mistermack

That's not true at all. That slap will be being repeated all round the world now, especially in school playgrounds.

I don't think that's right. Red ink reflects red light, green reflects green and blue reflects blue. They each absorb the light that isn't r, g, b. So mix r, g and b ink, and white light will find some particles of each colour to reflect off, but will be absorbed by others. So the mix comes back to your eye as a dull neutral greyish, depending on the proportions and strength of the individual absorbtion/reflection characteristics. That's my speculation anyway.

Ware not amused. Your mental wears look pretty warn out to me.

I don' think it was faked, but I do think that Jada shaving her head, doing the video about the shaven head, and proclaiming to the world that she like the look, and was proud of it, all of that was for publicity for a fading actress, designed to keep her name up there. It's double standards to invite publicity, and then go to pieces when someone comments with a harmless GI Jane joke. But as I said before, Jada did nothing, except give a look. It's Will Smith who went to pieces. It's pretty pathetic that the victim has to make a compaint, before the police bring a charge. After all, if HAD been killed or injured, they wouldn't need a complaint from him. They certainly wouldn't need his evidence if they DID bring a charge, how could Smith deny it? It's lazy policing, and they use that excuse all the time, in open-and-shut cases, "the victim didn't make a complaint". It's fair enough, when there isn't much independent evidence, but where there is no denying it, they should ignore the victim's wishes, for the sake of the NEXT victim. In this case, prosecuting Smith would say to the copycats that they will end up in court if they do what he did.

I didn't know you'd seen it ! Are you stalking me ?

You have to look very carefully at what people say, about fusion. They tend to make exaggerated claims, or cleverly deceptive words, to dress up their work and results. Often it's specially bad, when they are looking for investment money. With this, the describe it as a new approach, but I have a feeling that it's not the approach that's new, but the technical performance of new lazer types. That seems to have pepped upt what was going before. On the face of it, the claim that the "avalanche reaction" furthur increases reaction yield by "approx a billion times more than previously thought" really sounds like a dramatic game-changer. But if you look at the wording carefully, what does it mean? If they previously thought that the avalanche reaction increase would be close to zero, then a billion times zero is still zero. So a hugely encouraging claim could actually mean nothing at all. And it probably does, because if they previously thought it was going to be a useful effect, then useful effect x 1,000,000,000 would be game set and match.

Hmmmmm , Not sure about that . . .

Luck Benny Hill wasn't doing the introductions :

Son : "Daddy, there's a man at the door with a bald head ! " Father : "Tell him I've already got one ! " Sorry, that was tasteless and hurtfull to all the follically challenged out there. (including me)

The above comments give good advice, here's my attempt to give a bit more. The fan belt should be checked as above, but if you hear an unusual squealing noise coming from the engine, usually when you rev the engine from tickover, then that's an extra clue that it needs attention. I use the lights as exchemist advises, but if you look carefully, a good altenator usually brightens the lights when you rev it, and dims slightly when you let the revs drop back down to tickover, so in that case, you can see it's charging, and don't need to turn off the engine. With a volt meter, (surest method) you will get about 12.5 volts with the engine off, 12.8 with it ticking over, and about 13.3 when revving the engine. (all variable) so if you get a constant 12 to 12.5 when off, and the same or less when running, then it's not charging. If you find it IS charging, but the battery is flat in the morning, you have a current leak somewhere. A way to test for that, is to charge the battery, then turn every electrical item off, and disconnect the positive terminal at night. If the battery is good in the morning when you reconnect it, it's likely that the battery has been slowly leaking charge overnight. A friend of mine found that a usb connection to his dash camera had been doing that, flattening the battery overnight.

I would send it back to the judges to vote on again. It was a disgrace that he wasn't ejected, so he should not have actually recieved the Oscar on the night. It's not likely that the judges would take the Oscar back. America generally forgives it's celebrities. Look at OJ Simpson and Mike Tyson. Celebrities can get away with murder.

Opinions differ. Perfectly true and obvious. So you are claiming that if SOME people find something offensive, then it is offensive, at least to some degree. So a scribbled picture of Mohammed IS offensive, just because some people choose to be offended. But that goes for pictures of Jesus too. And where the argument fails is that the same doesn't apply in reverse. Far more people DON'T think the scribbled pictures are offensive. But apparently that doesn't make them not offensive. In this case, it's the look on Jada's face that seems to have made it offensive. Will was laughing his socks off, till he saw that look. I think it was as much him roaring with laughter, as the joke itself, that got to her. And he knew it when he looked at her, and tried to make amends by getting outraged. I'd bet that without the look on Jada's face, and the slap, there would be probably just one person on the planet, who thought that joke was offensive, and that's Jada. And to be fair to her, she didn't slap anyone, or ask for anyone to be slapped.

