I don't like the Tory government but I would not support a military coup to topple it.
If the Tory Party started rounding up its opponents, banning criticism of its record, carrying out extra-judicial killings, interning dissenting judges, and proposing reintroducing capital punishment for its enemies, would you be okay with that, because it won the last general election?
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
Some PBers have some shocking knowledge when it comes to science, fortunately you and I are here to educate them, as we saw in yesterday's thread header
Why is she quibbling? She should just stand, and the white working classes will swiftly come flocking to the electoral standard of THANGAM DEBBONAIRE
Has to be the best name in Parliament, in the Commons at least (let us not forget Lord Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith after all).
Though I have a soft spot for Richard Grovesnor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.
Happy to have played a part in first getting Richard elected in 2010. I have only a double barrelled name, but us non-single-namers need to stick together....
Equating barrelled surnames to poshness, I expect Charles has about a septuple barrelled name.
Only a single barrelled name, I'm afraid...
(although I do have 3 forenames, an 'of' and an 'ap')
No 'ilk'?
Nah - being the second kid I take the Irish side of my mother's family, not the Scottish.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
Some PBers have some shocking knowledge when it comes to science, fortunately you and I are here to educate them, as we saw in yesterday's thread header
Your extensive knowledge of mineralogy is second only to your command of the AV system.
The news from Germany is sounding a little more positive, if such a thing can be positive, but authorities are scaling back the numbers of those physically injured.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
I fear it is the latter
Edit:
The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales (although the Rankine scale continued to use "degree Rankine"), but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically (e.g. multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system).
I want Muslims to LEAVE. Fuck them. Kick them out. UGH
All of them, every one of them. Let them go hence.
Not really acceptable dear chap. One of easiest ways to turn co-operative integrating muslims into west-hating jihadis is to villanise all of them
If it is another Islamist attack, I stand by my sentiments.
Enough now.
Western policy should be gently oriented towards the ultimate goal of peaceably removing most Muslims from the western world. Let them prosper in the Middle East. Good luck to them. The idea of happy coexistence, between Islam and plural secularity, within a liberal Europe, is a fond delusion. A delusion which has ended.
Except for the faint of brain.
Instead of targeting Muslims we need to target the sources of funding for extreme Islam. Saudi Arabia, until we do that we're fucked. If we cut off the money supply for extreme versions of Islam then Muslims, like most other religions in the UK will slowly become a smaller and smaller part of Muslims' lives.
Delusional. You don't understand religion.
We have to remove them.
Whatever the difficulties have always been with integration, Islamism wasn't a major problem here till the 1980s. The mass propaganda campaign has made a real difference.
Satanic Verses kicked it off, IIRC.
I don't think that can be considered a bolt of lightning that came from nowhere.
Who are these people? Which is worse, a sect or a cult? It's certainly not an actual political party any longer.
There's a parasitic liver fluke that infects ants. Each evening, it manipulates the ant's nervous system to force it to climb up a blade of grass, and then locks its mandibles in place. It repeats this every evening until the ant is eaten by a ruminant. The fluke completes its life cycle within said ruminant.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
Some PBers have some shocking knowledge when it comes to science, fortunately you and I are here to educate them, as we saw in yesterday's thread header
Weather forecasters need to rermber Celsius needs "degrees" before it!
Who are these people? Which is worse, a sect or a cult? It's certainly not an actual political party any longer.
There's a parasitic liver fluke that infects ants. Each evening, it manipulates the ant's nervous system to force it to climb up a blade of grass, and then locks its mandibles in place. It repeats this every evening until the ant is eaten by a ruminant. The fluke completes its life cycle within said ruminant.
It's like a parable.
Why, I wonder, did God think of that? An odd thought in the creation process?
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
He's being pedantic - temperatures in Kelvin are expressed as a number followed by K. The number is of course a number of degrees. It is expressed as 140 K rather than 140 degrees K
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
He's being pedantic - temperatures in Kelvin are expressed as a number followed by K. The number is of course a number of degrees. It is expressed as 140 K rather than 140 degrees K
The reasoning behind it makes sense, see my post below, but I agree it is a tad pedantic.
Who are these people? Which is worse, a sect or a cult? It's certainly not an actual political party any longer.
There's a parasitic liver fluke that infects ants. Each evening, it manipulates the ant's nervous system to force it to climb up a blade of grass, and then locks its mandibles in place. It repeats this every evening until the ant is eaten by a ruminant. The fluke completes its life cycle within said ruminant.
It's like a parable.
