In other news today...
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Recently a they wanted to put in a cell tower in a local neighborhood with spotty service. They wanted to put it up on church property (with permission of the church of course), hidden in a tower facade that matches the church. Residents still complained.
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The hell you say....
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
The hell you say....
Picky bastard..
The teen, from Auckland, New Zealand, said part of the problem was many of the jobs required a car.
"Until I get my first paycheck and get a car I won't be able to get myself around,' he added.
He said he had received two firm job offers, including from a scaffolding firm owner who is tattooed himself, and was mulling both over.
The teenager has accepted an offer to have the artwork removed for free since his Facebook post.
He is now considering taking up the scaffolding job once his tattoo is lasered off and he has permission from his probation officer.
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@dreikin This would be NZ...
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
You mean they don't want the value of their houses to go up?
Damn straight. Property values go up, so do property taxes.
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A delayed withdrawal for one man but a withdrawal nonetheless.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
There is absolutely no way in which this could go wrong at all no way no siree not at all
My first thought is the videos of people stealing the entire ATM...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
moron
Hey, moron! Fucking, moron!
The is leaking.
I will see myself out.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
The hell you say....
Couldn't he just grow out his beard to hide it?
I've been wondering this for a while now: what's the deal with photos having their sides copied and blurred like that? Do people think it's appealing?
@dreikin said in In other news today...:
The teenager has accepted an offer to have the artwork removed for free since his Facebook post.
Hes getting the tattoo removed? You might say he's Cropp-ing the Mark.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
I've been wondering this for a while now: what's the deal with photos having their sides copied and blurred like that? Do people think it's appealing?
I think it originated in TV when they needed to present vertical-aspect images and video on standard horizontal-aspect screens. I'd guess it's spread to other media like this to make vertical images fit into horizontal spaces.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Couldn't he just grow out his beard to hide it?
That looks like it's probably above the beard-line. Maybe being be-bearded is also looked down on in New Zealand, too?
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@dreikin said in In other news today...:
"Until I get my first paycheck and get a car I won't be able to get myself around,' he added.
What kind of car can you afford (or even afford the down-payment on) on a single paycheck?
He is now considering taking up the scaffolding job once ... he has permission from his probation officer.
I believe this is what's known as "burying the lede."
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@dreikin People have beards in NZ, but they also have full-bodied tattoos on people with jobs where they wear business suits.
Considering this guy was mentioned as being on probation, I feel like he has other problems.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@dreikin said in In other news today...:
He is now considering taking up the scaffolding job once ... he has permission from his probation officer.
I believe this is what's known as "burying the lede."
Related:
Mr Cropp was serving a two-year jail term for aggravated robbery when his brother did the facial art using a makeshift needle and fermented food.
The brother had apparently been drinking an alcoholic home brew made from fermented apples, sugar and bread and intended the tattoo to be smaller than it was.
Mr Cropp said: "I fell asleep and eight and a half hours later I woke up with this.
"I completely forgot about it and then when I looked in the mirror I was like 'holy sh**' so I have had to live with it from then."
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@magus said in In other news today...:
@dreikin People have beards in NZ, but they also have full-bodied tattoos on people with jobs where they wear business suits.
I figured the Māori stuff would be an exception. Stupid white guy tattoo vs. cultural heritage tattoo(s).
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@dreikin Yeah, but you're best off not thinking too far into that. One of my friends is like half islander (a mix of Maori and Samoan I believe) but you'd never know it, because he's the whitest looking person on the planet.
There's almost no way to tell if someone has some Maori heritage is my point, and so going around complaining about tattoos isn't going to go well for you as a business owner.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
What kind of car can you afford (or even afford the down-payment on) on a single paycheck?
A used car. Very used. You can find some under 10k or even 5k, but you need proof that you have a job or they won't extend you financing. A paystub usually proves your income.
You must have lived a charmed life car-wise.
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@yamikuronue if by "lived a charmed life" you mean "worked and saved up for 5 years, riding the bus a lot, until I could put 50% down," then yeah. :P
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@yamikuronue ???
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@masonwheeler It's physically impossible to get to my first post-college job from where I lived by the time they wanted us there in the morning via bus. When I lived in the bay area it was a similar 2+ hour public transit trip to get to school, but they started running earlier (I got a ride anyway, so I'd only have to take it once a day).
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@yamikuronue yeah, that part maybe. The Seattle area has always had pretty good public transportation, even after Tim Eyman screwed everyone over.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Tim Eyman screwed everyone over.
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@dreikin OK, how familiar are you with the situation?
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@dreikin OK, how familiar are you with the situation?
Utterly and completely clueless.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
I doubt it's the fact that the garment is in the shape of a duck that's what calms her...
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@dreikin So in Washington state, citizens' ballot initiatives are a thing. Anyone who can propose an idea and gather enough signatures from registered voters can put a measure on the ballot at the next election, and if the people pass it, it becomes state law. There are a few restrictions to prevent various abuses, but that's the general idea.
Several years ago, this guy named Tim Eyman managed to get an initiative approved that would prevent the state from charging more than $30 annually for vehicle registration. Pretty much everyone who took a look at this at any level deeper than "yay! Lower fees!" came to the conclusion that it was a horrible idea, because that money was being used for a lot of important things, but he got some big-money backing from anti-tax groups and managed to run slick ads that conned enough people that it ended up passing.
