Julio Cruz posted:

I've no idea what the government page containing immigration rules and regs is (probably region-blocked so you can't access it outside the UK) but I'm entirely unsurprised that it's not where the logical place to put it would be

bump_fn posted:

why would you region-block government webpages so you cant read them outside the UK? i have experienced this once in the US (the illinois DMV webpage, which you can't access from the UK but if oyu VPN to a USA node you can read it). what is the purpose?

Julio Cruz posted:

I've no idea what the government page containing immigration rules and regs is (probably region-blocked so you can't access it outside the UK) but I'm entirely unsurprised that it's not where the logical place to put it would be

Cerv posted:

you’re in danger of holding to an impossible standard there. Even if Johnson went back on everything he’s said for 3 years and revoked article 50 today, there’s nothing to stop whichever tort immediately replaced him as PM invoking again.
“No-deal Brexit is off the table” can always be found to have a hole. See people last week fretting that we could the the end of the two year transition in the withdrawal agreement without a free trade deal have been ratified.

Doccykins posted:

lol who was complaining earlier about Diane Abbott going quiet

https://twitter.com/matt_dathan/status/1188844371598368770

Communist Thoughts posted:

Id much rather have dianne abbot as pm than... Ugh... "Big John"

Tesseraction posted:

When you see it... https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1188849614428000256?s=19

bump_fn posted:

am i suppsoed to be laughing at his wife wanting vodka and painkillers or obama tucking him into bed cause its both right

bump_fn posted:

am i suppsoed to be laughing at his wife wanting vodka and painkillers or obama tucking him into bed cause its both right

Tesseraction posted:

When you see it... https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1188849614428000256?s=19

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

He said no buts

One but is allowed.

Miftan posted:

My favourite thing about the current lib dem policy is that it's a) revoke, not 2nd ref and b) we want a 2nd ref more than labour - at the same time.

Doccykins posted:

https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1188861424451366919

fIvE p CaRrIeR bAg ChArGe

goddamnedtwisto posted:

You're not polishing them hard enough.

quote:

The Gravity Probe B experiment comprised four London moment gyroscopes and a reference telescope sighted on HR8703 (also known as IM Pegasi), a binary star in the constellation Pegasus. In polar orbit, with the gyro spin directions also pointing toward HR8703, the frame-dragging and geodetic effects came out at right angles, each gyroscope measuring both.

The gyroscopes were housed in a dewar of superfluid helium, maintaining a temperature of under 2 kelvins (−271 °C; −456 °F). Near-absolute zero temperatures were required to minimize molecular interference, and enable the lead and niobium components of the gyroscope mechanisms to become superconductive.

At the time of their manufacture, the gyroscopes were the most nearly spherical objects ever made. (Two gyroscopes still hold that record, but third place has been taken by the silicon spheres made by the Avogadro project.) Approximately the size of ping pong balls, they were perfectly round to within forty atoms (less than 10 nm). If one of these spheres were scaled to the size of the Earth, the tallest mountains and deepest ocean trench would measure only 2.4 m (8 ft) high.[25] They were composed of fused quartz and coated with an extremely thin layer of niobium. A primary concern was minimizing any influence on their spin, so the gyroscopes could never touch their containing compartment. They were held suspended with electric fields, spun up using a flow of helium gas, and their spin axes were sensed by monitoring the magnetic field of the superconductive niobium layer with SQUIDs. (A spinning superconductor generates a magnetic field precisely aligned with the rotation axis; see London moment.)

Miftan posted:

I think it's the casual 'went to see basketball with a black man'

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Can we run 2 2nd referdenums at once? One libden run and one labour run?
Not sure whos results we will use but itll all fix itself

Strom Cuzewon posted:

quote:

(A spinning smooth brain generates a magnetic field precisely aligned with the rotation axis; see London moment.)

Guavanaut posted:

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Can we run 2 2nd referdenums at once? One libden run and one labour run?
Not sure whos results we will use but itll all fix itself

Failed Imagineer posted:

I mean between:

- his missus trying to OD on booze and painkillers
- Obama tucking him gently into bed

and

- Randy Bumgardner

that page is rather a lot. Might have to pick up that book now

Julio Cruz posted:

Obama's pretty famously a huge basketball fan though?

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/HannahAlOthman/status/1188804108859445248?s=20

Guavanaut posted:

Not the current one. Abe Lincoln maybe.

bump_fn posted:

why would you region-block government webpages so you cant read them outside the UK? i have experienced this once in the US (the illinois DMV webpage, which you can't access from the UK but if oyu VPN to a USA node you can read it). what is the purpose?

Jimbola posted:

Labour are being utterly pathetic here. We should just go for the election. We can't dodge it forever.

EvilHawk posted:

Yeah let's just schedule an election which specifically disenfranchises a large part of the public who would in large numbers back Labour.

Pesmerga posted:

The student thing has been disproven already. This is just the next fallback position after the last one. Now he’s saying it will be dark.

Josef bugman posted:

Quick question to everyone, does anyone know a cheap place to rent a car for a few weeks?

EvilHawk posted:

Exactly how has it been disproven?