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http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/early-doors/scotland-football-kit-anti-english-123854547.html Apparently the new Scotland shirt is 'anti English'

There was a paper written by a guy at Los Alamos labs back in the early eighties, that got picked up by Arthur C. Clarke in his sequel to 2001 A Space Odessey: Basically, the idea was that the millions of tonnes of carbon present in the outer system gas giants would be so much heavier than the hydrogen and helium that made up the majority of the gas giant's mass, that it would sink downwards, collecting into the core of the planet where under intense heat and pressure, it would form into a diamond. It was Clarke that extended this thinking from Neptuen to Jupiter, where he theorised that Jupiter had a core of diamond, the size of earth. It wa salso theorised that there would be layers of increasingly simple hydrocarbons by the billion of tonnes before the pressure and heatbecame so intense that all compunds were strippped back to basic elements, and right near the centre would exist a layer fo hydrogen in it's most exotic form - as a liquid metal!

It just goves to prove that intelligence - raw IQ at least - does not impact on the level of someone's ignorance.

Bowie wasn't it? He was wheeling away hands in the air, even as McGurn got to it.

A few weeks back against Dumbarton when he got back in time to scoop the ball off the line. It's not up with his best saves ever, but it was the reaction of the Dumbarton forward, going up to McGurn and giving him a wee shove, that indignant frustration of the striker, that's what really sums up dve McGurn's performances.

The problem is that his shot stopping is so outstanding that pretty good saves become common place.

I remember for the footage of the EF 3-2 game that, you can hear some EF fan scream 'NOOOO!' as Williamson's header loops over the keeper

Probably. Thanks for reminding me, it's killed any lingering optimism

Deal. Now, can we talk about that weird fucked up haunted house/ fucked up jekyll and hyde architecutre thing you call a badge.

Driving wheel is upside down, unless he (she? it?) is pulling some kind of massive skid. Nah, I always thought it was Godzilla coming up the shore at kirkcaldy prom with the two button mouse of doom.

The animal as drawn on the badge isn't a lion, surely. It's more of a demonic horse thing. Or Godzilla.

But then Stalin had a bad habit of killing people, mostly his own people, who made fun of the gadge's' tache (or deviated in someway from the set political narrative of the communist party, but mostly, it was the 'tache) I wouldn't make fun of Stalin's tache, cause it's great. Unlike Hitler's, which is a bit shit, which is why the Soviet Union triumphed in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945: better grooming and maintenance of facial hair. Bare that in mind as Movember looms.

What year/degree course are you in? It can help a lot if you manage to blag a summer job/internship at a company in the field in which you want to work. If not, for the bigger companies that operate the automated app. forms, learn quickly which buzzwords and phrases the software is looking for in order to get you to the point of having your CV looked at by a human being. Apply for everything but do so in a structured way - be prepared to move, and move far if it comes to it. Quie apart form the likes of Monster, Telegraph jobs, you can usually find agencies that will specialise in recruitment into the sector you are trying to get into, I found that these guys tended to be pretty good.

http://www.raithrovers.net/11012/grant-murray-is-championship-manager-of-the-month-for-september.htm Any chance of a good result at NDP is now up the swannie. Still, good to see Murray getting the award.

I have my moments....

Might all be bullshit mind. I know some carbon chemistry and a lot of silicon chemistry as part of my job (work in semiconductor device design), but I'm no biologist.

Water really is just very useful for the job. Neutral pH allows it to dissolve metallic and non metallic ions equally, the fact organic molecules (more on that in a minute) can be both hydrophobic and hydrophilic with respect to H2O means that you can create specific water enclosing membranes - i.e. you can start to use simple organic molecules to create structures like cells. Another thing going for it is the fact that it's small molecule size would mean it would ordinarily be a gas, but for the polar nature of the molecule, this hydrogen bonding holds it into a liquid state - it's very easy to get energy in and out of the system, so that any water environment is thermodynamically quite stable, which allows for quite a quiescent enviroment for life to flourish. Carbon, is the other big one. Carbon has a flexiblity in forming compounds that is virtually unmatched aside form silicon, it can form long covalent bonds with hydrogen and oxygen to form organic polarisable molecules that become the building blocks of proteins and then to DNA. The reason that is important is that we can consider any instance of life in terms of information storage and transmission, what you are can be reduced to the map of your genomes, each repeating instance of certain proteins in sequence, like a bitstream of data. Life, at it's most basic is the ordering of information in unique forms which are then repeated, spliced, overwritten and re-ordered. Why carbon is important is that it allows for the construciton of a great many different base molecules ot form the proteins that become the DNA sequence. Other base elements would not be able to form the variety of molecules Carbon does, and thus would limit the number of more complex structures that could be formed. That limitation would inevitably restrict the amount of information that could pass from generation of life to the next and would stunt the growth of any evolutionary tree. Carbon,then, represents an optimal state of formation of information carrying molecules. So, yeah, we look for those elements, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, as these are the elements that allow the formation of complex molecules and further into more complex biochemical structures. That's not to say they ar ethe only ones. Ammonia could easily replace water, as a cradle for life to form, and silicon could conceivably form the base of long complex covalent chains, as carbon does - but it has the disadvantage of not forming double or triple bonds as easily as carbon, also, unlike carbon it has a strong association with oxygen, oxidised silicon forms a solid, oxidised carbon forms a gas. Think of that in terms od respiratory systems. We breathe out carbon based gas - imagine trying to cough up silicon oxide (or sand, as it's more commonly known). Now, that might be thinking too anthropomorphic and respiration might not be based on oxygen elsewhere, but there is no doubt that the exchange of energy between carbon and oxygen is an optimal reaction in comparison to most others. Silicon also lacks chirality: carbon based molecules form left and right handed mirrors of each other in sugars and proteins, important in allowing for the replication of DNA. Finally, there is a far greater percentage of Carbon than silicon in the universe. Making life based on carbon, a higher probability. Again, there is nothing to say that life could form without using DNA, it is probable, however, that in terms of reordering and replicating information, you require to build complex molecules, and while alien life might not exhibit what we'd recognise as a double helix DNA strucure, it's not a bad assumption that it would be based on chiral carbon chains. So, we go looking for environments that would support the formation (or at the very least, survival) of such molecules (I say survive becuase it's possible that these chains originated in comets that then crashed to earth, all life, may be extra terrestrial!) water, we know is a fantadtically benign environment for life to originate in - but it's not just water, being a rocky and volcanically active place, there has always been oases of energy that allowed complex carbon chains to form without being too volatile that they were destroyed. This in term enables the formation of life. Could life originate on Jupiter? the gas giant possibly could, but without a relatively constant energy source, could life arise, maybe in the upper atmosphere? the problem there is that as soon as your carbon atom is heavier than the hydrogen that makes up the majority of Jupiter's mass, so it sinks down towards the core, where, under immense pressure and heat, it strips any attempt at a complex molecule back to it's base elements. Places like Europa are of interest, as we are fairly sure it has an acitve geothermal core and a nice big ocean: energy, a thermodynamically benign environment to regulate the energy and carbon. Finally, we cannot escape the basic anthropomorthism of the search, we look for water and carbon and oxygen becuase we know it works. It could work with ammonia and/or silicon but we don't know how and all oour chemistry suggests it would be a less than optimal set of circumstances. That's not to say it couldn't happen though.

Thing is you can apply reductio ad absurdum to any work of fiction. I don't think anyone has ever written an entirely water tight story free from any and all writign tricks and mechanics, everything is on a spectrum in that sense, governed by whether you intend to write something character or plot focussed (or anything in between) Breaking Bad has always had a lot of good action and clever sequences, but it's primarily a character piece, in which case you can allow some creative license in delivering the characters into the appropriate situation in order to convey your point.

Assuming Marie knew specifics beyond 'Jesse is important to getting Walt', assuming that the APD are proactive in chasing him over skipped bail - likely not, and so as long as he doesn't pop up on the authorities radar, he won't be flagged as having skipped bail, finally, assuming that the prints are usable. Given that, at that point, no one has seen Pinkman in a while and with them having got Walt's body, plus the whole Nazi cartel and one dead Madrigal executive, they'll likely assume that Walt probably dealt with Jesse by sending him to Belize. despite an outstanding arrest warrant, no one looks to hard for Mike after he gets' barrelled either. It's not like Jesse doesn't have extensive experience of staying low and dodging the authorities. If he's lucky he;'ll just be one more statistic on an APD spreadsheet.

Yeah, but beyond that? It's unlikely that Hank would've told Marie that he was a murdering junkie, is it? Beyond knowing that having Pinkman around was necessary to 'get' Walter, there is no particular reason to suspect him of the crimes we know him to have committed, they don't know that he was cooking meth, or had killed, nothing Marie could tell them would make them suspect he did, he could have interacted with Walt via buying meth, but then the DEA is not going to go after one junkie with a pile of dead junkies and a meth kingpin in his lab to deal with.It's probable that Jesse could slip away - so long as he aovided a high profile.

Hank and Gomez kept Jesse off of the formal DEA radar: after being baled, the APD don't seem to come back after him. The Nazis raided Hank's home and took the confession tapes. Assuming they were destroyed, there is nothing for the DEA to chase. Finding Walt dead in the lab probably covers for them where the meth was coming from. He simply wouldn't be on the DEA radar.

Who the hell is wandering about talking aobut us being title contenders after six games? That's Foxbarton levels of crazy talk.

It's actually pretty good, and McAvoy does a good job with the character he's given to play. They have softened Robbo up a bit and changed at least one key plot point. The ending, though the same from the book, now has a slightly redemptive quality to it, rather than Robbo's original big 'f**k you' gesture. It's a bloody good movie, but it's no where near being a straight up adapatation of the source material. It's more like the link between blade Runner and 'do androids dream of electric sheep' many of the same characters in similar situations, but with significant changes both in terms of motivation and actions; The book as 'source material' rather than screenplay.

Will walt really be so blunt as to kill Elliot and Gretchen with the ricin? For a guy who gets off on solving problems better than anyone else, of being the smartest man in the room, it strikes me as being a bit empty. I think he will go after gray matter, but I wonder if it won't be in an attempt to discreidt the pair, maybe try and implicate them in the distribution of the Meth, or even plant the ricin in such a way as to implicate them in the wider crimes. it jsut seem slike he'll want to try and outsmart them, rather than just kill them.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2013/sep/24/damian-mcbride-10-things-book-labour really?