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Late to the party, but I got it without overpass and without the clue. After a few false starts looking for fancy wooden lamp posts and canal side retail parks I went to the Home Bargains website's store locator (they have fewer outlets than Lidl or Halfords), clicked "list all stores" and...

I may have misread the room, but I thought the implicit off-topic topic under discussion was whether Landru was justified in changing Paz's name. If there is any law being invoked its the politeness policy and to what extent a members tag can be found to have contravened it. The lawyer in me...

The lawyer in me asks what level of intent should matter? Is it always OK if there was no intention to cause offence? Is using offensive language without caring whether or not offence is taken acceptable? or should people be expected to take reasonable steps not to cause offence? There is a...

That might be what it means to you, but the reality is it's a shortened version of a medical term that was used to describe cerebral palsy. In the UK it was thrown about as an insult so much in the 80's that the medical establishment had to stop using it so as not to stigmatise those with the...

No, I don't believe The Crown Court Compendium holds any authority in the US, that was a poor choice of reference given the context of this thread, I was grasping for something weightier than West's Encyclopaedia of American Law and came up short, Sorry. Having said that though, the burden and...

The presumption of innocence is not the same as being "proven innocent". It is the opposite as it says that innocence is assumed without proof. An acquittal is the failure of the prosecution to rebut this assumption. The burden of proof in a criminal trial is generally on the prosecution to...

That's not true. The phrase "not guilty" is used rather than "innocent" for a reason. The standard of proof in criminal cases is "beyond reasonable doubt" which essentially means the jury must be 100% certain that the accused did the deed if they are to return a guilty verdict. This is a high...

Aluminium based organism eats only pure carbon. How is that supposed to work?

Epoxy shrinks as it cures. Shrinkage does not cause the setting resin to tighten around objects that are inside it, shrinkage causes the formation of voids so it is more likely that epoxy resin will recede from any objects trapped within as it cures. So far as I understand it, this means that...

A vacuum does't suck, it's the greater pressure of the sorrounding environment that pushes stuff into it. If you create a vacuum at ground level on Earth the pressure caused by the weight of atmosphere wants to push gas into it. if you are in a pressurised spacecraft and you open the door, the...

yes, that finally dawned on me earlier today.

@Mendel, sorry I might have been a bit off the mark with my reading of your graph in post 104. It finally clicked that the y value is kind of a rolling average of the rate of new diagnoses per day and therefore relates to a 24 hour period not a single point in time, I had been viewing the y...

Its only continuous in graphical terms if you use cumulative figures, that way the gradient is the rate of reported infection and you can read from the y axis an estimate of how many people you expect to have been diagnosed on any given date at any particular time of day. As it stands the y axis...

I know I'm being pedantic here, and it makes no difference to the point you were making (the US pays more than China), but if $26m is 12% of the budget then the budget is about $217m and $99m is not 22%, it's more like 46%. That said, the WHO's annual revenue is nearer $3,000m and their annual...

I have been asked to take part in an ipsos mori survey on people's media usage. So I'll be diarising my tv, radio and internet usage at half hour intervals for the next week. I don't think they'll be capturing the slice of normal life they were seeking from participants. Other than that I need...

OK, but it read to me like that's what you meant when you said: It isn't true that if something is mostly hydrogen on a molecular level that it will be less dense than something that has a greater density than hydrogen gas. My apologies if I have misconstrued the point you were making. I...

I don't think the above statement is correct though that doesn't invalidate the general thrust of your argument. Water vapour is water vapour, the Hydrogen atoms do not dissociate from the Oxygen atoms to form a mixture of H2 and O2 when water evaporates, they remain bonded together as H2O...

E-7 = 10^-7 e-7 = - 4.28172 Capitalisation is important here, a capital "E" is the exponential function but a lower case "e" represents eulers number (2.71828) as @DavidB66 notes.

Sorry, I know I'm being pedantic here but this is a phrase you have used on at least three occasions. One can either imply something or be explicit about it, but you can't have it both ways. Implicit and explicit are opposites, an explicit implication is an oxymoron, it cannot happen. If...

Yes you can see 0.3mm, for reference aluminium foil is generally between 0.015mm and 0.024mm thick. 1.5mm seems a bit on the thick side for radiators, that's about as thick as most of the coins in my pocket. 0.15mm to 0.3mm would probably be the right sort of ballpark for the louvred metal sheets.