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People with disabilites have always been disadvantaged in society. The situation has slightly improved for them by providing for equal opportunities through increased accessibility, anti-discrimination laws, etc. Would anyone suggest making able bodied people disabled to right past wrongs ? Why would we think it appropriate to do so in the case of racism and its wrongs ? The bolded part is the key.

Those are two different thoughts you're confusing together. I'm not against giving loans to people who've been denied loans because of racist practices. That's wrong; everyone should have equal opportunity to get a loan. But when you give one person preferential treatment by giving them an interest free loan, solely based on race, that is the very definition of racism, and you are continuing the practice that made the mess in the first place. The only way your idea flies is if you are after equality of outcome; and you still haven't presented an argument as to why that is a desirable outcome ( i'll wait, you may convince me ). The outcome I'm interested in acheiving is equality of opportunity, simply because I'm of the opinion that some measure of personal responsibility, once you have equal opportunity as everyone else, should determinepeople's lives.

And you can neg rep him if you choose, but if you've read the whole thread, he does seem to have a valid point. I'm not implying that Phi thinks in such a way, but the commentary he quotes does. Phi's comment about steering the ship in the opposite direction, on the other hand, implies fighting racism with racism, which to me, is a non starter. The ship only needs steering in the opposite direction to arrive at the same place, IOW, equality of outcome, while taking away opportunity from some to rght past wrongs, and which, to me, is also a non starter. I much prefer keeping the ship sailing straight; there is no guarantee of equality of outcome, but it provides for equality of opportunity for all What you make of this opportunity is up to you..

You've got to be kidding. If Russia had attacked Germany the front lines would be somewhere East of the Urals, and Russia would be begging for peace.

And after a year and a half of this invasion/destruction of a sovereign country, some people are still bending over backwards to excuse V Putin's aggression. 'Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde

'Better' is subjective. And here I thought cheese was off-topic

Hate to break it to you, buttercup, but you were made aware of the rules when you joined. That was, in effect, your contract and consent, because you had the option of not joining if you disagreed with the terms and conditions. But maybe your lawyer ( Lionel Hutz ? ) can better explain.

Just another angry old man. ( welcome to the club, Roger ) Only problem is, he has a 'platform' that reaches many.

He has been a bit out to lunch with his political opinions lately. Maybe all entertainers should stick to what they do best, and leave the political commentary to those whose job it is. ( not that they shouldn't have an opinion, but their often misguided opinions can be too influential ) Above all, an entertainer should know his audience. Germany is still trying to live down the shame of Nazism; that kind of imagery might be too much for a German audience.

My apologies for going from perceived racism, off topic to to cheese. There is a type of Parmesan cheese which is produced over a much wider area of the Po River valley in Italy. It is much cheaper to manufacture, and can be aged as little as 9 months ( less than the 10 months of American Parmesan ). It has been produced since the 12th century, received protected designation in the 50s, and under the PDO since the 90s. More importantly, many people prefer it to Parmigiano Reggiano. See here Grana Padano - Wikipedia

I'm just a 'practical' Canadian ( of Italian origin ), and we have our protectionism here also. American cheeses are subject to import tariffs to protect the Dairy Industry in Quebec. Without the constraints of making Parmigiano the old fashioned, labor intensive way, it can be made with the same ingredients ( there aren't many ) and just as good. See here https://www.webstaurantstore.com/blog/2960/what-is-parmigiano-reggiano.html

Speaking of bull 😀 . The Protected Designation of Origin is nothing more than protectionism, similar to tariffs, to protect local industry. I've had American made Parmigiano Reggiano that was as good, if not better, than the Italian imported product. And nowhere near the price ( that is the main reason for protection; preserve the high price point ). Similarly, I've had brandy that is much better than the protected Cognac. And although I don't much care for sparkling white wine, I prefer Prosecco ( also protected ) to Champagne. But I do like Buffalo mozzarella; the fresh stuff still oozes milk when you cut into it. ( I have no idea how the buffalo learned how to make it so good )

Except for the fact that 'European' style farming allows the World to feed its 8 Billion people. Indigenous farmng may work for small populations, or where the population is small compared to available land resources, but it is not capable of sustaining today's world population. Although I'd like to see you keep a buffalo or two in your back yard 😄 . ( they make great mozzarella cheese )

Often, that doesn't even matter. A hot, unshielded, uncooled reactor, if dropped on your enemy would melt through just abot anything, and contaminate his groundwater with radiation, making his area uninhabitable for many generations. A formidable weapon.

