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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Woah...
I flew through there the day before (incident occurred on July 7th).
The fuck? His ILS had to have been going apeshit. How does that even happen? The planes damn near land themselves.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Next we're going to talk about what it takes to penetrate a hippo...
Roofies?
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
think how much pollution will be reduced when all the motorists die of cancer in a few years from being stuck in those tunnels with all the car exhaust!!
That was actually my first thought on reading that.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@dcon think how much pollution will be reduced when all the motorists die of cancer in a few years from being stuck in those tunnels with all the car exhaust!!
I feel it only fair that electric car drivers can opt out of the pollution tunnels but in exchange they have to spend 5 hours a week in the exhaust stack of a local powerplant.
Pshaw! Just pump all the air out. Vacuum cars!
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Woah...
I flew through there the day before (incident occurred on July 7th).
The fuck? His ILS had to have been going apeshit. How does that even happen? The planes damn near land themselves.
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@polygeekery http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/air-canada-plane-near-miss-crash-four-aircraft-runway/ has the tower audio. Tower was calm/controlled (as they should be) and told the plane to go around.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
Air pollution tunnels being considered by Highways England could make air more toxic for drivers, say
scientistsanyone with common senseFTFR
Maybe that's part of the plan to reduce traffic. After all, you can't drive if you're killed by inoperable cancers caused by concentrated pollution.
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I'm looking forward to the :drunk: emoji
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I'm all for encouraging home ownership, but that's not what this tax break does; it encourages people to take on more debt. Unfortunately, the article makes a very common mistake, calling people with mortgages "homeowners."
Remember, if you're still making payments on it to an entity that can legally take it away if something goes wrong, you don't own it. They do. It's not home ownership until the mortgage is all paid off, at which point this tax break ceases to benefit you.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Remember, if you're still making payments on it to an entity that can legally take it away if something goes wrong, you don't own it. They do.
I will point out that if you don't pay your property taxes, your local government will take your home away from you, mortgage or no. So really, we're all just serfs renting from Big Daddy Government.
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Coming from Los Angeles, a 3.8 earthquake making headlines is rather ... amusing. Then again, we have similar headlines whenever a few drops of rain hit the ground (STORM WATCH 2017!!!!).
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@mzh said in In other news today...:
Sum total of damage: A book fell off a shelf.
Seriously, when we get earthquakes on these isles, that's about the worst that happens. Or a chair moves half an inch.
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@mzh said in In other news today...:
Coming from Los Angeles, a 3.8 earthquake making headlines is rather ... amusing.
I'm originally from LA myself, and someone has apparently recalibrated the Richter scale since I was a lad. Used to be anything under 4.0 wasn't even a quake you could feel; you had to hear about it from the guys in lab coats who noticed it on their gadgets.
(We had moved away in '69 and I had never experienced one that I was aware of in the preceding ten years. The first one I know I felt was the 4.9 one during the Rose Bowl game in '79 when we were back visiting relatives, and I'm not sure I would have felt that one if I hadn't been lying down trying to take a nap.)
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
Used to be anything under 4.0 wasn't even a quake you could feel;
LocationLocationLocation (as they say). Under 4 can definitely be felt. It's like the cow/milk commercial - ooooo MaSsAgE!!!
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@mzh said in In other news today...:
Sum total of damage: A book fell off a shelf.
Seriously, when we get earthquakes on these isles, that's about the worst that happens. Or a chair moves half an inch.
This was the only earthquake that I've felt.
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The woman [witness] claims she cannot return to the McDonalds as it would it ruin her morning cup of tea, she did, however, thank the staff for standing with her for 25 minutes after the incident.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
I feel it only fair that electric car drivers can opt out of the pollution tunnels but in exchange they have to spend 5 hours a week in the exhaust stack of a local powerplant.
The UK tends to go for fewer, larger power stations (and a lot of renewables according to reports). The smaller distances relative to the US mean that a transmission grid makes those sorts of things very viable. So yes, often there's no local power plant at all unless you're talking about wind or solar.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
Seriously, when we get earthquakes on these isles, that's about the worst that happens. Or a chair moves half an inch.
It's not exactly hot news though. Largest onshore ones have been in the low 5s, IIRC…
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Rather less seriously, in London the head of the waxwork of Dr Crippen at Madame Tussauds fell off.
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I was in the water when they started whistling for everyone out.
My first thought was sharks.
I inferred from the method of search, that they were looking for a body.
I am very happy and relived that that wasn't the case.
Rockaway has very strong riptides but the ocean was pretty calm today. I wonder if that makes the riptides more of a surprise to swimmers.
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A large-scale search was held in an attempt to find him, involving divers, mountain rescue and police dogs.
