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@approxinfinity Gronk is actually closer to the nature of time travel than the reporter credits.

Since nothing can travel faster than light, and a traveller's relative time slows as you approach the speed of light, then it would seem he would necessarily have to overcome those limitations if he were able to instantly appear anywhere else. Time would stretch infinitely if he went at the speed of light (and he would haave infinite mass, IIRC, but that is another issue, so we have to assume Gronk has figured out how to have no mass). Since light speed is 186,000 miles per second, there must be a time lag for any body travelling even close to that speed.

Instantaneous means no time lag, meaning travelling through space, and time, conquering the effects of relativity and other Einsteinean physics.

This physicist says that instantaneous travel between any two points in the universe by a body with no mass actually does not involve infinite speed at all--it reduces the distance to zero instead. So...if Gronk could do it, his NFL yards will not increase but his scoring would be phenomenal.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-instantaneous-travel-and-travel-at-infinite-speed#:~:text=So%20yes%2C%20a%20massless%20body,again%20as%20predicted%20by%20relativity. ↗

I need a Scotch.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/sport/michael-porter-jr-coronavirus-nba-basketball-spt-intl/index.html ↗

@approxinfinity Trump will probably tweet about the disloyal umps and catchers wearing masks...

@Texas-Hawk-10 said in Let's Cancel Cancel "Cancel Culture"!:

You’re kidding yourself if you think Cancel Culture only goes back to WWI.

I didn't even suggest it started then. I tried to keep it within the memory of someone possibly alive today...although probably that would not include anyone active on this Board!

The Inquisition is another good example, as are China's 2 huge disgraces of the past 50+ years--the Cultural Revolution and Tianneman Square.

As to "cancel culture," our right wing friends may need reminding of the decades long effects of anti-communist investigations and coercive government threats against anyone who expressed even mildly socialist beliefs. The most infamous example was the Hollywood Blacklist, but Joe McCarthy canceled the careers of numerous innocent government employees using only innuendo and rumors as his basis. Ford, US Steel, and other corporations hired rampaging armies of thugs from the 1880's to the 1930's to break up unions. Watch "Grapes of Wrath" for a reminder of how vicious the institutional response to left-wing ideology was before labor organizing was made legal in the 1930's. The FBI tried to cancel the influence of MLK by destroying his reputation. And review the anti-union language of right-wingers like our own former governor Nikki Haley to see modern cancel culture in action.

Cancel culture goes way back. In WW 1, people ate "liberty cabbage" instead of sauerkraut, and cut German out of school language classes. More recently, when France was not sufficiently pro-US, the right wing made a point, silly as it seems, of boycotting or renaming French Fries. Religious fundamentalists (overwhelmingly right-wing) fight to exclude evolution from textbooks, and The American Library Association compiles an annual list of "undesirable" books that are challenged by those same forces in hundreds of locations around the country.

Any conservative decrying cancel culture would do well to remember that historically, the US has reacted more violently in an effort to stamp out left-wing and liberal ideas than it ever has reacted to conservative movements. We remember the 60's for the Vietnam protests, but it really wasn't until after Kent State in 1970 that the country turned to widely support them. Before that, the "my country right or wrong" hardhats cheered anyone breaking up marches with pickaxes.

Cancel culture a left-wing tool of oppression? Cry me a river. History is moving on, and people wishing to preserve their unchallenged feeling of superiority need to adapt or disappear.

@justanotherfan I am sure there is no need to remind you, but most people today seem to have no clue that the early civil rights boycotts, like the Montgomery bus boycott, resulted in criminal charges of illegal conspiracy against the organizers. Whites passed all types of laws trying to break Montgomery but did not succeed.

@approxinfinity Our neighbor's husband died last night in the hospital after a week on a ventilator. First fatality we have known personally, although not very closely. Stats are so overwhelming they become almost unfathomable, so hearing her sobbing makes it a lot more real.

And I am afraid much, much worse is yet to come.

Remember when he took a KU visit while awaiting a waiver to leave WKU?

Pretty impressive so far! Shortened season helps, but setting a record is still setting a record.

https://nba.nbcsports.com/2020/07/19/knicks-mitchell-robinson-will-set-record-for-highest-single-season-field-goal-percentage/ ↗

@kjayhawks Interesting last line. You should review the lyrics of "Revolution" by The Beatles!

Mayjay's law of good intentions: All initiatives to solve any social problem will make somebody mad as hell.

