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comnsense: @PhysicsQED,
I don't really follow you and have not read a lot of your posts. What do you mean by 'there is nothing like "before the big b.ang"' The big b.ang happened at a point in 'Time', did it not? And however, you may define 'Time', the big bang had a 'beginning'. Saying there is nothing like "before the big bang" sounds like the big b.ang or whatever led to it always was....Am I reading you right? However, you explain this with the context of Newtonian time, the question remains about the origin of the big bang and what existed before it happened. And if nothing did, (or Nothing like I wrote earlier) then, we go back to the question, how did it come about? And back to whole zero point energy theory as a possible answer.

First, I'm getting tired of repeating myself, so just read my comments on this thread from page 1 to page 2: https://www.nairaland.com/775552/speed-light-time-einstein-extra-universal/1


It would be a waste of time to retype all that I typed trying to explain what I was trying to explain to Deep Sight.


Second, I'm starting to suspect that you don't know what zero-point energy really is.

The FCT is another north central state with a fancy name but with a governor ("minister") that is appointed. We might as well ask why there has been no southern governor in the north or vice versa.

~~God~~:
lmao@Barca Hating.

Ayo...i agree ...Messi using Hgh as a youth to grow to a normal height is cheating, because who is to say he still isn't using it.

You say all Barca Players are cheating...

Ok....Ill take it a step further and say Spain is doing something strange and advanced as a Entire Nation

Look at all of it's athletes

Their Cyclist Dominate..

Their National Basketball Team is Dominate...second only to the Us

Their National Football Team is Dominate....World Cup winners, and Euro Winners

Sergio Martinez who trains in spain year round, is one of the most explosive fast twitch muscle fiber boxers on the planet right now

He is not spanish, but he trains with cyclist out there.

I am a Barca Fan, but i am not blind...Spain as a Nation is Suspicious

And Lastly The Great Rafael Nadal........

The Spanish Clay God

Spain has suddenly become an Immortal Sports Nation out of No Where.

This is basically the exact same thing Yannick Noah said about Spain and he was insulted and criticized harshly for it. The sudden Spanish rise is suspicious, but then again, maybe both genetics and increased funding/support of sports in Spain could be the main explanation. Maybe.

bittyend: Dude STFU and stop lying, you're always on "Yoruba vs. Igbo" threads taking sides with your dumb subliminal, and I know how you always want to smart, but you're just another dumb Nigerian.

Why don't you post evidence of this then? What "subliminal"?

Really this is the funniest accusation I've come across on this board. I've now gone from being accused of being anti-Igbo by a few people on this forum for no reason to being accused of being pro-Igbo by someone for no reason. The latter might be better than the former but neither are accurate and I don't really care about the Yoruba vs. Igbo crap enough to have a "side" to support.

Dude, I did diss your Benin many times on this forum, I shyte on Benin every time, dude. Muthafvck Benin too. I know that's going get your emotional and fight back. Fight back, dumb fvck.

lol, "fight back"? It it an "e-battle" now?

I honestly don't remember a single "diss" from you against Benin. I don't follow you around or anything and I rarely conversed with "bittyend" on this forum so I wouldn't have had any reason to go around "mad" about that when I wasn't even "mad" or angry at shymmex for what shymmex posted and I went on conversing with him normally afterward.

But after actually looking through all your posts, after what Royal claimed about you being a certain other poster on this thread, I couldn't find a single diss toward Benin under either "bittyend" or "bittyend1." I've already looked through all your posts and in the absence of future editing, there's no way you could claim "bittyend" dissed Benin "many times" when there's not even one diss to be found. Interestingly enough, I found several disses under shymmex. But I had no problems with shymmex so I wonder why you think I would suddenly have issues with you over some claim that you dissed Benin months ago. I don't have any issue with or any grudge against any poster on this site and this "I insult Benin" stuff is pretty irrelevant.

You're just dumb!! Naijababe and Desola are both Aworis from Britain, and write similarly at the same time, do that mean they are the same people? If you mofos aren't jobless stalkers who follow people around in a forum, you won't be following me around with the same stupid accusations everywhere. I guess it's because most of are gay and all you ever do is follow men around on the internet. This is cyberspace, not the real world!!

That was the same way gay arse one_naira followed me everywhere for a month, saying I was alh-harem and jason123, then moved to calling me shymmex and other people. Are you fvckers dumb, or something? Fvck off!!

Well alj harem and jason123 are almost certainly not the same, despite what some people like to claim, and I didn't say either of them was you because it would make no sense to do so.

Desola and Naijababe? I doubt that the similarity is as great as between you and the shymmex username just from looking at their posts. I don't really care if they're the same poster or not (I doubt it), but if it is, at least that poster is doing a half-decent job keeping the two personae separate.

