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  1. Re:They should mesure it in miles. on Astronomers Fix the Astronomical Unit · · Score: 1

    are we talking about a cloud of condensed water vapour, a cloud of droplets, or a cloud of steam?

    For the last, that's easy: any gas at ground level and standard temperature and pressure has a density of 1 mol per 27 cubic metres. For monatomic oxygen, that's approximately 16 grams of gas in a fairly large room.

    For the others, pick a number out of your arse, that's probably as good a guess as you're gonna get.

  2. Re:They should mesure it in miles. on Astronomers Fix the Astronomical Unit · · Score: 1

    depends what it's made of (foam rubber or neutronium?) and where you are measuring it (an object weighs 2.36x more on Jupiter than it does on Earth. The same object weighs 27x more on the Sun than it would on Earth. Its mass would be the same).

    The SI unit of weight is the Newton. This is defined as the contact reaction-force against the force of gravity, for an object at rest on the ground. For a solid object with a mass of 1 kilogram, weight is equal to 9.80665 Newtons.

    Incidentally, the outward force (centripetal acceleration) imparted by the spin of the Earth means that the weight of an object at rest is slightly less at the Equator than it is at either Pole. Such observation is proved by the slight equatorial bulge of the Earth caused by the same outward force.

  3. Re:They should mesure it in miles. on Astronomers Fix the Astronomical Unit · · Score: 1

    1602 metres (to use the CORRECT SPELLING).

  4. Re:Fool of an MP on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    Oh, snap! Somebody gets it!

  5. Re:It's about time on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    Poster #41320397 here.

    I kind of like what Children and Young Persons Act 1933 says.

    Better to get it from the definitive source than Wikipedia.

    I don't know if there is something similar in place here in America. It mentions victims, witnesses, and suspects, but is limited to children apparently. I so wish we could extend that to all persons rather than just children. Because it doesn't seem like it takes much to tarnish someone's good name by mentioning them on the news. Notice the exemptions which I won't bother pasting here.

    A conviction remains on that individual's record even after appeal? What sort of appeal are you referring?

    Anything from the Appeal Court at the High Court, to the Supreme Court, to the House of Lords (very rare this happens now), to European Court of Human Rights (even more rare than HL because the lower courts have got themselves a loophole that they can withhold their judgements and prevent cases being *accepted* by the ECHR).

    If someone appeals their original conviction, and it is overturned (maybe they were innocent?), do they still have that mark on their record?

    Because the original allegation involves children, yes.

    Check out Ex-football player, wrongly jailed for rape, wants money from state

  6. Re:Technology on Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics · · Score: 1

    Pretty much every map I've ever used has axial North up. Only time magnetic North comes into play is on global maps, where it's marked somewhere in the Canadian wilderness.

  7. Re:Technology on Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics · · Score: 1

    perpetual patent #0. Owned by $Deity. Released into the public domain January 1 4613BCE.

  8. Re:But... on Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics · · Score: 1

    the helmets looked cool but they're not very comfortable unless you get yourself a Jarhead cut (or a Milan Mohawk). IIRC the only character to wear a Jar was Kowalski.

    (source: I have one I wear when on my motorcycle, it's an Orlite M83)

  9. Re:But... on Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics · · Score: 1

    At least three episodes and one movie from SG-1: 2001, 2010 and 1969, and the movie Continuum. From Atlantis there's the one where Shepard is thrown 50,000 years into the future and Atlantis is abandoned, the sun is expanding and his only companion is a hologram of the Most Annoying Guy In The Universe. From Universe there's a story arc near the end of S2 where Destiny meets the descendants of her crew.

    I am a geek.

  10. Re:Patents? on Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics · · Score: 1

    yeah... I think there's a case for prior art, there.

  11. I knew HP had been around for a while... on Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics · · Score: 1

    ...but 7,000 years and they can't put together a decent laptop?

  12. Re:Fool of an MP on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: -1

    see? Wasn't too difficult, was it? That's all I asked for. Thank you.

  13. Re:It's about time on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    A Schedule 1 offender is someone who has been convicted under schedule 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933. This is a list of serious offences that includes murder, manslaughter, assault, cruelty and a range of sexual offences. Therefore, it's a short way of saying "keep this person away from your offspring, s/he is a significant risk to them". Schedule 1 offences are not considered as spent under the terms of The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, therefore once tarred with that brush, even if the individual did not do anything (miscarriages of "justice" have been known to happen), even if successfully appealed, that conviction remains on that individuals' permanent record.

  14. Re:Fool of an MP on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: -1, Troll

    They are all assertions until you cite your sources.

  15. Re:Fool of an MP on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 0, Troll

    no, the burden is on you to prove your assertions. Or I call bullshit.

  16. Re:Or for victims of child abuse on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    busted by my own link.

  17. Re:Or for victims of child abuse on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    yes. This is nothing more than a scare tactic to prevent any more books like from coming out. And that's one of the tamer ones (I've read it).

  18. Re:Police Reports? on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    nah, just one: section 71 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA). Guaranteed immunity for *ANY* State official or agent who turns evidence in *ANY* other case.

  19. Re:It's about time on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    several of our esteemed politicians have schedule 1 form. I shit ye not.

  20. Re:Fool of an MP on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 0, Troll

    citations needed.

  21. Re:Fool of an MP on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    mod up.

  22. Re:Fool of an MP on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    ...or simply normalise it by exposing five year old kids to sex education.

  23. Re:Fool of an MP on MP Seeking To Outlaw Written Accounts of Child Abuse · · Score: 1

    The point of this is that it potentially outlaws children making their own accounts of abuse while they're in State care - which is already illegal (tangentially) as Jack Straw's parting gift to the World was to outlaw complaints from children in "care" if they're being abused by their caregivers. Fucked up but completely true.

  24. Food Cubes on Star Trek Tech That Exists Today · · Score: 1

    Chicken Pot Noodle.

    There's no chicken in it.

    It's textured soy protein.

    Much like food cubes.

    'Scuse me, I think I hear a fly screaming...

  25. Re:this is beyond ridiculous on Author Threatens To Sue Book Reviewers Over Trademark Infringement · · Score: 1

    so it's going nowhere fast?