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I honestly never would have predicted this:
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@dcon First fake news, now fake weather. What's next, fake sports?
Golf's been around for ages; that's not new.
Never liked golf. Always liked John Daly. You have to admire a guy who will shank a ball off the course during a tournament just so he can swing by the beer tent.
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@polygeekery Interestingly, one of the lawyers defending them got arrested afterwards for a scuffle in which he faced down the judge demanding his client be released from jail, despite the fact that there were other charges still pending against the person.
"When you get acquitted, you get released. That's how I understand it," said Mumford.
Uhm, only if there are no other charges pending for which they were denied bond. Also, shouting and threats are generally not considered proper legal procedure. Where did you go to law school, again?
Tobey Faire, it does sound like he wasn't the only one bypassing procedures. He did ask the marshalls for the paperwork on the case, which they refused to present.
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@brisingraerowing said in In other news today...:
http://dearly.com/2017/08/24617-6-year-old-autistic-girls-style-important-started-school/
× 2 They can't get out of clickbait mode even to write the friggin article.
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I have some off days but I wouldn't say I terrorized any.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@heterodox said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@dcon First fake news, now fake weather. What's next, fake sports?
Golf's been around for ages; that's not new.
Never liked golf. Always liked John Daly. You have to admire a guy who will shank a ball off the course during a tournament just so he can swing by the beer tent.
This reminds me of something: Years ago we swing by a local pub and sit out on the patio. The server asks me what I want to drink and I tell her that I am really thirsty but I want some booze so I ask her to have the bartender make me an Arnold Palmer (half iced tea and half lemonade) but to add some vodka. Her reply was priceless(as I had never heard the term before at the time):
"Got it, one John Daly."
This was 10-15 years ago and was the first time I had heard it called that. Now it is a pretty common drink name. At the time it made me laugh.
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@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
I have some off days but I wouldn't say I terrorized any.
Should we check our Northern Hemisphere centric worldview?
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@dcon First fake news, now fake weather. What's next, fake sports?
The Mad Scientist Ruins Sports – 04:08
— Studio COh, MAN!! That Malone and Stockton jab! That was supreme!
The best players to never win a championship.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
https://twitter.com/TheScaryNature/status/903439307590873088
From the twitter thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cboen/owl_and_mouse_minnesota_photo_by_tom_samuelson/
The story is a lie. That's a house mouse not any of the species that one would find in the wilds of Minnesota. There are no tracks, just a body impression which was likely made when the mouse was tossed. This sort of set up is easy to pull off (certainly easier than getting a good photo of a wild mouse on the snow, let alone one at the exact moment an owl is attacking).
I've had a few experiences with Gray Owls and they went like this: someone saw one, word spread around, and all sorts of birders, listers, twitchers, and "wildlife photographers" all went to the spot and "happened to find" one too.
I suspect that if you imagine a bunch of people driving up and tramping around some road or trailside clearing, marsh, or hayfield with bins and oversized cameras trying to bait an owl in with non-native, tame, domestic animals that have never even seen snow before than you will be closer to how this probably went down.Something seems fishy about this..... Like why is the mouse just out in the open on top of the snow? Mice do not do that, they tunnel beneath the snow and have almost no reason to go out of it. I think this was staged with a tame mouse. Its fucking awesome, but i don't believe it.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
Should we check our Northern Hemisphere
centric worldviewprivilege?FTFY
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@boner said in In other news today...:
The bowler's Holding the batter's Willy.
It's batsman, not batter, and it's Willey.
(And it's apocryphal, if anyone cares)
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Odd place for a programming lang-
looks again
Oh... that type of python...
Edit:
Slither this way for more news from Essex
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Person tries to justify being a nosy little shit:
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But the wider question surrounding raffle groups is - with so many popping up daily - how to stop them.
This is a hard problem. I mean, it's not like you have to be registered with the authorit-
Anyone can set up a raffle group on Facebook and then begin inviting contacts to join, although Facebook says it shuts down illegal raffle pages - those not licensed by the Gambling Commission - as soon as they are reported.
AH. In that case, the solution is obvious: don't let people create a raffle group without that licence!
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
Person tries to justify being a nosy little shit:
It's like being a private detective
Except for the part where private detectives could potentially do some good in the world through their work
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tldr: Some kid thought smartphones were too expensive so he created a
kickstarterindiegogo campaign to "design" and "manufacture" (read: order off Alibaba and print "frank" on the back) a cheap Chinese smartphone.
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The ‘Mister Skinny Legs’ episode shows Peppa being told that spiders “can’t hurt you” by her dad, so she proceeds to play with the spider and tuck it into bed with her.
This advice from the British show was said to be “inappropriate” for Australian audiences.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
This advice from the British show was said to be “inappropriate” for Australian audiences.
Yes. In Australia, everything is out to get you. <dons armor plate> <finds scorpion in boot> <dies>
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
This advice from the British show was said to be “inappropriate” for Australian audiences.