Anyway, like I said, I don't "follow you around" and the issue isn't even that serious. I just asked some questions in this thread and now you're getting all fired up over a trifle. This is just the internet, anyway.

Royal, can you explain how you know for certain that Shollypopz and bittyend are the same or are using the same IP address? What method are you using to determine this? I think you can even ask the mods (since multiple accounts are allegedly against forum rules) for more accurate/direct confirmation than the method you're using since the IP of each poster is logged.

I looked through the entire post histories of both of them because of what you said and it seems that they're different people. You could probably also ask Cuddlemii to explain that statement of hers and what she saw to see if she interpreted it correctly. I'm not ruling out the possibility that it's the same person (anything's possible), but after going through their actual posts, I strongly doubt it.

bittyend: These people are crazy, yo.

I'm a star, and I've got groupies following me everywhere. lmaooo..

These psychos bored me to sleep, all they keep talking about is shymmex and shollypopz smh.

And you've got dumb arse physicsqed trying to add his dumbness to the thread, the same way he sides with Igbos on every yoruba vs igbo thread.

First, I'm not on most "Yoruba vs. Igbo" threads. In fact, I'm rarely on them. I find it interesting that you claim I "side with Igbos" on those threads, but everybody is going to have their own interpretation of other people's statements.

Physicsqed is still mad cos I dissed benin months ago, fvck ya feelings too.

You can get in the ring when you see me online too, I'll serve anyone.

Off to bed.

I genuinely don't remember bittyend "dissing" Benin, but I do remember shymmex had a thing or two to say and yet I didn't say anything negative back to shymmex and still conversed just fine with shymmex after that. So if you had said anything (and I genuinely don't remember what you said, if you said anything at all), I wouldn't go around "mad" about it or something.

You both claimed to be Ijebu, from Britain, use such similar phrases and writing styles constantly, etc. It should be obvious why a lot of people think you're the same poster, but I don't care enough to press the issue. I'll just address the two as separate posters.

bittyend: Someone told me the phrase, I don't even know what that shyte means, and I only say it to Onila. WTF are you on about? So everyone that uses the phrase is also me, no?

Blyss4life created an ID with the name, is she also me?

Well you used that phrase the exact same way shymmex did and you used it generally like he did, not just for one person (onila), but whatever. I don't really care much, but was just completely incredulous that two people could type so similarly repeatedly. Later.

bittyend: Nyggah fvck off my back, are you dumb or something as well? I've seen many Nigerians on here use the same phrases, are they the same people as well. Shut the fvck up, man.

I use the phrases I grew up saying, fvck off!

So you grew up using phrases like "omalicha nma" in Britain?

Bittyend, I'm pretty sure I've seen you use some of the exact same phrases that I've seen used by shymmex multiple times. How am I (or anyone else) supposed to believe you guys are repeatedly coincidentally using the same phrases in the same contexts?

bittyend: How do we type alike? Why do you and katsumoto type alike, are you the same people?

Well, actually I don't think me and Katsumoto type alike. Apart from the fact of the Briticisms he occasionally uses, he generally seems to have a more concise style of phrasing things and he throws in some strong sarcastic taunts/insults sometimes in heated debates. But there are numerous other dissimilarities, like the fact that I don't know much about finance/economics, modern European history, or Japanese history while he seems to have pretty deep/significant knowledge of those subjects.

Really everything about the last 8 or 9 pages of this thread is hilarious. Good jabs from both sides and I'm still laughing at choosing the username "God"

bittyend: Get in the ring, maybe you can challenge, these puzzies can't face me...

They stay mentioning other people.

Nah. I try and keep the internet squabbling to a minimum when I can. But on a serious note, why is it that you and shymmex type exactly alike? Is everybody supposed to see that as a coincidence, and if it is, how can you explain it?

This thread is crazy.

It's so ugly now but still entertaining.

Previously it was Cameroon, now it's Jamaica. I predict another 2 or 3 pages will follow.

Mister G: Not much in Africa per se, but mostly her area of influence mainly the Sudan both positive and negative, and areas pertaining to the nile river which is her main concern and bread and butter, if you Bleep with the nile then you will hear Egypt roar. LOL, However i understand she provided support for Northern Nigeria during the Biafra war

We agree on the part in bold.

On the Biafra war, the description of the careless and haphazard Egyptian bombings that I've come across in writings on that war make me think it would have been better if they had stayed out or provided a different kind of support.

Gbawe, I'm having a little difficulty understanding your comment.

You say that I'm trying not to acknowledge the truth and denying what is obvious.

But on the other hand immediately after that you post a link that suggests that prostration is being replaced by bowing among Yorubas.

