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Captain & Pangloss - Wikileaks has published hundreds of documents that have nothing to do with the United States - I seem to remember documents that were highly embarassing for the Germans, for others, for the UK and a cring-worthy video of the Thai crown prince. I cannot access Wikileaks at present to confirm this - and when I looked last it was difficult to get past the Iraq war diaries and Afghan log. Quite a large percentage of the leaks about scientology have been published on Wikileaks as the scientologist are so litigation-happy that many news sites just cannot bear the risk. On the whole we need gadflies annoying and inconveniencing the state and institutions. "I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you" Socrates/Plato Apologia

To be honest from info on the website it looks rubbish. And if you are Garfield (or that is your nom de plume) making a plug for your own book, which I kinda expect, can I ask how much you paid the stones to use 'paint it black' on your advert? keith and mick have a fairly tough track record (pun intended) on clamping down on people using their tunes for a commercial venture without permission.

I don't think anyone did or should - but we must be careful when crafting legislation concerning matters such as this not to delegitimise speech protected by freedom of expression. I did not personally agree with the arguments put forward by other posters on this basis, but it is a valid exercise.

I think you are correct that all three are epithelial cells carcinomas - but perhaps they are looking for a more aetiological guess. I would hazard that the connexion is the fact that these three different carcinomas have plausible/presumable external causes; smoking/crohns/xs uv exposure. But then my guess is, if anything, less technical and more basic than yours.

Sorry Greek nowhere near good enough - and the Greek speakers in my office are all a bit too old and respectable for me to ask! I knew ΓΛΥΚΟ meant sweet and wikitionaried (that's a horrible verb) ΜΟΥΝΙ - those two together were all the proof I needed.

Are you sure its a cryptogram? - looks like greeklish to me glyko moyni / ΓΛΥΚΟ ΜΟΥΝΙ (which is very similar) would mean "sweet pussy" - I shudder to think what the rest might mean.

happy birthday!

Lemur, I know of an actual case where someone's amateur (but very impressive) work lead to him receiving fewer consultancy contracts in an area that would seem totally unrelated. Big corporations can be incredibly controlling - and in decisions like this it is very hard to bring them to account. I think you are almost safer when there is a direct connexion, then you can show a causal link between discrimination and research topic and 'shame' the funder into fulfilling their past commitments.

You seemed to say that the M'Naghten rules clarified matters - and I took issue with that point. Your subsequent post is more in line with my thinking, although I would add that anything other than case by case investigation is bound to lead to injustice. On the point of purely accidental homicide being adjudged as murder - I have looked through much ancient and medieval law and those sorts of cases are not numerous; the inanimate object point is a little marginal as not only is it not similar but also many of these accounts are apocryphal and/or the court is acting deliberately perversely.

Dave - I am guilty as charged of being too serious. However; I also know that, personally, that if I had a scheme like this in mind I would be constantly thinking about it (just a tiny tiny bit) throughout the whole exam. The last multiple choice exam I sat was almost 20 years ago - and it was full negative marking (I think they have done away with this barbaric practice), very time-limited, and seriously testing; overall not a pleasant experience. Self-assessment of answers becomes vital in essay papers (especially in humanities/arts) - I have seen far too many students spend inordinate amounts of time writing one first class answer, and only managing poor answers for the rest of the paper; whereas the maximising strategy is writing four good(ish) essays.

I think it would a retrogressive move for economic concerns to limit political freedom of speech - even when that speech is from a totally bonkers (although insanely talented) ex footballer. Almost every political stance will entail potential financial and economic changes - we cannot allow courts to become involved in deciding when economics takes precedence over politic in freedom of expression. Although there can never be absolute freedom of speech we must be highly averse from creating new barriers.

Agree with the tree - use the five minutes left over to find the question you read incorrectly, the bad assumption you made, or even just check that your marks are unmistakable on the answer script.

A2C - yes all observers see the CMBR and all observe it having the same characteristics (red-shift etc). You could check out this thread (especially towards end) in which Michel wasn't persuaded of this fact ... http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/52438-picture-of-galaxy-from-when-expansion-only-600-million-years-old/

Out of curiosity, I would like to see a source for the type of case that has someone convicted for completely accidental occurrence. The intent required for a murder conviction is very rarely limited at a desire to kill, it normally also includes an intent to seriously injure and in the past other things (any deliberate act within the commission of a felony etc). For those interested in the derivation of words/phrases "actus reus" and "mens rea" translate as "culprit's act" and "culprit's mind" which shows an interesting prejudgment. The M'Naghten rules (not McNaughton spelled different sounds the same) clarify nothing - they are an incredibly poor set of guidelines that cause more trouble than they solve. Most modern courts tend to acknowledge the M'Naghten rules, but then within the constraints come up with a more sensible set of ideas. Fitness to plead is often seen as a useful mechanism for removing those from the criminal justice system who do not have the competence to be there.

