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That would be 10% of the WORKING population that stop working, Bender. There is a large percentage of the TOTAL population that are retired, or cannot work for health/family reasons. And that percentage increases in developed countries. These people still deserve a BUI. So its not a simple problem of 90% supporting !0%. It can be as problematical as 30% supporting 70%. Governments are having a hard enough time meeting their pension obligations to retirees. I can just imagine how badly they'd bungle BUI.

Or to put it another way... If it wasn't, who'd be there to notice.

Beliefs that have a strong basis/evidence are facts, Phi. By their very definition, beliefs are not factual.. I tend to agree with OldChemE. Religion is like playing the lottery. Hope against insurmountable odds. You don't buy lottery tickets, you buy hope.

Respect to Japan for playing a well balanced game. They defended well, and took the game to the Belgians offensively. I would have loved them to have proven my predictions wrong by winning. Belgium, one of the favorites, didn't impress by coming back to win in the last seconds. For a team whose offense is comprised of superstars from the Premier league ( Man City, Man U and Chelsea ), they should never have been down by two goals to begin with. They left their back door open defensively. And if Japan can do that to them, what will Brazil do to them next game ? If I was a betting man I would have bet France, right from the beginning. Would really like to see an English miracle though. After 52 yrs they've had a longer dry spell than the Toronto Maple leafs hockey team.

Shootouts after extra time are just some or the rules. Matches have also been decided by 'fair play' ( see Japan advance over Senegal ) And if all else fails, the dreaded coin toss can decide a game. Still can't believe the Russians advanced over Spain. The Spanish 'tic-tac' style of football needs to involve more shots on net. Russia was the only team to score any goals in regulation time. They even scored Spain's only goal, despite Spain having most possession. ( maybe Vladimir made a large payment to the crooks running FIFA )

Glad to see Argentina and Portugal leave the tournament to France and Uruguay. I predict Russia and Denmark will leave tomorrow, courtesy of Spain and Croatia. And Mexico and Japan will be undone by Brazil and Belgium on Monday. On Tuesday, I think Sweden will be bested by the Swiss, but England could have a tough time with Colombia. Really hot today. Opened the back windows of my vehicle to exchange the air when the AC came on, on my way to work this morning, and lost my White with red cross, English flag on the highway. will have to pick up another before Tuesday.

Like the taxation/welfare system,, it basically re-distributes wealth to those in need. there are many ways to implement it, and many ways to fund it. IOW the devil is in the details. And without those details, its very hard to make arguments for or against. Have any countries actually implemented a workable BUI system? I know quite a few have considered/studied a BUI system.

You don't seem to understand the concept of significant digits in a calculation. As for infinities cropping up in the calculation of the charge of an electron when its radius is zero, that is correct. I suggest you look up renormalization; another concept you seem unfamiliar with, but otherwise essential to QED and QCD.

All of our theories run into problems if fundamental particles are allowed to have a volume. They are treated as 'point' particles. I.E. no radius > no volume.

Hated seeing Nigeria leave the tournament after that lucky, half-hearted attempt by Argentina. Should have gone the other way. I'm reminded of a quote by Michael Jordan... " Some athletes want great things to happen, and, some athletes wish for great things to happen. Great athletes make great things happen." As much as I detest C Ronaldo's smugness, it is by his determination that Portugal is playing as well as they are. L Messi, on the other hand, seems disinterested in the tournament. Hope France puts an end to his misery.

The basic premise upon which you base your whole argument is flawed. Elementary particles cannot be spheres. That implies they have a volume, and so, cannot be elementary or fundamental, because they can then be subdivided. What exactly is half an electron ? Or a quarter photon ? And what does that imply for charge/energy quantization ? The foundation of your argument is wrong; that makes the rest of it gibberish. ( especially the part about accuracy and significant digits )

Used to love the old Equalizer TV series with an aged E Woodward helping out people in trouble. Kind of what J Bond would be doing once he 'retired'. Unfortunately the Equalizer movie reboot with D Washington, while excellent, changed the back story and got rid of the British accent.

