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It's that time of year... Why do computer programmers muddle up Christmas and Halloween? Because 25 DEC = 31OCT

There will always be people who take advantage of other people, so we will always have the TeleEvangelists, the Jim Jones, and the Donald Trumps. Placing the blame with the "people who are not very educated, not very sophisticated thinkers, and too trusting for their own good" is what got H Clinton in trouble and led to the D Trump Presidency. Those people are voters too If the elitist, career politicians who are " very educated, very sophisticated thinkers" would address the needs of common folks, some of whom are not, we wouldn't be in this situation. Government is responsible to ALL of its voters/citizens, no matter how trusting they are.

I have serious doubts about the plausibility of an idea like this. Trying not to insist on previous points, with which I very much agree: 1st of all, similar ideas have been tried for centuries: anything that satisfies local conservation will spread following an inverse square law when expressed in the right variables 2nd, energy is not even an invariant or covariant concept, in GR it's not even well defined in general 3rd, energy is a very derived concept, constructed in each case from many different variables that do not relate to each other (charge, spin, non-linear terms in the Einstein tensor in the case of gravitational waves). 4rth, how does it relate to gauge charge, which is invariant? 5th, energy is bosonic, not fermionic, how does it build up fermionic states? 6th, reports of a new ToE candidate coming from the blackboards of young science professionals trying to draw attention to their speculations are ten a penny lately; the press is partly to blame for this noise effect And so on, and so on. If they can explain the Aharonov-Bohm effect with "just energy", I will eat my words, I promise. I know they can't.

Think you meant “Without”

Endy018 was trying to show you how to count to 5 in different bases. In base 10 there are 10 single digits (if you include 0) and no single digit for 10. So to count to 5 in base 10 you can count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. In base 5 there are 5 single digits (if you include 0) and no single digit for 5. So to count to 5 in base 5 you can count 1, 2, 3, 4, 10. In base 2 there are 2 single digits (if you include 0) and no single digit for 2. So to count to 5 in base 2 you can count 1, 10, 11, 100, 101.

Didn't happen with me, but I work for the government, and it was a postdoc position, in physics. They started the process to hire me permanently soon after I started the temp position. While it is a danger, I would think that if you do a decent job they'd want to retain you, since having open positions and training up new people has costs associated with it. Unless the job you are doing is specific to starting up a new lab, instead of working in the lab after it starts up. IOW, if they're paying you to tighten hose clamps, then yeah, they may not see value in keeping you around after the clamps are tightened. But if you're setting up equipment and as a result you are one of the one who knows how to run it, then they'd be foolish to let you go. Probation is likely a way to evaluate your work behavior, without any entanglements associated with firing you. They just don't renew/offer you a permanent job. In our research group everyone hired has a one- or two-year evaluation period, where the bosses can decide not to retain you if things don't work out. I also know people who are contractors on annual contracts. As long as there is money to pay them and the work is of sufficient quality these people are retained, because it takes so long to hire new people.

Yes, outside of vaccines, I was thinking about the fact that folks would promote unproven treatments and deride simple but effective measures. And technically, if we kept or distance for, say two months on a global scale, we would be effectively burning the virus out, too. But again, it is worthwhile to remember that even during the rollout, distancing and protection measures must continue in order to keep deaths down. We do not have sufficient evidence that immunized folks are unable to transmit the disease, for example.

They used to but Wal-MArt sold them off in October this year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cn54ndxy92yt/sainsburys-asda-merger They started as Associated Dairies of Leeds (in the North of England) a long time ago. By the 1980s they had grown to be the largest supermarket chain in the UK but they then lost their way and were bought by Wal-Mart I think in the early 1990s This acquisition was never a big success for W-M and they have been trying to sell it of for several years. The UK Mergers and Monopolies Commission prevented a previous sale to a rival supermarket chain, I think the new owners are venture capitalists.

No, it’s really not.

O ARE YOU A ROBOT ? Please check-off which of the following are numerical bases O : 1 O : dy/dx O : 2 O : -1 O : 10 O : x O : % O : 16 O : 8 O : 4 O : e O : Pi

Because you couldn't be farther off the mark. That's not what bases are about. I and others have been telling you until we're blue in the mouth. You're using the oldest trick of the game, which is non-sequitur. It's as if someone tells you, "Mountains arise from mechanical tensions and thermal processes in the Earth's interior" and you say, "Then why are elephants winged creatures?" 1st) Elephants are not winged creatures (a false premise embedded in a question is called a sophism) 2nd) The question does not follow from the previous statement at all (that's called a non-sequitur) If you think for a moment most users here don't see right away what you're trying to do, you're quite wrong. You're not discussing in good faith. It's not about disagreement. It's about you not being intellectually honest. You're free to keep playing your game for as long as you want, but you're just calling for action from the mods and very justified annoyance from other users. Have a good day.

