In other news today...
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@Gribnit it's not my fault you can't decipher their meaning.
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@boomzilla @Gribnit said in Garage Quickies:
@boomzilla nope, RWNJs are a part of reality, and they think they're reality, but arguing with you is just arguing with another RWNJ, but drunker and sitting in the tinpot dictator seat.
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@Gribnit who?
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@Jaloopa probably @boomzilla, who appears to have gone catatonic.
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@Gribnit nope. I'm allergic to cats.
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Hm. Sucks.
Tech production is so China-centric right now that even companies that want to do it in the US simply can't make it work.
Oregonian quote:
The company hasn’t explained, in public or to its Wilsonville employees, why it gave up on domestic manufacturing so quickly and didn’t respond to repeated inquiries for comment. But the only thing surprising about Microsoft’s decision is that it tried to make its computers in the US in the first place.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Tech production is so China-centric right now that even companies that want to do it in the US simply can't make it work.
It will be interesting to see how Foxconn's Wisconsin factory does.
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@boomzilla Yeah I think if all the workers work there their entire lives and then more also do maybe, just maybe, Walker won't end up having paid way more per job in "uh incentives" than it brings in, ever.
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In "headlines that make you go " news, this just in from Sweden.
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@Benjamin-Hall that headline still makes more sense than a @Gribnit post.
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@Benjamin-Hall If you translate the headline into Swedish it's probably the name of an Ikea table.
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@Polygeekery where would you order it with a need to carry a tool around all the time for making holes in people because you are so peace-loving?
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Polygeekery where would you order it with a need to carry a tool around all the time for making holes in people because you are so peace-loving?
Si vis pacem, para bellum
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@Polygeekery assuming one is a city-state, sure.
Filed Under: cum est opus, quod stultus, latine dicere
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@Gribnit no.
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@Polygeekery so your motto is to cheerfully misapply statements that applied to the city-states they were about, as an entity which (as a @boomzilla alt) is much more like a private citizen than a city-state? but in latin.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Polygeekery so your motto is to cheerfully misapply statements that applied to the city-states they were about, as an entity which (as a @boomzilla alt) is much more like a private citizen than a city-state? but in latin.
I am saying that statements about city-states are not necessarily untrue when spoken about individuals.
Or, to put it more PC and not-Latin, "Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it".
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@Polygeekery yeah, I've never needed a gun, not even when I've had them pointed at me by drunken private citizens. Generally, weakness is thoroughgoing and such threats can be managed. At least in my day to day.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Polygeekery yeah, I've never needed a gun, not even when I've had them pointed at me by drunken private citizens. Generally, weakness is thoroughgoing and such threats can be managed. At least in my day to day.
I have never needed a fire extinguisher. Should I get rid of them also?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
this just in
The Local said:
Aug 16, 2016
Seems news are reaching your end of the world really slowly...
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@Polygeekery I can easily start a fire in my home, and require a fire extinguisher. This cannot be said of a gunfight.
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@Atazhaia Extremely conservative individuals actually dilate time around themselves. When they appear to be in a past decade, there is a reason.
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@loopback0 The ever-popular
FÜKPØRKA
cabinet set.
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Hey, guys, feel free to shit up the existing gun topics.
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
this just in
The Local said:
Aug 16, 2016
Seems news are reaching your end of the world really slowly...
yeah. I was too mystified by the headline (and weirded out by the contents) to check the date.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The city of Redwood City, which should have done everything in its power to prevent that from happening, instead concluded that the sign wasn’t a historic landmark.
I heard this news last night, and took it hard. This morning, I instinctively skipped out of work in order to visit the Ampex sign one last time.
Ridiculous.
Hey, I live there! Also, I've never heard of that sign.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Polygeekery yeah, I've never needed a gun, not even when I've had them pointed at me by drunken private citizens. Generally, weakness is thoroughgoing and such threats can be managed. At least in my day to day.
Gratias, Obama!
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Hey, I live there! Also, I've never heard of that sign.
I drive past it every day (well, when I'm lazy and miss the train).
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Children of the Damned:
(ObOldJoke: "Wonder what it is in the air that's got all these nurses pregnant at the same time?" "Their legs?")
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The city of Redwood City, which should have done everything in its power to prevent that from happening, instead concluded that the sign wasn’t a historic landmark.
