As recent events showed, there is a need for a mechanism that allows a ban of a very active community member deemed important by enough community members to be reversed.
In a comment to http://meta.physics.stackexchange.com/a/2716/7924, bmike asked me:
I'm asking for where you'd draw the line w...
If you assume that there is no slippage, then it becomes a purely geometrical problem.
$r$ = string rolling radius
$R$ = ground rolling radius
$s_{rs}$ = distance reel travels relative to string
$s_{rg}$ = distance reel travels relative to ground
$s_{sg}$ = distance string travels relative to g...
In English grammar and in particular in casual English, generic you or indefinite you is the pronoun you in its use in referring to an unspecified person, as opposed to its use as the second person pronoun.
In English
The generic you is primarily used in informal speech and writing. In formal speech and writing, the pronoun one can be used instead: for example, the informal sentence "Brushing your teeth is healthy" can be expressed more formally as "Brushing one's teeth is healthy."
Analogs in other languages
Second-person pronouns and structures are often used generically in other l...
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the title says it all really. I know other SE sites are using the blog feature, but i don't understand yet what is the process for submission of articles. I don't see a physics blog site anywhere so i assume that needs to be deployed first.