Yes. In Australia, everything is out to get you. <dons armor plate> <finds scorpion in boot> <dies>
Except for some of the sheep.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Got any version that's not behind a registration wall?
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
This advice from the British show was said to be “inappropriate” for Australian audiences.
Yes. In Australia, everything is out to get you. <dons armor plate> <finds scorpion in boot> <dies>
Except for some of the sheep.
I admit that that's a theoretical possibility, but have yet to see evidence of such a thing as an non-hostile Australian X for X in {everything}.
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@dreikin said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
https://twitter.com/TheScaryNature/status/903439307590873088
From the twitter thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cboen/owl_and_mouse_minnesota_photo_by_tom_samuelson/
The story is a lie. That's a house mouse not any of the species that one would find in the wilds of Minnesota. There are no tracks, just a body impression which was likely made when the mouse was tossed. This sort of set up is easy to pull off (certainly easier than getting a good photo of a wild mouse on the snow, let alone one at the exact moment an owl is attacking).
I've had a few experiences with Gray Owls and they went like this: someone saw one, word spread around, and all sorts of birders, listers, twitchers, and "wildlife photographers" all went to the spot and "happened to find" one too.
I suspect that if you imagine a bunch of people driving up and tramping around some road or trailside clearing, marsh, or hayfield with bins and oversized cameras trying to bait an owl in with non-native, tame, domestic animals that have never even seen snow before than you will be closer to how this probably went down.Something seems fishy about this..... Like why is the mouse just out in the open on top of the snow? Mice do not do that, they tunnel beneath the snow and have almost no reason to go out of it. I think this was staged with a tame mouse. Its fucking awesome, but i don't believe it.
Fooled by fake news.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
@rhywden said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
This advice from the British show was said to be “inappropriate” for Australian audiences.
Yes. In Australia, everything is out to get you. <dons armor plate> <finds scorpion in boot> <dies>
Except for some of the sheep.
I admit that that's a theoretical possibility, but have yet to see evidence of such a thing as an non-hostile Australian X for X in {everything}.
It was actually a somewhat obscure
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@rhywden ah. I've read that, but it's been a while. Terry Pratchett (may he rest in peace) wrote much good stuff.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
@rhywden ah. I've read that, but it's been a while. Terry Pratchett (may he rest in peace) wrote much good stuff.
Yeah, too bad he fell prey to the Embuggerance.
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@rhywden THAT'S NOT HOW I REMEMBER IT. MOST HUMANS END UP THIS WAY. NOW IF I CAN ONLY CATCH UP WITH THAT RINCEWIND...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
Should we check our Northern Hemisphere
centric worldviewprivilege?FTFY
I was trying to not be outside of the garage.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
I honestly never would have predicted this:
Really? Really? REALLY? REALLY?
REALLY?
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This is my shocked face:
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From the article
The mania is credited to Microsoft with its minimalistic Zune player
So, all this shit is based on a product that failed spectacularly ???
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@timebandit I checked the link and the word "Zune" does not appear on that page. The closest thing to what the article says appears to be
The first step to boosting flat UI popularity in digital products was taken by Microsoft presenting new flat and minimalist style of their products: this movement started in early 2000s and was widely adopted in the products of 2010, in particular in mobile interface design for Windows Phone 7.
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@hungrier From the article:
The mania is credited to Microsoft with its minimalistic Zune player, an iPod clone, which was developed into the Windows Phone Series UX, which in turn became the design for Windows from Windows 8 in 2012 onwards.
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@erufael I know it's in the article; I was talking about the page it links to (the word "credited" in the bit you quoted)
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@hungrier Oh. The word "link" there as ambiguous there, then. lol. Carry on.
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@hungrier In that article:
Benefits of flat design
- effective support of quick and intuitive navigation in web and mobile interfaces
When you can't distinguish what's clickable and what's not, I don't think it makes it quick or intuitive
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@hungrier It's also worth noting that what Microsoft means by a flat UI and what Apple or Google mean by it. But even Microsoft is changing things up to add more depth and such.
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@magus said in In other news today...:
changing things up to add more depth and such
IOW, going back to non-flat design.
Progress !!!
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@timebandit It's more like layered flat glass with internal light-reactive etchings.
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@magus said in In other news today...:
@timebandit It's more like layered flat glass with internal light-reactive etchings.
Aero!
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@dreikin Um, no. Pretty much not Aero at all. The acrylic effect in particular is partially transparent, but that's only one of the many things they're doing.
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@magus said in In other news today...:
@dreikin Um, no. Pretty much not Aero at all. The acrylic effect in particular is partially transparent, but that's only one of the many things they're doing.
@magus said in In other news today...:
layered flat glass with internal light-reactive etchings
≠ Aero
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@magus said in In other news today...:
changing things up to add more depth and such
IOW, going back to non-flat design.
Progress !!!
You reminded me of this quote:
We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to admit a mistake.
-- C. S. Lewis
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@dreikin Aero means transparency? Transparency is all they're changing?
The answer to both these things and more is: NO.