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- Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Derek Chauvin trial
- Replies: 596
- Views: 41847
Re: The Derek Chauvin trial
People should also remember the other knee was on George Floyds back. Thus also inhibiting his ability to breathe. It doesn't have quite the shock factor of a knee on the back of the neck, but it's quite reasonable to believe that this was actually what killed him. IIRC BlackMac was saying this was...
- Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: "I thought it was my taser" Shooting
- Replies: 79
- Views: 6179
Re: "I thought it was my taser" Shooting
Perhaps it was a genuine mistake. Will have to ask the few cops I know if they can distinguish the different without seeing their weapon. But I think there may be a case for having cops particularly those in the US to have 'less-lethal' options in terms of ammunition. Or at least a mix. Which is po...
- Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:33 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Would the English support a Lions team with no England players?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3132
Re: Would the English support a Lions team with no England players?
I'd much prefer a Lions squad with no England players.
- Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Death Penalty
- Replies: 159
- Views: 11186
Re: Death Penalty
You have a lot of support for this post, but in my case at-least, I went out of my way to be clear that it would not be dolled out as any type of punishment nor deterant. As you have said before, your views on the death penalty are not that it is a punishment nor a deterrent, but simply that the co...
- Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Death Penalty
- Replies: 159
- Views: 11186
Re: Death Penalty
You have a lot of support for this post, but in my case at-least, I went out of my way to be clear that it would not be dolled out as any type of punishment nor deterant. As you have said before, your views on the death penalty are not that it is a punishment nor a deterrent, but simply that the co...
- Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Covid Vaccine
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2797
Re: Covid Vaccine
I don't price myself so highly. 1 can of Aldi super strength lager and a night in Scunthorpe and I'd inject horse piss.
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Death Penalty
- Replies: 159
- Views: 11186
Re: Death Penalty
Violence tend to be mimetic, I'm not sure the death penalty makes societies less violent, I actually believe the opposite. Indeed, the state is endorsing the idea that revenge and murder can be deserved. yep, on a side note there has always been "exceptions" to the "thou shall not kill rules" in ev...
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 61014
- Views: 3360809
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
The economist has an interesting graph on the subject of excess deaths: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker Russia: 72k Covid but 425K Excess deaths :shock: Yeah - There's plenty of countries that have seriously downplayed the number of casualties. Can we be s...
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 61014
- Views: 3360809
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
The economist has an interesting graph on the subject of excess deaths: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker Russia: 72k Covid but 425K Excess deaths :shock: Yeah - There's plenty of countries that have seriously downplayed the number of casualties. Can we be s...
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Death Penalty
- Replies: 159
- Views: 11186
Re: Death Penalty
I find myself in a self contradictory position on this. On the one hand, I am totally opposed to the death penalty in any circumstance, even for the most terrible crimes and when guilt is certain. On the other hand, I don't have any real issue with drone strikes targeting individuals who are known ...
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:20 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Investing
- Replies: 440
- Views: 18859
Re: Investing
If I've understood your point: your decision to invest is based on a belief that investment is self-evidently socially necessary and for that reason you probably won't be backing a lame horse provided you've spread your money around a bit. My reasoning is fairly simple. It is that usually, once it ...
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:09 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: "I thought it was my taser" Shooting
- Replies: 79
- Views: 6179
Re: "I thought it was my taser" Shooting
There is a vast gulf between just letting him go and shooting him, even shooting him with a less lethal taser. The job is to protect and serve, and that can be managed over a 24 hour period of tracking him down and arresting him if needs be, and adding the charge of resisting arrest, and adding ano...
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Death Penalty
- Replies: 159
- Views: 11186
Re: Death Penalty
I find myself in a self contradictory position on this. On the one hand, I am totally opposed to the death penalty in any circumstance, even for the most terrible crimes and when guilt is certain. On the other hand, I don't have any real issue with drone strikes targeting individuals who are known t...
- Tue Apr 13, 2021 12:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Have we reached the tipping point?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3615
Re: Have we reached the tipping point?
Virus complains it has killed its host. I agree Reacharound crew is forum aids. Anybody with less than 10 posts on their last 50 on rugby banned . Get rid of all the Engli....eh I mean weirdos This is actually a very good suggestion :thumbup: Homoerotic observations about a player's thighs don't co...
- Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Have we reached the tipping point?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 3615
Re: Have we reached the tipping point?
Virus complains it has killed its host.
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 4:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 61014
- Views: 3360809
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
EU orders AstraZeneca to hand over ALL vaccines made at Dutch plant funded by UK taxpayer - Isn't that just slightly unlawful? Invest in the EU27 & risk the totalitarian European Commission taking over isn't a sensible investment strategy. And now the EU is trying to discredit the J&J vaccine. They...
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Fusion power to be a reality?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2232
Re: Fusion power to be a reality?
