In other news today...
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@boomzilla I remember playing cricket and baseball at uni and it hurt enough with pads.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-idUSKBN1782S0
U.S. officials said they informed Russian forces ahead of the missile attacks and that they took pains to avoid hitting Russian troops at the base, saying there were no strikes on sections of the base where Russians were present. But they said the administration did not seek Moscow's approval.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the strike did not mean the wider U.S. policy on Syria had changed.
"This clearly indicates the president is willing to take decisive action when called for," he told reporters. "I would not in any way attempt to extrapolate that to a change in our policy or our posture relative to our military activities in Syria today. There has been no change in that status."
Oh, okay then.
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@coldandtired In a way, it's no surprise: a Surface Pro is basically a laptop, just arranged a bit differently.
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@RaceProUK
Also people who choose a surface did it on purpose.
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@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
Church loses the plot over the ancient Christian tradition of chocolate Easter eggs, forgets Quakers didn't observe Easter, Darth May complains about treatment of UK Christianity while visiting Saudi Arabia
Meanwhile a more topical event for the pagan holiday, that the Christians subsumed, is no more...
Organisers of the Manchester Passion Play, which will tell the story of Christâs crucifixion in the cityâs Cathedral Gardens on Saturday, offered âthe full crucifixion experienceâ for ÂŁ750 [âŹ875, $930 - ed]
[Reverend Falak Sher, a canon at Manchester Cathedral] said: âWhen I saw it I did not like it, I thought it was disgraceful. The whole message of the cross is hope and love. When I saw this I was not very happy and asked the committee to take this one down.
Uh-huh.
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I think we need something a bit more light-hearted.
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He even stayed in his namesake's house the night before the trip.
And will he ever meet the original Joe McGrath?
"I do think our paths will cross sooner or later. And it will be a magical moment."Who let him into his house?
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
TR is this:
The four had 245 previous offences between them.
At what point do you sit back and think "maybe rehabilitation isn't working for these people"?
Doesn't the UK have that whole ASBO thing where youth can get an offense for just looking at an adult wrong? Seems that might skew the reasonable number of offenses expectation a bit.
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@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
Doesn't the UK have that whole ASBO thing where youth can get an offense for just looking at an adult wrong?
Uh⌠Yeah, we do⌠And um⌠some wear having one as a badge of pride, soâŚ
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@wharrgarbl said in In other news today...:
@PJH by animal number a single bacteria lover could beat dogs cats and fish
Error: Type mismatch.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
âthe full crucifixion experienceâ
Somehow, I doubt it actually was.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
February 11, 2015
I think if you haven't patched by now, it's a bit too late.
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@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
Church loses the plot over the ancient Christian tradition of chocolate Easter eggs, forgets Quakers didn't observe Easter, Darth May complains about treatment of UK Christianity while visiting Saudi Arabia
Put Christ back in Easter!... wait.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
Church loses the plot over the ancient Christian tradition of chocolate Easter eggs, forgets Quakers didn't observe Easter, Darth May complains about treatment of UK Christianity while visiting Saudi Arabia
Meanwhile a more topical event for the pagan holiday, that the Christians subsumed, is no more...
Organisers of the Manchester Passion Play, which will tell the story of Christâs crucifixion in the cityâs Cathedral Gardens on Saturday, offered âthe full crucifixion experienceâ for ÂŁ750 [âŹ875, $930 - ed]
[Reverend Falak Sher, a canon at Manchester Cathedral] said: âWhen I saw it I did not like it, I thought it was disgraceful. The whole message of the cross is hope and love. When I saw this I was not very happy and asked the committee to take this one down.
Uh-huh.
So the whole Stations of the Cross thing is just fine, but don't get into it too much, I guess?
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@Boner Popeye was turning spinach into muscle for much longer
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Couldn't something similar be used to distinguish between live eyes and recorded eyes?
I feel like you're giving Samsung too much credit.
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@Boner There's more than one way to skin a cat...
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
more than one way to skin a cat
So ... you like your pussy naked huh?
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@wharrgarbl said in In other news today...:
@flabdablet They found we can fix @boomzilla with magnets! Maybe it won't take long for them to invent a cure.
The ability to turn a conservative into a liberal is not a new development. Lobotomies have been around for some time.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@wharrgarbl said in In other news today...:
@flabdablet They found we can fix @boomzilla with magnets! Maybe it won't take long for them to invent a cure.
The ability to turn a conservative into a liberal is not a new development. Lobotomies have been around for some time.
HEY! What are you trying to impl... SQUIRREL!
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@Luhmann Shaven Haven
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@antiquarian Considering someone that is permanently scarred and deformed by a collision with a far smaller vehicle. Running a red light isn't worth it.
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From this fortnight's Private Eye
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@PJH
Guess that answers whether or not her elevator went all the way to the top. If the lights had ever come on upstairs, the cockroach would have gone skittering out of her head all on its own
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If that story is true then, what in the hell guys? Also, why didn't they solve that shit before people boarded?
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
what kind of vulnerabilities do we have
Well if you don't know, you will soon enough!
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
more than one way to skin a cat
So ... you like your pussy naked huh?
Apparently the opposite.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@wharrgarbl said in In other news today...:
@flabdablet They found we can fix @boomzilla with magnets! Maybe it won't take long for them to invent a cure.
The ability to turn a conservative into a liberal is not a new development. Lobotomies have been around for some time.
For some conservatives a lobotomy seem appropriate
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@PJH the nope thread is ...
I'm glad there is no nope thread
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
If that story is true then, what in the hell guys? Also, why didn't they solve that shit before people boarded?
So first the airline commits fraud (selling something they do not have,) then when it ends up biting them, they double down on it and commit assault and battery on one of their defrauded victims.
I hope the guy sues them for a zillion dollars.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The maker of Model S sedans and Model X crossovers saw its capitalization surge to about $48.2 billion, $3.1 billion more than Ford, the No. 2 automaker in the U.S. after General Motors Co.
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Ford, which reported net income over the last five years totaling $26 billion, towers over Tesla on most metrics. Tesla lost $2.3 billion during the same five-year span. Revenue was $151.8 billion last year for Ford, compared with Teslaâs $7 billion.Hard to fault the short sellers, though their timing may be a bit off.
It's a mistake to compare Tesla to Ford for the same reason it's a mistake to compare Amazon to Barnes and Noble: they're not equivalent companies. Tesla is not "a car company" any more than Amazon is "a bookstore;" it's a high-tech company that makes cars.
And if you look at what people are saying about Tesla's supposed problems with their business model, it sounds very, very familiar, because they're all the same things people said about Amazon in the late 90s.
It seems that history is repeating. Those people were wrong in the 90s and they're wrong today.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Those people were wrong in the 90s and they're wrong today.
Possibly. Sure, it worked out for Amazon, but it definitely didn't for a lot of others. You were wrong in the 90s and you're wrong now. In general if not particular here.
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@wharrgarbl said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
@wharrgarbl said in In other news today...:
@flabdablet They found we can fix @boomzilla with magnets! Maybe it won't take long for them to invent a cure.
The ability to turn a conservative into a liberal is not a new development. Lobotomies have been around for some time.
For some conservatives a lobotomy seem appropriate
"A lobotomy seem appropriate"? I think maybe you've illustrated my point.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
If that story is true then, what in the hell guys? Also, why didn't they solve that shit before people boarded?
So first the airline commits fraud (selling something they do not have,) then when it ends up biting them, they double down on it and commit assault and battery on one of their defrauded victims.
I hope the guy sues them for a zillion dollars.
Overselling is legal (and to a certain degree necessary) and they actually do have the right to remove passengers from a flight, even involuntarily (it's in the small print).
The problem arises from the way they went about it (which is absolutely moronic) and it also shows that their dispatch process is utter garbage because if said dispatch only notices that they need four seats for a crew after the plane has been filled...
... they obviously are capable of breaking more than just mere guitars.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
... they obviously are capable of breaking more than just mere guitars.
Yes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/us/united-airlines-leggings.html
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@Zecc I also like this one:
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I'm too lazy to create a new thread but this is quite an interesting perspective on fake news. Basically fake news sites are content farms that took their business model directly from the likes of gawker and buzzfeed.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Possibly. Sure, it worked out for Amazon, but it definitely didn't for a lot of others. You were wrong in the 90s and you're wrong now. In general if not particular here.
What others? How many businesses were there in the late 90s that looked like Amazon? (As opposed to looking like some 1337 h@xx0r's lame attempt to copy Amazon in his spare time? I remember plenty of those, and they got quite rightfully wiped out in the .com crash.)
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
How many businesses were there in the late 90s that looked like Amazon?
Maybe none of them lasted long enough to make it onto your radar?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Overselling is legal
Perhaps, but that doesn't make it right. Selling something you don't have is still fraud.
(and to a certain degree necessary)
I don't agree. It's certainly expedient and helps them increase their profit margins, but they wouldn't go out of business without it.
and they actually do have the right to remove passengers from a flight, even involuntarily (it's in the small print).
There are things that can't legally be put in a contract and enforced, due to being unconscionable. I hope this story gets enough press to make this one of them.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Overselling is legal
Perhaps, but that doesn't make it right.
All the airlines I've used have either non-refundable non-changeable tickets or alteration fees or some combination of it. Economy premium tickets usually have one datetime change (at least 24h before the previously planned flight)included in the price which seems reasonable enough.
I think that is a much better solution to customers not showing up for their flight than overbooking.