ewmon

There seems some confusion here. Lisping refers to using a "th" or a wet, cheeky sound instead of an "s" or a "z". The "incompwehensiboo" kind of speech is referred to as rhotacism, meaning the inability to pronounce "r" (and I suppose "l"). Britain does seem to have more than its share of public figures with speech impediments than America has -- for example, politicians George VI, Winston Churchill, etc and actors Matthew Goode, Boris Karloff, etc. Perhaps British culture more readily accepts speech impediments than American culture does, and so, also does not see them as "wrong" and in need of correction. A society led by royalty does not vote its rulers in or out, and so, it may accept the shortcomings of its rulers (and thus, of society in general) compared to a democratic society. And historically, the British seem to make life more accessible/livable for the disabled.

I don't need to speculate because I have repeatedly supercooled both very pure water and water containing huge amounts of impurities, so boiled water can probably be supercooled, but it also probably depends upon the impurities.

I think poverty, ignorance and oppression become knotted together. Outsiders can try to address the poverty and the oppression, but not much helps until the people become educated. In turn, education helps them to relieve themselves of both their poverty and their oppression. Here is just one example of how the destructive force of ignorance dooms such people to poverty.

Interestingly, human brains produce their gray cortical cells deep within the brain (not at the surface), and they make their way (like crawling amoebas) through the existing white brain cells to the brain's surface by following the gradient of a chemical signal produced there. So everyone here discussing this topic has billions of these cells that, at the beginning of their lives, swam around, smelling/tasting various chemical gradients, and orienting themselves and their movement strategies (to paraphrase the OP's words). These are, in fact, the brain cells that are remembering facts, perceiving and comparing information, making judgments, and discussing this topic!

The chicken's immune system might recognize the sperm as foreign living matter and attack it. IIRC on the subject of chromosome count, horses (64 chromosomes) and donkeys (62 chromosomes) producing mules/etc (63 chromosomes) may be the only exception.

They are cooperative industries, but it's not clear how much more converging they can do. It seems most companies aim to do one thing really well to keep their profit/investment ratio high in order to satisfy capitalistic needs. Adding on a less-profitable collateral business would "dilute" their profit ratio, confuse investors, etc. For example, FedEx or UPS, which delivers packages and letters during the day, could deliver pizzas, Chinese, and other fast foods during the second shift instead of letting all those trucks sit overnight in their company parking lots! Companies that produce iron, steel, aluminum etc may not want to bother with new-fangled equipment that produces some electrical power, even if it is for their own consumption (instead of selling it back to the electric power company. It's not their field of expertise, it doesn't involve a proven method, there's no such equipment already in service, etc. It would involve a big learning curve and ramping up process that may not appeal to the company's directors, management, employees or stockholders. This is where government grants, subsidies and support comes in (to help make big changes happen).

Apparently, WikiLeaks supporters now ... They're playing by their own rules. But, the question remains: Will this go done in the annals of history as "The Cyber War of 2010" or as CyberWar 1.0®?

Laws are if-then statements. If someone exceeds 65 mph on the highways, then the penalty is a fine of X dollars. If someone has sex with a minor, then the penalty is X years in prison and placement on the sex offender registry. So Assange has invented his own if-then statements. If anything happens to him or WikiLeaks (eg, arrest for alleged sex crimes in Sweden, or his assassination, or WikiLeaks is shut down), then the penalty is that person(s) will release a "thermonuclear device" of stolen, classified, uncensored, and highly damaging files about the US government. Furthermore, Assange seems to hold the US responsible for Sweden persecuting him for alleged sex crimes and holds hostage the national security of the American people ... over 300M people. Mr Assange seems to fear getting his whistle blown.

As representatives of their people, governments create and enforce laws. Assange obviously makes up his own laws as if he is someone who refuses to submit himself to any authority ... in effect, a man without a country. It's plausible in theory, especially when such a person turns out to be right, but in the real world, Assange has no place to hang his hat at the end of the day. As his latest leak about the US-NATO Baltic defense contingency shows, he seems to have pervertedly twisted the idea of "whistle blowing". How could Assange consider it "wrong" to plan a defense for possible victims of violence? And for someone whom Sweden accuses of having shameful things to hide, Assange certainly likes blowing the whistle on others. Psychological projection?

I'm not aware of the legal details in all the various American jurisdictions or elsewhere, but I also find it morally repulsive (from non-religious perspective), that someone (typically a man) can supposedly continue on with a sex act when the partner has withdrawn consent. Most people can understand a "verge of orgasm" situation, but what if the sex continues for 10 to 15 minutes or more? What if he's into some "marathon sex"? Certainly, holding down and having sex with a unwilling/crying/protesting/struggling/distressed person for 45 minutes or more legally constitutes some sort of crime. If not, it most certainly should. What kind of personality would do such a thing to an acquaintance/friend/spouse/etc?

The latest now sounds like "whistle blowing" gone seriously wrong. Sound like anarchy and terrorism.

Wikileaks violated PayPal policy, so PayPal dumps Wikileaks

It is my understanding that, even ignoring the condom issue (no pun intended), if the woman keeps saying "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, ..." and uses other words/means of assenting throughout the sex act but, when the man is on the verge of orgasming/ejaculating, she suddenly says "NO!", it is rape if he does not withdraw immediately and without orgasming/ejaculating inside her. Basically, whenever she withdraws her consent, he must also withdraw.

I am sorry ewmon, but I don't know what to make of this example either, can you please explain whats new with it? Because both your intentions and my explanations has already been covered from post #21. Okay, here's one part of your post #21 that mentions outflow (and the only other instance is similar to this one) --- You mention "outflow" and "current flow", so do you mean that outflow is current? So, people should use a current setting on their multimeters to measure outflow? Is this correct? It seems that the answer can be a simple "Yes" or "No". I think this will settle it. Thanks.

