Today I Learned

[Hornbein]

Which party got your vote?

 

[Sophia]

Which party got your vote?

I voted for a capitalist party that protects rights of minorities. I am a socialist but I decided for this party because the leader is a very fine person who was not involved in any scandal in 20 years. He always speaks about his wife with love and they adopted an orphan girl. So in this case I took into consideration character, not a political programme.

 

[Hornbein]

I voted for a capitalist party that protects rights of minorities.

Which one? I'm partial to the Ordinary People And Independent Personalities party. I don't know what they stand for, but I like the name.

 

[Sophia]

Which one? I'm partial to the Ordinary People And Independent Personalities party. I don't know what they stand for, but I like the name.

They are called bridge- hid.
The party that you mention doesn't have any solutions at all. All they do is criticise, gossip and argue. They will not be able to form a coalition with anyone.
Everyone is talking about early elections now and options that the constitution offers for this kind of critical situation. According to analytics, it is almost impossible to create a stable government in this situation. It's very probable that the state will collapse during our presidency of the EU which will begin in summer.
The only hope is that winning Smer will be able to find at least 3 coalition partners but possible candidates refuse to cooperate with each other.
Exciting!

 

[Hornbein]

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The party that you mention doesn't have any solutions at all. All they do is criticise, gossip and argue. They will not be able to form a coalition with anyone.

Shades of Austria-Hungary!

Surely that how one would expect Ordinary People And Independent Personalities to behave. So at least they have truth in advertising.

They say that Bridge represents Magyar/Slovak cooperation. Is that so?

It seems to me that two partners for Smer would do it, for a total of three.

What is Network all about? Is it just a name?

 

[Sophia]

Shades of Austria-Hungary!

Surely that how one would expect Ordinary People And Independent Personalities to behave. So at least they have truth in advertising.

They say that Bridge represents Magyar/Slovak cooperation. Is that so?

It seems to me that two partners for Smer would do it, for a total of three.

What is Network all about? Is it just a name?

The problem is that anyone can have their own party. It was a result of post communist euphoria. If you can gain 10, 000 signatures hooray you have a party! And if you get 5%in elections you are in the parliament.
That's how We are family got there. The leader has absolutely no experience. In politics, he's just a local celebrity famous for having a new mother for his children every year. He makes a child, buys the mother a luxurious apartment and car, than leaves her and finds another woman. I guess people voted for him as a form of protest against the mainstream. But the thing is that yesterday he said that he doesn't wish to form a government. He will not form a coalition with anyone and will stay in the opposition.
The Network started as a promising project but it turned out that leader Prochazka is the same as all other politicians. What's more, he did not rule out cooperation with Fico and that's why he got a bad result.
In order to form a government, coalition must have at least 50% of votes together. Number 2 SAS will never accept Smer as a partner. No one will accept Nazi Kotleba. Most-hid can't work with nationalist SNS.
Common people could be with Network in theory, but they always argue so that would not last for long
So the situation is rather complicated.
They have 30 days to find a solution. As far as I understand, there will be another elections if they can't do it

 

[zoobyshoe]

Maybe you should start a party, Sophia.

 

[Sophia]

Maybe you should start a party, Sophia.

A brilliant idea! What about free pizza, 6 months of paid holiday and compulsory course in Advanced Physics for everyone? Would you vote for me?

 

[zoobyshoe]

A brilliant idea! What about free pizza, 6 months of paid holiday and compulsory course in Advanced Physics for everyone? Would you vote for me?

Well, it was all good till you got to "compulsory."

 

[Sophia]

Well, it was all good till you got to "compulsory."

You're right. I wouldn't be able to pass it myself lol

 

[Sophia]

Vocab time!

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Vocab time!

Without the context we won't know the distinction between envy and jealousy in this case. Simpson has a long tongue.

Here is the difference between them by the way.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

Today I learned that physical labor is called physical labor for a reason and that I'm much more suited for sitting down in front of this laptop with some mango carrot juice.

