Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Just to refresh my memory:

The 10 Commandments List (Short Form)

1. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make idols.
3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet.

IT,

Already, I feel you are hinting, that you are religious and so feel you're a 'goodie' and I'm a 'baddie'.

But you get me confused and I'm so sorry you feel you might 'want to murder me' (not actually murder me, I hope) merely for passing my opinion on 'religion' and so briefly arguing my case.

A. Is it your belief or understanding then, that atheists cannot have or do not have a good morality?

B. Is it your belief that religion and good morality go together?

C. Do you believe, that atheists are generally 'bad' people?

iturama as you have mining background there is a Co , AXM who look to use more green methods of extracting metals and such , ie without chemicals so to speak . Now they are working with various ventures towards a process , there is an RNS at 09.52 ave a look and see what you think , could be interesting .Ta .

Hils , wife had two abortions since we've been together but before we were married and we've been married over 25 years. It was not an easy decision but was right in the circumstances and had sod all to do with the Catholic Church or any bloody politician.

I do like JRM's straight talking though.

VIC, I have not heard of Webster or noticed any papers by him. I am not a hydro-metallurgist but do have experience through companies I have managed, of conventional leaching, bio-leaching and pressure leaching using autoclaves. Mainly of copper and gold concentrates, including refractory gold. I am currently heavily invested in Excelsior Mining, which has an advanced in-situ copper leaching project in Arizona.
I haven't worked with Vanadium but the common method is solvent extraction whereby the host mineral is made acid soluble, then the vanadium is taken into solution using the likes of sulphuric acid and/or hydrofluoric, maybe with heat and pressure to speed up the process. The resulting pregnant solution is then passed through an organic material (for gold it is charcoal the best being from coconut shells) which adsorbs the vanadium. The loaded carbon is then stripped of the vanadium, oxidised, precipitated and calcined. That is the common route, with some variants, for most hydro metallurgical recoveries.
The Webster connection seems to be very much at the R&D stage with no clue as to what is being proposed. When, I worked for BP, we funded many R&D projects at universities and private laboratories, few of which were real ground breaking successes. I think there are better places to lose money until more is known. It could take a long time with less than even odds of ever being commercially viable. :)

Although JRM is saying, that for religious reasons he is against abortion, he is also saying that the rules of law make abortion OK in certain circumstances.

He is NOT saying he wants to change the law and is only telling us what his religious beliefs are.

He seems to be quite comfortable with that.

If it were me, I'd want both of my views to coincide. But for me I think they do actually coincide because, being an atheist, I'm down to just ONE belief, namely only the legal one.

Simples. :-)

IT

Did you like the extremely aggressive humour of George Carlin as he castigates 'religion' in my link above?

Thanks a lot It , Axm have a few ongoing JVs in leeching metals , i do keep an eye on them , no knowledge though , Thanks .

Politicians.

None of them can wire a plug.
Pump up a tyre.
Peel a Potato.

Useless individuals.

Something for you Mogg worshippers 😊

http://https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/08/jacob-rees-mogg-conservatives-eton-eccentric?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=242915&subid=23313800&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

Bloody hell Stan, you €uroloons must be terrified of the Mogster :-)


Still, heres something you really should be terrified about, the €uro courts overruling national governments, or trying to.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-07/european-court-orders-eu-countries-take-migrants

You can always count on the Guardian to give the snowflakes what they like to read. Fred would suffer Ptsd if he couldn't cut and paste Rowson. I wonder how many respond to the begging letters to keep the rag alive?
XL I find Carlin to be as tasteless and insipid as the beer. Both are easily forgotten.
Now if you want to look at something really magical on YouTube view this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Sx5lbVlQA
Now that is a man who will be remembered.

IT

Agreed about Pavarotti. What a phenominally good operatic tenor!

Madame and I had the pleasure of seeing him at the Sheffield Arena on two occasions. Apparently there had been a few complaints the first time and it was thought, that perhaps he had a bit of a cold or whatever, but we couldn't really detect anything wrong with his performance.

In discussions afterwards we thought if anything was a problem, it might have been the building's acoustics. Pavarotti must have agreed that he might not have been at his best and so everyone was given the opportunity to see (listen to?) him again for free.

So great! We got to see him twice. And to maximise the experiences - full evening dress and 'the works'. Loved it! Especially to hear him singing Nessum Dorma twice.

And I do agree Carlin is a bit too gutteral but his 'take' in that clip surely does get to disturb a few of the self righteous religious professionals.

You might be amazed as to what proportion of American citizens actually believe the world was created as litle as 6,000 years ago, and instead of geolological strata and scientific evidence, use The Bible to prove what they preach and believe. The number of these idiots is actually in the several 10s of per cent and there are around 300m people over there.

Stan
Your link is bad. As you can see there is a double http because you did not clear out the one in the dialogue.

Apart from that it is a very silly article.

Carlin is brilliant. I prefer his video on the death penalty.
https://youtu.be/qDO6HV6xTmI

Regarding Pavarotti, he was fantastic and in the tradition of Caruso, Gigli, De Stefano, Tito Schipa etc. He had a sweet voice but Placido Domingo was the better artist in terms of musicality. Pavarotti did not have the range of roles in opera and wasn't as successful in them. He became a popular singer where the public is less discriminating.

I saw Pavarotti several times. Once at Covent Garden, once at Excel in Docklands and sitting two rows behind Diana in Hyde Park.

Talking of opera singers, here is a story.

My father was in the war in Italy in the Intelligence Corps posing as an Italian and operating at times as a sort of spy looking for German saboteurs etc.

He was in Naples, Bari and Brindisi and went to the opera there several times a week. When in Brindisi he was told of a boy aged about 15 with a beautiful voice. He kept promising to come and sing. One evening he turned up and someone played the piano for him. He did have a beautiful voice.

He had won a Caruso scholarship to the Tito Schipa school of music in Lecce but couldn't get there. My father used to drive him there on his motorbike.

He became an opera singer and had his debut at the Met in NY. In the 1960s he was on Sunday Night at the London Palladium and my father contacted him staying at the Dorchester. My parents went to dinner with him and again when he was in Canada after they emigrated there.

His name was Jianni Jaia

This is him singing Non ti Scordar Di Me (don't forget me)

https://youtu.be/pRc7ZPzV3Yg

Interesting Hays. Sounds like a cushy number if he had time for the opera several times a week. Really became an italian. Meanwhile in the jungles of Burma.. Never mind, I'm sure he did as he was asked. Nice memories.
Non ti scordar di me actually means don't forget about me. Slightly different sense.
"Popular singer where the public is less discriminating" is a pompous load of crap. Music is to be enjoyed not sniffed at like a glass of wine. I believe Andrea Bocelli is a popular singer but I still enjoy his music. You remind me of a story a young scottish mining engineer told me about the time he was studying at Imperial College, London. He and his young wife were staying at the house of a snooty lot. I think his wife looked after the children in return for the boarding. The young engineer used to make his own wine and on one occasion substituted his wine for the pricey stuff the toffs used to drink. They didn't notice the difference.

The loony remainders march in London., wonder if Fred was marching ? Maybe not he can't even be bothered to vote out the nasty torys he hates so much.

It was a cushy number. He generally lived above restaurants. However, he had been in the 8th army in the desert for a few years before Italy.

A program which may interest some of you who are interested in prejudices.

Have to down load it from BBC

The Brain with David Eagleman
E5 of 6
ABOUT EPISODE GUIDE
Why Do I Need You?
Series 1 - Episode 5
Why Do I Need You?


Fascinating series.