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Is the ideology of middle eastern immigrants incompatible with western civilization? [closed]
With all the mass immigration happening in europe, the recent paris attacks, and videos such as this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKp6GV69MT4), I've been getting increasingly unsettled. I've heard that the vast majority of these immigrants aren't even syrian refugees, and are just "freeloading" in a sense to get into better countries.
The video I linked, and in fact most opinions I read around the internet, portray them as violent and barbaric people who are unable to accommodate to civilized life. Another popular opinion I see floating around, the one I came here to ask about, is that the ideology of these immigrants (islam), and their lower performance on intelligence tests suggests that they will overpopulate european countries, become a majority, and scrap all european laws for "sharia law". This will spiral into unending wars like the ones currently occurring in the middle east.
Essentially, they suggest that islam is a destructive ideology that doesn't allow for scientific progress, rejects egalitarianism (with respect to women and non-muslims), promotes violence towards non-muslims, and will lead to the impoverishment of any nation whose population believes in the ideology.
I find this very scary, and I have many muslim friends who don't support any of what I mentioned above. I came here in hopes that some of you would refute the validity of these opinions and reveal them as the ignorant, racist, and unfounded opinions that I hope they are.
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This isn't a site to refute youtube rants or explain why Facebook rumors aren't usually based on any sort of reality. Not that it's not politically related, but, well, it'd be a never-ending process to try and explain why the rants of social media folks are usually just FUD. – user1530 Nov 19 '15 at 17:21
One suggestion I have is to find some reliable sources and read what they have to say on these issues. For me personally, I trust what newspapers like the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and NPR have to say because they are bound by their journalistic reputations to thoroughly research what they write about and either avoid taking sides in issues or being up-front about it when they do. They're much more reliable then memes on Facebook, which anybody can write and post without being held accountable. – Kevin Nov 19 '15 at 18:38
It's not true of course but even if it were, a very simple solution (that I think should be implemented regardless) would be to allow everyone in provided they convert to atheism and pass exams in certain subjects. So, just let all the Mexicans, the Afghans, Pakistanis etc. etc. who all want to start a new life in the West in, put them in closed facilities where they need to pass rigorous exams and then we'll let highly qualified people converted to radical atheism in. The World would convert to atheism in blink of an eye if my plan were implemented. – Count Iblis Nov 19 '15 at 21:23
Islam is not one thing. Muslims like to act like there's only one true Islam, but the reality is that there are many interpretations and one is just as valid as any other. So a particular interpretation of Islam might promote violence, but others won't. – PointlessSpike Nov 20 '15 at 9:12
People tend to forget that anyone can write whatever they want on the internet, and there is no burden of proof. Ideas that stoke fear tend to go viral, and become accepted as fact. Take a step back and try to analyze what you are hearing: For example, "Refugees score lower on intelligence tests." Who is administering the tests? The boat runners as they navigate the Mediterranean with overcrowded boats? This idea seems incredible to me, and I believe it is very likely that it was made up by someone attempting to dehumanize the immigrants. This is a common tactic used by people who want to justify their discrimination against another group.
You are afraid of the teachings of Islam. Do you trust your Muslim friends? You have a great opportunity to learn about Islam if you have friends that are willing to explain things to you.
ISIS has twisted and perverted the teachings of Islam to support their own agenda. The vast majority of the world's Muslims disagree with them and do not support them. Every religion has its extremists that try to use their misinterpretation of their religion's teachings to justify their own actions.
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-1. ISIS did not in any way "pervert" Islam. If you go read Atlantic's "What does ISIS want" article, they explain in detail that ISIS is pretty much the purest form of Islam, by design. Doesn't mean they are in the moral or ethical right, but they ARE right doctrinally. (the same applies to other religions as well - the modern "more civilized" versions are the "perverted" versions, even if they are clearly preferable). – user4012 Nov 19 '15 at 22:20
@user4012 that's a technicality that probably applies to all religions fairly equally. I think it's understood to refer to 'modern' interpretations of Islam. In the modern age, any religion that is fundamentalist in that they observe their written doctrine as literal is perverting the modern attitudes. So one has to put the phrase 'perversion' into modern times. – user1530 Nov 19 '15 at 23:12
@user4012 ISIS does pervert Islam. Their "faith" isn't Islam, it's anarchy. They have no goal but to destroy humanity...including their own brothers and sisters. – user6561 Nov 20 '15 at 12:11
@AleksandrH that's a bad example because Anarchy isn't about messing stuff up but removing illegitimate hierarchy. – user45891 Nov 20 '15 at 12:44
@user45891 Good point, I understand. I didn't know what other word to use though besides "terrorism", which is pretty self explanatory on its own :D – user6561 Nov 20 '15 at 17:05
As a commentary on the main paragraph:
Essentially, they suggest that islam is a destructive ideology that doesn't allow for scientific progress,
And yet Islamic nations were a beacon of scientific progress during the european dark ages, we are working to suppress Iran's nuclear progress, Dubai is a tehnological marvel, and a Turk won this year's nobel prize for Chemistry. And- well - the Syrian, Iranian, and Jordanian coders that I work with would laugh at this assertion.
To quote Mohammed:
"Seeking knowledge is compulsory on every Muslim."
"wisdom is the lost property of the believer."
"whoever follows a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make his path to paradise easy."
rejects egalitarianism (with respect to women and non-muslims),
More true, especially the more devout versions. That being said, Saddam (a secular muslim) had women in senior positions, and even a Christian deputy prime minister for decades. Muslim nations like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, etc. have elected female heads of state. In contrast, I don't see the Catholic church bending on female priests any time soon, and there are lost of stories of ultra-orthodox jews refusing to sit next to women on planes, or assaulting women in Isreal for dressing immodestly. So is it more patriarchal - hell yes, especially as it comes to rules on divorce, custody, property. but it is also not consistent across Muslim nations with many making strides towards better equality, and many backsliding as well.
promotes violence towards non-muslims,
Islam itself? No. Some practitioners? Yes. More than almost any other religion these days? Probably yes.
and will lead to the impoverishment of any nation whose population believes in the ideology.
Dubai, Kuwait, Kuala Lumpur, Turkey, The Maldives, Thailand's economy is growing - not falling, as is Bosnia's, Kosovos's and many others. Do bear in mind that many muslim countries are either resource-poor, or in parts of the world where their economies are on par with the neighborhood. In Europe they have recently emerged from Soviet rule. Both Muslim and Christian countries on the Horn of Africa are poor, and struggling to rebound from crippling colonial rule. I think you can leave God out of their struggles.
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Last paragraph — Thailand's economy is, indeed, growing, but the country also suffers from terrorist attacks. This also includes unrest in the Southern provinces, directly associated with radical Islamism. – bytebuster for Long Usernames Nov 21 '15 at 12:20
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966 F. 2d 1478 - No 89-1365
