ever read (except for the fact that due to its extream chemical wierdness it doesn't get a "sientific name" its always just "water" or H2O). Think about Carbonmonoxide or CO, the mono can (according to [american?]intro chem books) only be droped for the first element (in this case the carbon) and if it isn't 1 a prefix is used; the second element always gets a prefix even when its just 1. Then again there are always exceptions such as N2O which gets called any one of a number of things including Nitrous oxide, dinitrogen oxide and dinitrogen monoxide.
Which is exactly what makes your name calling so inaproprate, you are both equally wrong, H2O is only WATER it doesn't have a "chemical" or "scientific" name, just water. the whole DHMO thing is a joke to scare the people who failed/forgot their chemistry
in conclusion...mod the troll down, please.
PS. grammar/spelling nazis, yes my spelling is pretty bad but this is not my home computer with has firefox with spell check so ya'll are just gonna have to deal:)
it sounds like your school was similar to mine, if so its not too unfair because once you got an A in a college prep class you were invited (or just moved, depending on your guidance counselor)to the honors classes for that subject.
Depends on the school, depends on the type of dormitory in the school. Not all campuses are dry (mine isn't), Overnight policies vary wildly between buildings (here some are strict some don't give a hoot who you let in), and there aren't any rules about king sized beds though it would be interesting to try and fit one into my 9'X 9' room. But that isn't the point, an important thing to consider is that a happy student is a productive student; so if a 2am porn fix is what I need to be happy then how is it in the schools best interest to deny me? I'll just leave and give my lovely money to some one else. And my school doesn't want that, now does it?
The main problem with electronic balots are that they could easily be tweeked, so no one trusts them. The main problem with paper balots are that they could vanish. Why not use both in one system, that way you only have to worry about the flaws common to both systems (which is less that the number unique to either one). If I were to build I voting machine, here's what I would do
1)Give everyone who comes to vote a human readable scantron
2)have voter insert scantron into voting machine
3)voting machine (with friendly colorful GUI) asks voter if they would like to vote dem. rep. or on each individual issue
4)If they choose ind. ask them each question (who do you want for presendent, etc)
5)at the end of questions show the voter on the screen what she has chosen, ask for confirmation
6)if something is wrong the voter can change her answer to that issue then return to the confirmation screen
7)once she is happy she chooses the "ready to vote" option on the screen and then
8)the voting machine saves her vote and prints her scantron
9)she can check the scantron, if something is wrong the ballot can be destroyed and the data marked as invalid. then goto 1
10)if nothing is wrong she drops the balot into a box and goes back to work
After polls close
1)Data from the machines is downloaded, it will tell how many people voted and what they voted for, this can be an initial indication of who probably won
2)All the scantrons are scaned. you will then know how many balots there are and what they say
3)check for agreement in data from steps 1 and 2. Are the number of votes the same? Are the results the same?
4)if not, look for missing/extra votes and count the scantrons by hand
5)once everything is correct/in agreement submit final results
I'm sure I've overlooked somthing...but then again even if/. comes up with the perfect voting method its not going to do much good, especialy given that the US is now a dictatorship
The simplest way would be to block the receptor for the protein this gene codes, we already have many drugs that do that. They are generaly called receptor antagonists. The basic idea being, this "fear protein" must bind to some kind of receptor in other cells telling them, basically, to be afraid. If you use some drug to fill the binding site of the receptor on the other cells (that doesn't trigger the response itself) then cells can release as much of this as they want and none of the other cells will hear them. So, the scary part is, it is very possible to make a drug that turns off fear.
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first off whats with the name calling?! Second and more importantly dihydrogenmonoxide would be correct according to every chemistry textbook that I've ever read (except for the fact that due to its extream chemical wierdness it doesn't get a "sientific name" its always just "water" or H2O). Think about Carbonmonoxide or CO, the mono can (according to [american?]intro chem books) only be droped for the first element (in this case the carbon) and if it isn't 1 a prefix is used; the second element always gets a prefix even when its just 1. Then again there are always exceptions such as N2O which gets called any one of a number of things including Nitrous oxide, dinitrogen oxide and dinitrogen monoxide.
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Which is exactly what makes your name calling so inaproprate, you are both equally wrong, H2O is only WATER it doesn't have a "chemical" or "scientific" name, just water. the whole DHMO thing is a joke to scare the people who failed/forgot their chemistry
in conclusion...mod the troll down, please.
PS. grammar/spelling nazis, yes my spelling is pretty bad but this is not my home computer with has firefox with spell check so ya'll are just gonna have to deal
it sounds like your school was similar to mine, if so its not too unfair because once you got an A in a college prep class you were invited (or just moved, depending on your guidance counselor)to the honors classes for that subject.
Depends on the school, depends on the type of dormitory in the school. Not all campuses are dry (mine isn't), Overnight policies vary wildly between buildings (here some are strict some don't give a hoot who you let in), and there aren't any rules about king sized beds though it would be interesting to try and fit one into my 9'X 9' room. But that isn't the point, an important thing to consider is that a happy student is a productive student; so if a 2am porn fix is what I need to be happy then how is it in the schools best interest to deny me? I'll just leave and give my lovely money to some one else. And my school doesn't want that, now does it?
The main problem with electronic balots are that they could easily be tweeked, so no one trusts them. The main problem with paper balots are that they could vanish. Why not use both in one system, that way you only have to worry about the flaws common to both systems (which is less that the number unique to either one). If I were to build I voting machine, here's what I would do /. comes up with the perfect voting method its not going to do much good, especialy given that the US is now a dictatorship
1)Give everyone who comes to vote a human readable scantron
2)have voter insert scantron into voting machine
3)voting machine (with friendly colorful GUI) asks voter if they would like to vote dem. rep. or on each individual issue
4)If they choose ind. ask them each question (who do you want for presendent, etc)
5)at the end of questions show the voter on the screen what she has chosen, ask for confirmation
6)if something is wrong the voter can change her answer to that issue then return to the confirmation screen
7)once she is happy she chooses the "ready to vote" option on the screen and then
8)the voting machine saves her vote and prints her scantron
9)she can check the scantron, if something is wrong the ballot can be destroyed and the data marked as invalid. then goto 1
10)if nothing is wrong she drops the balot into a box and goes back to work
After polls close
1)Data from the machines is downloaded, it will tell how many people voted and what they voted for, this can be an initial indication of who probably won
2)All the scantrons are scaned. you will then know how many balots there are and what they say
3)check for agreement in data from steps 1 and 2. Are the number of votes the same? Are the results the same?
4)if not, look for missing/extra votes and count the scantrons by hand
5)once everything is correct/in agreement submit final results
I'm sure I've overlooked somthing...but then again even if
The simplest way would be to block the receptor for the protein this gene codes, we already have many drugs that do that. They are generaly called receptor antagonists. The basic idea being, this "fear protein" must bind to some kind of receptor in other cells telling them, basically, to be afraid. If you use some drug to fill the binding site of the receptor on the other cells (that doesn't trigger the response itself) then cells can release as much of this as they want and none of the other cells will hear them. So, the scary part is, it is very possible to make a drug that turns off fear.