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@loopback0 I thought it counted towards our allowed daily outdoor exercise...
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Old news but recent article.
Quebec's ingenuity
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
City Hall ... saved lives
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
City Hall ... saved lives
Indirectly. The article links to another which clarifies it a bit.
The diesel engine produced enough electricity to power several municipal buildings at the same time allowing the local authorities to better organize their emergency and recovery planning.
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[paraphrased] government better organize
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Technically, it's that the software needed to be updated after the law changed.
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@boomzilla So, the "bug" is mismanagement.
It sounds like there may be some actual software bugs in the program, but the biggest problem is that they haven't updated it. I don't doubt that competent programmers could have had it fixed long ago, if not for management interference.
Filed under: To err is human; to really foul things up requires a
computergovernment IT contract.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
So, the "bug" is mismanagement.
The correct approach is to fine the relevant organization for false imprisonment per prisoner who should have been released per day when they should have been released, with said fine going to the imprisoned person. The point being that it doesn't matter what the computer system says; the lawful term of imprisonment can only ever legally be that what the law and the courts say it may be.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
The correct approach is to fine the relevant organization for false imprisonment per prisoner...
So you're going to make the government pay... taxpayer money...
to the government?The rest of your post is obviously correct, but the plan for making sure this doesn't happen again needs a little work.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear uh...the former prisoner gets the money according to his post.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@GuyWhoKilledBear uh...the former prisoner gets the money according to his post.
Was that edited in? Or did I just fuck it up?
In any case, paying a fine with someone else's money isn't the world's strongest deterrent.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear that's true but at least it saves the cost of the lawsuits for false imprisonment. And it might anger people up the chain from the prison folks who wanted to spend the money on
themselvesother very important government priorities instead of payouts to prisoners.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
Was that edited in?
No. There's a symbol that shows up when you edit a post.
Or did I just fuck it up?
Yes. (Apparently that can mean “help”…)
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
Was that edited in? Or did I just fuck it up?
There is no editing in the post, so there is only one conclusion possible
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
Was that edited in? Or did I just fuck it up?
There is no editing in the post, so there is only one conclusion possible
A mod purged the old version of the post!
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
When I was in high school, "dogging" meant glaring at someone. Usually for an extended time, and/or at every opportunity (even if just briefly during passing period, you'd stare at them, turning your head, for as long as you could).
My, how slang changes. Especially when a pond and a couple of decades are crossed.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
Was that edited in? Or did I just fuck it up?
There is no editing in the post, so there is only one conclusion possible
A mod purged the old version of the post!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
Was that edited in? Or did I just fuck it up?
There is no editing in the post, so there is only one conclusion possible
A mod purged the old version of the post!
says
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
Was that edited in? Or did I just fuck it up?
There is no editing in the post, so there is only one conclusion possible
A mod purged the old version of the post!
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
When I was in high school, "dogging" meant
TIL about "dogging" in any context. Well, now two.
Without prompting, I would have suggested a particular sexual sequence...
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@Benjamin-Hall I've been wondering...
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@Benjamin-Hall Hmm, as recently as just this afternoon ( it's 00:02 here, so technically yesterday afternoon) they were still spamming me with ads.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall Hmm, as recently as just this afternoon ( it's 00:02 here, so technically yesterday afternoon) they were still spamming me with ads.
Sure you're not thinking of Newegg? I consistently go through their unsubscribe flow and still get upwards of three ads per day...
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@Tsaukpaetra Nope.
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@Benjamin-Hall Here's a non-GDPR'ed "Our European Visitors Are Unimportant To Us" link:
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Well, damn. I like Fry's. Though I never got "1898 World's Fair" from Fremont's theme, I just got "generic old-fashioned... I dunno, train station, maybe? But without the trains?" from the decor. The entrance is a big arch in, I suppose, ~1900s fashion, but it's really not a strong statement, unlike the flying saucer and stepped pyramid from other stores.