Why, I wonder, did God think of that? An odd thought in the creation process?
Now the Brits have had the courage to opt for Brexit (it always seems to have to be us as prime movers), expect much more similar sentiment in other EU states over the next couple of years - especially those with elections pending.
The polling so far has been moving in the opposite direction.
O. We're trusting polling again are we?
Yes. It got Brexit within a few percent, and detecting a move is usually easier than getting the exact level right.
Ignore it and bet with your gut if you like, YMMV.
I ignored the polling and bet with my gut on Brexit. First four figure political win. Also a couple of cases of cheap(er) en primeur thanks to Robert's canny tip.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
Some PBers have some shocking knowledge when it comes to science, fortunately you and I are here to educate them, as we saw in yesterday's thread header
Your extensive knowledge of mineralogy is second only to your command of the AV system.
How about this, Labour led by Jeremy Corbyn at a general election will obtain −273.15° MPs, which is also known as absolute zero
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
Some PBers have some shocking knowledge when it comes to science, fortunately you and I are here to educate them, as we saw in yesterday's thread header
Weather forecasters need to rermber Celsius needs "degrees" before it!
Who are these people? Which is worse, a sect or a cult? It's certainly not an actual political party any longer.
There's a parasitic liver fluke that infects ants. Each evening, it manipulates the ant's nervous system to force it to climb up a blade of grass, and then locks its mandibles in place. It repeats this every evening until the ant is eaten by a ruminant. The fluke completes its life cycle within said ruminant.
It's like a parable.
Why, I wonder, did God think of that? An odd thought in the creation process?
Evolution moves in mysterious ways its wonders to perform . The fluke forces the ant down as the sun rises - it dies if the temperature becomes too warm.
Poor ants. They have the most gruesome parasites going.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
Some PBers have some shocking knowledge when it comes to science, fortunately you and I are here to educate them, as we saw in yesterday's thread header
Your extensive knowledge of mineralogy is second only to your command of the AV system.
How about this, Labour led by Jeremy Corbyn at a general election will obtain −273.15° MPs, which is also known as absolute zero
Tories set for ~800 seats in the 650 seat Commons. Yes please!
That is awful....that kids footwork is all over the shop, bat away from his body and everything. Kids today.
May be we should offer him a place on the team?
The PB team or England? He could get in either somewhere in that middle order.
England hasn't become a terrible team overnight, but it is a team that has two of the best batsmen in the world, a very high quality seam attack amid a total dearth of decent spin and a shaky middle order.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
He's being pedantic - temperatures in Kelvin are expressed as a number followed by K. The number is of course a number of degrees. It is expressed as 140 K rather than 140 degrees K
There is not really a good reason why the "degree" is omitted; but it does serve as a reminder that kelvins are slightly less arbitrary than celsius, as they are an absolute scale.
The news from Germany is sounding a little more positive, if such a thing can be positive, but authorities are scaling back the numbers of those physically injured.
Listening to German News, the Bavarian interior minister has said, 3 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured and the other 14 on the train unharmed. – Attacker was shot dead, attempting to escape.
The news from Germany is sounding a little more positive, if such a thing can be positive, but authorities are scaling back the numbers of those physically injured.
Listening to German News, the Bavarian interior minister has said, 3 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured and the other 14 on the train unharmed. – Attacker was shot dead, attempting to escape.
My alternative plan for post Brexit polis is this. When the ex industrial Leave voting areas of E + W are even poorer in 5 years time and their fleeting illusion of " control " turns to even deeper anger I'm going to point. " Look over there. That group of voguish libertarian internet eighties with huge equity and two degrees each sold you a crock of *****. They used you to make a political point and usher in an even *more* globalised world that they'll thrive even better in. Why don't you hang them from a lamp post ? "
Their plan is to blame people's problems on foreigners again. I think their plan will work better than your plan.
Yes you're right on both counts. But we must at least try. The only silver lining to Brexit is the ' Drawbridge Downers ' are no longer the establishment. We're free to run shrill post truth culture wars our self now. I think I'm going to enjoy it.n
Who are these people? Which is worse, a sect or a cult? It's certainly not an actual political party any longer.
There's a parasitic liver fluke that infects ants. Each evening, it manipulates the ant's nervous system to force it to climb up a blade of grass, and then locks its mandibles in place. It repeats this every evening until the ant is eaten by a ruminant. The fluke completes its life cycle within said ruminant.
It's like a parable.
Why, I wonder, did God think of that? An odd thought in the creation process?
