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Im fact, here's the University of Illinois on why hot magnets don't work: "Some atoms have an interesting property called "spin". These atoms act like tiny magnets, each of which can have its North pole pointing in some direction. Often the spins in a large clump of atoms are so random that they have equal numbers pointing in different directions. Then they cancel out. But in some materials, nearby spins tend to settle down pointing in the same direction. If these clumps of nearby spins (called domains) are also lined up mostly the same way, you end up with a real magnet. The hotter things are, the more energy can be found in them. The reason the spins settled into the lined-up state was that they had lower energy that way. But if it's hot, there's enough energy around for many of them to get out of line. So as the temperature gets warmer, the magnet gets weaker. When it's hot enough, it loses ALL of it's alignment and stops being a magnet at all. Depending on the material, you may need to get things really hot in order to see this effect. Even before the magnet completely loses its alignment in every domain, the domains themselves can shake lose and start pointing different directions. If you cool the magnet down again, the spins inside each domain will line up again with each other, but the domains will still point every which way and your magnet will remain weakened."
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We used to watch chickens getting slotted all the time, but I only ever saw one pig getting the chop and it was very messy. We ate it later as a pig roast which is about as close as you can get to seeing where your food comes from. Pigs, as everyone knows I'm sure, aren't halal. There's actually a good reason for this (rather than just being mumbo jumbo). Biologically pigs are one of the closest beasties to humans, and this means that many of the parasites that live in or on pigs are very dangerous to humans. Back in the day more folks were dying of pig related diseases and infections that any other meat. The banning of pork from the diet was thus an early food hygeine policy being enshrined within the political framework of the day - religious dogma.
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Bystander - someone who wishes they had no clothes on too...
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That's a brilliantly interesting question worthy of A-level physics - and I don't have the answer. It's unlikely that the performance of the lights will alter over time, so it's more likely that they're receiving a reduced power output. Transformers don't actually connect your light with a power supply at all - what a transformer does is create a fluctuating magnetic field that 'creates' a current in a nearby electrical conductor - in this case the wire that leads to your bulb. So for some reason the performance of that magnetic field is being reduced. It's well known that 'hot' transformers underperform because of variations in the volume of hot metals, and vibration in the material. Hence 'overworked' transformers 'buzz' increasing movement and vibration. Any energy being given out in heat and sound is not being generated in light energy. It might just be a cheap crap transformer that does this - but generally in a scientific sense I recommend that transformers are purchased for TWICE the required load. So for a 100W load, get a 200W transformer. It's not a 'proven' concept, but it's easy to understand that if you can pick up a 10kg weight, you're not going to wince when you have a bag of fruit gums.
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Who done it, please - The Killing/Forbrydelsen
Huguenot replied to languagelounger's topic in The Lounge
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Buffeting - an exercise in wishful thinking.
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St Paul's camp and anti-capitalism
Huguenot replied to silverfox's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Starbucks is a highly leveraged commodity business that operates under a feudal financial hierarchy. Despite its liberal branding, it's probably one of the finest examples of 80s americanised corporate homogeny that ever existed. -
I'm sure DaveR knows more about it than any of us, but I think it's pretty safe to say that in Italy's patchwork political tapestry populated by hookers and their johns, an 'elected' seat is no mandate to govern. They're a bit like those safe-seat conservatives reappointed every 5 years irrespective of their views, who think that's somehow a reflection of their intellectual capacity to reject Europe when it's over 50% of exports. I'm pretty confident that a seasoned academic will do a better job of running Italy than a bit of bunga bunga, and Italians probably feel the same way.
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Because I'm a twisted bastard, I took the average jobseeker in Peterborough with his various subsidies and benefits for sitting on his fat arse with electricity, running water and sewage, flatscreen TV, playstation, and cider and investigated where that put him. Top 5% in the world. Now, don't get me wrong, but I think that's a pretty good reason to riot. Maybe break the jaw of a teenage Malaysian and steal the contents of his rucksack whilst pretending to be help him? These guys are very hard done by.
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I don't believe you. I've decided not to believe you. It doesn't matter what eveidence you provide to the contrary. BUT, have you got any foties? ;-)
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Ha ha. http://uploads.notempire.com/images/uploads/rcips.jpg
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I think you're probably watching TV channels that aren't reaching out to people like you. I have a genetic offshoot of my family that would be hooting about the geyser/geezer wordplay for months. The men still sing 'who let the dogs out?' in pubs. They're proud to be geezers.
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The first place to start is that meat can be both halal and meet western abbatoir standards. Thomas is deliberately trying to misrepresent the halal slaughter process as being more cruel or distressing than 'western' methods. It is simply not true. An animal is quite indifferent to the way it is terminated once it has been stunned, and cutting the throat is a perfectly well established western practice. The only real difference between halal and western abbatoirs is that someone has 'blessed' the meat. Hardly a threat to animal welfare. Thomas has also made a couple of sweeping claims there about most take-aways being halal, and halal becoming standard in schools and government institutions that deserve to be backed up by evidence. In fact only Dominos pizza claim to sell majority halal meat, and most of the rest sell only a tiny fraction or none at all. The majority of halal meat in the UK is actually New Zealand lamb - New Zealand is hardly known for it's aggressive posture in taking down western civilizations, religious terror and underming our cultural heritage. It simply has an abbatoir practice of stunning animals before cutting their throats. Evidence for a halal takeover does not include racist or xenophobic articles from the Daily Mail talking about 'secret' halal meat. The predominant target for these articles is people who like to believe that foreigners and those of differing religions are somehow less genetically evolved, are more like animals, less human than white christians. I trust that no-one on this forum is so prejudiced to accept this. Frankly it's going to get put down to more of Thomas' manipulation and bullshit that don't merit a response. In this one Thomas has also tried to key into people's religious and racial anxieties to get his way - a particularly dirty approach. The fact is that Thomas continues to try and single out particlar practices that he thinks might get an edge in a cynical and disingenuous practice to force other people to live by his rules.