When I said that I thought bowing was a non-Nigerian thing, I was actually aware of prostration as a greeting among Yorubas. I just wasn't aware it was being replaced with bowing, but like I already said, it's probably because I haven't been around enough places in Nigeria. I wasn't going out of my way to deny anything.

Anyway, as I said, I never saw a bow (like those East Asian bows or like Obama and Bush did in those pictures), but I already said that I was talking about where I'm from when I explained why I had never seen it to Shollypopz. I don't know the details of how people greet elders or highly ranked people in Kano or Calabar either, not just Yorubaland, so I guess my views were just due to a lack of exposure. For all I know there could be frequent bowing in those areas as well.

Mister G: Actually Egypt is the most important army in Africa, followed by South Africa. Lets be real about it!

Egypt could take out Nigeria without any problem, if it was in its interest. LOL

What does the Egyptian army do in Africa?

Please enlighten us.

How Lance Armstrong Lost His Tour de France Titles

The cyclist's decision to forfeit his titles and not contest charges by the United States Anti-Doping Agency may be, in a sense, logical

By Bill Saporito | @bilsap | August 24, 2012


In the Tour de France, a race he won seven times, Lance Armstrong was so driven that he would chase down cyclists who offended his sense of fair play. By the same token, he once slowed to let a rival win a Tour stage to honor his opponent’s competitiveness. So his decision to forfeit his titles and not contest charges by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) that he used performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) and led a doping ring throughout his career is both surprising and, in a sense, logical.

Armstrong is a ferociously competitive beast, but faced with a process he saw as blatantly unfair and stacked against him, he refused to take part in an arbitration with USADA over the charges. For example, USADA, the agency that handles drug testing and enforcement for Olympic-level and other elite athletes who compete in global events like the Tour, refused to provide the names of the dozen witnesses slated to testify against him, as is required in U.S. courts. “From the beginning, we have challenged USADA’s motives, methods and authority to proceed with a so-called conspiracy charge against Mr. Armstrong,” his attorneys said in a statement.

USADA has long insisted, over the course of increasingly vituperative exchanges between the two parties, that Armstrong is refusing to take part in an arbitration procedure that he had a part in creating and that he, as an international cyclist, had agreed to follow. “As is every athlete’s right,” USADA said in a statement, “if Mr. Armstrong would have contested the USADA charges, all of the evidence would have been presented in an open legal proceeding for him to challenge. He chose not to do this, knowing these sanctions would immediately be put into place.” Armstrong says jurisdiction of his case belongs to the Union Cycliste Internationale, not to USADA.

With Armstrong’s decision not to arbitrate, his victories have vanished, although not necessarily his legacy as the founder of LiveStrong, the cancer advocacy group that is nearly 15 years old. Certainly, his legend as a cyclist, once tainted, is forever scarred. It was a great one too. Surviving a cancer that had spread from his testicle to his lungs and brain, Armstrong returned to cycling and dominated the Tour for six years, first as the leader of the U.S. Postal team and later for teams at Discovery Channel, Astana and Radio Shack. He raised cycling’s profile in the States and magnified the Tour’s significance. But according to USADA, Armstrong was also the leader of a doping conspiracy that since 1999 obtained and shared PEDs such as erythropoietin (EPO) and human growth hormone (HGH).

Armstrong resolutely defended himself, reminding his critics that he never failed a drug test during his career — 560 in total, according to the Wall Street Journal. That allegation-refutation refrain was constant, a part of every story ever written about him. So Armstrong decided he was finished defending himself. “Today I turn the page,” he said in a statement. “I will no longer address this issue, regardless of the circumstances. I will commit myself to the work I began before ever winning a single Tour de France title: serving people and families affected by cancer, especially those in underserved communities.” (Disclosure: I have donated to LiveStrong.)

More than that, he bitterly resents being singled out by USADA and its leader, Travis Tygart, for what he labeled “an unconstitutional witch hunt” — a pursuit that has cost Armstrong millions in legal fees. He was also targeted by federal investigators who spent three years and millions of taxpayer dollars pursuing charges that Armstrong somehow defrauded the government by winning the Tour de France as the leader of the Posties while using PEDs.

The feds dropped the case without charges being filed. The decision came in the context of baseball star Barry Bonds’ steroid case — largely an embarrassing government defeat — and juries’ general lack of concern, from a legal standpoint, about athletes’ alleged use of PEDs. The potential witnesses in the USPS case included Floyd Landis, another Tour winner busted for doping and former Armstrong teammate who claimed that both of them had used PEDs. Landis, though, had some credibility issues that might have been robustly challenged in a federal court. So while that case was dropped, the U.S. Attorney shared with Tygart and USADA some of the information it had obtained. Tygart’s witnesses purportedly included trusted Armstrong lieutenants like veteran cyclist George Hincapie, but USADA refused to release names, on the basis that Armstrong could intimidate them if it did so. Armstrong’s defense team hinted that USADA’s witnesses had been offered leniency for their own violations if they testified against him.