966 F2d 1478 No 89-1365
296 U.S.App.D.C. 197
ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, et al., Petitioners,
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of
America, Respondents,
Bell Atlantic Telephone Companies, American Telephone and
Telegraph Company, New York Telephone Company, et al.,
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Pacific Bell and Nevada
Bell, Contel Corporation, Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co.,
Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company, et al., Ad Hoc
Telecommunications Users Committee, the Mountain States
Telephone & Telegraph Co., et al., Intervenors.
And Consolidated Case Nos. 89-1368 and 91-1356.
Argued May 14, 1992.
Decided June 16, 1992.
Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc
Denied Nov. 2, 1992.
[296 U.S.App.D.C. 198] Petitions for Review of Orders of the Federal Communications Commission.
Alfred Winchell Whittaker, with whom John Gibson Mullan, Mary E. Cabanski, and Floyd S. Keene for Illinois Bell Telephone Co.; Gail L. Polivy and Richard McKenna for GTE Service Corp., et al.; William B. Barfield and M. Robert Sutherland for Bell South Corp., et al.; Thomas E. Taylor for Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co.; John Thorne, Michael D. Lowe, and J. Manning Lee for Bell Atlantic Telephone Companies; James P. Tuthill, Margaret deB. Brown, John W. Bogy, and Stanley J. Moore for Pacific Bell, Nevada Bell; Martin T. McCue for U.S. Telephone Ass'n; Robert B. McKenna and Lawrence E. Sarjeant for U S WEST Communications, Inc.; and Richard C. Hartgrove for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., were on the joint brief of petitioners and supporting intervenors in Nos. 89-1365, 89-1368, and 91-1356. Thomas L. Welch, William C. Sullivan, Patricia J. Nobles, R. Frost Branon, Jr., John Paul Walters, Mark D. Mathis, and James R. Young also entered appearances, for petitioners.
John E. Ingle, Deputy Associate General Counsel, with whom Robert L. Pettit, General Counsel, and James M. Carr, Attorney, F.C.C.; and James F. Rill, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Catherine G. O'Sullivan and Andrea Limmer, Attorneys, Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for respondents in all cases. Daniel M. Armstrong and Laurel R. Bergold, Attorneys, F.C.C., also entered appearances for respondents.
Marc E. Manly, Francine J. Berry, and Peter H. Jacoby entered appearances for intervenor American Tel. and Tel. Co.
Saul Fisher, Martin J. Silverman, and Donald W. Boecke entered appearances for intervenor New York Telephone Co., et al., in Nos. 89-1365 and 89-1368.
John C. Wohlstetter entered an appearance for intervenor Contel Corp. in Nos. 89-1365 and 89-1368.
James S. Blaszak and Charles C. Hunter entered appearances for intervenor Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users Committee in Nos. 89-1365 and 89-1368.
Dana A. Rasmussen, Lawrence E. Sarjeant, and Robert B. McKenna entered appearances for intervenors The Mountain States Tel. and Tel. Co., et al., in No. 89-1365.
Alfred Winchell Whittaker, John Gibson Mullan, Mary E. Cabanski, and Floyd S. Keene entered appearances for intervenors Ameritech Operating Companies, et al., in Nos. 89-1368 and 91-1356.
Theodore D. Frank and Vonya B. McCann entered appearances for intervenor Central Telephone Co. in No. 91-1356.
Before: BUCKLEY, SENTELLE, and RANDOLPH, Circuit Judges.
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SENTELLE.
[296 U.S.App.D.C. 199] SENTELLE, Circuit Judge:
Petitioning telephone carriers filed access tariffs with the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission"). The rates in question here were permitted by the Commission to go into effect without suspension. Thereafter, the FCC subjected these rates to further review and disallowed a portion. The Commission ordered not only a prospective reduction of the rates, but applied the new rates retroactively and ordered a refund. Petitioners seek review of the retroactive application of the new rates and rescission of the refund order, arguing that the Commission has no power to retroactively alter filed rates absent compliance with the suspension procedures of 47 U.S.C. § 204(a)(1). We agree with petitioners and allow the petition for review.
FCC rules require local telephone companies to file access tariffs annually. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 69.1-.612. Petitioners are five companies (collectively "Illinois Bell" or "the companies") who complied with that requirement in October of 1987 by filing the access tariffs to be effective January 1, 1988. At that time, the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau ("Bureau") had the authority to suspend the new rates pending investigation under 47 U.S.C. § 204(a)(1). Instead, the Bureau concluded that the new tariffs did "not warrant suspension pending ... investigation," and allowed the tariffs to take effect on time. Annual 1988 Access Tariff Filings--Phase I, 3 F.C.C.R. 2043, 2044 p 6 (1988).
Thereafter, following an investigation, the Bureau found the rates to be excessive, having determined that the companies had overestimated several cost items (conspicuously tax reserves) and declared the rates unreasonable. The Commission further ordered petitioners to make refund of approximately $30 million to AT & T, MCI, and other long distance carriers affected by the previously filed rates.
Petitioners sought reconsideration from the Commission, challenging the FCC's authority to order refunds of rates that had not been suspended or made the subject of an accounting order under § 204(a)(1). On reconsideration, the FCC set aside most of petitioners' refund liability, but continued to order a refund of the portion resulting from an overcalculation of deferred tax surplus. In the end, the Commission ordered petitioners to refund approximately $4.5 million. Reconsideration Order, 4 F.C.C.R. 3965, 3968 p 30, 3970-71 p 50, 3973 app. B (1989). In so doing, the Commission proclaimed the proposition we now review that it has "authority to impose refunds under § 204(a) without an accounting order or suspensions." Id. at 3965 p 3.
STATUTORY FRAMEWORK
As noted above, FCC rules require local exchange companies to revise annually their "access" tariffs (that is, tariffs setting out the rates for use of local telephone company facilities to originate and terminate interstate long distance calls). 47 C.F.R. §§ 69.1-.612. Those filings are then subject to FCC review under statutory authority conferred in 47 U.S.C. § 204(a)(1). That section provides, in relevant part:
Whenever there is filed with the Commission any new or revised charge, ... the Commission may ... enter upon a hearing concerning the lawfulness thereof; and pending such hearing and the decision thereon the Commission, upon delivering to the carrier or carriers affected thereby a statement in writing of its reasons for such suspension, may suspend the operation of such charge, classification, regulation, or practice, in whole or in part but not for a longer period than five months beyond the time when it would otherwise go into effect; and after full hearing the Commission may make such order ... as would be proper in a proceeding initiated after such charge, classification, regulation, or practice had become effective. If the proceeding has not been concluded and an order made within the period of the suspension, the proposed new or revised charge ... shall go into effect ...; but in case of a proposed charge for a new service or an increased charge, the Commission [296 U.S.App.D.C. 200] may by order require the interested carrier or carriers to keep accurate account of all amounts received by reason of such charge ..., specifying by whom and in whose behalf such amounts are paid, and upon completion of the hearing and decision may by further order require the interested carrier or carriers to refund, with interest, to the persons in whose behalf such amounts were paid, such portion of such charge for a new service or increased charges as by its decision shall be found not justified.
It was under this section that the Commission claimed the authority to order the refund in the present case. Reconsideration Order, 4 F.C.C.R. at 3965 p 3. Petitioners contend that the Commission's authority to order refunds is dependent upon its following the procedures of § 204(a)(1), and that once the Commission has allowed the rate to go into effect without suspension or accounting order, then the Commission's remedial power is limited to that available under 47 U.S.C. § 205(a). Under that section,
