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Post by Mr Whippy on Mar 18, 2018 13:41:32 GMT
At the end of January Neil Diamond announced he had Parkinson's Disease and would end touring.
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Post by Slinger on Mar 18, 2018 16:13:03 GMT
I was never a fan, but it's sad to see Neil perhaps going the way of Glen Campbell.
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Post by stanleyb on Mar 19, 2018 23:48:24 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Mar 20, 2018 0:09:08 GMT
I've agreed with you all the way. Self driving trucks even more scary!
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Post by Slinger on Mar 20, 2018 13:56:47 GMT
Researchers have produced a metal with exotic electrical properties by mimicking a pattern from Japanese basket-weaving. Kagome baskets are characterised by a symmetrical pattern of interlaced, corner-sharing triangles; the pattern has preoccupied physicists for decades. Metals resembling a kagome pattern on the atomic scale should exhibit peculiar electrical characteristics. The team behind the first kagome metal has published details in Nature. Their product is an electrically conducting crystal, made from layers of iron and tin atoms, with each atomic layer arranged in the repeating pattern of a kagome lattice. When they passed a current across the kagome layers within the crystal, they found that the triangular arrangement of atoms induced strange behaviour in that current. Instead of flowing straight through, electrons instead veered, or bent back within the lattice. This weird behaviour is linked to the physics of the quantum world, which takes over at tiny scales. For example, in quantum mechanics, objects can have the characteristics of both a particle and a wave. "By constructing the kagome network of iron, which is inherently magnetic, this exotic behaviour persists to room temperature and higher," said co-author Joseph Checkelsky, assistant professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, US. These 'Kagome lattices' are projected to have an impact on the real-world fields of quantum computing and hi-fi fuses **. SOURCE**Fake News |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 20, 2018 14:48:59 GMT
I want my SR Purple now!!!
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Post by Chris on Mar 20, 2018 19:51:25 GMT
These self driving cars - why are you boys against them? Humans cause most of the accidents. It's looking like that woman walked out in front of the thing. And there was someone in it as well!
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Post by MartinT on Mar 21, 2018 6:41:43 GMT
I know only too well how technology can go wrong. Not enough fail-safes in the designs yet.
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Post by Chris on Mar 21, 2018 8:59:47 GMT
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Post by Slinger on Mar 21, 2018 13:00:57 GMT
Good news for many, I know... The BBC says it wants to keep FM radio for the foreseeable future rather than switch over entirely to digital.
BBC director of radio and music Bob Shennan said that "audiences want choice". "We need to do more in the UK before we consider a switchover and for that to be genuinely led by the audience," he told a conference in Vienna. "We are fully committed to digital and we believe we should review the landscape again in a few years' time."
Personally, I've switched to DAB and internet radio already but I know a lot of people either still have patchy DAB coverage or simply prefer the "sound" of FM.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 21, 2018 15:27:50 GMT
These self driving cars - why are you boys against them? Humans cause most of the accidents. It's looking like that woman walked out in front of the thing. And there was someone in it as well! They are coming whether we like it or not. Only a question of time and maybe timing. The AI will get there. There will be fatalities. Nothing like now though when us Muppets are driving. Hazarding a guess... down 95% |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 21, 2018 15:42:18 GMT
Inexorably removing all the fun from life  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 21, 2018 15:50:06 GMT
Future generations will wonder how we managed it and were happy with the amount of deaths.
The fun left for me when the speed cameras came in. Not that I ever exceeded the speed limit of course.
The drink driving law removed the fun for an awful lot of people
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2018 16:17:40 GMT
I think for general travel, then automated cars are a great idea and will hopefully/likely reduced road deaths. But and it is a big but, I don't think they should be the only travel, die-hard car fans should still be able to own their own car and drive it.
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Post by Chris on Mar 21, 2018 17:00:29 GMT
The "big problem" with self driving cars is that they follow the rules! No human does that when they're driving  |
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Post by Slinger on Mar 22, 2018 12:59:23 GMT
Two of the three companies currently bidding to produce the UK's post-brexit, blue, passports are French. BBC News is now reporting that "The new UK passport to be issued after Brexit will be made in France, according to the current British manufacturer." The boss of UK supplier De La Rue told the BBC that Franco-Dutch firm Gemalto had won the £490m contract. Note that it's not the government, who put the job out to tender, that is announcing this, nor is it the winning bidder, it's the company that has lost the contract. The Home Office said a winning bid had been chosen but it was up to the supplier to announce the news. Gemalto, which is headquartered Paris and has a factory in Fareham, has not responded to BBC requests for comment. De La Rue, which has held the contract to manufacture British passports since 2009, said it had been "undercut on price" by Gemalto. Ona positive note, Gemalto do have a UK (Fareham) factory and it is said that the deal could save the taxpayer £100m-£120m and that 70 new jobs would be created in the UK, at sites in Fareham and Hayward. The part of all this that most people don't realise is that The Government could have changed the colour of British passports back to blue at any time regardless of Brexit. Theresa May described the decision to revert to the “iconic” colour as an “expression of our independence and sovereignty” away from the EU. but in 2017 the Home Office confirmed that the UK voluntarily adopted common passport criteria from the European Economic Community (EEC) and was not obliged to keep it. SOURCESOURCE |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 22, 2018 21:43:13 GMT
I love the way many news agencies keep showing a photo of the really old pre-biometric blue passports as if we're going back to those.
Disinformation?
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Post by Slinger on Mar 22, 2018 23:09:00 GMT
I love the way many news agencies keep showing a photo of the really old pre-biometric blue passports as if we're going back to those. Disinformation? Jingoism. So far it's the only thing that the 'leavers' promised that they can pretend they've delivered. As noted above, we could have had whatever colour passports we wanted at any time. |
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Post by Slinger on Mar 23, 2018 13:02:22 GMT
YouTube has banned videos detailing how to manufacture or modify guns, and their accessories. Videos have been removed and some channels have been suspended. Many prominent gun video-bloggers have called this an 'erosion of US citizen's rights, but' YouTube is, of course, a private company and its users are subject to its rules, and those rules have nothing whatsoever to do with citizen's rights. They (YouTube) have every right to state what can, and can't, be broadcast on their website as long as they remain within the law. It's interesting to get an insight into their level of intelligence, and knowledge of the "rights" these people are protesting though. Many have said (and this is the only reason I thought that this was worth publishing) that they will move their content to PornHub, a well-known (it says here  ) porn site. It seems they may have found their natural home. Will wives, husbands, employers, etc. now accept the excuse "I was looking at how to kill more people, not at people having sex, so that's OK, right?"  |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 23, 2018 15:40:15 GMT
Since YouTube is owned by Google, and Google serves a global audience, what about the 'protection of world citizen's rights'?
Oh, silly me, they don't give a toss about the rest of us.
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) porn site. It seems they may have found their natural home.