He's been placed there to act against public interest
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Regulatory capture is a form of government failure that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.
I like this comment because it reflects my thoughts that "the one", out of several billion people, is a) absurd and b) Next to impossible to meet.
Then again, it's probably a joke comment.
EDIT - for pedants. http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
EDIT the Second - RIP inbox.
Ghengis Khan was born in 1162. The human population at that time is estimated between 320 and 360 million. Let's call it 350M. He's credited for killing 40M. That's around 11.4%...or about 1 in 9 people on the planet.
Note the population listed after Ghengis (he died in 1227) is literally the only one on the list with an estimated human population decline from the previous entry. Effectively human population was set back 200 years...though to be fair the black plague happening after Ghengis was a pretty solid one-two punch to humanity.
Persian leader Cambyses II used cats to defeat an Egyptian army. He had his soldiers paint cats on their shields and brought hundreds of cats and other animals that the Egyptians held sacred to the front lines. The Egyptians refused to fight the "cat army" and were easily defeated because of it.
Methanol is far more difficult to ignite than gasoline and burns about 60% slower. A methanol fire releases energy at around 20% of the rate of a gasoline fire, resulting in a much cooler flame. This results in a much less dangerous fire that is easier to contain with proper protocols. Unlike gasoline, water is acceptable and even preferred as a fire suppressant, since this both cools the fire and rapidly dilutes the fuel below the concentration where it will maintain self-flammability. These facts mean that, as a vehicle fuel, methanol has great safety advantages over gasoline.[15] Ethanol shares many of these same advantages.
Since methanol vapor is heavier than air, it will linger close to the ground or in a pit unless there is good ventilation, and if the concentration of methanol is above 6.7% in air it can be lit by a spark and will explode above 54 F / 12 C. Once ablaze, an undiluted methanol fire gives off very little visible light, making it potentially very hard to see the fire or even estimate its size in bright daylight, although in the vast majority of cases, existing pollutants or flammables in the fire (such as tires or asphalt) will color and enhance the visibility of the fire. Ethanol, natural gas, hydrogen, and other existing fuels offer similar fire-safety challenges, and standard safety and firefighting protocols exist for all such fuels.[16]
Source:
I wouldn't participate. Think of how often people make fun of people that play the lottery with things like "you're just wasting your money! The odds are terrible!".
Now consider these facts:
So yeah, if you get laughed at for taking a trip to a gas station and spending a few bucks for a 1 in 292 million chance at winning millions of dollars, how stupid do you have to be to give up your entire life for a 1 in 7.6 billion chance at winning millions?
The Persian leader Cambyses II used cats to defeat an Egyptian army. He had his soldiers paint cats on their shields and brought hundreds of cats and other animals that the Egyptians held sacred to the front lines. The Egyptians refused to fight the "cat army" and were easily defeated because of it.
For those of you wondering, the baby has hydranencephaly and only has a brain stem and cerebellum with fluid in the brain cavity.
Sadly, the baby is terminally ill.
Alternative version with much less fictional urban sprawl. Both illustrations were made by Rocío Espín Piñar.
Here's a brief account on the history of the myth (including some passages from Plato), which has survived and thrived for two and a half millennia.
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Medieval manuscripts worth a couple of million pounds, especially jeweled ones. I don't know the price, but I'm sure Rylands Library Papyrus P52, the oldest text of the Gospel of John would get a lot of money.
I'm a medievalist and I did my grad studies here.
The Persian leader Cambyses II used cats to defeat an Egyptian army.
He had his soldiers paint the goddess Bastet, who was cat-like in appearance, on their shields and "ranged before his front line dogs, sheep, cats, ibises and whatever other animals the Egyptians hold dear."
The Egyptians, seeing the shields and sacred animals refused to fight out of fear of injuring the them. Because of their refusal to fight they were easily defeated and actually massacred to where their bones were still scattered across the sands years later.
~~It's called port wine because it originated in *Port*ugal; from Wikipedia:~~
> ~~Port wine (also known as Vinho do Porto, Porto, and usually simply port) is a Portuguese fortified wine produced exclusively in the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal.~~
EDIT: So, apparently, I used an incorrect source (sorry!) that doesn't actually give the source of the name. Here is an article from the Encyclopædia Britannica that does:
> Port, also called Porto, [is a] sweet, fortified usually red wine ... named for the [Portuguese] town of Oporto, where it is aged and bottled.
I'm skeptical as well, but it might be the phrasing of the post, rather than Keegan's own phrasing. Double checking on a rather obvious one, Jutland seems to have been fought 60 miles off shore, which I'm fairly certain puts it "outside the sight of land", but I wouldn't disagree with calling it a "coastal location" which is used at the end of the post. So I'd need to see Keegan's phrasing to be certain, but petrov76 might just be a bit too literal when he describes Keegan as meaning in sight of land. The Japanese fleet was several hundred miles from Midway after all.
Also, an American regiment visited there on arriving in France during WWI. Charles Stanton, an officer, famously said "Lafayette, we are here," among the remarks given in respect for Lafayette's contribution to the Revolutionary War.
Boudicca: Queen of the Iceni, Scourge of Rome
Her army would hang..." up naked the noblest and most distinguished women and then cut off their breasts and sewed them to their mouths, in order to make the victims appear to be eating them; afterwards they impaled the women on sharp skewers run lengthwise through the entire body"
That's actually the highest result for remain in any poll conducted by a polling agency.
