Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/07/dallas-county-meeting-turns-ra.html" target="_blank">http://cityhallblog.dallasnews...-ra.html</a> >>A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon. County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts. Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office. Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole." That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy. Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster's, is perhaps "the invisible remains of a collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape." Other county officials quickly interceded to break it up and get the meeting back on track. TV news cameras were rolling, after all. << Come on, A judge, who is supposed to be "learned" and knowledgeable doesn't understand what a "Black Hole" is, and why it was used in this situation (a location where things just disappears)...
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Yeah, this is kind of pathetic. It reminds me of a story though. One of my friends, who's name is Adam was about 3 or 4. Well, his dad was talking to another adult about atom bombs. Well, my friend felt his dad was making fun of him, because "Adam" and "atom" do sound the same, especially to a toddler. Well, his reaction was to insult his dad back by saying "daddy bomb".
Originally Posted By X-san No "kind of" about it, this is pathetic. I really wish I were the white guy in question. I'd have called them both a couple of morons (yes, the judge too...). Isn't a white hole an entirely different phenomenon (some theory about the other side of the black hole, which would make that "white hole" statement even dumber if that's possible). Ugh. Sometimes I wonder. Cute story, Gurgi.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I think judges are elected in many cases aren't they? Of course there are probably minimium requirements, law dregrees, and bar members etc...but still... I have many times wondered if SOME judges are judges because they couldn't cut it in law. I would like to hear SPP's opinion on this.
Originally Posted By mele Good God, what a maroon. A "white hole"? Argh, I would have been so ticked off.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Courtesy of wikipedia: >>In astrophysics, a white hole is the theoretical time reversal of a black hole. While a black hole acts as a vacuum, sucking up any matter that crosses the event horizon, a white hole acts as a source that ejects matter from its event horizon. The sign of the acceleration is invariant under time reversal, so both black and white holes attract matter. The only potential difference between them is in the behavior at the horizon.<<
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Ah yes the whole "information is lost at the horizon of the black hole" argument that Hawking tried to defend for years. (This was post "A Brief History of Time.") I'm serious, and you know it sounds more and more like a Black Hole is exactly right on with what should have been said.
Originally Posted By EdisYoda I'd vote him out, but he'd probably sue everyone who voted him out for discrimination! Then again, I don't even live in his state!
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle Wow, how ridiculous! I'm reminded of Wayne Brady on "Whose Line is it Anyway" when asked to sing a song about a black hole. He sang something like "no need to fear, no need to run, it's just a black hole, I have one!"
