Comment Re:The average person thinks they've above average (Score 1) 220
True. The median person thinks they're intermediate too.
True. The median person thinks they're intermediate too.
Coincidentally, a Facebook friend posted this video of the place: Baotou toxic lake.
As i suspected, it's a standard - although huge - tailings dam. Anywhere there's a metalliferous mine, you'll find one (or more) of these. I've only worked in one mine (in Australia) and their tailings dam had been incompetently built and managed - and it leaks into the surrounding soil and water table. I suspect they're like that everywhere, as mining companies only care about money, not the environment, and governments turn a blind eye.
The dust masks worn by the people in this video are rather melodramatic - and useless. It doesn't look dusty and the masks will have no effect on the sulfur dioxide and other gases given off by the tailings.
The first place i would go would be to my staff. There's only a few of them, just ask them what they want from a manager - that'd be a fucking first!
[......] dipped in silver nanoparticles to instill conductivity [......]
instil
verb
1. gradually but firmly establish (an idea or attitude) in a person's mind.
2. put (a substance) into something in the form of liquid drops.
Which sense of instil did you mean?
According to the poll. the average person thinks they are average.
The poll says nothing about average. "Intermediate" != "average". Although according to this poll so far, the average person thinks they're intermediate.
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It sounds like a standard mine tailings dam to me. You can see it on Google maps? So what? You can see much smaller tailings dams all over the world on Google maps. Yeah, they're disgusting, but we'd need to completely stop using metal to get rid of them.
The important thing is not that it's a tailings dam, but how it's constructed and managed - and there's no hint of that. A properly constructed and managed tailings dam shouldn't be a major environmental issue, but a poorly constructed or managed one is a disaster. I suspect this falls into the latter category (most of them seem to), but it would be nice to have some details.
No, of course the cat can't be simultaneously alive and dead - that's Schrödinger's point.
I wish people would stop crapping on about that fucking cat when they have no idea what it means.
Garlic is a very effective antibiotic - but only when it's raw, cooked garlic doesn't work. Garlic juice was used in the trenches in the first world war for fighting infection. I don't know about the other stuff, but the garlic on its own would kill MRSA in some circumstances.
A falling bullet has a much lower speed than one that was just shot.
What makes you think that? The Its potential energy at the top of its upward trajectory is not that much different to what it was when it came out of the gun - and it will be pretty much the same when it gets back down to the same level it was fired from (thanks to gravity, with a small effect of wind resistance).
People are frequently killed by bullets being fired into the air - as described in this article.
Maybe. But when you miss and the bullet comes back down and kills someone, you won't be very popular.
Even if you manage to hit it, the bullet and the debris could still do some serious harm.
Unless you are willing to consider a revival of eugenics, we are headed down a dark path.
Be like Hitler, you mean? That didn't exactly end well, did it?
Maybe we just need to consider sharing the work around more fairly. The current trend is opposite to that - with more and more workers doing unreasonably long hours. It's time for governments to legislate a maximum working week of 30 hours.
[......] few would consider the top third to be "rich".
Few of the top third, you mean. Rich people rarely seem to consider themselves rich - they often complain about how hard they've got it and they always seem to want more. But by any sane standard the top third are extremely rich - whether you compare them to the bottom third or to the top third 50 years ago.
They certainly have far far more than their fair share of the worlds resources.
I won't care at all once i'm dead!
[......] I say go for it!
Except there's no chance of it going anywhere.
I'd gladly give my life for a one-way trip for at least the guarantee of take-off and journey to Mars.
Why? It's not like you'd be able to sit back and reminisce about it afterwards.
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