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Prefacing this question with the statement that I in no way support or am sympathetic with Epstein, Maxwell or any of their "clients" but at what age is it appropriate for a female (or male) to engage in sexual activity? It seems to me to be a completely indeterminable thing other than in law but it was my experience (even in the days before the internet) that sex was a major topic of discussion among boys from at least early teens. Is it even possible to have an objective measure to determine psychological "sexual maturity" in one's life?

You do not have zero chance of winning if you don't buy a lottery ticket, so I maintain there is little difference. I have never bought a lottery ticket in my life but am ahead of the Pennsylvania lottery. One day I found a lottery ticket for 2 free lottery tickets, so I got the free tickets and one of them was a $2 winner, the exact amount I am now ahead. The cashier couldn't believe I took the $2 until I explained that I had never bought a lottery ticket.

The problem with this is formulae for fragrances are generally proprietary so it is impossible for the average person to find out exactly what is in any given one. Sometimes you can get a MSDS for a finished fragrance but if your ingredient list just says "fragrance", you don't know exactly what is in it because the same fragrance can usually be made several different ways.

Actually, I understand the difference between weight and momentum fairly well (I think you are ascribing the first sentence of the quote, which didn't get highlighted for some reason, to me). Are you telling me that for momentum to be useful for energy that it doesn't require great amounts of weight (mass if you wish to be technical) for a flywheel as well? I know how big and heavy steam turbines are and they don't produce much energy once you cut the steam off. The point is there is no easy way to store energy mechanically and other methods seem to require a bit more technology, that's why this discussion is even going on at this point in time. Even amongst the different types of storage there are many ways of extracting it for reuse and all have pros and cons depending on their location and use.

An interesting discussion about why weights aren't widely used (gravity is weak) that also includes several other methods, including flywheels.------ "You can use dead weights, but you need a huge amount of weight. For example the biggest pumped hydroelectric system in the world (the Gianelli Hydroelectric Plant in California, USA) uses water stored in a reservoir about 9 miles long by 5 miles wide, lifted through a height of about 300 feet. Even then, it can only supply about 5% of California's electricity usage for less than 2 weeks before running dry - and given the current long term droughts in California, it can't even do that, because there would be no water available to refill it. Trying to build devices like this for individual homes would be hopelessly uneconomical." https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/305563/why-dont-we-use-weights-to-store-energy

I wonder how many of those likely to do this have been drummed out of the military in the past year or so.

I am in no way an expert on this subject but it seems to me that CME's are not that specific. When we used to have "rabbit ears" (antennae) on the TV, if one channel was being affected, all were.

I am a fan of raising weights for potential energy. There are no storage losses and requires less space than water. Just wish I could find how it compares to other storage methods for energy loss during reuse.

I wonder how Sweden made the list. I have always been under the impression that all of the Scandinavian countries were more egalitarian than most of the rest of the world

Not sure what is being pointed out here. The first number is even, so obviously not a prime number, and they are already smallest to largest using standard method of reading (L to R & top to bottom). Are you saying they are all semiprime or something else?

True, but if they "felt endangered" by any of the people they shot, it seems to me they would have either used a lot of deadly force or fled the scene at the capitol.

Can you imagine how many people would have been killed and injured during the January 6, 2021 attack on the capitol if the same tactics were used? Some of those people actually were armed and attacking police doing their jobs, unlike anyone in Minnesota.

Ya, but in the minds of many (if not most) people outside the USSR, soviet=red, even though they probably have no idea what a soviet is.

There, fixed it for you. If they hadn't misspelled it everyone would understand.

My political positions all get 100% approval.........from me. Seriously tho, imo, the political elite are those who can afford the time and money to be involved in politics, especially when talking about positions beyond local governance.

The problem is, look how many treaties and agreements our President has unilaterally changed without notice, even ones he had negotiated (think trade agreements with Mexico and Canada). The speech in Davos to some of the most prominent people in the world was identical to the ones he gives to yokels in rural America; the election (2020 but not 2024) was stolen, US gets nothing out of NATO, immigrants are destroying the fabric of society, US is "entitled" to Greenland and Canada would be better off as a state, "sleepy Joe Biden was the cause of everyone's problems and I've solved them all, I've solved 8 wars and should have gotten a Nobel prize, etc, etc. for a solid hour. Really happy it was just background noise while doing something actually useful. I couldn't imagine having to sit there and seem to pay attention, he reminded me of Biden during the debate that caused the latter's exit from the race.

Just one question Mr President. How will we know when America is great again?

In the state of Pennsylvania, AFAIK all of the electric utilities make a profit with typical return on equity rarely going below 5% and often near 10% or above. All rate hikes have to be rubber stamped looked into and approved by the Public Utilities Commission with a period for public comment before approval. Sometimes the increase is less than requested or one is put on hold for other reasons but I can never recall a decrease or outright rejection of a hike, though it probably has happened.

Surely you aren't talking about monopole magnets that don't exist? In any case the strongest part of any magnet I am familiar with is always the poles. These guys xxxxxxx sell magnets but their site answers a lot of questions in a fairly concise manner

I watch Washington Journal on C-Span almost every day and it is pretty unbelievable how many people are and have been supporting everything going on with Venezuela and believe that it has anything to do with drugs. Even if it did, none of those killed would have received the death penalty from any conviction over their activities. Furthermore, when the Coast Guard does interdiction for drugs (with presumably the same intelligence sources as Trump) about a quarter of the time no drugs are found but many seem to regard any possibly innocent people killed as just "collateral damage". It's a shame none of those saying that are Christians......oh, wait many supposedly are.

More mass always = more gravity. Unless you are adding mass from somewhere, that quantity (and its gravitational effects) will remain constant regardless of the density, which only relates to the volume that mass occupies.

I expect it will end up with Monsanto paying into a fund similar to what happened with Johns-Manville and the asbestos settlement. BTW Johns-Manville is still in business all these 30+ years later after filing for bankruptcy because of that settlement.

Ya, I'm pretty sure your compressor is operating normally, so far as oil is concerned. You really can't tell what the level actually is in that kind of compressor unless it is shut down.

Unfortunately, those "bugs" live in a pretty specific environment and it takes a year to break down the softest plastics and over 3 years for harder ones. However, it may be possible to adapt Ideonella Sakaiensis to a wider habitat and even that speed is still way faster than UV light and other natural processes break down plastics.

The 3 times I ever did "survival" was a very long time ago, twice as a Boy Scout and once for an outward bound program at school. Each of us was allowed a knife, fire starter and canteen of water for the three (Boy Scouts) or seven (outward bound) day sessions. Being such a short period of time kind of skews things because one could easily survive, even for a week, with no food and minimal water, so there isn't as much pressure on success. Having said that, I am pretty confident that I could survive for quite a long while anywhere in North America where there is potable water, especially if I can take an array of tools with me. The trick is knowledge of local flora and fauna combined with survival skills, especially fire-starting and shelter building. As a teenager with not much better to do, it was kind of fun and very informative but I haven't felt any overwhelming urge to do it again in the half century since.