Evolution moves in mysterious ways its wonders to perform . The fluke forces the ant down as the sun rises - it dies if the temperature becomes too warm.
Poor ants. They have the most gruesome parasites going.
That certainly seems to be the case.
It seems that the average ant brain is merely a joystick for whatever parasite is making use of it at the time.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
I fear it is the latter
Edit:
The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales (although the Rankine scale continued to use "degree Rankine"), but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically (e.g. multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system).
Confirmed!
Absolute zero is -273 kelvin. One would presume that is arbitrary reference point?
I want Muslims to LEAVE. Fuck them. Kick them out. UGH
All of them, every one of them. Let them go hence.
Not really acceptable dear chap. One of easiest ways to turn co-operative integrating muslims into west-hating jihadis is to villanise all of them
If it is another Islamist attack, I stand by my sentiments.
Enough now.
Western policy should be gently oriented towards the ultimate goal of peaceably removing most Muslims from the western world. Let them prosper in the Middle East. Good luck to them. The idea of happy coexistence, between Islam and plural secularity, within a liberal Europe, is a fond delusion. A delusion which has ended.
Except for the faint of brain.
Instead of targeting Muslims we need to target the sources of funding for extreme Islam. Saudi Arabia, until we do that we're fucked. If we cut off the money supply for extreme versions of Islam then Muslims, like most other religions in the UK will slowly become a smaller and smaller part of Muslims' lives.
Delusional. You don't understand religion.
We have to remove them.
Whatever the difficulties have always been with integration, Islamism wasn't a major problem here till the 1980s. The mass propaganda campaign has made a real difference.
Satanic Verses kicked it off, IIRC.
I don't think that can be considered a bolt of lightning that came from nowhere.
That is awful....that kids footwork is all over the shop, bat away from his body and everything. Kids today.
May be we should offer him a place on the team?
The PB team or England? He could get in either somewhere in that middle order.
England hasn't become a terrible team overnight, but it is a team that has two of the best batsmen in the world, a very high quality seam attack amid a total dearth of decent spin and a shaky middle order.
Oh I don't think it's awful, I was just ribbing. In my opinion they have around 8 test quality players at best, and as you say they are short of batsman most of the time as at least two and sometimes three in the side are out of form. Good enough to compete with all the current test sides, but a few players shy of getting ahead of them all.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
I fear it is the latter
Edit:
The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales (although the Rankine scale continued to use "degree Rankine"), but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically (e.g. multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system).
Confirmed!
Absolute zero is -273 kelvin. One would presume that is arbitrary reference point?
You mean celsius, right? 0 celsius isn't that arbitrary, since it is freezing point of water. Similarly for Fahrenheit and brine.
0 Kelvin definitely isn't arbitrary, as it is the lowest possible temperature.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
He's being pedantic - temperatures in Kelvin are expressed as a number followed by K. The number is of course a number of degrees. It is expressed as 140 K rather than 140 degrees K
There is not really a good reason why the "degree" is omitted; but it does serve as a reminder that kelvins are slightly less arbitrary than celsius, as they are an absolute scale.
Actually RobD's explanation makes it clear there is a very good reason why the degree is omitted - its redundant because Kelvin is an Absolute Scale.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
I fear it is the latter
Edit:
The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales (although the Rankine scale continued to use "degree Rankine"), but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically (e.g. multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system).
Confirmed!
Absolute zero is -273 kelvin. One would presume that is arbitrary reference point?
The Honorable and Venerable Order of PB Pedants wish to inform the gentleman that absolute zero is −273.15°C (to two decimal places), which is 0K. Thank you.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
I fear it is the latter
Edit:
The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales (although the Rankine scale continued to use "degree Rankine"), but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically (e.g. multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system).
Confirmed!
Absolute zero is -273 kelvin. One would presume that is arbitrary reference point?
It is absolute not arbitrary. Electons stop moving at that point.
I want Muslims to LEAVE. Fuck them. Kick them out. UGH
All of them, every one of them. Let them go hence.
Not really acceptable dear chap. One of easiest ways to turn co-operative integrating muslims into west-hating jihadis is to villanise all of them
If it is another Islamist attack, I stand by my sentiments.
Enough now.
Western policy should be gently oriented towards the ultimate goal of peaceably removing most Muslims from the western world. Let them prosper in the Middle East. Good luck to them. The idea of happy coexistence, between Islam and plural secularity, within a liberal Europe, is a fond delusion. A delusion which has ended.
Except for the faint of brain.