That's what they say "now". 😆

Just for the record, this kind of joke is standard fare in comedy, and the root of the joke is actually at the expense of the comedian, but if you have no sense of humour, I don't expect you to get it. The humour in the joke, is the teller's naiive assumption that having a shaved head is all you need to get the GI Jane part. These jokes always rely on a silly mistaken assumption by the joke teller. If I said to Zapatos, "hey, they are auditioning for the Yul Brynner part in the remake of The King and I, you should go and apply" it's not ridiculing his bald head, the joke is my assumption that a bald head is all it takes to get the part. An old staple stand up joke is when the comedian takes a thick pair of specs from an audience member, and says, "you must have great eyesight to see through these ! " The humour isn't the mockery of his eyesight, it's the daft conclusion by the joke teller. There are thousands of similar jokes, and the root is always the same. A totally wrong bit of logic by the teller. Chris Rock's joke was exactly like thousands of others, the joke is on the joke teller, and that's why it's not offensive. Unless you have no sense of humour and don't get it.

Teach the controversy, you mean?? Where did I hear THAT before???

Sorry but I think that's rubbish. The Oscars has apologised to Chris Rock. They wouldn't do that if his joke was offensive. Will Smith has apologised to Chris Rock. He wouldn't have had to do that, if the joke was offensive. Finding a few people who don't get it doesn't make both positions equally valid. Very few poeple around the world found the joke offensive. The slap proves nothing about the joke, it just sadly says a lot about Will Smith. He took exception to a joke being made about his "property". So you can presumably point to where the joke was "at the expense of" Jada's shaved head. As opposed to just referring to it. Really, you're just substituting words to dodge the question.

Jada did that herself, with a video that already had had two million hits. So that's clearly not ridicule. So no, that's not explained enough, it's not explained at all. You still haven't pointed to the ridicule. I can only assume that you can't, because there isn't any.

You answer a question with a question. I asked where was the ridicule. In reply, you ask ME to explain his joke. Can you not point out the ridicule, or are you just ASSUMING that a joke must contain ridicule.

I'm confused too. We are seeing light that left the star 12.9 billion years ago. But the Star isn't 12.9 billion years old, it probably only existed for a few million years, and then went bang. So it hasn't existed as a star for the last 12 billion years. And we're not seeing it at the record distance of 28 billion light years, that is just the calculated distance that the physical remains of the star are from us now. But according to relativity, there is no "now". No simultaneity. That's where I start losing track.

Would you like to explain, or point to the ridicule in Chris Rock's words? That's what I seem to be missing, so your help would be appreciated. If he did ridicule Jada then he deserved a slap, but I don't seem to be able to find it. You need to remember that quite a lot of people are born without a sense of humour. If you drain the humour out of any quip, you will probably be left with something you could portray as offensive. There's little difference between being having no sense of humour and having cerebral palsy or Type 1 diabetes. Not much the person can do about these things, so best not to make fun of humourless people, you could end up getting slapped !!

It's ludicrous to try to portray Chris Rock's joke as in bad taste. Jada has gone totally public with her head shaved, she made a video about it that had already clocked up TWO MILLION views, and yet a comment that she would be a suitable casting for the GI Jane part is supposed to be offensive, or in bad taste? People need to get real. This was not her little secret, it was something she'd taken time to publicise worldwide, as something that doesn't need to be hidden away. Chris Rock's very mild joke was really treating it in the same everyday normal manner. A derogatory joke would have been different, but it wasn't. Chris Rock's routine about "Black People vs Niggaz" sums up Will Smith. Just when black people get things going right, some "damn Niggaz" come along and spoil it. Here he is doing that routine to an auditorium full of black people, and they are loving it. Because they've got a sense of humour. But if you've got no humour in you, then you will find most comedy offensive.

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I've seen the video. He put a LOT of effort into the slap. Danger isn't on or off, it's a question of degree. People do die from a single blow, but it's pretty rare. But for each death, there are many more cases of brain injury, often life-changing. It's the sudden twist of the skull that causes the damage, not the impact of bone on bone, so a slap does involve danger. Rock's head certainly WAS spun very quickly, and that certainly did involve danger of brain damage, or even death. I'm pretty sure any doctor would agree with that. I thought the joke was pretty harmless. The film role was a glamorous part, there was no denigration contained in the reference, and every star attending that event was well aware that they might get teased, or "roasted" as they call it. It's been that way for years. I agree with the above comment. Chris Rock did nothing wrong at all, and handled the matter a hell of a lot better than I would have. Much respect !

One punch kills a lot of people every year. One slap could kill, if the slapped person's brain was in a vulnerable state. The sudden movement of the skull can damage some brains more than others, leading to a fatal stroke. It's not very likely, but a heavy slap can jerk the skull as violently as some punches. It's become a tradition of the Oscars that the host "roasts" people in the audience, often in questionable taste. And it's also the tradition that the 'victims' smile and take it. Chris Rock was expected to follow the usual line. He paid Will Smith's wife the compliment of treating her as an adult equal, who can take it. Will Smith, on the other hand, paid her an insult, by portraying her as the little woman who needs the big man's protection. Definitely not complimentary, and totally sexist. "Just you sit there, little lady, while I go and sort out that male showbusiness pig" Then he came up with that embarassing blubbering justification that "love made him do it". Exactly like the mantra of most abusive men. It's always someone else who "makes" them do it. Never their own fault. They really should take back the Oscar. Or at least, go back to the voters, and get them to vote again.

Is that a fact, or is it just your opinion ?? Yes, I see now, it is confusing.