Edit: It says that in the article, doh
Edit 2: not quite, they say "since the referendum", I'm saying "ever conducted on the topic"
I think you are going to need a state by state answer. Statistically the number imprisoned almost doubled during the great depression. But congress passed laws to limit the selling of goods produced with prison labor (Notably the Hawes-Cooper Act). But I don't have enough knowledge to address how these twin stresses on the prisons and the prison population were dealt with in any particular locale.
Here are a few sources:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3408900129/hawes-cooper-act.html
http://law.jrank.org/pages/1782/Prisons-History-Modern-prisons.html
BTW, this period saw the growth in black men being incarcerated grow three times faster than the general population so a state by state analysis should probably consider the racial differences in how prisoners were treated.
They are ruminates, like cows, they have a completely different digestive system then most mammals. From what I can remember, correct me if I'm wrong (you always do), cannot vomit the way we do.
Just so everyone knows, the Supreme Court ruled in Rodriguez v. United States that police cannot make you wait for a drug dog.
Edit: I know they can still hold you if they want but sometimes exercising your rights requires you to stand up for yourself. Don't let police tread on your freedoms. Be insistent and ask what the probable cause is, let them know you don't consent and won't comply with unlawful orders.
This question made me think of a book with a terrible example of a woman being guilted into dating - and ultimately marrying - a "nice guy": https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adversary_(Carrère_book)
Tl;dr A guy kept passing as a nice guy, as a medical student, as a WHO physician. He wasn't any of these things. As his charade began to fall apart, he killed those around him, including his wife and children. He meant to kill himself, too, but just couldn't bring himself to do it.
Sadly, it's a true story.
Edit: Sorry to all of you who couldn't see the link on mobile, and thanks to those who provided the name of the book (The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception by Emmanual Carrère) and let us know there was a movie adaptation, too.
The Flood Story exists in the Epic of Gilgamesh. (Written somewhere between 2750 BCE and 2500 BCE)
Quick and dirty version: The Gods were angry because mankind was making too much noise. So they sent a flood. One God took pity and saved Utnapishtim's family, by warning him to give up all his earthly possessions and build a boat and carry his family and the animals in it while the gods flooded the world.
Source: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/620741/Utnapishtim
Heat and smoke rise so the stairwell acts like a chimney and this can suffocate you if it's not ventilated well. It reminds me a bit of the Kaprun fire, where many died because they tried to go upwards and asphyxiated:
>The passengers, by this stage aware of the fire and unable to exit through the doors, attempted to break the shatter-resistant acrylic windows in order to escape. Twelve people from the rear of the train, who successfully broke a window with a ski pole, followed the advice of another escapee who had been a volunteer fire fighter for 20 years, and escaped downwards past the fire and below the smoke.
>Eventually, the conductor was able to unlock the doors, allowing them to be manually forced open by the remaining conscious passengers who spilled out into the tunnel and fled upwards and away from the fire. The tunnel acted like a giant blast furnace, sucking oxygen in from the bottom and rapidly sent the poisonous smoke, heat and the fire itself billowing upwards. All the passengers ascending on foot, as well as the train conductor, were asphyxiated by the smoke and then burned by the raging fire.
I'm Canadian and our teacher did the same, she turned on the news. Her husband was visiting New York and had been in one of the buildings a day before the tragic events unfolded. Although I was young at the time I'm proud that we Canadians provided support when our brothers and sisters south of the border needed it most.
Operation Yellow Ribbon^[1]
>Operation Yellow Ribbon (French: Opération ruban jaune) was commenced by Canada to handle the diversion of civilian airline flights in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001 on the United States. Canada's goal was to ensure that potentially destructive air traffic be removed from United States airspace as quickly as possible, and away from potential U.S. targets, and instead place these aircraft on the ground in Canada, at military and civilian airports in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and British Columbia (and also several in New Brunswick, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec) where any destructive potential could be better contained and neutralized.
Depends what you mean by "country." It is a surprisingly vague term. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are called constituent countries within the Kingdom of Denmark. So yeah they are countries. But they are not nation-states, and are represented in international dealings by Denmark.
I think usually when people say how many countries there are in the world they just mean UN member states, of which there are 193, or it might include non-member observes of the Vatican and Palestine, which makes it 195. It's 196 if Taiwan is it's own country.
Once you add in recognizes dependencies and other regions you actually get... 233. the number stated in the title.
http://www.worldometers.info/geography/countries-of-the-world/#example
I've never liked this argument, because I don't think most people can feel the difference between 1 degree Celsius. I don't think I can, for me 21 is the same as 20 is the same as 22. If you need anything more precise... I mean, that's what decimal places are for.
Edit: For everyone saying they can feel 1F changes. I'm not saying it's not possible, just that many people can't. Also note that humidity plays a larger factor that absolute temperature as your skin measures thermal flux not absolute temperature.
And yes thermostats can come in <1C increments.
> If the temperature changes very slowly, for example at a rate of less than 0.5 °C per minute, then a person can be unaware of a 4-5 °C change in temperature, provided that the temperature of the skin remains within the neutral thermal region of 30-36 °C
From http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Thermal_touch
Interestingly, although we have at best the ability to twitch our ears, we still have the automatic response from the muscles that would've sup our ears towards the source of the noise, just like these piglets. We can see this by attaching sensors around the ear that pick up on the small muscle movements and also spot that the side that the noise is from gets a stronger response.