The body of a man who was reported missing a month ago has been found at his house
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@pjh Take that to Bad Jokes. Stop loafing around, we knead to be serious here.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
Seriously, when we get earthquakes on these isles, that's about the worst that happens. Or a chair moves half an inch.
We do occasionally get minor structural damage. Even injuries: a few years ago a chimney fell through a roof in an earthquake and broke someone's pelvis.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Remember, if you're still making payments on it to an entity that can legally take it away if something goes wrong, you don't own it. They do.
I will point out that if you don't pay your property taxes, your local government will take your home away from you, mortgage or no. So really, we're all just serfs renting from Big Daddy Government.
We have a discussion on this topic starting here in the Garage.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
The fuck? His ILS had to have been going apeshit. How does that even happen? The planes damn near land themselves.
Not when
AvHerald said:
AC-759 had been cleared for the FMS bridge visual approach to runway 28R.
They don't, usually, use ILS on visual approach. And they do visual approaches, because it allows flying shorter track, which is faster and cheaper. And the pilots need to do some flying by hand so they know how in case the automation fails.
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Spoilers!
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Update data will arrive from the Internet directly to the offline system partition, written block by block, in a ready-to-boot state.
There's no way this could possibly go wrong. At least the other partition sticks around so you can theoretically revert to it in case the impossible happens, and updating the system directly from the internet without so much as a temporary cache goes wrong.
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@boomzilla
And the street was originally racist!
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@boomzilla In summary: millionaire mansion owners are pissed off because they neglected to pay a tax burden they would earn back in interest alone while taking a shit.
In other news today, my supply of fucks to give appears to have been exhausted.
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the city’s tax office put the property up for sale in an online auction, seeking to recover $994 in unpaid back taxes, penalties and interest. Cheng and Lam, trawling for real estate opportunities in the city, pounced on the offer — snatching up the parcel with a $90,100 bid, sight unseen.
They recovered the $994, and then some
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Hmm...
In a letter to the city last month, Scott Emblidge, the attorney for the Presidio Homeowners Association, said the group had failed to pay up because its tax bill was being mailed to the Kearny Street address used by an accountant who hadn’t worked for the homeowners since the 1980s.
Yeah... that's... not the city's problem. You can't just say "eh, I never got the bill for that, so I figured the city must not want me to pay it". It doesn't work like that.
“Ninety-nine percent of property owners in San Francisco know what they need to do, and they pay their taxes on time — and they keep their mailing address up to date,” said spokeswoman Amanda Fried.
“There is nothing that our office can do” about the sale now, she added.
...yeah, pretty much what she said.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Update data will arrive from the Internet directly to the offline system partition, written block by block, in a ready-to-boot state.
There's no way this could possibly go wrong. At least the other partition sticks around so you can theoretically revert to it in case the impossible happens, and updating the system directly from the internet without so much as a temporary cache goes wrong.
See, that relies on the Chronicle ChromeOS methodology of having two system partitions. Many phones do not have this.
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@hungrier Or they could fix microSD card support, but we all know they're never going to do that. grumble grumble
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@anonymous234 they "fix" micro SD support in every major version
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@hungrier Or they could fix microSD card support, but we all know they're never going to do that. grumble grumble
They fixed it in my phone. I don't have one!
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@boomzilla I heard about that on the news last night... My first thought was 'what timing' because of that other thread.
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If only there was another colour, something that could go after green and yellow, that would indicate "completely demonetized" but that didn't break either Youtube rules or IP law.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Yup, been around for a while...
The platform, which is technically known as a “spar buoy,” was designed and constructed in 1962
Oh my...
while others listen to some of the smallest animals in the ocean—plankton. The platform can shut off its generators and run on electrical power from batteries for short periods of time so scientists can hear the faint Doppler effect of the microorganisms moving toward or away from the ship.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I don't have much sympathy for the home-owners in that case, however I have to say that they might have a good basis for annulation if this is true:
The residents say the city had an obligation to post a notice in Presidio Terrace notifying neighbors of the pending auction back in 2015
I mean, it looks like common sense to me that if the city sells some bit of property, it should be advertised on the property itself...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
How is their homeowner association related to their street? And how the fuck can the city sell a street like this? American law is really weird
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@wharrgarbl said in In other news today...:
How is their homeowner association related to their street?
The HOA was the owner of the street. The street was not public property.
@wharrgarbl said in In other news today...:
And how the fuck can the city sell a street like this?
Like any other piece of real estate, if you don't pay taxes you're going to lose it.
@wharrgarbl said in In other news today...:
American law is really weird
I don't disagree with you but I don't think that applies here.
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@boomzilla Doesn't these homeowner associations have anyone in charge of them? There is something very wrong with this story.
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