Armstrong’s attorneys tried desperately to head off the USADA case by filing suit in federal court in Texas, alleging that USADA’s adjudication system didn’t afford due process. But U.S. District Court Judge Sam Sparks threw the case out twice. The first time, he scolded the Armstrong team for trying to use U.S. courts to vent its criticism of the USADA investigation. But he threw out the revised suit with some reluctance and was critical of USADA’s behavior. Some of USADA’s procedures, such as its charging letter, wouldn’t pass muster in federal court, he said, but the federal court had no business in the court of sport. In one note, cited by Armstrong’s attorneys, Sparks said, “Among the Court’s concerns is the fact that USADA has targeted Armstrong for prosecution many years after his alleged doping violations occurred.” He pointed out that USADA also charged people along with Armstrong, such as team doctors and managers, over whom it had no jurisdiction.

When the federal court threw out his suit, Armstrong figured he had no chance in USADA’s court. The agency that had been after him for more than 10 years now stood, in his view, as judge, jury and executioner. So Armstrong, for perhaps the first and only time in his career, decided not to compete. In his view, he’s already ahead 560 to 0. Instead, he will take his case to the court of public opinion. And there we can all judge him.

http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/08/24/how-lance-armstrong-lost-his-tour-de-france-titles/#ixzz24WEOvi18

~Royal~:
The Immortal Cheaters always get Caught

You will be hearing about Bolt and his ped's 6 years from now

"He was on this, this, and this." ~~Conversation 6 years from now.

Lance had infinite endurance levels, everyone knew he was cheating.

The US has an Axe to grind with this guy for not snitching on other Athletes

The French can't catch any drug cheats.....Look at Nadal...Dude is a walking Roid Machine..Unbeatable in Paris on Clay.

lol

http://www.tennisplanet.me/blog/2012/05/if-you-were-informed-today-that-djokovic-nadal-and-federer-have-been-on-performance-enhancing-drugs-.html

~Royal~:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2F_ROTYhwQ

lmao

Shollypopz: Nah, u just lost a gem

lol, you "e-broke up" with me over nothing though

esere826: @PhysicsQED and Shollypoz

I thought u guys were discussing some serious politics and culture. .... now i see that its flirting mtchewwww

"ROMANCE: Women are like safes; all safes can be opened, all u need is time and patience" - esere826

Shollypopz: Guys don't kneel. They either prostrate or bow.

Well, like I said, different customs apply in different places. I really thought bowing was a non-Nigerian thing, but you learn something new everyday.

Anyway, there's nothing wrong with bowing and I guess it IS really a lot easier and somewhat simpler than kneeling or prostrating.

Can't believe i just e-broke up with u and u're laughing. U didn't even shed one tear

This e-relationship was emotionally abusive anyway.

U never wanted it even after saying "yes".
I always had to compete wiv other girls

Shollypopz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwfiQhC6FD0&feature=related

I just saw your signature.



This is your "heroine"?

[size=2pt]Good thing we "broke up." I really dodged a bullet there. . .[/size]

Shollypopz: I thereby e-break up with you, I thought u were Nigerian!

lol, I'm Nigerian, but I swear I've never seen bowing. I probably didn't go to enough places in Nigeria.

I've seen a LOT of kneeling though.

Anyway, you're right to "e-break up" with me. What we had wasn't going anywhere anyway.

Shollypopz: You're not Nigerian??!!

Where I'm from, people will kneel on both knees when they greet someone superior in status and/or age, though I've seen instances where people will go on one knee if it's a relative, or where if it's a female, she'll do a kind of curtsey if she's wearing a dress and doesn't want to touch it to the ground. This is what I've seen every time I've been back to Nigeria and it's what I saw as a kid. I don't remember seeing bowing though. I didn't know any Nigerians bow, but now I know.

TerryCarr: Ethiopia was having a civil war at the same time

The Eritrean war started before the Ethiopian civil war. If they were capable of bringing Eritrea under direct Ethiopian control, why didn't they do it before 1974?

This is really fraud of Madoffian proportions. It's massive deception and dishonesty. He should apologize to those he let down and just move to another country to live out the rest of his life quietly.

TerryCarr: ceasefire in the end they both loss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrean%E2%80%93Ethiopian_War

That's the second war. I already pointed this out. Ethiopia lost the first one (the one that really mattered because it was the one which determined whether Eritrea would have to be part of Ethiopia) and Eritrea gained international recognition.

So are cattle banned from grazing in these places, or why are the nomads going down south to graze? Are they kept in the dark about this place, or do they graze here and in the south?