I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

Sleepy

Relinquishing the royalties doesn't mean they've handed back the royalty cheques they've received to-date though.

And the future value of the royalties would surely be a fraction of what they've earned over the past 22 years. The radio-play royalties for the song between '97 & '99 alone would have been worth a fortune.

mzungu

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

A story associated with that is that the band asked the stones manager how they wanted to divide up the royalties. "50/50" he said. the band thought this was quite reasonable until the stones manager added "50 for Mick and 50 for Keith"

Following the out of court settlement that forced him to relinquish the song’s royalties Ashcroft quipped: “This is the best song Jagger and Richards have written in 20 years.” :pac::pac::pac:

lan

Coal was formed hundreds of millions of years ago by the compression of dead plants and trees. That was only possible though because the bacteria that decomposes trees hadn’t evolved yet.

Trees died, fell over and just stayed there, not rotting. Eventually they’d get crushed under the weight of more and more dead trees, forming peat and coal.

So, now that bacteria have evolved that can break down wood, no more coal will ever form on earth (well, not unless all wood eating bacteria somehow goes extinct).

Source

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01/07/the-fantastically-strange-origin-of-most-coal-on-earth/

runawaybishop

Sleepy wrote: »

Relinquishing the royalties doesn't mean they've handed back the royalty cheques they've received to-date though.

And the future value of the royalties would surely be a fraction of what they've earned over the past 22 years. The radio-play royalties for the song between '97 & '99 alone would have been worth a fortune.

They also handed back the royalties earned already afaik.

ohnonotgmail

Some of you may have heard of the Battleship Potemkin. It was a battleship of the russian navy that mutinied in 1905. Some see it as a precursor to the russian revolution. The last survivor of the mutiny died in 1987 aged 104. In dublin. His name was Ivan Beshoff and he started the chip shops of the same name.

LostinBlanch

I think he had a chip on his shoulder.

LostinBlanch

Speaking of chips, did you know that most of the families that set up the chippers in Dublin came from the same region in Italy?

lan

After Beethoven went deaf, he was still able to hear himself play piano by using bone conduction.

He would bite down on a metal rod connected to his piano, and the sound would vibrate through his jaw into his ear, allowing him to hear it.

Some hearing aides use the same concept. You can also get underwater headphones that do too.

Paddy Cow

Although extremely rare, it's possible for a person to have two sets of DNA. It happens when a pregnancy starts out as fraternal twins and one absorbs the other!

There was a case in America where a woman separated from her husband and applied for welfare. You have to have a DNA test and while it proved paternity, it showed that she was not the mother. She was arrested for fraud and had her two kids removed. She gave birth to a third child and tests also showed she wasn't the mother. Someone suggested chimerism and tests on her mother proved it. Turns out that DNA taken from some parts of her body matched her kids but others didn't. Lydia Fairchild.

New Home

^^^
IIRC, they are called "Chimeras".

Conchir

On this day, 3rd July 1940, the Royal Navy attacked French ships in their base in French Algeria. The armistice between France and Germany had come into effect a few days before, and the British were wary of the French ships coming under Nazi control. The French fleet included four battleships and five destroyers, while the Royal Navy force included the battlecruiser HMS Hood and the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.

One French battleship was sunk and other ships badly damaged, and nearly 1300 French sailors were killed, for the loss of two British, killed when their fighter/bomber plane was shot down.

Chancer3001

Conchir wrote: »

On this day, 3rd July 1940, the Royal Navy attacked French ships in their base in French Algeria. The armistice between France and Germany had come into effect a few days before, and the British were wary of the French ships coming under Nazi control. The French fleet included four battleships and five destroyers, while the Royal Navy force included the battlecruiser HMS Hood and the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.

One French battleship was sunk and other ships badly damaged, and nearly 1300 French sailors were killed, for the loss of two British, killed when their fighter/bomber plane was shot down.

would the 1300 french just not have surrendered?

Buford T. Justice XIX

Chancer3001 wrote: »

would the 1300 french just not have surrendered?

The ships would have to be sunk to prevent Germany from using them.

Chancer3001

easy to sink a ship.

No need to kill 1300 at the same time

ohnonotgmail

Chancer3001 wrote: »

easy to sink a ship.

No need to kill 1300 at the same time

The french would never have surrendered them.

ohnonotgmail

I'd heard of a full rainbow before but i've never seen one until now. Of course it leads to the question of where the pot of gold would be.

https://twitter.com/NaturelsLit/status/1145534479345152000/video/1

Realt Dearg Sec

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Chancer3001 wrote: »

easy to sink a ship.

No need to kill 1300 at the same time

The french would never have surrendered them.

You'll understand if we find that difficult to believe

ohnonotgmail

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

You'll understand if we find that difficult to believe

why, does your opinion of the french military go no further than cheese eating surrender monkeys?

Buford T. Justice XIX

Chancer3001 wrote: »

easy to sink a ship.

No need to kill 1300 at the same time

The 1300 were aboard the ship.

I doubt the British were going to radio ahead and request that all the French on board should disembark as the British coming in 3 or 4 hours to sink all their ships?

Realt Dearg Sec

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

You'll understand if we find that difficult to believe

why, does your opinion of the french military go no further than cheese eating surrender monkeys?

It was just a joke

Skylinehead

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

It was just a joke

It's a stupid, overdone, inaccurate joke though.

Say my name

lan wrote: »

Coal was formed hundreds of millions of years ago by the compression of dead plants and trees. That was only possible though because the bacteria that decomposes trees hadn’t evolved yet.

Trees died, fell over and just stayed there, not rotting. Eventually they’d get crushed under the weight of more and more dead trees, forming peat and coal.

So, now that bacteria have evolved that can break down wood, no more coal will ever form on earth (well, not unless all wood eating bacteria somehow goes extinct).

Source

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01/07/the-fantastically-strange-origin-of-most-coal-on-earth/

Makes you wonder where those trees got their nutrients from?

They must have been self nitrogen fixers from the air.
And it must have occurred only in swamps. Try growing a tree on a pile of dead trunks that won't rot on a dry piece of ground and you'll get no tree I'll bet.

Say my name

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

The 1300 were aboard the ship.

I doubt the British were going to radio ahead and request that all the French on board should disembark as the British coming in 3 or 4 hours to sink all their ships?

Is it better to die from a British bomb or a German bullet?

(That's a rhetorical question btw in case anyone wonders).
But that'd be the choice (when the british decided those ships had to be sunk).

Realt Dearg Sec

Skylinehead wrote: »

It's a stupid, overdone, inaccurate joke though.

The fact that it's overdone was part of the logic of the joke. I was going for irony. Obviously it didn't work.

Capt'n Midnight

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

The ships would have to be sunk to prevent Germany from using them.

The French fleet were sitting ducks. Thanks to earlier arms limitation treaties two of the French Battleships only had main guns at the front and so could not fire back effectively. (The Royal Navy had some battleships like that too)


It was another Churchill special. Probably to show the US that the UK were serious about the whole war thing.

When the Germans came to impound the Vichy Fleet on 7 November 1942 the French sank them first.

fortwilliam

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

Bittersweet Symphony

while its a bit of a stretch, there is a traditional Lithuanian folk dance with some (slight) remnants of the strings:

Realt Dearg Sec

There have been 26 candidates in the current Democratic primary campaign. This far exceeds the previous record for a primary, set in 2016 by the Republicans, where 17 ran. The Democrats record was 16, set in the 1972 election and equaled 4 years later.

The number is so high that the DNC have instituted a host of qualification rules to take a place in televised debates, requiring candidates to have achieved particular numbers in the polls as well as numbers of individual donors. Those numbers will increase over the next few months, probably (and from DNC's perspective, hopefully) forcing more withdrawals from the race before the primaries even begin. Such polling rules have been in place before, but the emphasis on numbers of individual donors is new, and reflects a (to some extent decorative) shift in the party's emphasis in fundraising towards the importance of small individual donors over reliance on big campaign spending by corporations and lobbyists.

This reflects the fact that small donor numbers are increasingly correlated to success for Democrats in state and national elections. That correlation is way more important in Democratic victories and is not replicated for the most part among Republicans. One posited reason for this is that people who vote Republican tend to share the Outlook of big business donors, and so don't feel any need to contribute to campaigns to try to leverage candidates that might resist business-led agendas.

lan

Say my name wrote: »

Makes you wonder where those trees got their nutrients from?

They must have been self nitrogen fixers from the air.
And it must have occurred only in swamps. Try growing a tree on a pile of dead trunks that won't rot on a dry piece of ground and you'll get no tree I'll bet.

Yes, swampy wetlands seemingly, if you’ll take Wikipedia as a source, anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_forest

bnt

Following on from the discussions of Pi and Taylor series: you can do animations using Fourier series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qgreAUpPwM

New Home

https://i.imgur.com/PDmAYZj.jpg