Number three in the encyclopaedia Britannia bellow.
http://www.britannica.com/list/7-vestigial-features-of-the-human-body
Most satellites are in prograde orbits, meaning that they orbit in the same direction that the earth rotates. This is because retrograde orbits, which orbit opposite the direction of the earth's rotation, require more fuel to launch. Think of it like this. If you're in a car going 5 mph and you want to get a projectile going 100 mph you can either throw it forward at 95 mph, or backwards at 105 mph. Obviously forward it easier. That 5 mph car is like the earth's rotation, and the 100 mph projectile (forward or backward, doesn't matter), is like orbital speed.
So unless you have specific launch requirements or orbits in mind, it's simply cheaper and more efficient to launch satellites into prograde orbits.
There are a handful of satellites on retrograde orbits. Israeli satellites, for example, are launched westward so that launch debris would land in the Mediterranean rather than neighboring countries. This comes at the expense of a maximum payload that's 30% less than it would if it launched eastward- that weight is needed for fuel. Additionally, earth-observing satellites may be launched to be slightly retrograde so that they are on a sun-synchronous orbit. This enables them to have constant illumination from the sun when observing the earth.
The answer lies in the difference in bonding between metals (iron and gold) and ceramics (coal and rocks).
"In ceramics, however, dislocations are not common (though they are not nonexistent), and they are difficult to move to a new position. The reasons for this lie in the nature of the bonds holding the crystal structure together. In ionically bonded ceramics some planes—such as the so-called (111) plane shown slicing diagonally through the rock salt structure in Figure 3, top—contain only one kind of ion and are therefore unbalanced in their distribution of charges. Attempting to insert such a half plane into a ceramic would not favour a stable bond unless a half plane of the oppositely charged ion was also inserted. Even in the case of planes that were charge-balanced—for instance, the (100) plane created by a vertical slice down the middle of the rock salt crystal structure, as shown in Figure 3, bottom—slip induced along the middle would bring identically charged ions into proximity. The identical charges would repel each other, and dislocation motion would be impeded. Instead, the material would tend to fracture in the manner commonly associated with brittleness."
http://www.britannica.com/topic/composition-and-properties-103137
hoes is the plural of a garden implement.
hos is just illiterate.
The colloquialism ho' is in fact an elision of the word whore. Apostrophes are used in the place of dropped letters or phonemes. As the W is silent in whore it is only necessary to use an apostrophe After the o as such ho' unlike 'n' as in rock'n'roll, though one would not be in error if they chose to use both, 'ho'. Given this the proper spelling of the plurality is ho's. Further the plural possessive, as in " I am those whores' pimp" would be ho's'.
I hope this clears up any confusion.
reference: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/184757/elision http://www.taddlecreekmag.com/apostrophes-n-quote-marks
I know this is a Serene comment, so I’m writing this comment for other people to read. I’m aware Serene himself does not exhibit the ability to learn.
Here are some examples of the US government’s experimentation on innocent civilians and military troops.
MKULTRA
Tuskegee syphilis experiment
Project Bluebird/Artichoke
U.S. Army-funded drug experimentation on 320 inmates of Holmesburg Prison
U.S. Navy-funded experiment using cow blood injected into 64 prisoners in Massachusetts
The Office of Naval Research funded Stanford prison experiment
Dr. Robert Heath’s U.S. Army-funded experimentation with LSD and bulbocapnine on schizophrenic mental patients and prison inmates
There are many more examples that I did not choose to include, simply because they were “minor” (relative to the other, more heavily funded and unethical examples). There are also likely even more examples which have yet to be declassified for the public.
For more examples, and ones I listed in depth, go here.
IIRC, actual native Americans were pissed about the name redskins, namely the National Congress of American Indians. But shockingly, they aren't a hive mind monolith and have differing opinions.
He's a smart man that communicates like a child and that has very little education. He's more ignorant than stupid. I've always found that his ideas are just "primitive" versions of things that make sense. For instance, one time he was speaking about his mind telling his body to do things, or something along those lines, and Gervais and Merchant were laughing at him, of course.
Entire books have been written on this subject by some of the greatest minds in history... http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/383566/mind-body-dualism
It's also a modern concept used in criminal psychology and ethics. The ideas are almost always rational, his explanations are just silly.
He was actually a radio producer before meeting Gervais and doing stuff with him.
No one has posted it yet, but the story of Sylvia Likens comes to mind.
She was locked in the basement of a woman who was paid to take care of her. She was beaten, burned, starved, forced to eat feces (among other things), forced to shove a glass bottle into herself, she was also kept naked. She eventually died of brain hemorrhage, shock, and malnutrition after 3 months of escalating torture.
The movie based on her torture (which is dramatized to make it worse, if that's possible) is called The Girl Next Door, made in 2007, not to be confused with the comedy made in 2004. It was a fucked up movie. I definitely lost sleep the night I watched it.
It's sad that an obviously spurious quote garners so many upvotes. The word "deflation" is a dead tell that the quote is inauthentic, as it did not come into usage until long after Jefferson's death. The language and phrasing is indicative of more modern English; Jefferson simply did not write in this manner (and neither did anyone of that time period), as any person who has actually read his writings will be able to attest.