Instead of targeting Muslims we need to target the sources of funding for extreme Islam. Saudi Arabia, until we do that we're fucked. If we cut off the money supply for extreme versions of Islam then Muslims, like most other religions in the UK will slowly become a smaller and smaller part of Muslims' lives.
Delusional. You don't understand religion.
We have to remove them.
Whatever the difficulties have always been with integration, Islamism wasn't a major problem here till the 1980s. The mass propaganda campaign has made a real difference.
Satanic Verses kicked it off, IIRC.
I don't think that can be considered a bolt of lightning that came from nowhere.
Remember Ray Honeyford, long before the Rushdie fatwa? He pointed out the problems there were with having communities living here who refused to integrate and he pointed out the issues with girls being taken out of school to be married to distant cousins who then settled in Britain. And look at all the abuse he got.
And yet if we had listened to him and thought sensibly about what he was saying and acted on it we might have avoided the problems we have had since then. Too many ifs, alas. We are where we are. Still, just because it is difficult now is no excuse for inaction.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
I fear it is the latter
Edit:
The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales (although the Rankine scale continued to use "degree Rankine"), but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically (e.g. multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system).
Confirmed!
Absolute zero is -273 kelvin. One would presume that is arbitrary reference point?
You mean celsius, right? 0 celsius isn't that arbitrary, since it is freezing point of water. Similarly for Fahrenheit and brine.
0 Kelvin definitely isn't arbitrary, as it is the lowest possible temperature.
That's an insane approach.... mind you they thought January was a decent cut off point when that includes Corbyn's most feverish fans and excludes all who left because of him....
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
I fear it is the latter
Edit:
The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales (although the Rankine scale continued to use "degree Rankine"), but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically (e.g. multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system).
Confirmed!
Absolute zero is -273 kelvin. One would presume that is arbitrary reference point?
It is absolute not arbitrary. Electons stop moving at that point.
I think you mean elections. Too cold for the voters.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
Some PBers have some shocking knowledge when it comes to science, fortunately you and I are here to educate them, as we saw in yesterday's thread header
Keir Hardie, Aneurin Bevan, Tony Blair, Clement Attlee, Eddie Izzard, Diane Abbot we have beaten them all. Dan Hodges can you hear me, Dan Hodges, your party took a hell of a beating.
God Sky saying no idea background of attacker....Can they not use the internet machine or watch German TV? Its not a unconfirmed rumour, a Bayern Minister is quoted by a ZDF journalist.
As always PB the best place to be for the most up to date news from around the world.
The "deal" between Smith & Eagle is completely pointless in an AV system, and just makes the leadership plot look even sleazier.
It's not pointless. It avoids the issue that occurred last time round when 3 candidates attacked each other whilst Corbyn sneaked down the left wing..... By the time the other candidates noticed it was too late...
Plus if the election is 1 attempt and out it means you aren't losing all the plausible candidates if they are adopting that multiple attempts approach...
The news from Germany is sounding a little more positive, if such a thing can be positive, but authorities are scaling back the numbers of those physically injured.
Listening to German News, the Bavarian interior minister has said, 3 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured and the other 14 on the train unharmed. – Attacker was shot dead, attempting to escape.
I believe the 14 are being treated for shock.
Sounds like it may be a relatively lucky escape hopefully (in comparison with what it could have been). To my knowledge Germany has not experienced any major islamic terrorism so far - is there an obvious reason why, when compared with the UK, France, or even Spain?
Germany has a muslim population not far off France in % terms, but it would appear they are much better integrated - they had a much smaller number who went off to Syria. Is that just because the majority of muslims are secular turks, or is Germany doing something right in their assimilation approach?
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
Some PBers have some shocking knowledge when it comes to science, fortunately you and I are here to educate them, as we saw in yesterday's thread header
SeanT wants us gone you know.
He's gone through this phase before.
I remember when he wanted to intern all Muslims, or anyone who looked like a Muslim
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
Some PBers have some shocking knowledge when it comes to science, fortunately you and I are here to educate them, as we saw in yesterday's thread header
SeanT wants us gone you know.
Sean is a drama Queen. In fact, he's Queen of the drama Queens. Just remember, most of us are sensible people .
Are they just going to have an endless cycle of challenges now?
TrumpCorbyn will just get more and more support - see Orkney and Shetland, Winchester etc. Slightly different but I think the same principle would apply.
The news from Germany is sounding a little more positive, if such a thing can be positive, but authorities are scaling back the numbers of those physically injured.
Listening to German News, the Bavarian interior minister has said, 3 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured and the other 14 on the train unharmed. – Attacker was shot dead, attempting to escape.