I wonder which came first... Did the opiate addicts vote in D Trump, or, did the D Trump voters become opiate addicts once they realized what they've done.

Definitely S Connery. Its no coincidence Swansont picked him for his avatar. Only good thing about G Lazenby was the fact that D Rigg was the co-star. ( fell in love with her while she was Emma Peel on the Avengers ) R Moore was a good Saint but a joke as Bond. Much too 'cheesy'. T Dalton wasn't bad, but I expect Bond to be larger than life. I actually liked the P Brosnan films, but you're right about the last one. Don't really mind D Craig, although the plotlines seem a little convoluted. Would have loved for the old man taking care of Bond's ancestral home in Skyfall to have been played by S Connery, but he was already retired, and the 'differences' between him and the Broccolis are too deep to cross. Wonder who will play Bond next.

Any large scale modified gravity ( TeVeS is a re-worked MOND ) has mostly been put to rest by the recent Gravitational wave detections. GR is a geometric model, and as such, can only be quantized by quantizing space-time, as LQG attempts. That doesn't mean that a return to a field model will forever resist quantization, or that an entirely new approach, such as M-theory won't yield the desired results. The only requirement is that each model reduces to the others ( gives equivalent results ) at the appropriate boundaries.

Here, have a look at this discussion... https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/31613/why-are-contra-rotating-jet-engines-so-rare

Why watch it if it upsets you. As Ten oz has suggested, there are many other sources of less biased news ( none are unbiased ).

The hard-working ( and lucky ) Icelanders came up against a team that works even harder, and are leaving the tournament. Nigeria looks set to go through, as I don't think Argentina can pull off a decisive win. England ( my favorite as Italy didn't qualify ) shouldn't have a problem with Panama ( but you never know ). The first test of their mettle will come against Belgium.

Call me old fashioned but, although I have ordered things from Amazon ( mostly the British, French, Russian and American Secret bombers/fighter Projects book series ), ALIExpress and eBay ( mostly watches for my collection ), I prefer to 'feel' the heft of things I am about to lay down hard-earned cash for.

The world would be a boring place if everyone thought the same.

Quantum theory is a paradigm ( the foundation of how we think about things ) shift in the way we view reality. At very small scales, classical physics ceases to make sense, and the only way we can force it to make sense, and agree with observation, is by treating events as probability distributions. I get the impression you're young student. Anything we tell you will presently sound like gibberish. But if you stay interested eventually you'll learn the math to make sense of it, and one day, far in your future, and probably long after you've forgotten the math, you'll say "Ah-Ha, now it all makes sense. ( Oh wait, that's me )

Energy is also a property and information. So are the winning lottery numbers. And if you know them before they're actually drawn, you are breaking causality. ( time travel also implies causality breaks, But GR, being strictly classical, does not forbid it )

And how would you ensure that, since the rotation of the gas flow through the compressor changes with different compressor speed and output power ? You can't have variable pitch fan blades, so your only option is to ensure straight flow at all times.

Information is any property of a system, say momentum, for example. If I can transfer the momentum of photons to a solar sail faster than the photons can get to the sail, then it will move without cause, so breaking causality. Is that simple enough ?

Agreed on the gyroscopic effects ( only valid for a hovering aircraft ), but the attitude of the gas flow entering the next stage has to be straight, otherwise the compressor blades lose effectiveness. Most older, straight turbojets use variable pitch guide vanes/stators on the first few compressor stages ( see GE J-85 and J-79 ). Low pressure fans on turbofan engines are driven by a separate shaft/spool such that most engines are two shaft/spool designs. Only RR has ever gone to three shaft/spool designs, and they've mostly given up on more than two. Last engines to use tree shafts/spools were the 70s vintage RB 199 ( multinational ) and RB 211 ( commercial ). Complexity ( and part count ) also grow with number of bearings since at least two are needed for each shaft. Specific fuel consumption and thrust are more important than part count these days. The most advanced military engines employ variable cycle/ bypass to optimize thrust/SFC at all speeds to supersonic, while the most advanced civil engines use geared fans to optimize the same at typical ( subsonic ) cruise.