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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Karla They choose the population sample specifically because of that genetic intolerance. The article did a poor job of explaining why they think the results are applicable to people without it. The only thing I can think of is that maybe they used them as the non-drinking control group, and the intolerance assured the researchers that the non-drinking group was really non-drinking. I dunno.
It doesn't make sense to me.
The media in general suck at reporting scientific studies. When I was a personal trainer, I noticed all the crap exercise reporting.
I don't trust any media reporting any more. About anything. Not as much because of bias, but because of incompetence.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Karla They choose the population sample specifically because of that genetic intolerance. The article did a poor job of explaining why they think the results are applicable to people without it. The only thing I can think of is that maybe they used them as the non-drinking control group, and the intolerance assured the researchers that the non-drinking group was really non-drinking. I dunno.
It doesn't make sense to me.
The media in general suck at reporting scientific studies. When I was a personal trainer, I noticed all the crap exercise reporting.
I don't trust any media reporting any more. About anything. Not as much because of bias, but because of incompetence.
Shit, that's funny. I totally can see that.
If you don't know it's wrong, then you can't argue against it so it sits in your brain uncontested.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
many of whom are unable to drink alcohol due to genetic intolerance
Is this a euphemism for alcoholism?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
What are the odds it was a magazine, not a clip?
You like printed material rather than video?
INB4 "clips can be of video too"
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
What was he doing to that CD's file system?
According to the sentencing guidelines, Clifton Mason will be obligated to return to Judge Braun's courtroom in exactly one year, on March 12, 2020, to determine whether he complied with the conditions of his discharge
Heh.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Care to tell us Europeans what the charges were?
Charles Eugene Ferris, 50, and Christopher Hicks, 36, were arrested Monday in connection with an aggravated assault.
Can it be an assault if it's consensual?
If so, then that'll have an impact on several sports, like boxing. Also possibly BDSM.Any sex would be rape if consent is doesn't matter.
BDSM doesnât necessarily have anything to do with sex.
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@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Care to tell us Europeans what the charges were?
Charles Eugene Ferris, 50, and Christopher Hicks, 36, were arrested Monday in connection with an aggravated assault.
Can it be an assault if it's consensual?
If so, then that'll have an impact on several sports, like boxing. Also possibly BDSM.Any sex would be rape if consent is doesn't matter.
BDSM doesnât necessarily have anything to do with sex.
This is
my experiencewhat I'v heard as well.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Care to tell us Europeans what the charges were?
Charles Eugene Ferris, 50, and Christopher Hicks, 36, were arrested Monday in connection with an aggravated assault.
Can it be an assault if it's consensual?
If so, then that'll have an impact on several sports, like boxing. Also possibly BDSM.Any sex would be rape if consent is doesn't matter.
BDSM doesnât necessarily have anything to do with sex.
This is
my experiencewhat I'v heard as well.Right, sometimes you just want to slap the shit out of someone, and if someone goes âOooo! Me! Me!â... Well, youâre just being obliging...
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
What are the odds it was a magazine, not a clip?
What if it is a magazine about clips?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/amp/instagram-influencers-beach-club-philippines-intl-scli/index.html
Oh, that rant again. I've seen it before so many times, probably because some people view being âinfluencersâ as just a way to get free stuff. Proper reviewers are not freeloading assholes.
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@dkf Proper reviewers do not let it be known that they are reviewers, lest they be treated differently than ordinary visitors, thereby making their reviews not reflect the experience the typical visitor will have.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I don't trust any media reporting any more. About anything. Not as much because of bias, but because of incompetence.
I've only ever seen one report in any newspaper where they got the facts right, and where I knew the facts for sure ahead of time. On all other occasions (where I actually knew the truth by direct experience) they missed critical aspects of what was going on that meant that what they were talking about wasn't actually relevant or in actual dispute at all.
So yes, the reporter did get my name and age correct, and the photographer correctly photographed me. It was a total fluff piece back when I'd done very well in an exam; you know, the sort that the very local press uses to space the adverts out.
Of course, the worst sins of the news media appear to be just totally omitting to report things. That's where a lot of their worst biases lie.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Proper reviewers do not let it be known that they are reviewers
According to some restaurateurs I know, reviewers are pretty obvious if you know what to look for. (Who else takes notes while eating dinner?)
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Of course, the worst sins of the news media appear to be just totally omitting to report things.
I think I've mentioned this before, maybe more than once. I once went to a rally â I guess you'd call it â for one side of a controversial ballot item. There were maybe 1000, at least several hundred, people in attendance at the rally. There were counter-protesters outside. There was a TV (local cable? public access? I was never sure just who they were.) crew taping the rally. As far as the local newspaper was concerned â at least their online edition â none of it ever happened.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Who else takes notes while eating dinner?
Of course, nowadays they could just be talking to their phones. Everybody does that.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Karla They choose the population sample specifically because of that genetic intolerance. The article did a poor job of explaining why they think the results are applicable to people without it. The only thing I can think of is that maybe they used them as the non-drinking control group, and the intolerance assured the researchers that the non-drinking group was really non-drinking. I dunno.
It doesn't make sense to me.
The media in general suck at reporting scientific studies. When I was a personal trainer, I noticed all the crap exercise reporting.
I don't trust any media reporting any more. About anything. Not as much because of bias, but because of incompetence.
Here's the weird thing - John Oliver got a lot of stuff wrong in some of the political episodes, but he got basically everything right in the one about encryption.
That rule would apply in reverse here.
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@Benjamin-Hall The problem then becomes, however, who people turn to instead. I don't view the "alternatives" as inherently more trustworthy.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Paging @Polygeekery:
They're far enough along with demonising tobacco that they're stepping up preparations for the next one.
Some time in the coming century they'll be framing coffee as a dangerous stimulant.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Some time in the coming century they'll be framing coffee as a dangerous stimulant.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Paging @Polygeekery:
They're far enough along with demonising tobacco that they're stepping up preparations for the next one.
Some time in the coming century they'll be framing coffee as a dangerous stimulant.
As long as you don't shove your coffee down my lungs as you do with cigarettes, I couldn't care less.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
What are the odds it was a magazine, not a clip?
What if it is a magazine about clips?
What if it's a clip of a magazine?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
So yes, the reporter did get my name and age correct,
Is there such a thing as a double Pulitzer prize?
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Some time in the coming century they'll be framing coffee as a dangerous stimulant.
They do that already. I take it you've never been to Utah.
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@acrow
BENTON COUNTY, Ar - (KNWA) - Police arrested two men after they took turns shooting one another while wearing a bullet-resistant vest, according to a probable cause affidavit.Charles Eugene Ferris, 50, and Christopher Hicks, 36, were arrested Monday in connection with an aggravated assault.
They were released on a $5,000 bond and were issued a no-contact order from the Benton County Jail on Tuesday, April 2.
Benton County Sheriff's Deputy Dorian Hendrix went to Mercy Hospital around 11 p.m Sunday, March 31, to investigate a male who had been shot multiple times while wearing a bullet-proof vest, according to the affidavit.
Hendrix interviewed Ferris, who had a red spot on his chest, the affidavit states.
Ferris told an elaborate story to try and cover up the truth.
He said someone from the edge of a tree line began shooting at him and the "asset" on Highway 12, according to the affidavit.
Ferris changed his story about the incident and said he did not want to get Hicks in trouble, so he made up his prior story, the affidavit states.
He then told police what really happened and said he had been drinking on his back deck with Hicks and wanted Hicks to shoot him with the vest on.
Hicks shot Ferris with a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle, according to the affidavit.
The bullet hit the top left corner of the vest stopping the bullet but leaving a red mark.
Ferris told police he was "pissed" and Hicks put the vest on, the affidavit states.
Ferris then "unloaded the clip into Hicks' back," according to a police report.
No rounds from the .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle penetrated the vest.
The only crime I see in all of that is lying to the police, which could have resulted in them wasting their time investigating a crime that did not happen.
Depends on where it happened and what the laws were there, but I can think of several possible firearms-related laws that could have been broken:
- Negligent discharge of a firearm
- Discharge of a firearm within city limits
- Handling a firearm while under the influence
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@brie said in In other news today...:
Negligent discharge of a firearm
My sister's husband apparently did that last night. Supposedly it went off while he was "cleaning" it, and it narrowly missed the person downstairs.
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"Hello Karma, what are you doing today?"
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Wait, YuGiOh?! The fuck? That's still a thing!?! Damn, and people are worried about the brony random dying...
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It must have given him quite the buzz:
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The RSPCA said animal collection officer Michael Harrington responded Saturday night to Northview Drive in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, on a report of a tarantula loose in the street.
"The call came in at 11:30 p.m. and I made it to the scene just after midnight,"
There are better ways to spend a night...
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@JBert I used to have one of those as a child. They were fun when you put a little robot underneath and drove the whole ensemble out from underneath a cupboard when an adult was passingâŚ
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I wonder how one would describe this on their CV... "Worked for NASA research study"?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
I wonder how one would describe this on their CV... "Worked for NASA research study"?
If it was a t-shirt it would be: 'I worked for a NASA research study and all I got was low bone-density and a blood-clot'.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@JBert I used to have one of those as a child. They were fun when you put a little robot underneath and drove the whole ensemble out from underneath a cupboard when an adult was passingâŚ
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@JBert I used to have one of those as a child. They were fun when you put a little robot underneath and drove the whole ensemble out from underneath a cupboard when an adult was passingâŚ
Lick Lick Lick!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
brony random
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
brony random
Is it inaccurate?
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
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2019 will be the year of desktop Android on Linux PC
my chromebook already supports native Linux apps and native Android apps
Chromebook is not Linux (any more than Android is).
Do you also consider Debian to not be Linux? Because that's what gets installed when you press the "Linux" button in ChromeOS.
Maybe. System V or systemd?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
2019 will be the year of desktop Android on Linux PC
my chromebook already supports native Linux apps and native Android apps
Chromebook is not Linux (any more than Android is).
Do you also consider Debian to not be Linux? Because that's what gets installed when you press the "Linux" button in ChromeOS.
