News stories that make you think, or not...
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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...
Saw an ad for a watch in a magazine. It said " Accurate to one second in 138,000,000 years". I wondered....Who's going to check?
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Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not attacking what you are saying.TANGODANCER wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:33 pmSaw an ad for a watch in a magazine. It said " Accurate to one second in 138,000,000 years". I wondered....Who's going to check?
But.
There are ways of checking these things. I'll give you a hypothetical.
Let's say you have a new watch mechanism and you set it going.
Unless it's really awful it should tick tock along until you need to rewind it. At that point you can check it's accuracy. It will have either lost time or not against a better standard.
Let's say it's kept up.
Manufacture ten of them, and again repeat the accuracy. Do they all keep time to the same standard, and is that standard as good as the best you know?
By extension of the process above you can determine timing accuracies into the millions of years...
Now, whether or not you REQUIRE a timepiece to be that accurate, well...
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Gee, I think I was joking, mines a Timex...it's pretty good really.Lost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:18 pmNow, don't get me wrong. I'm not attacking what you are saying.TANGODANCER wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:33 pmSaw an ad for a watch in a magazine. It said " Accurate to one second in 138,000,000 years". I wondered....Who's going to check?
But.
There are ways of checking these things. I'll give you a hypothetical.
Let's say you have a new watch mechanism and you set it going.
Unless it's really awful it should tick tock along until you need to rewind it. At that point you can check it's accuracy. It will have either lost time or not against a better standard.
Let's say it's kept up.
Manufacture ten of them, and again repeat the accuracy. Do they all keep time to the same standard, and is that standard as good as the best you know?
By extension of the process above you can determine timing accuracies into the millions of years...
Now, whether or not you REQUIRE a timepiece to be that accurate, well...
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I was merely pointing out how it is done. Not why.TANGODANCER wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:14 pmGee, I think I was joking, mines a Timex...it's pretty good really.Lost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:18 pmNow, don't get me wrong. I'm not attacking what you are saying.TANGODANCER wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:33 pmSaw an ad for a watch in a magazine. It said " Accurate to one second in 138,000,000 years". I wondered....Who's going to check?
But.
There are ways of checking these things. I'll give you a hypothetical.
Let's say you have a new watch mechanism and you set it going.
Unless it's really awful it should tick tock along until you need to rewind it. At that point you can check it's accuracy. It will have either lost time or not against a better standard.
Let's say it's kept up.
Manufacture ten of them, and again repeat the accuracy. Do they all keep time to the same standard, and is that standard as good as the best you know?
By extension of the process above you can determine timing accuracies into the millions of years...
Now, whether or not you REQUIRE a timepiece to be that accurate, well...
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Re: News stories that make you think, or not...
BBC news article with a sheep farmer forecasting his impending ruin.
"During 2017 the UK imported 80,200 tonnes of sheep meat".
"During 2017 the UK exported 89,200 tonnes of sheep meat".
Just think how much we could reduce co2 emissions. Kids could get on with their schoolwork!
"During 2017 the UK imported 80,200 tonnes of sheep meat".
"During 2017 the UK exported 89,200 tonnes of sheep meat".
Just think how much we could reduce co2 emissions. Kids could get on with their schoolwork!
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It's more complicated.Enoch wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:29 pmBBC news article with a sheep farmer forecasting his impending ruin.
"During 2017 the UK imported 80,200 tonnes of sheep meat".
"During 2017 the UK exported 89,200 tonnes of sheep meat".
Just think how much we could reduce co2 emissions. Kids could get on with their schoolwork!
We eat the edible bits and export the inedible bits. Those abroad who eat the inedible bits pretend to export what they call edible bits.
In the end it depends where you buy the sheep meat from as to whether you actually get sheep meat or sawdust and diesel product in a tasty twenty minute oven ready lamb jalfrezi from Aldi. I make sure I know, personally, the animals I eat. It costs more - not in fuel, CO2 footprints, or the Earth- merely in money. Worth every penny in my mind.
