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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
I don't think that's how information works.
It is in our company. Apparently. From our
IT policy
:Staff who receive an E-Mail that they believe is not intended for them, should return it to the sender ASAP and advise them that it has been deleted.
That was there in May '15, and I pointed out the problem.
October last year the policy was reissued, with a requirement of an indication that we'd read it.
I read it, and guess which bit hasn't changed.
@bulb said in In other news today...:
Bad Google translate!
Also: No live cats in the picture on the front page.
@boner said in In other news today...:
with system alerts noting that “Matt Hancock would like to access your photos”, “Matt Hancock would like to access your camera” and, on the buggier Android version of the app, “Matt Hancock keeps stopping”.
Well thank god it wasn't the MP Mike Hancock.
TLDR:
Mike Hancock, the MP whose Lib Dem whip was withdrawn following claims he had sexually assaulted a vulnerable constituent, has issued a full apology for making her feel "degraded", "uncomfortable" and "discriminated against".
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Guess it's like breakdown cover, he should have dragged himself a few miles until he was back in the covered area
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@pjh Sure, everyone knows how important it is to get good legal advice when buying a cup of coffee.
Filed Under: Or committing sexual assault.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@r10pez10 said in In other news today...:
I don't think that's how information works.
Isn't publicizing the documents a way of giving them back to the government? If the government wants them, they can browse the archive!
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@hardwaregeek it was a garbage truck, and those tend to be pretty heavy duty. And the first car did apparently derail, though I don't remember whether that was mentioned in the story I posted or if it was in a different one. More details came out as the day progressed, of course.
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Smoking can kill you
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Police in Spain have recovered four tonnes of stolen oranges after pulling over two cars packed with the fruit.
The oranges were found when police in Seville became suspicious and searched the vehicles following a short chase.When I was young, my parent's car got stolen, only to be found abandoned in a field a couple of days later. With two sheep in the back. We never knew what happened, but I always thought we missed a fun story.
Also, the car was found by policemen and when we got it back the sheep were gone, no idea where. The smell didn't go away for quite some time, though.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
http://wariscrime.com/new/edward-snowden-is-a-cia-limited-hangout-op/
Poe or no?
Also, it's from 2013?
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Also, the car was found by policemen and when we got it back the sheep were gone, no idea where. The smell didn't go away for quite some time, though.
The police must have let the sheep go when it became clear they had an alibaaa.
Filed under: Alright, Alright, I'll show myself out
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
Poe or no?
Also, it's from 2013?It's in the "poe or no" field, but I found it an interesting conspiracy. Everybody already believed the NSA was spying everything, Echelon was already been exposed, etc. Why did he risk prison to reveal that? It could be to reinforce that [random conspiracy] didn't happen as it was denied by Snowden.
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Win10 finally overtakes Win7
Maybe not
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And from the horse's (hah!) mouth...
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
I have wondered if your chances of becoming wealthy would be better or worse by randomly buying shares of stock. I.e. if you normally spend $100 on lottery tickets (a modest amount), but instead buy $100/ year of randomly-selected stock, what would your chances be of becoming a millionaire?
Randomness is statistically likely to produce average results, especially the more times you employ it. (The bell curve phenomenon, etc.) Therefore, you're likely to experience long-term results similar to buying the broad market, which historically tends to yield approximately 7% year-over-year over the long term.
Let's say you do this for 40 years. That's $4000 total input of principal. Calculating all the compounding is tricky, so let's do a simpler input: you invested $4000 all at once and then sat on it and let it compound at 7% for 40 years.
1.07^40 is just under 15. Multiply that by $4000 and you get about $60,000.
So your chance of reaching a million is still exceptionally low.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@jbert said in In other news today...:
Poe or no?
Also, it's from 2013?It's in the "poe or no" field, but I found it an interesting conspiracy. Everybody already believed the NSA was spying everything, Echelon was already been exposed, etc. Why did he risk prison to reveal that? It could be to reinforce that [random conspiracy] didn't happen as it was denied by Snowden.
It's because.... the existence of the NSA itself is disinformation meant to scare people into submission! Dun dun DUNNNN
AKA classic conspiracy Belief System, seen coming from paranoids regardless of their nominal political alignment, the sort of thing that you are equally likely to hear from a John Bircher, a Black Bloc, a Tea Party stalwart, a Neo-Stalinist, a Neo-Nazi, a Revolutionary Christian Socialist, or an Anti-Masonic Christian. SSDD.
Mind you, there are such disinformation campaigns, but they aren't as pervasive or as sweeping as such people assume - they are usually much more focused, aimed at counter-intelligence rather than at misleading the general public.
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Washington State is considering a law to make dirty anti-consumer tricks such as non-removeable batteries illegal. Apple, of course, is fighting it tooth and nail.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Washington State is considering a law to make dirty anti-consumer tricks such as non-removeable batteries illegal. Apple, of course, is fighting it tooth and nail.
The likely end-result is that nobody in Washington state will be able to own Apple devices.