@bskeet I would bet on a strong correlation between the results of your proposed survey with surveys revealing which candidate those people plan to vote for this Nov.

@Kcmatt7 This has some details of the alleged fraudulent stuff. The driver's license is pretty funny!

https://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2020/07/09/zion-williamson-lawsuit-fraudulent/ ↗

@Texas-Hawk-10 Extending the definitions to its possible literal reach of the provisions you cited would be ridiculous.

Who has paid millions to KU's program over the years? Gee, that could include the NCAA itself in licensing fees collected by its college licensing program. Who promotes KU's program? Every television network carrying our games. Who helps provide information on recruits? Every high school coach and administrator who suggests a school might be a good fit for a particular athlete. Etc ad absurdum.

When the notion of "booster" includes anyone who does the exact same thing for numerous schools, you end up with these results. That is why courts look to many factors involved in finding "agency", not just financial or other relationships.

Exclusivity is a classic hallmark of agency. If there, it is virtually a slam-dunk. But if not there, like it is not here, there need to be present other factors, usually including the exercise of control over the alleged agent. That is not present here, either. Authorization to perform specific acts can create agency, but courts do not generally lean toward agency when an independent actor engages in expressly unauthorized activities.

I have said it before: Since express authorization is not there, and neither are exclusivity and control, the NCAA is trying to say KU is responsible because Adidas employees acted as KU's boosters in committing illegal activities, which KU is responsible for because KU should have known the booster was acting on our behalf by committing illegal acts, even though KU was found by a court to be acts unknown to KU and contrary to our financial and eligibility interests, and KU committed level 1 violations by not supervising and preventing the rogue Adidas employees from doing those things.

Tenuous and a tortured bootstrapping at best. I am not saying we will win, because there are a lot of result-oriented lawyers out there who don't know crap about agency. I do think it is more likely the IARP (?) will reach a correct conclusion than the NCAA would have.

I also think the NCSt case gives the IARP a good chance to make the opposite finding since, if I recall correctly, their assistant coach handled some of the money.

@kjayhawks As I said, it is an add-on somehow. Still a network that does not go to the broad distribution basic ESPN does. Where I live, we get it in the silver cable package, along with SEC network. But it is not in the cheapest cable package.

Your Sling rate is likely higher than it would be without it.

You pay for ESPN+ ala carte. People pay for ACC and SEC thru negotiated package prices.

The point is, people have to pay extra for any of these networks, so it is silly to whine about KU being on ESPN+ when the other schools also have games of similar limited viewing availability.

But that doesn't jibe with the profound need KU fans display to feel picked on!

@kjayhawks I analyzed both teams' schedules, along with UNC and UK, last year, and reported the numbers here. Bottom line, Duke and UNC each had roughly as many games on the ACC Network, as did UK on the SEC Network, as KU did on ESPN+. All 3 are add-ons one way or another.

It isn't ESPN. It is the Big 12 for not having and marketing a league-wide network and letting Texas occupy the team network space.

@drgnslayr In the cruise forum I am in, people griped about their own breath (in a thread about future cruise conditions). I suggested Tic Tacs. That post got more "Likes" than any of my others in the past 2 years!

@nuleafjhawk You must have been misquoted...

@Kcmatt7 What is your address? Social distancing be damned! We'll bring our own mattress and I can throw in some booze!

@Kcmatt7 He isn't good in supporting his "they are all bad" attitude.

Perhaps it was one of these:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/10/unraveling-three-manipulated-videos-about-joe-biden/ ↗

@kjayhawks said in KSU Student is Racist:

I’m voting Amash, new video is going around twitter with Biden saying the N word. Let’s move on from the 2 party system that has crippled America!!

For someone claiming not to trust things, I assume you researched the context of that video? Is it the one where he is in a Senate hearing in 1985 and is reading a quote from someone? Or the one where Sean Hannity lied about Biden saying a "horrible word" that Fox bleeped out, when the word he used was "Negro"?

No citation in your post leaves you appearing to endorse the contention that Biden used the n-word as an epithet. Nice job of helping out the other guy.

@approxinfinity Okay, the real recipe calls for russet potatoes, not sweet potatoes, and adds a diced red pepper and 1/2 an onion.

The temp is supposed to be 375, baking for an hour. I would do 30 mins, then stir.

I have edited the recipe post to fix my mistakes!

