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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
[The friend] told police he had “warned [the dead tourist] to stay away but he didn’t listen”.
Well. He was dead.
The article has names there, but it's difficult quoting a short snippet with them. Just for next time: would you have been more pleased with "soon-to-expire tourist"?
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@JBert "his friend, the idiot"
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
would you have been more pleased with "soon-to-expire tourist"?
I doubt that, that would have prevented his joke.
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@Boner Didn't anyone ever tell him not to go chasing waterfalls?
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@lolwhat He dropped his gold chain in the stream.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
but he didn’t listen”.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
I smell Disney movie!
They're cows. You smell . The confusion is understandable, though; they are quite similar.
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So, a bunch of people asked GIMP to change its name so it isn't a slur. How many people? Enough that "we will not change the name of this project so the splash screen doesn't display a slur" is an answer in their FAQ.
And there are only so many times you can say "if you don't like that the image editor displays a slur on its splash screen, you should just fork it" before someone will actually do it.
So naturally the kind of people who are against renaming projects to remove slurs from them are also the kind of people who claim the word "look" is offensive:
ok, boomer
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
So, a bunch of people asked GIMP to change its name so it isn't a slur. How many people? Enough that "we will not change the name of this project so the splash screen doesn't display a slur" is an answer in their FAQ.
And there are only so many times you can say "if you don't like that the image editor displays a slur on its splash screen, you should just fork it" before someone will actually do it.
So naturally the kind of people who are against renaming projects to remove slurs from them are also the kind of people who claim the word "look" is offensive:
ok, boomer
I can't imagine that many boomers GAF.
I can't even imagine that many boomers even know anything about Linux or open source software for this to be a mentionable issue.
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
the kind of people who claim the word "look" is offensive:
Trolls, yes.
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
So, a bunch of people asked GIMP to change its name so it isn't a slur. How many people? Enough that "we will not change the name of this project so the splash screen doesn't display a slur" is an answer in their FAQ.
And there are only so many times you can say "if you don't like that the image editor displays a slur on its splash screen, you should just fork it" before someone will actually do it.
So naturally the kind of people who are against renaming projects to remove slurs from them are also the kind of people who claim the word "look" is offensive:
ok, boomer
Stop kink shaming!
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
IoT is insecure because of the complete lack of investment in security in every IoT device ever. Any system can be made insecure.
To be fair, these IoS things could be made more secure if they were running Windows. They'd be so expensive the extra budget for a couple of high-grade security experts on the team would be negligible
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
The article has names there, but it's difficult quoting a short snippet with them. Just for next time: would you have been more pleased with "soon-to-expire tourist"?
Mr. Soon-to-be-living-the-rest-of-his-short-ass-life-in-exquisite-microgravity here.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
IoT is insecure because of the complete lack of investment in security in every IoT device ever. Any system can be made insecure.
To be fair, these IoS things could be made more secure if they were running Windows. They'd be so expensive the extra budget for a couple of high-grade security experts on the team would be negligible
You have more faith in bean counters than I do.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
IoT is insecure because of the complete lack of investment in security in every IoT device ever. Any system can be made insecure.
To be fair, these IoS things could be made more secure if they were running Windows. They'd be so expensive the extra budget for a couple of high-grade security experts on the team would be negligible
You have more faith in bean counters than I do.
I know, I know. Utopian Capitalism is a helluva drug.
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I prophecy a Pastafarian prophet will soon discover a hitherto unknown commandment prohibiting something like the faithful's use of writing implements for exams.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
I can't even imagine that many boomers even know anything about Linux or open source software
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
I prophecy a Pastafarian prophet will soon discover a hitherto unknown commandment prohibiting something like the faithful's use of writing implements for exams.
I'll be a race between the Pastafarians inventing silly things, and the Church of Satan combing through their existing text to find a "legitimate" use.