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I suspect that those at the top of the tree never worry about money and taxes at all...
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The market will decide - what does this mean?
Huguenot replied to silverfox's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Since a commentary is a view on unfolding events, by definition it has to be created 'on the spot'. If you can't express a view without making an unprompted personal attack on someone who disagrees with you then that's called 'inadequate'. If you are rolling out concepts that you've established before irrespective of, and unaffected by current events then that's called 'dogma'. If you are repeating foolish ideas that talk about the end of society and apocalyptic scenarios then that's called 'puerile onanism'. I'll leave it to readers to decide if they've seen any inadequate dogmatic puerile onanism on the forum. -
St Paul's camp and anti-capitalism
Huguenot replied to silverfox's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
That would be because their staff never set out to do that. -
E.D.Station controlled parking zone
Huguenot replied to joobjoob's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Surely, the fact that the second area did not want a cpz suggests that actuslly the 'edge' concentration had not impacted them significantly? Does that lay to rest one of the 'no' campaign arguments? -
E.D.Station controlled parking zone
Huguenot replied to joobjoob's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
first mate, was there any study of the people who have actually had the CPZ and whether they're satisfied without the outcome? That would seem to be the key figures. -
E.D.Station controlled parking zone
Huguenot replied to joobjoob's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Regarding the 'guessing' I was merely balancing the books on your 'guess' ( as per this commment: "...they are just starting a consultation to expand it. I presume because of the edge concentration problem" © Loz ) I wasn't suggesting the council did the survey. There seems to be tens of people and traders mobilised without good reason on a speculative, aggressive and ambitious no campaign - a much better use of their energy would be to actually find out if they're useful or not? I suspect they don't want to do that because they're scared that the answer may inconvenience them (which is what I suspect this no campaign is all about anyway). -
E.D.Station controlled parking zone
Huguenot replied to joobjoob's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Or maybe the local residents have discovered just how pleasurable life is without parasitic commuters and lazy shoppers hijacking their neighborhood? Seriously... easy way to find out isn't there? Go survey the local residents and see who wants it removed and who wants it kept? Or are the 'no' group not keen on that? -
E.D.Station controlled parking zone
Huguenot replied to joobjoob's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
This may sound daft - but if the Herne Hill CPZ is installed and working, then why isn't there feedback on the success of that scheme? Is it just that the people opposed to the CPZ don't want to hear that it actually worked? And the edge concentration didn't have the impact people thought? And that in fact everyone's happier and the communters have been pushed out and local residents are free to live their lives without the sensation that they're living in someone else's carpark? -
I understood with AI that the objective with recent systems has not been to define the connectivity in advance, but to allow the AI to define the decisions needed to reach those goals. Hence it's possible for complex systems to flourish that are outside the capacity of humans to interpret - effectively to outstrip our own abilities. Some of the more intriguing current work has actually been exchanging the setting of goals with the delivery of rewards. If you imagine that all the complexity of evolution has been driven by organisms seeking the fairly simple rewards of continuance and reproduction, it doesn't seem very peculiar to me that Articifical Intelligences could deisgn systems for delivering these rewards that far outstrip our ability to comprehend them. It doesn't scare me at all - simply on the basis that as humanity becomes more intelligent it increases its desire to collaborate with internal and external systems and preserve parallel and interdependent ecosystems (such as our environment). In that sense, the risk with AI, as with people, seems to lie with the stupid ones, not the intelligent ones.
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E.D.Station controlled parking zone
Huguenot replied to joobjoob's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
If you don't want to live in a CPZ that's entirely fair - but that's no justification to prevent other people who DO want to live in a CPZ from doing so. These arguments about 'thin end of the wedge' and 'whole area being swallowed' ('e' to 'g' in your example) are a completely irrational escalation. You will get the chance to decide on a CPZ for your area if there is a CPZ being discussed for your area. These claims are a highly cyncial ploy designed to negate rational debate, and inflate mob hysteria - see 'reds under the beds' and 'monsters in the cupboard'. I don't believe that the council are deliberately trying to ignore the 'no' vote at all. There's an imbalance in the relationship - the 'no' camp are abusing local residents by trying to force them to carry the brunt of commuter problems whilst using their streets as a convenient parking lot when shopping. The 'yes' camp have no such recourse. The 'no' camp are indulging in the most obtuse form of bullying with zero come-back. The council are rightfully trying to prioritise the needs of local residents who should have a say in whether their own residential area gets turned into a parking lot by parasitic commuters and convenience shoppers. -
E.D.Station controlled parking zone
Huguenot replied to joobjoob's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
Is anybody really surprised that there are many 'against' signatures? What I'm surprised about is that those people who signed it haven't realised the implications of what they've done: Firstly, if you don't live in the CPZ the in general you will either be indifferent to it, or against it. Nobody outside the CPZ is going to vote in favour of it because it's illogical to vote in favour of a restriction that affects someone else's street, it would seem rude. There's only two* valid reasons to vote against it if you are outside the zone. Either: (a) you think the problem will be transferred to you, in which case you accept there is a problem (b) you use that zone to park in when you use the station, in which case you're part of the problem So inadvertently every single one of those votes against the CPZ from people outside the zone are in fact the very proof that the zone needs to be created. Hence in any logical assessment a vote against the CPZ by residents who live outside the zone is in effect a vote in favour of the CPZ. *It's possible that you have a political agenda which is indifferent to the actual situation, in which case your objection is not valid by definition.
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