Filed Under: I will avoid mentioning certain Magpul products and Colorado lest this move to the garage, Oops
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Apple, of course, is fighting it tooth and nail.
We are protecting the user experience, we swear
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
The likely end-result is that nobody in Washington state will be able to
ownpurchase new Apple devices.Unless they shape up, yes. And that would be a step in the right direction, whether Apple chooses to mend their ways or not.
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@anotherusername Fair enough, but have you ever seen fish on a pizza?
...wait a second. Anchovies are fish. And it's admittedly been a long time so I might be misremembering this, but didn't the Turtles frequently express disgust for anchovies on their pizza?
PETA is actually something close to being correct from a certain point of view on this!
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Also: No live cats in the picture on the front page.
Were there any dead ones?
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/01/peta-calls-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-go-vegan/
And from the horse's (hah!) mouth...
https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/teenage-mutant-vegan-turtles-peta-wants-dairy-free-pizza-tmnt-reboot/
What about the pepperoni? Sausage? Ham cubes? Bacon pieces? Canadian bacon? Hamburger?
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/01/peta-calls-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-go-vegan/
And from the horse's (hah!) mouth...
https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/teenage-mutant-vegan-turtles-peta-wants-dairy-free-pizza-tmnt-reboot/
What about the pepperoni? Sausage? Ham cubes? Bacon pieces? Canadian bacon? Hamburger?
Yes please.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
What about the pepperoni? Sausage? Ham cubes? Bacon pieces? Canadian bacon? Hamburger?
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Win10 finally overtakes Win7
If I remember our last stats correctly, I believe about 60% of our users are on 10 now. Might be more. XP and Vista do still turn up - as statistical noise.
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/31/hamas-palestinians-terrorism-blacklist-380414
I find it fascinating that both of these stories are in the news today even if they don't have anything to do with each other.
Do I get watch James Spader help catch him in less than hour? Woohoo!
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I haven't seen this here yet. However, I would guess that, were I to ask if anyone here was surprised by this, not one hand would go up.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
XP and Vista do stiww tuwn up
Yeah, I just fixed a Vista computer yesterday by swapping out the power supply! They do still exist, and not as toys! :D
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
that wasn't happenying whewe thewe was nyo dwiwwing going on.
[Citation needed]
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
that wasn't happenying whewe thewe was nyo dwiwwing going on.
God dammit you are going to give me an aneurysm.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
God dammit you awe going to give me an anyeuwysm.
That's OK, once the bleeding stops you should have plenty of room to accept it. :D
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername Fair enough, but have you ever seen fish on a pizza?
https://www.asdagoodliving.co.uk/food/recipes/tuna-sweetcorn-pizza
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@karla said in In other news today...:
@heterodox said in In other news today...:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/31/hamas-palestinians-terrorism-blacklist-380414
I find it fascinating that both of these stories are in the news today even if they don't have anything to do with each other.
Do I get watch James Spader help catch him in less than hour? Woohoo!
That depends, does he have a cool nickname?
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@jaloopa
They sure did not have enough plumbing
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@boner Gannets smell horrible. We went to a gannet colony a couple times, and you can smell it from like a mile away.
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@magus said in In other news today...:
@boner Gannets smell horrible. We went to a gannet colony a couple times, and you can smell it from like a mile away.
Must be all the lubricant oil for the printing presses. Or are they putting the wood pulping plants inside the newspaper offices now?
Filed Under: I got that joke to a 'T'.
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@boomzilla Am I the only one here amused at people on this group complaining about excessive ry?
Admittedly, requiring cirumlocutions equivalent to something like "Nazi death camps on Polish soil" (except in Polish, presumably) is well into rasty territory.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
@heterodox said in In other news today...:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/31/hamas-palestinians-terrorism-blacklist-380414
I find it fascinating that both of these stories are in the news today even if they don't have anything to do with each other.
Do I get watch James Spader help catch him in less than hour? Woohoo!
That depends, does he have a cool nickname?
I'm not that creative in these endeavers but how about:
"The Baker" - Due to his 13 children
I'm sure someone else can do much better.
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
@dragoon said in In other news today...:
I call lies, no Vegan is that cognizant.
I had funny moment with vegetarians (not vegan) sometime last year when I ran across this cat café. They had a poster in the window that they are vegetarian and that “you won't find a single piece of meat around here”¹.
Oh, right. Except for all that premium quality cat food that the cats have such nice shiny hair from², because our little feline friends are obligate carnivores and literally can't digest anything but meat.
Your statement's not quite true. But the important question is, did you actually see cat food (with meat) on the shelves? If not, what's the "except"?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@bulb said in In other news today...:
our little feline friends are obligate carnivores and literally can't digest anything but meat
Actually, housecats can digest starch a bit. They're better off eating meat (and need to do so for their non-energy needs), but they can eat other things in a pinch. I think it's an adaptation to being better able to survive off of what they can scrounge from humans or get by raiding
middenswaste bins.The only thing that cats actually need from meat is taurine. And there are vegetarian taurine supplements for cats.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
"The Baker" - Due to his 13 children
I must be missing a reference somewhere...