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Survey Says To UK — Repeal Laws of Thermodynamics
mostxlnt writes "As we noted, the new Tory UK government has launched a website asking its subjects which laws they'd most like repealed. There are proposals up for repeal of the Laws of Thermodynamics: Second, Third, and all (discussion thread on this one closed by a moderator). One comment on the Third [now apparently deleted] elucidated: 'Without the Third Law of Thermodynamics, it would be possible to build machines that would last forever and provide an endless source of cheap energy. thus solving both potential crises in energy supply as well as solving the greenhouse gas problem in one step... simples... eh?'"
These aren't complete idiots. Everyone knows the First Law is what prevents robots doing harm to humans.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I dont know, look at Di hydrogen Monoxide...nearly got banned in California.
I remember a news article that circulated around the communications company where I worked, on some April 1st, saying that Shannon's Law had been repealed, and the company was ready to release a new product offering high speed Internet access over HF on a 2.8 kHz channel. So, I'd vote for Shannon's Law to be repealed.
Parent is a restatement of the second law of Thermodynamics. Idiots flow from areas with fewer idiots to areas with more idiots, but it takes work to reverse the flow and decrease the idiot density of one (low-density) area while increasing the idiot density of another, higher-idiot-density area.
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
Gravity, that Law that keeps me form drifting out into space and into the sun?
Wait, if Gravity were gone, that wouldn't happen, because the sun couldn't pull me either.
What the hell would happen?
I don't post AC. I like my -1, Flamebaits. Trump/Sheen 2012 on the Batshit Insane ticket!
We need simple easy to remember mathmatical and physical constants. Alabama failed to pass this modification to the universe. Washington could do much better.
When I was young, I had to rub sticks together to compute.
Did parent and GP just describe the influx of people from high-replacement rural areas to low-replacement urban areas, or did I miss something?
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When you are caught break a regular law (speeding, larceny, etc.), you can expect to be punished with a fine or worse.
If you manage to break any of the Laws of Thermodynamics, you can expect to be lauded, copied, co-author a stream of high-impact papers, get offered some cushy sinecures, and eventually receive a Nobel prize.
The far likelier outcome, of course, is to be given an Ignobel prize, for a fruitless and ill-conceived waste of effort. I suspect the UK government can look forward to at least an honorable mention at the next Ig award ceremonies.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
The first law of Thermodynamics is that YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT THERMODYNAMICS!
If a man empties his purse into his head no man can take it from him. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/restoring-civil-liberties/repeal-the-british-north-america-act-1867
...rule 34?
is it a law?
Wealth is the gift that keeps on giving.
Once. I mentioned to my Dad how neat the centrifugal force was. Then he pushed me off.
Nonsense - feminists have been campaigning against the laws of Thermodynamics for years: they are sexist, as they favour men, who can understand such complex issues, while women only want to worry their pretty heads about perfume "because they are worth it"
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The reason this is largely being treated as a joke by the British people is that most of the unpopular laws are coming from Brussels, not London.
I found another online survey the results of which reflects similar sentiments.
Yup, the Libs think that too. Aren't they just adorable?
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Boundary> http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/07/05/nick-clegg-to-repeal-second-law-of-thermodynamics/
The really clever bit being that Professor Brian Cox really is a top-ranking physics professor, who was indeed the keyboardist for the band D:Ream who did have a UK number one hit "Things can only get better" that was used as the election theme tune for the previous government. Which puts the satire way above The Onion. You'd have thought that a CERN scientist wouldn't have penned such an inaccurate song, although "Things will get more and more random" probably wouldn't have achieved the same chart success.
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http://newsarse.com/ is a British sporting version. Good for a giggle.
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You'd have thought that a CERN scientist wouldn't have penned such an inaccurate song, although "Things will get more and more random" probably wouldn't have achieved the same chart success.
That depends on your stance on randomness. He's obviously in favour of it.
Brain surgery - it's not rocket science!
The problem is that the idiot-detecting demon at the front door (let's call him Maxwell) will, sadly, become more stupid with each idiot he allows to walk outward, and each idiot he refuses entry. Ultimately, Maxwell will be enough of an idiot that he will fail to function.
...don't you hate it when you take an analogy way too far and still, somehow, it holds?
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.