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Interesting. Taking the London as an example:

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/a...
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

So that's 10.2 billion / 8.1 million people... or £1,259 (1,620 USD) for each person. We could spread it across the country, but then we would need to include the costs for other transport companies.

Is it worth it?!? Maybe... but there are many angles to that argument.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

IBM begs to differ. And IBM doesn't beg very often.

I agree, we wouldn't want those batshit people to find stuff like this:

Link

Back to the normal business of oppressing women and minorities and attempting to islamise the west.

Jasper Maskelyne, a British stage magician, claimed to have invented something very similar during the Second World War. One of the ingredients, however, was asbestos.

https://books.google.co.uk/boo...

Try filetype:torrent the next time you look for a Mettalica song. https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

It was, but the drug was aimed at children...

Ah, the sour sweet tingling pop of popping candy exploding in your mouth. If my watering mouth is anything to go by it seems just like yesterday. Who knew 40 years would pass so quickly?

This is the reason we need to able to mod articles up or down. Who-ever did this 'study' obviously didn't study very hard, seriously, did they even try to google the subject???????????

Concrete:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Airplanes:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Steel:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Shipping: Fucking obvious.

Power: Power storage - a zillion ways to store power.

This is the reason we need to able to mod articles up or down. Who-ever did this 'study' obviously didn't study very hard, seriously, did they even try to google the subject???????????

Concrete:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Airplanes:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Steel:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Shipping: Fucking obvious.

Power: Power storage - a zillion ways to store power.

This is the reason we need to able to mod articles up or down. Who-ever did this 'study' obviously didn't study very hard, seriously, did they even try to google the subject???????????

Concrete:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Airplanes:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Steel:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Shipping: Fucking obvious.

Power: Power storage - a zillion ways to store power.

now, we can *claim* that increasing the power of the particle colliders would increase the detection rate of particles, thus giving a larger statistical analysis base to work from, but with the near-terminal focus being on the Standard Model, where funding is ONLY available if you are working on the STANDARD MODEL, and where deviations from the STANDARD MODEL result in you never receiving funding again... you see where this is going?

OK, but what are these "non-standard" scientists going to do differently? Do they have experiments that would be a better application of our (collective) money than an upgrade in the standard model?

Even if the standard model is somewhat wrong (it's mostly right, just like Newton's model is mostly right), then what experiments would we do differently to verify it?

these are extremely pertinent and insightful questions that i deliberately didn't ask in the reply that started this thread, as i wanted to keep it to just one (albeit long) point. if it's ok with you i'm going to do a "wandering tour" before directly answering, ok?

first thing: the standard model is "right" because as you can see from those "magic constants" listed in that link to spinor.info https://spinor.info/weblog/?p=... it's *MADE* to be "right" by virtue of the unexplained magic constants being altered and adjusted using statistical analysis to fit the available data. on the basis that there's really not a lot of point to publishing magic constants that made the standard model WRONG, would there?? :)

second thing: if you ever get a chance to meet a particle physicist (theoretical or practical e.g. working at CERN) i invite you to ask them this very simple question: what are particles *actually* made of? they won't be able to give you an answer, and there's a very simple reason why: they've been trained (mind-blinkered), through the Standard Model, to think of particles EXCLUSIVELY at one mathematical step removed i.e. in the FREQUENCY domain.

if you're not familar with this, quantum mechanics is basically about doing an FFT (fourier transform). that's really all there is to it. you move *everything* to the frequency domain, and do all math there. so Yang-Mills theory (which is the fundamental basis of modern particle physics theory) as i understand it is basically Maxwell's Equations moved to the frequency domain. https://www.google.co.uk/searc... and i *think* that perspective is confirmed by this paper here http://inspirehep.net/record/1...

so if everything's moved to a mathematical "hands-off" construct, how the hell is anyone supposed to determine what's actually *inside* particles??

where that went wrong was somewhere around the 1930s, when quantum mechanics got such amazing answers that anyone not formulating theories in quantum mechanics terms was basically left with egg on their faces. the ring model. kaluza-klein theory (which has problems raised by its answers that still haven't been addressed).

so if you want to even *start* formulating a theory that begins to predict actual particles, you need something radically different to start *from*. garrett lisi's "exceptional theory of everything" https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.077... was one paper that showed promise, with some predicted new particles, however lisi himself later worked with a mathematician to *prove* that the theory could not work https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.265...

there was another guy, john williamson, "on the nature of the photon and the electron" http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/11095... who moved Maxwell's Equations to 6D Clifford Algebra, and got some startli

i've been studying alternative theories to the Standard Model for years. by amateurs, semi-amateurs, "professionals" operating outside of the peer-reviewed process for "some reason" (see below), as well as academics operating within the peer-reviewed community: piotr zenczykowski, sundance osland bilson-thompson (yes a real person!), and many more.

