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  • Ok, but in general so can any organisation/institution become corrupted. So can your local authority or the upper management of where you work or the local school board or the organisers of your favourite activity club.

    Your statement is tantamount to saying “corruption exists and is bad”. Well yeah, it has since people put a name to greed.

    Its good to keep an eye out for it, but unless there’s growing evidence for the case that French courts have been corrupted, like how there’s now a mountain’s worth for the US supreme court, then it’s not being skeptical it’s being very cynical.



  • Mathematically yes. Practically, right now? No.

    So you need a resistor of this value for your widget.

    For that many places of precision you’re looking at a potentiometer with a 10 nano-ohm precision.

    I am not aware of any commercially available resistor that can do that but you could create one using microelectronic structures used for ICs and derive a 10 nano-ohm resistor by design and then chain enough of these elements into a resistor network or potentiometer to create the super precise resistance value you want.

    Cool, congratulations.

    Now how are you going to use this 10 nano-ohm resistor? What voltage will you be applying across it? What current do you expect it to handle? And therefore what are your power requirements? What are your tolerances, how much can the true value deviate from the designed ideal?

    Because power generates heat through losses, and that will affect the resistance value so how tightly do you need to manage the power dissipation?

    How will you connect to this resistor to other circuit components? Because a super precise resistor on it’s own is nothing but an over-engineered heating element.

    If you tried connecting other surface mount devices (SMDs) from the E24 or even E96 series to this super precise resistor then the several orders of magnitude wider tolerances of these other components alone will swallow any of the precision from your super accurate resistor.

    So now your entire circuit has to be made to the same precision else all of your design work has been wasted.

    Speaking of which, now your heat management solution now needs to be super precise as well and before you know it you’ve built the world’s most accurate widget that probably took billions of dollars/euros/schmeckles and collaboration from the worlds leading engineers and scientists that probably cost more time and money than the Large Hadron Collider.










  • Hey guys, please don’t pay any attention to the history of the modern Olympics (early 20th century) being started as sports day for the wealthiest of society because us toffs got scared about the formation of proper sports federation events allowing the peasants to compete in our leisure activities because they offered cash prizes making them a viable career so we made a set of games where the only prize is prestige hence why you get a lot of working-class background olympians selling their medals on eBay…

    Don’t mind anything of that because for the first-time (and probably the last for about 20 years) we got a woman for the first time in charge! Woo! We’re so progressive! Please keep watching so we can rake in insane sponsorship money and bankrupt cities that host our overhyped egg-and-spoon races.



  • No it won’t. The FPTP will propel Reform into government if two things happen:

    1. Badenoch (or whomever replaces her) fails to drum up support at the next election.

    2. Reform manages to not implode into infighting and avoid a scandal that causes a collapse in support.

    It’s not unheard of for one of the two major parties to cease to be a thing (See the Whigs, Radicals, and the Liberals).

    Will Reform win a majority outright? I would say it’s unlikely. But I would bet they will receive stronger support at the next election as Labour fails to dramatically improve the wellbeing and wallets of the working class.

    The same people who, after decades of collapse under Thatcherism, then neglect by Blairism, and finally being squeezed by Austerity, through their support behind Brexit and Brexitiers like Boris and Farage because they peddled xenophobic-flavoured Hopium.

    They’ll do it again, because with the weight of the rightwing media serving up easy to understand slogans when these people barely have enough energy left for analysing political discourse and policies after worrying about the roof over their head and having enough food in their bellies.

    For the Tories to cease to be a party they’d have to lose MPs and financial backers, that is unlikely to happen within a single election unless the Tories sustain huge losses.

    What I bet will happen is that they get enough votes in this election to become the official opposition IF they form a coalition with the Conservative Party. Farage will use the opportunity to mold the Tory party in his image with a potential merger when they see their approval numbers increase under his guidance and then the next election will lead them to victory.

    He’s betting that the conditions of the working class will continue to worsen due to growing inequality, that the refugee crisis will worsen due to climate change, and that his media friends will be able to manage the narrative long enough to get him into No. 10.