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No way. You're about a hundred years older than me.
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1st NIAGARA Scout Troop, JC ? Were you living in the Niagara region in 1970 ? I would have been in Gr.7 and attending St Alfred's Catholic School in St Catharines. Ahh, the 70s !
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This is a science forum. NOT a numerology forum.
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Woman loses tribunal over transgender tweets (and defended by JK Rowling)
MigL replied to StringJunky's topic in Ethics
I fully understand that complying with someone's wishes may improve the quality of their lives. And in some extreme cases, may keep them from ending that life. I'm not going to callously suggest that we don't show common curtesy/compassion for our fellow humans. As I said, if a little thing on my part can make someone else's life more bearable, I don't have a problem with it at all. I don't say that all cases are due to 'mental conditions', but I would venture that at least some are, and sometimes a person's mental condition can lead them to believe things that are not good for them. I have similar issues with 'homelessness'. Shelter is provided for them by society, but some refuse to use them as they believe it takes away their independence. On a night like last night, when it got down to -15 deg, I'm torn on whether they have a right to independence, or if we, as a society should violate that right, and bring them indoors. Sometimes it is eye-opening to consider the 'other side'. ( and makes for a lively discussion ) -
Woman loses tribunal over transgender tweets (and defended by JK Rowling)
MigL replied to StringJunky's topic in Ethics
Just to consider the opposing view, because being blindered is never a good thing. ( and also, then there is no discussion ) When does the 'spectrum' stop being a real thing and become someone's mental creation. Or to use Swansont's analogy, if we can say that the spectrum of concepts for gravity is not only Newtonian, but encompasses GR, does that mean SString theory is also part of the actual spectrum ? Or is it simply a mental creation, waiting for experimental/observational confirmation ( if it ever comes ) ? Edit: Not that it makes any difference to me what others do to feel fulfilled in life, but as a 'scientist', I abhor the idea that if something subjectively 'feels' right, it must be right. IE if I feel like a he/she/it/whatever then that IS what I am. -
Very well, back on topic. It seems the wheels are starting to come off the cart for D Trump. Some of his most ardent supporters, that fringe sect of Christianity, the Evangelicals, are now calling for his removal from office. https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/trump-should-be-removed-from-office.html I haven't the stomach to read the whole thing, mostly going by the title, so I may be jumping to wrong conclusions. But if Republican supporters are starting to distance themselves from D Trump, how soon before Republican Senators ( worried about re-election ) do the same ?
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Just to be a thorn in your side, John ... Personal Income tax was introduced in Canada in the year 1917. IIRC our Prime Minister from 1911 to 1920 was Sir R Borden, who was a Conservative until the election of 1917, and subsequently a Unionist ( I seem to remember from High School history class ). He not only introduced your criteria for liberalism, but also suffrage for women, in 1918.
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Oooops. Maybe I misunderstood Phi ?
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There is no absolute yardstick for determining where you are on the political spectrum, Phi. Using YJ's analogy, A Gore might be on the left of B Sanders if we use the Climate change yardstick. If we use the Education yardstick B Sanders might be on the left of A Gore. I myself, used the gun owner yardstick to place Zapatos to the right of JCMacSwell. So I would argue it is subjective, as it depends on which metric you decide to use for making the left/right determination. ( if it wasn't there would be no need for the thread Zap opened ,'Attributes along the Political Spectrum' )
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I wouldn't think these receptor genotypes change with age, yet, if you go by percentages as in your quote from the link, there is a very strong correlation between age and political inclination. A larger percentage of young people are progressive or even socialist, while a large percentage of the elderly are conservative. I usually take any 'social' studies with a grain of salt. It's virtually impossible to isolate any/all extraneous variables, so at best, you gain insight into a correlation, not a cause.
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Let's keep Zap's wise words regarding YJ02 in mind guys, before neg repping him to death, and forcing a new member to quit. Diversity of opinion, and discussion of those opinions, makes us stronger. There won't be much discussion here if it's an echo chamber where everyone left thinks the same. I am a strong advocate of the 'carrot' approach, show him where, and if, he's going wrong in his thinking. Not so much of the 'stick approach, where you disparage and neg-rep him.
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Yes they do, Zap. But I don't have an FAC and other requirements ( Canadian law ) to bring it to Canada. And I've fired my friend's S&W .357 magnum, JC. ( shortly after saying "Go ahead; Make my day." )
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Tell us about your cat, or cats, Ella...