So, here's a very simple example: 1. What multimeter setting does Spyman use to check the outflow of his batteries?

flame vt. to criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium. No, I did not flame, I do not flame, and I will not flame. Alternative terminology can create an intellectual barrier between the few people who might use it and the rest of the world. Here's a few examples: 1. Anilkumar wants to check the outflow of his battery. What setting does he use on his multimeter? 2. Anilkumar goes to the store, shows the clerk his batteries and tells him that he thinks that he has the wrong batteries for his new short-wave radio and that he wants ones with more outflow. What change in battery characteristics should the clerk recommend? 3. Anilkumar is in electronics class, and his teacher asks a question about a problem in their textbook. Anilkumar answers it by saying that there seems to be an outflow imbalance in the circuit. His teacher asks him to explain. What does Anilkumar tell the teacher?

If anyone else here knows what the word "outflow" means, please define so the people who are learning electricity can relate it to the technical terminology that they find on the internet and in books.

Blopa, thanks for stepping up and asking an important question about mathematics. So you can recognize the summation notation as its inventor intended, take a look at the capital sigma, Σ. People may not recognize it as a capitol "S", but it is. It's an angular capital "S" with a "foot" (perhaps it was originally a fancy 'finishing stroke'). Remove the "foot" from the Σ, and you can see the angular "S". This capital Greek "S" is used to represent "summation". The integral symbol (also called the "long s" by linguists), ∫, is an "S" that also stands for "summation", but in a different way (perhaps best addressed here in a future thread).

The human body manufactures NO, so it's technically not an essential nutrient. It's reactive and also toxic in large amounts, so I don't know that "more" is really "better". I say: Maintain an well-rounded diet, and let the human body take care of itself.

To begin with, please define your word "outflow"? Regardless, batteries generally do not maintain any voltage. The diagram below shows the discharge characteristics of a "1.5-volt" Duracell® AA alkaline under various loads. Voltage drops with use, regardless of whether it's light or heavy. Look at the discharge curve for a battery, and you will see that the voltage almost always drops with usage. Most batteries have a nominal rating that's basically a "pre-use" rating. Once it undergoes any significant use, the voltage drops to another voltage. Furthermore, most/all batteries operate for most of their operational life at much less than their "rated voltage", so talk about maintaining the rated voltage means nothing. For example, typical store-bought 1.5-volt batteries (regardless of whether they're regular, heavy duty, alkaline, rechargeable, etc or whether they're size D, C, A, AA, AAA, etc) will operate for most of their usable life at about 1.2 volts, not the "rated" 1.5 volts. Manufacturers of equipment know this, and they make sure their equipment can operate accordingly. Lastly, a nearly depleted battery never regains it's rated voltage regardless of the load. In other words, usage draws down a battery pretty much permanently, so even when disconnected from the drain of a heavy load, the battery still cannot produce the "rated" voltage. This is why, when you use a voltmeter with a 10 megohm input impedance to measure the voltage of an almost drained battery, it reads something like 0.893 volts, and not the "rated" 1.500 volts. Here's a good read.

Regarding only pregnant women who drink: Studied have shown again and again that no amount of alcohol is safe for pregnant women to drink, yet some of them obviously continue to do so. The admonition that "it's not good for the baby" or that "it's hurts the baby" are euphemisms for congenital and permanent brain damage. Many FASD patients end up institutionalized at some point in their life, including a 60% chance of incarceration. The "costs" of FASD include medical and counseling fees, institutionalization costs, and loss of wages, etc in addition to disability payments and government support.

Here's a suggestion. More and more, doctors use high tech equipment/techniques in their work (unless you really enjoy saying "Stick out your tongue and say 'Ah'" and "Turn your head and cough"). So some doctors-to-be earn an engineering degree as their pre-med. For you to do so would give you a good taste of engineering. If it really grabs you, then stick with it. Otherwise, you could switch over into medicine. Besides, combining degrees like this can put you a specialty category (and perhaps higher pay). For example learning more than one language and a business or law degree can get you into international business or law. So, engineering and medicine can put you into medical research, biomedical, high-tech prosthetics, etc.

Spyman, your language skills are seriously getting in the way of describing the reality of electricity. I've studied and/or worked with electricity for decades, and you are not describing electricity properly or clearly. You repeatedly use the word "outflow", which I have never seen or heard used before. You still describe causes and effects improperly. For example, the statement below has very little scientific meaning. Any load that doesn't undergo a catastrophic failure is "able to consume" more of what you strangely call "outflow". It seems that your source of information is not scientific.

This exposé causes distrust both within our diplomatic corps and between our diplomats and the rest of the world. It severely curtails the freedom of speech for our diplomats and for those who deal with them. Someone remind me why treason in time of war apparently is not punishable by the death penalty? And someone explain how a 22-year-old PFC was given the power to partially dismantle our defense and diplomatic system? And why isn't Assange a terrorist who deserves to be sitting in Gitmo or some torture chamber somewhere?

To avoid controversy regarding scientific ideas, mostly for patents (but also for copyrights), you'll want to document it properly. This means recording with indelible ink in a permanently bound notebook, signing/dating each page etc, and having someone knowledgeable on the subject to read and witness your work -- that is, also sign/date each page as a witness, etc. Your classmate or professor or boss might be a good witness, but your mom or the guy next door might not (unless they're knowledgeable on the subject). You lose all patent rights if you make public (give a lecture, talk, publish the intellectual property, or display/sell/give away the product, etc) your intellectual property without first obtaining a patent. Publishing on your own with a copyright notice does offer some copyright protection (about you knowing/discovering something at a particular time), but it would be best to file for an official copyright, or let a publisher do it.