Just don't use too much oil. Be sparing!

Alternate spices can be chilli powder or cayenne pepper if you want more burn.

Will check on temp...

Cajun Veggie Bake:

Dice a large yellow squash, a large russet potato, a red pepper, and a zucchini. Mix with 1 clove of minced garlic in a bowl. Spread the mix out on greased foil on a cookie sheet (with raised edges). Cut 2 links Cajun sausage lengthwise into quarter strips, then slice and distribute evenly on the veggies. Take a can of diced tomatoes and distribute over the top. Now either drizzle one to two TBSP of olive oil on top of the whole thing or (my preference) spray it with Pam. Add pepper and salt as you like. Bake at 375, turning it over as much as possible after about 30 mins. Bake another 30 mins or until the tops get crispy, not charred.

The recipe also says 1/2 onion, diced. But we sometimes use onion flakes--fresh onion can overcome the veggies. We also usually double the recipe and get 3 meals out of the 2 pans.

You can do it with squash only if you want, but the zucchini and potato add different texture and additional flavor.

We also usually brown the sausage after cutting them.

EDITED

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

A nitwit on my cruising forum assured us all that the virus will go away by fall because of herd immunity, just as SARS and MERS did.

Has anybody been tracking the clear outbreak of some type of brain-eating pathogen striking our country???

@Crimsonorblue22 Defending the post, his character, or his right to say it?

@approxinfinity We have been through this before. You pretty much seem to want racist statements to be accompanied by a signed affidavit by the person making it that he or she is a racist.

I have not seen a single thing saying he was misunderstood. But we don't get Kansas news feeds here.

I hope he can get some gentle counseling to assuage his tender self from us name-calling bullies.

Incidentally, no one you are responding to has said anything that would undermine this jerk's 1st A rights

@Texas-Hawk-10 Unfortunately, there are thousands of places he could get warmly welcomed for those same views. A certain law firm comes to mind....

@ajvan said in KSU Student is Racist:

Many, many people have a problem with the way Floyd’s character has been polished up (after his death) to fit the narrative.

I'm not aware that the character of a victim of murder has anything to do with it. Passing a counterfeit bill, or doing so while being a drug user, is not a capital offense.

@approxinfinity Unfortunately for your argument, you cannot take the words away from the police-murdered victim to whom those words were directed. The comparison to white celeb drug users is silly. He purposely, not accidentally, directly sarcastic language toward the victim of what most of the country saw as a modern lynching. As a symbol of a race-equality movement, George Floyd's name is not a neutral one, and anyone denigrating his name is begging for the racist label.

If he had an innocent intent, wouldn't he be apologizing profusely?

@kjayhawks It actually makes a lot of sense when you start looking at how it is spreading in FL and TX once they allowed bars and restaurants to fully open. If you have been in a crowded restaurant, you know people are sitting facing each other and breathing horizontally toward each other without moving, and the only air movement is whatever the ventilation system provides. Marchers are in open air. Even a 1 mph breeze will move at close to 1.5 ft/sec andthe marchers themselves are moving. As they do so, they also move the air around them, which can create air movement in 3 dimensions. There was a reason numbers stopped going down when indoor seating opened up.

I think the spread among Trump campaign staffers and Sec Service agents was likely caused by proximity in indoor meetings as well as being around each other in hallways, cars, etc. It is entirely possible that the low turnout will result in far fewer infections than anticipated if 3 times the crowd had been there. Pictures show the ones in the arena not doing much to show awareness of the virus or their risk, but perhaps the huge open space will have acted more like an outdoor space.

@FarmerJayhawk There will be correlation to rising rates in the cities where they occurred, even if they cannot definitively demonstrate causation. There were protests in so many cities, it is likely that if it happened in one place it could have happened in many.

Epidemiologists will likely be studying this for years. I bet they would love to get the drone and helicopter surveillance footage to identify crowd density and spacing.

If he accessed the internet via the university, and if there were clearly delineated Terms and Conditions, and if the T&C required actual consent to them rather than just a link, and if the T&C clearly spelled out penalties for violating the T&C, and if the post violated their T&C, he could conceivably be disciplined by KSU, but most likely only if he was provided proper due process and a right to appeal.

I left out a few other "if"s, but there are so many it is unlikely this goes that far.

Meanwhile, he will no doubt be proud of his fame.