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Had a 'prohibited' semi-automatic handgun for a while. Found it after my dad passed away; I have no idea how he managed to bring it on the plane from Italy in 1968. Took me a year and a half to get the police to come take it away. Still own a side by side Beretta shotgun in Italy that belonged to my grandfather and the municipal government took for safe-keeping when he passed. ( I remember shooting that when I was 5 yrs old ) And a good friend of mine, Peter, is an instructor at a nearby gun club, which I've visited. But no, have no need for, and don't like guns. ( especially in the hands of other people )
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That would be correct. As the J A Wheeler saying goes ( paraphrasing ) "Mass/energy tells space-time how to curve, and curved space-time tells mass/energy how to move" IOW the distribution of mass/energy ( and associated momentum ) is an indicator of the gravitational field.
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What if you like both wine and whiskey. And beer too ! And I like my comfort foods, like breads, pasta, chicken and potatoes, and other traditional Italian foods, but I've also tried ( and sometimes hated ) frog legs, snails, squid, cookies with grasshoppers, and all things you can get on a stick in Shanghai. What does that make me, other than drunk and confused ?
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The gravitational field IS the space-time geometry. The geometry is everywhere; so is the gravitational field. As space expands, it carries its geometry ( and gravitational field ) with it. All infinite fields can be said to be one field of infinite extent ( as per quantum field theory ), with the associated quantum particles being 'real' if they exceed a certain threshold of action ( energy ).
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That 'cell phone' is actually a defibrillator. I have a friend who had a quadruple bypass at age 52. Some parts of his heart are damaged, and have not recuperated, so on occasions when his heartbeat becomes irregular, the defibrillator gives it a jolt to reset his heart. It also stores/transmits this information to your doctor so he/she can decide if medical intervention is necessary. If not needed, and you never have episodes where a defibrillation is necessary, they can be removed. Go with your doctor on this. For your own health and safety.
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Sorry, the EF. What usually happens is that the blood vessels supplying the heart get blocked. This leads to the heart having to work harder with a more limited supply of blood. And this can lead to heart attacks and/or reduced heart function. The reduced heart function would show up as lower EF. If the heart has been damaged, this reduced function could be permanent, IE sections of the heart are 'dead' and can't function properly anymore. The stents will not improve EF, but will keep it from getting worse. Your symptoms were probably shortness of breath because of fluid build-up in the lungs, chest pains, and if really bad blockage, numbness and cold sweat, IE you're having a heart attack ! I'm sure you talked to a specialist before the procedure was performed. Make a follow up appointment; he/she is the one you should be consulting with.
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As has been mentioned, we really have no models for the era prior to Electroweak dissociation. If I had to hazard a 'guess', I would think that gravity was the first to split off from the grand unified force, and became evident as soon as geometry was possible. The geometry is the field, so as soon as the 'quantum foam' coalesced into a recognizable space-time geometry the field would have been there also, and likewise gravity. It did not expand from an origin as you seem to imply, and was solely due to the high energy density of the existing fields ( even gravity itself ), as there was no 'mass' until post Electroweak dissociation.
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I have two cats myself. Love them to death. They are both female and their names are BB and DD. They can be real funny and sometimes weird. Sometimes when I visit the Toronto Zoo in the summer, the mannerisms of the lions, tigers, jaguars and other large cats reminds me of my little ones.
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They don't usually put stents on the major arteries coming out of the Lventricle as they are more prone to aneurysms than blockages. They usually put stents in the much smaller arteries supplying the heart itself with blood. That is the case for everyone I know that's had stents put in; so I don't see what EV has to do with it. Your heart specialist is the best person to have this conversation with
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If Flamingo is interested he can have my grounded wrist strap for working on computer equipment, that I haven't used since the 80s. These days, even though features on ICs are hundreds of times smaller, I simply touch the faucet ( older house, all copper piping ) to 'discharge' before handling CPUs or RAM. Haven't 'killed' any equipment yet. Sometimes if I'm feeling lucky, I'll just leave the computer plugged in ( but off ) and touch bare metal before handling components. You can never trust cheap switching power supplies, though.
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Not necessarily that small, John. I remember in 3rd year Uni, sending a piece of metal ( for the life of me, I don't recall what it was ) to a nearby reactor, to sit in the core and be irradiated for about a week. When it came back, we took radiation readings of the shielded sample through a collimator shield to determine half-life, and other properties of the NA product. This was a piece of heavy metal, and it emitted copious amounts of radiation for several weeks, but I think even air and water are capable of neutron activation. I would imagine that when they decommission a reactor core, it isn't just the fuel rods that are radioactive waste, but also quite a bit of the process and support structure.