 

[Pepper Mint]

Today I learned many native speakers find it odd to hear someone say "I am an Irish" but not "I am an American". Interesting! Why is that though ?

 

[BornCane]

today i learned that Gottfried Leibniz was a German

mind blown

 

[mfb]

Which nationality did you expect?
The name is very German.

Today I learned: no one climbed Mount Everest (successfully) last year.
http://mentalfloss.com/uk/nature/37508/nobody-reached-the-top-of-mount-everest-in-2015

 

[BornCane]

Which nationality did you expect?
The name is very German.

Today I learned: no one climbed Mount Everest (successfully) last year.
http://mentalfloss.com/uk/nature/37508/nobody-reached-the-top-of-mount-everest-in-2015

well i thought he was English...because of his rival with Newton and at the time many scientists were probably only aware of only scientists in their countries

or am i mistaken

for example, was Newton's Principia only known in UK or throughout all of continental Europe when it was released

 

[zoobyshoe]

well i thought he was English...

He did travel to England, and met members of the Royal Society. Halley was the one who showed him some papers by Newton.

 

[Hornbein]

Did you know LaGrange was Italian?

 

[BornCane]

Ed Witten is a genius and is often called Einstein's Successor , and the "World's Greatest Living Theoretical Physicist"

makes me wonder what would happen if Witten got in a discussion of physics with this man

I would pay to see that discussion...

 

[mfb]

well i thought he was English...because of his rival with Newton and at the time many scientists were probably only aware of only scientists in their countries

or am i mistaken

for example, was Newton's Principia only known in UK or throughout all of continental Europe when it was released

Communication was certainly harder than today, but still, scientists heard of each other.

@BornCane: There are some technical challenges to such a discussion since 1988.

 

[Hornbein]

at the time many scientists were probably only aware of only scientists in their countries

Certainly not. The post was perfectly adequate.

 

[nsaspook]

Today I learned that auto-correct can save you from more than just an embarrassing spelling error.

https://blog.knowbe4.com/hackers-spoil-their-1-billion-cyberheist-with-a-typo

The hackers initiated a series of money transfer requests after stealing credentials the Bangladesh bank uses to authorize electronic money transfers. They used the stolen creds to send more than 30 money transfer requests to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, asking them to transfer the funds from the Bangladesh Bank’s account to organizations in the Philippines and Sri Lanka. One of these organizations was called the Shalika Foundation, but the crims misspelled the word “foundation” as “fandation” in the wire transfer, and that was the one that raised the red flags.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/uk-announces-language-test-for-immigrants-misspells-language/

 

[mfb]

LONDON -- Britain's Home Office officially announced Friday new languange requirements for foreign nationals applying to remain in the U.K. on spousal visas.

That was deliberate, right? Right?

 

[Ibix]

That was deliberate, right? Right?

Look at the screen shot carefully. This did the rounds in the UK a few weeks ago...

 

[mfb]

Yes I know. We have a news about misspelling "language" when requesting a language test, and that news misspelled language.

 

[Ibix]

I thought you had introduced the new typo. I didn't like to comment on a mentor's spelling. Now I've followed the CBS link I see it wasn't you, and I share your sentiment.

Unless they're subscribers to the old Usenet courtesy of always including a spelling/grammar error in any post complaining avout someone else's spelling/grammar?

 

[DrGreg]

Yes I know. We have a news about misspelling "language" when requesting a language test, and that news misspelled language.

Further evidence to support Muphry's[/PLAIN] law.

 

[Ibix]

Today I learned that dogs in the UK must be microchipped (have an implanted microchip identification) from April 6th this year.

Relevance to the current topic? I found this out in a thread on another forum titled "Did you know that you only have four weeks to get your dog microwaved?" The thread was predictably hilarious. My favourite was somebody claiming to have a cooker spaniel.

 

[BornCane]

Today i learned that Wolfgang Pauli developed a close relationship with Carl Jung, and both delved into the esoteric and mystical world

Both developed an obsession with the number 137

How can such a logical mind like Pauli become friends with such a crackpot as Carl Jung