John Cuthber

The thing you have missed is that "1 & 0" isn't a third value, it's a superposition of 0 and 1 at the same time.

Yes, I know somewhere. The lab I work in. But, as I understand it, you are about a hundredfold short on the budget. Simple question, if you really want to find out what's going on, why not use a camera?

" I average around 800 Calories a day" I doubt that.

Not with your budget, you need to put another couple of zeros on the price tag. The police can do it because they know (as I said, from experience) what to look for. Trying to do it "blind" is (as I said) essentially impossible. Having said that, the "Nanny cam" is about a billion times better advice. It will prove that it's a particular individual interfering with your milk. No amount of chemistry will do that. It will provide the evidence that the police would need to take the issue further. Simple question, if you really want to find out what's going on, why not use a camera?

G W Bush attacked Iraq because (1) His daddy had done it and (2) it had massive oil reserves. All the so called "justification" in terms of wmd was nonsense.

I see your definition of misery seems to be not having a car with a 7 litre engine. I don't have a car; how miserable should I bee about not paying for one, fuelling it, taxing it, insuring it etc? Obviously, it's a handy thing to have sometimes- that's what taxis are for. My house hasn't got storage heaters, btw. I also dispute the idea that all Americans are "culturally educated" at all. I cite Arnie as Governor as evidence. Also the fact that this is a joke http://xkcd.com/850/ indicates that there's something missing in the cultural education of many Americans.

"Yes, eventually. I suppose it would stop pretty short of 100km (definition for space), but thats an incredible distance isn't it? Thats high enough to make a difference." Not really, no. To lift something into space you are doing work against gravity. At the surface of the earth you are already something like 6400 Km above the centre of the centre of the earth. Moving another 30 Km up won't really help much in terms of the energy needed to get into real space. It's not usually enough to get to 100Km, you have to stay there for a while. If you get to 6400Km above the earth there's still a quarter of normal gravity pulling you back. A balloon might help a bit, but you would still need a rocket anyway.

Do identical twins have identical writing? Somehow I doubt it. Also, my handwriting looks very little like anyone else's in my family.

"No, it was just an extension of the observation that nothing could ever seem to motivate most people to get around in vehicles smaller than 2000lbs or live, work, and go out in public in buildings that are not climate controlled" You seem to have forgotten to add the word "American" to that (just before the word people). For the other 95% of the world's population, things are different.

A couple of points. If you ask about this in two different threads the answers will all get muddled. Also the budget you mention in the other thread (£100) won't really get you anywhere. If you really believe that you are being poisoned then go to the police. What you are asking for is essentially impossible unless you know what to look for. The police forensic labs have the experience.

Hyperinflation only occurs under very unusual circumstances and those are not in place. The introduction of a carbon tax wouldn't change that. So the simple answer to the question in this thread's title is "no". How can I be so sure? Simple; there already is a carbon tax on a lot of fuel; it's the tax / duty paid on vehicle fuel. We have a carbon tax, we don't have hyperinflation so carbon tax doesn't cause hyperinflation. That fairly obvious fact leads me to wonder why the question got asked in the first place. Was it some sort of scaremongering or what?

WTF? "I was surprised at the predominance of Anglo-Saxon names" "Is that because so many soldiers are Blacks?" One thing about Anglo Saxons seems to have slipped your notice; they are not black. Surely a predominance of Anglo Saxon names (whatever that might mean) indicates that they are mainly of Anglo Saxon descent. A better way of assessing the number of black soldiers might possibly be to look at the pictures. There are about 10 black faces among about 50.

You can only produce hyperinflation by printing more money or something else that dramatically reduces the value of each pound or dollar. Carbon taxation doesn't do that. The idea that the people would buy fewer widgets is offset by the fact that the government could reduce other taxes and maintain the same budget. So the people who are paying less tax would have more money and could buy just as many widgets as before, even though the widgets cost more. There would need to be a bunch of tax collectors but they would get paid (presumably more than their previous jobs or they wouldn't change career) and they could buy more widgets too. The demand for widgets wouldn't be greatly affected. After a short while the manufacturers would invest in low-carbon ways to make widgets an they price would drop again. Tax revenue would fall so other taxes would need to rise to balance the budget. There would be less cash in people's pockets and they would only be able to buy as many widgets as they had in the first place.

I guess it depends on your definition of "computer" but this will do binary addition for you and it's just a combination of logic gates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adder_(electronics) you can replace the logic gates with a pencil and paper if you like. It will, of course, give the same answer as TonyMcC's method.

"they fed one hundred men twelve pints of beer " By my maths that's roughly two or three ounces each so I guess they must have been American men.

What is the opposite of Thursday? What is the opposite of wall? Why do you suppose that love has an opposite?

Now that's not fair (on the demons).

A biochemist walks into a bar and asks the barman for a pint of adenosine triphosphat. "Certainly" says the barman, "That will be eighty p"

Do you know what Kw means? When you add OH- ions to water what happens to the H+ ions?

"Why do so many atheists believe in the existence of extra-terrestrial life despite the fact that it's not scientifically proven?" Because life is a lot less complicated than a "God that can create life". More complicated things are less likely to happen.

You could buy a lot of spray paint for the cost of getting a sample analysed. What are you actually trying to do?

As far as I can see the issue starts here "If Helium atoms are normally about 1 A across" They are not. They don't have edges so their size is not defined. There's a small, but non-zero, probability of finding the electron a mile away from the nucleus.

"The evolutionary step that created humans was the ability to store emotional information in their memories." Not judging by the way a dog greets it's owner. "The main evolutionary drive is logic. " Not for any conventional interpretation of those words. The big evolutionary drive is death. If you get to avoid it for long enough to reproduce then you get the prize. There's no requirement for logic which is just as well since I don't see bacteria consulting truth tables. "It is logic that a stronger predator has advantage over a less strong" Humans are not very strong, but they have wiped out plenty of big fierce predators. " a faster herd animal will logically survive one that is slower." I'm prepared to bet that cattle outnumber gazelles in the world. "Every creature on the planet takes sensory information and "decides" the appropriate action warranted from that collected data." Nope, sometimes they make mistakes. People, for example, sometimes decide (without needing the quote marks) to eat things that are poisonous and die. Sorry, but I am now bored of this thread. I suspect I could go on pointing out more errors but there doesn't seem much point.

An answer to the question that forms the title of this thread is that not believing avoids having to pay attention to people like this.

Why is anyone advocating something which is well documented as not working? If, rather than torturing people, the army were to cast runes they would get equally reliable information. It would be cheaper, easier, more humane (to both sides) and legal.