StringJunky

Ironic really because there is the counterpoint that: no one got rich by being honest.

He was being sarcastic.

Snowboard is about 200 km/h and skis 250 km/h. There's less surface area over the length of skis in contact with the snow. One would think there was more pressure per area negating that advantage but that extra pressure creates more frictional heat in motion, melting the snow more and thus lubricating the skis better; you want to be 'floating' on a decent film of water for fastest speed. You want minimal cross-section at the front so you aren't pushing too much snow out the way to slow you down; think of the front of a boat with a sharp bow versus a blunter bow. Also, skiers can keep a straight line better because their centre of mass is between the skis and thus more stable; the more you weave to stay upright, the further you travel and the longer it takes to travel between two points hence slowing you down as well.

It's a file associated with Internet Explorer, so I think you'll only break that if anything but I don't think it will happen because it is only a cache. At worst IE will run slightly slower fetching websites that you normally use because their addresses are not available to prefetch anymore.

Certain experiences like fears can be transferred to future generations

I sincerely hope that people don't gang up to show negative solidarity between them just because they disagree intellectually with a person. I personally see the negative part of the rep system as a means of admonishing them for some unreasonable aspect of their posting style or argument.

When someone is obviously being an ass, rather than potentially derailing a thread, I think a red one is enough. If multiple people give a person one then there is something clearly amiss with that post, commented on or not. Some things don't need to be said aloud.

Yep, if it's out there Google's got it.

I think the membership generally negates unjustly applied negative rep and notifies administration if a vendetta seems to be happening, so I don't think it's a really a problem. As long as the people that care about fairness watch each others backs it's all ok.

One of the beauties of English is it is so etymologically rich, being derivative of so many other languages.Whenever I look up a word I always stick the word "etymology" with it in Google to get it's origins.

Can you point me to any layman-friendly material online that goes into this spiral formation mechanism in certain galaxy-types a bit more? Thanks.

Being ignorant of the facts, I don't know what say other than I am saddened that you feel this way, Ophiolite. Maybe it is such that one can't see the wood for trees and it's necessary to take some time outside of it to evaluate what is really important. I do hope you will reconsider in time.

Would you extrapolate from this that the probability of life occurring is 1?

So, outside the legal profession - solicitors, courts, etc - what else can you do with a law degree where it is specifically a requirement? I don't mean in terms of transferable skills, of which there are no doubt plenty.

Do you need to apprentice to a law firm for a while to earn professional status?

Thinking about this as a conspiracy effort dedicated to covering up someone's professional mistake seems very implausible. It would have required the co-operation of too many people to pull off and for what? To cover up the embarrassment that Kennedy was killed by accident by one his own entourage? I see no gain or sense in all those professional people colluding to cover up a simple accident. I get a similar feeling from this as with the "fake" Apollo missions: Bleuch!

He said: "Probability of life in the Universe is 1." not "Probability of life occurring in the Universe is 1.". His statement is true but I think you are reading/interpreting it like the second one.

I'm sure there's a few corrupt policeman in each country where the police are unarmed but it's definitely not significant, otherwise it would be in the news on regular basis, certainly here in the UK. The police in the UK not being armed is a matter of hard-won and acquired mutual trust between the police and the public which has been around since the inception of our police in the 1800's. The early Peelers (first police officers) were killed much more than they are now but eventually this caused consistent outrage amongst the public and they started to trust and help the Peelers when they realised they were just as vulnerable as they were. The police are here by consent. They don't need them and they don't want them1 as a matter of routine; Every County police force has an Armed Response Unit and that is considered quite sufficient here. Obviously. An unarmed police force can only work if the general public is as well.

I found this NASA article that starts with 3 incorrect theories of lift and then explains the correct one. The link to the next page is at the bottom of each. I've always thought it was the first example but it's wrong. The correct answer is rather complicated ...for me anyway.

It's a piss-take used on naive guitarists in a band. A scenario might be; Guitarist: " Hey Man, how do you get that sound?". Secretive Guitarist : "Well, I put a bit of chapstick all over my strings" It seems there are a number of concocted false tales told using chapstick. The only practical use for it is to ease frictional surfaces in some part of the guitar or possibly rubbing it into your finger tips to reduce string squeak. It could also be used to soften callouses on your finger tips but bear in mind you'll potentially shorten the life of the strings for reasons I mentioned before if it's not absorbed fully first.. Might be a useful quick fix in a gigging situation where sore finger tips or sliding fingers squeaking the strings are problem that need addressing there and then.

I thought you might bring this up and it turns out it's derived from German. English is a mongrel language as this clearly illustrates. From Wiki: Etymology The word may have come from the German Nut (pronounced "noot"), meaning groove or slot. (The nut, however, is called Sattel in German, which means saddle, whereas the part of a guitar known as saddle in English is called Stegeinlage in German.) What English speakers call "the saddle" is the equivalent white part at the other end, which in the vast majority of cases is not slotted. It's nice and logical isn't it?!

The nut is the white string guide at the end of the fretboard. Putting pencil lead in the slots before stringing reduces friction there.

Just noticed that my answer to this part disappeared for some reason in my other post. Steel strings don't stretch significantly enough at the tensions applied on a guitar, which is about 20-25lbs, to cause tuning issues. Initial tuning instability is a function of how tight you first wrap the strings around the tuner posts. The less slack you leave when you wrap the quicker the strings settle down. The only place where I can see chapstick being possibly useful on a guitar is to lubricate the nut slots at the end of the neck so the string doesn't bind and get intermittently stuck when tuning. I personally rub soft B pencil lead dust into the nut slots because graphite is an effective and dry lubricant; less messy.than greases or oils.

In that light it does look rather at odds.

Sexual disorders are largely those behaviours that any given society considers to be immoral. I don't see how surgery can be a cure for immorality. Look in other societies and those "disorders" are not considered such at all; Imatfaal's Turing example is a case in point of the clearly evolving ground secular morality stands on: we can only look back with sadness on the great man's predicament at the hands of our old moral system. Imagine how we might look back now if the UK was performing that procedure MonDie posted in Turing's day.