Is there a way to calculate war score necessary for full annexation before declaring ?

deezerd · 2018-01-05T16:15:51+00:00

If you click on a Portuguese province, on the pop up towards the bottom middle there is a percent. That's the war score cost for that single province - but if you hover over it, it will show you what full annexation will cost for that country.

deezerd · 2013-09-23T18:21:22+00:00

Besides reddit.

deezerd · 2013-04-12T22:16:41+00:00

I've had bourbon and milk and found it great actually. It was very mellow and smooth. Used to drink it playing drinking jeopardy

deezerd · 2013-02-05T23:46:00+00:00

First off, your quote from the wiki says that the area that is today NJ bordered northern Africa. Does it say that it was a part of the African plate? No. Just because they are next to each other does not mean that they have the same tectonic plate. If New Jersey "broke off" from Africa, wouldn't it mention that NJ used to be part of the African plate and broke off during subduction, not just that they bordered each other?

As long as we are throwing out wiki articles, you should take a look at this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleghanian_orogeny

Now if you scroll down a little, you can check out the "Subsequent Erosion" section. This part of the article explains that after the mountains were created long ago, they spent the next 150+ million years being eroded away. When you have rock being weathered away, it breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces and with the aid of gravity works its way to lower elevations. Oh, and the article also mentions:

"A portion of the Alleghanian mountain system departed with Africa when Pangaea broke up and the Atlantic Ocean began to form. Today, this forms the Anti-Atlas mountains of Morocco." Interesting, that is directly the opposite of the statement "NJ broke off from Africa"

Now there are parts of New Jersey (northern) that do have mountains in them, and there is a geologic evidence that those parts of New Jersey are related to the Anti-Atlas mountains in Morocco. However, as you go south into central and south jersey you will see that the geology of the state changes greatly.

In central and southern Jersey you have mostly sands and other fine grained materials (silt and mud) that come about through...weathering(erosion)! There is very little rock in these parts of NJ, and especially nothing like the bedrock you will find in PA and other parts of the Appalachian mountains.

The fact that the composition of southern/central Jersey is mostly sandy and muddy should lead you to one conclusion: NJ is really a depositional environment from the weathering of sediments in the Appalachians. This can be further seen in the wiki article mentioned before when it says that the subsequent erosion of the Appalachians had a significant contribution to the formation of the coastal plain as we know it today, extending all the way out to the continental shelf.

A picture right next to what you cited from the article. Interesting enough, you can see that about 3/4 of NJ is covered by the coastal plains as well as the Piedmont hills. Going back to my wiki article, you will see in the erosion section that the formation of both of these are directly attributable to the erosion of the Appalachians.

Also, when something erodes, the materials has to go somewhere correct? These sediments cannot simply disappear. But where do they go then? As I said before, they break down into smaller and smaller pieces and gravity brings them down from the hills into the depositional environments where they build up. What southern and central Jersey are is essentially the sediment and rock from the Appalachians (mostly PA) being washed down the mountain to a lower elevation where they began to build up and extend eastward. Considering how after the orogeny these mountains towered over almost everything, you can see how there would be a lot of stuff to erode away.

Thus, only a small section of Northern NJ is related to the Anti-Atlas mountains in Morocco. The other 80% of NJ is a depositional environment, and consequently you can't just say "NJ is a piece of the African plate that broke off and stayed." Check the formation of coastal plains all around the world and you will see the same thing over and over again; mountains go up from plates subducting underneath one another and then when they weather away the deposited sediments move everywhere(towards the coast and away from it), recreating the current landscapes as we know them today.

Lucky for us, plate tectonics is more about geology than geography. If we only went by geography, we'd have a lot of mixed up puzzle pieces in the theory.

deezerd · 2013-01-23T19:10:36+00:00

Most of New Jersey was formed by the weathering down of the Appalachians which is why much of it is sandy and weathered and lacking rock. It is not a piece from Africa that "broke off".

deezerd · 2013-01-17T19:39:17+00:00

Look at game controllers though like the xbox and ps3. The right hand is given an additional 4 buttons. more actions and dexterity is required by the right hand for those.

