I'm afraid you are right. Several people said that they voted leave but didn't think that their vote would make a difference. They are learning the hard way that it does.
It's a shame, as I'm a fan of direct democracy. This will make countries more reluctant before putting important matters to a referendum.
Do you know of any country other than Switzerland that consistently subjects important matters to a popular vote?
I suppose one can democratically do a second referendum. The consequence will be that the UK will become the laughing stock of the world. It is better than leaving the EU, though.
One can hardly call it a special deal if it applies to the whole EU.
The French election is next year. There will be plenty of time until then to show what foolishness Brexit was. Le Pen has no chance. She would have stood a chance had Brexit not happened.
The only good thing about Brexit is that people like you are soon going to realize what a terrible idea it was. So this poisonous propaganda will stop, and the rest of the union will be saved. I feel sorry for the Brits, though, they will suffer through this crap so that the rest of us don't need to.
Don't believe me? Let's just wait one year, and see what were the short-term consequences of this vote. Then we talk.
I think you are mostly right, except for the part you say that France might want its own deal too. This is unthinkable. The EU is France and Germany. All these regulations that the British wanted to get rid off were championed by the French. Even the Euro was a French idea, rammed down Germany's throat. If France wants out, or wants its special deal, it is the end of the EU.
Are you saying that they are poor because they are dumb? Come on, you are ignorant of the realities of English society. They don't have equal opportunities there. If you want to have a proper education, that costs real money. And I'm not even talking about universities, but about schools.The result is, social mobility is really low. It matters much more whether your parents are rich than whether you are smart.
This does not make any difference in Europe. If they make a withdrawal you don't like, you just call your bank and they reverse it immediately. It happened to me.
You're overthinking it. The results show clearly that the wealthy regions voted to remain, and the poor ones voted leave. This is law number one of politics: if people are doing badly, they are going to vote against the status quo.
The UK is a lost cause, they are worried about other EU countries who might consider leaving if the UK gets a sweetheart deal. What would be worse for the EU, having trade barriers with the UK, or losing Sweden and Denmark?
By lending Greece money with unrealistic pay back terms they are simply guaranteed not to get paid back. This is not a prediction, this is just history. Greece already had three bailouts, and might need a fourth.
Wow. So you like adaptors to protect against ground loops. Do you also walk around with shark-repellant bat-spray, just in case?
For your information, I'm a physicist, so I actually know more about electricity than you ever will. And my professional advice is that you should worry more about being hit by a lightning than about having your motherboard fried by a ground loop.
I'm bitter about the death of VGA. It is not being replaced by a reliable standard, but by a mess of DisplayPort, miniDisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, and USB-C. I still have a VGA laptop, and it still works everywhere I go. But in a few years I'll have to buy a laptop with the least non-standard port and carry with me a bunch of adaptors. Sigh.
You don't travel to conferences, do you? I have just been to a conference in the Czech Republic and had to plug in my laptop into the projector to give a presentation. Which standard did the projector use? That's right, VGA. I just plugged the cable directly in my laptop, whereas all the macfags had to fumble around with adaptors.
Maybe they would convert to pentalobular, since they are so great.
Pentalobe screws are Patented; precisely for that reason.
Holy shit! You are seriously claiming that the reason other manufacturers don't use pentalobular screws is because they are patented? So you predict that when the patents expire evereyone is going to switch to them? Ignoring the fact that none of them switched to the patent-free Torx? And ignoring that Samsung, LG, etc. have shitloads of cash and they could have developed their own screw heads if they thought it was necessary?
Come on, do you actually believe this nonsense, or is Apple paying you to repeat it?
I have been repairing my own smartphones since smartphones exist, and never had a problem with Phillips screws. And if they are as bad as you claim, it is a bit of a mystery why every single manufacturer but Apple uses them. Surely at least one would have seen the light and gone with something different no? Maybe they would convert to pentalobular, since they are so great.
