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If you want to seriously debate, you must look at what is said, not who said it.
Stark got a physics Nobel prize in 1919 (see Stark effect) and the fact that he subsequently became an enthusiastic Nazi in no way invalidates that.
Stark got a physics Nobel prize in 1919 (see Stark effect) and the fact that he subsequently became an enthusiastic Nazi in no way invalidates that.
October 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If you want to seriously debate, you must look at what is said, not who said it.
Stark got a physics Nobel prize in 1919 (see Stark effect) and the fact that he subsequently became an enthusiastic Nazi in no way invalidates that.
Stark got a physics Nobel prize in 1919 (see Stark effect) and the fact that he subsequently became an enthusiastic Nazi in no way invalidates that.
I should have been a little more specific. These inventions were incandescent electrically heated filaments. But arc lamps preceded them and Cragside had one of those.
October 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I should have been a little more specific. These inventions were incandescent electrically heated filaments. But arc lamps preceded them and Cragside had one of those.
Old joke from UK in 1948.
Q. What is it that a duck can't do, a swan can do and every doctor must do from 5 July (date NHS started)?
A. Stick his bill up his ass.
Q. What is it that a duck can't do, a swan can do and every doctor must do from 5 July (date NHS started)?
A. Stick his bill up his ass.
October 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Old joke from UK in 1948.
Q. What is it that a duck can't do, a swan can do and every doctor must do from 5 July (date NHS started)?
A. Stick his bill up his ass.
Q. What is it that a duck can't do, a swan can do and every doctor must do from 5 July (date NHS started)?
A. Stick his bill up his ass.
Thanks for the detail. Was there a precedent for calling a half-Senate election?
If Australia had been a republic would the president have had the power the governor exercised?
I am not taking a stance on this. I vaguely recall the event but still don't understand the arguments.
If Australia had been a republic would the president have had the power the governor exercised?
I am not taking a stance on this. I vaguely recall the event but still don't understand the arguments.
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Thanks for the detail. Was there a precedent for calling a half-Senate election?
If Australia had been a republic would the president have had the power the governor exercised?
I am not taking a stance on this. I vaguely recall the event but still don't understand the arguments.
If Australia had been a republic would the president have had the power the governor exercised?
I am not taking a stance on this. I vaguely recall the event but still don't understand the arguments.
What would have happened had he not been sacked, given he could not get his budget through parliament?
October 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
What would have happened had he not been sacked, given he could not get his budget through parliament?
Nice. Since getting my hearing aids I can hear them for the first time in twenty years.
October 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Nice. Since getting my hearing aids I can hear them for the first time in twenty years.
Swan was at least the co-inventor of the electric light bulb. Edison bought the patents. I can remember seeing light bulbs bearing the brand name "Ediswan". You can still see them at Cragside.
www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/crag...
www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/crag...
Cragside: The World’s First House To Have Electric Lights
www.amusingplanet.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Swan was at least the co-inventor of the electric light bulb. Edison bought the patents. I can remember seeing light bulbs bearing the brand name "Ediswan". You can still see them at Cragside.
www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/crag...
www.amusingplanet.com/2019/04/crag...
Good news. Not sure what proportion of the time it will be snow clad.
October 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Good news. Not sure what proportion of the time it will be snow clad.
Beautiful. Sadly my handwriting has always been terrible. My physics teacher insisted on my best (inadequate) efforts.
After writing an imposition for a prefect I was asked to show him my physics practical book. His response was "Good Lord, that really is your best handwriting!" 🤪
After writing an imposition for a prefect I was asked to show him my physics practical book. His response was "Good Lord, that really is your best handwriting!" 🤪
October 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Beautiful. Sadly my handwriting has always been terrible. My physics teacher insisted on my best (inadequate) efforts.
After writing an imposition for a prefect I was asked to show him my physics practical book. His response was "Good Lord, that really is your best handwriting!" 🤪
After writing an imposition for a prefect I was asked to show him my physics practical book. His response was "Good Lord, that really is your best handwriting!" 🤪
Whatever would FR Leavis have made it this?
October 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Whatever would FR Leavis have made it this?
As to how to interpret it that is up to believers
October 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
As to how to interpret it that is up to believers
Mathew ch10
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
October 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Mathew ch10
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Allegedly, Socrates disapproved of writing because the only important message was delivered face to face by the author.
October 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Allegedly, Socrates disapproved of writing because the only important message was delivered face to face by the author.
She needs counselling and reassuring that she is better than she thinks.
As for calculators, I encouraged my kids to do all arithmetic no matter how complicated, in their heads, to one significant figure. Then at least they would not be out by several orders of magnitude on the calculator.
As for calculators, I encouraged my kids to do all arithmetic no matter how complicated, in their heads, to one significant figure. Then at least they would not be out by several orders of magnitude on the calculator.
October 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
She needs counselling and reassuring that she is better than she thinks.
As for calculators, I encouraged my kids to do all arithmetic no matter how complicated, in their heads, to one significant figure. Then at least they would not be out by several orders of magnitude on the calculator.
As for calculators, I encouraged my kids to do all arithmetic no matter how complicated, in their heads, to one significant figure. Then at least they would not be out by several orders of magnitude on the calculator.
The law does not make terrorists of anyone protesting genocide. To assert otherwise is a straight up lie.
You could legally, I think truthfully, write "Israel is guilty of genocide".
It only prohibits asserting support for Palestine Action.
If you can accept a lifetime ban on foreign travel, OK.