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Folk that buy anything labeled 'meat' from anywhere other than a butcher, or a farm, are naive, or optimistic.Lost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:21 pmIt's more complicated.Enoch wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:29 pmBBC news article with a sheep farmer forecasting his impending ruin.
"During 2017 the UK imported 80,200 tonnes of sheep meat".
"During 2017 the UK exported 89,200 tonnes of sheep meat".
Just think how much we could reduce co2 emissions. Kids could get on with their schoolwork!
We eat the edible bits and export the inedible bits. Those abroad who eat the inedible bits pretend to export what they call edible bits.
In the end it depends where you buy the sheep meat from as to whether you actually get sheep meat or sawdust and diesel product in a tasty twenty minute oven ready lamb jalfrezi from Aldi. I make sure I know, personally, the animals I eat. It costs more - not in fuel, CO2 footprints, or the Earth- merely in money. Worth every penny in my mind.
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Absolutely.Enoch wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 3:36 pmFolk that buy anything labeled 'meat' from anywhere other than a butcher, or a farm, are naive, or optimistic.Lost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:21 pmIt's more complicated.Enoch wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:29 pmBBC news article with a sheep farmer forecasting his impending ruin.
"During 2017 the UK imported 80,200 tonnes of sheep meat".
"During 2017 the UK exported 89,200 tonnes of sheep meat".
Just think how much we could reduce co2 emissions. Kids could get on with their schoolwork!
We eat the edible bits and export the inedible bits. Those abroad who eat the inedible bits pretend to export what they call edible bits.
In the end it depends where you buy the sheep meat from as to whether you actually get sheep meat or sawdust and diesel product in a tasty twenty minute oven ready lamb jalfrezi from Aldi. I make sure I know, personally, the animals I eat. It costs more - not in fuel, CO2 footprints, or the Earth- merely in money. Worth every penny in my mind.
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Live footage from outside the embassy:
In a world that has decided
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
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Best headline of the week: Microsoft Paint avoids brush with death.
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I take it that it's a slow headline week then?!Lost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2019 5:04 pmBest headline of the week: Microsoft Paint avoids brush with death.
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This one from my local Daily Telegraph:
"Zachary Guest was woken up by a police officer dressed only in his underwear and dangling from the shelf of a restaurant he broke into."
"Zachary Guest was woken up by a police officer dressed only in his underwear and dangling from the shelf of a restaurant he broke into."
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You have some outrageous police officers
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Even if one could figure out who was wearing underwear and dangling from a shelf, it still leaves questions. If Zachary was in underwear, how could he sleep dangling from a shelf? Alternatively he might have been awoken by an underpanted policeman tripping over a shelf in Zach's restaurant. I guess I'll never know.
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Nor will I, Monty. Nevertheless there is a number of occasions from my youth that I cannot recall. I might add that none of them, as far as I can work out, involved dangling from shelves.
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Headline: Is this a genuine Banksy?
Answer: who gives a fxck?
Answer: who gives a fxck?
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Presumably the owner of the substrate.Lost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2019 7:28 pmHeadline: Is this a genuine Banksy?
Answer: who gives a fxck?
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There is that.Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:58 amPresumably the owner of the substrate.Lost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2019 7:28 pmHeadline: Is this a genuine Banksy?
Answer: who gives a fxck?
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How about "Mother of all legal rows for transman and his baby"
There once was a woman. She took legal steps to become a man. Her female biology was retained but she got given a certificate that made her a him in law. Ten days after receiving his gender recognition certificate, the newly forged bloke went to a fertility clinic and got pregnant through a sperm donor.
The thing gave birth to a child. It was recorded on the birth certificate as the mother. It's going to court to get itself declared the father, which would make the child the first under British law without a mother.
Just get to fxck, eh, silly cxnt.
There once was a woman. She took legal steps to become a man. Her female biology was retained but she got given a certificate that made her a him in law. Ten days after receiving his gender recognition certificate, the newly forged bloke went to a fertility clinic and got pregnant through a sperm donor.
The thing gave birth to a child. It was recorded on the birth certificate as the mother. It's going to court to get itself declared the father, which would make the child the first under British law without a mother.
Just get to fxck, eh, silly cxnt.
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