Young Master Smeet
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Vin wrote:I think the article about Bowie is a waste of space and is an indication of the overinfluence of one member in the party. The SSPC should not have published it. I can think of a lot more important issues than a dead self confessed fascist musician.
Any member can submit an article to the SSPC, no special influence is required.
Yes, that's right, you can't account for what happened at aLIGO, so retreat into ad hominems and flee the field, only to return to make arguments by assertion and appeal to authority later on.
Yes, that's the difference, we can't, and shouldn't, police each memebr's social media output, but branches, etc. need a framework, or at least a repeal of the strict terms of rule 11…
LBird wrote:That's your ideological opinion, YMS, but it's not Marx's or mine.Your opinion contains no socio-historical perspective, and so can't explain change.You believe in 'Eternal Truth', once 'discovered', 'known forever'.That belief cannot even explain changes in bourgeois science.Changes in science happen when the evidence changes. Could you explain, though, how the scientists made the light take different times to traverse sections of the tube?Knowledge won't be known forever: one day there will be no humans to know things, but that won't change the fact that if a tree falls in a forest and no-one is there, the tree fell.What happened to your realism?
Quote:When a gravitational wave passes by, the stretching and squashing of space causes these arms alternately to lengthen and shrink, one getting longer while the other gets shorter and then vice versa. As the arms change lengths, the laser beams take a different time to travel through them.That really happened, it will always have happened, future generations may forget, but it did happen. No human made the light take different times to pass down the tube, if the light had taken a constant time, then their theories would have been refuted.
ALB wrote:No. The Party would make itself ridiculous if it tried to control what members say on twitter, their blogs, etc just as we would if we tried to control their letters to the press, conversations in pubs, etc. If members express anti-socialist views there are other ways in the rulebook of dealing with thisI think the question is more about if the twitter, blog, facebook purports to be an organ of the party, branch, official post, etc.
They have 'observed' gravtitational waves (or, they have found a way to observe them) for the first time. It involved increasing the sensitvity of the equipment. But, what they observed was what they expected to find, according to theory.
Hmmm…https://twitter.com/DrPartizan_/status/697356303908339712
Quote:Rojava Kurdistan's administration will open an office today in Moscow, Russia.http://www.anfenglish.com/kurdistan/rojava-canton-representation-office-to-open-in-moscow-tomorrow
Quote:Sanders has explicitly placed himself in the tradition of liberal icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The comparison is apt indeed: FDR’s liberalism was not only “socialist” by the standards of realigned American politics, providing the foundation for modern liberalism and the foil for modern conservatism. His conservative opponents in the inter-war years labelled him a “socialist” for his bold initiatives to combat the Great Depression and revive the country from economic collapse.http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-02/09/c_135086319.htm
Quote:SYDNEY, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) — A French-made robot bus is set to be trialled in an Australian state as part of wider preparations into the use of autonomous vehicles on local roads.A French-made driverless electric shuttle bus will carry 15 passengers at speeds up to 45 km per hour in the Western Australia state capital Perth using three-dimensional sensing technology that allows the bus to avoid obstacles and detect and read road signs.It's only a trial, but if we're at the trial stage, how far off can implementation be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDvKKDX_rggPart 2: ThanetIt really would have been cheaper to rent a few houses…
http://order-order.com/2016/02/09/how-tories-hid-hotel-and-booze-bills-in-newark/The odious Guido has an inside track:
Quote:On 31 May 2014, over 350 young Tories boarded coaches and minibuses up to Newark for a day of campaigning. At the end of the day’s door-knocking, they needed something to eat and somewhere to stay. Paying for travel and hotels for that many people would rack up thousands in by-election expenses. So, the Tories ferried their activists to the Crowne Plaza hotel in Nottingham, outside of the constituency. There, Tory donors treated them to curry at an event named the “first annual RoadTrip dinner” – pictured above – where Rob Halfon and Eric Pickles gave speeches. After that they boozed at the Coco Lounge and NG1 bars, before returning to the hotel, where they made contributions to their room bills.That one is cunning, now, my reading is that one is legit (indeed, there's no reason why they couldn't have bussed them home at the end of the day) but the bus fares to the constiuency should have been declarable.Now, it's only a small step from a cunnign wheeze like this becoming routine, to actual infringements.