You could legally, I think truthfully, write "Israel is guilty of genocide".
It only prohibits asserting support for Palestine Action.
If you can accept a lifetime ban on foreign travel, OK.
September 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The law does not make terrorists of anyone protesting genocide. To assert otherwise is a straight up lie.
You could legally, I think truthfully, write "Israel is guilty of genocide".
It only prohibits asserting support for Palestine Action.
If you can accept a lifetime ban on foreign travel, OK.
You could legally, I think truthfully, write "Israel is guilty of genocide".
It only prohibits asserting support for Palestine Action.
If you can accept a lifetime ban on foreign travel, OK.
Hard to predict consequences of such an arrest. But I will try. Likely outcome is a fine AND a life-time ban on all foreign travel. No country is going to allow a visit from someone with a conviction for terrorism, however "technical".
September 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Hard to predict consequences of such an arrest. But I will try. Likely outcome is a fine AND a life-time ban on all foreign travel. No country is going to allow a visit from someone with a conviction for terrorism, however "technical".
You have fallen for a straight up lie. You can have a poster protesting genocide and accusing Israel of it. Unless you also support Palestine Action, which is allegedly a terrorist group, the police can't touch you.
September 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
You have fallen for a straight up lie. You can have a poster protesting genocide and accusing Israel of it. Unless you also support Palestine Action, which is allegedly a terrorist group, the police can't touch you.
Bit of a side issue and ancient history but when a few bottles of Tylenol were poisoned by malefactors in stores the manufacturer withdrew $100,000,000 of product from sale and replaced all packs with tamper evident seals. In this at least they did the right thing at high cost to themselves.
September 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Bit of a side issue and ancient history but when a few bottles of Tylenol were poisoned by malefactors in stores the manufacturer withdrew $100,000,000 of product from sale and replaced all packs with tamper evident seals. In this at least they did the right thing at high cost to themselves.
What a private health insurer wants is that people are long term sick with repeat scripts and co-payments.
In UK private clinics do elective surgery but if there are complications patients are quickly dumped back into NHS care.
In UK private clinics do elective surgery but if there are complications patients are quickly dumped back into NHS care.
September 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What a private health insurer wants is that people are long term sick with repeat scripts and co-payments.
In UK private clinics do elective surgery but if there are complications patients are quickly dumped back into NHS care.
In UK private clinics do elective surgery but if there are complications patients are quickly dumped back into NHS care.
Yes but up to about the early 1960s the Southern Democrats did that. It was LBJ who signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. Would JFK have got around to it?
But for the ruinous mistake of the Vietnam war he would be recorded as a great reforming president.
But for the ruinous mistake of the Vietnam war he would be recorded as a great reforming president.
September 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Yes but up to about the early 1960s the Southern Democrats did that. It was LBJ who signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. Would JFK have got around to it?
But for the ruinous mistake of the Vietnam war he would be recorded as a great reforming president.
But for the ruinous mistake of the Vietnam war he would be recorded as a great reforming president.
Hi Jim. It is asserted by some that tests for quantum entanglement over long distances between satellites give greater error margins because allegedly does not hold true over all distances. Might be weaknesses in detectors, else some other theory required. Any worthwhile references?
September 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Hi Jim. It is asserted by some that tests for quantum entanglement over long distances between satellites give greater error margins because allegedly does not hold true over all distances. Might be weaknesses in detectors, else some other theory required. Any worthwhile references?
"We see correlation values drop with distance which is what you'd expect with the local loophole."
Examples and references please.
Examples and references please.
September 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"We see correlation values drop with distance which is what you'd expect with the local loophole."
Examples and references please.
Examples and references please.
There is as yet no vaccine for rheumatic fever, but work is on the way.
I was in hospital for three months at the age of three with this. Enforced bed rest saved my heart. But god-like doctors limited parental visits to once a month and that was not good psychology.
But under NHS it was free.
I was in hospital for three months at the age of three with this. Enforced bed rest saved my heart. But god-like doctors limited parental visits to once a month and that was not good psychology.
But under NHS it was free.
September 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
There is as yet no vaccine for rheumatic fever, but work is on the way.
I was in hospital for three months at the age of three with this. Enforced bed rest saved my heart. But god-like doctors limited parental visits to once a month and that was not good psychology.
But under NHS it was free.
I was in hospital for three months at the age of three with this. Enforced bed rest saved my heart. But god-like doctors limited parental visits to once a month and that was not good psychology.
But under NHS it was free.
Typo? I think you mean privatising.
September 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Typo? I think you mean privatising.
Not personal expertise but:
• if a boat like that does not stop an armed helicopter shoots out the engines
• loud hailer command to all on board to throw weapons into the sea
• shoot anyone who does not
• rappel down to the boat and handcuff everyone
• you never need to blow it up
• if a boat like that does not stop an armed helicopter shoots out the engines
• loud hailer command to all on board to throw weapons into the sea
• shoot anyone who does not
• rappel down to the boat and handcuff everyone
• you never need to blow it up
September 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Not personal expertise but:
• if a boat like that does not stop an armed helicopter shoots out the engines
• loud hailer command to all on board to throw weapons into the sea
• shoot anyone who does not
• rappel down to the boat and handcuff everyone
• you never need to blow it up
• if a boat like that does not stop an armed helicopter shoots out the engines
• loud hailer command to all on board to throw weapons into the sea
• shoot anyone who does not
• rappel down to the boat and handcuff everyone
• you never need to blow it up