Credit where credit is due

Ilion

Townhall.com: Holder tells prosecutors that justice top priority[^]

Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday warned federal prosecutors of increased scrutiny in the wake of mistakes in the corruption case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. Holder told assistant U.S. attorneys for the District of Columbia that they must respond to negative perceptions of federal prosecutors by doing "the right thing." "Your job as assistant U.S. attorneys is not to convict people," Holder said. "Your job is not to win cases. Your job is to do justice. Your job is in every case, every decision that you make, to do the right thing. Anybody who asks you to do something other than that is to be ignored. Any policy that is at tension with that is to be questioned and brought to my attention. And I mean that." ...

fred_

and your point is? another post without comment, just quote :doh

Ilion

fred_ wrote:

:doh

soap brain

No, you know what's interesting? Gravitational Binding Energy. It's the energy needed to separate to infinity all the material making up an object held together by gravity alone. U = 3/5 GM2/r

Stan Shannon

So, what is this 'gravity' stuff?

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

soap brain

Deformation of space-time.

Oakman

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

Deformation of space-time.

Stop slurring your words. That's the formation of space-time.

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soap brain

My word, you're right! Every law of physics follows naturally from this! The greatest conundrum in science, the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics, is in reality only a problem because physicists always mumble and look at their feet when they talk!

Oakman

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

because physicists always mumble and look at their feet when they talk!

That's why we should stop accepting Germans and Japanese into M.I.T. and Cal-Tech.

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soap brain

Oakman wrote:

That's why we should stop accepting Germans and Japanese into M.I.T. and Cal-Tech.

Exactly. And the French. :suss:

Lost User

Ilíon wrote:

Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday warned federal prosecutors of increased scrutiny in the wake of mistakes in the corruption case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.

So he did! Thanks, Polly.

Bob Emmett

Stan Shannon

So what is it exactly that is getting deformed? And what about the lonely graviton?

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

soap brain

Stan Shannon wrote:

So what is it exactly that is getting deformed?

Spacetime.

Stan Shannon wrote:

And what about the lonely graviton?

It's a hypothetical particle.

Stan Shannon

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

Spacetime.

Which is what?

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

It's a hypothetical particle.

Which is rather important for the entire quantum model.

Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.

soap brain

Stan Shannon wrote:

Which is what?

I think you're expecting a simple answer for something that is intrinsically difficult to understand. It is a 4-dimensional, smooth, connected Lorentzian manifold.

Stan Shannon wrote:

Which is rather important for the entire quantum model.

The 'quantum model' does not pretend to be perfect, and in fact everyone knows that it is doomed to eventual secession.

Oakman

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

The 'quantum model' does not pretend to be perfect, and in fact everyone knows that it is doomed to eventual secession

Will my Confederate money be good then?

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soap brain

Oakman wrote:

Will my Confederate money be good then?

You're going to have to explain what that means.

Oakman

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

You're going to have to explain what that means.

In 1861, the Southron States seceded from the Union and set up the Confederate States of America. After their defeat by the North, many southerners remained hostile to the Washington, D.C. government which they regarded as occupiers. For almost 100 years, the saying, "Save your Confederate money, the South shall rise again!" remained current. As those who were alive during the Reconstruction, passed on, it was heard less and less. I hope you took notes, there will be a test later. Tomorrow's lesson will be on Cromwell's Commonwealth.

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soap brain

Ah, OK. See, we don't learn much US history in Australia. Actually, I don't think we learn any.

Oakman wrote:

I hope you took notes, there will be a test later.

That reminds me of Tom Lehrer's The Elements. He sings the names of the chemical elements really fast and says "I hope you're all taking notes because there's gonna be a short quiz next period." It's really funny. :)

Oakman

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

Ah, OK. See, we don't learn much US history in Australia.

I've noticed.

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

It's really funny

Yes, he was the funniest math professor that ever came down the pike.

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