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Warne out! Klopp in!
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The club still has the corporate interview video up on FB from when CK was the preferred bidder
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=543275024035439
Funnily enough, he's talking about the complexity around the way MM had structured the club and the stadium making it harder for the deal to be sorted
It's entirely possible that, had MM not created such a rats nest of companies and structures - then CK might have been able to get the deal through quickly before anyone realised that he was a money-laundering fraud.
So thanks for that Uncle Mel 😂
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3 minutes ago, Reggie Greenwood said:
Could be worse a club could have been bought on the back of drug dealing
Or by a nation state that butchers journalists
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It's already gone from twenty to thirty years in the clink for Mr Kirchner then!
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1 hour ago, ramit said:
Just thought of something while tossing and turning unable to sleep. Some of the trickier questions in certain tests can best be solved if worked from back to front, or it's opposite. We are all familiar with the statement nothing will come from nothing and it does make sense that it is factual, as we cannot extract something from nothing, well, in this perceived reality anyway. In itself it is an observant statement but not really inducing extrapolation at first consideration. That's where insomnia helps, one keeps pondering, stuck in a thought and voila a new idea emerges thereby insuring one gets no further sleep.
Yes, I am getting to the point. If indeed nothing will come from nothing, then asserting that something will come from something should also be a valid statement. That is a much more interesting idea really, for that means every thing has an origin and therefor that origin after origin stretches into infinity, for if not, it would begin with nothing, which it obviously cannot. Now, this means one of two things to my warped mind, either origin stretches out endlessly, or it forms a circle, biting it's tail so to speak and of course also has an origin. Either way, that reeks of programming, ergo a simulated reality in a simulated universe.
Infinite regression isn't it? If we were created by something or someone, someone must have created them, and so on etc
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10 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:
Agreed, but it's hard to overlook that the big boss is now the single most prominent exponent of misinformation and worse
Yeah but, surely his twitter feed is abundant with community notes, correcting all of his rubbish...(checks).....oh. That's weird 🙄
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Remember when he said that the paid blue tick system would get rid of the bots?
And then said he would pay out to blue tick accounts based on how much engagement they generate?
What could go wrong, other than people paying for blue ticks and then setting up bots to auto-generate replies in the hope that they might earn some Musk Dollars...
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49 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:
25,000 dead, 60,000 injured, 2 million displaced, little to no food, water, medicine and aid and injured children being operated on without anaesthetic.
Yes, but let's not forget that it's not just Palestinian deaths
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68065903
QuoteThe Israeli army says 24 of its soldiers were killed in Gaza on Monday - the deadliest day for its forces since their ground operation began.
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Good interview here with the Dutch author of the book "Limitarianism"
When someone says it calmly and rationally it all seems to make a lot of sense doesn't it
We talk about eradicating poverty, but never about changing things from the other end
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10 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:
That's an interesting one. I loved what Nick Cave said about AI songwriting, but also fear he might be wrong in terms of the herd's lazy acceptance of it. Will "generative AI" only ever copy and adapt, or will it actually generate something original? I ask myself the same question in science, when people tell me about the breakthroughs that are apparently coming. Could an AI have created the intellectual cathedral that is Einstein's General Theory of Relativity? And, given this is the theory we now need to replace to gain a deeper understanding of the Universe, how can AI possibly ever have the understanding of what it is doing and proposing, to move us on?
I'm a big Nick Cave fan, but I thought his comments on AI songwriting were a bit short-sighted, in so much as he makes the mistake that most people make when contemplating AI.
That AI could or will become a wholesale replacement for human intelligence (if we let it). We shouldn't even be considering that.
He's right that it would be awful on many levels, but It puzzles me that so few people seem to look beyond that and concentrate on where AI can be useful for, and where we should be harnessing it.
He almost gets it at the end where he picks out one terrible line from the AI song and uses it to frame a joke about his feelings about AI. That's where I'm coming from. To use AI as a spark, or a starting point. Have it generate some nonsense and then pick it apart using your own creativity to make something totally different and unique. You wouldn't have come up with it without AI, but it's not "AI-generated" - more AI-assisted.