@curiousone You are still confusing powers and bases. The base only relates to how some value is being represented. Counting five of something Base 2: 1, 10, 11, 100, 101 Base 3: 1, 2, 10, 11, 12 Base 4: 1, 2, 3, 10, 11 Base 5: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 Base 10: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Most of us don't do this for 'fame and fortune'. Others have their own reasons; I do it because I enjoy discussion with like-minded people. ( I don't even belong to any social media, and a couple of times it has 'scared' me when googling some science topic, that a link to MigL@Science Forums.net come up in the search. )

First of all I will say that COVID-19 should not be lumped together with other known seasonal diseases. The reason is that for the latter the susceptibility is massively lower than for a novel disease. Ultimately, COVID-19 might eventually become seasonal, depending how immunity against it pans out in the population. The next question would then to look at known diseases and inspect their pattern of seasonality before we go any deeper in specifics. A lot of diseases not only have different patterns, but also different causes, for examples the properties of the causative agent (e.g. mutation rate, sensitivity to temp or humidity etc.), the way it is transmitted (e.g. seasonality of vectors such as tics) and/or human behaviour (e.g. travel pattern). Measles transmission cycles have been connected to congregation of children during school terms (see Fine and Clarkson, Int. J. Epidemiol. 1982;11:5-14). If we go for influenza, for example, Vitamin D is one of the factors that have been discussed in terms of seasonality (which falls under host health status) that is potentially one element. But while the seasonality in tropical and subtropical areas does not follow seasons, it still has (short) cycles, which could for example be related to immune responses (e.g. new mutations, followed by infection/vaccination cycles). But indoor heating and ambient temperature have also been linked to contribute to seasonality (or cycles in outbreaks in general). There are quite a few papers and reviews out there looking especially at these issues. But again, COVID-19 (or spread of SARS-CoV-2) is a special case and would need more time to figure out whether there is seasonality or not. But perhaps a concise answer to OP, we know to some degree, certainly not for all diseases, and chances are is no universal pattern.

I guess there is some hope that some hydrothermal vents organisms from Earth could find a nice spot also in Europa ocean. Sure, I would support doing this only if we prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that the chosen world is sterile. And I still very much hope that Europa is not sterile. Another guess is that organisms that are left to evolve on another planet would soon turn inedible* - or better said, not directly edible, but with some advanced scientific cooking we should still be able to derive some nutrients and energy from them. (* pigs probably can never turn inedible, no reason to panic. But other, less palatable animals, probably will incorporate some poisonous chemistry into their metabolism as an adaptation to foreign worlds)

Wait a moment here... Calculus is very advanced algebra and geometry, that uses a ratio "ie" derivative between at least 2 "observations." In other words its trigonometry based. "Unless of coarse" its pi based, another word for tri based...What ever it is at this point it's truly a mixture of things.. So you speak for everyone right?? Its called: P O L I T I C A L C O R R E C T N E S S Stop cyber bullying me...and stop instigating others to make fun of my posts..

It was on my thread plain and simple.. please "keep" these comments off my threads as they are "polluting" my focus. I already "passed" my 24 hour chat box or e-bot test..

Quit pretending. Most people in America shop at Wal-Mart.

This isn't in terms of numbers. It's in terms of culture.

You have to do with Trump. I have to do with truth. That makes sense when the topic is in terms of statistical questions. Mine isn't. I'm accusing Wal-Mart of breaching Antitrust law. The evidence is in the shutout of all the proprietor retail stores of yesterday. Wal-Mart is too massive for arms length businesses to survive without compromising integrity. That makes sense when the topic is in terms of statistical questions. Mine isn't. I'm accusing Wal-Mart of breaching Antitrust law. The evidence is in the shutout of all the proprietor retail stores of yesterday. Wal-Mart is too massive for arms length businesses to survive without compromising integrity. I'm also accusing corporations in general of faulty business practices. Also I'm accusing the SEC for not addressing financial statement fraud since the days of Enron, when they did nothing besides implement Sarbanes-Oxley. They refuse to mandate a secondary audit by a competing public accounting firm to audit the working papers and final audit report of corporate financial statements.