[w]henever, after full opportunity for hearing, ... the Commission shall be of opinion that any charge ... is or will be in violation of any of the provisions of [Chapter 5, Title 47], the Commission is authorized and empowered to determine and prescribe ... the just and reasonable charge ... to be thereafter observed....
Id. (emphasis added).
The differing interpretations of the Commission's statutory authority by the Commission and the petitioners create the sole issue for resolution in this proceeding.
We agree with petitioners that the Commission has overstepped its statutory authority. In making this determination, we are advertent to the doctrine of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. NRDC, 467 U.S. 837, 104 S.Ct. 2778, 81 L.Ed.2d 694 (1984). Under that doctrine, we afford deference to an agency's (such as the FCC) interpretation of its operative statutes (such as 47 U.S.C. § 204(a)(1)). However, we do not defer to the interpretation of the Commission in the present case, for we apply Chevron deference only where the intent of Congress is unclear and the agency's interpretation is a reasonable one. Here, we get off at the first stop. The intent of Congress is clear. As the Supreme Court instructed in Chevron, "If a court, employing traditional tools of statutory construction, ascertains that Congress had an intention on the precise question at issue, that intention is the law and must be given effect." 467 U.S. at 843 n. 9, 104 S.Ct. at 2781 n. 9.
The words of § 204(a)(1) which convey the power to order refunds likewise set forth the conditions of that conveyance. Where the charge is filed, the Commission may suspend its operation, then after a hearing it may issue such rate order as would be proper. However, if the Commission's hearing has not been concluded and a rate order issued within the period of suspension, then the proposed charge goes into effect. During this period when the proposed charge is effective but the Commission's hearing is still pending, the Commission may enter an accounting order requiring that a record be kept of amounts collected under the proposed charge. Then, upon completion of the hearing and decision, the Commission "may by further order require [a] ... refund" of amounts found unreasonable.
Thus, under the plainest guide to congressional intent--the words of the statute--the Commission's authority to order the refund follows the exercise of the suspension process under § 204(a)(1). We need not reach whether an accounting order is necessary, for where the Commission has not made the first step, ordering a suspension, it never reaches the last one, ordering a refund. Moreover, this does not mean that the Commission cannot take action to correct an unreasonable rate if it fails to order a suspension. It can still do so, but it must do so under § 205, which speaks only prospectively.
This is not unique, nor is it new. Precisely the same regulatory dichotomy exists [296 U.S.App.D.C. 201] in the federal energy regulatory area. Under § 4 of the Natural Gas Act ("NGA"), 15 U.S.C. § 717c, pipelines must file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") all rates and changes in rates they propose, just as telephone companies must file with the FCC under § 204. Under § 4, as under § 204, the FERC, as the Commission here, may suspend the proposed rate for up to five months, and if after hearing, FERC decides that the rate was unjust, it may order the pipeline to refund the excess portion to its customers.
Furthermore, under § 5 of the NGA, 15 U.S.C. § 717d, the FERC, like the FCC under § 205, may on its own initiative or upon complaint, investigate an existing rate, determine after hearing that the rate is unjust or unreasonable, and provide relief--prospectively. In Sea Robin Pipeline Co. v. FERC, 795 F.2d 182 (D.C.Cir.1986), we reminded the FERC that
[t]he Commission is not free to blend, or pick and choose at will between, its section 4 and 5 authority; FERC must use the appropriate authorization in the appropriate way in order to remain with the bounds Congress has set for the agency.
Id. at 183. We went on to point out that § 5 "conspicuously lacks the explicit provision for refunds and associated accounting requirements found in section 4." Id. at 184 n. 1.
We would have difficulty in improving on that analysis. Section 204, like § 4 of the NGA, provides the procedure for suspension and requirements for accounting procedures consistent with congressional intent to allow refund remedies. Section 205, like § 5 of the NGA, does not. It does a commission no good to claim, as the FCC did here, that it is acting under the section providing for refunds when its actions are consistent only with the section not so providing. It cannot "blend or pick and choose at will." All parties to this proceeding agree that historically the Commission has suspended rates it intended to question for at least one day. This it must do in order to bring its further actions within the ambit of § 204. We also note that we are not requiring this as a talisman, ritual, or password. The statute provides not only for the suspension but also that the statement suspending a rate inform the carrier in writing of the Commission's reasons for the suspension. Having been given this notice, the carrier may realize that the FCC's objections are well taken, or not worth a fight, and it may seek to bring itself within compliance and obviate the whole process. The statute does not impose a rule without a reason.
Nor is this rule something novel recently introduced to torment communications or energy commissioners. The rule against retroactive ratemaking has been around for some time. In Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. v. Hall, 453 U.S. 571, 101 S.Ct. 2925, 69 L.Ed.2d 856 (1981), the Supreme Court noted that "[n]ot only do the courts lack authority to impose a different rate than the one approved by the Commission, but the Commission itself has no power to alter a rate retroactively." Id. at 578, 101 S.Ct. at 2930 (footnote omitted) (applying the Natural Gas Act). In so doing, the Supreme Court cited with approval our decision in City of Piqua v. FERC, 610 F.2d 950, 955 (D.C.Cir.1979), wherein we noted that "the rule against retroactivity is 'a cardinal principle of ratemaking: a utility may not set rates to recoup past losses, nor may the Commission prescribe rates on that principle.' " Id. at 954 (internal bracketing deleted) (quoting Nader v. FCC, 520 F.2d 182, 202 (D.C.Cir.1975)). We can only read the statutory language in §§ 204 and 205 as a congressional embrace of this cardinal principle. In § 205 Congress provided the mechanism for prospective relief from unreasonable rates. In § 204 it provided the mechanism for preventing an unreasonable rate from being filed, or at least from taking effect only subject to an accounting order and such further order as would be required. The one supposes prospective relief, the other the possibility of refund.
As the Supreme Court in Atlantic Refining Co. v. New York Public Service Commission, 360 U.S. 378, 389, 79 S.Ct. 1246, 1254, 3 L.Ed.2d 1312 (1959), bluntly stated, "Gas purchasers ... have no protection from excessive charges collected during the pendency of a § 5 proceeding." Likewise, long distance telephone carriers have [296 U.S.App.D.C. 202] no protection from excess access charges collected during the pendency of a § 205 proceeding. It does not change things to call a § 205 proceeding a § 204 proceeding when there has been no suspension and accounting order as contemplated by § 204.
The Commission insists that the § 204 suspension and accounting order are optional. It reminds us that the statute at each step uses the word "may," not the word "shall," and that we have consistently interpreted "may" as granting authority, not obliging its exercise. See Arctic Slope Regional Corp. v. FERC, 832 F.2d 158, 165 (D.C.Cir.1987). All this is true, it simply is not directed at the point. The question is not whether the Commission is obliged to conduct a § 204 proceeding, the question is whether it is authorized to order refunds when it has not conducted such a proceeding. For the reasons set forth above, our answer is "no."
We conclude that when the FCC investigates and remedies an unreasonable rate which it has theretofore permitted to become fully effective without a suspension order, it acts under § 205, not § 204. We further conclude that the Commission has no authority under § 205 to order the refunds contemplated only under § 204. We therefore order that the petition for review be allowed.