I believe the 14 are being treated for shock.
Sounds like it may be a relatively lucky escape hopefully (in comparison with what it could have been). To my knowledge Germany has not experienced any major islamic terrorism so far - is there an obvious reason why, when compared with the UK, France, or even Spain?
Germany has a muslim population not far off France in % terms, but it would appear they are much better integrated - they had a much smaller number who went off to Syria. Is that just because the majority of muslims are secular turks, or is Germany doing something right in their assimilation approach?
From what I can gather, there were only 20 people on the train / train carriage when the guy attacked.
As for the big terror attacks, I think it has been well reported that they managed to head off several imminent attacks e.g. remember they cancelled that international football match a few months ago. So I think it might have been luck more than anything else that they haven't had one, they have definitely been planned.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
I fear it is the latter
Edit:
The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales (although the Rankine scale continued to use "degree Rankine"), but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically (e.g. multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system).
Confirmed!
Absolute zero is -273 kelvin. One would presume that is arbitrary reference point?
You mean celsius, right? 0 celsius isn't that arbitrary, since it is freezing point of water. Similarly for Fahrenheit and brine.
0 Kelvin definitely isn't arbitrary, as it is the lowest possible temperature.
You could approach it like that. I was referring to the inserted comment that kelvin did not have a reference point but I was thinking it does as you say the lowest temperature possible.
Incidentally sea water (brine if you prefer) freezes at below 0degrees due to salt content and can freeze as low as -2 or even -3 dependent on salinity.
I used to use brine in the drains of freezer compartments for that reason
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
I fear it is the latter
Edit:
The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales (although the Rankine scale continued to use "degree Rankine"), but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically (e.g. multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system).
Confirmed!
Absolute zero is -273 kelvin. One would presume that is arbitrary reference point?
The Honorable and Venerable Order of PB Pedants wish to inform the gentleman that absolute zero is −273.15°C (to two decimal places), which is 0K. Thank you.
I consider myself suitably admonished and will concentrate on my homework a bit more closely in future. In fairness and mitigation that homework was over 40 years ago.
Who are these people? Which is worse, a sect or a cult? It's certainly not an actual political party any longer.
There's a parasitic liver fluke that infects ants. Each evening, it manipulates the ant's nervous system to force it to climb up a blade of grass, and then locks its mandibles in place. It repeats this every evening until the ant is eaten by a ruminant. The fluke completes its life cycle within said ruminant.
It's like a parable.
Why, I wonder, did God think of that? An odd thought in the creation process?
Evolution moves in mysterious ways its wonders to perform . The fluke forces the ant down as the sun rises - it dies if the temperature becomes too warm.
Poor ants. They have the most gruesome parasites going.
It's not just ants. We humans may also be susceptible to behaviour modification. There's evidence that the parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis, Toxoplasma gondii, tends to make its carriers more likely to engage in risk-taking behaviour. The parasite is carried by cats and other felines, and is passed on to humans through contact with their faeces.
It's hypothesised that this effect stems from the time when humans were subject to being eaten by lions and other large cats. Increased risk-taking would have made the human carrier more likely to end up as a tiger's dinner, thus completing the life cycle of the parasite.
But the thread I had planned to run yesterday afternoon was about you know Corbyn was going to win was that the likes of Cooper, Jarvis etc weren't putting themselves up against Jez.
The "deal" between Smith & Eagle is completely pointless in an AV system, and just makes the leadership plot look even sleazier.
It's not pointless. It avoids the issue that occurred last time round when 3 candidates attacked each other whilst Corbyn sneaked down the left wing..... By the time the other candidates noticed it was too late...
Plus if the election is 1 attempt and out it means you aren't losing all the plausible candidates if they are adopting that multiple attempts approach...
He didn't sneak anywhere. He won a landslide of votes and didn't even need three quidders to win.
I think it is also pretty ridiculous to imagine that Smith and Eagle would not end up attacking one another. The very fact Smith is standing is an attack on Eagle's fitness to lead Labour (and probably a very justified attack).
The news from Germany is sounding a little more positive, if such a thing can be positive, but authorities are scaling back the numbers of those physically injured.
Listening to German News, the Bavarian interior minister has said, 3 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured and the other 14 on the train unharmed. – Attacker was shot dead, attempting to escape.
I believe the 14 are being treated for shock.
Sounds like it may be a relatively lucky escape hopefully (in comparison with what it could have been). To my knowledge Germany has not experienced any major islamic terrorism so far - is there an obvious reason why, when compared with the UK, France, or even Spain?