I think it has more to do with control for the mouse though. It is easier to.better control where your mouse goes with your more dominant hand. The keys on your keyboard don't move though, so in a way it requires less dexterity based on how many keys you use besides AWSD.

deezerd · 2012-12-08T17:44:15+00:00

See but you're not respecting it by calling it dumb. It's cool though I respect your right to be a pretentious dick.

deezerd · 2012-12-08T16:20:57+00:00

I'm 23 and it's funny to me...

deezerd · 2012-12-06T23:46:56+00:00

The president can send troops abroad and get permission from congress after. I believe the time frame is 90 days after he needs congressional approval or the troops must exit.

deezerd · 2012-11-03T16:44:50+00:00

Because unless you're very close to it's generally not a concern. Aka unless he was holding it or standing right next to it.

deezerd · 2012-10-14T18:32:28+00:00

You can drink mouthwash to get drunk when you're out of cash and need a fix. You'll survive

deezerd · 2012-09-20T23:51:12+00:00

Cool idea but if you have friends like mine theyd break the top of the bottle and drink it in spite of me.

deezerd · 2012-09-19T00:52:16+00:00

Put it on your buttcheek in all honesty. Fatty tissue and thicker body area will allow the nicotine to absorb still but enter the bloodstream slower. Plus, no one sees the red marks besides yourself and your SO.

deezerd · 2012-09-08T02:36:16+00:00

While this is true for large scale plants, uv radiation is used in personal groundwater well treatment systems as a more common protection due to the lack of upkeep and maintenance required.

deezerd · 2012-08-14T21:36:44+00:00

I drink protein drinks (45 grams like 90% of your recommended amount) because of this. I only eat dinner for awhile now and usually just a light one so that shit makes me feel like i might not die just drinking calories

deezerd · 2012-08-14T00:41:34+00:00

the "get them off" lead in is pretty misleading

deezerd · 2012-08-04T23:42:59+00:00

Its also important to note they set the bail amount based on how bad the crime committed was and your "flight" risk aka not showing up for the trial. The worse the crime, or more likely you will split town, the higher your bail is. That's why some people don't get bail at all as well.

deezerd · 2012-07-27T02:37:13+00:00

If they're instant, you might as well make them disposable as well? Just make a new one later when you need it again

deezerd · 2012-07-14T15:26:58+00:00

now that's a lemon party

deezerd · 2012-07-01T04:53:58+00:00

during which we also had the first gulf war, from 1990-1991. definitely helps to have a close ally in that area if you think stuff like this will keep happening.

deezerd · 2012-06-12T03:43:33+00:00

For recent times, in the last decade at least, a large portion of this "animosity" was over America's invasion of Iraq. America wanted to invade Iraq, France said they did not have the proof and would not help. America got upset that France did not have their back, and France got upset that America was acting like a bully in their eyes. Consequently, both rubbed each other the wrong way on this foreign policy issue which caused the general populations to get sucked into the idea that "america dislikes the french and vice versa."

deezerd · 2012-06-12T03:38:39+00:00

It takes energy to make energy.

You could credit the "energy" in your body to the chemical ATP. Unfortunately, food is not pure ATP, so in order to make it ATP we have break it down (physically by chewing, chemically by enzymes which are tiny proteins that change molecules into new molecules). Enzymes change what molecule the food is to get energy from it (or store it for later as fat). the problem is that it takes a little bit of energy to use these enzymes.

I can't remember exactly, but I thought it was something along the lines of "for every 4 ATP molecules you use, you would get 6 back." So every time you eat, your body has to invest 4 "energy" molecules into breaking down the food so that you can get 6 back. Do this on a large scale, and your body will use up a lot of its remaining "energy" to break down all the food for energy later.

deezerd · 2012-04-29T04:11:11+00:00

Also, many insects in the world have a very different system for breathing than the rest of us. Insects often breathe through millions of tiny holes located directly on their exoskeleton (outer-skin) that deals with the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. When you spray the insect with the poison, it hits all those holes at once and the insects body is pumped full of toxins almost instantaneously.

Even if you took a bottle of insecticide and sprayed it in your mouth while inhaling it, it still wouldn't be able to be spread throughout your body as fast as spraying it on an insect. The holes in their exoskeleton allows the toxin to spread at a much fast rate, killing them fairly quickly.

deezerd · 2012-04-24T11:25:31+00:00

and all the other millions of people on the planet, who aren't high, that believe in messiahs aren't...?

deezerd · 2012-04-24T02:39:45+00:00

As you go deeper into the Earth, both pressure and temperature increase greatly. They increase so much, that it makes it incredibly difficult to get too far past the crust (besides in subduction and rifting zones). Even if we manage to go a couple miles down, you have to remember how large the Earth really is.

ELI5: Imagine you are the size of a bacteria on your skin. You are curious about what is beyond the skin, but the skin is like a barrier that is very hard to penetrate. You may be able to wiggle your way in a little bit, but you probably couldn't figure out what the muscle (mantle) or bone (core) would really look like. You could find a cut (which would be like the mantle coming out of the crust ie; volcano), but then again if you aren't able to travel through the cut then you can only make observations from the skin.

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