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Tamil Nadu-born cricketer Dinesh Karthik has been part of the Indian team since 2004. As a result he has played under the captaincy of various captains.
The most notable of them were MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. Karthik himself has captained his state team for a long time. He is also the skipper of the IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders.
Having played under all the three captains, Karthik is the ideal person to know the difference in the captaincy. In a recent interview with Hindustan Times, DK revealed the difference.
While talking about Dhoni, the wicketkeeper-batsman said that MSD is instinctive in nature. In addition to that he has taken many decisions which turned out to be match-turning on the field.
While talking about current Indian skipper Virat Kohli, Karthik said that Kohli is aggressive and loves to take on the opposition. He highly praised Virat for raising the bar in every game he plays.
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"MS is very instinctive as a skipper. He takes a lot of decisions on the field in the spur of the moment. Virat on the other hand, is very aggressive, likes to take on the opposition. He is immensely self-confident and has consistently kept raising the bar, as a batter and a leader," said Karthik.
Karthik also shared his experience while playing under stand-in skipper Rohit Sharma. The Mumbai-born cricketer recently led India to Asia Cup victory. Karthik vouched for Rohit when it comes to strategy. He also said that Rohit comes to the game only after doing his homework.
Dinesh Karthik speaks about the difference between Dhoni, Kohli and Rohit's captaincy https://t.co/y9yQEcvFxf pic.twitter.com/VtkeT8dqgg
— Sportskeeda (@Sportskeeda) February 15, 2019
"And then there is Rohit. He always does his homework, is very strategic, very hands-on. Keeps going and speaking with his bowlers, has a word with the batters too. He is very thorough in his approach as a captain," revealed Karthik.
The Men in Blue will next face the Aussies at home in limited overs series. Unfortunately Karthik has been dropped from the ODI team but is selected in the T20I squad. DK would now look forward to a strong IPL season to vouch his name for the World Cup squad.
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How Fast Does Gravity Travel?
According to Newton, you have two masses separated by a distance, and that determines the force. You take one of those masses away, and the force goes away. Instantly. End of story.
But in general relativity, things are much more intricate, and very different from the simple Newtonian picture you likely learned in high school or college. First off, it isn't mass, per se, that causes gravity. Rather, all forms of energy (including mass) affect the curvature of space. So for the Sun and the Earth, the incredibly large mass of the Sun dominates the curvature of space, and the Earth travels in an orbit along that curved space, just like all the other bodies in the Solar System.
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It turns out, that while Newton doesn't care what your velocity is, Einstein does. The Sun, as it is right now, won't have its gravity affect Earth for another 8+ minutes, and the gravity that the Earth feels right now pulling it towards the Sun is actually pulling it towards where the Sun was 8+ minutes ago. The changes in the gravitation that Earth experiences is due to the fact that the positions and momenta of all the objects in the Universe — including the Sun — are changing over time, changing the curvature of space in our vicinity.
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As objects dozens of times more massive than our Sun orbit one another thousands of light years away, they lose energy by making space ripple. In that final moment before finally colliding, that effort equals something like 10 times the amount of energy pouring from every star in the Universe. Mind blown? By the time it reaches us, each wave is ten thousand times smaller than a proton, and passes in just one fifth of a second. We rely on a network of 4 kilometre (2.5 mile) long light beams arranged at right angles to spot those signature distortions. It might all sound simple in practice, but the technology behind the detectors – worthy of a Noble Prize – is about as cutting edge as it gets. The growing pool of data collected by these detectors is opening the way for scientists everywhere to dig for evidence on everything from hidden dimensions to the basic properties of space. "The speed of gravity, like the speed of light, is one of the fundamental constants in the Universe," says Cornish. By comparing the exact timing of the gravitational waves as they hit different observatories across the globe, researchers can get a good idea of the wave's overall speed. Cornish's team of researchers combined the timings of the first three detections to narrow down the speed of the waves to between 55 and 142 percent of c. If enough detectors stay in top working order, this method could be used to calculate the figure to within just 1 percent of c by measuring just another five gravitational waves. Before you start marking off the days on your calendar, another team made up of a small army of physicists used the burst of gamma rays captured from last month's neutron star collision to come up with their own estimate. They found the difference between the lightning flash of the gamma ray burst and the thunderclap of the gravitational wave was extremely close – within -3 x 10^-15 and 7 x 10^-16 of c. Close enough to call it a tie, really. To be fair, the previous team couldn't have predicted the neutron star collision, so hats off to them for going old school. Having multiple methods come to similar conclusions also gives us confidence we're on the right track, and that's pretty damn cool.
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Q: Assign a constant integer to existing newly inserted values I'm looking for an intelligent sequence generator that will be able to assign a constant int value to a column if a string column values exists in the table already. The scenario is as below
_____________________________
|   Col1  |  Col2  |  Col 3 |
|---------------------------|
|    a    |    a   |    1   |
|    b    |    a   |    1   |
|    c    |    a   |    1   |
|    u    |    b   |    2   |
|    v    |    b   |    2   |
|    w    |    b   |    2   |
-----------------------------

