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['Member']Joined: December 25, 2018 at 03:00Last active: January 31, 2019 at 21:25None discussions243 comments

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Based on what objective criteria?
January 31, 2019 at 20:57
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According to the Lisbon Treaty, you have no representation on the EU Commission. This is a verifiable fact.
January 31, 2019 at 20:55
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Yes, you are that clueless. Which is typical.
January 31, 2019 at 20:26
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Because you have just revealed to anyone who understands how the EU is governed, that you are typically clueless. No, Phil Hogan does not represent yo...
January 31, 2019 at 20:22
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Who represents you on the EU Commission?
January 31, 2019 at 20:14
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Italy's GDP per Capita is now lower than when it joined the Euro in 1999. https://www.ft.com/content/6bd24218-248f-11e9-8ce6-5db4543da632
January 31, 2019 at 20:03
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Well, the EU turning into a fascist police-state, with an army, expansionist aims, and antagonism of Russia, is relevant. The fact that it has encoura...
January 31, 2019 at 19:59
Causality wouldn't exist, which is what the laws of physics say anyway.. Determinism would be absolute, free will wouldn't exist, but compatibilism wo...
January 31, 2019 at 19:53
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Germany is in or close to technical recession: https://deutschewealth.com/content/deutschewealth/en/our_perspective/cio-memo-germany-technical-recessi...
January 31, 2019 at 17:43
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Did you use the data from here? https://www.iainduncansmith.org.uk/sites/www.iainduncansmith.org.uk/files/attachments/Freedom_of_Movement_08082018.pdf
January 31, 2019 at 17:31
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I stand corrected. From the "latest figures" Net immigration from EU was only 74,000 last year, despite Brexit. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulatio...
January 31, 2019 at 17:26
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Meanwhile, Germany is in technical recession, Italy is in recession, and France is in flames. Eurozone growth is estimated at 0.2% Q4. The data was ev...
January 31, 2019 at 14:55
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That's why 3.7 million EU Citizens live in UK, that and the £4billion in benefits they take. That's why net migration from EU is still 100,000 p.a. de...
January 31, 2019 at 13:06
And that non-person status extends to infancy now, apparently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kC1B__CJ4
January 31, 2019 at 12:47
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Meanwhile, Germany is in technical recession, Italy is in recession, the whole Euro zone teetering on the brink with Q4 GDP growth of only 0.2%.
January 31, 2019 at 12:16
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This simply isn't true. IMF projects UK will be equally fastest European G7 growing economy.
January 31, 2019 at 11:31
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Sure, it would require an Act to revoke A50 notice. (You can't revoke A50 BTW, it's a treaty). I think this is impossible for a couple of reasons. Fir...
January 31, 2019 at 11:28
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How can parliament veto primary legislation, without an Act of Parliament? Parliament cannot revoke Article 50, it is part of the EU treaty. The notic...
January 30, 2019 at 20:18
If causality is absent in the laws of physics, then why does anyone expect the creation event to have a cause?
January 29, 2019 at 20:47
Maybe you could look up the wikipedia page on Unitarity yourself?
January 29, 2019 at 20:40
All laws of physics are time symmetric. So you're wrong.
January 29, 2019 at 20:35
Lazy. There is no causality in any fundamental law of physics.
January 29, 2019 at 20:32
Can you point to any law of physics that mentions causality, or where causality can be inferred?
January 29, 2019 at 20:21
Carroll is wrong. The BGV theorem proves there was a creation event, given a rather broad, realistic, and empirically established criterion.
January 29, 2019 at 20:10
A misuse of the theorem? Not according to Vilenkin.
January 29, 2019 at 19:46
The Borde Guth Vilenkin tells us there was a beginning.
January 29, 2019 at 16:19
What does time flow relative to? How fast does it flow relative to this thing? If it changed speed, or even stopped flowing altogether, would you noti...
January 29, 2019 at 14:46
There you go again. Time is a dimension of the block universe. Clocks measure the passage of time, in their reference frame. You claimed that there is...
January 29, 2019 at 10:50
No they don't. You are conflating "passage of time" (which is measured by clocks) with the wikipedia expression "objective flow of time" (which doesn'...
January 29, 2019 at 09:53
Simply false. Eternalists have clocks. Eternalists have clocks and change happens. Eternalism doesn't claim that, though. The fact that all times are ...
January 29, 2019 at 08:11
How do we know about the strong or weak nuclear force?
January 28, 2019 at 19:16
Your question is answered. But not at the same time, or the same place.. If you've studied relativity (and quantum mechanics) eternalism is inevitable...
January 28, 2019 at 17:46
Under presentism, there has to be a present hypersurface, and there has to be only one of them. Unless you pull the trick of denying objective reality...
January 28, 2019 at 14:15
Frankly have no clue what you mean. Nevertheless, permit me to reiterate: Your present hypersurface is inaccessible to you. If you seek information ab...
January 28, 2019 at 11:35
Well you can't. Everything in your present is space-like separated from you.
January 28, 2019 at 10:51
You think you can observe your present?
January 28, 2019 at 09:58
Dinosaur world-lines exist in the distant past.
January 28, 2019 at 08:57
Except you have just argued for observer dependence. I have no idea why you think our knowledge is reference-frame dependent. We all know relativity, ...
January 28, 2019 at 08:35
Donald Trump donated his last quarter salary to alcoholism research.
January 27, 2019 at 20:17
It doesn't matter what label you apply to any particular simultaneity hypersurface. Or you can deny relativity, which as I mentioned earlier, is an op...
January 26, 2019 at 22:29
As I mentioned earlier, you can be a presentist if you deny an objective observer-independent reality, or deny relativity. But if you prefer an object...
January 26, 2019 at 21:15
Nope. Presentism is falsified by several well known experiments, including time-dilation, twin paradox, and the fact that your GPS actually works.
January 26, 2019 at 16:13
I'm puzzled why an expert general relativist like yourself wastes your time on this forum rather than publishing your views in Nature.
January 26, 2019 at 14:29
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Your constant fabrications have become tedious. Cameron voted against an EU referendum in 2011. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2011-10-24...
January 26, 2019 at 11:52
There is no "lack of motion" in eternalism, so yes I ignore fictitious problems. Why do you think there is no motion under eternalism, particularly if...
January 26, 2019 at 00:49
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Cameron voted against a referendum in 2011. Because UKIP were at 10% in the polls.
January 25, 2019 at 21:09
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Actually, the campaign for an EU referendum can be traced back to 2011 when the cross-party People's Pledge group was formed. They took no position on...
January 25, 2019 at 18:32
The question of whether closed time-like curves exist in our universe is still open, Hawking's Chronology Protection Conjecture notwhithstanding. http...
January 25, 2019 at 16:16
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And in return the Dutch enjoy a surplus in trade of EUR 200 billion with the EU. The UK pays vast amounts to maintain a deficit.
January 25, 2019 at 14:36
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You never had a "join EU debate" and your 2006 referendum was cancelled because the result would have been the same as in France and Netherlands.
January 25, 2019 at 14:29