Germany has a muslim population not far off France in % terms, but it would appear they are much better integrated - they had a much smaller number who went off to Syria. Is that just because the majority of muslims are secular turks, or is Germany doing something right in their assimilation approach?
Aren't most of them Turks? That may explain it. In part anyway.
I want Muslims to LEAVE. Fuck them. Kick them out. UGH
All of them, every one of them. Let them go hence.
Not really acceptable dear chap. One of easiest ways to turn co-operative integrating muslims into west-hating jihadis is to villanise all of them
If it is another Islamist attack, I stand by my sentiments.
Enough now.
Western policy should be gently oriented towards the ultimate goal of peaceably removing most Muslims from the western world. Let them prosper in the Middle East. Good luck to them. The idea of happy coexistence, between Islam and plural secularity, within a liberal Europe, is a fond delusion. A delusion which has ended.
Except for the faint of brain.
Instead of targeting Muslims we need to target the sources of funding for extreme Islam. Saudi Arabia, until we do that we're fucked. If we cut off the money supply for extreme versions of Islam then Muslims, like most other religions in the UK will slowly become a smaller and smaller part of Muslims' lives.
Delusional. You don't understand religion.
We have to remove them.
Whatever the difficulties have always been with integration, Islamism wasn't a major problem here till the 1980s. The mass propaganda campaign has made a real difference.
Satanic Verses kicked it off, IIRC.
I don't think that can be considered a bolt of lightning that came from nowhere.
Afghanistan?
What about it? The war with the Soviet Union? The Taliban?
'Sounds like it may be a relatively lucky escape hopefully (in comparison with what it could have been). To my knowledge Germany has not experienced any major islamic terrorism so far - is there an obvious reason why, when compared with the UK, France, or even Spain?
Germany has a muslim population not far off France in % terms, but it would appear they are much better integrated - they had a much smaller number who went off to Syria. Is that just because the majority of muslims are secular turks, or is Germany doing something right in their assimilation approach?'
Yes the majority are Turks and in many cases contract workers without the German citizenship.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
I fear it is the latter
Edit:
The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales (although the Rankine scale continued to use "degree Rankine"), but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically (e.g. multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system).
Confirmed!
Absolute zero is -273 kelvin. One would presume that is arbitrary reference point?
It is absolute not arbitrary. Electons stop moving at that point.
Actually, it's the atomic nuclei that stop vibrating. The electrons are always moving, insofar as they can be considered to be discrete particles.
Who are these people? Which is worse, a sect or a cult? It's certainly not an actual political party any longer.
There's a parasitic liver fluke that infects ants. Each evening, it manipulates the ant's nervous system to force it to climb up a blade of grass, and then locks its mandibles in place. It repeats this every evening until the ant is eaten by a ruminant. The fluke completes its life cycle within said ruminant.
It's like a parable.
Why, I wonder, did God think of that? An odd thought in the creation process?
Evolution moves in mysterious ways its wonders to perform . The fluke forces the ant down as the sun rises - it dies if the temperature becomes too warm.
Poor ants. They have the most gruesome parasites going.
It's not just ants. We humans may also be susceptible to behaviour modification. There's evidence that the parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis, Toxoplasma gondii, tends to make its carriers more likely to engage in risk-taking behaviour. The parasite is carried by cats and other felines, and is passed on to humans through contact with their faeces.
It's hypothesised that this effect stems from the time when humans were subject to being eaten by lions and other large cats. Increased risk-taking would have made the human carrier more likely to end up as a tiger's dinner, thus completing the life cycle of the parasite.
That's very interesting - I was only vaguely aware of that.
Apparently we're also susceptible to manipulation by our gut bacteria. Having read a lot of Peter Watts, I'm not entirely convinced we're captains of our selves. Much of the time we're merely rationalising actions that something else initiated .
I want Muslims to LEAVE. Fuck them. Kick them out. UGH
All of them, every one of them. Let them go hence.
Not really acceptable dear chap. One of easiest ways to turn co-operative integrating muslims into west-hating jihadis is to villanise all of them
If it is another Islamist attack, I stand by my sentiments.
Enough now.
Western policy should be gently oriented towards the ultimate goal of peaceably removing most Muslims from the western world. Let them prosper in the Middle East. Good luck to them. The idea of happy coexistence, between Islam and plural secularity, within a liberal Europe, is a fond delusion. A delusion which has ended.
Except for the faint of brain.
