In other news today...
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit When I went to Stockholm recently my sister ordered a glass of plum sake to go with the dessert and it happened to be the last of the bottle. Afterwards we got offered to taste the plums that had been soaking at the bottom of the bottle. They were all shrivelled up and tasted very strongly, probably having a very high alcohol content. Would not recommend.
I'm not a fan of sake but I have had plum wine and like it. I dislike dry wine so the plum wine is nice.
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Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginjinha
Eating the cherries gets you from drunk to totally pissed
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginjinha
Eating the cherries gets you from drunk to totally pissed
citation needed.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
she gave it to me in an unmarked plastic bottle
There's no more fun kind of liquor to drink than that.
Assuming the person giving it to you actually likes you, then yes.
Liquor? I 'ardly knew er!
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From the SJW-are-winning department:
FakeEdit: Good jorb, onebox !
Looks like I need to try other distros
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@TimeBandit
So you're admitting to being a Weboob enthusiast? Seems risky in the #MeToo world
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
So you're admitting to being a Weboob enthusiast? Seems risky in the #MeToo world
I'll admit to be a Boob enthusiast.
#MeToo love boobs
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@TimeBandit They changed their minds?
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit They changed their minds?
They lost their minds
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Wow...
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@boomzilla wait, how drunk?
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@Gribnit well, headline is perhaps not telling the whole story. Guy got arrest
inged in September 2017 and the prosecutor just now got around to this case. So, sounds like right to a speedy trial, according to the judge. Of course, since the guy was pleading guilty it kind of seems like he was waiving that to begin with, but IANAL.
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Ah, the 14-year-old-boys-discussing-this-crime gambit
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UK police can't shoot drones down for fear of stray rounds. They called the army for help....But I doubt that that's going to help. For once, I miss U.S cops' affinity to shotguns.
Small flying objects have been a thing for more than a decade now and they still trump all.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
UK police can't shoot drones down
That would be hard without a gun
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla wait, how drunk?
Druuuuuuunk.
Michelle Rivera, 42, appeared ‘slurring her words and stumbling her feet.’
But hey, at least now she has a good reason to drink:
Rivera, a Democrat who lost her bid for re-election last month
And in that vein, she was arrested again last week... this time, it's for drunk driving.
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@TimeBandit I see an opportunity for automated drone hunting drones.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
UK police can't shoot drones down for fear of stray rounds. They called the army for help....But I doubt that that's going to help. For once, I miss U.S cops' affinity to shotguns.
Small flying objects have been a thing for more than a decade now and they still trump all.
Net guns have a long history of being used to capture wildlife, for research purposes.
Funny that you, "a crow", should mention that...
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I see an opportunity for automated drone hunting drones.
There's an even better technology
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@TimeBandit I like eagle expressions. They're not just "Imma fuck you up" or "Imma fuck you right up", they're more like "I'm already fucking you up".
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@brie Just plain shotguns work better. Especially when mounted on something that flies faster than a multirotor helo.
But what do I know; apparently shooting camels with Hellfires or watching the general populace from sky-high are a higher priority than counter-drone measures for the NATO drone crew. I wonder what will happen when two proper modern armies clash one of these days. Maybe one of them will then finally develop something for shooting the other's drones out of the sky.
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@acrow some sort of long-pistol might help - now hear me out - instead of the grip, you make sort of a thingie to rest against the shoulder, and you make the barrel much longer. I bet that could shoot at flying things, if it could be constructed.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
UK police can't shoot drones down
That would be hard without a gun
Ironically, the UK police of today is armed to the teeth with assault rifles and sub-machineguns. However, as far as I know, they do not have a single shotgun. The snobs.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@acrow some sort of long-pistol might help - now hear me out - instead of the grip, you make sort of a thingie to rest against the shoulder, and you make the barrel much longer. I bet that could shoot at flying things, if it could be constructed.
The problem with most pistol and rifle caliber ammunition is that it's still lethal when it comes down. But it's easy to find shotgun loads that are not. Then your only problem is getting close enough to the target for sufficient terminal impact force.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
However, as far as I know, they do not have a single shotgun.
Greater Manchester Police have shotguns but they're not much use against a drone over Gatwick.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
How is this news? I remember at least one identical prior case. And it's not that long since they stopped doing the cavity searched at roadside. If I recall, the search now has to be performed by a medical specialist, after several women got a severe infection from a roadside search; holes were prodded in the wrong order without changing gloves in between.
Billing the victim is also normal. Some departments even bill the next of kin of people they've run over, for repairs to the cruiser.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
How is this news?
