Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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I may not understand the answer, so bear with me, but what would be the formula for calculating what percentage of the time

 

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I know it's a delicate subject, but I'm on Mr Nicklinson's side here.

I can't really see a good argument against allowing someone who is demonstrably of sound mind the right to end their life at a time of their choosing. If they need assistance to do that, then so be it.

We can't prevent an able bodied person from taking their own life. To do so with a disabled person is surely discriminatory.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/paralysed-man-ask-die-145011788.html

Virtually everyone agrees that people should have the right to live their life as they wish.  Why this doesn't extend to how they wish to end their life as well I do not understand.  It's my life, I'll live it how I choose, if I want it to end, that should be my choice.

The 'grey' area is when/if people are pressured into ending their lives.  If they feel as though they're a burden to others or something like that.  But that's more of a 'technical' issue than something that goes against the principle of allowing someone the right to end their life.  The issue of assisted-suicide (when the person is unable to take their own life) needs the correct rules put in place to ensure that murders aren't committed, but that people who genuinely want to die are helped to do so.

I watched a documentary about Dignitas, and it was both upsetting and overwhelmingly positive at the same time.  Much like this story, which as the daughter says was "a beautiful thing"  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/switzerland/4947065/Dignitas-Suicide-Couple-Parents-did-a-beautiful-thing-says-daughter.html

Good reporting by the Telegraph.

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It goes dark here at 4pm and doesn't get light again until 8am (That's 1600 hrs and 0800 hrs if Tony is reading)

Anyway, that means that licle tiny Dicky birds have to spend 16 hours at a stretch clinging to a branch in the darkness.

How do they manage to stay alive for so long without eating, and during storms or really cold snaps, when the temperature plummets to way below zero, how do they manage not to freeze to death?

It must be even worse for the smaller ones, they have the majority of their body mass on the outside.

An interesting thought, & sorry to be all gatters-ish, but surely, be the bird small, or big, the % of their body which is external (outside) is much the same, no?

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It goes dark here at 4pm and doesn't get light again until 8am (That's 1600 hrs and 0800 hrs if Tony is reading)

Anyway, that means that licle tiny Dicky birds have to spend 16 hours at a stretch clinging to a branch in the darkness.

How do they manage to stay alive for so long without eating, and during storms or really cold snaps, when the temperature plummets to way below zero, how do they manage not to freeze to death?

It must be even worse for the smaller ones, they have the majority of their body mass on the outside.

An interesting thought, & sorry to be all gatters-ish, but surely, be the bird small, or big, the % of their body which is external (outside) is much the same, no?

Of course not.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-area-to-volume_ratio

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I may not understand the answer, so bear with me, but what would be the formula for calculating what percentage of the time

 

would win v


 

There isnt a formula, you just write down the 1712304 possible 5 card hands and work your way through them counting the ones where wins.

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I've just got home. Mrs Red is in the bedroom, trying on clothes and singing Connie Francis numbers.

What does it mean

Me: Why are you in a good mood?

Her: What do you mean why am I in a good mood? I'm always in a good mood, I just don't always show it.

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http://wc.pima.edu/Bfiero/tucsonecology/adaptations/size.htm

[tikay]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-area-to-volume_ratio

My eyes glazed over momentarily, until I realized you were admitting you were wrong. Ish.

[tikay]

http://wc.pima.edu/Bfiero/tucsonecology/adaptations/size.htm

Case closed.

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http://wc.pima.edu/Bfiero/tucsonecology/adaptations/size.htm

Case closed.

Look at it this way. If you had a thimble full of concrete, the container would be about as heavy as the contents. If, on the other hand, you had a galvanised bathtub full of concrete, the contents would weigh many many time more than the container.

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http://wc.pima.edu/Bfiero/tucsonecology/adaptations/size.htm

Case closed.

Look at it this way. If you had a thimble full of concrete, the container would be about as heavy as the contents. If, on the other hand, you had a galvanised bathtub full of concrete, the contents would weigh many many time more than the container.

Concrete - the language of the people.

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This poor soul has frozen to his perch. He's a goldcrest. Britains smallest bird. A sad reminder of last winters losses, and an early casualty of the biting frost we've had so far this winter. I left him as I found him, gazing into the winter wonderland that sealed his fate.




http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcrusty/5287663165/lightbox/

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This poor soul has frozen to his perch. He's a goldcrest. Britains smallest bird. A sad reminder of last winters losses, and an early casualty of the biting frost we've had so far this winter. I left him as I found him, gazing into the winter wonderland that sealed his fate.




http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcrusty/5287663165/lightbox/

simply an amazing photo.

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I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D H Lawrence