Instead of targeting Muslims we need to target the sources of funding for extreme Islam. Saudi Arabia, until we do that we're fucked. If we cut off the money supply for extreme versions of Islam then Muslims, like most other religions in the UK will slowly become a smaller and smaller part of Muslims' lives.
Delusional. You don't understand religion.
We have to remove them.
Whatever the difficulties have always been with integration, Islamism wasn't a major problem here till the 1980s. The mass propaganda campaign has made a real difference.
Satanic Verses kicked it off, IIRC.
I don't think that can be considered a bolt of lightning that came from nowhere.
Afghanistan?
What about it? The war with the Soviet Union? The Taliban?
Taliban happened after the Soviet War, it was the Mujihadeen.
"RAMPAGE IN WÜRZBURG Afghan (17) attacked by train with ax ++ He shouted "Allahu Akbar" ++ perpetrators shot ++ Three seriously injured ++ 14 passengers in shock ++"
The news from Germany is sounding a little more positive, if such a thing can be positive, but authorities are scaling back the numbers of those physically injured.
Listening to German News, the Bavarian interior minister has said, 3 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured and the other 14 on the train unharmed. – Attacker was shot dead, attempting to escape.
I believe the 14 are being treated for shock.
Sounds like it may be a relatively lucky escape hopefully (in comparison with what it could have been). To my knowledge Germany has not experienced any major islamic terrorism so far - is there an obvious reason why, when compared with the UK, France, or even Spain?
Germany has a muslim population not far off France in % terms, but it would appear they are much better integrated - they had a much smaller number who went off to Syria. Is that just because the majority of muslims are secular turks, or is Germany doing something right in their assimilation approach?
I posted this back on 15th July.
'If I was in Germany, I'd be slightly concerned. They've dodged a lot of stuff (as have we) and at some point that run of luck will cease.
Certainly IS keep aiming to do something there just as much as they would like to hit the UK, though. At this point Germany has high strategic value: the centre of a fracturing European Union (and don't you believe that doesn't factor into IS strategists calculations)'
This axe merchant is a mere nothing. Germany is in Islamist extremist sights for something far more structured.
Germany escapes because of luck and some judgement. It isn't the assimilation strategy at all. There is good intelligence and policing work and less depth of radicalization just by accident rather than design.
I look forward to the first paper reporting a heatwave in Kelvin!
"Britain to Bake in 308 Degree Heatwave"
Tut tut. The Kelvin scale doesn't have 'degrees'
I was completely unaware of that. Is there an interesting reason why this is? Or is it just some boring Physics reason?
I fear it is the latter
Edit:
The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales (although the Rankine scale continued to use "degree Rankine"), but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically (e.g. multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system).
Confirmed!
Absolute zero is -273 kelvin. One would presume that is arbitrary reference point?
It is absolute not arbitrary. Electons stop moving at that point.
Actually, it's the atomic nuclei that stop vibrating. The electrons are always moving, insofar as they can be considered to be discrete particles.
Electrons move really well at those temperatures: superconductivity.
"RAMPAGE IN WÜRZBURG Afghan (17) attacked by train with ax ++ He shouted "Allahu Akbar" ++ perpetrators shot ++ Three seriously injured ++ 14 passengers in shock ++"
"RAMPAGE IN WÜRZBURG Afghan (17) attacked by train with ax ++ He shouted "Allahu Akbar" ++ perpetrators shot ++ Three seriously injured ++ 14 passengers in shock ++"
"RAMPAGE IN WÜRZBURG Afghan (17) attacked by train with ax ++ He shouted "Allahu Akbar" ++ perpetrators shot ++ Three seriously injured ++ 14 passengers in shock ++"
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'It has a point.
It takes away 1% of the GDP this year, 1.8% in 2017 and another 1.5% in 2018.
PERMANENTLY.'
Cheap at that price,IF the so called experts are actually right for a change !
I don't like the Tory government but I would not support a military coup to topple it.
If the Tory Party started rounding up its opponents, banning criticism of its record, carrying out extra-judicial killings, interning dissenting judges, and proposing reintroducing capital punishment for its enemies, would you be okay with that, because it won the last general election?
Good point, they lost to Labour in 1996
Exclusive Times / YouGov poll - Jeremy Corbyn's ratings go UP in last fortnight (from net +3 to +14)
Jeremy Corbyn will be re-elected imho – Momentum own the party now.
The wording of that question is actually quite unhelpful to Corbyn yet he's still well ahead of... anyone.
