StringJunky

Isn.t the primary problem that multiple-choice exams introduce a statistical improvement in getting the right answer by sheer chance?

I disagree in this instance. They lost their neutra;lity. Normally I see swings and roundabouts. <shrug> <sarc>

No idea, Left-leaning ideology probably. When i wrote the OP I was feeling very annoyed because the BBC seems to have lost impartiality and neutrality on this matter. Methinkis they will be brought to task by review bodies concerned with this sort oversight when thingshave calmed down a bit.

One must have the 'right' to recklessly endanger others without limit?

If your eyesight was seriously failing, is it morally imperative that one should notify the driver licensing centre?

You are blinded by commonsense.

Just an example why "before" can make no sense: if time started with the BB, but the BB was just one stage in the evolution of the universe, what does "before" mean if time had not emerged before the BB? What are we using to gauge 'before' with since time did not exist? In this situation the universe operated under a different set of physics... possibly.

This seems to be the main bone of contention at the moment. I'm in the camp that the vast majority are economic migrants exploiting the situation for a better economic life. My rationale is that they are not simply looking for the first safe refuge they come across but vociferously looking to settle in countries with the best welfare benefits, far beyond the first sites of safe refuge.

Do you think they are presenting a narrowly judgemental and corporate viewpoint against those who don't agree with unfettered movement of migrants within Europe? It seems to me that they have taken a stance and are now using all the coporate machinery to emotively influence the political landscape on this issue. Here's a link to the current BBC page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news

It takes insight to realise that you you don't know what you don't know.

'Fast' is a term with a short shelf-life in computing.

I gave you it. For your poor attitude, which pervades in much of your questions. Nobody owes you anything and not everyone sees a question as the OP intended. Cest la vie.

The OP's problem is " Everyone else is the problem, not me.". The OP wants the world to be like Douglas Adams's Puddle.

Spray the world with bleach?

Still loving life I see. Life permeates kilometres into the Earth's crust and oceans so I think, short of a suitably-sized asteroid, I think it's a no.

Guns are a symptom of a deep-seated collective inadequacy, perhaps.

Indications I've found suggest sugar impairs absorption, which makes sense, because osmosis direction will be towards diluting the sugar

Yes, German wines are around the 9-11% and you can pay a very pretty penny for them. There is no correlation between alcohol content and quality. Done with appropriate care, higher proofs will last longer keeping-wise and mature more slowly.for potentially more complex flavours, but of itself, % proof means little.

You can get Japanese-style chisels that have a thin, very hard face, which holds the edge, backed onto a thicker, softer, more shock-absorbing steel. For sheer maintenance of sharpness, Japanese-tempering styles are the best I've come across.

Decays are always random but the more atoms there are, the more constant the measured rate of total decay is.

I just had this thought, prompted by the OP, about unpredictability within predictable limits which is not something I'd given any thought to before. This is statistics I suppose.

The configuration of nucleons must set the bounds of decay probability, I suppose.

An enquiring thought: if radioactivity is truly random then there wouldn't be unique half-lives for each element; the decay is only random between two temporal points, the positions of which depend on the element.

Yes, many rabbit-holes lie ahead. My great grandad, born around 1887, wouldn't let his wife, who already had a child out of wedlock, transfer his name to her daughter. My Aunty Madge had to go though her early life known as a bastard.

Before the second half of the twentieth century this was no small matter