This immediately blew a huge hole in the state's transportation budget, and they had to make up for it somewhere, so they did exactly what the people warning against this initiative predicted would happen: they couldn't cut road maintenance, so they cut public transportation funding, taking a huge amount of buses off the road. This forced a lot of people into personal vehicles, and so road congestion exploded all throughout the Puget Sound region. What used to be a 15-20 minute commute between Snohomish County and Seattle is now 45 minutes to an hour.
The bitter irony of it, though, is that no one's really saving any money! Let's do a bit of math.
Daily commute is an extra half hour either way. 52 weeks in a year, two weekend days per week, plus holidays, let's say it's approximately 250 working days per year, which means an extra 250 hours wasted, stuck in traffic.
Depending on the car, an idling car will burn somewhere around half a gallon of gas per hour. It can be more or less than that, depending on the vehicle, but that's about average. With gas around $2/gallon (at the time), this means that the extra time stuck in traffic cost the average commuter somewhere around $250 per year, which is way more than he saved on his car tabs.
Then 9/11 happened, and gas prices went through the roof. They've come down since, but they've never been back to $2, which means that Tim Eyman's phony "savings" is even more expensive in the modern world. But every attempt to roll it back has failed, due to short-sighted voters who can't see past "saving a bunch of money on car tabs!" And so in the end, the only people who this is financially good for is the oil companies.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Depending on the car, an idling car will burn somewhere around half a gallon of gas per hour
Don't American cars have stop-start?
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Depending on the car, an idling car will burn somewhere around half a gallon of gas per hour
Don't American cars have stop-start?
It's relatively new, I think. My cousin just bought a car with it this year and was mildly unsettled by it (at least at first; I don't know if that's changed).
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@dreikin said in In other news today...:
mildly unsettled by it
that seems pretty common. I never really had an issue with it, but a lot of people don't trust it
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Depending on the car, an idling car will burn somewhere around half a gallon of gas per hour
Don't American cars have stop-start?
Never heard of it before, so I just read up on it a bit. It seems like it has a lot of practical issues for very little gain, including decreased battery life, increased wear on the engine as it speeds up and slows to a stop dozens of times during a normal commute, and increased wear on the gearing system, since the oil can settle and allow more often metal-to-metal contact. The gain of a mpg or two is of questionable utility in comparison to the costs. Furthermore, the increased temperature swings for long stops (e.g.during a traffic jam) would counteract the very slightly increased fuel efficiency.
Then there's the issue that the cheaper versions (that most people would probably be getting) do not respond instantaneously, so the drivers have to readjust (downward) their expectation of the normal responsiveness of their vehicles.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
and increased wear on the gearing system, since the oil can settle and allow more often meta-to-metal contact
Unless I'm mistaken, when stop-start switches the engine off, it still keeps the oil and water pumps on.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
drivers have to readjust (downward) their expectation of the normal responsiveness of their vehicles
TBF, I don't know how it would work in an automatic, but in a manual the engine comes back on when you press the clutch and is fully engaged by the time you're in gear.
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
decreased battery life
Only an issue if you've got a terrible battery or regularly drive half a mile including enough stops to be off a significant amount of the time
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
a terrible battery or regularly drive half a mile including enough stops to be off a significant amount of the time
under which conditions the start/stop won't engage and the engine is kept running
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Not so much for the news (we all knew these notes were coming months ago), but I want to post some of the more amusing comments
Referencing the tallow used in the notes:
Speaking of tallow, someone reminds everyone of just how much is actually used:
(Basically, all the tallow comes from just a few cows, all of which were bred to be turned into burgers anyway)And of course, satire appears:
If you want more, the link is above.
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R2D2's cousin just couldn't take it anymore:
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
R2D2's cousin just couldn't take it anymore:
I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down the left hand side of my body
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
Unless I'm mistaken, when stop-start switches the engine off, it still keeps the oil and water pumps on.
I've never seen an engine with a water or oil pump that was not driven by the rotation of the engine. You stop the engine and both pumps are stopped.
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@timebandit It depends: I know some cars fitted with turbochargers will keep the oil pumps going for as much as 30 seconds after switching off the engine to protect the turbos as they spool down. Also helps cool them a bit, too.
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@dreikin said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
I've been wondering this for a while now: what's the deal with photos having their sides copied and blurred like that? Do people think it's appealing?
I think it originated in TV when they needed to present vertical-aspect images and video on standard horizontal-aspect screens. I'd guess it's spread to other media like this to make vertical images fit into horizontal spaces.
I've mainly just seen it used for videos. (Pictures usually have a background behind them.) But maybe they've started using it for photos too.
I kinda like it for videos. It really does trick the brain into thinking that there's more information than there actually is. A portrait-mode video just seems so... constrained. It's such a simple trick -- just resize it without keeping aspect, add a blur filter, and use it as the video's background -- but it works.
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(Note the 2nd picture)
However....
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Yes, this is official Intel marketing material. SAD!
Inconsistent Performance from
4Four Glued-tTotgether DesktopDieDiesBuddha fuck, have they outsourced even the writing to Taiwan?
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This implies that Samsung has made a sensible decision, so it's probably fake news.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Bixby will live on phones and smart fridges
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
This implies that Samsung has made a sensible decision
Interesting definition of sensible...
Seriously, why does a fridge need a voice assistant (beyond the question of why anything needs a voice assistant)?
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@hungrier
Pictured here - the earliest prototype of Samsung's smart speakers: