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It's not about socialism vs capitalism. It's about the fact that if economic disaster is met with a response based on an anti-state ideology, rather than actual economic sense, then people die. Invariably. Austerity isn't about balancing the books, it has no function except to make an ideological point of shrinking the public sphere. It continued despite not only the human cost (because the human cost was not a cost but a bonus in the government's eyes), but even increasingly strong economic argument against it. The IMF itself (those famous socialists) has said that austerity was an entirely useless, if not counterproductive, response to the recession. Its not socialist to criticise austerity. It's basically mainstream capitalist economics - even the Tories themselves have realised how much austerity has sullied their reputation.

Hah! Found the filthy, sabotaging kraut.

Scientists created a clock so accurate that it measures space-time Olivia Goldhill 1 hour ago © Provided by Atlantic Media, Inc. To mark the passage of time, you could track the height of the sun in the sky or the passing of the seasons. Or, you could measure the vibrations of an atom. That’s what scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland have done, creating two clocks that each trap 1,000 atoms of the element ytterbium in grids of lasers. These lasers are able to measure the atoms’ vibrations with near-perfect accuracy (there’s roughly one billionth of a billionth chance of error.) The scientists have measured time in atom vibrations not simply to show off, but because the scientific definition of a second is determined by the frequency of these vibrations. As Katherine Foley wrote in Quartz, scientists in 1967 defined a second as “9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation” of an atom of the isotope cesium-133 atom at temperatures of absolute zero. The research behind the atomic clocks, published in Nature on Nov. 28, shows that not only are the devices highly accurate, they also excel in other measures of clock evaluation: Stability (how much a clock’s frequency changes over time), and reproducibility (how closely the two clocks tick at the same frequency). The scientists behind these clocks have created atom clocks before, but their latest version is even more accurate, thanks in part to thermal and electric shielding, which protects the atoms from external electric fields. Indeed, they’re so accurate that they show the effect of gravity, as predicted by Einstein’s theory of relativity: The stronger the pull of gravity, the slower the vibrations of atoms and the passing of time. This effectively means that the clocks are showing not simply time, but also their distance from a center of gravity. They’re effectively measuring the space-time continuum. That means, for example, they could potentially be used to perfectly measure the Earth’s shape, since gravity gets stronger as you get closer to the Earth’s core. The clocks’ sensitivity to gravity also means in theory that they could be used to detect the presence of dark matter. We don’t know what dark matter is, but we know it distorts gravity, and so these clocks could potentially pick up on it. Currently, these clocks are far too big to transport. But the NIST researchers are building a portable version, which could be used to measure time around the world. Effectively, they’ll be able to show exactly where time passes more slowly, down to the tiniest vibration of atomic time. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/scientists-created-a-clock-so-accurate-that-it-measures-space-time/ar-BBQjnmN?li=BBoPRmx

To be fair I get up early anyway myself, about 5:30, so it's not really anything new. Staying up to watch it is the difficult one these days, unless you have an eighth of charlie or something.

My sole reason for voting Remain was the cultural reasons, I think Britain will suffer greatly culturally from a breaking of the ties with the European Union. I know the EU is not Europe but it feels like that's how many people see it, I love Europe, European history and culture and Britain's place among that history and culture. I worry about cultural trends across the world at the moment, but in some ways I think it's just too late now, this country is so badly educated now that we have barely any people worth speaking to.

I understand the theory behind a left-wing Brexit. The EU is a fundamentally market-liberal, capitalist institution. Its rules on competition and state aid are explcitly meant to mould member states into liberalised market economies. Its budget deficit limits (when they can be bothered to apply them) are potential hindrances to a stimulus-focused budget approach. But theory is a lot different from reality. To me, being left wing means believing in sheltering the vulnerable and fighting for the greatest collective benefit. There is no scenario, even the most left-wing favourable one, where I see Brexit doing those things. It's better to seek to remould the EU in a less rigidly pro-market direction, than to go off as a lone wolf socialist state.

I'd love to support a team like Sauber, probably more likely to go for Williams or McLaren but I get my fill of celebrating 7th place because it's the best thing that'll ever happen to you by supporting Everton so I'll stick to being a neutral observer.

