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  • nevermind

    Ever heard of Anglia Square? No? Well its been chosen to replace Leicester Square for the premiere of Alan Partridges new film ‘Alpha papa’.

    What better place than a shopping centre were the 99pence stores are competing with each other, not a single major supermarket in sight, well there is Roys of Wroxham, but…..

    So, come 7th. August, the world premiere will shine its light on Norwich’s underbelly. Who’s comin’?…..
    http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/alan_partridge_world_premiere_to_be_held_in_norwich_1_2270299

  • nevermind

    Trying to break brains, ‘Komodo’? Always wondered why they are so hell bent to find out about Neutrino’s, a unique wave particle that travels through matter, but does it do time and space? Hmmm….

  • Komodo

    ILS (as it used to be called) was out, the pilot had only 43 hours on that aircraft, and had probably spent most of that time on auto. He’d never landed a 777 before.

    Asiana spokeswoman Lee Hyomin told the Associated Press that pilot Lee Gang-guk was trying to get used to the 777 during Saturday’s crash landing. She said the pilot had nearly 10,000 hours flying other planes, including the Boeing 747, but had only 43 hours on the 777.

    Hyomin told Reuters that co-pilot Lee Jeong-min has 3,220 hours of flying experience with the Boeing 777 and a total of 12,387 hours of flying experience, and was helping his colleague with the landing.

    In all, four pilots were on the plane and worked in rotating shifts during the 10-and-a-half hour flight from Seoul. The pilots were described by Asiana chief executive Yoon Young-doo as veterans, with more than 10,000 hours of flight experience.

    Hersman said the NTSB will look into whether or not Gang-guk’s 43 hours spent flying Boeing 777’s had a role in the crash landing.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/08/boeing-777-crashes-at-san-francisco-international-airport/#ixzz2YXLNNk7R

    Cockup.

  • Komodo

    Can you give a synopsis in short words?

    There is a tiny chance – so small as to be only just not nonexistent- that you can heave a brick through a plate glass window without breaking the window. For very small particles and very thin barriers, this becomes a lot more possible. You might say it exploits the wave-particle duality – a particle such as an electron can sneak through an energy barrier by using its magic wave powers.

    Well, I tried…

  • Komodo

    …but actually, I was expressing my deep resentment of the use of “quantum leap” as a synonym for “leap”. Outside physics, “quantum leap” has no meaning whatever, and not much meaning inside physics, either. Pretty well everything is quantum there.

  • Flaming June

    Norfolk is a happening place Nevermind.

    Some poor guy mowing the Queen’s grass at Sandringham on a ride on ends up in the drink and is now in a critical condition.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-23238314#

    There is a new director of Norfolk’s ‘troubled’ children’s services.
    Q Why did Leicester City Council make her redundant?
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-23232609

    ~~

    The High Court has upheld Grieve’s decision that P Charles’ correspondence with ministers should remain private. No surprise there.

  • Dreoilin

    Craig’s blog: All human life is there.
    Especially if it has to do with royalty or even their lawnmowers. 😉

  • Dreoilin

    “Cockup”

    Yes, I’ve read a lot and listened to a lot, and seen a lot of video clips, and it looks like pilot cock-up. I don’t see why not, anyway. Pilots are not infallible, anymore than bus drivers or taxi drivers. And occasionally they don’t get their required amount of sleep. And occasionally they’re drinking when they shouldn’t be. Just like the rest of humanity.

  • Kibo Noh

    @Komodo. 10 02am

    Thanks for your brave try.

    Now I understand. It’s a bit deep, like Abe’s “Kissinger Principle”.

    From what I remember it goes something like this:

    There is a tiny chance – so small as to be only just not nonexistent- that you can impose military repression and economic plunder on a nation and end up (according to the Wall St Journal at any rate) with both democracy and an economic miracle. For very small and comfortable minds such an outcome becomes a lot more likely. You might say it exploits the wave-particle duality – a delusion such as the Chicago Boys can sneak through the logic barrier by using their magic wave powers.

    And there was I, on the Counter Revolution thread, trying to argue that Kissinger is a war criminal who should on trial before the ICC.

  • Mark Golding - Children of Conflict

    Ben,

    The ‘reveal’ is still unfolding yet the ‘hook’ will connect us; we appreciate that here.

    It appears we are directed by four – the four horsemen.

    The first is reverence for all of life. This manifests as unconditional love and respect for oneself and all other beings.

    The second is natural sincerity. This manifests as honesty, simplicity and faithfulness.

    The third is gentleness, which manifests as kindness, consideration for others and sensitivity to spiritual truth.

    The fourth is supportiveness. This manifests as service to others without expectation of reward.”

    Not all can therefore connect. Those that cannot will become extinct. Union and harmony are precious.

  • Clark

    See Stupid White Men by Michael Moore regarding poor pay and conditions of pilots, though that’s about pilots in the US in 2001.

  • Komodo

    !
    LOL @ Kibo Noh. Ingenious extension of wave mechanics, there.

    But Heisenberg states that if you know where a tiny mind is, you don’t know how fast it’s moving and vice versa, which is plainly inapplicable, because tiny minds don’t move at all, and you usually find them huddled round a comforting assumption.

  • Macky

    Hoping that the “urgent repairs to the author” are 100% successful, and that you are soon fighting the good fight again, but only when you are good & ready; don’t worry about the Blog, the regulars under the care of Jon the Mod, will keep the flame burning bright; as for myself, I going for a rest & a recharge under the Med Sun for the next three weeks, and will duly return with more fuel for the flame !

  • Vronsky

    “I was expressing my deep resentment of the use of “quantum leap” as a synonym for “leap”.”

    It might be legit if they are describing a discontinuous change of state. Usually they’re not, of course. The one that annoys me is ‘sea change’ as a synonym for ‘change’. Oh, and ‘up next’ for ‘next’.

  • Komodo

    No, Vronsky, I cannot as a responsible pedant let that past. “A quantum leap in technology” for instance implies that technology as a whole is quantised. At the scale of discussion, just as for a real as opposed to conceptual object, quantisation is not appropriate or meaningful; we must treat the world of large masses and forces, parsimoniously, as Newtonian. A discontinuous change of state on the macro scale is usually gigantic compared to any quantisable component thereof.

    See also “tectonic shift” for “slight change of attitude”

    I see that “at this moment in time” has mercifully yielded to “going forward” in the lexicon of bollocks, though.

  • Komodo

    Most British football fans want to live peacefully and enjoy the benefits of Western culture. They undoubtedly utterly deplore the notion that the kind of carnage that occurred in Brazil should take place in Britain.

    Betrayal

    And let’s not forget that, worldwide, most victims of footballists are themselves football fans whom the extremists judge to be polluted by Western ideas.

    Nevertheless, this fundamentalist interpretation of the FA Rule Book is what is being spouted by hate preachers in Britain and on the internet, and is steadily radicalising thousands of young British football fans.

    Now the Prime Minister says he will crack down on such extremism. Yet after the Brazilian atrocity, he claimed it was ‘a betrayal of football’ and that ‘there is nothing in football that justifies this truly dreadful act’.

    The London Mayor Boris Johnson went even further, claiming: ‘It is completely wrong to blame this killing on the religion of football’ and that the cause was simply the killers’ ‘warped and deluded mindset’.

    Yet the video footage of the killers — who had shouted ‘Maranhao’ when butchering Abreu — records one of them citing his mate in the pub exhorting the Maranhao Casuals to fight and kill opposing supporters, and declaring: ‘We swear by God and the Virgin Mary we will never stop fighting you.’

    Frankly, these comments by the Prime Minister and London Mayor were as absurd as saying the burning of witches, for example, had nothing to do with the Protestant Church, but was just the product of a few warped and deluded individuals.

    No apologies to Mad Mel….

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2331368/Until-leaders-admit-true-nature-Islamic-extremism-defeat-it.html

  • Passerby

    Komodo that was an excellent synthesis.

    Mad Mel will be hopping mad, and “incandescent” at such a synthesis.

  • Flaming June

    [Mod/Jon: contribution removed. It’s fine not to engage with particular individuals, but please avoid sideswipes! Thanks]

  • Trowbridge H. Ford

    Suggest posters interested in the likelihood that the Flight 214 disaster was an act of sabotage, read Tom Kovach’s “”Asiana 214 crash-sabotage??”, noting that the aircraft had an in cockpit emergency 5 minutes before the crash, causing the air traffic controllers to assure them that emergency crews would be on the ground for one, and the control system may have been sabotaged internally.

    Interesting, does not have the US government, especially NSA’s CyberCommand, as a possible culprit.

    Of course, then there are all the questions about officialdom and the media lying so much about its cause, timing, and the brave, trained crew.

  • Flaming June

    It has been decided by the inquest jury that the Angolan man Jimmy Mubenga who was deported in October 2010, in the care of three G4S operatives, died unlawfully after he was restrained.

    His widow wept and cried out his name twice when the verdict was announced.

    What has Mrs May got to say?

  • Dreoilin

    The Palestinian BDS National Committee calls for freezing “Knesset” membership in Inter-Parliamentary Union in Light of Racist Laws

    Posted on July 9, 2013 by Palestinian BDS National Committee

    “Prawer Plan” to uproot and dispossess indigenous Bedouin-Palestinian Communities in the Naqab (Negev) is latest definitive evidence of the colonial nature of Zionism

    http://www.bdsmovement.net/2013/palestinian-bds-national-committee-calls-freezing-knesset-membership-inter-parliamentary-union-light-racist-laws-11148

  • Kibo Noh PhD Quantum Stuff

    @Komodo.

    Thanks for teaching me about Quantum Stuff.

    I never realized it was so simple.
    I read a bit and have it boiled down to this:

    Big stuff = Common-sense, logical, Newtonian.

    Small stuff (and anything related to global politics) = Weird, dream/nightmare-like, Habbakukian

    Thus, for example Clarke’s small cat, once launched towards Nevermind’s catless friend by the Craig Murray Cat Adoption Service’s ground-breaking delivery system, whilst in motion, can only be observed to be a dog, but the instant it comes to rest, it has all the components of a cat again, (though radically and rather messily re-arranged).

    Or to give it more political twist. A gulf despot’s entrail-eating, sarin-spraying little rebel, once landed in the rubble that was once Syria, will invevitably manifest as a democracy-bringing, justice-loving, cross between Gandhi and Mother Teresa. (Just as we can observe of his small friends in that new heaven-on-earth known as Lybia.)

    My new-found quantumness has made me realise that the online entities I had all along regarded as trolls, are in fact massive intellects, able to navigate the quantum seas with ease, while the rest of us flounder on the rocks of rationality.

    @ Passerby.

    I was going to include Mad Mel in my explanation, by there are some places even a quantum expert like me dare not go for fear of irreparable damage to their neural circuitery. On this issue, for the moment, great physicits can only stand back in awe and simply observe.

  • Flaming June

    BREAKING NEWS:US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden accepts Venezuela’s offer of asylum, senior Russian politician tweets

    But how does he get there?

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