the amateurs... dang. there's a lot of crap out there.

the semi-amateurs... yyeah they actually get somewhere, generally, but they tend to want to contribute to the Standard Model because that's what everyone else is doing.

professionals operating outside of the peer-reviewed process: i'll describe these below. they're extremely rare (as in: there's only really one group, led by one person)

academics: these tend to focus on the Standard Model. the two that i mentioned - piotr and sundance - actually based their work on Haim Harari's "Rishon Model": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - it was extremely popular in the 1980s but unfortunately did not go anywhere.

there's also "String Theory" which has taken literally decades of extremely talented mathematicians (reducing - or wasting - the world-wide available pool of mathematical talent in the process, was one complaint i saw made by other academics, a few years ago).

all this means we basically have a lot of effort being spent on a theory with at least TWENTY SIX completely unexplained "magic constants"! https://spinor.info/weblog/?p=...

the one exception to this is work by someone called dr randall mills, whose work started somewhere in the 1990s, and, after 30 consistent self-referencing papers (because no peer-reviewed journal would accept them) he and his team published a whopping 1750-page book containing the material. it's *dynamite*. it's the *only* one of the theories that i cannot dismiss "out of hand". it makes sense, it's consistent, it's self-consistent, there *are* mistakes, there *are* "missing pieces"... but the core makes perfect sense even to me with A-Level maths.

now, we can *claim* that increasing the power of the particle colliders would increase the detection rate of particles, thus giving a larger statistical analysis base to work from, but with the near-terminal focus being on the Standard Model, where funding is ONLY available if you are working on the STANDARD MODEL, and where deviations from the STANDARD MODEL result in you never receiving funding again... you see where this is going?

basically i am trying to point out that upgrading the hardware really isn't going to help. the academic peer-reviewed system is so broken that i have really not a lot of hope that things will change. if you are not familiar with this concept, you can google it for yourself: https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

this article - which i had never seen until now - is particularly fascinating: https://www.nature.com/news/pe... which points out that peer-review is "a response to political demands for public accountability". whilst we may claim that, in concert with internet searches and connectivity arxiv (and vixra) are helping to bypass that and allow "public comments" over time to help spot mistakes, it doesn't help with the top journals, which is what most academics read and take seriously. and if those journals are biased....

From 2010:

https://www.google.co.uk/url?s...

Yeah, there's tons of prior art, especially for "one-piece" add-ons. For example check out the MSI BGP100 that I had bought back in 2005.

One thing most people forget is that the Sci-Fi Genre was largelly invented by a woman https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

USSR/Russia have been meddling with foreign politics for decades. The entire "peace" movement was financed by the evil empire, financing everything "anti-war" in the West (while themselves invading neighbors like Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Afghanistan).

Similarly, they also funded "Black liberation".

There is even good evidence of Senator Edward Kennedy offering future cooperation in exchange for Soviet help in getting himself elected... Certainly more evidence of (attempted) collusion, than there ever was against Trump...

But none of it was important, until Trump won the elections — and it became crucially important for the swamp to, if not impeach, keep him occupied and thus less dangerous to the crocodiles.

Case collapsed because accuser lied

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

Case collapsed because accuser lied

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

Case dropped

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

This one is particularly appalling

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

As is this

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

That's 5 in the space of 6 weeks. There was at least one other. The problem of rapists getting away with their crimes is not going to be solved by throwing innocent men under the bus.

Case collapsed because accuser lied

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

Case collapsed because accuser lied

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

Case dropped

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

This one is particularly appalling

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

As is this

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

That's 5 in the space of 6 weeks. There was at least one other. The problem of rapists getting away with their crimes is not going to be solved by throwing innocent men under the bus.

Case collapsed because accuser lied

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

Case collapsed because accuser lied

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

Case dropped

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

This one is particularly appalling

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

As is this

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

That's 5 in the space of 6 weeks. There was at least one other. The problem of rapists getting away with their crimes is not going to be solved by throwing innocent men under the bus.

That bit is true https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

No it doesn't. Posting a link to something sounding vaguely similar is not the same as posting a link t comething. The link does not support the claim Mashiki made.

That bit is true https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

There's only so much speed you can lose when you're flying at and above 80,000ft. Take the SR-71's flight envelope. At 70,000ft, you didn't want to be below 2M, and not above 3M, at 80,000ft the range was even less (2.75M to 3.3M). Plus the whole point was to be faster than any threats (or at least be out of range by the time they reacted).

They looked at the past and extrapolated.
https://www.google.co.uk/imgre...

