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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
they never needed to obey commands from others, and never had any reason to start.
And it's not like they were the only domestic animal that didn't. Most farm animals don't either. It's really just dogs and horses (and donkeys and oxen) that do.
And sheep and goats, and pretty much any herd animal...
Sheep don't respond to their owners' command. Why would everybody keep using shepherd dogs otherwise? They are herd animals, but that just means the herd sticks together. It cannot be commanded.
You clearly haven't seen a shepherd leading their sheep, have you? It requires that the sheep become familiar with the shepherd, so he has to spend nearly all his time out with them, but once they're familiar with him and his voice, they'll follow him wherever he goes. There are still some shepherds like this in some parts of the world.
Sheepdogs are quick and easy to train, so a sheep-owner who doesn't want to invest that much time for a shepherd can just get a sheepdog or a few.
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OK, time for the mother of all s:
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This was actually yesterday, but I forgot to post it last night:
I have friends who live in PNG, but they're over 300km east of the epicenter.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
(Colorado has the greatest surface area of any state of the USA; it's just mostly vertical.)
Pretty sure Alaska has more. Bigger mountains too.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
(Colorado has the greatest surface area of any state of the USA; it's just mostly vertical.)
Pretty sure Alaska has more. Bigger mountains too.
Ah, I think you're right. I saw that factoid somewhere and it seemed plausible, so I didn't question it much.
I just looked into it, and the official area for Colorado is 104,155 square miles. Someone calculated that the actual surface area is about 106,651 square miles, which is not all that much more (but the difference is still just larger than Delaware), but doesn't change it from 8th place of the 50 states ordered by size. Alaska, OTOH, is ~623,266 square miles, making it the largest by far. There's apparently a plaque in a store somewhere in Alaska that says, "To our Texan friends, just remember, if you cut Alaska in half, Texas would become the third largest state."
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Why the rename? Are they trying to distance themselves from JavaScript?
Edit: they want a name they can trademark without stepping on Oracle's toes, seems like.I'm disappointed the new name isn't Javaee McJavaeeface.
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
Edit: they want a name they can trademark without stepping on Oracle's toes, seems like.
“Jakarta” was used in this area for quite a while. It got retired as a brand in 2011, but the association still exists in many people's heads.
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
I suppose Krakatoa EE would be a bit tasteless, even at this late date.
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@da-doctah yeah, people might blow their tops about that.
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
Edit: they want a name they can trademark without stepping on Oracle's toes, seems like.
Precisely:
https://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/help-pick-the-new-name-for-java-ee/:
- They must conform to Oracle’s trademark usage guidelines. Amongst other things this means that the name cannot start with the word “Java”.
@zecc said in In other news today...:
I'm disappointed the new name isn't Javaee McJavaeeface.
It was explicitly excluded from the start:
They must not be obscene, sexist, racist, controversial, etc., and they must not be frivolous (e.g. we’re not going to choose Boaty McBoatface or the like.)
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
@zecc said in In other news today...:
I'm disappointed the new name isn't Javaee McJavaeeface.
It was explicitly excluded from the start:
They must not be obscene, sexist, racist, controversial, etc., and they must not be frivolous (e.g. we’re not going to choose Boaty McBoatface or the like.)
So Java McJavaface is reserved for Oracle to use?
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@dkf Yes, it is, because it starts with “Java” and Oracle reserves that.
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
@dkf Yes, it is, because it starts with “Java” and Oracle reserves that.
I think I'm going to patent a copyright intellectual property for the name Tsaukpaetra. Anybody not me who takes that name will be
suedassimilated
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@boner said in In other news today...:
Royal Canadian Air Force
MiamiSimple:
David Lavallee, a Royal Canadian Air Force spokesman, said Wednesday night that crews were in South Florida for a few weeks “taking advantage of the warm weather” to train for water search-and-rescue missions.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@boner said in In other news today...:
Royal Canadian Air Force
MiamiLet's invade USA !!! Bombard them with everything we have ...
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
Why the rename? Are they trying to distance themselves from JavaScript?
Edit: they want a name they can trademark without stepping on Oracle's toes, seems like.I'm disappointed the new name isn't Javaee McJavaeeface.
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@zecc a boring name for a boring language
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
warm weather
Why should train on warm weather? It is not like they will encounter that
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Let's invade USA !!! Bombard them with everything we have ...
Too bad there's no Justin Bieber emoji. (Or was that the point of the potato?)
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What happens when you call an Uber driver to take you home, but you're too drunk to remember that you are currently over 300 miles away from home.
