In other news today...
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Airbus already can't find buyers for two of their A380s, after Singapore Airlines' lease ran out without renewal. They're only about 10 years old.
Apparently they're more valuable to be gutted for parts than as working aircraft.
It looks like the current "business plan" is to use the Emirates order to run at bare minimum production levels and hope that airport congestion a few years down the road will increase demand.
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Horrifying:
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla So the first sentence I quoted is wrong? One way or the other, the article is self-contradictory.
But of course you know that, you're just calling me an idiot because it's the freelance "call Blakeyrat an idiot no matter what he says" squad in action again.
Hey guys, Blakeyrat's an idiot moron. Remember? Better remind everybody what a stupid garbage idiot I am all the time.
And every time you say this, you do remind us.
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@scarlet_manuka For people who use not-crazy units of weight, that's 38.1 kg or 84 lbs. Without having read TFA, that might be a perfectly sensible amount for him to weigh, depending on his age and stature.
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@hardwaregeek I read the article. He was in his late teens; his mother took him out of school at age 16 to homeschool him.
From left to right: his grandmother (70), mother (45), and sister (25), all charged with manslaughter for his death.
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I don't think much of that Charlie's Angels reboot.
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@hardwaregeek I didn't want to post too much detail in the thread.
Here's a quote for you.
The expert dietitian said they had never seen such malnutrition in 26 years and likened the condition of the body to that found in WWII extermination campsThe really disturbing addition
Within what would have been Jordan’s bedroom, officers found a small rucksack, within which were plastic bags inside plastic bags. As the police handled the rucksack, a rancid smelling liquid began to seep from the layers of bags. Amongst the liquid were tiny bones, all that remained of a baby boy.
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@scarlet_manuka There is evil in the world. And this is a prime example of it. Yes, even if they're not the brightest (ie mentally deficient). Even the retards I've met knew that that is wrong.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
@scarlet_manuka There is evil in the world. And this is a prime example of it. Yes, even if they're not the brightest (ie mentally deficient). Even the retards I've met knew that that is wrong.
Three women killed at least one male child and at least treated the remains of another male child with indifference...I'm not normally in favor of hate crime laws but at least one of them can still get pregnant...I could make an exception here.
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@scarlet_manuka said in In other news today...:
Here's a quote for you.
Yeah, I did read the article after @anotherusername posted.
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
even if they're not the brightest (ie mentally deficient)
Was Jordan mentally deficient? It wasn't terribly clear to me from the article, but it's hard to imagine any other reason he'd put up with that treatment. Are the adults? I didn't get that from TFA, but the way you worded that suggests you think they are.
@karla said in In other news today...:
Three women killed
Allegedly. Innocent until proven guilty still applies, even for the most heinous crimes.
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@hardwaregeek I was trying to give the adults whatever benefits I could think of. I didn't read the article. It was more of "even if they're retarded, it doesn't excuse this".
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@scarlet_manuka One of the related articles:
That's a terrible name
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Allegedly. Innocent until proven guilty still applies, even for the most heinous crimes.
Fair.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
I knew all those years of sleep deprivation would pay off:
Somewhat related: On psych wards, they generally don't let patients stay in their rooms during the daytime.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I've read that one of the worst things that can happen is to win the first time someone plays (in any gambling mechanism).
I know of a Bible professor from a Bible college who led a team of students on a summer missions trip to the American West. One of their stops was in Nevada, and the leader took the students to a slot machine (which are almost everywhere), and put in a quarter to show them how easy it is to lose money. He won ~$200. So he thanked God for strange providence, and they went out to a nice restaurant for dinner.
I know another person who stuck a nickel in a slot machine when he was a kid and got someone to help him pull the lever. He also won, but he was terrified when all the bells and whistles went off and the lights started flashing, so he ran back over to his dad. When they got to the machine, a bunch of people were standing around it watching the money falling out of it and looking for who had won. Because the kid was too young, the dad claimed the prize. I don't recall if the kid got any of the winnings, but he now avoids traveling to Nevada because he knows he's weak to gambling (he's lost a lot of money before), and he wants to avoid the temptation.
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I'm always amazed when work (of reasonably intelligent programmers) put together a lottery pool.
There's a guy where I work who gives out $7 in scratch-off tickets tucked inside Christmas cards.
One year lottery tickets were my employer's Christmas bonus.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
It's still cute!!!! Did she not have a herd at her farm?
Maybe she figured out it was safer.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Was Jordan mentally deficient? It wasn't terribly clear to me from the article, but it's hard to imagine any other reason he'd put up with that treatment. Are the adults? I didn't get that from TFA, but the way you worded that suggests you think they are.