Yeah, that's bollocks. When I do authenticate user java site:stackoverflow.com, it's not until the third link that I get and answer that looks anything like "store the password in plaintext" and it was on an Android question, where the accepted answer said "use shared preferences". I don't know enough about Android to say whether it is right or wrong, my gut feeling is "wrong".

Contrast all that with the non-ad link that the search string "procter and gamble" generates, which is simply "http://us.pg.com/".

True BUT! When you click on that link (in most browsers without active defenses) you'll see that the click is intercepted and it fires off a POST request to Google anyway, tracking the click, with a link that looks something like:

https://www.google.co.uk/gen_2... string]&s=2&v=2&pv=0.[random number]&me=54:[random number],V,0,0,0,0:6834,h,1,52,i:49,h,1,52,o:214,h,1,51... [many more bits of data] 1,e,C&zx=[some other number]

That will then redirect you to the destination site.

You won't notice it unless you're really tracking requests - if you mouseover the us.pg.com link it doesn't show the Google tracker. If you inspect the source it just looks like a regular HREF link.

Gives Glasgow - Liverpool as 339 miles, but driving it is 220 miles
.

No problem, as philosopher Dirty Harry said, A man's gotta know his limitations.

Apple. Proudly going out of business for over 40 years.

How hard is it for nature to form pyramid shaped rocks with a square base?

Depends on how precisely you mean "pyramid-shaped", and "square base".

The easy case : if you're talking about minerals rather than rocks (many people are fuzzy on the distinction), then a cubic mineral with good {111} and {100} cleavages will beak easily into square-based pyramids. Half-octohedra if you like.

For rocks composed of many grains of (one-to-many) minerals interconnected in various ways ... not so easy. You'd probably be looking for something with fairly regular jointing on two perpendicular axes. That's not difficult - this search link will give you a number of images of thin rock beds which have been fractured in this way, leading to a more-or-less square block structure.

To carve something on a base like that, with sides at an angle to give you a classical "half-octahedron" pyramid shape ... I can't really see something that would necessarily give a weathering habit like that, but given the natural variability of rocks, I could believe it happening.

Do you have a photo of what's puzzling you?

There's always the possibility that what you're looking at is actually a fossil. Some suchians (pseudo- or ancestral- crocodile-a-likes) for example, have many ~square "scutes" with quite steep sides.

This is the sort of thing I am talking about - its a Google Maps Street View of the area in question. Its the middle of the day, so there are some spaces, but come about 6pm and these roads are end to end with parked cars. Take a look around the rest of the city, most of it is like this.

Yeah we hear that thing about Amazon and people seem to think that just because Amazon was a start up that started out by losing money and is now hugely successful it means that all companies that start out losing money can become hugely successful at the flick of a switch.

Amazon had a truly disruptive business model and by the time anybody else realised they could do the same thing, Amazon already had such strong brand recognition, it didn't matter.

By contrast, Tesla is a car manufacturer. There is nothing about a Tesla that cannot be easily emulated by another manufacturer. The only radical thing Tesla has done is made electric cars that are desirable. All previous efforts tended to be aimed at the budget econobox end of the market. As soon as a major manufacturer makes a good electric car that people might want to own because it is good rather than just worthy, Tesla will be toast.

If I were Elon Musk, I'd be looking at trying to getting a head start in areas where traditional manufacturers don't have the advantage. I'd be looking at autonomous driving for the long term future and battery technology for the immediate future. If he has the best batteries, he can stop messing about making cars and just sell them to everybody else and not just car manufacturers. Why does he not see that.... oh, wait.

Cable-markers my good fellow.

If you have enough cables to worry about what goes where, then cable-markers will very likely be part of your inventory.

Or at the very least you'll have cables of different colours.

(alleged) problem.

https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

This guys quite talented https://www.google.co.uk/url?s...

Not as good as the salmon cannon.

I now can't tell if that's a sarcastic response to my sarcastic comment. I now feel like I'm googling recursion!

Are you sure that you're using Google? Your results look very much like the ones I get from DuckDuckGo.

Interesting. Google is my default search engine and I am certainly sing it via the https://www.google.co.uk/ URL

So you linked an 9 year old picture to say the snow hadn't gone a couple of years ago!!!!
Last year:
https://www.google.co.uk/imgre...

A bit of snow, but not much.

That's unusual, what company do you work for?

Previously, I started as a tester in a company known as being one of "the big four", left that for a start-up that didn't succeed and now I work for a company known for opensource governance.

Yup that's how they caught Prince Charles wishing he was a Camilla's tampon! which is kind of appropriate really as when you think about it....... royal family...tampons.. both stuck up c*nts!

