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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Why the fuck is that shit not automated? Also, why aren't certificates renewed a month in advance?
Just your regular government incompetence, nothing to see here...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Why the fuck is that shit not automated? Also, why aren't certificates renewed a month in advance?
Just your regular government incompetence, nothing to see here...
It's the Deep State, out to get Trump because he dared shut down their precious government
(Yes, never chalk up to malice what can be attributed to incompetence...)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Why the fuck is that shit not automated? Also, why aren't certificates renewed a month in advance?
Just your regular government incompetence, nothing to see here...
I was thinking the same thing.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Why the fuck is that shit not automated? Also, why aren't certificates renewed a month in advance?
Just your regular government incompetence, nothing to see here...
It's the Deep State, out to get Trump because he dared shut down their precious government
(Yes, never chalk up to malice what can be attributed to incompetence...)
If I learned that government employees went out of their way to disable the automatic renewal so that those sites would be inaccessible during the government shutdown, it would surprise me very little. Never chalk up to incompetence what can be attributed to someone who's just had their paycheck fucked with.
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Who is she?
Oh yeah, she'll feel at home here
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Why the fuck is that shit not automated? Also, why aren't certificates renewed a month in advance?
Just your regular government incompetence, nothing to see here...
Well, it's not as if anyone is going to answer the inquiry form messages...
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@TimeBandit What I wonder is why Bird's scooters being systematically parked incorrectly is not turned into bird's problem in the first place.
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Right now, [humanbeing21] is in contact with a towing company that has well over a hundred Bird scooters on their lot, each accruing daily storage fees. Since these scooters only cost about $400 new, we’re probably well past the time when it makes sense for Bird to pay to get them out of storage. This means they’ll probably be heading for an auction where anyone can pick them up — all of them — for a hundred bucks or so.
Alternately, one might wonder whether "anyone" trying to pick them up — all of them — for a hundred bucks or so might find themselves bidding against Bird, seeing as that even if they're used they're presumably still worth some significant fraction of $400 apiece, and Bird would otherwise have to replace them with brand-new scooters.
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@brie said in In other news today...:
seeing as that even if they're used they're presumably still worth some significant fraction of $400 apiece
Especially since you can convert them to a normal scooter for about $30
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit What I wonder is why Bird's scooters being systematically parked incorrectly is not turned into bird's problem in the first place.
It is, technically. People report them, the scooters are impounded, Bird never bothers to recover them, and then they're sold to recover costs.
Compare to your car being towed from a No Parking area, where the car is of enough value to you that you probably want it back.
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This cat somehow traveled 1 100 miles south:
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Now this is an unusual dine and dash:
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This man had to chase after his runaway tire on the Houston highway:
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Darwin in action...
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Monica Emerton, owner of the company that maintains the atrium, told the Anchorage Daily News "not many" of the plants were eaten by the moose. "She was just tasting, apparently," she said.
I bet those indoor decorative plants taste terrible. Even the ones not made of plastic.
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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/bacteria-your-gut-may-reveal-your-true-age
The microbiome is a surprisingly accurate biological clock, able to predict the age of most people within years
I suspect we have very different interpretations of what accurate is.
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@DogsB Precision is not accuracy.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
I bet those indoor decorative plants taste terrible. Even the ones not made of plastic.
Nobody ever accused moose of being smart. You don't have to be smart to stand in the middle of a
boghospital foyer and eat plants all day.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
And people think us IT types are nuts when we say "letting the governement crack encryption to save the children is a stupid idea and will let anyone crack your encryption whenever the hell they feel like it"
Although, in the end, it did save the children.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit What I wonder is why Bird's scooters being systematically parked incorrectly is not turned into bird's problem in the first place.
I would say your private property being impounded and auctioned off is just a little bit of a your problem.
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One of the protesters complained that the government was slow to react to their concerns because they were from the Christian minority. “If they put up [a sculpture of] Hitler with a Torah scroll they would immediately respond,” he told the Walla news site.
The show also features a number of other pieces depicting Jesus, including one of him as a “Ken” doll, as well as imagery from other religions.
The museum also condemned the throwing of the molotov cocktail and said any objection to the piece must not be expressed violently.
“A discourse about art, however complex it may be, must not spill over into violent territory and must be respected — even in charged situations,” it said.
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@PJH What's next, the Yesidis find out how we depict Satan?