I'm going to be a prat here and answer your question with a question - have you seen Leicester play these days? By no means is this me bigging Leicester up, because I'm not completely sold that we've done the right thing here, but we play a far more possession based game than we did a couple of years ago. I don't know about you, but I saw Leicester 2016 as a bit of an Atletico-lite. Obviously not exactly the same, but similarities in some of the style although of course Atletico had the better players. In the last year we've adopted a far more possession based approach, and I think it's been pretty ineffective for most of the time - the odd game where it comes off we look very assured, but I think our players aren't entirely suited to this game. Maybe an addition like Mendez will slot in and take it to another level. I have exactly the same principle as you regarding signing players who fit - that was the foundation of our success, they fit the system and they had the right character to fit the dressing room. Ever since the title win, we have deviated from it for no obvious reason at all and our transfer approach has been largely scattergun, which for me is the main reason we have regressed as quickly as we rose. We are investing more in younger players now though and there appears to be a desire at the club to promote youth, and while I think we're a way off seeing it click into place, it's in its infancy. I am yet to be sold however, that Claude Puel is the answer. But make no mistake, this isn't the 30% possession a game Leicester anymore.

Euroskeptics making emotional arguments rather than substantive policy arguments has been so effective. Look at Nigel Farage, a man who's been elected as an MEP numerous times and he's never once fought for better British representation in the EU, he's used his position to collect a big salary from the EU while continuously trolling the entire European Parliament, essentially just using the position for soundbites as to why the UK should leave the EU. There's always been very little substance behind what he says on Europe and the EU, but he's humourous and charismatic and has managed to sway a lot of people into believing him just through being able to make people laugh and by seeming relateable despite telling lies about the roles of EU regulations and their effect on Britain. Although I think everyone should view Farage as a hypocritical dipshit based on his views on: tax avoidance (which is okay for him, but not for others apparently) and what he'll do if Brexit is a dismal failure (by his own admission, he'll just fuck off to the US).

Everyone is susceptible to market forces and consumerism whatever the financial bracket or ideological doctrine mate. Some of the most intelligent people that have made a mark have self confessed to having committed those types of errors and they don't apologise and myself included. I am only human at the end of the day and although that's a common get out clause via a cliché, it doesn't stop being an unfortunate fact of life. The media is extremely powerful and in a case such as where anti-European sentiments are in question, we're talking of decades of dedicated media force feeding these sensations to the people. You can't get away from all of that and remember that a large proportion of that period was pre-Internet with all of its benefits... Also remember that Internet isn't all positive as it is also full of the manipulation I've just cited in abundance. It all depends on how conditioned you have become which determines where you search for your news or which key words you type into your search engine. As a seemingly ridiculous example although when you think carefully about it and take into account on its fundamental directive I give you this strange, very contemporary and everyday situation that tells us a lot... We've all seen discounts in many forms from your Internet market to your supermarket magazine with cut-out discount coupons.... They exist in every single financial wage bracket publication from the poorest to the very wealthy... They exist because they are used, they are produced because work has previously been done to convince you of the need to purchase and believe in the necessity of your needs. We all use them, we are all susceptible to it and we must surely be forgiven for falling into the trap with the honest understanding that we comprehend the method. But here we're talking about something that using common sense can be changed with reflection. Here we're debating and discussing a situation that is reversible in its totality by revoking the activation of article 50.

Richard Branson is taking a submarine down the world's largest sinkhole Annabel Fenwick-Elliott 19 hrs ago © istock What lies beneath Belize's Great Blue Hole? It looks, at first, like a giant, flat, ink blot in the sea, but underneath this sinkhole – the largest in the world – is a cavern large enough to swallow two Boeing 747s with room to spare. Famed marine explorer Jacques Cousteau didn't discover the sinkhole, located in the Caribbean sea off the coast of Belize, but he did name it "The Great Blue Hole" in 1971, and it's been a magnet for scuba divers ever since. Now, in the first mission of its kind, Cousteau's grandson and Sir Richard Branson are plunging to the deep, dark bottom of it in a submarine as part of an expedition that will be streamed live and broadcasted globally on the Discovery Channel.

I was just playing along but yes, I don't like Ferrari, whether the racing team or the brand overall, they're a right dysfunctional mess with endless internal conflicts, politics and power struggles. Can't get their shit together for years, yet they've been on the same arrogance trip since Enzo Ferrari.

So what fans forum do we reckon liquidator gets his posts from?