geordief

Nobody got into bed with them There was always a legitimate hope that Russia could evolve into a half decent political system and ,as with China the hope was that change might come through osmosis. Everyone was taken off guard by this invasion. It may have a silver lining (not for the Ukranians) of both showing their real face and giving the climate change measures due urgency rather than relying on a boiled frog ,(lobster?) response. Easy to criticise Germany but they changed their Ostpolitik policy very quickly -and they are very much in the Russian nationalist's line of fire ("march to Berlin" they were boasting before the invasion)

Still has to be done.If the two party system had its merits it has run out of road and some sort or a more proportional representative system should replace it. Maybe not the top priority and will never happen if Trump returns to power.

The content was good. The delivery always has me on edge but that was OK too,this time.He cleared his throat 3 times at first and I was worried there was a problem but it was plain sailing after that. Can there be any bipartisanship if electoral reform is put on the table?(does the Alaskan system hold any promise by diluting the "them or us"chances of election?)

When I went to the States I was questioned at Kennedy airport on the way in from Europe and again at San Diego returning from Mexico. It was the same eagle eyed immigration official who recognized me 6 months later across the crowded concourse as I tried to avoid his notice. Luckily my papers were in order as he had docked my visa stay length the first time as he suspected I was seeking work in the country. He wasn't a clone and neither was I .I doubt we would recognize each other 50 years later.🙂 I was dumb enough to suppose TFG had indeed left the docs in that disorder so perhaps he needed to address this as he looked bad in the eyes of his equally dumb followers(not all as dumb but some are and he still needs their support)

Wasn't the search recorded by video cams? Is it actually relevant whether or not the docs were found scattered as shown or laid out as pictures after being taken out of the boxes? Have to admit it seemed to me as if Trump had been playing with them in his baby pen ,but I have such a low opinion of him that was my instinctive impression. I do hope no witnesses have been identified at this stage as one poster was intimidating earlier. "Mundane" ffs 🤔

Is a point object the excitation of its relevant field? And does excitation equate to "interaction " ?Do those concepts just overlap -are they distinct? (Apologies if I am shifting goalposts but they do say that the definition of madness is to keep repeating the same mistake over and over and not making different mistakes one after the other )😉 Edit:I had all kinds of physical objects in mind and assume that there must be a connection between macro and micro objects.

Well ,I thought I had been observing (trying to ,anyway) the distinction insofar as my level of education allows I am very interested in "events"as physical interactions and I do not understand why it should not be possible to view physical objects as being "composed" of them.(I realize I will be as wrong as I normally am but am I any way close to how the models are to be interpreted?) Of course a physical object is composed of smaller objects but as we get to the fine (fundamental?) detail is it not possible that we are just "looking" at interactions? I have heard it said "everything is fields" Are physical objects the result of those fields (self?) interactions and do those interactions "make up" what we observe as physical objects on the macro and micro level?

Including any quantum effects? (Not that I can think of any)

What about 2 events ,one of which is outside the light cone of the other. Eg I cannot today have any causal effect on the life SwansontT's activities yesterday. Can I not say that there is no connection between an event in my today and your yesterday? But I can't extrapolate that to SwansontT yesterday having no connection to my today even if no interaction occurs?(is it enough that the probability of an interaction is not zero?)

Are not all objects created one event at a time? And the spacetime interval (as I have learned) is independent of frame of reference. -not strictly relevant ,but might it show that the objects are composed of "events" ,the connections between which all frames can agree on?

Well ,apart from the terms used can we say that it is meaningless to talk about the separation or distance between physical objects except in a context of a physical connection between them?** Can we even say that ,if no interaction occurs then there is no connection at all btw the objects? **(btw can we say -or define it so - that all physical objects are composed of "events"-perhaps not "events" as commonly used to mean coordinate points on a 4d spacetime diagram but as actual physical interactions)

As a measure of a distance between objects does the term ,"event separation " mean exactly the same thing as "the spacetime interval"? (as the terms are commonly used) Do physical objects only exist in the framework of the events that went into making them up and changing them?

So the irregularity in the day to day advances in the times of the high tides would be down to the local topography? Otherwise ,if it was just the supposition of the lunar and solar effects it would seem to me that the changes would be smoother I can still discern a pattern in the irregularity where I am in that the time interval between the high tides seem to alternate between a greater and a smaller amount (although the exact numbers do not repeat) But that would presumably be a different pattern in different areas

I operate as a rule of thumb that the time of high tide advances by about an hour from one day to the next. Not exactly of course -a bit under the hour I think . I don't understand ,though why these time differences are irregular. One day it might be around and hour and the next day it could be about 45 minutes. What causes this irregular pattern? Are the tides are part of a chaotic global maritime weather system?

Makes a change for Nazis to be the scapegoats rather than the scapegoaters.

Because the Russian information services are so trustworthy.... (Not that something along those lines is incredible ,just that nobody with a brain cell would trust Russian sources at this point)

I remember quite well the time when black holes seemed an outlandish concept. What was Einstein's reason for not believing that they existed? I mean be must have known that light would not escape the EH and he knew that spacetime could be curved. What else was needed to satisfy oneself that black holes did in fact exist? Just experimental evidence?

I doubt he would do it directly.He would only need to let them know that someone might have a copy(,they maybe know that already if reports of activity on the surveillance cameras are true-think I heard that half mentioned on CNN the other night) He could plead incompetence(we already now he is incompetent at some level to be holding those documents at all)

Michael Cohen was just speculating -quite forcefully on CNN that he could have had (or could have claimed he had) copies made and shared with associates and so could blackmail the police into dropping serious charges against him by threatening to release them. He called it his "get out of jail card"

Rushdie off the ventilator. (on the BBC TV although not showing on their website where their last update ,6 hours ago has him as "critical) Seems like he has had a lucky escape. Not sure how serious a punctured liver is .....or how debilitating a damaged windpipe might be (if it is damaged)

I wonder what security Rushdie had all these years. He had an armed guard for years and voluntarily dispensed with it. Did he get any special support afterwards(in England at any rate)? Any unfortunate name btw as I read it that he had died when I first glanced at the report on the website...

According to the BBC Trump does not oppose the bid to unseal the search warrant. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62512360 I expect the judge will very likely release them now in the coming hours. Should be interesting.

Poor taste is probably appropriate.(Melania's poor taste is there for the world to see and marvel at) It should be in the Tate Gallery

Yes ,that had occured to me too. (In any case he has the "best memory")

Maybe he thought he could leak them at an opportune time and put the blame on the Dems. Maybe he went down at night and pretended playing president with his sharpie A bit like Norman and his mother in Psycho. Doesn't really matter of course in this instance.They were none of his business.