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They already have floss 'bows' where the floss is stretched between two prongs for ease of handling. Your wiper blades would last about 2 weeks before they were all chewed up with such a system. All gas stations have squeegees for cleaning your windshield of bird droppings, Or wash your vehicle. Or use Windex. IIRC the Mazda 929 had a solar powered fan which would circulate cool trunk air into the passenger compartment thereby cooling it somewhat. Any A/C system which relied on compressing gases would require a lot more power, and possibly a whole roof solar panel. Don't give up, but you can't run anywhere with these.

Assuming Bill Maher is a good source, and there is such a study, we are left with the possibility that people touch each other, and infect things, indoors a lot more than they do outdoors. I also assume that they cough evenly, whether indoors or outdoors, but most Chinese wear mask outdoors, which 'contain' most of the cough droplets and retard spread. So yes, I can 'see' that statistic being factual. But you still haven't made the case that removing/replacing air quickly enough will prevent spread; and without either causing a 'wind tunnel' or extremely high costs which will make most businesses unworkable. PS: As Swansont keeps trying to point out to you, removing/replacing air is not the same as removing variable size droplets.

Ha-Ha. This wasn't a bakery, grocery store or hotel. They broke into and looted a Louis Vitton store. Did they really need a $3000 purse to survive ??? edit : x-posted with Janus

No wonder protesters get a bad name. Just like cops, a few bad ones tarnish the whole group. PORTLAND PROTESTERS LOOT LOUIS VITTON STORE https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1266634813152378887 so would you also say that if protesters want to be able to protest freely, they have to abide by the same rules and 'police' themselves internally also ,to avoid incidents like the above, with zero tolerance.

I don't think I made myself very clear when I introduced the idea of 'randomness' as a metric for free will. Assume I am observing Eise, and I have a 'super duper' brain scanner that can analyze his brain at the sub-molecular level, plus an environmental scanner that analyzes external conditions. When Eise makes a choice, I can analyze how that choice was made. It was determined ( deterministic ? ) by the sum/interplay of all internal ( brain scan ) and external ( environment scan ) forcings that caused that particular choice. IOW that choice was not 'free' at all, but was 'forced' on Eise. Given the exact same forcings ( which may not be a possibility because of QM ) Eise will make the exact same choice every time ( that is my definition of determinism ), although he 'thinks' he could have chosen differently. The only way I can be certain that Eise made a choice without causal influence by the internal and external forcings, is if I cannot tie that particular choice back to those particular forcings. IOW the choice cannot be distinguished from a random choice independent of the forcings. This randomness, I usually chose to associate with Quantum effects, but it could be an emergent property of system complexity. The difference is that Quantum effects are fundamental ( that is why I choose that option ) while emergent property of complexity simply means we don't understand it well enough yet, and is equivalent to simply 'kicking the can' of free will down the road.

From your link, and its charts, it looks like your police forces are out of control, INow. They are shooting everybody ! I still maintain that this occurs because of your 2nd amendment, and the fact that police are trained to disable a perp, in case he is armed. Our Canadian police forces are trained to de-escalate situations. If they even pull their gun, never mind use it, they have two weeks of paperwork to fill out. Get rid of the guns, and you won't only stop the mass shootings ( although we just had another one recently ), but police may actually talk to people to resolve situations. The Police Killings by Ethnicity chart almost makes me afraid to visit the US. ( that is, if I could during a pandemic )

Yeah. I think most people knew 13 years ago. But thanks for reminding us that 'resurrection' is real .

That's the attitude you develop when the only rights that matter are your own, INow. ( everyone else's rights be damned ) I hope none of you guys live near city centers and are safe from the violence.

I am torn as well. While I see the value of protest as a voice to people for the enactment of change, most of the time violence/destruction/looting are counterproductive. Although there have been a few good examples of protests where the police has marched with protesters, taken a knee, or even read names of past police killings. Even the 'chanting' of lines like "I can't breathe", "Black lives matter", etc. are counterproductive. While I agree America needs to have a long hard discussion about these matters, these 'slogans' seem to just drown out the discussion, and more like temper tantrums of little kids. They remind me of the sheep in G Orwell's Animal Farm, drowning out the other animals' complaints about the pigs in charge. Protesters should be speaking with one unified voice and be inclusive. ( and there's no better example of well-reasoned discussion than this forum )

He should get life in prison for breach of contract ?? Not for murdering a person, with video evidence ??