Edit:
The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales (although the Rankine scale continued to use "degree Rankine"), but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically (e.g. multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system).
Confirmed!
The Labour Party are over.
There's a parasitic liver fluke that infects ants. Each evening, it manipulates the ant's nervous system to force it to climb up a blade of grass, and then locks its mandibles in place. It repeats this every evening until the ant is eaten by a ruminant. The fluke completes its life cycle within said ruminant.
It's like a parable.
Anyway, does anyone know how yougov are able to verify who are/aren't members?
Do they just poll people on their panel who have previously declared themselves to be members and go with that?
https://twitter.com/ethevessen/status/755156982814928896
I am going to take a wild guess and say we find out he wasn't actually 17.
Poor ants. They have the most gruesome parasites going.
It seems that the average ant brain is merely a joystick for whatever parasite is making use of it at the time.
Good enough to compete with all the current test sides, but a few players shy of getting ahead of them all.
0 Kelvin definitely isn't arbitrary, as it is the lowest possible temperature.
And yet if we had listened to him and thought sensibly about what he was saying and acted on it we might have avoided the problems we have had since then. Too many ifs, alas. We are where we are. Still, just because it is difficult now is no excuse for inaction.
No terrorist incident, just Chicago.
As always PB the best place to be for the most up to date news from around the world.
Plus if the election is 1 attempt and out it means you aren't losing all the plausible candidates if they are adopting that multiple attempts approach...
Germany has a muslim population not far off France in % terms, but it would appear they are much better integrated - they had a much smaller number who went off to Syria. Is that just because the majority of muslims are secular turks, or is Germany doing something right in their assimilation approach?
I remember when he wanted to intern all Muslims, or anyone who looked like a Muslim
As for the big terror attacks, I think it has been well reported that they managed to head off several imminent attacks e.g. remember they cancelled that international football match a few months ago. So I think it might have been luck more than anything else that they haven't had one, they have definitely been planned.
Incidentally sea water (brine if you prefer) freezes at below 0degrees due to salt content and can freeze as low as -2 or even -3 dependent on salinity.
I used to use brine in the drains of freezer compartments for that reason
It's hypothesised that this effect stems from the time when humans were subject to being eaten by lions and other large cats. Increased risk-taking would have made the human carrier more likely to end up as a tiger's dinner, thus completing the life cycle of the parasite.
Cat ownership really can affect your brain.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/toxoplasma-gondii-parasite-that-breeds-in-cats-could-affect-human-behaviour-when-it-infects-people-a6861221.html
But the thread I had planned to run yesterday afternoon was about you know Corbyn was going to win was that the likes of Cooper, Jarvis etc weren't putting themselves up against Jez.
They knew they'd get mullered
I think it is also pretty ridiculous to imagine that Smith and Eagle would not end up attacking one another. The very fact Smith is standing is an attack on Eagle's fitness to lead Labour (and probably a very justified attack).
https://twitter.com/JoshuaRozenberg/status/755030265928507392
'Sounds like it may be a relatively lucky escape hopefully (in comparison with what it could have been). To my knowledge Germany has not experienced any major islamic terrorism so far - is there an obvious reason why, when compared with the UK, France, or even Spain?
Germany has a muslim population not far off France in % terms, but it would appear they are much better integrated - they had a much smaller number who went off to Syria. Is that just because the majority of muslims are secular turks, or is Germany doing something right in their assimilation approach?'
Yes the majority are Turks and in many cases contract workers without the German citizenship.
Apparently we're also susceptible to manipulation by our gut bacteria. Having read a lot of Peter Watts, I'm not entirely convinced we're captains of our selves. Much of the time we're merely rationalising actions that something else initiated
Toss crucial at Old Trafford I think.
Afghan (17) attacked by train with ax
++ He shouted "Allahu Akbar" ++ perpetrators shot ++ Three seriously injured ++ 14 passengers in shock ++"
http://www.bild.de/news/2016/amoklauf/amok-wuerzburg-46881746.bild.html
'If I was in Germany, I'd be slightly concerned. They've dodged a lot of stuff (as have we) and at some point that run of luck will cease.
Certainly IS keep aiming to do something there just as much as they would like to hit the UK, though. At this point Germany has high strategic value: the centre of a fracturing European Union (and don't you believe that doesn't factor into IS strategists calculations)'
This axe merchant is a mere nothing. Germany is in Islamist extremist sights for something far more structured.
Germany escapes because of luck and some judgement. It isn't the assimilation strategy at all. There is good intelligence and policing work and less depth of radicalization just by accident rather than design.