In other news today...
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@pjh Looks fine here
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Public 'tricked' into buying unhealthy food
"Would you like fries with that?"
"Sure. Oh no, I've been tricked!"
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Sounds like it could be good advice, maybe some tips for maintaining power to them if you don't have a UPS. Because if you have one, Shirley you'd have plugged your networking stuff into it, right?
Nope, it's just telling you to plug your networking stuff into your UPS, and also buy this UPS with an affiliate link, hint hint.
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@hungrier Using something for its intended purpose is not a hack
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@timebandit The real hack is the author of the article
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Sounds like it could be good advice, maybe some tips for maintaining power to them if you don't have a UPS. Because if you have one, Shirley you'd have plugged your networking stuff into it, right?
Which is nonsense, because if your power goes out, at least nine times out of ten the cable has gone out too.
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
Which is nonsense, because if your power goes out, at least nine times out of ten the cable has gone out too.
And there goes my phone... Sometimes I think converting my copper-wire phone to IP was a stupid decision...
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
Which is nonsense, because if your power goes out, at least nine times out of ten the cable has gone out too.
What kind of piss-poor infrastructure do you have in your part of the planet ?
Here, cable stays up for at least a couple hours.
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Sounds like it could be good advice, maybe some tips for maintaining power to them if you don't have a UPS. Because if you have one, Shirley you'd have plugged your networking stuff into it, right?
Which is nonsense, because if your power goes out, at least nine times out of ten the cable has gone out too.
Could be, but there's a nonzero chance it would stay live. I dunno, I don't have a UPS so the last time my power went out I had to use my smartphone's data plan by candlelight, like some caveman.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
Which is nonsense, because if your power goes out, at least nine times out of ten the cable has gone out too.
What kind of piss-poor infrastructure do you have in your part of the planet ?
The kind of infrastructure where the cable company is using the same fragile power grid my house is.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
And there goes my phone
Videotron's cable-modem have a 2h battery backup for this.
Something like this
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
The kind of infrastructure where the cable company is using the same fragile power grid my house is.
Without any UPS ?
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@remi said in In other news today...:
I'm not sure there is any official definition of what a chocolate is.
:twitch:
FUCKING YES THERE IS!
There's very precise legal definitions, mostly based on the EU definition:
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/05/chocolate-candy-and-the-law/
TFB says:
In order to be labeled as chocolate, the product must be:
obtained from cocoa products and sugars which, subject to item 3(b), contains not less than 35 per cent total dry cocoa solids, including not less than 18 per cent cocoa butter and not less than 14 per cent of dry non-fat cocoa solids.
White chocolate doesn't count, because it has no cocoa solids.
Non-cocoa butter fats (veggie oil) don't count, because they aren't cocoa solids.
Look closer at the stuff on the shelves. They're full of non-cocoa fats, or filler, or modified milk ingredients, etc. This is why so many of them are labeled "Candy" or "Confectionery" or "Product". They legally cannot call themselves chocolate by definition.
NOTE: Something very similar for ice cream vs. "Iced treat product" or "iced dessert". Lack of actual cream, milk and sugar.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Sounds like it could be good advice, maybe some tips for maintaining power to them if you don't have a UPS. Because if you have one, Shirley you'd have plugged your networking stuff into it, right?
Nope, it's just telling you to plug your networking stuff into your UPS, and also buy this UPS with an affiliate link, hint hint.Yes, this will be great advice! That way, your modem will still be on, even though:
- the wires around you are down, so the Internet will be out anyways, and if it isn't
- the office it terminates in will be flooded or out of power or cut off, so the internet will be down anyways, and if it isn't
- Anyone you want to communicate with in an emergency won't have internet, so you better fucking have a working phone, and besides
- If your house is flooded, all your electronics are fried and that UPS is gone to shit.
Maybe for a mild storm, but if Harvey and Irma are bearing down on you, fucking evacuate.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
It's only illegal if you comment on his mother's elderberry odor.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Sounds like it could be good advice, maybe some tips for maintaining power to them if you don't have a UPS.
Doesn't it presume that your upstream also have serviceable UPS? Knowing the majority of ISP's (hello Virgin) and telco's (hello Virgin again,) getting a working connection beyond the border of your house to the wider internet has a non-zero chance of not working if your electric's off.
But I see all around...
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@lorne-kates said in In other news today...:
White chocolate doesn't count, because it has no cocoa solids.
