StringJunky

You can't rep someone in the phone version of the site unless you go into the full PC version ....which is not practical because you would have to zoom the page too large to see the rep buttons on each post.

You can download The Formation of Vegetable Mould by Charles Darwin Gutenberg Press have scanned it and released it for the public in various formats or online viewing. If you want it like .PDF format then EPUB is like that. I use SumatraPDF which will open it as well as PDF and other formats.

It seems you were given ok advice and the reaction products are safe; sodium sulphate, carbon dioxide.and water.

If your ears were wired up to your visual cortex would you still call the stimuli "sound" even though the sensation you perceive will be in some visual pattern?

It's not about solving; it's about addressing what we mean by things. In this instance, is sound an objective phenomenon or is it observer-dependent? What do we mean by sound? It's useful in the sense that it makes one think about the way one thinks and forces us to look at our language and it's specificity.

It would seem that they pull pine needles by the base because that is the easiest way to pull them into their holes. They do this in a tactile manner and will reject it if it is not orientated the right way the first time they pick it up. The function of these objects is to block the holes up in colder weather to stop them drying out due to air-circulation and reduced humidity. They will also strongly tend to pull broad-based leaves by the pointed end. Darwin isolated this tendency using paper triangles for them to go at and the pointed ends tended to get pulled in first. http://www.psychology.gatech.edu/psyc3031/Behaviorism%20Behavior%20and%20Philosophy/1982%20-%20Vol%2010%20No%202/05%20Darwin%27s%20Earthworms%20A%20Case%20Study%20in%20Evolutionary%20Psychology.PDF

You are absolutely being offensive. Just because it doesn't interest you doesn't mean it isn't for anyone else. I used to think simplistically on this matter, like you, but I wanted to explore this more. If it was such a useless, trivial question, why is it so often repeated? As much as you might like to think it, physics doesn't have all the answers.

You may well be right but I took 'synthesizing' as the operative word in his question. Won't be the first time I've barked up the wrong tree. .

You personally, as an individual, can't do it; it involves seriously high energies and equipment splitting or fusing atoms. You are talking about acquiring a fission reactor, fusion reactor (no working model) or particle accelerator. Nuclear transmutation is a government-level undertaking.

That might be how often it checks.

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I never defined a person in prison as a person who is necessarily causing harm to society or the fact that they are in prison denies them the right to vote. I also never said that it should be held against a person forever: A responsible, pragmatic and considerate panel has to define where the boundary is but I think being a convicted felon is insufficient and unjust, given some of the stupid laws one can finding oneself breaching, as you rightly said.

I am of the opinion that those who have committed harm to their fellow citizens relinquish their right to have a say in the governance of their society for a period until they will cause no more harm. You should not give any power to someone who is at a high risk of wielding it with malicious or reckless intent. This seems at odds with your previously expressed desire where you want sensible, pragmatic selectivity with regards to civilians having arms, yet you appear here uncompromisingly ideological in this matter, in a manner similar to those who covet the apparently "inalienable" right to bear arms? Your position on voting rights for everyone is a noble aspiration but pragmatically very precarious for society methinks.

How do we know there's a sound? He can't hear it. You are not the observer; he is.

I think the important thing is to stick to the limit of the question. Because the word 'sound' is used we must address it in that context but if the word 'perturbations' was used instead the answer could be different. Semantics matters in this case otherwise we couldn't share and address the subtleties of the world around us because single words could mean different things, potentially leading us to bark up different trees. In philosophy, this ability to distinguish subtleties with different words is an important skill. This is all imo of course.

Does a right have to be absolute i.e. no conditions attached?

If we couldn't do both we would have no sense of 'self' because one needs to be able to think in the second-person to do that.

Yeah I know, but you know how it is between 'you lot and us': two nations divided by a common language. This looks the job for you; check the size of your drive to be sure, which is 3.5": http://www.amazon.co.uk/L803B-Drive-Enclosure-External-compatible/dp/B000JK769E Although W98 is not listed there it says you get a cd containing the W98 driver with it.

In English-English, one has a licence (noun) but one is licensed (verb). It's probably an English mag. Have you tried just copying the files you want to a usb stick and then putting them on your new computer? Edit: Just noticed you said it was just a drive. To do it yourself, you need a compatible external harddrive enclosure I think and then it will just be like a normal drive you can read and take stuff off. The W98 OS won't work but still readable and extractable. Just done this myself with a screwed up W7 computer, It cost about 20ish dollars in your currency (£14). A shop might cost more.

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/3489206/run-windows-98-programs-in-windows-7/

It's not just a gap in reading; it's a gap in a way of thinking and worldview. Rectify it at once MigL and buy all the books as a post-Christmas present to yourself.

Concentration (not easily distracted) and dedication i.e committed.

Read that first article; very interesting. I've always had a soft spot for worms and humus. I am not averse to saving a worm stranded on a path to be placed back on a friendlier surface. I am in agreement with the author: it is not the "invasive" worms fault; it's us.

A lot of the modern hardware and software standards are incompatible with Windows 98. It can be run in a virtual machine run by a modern PC though I think.

Yes, Google paying £11m Corporation Tax on £3.4bn UK revenues is a fine example of the level they'll stoop to.