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Just Chat! / Is There Really A Law Of Sanctuary?

« Last post by Jimbee on Yesterday at 16:12:52 »

I actually started thinking about this when I was a small child. It was shortly after the war in Vietnam and I was wondering if a draft dodger could go to a church and claim right of sanctuary to escape the war. People who I asked back then either said they thought not or weren't sure.

So is there a law of sanctuary? I live in the US so I am of course talking about English-speaking countries. But what about the rest of Europe? What about places like South America? A universal right? Or do any of these places like that have a right of sanctuary at all? And can you use it to escape arrest, like in the Victor Hugo novel the Hunchback of Notre-Dame? Could you use it to escape the draft? Or is this just another urban legend? (It's interesting, because like in the novel it would only help you while you were in the church. So the church would have to be in on it and they would have to keep you there as long as necessary.)

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Geek Speak / Re: Computer prompts: where did it all go wrong?

« Last post by vhfpmr on Yesterday at 12:36:30 »

Press or click to initiate a command, and there's now a random delay of as much as several seconds before the prompt updates (if at all), during which time there's no feedback as to whether the computer's got the message or not

An increasing number of programs are "cloud based"

There's plenty that isn't. If I press the Windows key, and it takes 10 seconds to open the Start Menu, that's not a cloud issue. Likewise if I click Word, Excel, or File Explorer on the toolbar. The TV in my kitchen doesn't even have any internet interface, but there's a random delay of several seconds when you press a channel number before it appears on the screen, and if you don't wait for it to appear first before pressing the next button it loses the 2nd & 3rd digits. There was a similar effect with my Panasonic PVR, again with no internet connection.

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Question of the Week / Re: QotW - 25.08.22 - What is our best quantum interpretation?

« Last post by evan_au on Yesterday at 12:27:40 »

Newton's Shell theorem:

Inside a uniform spherical shell of material and assuming a 1/r2 law from every point source of gravity...

Newton's theorem assumed that the shell was static.. However, the real universe is expanding in every direction away from us, so it is not static.

I imagine that the gravitational effect of an expanding universe will be something like the optical effect of an expanding universe:
- Olbers Paradox posits "a uniform infinite spherical shell of stars and assuming a 1/r2 law from every point source of light"
- Olbers deduced that the sky should be ablaze with the intensity of the Sun's surface
- This does not occur, because the expanding universe red-shifts light down to lower energy

I expect that the expanding universe will also weaken the effect of an infinite extent of matter in an infinite universe..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox

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New Theories / Re: How do we measure the energy of a photon?

« Last post by mxplxxx on Yesterday at 11:07:08 »

It is the intensity and frequency of the change that is the issue this time.

We are nearing the peak of a 100,000 year cycle. We have no reliable weather data for the previous maximum, only a general idea of mean global temperature and CO2 level. It is however understandable  that a higher mean temperature (climate) will produce greater short-term fluctuations (weather).

Britain has suffered summer droughts for as long as I can remember. The problem has just been exacerbated by privatisation of the water supply industry and an increasing population.

Here is Climate Change's current and predicted effect on Antarctica. Pity help us if it melts.  https://1drv.ms/b/c/8147c9c160cc0049/EeD58xO8lkVOi60sPG6tLb8BAa-unr23hYObC0JsqSxgHg?e=A1FbpA

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New Theories / Re: How do we measure the energy of a photon?

« Last post by alancalverd on Yesterday at 10:47:49 »

It is the intensity and frequency of the change that is the issue this time.

We are nearing the peak of a 100,000 year cycle. We have no reliable weather data for the previous maximum, only a general idea of mean global temperature and CO2 level. It is however understandable  that a higher mean temperature (climate) will produce greater short-term fluctuations (weather).

Britain has suffered summer droughts for as long as I can remember. The problem has just been exacerbated by privatisation of the water supply industry and an increasing population.

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New Theories / Re: How do we measure the energy of a photon?

« Last post by paul cotter on Yesterday at 09:41:14 »

I have seen good arguments for and against anthropogenic climate change and as I am not competent in climate science(I don't know if anyone really is), I remain "on the fence". Even if one accepts anthropogenic causation there is still no solution: central command systems like communism do not work in practice and in democratic systems short term goals always trump long term aspirations due to the need for re-election. We know it has been much hotter and much colder in the past and it is only a matter of time before this cycle repeats, regardless of man.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« Last post by yor_on on Yesterday at 07:42:42 »

Living in a scifi

https://apnews.com/article/stock-markets-inflation-jobs-rates-fed-502814f43e8a63d01a8f01eec81ba133

as compared to

https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/research/2025/20250908


Disconnected

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« Last post by yor_on on Yesterday at 07:37:28 »

and " Qatar official says Netanyahu 'killed any hope' of hostage release with its strike in Doha on Hamas"

Well, there's a 'plan' behind it, isn't there Mr Netanyahu.


Mila 18


https://apnews.com/article/qatar-israel-attack-hamas-un-gaza-hostages-16a8e9c4a9757eadeec9ef520c0a1e30

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« Last post by yor_on on Yesterday at 07:34:42 »

World conquests

https://www.arabnews.jp/en/middle-east/article_154893/

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« Last post by yor_on on Yesterday at 07:31:08 »

Don't look at what they say, look at what they do