J.C.MacSwell

Maybe if the Left acted as tribal and one-sided, the Right would learn their lesson and stop?

There was certainly a lot of grey areas, but tha risk assessment was less scientific than it should have been. Plenty was known about masks, and enough about the virus to know that N95+ masks should be more effective than lesser ones and lesser ones better than nothing, all other things being equal, including to the wearer. This was denied, or implied to be otherwise, due to a political agenda. That's not scientific, no matter how well intended or for what purpose. Same goes for climate change denial or claims our existence is threatened by climate change within 12 years. Neither is a reasonable scientific assessment, yet both are spouted by politicians claiming to be scientific, in ways no data (or common sense) supports.

...and then order the Enterprise to "Warp Speed"...😛 😄

Relative to the passenger, that can be done with simple acceleration. Never FTL at any time, but can effectively achieve it over a distance from the perspective of the passengers changing frame.

In practice they do, short of you claiming that's what it is, or it being obvious. They'll accept your money and give you a less than worthless patent. The nice thing about your patent will be that it will cost you very little to defend it. No one will successfully take advantage of it.

Sounds promising. I wonder if it would be made available prior to 2023, if it seems like it would work on humans, and/or for those likely to succumb otherwise?

On a bad day it seems more like 110%...😄

Unfortunately that's the 90% it seems...on a good day.

I give it a plus, though I also think Paul is obligated to scrutinize and question him, obvious politics notwithstanding.

No wonder? As in not surprising to you? Or that Paul deserved it? "Federal prosecutors said Boucher "had enough" after he witnessed Paul stack brush into a pile on his own lawn, but near Boucher's property."

Okay. Thanks Zap. I have to go but will try to reply tomorrow.

I'm not certain what you are asking. Who are the impoverished that the Democrats have sacrificed? Who are the deserving of pity Democrats that have been sacrificed? Something else? honest questions

Not in the same sacrificial sense.

I understood that. And don't disagree. Rich Democrats that tow the party line...for starters

By the Democrats as pawns...and ignoring that poverty is by far the greatest factor...

Most recently and most obviously Maxine Waters. Pelosi might seem less overly disappointing, given her track record.

I'm not sure if this statement is true or false. I do think they align more with Democrat values, and I think that's a good thing. Based on that, maybe it's just that the integrity of the Democrats most featured in the news seems overly disappointing.

That may be true, but you can always ask. They might surprise you with some good advice or guidance.

If you had liquid hydrogen in outer space, you could configure it's evaporation to produce thrust, if that is what you are asking. It would not be a very efficient use of the "fuel" but with no oxygen available it might be the best "McGiver" available. It's not free lunch, the entropy of your system increases. You still have the latent heat of fusion to work with, as a source of energy. Just make sure to save some of the hydrogen snowballs produced...throwing them might give you more thrust.

+1 for the effort but any discrepancy in the scale readings from what they would be due to simple calculations of Newton's laws will no doubt be due to the idiosyncrasies of the scale, assuming the test was otherwise accurately performed. In both cases described it should drop...after it rises first. You simply cannot elevate from rest without some force acting with greater force than your weight, nor lower from rest without the net force being lower. Either would violate conservation of momentum.

In "theory", that's dependant on favourable business conditions. You force unemployment on many who would not have moved on otherwise and they are scooped up by better options. In "practice" you can also create a situation where you have businesses folding and a local economy collapsing like a house of cards, creating less incentive for any replacement start ups. Edit:That's referring to what I bolded at the bottom of Ten Oz's post.

No. But being in different geographical areas does make for different markets for that food, and along with other factors the ability to pay for that labour. If you're paying attention, it does and it doesn't. Even "successful" unions, that allow the company to remain competitive, can limit available jobs to some extent to the advantage of their members. Good luck unionizing a company that doesn't have a natural (or otherwise) advantage to exploit, and then maximizing wages.

About 90% of those on death row use all available appeals they are allowed. That indicates to me they would prefer to be off of it and stay alive. Whether that means they would actually suffer less is another thing entirely.

Agree. For most I suspect it might alleviate some suffering though.

At the very least, capital punishment should require guilty beyond any doubt, not just reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors. That would keep many innocent people off of death row.