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There's nothing new under the sun. All the good narratives and allegory were already written down thousands of years ago. The allegory of the cave probably covers most allegories of perception in literature. Certainly Cervantes reveals his allegories in a different, more subtle, manner. But I don't see anything more there than what Plato was able to allude to. Really, if you read alot, it seems that the only interesting thing is seeing how new language and forms of writing interact with old stories and allegory. If you don't read much, then it's all new to you and you get that sense of a ride through the narrative, or the revelation of allegory, whatever you read.

Carbon monoxide is a poison, poison is a fairly broadly defined term and CO definitely fits in it. CO binds very strongly to transition metals to form complexes. By doing so it makes certain enzymes where the transition metal is the active site inactive, since they are now bound to the Co rather doing what they normally do. This includes things like heme, which transports oxygen around the body. The effect is independent of H-bonding. It would also occur at reasonably low concentrations, not like the effect on H like you present (due to the amount of buffering of bicarb in cells).

Explain carbon monoxide poisoning.

I believe fingers produce a fair amount of oil, but it is removed by the general wear that fingers get involved in (your keyboard is probably an example). Ears produce more waxes and greases (higher mw, lower mp) than oils, but they produce lots of the stuff.

Oils are protective excretions, the nose is exposed. Boom.

This seems like the sort of thing that should be in the homework section. But oh well, external calibration and standard addition (a type of internal calibration) are both ways of calibrating an instrument against known concentrations of a substance to measure an unknown concentration of the substance in a sample. External calibration is where you do the calibration seperately, internal calibration is where you chuck the known in with the sample.

Robert Mugabe had an honorary degree from Edinburgh University revoked recently. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1896047.ece

Syncytium. Synergists.

Well, not exactly... They are being produced now because they already have orders. In fact, the situation is sort of the opposite, the armed services can't get vehicles through the testing and evaluation process fast enough. They already have buckets of money from Congress from previous years, and Congress is likely to give them more. The Marines have already ordered a thousand vehicles from one company and have another 8 companies vehicles in evaluation. It's a very busy part of the defence industry right now. Oh sure, MRAP is going ahead. The thing is that initially 7,700 were to be bought. The Democrats have talked up armoured vehicles, and so that number could be doubled. So when you're talking about what the Democrats are doing about armoured vehicles, it would be increasing the number of MRAPs. And that isn't 'officially' happening, with the veto. The weird thing is that 15,000 vehicles are not going to be produced within a year or two, and by that time the Democrats might be pulling out alot of troops. So this could all be politicking anyway, because the extra MRAPs are pretty hard to justify without the war.

The armour that is being (perhaps) procured goes under the capitalisation of MRAP (mine resistent ambush protected) vehicles. I think this is tied to funding of the Iraq war, so vetoing the war means vetoing MRAP.

They open up capillaries around a wound. Increased blood flow does nothing unless the thing with the bloodstream get get at the wound and any infection. This is why histamines are important, they let things like platelets and white blood cells out of the bloodstream and into the wound. Since this stops you a) bleeding to death and b) dying from ulcerous wounds, it's pretty useful.

I'd be fine with that if I could drag smokers from their table and kick their teeth out. However we surrendered all legal rights in regards to enforcing laws to the state, so I expect them to do it for me.

I'd guess the older timber was treated with creosote. It is a distillate of tar, it's quite dark, and it is used to prevent termites from eating timber.

Sure, but they can still be sucessful often enough. And that's the point, just like smuggling drugs, you don't need to be successful all the time, law enforcement is basically a cost of doing business. Law enforcement will only mean the drug trade or terror attacks acts at some reduced rate.This is the reason that we have a war on drugs, and terror, because law enforcement is seen as a failed policy by some.

Peace enforcement is the term you're looking for. From what I remember, the UN pays a fee to the countries that contribute to peacekeeping duties, and for some countries this is greater than the costs involved, so it is actually profitable.

It's a bit of a non-issue since it doesn't take into account that investments being are being spent to fund retirement. With an ageing population you would expect the savings rate to fall, as more people are living off their investments.

Gloves are mainly there to protect the other person. The wraps are what protect your hands, as they hold all the little bones together nice and tight. You're probably better off using wraps alone, or with bag gloves. Mind you, your should be able to form a decent fist and hit with your knuckles with boxing gloves on. Some gloves are very large and don't close properly, maybe look for some smaller gloves.

I've never heard of it, it would be tricky because most of the mitochondrial genes have migrated to the nuclear chromosomes.

I'd guess that it would be holoparasitic plants, which are completely parasitic and have lost their photosynthetic ability.

Most countries have a mixture of methods for appointing officials of government. Oz has a hereditary monarch within the legislative Parliament, as well as meritocratic appointments of the Governor-General (who is part of both the legislative and executive branches) and the judiciary as a whole, and the popular election of representatives within the houses of government.

I think all of the detainees have been through the Combatant Status Review Tribunal, a few dozen were released.

Generally the excitation is done by plasma, as in inductively-coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy. I can't think of of a method that uses RF to irradiate the sample for element identification. In NMR the sample is irradiated with RF, but it is for determining molecular structure. Psynapse seems to be talking about x-ray fluorescence (XRF), which can be used for indentifying elements.

When you say capitalism you seem to be refering specfically to laissez faire capitalism. Capitalism is simply the private ownership of industry, laissez faire refers to a low level of government interference in industry. It's at least conceivable that you can have laissez faire communism, where industry is state-owned but with little regulation. In some ways this describes China, although the government privatised some industries, so it's really a mixed economy.

It's a viral ad made by Saatchi & Saatchi in Denmark for Quiksilver. http://dynamitesurfing.saatchi.dk/

As a generalisation, the benefit of a growing economy is that it increases the material well-being of the population, such as in health care and education.