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@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
ok, boomer
I certainly hope that http://www.tellingstone.com/ "Boomer Commerce®" changes the offensive name of its software, by force, if necessary, and promptly.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@ben_lubar said in In other news today...:
ok, boomer
I certainly hope that http://www.tellingstone.com/ "Boomer Commerce®" changes the offensive name of its software, by force, if necessary, and promptly.
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By the mid-1980s, public awareness of the disease AIDS caused problems for the brand due to the phonetic similarity of names and the fact that the disease caused immense weight loss in patients.
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@ben_lubar It's le epic irony.
But seriously, the lack of humor there is appalling. I mean it's literally:
"This thing is offensive"
"Oh yeah, well that thing is offensive! How does that feel huh? Bet you never expected that retort."
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@PotatoEngineer The Church of Satan isn't really a political entity so much as it is an actual religion (insofar as Buddhism can be considered a religion). Political activism you generally find at the Satanic Temple.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I can't even imagine that many boomers even know anything about Linux or open source software
Yeah but I don't see you arguing either side of the name/renaming issue.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@PotatoEngineer The Church of Satan isn't really a political entity so much as it is an actual religion (insofar as Buddhism can be considered a religion). Political activism you generally find at the Satanic Temple.
Dangit, I couldn't remember which was which, and guessed. Because looking it up would take too much work.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@PotatoEngineer The Church of Satan isn't really a political entity so much as it is an actual religion (insofar as Buddhism can be considered a religion). Political activism you generally find at the Satanic Temple.
Maybe politics is their religion?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
That title makes it sound like the hurricane moved the cows a really long ways, instead of only driving them to swim four miles.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
That title makes it sound like the hurricane moved the cows a really long ways, instead of only driving them to swim four miles.
The picture also makes it look like Mr. Price doesn't know what a trio is.
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“But blades are so strong — because they need to be strong to do their job — they just don’t break,” said Amie Davidson, an Iowa Department of Natural Resources solid waste supervisor.
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@TimeBandit I wonder why there is no market for used turbine blades. If these blades are so durable they have trouble crushing them for the landfill, I would imagine they are also durable enough to be used for a long time. Even if new ones provide higher efficiency, I would think there would be some projects where getting blades at used prices would be the better option.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
“But blades are so strong — because they need to be strong to do their job — they just don’t break,” said Amie Davidson, an Iowa Department of Natural Resources solid waste supervisor.
:I_dont_always_break_but_when_I_do_meme.xml:
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@TimeBandit I'm not shocked. That's generally in my area, and something like 1/3rd of that wind farm is offline at any one time due to parts needing replaced. And a lot of times it's completely offline because it's "too windy." They really should toss all of them in a landfill and build another nuclear reactor or two.
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@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I wonder why there is no market for used turbine blades. If these blades are so durable they have trouble crushing them for the landfill, I would imagine they are also durable enough to be used for a long time. Even if new ones provide higher efficiency, I would think there would be some projects where getting blades at used prices would be the better option.
Probably because you'd have to check them for fatigue, and that'd probably drive the cost up to near new.
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@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I wonder why there is no market for used turbine blades. If these blades are so durable they have trouble crushing them for the landfill, I would imagine they are also durable enough to be used for a long time. Even if new ones provide higher efficiency, I would think there would be some projects where getting blades at used prices would be the better option.
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@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
getting blades at used prices
According to TFA, a company disposing of used blades is looking into that, but there doesn't seem to be much of a market for them, perhaps because
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Probably because you'd have to check them for fatigue, and that'd probably drive the cost up to near new.
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@Carnage Ah, fair. Good thing I'm not in charge of building wind energy farms. My hunch was some kind of subsidy/tax break only for buying new blades.
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Cracked blades are the #1 maintenance issue, as I understand it.
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Wizards of the Coast did not take down the database once Fidus disclosed it, and only pulled the file once TechCrunch reached out.
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From the "obviously" department:
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When you accept defeat
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Not sure if it should go here or in the Bad Ideas thread: