@Mik That has been my fear as well.

Apparently it was isolated/discovered in my old physics department in Manchester. They always used to tell us the best people were too busy doing actual work to turn up to lectures.

Yes. Why they might be called for is important and I would imagine is covered in the legislation. If not it’s poorly crafted.

Hope they chunk it. Bad use of a law originally meant for Enron. It's been sorely abused.

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I remember the first day of my first Soviet history course in University. The prof, a former officer in the British Army, I touched himself to the class and then said “in this course you will come away with the understanding that the Soviet Union is characterised by a national inferiority complex mindset and a people who sleep with a history book under their pillow”.

@Copper said in Getting married older.: Not as many husbands on campus, they have to go look elsewhere for them. No, but Lisa just had a phallopasty, soo…

[image: 1713217574996-image.jpeg] MedMalReviewer Analysis: The plaintiff did not make a very compelling case that the patient’s alleged tardive dyskinesia was caused by Seroquel. I reviewed this case with a consultation-liaison psychiatrist who noted several points: a) Seroquel does not have significant D2 antagonism at the low doses used for sleep, and the patient was only on it for about a year. Higher doses of antipsychotics for longer periods of time have a much stronger association with tardive dyskinesia. b) Limping would be a very unusual presentation of tardive dyskinesia. Abnormal movements of the face and tongue are much more common, and it doesn’t seem that the patient had these. c) Use of Seroquel for sleep is very common and well within the standard of care. It's always reassuring to see a jury reject highly questionable accusations of negligence and decide in favor of a physician. In general, juries are very favorable to physicians and decide in our favor in the large majority of cases that go to trial.

@89th said in Hey Horace!!: Cool monitor! All the better to read my posts with. I'm actually putting off reading your posts until I get an even better monitor, maybe in several years or more. The riches that await me are untold! The way I see it, good conservative Trump voters like you and me are givens. I try to keep tabs on the "other side", as it were.

@Axtremus said in This is a world war, not several local ones.: @Mik said in This is a world war, not several local ones.: A lot to agree with here. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/looking-at-today-s-wars-as-local-issues-is-a-huge-mistake-there-is-one-war-and-it-is-global/ar-BB1lDT9Q?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=74207030bcb74698b6b118aaf4666de9&ei=12 The author doesn’t seem to say where Israel/Palestine fit in this “world war” construct. Last time I checked, Israel was and remains a democracy while Hamas controlled Gaza was an authoritarian terror state led by religious fanatics through armament support from other the Islamic terror states and secular autocrats. That is where that war fits in to the bigger world war scenario.

One of my charities had a website for a while. We found that bots and spammers were the only ones trying to get anything from it. Shut it down.

I have never been a social media person and it is weird to me that so many people put faith in someone who really doesn't know anything about what they are talking about. If @jolly talked to me about life skills and DIY skills, I would listen because of his experience and knowledge. If he started talking to me about some lady skin cream he recommends for no other reason other than he is getting paid by the skin cream company, then......... maybe not so much listen. But I guess that is advertising. Has been going on probably since there have been adverts.

India still hasn’t managed to eradicate the practice of sati, the ritual burning of widows on their deceased husband’s funeral pyre, nor enforce its prohibition under the country’s criminal code under a 1987 law. In 19 century British came close to ending the practice as described by Governor Charles Napier when Hindu priests met with him to complain about the British prohibition of the practice: Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs! Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)

@Jolly said in The Mako: A stealth aircraft with a missile that's on you before you can react? Game changer. I also found it interesting that though the hard points defeat stealthiness, they can be used for specific missions. Otherwise, invisible.

@Jolly said in Talking about Musk's Tuxedo: It helps keep your spurs in place My riding boots had a spur ridge - though I never used, or needed, spurs. [image: 1713185888242-screenshot-2024-04-15-at-7.57.46-am.png] [image: 1713186607540-screenshot-2024-04-15-at-8.09.46-am.png]

Somewhat related. Defend yourself against your mother's sandal. https://x.com/AudreyStJames1/status/1779558050963013918

Me neither. We were riding 8’ swells in an Americas Cup boat. Me and Nelson were happy as clams and everybody else was turning green.