But let's assume for the sake of argument that there is something wrong with Phillips screw. It is perfectly reasonable to think that there can be a better design. But to think that in 2009 one can really invent a useful new design of screwhead is just laughable. If they actually wanted to go with something better than Phillips they would have gone with Torx. The only reason to invent their own standard is to make it more difficult for people to repair their own phones.
Reliable? An iPhone? You must be kidding right? Have you ever seen or even heard of one?
Oh, wait, your whole post is arguing that locked-down unrepeairable crap is somehow more reliable. Yep, the iPhone got much more reliable after the pentalobular screws.
It might be difficult to keep the bodies protected from the sun, as spaceships tend to move a lot. Also, one needs to be careful about how they're tied, otherwise the ropes themselves will transmit enough heat to thaw them. Or infrared radiation from the spaceship.
Hummm. I think the best way to get frozen corpses is to put then in orbit around the Sun just outside Earth's orbit, so that Earth makes a permanent eclipse. That should get them down to just a few Kelvin.
Which extremely low temperatures? I think you are suffering from the common misconception that space is somehow "cold". Well, it ain't, because the sun does shine there. It gets actually really hot. Spacesuits need active cooling systems.
In this particular example, the corpses would be attached to the outside of a spacecraft. I expect the spacecraft to be be around 300 Kelvin, since it's supposed to be habitable. Since vacuum is a really good thermal insulator, I expect the corpses' temperature to be around that. A bit lower than tha when in the shade, and a bit higher than that when exposed to the sun.
Actually this is a question I don't know the answer to: what's the equilibrium temperature of a black body orbiting the Sun more or less at the same distance as the Earth?
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I'm afraid you are right. Several people said that they voted leave but didn't think that their vote would make a difference. They are learning the hard way that it does.
It's a shame, as I'm a fan of direct democracy. This will make countries more reluctant before putting important matters to a referendum.
Do you know of any country other than Switzerland that consistently subjects important matters to a popular vote?
Calling the people of Britain racist for voting out is ridiculous Europeans are the same race.
Tell this to the British that hate the Polish.
I suppose one can democratically do a second referendum. The consequence will be that the UK will become the laughing stock of the world. It is better than leaving the EU, though.
Which specific reforms do you think the EU could have done to keep the UK in?
One can hardly call it a special deal if it applies to the whole EU.
The French election is next year. There will be plenty of time until then to show what foolishness Brexit was. Le Pen has no chance. She would have stood a chance had Brexit not happened.
You might want to check your math, son.
What is most interesting is that this petition was started a month ago by an ex political student who supports Leave.
Do you have a citation for that? I was looking for this information.
I am also an EU citizen.
The only good thing about Brexit is that people like you are soon going to realize what a terrible idea it was. So this poisonous propaganda will stop, and the rest of the union will be saved. I feel sorry for the Brits, though, they will suffer through this crap so that the rest of us don't need to.
Don't believe me? Let's just wait one year, and see what were the short-term consequences of this vote. Then we talk.
I think you are mostly right, except for the part you say that France might want its own deal too. This is unthinkable. The EU is France and Germany. All these regulations that the British wanted to get rid off were championed by the French. Even the Euro was a French idea, rammed down Germany's throat. If France wants out, or wants its special deal, it is the end of the EU.
Are you saying that they are poor because they are dumb? Come on, you are ignorant of the realities of English society. They don't have equal opportunities there. If you want to have a proper education, that costs real money. And I'm not even talking about universities, but about schools.The result is, social mobility is really low. It matters much more whether your parents are rich than whether you are smart.
This does not make any difference in Europe. If they make a withdrawal you don't like, you just call your bank and they reverse it immediately. It happened to me.
You're overthinking it. The results show clearly that the wealthy regions voted to remain, and the poor ones voted leave. This is law number one of politics: if people are doing badly, they are going to vote against the status quo.
Good luck with that.