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
One of the protesters complained that the government was slow to react to their concerns because they were from the Christian minority. “If they put up [a sculpture of] Hitler with a Torah scroll they would immediately respond,” he told the Walla news site.
The show also features a number of other pieces depicting Jesus, including one of him as a “Ken” doll, as well as imagery from other religions.
The museum also condemned the throwing of the molotov cocktail and said any objection to the piece must not be expressed violently.
“A discourse about art, however complex it may be, must not spill over into violent territory and must be respected — even in charged situations,” it said.
That's not Ronald McDonald, it's Muhammad dressed up in a Ronald McDonald costume.
<waits for the whole damn city to start burning down>
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IRONTON, Ohio (WCHS/WVAH) —
The Ironton Police Department in Ohio found a container of illegal drugs labeled "Not Dope" inside a library.
Police said officers found the container inside the city's library Friday. Police said a loaded syringe and methamphetamine were inside the box.
The owner of the box is unknown at this time.
https://fox45now.com/news/offbeat/police-find-drugs-in-box-labeled-not-dope
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@bb36e quoted in In other news today...:
Police find drugs in box labeled 'Not Dope'
a loaded syringe and methamphetamine were inside the box
Well it's not totally inaccurate...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
predict the age
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
predict the age
Of most people. Yes?
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@Tsaukpaetra Can you really "predict" age? By definition it already happened.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Can you really "predict" age? By definition it already happened.
If you don't know what age it is, that's all you can do, really.
Unless you're tongue-in-cheek-ing a "hur dur hyul hyuk, it has age all right!"
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Can you really "predict" age? By definition it already happened.
Yes. I can predict what age you'll be in x years if I know your current age
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The microbiome is a surprisingly accurate biological clock, able to predict the age of most people within years
Maybe that's what it does. It says "within years, you'll be 75", and for most people that's true
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Video footage taken from a surveillance camera outside the Sali
nvas home
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The microbiome is a surprisingly accurate biological clock, able to predict the age of most people within years
Maybe that's what it does. It says "within years, you'll be 75", and for most people that's true
Except those lots of people who never make it there at all.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra Can you really "predict" age? By definition it already happened.
Yes. I can predict what age you'll be in x years if I know your current age
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is currently 85. Can you predict how old she'll be in 6 years?
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@Benjamin-Hall In an optimistic future, most people currently under 75 will probably get there
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The microbiome is a surprisingly accurate biological clock, able to predict the age of most people within years
Maybe that's what it does. It says "within years, you'll be 75", and for most people that's true
You should go into the actuary business...
But , naturally.
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Meanwhile, just down the road from me:
But his "conceptual art" - a transparent lunch box containing doll parts, a circuit board and a metal cylinder with wires - forced the bridge over the Tyne to close for two hours.
The artwork had been on a bridge walkway for three days even though passers-by who saw it had tried to raise the alarm.
Concerned residents had tried to call Northumbria Police on 101 but received no response, the court heard.
Two police went to the bridge after one report, but they were unable to find the box.
We're back to "nothing more technical than a whistle and a truncheon" aren't we?
And the sentence?
90 hours of community service.
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Seem pretty useless but still
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
After last month's hearing, Detective Constable Kim Day said: "Ellison placed what looked like a very realistic device on a major bridge just two months after the London Bridge terror attacks.
Emphasis mine.
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@brie Gotta love how "enclosed circuitry" has come to mean "bomb". Rather than some useful heuristic, like explosives.
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Only one year left
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Only one year left
That always surprises me... Because isn't Win7 the one right before Win10? Because we've all suppressed any memories of Win8.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Only one year left
That always surprises me... Because isn't Win7 the one right before Win10? Because we've all suppressed any memories of Win8.
Bah. Windows 8(.1) was great...on my tablet. They went too far forcing it into the desktop role and too far back the other way in Windows 10 by mostly abandoning Tablet Mode.
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@Parody said in In other news today...:
They went too far forcing it into the desktop role
Who wouldn't want his desktop to act like a giant tablet, specially if you don't have a touchscreen?
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@Parody said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Only one year left
That always surprises me... Because isn't Win7 the one right before Win10? Because we've all suppressed any memories of Win8.
Bah. Windows 8(.1) was great...on my tablet. They went too far forcing it into the desktop role and too far back the other way in Windows 10 by mostly abandoning Tablet Mode.
At least you’ve got 5 new control panels.