Here are Jefferson's actual words, with context, from a letter written to John Taylor:
We may say with truth and meaning that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition; and believing, as I do, that the mass of the citizens is the safest depository of their own rights, and especially, that the evils flowing from the duperies of the people are less injurious than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a friend to that composition of government which has in it the most of this ingredient. And **I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
If you think this is gross, you should hear about the older Berber tradition of fermenting clarified butter—smen—upon the birth of their daughter until her wedding day.
Actually, more than that. About 4.25x as many people in China as the U.S.
EDIT: I didn't mean to correct him, I just wanted to further show that there are precisely HELLA more people in China than the U.S.
This is better stated as an example of diffusion of responsibility.
The term Bystander Effect is usually reserved for crime/emergency cases.
This picture is on the Wikipedia "petrified wood" page, saying it's from the Petrified Forest National Park.
In which case it's certainly not White Oak. Of the 9 identified species present in fossil form in the park, all are extinct. The fossils were formed some 225 million years ago, while oaks don't exist in the fossil record until the Paleogene, ~50 million years ago. Angiosperms won't even exist for another 75 million years.
Also the bark morphology looks much more like a conifer - something cedar-esque.
We will use the current estimate of the number of living humans based on this World Population clock of 7,280,000,000 people. We will also use Google's estimate for the amount of habitable land (since presumably people would like to survive on their land) on Earth of 24,642,575 square miles.
Dividing the amount of people by habitable land area, we get 0.0033849 mi^2 per person. Which is roughly 8766 m^2 (93,365 ft^2) per person of habitable land.
To put this in perspective this is 1.6 times larger than the average U.S. football field.
It's interesting that if you distributed people equally on habitable land on Earth you could easily talk to the nearest person.
Without a doubt man. And doing flips and spins on jumps. Man so much time wasted.
If they released it on mobile I'd pay like $3.99 for it.
And as usual, SJWs don't bother to look around before speaking up. > Women scientists in the 21st century
>In the early 21st century in the United Kingdom and the United States, nearly 50 percent of medical degrees and doctorate degrees in the biomedical sciences were awarded to women.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
Of course, it doesn't say what race those women were, so if they were cis white women they probably don't count.
Virkelige Fede mennesker skal ikke støttes i deres fedme, de er simpelthen skyld i deres tidlige død som går ud over familien, også masser af mennesker verden over før af sult. Mens ifølge World-O-meter er 1.6milliarder mennesker overvægtige, og 800millioner kraftig overvægtige, jeg synes vi skal blive ligesom Kina og havde lov til at fortælle fede mennesker når de er fede. Det vil være synd for familien hvis de døde tidligt på grund af deres fedme.
Fuck politisk korrekthed i forhold til fedme, der skal ske en forandring med det samme, fat acceptance er dumt og især støtte om andres fedme.
Kommer fra en tidligere overvægtig person.
http://www.worldometers.info/da/
Holy shit den her har fået folk til at snakke
~~Humans have ~10,000 taste buds, for comparison. [source]~~
Bumping NietzscheIsMyCopilot's comment which is better sourced:
> And as for your numbers, according to encyclopedia, humans only have between 2,000 and 8,000 taste buds.
According to this article there are, worldwide in all of recorded medical history, 13 survivors after showing symptoms, while ~65,000 are killed each year.
65,000 / 7,632,819,325 is ~0.0000085159% of the population.
Using the sum of the world population from 1951, multiplied by the death rate, ~2,850,459 people have died of rabies since 1951.
13 survivors/2,850,459 dead is 0.0000045607 meaning rabies is 99.999544% fatal.
4-5 of every million cases might survive. Still closer to your argument, but the exaggeration still shows the point that it a patient is extremely unlikely to survive once presenting symptoms.
Some notes:
Most importantly: Surviving the disease after presenting symptoms without treatment is completely unheard of, meanwhile the PEP - Post Exposure Prophylaxis - rabies treatment is 100% successful if administered promptly.
And yes, we are still arguing semantics.
Assuming a population of India at 1.353 billion and a USA population of 326 million, then each on of those colors has more people than the entire population of the USA (338 million vs. 326 million).
In other words, if the USA has 4% of the world's population, the each of those colors also holds 4% of the world's population.
While this is a positive development, this legislation is almost certainly unconstitutional. The Senate could enact a law that would create a special prosecutor or independent special counsel, or they could create an independent commission and make Meuller head.
But they definitely cannot constitutionally limit the President's ability to fire DOJ personnel.
This is a nice symbolic action that they would take one of the legal actions I described, but this legislation is worthless and would set Trump up for an easy court win.
Edit - Here is a short summary of the President's removal power. It cannot be limited.
>In Myers v. United States (1926), however, the Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional an 1876 law that required presidents to secure the Senate's consent before firing "postmasters of the first, second, and third classes" (19 Stat. 78, 80). Chief Justice William Howard Taft, delivering the Court's opinion, noted that to fulfill his constitutional duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," the president must retain an unrestricted power to remove subordinates.
That's quite not correct I'm afraid. ١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩٠ were always east Arabic numbers, Indian numbers never looked like that. West Arabic numbers looked similar to modern Latin numbers, but were slightly different.