Let's say I insert another value which is ('d','a') to Col1 & Col2 respectively, I want Col3 to become '1' automatically as the Col3 value corresponding to 'a' already exists as '1' and become as seen below
_____________________________
|   Col1  |  Col2  |  Col 3 |
|---------------------------|
|    a    |    a   |    1   |
|    b    |    a   |    1   |
|    c    |    a   |    1   |
|    u    |    b   |    2   |
|    v    |    b   |    2   |
|    w    |    b   |    2   |
|    d    |    a   |    1   |
------------------------------

Is there a way I can define it in 'Create Table' so that the Col3 value update happens upon value insertion into Col1, Col2?
Edit :
The scenario is something like this
______________________________________________________________
|   Col1                           |    Col2        |  Col 3 |
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|    Adobe                         |    Adobe       |    1   |
|    Adobe Systems                 |    Adobe       |    1   |
|    Adobe Systems Inc             |    Adobe       |    1   |
|    Honeywell                     |    Honeywell   |    2   |
|    Honeywell Inc                 |    Honeywell   |    2   |
|    Honeywell Inc.                |    Honeywell   |    2   |
--------------------------------------------------------------

And when I add new data, I would like it to be
______________________________________________________________
|   Col1                           |    Col2        |  Col 3 |
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|    Adobe                         |    Adobe       |    1   |
|    Adobe Systems                 |    Adobe       |    1   |
|    Adobe Systems Inc             |    Adobe       |    1   |
|    Honeywell                     |    Honeywell   |    2   |
|    Honeywell Inc                 |    Honeywell   |    2   |
|    Honeywell Inc.                |    Honeywell   |    2   |
|    Adobe Systems Incorporated    |    Adobe       |    1   |
--------------------------------------------------------------

The Col3 value has to be an integer for faster joins with other tables. I will insert values for Col1 & Col2, and the corresponding value should be available in Col3 upon insert.

A: Just normalize it:
create table corporation (
    corporation_id serial,
    short_name text
);

insert into corporation (short_name) values
('Adobe'),('Honeywell');

select * from corporation;
 corporation_id | short_name
----------------+------------
              1 | Adobe
              2 | Honeywell

Now you table is:
|    Adobe                         |    1
|    Adobe Systems                 |    1
|    Adobe Systems Inc             |    1
|    Honeywell                     |    2
|    Honeywell Inc                 |    2
|    Honeywell Inc.                |    2
|    Adobe Systems Incorporated    |    1

A:
The Col3 value has to be an integer for faster joins with other
  tables.

So you need unique, but not necessarily sequential, values. You can use a hash function to map strings into unique integers, e. g.:
postgres=# select hashtext('Adobe');
 hashtext
-----------
 173079840
(1 row)

postgres=# select hashtext('Honeywell');
  hashtext
------------
 -453308048
(1 row)

With such a function, you avoid the need to lookup existing values in the table.
But are you really sure you will have performance problems using strings for foreign keys? You should test it on your data, I think. (Also test on upcoming 9.5, with its abbreviated keys feature.)

