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Those who can, don't get as much money as those who can't.
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I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light. -
Originally posted by expat View PostIndustry based on physics alone (never mind any other sciences) contributes about 6.4% of UK GDP, about the same as the financial services sector.
The bank bailout cost 850 billion pounds - more than Britain's science budget for all sciences for all of history.
We are poor because we are stupid.
If, however, you class the bank bailout as part of the "financial services budget", then presumably you would have to also class any money given to things like oil refineries, pharmaceutical companies, aerospace, weapons manufacturers, observatories and radio telescopes, telecommunications, North Sea gas drilling, computing, coal mining, world exploration and mapping, the steel industry, wind farms and alternative energy as part of the "science budget". Over the last couple of hundred years, or even over the last century, or even over the last fifty years, or even over the last ten years, I bet that lot adds up to a hell of a lot more than the bank bailout. And, of course, for any government funding for science, there will be many times more invested by financiers, so they couldn't be allowed to just fail. (Unlike many industries, under the Tories.)Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostAll industries are based on physics as ultimately everyone and everything obeys the laws of physics (maybe apart from threaded).
HTH
Philip Gwynne, of West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership, said: 'In speeding matters, it is the law of the land not the law of physics that matters.'
Mediaeval idiot.Comment
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Originally posted by expat View PostFunnily enough out in the less than rational world of British Justice, a man had his speeding conviction upheld despite proving that the Gatso camera had been set up in a way that would cause the reading to be exaggerated. The argument was really simple but the court rejected it on the grounds that it didn't really matter.
Philip Gwynne, of West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership, said: 'In speeding matters, it is the law of the land not the law of physics that matters.'
Mediaeval idiot.Comment
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostAlso you can't drown a witch, so if a suspect survives 20 minutes submersion in water, they are guilty as hell.Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostAll industries are based on physics as ultimately everyone and everything obeys the laws of physics (maybe apart from threaded).
HTH
I've heard ye cannae change them....my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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Originally posted by Lockhouse View PostI've heard ye cannae change them.
1 (a) Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
The Buddha
1 (b) Its all make believe - isn't it ?
AJ PruffockLast edited by AlfredJPruffock; 13 April 2010, 14:40.Comment
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Scientific laws are all make believe?
At least 1 American in 3 believes that "Evolution is only a theory".
I believe that Gravity is only a theory, and would like to see all creationists walk off a cliff and then report back on the level of their belief in established theories.Comment
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Physics is bollocks - how does a magnet "work"? Eh? Eh? They can't tell you because they don't know!Comment
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostPhysics is bollocks - how does a magnet "work"? Eh? Eh? They can't tell you because they don't know!
"OK then," said another scientist, "how does a whistle work?"
Radar, OK. Nuclear fission, OK. Whistle? Hmmmm.Comment
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