Here's a diagram of the history of base-10 numbers symbols, with the original Indian numbers that branched off into east Arabic (that is still in use), west Arabic that were then mostly adopted as Latin numbers and modern Indian numbers.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Club_Football_Awards
They should bring this back ffs. At least defenders and goalkeepers wouldn't be discriminated. And the award choices were spot on, it wasn't a popularity contest.
Nope. It ended around 1850.
http://www.britannica.com/science/Little-Ice-Age
"The term Little Ice Age was introduced to the scientific literature by Dutch-born American geologist F.E. Matthes in 1939. Originally the phrase was used to refer to Earth’s most recent 4,000-year period of mountain-glacier expansion and retreat. Today some scientists use it to distinguish only the period 1500–1850, when mountain glaciers expanded to their greatest extent, but the phrase is more commonly applied to the broader period 1300–1850. The Little Ice Age followed the Medieval Warming Period (roughly 900–1300 ce) and preceded the present period of warming that began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries."
The North Hollywood shootout.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout
The infamous bankrobbery gone wrong that turned into an almost hour long standoff between police and armed criminals covered heard to toe in body armor. At one point in the altercation one of the robbers took a full blast of buckshot to the side and kept going. The police didn't have sufficient weapons to peirce their body armor and the shootout ended with one suspect bleeding out and the other commiting suicide.
After that police departments around the country began buying AR15s, body armor, and other high powered firearms en-masse.
That dirt bike is awesome.
Sidebar, why does everyone think Harley’s are cool. I’ve ridden dozens of cruiser type bikes and Harley’s are always the worst. I personally came to appreciate the Honda VTX 1800 back when I was selling motorcycles. It seems like Harley is 90% brand name and only 10% good product.
From Wikipedia:
>The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consisted of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks provided tiny images to be displayed on them, a URL to which the images were linked, and a slogan to be displayed when hovering a cursor over the link. The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator.
It did indeed generate the $1 mil. that Tew wanted. He earned precisely $1,037,100. USD, not UK pounds.
China actually has 1.3 billion people, which is definitely not "billion*S*" as that would require about another 700,000,000 people, which is about half of China's current population.
Just realized I never answered your question, having a hard time finding a progression of swings or slides and stuff.
I did run by a suggested article: The history of playground development is long and detailed, but for a well-sourced, well-researched article, see The Evolution of American Playgrounds by Dr. Joe Frost of the University of Texas at Austin.
It is possible, but the task is very difficult and labor intensive.
The biggest issue is gathering enough spider silk. Unlike silk worms which can be housed in very dense populations, spiders tend to prey on one another if attempts are made to gather many in one place. This would almost restrict the silk gathering to either very large isolating structures or from spiders in the wild.
The second issue you would need to deal with is that much of the spider silk is covered with additional materials to make them sticky. This would make spinning into some kind of thread almost impossible without coating the silk with a material like diatomaceous earth or treating it with a solvent to remove these materials. Either way, this would tend to lessen the overall strength of the threads.
The final issue is the strength and rarity of the spider silk means that you would want to use the smallest diameter thread possible. This would mean having over 1000 threads per inch (and this could be very much higher in number). This might push the limits of most looms.
Artificial spider silk has been investigated as fibers for cloth. It seems to have properties similar to Kevlar. Source(s): http://www.encyclopedia.com/SearchResults.aspx?Q=Silk&StartAt=61
This could be true, but there are other possible reasons for the red crystals. A pack rat means someone who likes to collect and hoard things. Also, there is an actual pack rat animal that is "noted for its habit of collecting bright, shiny objects" (source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/plants-and-animals/animals/vertebrate-zoology/pack-rat).
Kind of reminds me about Spartan boys. They got punished for stealing because they got caught, not because they were stealing.
>The main key point here is that, when a boy was caught, he was not punished for his act of stealing, but for being caught!
Taken from "Ancient History Encyclopedia" http://www.ancient.eu/article/342/
Indeed! In 1967 they were attacked by four neighboring countries. Four against one and it took them all of six days to send them back home with their proverbial tails between their legs. One of many sources
Under Lenin's "Land Decree" he wrote retiring workers would
Lose the land they worked on, and
Gain a pension.
>> "Peasants who, owing to old age or ill-health, are permanently disabled and unable to cultivate the land personally, shall lose their right to the use of it but, in return, shall receive a pension from the state."
-- marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/oct/25-26/26d.htm
If that worker worked 20 years they qualified for a full pension:
>> "In 1987 the Soviet Union had 56.8 million pensioners; of this number, 40.5 million were retired with full pensions on the basis of twenty years of service and age eligibility"
-- mongabay.com/history/soviet_union/soviet_union-pension_system_welfare.html
By the way, the soviet state (the dictatorship of the proletariat) was not a "communist state." Communism (as Marx himself defined it) is stateless & comes after the state "withers away & dies:"
>> "Marx argued that for socialism to be realized, the state would have to be done away with."
-- socialistworker.org/2012/03/23/marx-against-the-state
ie, Marx advocated using the state to advance to socialist/communism, but they are not the same thing. In other words, "communist state" is an oxymoron.
