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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Oh, here we go again...
(not bothering with a Bloomberg link - I gotta clear my cookies before I can visit them again)
We'll cast entire containers at once!
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
A ship the length of four football pitches
Gotta love imperial units.
There's a Geico commercial running now where Captain Ahab is helping a woman find a parking space at the mall. After a couple of false starts, he directs her "to the northern lot, where there be parking spots as big as whales!"
Or maybe it's "as big as Wales".
For, as we all know, the UK standard of "a really large area" is "approximately the size of Wales" (as Robert Klein reported some years ago, the US equivalent is "roughly the size of New Jersey").
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Or maybe it's "as big as Wales".
Whales. At least according to the subtitles...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y8jGUF6cuA
For, as we all know, the UK standard of "a really large area" is "approximately the size of Wales"
A handy converter:
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@PJH
So I'll be needing 1,469 Wales to cover Belgium, but does this take yesterday's 3-1 win into account? I would have guessed such a thing would change the Belgium-Wales conversion ratio.
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@boomzilla Fun fact: Over here he could tell the guy to fuck right off and return with a proper method of payment. There's an actual law which states that no one is required to accept more than 50 coins (whatever the denomination) as payment.
The exception are banks but those are then allowed to charge you for counting the money.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Fun fact: Over here he could tell the guy to fuck right off and return with a proper method of payment. There's an actual law which states that no one is required to accept more than 50 coins (whatever the denomination) as payment.
The exception are banks but those are then allowed to charge you for counting the money.
Honestly, what's the point of even pursuing a payment for less than a thousand dollars, though. Time is money.
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@Rhywden The same also applies in the U.S.. Implementation differs between states, but AIUI he could have refused this form of payment and demanded a cheque. He should have communicated the refusal immediately upon discovering the pennies though. Keeping them for that long means he's accepted the payment.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
what's the point of even pursuing a payment for less than a thousand dollars, though
Some people have way more time than money.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden The same also applies in the U.S.. Implementation differs between states, but AIUI he could have refused this form of payment and demanded a cheque. He should have communicated the refusal immediately upon discovering the pennies though. Keeping them for that long means he's accepted the payment.
Probably because he did not know about it.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
what's the point of even pursuing a payment for less than a thousand dollars, though
Some people have way more time than money.
To hell with them
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@TimeBandit April Fools is two days from now.
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@topspin The best time for trying new brand ideas. Because if the reception is overwhelmingly negative, you can just claim April Fools.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin The best time for trying new brand ideas. Because if the reception is overwhelmingly negative, you can just claim April Fools.
Well, it's the dumbest thing I heard since... um, never mind, let's pretend last year didn't happen.
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@topspin Look at it this way: It was getting a bit uncomfortable for VW to sell electrics under the old brand. The price and lifetime of batteries being what it is, full-electrics are anything but a "people's car".
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
The price and lifetime of batteries being what it is, full-electrics are anything but a "people's car".
There's a simple fix: just redefine "people" to only refer to the wealthy.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
The price and lifetime of batteries being what it is, full-electrics are anything but a "people's car".
There's a simple fix: just redefine "people" to only refer to the wealthy.
That idea is thousands of years old.
Filed under: three-fifths
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Let’s just get this out of the way right now: It wasn’t me.
The Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit that helps network owners identify and fix security threats, says it has found 21,248 different Exchange servers which appear to be compromised by a backdoor and communicating with brian[.]krebsonsecurity[.]top (NOT a safe domain, hence the hobbling).
LOL
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Let’s just get this out of the way right now: It wasn’t me.
That sounds like something someone who did it would say.
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@error said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Let’s just get this out of the way right now: It wasn’t me.
That sounds like something someone who did it would say.
The thing is someone who did it says something like that because it's something like a thing someone who didn't do it would say.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@error said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Let’s just get this out of the way right now: It wasn’t me.
That sounds like something someone who did it would say.
The thing is someone who did it says something like that because it's something like a thing someone who didn't do it would say.
My head hurts.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
The thing is someone who did it says something like that because it's something like a thing someone who didn't do it would say.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Imagine it they had accidentally posted nuclear codes. As we all know, the weapons are triggered through Twitter.
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@cvi
Pretty sure I just entered 4 zero's
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Thank goodness this isn't a thing here. Though honestly, we've been a mostly remote team for years, living by phone calls.
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Forcing employees to be cheery rarely works.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Thank goodness this isn't a thing here. Though honestly, we've been a mostly remote team for years, living by phone calls.
At my job we actually have a weekly online "coffee break" meeting. Only 30 minutes, starting at 3:30 PM on Wednesday. Idea is to join up, after which the organizer splits the participants in (hopefully random) groups of 4-6 people.
Attendance is optional and you do frequently see familiar faces, but it's OK.
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@JBert we have a bi-weekly games group, but that's unofficial and strictly non-work.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit April Fools is two days from now.
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@TimeBandit There is also no truth to the rumor that Mazda is changing up its "Zoom Zoom" slogan to either "Boom Boom" or "Doom Doom".
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit There is also no truth to the rumor that Mazda is changing up its "Zoom Zoom" slogan to either "Boom Boom" or "Doom Doom".
"Room Room" would better capture the way we live.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit April Fools is two days from now.
Called it!
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@topspin MeToo
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit There is also no truth to the rumor that Mazda is changing up its "Zoom Zoom" slogan to either "Boom Boom" or "Doom Doom".
I always wondered about that one. The "Zoom zoom zoom" chant was probably taken up by someone who does not know or care about the background - because that's a song from Capoeira.
And the first part actually goes: "Zum zum zum, Capoeira mata um" of which the second half means: "Capoeira kills".
Always weirded me out in the context of advertising a car...
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
of which the second half means: "Capoeira kills one".
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
X-rays from Uranus
Better than a colonoscopy.
You might get that later on if the x-ray dosage causes cancer.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Thank goodness this isn't a thing here. Though honestly, we've been a mostly remote team for years, living by phone calls.
At my job we actually have a weekly online "coffee break" meeting. Only 30 minutes, starting at 3:30 PM on Wednesday. Idea is to join up, after which the organizer splits the participants in (hopefully random) groups of 4-6 people.
Attendance is optional and you do frequently see familiar faces, but it's OK.
I have discovered, that if you struggle with social anxiety during non-work work-gettogethers, then the virtual form is worse.
We've had virtual happy hours with the UNIT and that wasn't too bad.
But the baby shower for the woman I have never met in person and never interacted with quite painful.
The townhalls (we have once a month) get extremely political. This last one they split us up into break out rooms. I joined on my computer without mic and video. I'll just obverse. So I did scream at my laptop several times.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Times are tough when even mafia guys trying to get a side hustle.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
I'll just obverse.
Yeah, because you don't converse with others.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
Times are tough when even mafia guys trying to get a side hustle.
I was thinking the reverse ... with the recent Youtube struggles, a lot of youtubers have been forced into looking for alternative streams of income.
Either way - the real question remains. Are his recipes any good?