Comment Re:For all of you USA haters out there: (Score 1) 378
Remember that the USA is as
:-) You decided this after vacationing at Euro-Disney?
Remember that the USA is as
:-) You decided this after vacationing at Euro-Disney?
DNA is usually not a consideration in custody decisions.
I disagree. Possession of a second X chromosome tends to be a big advantage.
The exception is farmers in very remote areas where there are no schools.
They have "school of the air" for youngsters (didn't you ever watch Skippy?) and send the kids to boarding school for high-school.
But good question! Somebody please explain this "home schooling" oddity - I thought it was just for extreme religious nutters (so extreme they can't find a religious school). Apparently not.
Most, but not all.
If you ever find a party for rational people let me know, the existing choices don't seem to cover that option.
Rational politicians do not state rational opinions or policies in public, if they want to get re-elected.
It has been explained, so don't be an idiot. Look at the half-lives: billions of years vs 1600 years.
The kid is a serial offender. Previously disciplined for referring to another kid as "black", and for bringing a book to school depicting pregnancy.
If they don't do something, what next? He might bring in a book on evolution.
How can Microsoft justify Windows 10 on a less powerful device like Raspberry Pi 2 and not support on the Surface RT?
Big companies have byzantine internal politics. Maybe the RT guys won't hand over the "secure boot" private keys for Surface? Or they just lost it.
They really should have called it the Rho.
Sounds like 'not a single human has suffered any health impact' to you?
He means no direct impact. No radiation poisoning or excess cancers observed. The biggest health effect are psychological, e.g. people displaced from their homes.
In the context of 20,000 dead from the tsunami, and zero from radiation poisoning (there were 29 at Chernobyl) , the media is making way too much fuss about the radiation, don't you think?
Two worker deaths from heart attack have been blamed on overheating while wearing radiation suits.
A big fear was thyroid cancer from iodine, but that has not materialised. Some models still predict a small increase in cases in future.
Radium has a short half life and decays in a combination of Alpha and Gamma decay.
Its not the immediate decay, but the whole decay chain that is the issue.
Radium becomes Radon and then some radon gets inhaled, and decays into solids that stay and decay further.
I doubt your body knows the difference between the radiation from uranium versus plutonium.
It knows magnitude. Would you rather be hit with the lead from a BB gun, or the lead from a 20mm gattling gun. Its all lead, eh? That analogy understates the difference. BTW, we are talking about plutonium RTGs which use a different isotope to bombs or breeder reactors. I'd quote half-lives, but is amazing how many people think a longer half-life is worse.
Marie Curie died due to much radiation (not only from uranium, mainly likely from radium)
Given that radium is about a million times more radioactive than uranium, and as an experiment she kept a sample of radium on her skin until it caused an ulcer, your hunch might be correct.
If the rocket it's on explodes for some reason you've got a bit of a mess here on Earth. I think it's a valid concern.
No it isn't. A common mistake, but uranium is barely radioactive at all. Perhaps you are thinking of the plutonium RTGs in deep space probes or Mars rovers?
Or reactor waste products? But no, the clean uranium fuel loaded into the reactor is quite harmless.
If the reactor is run for a few years, then crashes into earth, you get a big mess.
try to explain to said poor folk that they're now paying up to 4 cents more for food
We could avoid most of these stupid arguments by a quick look at how other countries have implemented it.
Prices do not need to change, only cash transactions. The total price of your shopping basket will be rounded up or down by 2c at most. (This is legislated to minimise confusion.)
And since when has the gov't felt the need to explain policy to dumb people?
the amount always seems to be against them (i.e., it always costs 1 or 2 cents more).
Tell 'em to always fill their gas tank with a extra 2c of "free" petrol
The conspiracy nutter in me wonders if this (and the lack of $1 and $5 coins) is part of a policy to discourage use of cash in favour of more trackable transactions.
It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.