Video of Farage giving the line.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

What did the bus say then?

https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

I would rather they cut corporate welfare. I would rather they didn't spend boat loads subsidising supposedly private companies. I would rather they didn't spend billions on trident. I would rather a lot of things really.

As you bring up the Army though did you catch Fallon straight up lying on TV the other day when denying they had broken their manifesto pledge of not cutting the armed forces to less than 82,000 and it now being 79,000? (http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/the-tory-defence-minister-michael.html) Wouldn't suprise me if you did as basically no one picked it up.

Forget squaring the books, it can't be done. Literally can't be. You want policies that put money into public hands, so it can be spent, and taxed and then put back out and so on and the economy grows as the money circulates. Instead they take money out, so spending drops, tax revenue drops and the economy shrinks or stagnates. Inflation keeps going but pay gets frozen (not mp's pay though naturally), sound familiar? They heap money onto private companies to they can fudge numbers and say look it's getting better when it's really not.

Why is it seem you think Armed Forces, Education and NHS should be cut to ribbons just to square the books?

They should have built an LFTR https://www.google.co.uk/url?s...

If I were to check a random sampling of this material - which I can't, because the news article doesn't link to the $!%* leak

Oh ffs. Take your pick of references:
https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_...

Could I also suggest http://www.livinginternet.com/...

Ah, there's the little bugger : "Allt a' Chothruim", the "stream of the balance" ; it's hard to see how to get from that name to the "popular" term, but that's Gaelic for you.

More recently the term "delta watershed" has replaced "corrom" - and the situation is fairly common, with a stream coming from a narrow mountain valley into wider one and building a delta (including steep ones, often termed "alluvial cones"), which happens to sit on a watershed in the larger valley. So, a relatively small change in the delta has a large consequence in the direction of water flow.

It's hardly a new phenomenon (I've seen at least one other example, in Scotland), but this sounds like a fine example.

No, I'm not talking about souls, I'm talking about the difference between the data the car reads in via video and laser etc and what the car then interprets that data to be. The cars don't have knowledge = they do not have awareness relatively speaking.

And see the definition of aware:
https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Because Android phones have headphone jacks and keep their users warm at night.

some people have a short memory , eh fanboy? ;P

And there are some people, who not only don't have a sense of humor - that would be you, but get angry enough to act like a child about it - and that would be you.

Life is hard - it's even harder if you have no sense of humor. You can laugh, or you can blow your stack. Laughing or even ignoreing is a better way to get through life. So chillaxe mon chichi!

And speaking of fanboys, if I had posted something about how Apple products are stupidly expensive, only asshole hipsters with more money than brains buy them, and they suck - you'd be wanting to buy me a drink. Consider posting as an Anonymous Coward before you make a fool of yourself again.

Then again, I'm awaiting you doing just that in your reply. in 3...2...1

Because Android phones have headphone jacks and keep their users warm at night.

some people have a short memory , eh fanboy? ;P

So which of this year's entries did you think deserved to win?

I watched Moonlight, and thought the story in itself was quite weak: Acting, however, was done really well.

I've not seen Hacksaw Ridge, Hidden Figures, and Fences, but from those other movies Moonlight was one of the movies I enjoyed the most (albeit disappointed with the ending).

Imagine a world without lawyers

Sorry, I have been in construction my entire life.

Well, clearly your experience isn't as broad as you think.

First off, unsafe pitch on a roof.. and a parapit wall. Never will you see the 2 of those on the same building unless its a building.

(I know you said business).

No, you are mistaken.

Second If there is a parapit wall its a semi-flat roof

Again, you are mistaken.

Observe the many parapet walls on these archetypal Victorian houses:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/...

None of those are my house, and mine is not in fact Victorian, but you can see the parapet walls separating the houses on pitched rooves. You can see the parapet walls from street view and you can see from the aerial view that there are no flat rooves. My house has a steeper roof than those, with a longer pitch as well.

And they would not use roof "tiles" it would be either originally tar and sand shingles.

There are many roofing materials, and your reasoning only applies for the wood (or tar+sand) ones. My house (as are most of the ones in the picture) are tiled with actual ceramic tiles. Some in the street view you can see artificial slates, some you can see what I suspect are concrete tiles which are heavier still than ceramic tiles and if you noodle round a while in that area, you'll probably enconuter some rooved with real slate. The victorian houses are the ones with the distinctive side return in the aerial view. You can see rows and rows and rows and rows of them all over the place with many parapet walls.

So which one is it?

Ceramic. We considered this brand, which for some reason i remember, but not the one we actually went with:

http://wienerberger.co.uk/prod...

As you can see they are actual ceramic and weigh 1.3 kilos each.

My guess is that you've been in construction in a relatively restricted area where a certain style of roof and building dominates.