In other news today...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
explosion at a fireworks market
Is that the best kind of explosion, or the worst kind? Probably depends on your point of view.
As in, whether you have a good view.
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@another_sam said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Signs point to yes, though.
Are you saying all who believe in the supernatural are mentally ill? I agree.
I'm pretty sure he was just saying that anyone who takes a gun and starts shooting people for no good reason is mentally ill.
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@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
Cacti aren't roots, they have roots. I suspect it was probably a potato
<> Potatoes are not roots.
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
Cacti aren't roots, they have roots. I suspect it was probably a potato
<> Potatoes are not roots.
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Pre-emptively ed. First paragraph of my link:
While botany distinguishes true roots such as tuberous roots and taproots from non-roots such as tubers, rhizomes, corms, and bulbs (though some contain both taproot and hypocotyl tissue, making it difficult to tell some types apart), in ordinary, agricultural, and culinary use, "root vegetable" can apply to all these types.
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@Dreikin <>Killing a man is scarcely "ordinary, agricultural, and culinary use".</>
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@Dreikin <>Killing a man is scarcely "ordinary, agricultural, and culinary use".</>
<>Fortunately, we're not using "root" to describe the action, but to describe the object with which the action was performed. Thus, ordinary usage is still applicable.</>
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-south-carolina-pornography-idUSKBN149251
Good news for the Godly people there, government will install NetNanny rootkit for them :--) They need it
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@dse said in In other news today...:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-south-carolina-pornography-idUSKBN149251
Good news for the Godly people there, government will install NetNanny rootkit for them :--) They need it
And charge them $20 each to get rid of it.
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@another_sam said in In other news today...:
Is that the best kind of explosion, or the worst kind? Probably depends on your point of view.
Also depends on whether you're out of range.
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@dse said in In other news today...:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-south-carolina-pornography-idUSKBN149251
Does it send every network request to Justice Potter Stewart for approval?
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@Dreikin <>Killing a man is scarcely "ordinary, agricultural, and culinary use".</>
Was it done in Reno?
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@boomzilla
As long as you don't come out in a puff of smoke
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
supernatural exist !
Not only does Supernatural exist, the show exists inside the show as a comic book, written by an omniscient prophet who is actually the avatar of the creator of the TV show and who in universe is literal God.
Believe!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@another_sam said in In other news today...:
Well, you quoted a line about occult something something.
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@another_sam said in In other news today...:
Is that the best kind of explosion, or the worst kind?
An explosion at a Fireworks market isn't good. It's the exploding Fireworks market that follows that's spectacular.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Was it done in Reno?
What are you doing in
JeanJanet Reno?Oh yeah. Sweet 90s pop culture refernces that the kids these days will totally get!
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
As long as you don't come out in a puff of smoke
Reminds me of the train I rode that one time and asked the engineer to blow his whistle when I smelled the frost on the cotton leaves and felt that Southern breeze.
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@DogsB ...they have light sensors, and they're broken. What's so hard to figure out?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@DogsB ...they have light sensors, and they're broken. What's so hard to figure out?
From the article, this is the real
“The answer I received was that the power source for the streetlights is the same as the power source for the security cameras that the N.Y.P.D. has in Central Park, meaning that they have to be operating so that the cameras can remain on,” Mr. Terrace wrote on Nov. 11.
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@Rhywden the power's always on -- there's no switch somewhere. The lights themselves are still probably supposed to shut themselves off when it's daylight though.
It's just an example of the right person keeping their mouth shut because they don't want to fix the broken lights, and a bunch of people who don't know shit about it saying stuff that they think sounds believable to make the question go away.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden the power's always on -- there's no switch somewhere. The lights themselves are still probably supposed to shut themselves off when it's daylight though.
Again: They put the cameras on the same power lines as the street lights.
This means: Power off for the street lights - power off for the cameras.
Thus, for security raisins, power always on.
Capisce?
Also, a light sensor is unreliable. You put that kind of stuff on a timer.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Also, a light sensor is unreliable. You put that kind of stuff on a timer.
I think it's pretty common to use a light sensor for street lights. Probably at least as reliable as a keeping a timer up to date.
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@Rhywden What, like christmas lights?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Also, a light sensor is unreliable. You put that kind of stuff on a timer.
