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If he's actively encouraging activities contrary to good environmental health practices, that means he doesn't care about the environment. Your post almost seems contrary for the sake of it.

Educate me. How?

The UK Speaker is expected to be non-partisan. In McConnell's defence, he's only avoiding the certain formality of Trump saying ''No''.

The UK government of the day has the mandate to run the budget, as it sees fit, for its term; we know its overall plans for the term from the election manifesto. Obviously, the opposition comments and if the incumbent administration does a bad job, they suffer at the next election.

What I meant was, the UK opposition has no say regarding a budget. However you spin it, it does need permission in the US from the opposition, unless they have a sufficient majority..

Yes, probably. I hope so, for America's sake.

On its own it might be but there's other stuff running in parallel which is likely to weigh heavily in the run up to 2020. I'm just wondering what will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and people finally wake up.

I think it will have an effect if it drags on long enough.

It looks like the US government is piling up some nice litigation, with workers not being paid. Those workers wont forget when it comes to vote in 2020. It does seem odd to me that a budget proposal has to pass Congress and the Senate; in the UK the government gets the money, if it's there, without the permission of the opposition.

The Japanese government seems to have the will, but do the people? This is where the resistance to change seems to be coming from. Unlike in the US, where the population was ready for change and pushed for it, it seems to be the other way around in Japan.

I read the Japan Times everyday and it is an ongoing issue in it. I think they are currently in the process of admitting more foreigners to help offset the lack of workers as well as trying to increase the fertility rate. For many reasons, I think the Japanese will dwindle in number; it's too late for them. They are quite an inward-looking and historically xenophobic nation, and I think chasing this notion of 'pure' Japanese has caught up with them. Their only option is to embrace a mixed-culture population..

Yes, it seems Japan's situation is the most acute and the most in need of study.

That was a bit I picked up off an OU programme a long time ago.

Note: that quotation refers to his view of the contents of The Bible and not religion per se. Einstein had a sense of religion, as per Spinoza. Neither athiests nor theists can hijack him to support their cause.

The more we do, the less the contrast. If the contrast is "better", the difference is more glaring. English lesson over. OK

But nothing like the current hysteria afforded western women; by contrast it's a token gesture.

Someone on another forum put this up and it seems appropriate in this discussion and others like it: " The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. William Butler Yeats

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It's not cheap that matters, it's the lack of side protection/blocking that is the issue with dilated pupils in subdued light. Because the acceptance angle for incoming light increases with wider pupils, more uv light can come in from the side and bounce off the inside glass surface into the eye. Wraparound glasses are best in this respect for blocking off this sidelight. Apparently, wearing sunglasses without side blocking is worse than wearing no sunglasses at all. UV has a higher energy, not penetrating power. It is able to excite the outer electrons of atoms better than other wavelengths. If a photon is the right wavelength to interact with an electron it will be absorbed...its path will be blocked. If the photon is the 'wrong' wavelength it will briefly interact with an electron but will immediately get ejected from the electron on the same path it came at it.. this is what makes glass appear transparent. What we want a sunglass material to do is absorb the UV and transmit the other colours to the eye. Check out the absorption properties of glass and polycarbonate and find out what they block.

It's because it's been hyped to F- and it's not about women, so it doesn't matter. What annoys me is that none of this is about the real injustices and indignities women suffer in places like Saudi, Pakistan , India etc. What's being wittered about here are first world problems i.e. pretty trivial. i actively search and read about women's lives in these countries and think "What are their First World "sisters" doing to help them?

Even the deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie says that he said "woman". She is a master lip-reader. I'm good but she's awesome.

Does your browser clear cookies on exit or not accept them? You need to create an exception if it does either. Annoyingly, it is EU law that acceptance is required. Maybe it's just started complying with this update.

If the rate you are freefalling continuously increases with time, how is that not acceleration? Is it not called "acceleration" because an external force has not been applied, and it is a specific word requiring specific conditions to be called acceleration?

Einstein never presented his intuition in the raw unrefined, unevidenced state to his peers, as many noobs do here.

Only on your first day: it's to deter spammers.