sorry, but they're not in the same league as their '60s foregenderneutralpersons

I have to call bullshit here... but I'm not saying that as a defense of the current movement, but rather I'm objecting to your idealization of the 60's. All too many baby boomers seem to have a fuzzy, romanticized version of what happened in the 60's.

There was no shortage of bad actors mixed in with more idealistic folks then, just as is the case today. We have, with varying degrees of success, already sugar coated a lot of 60's history. All of the negative aspects you point out in the current movement have analogous issues in the 60's movement.

Of course, there were a lot of good things that happened as a result of the counterculture movements of the 60's. If we pretend there were no such negative aspects to these movements, and then use this optimistic but false dream of the past to condemn modern movements via a flawed comparison to an idealized version of the 60s that never actually existed... then it seems we have missed the entire point of these counterculture movements.

If Chevron employs more than 50 employees within 75 miles of your wife's workplace, and if your wife has worked for them for at least 12 months, including at least 1250 hours in the previous 12 months, then she should be covered under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

She would be entitled to take up to 12 weeks off. It's unpaid, though they would be required to continue to pay for her medical insurance. Afterwards, she would have the right to her job back, or an equivalent position in certain cases if her former position was no longer available. IANAL, but apparently she is :) However, it's possible that this may not have been brought to her attention.

You're thinking of Superman III.

There's no obvious way to know now what spoken English actually sounded like back in, say, the 1600s.

However, we do know that on average accents will change faster the more crowded and interconnected the people speaking it are.

Therefore, it's quite likely that the accent in the historically more densely populated British Isles has diverged farther from the common ancestor accent than did the accent in the relatively sparsely populated Americas.

A back-country Appalachian accent is probably the closest modern approximation to a Shakespearian accent.

Regan certainly did have a lot of power in the 80s over US economic policy, and I certainly agree that he pushed the country to the right in the fiscal area. Regan was a classic Wall Street insider, as former CEO of Merrill Lynch and having served as vice chairman of the NYSE. As a practicing Roman Catholic, Regan certainly did have religion in his background, and he did wield a fair amount of power as Chief of Staff. However, I think his primary influence was on the fiscal side rather than as a "social conservative".

On the other hand, I think his boss at the time, Reagan, was a lot more concerned with social conservatism than Regan ever was.

[angrily] Mr. Simpson, please pay for your purchases and get out and
[brightly] come again!

Of course carbon is a metal. At least, it is if you're an astronomer.

Perhaps if you'd taken a regular, non-fucking chemistry class you would have learned of hydrogen peroxide- two hydrogen and two oxygen will bond all right. The mono part is unnecessary for reasons other than the one you stated.

That being said, it's too bad they didn't offer a fucking chemistry class when I went to school, that sounds like an interesting topic.

It's a closed system, not an outlet per the article. Anyhow, the nearest river is a few blocks away - the Columbia. It's within the Hanford Site, but at the very last edge of it, adjacent to the town of Richland. A supercomputer's worth of heat sink there will be negligible in comparison to nuclear heat sinks just upstream. Also, depleting ground water reserves adjacent to a very large river seems unlikely.

Here's an aerial photo of the lab at the top of this flier. The blue in the upper right of the picture is the Columbia River. If you can drain all the groundwater from this particular site then I think you would have better things to do than shutting down a supercomputer. Where would you put several thousand cubic meters of water per second?

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Ah, a history question! When Vancouver was established in 1824 it was under joint occupation by the U.S. and Britain, per the Anglo-American Convention of 1818. Along with the rest of the Oregon Territory, it became officially part of the U.S. in 1846 per the Oregon Treaty. It has been ever since. So, the answer is actually somewhat complicated, it was jointly occupied by the U.S. since 1824, but has been unambiguously part of the U.S since 1846.

Many years later, in 1886 the townsite of Granville in the British Dominion of Canada was incorporated to become the city of Vancouver, in British Columbia. Of course, Canada itself wouldn't become a nation for many more years.

That would greatly facilitate the process of buying votes! A great 'weakness' of the current system is anonymity of voting, which makes it difficult for the purchaser to verify that someone selling their vote has voted as requested. When a large corporation purchases someone's vote under your system, all they would need to do to verify that the voter 'stayed bought' would be to have them use a corporate email account as 'their' secret code. We could get rid of all the political advertising and simply make it possible to buy votes directly- it would be much more efficient!

Interesting, I wasn't aware that the energy of the SN1987A neutrinos had been measured. As an aside, I'm not at all sure that "rest mass" is the right phrase if they are indeed tachyons - perhaps "infinite speed mass?"

Let's roll with it, though, and assume they're really tachyons- how sure are we that we're observing the same kind of neutrinos? If the SN1987A tachyons had less than 10^-10 of the imaginary "rest mass" than the ones from CERN then they might travel closer to the speed of light even with much less total energy.

Two things: since the velocity of tachyonic neutrinos would depend on their energy it's plausible that the ones from a supernova were very high energy indeed, and thus traveled very close to the speed of light, albeit very very slightly faster rather than very very slightly slower.

The second thing is that it may well be that we don't understand the chronology of events within a supernova very well- what if the burst of neutrinos actually happened some time after the burst of light, but then outran it? After all, our current supernova models were designed to try to fit the data that appeared at the time to indicate that the neutrinos were emitted first...