The Battle of Poltava (Peter the Great of Russia v. Swedish King Karl XII) was the conclusion to Karl's unfortunate decision to march across Russia, and the bloodiness of Sweden's defeat was the death knell to the Swedish Empire and status as a major European power. Sweden, never the most populous of European nations, relied on a smaller but professional army. Marching across scorched earth, outnumbered and withered, the Swedes were destroyed. Karl survived, and would try to reclaim Swedish power among the other Scandinavian powers in an attack on Norway, but he was shot in the head, possibly by a disgruntled Swedish soldier, or a really lucky Norwegian
All answers are subjective, of course, but my vote for the most unlikely victor of the 20th Century would be the heavily-outnumbered US Navy at the Battle of Midway. Pacific Fleet commander Chester Nimitz received some excellent intelligence and determined to ambush a superior force, when he might easily have avoided a showdown. Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare."
My personal favorite theory is that these communications were used in [database replication](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_(computing), where the data was a mix of stolen voter rolls (from Russia), facebook profiles (sold by Zucky), and healthcare records (Spectrum Health Prince/DeVos) were used to create full profiles to de-register voters and fine tune targeted voter suppression. With those combinations of data sets you can target voters with precision. I really hope the reason this story isn't bigger is that these communications are the smoking gun.
School Resource Officers, generally sworn-in cops that are just hired by the school district to keep the school safe/deal with kids stealing or kids that may actually be a threat to other students/faculty.
Sauce: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_resource_officer
> E Pluribus Unum
The history of E Pluribus Unum might be more of a pop culture reference. At the time of the American Revolution in 1776, it was the tagline of a popular periodical, "The Gentleman's Magazine" which sourced dozens of articles from other periodicals into one. It's tagline "E Plubribus Unum" was on every front page.
A modern day equivalent may be using buzzfeed's tagline "Media Company for the Social Age" in a way like "A Democracy for the Social Age"
I personally find this makes the slogan neater, since it brings a more personal connection to the people who founded the revolution- they also liked pop culture references and, if they had the capabilities, they would have put memes on town bulletin boards
Edits: Did some grammar editing, also here's a source: http://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Gentlemans-Magazine I first learned about it while watching "The Revolution" on History Channel. Great documentary series.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Regulatory capture is a form of government failure that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.
We just passed The Soloman Islands in population.
Let this be a lesson. Don't ever let anybody tell you dreams can't come true.
Guy Fieri, he is one of the faces of the American cable channel Food Network. He became popular in the early 2000s after winning the reality show Food Network Star and getting his own cooking show on the network. He is also a resteraunteur so that's probably significant portion of his wealth.
I think he said katydid, but i could be wrong. Also, the video OP posted there was an actual lizard of some kind on the mat as well, so it could be that he is into extinct and living reptiles so his house is full of food for them and they might often escape haha
> They have seen and experienced things that literally 99.99999999% of people haven't and probably never will.
I was curious what the literal percentage would be, so checking 1-536(#astronauts)/ 7,586,628,175(#people as of a few minutes ago) = 99.99999293%
99.99999999% was literally a very accurate number even down to the sig figs! Have an upvote! :)
I think most people aren't thinking about the situation logically. Even if the majority of people can't play because of whatever reason (no computer/no internet), there's more than enough people with computers and stable internet around.
There's 1.3 billion people in India, while a region like Oceania only has ~40 million. If only 10% of India had access to a computer and stable internet that's more than 3 times the population of Oceania.
That's more than enough people to warrant local servers.
Just watched this episode today, so I’ll take this chance to ask what I was wondering: does everyone get the reference to Budweiser’s Spuds McKenzie? Those commercials were retired in 1989, so are there are a lot of Futurama fans who don’t know about this guy? Or is that pretty much in the popular culture?
This is insulting to Africans.
If white Europeans were poor and uncivilized, and Africa was this rich and advanced civilization, then how is it that these Caucasians who barely crawled out of the caves completely took over and stole everything from Africa?
You can't have it both ways. If white people were so inferior, they shouldn't have been able to dominate a superior group, unless they overwhelmed them with numbers. But Europeans didn't do that, the way the Mongols sacked the technologically superior Roman Empire. They were simply more advanced.
If you want to make the money analogy work, you have to tweak it a bit.
>Europeans had 10 bucks. Africans had 2 bucks. But Africans also had a million bucks buried in their yard, and Europeans knew where to dig. >
It sucks how Europe has constantly exploited Africa throughout history. It has been cruel and brutal and very much unfair. It's a legitimate complaint. There's just no need to rewrite history in order to make that point.
Edit - OK, before anyone else jumps on the train, I was talking about the Huns, but said Mongols for some reason. And by "sacked Rome", I didn't mean they took the city of Rome, just that Rome as an empire lost lots of land to a technologically interior enemy, due to sheer numbers and brutality.
A 'T' in T-ball is a stand attached to a plate; the game is baseball but in the place of a pitcher the T holds the ball for the batter. There is very little aim required for T-ball, but since the players were mentally challanged they were unable to hit the ball regardless.
Wrote this to a similar reply that was keen on protectionism -
But funnily enough Canada as a whole suffers through protection of industries that it isn't very good at, when it could (and should) be focussing those resources on sectors where it is most efficient.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
I'm not sure of the gains Canada has made from TPPA (I'm more familiar with NZ and Aust) but it makes a bit of sense that those areas with gains are naturally the industries that will be increasing in export goods and employing all those in the supply chain you mentioned...rather than artificially supporting an inefficient industry such as chicken, where it's the person buying the chicken that ultimately pays the price, and reduces their buying power.