I heard this news last night, and took it hard. This morning, I instinctively skipped out of work in order to visit the Ampex sign one last time.
Ridiculous.
Hey, I live there! Also, I've never heard of that sign.
The sign is (was) easily visible on the west side of the freeway, right next to a parking structure between the freeway and the Stanford Medical Center building, about 1/3 of the way from Woodside Rd. to Marsh Rd. Ampex itself was at 500 Broadway, which is the first street over from the freeway, where Stanford University Press is now. When I moved to the Bay Area about 30 years ago, I occasionally went to meetings of an Amateur Radio group I no longer remember the name of in the Ampex company cafeteria, across the street; Google Maps still shows the old building outline on the map, but satellite and street views show it's been razed and bunch of new Stanford Redwood City buildings are under construction.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Stanford Redwood City buildings are under construction.
Cool, that means there'll finally be new buildings in ten years or so!
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/402405-georgia-police-defend-tasing-87-year-old-woman-who-spoke-poor
#hizboldah!!!1
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
If the horse has four legs in the air, the soldier died fucking around.
No, if the horse has four legs in the air, you're looking at a goddam carousel!
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@LaoC The right to bear arms until the police sees you.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@LaoC The right to bear arms until the police sees you.
Syriansly rogue gardening
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
If the horse has four legs in the air, the soldier died fucking around.
No, if the horse has four legs in the air, you're looking at a goddam carousel!
Well that's one way to get a pumping motion...
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
They are straight forward for soccer.
Wait for the ball to come within fifty to sixty feet of you, grab your knee, fall on the ground and roll around screaming bloody murder.
And hair. Don't forget the hair.
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6 years and almost 9,200 grads, and finally one of them noticed a typo on the diploma?
Kind of makes you wonder what they were teaching them, doesn't it...
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@anotherusername I have to admit, I didn't look too closely on my various diplomas and certificates as well.
More like: Does it look okay? Right numbers? Some kind of seal or stamp? Then it's fine.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
6 years and almost 9,200 grads, and finally one of them noticed a typo on the diploma?
Kind of makes you wonder what they were teaching them, doesn't it...
Must have been the fancy font...
Williams was looking at a photo of a past graduate's diploma online. At first, he said, he wasn't sure if what he saw was actually a mistake or just part of the classic Old English font used on diplomas.
Also, never underestimate the power of a "somebody else's problem" field.
EDIT: And as an extra remark: my diploma only arrived 3-6 months after graduation, so at that point most people would have been glad to live with a typo if it meant not having to deal with the university again.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Must have been the fancy font...
There's a picture in the onebox. Bigger if you go to the article.
I could see confusing a C with a G, or maybe even T (in that font). I could see confusing B with R, easily, or maybe with E or F... those all have a square left side. But I really can't see confusing B with C.
@JBert said in In other news today...:
And as an extra remark: my diploma only arrived 3-6 months after graduation, so at that point most people would have been glad to live with a typo if it meant not having to deal with the university again.
Yeah, but even if someone posted it on Facebook with a "lol they spelled it wrong", I'd think word of it would eventually get back to the University.
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Maria told CBS2 Arrona has never been stopped by police, and that he’s never been in trouble with the law, not even for a ticket. Maria ended up having to drive herself to the hospital to deliver the baby.
ICE made the following statement to another media outlet Friday evening.
“Mr. Arrona-Lara, a citizen of Mexico illegally residing in the United States, was taken into custody Wednesday by ICE Fugitive Operations Team officers in San Bernardino, Calif. Mr. Arrona-Lara is currently in ICE custody pending removal proceedings with the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)."
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
ICE Detains Man Driving Pregnant Wife To Hospital To Deliver Baby
Enforcement officers in general.
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@PJH From that first article, I found this...
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@PJH Not sure about the "in general". From what I hear, it really depends on the officer in question. Some make a huge fuss about it and others engage their warning lights and clear the way for the pregnant woman.
Probably also depends on the way the guys were speeding - if you're running red lights or pull similarly unsafe stunts I dare say that no single officer will be hugely amused.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
6 years and almost 9,200 grads, and finally one of them noticed a typo on the diploma?
Kind of makes you wonder what they were teaching them, doesn't it...
They made me proofread the PDF before I got mine, as getting a corrected one after having the official diploma printed was supposedly a hassle. So, not to brag, but I'm almost certain I would have caught that.