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Professor discusses how governmental neglect has impacted reproductive labor
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Sara Matthiesen, an assistant professor of women's, gender and sexuality studies and history, said her book analyzes how government policies and social programs have hindered proper support for family care.
By Ishani Chettri Nov 11, 2021 8:37 AM
The Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies program hosted a virtual discussion Monday about how starting a family became more of a "choice" for women following the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973.
Sara Matthiesen, an assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies and history, said state government policies and programs have neglected reproductive labor and "family making" rights through insufficient funding, despite the historic reproductive rights movement after Roe v. Wade. Matthiesen promoted the discussion as the topic of her new book, "Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade" at the event, which was moderated by Ashwini Tambe, the program's director.
Attiya Ahmad, an assistant professor of anthropology, shared opening remarks and said Matthiesen's book seeks to educate readers that Roe v. Wade symbolizes a woman's choice to bypass the expectation to have children in addition to the option of an abortion. She said the 1973 Supreme Court case encouraged Americans to consider their available choices concerning family building once abortion was decriminalized, as federal and state governments began to slash funding for social programs.
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"We know that choice is a little bit of a misleading way to characterize even the ability to obtain an abortion in the U.S.," Ahmad said. "So if there are so many barriers standing between you and the procedure, your choice really exists only in theory, and that's not terribly useful in practical terms."
Ahmad said state governments constrict the ability to decide whether to have children, failing to provide support through measures like universal child care that would benefit working parents. She said she hopes the book motivates readers to observe state governments' negligence in meeting the costs and needs of family making – more of a privilege than a right.
"It's really necessary if we want to understand what must be overcome to achieve true reproductive freedom for all," she said.
Matthiesen said her book focuses on the economic and social costs of reproductive labor and family making, which are especially imperative to consider during the COVID-19 pandemic. She said the book analyzes current debates about reproductive rights and federal government policies and social programs that have hindered proper support for family care.
"The book provides us with a critical vantage point and with the deeply textured historical analysis to back it up, so we can enter into the fray in ways we're attentive to the gender and racialized nature of reproductive labor and family making," she said.
Matthiesen said she wrote about state governments' neglect for family making, because she wanted to emphasize how their inaction mirrors state legislation restricting reproductive rights. She said while the book offers mutual aid efforts that attempt to address state inaction, these efforts are constantly overused and fail at the local community level.
"I hoped that offering state neglect would allow me to visiblize the effects of the serious consequences of state inaction," she said.
Matthiesen said increasing demands, like providing basic minimum income for women staying at home to take care of their children, helps frame reproductive labor to reflect its true value.
She said the President Joe Biden's social spending bill, which has drawn resistance from Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., can only address issues like climate change and the expansion of social welfare programs if mechanisms like the racial division between women of color and white women in family care continue to exist and devalue reproductive labor.
"I do wish to have like a dialogue with Manchin about reproductive labor and feminist critiques of just how much capitalism profits off of labor that is not seen as real valuable work," Matthiesen said.


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CBSE NCERT Notes For Class 9 Science Chapter 2 - Is Matter Around Us Pure?
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Revision Notes For Chapter 2 - Is Matter Around Us Pure?
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TOPIC-1 Elements, Compounds, Mixtures, Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Mixtures
♦ Matter can be classified as pure substances or mixtures.
♦ A pure substance may either contain constituent particles of only one kind or of different kinds. A pure substance has a fixed composition.
♦ An element is a basic form of matter which cannot be broken down into simpler substances by any physical or chemical means.
♦ Elements can be broadly classified as metals, non-metals, and metalloids.
♦ Metals are one category of elements that have luster. They conduct heat and electricity. They are sonorous.
They are malleable and ductile.
♦ Non-metals do not have luster, are not sonorous, and are bad conductors of heat and electricity.
♦ Metalloids are elements having properties intermediate between those of metals and non-metals.
♦ A compound is a pure substance composed of two or more elements chemically combined in a fixed proportion.
It can be broken down into simpler substances by chemical or electrochemical methods.
♦ Properties of compounds: are different from those of its constituent elements, whereas a mixture shows the properties of its constituent elements or compounds.
♦ A mixture contains two or more elements or compounds which are mixed together in any proportion. From a mixture, no new compound is formed.
A mixture shows the properties of the constituent substances.
♦ Mixtures are classified as homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures.
♦ Mixtures whose components mix completely with each other to make a uniform composition are called homogeneous mixtures.
♦ A heterogeneous mixture has a non-uniform composition.
♦ Alloys are a mixture of two or more metals or a metal and a non-metal and cannot be separated by physical methods.
♦ The ability of a substance to dissolve in another substance is called solubility.
♦ A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances is called a solution.
♦ The component of a solution present in small quantities is called a solute.
♦ The component of a solution present in large quantity is called a solvent.
♦ Particles of a solution are smaller than 1nm in diameter. They cannot be seen by naked eyes.
♦ Particles of solution do not scatter a beam of light.
♦ Solute particles cannot be separated from the mixture by filtration.
♦ Solution with high solute concentration is called a concentrated solution and those with low concentration are called a dilute solution.
♦ The concentration of a solution is the amount of solute present in a given amount (mass or volume) of solvent or solution.
The concentration of a solution = Amount of solute Amount of solution
♦ Percentage by mass is one method of expressing the concentration of solution.
♦ There are two kinds of heterogeneous mixtures :– colloids and suspensions.
♦ Colloids are mixtures with particle sizes from 1nm to 100 nm.
♦ The component of colloid present in small amount is called the dispersed phase.
♦ The medium in which colloidal particles disperse or suspend themselves is called dispersion medium.
♦ Brownian movement: In a colloidal system particles are always suspended and do not settle down. This constant colliding of the particles in continuous motion is called Brownian movement.
♦ Tyndall effect: Scattering of a beam of light when light is passed through a colloidal solution is called the Tyndall effect.
♦ Colloids are classified according to the state (solid, liquid, or gas) of the dispersed medium or dispersing medium and the dispersed phase.
♦ Colloid in which the dispersed medium is a liquid and the dispersed phase is solid is called a solution.
♦ A colloid in which both dispersed phase and dispersed medium are in the liquid state is called an emulsion.
♦ Aerosol: A colloid in which the dispersed phase is either liquid or a solid and dispersed medium is gas is called as an aerosol.
♦ A suspension is a heterogeneous mixture in which the solute particles do not dissolve but remain suspended throughout the bulk of the medium.
Particles of suspension are visible to the naked eye. Suspensions are heterogeneous mixtures with particles that have a size greater than 1000 nm.
All these topics are very important. You should write this NCERT Notes For Class 9 Science Chapter 2.
TOPIC-2 Separation Techniques, Physical and Chemical Change
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♦ Heterogeneous mixtures can be separated by simple physical methods like handpicking, sieving, filtration etc.
♦ Magnetic impurities can be separated from non-magnetic impurities by magnetic separation.
♦ Volatile compounds can be separated from non-volatile compounds by sublimation.
♦ Mixtures of two or more liquid components can be separated by simple or fractional distillation or by using a separating funnel.
♦ Simple distillation is used for separating liquids having a difference in boiling points of more than or equal to 25° C.
♦ Fractional distillation is used for separating liquids having a difference in boiling points of less than 25°C.
♦ Liquids that are immiscible in each other differ in their densities and so can be separated by making use of a separating funnel.
♦ Chromatography is used for the separation of those solutes which dissolve in the same solvent.
♦ Chromatography is a method of separating and identifying various components in a mixture, which are present in small trace quantities.
♦ A mixture containing two solid substances out of which one is soluble in a particular solvent and the other is insoluble can be separated by dissolving the soluble constituent in a suitable solvent and then separating the insoluble substance through filtration.
♦ The change in which the shape, size, appearance, or state of a substance may alter but its chemical composition remains the same is called a physical change. In a physical change, no new substance is formed.
♦ Any change that involves the formation of a new substance and leads to a transformation of chemical identity is called a chemical change.
♦ Chemical changes are usually accompanied by heat exchanges. Chemical changes are permanent changes that are usually irreversible.
♦ Applications of crystallization: Purification of salt from seawater and separation of crystals of alum from impure samples.
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Q: How do I bring a newly created Outlook email object to the foreground VBA When I create a new Outlook email object it does not always come to the front.
None of them work consistently. They all stop the taskbar from flashing (which indicates that something has happened) but they never consistently bring it to the foreground.
I have tried:
.Display
Visible = True
Application.ActiveWindow etc

