In other news today...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The site is "americangrit" but the incident happened in the UK.
Well yeah. I thought everyone knew that the UK used to be an American colony?
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@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
I thought everyone knew that the UK used to be an American colony?
No, but after Brexit, it will be.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
No, but after Brexit, it will be.
Would we really want them?
At the very least, they'd have to learn to speak the language, and how to spell properly. For example, "U" goes between "O" and "R" when it is pronounced (hour, flour, etc,) and does not when the "U" is not pronounced. (Honor, color, etc.)
True story. My grandfather was an engineer who worked on major telecommunications projects all over the world. One time, he was working with a bunch of British engineers on something, and when he would talk about the schedule, he would pronounce it sked-jool, and the Brits would pronounce it shed-jool. One time, one of the British engineers got so fed up by his American pronunciation that he snapped at him. "It's shed-jool, man, shed-jool. S-C-H. Can't you read?"
And so, my grandfather just nodded humbly. "You're right, you're right. My fault for getting it wrong. You'll have to forgive me; I'm a product of the American shool system."
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A New Albany Police Department report does not identify Nelson’s favorite doughnut or her preferred fallback option.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
there's probably a few more pressing things that need removing from python...
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Not from today but still shocking:
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@all_users You're thinking of strumpets.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
@all_users You're thinking of strumpets.
What about strombones and spiccolos and sviolins and such?
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@all_users Aha. The regional variation here is 'biscuit'.
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woohoo!
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Simpsons already did it
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@Jaloopa I'd vote to have the statue circumcised. The actual David would have been, but Michelangelo's model wasn't.
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@bb36e they're not proving any point that wasn't obvious, and exposing more people to have their luggage stolen
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@groo said in In other news today...:
exposing more people to have their luggage stolen
If you're stealing someone's luggage, why would a lock stop you?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
why would a lock stop you?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
If you're stealing someone's luggage, why would a lock stop you?
I once had money stolen from my luggage, inside an hotel. It was reserved for paying for this hotel. If they had to break a lock I would know the exact day it happened, the hotel wouldn't be able to deny any wrongdoing from their employees, and they would be able to know who cleaned the room at that day.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
why would a lock stop you?
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@groo said in In other news today...:
@bb36e they're not proving any point that wasn't obvious, and exposing more people to have their luggage stolen
I think quite a few people would argue that there's nothing wrong with giving the government master keys if it /helps stop t the terrorists/(tm)
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@bb36e I didn't say I think it's ok, but these guys proved their point the same way that they as if they shot you with a gun to prove you're exposed by not using armor.
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@groo either way, they're proving a point that to many people is probably not obvious
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@bb36e They're not proving. a luggage robber or whatever would probably find easier to just steal a TSA key than 3D printing one. it's not like everyone has a 3d printer in their basement.
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@groo said in In other news today...:
@bb36e they're not proving. a luggage robber or whatever would probably find easier to still a TSA key than 3D printing one. it's not like everyone has a 3d printer in their basement
...yet
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@groo said in In other news today...:
it's not like everyone has a 3d printer in their basement.
no, but most people have access to a ball point pen.
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@accalia we can increase it's security by having the TSA staff stop carrying master keys and just using pens to open your luggage when they need it
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@groo said in In other news today...:
@accalia we can increase it's security by having the TSA staff stop carrying master keys and just using pens to open your luggage when they need it
or, a decent kershaw would get them in too if they need access.
basucally what i'm saying that your fabric webbing plastic zippered luggage may as well not have a lock for all the extra security the lock gives you.
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@accalia surely it's a deterrent against the oppotunistic "oh look, there's an unattended bag" thief? In the same way that a chain won't stop a determined bike thief but will prevent it being rolled away on a whim
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@accalia surely it's a deterrent against the oppotunistic "oh look, there's an unattended bag" thief? In the same way that a chain won't stop a determined bike thief but will prevent it being rolled away on a whim
Why would it? There's nothing to stop them from just rolling it away just like you would...
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@Fox If this is true, then my respect for him just increased - from zero to .000000001, but still. If he pulls it off it'll be the most epic troll in human history.
Filed Under: Eat that, Schwarzenegger!
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
@all_users You're thinking of strumpets.
Speaking of which, I wonder what Roxanne Pulitzer is up to these days?
Filed Under: This one time at band camp...
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@groo said in In other news today...:
we can increase
it'ssecurity by having the TSAstaffstopcarrying master keys and just using pens to open your luggage when they needit
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@groo said in In other news today...:
we can increase
it'ssecurity by having the TSA staff stopcarrying master keys and just using pens to open your luggage when they needitFTFY.
(stop ed?)
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@anotherusername My spelling's just as good as anyone's.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername My spelling's just as good as anyone's.
o/
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TL;DR: Australia has shifted 1.5 meters north since 1994, so their local coordinates used in maps are offset from global coordinates; which is an age of GPS-based self-driving vehicles is not ideal.
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@Zecc 1.5 meters in 20 years? Damn that's fast. I thought that stuff was on centimeters-per-century scale.
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@PleegWat Pfft. That's nothing. My brother moved 3,000 miles in the same amount of time.
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@blakeyrat maybe, but unless your brother is a yo momma joke, they don't use him as a surveying landmark.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Zecc 1.5 meters in 20 years? Damn that's fast. I thought that stuff was on centimeters-per-century scale
I thought so, too, but a quick Google search says 1 – 10 cm/year.
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@HardwareGeek the linked article said 7 cm/yr.
edit: "about 7cm north annually", to be exact.
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@anotherusername The various plates move at different speeds. 7 is within the range 1 to 10.
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@HardwareGeek and also more precise than the range 1 to 10.
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@anotherusername You expect me to actually read the article? That sounds like work.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername My spelling's just as good as anyone's.
So that's where Tori's been, shackled to a wall in Blakey's cellar!
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername You expect me to actually read the article? That sounds like work.
If I expected you to actually read the article, I would've told you to go read it instead of telling you what it said.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
The various plates move at different speeds.
Yes, but that one is fast, which is also part of why the Himalayas are so tall.
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But if we can keep one person off drugs:
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@Dragoon I would be scared if I had to travel to the US for any reason