The UK is a lost cause, they are worried about other EU countries who might consider leaving if the UK gets a sweetheart deal. What would be worse for the EU, having trade barriers with the UK, or losing Sweden and Denmark?
By lending Greece money with unrealistic pay back terms they are simply guaranteed not to get paid back. This is not a prediction, this is just history. Greece already had three bailouts, and might need a fourth.
Nowadays, yes, but soon the VGA ports will disappear from the projectors as well.
Wow. So you like adaptors to protect against ground loops. Do you also walk around with shark-repellant bat-spray, just in case?
For your information, I'm a physicist, so I actually know more about electricity than you ever will. And my professional advice is that you should worry more about being hit by a lightning than about having your motherboard fried by a ground loop.
Antique? Since when projectors with VGA connectors are antique? I have never even seen a projector without a VGA connector!
And my laptop is a T440s, bought in 2014, and a bit thinner than one inch.
I'm bitter about the death of VGA. It is not being replaced by a reliable standard, but by a mess of DisplayPort, miniDisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, and USB-C. I still have a VGA laptop, and it still works everywhere I go. But in a few years I'll have to buy a laptop with the least non-standard port and carry with me a bunch of adaptors. Sigh.
You don't travel to conferences, do you? I have just been to a conference in the Czech Republic and had to plug in my laptop into the projector to give a presentation. Which standard did the projector use? That's right, VGA. I just plugged the cable directly in my laptop, whereas all the macfags had to fumble around with adaptors.
Maybe they would convert to pentalobular, since they are so great.
Pentalobe screws are Patented; precisely for that reason.
Holy shit! You are seriously claiming that the reason other manufacturers don't use pentalobular screws is because they are patented? So you predict that when the patents expire evereyone is going to switch to them? Ignoring the fact that none of them switched to the patent-free Torx? And ignoring that Samsung, LG, etc. have shitloads of cash and they could have developed their own screw heads if they thought it was necessary?
Come on, do you actually believe this nonsense, or is Apple paying you to repeat it?
I have been repairing my own smartphones since smartphones exist, and never had a problem with Phillips screws. And if they are as bad as you claim, it is a bit of a mystery why every single manufacturer but Apple uses them. Surely at least one would have seen the light and gone with something different no? Maybe they would convert to pentalobular, since they are so great.
But let's assume for the sake of argument that there is something wrong with Phillips screw. It is perfectly reasonable to think that there can be a better design. But to think that in 2009 one can really invent a useful new design of screwhead is just laughable. If they actually wanted to go with something better than Phillips they would have gone with Torx. The only reason to invent their own standard is to make it more difficult for people to repair their own phones.
Reliable? An iPhone? You must be kidding right? Have you ever seen or even heard of one?
Oh, wait, your whole post is arguing that locked-down unrepeairable crap is somehow more reliable. Yep, the iPhone got much more reliable after the pentalobular screws.
You are either trolling, or are a paid shill.
It might be difficult to keep the bodies protected from the sun, as spaceships tend to move a lot. Also, one needs to be careful about how they're tied, otherwise the ropes themselves will transmit enough heat to thaw them. Or infrared radiation from the spaceship.
Hummm. I think the best way to get frozen corpses is to put then in orbit around the Sun just outside Earth's orbit, so that Earth makes a permanent eclipse. That should get them down to just a few Kelvin.
Which extremely low temperatures? I think you are suffering from the common misconception that space is somehow "cold". Well, it ain't, because the sun does shine there. It gets actually really hot. Spacesuits need active cooling systems.
In this particular example, the corpses would be attached to the outside of a spacecraft. I expect the spacecraft to be be around 300 Kelvin, since it's supposed to be habitable. Since vacuum is a really good thermal insulator, I expect the corpses' temperature to be around that. A bit lower than tha when in the shade, and a bit higher than that when exposed to the sun.
Actually this is a question I don't know the answer to: what's the equilibrium temperature of a black body orbiting the Sun more or less at the same distance as the Earth?