API calls such as Private Declare Function SetForegroundWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long with SW_SHOW,, SW_SHOWNORMAL,, SW_MAXIMIZE
This is for Access 2016
Call AttachThreadInput(CurrentForegroundThreadID, NewForegroundThreadID, True)
lngRetVal = SetForegroundWindow(MyAppHWnd)
Call AttachThreadInput(CurrentForegroundThreadID, NewForegroundThreadID, False)

If lngRetVal <> 0 Then

    '''Now that the window is active, let's restore it from the taskbar
    If IsIconic(MyAppHWnd) Then
        MsgBox (1)
    Else
        Call ShowWindow(MyAppHWnd, SW_SHOWNORMAL)
        MsgBox (2)
    End If

It always runs the Else part of the code, i.e. Message Box 2. I don't receive any error messages from other parts of the code either.

A: I finally got it. After days and days on this. I commented out
Call AttachThreadInput(CurrentForegroundThreadID, NewForegroundThreadID, False)

I wondered why that bit of code was there. It didn't make sense. Ohhhhh WOW huge. Oh and in the section where the call is made I used
Call ShowWindow(MyAppHWnd, SW_SHOWNORMAL)

I also had to change how it is received from the initial call from the module and present the result in a message box. It looks like so:
'Call FnSetForegroundWindow(strWindowTitleMine) 'This way does not work
Result = FnSetForegroundWindow(strWindowTitleMine) 'This line is absolutely necessary

If Result = True Then
    MsgBox ("Success") 'This line is absolutely necessary
Else
    MsgBox ("Not successful")  'This line is absolutely necessary
End If

Full credit to the person that wrote all the code that does the work. You can view it here EverythingAccess - Bring an external application window to the foreground


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Cyber Sketchy: Or, Three Weeks Later, Still No Comment from Gaming League
Robert Wilonsky | April 7, 2008 | 11:27am
It's been about three weeks since Dallas' Cyberathlete Professional League went under, but the circumstances are no less murky. Started in 1997, the league sought to establish computer and online gaming as professional sports by hosting international competitions. Skilled and amateur gamers filled conference halls around the world, duking it out on screen as they sat side by side at their own computer stations. As the industry exploded in the late '90s, so did the CPL, growing to 600,000 members and giving out a total of $3 million in prize money. CPL founder Angel Munoz was featured in The New York Times and in Wired as the lead man in the field.
But in mid-March, with no warning, the CPL issued a perplexing statement on their Web site, saying that "the current fragmentation of the sport, a crowded field of competing leagues, and the current economic climate have prompted the CPL to suspend its pro-tournament operations." In recent weeks, Munoz and his staff have not return repeated calls and e-mails for comment. And it looks like Unfair Park isn't the only one looking for an explanation. There are 112 comments on the CPL Web site, most of them lamenting the company's closure.
"PC gaming has always been the one thing ive been better at than all my friends, i always dreamed of going to CPL events, and was planning to in the near future. This is a hit to competitive PC gaming. The one thing PC gamers have been able to hold above console lovers is the competition.. wat will happen if we lose that, too?" reads one comment. "This is blasphemy!" reads another.
But this one sums it up better than any: "Can't be real , i hate everyone , stupid nightmare someone wake me up." Unfair Park's also tried to reach out to several advisory board members, some of whom are among the bigger names in online gaming; alas, no luck there either. --Naomi Zeveloff


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Gellunu Furaana is a Maldivian romantic horror drama television series developed for VMedia by Yoosuf Shafeeu. The series stars Ali Azim, Irufana Ibrahim, Ali Shahid and Aminath Ziyadha in pivotal roles. The first episode of the series was released on VTV on 7 May 2019. Filming for the series took place in B. Dharavandhoo.

