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It would be difficult to collect plant skulls, I think.Snapdragon skulls?
It could be two tiles deep. I would need to refer to the map again. Would that cause this sort of explosive teleportation?Yes it can:
Yeah, when asked to sum it up in one word on the national public radio this morning the president of some american security policy association or something like that chose the word "incoherent". It definitely sounded like it might have made sense, but there was a lot of missing and conflicting pieces as well as just an overall "we're going to stop doing this so let's do my thing instead" without any real source backing up the idea that his policies will perform any better.So I watched Trump's foreign policy speech.It may have been competent in a sense, but it was still a collection of conflicting statements and competent =/= coherent.
It was actually competent. I was expecting rambling ad-lib speeches like the past few of his speeches I've seen. It seems like he actually knows what he wants to do in regards to foreign policy.
The main problem that I could see with Cryogenics that we just can't solve is the culture shock of suddenly skipping forward x amount of years.You already get essential culture shock like that whenever someone moves to a new country/etc.; it's bad, but it's not like it's so serious a problem that it would actually stop someone from doing it.
The one major way we've tried and gotten to work is saturating the organism in question with an antifreeze solution, usually Glycerol, I believe. The goal is low temperature, not actual freezing, so if you lower the freezing point of the water involved, you can make it work, at least in theory. Prolonged stasis is probably still not viable.Yeah, the major problem right now is actually the fact that most of said antifreeze solutions are actually pretty toxic, so right now we're working on the assumption that the damage the the toxic chemicals we are using to keep your cells from exploding is less than the damage that said cells exploding would do.
Wait, you guys say "Fair enough" too? Hooray!Finally someone else who says "fair enough", I say that all the time and no one else I know does.are we secretly the same person
Angel Beats! if you want something that can switch from comedy to drama at the drop of a hat.The endings really sad (if hopeful) though.
Is it though? The current cost of an infantryman's equipment is about 17.000 apparently, but the Pentagon is already testing ways to make that more expensive, including smart guns, heads-up display etc etc.That's $20k on top of the cost for all the other actual equipment that they would be wearing (armor, guns, ammo, etc.), not $20k instead of the current cost.
And then of course stuff like HAL would be great for troops like artillerymen.
(So more than a doubling in the current cost).
This is actually just a big red-herring panic-scare. Check expert feedback on law after law and you'll see plenty of things like this instead:what are the issues associated with doing away with gender-oriented restrooms? hasnt this been done anywhere with success? i heard theres no gender segregation in the norwegian military and it was ok.sexual abuse? Military can deal with that way better than the average public.
I am unaware of any sexual assault as the result of the CT gender identity or expression law. I'm pretty sure it would have come to our attention.
In Hawai`i, the protection against discrimination in public accommodations on the basis of sex, including gender identity or expression, has not resulted in increase sexual assault or rape in women's restrooms. The HCRC is not aware of any incidents of sexual assault or rape causally related or attributed to the prohibition against discrimination on the basis of gender identity or expression. (In contrast to anecdotal reports of transgender students being harassed and bullied in school restrooms when forced to use an assigned restroom inconsistent with their gender identity.)
We have not seen that. I doubt that's gonna encourage the behavior. If the behavior's there, [sexual predators are] gonna behave as they're gonna behave no matter what the laws are.
I know that this concern persists but I personally have not seen any factual basis for it.
I am not aware of any increased sexual assault or rape in women's restrooms as a result of Maine's 2005 adoption of protections in the Maine Human Rights Act for sexual orientation.
Since this 1997 amendment there have been no incidents or issues regarding persons abusing this ordinance or using them as a defense to commit crimes. Specifically, as was raised as a concern if the bill were to be passed, there have been no incidents of men dressing up as women to commit crimes in female bathrooms and using the city ordinance as a defense.
The argument that providing transgender rights will result in an increase of sexual violence against women or men in public bathrooms is beyond specious. The only people at risk are the transgender men and women whose rights to self-determination, dignity and freedom of violence are too often denied. We have not heard of any problems since the passage of the law in Massachusetts in 2011, nor do we expect this to be a problem. While cases of stranger rape and sexual violence occur, sexual violence is most often perpetrated by someone known to the victim and not a stranger in the bush or the bathroom.
Sexual assaults stemming from Minnesota's 1993 transgender non-discrimination law have been "not even remotely" a problem. Based on his experience, the notion of men posing as transgender women to enter women's restrooms to commit sex crimes "sounds a little silly," Elder said. According to Elder, a police department inquiry found "nothing" in the way of such crimes in the city.
Asked whether Nevada's 2011 gender identity law had fueled a rise in sex crimes, Las Vegas Police Department spokesman Jesse Roybal told Media Matters, "the answer would be no." After the department's lieutenant for sexual assault ran a check of crimes since 2011, Roybal told Media Matters that the department had not "had any incidents involving transgender suspects."
We are unaware of any cases of assault in our city as a result of transgendered [sic] accommodations.
Our agency has encountered zero allegations of LGBT assault related to this public accommodation protection.
I have never heard of any issues like this in Portland. We have a very low rate of sexual assault/rape crimes here overall.
In addition, we are not aware of any affect the passage of the law has had on incidents of assault in public restrooms.
I have only been here a short time so was checking with my staff to find out if they were aware of any issues. ... We are not aware of any other issues or problems similar to this caused by prohibiting discrimination against those who are transgendered.
Montpelier Police Chief Tony Facos responded to an email inquiry about whether the state's non-discrimination law had led to incidents of rape or sexual assault in women's restrooms, stating, "We do not have any complaints related to this issue."