@kjayhawks I haven't seen any stats on CNN saying the Trump rally increased cases. There have been articles about campaign staffers testing positive. There were articles on CNN expecting increases from both the protests and the rally.

What gets you so bent out of shape when people attempt to discuss things with you, especially someone as non-provocative as @justanotherfan? Very odd response.

@kjayhawks But how do you get any information if you trust nothing? How can you trust a claim that hospitals fudge death stats? How can you verify anything? I seriously want to know, because you are making contentions that have to be based on something you rely on. How do you choose?

My point was that he fails as a businessman, and so I do not think he acts like one in approaching the presidency. I admit he has made lots of pro-business decisions, but those short term advances for business will have huge costs to the country in environment, health care, job security, living conditions in the cities, rural education, and relationships with other countries. The tax cut left us with years of huge deficits, and threw billions to his wealthy backers. Not to mention his decisions to destroy accountability in government spending by firing numerous inspectors general and interfering with investigations by DOJ. Sure, Wall Street responded, which means only that borrowing and spending without restraint will keep investors happy and make stocks go up. No preparing for any problems has left us grasping for solutions when a big one has come along.

And having looted American commerce as he did several companies, he will walk away while others have to pick up the pieces.

@Texas-Hawk-10 I think the bigger disagreement is whether as a businessman Trump can be considered successful. His bankruptcies, the fraudulent "university", the fact that his wealth may be all boast with no depth, the dozens of lawsuits against him... all of those do not seem marks of success. There are some calculations suggesting the money his dad loaned him and his inheritance would have grown in value far more if it had just been put in interest-bearing accounts.

We might learn more if the Supreme Court decides his taxes must be produced.

@wissox Congrats on the new job! There is certainly enough upheaval going on this year that having to find another job must have felt like piling on.

I am seriously doubting any games will be played this year!

All he had to do to win in a landslide was to start early on with emphasizing how important short term sacrifice was to long term success, and then follow through with quick and dramatic efforts to follow health officials advice. But that would have meant deferring to the judgment of others, and he is pathologically incapable of doing so.

Astros going to leave some virus on the surfaces of other teams' lockers?

@wissox No friendly rivalry joy from the '16 Cubs, eh?

Any idea on plans for next year? SC could use some good teachers if you have no interest in money or a comfortable climate, and if you want to lose your mind over the nitwits running the legislature and boards of education!

@FarmerJayhawk Good luck. My wife got tested but I thought she'd be negative and was. Symptoms of allergies only!

@BShark We first heard about noro when we got interested in cruising, but fortunately we haven't had an outbreak on our four. Sounds pretty nasty!

Of course, cruising is on pause for an unknown while...

@BShark The "asymptomatic not contagious" thing was, as @approxinfinity says, debunked--at least insofar as that was a simplified statement. WHO withdrew it several days later.

As I understand it, the discussion apparently was supposed to be a distinction between asymptomatic and presymptomatic. Basically, a lot of people who spread it while supposedly asymptomatic apparently were really in either the earliest stages (before symptoms appeared) or their symptoms were so mild they did not get attributed to CoVid.

So the early reports in Feb-May that it could be spread by totally asymptomatic carriers were likely based on incomplete or preliminary assessments. Because of people's failure to realize that isolated sneezes or coughs might be symptoms, the scientists now realize that (as always) more complete data is needed before they will be sure.

The release got screwed up and over simplified, obviously, as people thought it meant what your link said.

It has long been said that most scientists do not get enough training in how to disseminate information to the general public, and that unfortunately not enough science reporters have backgrounds in science.

If I got this wrong, hopefully someone can correct me.

https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/asymptomatic-vs-presymptomatic ↗

@Texas-Hawk-10 @drgnslayr

Excellent posts!

The NCAA bootstraps too much into its definitions. A booster is anyone who helps recruit someone, known or should be known to the school to be doing so. Then there is a requirement for supervision and control of boosters.

I would love to see how KU can supervise everybody around the country that has contact with recruits.

The ultimate resolution of this, if it goes to court, will have to be an application of the test for legal agency, which requires knowledge and some degree of control. There may be situations where "should have known" comes into play, plus "ratification" and "duty to inquire."

But they will have a hard time showing agency where the agent is free to recruit any athlete he wishes to any school he wishes. That type of non-exclusive agency makes the duty to supervise much more difficult to prove.