Maybe. System V or systemd?
Looks like systemd by default, but you can install whatever:
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
If Boeing isn't making like a 737 MAX currently...
The Journal report, citing unidentified people briefed on the matter, said the pilots had initially shut off the MCAS anti-stall system that was pushing the airplaneâs nose down shortly after it took off from Addis Ababa.
The pilots then cranked a manual wheel in an attempt to stabilize the plane, the report said, but they eventually decided to restore power to the usual electric trim on their control yokes, likely because the manual attempt did not achieve the desired results.
A local expert, former Boeing flight-control engineer Peter Lemme, recently predicted how the emergency procedure could fail disastrously, and he is backed up by extracts from a 1982 Boeing 737-200 Pilot Training Manual posted to an online pilot forum a month ago by an Australian pilot. [...]
But Lemme said the Ethiopian pilots most likely were unable to carry out that last instruction in the Boeing emergency procedure â because they simply couldnât physically move that wheel against the heavy forces acting on the tail.Now confirmed by the preliminary reportâlinked in The Aviation Herald reportâand this demonstration made for The Aviation Herald:
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@Bulb The "trim tab" is large enough to overpower the primary flight controls. Consequently, large-ish forces may be involved.
Still moot, of course, as the patch that removes the auto-crash function will allow the electronic trim to be used again.
Now, I wouldn't allow those planes to fly until they redesign the engine mounting and control surfaces, followed by a safety review by committee. But this affects billions of dollars in grounded aircraft, so safety be damned; the planes will fly again as soon as the patch is in place.
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
2019 will be the year of desktop Android on Linux PC
my chromebook already supports native Linux apps and native Android apps
Chromebook is not Linux (any more than Android is).
Do you also consider Debian to not be Linux? Because that's what gets installed when you press the "Linux" button in ChromeOS.
A quick google reveals Debian can also be BSD. Or even Hurd.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Bulb The "trim tab" is large enough to overpower the primary flight controls. Consequently, large-ish forces may be involved.
Those are, actually, not quite related things, because the leverage the aerodynamic forces have at the pivot point affects it. Many smaller aircraft keep the forces low without any power steering with things like control horns and carefully balancing the control surface at the pivot. But in case of B737 the pivot is aft, at the break between stabilizer and elevator, so the control forces are indeed high.
Now the other issue is that the trim wheels are connected to the stabilizer with plain pulleys, which is actually touted as a feature for the case of power failure. I've seen it mentioned several times that âa 737 can be flown without power in reversion modeâ (i.e. by trim). Well, this shows it can't, because the forces are too high for practical use.
@acrow said in In other news today...:
Still moot, of course, as the patch that removes the auto-crash function will allow the electronic trim to be used again.
Now, I wouldn't allow those planes to fly until they redesign the engine mounting and control surfaces, followed by a safety review by committee. But this affects billions of dollars in grounded aircraft, so safety be damned; the planes will fly again as soon as the patch is in place.I agree that's what will probably happen. And I agree that it is bad. But I'd say fixing the manual trim is what should be done rather than necessarily improving the stability near stallâthere are, and have always been, other reasons to need a runaway trim procedure, even though fortunately they didn't seem to ever occur in practice.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Those are, actually, not quite related things, because the leverage the aerodynamic forces have at the pivot point affects it. Many smaller aircraft keep the forces low without any power steering with things like control horns and carefully balancing the control surface at the pivot. But in case of B737 the pivot is aft, at the break between stabilizer and elevator, so the control forces are indeed high.
I believe that you're mistaken. While the control surface itself - the elevator in this case - may indeed be balanced, the part controlled by the computer (or the manual wheel) is the trim tab, which is a separate surface, and is - I understand - almost never balanced.
Of course, I'm not an expert. So I, too, may be mistaken.
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@acrow âtrim tabâ is another animal altogether (a small control surface that moves the actual control surface using mechanical leverage). The thing controlled in this case is the stabilizer foreplane, and it is indeed never balanced well. However, it still has some balance, so how badly balanced it is still affects the forces.
And then there is the choice to link the trim wheels purely mechanically. Airbus uses hydromechanical connection, so their trim wheels are easy to turn, but don't work in case of total hydraulic failure. But this accident demonstrated that the Boeing ones don't either in practice.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon âNet zeroâ means you can offset the emissions with something else.
âFarting cowsâ is not âcowsâ. Donât ask me how.
Maybe change their diet, genetically engineer them not to fart, I donât know (ask all those kids in the churches ) . Or, as above, just offset their emissions with something else.Cows aren't supposed to fart. When they eat grass everything is dandy. But soybeans are far cheaper and so they get fed to cows and so the cows fart.
Erm, as someone who grew up on a cattle farm...no. Cows fart. Cows always fart.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
As long as you don't shove your coffee down my lungs as you do with cigarettes, I couldn't care less.
I'm not shoving my smoke down your lungs.
Just stop breathing and your lungs will be fine
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ChromiumEdge's new insider version is outhttps://venturebeat.com/2019/04/08/microsoft-launches-first-chromium-edge-builds-for-windows-10/
You can get here
https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/But not everyone
What about