Yes the GOP is different. It's ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more corrupt.

Let's remind ourselves who they're happy to call their 'president':

PERFECT SUMMARY.

Put like that, a determined Congress should be able to have most of that under way by lunchtime...

....sadly we only seem to have a broken-down / frightened / concentrated-on-it's-own-bank-balance Congress...

>> distance travelled d by an object in a set interval t :
speed = ( d / t );

SO,
1) given that of late, 'Time' is regarded as a perhaps-NOT-fundamental aspect of the universe, but rather an 'emergent' one... where does that leave C, it being just such a calculation ?

Just listening to Brian with Neil De Grasse Tyson.

Simple question I hope: we're used to C (the speed of light) being universally regarded as a fundamental constant (I think Brian named three such fundamentals in toto) -- BUT any speed, is a computation - of >>

> when during my second year at work, I read in SA of the discovery of the Bottom quark, & 2 decades later the Top quark. Science unfolding beneath our feet..

Thanks for your excllent & always-so-digestible reporting.

Merry Christmas from Warwickshire.

>> that constraint then mean ?

This "feels like" we could be approaching a major shift in theories of the universe: perhaps a whole lot of

"...OH THAT's how that works, is it...." moments are up-coming.

Lovely: soon may it come. We love new steps in science. I remember the sensation>

> then what can we say about any calculation needing time as a parameter? The gorilla in the room of course being C .. the speed of light: if we don't have time, how can any velocity mean anything: and if C represents an upper speed limit for matter... but time does not exist.. what does >>

(that's 1hr 09 not 1m 09 :)

Helen -
- just ICYMI - you're on Keith Olbermann's radar (he went out with Olivia 20 yrs back) - and he's highly complimentary of your words... - you're namechecked just after 1:09 into his current Pod / but he reads part of your writing earlier uncredited:

open.spotify.com/episode/6SHZ...

What a sick, pathetic message from a mentally unfit person who at this blip in history, occupies what was, the white house.

And it’s all about this…⬇️

Its a very easy short flight from Inverness to Kirkwall, and an easy hop to Inverness from Londons airports - or by rail.

I've been to Orkney.
I'd recommend to anyone, go there, stay a few nights, hire a car & visit Scara Brae: an amazing Neolithic village, the most complete of such in Europe. You can almost feel the presence of those who built homes on a sheltered seashore, well over 5000 years ago. Mesmerising.

Love books. What are you reading just now ?

I'm just reading CONTACT by Carl Sagan. Beautifully written, a lovely, intruiguing subject. Much more in the book than there was room for in the (excellent) film...

Doesn't WAIVING your Fifth Amendment right, mean you can't then UN-Waive it, next time you are interviewed ?

I thought that was a thing.... Harry ? @harrylitman.bsky.social ??

< just invites hackers to experiment with breaking into other people's systems.

If corporate IT was better trained, they'd UNPLUG most of their systems from the net, firewall them off properly, and use VPNs plus secure Intranets to run their business.

Stop being sucked into the AWS mindset.

For those of us who remember computing in the 70s and have had to tolerate the awful Microsoft Windows for 4 decades, we find it incredible that modern companies don't realise that
(a) Windows is the buggiest and most hackable OS in history, and
(b) Cloud, is a nakedly hackable structure which>

Notable that Costco and others retain their 4-decade old, non-net connected / unhackable IBM System/1 systems, for stock control and other operations management functions as they're simply MORE RELIABLE and less flaky than modern SaaS tools by a mile.

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A GLORIOUS photograph.