It can get very convoluted. I had cases in federal appellate court (actually argued in front of Judge Bork, and yes he is smart but can be a condescending jerk!) where the arguments got so involved on whether someone was an agent that I was in the Library of Congress reading 1840's cases involving drivers of milk wagons in Louisiana trying to discern how courts weigh what factors govern.

@approxinfinity "Shut up about how big [a white person's] burden is" is what I said about someone tired of the whole thing, not simply shut up.

I think you do yourself a disservice by saying you are tired of it or sick of it. If you are seeking solutions, you by definition are not just griping--a better phrase for you might be "frustrated by the need to talk about it". I am talking about the people who are tired of being inconvenienced, and wish the blacks would just realize how much better they have it than it was before.

@approxinfinity Okay, I will grant you that you could reach that conclusion from my wording. So an explanation is in order.

I am disgusted by racist people, and feel no need to engage with anyone who does not respect what other people have to say. I also see no reason to engage in ongoing discussions about why hateful people should be listened to. As to well-intentioned people like yourself, you may wish to fool yourself about HEM but you cannot get me to follow that path. So, my energy will go into talking with dozens of people who can recognize racism and hatred when they see it.

Neville Chamberlain believed Hitler wanted peace because he said so.

I am neither exhausted nor tired, and not sick of talking about it with people who are affected. Poor little white people, victimized by the consequences of ignoring it except when things go crazy.

My black neighbor's niece got pulled over last Friday for not having proper window tinting. She was near her son's elementary school to pick him up, so she pulled into the parking lot there. Yanked out of the car by the white cop in front of the kids, and (lightly) frisked. He gave her a ticket. She called her mother as she walked back to the car and said to her mom, "No, I don't know what the hell that was all about!"

The cop heard her, and arrested her for cursing on school property. The school principal and security officer tried to get the cop to back off because it wasn't even something the kids could hear. My neighbor is related to a police chief in a major city here, knows the Columbia police chief well, and has a state senator as a relative. After she and they started burning up the phones, the cop let her go about 6 pm.

If my neighbor wasn't "connected" the niece would have spent the weekend in jail.

And if I hadn't gone over to my neighbor's house on Sunday and said, "Hey, let's talk about what's been going on" I never would have known about it. Or had a chance to wonder how often that crap goes on.

Go ahead, pretend that we are able to be racially neutral. Just be aware that when someone is targeted because of race, the fact that you don't want to hear about the anger it causes doesn't make that anger--the product of 400 years of oppression, rape, and muder--go away.

As for your willingness to absolve HEM, you have done it for years. He attacks people all the time, and you desperately need to think his long-winded bullshit reveals an intellectual current worth crediting. You never call him out for abusive language, but you have done so with me and others.

If you think HEM is not a racist, you just aren't paying attention. A dialog with someone who spews the "blacks should be happy they were enslaved because Africans are worse off" line is repeating almost word for word what Robert E. Lee said 164 years ago, around the time he was breaking up his slaves' families through selling the parents separately and their children, too.

I am done with this discussion and pretty much this forum. Trying to talk to someone who thinks HEM is worth listening to is just too frustrating. While you try to listen, he will continue to spew his hatred and disdain. Enjoy.

@approxinfinity What is most important is to realize that if we wanted to, we white people can stay in our homes, watch Netflix, order delivered groceries, and totally immerse ourselves in whatever we want. We can forget all the race stuff any time we want.

Blacks and other minorites cannot afford for a second to forget that at any time going into public they risk possibly being targeted or suspected or followed or accused because of their color.

Actually, even innocently at home they risk being mudered.

Any white saying they are tired of this should start by reading Black Like Me, then watch Selma, followed by The Forgiven. After that, go talk to persons of color about their experiences with LE. Then shut up about how big their own burden is.

@Texas-Hawk-10 said:

Specifically, southern states didn’t want the federal government making laws restricting slavery...

And not just in the South. With the Fugitive Slave Act and the Dred Scott decision, the southern states obtained the power to force free states to return escaped slaves, and for slavers to take their slaves wherever they wanted. Effectively exporting slavery throughout the nation, and severely curtailing free states' own state sovereignty.

It is highly encouraging to see that some people have come so far in their understanding, shaking off the virulent hatred of their childhoods. A testament to human potential.

"George Wallace's daughter reflects on current racial unrest: 'America is hurting'"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/politics/peggy-wallace-kennedy-bash-intv/index.html ↗