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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
it is given to the authorities who do god knows what with it
The cops' Christmas hookers and blow don't pay for themselves.
The blow you get for free from the evidence room.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
it is given to the authorities who do god knows what with it
The cops' Christmas hookers and blow don't pay for themselves.
The blow you get for free from the evidence room.
The hookers kept in the evidence room tend to be a bit less useable.
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Never go full @Polygeekery.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Never go full @Polygeekery.
Did he try shooting it first? If not then full @Polygeekery has not been tried.
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@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Never go full @Polygeekery.
Did he try shooting it first? If not then full @Polygeekery has not been tried.
First as in before setting it on fire, or first, as in before the fire burned itself out?
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@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Never go full @Polygeekery.
Did he try shooting it first? If not then full @Polygeekery has not been tried.
Next time, comrade.
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@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Never go full @Polygeekery.
Did he try shooting it first? If not then full @Polygeekery has not been tried.
First as in before setting it on fire, or first, as in before the fire burned itself out?
Yes.
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@Polygeekery Can you extinguish a house fire by shooting it? Figure I'd ask the expert while we're on the topic.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Polygeekery Can you extinguish a house fire by shooting it? Figure I'd ask the expert while we're on the topic.
I'm sure if you shot the projectile fast enough you'd create enough of a vacuum to snuff out the fire. I think there's a good chance it would cause so much friction with the air it'd start another, probably bigger, fire. But I think you could put out the first fire, yes.
This question made me think of this: https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Polygeekery Can you extinguish a house fire by shooting it? Figure I'd ask the expert while we're on the topic.
You can use MIGs and explosives, so sure. Though it would probably take a pretty large gun.
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https://www.theinformation.com/articles/quibi-to-shutter
This is not my stunned face.
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@Dragoon Well, it comes as a complete surprise to me. I had no idea it might shut down (because I had no idea it even existed).
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@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
You can use MIGs and explosives
For reference:
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@Polygeekery I had heard about using nukes to put out oil wells before, but I'm debating whether or not "nuking a fire" falls under "shooting a fire".
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@cvi you can extinguish a candle by shooting such that the trajectory falls very close to the flame. I see no reason it could not be done on a larger scale.
Now, in this case, "larger scale" might mean this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJV18qzA7Fo
Sidenote: "Curious Droid" has a pretty good YouTube channel and he is like a cross between Uncle Fester (who he looks like) and Richard Hammond (who he dresses like, especially the weird shirts, and they are both British).
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@Dragoon that would work, but you don't need anything that big for this job:
Love the name. I love the contrast of them attaching a name that is generally wholesome (or was until ~2016, when it presumably became a hateful symbol of imperialism, or something) to a nuclear weapon.
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A little close range for my liking.
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Looks like the answer is "yes, you can put out a house fire by shooting it".
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/quibi-to-shutter
This is not my stunned face.
Meg Whitman
ie the woman who almost ran ebay and hp into the ground.
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I know I should stop reading vice but its endlessly entertaining. In this article they try to raise rave and punk to new heights despite being and remaining niches within niches that never really brought much to the table. Punk is remembered for poor lyrics sung by louts that couldn't hold a tune. Rave for being indistinguishable from a metronome but great when you're fried on extcasy. These are not cultural relics. I skipped the rest of the article so there may be some redemption for me.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I know I should stop reading vice but its endlessly entertaining. In this article they try to raise rave and punk to new heights despite being and remaining niches within niches that never really brought much to the table. Punk is remembered for poor lyrics sung by louts that couldn't hold a tune. Rave for being indistinguishable from a metronome but great when you're fried on extcasy. These are not cultural relics. I skipped the rest of the article so there may be some redemption for me.
The article is easily disproven. Remember the eighties' "good" music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I know I should stop reading vice but its endlessly entertaining. In this article they try to raise rave and punk to new heights despite being and remaining niches within niches that never really brought much to the table. Punk is remembered for poor lyrics sung by louts that couldn't hold a tune. Rave for being indistinguishable from a metronome but great when you're fried on extcasy. These are not cultural relics. I skipped the rest of the article so there may be some redemption for me.
Quite predictably, "great" music in the context of the article is taken to mean "music that expresses political opinions approved by the chattering classes", but other than that it's a pretty solid diagnosis.
Nobody's actually gonna take anything sensible away from it, but what can you do.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Punk is remembered for poor lyrics sung by louts that couldn't hold a tune.
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@DogsB But, but... if punk hadn't convinced record labels that there are niche audiences willing to pay money for curiosities, we might not have got any of the modern single-hit wonders.
In the worst case, we might have never gotten Knights of Sydonia and its magnificent music video.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
In the worst case, we might have never gotten Knights of Sydonia and its magnificent music video.
If you mean Knights of Cydonia, I must inform you that MUSE is not a single-hit wonder.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
If you want to carry on being wrong, that's your choice.
You are correct. Punk is remembered chiefly for being the darling child of a certain type of journalist (with a certain type of political bent) that ceased to be a cultural force almost as soon as it began (the Second Wave heyday lasted all of two years, after which anyone who was any good went on to do something different and the rest retreated back to the underground).
Much to nobody's surprise, we get occasional post-punk offshoots (grunge comes to mind) that follow an identical trajectory.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
If you want to carry on being wrong, that's your choice.
I'm not even technically wrong. The correct kind of wrong.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Looking at the picture, some of the grapes are over-ripe and clearly starting to rot (i.e. bacteria are growing by fermenting the sugar). Which implies that by simply buying these grapes, you will "propagate or reproduce [a] portion of this produce" since the EULA explicitly is "'[...] not limited to’ seeds, stems, tissue, and fruit."
The bag should come with pre-filled courts documents, so you would directly get sued at the time of purchase. Missed opportunity for streamlining their revenue stream!
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Why has no-one asked : who has bought the rights to nano? Also who is buying Instagram likes? Shouldn't they follow up with them?
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@DogsB
That sounds like work, and not "journalism"
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Such reversals swap the magnetic poles of the planet, which could have implications for plant and animal life.
Presumably by altering the amount of solar and cosmic radiation that reaches the Earth's surface.
The researchers found that the geomagnetic field became unstable at least 10,000 years prior to the magnetic direction change 773,000 years ago, and the full reversal process took at least 20,000 years.
Probably too late to add that to your 2020 bingo card.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
BENTON COUNTY, Wash.
That's not in Florida, is it?
Was that man an expatriate?
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Another fine example of shit music!
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Nobody likes Bing
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@TimeBandit I thought they dropped that product when they sold it to Lockheed.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@nerd4sale said in In other news today...:
Remember the eighties' "good" music?
Bite your tongue!
Unfortunately, Eddie's dead. David Lee Roth's working as an EMT, and meanwhile Ivan Doroschuk of Men Without Hats is still going strong.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Ivan Doroschuk of Men Without Hats is still going strong
Of course he is, he's used to rough times and fighting to survive, he's from Montreal
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I thought they dropped that product when they sold it to Lockheed.
Yes they did, it's called Prepar3D and still available AFAIK.
But Microsoft wouldn't be Microsoft if they didn't try again. So some ten year later they bought a new Flight Simulator, I believe from a French company.