What links? I see no links?

if you want to avoid batteries, and I guess internal combustion is not acceptable (otherwise you wouldn't be asking); solar will work but I believe it would be an expensive build and you would have to lose weight everywhere, for a short distance you could use a flywheel to store energy (after spinning it up using some interesting energy source), and if you love engineering and want a silly build - what about steam/compressed gas? And, if by HHO you mean the electrolysis products of water, be ridiculously careful; hydrogen is not easy to store - it tends to leak. maybe give the board more of an idea of what your project is - and you will surely get some suggestions

To PI the projectile/object design can make a difference to one's ability to be accurate - we put flights on arrows and darts to help steady flight, a cricket ball polished on one side and rough on the other can swerve and swing (admittedly it's spinning as well as flying thru air), and I would find it much easier to throw a ball of scrunched up paper into my bin than a paper aeroplane. To OP I think to get much help you need to be more forthcoming in the constraints and desired results of your experiment.

The introduction does not really state the question that the experimenter is hoping to answer and the way the experiment will affect the hypothesis. The introduction is poor - I don't really like the way cooling through evaporation is described. I learnt the word as stoma and collectively as stomata - but that might be just old-fashioned. The method is dreadful - a diagram is essential. A systematic and straightforward explanation of procedure once apparatus and setup is clear. Clearly explain what different situations are being testing and how. There is no mention of the control group in this section! The report does not even mention error - every measurement is prone to various forms of error and these must be understood and accounted for. Some of the conclusions (in the results section) do not follow from the experiment (although they may well be correct) . The initial part of results and discussion should be the results not conclusions. Use time elapsed rather than clock time - more easily comparable. The graphs are awful - two pages of tables that could easily be condensed into half a page, but only two rubbish graphs. Each experiment should be graphed - with the same axes/units/scales if possible. The conclusion shouldn't have description of how to run the experiment - unless it is showing why this was necessary and what you have learnt. It should also not have results! The above just a few pointers that occurred immediately. The main point is that each section of a write-up has requirements and uses - and this one fails almost everywhere. I can see your teachers point about showing you a bad write-up - and that one is bad - but I would also recommend seeking out some good write-up hints on the net.

Abortion isn't illegal in the USA. Wade v Roe was the landmark case you need to read up; of course, there are limits to legal abortion and different rules for different trimesters of pregnancy but abortion is legal in the USA. Some states have passed law that in the absence (overturning or partial overturning) of Wade v Roe will re-criminalize abortion, and other have passed law that will legalise; but these laws remain in abeyance until the SCOTUS judgment is, in some way, weakened. There is constant talk of Wade v Roe being re-visited, but the ruling still stands as binding precedent. The Kenyan constitution has now been passed and the international reaction to it has been good; both politically and economically. Kenya needed a new constitutional settlement, the aftermath of the 2007 elections proved that. For the world's dominant democracy to abstain from comment and encouragement (and let's face it 2 million bucks is a lot to you and me, but peanuts in the overall scale of things) because of a small section of the overall plan would have been madness. Saysumthn's idea of eugenics through abortion is mindless of the numbers; allowing (or actively encouraging) east Africa to destabilize is far more 'effective'. The crimes perpetrated in and against sub-Saharan Africa are numerous, bloody, and heinous; from a humanist point of view there are more important things to worry about than codifying abortion laws into the constitution.

From looking at the equations - i would guess that d has to be an angular distance; that is it say it is the angle in radians made by the two end points of the journey and the centre of the earth. So if you divide your journey distance by radius of earth - you will get d; which by definition is also an angle in radians. I am loath to look in detail at the equations and work out if they are correct, cos it spoils the fun; but I think from quick look d has to be journey/radius I thought about this on the train home - if I had to do it from scratch I am pretty sure that I could rearrange the cosine rule of spheres to get a formulation that would work. perhaps try looking at that rule on wiki or mathworld and see how you do

... but Cern is in Geneva!! Someone get on the phone quick - the LHC is warping space time - South Wales and the Alps are now in superposition! Panic - wormholes folding space time continuum! Sorry. Just read the article on line - one of those amazing pieces that deal in cutting edge research but can provide a fair amount of understanding and insight for the committed amateur. Prof Charlton and his colleagues should be proud

Publically available abstract of Nature article from which this story arises is here http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature09610.html

There might be room - but there isn't time enough. Whilst our brains might be able to cope with a deep understanding of quantum mechanics, an appreciation of the finer details of Proust, the machinations and workings of financial derivatives, and the reciprocal complexity of J S Bach's fugues - it is very difficult to be an expert in all four at the same time, purely because of the heavy-duty reading and cogitation required. It is a sad fact of our world that we spend around 7 hours sleeping 8 hours working and have to fit everything else into the 9 hours left. I am not saying we shouldn't try! But to be a real expert, most of us mere mortals have to focus our temporal resources on to a bare minimum of subjects - the alternative is we risk mediocrity in all things. Just re-read the post and it half looks as if I am claiming to be an expert in the above areas - to clarify, that's more a distant and hopeless ambition rather than a reality

to be brutal Walshy - if you can't understand these basics please don't go connecting up electrical supplies to water. water and electricity don't really mix. there are lots of basic tutorials on the web. if you have a particular reason to be electrolysing water then maybe some hobby sites will give more usage specific guidance - but its really not something to just try out for a laugh

Alan - what's your question? and have you plugged in the figures and got a reasonable answer? Pick two points on google earth - use measure tool to get rough distance and angle and check the equations. if you cant get that to work - you don't understand the equations or they are wrong