Tetrahedrite

Two words: Abu Ghraib!!!!!

Don't mean to be picky....pH is technically = -log activity (H3O+), not concentration. This only affects the value in super saline solutions etc

I don't quite understand what Tetraspace is asking in the question, however olivines are usually only present in appreciable amounts in eruptions of a basaltic nature. Volcanoes which are more felsic in nature (ie andesites, rhyolites) are going to have little or no olivine in them.

How far should the US take separation of Church and State? All the way!

Do you put everyone who thinks Bush is an incompetent fool in the "liberal" basket, because (in Australia at least) there are plenty of moderate conservatives who are anti-Bush and anti-war for wars sake.

Thats an illusion on your part, I've watched various US news programs on pay TV for years now, and they are always far to the right of any objective news (most of the time) we get in Australia. I always hear Americans saying that their media is liberal, and it's just not true. Perhaps you just don't have anything to compare it to. The significant difference between American and Australian (or British) news is that nearly all of our news outlets report the facts of the day/week, where as I've noticed that the US news channels have a lot of "experts" who give their opinion of what is going. 95% of media outlets in the US are owned by huge corporations who have a vested interest in maintianing a conservative government. (I can only comment on television news here, for I don't regularly read American or British newspapers) I recommend the documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's war on journalism directed by Robert Greenwald. I'm sure if you see this you will change your mind about how liberal the media is. I am ashamed that an "Australian" is making such a mockery of what is supposed to be news.

All very disturbing indeed!

Try again.........1500 x $250,000 = $375 million not $3.75 million

Where do you draw the line between a monster and someone commits a crime in desperation?

Self defense, or defense of your family, is not murder

Yeah...that must be it!!

Why is it that every time I here someone talk about "installing democracy" now it makes me feel sick in the stomach. Must be a sign of the times

My point here is, you want him to die but you are not willing to do it yourself, you want someone else to do it. I believe that still makes anyone who condones state sanctioned murder complicit in that persons murder. What if that victim's family did not want the man to be executed (this is quite often the case in capital murder charges), would your thirst for revenge still justify murdering him? What if the victims had no direct family (such as an elderly person), would you then volunteer to murder him? Lets take this eye for an eye rubbish a little further. If a person shoots a shopkeeper in the leg in the course of a robbery, and the shopkeeper loses that leg, should the state then also chop off the robbers leg? The very thought of the government mutilating or killing or torturing criminals is horrendous and barbaric and belongs in the third world countries. I'm sure your parents have told you that two wrongs don't make a right, this is especially true when we are considering state sanctioned murder! The US is supposedly a beacon for human rights and development, and really it should wake up to itself!!

For all those christians out there: Sixth Commandment "thou shall not kill"

Thats fair enough, but it still does not answer the question. Would you be willing to administer the lethal dose, ie execute or kill him?

To Bettina: I can understand how you feel, what the man did was absolutely disgusting; however, how is it that you can call the man a monster in one instance, and in the next instance say "I wouldn't have any problem watching (him) get executed". Doesn't this make you just as bad? What gives you the right (or anyone for that matter) to exact revenge on a person that you don't know. It almost sounds like you're saying you would "happy" to watch another human being die. You say you want revenge, so would you be willing to personally administer the lethal injection? I would like to know if the advocates of capital punishment on this forum would be personally able to take some one's life, execute them, even if they did do something terrible. I know that I certainly couldn't do it. Call me weak, call me a coward, but I could not and would not do it!! I will not play God.

First of all, if you told a person in Australia (and other countries I suppose) that the American media was liberal, you would be likely to cause fits of laughter, most likely followed by the question "are you serious?"! Secondly, I'm not going to go through what you've posted in the other thread point by point (Phi for All, Time Traveller, Sayo etc have already done that), but I think your view can be summed up with this quote: I, for one, and many other people would strongly disagree with this statement, and in fact hold the view that the whole concept that invading Iraq was a bad thing to do

Lets see...... 1)broken forearm in four places which was put in a cast, then after four weeks had to be rebroken!!! 2)Brother hitting me in the head with a garden hoe.... 3)nail through the kneecap.... 4)Large glass window broken over my head..... There more but I just can't remember them all!