I make similar points to my students about AI programming. Traditionally, the boring bit is sitting down and slogging through writing the code. Then the fun bit is debugging it and refining it, and testing it to make sure it meets the requirements. To use AI for the donkey work and have it churn out a framework of code saves you an enormous amount of time, but that first AI pass of code is never going to work properly, or do exactly what you need - so you get to go straight to the debugging and refining part. In which case you still need to understand the programming language and the theory, concepts, frameworks etc so get learning
AI will not replace humans, but it's a sexy headline to scare people with I guess
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When David implements the new "graphic view" on my ignore list
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1 hour ago, TigerTedd said:
And billionaires earn millions a day. Where does all this money come from? Surely there’s enough money in the world for every one to earn a very healthy wage each year.
did you see this?
it always baffled me how people with extreme wealth could possibly need all that money - there must be a cut off where you simply don't need any more. Because it starts to accrue so quickly - if you have £10m in savings, you're easily earning half a million quid just in interest - and that's in a bog standard high street account - realistically they would be investing it in much more profitable places
At least that letter puts paid to the old nonsense trope that all the millionaires would leave the country if we taxed them too much!
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29 minutes ago, Malty said:
This might be true but given that there is no “disposals” in the year it might suggest that knight didn’t have a carrying value in the accounts. Hard to be sure without the details but perhaps knight had a £nil carrying value.
What we need is for Stephen Pearce to come up with a clever way of accounting for players residual values.
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An excellent article here which covers all the reasons why
https://lasp.colorado.edu/mop/files/2019/08/Humans-Will-Never-Colonize-Mars.pdf
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He certainly lived a good life!
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1 hour ago, GboroRam said:
I've just been reading that China has devised a nuclear powered battery with almost zero radiation risk. Output is minimal and the life of the battery is 50 years. Interesting how this develops. First step will be a phone battery but who knows how it will go?
We're still in the infancy of power development. Charging will be quicker, safer and battery capacity will be better. Right now it's workable but inconvenient. I'm sure filling stations were equally inconvenient in the dawn years of the petrol car.
Yeah - we had an LPG camper van for a while and it was a nightmare trying to find places to fill it up before it ran out. Didn't help that the fuel gauge was totally unreliable
But back on point - the EV race isn't actually about EVs at all - it's just about who can come up with the best battery solution. The car part is largely irrelevant. Just wheels to get you from A to B
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14 hours ago, Grumpy Git said:
A bit more evidence of corporate greed in overdrive here:
Jesus!
and the best they can do in reply is
QuoteAn Avanti West Coast spokesperson said: “These slides were an attempt to explain how the Service Quality Regime works to some of our colleagues, but the language used was regrettable.
I get all the arguments for privatised public services, but surely even those who are pro the idea have to admit that the current implementation of the model doesn't work for us? The idea that they can take tax-payers money, and then fail but it doesn't matter because they get bailed out by more tax-payers money is ludicrous.
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/16/tesla_owners_in_deep_freeze/
QuoteSaw a fellow sitting in his EV at a charging station. The businesses were still closed for him to stay warm and dawdle while his car charged. I briefly spoke with him as he went into the store. He said he's been sitting in the car running the heaters and it was taking about twice as long to charge. The car's range was about 280km in the cold he said. The fellow said his trip to Saskatoon from Kelowna takes about 3 times longer for charging time (sitting time). His charges today were about $100 and two hours of sitting with heaters on and the battery was only 2/3 charged. He said he liked his EV, but only in summer. But he said only if it's not too hot, AC drains batteries very fast. So, if you live in Canada, and are considering buying an EV, make sure your pockets are deep and you're NEVER on a schedule.
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10 hours ago, Tyler Durden said:
In Birminghams case it's possible after they had to shell out over a billion pounds to female council workers whom historically were unfairly underpaid relative to their male counterparts.
As Birmingham council made no provision for this huge compensation claim which ultimately was their own fault then this effectively left them borassic.
So is the implication that they are declaring bankruptcy as a way to avoid paying up on this legal liability?
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We cannot get promotion playing Kids?
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3 hours ago, David said:
Be interesting to know what kind of job Nuno was sold and were they transparent with him.
A very good point. If he asked for, and received assurances that they were not going to have any issues with FFP, before he agreed to take the job then he could well walk, and sue them for negligent misrepresentation and/or fraudulent inducement
That would be
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3 hours ago, Wolfie said:
Until you realise that those making the investment decisions at the council probably don't have the skills to make those judgements.
I hesitated from saying earlier, as it's a bit of a sweeping generalisation but my experiences of people who work for the council are that they either...ahem...not exactly our brightest and best OR they are consultants brought in on stupid money by the former to fill gaps in the idiot matrix. A recipe for disaster
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Not sure about short memories, (I was unhappy about both the things you stated and said so) but some people clearly don't care, and are happy to divorce "the game" element from the "reality" element of football club ownership. Their prerogative I guess