Well the Wikipedia page I linked above disagrees with you and says both EU and US regulation have a definition for it. Now it may not be "chocolate" but "white chocolate", it still has "chocolate" in its name.
So fuck you, give me white chocolate or something like that.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
it still has "chocolate" in its name.
Somethign something socialist nazis in the democratic republic of norm korea
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
The kind of infrastructure where the cable company is using the same fragile power grid my house is.
Without any UPS ?
Probably. That costs money.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
And there goes my phone
Videotron's cable-modem have a 2h battery backup for this.
Something like this
Doesn't do any good if the cable network goes down. Sure, I can keep mine up - but lose the cable network and no phone. (which as I note earlier, AT&T did provide a UPS for the router)
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@da-doctah
Uh, in my experience, when my power goes out, the ISP's equipment is still running fine, and I can keep right on chugging until my battery backups run out of power...That's kind of why Verizon has had to put in 8 hour UPS systems for their fiber optic ONTs in places where they pull the copper line out and do phone over fiber...
Though, as @Lorne-Kates pointed out, there's "having a UPS for thunderstorm season" and then there's "Hurricane Harverma just wiped out my entire home city"
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Uh, in my experience, when my power goes out, the ISP's equipment is still running fine, and I can keep right on chugging until my battery backups run out of power...
I've actually found that to be the case with AT&T too. Of course, they seem to like to do a system reset around 6 or 7 at night. I've been watching a show several times when <poof/>. 30 to 60 seconds later, they're back. Fuckers. Do that at 3 in the morning instead.
poof = the entire system. TV, internet, phone - gone.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@remi You're French. What do you know about quality food?
More than the Brits, I'd wager.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Sounds like it could be good advice, maybe some tips for maintaining power to them if you don't have a UPS. Because if you have one, Shirley you'd have plugged your networking stuff into it, right?
Assuming you have a single UPS, say for a desktop, the ability to plug your networking stuff into that UPS presupposes that all those things are in close proximity. In my house, that would not be the case.
My fiber modem is in a dedicated wall box in my closet, near the back of the house. The wi-fi router is in the living room, as that provides the best coverage (I have in-wall network cabling to specific locations in my house). That means those two devices are separated by about 125 feet and three doors. My UPS is in my office with my desktop, about 200 feet from the wi-fi router. It isn't worth it to me to get two more UPS units to make sure all my networking stuff has uninterrupted in the event of a brief power outage.
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@abarker
Spoken like a man who has never played an MMO :p
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@abarker
Spoken like a man who has never played an MMO :pNot just that, but my internet goes down more often than my power goes out. And my internet's only truly been down twice in the last 3 years, for a total of almost 5 minutes.
ETA: Though when my power goes out, it does tend to stay out for at least an hour or two.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
Maybe we can finally break the De Beers monopoly.
Jewelers already need special devices to distinguish between natural diamonds and lab-grown diamonds. De Beers will simply get the government to forbid calling them diamonds unless they come from earth.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@dragoon said in In other news today...:
Maybe we can finally break the De Beers monopoly.
Jewelers already need special devices to distinguish between natural diamonds and lab-grown diamonds. De Beers will simply get the government to forbid calling them diamonds unless they come from earth.
I am completely against buying any diamonds based on conditions of mining natural ones.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
Which is nonsense, because if your power goes out, at least nine times out of ten the cable has gone out too.
And there goes my phone... Sometimes I think converting my copper-wire phone to IP was a stupid decision...
No cell?
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@lorne-kates said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
I'm not sure there is any official definition of what a chocolate is.
:twitch:
FUCKING YES THERE IS!
There's very precise legal definitions, mostly based on the EU definition:
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/05/chocolate-candy-and-the-law/
TFB says:
In order to be labeled as chocolate, the product must be:
obtained from cocoa products and sugars which, subject to item 3(b), contains not less than 35 per cent total dry cocoa solids, including not less than 18 per cent cocoa butter and not less than 14 per cent of dry non-fat cocoa solids.
White chocolate doesn't count, because it has no cocoa solids.
Non-cocoa butter fats (veggie oil) don't count, because they aren't cocoa solids.
Look closer at the stuff on the shelves. They're full of non-cocoa fats, or filler, or modified milk ingredients, etc. This is why so many of them are labeled "Candy" or "Confectionery" or "Product". They legally cannot call themselves chocolate by definition.