I'd love to be wrong, but I'm extremely sceptical. There is too much that feels like "raising funds so the initial investors can get a return" about this sort of puff piece.
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 8:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
Re: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
Thanks LiL - I don't recall ever hearing of Clifford before. Will definitely read up on him. If we are doing Einstein's acceptance speech "I must thank my agent" type stuff, I'm pretty sure he would also mention Ricci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Ricci-Curbastro Edit to add - so in the fir...
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 7:40 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
Re: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
Nice OP. Thanks for that, one of the reasons to inhabit the place. Nothing in that rather spurious bbc article about the likely implications of this... if there's a specific outstanding problem in physics such a result if confirmed is seen as potentially solving. Or is it simply, gosh, we've got so...
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 7:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
Re: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
In the context of GR, I presume (though don't know) that Einstein came up with it. For more general application in differential geometry the idea had been around for a while.Short Man Syndrome wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:59 pm Was Riemann the guy who came up with metric tensors?
*googles*
Ah, no!
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 6:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
Re: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
I had to look up Riemannian Manifold. :thumbup: I shared some lectures with theoretical physicists. Some of them transferred to pure maths because TP was too practical/experimental for their tastes. :uhoh: Without Riemann's groundwork, Einstein wouldn't have got anywhere with General Relativity. He...
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
Re: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
I had to look up Riemannian Manifold. :thumbup: I shared some lectures with theoretical physicists. Some of them transferred to pure maths because TP was too practical/experimental for their tastes. :uhoh: Without Riemann's groundwork, Einstein wouldn't have got anywhere with General Relativity. He...
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:16 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
Re: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
Well they are pretty much the definition of "not stupid".Short Man Syndrome wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:46 pm I see the eggheads have just guaranteed themselves more funding for a few years...
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
Re: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
If that is the case, it would mean ripping up the last 120 years and starting again.
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
Re: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
You're doing yourself a disservice there. I've read 5 articles and watched 2 videos about this today, and your explanation was by far the easiest to follow. Thanks. :blush: The description of spin is about standard for any I've seen in non-physics circles. "It spins, but it doesn't actually, it's j...
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
Re: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
You're doing yourself a disservice there. I've read 5 articles and watched 2 videos about this today, and your explanation was by far the easiest to follow. Thanks. :blush: The description of spin is about standard for any I've seen in non-physics circles. "It spins, but it doesn't actually, it's j...
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
Re: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
You're doing yourself a disservice there. I've read 5 articles and watched 2 videos about this today, and your explanation was by far the easiest to follow. Thanks. :blush:
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
Re: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
I suppose, even without waiting for the 5-sigma, brains are getting inventive to put up a theory? Got to be early to get the prize. ;) There are already a few ideas for new particles and in particular one called a leptoquark which is theorised to interact with leptons (the group of particles which ...
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Possible hint of a new force or new particle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3025
Possible hint of a new force or new particle
There was a time a few years ago when new physics discoveries were a regular topic of debate on here. Obviously since then the Bored has pivoted to become a perpetual Irish vs English (and DAC) shitfight, but just in case there is still anyone who is interested and who hasn't seen it, Fermilab have ...
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:27 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Why do the British pretend they won WW2?
- Replies: 303
- Views: 17907
Re: Why do the British pretend they won WW2?
You don't need to be Agnes Nutter to predict that!feckwanker wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:09 am Judging from the title, I guessed exactly how this thread would pan out.
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 5:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Lifehack thread
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2005
Re: Lifehack thread
I read this some years ago and it resonated with me. How To Live Like A King By Thor Harris 1. Don’t smoke cigarettes. 2. Drive old Japanese cars. Easy and cheap to fix and they run for f**king ever. 3. Buy most of your groceries from the produce section. Most of that other shit is not actually foo...
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 11:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 61014
- Views: 3360809
- Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 61014
- Views: 3360809
- Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:00 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Russia v Ukraine war thread - no political discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 6083
- Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 61014
- Views: 3360809
- Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Derek Chauvin trial
- Replies: 596
- Views: 41847
- Thu Apr 01, 2021 12:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Derek Chauvin trial
- Replies: 596
- Views: 41847
Re: The Derek Chauvin trial
Is it possible to have one thread on here which maintains a sensible discussion about the issues without resorting to insults and accusations against the posters?
- Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 61014
- Views: 3360809
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Is anyone in the EU actually going to be held accountable for the mess they have made of the vaccination rollout? There is clearly a lot of 'blame game' both internally and externally going on but is there anyone actually accountable for the situation? Its easy to say the blame ends at the top but ...
- Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:27 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ethiopian Plane Crash
- Replies: 692
- Views: 77359
Re: Ethiopian Plane Crash
Its usually written on the itinerary! It's not like you have to be an aircraft engineer. They will rebrand the hell out of it before its name appears on any future itinerary. "Welcome aboard this Boeing xx73x23x. We hope you have a pleasant flight. Don't be alarmed that the cabin crew are currently...