Premise
Munthasir Ali Azim, visits his best-friend, Rashid, at B. Dharavandhoo during his semester break and he is continuously met with a strange girl (Irufana Ibrahim) who leads him with suspicious questions for Rashid.

Cast and characters
 Ali Azim as Munthasir
 Irufana Ibrahim as Haifa
 Ali Shahid as Jaleel
 Aminath Ziyadha as Shaaira
 Lubna as Zeeniya
 Hussain Nasif as Rashid
 Aminath Fazla
 Jauza Jaufar

Soundtrack

Release
The first episode among the five episodes was released on 7 May 2019, on the occasion of 1440 Ramadan. A new episode was released on Tuesday at 23:30 of every week.

References

Serial drama television series

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Madam President it's a pleasure to be back here at the Oxford Union this evening – it was in 2012 that a predecessor of yours, Isabel Ernst, very kindly asked me, a humble journalist, to speak against the idea that social media had reinvented activism. Earlier today my colleagues in Parliament reminded me that since that was more than three years ago I can reuse every one of my jokes from that speech safe in the knowledge that today's fresh, and may I say even brighter looking, generation of Union members will not have suffered them before.
And I must confess that when I first sat down to write this speech I worried that those jokes would be all I've got because I looked at the motion and I thought I agreed with it. Yes I thought, Facebook and Google have got too much power, they do need to be kept in check. According to the BBC Jeremy Corbyn did so well in the election because of Snapchat. Society needs all the help it can get. These are empires, and isn't it a cowardly politician who sides with the imperialists?
Except, Madame President, there's a problem with this motion, and it is this: if the members of this house see all the wondrous opportunities of the internet, see everything from connected cars and smart meters, the voice it offered the voiceless in the Arab Spring, the collective sudden power the web bestows on the powerless, if this house sees the iPhone and the google search as a threat to society – then Madame President I say to you that this house is not following in the footsteps of those who went on from here to even greater things: because it is the choice of every generation's leaders to look at the challenges and opportunities we face in this country and ask not how, with these ever greater tools, is society threatened – but rather we must ask how do we seize the day and build the greater, better society we all know is possible. Parliament, regulators, influencers, journalists and co can stand baffled by the empires of Google and Twitter and all the rest and pretend that it is our duty to put the genie back in the bottle because society is evolving – or we can do the grown up thing and realise the true threat to society comes from not seizing, carefully or even gingerly, every opportunity that comes our way.
Now, many of you may be thinking – but haven't things gone too far, isn't the motion before us today really all about government's duty to tackle the empire building, isn't it a scandal that Google has more say over free speech across the world than any one government, how come Facebook has power over all the news we see, how come Twitter has single handedly crashed the quality of global debate, how come Instagram's made us all more superficial and depressed, how come WhatsApp's encryption means that MI5 and MI6 can't keep us safe, how come Uber's killed every minicab firm going, how come Amazon's wrecking the highstreet, how come YouTube means every cat has delusions of stardom and how come even Pornhub has, well, Madame President, the only thing I know about Pornhub is MPs best not have an opinion on it that's based on familiarity.
Well Madam President, all those things are true. But I would like you to ask yourself this – do they threaten society? Or is society in all its multitudinous glory big enough and ugly enough to deal with all these things and many, many more? Should we, as I've said, not realise that we must seize the opportunities we have because what threatens British society is pretending that we're not able to manage, to regulate and to harness all that is good about modern technology? As we have seen recently in French and German legal cases, and as this Government is already doing with the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, regulation can change behaviour but still move society forward. Does Rory really want you to stand like the Luddites tearing down the edifice of Google, yet also film it on your phone and share it with Facebook and the BBC? Is Rory's argument a bit, well, hypocritical?
Well, yes and no. Because let me put it to you that actually this debate isn't about technology. Rory's a great journalist but you've got the wrong man. Or at least that's what I thought after his speech. No of course I don't mean it. Much.
This is a debate about society itself – you can argue that anything threatens society – childhood obesity, fake news, Starbucks, leaving the EU, not leaving the EU, Jeremy Corbyn winning an election, Jeremy Corbyn winning an election, there are even people who think that the BBC threatens society, and there are people who think abolishing the BBC threatens society. Sometimes these are the same people and they've just turned over from one BBC channel to another.
Because the truth is madam president that what threatens society is not the bright brilliance of technology or the ambitious, sometimes monopolistic companies who would seek to profit from it. They, like their predecessors the railway companies, have reshaped society without much of a plan but without much in the way of malevolence either. It's been haphazard. And if we're worrying about empires bear in mind that the rump of MySpace stands like the legs of Ozymandias in the digital desert. Today's companies are different and are maturing. Society must mature with them – the thing that threatens society is our timidity in the face of the future. And as I look around this room, except in the proposition, I don't see timidity. I see the descendants of Prime Ministers, those who will follow in the footsteps of past Union Presidents such as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove or Michael Foot if we're being impartial, and heaven knows who else. And so I end with a question: if you vote for this motion what are you saying? That society can't cope with a challenge, that society can't cope with the future? The only thing that threatens society is if we think we are threatened by big companies – but society itself is greater than all of them combined.
So look, I don't think of myself as the cleverest person in the room. I went to Durham. I mean, we knew where Oxford was. It was just above us in the league tables. But I do think this – vote for this motion tonight and you're voting against yourselves. You're voting to say that we can't cope. And you know what Madam President I reckon you can cope with anything – those technology empires might be ambitious, they might be dangerous, they might be annoying. But Madam President I know that you, this house, can be more ambitious, more daring. Those technologies present an opportunity and they impose a duty on all of us here to look after the society we all live in and which we all want to see grow. With the right, bold regulation, technology empires won't even be the monopolies we all fear will hold back innovation itself. Don't vote for timidity because you think Google's a bit scary – vote against this motion tonight, for a braver, fairer, optimistic future. Vote to harness all that is great about the greatest inventions of our age for the greater good.