IIRC a family in America somewhere just received over $300 million in compensation because they had ended up paying $750 more for a cable system than they thought they would? While undoubtedly the company in question had some form of hidden charges in the contract, what on earth was the judge thinking of for awarding that much for such a petty case?
Few, if any teachers like it if pupils know more than them. Many even dislike if they knew more than they have been teached in school yet.
Unfortunately, this is far too true in my experiance at school. Teachers often stick with what they know personally rather than what may be currently relevant, and get upset if you try to adjust it to take into account things you know that is more recent or correct. It's not a teacher's fault if they aren't 100% up to date with all the latest advances in their field, but it is their fault when they purposely act against pupils using more up to date or advanced knowledge because they don't like or know it.
The main trouble with having the right to bear guns is that a gun removes a lot of the personal element of killing someone. With any other weapon you have to get up close and personal i.e. putting yourself at risk, but with a gun its basically just a matter of pointing and pulling the trigger. It's much easier to lose control momentarily and kill someone with a gun than it is with a knife.
There is actually a very small difference in the behaviour of matter and anti-matter in some reactions and the theory is IIRC that for every 1 billion AM particles produced 1 billion and one matter particles were produced. So there were 1 billion M-AM annihilations leaving a single matter particle, giving rise to the observed ratio of approx. 1 billion photons to every baryon.
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I truly wish there was a way of preventing idiots like these from posting constantly on every discussion going on. What's the thrill in it?
IIRC a family in America somewhere just received over $300 million in compensation because they had ended up paying $750 more for a cable system than they thought they would? While undoubtedly the company in question had some form of hidden charges in the contract, what on earth was the judge thinking of for awarding that much for such a petty case?
What would you rather have, yet another round of Linux vs. Windows posts?
Few, if any teachers like it if pupils know more than them. Many even dislike if they knew more than they have been teached in school yet.
Unfortunately, this is far too true in my experiance at school. Teachers often stick with what they know personally rather than what may be currently relevant, and get upset if you try to adjust it to take into account things you know that is more recent or correct. It's not a teacher's fault if they aren't 100% up to date with all the latest advances in their field, but it is their fault when they purposely act against pupils using more up to date or advanced knowledge because they don't like or know it.
The main trouble with having the right to bear guns is that a gun removes a lot of the personal element of killing someone. With any other weapon you have to get up close and personal i.e. putting yourself at risk, but with a gun its basically just a matter of pointing and pulling the trigger. It's much easier to lose control momentarily and kill someone with a gun than it is with a knife.
There is actually a very small difference in the behaviour of matter and anti-matter in some reactions and the theory is IIRC that for every 1 billion AM particles produced 1 billion and one matter particles were produced. So there were 1 billion M-AM annihilations leaving a single matter particle, giving rise to the observed ratio of approx. 1 billion photons to every baryon.