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If she has no physical problems she may be crying because it works.

NIMBY!

Unreal. Americans with guns is like heroin to a drug addict.I know it's not all Americans but they are the influential consensus that keep things as they are.

No such thing because that implies a confidence level of 100% If a model works under all known conditions that's about the very best basis you can get, I think.

Yes, it seems that way. What's it going to take to get that critical mass of opinion.

That's your law training showing. Is it murder? If this was under British jurisdiction.

That will be the taser won't it?I don't know how I missed reading iNows' post. When you look at the two photos, a copper with a gun visible doesn't feel like they are protecting the public first and they don't look approachable. The UKs armed officers shoot to kill though ...no half-measures.

The taser got slung in the initial struggle and not near where he fell, didn't.it? If that copper didn't have a gun, he would have run after him which he should have done. What's wrong really is, it seems, that the gun is the first resort and not the last in a US policemans' arresting repertoire. A baton/truncheon should have been ok in that situation to manage it, if needed.

Frying pan or fire; which to choose?

More wood for the fire: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32213482

I would prefer to say "Mom, shall we ride on the train?" It isn't assertive and neither is it seeking permission; it's a suggestion that is quite neutral.

He wasn't a lead member but he verified the maths; he was a proofer, sort of.

Those 'invasive' plants will become accepted once collective memories start to fade. In the UK, for example, Canadian Pondweed is, more or less, regarded as an integrated part of British waterplant life now. It's all part of evolution; nothing will thrive where it's not suited.

Ok I'll ring ICI and get an order for a few gigatons of ammonium nitrate in.

You've still got to feed that phytoplankton. I don't think the waters need inoculating with them; they are already there just waiting, in low numbers, for nutrients so they can bloom. The problem you've got with the warm deep equatorial seas is that there is no natural movement of water from bottom to top because the temperature is too high and this creates a thermocline. I think about 11-12oC maximum surface temperature is the limit for this process to occur under its own steam, otherwise, you need some mechanical process to get the nutrients to the top.

You should understand that a mod is addressing an issue and not the person; it's not personal.

Sign me up, I've mentioned this a couple of times. The problem to overcome is to keep the upper habitable layers supplied with nutrients.

This is the dilemma we are in currently in the UK: shit, shit or shit.

Weather is caused by disequilibrium; remove that and you will remove the weather. Trying to create a cooler more temperate equator is not a good idea because you will upset the dynamics by not having a wide enough variation in temperature or will move weather systems to the detriment of other areas. The last thing we want is a globally stable atmosphere.

Yes, If he doesn't want to make life too hard for himself grinding/polishing it afterwards,

Indeed. I think states have too much autonomy in some matters. On matters of criminal law, legislation should be country-wide.

What metal is it?

Also, people that do something in a ritualistic way are more likely to have success because they are doing it with care and repeatable consistency.

I just Googled 'the importance of coal to the industrial revolution' and it would seem that problems of mining coal, i.e. flooding, urgently necessitated a mechanical solution to the problem and the Newcomen engine was born with the Watt version following after. It could be said that, without coal in England, the industrial revolution could have been much later and also somewhere else that did have coal. The commercial steam engine was developed out of the desire to solve a particular problem, which was to help extract a fuel with a high energy-density. A classic case of necessity being the mother of invention. Whilst we were still burning wood the need, or commercial incentive, for steam engines wasn't there.

I think the population growth was a consequence of increasing urbanisation (concentration of populations) brought on by the demands and benfits of steam-powered industry. Yes, I think it was necessary. Show me an agriculturally-based populous city