Fox News averages between 1-3 million viewers a day depending on day of week and programming schedule. There are 324 million people in the US. That's less than 1% of the population on their best programming day.
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/
They may be the most watched news network on TV, but don't grossly misrepresent and make numbers up out of thin air. You could have googled this in 15 seconds - I just did.
http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/q1-2017-ratings-fox-news-is-cables-most-watched-network/324673
According to this, "The total land surface area of Earth is about 57,308,738 square miles, of which about 33% is desert and about 24% is mountainous. Subtracting this uninhabitable 57% (32,665,981 mi2) from the total land area leaves 24,642,757 square miles or 15.77 billion acres of habitable land."
The World Population Clock says that, at the time of me writing this, the world population is about 7.45 billion people.
15.77 billion acres divided evenly among 7.45 billion people would leave each person with just over 2.1 acres of land.
It appears to be some form of Heart Urchin. For all I know it could be, but the tentacles seem to be underdeveloped, thus assuming it is a young one.
I recognized the shape from Biology lab last semester, when we made a Sand Dollar zygote. It is in the same phylum as them etc.
(Source) http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/258504/heart-urchin
Well, babies are cute...
>Konrad Lorenz proposed the concept of baby schema (Kindchenschema), a set of facial and body features, that make a creature appear "cute" and activate ("release") in others the motivation to care for it.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness
We know humans and animals (Lorenz used birds) have these tendencies. I don't think it is clear yet if the same response happens between different species. The fact we find puppies and kittens cute would suggest to me it does.
In the ancient city of Ur they discovered a "magical ritual" written on sun baked clay tablets and it was simply a recipe for an alcoholic beverage.
They would do this "ritual" (follow the recipe) and then call upon a certain g-d of wine to "manifest itself" (ferment) within the beverage. When they drank it they probably considered it a very religious experience, as if they were entering the dimension of the g-ds that they called upon to "do the magic" (ferment).
Edit: The "Hymn to Ninkasi", goddess of beer. http://www.ancient.eu/article/222/
$70 billion is an inconceivable amount of spending for an island of 3.6 million people.That's $19,444 per person.
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/puerto-rico-population/
Edit: SomeGuyInSanJoseCa fixed my math. It's conceivable now.
It is a lot more complicated than that. Poop definitely contains things that were in the body at one point.
>Normally, feces are made up of 75 percent water and 25 percent solid matter. About 30 percent of the solid matter consists of dead bacteria; about 30 percent consists of indigestible food matter such as cellulose; 10 to 20 percent is cholesterol and other fats; 10 to 20 percent is inorganic substances such as calcium phosphate and iron phosphate; and 2 to 3 percent is protein.
There are 233 countries if you separate out a lot of the little islands and things that 'belong' to others. AKA mostly the British.
http://www.worldometers.info/geography/countries-of-the-world/
This has a list of both.
I find it unlikely that they received responses from every single country.
Considering that the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth is around 107.6 Billion people, we just subtract the current world population of around 7.3 Billion to get a total death number of 100.3 Billion. The current population of the Earth is 6.784% of the total human population ever.
Exactly, wild sheep like the Mouflon shed naturally, but (with the exception of the ‘ancient’, ‘primitive’ or ‘heirloom’ breeds) domesticated breeds were bred by selecting sheep that shed less until eventually they didn’t shed at all.
Edit: fixed the mobile link, thanks bot
Some estimate demographics:
Source: http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/germany-population
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany
There is plenty of more on the wiki page. In short, this inflow will dramatically shift the German Demographics.
Actually, a lot of countries use questionable North Korean labor, unfortunately. Interestingly, when they built the HUGE African Resistance Memorial in Senegal, they used North Korean slave labor as well:
> https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Renaissance_Monument
...and funny enough, Jesse Jackson was there for the grand opening.
The only one that comes to my mind is Gilles de Rais. He was a child serial killer that most likely killed from 80 to 200 children. However, some authors claim that he could have killed around 800 children. It is hard to tell because he either burned or buried the bodies. (http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Gilles_de_Rais.aspx#1-1G2:3403801926-full)
There were a few reasons why did he do such horrible things. The first one is his interest in satanism. He killed those kids as a sacrifice. The second one was his interest in children in a sexual way. The third one was because he was just a psycho. Gilles testified that “when the said children were dead, he kissed them and those who had the most handsome limbs and heads he held up to admire them, and had their bodies cruelly cut open and took delight at the sight of their inner organs; and very often when the children were dying he sat on their stomachs and took pleasure in seeing them die and laughed” (This quote is from Wiki)
That doesn't make any sense.
OK,
So mister Richards doesn't want to release any fantastic energy sources willy nilly because they could be used as weapons, so then why doesn't he make a mundane energy source viable? Why doesn't he create a stable fusion reactor (we already have fusion bombs) or a working LFTR (They already tried weaponizing thorium and decided uranium and plutonium were better options)? Both of these could provide carbon free power with no dangerous waste.
Why doesn't he cure cancer, HIV, heart disease, etc?
Why doesn't someone terraform sub Saharan Africa and plant genetically engineered super crops or something?
People are dying horrible deaths right now, as you read this. Right now it's 8 minutes past midnight in my timezone and world meters tells me that, statistically, 180 people have already starved to death today.
Why doesn't Reed Richards, Tony Stark, etc give a shit?
According to the State Department, there is 137,588,631 valid passports, in a population of (as of this writing) roughly 327,865,782 Americans.
That's (plugging into a calculator app) tap tap tap (carry the one) tap tap roughly 41.964925%, give or take a few thousandths of a percentage point.
It's about as likely as California and Texas seceding to form the Bear Star Republic together, at least anytime soon.
The party currently in power does not want to see two new Dem senators and a Dem Representative added to Congress. (The additional representative would be temporary, until the 2020 census.)
Without a conservative state to add with it, Republicans won't risk it (think AK and HI being added at any the same time.) Some have proposed letting northern CA split, but that's not very likely.
If the Democrats manage to take over, that might change. They'd probably be very interested. That can't happen for a few years, however.
This isn't even mentioning the massive debt and other problems.
Edit: on the political demographics
... They favored Rubio over Trump (70% to 13%,) and cast a total of 41,196 votes.
The Democrats favored Hillary over Bernie 60% to 38%, and cast 88,149 votes.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_primaries_in_Puerto_Rico,_2016
If the same ratio of total votes had held and everyone voted party line, Clinton would have carried PR by about 66% of the popular vote, as Democrats appear to outnumber Republicans two to one.
Keep in mind, though, that in PR the Democrats and Republicans haven't been able to stamp out other parties like they have on the mainland for the last century with onerous ballot access laws, banned fusion tickets, and such. In the governor's race, the New Progressive Party (statehood party) beat the Popular Democratic Party (status quo party) 42% to 39% in a four way race. Members of both parties can also be either Democrat or Republican. The current governor is a Democrat, but others in his party are Republicans.
TIL: Tithonus' wife, an immortal, asked the gods to give Tithonus eternal life, but forgot to ask he be given eternal youth. So he aged, withered, dried up, and shrank in his old age until he ultimately turned into an immortal cricket.
Is there any other source aside from the ~~odyssey~~ ~~Illiad~~ odyssey (edit:I'm dumb) for the Trojan Horse? If not, it wasn't just the Horse, but the treachery involved in it being a gift that was most poignant. Why would Homer mention all of that if he was just taking poetic license in describing a siege engine?
Also, I don't think the widespread use of those siege engines in Assyria began until the 9th century bc (http://www.ancient.eu/Assyrian_Warfare/) whereas the trojan war took place about a century before that. I don't think linking this with Assyria does much to prove it was a battering ram instead of a horse.
Actually, fevers are considered moderate until 105F. Severe fevers will cause permanent brain damage, convulsions, and death when body temperature reaches or exceeds 108F. The reason fevers approaching 105 require medical treatment is the possibility and likelihood of a severe fever developing and the need to be close to medical professionals for when the fever reaches that severe level Source: EMT-B, Pre-Med Student, and because that probably won't be enough for ya, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/205674/fever
EDIT: This information pertains to adults. For infants and children, it is a whole different story
Sorry to burst your bubble; but:
>He purchased the land for $42,000 to build a muffler shop and subsequently agreed to sell the land to Cody Docheff to build a concrete batch plant
He solid the land that "blocked him in". This would be like selling your driveway and being upset with the government that you can't access your garage from the road anymore.
>He was discovered to be dumping the waste from his improvised tank directly into an irrigation ditch, resulting in the fine.
Again, he sold the land his sewer lines were on; then dumped raw sewage into an irrigation ditch.
>"God built me for this job," Heemeyer said in the first recording. He also said it was God's plan that he not be married or have a family so that he could be in a position to carry out such an attack. "I think God will bless me to get the machine done, to drive it, to do the stuff that I have to do," he said. "God blessed me in advance for the task that I am about to undertake. It is my duty. God has asked me to do this. It's a cross that I am going to carry and I'm carrying it in God's name."
Just another nut job; not a man to be worshipped.
If anyone should be worshipped and remembered today it should be Tank Man; not some phsyco with a bulldozer and some welding skills.
To nuance this story, Dr. Asperger was a nazi supporter himself. Knowing he was aware of the Nazi crimes makes his support arguably even worse. It's also possible he was just playing the long con, but there is some evidence to the contrary.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_eponyms_with_Nazi_associations
No you can't. The quote is in reference to the Second Intifada, when Palestinians wearing suicide vests where walking into clubs and restaurants and blowing themselves up because they were mad that Shimon Peres went to the Temple Mount. There is no equivalency to that from the Israelis, only the Palestinians did that
EDIT: For those wondering, the quote is from the West Wing episode "Isaac & Ishmael", a standalone episode written and filmed in the three weeks following September 11th as a way to start the new season of the show with addressing the attacks without having to change the story of the season. It addresses Muslim Extremism and the quote in question is most likely referring to this bombing in Jerusalem which happened a little over a month before the episode was written. It's not a very good episode of the West Wing, one of the more preachy ones, but I thought I'd edit this into my comment for anyone who was curious
Smart move by the Russians. Russia has a declining, and aging population. The Russian boogie man that NATO is always warning us of, is actually in somewhat of a population crisis, according to demographics, and little threat to anyone. They simply don't have the population to squander away in any major wars.
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/russia-population/
1.229.388.964,65 earths
9.223.372.036.854.775.807(unsigned 64bit int)/7.502.403.472 souls on earth right now according to this site = 1.229.388.964,65
He needs a huge phonebook