I assumed the victim was literally tied-up or put in a cage or something until he became too weak to escape anyway. I mean it looks like the investigation is just starting.
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@tharpa said in In other news today...:
One year lottery tickets were my employer's Christmas bonus.
"Give the gift that says: this is statistically worth nothing at all!"
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@blakeyrat Just like the employee. It's symbolic.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/388790-sinkhole-develops-on-white-house-lawn
Hmmm. Someone's digging too deeply into a story?
Or the swamp is actually draining.
Or the Devil is calling in his debts.
Pact?
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Was Jordan mentally deficient? It wasn't terribly clear to me from the article, but it's hard to imagine any other reason he'd put up with that treatment. Are the adults? I didn't get that from TFA, but the way you worded that suggests you think they are.
I assumed the victim was literally tied-up or put in a cage or something until he became too weak to escape anyway. I mean it looks like the investigation is just starting.
This is my suspicion as well as severe Stockholm syndrome when he was still going to school. I doubt the three women just started (allegedly) abusing the kid when he was pulled out of school. This had to be years and years of alleged severe emotional abuse.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Allegedly. Innocent until proven guilty still applies, even for the most heinous crimes.
As far as I'm concerned, it's been proven. I am absolutely convinced that they're guilty, and really it's a shame the authorities don't appear to think they can press murder charges. That sort of thing doesn't happen by accident or simple neglect; it takes imprisoning the victim against their will and then subjecting them to willful, deliberate, prolonged neglect. Hell, if they'd kicked a 16-year-old boy out on the streets, there'd have been a decent chance he'd still be alive and in okay health. But they locked him in a bedroom and let him rot.
Exonerating them would require proof that virtually all of the known facts about the case were invented by the police in order to frame these three women. And I don't believe that. They're absolutely, without question, guilty.
The only other possibility that I'd even consider believing is that the whole story is fake and it was made up completely by the press to get some clicks.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah Salad cream is not mayonnaise. It's tangier and more yellow
He forgot the on his post.
Which one? @Jaloopa or @da-Doctah? :/
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@djls45 the is usually implied in my posts
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@djls45 the is usually implied in my posts
One suggests adding it to your signature, just in case you forget.
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@tsaukpaetra "more humble than you could imagine" isn't enough of a hint?
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra "more humble than you could imagine" isn't enough of a hint?
He doesn't have much of an imagination.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra "more humble than you could imagine" isn't enough of a hint?
It doesn't exactly speak "Trolleybus" to me, no.
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra "more humble than you could imagine" isn't enough of a hint?
He doesn't have much of an imagination.
I do have an imagination! A rather good one too! Except, it does need to be explicitly activated with intention and purpose, and is somewhat costly to run so it gets shut down to lower operation levels fairly quickly.
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@djls45 I want to read that, but I'm in the middle of Ward. But that one's complete...
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
Innocent until proven guilty still applies, even for the most heinous crimes.
There's plenty of time to excoriate the guilty after conviction; no need to start beforehand. Though it's hard to see what would lead to nobody being convicted of at least improper burial.
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
I mean it looks like the investigation is just starting.
Probably mostly done; it's reached court (that picture is very typical of a “people walking from the parking lot to the courthouse” newspaper photography shot) though it might just be for an initial hearing to decide whether the people concerned are the actual accused and whether they can get bail.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Though it's hard to see what would lead to nobody being convicted of at least improper burial.
Hah! FTA…
Dawn Cranston pleaded guilty to concealing birth of a child by secretly disposing of body.
So yes, at least one of those three is now officially a convicted scumbag. And this is a Crown Court so this is the actual trial, not just one of the initial hearings. Which means that the police investigation is done and the prosecution thinks they can obtain a minimum of one conviction for the crime (or that it would be unjust to not prosecute, though that probably doesn't apply here).
Of course, there is the question of why this wasn't stopped before the boy died. Alas, the answer there is probably because the social workers have too high a case load because of central government budget cuts meaning that the service that monitors vulnerable people simply doesn't have enough trained people. And nobody in central government will care. (The city government will care, but won't have the ability to do anything about it. This is different from in the US.)
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@jaloopa I quite like the expression "Social Justice Worrier", so kudos to whoever came up with that originally.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Though it's hard to see what would lead to nobody being convicted of at least improper burial.
Hah! FTA…
Dawn Cranston pleaded guilty to concealing birth of a child by secretly disposing of body.
So yes, at least one of those three is now officially a convicted scumbag. And this is a Crown Court so this is the actual trial, not just one of the initial hearings. Which means that the police investigation is done and the prosecution thinks they can obtain a minimum of one conviction for the crime (or that it would be unjust to not prosecute, though that probably doesn't apply here).