Who died and made you the News Police?
Who died and made you the who died and made you the police police?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
How is this news?
Who died and made you the News Police?
Careful, he might get a warrant to search you for news
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
How is this news?
Who died and made you the News Police?
Careful, he might get a warrant to search you for news
As long as I don't get a bill afterwards.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
How is this news?
Who died and made you the News Police?
Excitement. It died and left behind only boredom, frustration and a laptop with a full battery.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I see an opportunity for automated drone hunting drones.
There's an even better technology
Heard a year or two later they ended up cancelling that project because it didn't work in the field.
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@PleegWat you should be ashamed making puns like that
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
UK police can't shoot drones down
That would be hard without a gun
Ironically, the UK police of today is armed to the teeth with assault rifles and sub-machineguns. However, as far as I know, they do not have a single shotgun. The snobs.
Those are legal for private citizens to own, so of course they must be completely harmless and of no possible use to the police department.
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You pay more for Apple devices because they are of better quality
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I see an opportunity for automated drone hunting drones.
There's an even better technology
Heard a year or two later they ended up cancelling that project because it didn't work in the field.
Yeah, when looking for an article about the eagles I found one from a year ago where they say it never really took off:
In March 2016, rapper and noted Taylor Swift-interrupter Kanye West announced he would hire the drone-killer eagles to patrol his house.
“It’s going to be all-out war,” West warned, claiming he would use trained raptors to patrol the skies over his $20 million mansion in LA and hoped to “send every paparazzi lens crashing to the ground in a hundred pieces.”
I wonder how his bird army is coming along...
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It went rather downhill from there:
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Alternative team building exercise: crawling underneath a car to free a trapped kitten:
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@acrow some sort of long-pistol might help - now hear me out - instead of the grip, you make sort of a thingie to rest against the shoulder, and you make the barrel much longer. I bet that could shoot at flying things, if it could be constructed.
The problem with most pistol and rifle caliber ammunition is that it's still lethal when it comes down. But it's easy to find shotgun loads that are not. Then your only problem is getting close enough to the target for sufficient terminal impact force.
Only if it's still traveling significantly horizontally. If it was fired at a near-vertical angle, then it will drop to the ground at terminal velocity, which is much less than the muzzle velocity and is generally not lethal for the small size of the projectile. Only the larger calibers have sufficient mass to counteract the atmospheric drag enough to be highly dangerous. Shot, .22, and 5.56mm rounds are small enough that they are unlikely to cause significant damage when falling at terminal velocity.
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@PleegWat Well, to be honest, I'm also not too excited about the idea to introduce another flying object in an area where you don't really want any flying objects (save for the big honking tube of aluminum swooping down from / up to the skies).
I do wonder though what the attenuation of a 1+ kW laser in air actually is / what range you'll get. After all, I can get a 1 kW CO2 laser for CNC cutting for about 1500€ (not that I'll be so idiotic as to buy one given what I read in the articles on c't Make about those things). Also given the fact that someone actually built an RPi-powered mosquito laser zapper...
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
How is this news?
Who died and made you the News Police?
And why haven't you posted in the Death Pool thread?
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginjinha
Eating the cherries gets you from drunk to totally pissed
I'd try it.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
So you're admitting to being a Weboob enthusiast? Seems risky in the #MeToo world
I'll admit to be a Boob enthusiast.
#MeToo love boobs
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit well, headline is perhaps not telling the whole story. Guy got arrest
inged in September 2017 and the prosecutor just now got around to this case. So, sounds like right to a speedy trial, according to the judge. Of course, since the guy was pleading guilty it kind of seems like he was waiving that to begin with, but IANAL.She needs to be fired, sanctioned, held in contempt, fined, etc.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Ah, the 14-year-old-boys-discussing-this-crime gambit
14 yo doesn't understand "statutory".
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Wow...
Courts are weird. If he pleads guilty, shouldn’t the judge just fine / remove the prosecutor (for disrespect of court or who knows what) and put the guy in jail anyway (probably with minimum sentence)?
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@topspin I suppose it would now be pretty easy for someone else to prosecute.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I see an opportunity for automated drone hunting drones.
There's an even better technology
Are these drones controlled or autonomous?
Instead of shotguns and eagles and shit, why not triangulate where the remote signal is coming from (got to be strong enough if they’re all over the airport), so you can find the idiots and sue them into oblivion?
Failing that, surely a strong jammer should make them fall out of the sky.
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So, we have the government shutdown, Mattis resigning, Kelly gone, the hasty retreat from Syria and Trump is already muttering about Afghanistan.
And the week's not done yet!