I know of aftermarket SS mufflers, such as Magnaflow, Walker, Flowmaster, etc., but don't know which manufacturers spec SS, OEM muffler.

Next to a large deep gravitational well, such as a Black Hole, expansion and Dark energy would be insignificant. We only note their effects where gravity is so weak that expansion/Dark energy exceeds the 'threshold' and its effects become apparent. ( we don't see expansion at solar system, galactic or even galactic cluster levels ) This is in the order of 100s of Megaparsec separation.

I always thought that mastodon were too large to be taken down individually; especially large dominant males. The depictions I've always seen involve scaring the herd, and stampeding them off cliffs, so they can be killed when injured from the fall. And now we're really off topic. ( are you trying to get me in trouble with the Mods ? I was only joking about the vacation photo ... )

We seem to do this every time... The OP is about climate scientists and the use of the word 'alarmist'. But because a lot of people are extremely passionate ( some may even be 'virtue signaling' ) about the subject, all it takes is one person to question AGW, and all of a sudden, it becomes a thread about whether AGW is factual. It then becomes the same 'It's duck season. No, it's rabbit season" back and forth argument that we've had dozens of times before. Some people's minds cannot be changed, no matter how much evidence is presented to the contrary. And the thread is way off topic. And then Dimreepr posts his vacation photo... .

Maybe there was a history between D Chauvin and G Floyd. I read last night, that the two knew each other, having worked security together, in the past. D Trump may reconsider his Tweets now that protests/riots have spread to the capital. Apparently the White House went in lockdown last night. It doesn't look like the charges laid against D Chauvin have calmed the protests/riots very much.

Neither one of the entangled particles has a defined state, before the measurement is made, so why would any communication have to propagate backwards in time ?

I know Joigus and Eise said they didn't care to introduce Quantum Uncertainty into the discussion, but that could be the randomizing element for both natural and artificial intelligence.

A Touring was more involved with theoretical computing, rather than practical applications. Hey, maybe every new member should have to pass a Touring Test, to ensure they are not 'bots.

You sure the Captain isn't just lying about his age ? I tell people I'm 35 years old, all the time.

Uh-Oh... Rise of Planet of the Apes ! "Monkeys 'escape with coronavirus samples' after attacking lab assistant" from https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/monkeys-escape-with-coronavirus-samples-after-attacking-lab-assistant/ar-BB14LeVG?ocid=msedgntp

Nope. But they do have momentum.

With any luck the officer will get convicted of premeditated murder, One thing I would add... In most other parts of the world, the police are trained to de-escalate the situation, and deal with it with minimal, or no force. In the US, because of that damned second amendment right to bear arms, the police are trained to take all offenders, no matter the crime, down with extreme prejudice. I remember a NY state trooper drawing a gun on me at 4:00am, 35 years ago, coming home on the highway from a bar. America's love affair with firearms seems to be related to a lot of problems in American society.

That simplistic analysis is for the case where the WHOLE floor is the inlet, and the WHOLE ceiling is the exhaust. In any real world situation where the inlet and exhaust vents are fractions of the area, Mr. Bernoulli dictates speed and pressure changes. I don't know how this idea deserves three pages of deliberation, but Swansont is right; your 'hand-waving' arguments aren't convincing anyone of its merits.

Would intelligence, natural or artificial, be said to have 'free will', if its decisions were indistinguishable from random choices ? IOW, the choices/decisions could not be tied back to some fundamental programming, or configuration of networks/connections. ( this, of course, implies a high level of complexity ) This brings us to the question of AI having 'free will'. And if that is a possibility, then even Asimov's 'laws of robotics' won't save us when AI starts acting in its best interests, and overthrows humans.

Wasn't meant as proof of relation to AGW. It was meant to show that adaptation/evolution is a slow arduous process, that, quite often fails, and leads to extinction. Again, to emphasize the difficulty of adapting to rapid change, a lot of dinosaur species could not adapt, and died off, but not all did. A lot of small mammals/marsupial did survive. Along with a whole bunch of small dinosaurs, that you can probably hear 'chirping' and flying outside your window.