I didn’t phrase it right to the thread.
Conventional wisdom is to never buy a new car. You are a fool if you do.
I say that is wrong.
This reminds me of another misconception about microwave ovens: many people think the frequency of 2.45 GHz was chosen because it is the resonant frequency of a water molecule. This is incorrect. The resonant frequency of a water molecule is much, much higher than 2.45 GHz.
Sao Paulo is about 11 degrees further east (~46 deg) than St. John’s NFLD (~57 deg).
And to the extent that microwaves do cook “from the inside out”, it’s because it’s not the resonant frequency. Because it’s not resonant, most of the waves aren’t absorbed, so they can penetrate a fair way in.
We are all (including Amerinds) Africans.
I feel War Crimes are something that are completely misunderstood by most people, who assume it’s like sporting rules where they’re written in concrete and have no gray area.
Shooting of Surrendering Enemy Personel is one, at the end of Saving Private Ryan’s Omaha Beach scene there have been accusations of war crimes for both the scene where the American accidentally shoots the surrendering German soldier as well as the scene immediately after there the American deliberately shoots the surrendering German soldier.
According to actual military lawyers I’ve listened to neither is a war crime, as even deliberately shooting a prisoner doesn’t “count” if they had previously been shooting or engaged at combat up until the moment of surrender. There’s a very big gray area in terms of what constitutes a surrendering enemy soldiers in the middle of an active combat situation to cover all sorts of bases including false surrenders, accidental shootings, as well as heat of the moment decisions. In addition, Captain Spiers in Band of Brothers shooting POWs in Band of Brothers also isn’t a war crime, because it is understood you can kill POWs if taking POWs is considered unfeasible due to the fact you’re very far away from allied lines where you can send them back to and taking POWs puts yourself at risk.
- That compasses point to the north pole.
- That the direction toilets drain depends on which hemisphere you’re in.
Is masters common usage? I’ve never seen it.
When it certainly is when you actually say it.
But a missing apostrophe does not make a statement wrong. At worst it makes the written statement ungrammatical.
Seriously? So there’s no difference between it’s and its because they sound the same when you say them? Or for that matter, there’s and theirs? Or between their, there, and they’re? Or on ad infinitum? Apostrophes are strictly part of the written language. The wrongness of this statement could block out the sun.
I quickly scanned the thread, so if I missed it I apologize.
Many people have the mistaken believe that embassies are foreign soil, that is they belong to the country that has the embassy and is essentially independent of the host country.
This is a common misunderstanding of the language used in the Vienna Convention which countries agree on questions of embassies and ambassadors, etc.
The missions are inviolable, which allows them to being immune from searches and unwanted intrusions from the police or other officials from the host nation, but they are not tiny bits of the foreign country.
I was in med school studying nutrition at that time, and we were taught one did NOT need all the essential amino acids in the same meal.
That was shown as far back as P. T. Barnum, if not earlier.
Well, part of my post (which you chose to omit from your quote) specified “same size & shape”.
Given this, the result definitely does depend on mass.
Nowadays, the tie only goes to the runner if the umpire rules him safe and the inevitable challenge is inconclusive, thus holding up the call on the field. If the umpire calls the runner out and the inevitable challenge proves inconclusive, It’s still a tie but the runner is
indeed out.
The whole point behind what Galileo did - which was roll balls down an inclined plane - was to eliminate the confusion that historically came from air resistance spoiling the results. He tried to take air resistance out as a factor, which he did successfully to the best measurements of his time.
From then on people understood that - others factors being equal - objects even of different masses, shapes, sizes, whatever, fall at the same speed.
Except we’re not. Race and even ethnicity are social constructs, yes, but “social constructs” != “nonexistent.” We are all Africans to the same extent we are all dirtlings, because Africa is just a name we decided over time to assign to a landmass, but really continents are just some high-falutin idea we humans came up with. Did I say humans? I meant incredibly pretentious apes. Did I say apes? I meant deformed monkeys. Did I say monkeys? I meant…
See where I’m going with this? That it is we humans who have chosen to draw the line does not mean that the line does not exist. Although the significance we give to the line as a kind of demarcation between groups certainly is up for reevaluation over time.
A 20lbs bowling ball and a 50lbs bowling ball of the same size will hit the ground at the same time. Why do you think otherwise?
I could care less about any of this.
Are you saying they don’t?