StringJunky

Whatever stage the universe's evolution and its size, everything was everywhere.

I agree, I was just saying that, that's your variable, not the track.

It's probably generally accepted that most people have fantasy ideals and the unattainable celebrity represents that.

I agree, I think the length of the lugs and snow quality - will determine the efficiency of the traction and ,hence, speed. Any real change in speed would need a change in gear size..

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You made me look that up. Yes, I suppose the OP is a step towards eugenics. I'm only comfortable with my medical data being used within a public health system to improve its services for the benefit of those within that system and academically if its properly anonymised.

Yes. Space is volume and is a property things, Length, width and height do not exist on their own. A vacuum is not nothing because it has virtual particles in it. A vacuum is not space itself, it has space/volume. The emptiest volume you can have is a vacuum.

The effective concentration, in a fire, of halon does not hinder respiration. It's not like carbon dioxide in its action.

The Prohibition bill didn't have majority consensus i.e. support. It couldn''t have done or else it wouldn't have failed.

Yes. I think so

No, it did attain the consensus of the majority. Collectively, society eventually thinks " Yeah, that's fair" and embodies it. If it doesn't eventually acquire that it will fail.... same with extreme political systems. For something to be accepted long-term it has to fit ethically and equitably.

They supported it eventually because they realised it was ethically correct, just like we did with the drink and seat laws. That statistic of yours supports area54's conjecture. Edit: Just seen raider's contrary post.

But in the long view, many decades even, those positions are not sustainable by the minority. The present gun culture mindset has been around since the 60's.

Yes, it wasn't an overnight acceptance by any means. i remember being quite lax on seatbelts in the beginning. It can take up to 50 years before a law becomes sufficiently embodied in a population. Look how how long it's taken for the LGBT community to be accepted to the level it is today.

The UK laws on drink driving and seatbelts supports Area54's conjecture . It couldn't have come from the population as a whole because, individually, we didn't have the bird's eye view of the problems that a statistician seeks to have by physically collecting data.

How do you think the drink-driving laws and seatbelt became accepted? I'm sure that didn't come from within the population but from academics research; the legislators had the majority support because people don't want to see people needlessly killed. In reality, I think, the direction of change happens both ways with different issues.

I support area54's premise but, as you note with the prohibition era, it's clear that a prerequisite for cultural change following introduction of regulations is that the majority agree with it in principle. A law has to have the consensus of the majority in order to be embodied in the behaviour of the population.

This luthier rubs and scrapes a black filler on his white oak guitars to bring out the grain. That pinkish hue will turn quite a dark brown with oxidation and light in a few years.:

Don't forget the effect of UV over time. What wood species are you working on? Got myself a Bosch Ergonomic Li-ion combi dril... fab! Just restored my Grandad's Stanley 130 double-ended plane... sharp! I also just got a double-sided diamond sharpening plate and having fun with that. Far superior and flatter than a whetstone. Japanese waterstones are the ultimate but I can't justify spending hundreds on them.

Yes, the mental health services need sorting and that's not going to happen in a private payer system. Nice to see all the noise being created at the moment by the younger generation. As we noted earlier, the great majority of Americans don't own weapons, so they can potentially shout louder than the NRA, and their other unreasonable supporters, if they put their collective mind to it. America, in reality, is not as gun-happy a nation, as first appears. It's the vocal minority that are making up for the silent majority. Hopefully that will change.

I'd put it down to inadequate/non-existent screening policies and lack of enforcement of those that are screened. A stable person with a large, secure collection is safer than a nutter with a single gun, so I don't think absolute numbers of weapons matters too much. I think the type of guns people keep matters and the type of people that have any gun matters.

Gravity and the rate things things fall is a property of the attractor, not the attracted.

If video games significantly caused more killings in Japan, potential killers will still find a way, even without guns. It has its moments but Japan seems pretty placid on the whole WRT violence statistics vs the US.

Given his previous position, his maturing realisation is to be applauded.

Isn't the ability to bullshit the means to nearly all wealth?