John Cuthber

... and wrong in this case. As shown by (among others) the history of UK minimum wages. Why are you pretending that those things are in the same category? No It's actually quite a good technique. Better yet; they can check on it. It's easy to survey for caffeine use (and also easy to just ask the tea and coffee importers how much they bring in). And you can measure caffeine concentration upstream and downstream of a town and calculate how much is in the water- the only other thing you need to know is the river flow rate and they are good at measuring that. They get the right answer. They can also measure prescription drugs that are not abused- things like allopurinol- for which there's no "black market. They know how much is prescribed and they can measure it in the water. And they can do the same thing for compounds like benzoylecgonine to assess cocaine use. So just because you couldn't get the right answer doesn't mean that clever people haven't. Can someone just check back with reality here? The UK introduced a minimum wage in April 1999. Inflation fell from 1.82% in 1998 to 1.75% in 1999 and 1.18% in 2000 https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/inflation-rate-cpi That observation trumps any "logic" that you might choose to apply to the situation. Inflation is driven by the money supply. Simplistically, if there a strike at the mint, the inflation rate droops to zero. Realistically there are plenty of causes. https://kinesis.money/blog/what-are-five-causes-of-inflation/ And if, as is plausible, increased wages actually lead to reduced costs because the company doesn't have to keep paying to recruit or because staff are more content and work more productively, there's not net increase in costs which needs to be passed on to the customer.

Thus far, the only one among us to have been communicated with is the OP.

We haven't worked out what they are yet.

Not necessarily. They may have successfully communicated between other civilisations, but not happened to reach ours yet.

Nobody said it did. You have shifted the goal post from Shifting the goal posts like that is also, at best, arguing in bad faith. Can you provide evidence for this idea? It should be easy to show that professional basketball players all get taller as they get older.

Yes; they got energy from the wind. Oh yes they do. See above. Do you now accept that I was right all along?

So they don't need to get much from elsewhere.

I bet "transition metal" is a better phrase.

How much energy do you think the bird needs?

Bird goes up. That means doing work against gravity.

The dandelions in my garden disagree. So do lots of birds.

The process of a dispute over pay doesn't damage cables. What actually happened? Some of the early research done on the subject was on people doing piece-work in factories. I don't think burger flipping is very different. The experiment was actually very instructive. They got a group of workers and found out how many items they made in a day. Then they reorganised the workplace and measured productivity again. It had increased. The management concluded that the changes had improved productivity. But the scientists were wiser than that. They waited a while an d then measured productivity yet again- and it had fallen more or less back to where it had been. So they swapped the workplace back to how it had originally been and, yet again, there was a temporary jump in production. It turns out that changing things makes people more interested and more productive. Further experiments showed that teh changes didn't have to directly relate to work. Starting a chess club would have an effect. Now, imagine the young burger flipper who gets a pay rise. He's going to make changes- possibly even joining a chess club. So, I can see a pathway , based on research (in the 1950s I think) by which a pay rise would improve productivity. The interesting question is can anyone think of evidence for why it would not do so?

That's more or less what the Conservatives said when the UK was considering introducing a minimum wage in 1999. They predicted mass unemployment, destruction of the economy, plagues of frogs etc. None of which actually happened. It's as if the political Right wing don't tell the truth about things.

A hot air gun is probably the option that minimises exposure to nasties (including lead). It leaves any lead compounds in a sticky painty mess which falls on the floor and can be disposed of. An abrasive will turn it into dust which will get everywhere including your lungs. Get a fire extinguisher, just in case. I think a hot air gun is the cheapest option too. One vital point. Do Not Combine DCM And Either A Heat Gun Or A Blowtorch. You will generate phosgene. (DCM is bad, but nobody ever used it as a war gas.) It's obviously possible to add some chemical to CDM to thicken it- because the manufacturers of paint stripper do just that. But I don't know what they added.

What's funny is having a town named Dildo in Canada,

Are you sure you really want to say that? The alternative is that you are dishonest. Because your idea can not work.

You are here and therefore you just called yourself uneducated. That my be the most salient point you have made. Anyway, if you don't like the membership of this forum, you will be delighted to know that we won't force you to stay.

Really?

A virus is not a cell. And the rest of your posts are equally wrong.

There's an interesting phenomenon that you may have observed. If you have a sheet of fluorescent plastic, the edges seem to glow brighter than the faces. It's due to internal reflection. The amount of light emitted is the same from all teh faces, but the smaller faces are brighter.

Obviously,I should know better than to sink to this sort of thing; but it's funny.

It may be closer to human hair than Michael Fabricant's "headpiece". https://www.indy100.com/politics/is-michael-fabricants-hair-real He says it's real but he's a politician and even his name means "someone who makes things up".

Doh. Misread something.

No, it doesn't. If you want to discuss statistics that's fine. But starting with a false statement is just going to distract people. This isn't any better.

If it's a detonator, it only needs to work once. So it's a slightly different scenario. But, since it's a detonator, I'm not going to help.