NOTE: Something very similar for ice cream vs. "Iced treat product" or "iced dessert". Lack of actual cream, milk and sugar.
That page links here for the definition, which includes separate sections for milk chocolate and white chocolate:
6. White chocolate
The product obtained from cocoa butter, milk or milk products and sugars which contains not less than 20 per cent cocoa butter and not less than 14 per cent dry milk solids obtained by partly or wholly dehydrating whole milk, semi-skimmed or skimmed milk, cream, or from partly or wholly dehydrated cream, butter or milk fat, of which not less than 3.5 per cent is milk fat.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@dragoon said in In other news today...:
Maybe we can finally break the De Beers monopoly.
Jewelers already need special devices to distinguish between natural diamonds and lab-grown diamonds. De Beers will simply get the government to forbid calling them diamonds unless they come from earth.
Easy peasy. Just make sure not to accidentally send your lab into space.
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Little girl with 3D printed hand says she would like to throw out the first pitch at every MLB ballpark. As best I can tell from the replies, they are all obliging. Good on them.
It keeps going, but you get the idea.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
Thanks to @loopback0. She
Holy shit! @loopback0 is a girl?!?! I need to revise my fantasies it seems...
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Sounds like it could be good advice, maybe some tips for maintaining power to them if you don't have a UPS. Because if you have one, Shirley you'd have plugged your networking stuff into it, right?
Nope, it's just telling you to plug your networking stuff into your UPS, and also buy this UPS with an affiliate link, hint hint.
Hahaha way ahead of these guys. My network is powered on a UPS that's as powerful as the one that's keeping my server alive at a rated two hours (if I could stop it from spontaneously shutting down after a mere 15 minutes that is).
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Sounds like it could be good advice, maybe some tips for maintaining power to them if you don't have a UPS. Because if you have one, Shirley you'd have plugged your networking stuff into it, right?
Which is nonsense, because if your power goes out, at least nine times out of ten the cable has gone out too.
Not in my experience.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Sounds like it could be good advice, maybe some tips for maintaining power to them if you don't have a UPS.
Doesn't it presume that your upstream also have serviceable UPS? Knowing the majority of ISP's (hello Virgin) and telco's (hello Virgin again,) getting a working connection beyond the border of your house to the wider internet has a non-zero chance of not working if your electric's off.
But I see all around...
I know ours (Cox) has an upstream UPS, else (I think) they would be out of compliance for telco service because that's supposed to remain operational during a power outage for e911 purposes. And since it's the same box that powers the VoIP services as cable and internet, it stands to reason they would stay up as well...
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
It isn't worth it to me to get two more UPS units to make sure all my networking stuff has uninterrupted in the event of a brief power outage.
Eh, priorities.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
I am completely against buying any diamonds based on conditions of mining natural ones.
So you don't use any type of battery containing cobalt either?
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@remi You're French. What do you know about quality food?
More than the Brits, I'd wager.
Our approach to food is the same as language. Steal everything and make it our own
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
Steal everything and make it our own
Like ruining wild boar for Obelix by serving it with mint?
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@luhmann would you like a warm beer old chap?
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@laoc said in In other news today...:
Drive-In Jesus
Somebody should take this into the 21st century with a Sacrament Streaming Service.
Getting closer:
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@laoc said in In other news today...:
@laoc said in In other news today...:
Drive-In Jesus
Somebody should take this into the 21st century with a Sacrament Streaming Service.
Getting closer:
Is it bad that the first thing that came to my mind was that:
(although the robot seems more surprised than anything by the guy in front of it)
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@laoc said in In other news today...:
Stop! What are you doing!? Don't stick that thing in there!
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@luhmann said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
I am completely against buying any diamonds based on conditions of mining natural ones.
So you don't use any type of battery containing cobalt either?
Damn. Seriously, I didn't know/realize other mining can be just as bad.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@abarker said in In other news today...:
@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@remi You're French. What do you know about quality food?
More than the Brits, I'd wager.
Our approach to food is the same as language. Steal everything and make it our own
So who do you blame for blood pudding, kidney pie, and other such atrocities?
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
blood pudding
Is that what you heathens call black pudding? i.e. the best part of a full English?
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@abarker said in In other news today...:
blood pudding
Is that what you heathens call black pudding?
My research says "yes."
@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
i.e. the best part of a full English?
Full English … what?
I mean who in their right mind thinks, "Let's mix oats, fat, and blood together," and calls it food?
/shudder/