Genio would like to continue making excuses for his situation, and blaming others, rather than learning some science, and fixing the problem. Good luck with that ...

You and MisterMack made the claim. Shouldn't I be asking you ?

The Teller-Ulam 'a-ha' moment was realizing that radiation ( x rays ) have pressure, and the pressure produced by a spherically arranged fission explosion is enough to initiate fusion of the fuel inside of it.

The only difference between a weapon and a reactor is simply the rate of energy release.

As Mordred has already stated, re-pasting the same quotes from your book, and making the same arrogant claims, proves nothing. Mordred has also brought this up previously, and you haven't provided any answer. At ime 10-43 sec, the universe is isotropic, homogenous and in thermal equilibrium. It is composed of only radiation, with no pockets of matter, or mass. There is no curvature to this 'space-time' ( I, and many others, would call it quantum foam ). Since gravity IS space-time curvature ( according to GR ), there is obviously no gravity either. So how can it possibly create anything ???? I haven't changed my mind about your theory being bull, and you seem to be convincing more and more people everyday, that I'm right.

One thing that has happened since the 60s, is the inability of experimental Physics to keep up with theoretical Physics. Even the Glashow, Salam and Weinberg Electroweak unification took 10 years for the detection of neutral currents in neutrino scattering , and 20 years for the dscovery od W and Z gauge bosons in proton/proton collisions. It is only lately that the LHC allows us to go beyond unification energies. Other theories, developed since then, have no hope of being tested experimentally anytime soon, and additionally, some ( SString and M theory ) are so vague, that we have no idea which universe they actually describe. As with your Prime theory, it is extremely easy to make fantastical/outlandish claims ( beyond belief, you could say ), when you know it cannot be supported by experiment or falsified. I get the impression not too many people are impressed by your claims.

Modern Physics tells us that there is no actual 'contact' force. But the classical contact approximation is indistinguishable at macro scales.

Except for the fact that more money in circulation means that more money is competing for a limited amount of goods, and this leads to 'demand-pull' inflation. This type of iflation is seen in the housing/real estate market in Canada , and, along with 'cost-push' inflation ( due to rising costs of production ) is one of the 5 causes of inflation John Cuthber posted about here Always read John's posts; he's a very sharp guy. ( at east, I think he/she's a guy ... )

"Although no particles are known to have negative mass, physicists (primarily Hermann Bondi in 1957,[7] William B. Bonnor in 1964 and 1989,[13][14] then Robert L. Forward[15]) have been able to describe some of the anticipated properties such particles may have. Assuming that all three concepts of mass are equivalent according to the equivalence principle, the gravitational interactions between masses of arbitrary sign can be explored, based on the Newtonian approximation of the Einstein field equations. The interaction laws are then: In yellow, the "preposterous" runaway motion of positive and negative masses described by Bondi and Bonnor. Positive mass attracts both other positive masses and negative masses. Negative mass repels both other negative masses and positive masses. For two positive masses, nothing changes and there is a gravitational pull on each other causing an attraction. Two negative masses would repel because of their negative inertial masses. For different signs however, there is a push that repels the positive mass from the negative mass, and a pull that attracts the negative mass towards the positive one at the same time. Hence Bondi pointed out that two objects of equal and opposite mass would produce a constant acceleration of the system towards the positive-mass object,[7] an effect called "runaway motion" by Bonnor who disregarded its physical existence, stating: Such a couple of objects would accelerate without limit (except a relativistic one); however, the total mass, momentum and energy of the system would remain zero. This behavior is completely inconsistent with a common-sense approach and the expected behavior of "normal" matter. Thomas Gold even hinted that the runaway linear motion could be used in a perpetual motion machine if converted to circular motion" From Wikipedia Negative mass - Wikipedia But others, in particular R L Forward ( yes, the sci-fi author of Dragon's Egg ) have shown that the phenomenon violates no conservation laws and is mathematically consistent. So yes, Moon, there is a very slight possibility that exotic matter, with negative mass, and which violates positive energy conditions could exist ( though I find the idea ludicrous ), and would allow forstabilization of wormholes and travel to the past/future/far-away regions of space at FtL speeds.

I prefer the old fashioned approach. I just add another digit to my IQ, et voila' ... ( look, I've already learned another language )

I don't want to 'muddy the waters' for Kenny, as I don't know his level of understanding. He may, however, ask "What is the lunar lander pushing against when it accelerates upwards from the lunar surface ?". F=ma is not the complete analysis in such cases. A rocket expells part of itself ( the fuel ), at high speed, and accelerates in the opposing direction, ensuring that momentum is conserved.