StringJunky

Can you give us more detail? There's not a lot to go on.

Yes, there is some serious chocolatey chocolate from some of the African places. It's quite hard, not very sweet or milky tasting. It's an acquired taste that I got used to and came to like by the time I reached the end of the bar.... which took a few days. Because it''s so cocoa-ey you don't trough on it but you learn to eat it more slowly and savour the unsweetened richness... the taste lingers longer as well The Co-op is a good place to find the more foreign chocolates because they do alot of fair trade stuff. Did I say I like chocolate?

Glass has thermal conductivity 2 to 3 times higher than typical plastics, so, your assumption that it is very low is where you are going wrong. http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/thermal-conductivity-d_429.html

He doesn't want a Dutch version he wants it in English Have you eliminated that it might be a Google problem?

Have you tried Google Greece... this is your local version. It comes up in English in the UK. https://www.google.gr/

Right.

It just occurred to me, that having paying students as the norm means that educational establishments will do everything in their power to make sure their clients pass, which further messes up the selection process. They are likely moving the goalposts nearer so students pass in order to maintain the necessary income level from students. Nobody will apply to an establishment with a high failure rate, will they? Apart from places like Oxford and Cambridge that have the prestige, most places can''t be strict on admissions and pass requirements for fear of committing financial suicide, I would think

I think you are perhaps too young to have seen the striking transition that has occurred from the the grammar school system to the comprehensive - I just missed the 11+ but saw the change through the decades. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing but it's definitely different.

Would you agree what I said about the original purpose of qualifications as filters? Anecdotally: my niece who has a Bachelor's in a social services subject told me she now needs a Master's to do the job she wants to do, working with autistic children. This seems faintly absurd. In the 1970's and before, if you had a Master's you were, without doubt, exceptionally able; a swot.

Do you think the degree has been dumbed down so that more people can have one; the consequence of this is that a higher level degree is required, than in times passed, in some professions to get the calibre of people they need? I don't know about the USA but it seems that way in the UK to me. The seems to have been a kind of inflation affecting the value of the degree. The overall purpose of academic qualifications to grade each wave of potential students/employees according to their ability seems to have been lost in the name of allowing as many people as possible to have one.

That won't solve anything in the long term because the problem will still perpetuate until white people do a 180 in their attitude towards people of colour. The solution you support puts a plaster on the symptoms instead of addressing the true cause.

My grandad always considered himself to be a fitter even though he engineered stuff. He always said you have to have a degree to be a proper one and they tend not to get their hands dirty; his son was an engineer in oil technology... he never got his hands dirty.

I worked the out average number of posts a day from 2002 - 183 - and got nearly 18 months, which would be March 2018. I think it will be more likely nearer the end of 2018.

A bit of engineering knowledge an engineer does not make.

Engineer is a much misused term. I've known electrical and mechanical fitters call themselves that.

If the spec required of a person for some particular job or activity is measured by the test, then fine, but its range of applicability is very narrow and doesn't cover most people in terms of what they are capable of. The trouble is that they are held up by people as a benchmark to cover all of human intelligence, As has been said before: a high IQ just means one is good at doing IQ tests.

Because.... she's so ugly!

This is it: everybody has some sort of strong ability towards something which may not be problem-solving that IQ tests are supposed to measure

LOL! You get the idea? The OP - although they may not realise it - is a "Mine's bigger than yours question". You never see "My IQ's 100. What's yours?"

Mine's 8 inches.

Pink Floyd's "Time" Dark Side Of The Moon. The story of our lives.

Cool.

You need to absorb this, what swansont said here, then you will realise the question whether they are physical is moot:

The world's first aircraft carrier was called.....USS Enterprise! A Nimitz class AC has 6000 personnel living on it. Now tell me that's not complex.