In other news today...
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@Lorne-Kates said in In other news today...:
On another note, I've always wondered. How the fuck do these articles even come into existence? How does a reporter even come across these stories?
Local newspapers desperate for any story no matter how trivial and banal, and national tabloids desperate to stir the population into a frenzy, because it gets them more sales.
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@RaceProUK sounds like an onion headline: Local Newspaper Desperate for Any Story, No Matter How Trivial
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
gently beat the stupid out of her head
That's obviously not working ... try beating it harder ... maybe use some blunt instrument you have laying around ... like
that should do it ...
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
That's obviously not working ... try beating it harder ...
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
gently beat the stupid out of her head
That's obviously not working ... try beating it harder ... maybe use some blunt instrument you have laying around ... like
that should do it ...
I figured that was going to be a
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@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
gently beat the stupid out of her head
That's obviously not working ... try beating it harder ... maybe use some blunt instrument you have laying around ... like
that should do it ...
I figured that was going to be a
Better?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Better?
No.
censored
needs to be on the hammer head - preferably in raised letters so it leaves a mark on the recipient.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Um… where exactly do you want me to stick my hammer?
It's not me that wants your hammer put in any particular place. However, if you would like me to hammer something, I'm sure we could come to an agreement. :D
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@Lorne-Kates Maybe they meant the cars?
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@Lorne-Kates said in In other news today...:
Given his interactions, I'd peg him as a Queen.
Rape is never the answer.
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@coldandtired We were being racist, like an aryan god. Because everyone wants you to look racist right?
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So much in a single science article:
The scientists measured Saturn’s Love number (the rigidity of a planet) for the first time and confirmed Saturnian moons move away from the planet at a faster rate than expected. [...] Using photographic images taken from century-old glass negatives and Cassini spacecraft observations, the group measured the Love number – named for Augustus E.H. Love, a famed British mathematician who studied elasticity – that describes the rigidity of the tidal bulge and the dissipation factor, which controls the speed at which moons move away.
SourceNow it would seem to me that the more rigid the planet, the smaller the bulge, but whatever: in any case a mission to assign a Love number to Satyrn's rigid tidal bulge is pure win.
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@Lorne-Kates said in In other news today...:
Ain't no way someone who named their kid "Logan" is feeding them Horrible Awful GMO Gluten-Filled WITH CHEMICALS Potato Shapes.
What did you call Wolverine's mom?
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@Lorne-Kates said in In other news today...:
Ain't no way someone who named their kid "Logan" is feeding them Horrible Awful GMO Gluten-Filled WITH CHEMICALS Potato Shapes
Could be an X Men fan
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@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
Rape is never the answer.
What is a word for non-consensual sex?
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Apparently in Ireland, the concept of actual paragraphs has been rejected.
I think it's how online news tries to make their small stories seem longer or something because I see this all over with stuff like this.
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@cark said in In other news today...:
@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
Rape is never the answer.
What is a word for non-consensual sex?
Necrophilia.
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@cark said in In other news today...:
@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
Rape is never the answer.
What is a word for non-consensual sex?
that would be "Welcome-to-life-in-jail!", "Welcome-to-the-sex-offenders-registry-and permanent-discrimination-because-of-it", "Die-Male-Scum!", or "Dude-what-the-actual-fuck-no!" depending on context and/or who gets to you first.
INB4 the flames move this to the trolleybus garage
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@accalia Those are all more than one word.
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@accalia Those are all more than one word.
teeeeeeeeeechnically hyphenating them turns them into a compound word.
:-P
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
..... a word so long it crashes chrome.... well flipping done!
and yes, that would be the longest word ever....
it's a protien that's involved with muscle developemtn.... somehow. i donm't think we've sussed out exactly what it does now.
question though. is that the intron or exon form? as i mentioned before that crashes chrome with out of memory.
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@accalia said in In other news today...:
a word so long it crashes chrome
My Chrome handles it fine
Edit: heh
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@accalia said in In other news today...:
is that the intron or exon form?
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@accalia said in In other news today...:
that would be the longest word ever....
Isoform 12 is longer :-)
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@accalia said in In other news today...:
is that the intron or exon form?
ah. exon form then.
Intron form is about 3x longer. (because it includes all those bases that are part of introns that are removed before protien synthesis.
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@accalia Wouldn't that mean that intron or exon form pertains to the gene rather than the protein?