Admittedly, the last time I wanted to buy some heatshrink and solder, I bought from Amazon, mostly because I couldn't spend that much time shopping at the time. Amazon kills everything.
(I very faintly remember buying from the Fry's grocery store, and then learned about this tiny splinter called Fry's Electronics. And then the grocery store folded and the electronics part stayed.)
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
Amazon kills everything.
Apparently in this case, Fry's has spent the past few years going massively downhill due to management problems anyway. If they've no stock, why would anyone shop there?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
I wonder whether he had French Toast for breakfast this morning, and whether he'll have a Hamburger later on?
Meanwhile, among my own "local products": Arizona Green Tea is from Brooklyn, and Tombstone Pizza comes from Wisconsin.
And you can only get an "American" coffee in shops outside the U.S..
But you can get an Americano in most coffee shops.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
(I very faintly remember buying from the Fry's grocery store, and then learned about this tiny splinter called Fry's Electronics. And then the grocery store folded and the electronics part stayed.)
Fry's Food & Drug and Fry's Electronics are different companies and have never been related - at least not beyond a family relationship between founders. Apparently, the guy who founded Fry's Supermarkets sold the chain in 1972. He then gave his sons $1 million each, and they partnered with one of their ex-girlfriends to start Fry's Electronics. Fry's Supermarkets was eventually renamed Fry's Food & Drug, and is now owned by Kroger with over 120 open locations.
EDIT: Forgot the
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
Amazon kills everything.
Apparently in this case, Fry's has spent the past few years going massively downhill due to management problems anyway. If they've no stock, why would anyone shop there?
Yeah, there were always some shelves that seemed a bit thin, and others that had plenty of product. I suppose it could have been a deliberate tactic to keep inventory costs down, but in some aisles, it just made Fry's seem... ineffectual. I know I can find thing there, but with the low inventory, there may only be one or two types of thing, so if I care about the exact type, I'd better order it online, because Fry's might not have it.
What were the bad management decisions? I'm to research it at the moment.
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Feral sheep got a shave and was adopted as "Baarack the sheep":
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The sky is falling:
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@JBert I can relate. Between being too broke part of the year and barbershops being shut down for the other part, I haven't had a haircut since 2019.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@JBert I can relate. Between being too broke part of the year and barbershops being shut down for the other part, I haven't had a haircut since 2019.
I do my own haircuts since the pandemic started. It's pretty easy actually.
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Christian Robinson's came to light when the child's mother queried the results of the test which showed the man who took it was related to her child, but wasn't its father.
And when she was shown a picture of the man who took the test at a doctor's surgery, she said he looked like a "young version" of her ex-partner.
It was in fact his brother, Samuel Robinson, whom she had never met.
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@PJH Damn. I was hoping the test would confirm that little brother was the real father all along.
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@Dragoon I had to un-autocorrect that last word.
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Hope everyone's vCenter (VMWare) servers are up to date:
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Hope everyone's vCenter (VMWare) servers are up to date:
If sys admin was a licensed occupation, exposing a vCenter server to the Internet should be grounds for immediate and permanent disbarment.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Hope everyone's vCenter (VMWare) servers are up to date:
If sys admin was a licensed occupation, exposing a vCenter server to the Internet should be grounds for immediate and permanent
disbarmentdefenestration from the nearest skyscraper's penthouse.FTFY =)
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@Benjamin-Hall I misread "disbarment" as "dismemberment" and didn't think about it until reading your post
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Hope everyone's vCenter (VMWare) servers are up to date:
If sys admin was a licensed occupation, exposing a vCenter server to the Internet should be grounds for immediate and permanent
disbarmentdefenestration from the nearest skyscraper's penthouse.FTFY =)
Defenestration doesn't last all that long. The consequences might be a bit more enduring…
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@PJH Damn. I was hoping the test would confirm that little brother was the real father all along.
No, the real father is the older brother who was wise enough to decline doing the test.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Defenestration doesn't last all that long. The consequences might be a bit more enduring…
Yes, four hundred years¹ and counting.