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StringJunky

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  1. I think the voltage regulator in a regulated device swaps voltage for current as the voltage drops to maintain the watts. When it drops to about 3.2v the device will shut down to protect the battery. The load on the battery increases to maintain the power.
  2. People made their decisions based on up to 40 years of being in the EU and how they feel it affected them The leavers have as much right to think what they do as you do. I voted to stay and I'm managing to keep objective, I think. It troubles me that people are trying to reverse the referendum because they lost. Nationalism is becoming increasingly prevalent all over Europe, and I think the referendum result here is a reflection of that. The EU has gone far beyond its original remit in 1971 as a trading bloc and people within each member country are becoming vocal about it.
  3. You are assuming it made a difference. I think people felt one way or the other, regardless of any electioneering blurb.
  4. I think it's downhill all the way for the RC church in terms of global credibility and authority. They've lost much of their influence in Ireland.
  5. It's going to be messy whatever is agreed. The losers can't accept we are leaving and it will cause years of problems and loss of credibility with much of the electorate if we don't.
  6. I'll have to give her one thing: she's honest, which seems consistent with her family's values that I've read so far about them. That transparency is not helping her out of her mess. I think she could probably be deradicalised.
  7. It was done at a nail parlour. I used to have acrylic nails on my right hand for guitar playing. It wrecks your underlying nails. I would suggest you start filing your nails with a good glass file, rather than cutting them. Your nails have three laminated layers and biting or cutting them exposes the inbetween layers to the air and allows the moisture to escape through the ends, which causes your nails to lose volume, become thin and brittle. A glass file, not metal, will create fine nail powder filings and seal the ends. Make sure it is an etched crystal one and not one sprinkled with glass powder. If you don't break it, it will last your lifetime. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=etched+glass+nail+file&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=glass+nail+file
  8. Hi.I think an ophthamologist is going to know more than a random website like this.
  9. A trait is favoured when it produces more offspring. The more offspring that a trait produces, the more it is reinforced by virtue of there being more offspring with that trait. The mane will have originally come about by random mutation, then it was up to other factors, like attractiveness to lionesses, to determine whether it will be perpetuated, by mating, more favorably over other versions of that characteristic (phenotype)..
  10. The more sites there are discussing a topic, the higher the probability of some otherwise uninterested person becoming curious and being enabled to cause harm, to themself or others; intentionally or not.
  11. I'd get a waterproof/windproof shell jacket with minimal padding so that you can hang or pack tight if you need to. If it's cold, put a zippered fleece on before you put the jacket on. Do you wear a full suit for work with tie/jacket? If that's the case I would wear a jumper, if it's cold, over the shirt, put on your office jacket and then your rainproof. Remove the jumper at work. You could get lightweight, waterproof over-trousers for when it's really bad.
  12. The trouble is, walking around in different directions, it's just about impossible to keep the brolly pointing in an aerodynamically-favourable direction.
  13. I've fished in 60mph winds. Brolly/shelter was made with 8oz nylon and 12inch pegs pinning it down...it was aerodynamically positioned for minimum resistance... I knew it was coming. The force pushing the canopy down was something else. There ain't no hand-held brolly that you can hold in 60mph winds. Either the brolly will break... or your taking off. These claim to be the strongest domestic type... with a price to match. https://davek.co.uk/collections/umbrellas2 I think it would be more productive to splash out on light-weight, wet weather/windproof gear made of Goretex which will help keep you from sweating. Again, not cheap.
  14. Yeah, hanging on to an unchanging Constitution that needs to adapt with the times is, I'm sure, not what its original authors intended. If it wasn't designed to be changed, no Amendments would exist on it, which, of course, they do. I'd like to see the NRA refute that argument.
  15. Well, if you go into screaming mode yourself, you will find that the tops of your cheeks push into your eye sockets when you open your mouth wide, putting pressure on your eyes to close, The answer is, it's easier to shut them when screaming.
  16. It's called a 'meltdown' and all the switches are flicked off except for the mouth.
  17. As I said earlier, it's based on intersubjective consensus
  18. Gravity doesn't bend spacetime; gravity is bent spacetime. Matter tells spacetime how much too bend. Conversely, spacetime tells matter how to move i.e. its trajectory. 'Fabric' is just a metaphor and not to be taken literally. I think the term originates from the 'heavy ball on a trampoline' idea of bent spacetime, which the fabric represents. It only shows two dimensions; when there's actually 4. It's a very crude idea, not really representing the facts but just gives a glimpse of the concept. 'Spacetime' is actually a 4 dimensional map of the gravitational distribution in a space...it's a mathematical construct. It allows people to plot mass- energy values in time and space on co-ordinates in the spacetime map and see how they change under different scenarios... amongst other things. As you should see, spacetime is not a 'thing' but a way of describing how things behave and interact in space. That behaviour is what we call 'gravity'.
  19. He'still got his other one yet, but, yeah, their attitude stinks. It's a long time to lose at 70 years old. I did think the prosecutor's request of 19 years was way OTT.
  20. FB's like heroin: addictive and bad for you. All you are to FB is data and dollars.
  21. You lot need to get on science forums more.
  22. In Madagascar I doubt there are many, if any, antivaxxers.
  23. I had a look on Quora and it seems it has middling electronegativity (2.2), so the atom it combines with determines which way it goes.
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