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@accalia Wouldn't that mean that intron or exon form pertains to the gene rather than the protein?
intron is the gene form exon is what forms the protein, yes.
they are still two different names for the same thing, the intron form just has a lot of junk data in it. :-)
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@accalia said in In other news today...:
two different names for the same thing
I don't understand how that could be.
I understand that it might be reasonable to call the gene that codes for titin the titin gene, or even refer to it informally as "titin" if it's clear from context that you're talking about genes, but surely nobody would ever refer to the gene as "methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanylprolylthreonylphenylalanylthreonylglutaminylprolylleucylglutaminylserylvalylvalylvalylleucylglutamylglycylserylthreonylalanylthreonylphenylalanyl...glutaminylaspartylglycylglycylleucyltyrosylthreonylleucylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutamylphenylalanylglycylserylaspartylserylalanylthreonylvalylasparaginylisoleucylhistidylisoleucylarginylserylisoleucine"; surely that's strictly and unambigously the name of a protein?
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
My Chrome handles it fine
So does my Chromium.
you probably had more free RAM than i did with three versions of visual studio, 80 some od tab of chrome, SSMS sessions x4 GP Dynamics thick client, and a dozen or more apps running on my work PC
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@accalia Do you have paging turned off?
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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@accalia Do you have paging turned off?
i dunno. if i do it's not by choice. i let helpdesk handle the physical aspect of the PC.
actually that reminds me.... i need to put a ticket into them soon about that.
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In other news today: One of the infamously retarded courts (at least when it comes to internet issues) in Germany decided that if you link to a site displaying copyrighted material and that same 3rd party website doesn't have a license for that material, you become liable.
The case was about someone linking to a blog where someone else had altered a picture under the Creative Commons license. Only that the "perpetrator" had forgotten that the specific CC license required him to include notice of this alteration.
And now the guy who linked to that blog was target of a lawsuit.
So much for the background. The court actually decided that anyone who's out to make money through a website will have to check each link he does for copyright issues.
They neglected to mention on how to actually do this. I mean, is it required once? Daily? Weekly? How do you prove that you check in case the site changes later on? And how do you check if the stuff on the 3rd party site is properly licensed?
Minor things like that.
The German tech magazine c't then decided to remove all links to the website of this court. Their lawyer also mailed their press contact and asked them to check all their site's content so they would be able to link to the court again, freedom of the press and all that.
Oh, and they would need such a check to be done every hour or so. The internet is fast-moving, after all.I myself composed a letter to the guy legally responsible for the court's website and notified him that their own legal notice on their own website is at odds with the court's decision.
Because their legal notice states:We are not liable for the content of 3rd party websites we are linking to
And, yes, you are allowed to sue someone if their legal notice is not done properly.
It's not all doom and gloom. Because a) this court's decision is not binding for other courts and b) our constitutional court has a bit of a habit null-and-voiding this particular court's decisions. (The downside: You have to fight through to the constitutional court).
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In other news yesterday:
The tail section belongs to a young coelurosaurian -- from the same group of dinosaurs as the predatory velociraptors and the tyrannosaurus. The sparrow-sized creature could have danced in the palm of your hand. The amber, which weighs 6.5 grams, contains bone fragments and feathers, adding to mounting fossil evidence that many dinosaurs sported primitive plumage rather than scales.
The amber preserved pigmentation from the feathers allowing the scientists to assess with some certainty how it looked. [...] Seen under a microscope, the feathers suggest the creature was chestnut brown and white.
Edit: hey CNN, the link in your onebox is missing the word "tail".
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@Zecc That is interesting.
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In other news: PewDiePie pussies out, which is not unexpected:
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@Yamikuronue It is a no lose Trump style scenario. No thinks he will really delete it.
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
@Yamikuronue It is a no lose Trump style scenario. No thinks he will really delete it.
I would have been really impressed if he did, but yeah, like I said, it's not unexpected that he wouldn't do it.
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@Yamikuronue He will get some subscribers and more cash, good move on his part. Can't blame him
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@Yamikuronue
Eh, technically, he did delete a YouTube channel which did in fact belong to him after he reached 50 million subscribers.Agent 1 approves of his promise fulfillment.
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@izzion Was it a satellite channel or some shit?
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@lucas1
*shrug* I CBA to actually look up details. It was just an addendum at the bottom of TFA that:Update: Kjellberg did kind of fulfill his promise—he uploaded a video to his PewDiePie channel about 45 minutes ago of him deleting his second channel, Jack septiceye2. The PewDiePie channel remains on YouTube with just over 50 million subscribers.
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@izzion So yes
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