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after four attempts to appeal the decision Facebook still removed the post
Should I have posted this in the NSFW thread?
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@boomzilla Even apart from the flammability of the spray, that's not real bright. Make yourself smell nice, then make yourself smell like a dirty ashtray. Ick.
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one guy was arrested for selling grilled kiskadee as grilled chicken
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https://aviationweather.gov/airep/data?id=IAD&distance=200&format=raw&type=&age=24&layout=on&date=
IAD UUA /OV KIAD/TM 1238/FL040/TP CRJ2/TB MOD-SEV/RM VERY BUMPY ON DESCENT. PRETTY MUCH EVERY ONE ON THE PLANE THREW UP. PILOTS WERE ON THE VERGE OF THROWING UP. AWC-WEB
Yeah, it's been damn windy here today. I lost a bunch of siding around my chimney.
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@sockpuppet7 if it were just labeled as "kiskadee", I'd probably still give it a try.
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@m_adams If you believe humans are God's creatures, you also believe Saskatoon is promoting cannibalism
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@m_adams said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 if it were just labeled as "kiskadee", I'd probably still give it a try.
They were also hunted illegaly from a nature reserve
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
https://aviationweather.gov/airep/data?id=IAD&distance=200&format=raw&type=&age=24&layout=on&date=
IAD UUA /OV KIAD/TM 1238/FL040/TP CRJ2/TB MOD-SEV/RM VERY BUMPY ON DESCENT. PRETTY MUCH EVERY ONE ON THE PLANE THREW UP. PILOTS WERE ON THE VERGE OF THROWING UP. AWC-WEB
Yeah, it's been damn windy here today. I lost a bunch of siding around my chimney.
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@benjamin-hall So Oxfam "supports the local economy" and they get nothing but flak?
Meanwhile the UN force brought cholera from Nepal to Haiti, and do those still get scolded? (article from 2011)
Well, at least NGO's are looking at the problems, now let's just hope that bureaucratic governments don't pull out all relief aid at once.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@m_adams said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 if it were just labeled as "kiskadee", I'd probably still give it a try.
They were also hunted illegaly from a nature reserve
What does that have to do with how tasty they may be⸘
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@m_adams dunno about tasty, but they aren't vaccinated nor treated for any disease, and their diet isn't controlled. You have a higher risk of getting sick.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@m_adams dunno about tasty, but they aren't vaccinated nor treated for any disease, and their diet isn't controlled. You have a higher risk of getting sick.
That isn't how it works.
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@dragoon how does it work? It's like eating a sewer rat
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@TimeBandit in re "creatures" from the sign...
That phrase generally doesn't include humans, which is why the main character in the eponymous BBC show was a veterinarian.
I've heard humans (CRS makes *where/when * unavailable) referred to as "god's special (Olympic) creation" however.
I personally don't consider animals that should/may be or are sentient, food. So whales/dolphins/primates of all varieties are "off the table" so to speak .
Now, if you and I are trapped on the side of an Andean mountain with no food 🤔...how much do you weigh? what sort of diet do you eat? are you on any meds I should know about? 🍽
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
crack down on [...] George Orwell’s Animal Farm
How you know your government is about to screw you harder than usual.
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@m_adams said in In other news today...:
..how much do you weigh?
208 standard pounds.
@m_adams said in In other news today...:
what sort of diet do you eat?
I've been trying to do better, but mostly subway sandwiches, taco bell burritos (usually a steak quesarito), and cereal.
@m_adams said in In other news today...:
are you on any meds I should know about? 🍽
Not that I'm aware of. I should warn you that I'm highly resistant to antidepressants, endorphins, analgesics, stimulants, and contraceptives. Though testing has not been concluded for most available toxins, depressants, poisons, and others.
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Now to find some fava beans...
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
how does it work?
That depends on the nature of the zoonoses and the relative cleanliness of where the creature was prepared and butchered relative to where your normal meat comes from. You seem to be worried about problems with the former, which can be more of an issue in some parts of the world than others; most bird viruses have no effect on people at all (notable exception: influenza) and most bacterial diseases are killed by cooking, but some parasites have lifecycle stages that are highly resistant to gentle cooking (no idea if they're prevalent in that part of the US). OTOH, the hygiene standards at some US abattoirs are abysmal (leading to a much higher rate of incidence of food-borne sickness) and there's many farms that also have poor biosecurity practices, so butchering game in the wild might actually be a lot healthier there.[citation needed]
You've got to take a holistic approach to understanding this stuff.
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