Of course, there is the question of why this wasn't stopped before the boy died. Alas, the answer there is probably because the social workers have too high a case load because of central government budget cuts meaning that the service that monitors vulnerable people simply doesn't have enough trained people. And nobody in central government will care. (The city government will care, but won't have the ability to do anything about it. This is different from in the US.)
My understanding is that the guilty plea was for the infant. And they only went for "concealing birth of a child by secretly disposing of body" because they had no way of verifying whether the baby was born alive or not. If it was born alive, then they could go for a more severe charge, but they have no way of knowing this based on what's left of the remains.
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
@jaloopa I quite like the expression "Social Justice Worrier", so kudos to whoever came up with that originally.
I may have heard it somewhere and squirreled it away in the recesses of my mind but I'm fairly certain it was my own idea
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
My understanding is that the guilty plea was for the infant. And they only went for "concealing birth of a child by secretly disposing of body" because they had no way of verifying whether the baby was born alive or not. If it was born alive, then they could go for a more severe charge, but they have no way of knowing this based on what's left of the remains.
That's what the article says, yes. And improper burial would have been charged even if it had been a murder charge as well. It's a common charge in cases where the body is deliberately concealed, however the death occurred.
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@pie_flavor There is so much twisted in it, but at least the ending kinda makes sense for the setting. And it's probably the darkest of the author's works. Take the worst of Worm, and that's about how nearly all of the story progresses. There is so little that goes well for anyone. Although, that is his modus operandi. OTOH, Ward has been presenting as a much brighter story, even given the dark setting and the fridge horror.
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IHOP is now IHOb, which they warned us about over a week ago. The b stands for "burgers", which is the current headline.
Several years ago I was in one of their places and looked in vain for any indication that the name IHOP stood for anything at all. Nothing on the menu, the signage, even the wallpaper with old pictures from the early days of the franchise gave any clue that those four letters were actually supposed to stand for anything. I had to wait until I got home and could check on Wiki whether the name spelled out in all its glory was still officially sanctioned by the company (it was, but they were definitely playing it down).
Not that fond of pancakes myself anyway. They do make a nice breakfast of sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy, but I imagine IHOSEBAG wouldn't bring in a lot of business.
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
Not that fond of pancakes myself anyway. They do make a nice breakfast of sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy, but I imagine IHOSEBAG wouldn't bring in a lot of business.
I always get the country fried steak and eggs. Which comes with a side of pancakes, of course.
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
but I imagine IHOSEBAG wouldn't bring in a lot of business.
Did not hose my bag. Would not visit again. Food was ok though.
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Wonderful. I bought an upscaling Bluray player for my parents at Christmas from them.
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
IHOP is now IHOb, which they warned us about over a week ago. The b stands for "burgers", which is the current headline.
Several years ago I was in one of their places and looked in vain for any indication that the name IHOP stood for anything at all. Nothing on the menu, the signage, even the wallpaper with old pictures from the early days of the franchise gave any clue that those four letters were actually supposed to stand for anything. I had to wait until I got home and could check on Wiki whether the name spelled out in all its glory was still officially sanctioned by the company (it was, but they were definitely playing it down).
Not that fond of pancakes myself anyway. They do make a nice breakfast of sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy, but I imagine IHOSEBAG wouldn't bring in a lot of business.
IHOB is fucking stupid. They pretty much controlled the fast food breakfast market, since they're the only show in town on that front. McDicks and a couple other places have small breakfast items but that's about it. And the name change is a sign they're moving towards burgers, which is the most saturated (hah) fast food market out there. They have to compete with McDicks, BK, Arby's, Carl's Jr, Jack in the Box, Five Guys, In-N-Out, etc. Especially Five Guys, those guys are the most popular in over half the states.
Also, they think they're funny by replacing all the ps with bs in their tweets. Fuck IHOB.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
Not that fond of pancakes myself anyway. They do make a nice breakfast of sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy, but I imagine IHOSEBAG wouldn't bring in a lot of business.
I always get the country fried steak and eggs. Which comes with a side of pancakes, of course.
And the "five star" at Waffle House comes with waffles, which I don't care for at all. It didn't used to.
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Shouldn't she simply wear that head-scarf and play chess?
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
IHOB is fucking stupid.
I thought I heard it was a temporary marketing stunt and they weren't permanently changing their name or anything. Doesn't effect me though. I like IHOP, but they're too far away. Much easier to go to the Village Inn that's in my neighborhood.
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@boner
That onebox is probably the most /r/headlinegore headline I've seen this month...
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@boner Should have gone with the more multicultural "Spotted Wang"
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@hungrier Would've meant a smaller portion.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@boner Should have gone with the more multicultural "Spotted Wang"
I keep reading that as "Spotted @Weng"