Nice onebox. Note that the tall spiky things shown are not streetlights...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Also, a light sensor is unreliable. You put that kind of stuff on a timer.
I think it's pretty common to use a light sensor for street lights. Probably at least as reliable as a keeping a timer up to date.
Depends on the weather you get. You need to keep it clear off snow and other obstructions.
Also, we have those things at our school - they switch on the lights when it's too dark and close the blinds if it's too bright outside.
Usually, what happens is this: It gets "too bright", the blinds close and then the lights come on because it's too dark now.edit: seems like the things are becoming more complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_light#Street_light_control_systems
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Depends on the weather you get. You need to keep it clear off snow and other obstructions.
Usually, what happens is this: It gets "too bright", the blinds close and then the lights come on because it's too dark now.
The sensors can be positioned in such a way that these problems shouldn't occur.
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Apropos of a recent sub-thread...
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@PJH That's like trying to prevent an earthquake by unplugging the seismometer
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Methanol again.
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Magistrates also fined him £115 and ordered him to pay £261.62 compensation and £85 costs.
They also ordered a pinched pair of pliers to be destroyed.
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@Boner This is what happens when you prohibit a drug.
I would imagine similar things happened under prohibition.
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Light-fingered McKittrick, of Cotswold Avenue, Pallister Park, stole just short of £600 worth of goods from the chain.
Due to his previous record of offending, they jailed him for eight weeks. However they opted to suspend the sentence for 15 months.
He will have to carry out a rehabilitation requirement and be supervised during his probation period.
Magistrates also fined him £115 and ordered him to pay £261.62 compensation and £85 costs.
And once again, the punishment doesn't even get close to matching the crime. I know our prisons are overcrowded, so that part's OK, but that is a very light fine by anyone's standards. Especially since 'stealing' a 79p song would warrant a fine of £50,000.
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@RaceProUK Was the crime violent?
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@lucas1 No, but what's the point in a fine less than the value of goods stolen?
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@RaceProUK being jailed for eight weeks in 2 months wages ... which is about 2k I am guessing.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
but that is a very light fine by anyone's standards.
It really isn't. You need to keep a closer eye on what the courts dish out. I suggest following http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.co.uk/ if you have room in your RSS reader.
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
being jailed for eight weeks in 2 months wages
It's a suspended sentence, which means he may never actually serve it. If he was to actually serve it though, then I'd have no issue.
@PJH said in In other news today...:
I suggest following http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.co.uk/ if you have room in your RSS reader.
Added.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
It's a suspended sentence, which means he may never actually serve it. If he was to actually serve it though, then I'd have no issue.
Fair enough. I do agree.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
Light-fingered McKittrick, of Cotswold Avenue, Pallister Park, stole just short of £600 worth of goods from the chain.
Due to his previous record of offending, they jailed him for eight weeks. However they opted to suspend the sentence for 15 months.
He will have to carry out a rehabilitation requirement and be supervised during his probation period.
Magistrates also fined him £115 and ordered him to pay £261.62 compensation and £85 costs.
And once again, the punishment doesn't even get close to matching the crime. I know our prisons are overcrowded, so that part's OK, but that is a very light fine by anyone's standards. Especially since 'stealing' a 79p song would warrant a fine of £50,000.
If he opted to con coffee and food, I'd assume he's probably too dirt poor to pay any higher fine. The "rehabilitation requirement" seems like more of a pain-in-the-ass deterrent.
That said, I'd expect a much higher punishment - cases involving forgeries (which illicitly stamping your own loyalty card could probably be pulled under) are pretty notorious for getting people into a lot of trouble for little harm done...
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South Korean team builds 4m tall bipedal mech.
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@PleegWat Big fella don't look too steady on his pins. Been at the antifreeze again maybe?
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat Big fella don't look too steady on his pins. Been at the antifreeze again maybe?
Well, they're missing the technology which lets them tap into the pilot's sense of balance!
Source: BattleTech :)
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I dunno about you, but I don't want to try out the prototype neurohelmet. I've read one novel (Main Event, I think) in which a mechwarrior used to working Fourth Succession War era hardware has to pilot a 'mech which was built about two hundred years earlier, before the technology needed to auto-calibrate neurohelmets to the user's brain patterns was rediscovered. If memory serves, he had a lot of trouble trying to use it, terrible pain from invalid feedback and so forth.