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Chillybean
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Was looking on Amazon for a book to read and thought I'd check the reviews and this one stuck out. Incidently it was a thriller genre of sorts!
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
... that there is such a thing as hallucinogenic honey.
I would put good money on that just being some pisshead in a bear suit.
I would put good money on that just being some pisshead in a bear suit.
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Noah
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Remember the old story that we were all characters in a SIMs type game and it being asked as to how there could be a computer large enough to run a universe size SIM program?
So Brian Cox (Britain's favourite astrophysicist not the actor) and colleagues are looking at the problem of black holes and what appears to happen at the event horizon - which seems to bugger up quantum mechanics, relativity and Newtonian physics. Their conclusion at the moment is that the structure of the universe is very like the structure of a quantum computer. So the universe is a computer?
So Brian Cox (Britain's favourite astrophysicist not the actor) and colleagues are looking at the problem of black holes and what appears to happen at the event horizon - which seems to bugger up quantum mechanics, relativity and Newtonian physics. Their conclusion at the moment is that the structure of the universe is very like the structure of a quantum computer. So the universe is a computer?
Withnail
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If anyone wants to know more about the Bird Flu pandemic that is causing issues elsewhere, i can recommend reading this from August -
The OTHER Pandemic (a short Imgur Guide to the H5N1 Pandemic currently hitting the world)
- a long read but worthwhile.
Their other content is as interesting.
The OTHER Pandemic (a short Imgur Guide to the H5N1 Pandemic currently hitting the world)
- a long read but worthwhile.
Their other content is as interesting.
& apparently the record figures released today don’t include the refugees/asylum seekers that cross the channel
As you say, al least we’ve got our borders & laws back from them pesky Europeans.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
How many from Hong Kong?
staffordjas
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Walking around Worcester today it was like I was in a foreign country.
(155 'asylum seekers' being housed in The Fownes hotel in town , and read another big hotel close by now also filled with them. Bit scary walking through the gangs of them hanging about the other night. Our GP surgery is right by one of the hotels housing them, so had no choice than to brave it through for the evening appointment )
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basil
don't mention the blinds
This is exactly how Nazi Germany started......
Lucy
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155 refugees you mean. Never forget how lucky it is to be born somewhere you aren't likely to be persecuted.
4% of people who seek asylum get turned down, so 148 of those people are in desperate need.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I'm so glad my mums waters broke over the right bit of dirt.
A thought for you all, we take an amazingly long time to process asylum seekers during which period they must be provided for and can't work. Most get their applications granted, after which they go and work and pay taxes, but we keep them in limbo for as long as possible meaning they cost us a lot more than they need to. Why?
Stop looking at the refugees, look at the people paid to house and feed them. Look at the profits they make, look at the money moving from public purse to private hands, look at whose interest it is in to make sure we keep them in these hotels whilst demonising them and blaming them for all our countries ills. We don't have to spend billions a year on them, we want to. We do it gladly, because why people donate to the tory party. To steal our taxes.
A thought for you all, we take an amazingly long time to process asylum seekers during which period they must be provided for and can't work. Most get their applications granted, after which they go and work and pay taxes, but we keep them in limbo for as long as possible meaning they cost us a lot more than they need to. Why?
Stop looking at the refugees, look at the people paid to house and feed them. Look at the profits they make, look at the money moving from public purse to private hands, look at whose interest it is in to make sure we keep them in these hotels whilst demonising them and blaming them for all our countries ills. We don't have to spend billions a year on them, we want to. We do it gladly, because why people donate to the tory party. To steal our taxes.