In other news today...
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@gąska said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/picture verb definition 1.
That's what I said, isn't it?
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@timebandit Yup.
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@blakeyrat Better than Lockheed Martin
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
The reason Pai killed it is because
it never should have been the FCC's job.he works for the telecom industryFTFY
The reason Pai killed it is not because
it never should have been the FCC's job.he worksedfor the telecom industryFTFTFYFY
His prior employment would be a problem only if he was still getting paid by the companies that his agency regulates.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
His prior employment would be a problem only if he was still getting paid by the companies that his agency regulates.
So the entirety of the human experience--the formation of personal ties and actual interests, just for starters--has nothing to do with conflicts of interest? Only money counts?
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
His prior employment would be a problem only if he was still getting paid by the companies that his agency regulates.
You really believe he won't be employed by them after he's done changing regulations to accommodate them
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@timebandit Yes, also this.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
His prior employment would be a problem only if he was still getting paid by the companies that his agency regulates.
You really believe he won't be employed by them after he's done changing regulations to accommodate them
As long as he keeps doing the right thing I can live with that.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
No, but I am red headed
That was going to be my guess...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
His prior employment would be a problem only if he was still getting paid by the companies that his agency regulates.
You really believe he won't be employed by them after he's done changing regulations to accommodate them
As long as he keeps doing the right thing I can live with that.
Downvote. Oh, I guess someone doesn't want him to do the right thing.
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You will be all replaced by computers/robots !
Or maybe not
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@TimeBandit Self-checkout is one of the most popular areas at all of my local Walmarts, and everyone seems to have no trouble using it; after all, we've watched the cashiers do it multiple times and the screen provides a pretty good and useful interface.
But it seems that using your own phone to scan products (which is what the article is referencing) is harder to do.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
But it seems that using your own phone to scan products (which is what the article is referencing) is harder to do.
Or the wireless hand-held scanners that you pick up on your way in. I can't say how hard they are to use, as I've never tried. But my phone? I don't care how easy it is; there's no way I'm going to install their app to do that.
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@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
makes me talk weird
Unlike the rest of your symptoms (which sound like “maybe you should keep an epipen handy, just in case” territory), the talking funny might just be the helium balloon.
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@timebandit My family has used scan and go type stuff in a couple places. It's alright, though I imagine it's more of a hassle if you're shopping alone. Presumably that's why they're testing out the version where the employee scans as you go.
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@boner Sounds like a candidate for relocation to Florida!
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Disney needs more protection
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@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
I've just realised there are not only people in the workforce that didn't exist before the Internet, but people in the workforce who didn't exist before Google
At my last job, I had a coworker named Maggie. One day I realized that she was young enough to have been named after Maggie from the Simpsons.
@timebandit said in In other news today...:
California
It might be easier at this point for them to just list the things they don't think cause cancer:
Possibly water
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Disney needs more protection
Holy fucking shit, what?
Archives with recordings of music from the 1930s or 1940s would now have to clear permission before streaming their musical content even if the underlying work was in the public domain.
Fuck you, Disney.
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@tsaukpaetra With whoever owned the copyright last, apparently.
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@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
It might be easier at this point for them to just list the things they don't think cause cancer:
Possibly water
Depends where they live...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
The carcinogen TCP
So using the Internet causes cancer now? We're all screwed!
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
The carcinogen TCP
So using the Internet causes cancer now? We're all screwed!
I'm pretty sure only Californians are. Because raisins.
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@dcon California raisins?
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@dcon California raisins?
Well, they're dangerous too. (Well, at least to my dog)
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@pie_flavor as if "life of author plus eight thousand years" wasn't bad enough, apparently "public domain" now means "not public domain".
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@topspin The Copying Florida thread is .
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@boner said in In other news today...:
YOU CALL THAT NEWS?!? DUCK ADOPTS DOG, THAT'D BE NEWS! STUPID BBC
/blakeynewsrant
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First though on reading headline: Alcohol.
<reads/>
Yes.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
DUCK ADOPTS DOG
DUCK DENIED BOARDING DUE TO EMOTIONAL SUPPORT PORCUPINE would be even more interesting.
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A story we've heard a thousand times.
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@boner The bra was on MDMA? The potatoes were wearing the bra?
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@dkf One has to wonder why they don't fill the HTML title tag with the full headline when they have a choice of fields in the database to pick from, at least according to this bit of embedded JSON metadata:
{ "newsfeed_slug": "uk", "title": "Man arrested filling hotel bathtub up with potatoes wearing a bra | Metro News", "headline": "Man caught filling hotel bathtub up with potatoes while wearing a bra and high on MDMA", "shortHeadline": "Man caught filling hotel bathtub up with potatoes while wearing a bra and high on MDMA", "socialHeadline": "Man arrested filling hotel bathtub up with potatoes wearing a bra on MDMA", .... }
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@jbert
TR: the short headline is 10% longer (in number of characters) than the title, and is the same length as the headline.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@boner The bra was on MDMA? The potatoes were wearing the bra?
He was arrested for filling up the bathtub with the potatoes?
Enquiring minds...
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@pjh According to the article, he was arrested for "intent to supply drugs." Which sounds like obvious bullshit, unless that includes supplying the drugs to himself.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@pjh According to the article, he was arrested for "intent to supply drugs." Which sounds like obvious bullshit, unless that includes supplying the drugs to himself.
I think that's usually based on the amount of drugs you have in your possession. So if he had a suitcase full (minus the little bit he had taken for himself) the police will assume he was intending to sell to other people.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I think that's usually based on the amount of drugs you have in your possession.
https://thetab.com/2015/12/17/what-amount-of-drugs-counts-as-intent-to-supply-66191
The letter of the law says you can infer intent to supply from several factors which include possession of a quantity inconsistent with personal use, possession of a variety of drugs or possession of drugs split into smaller denominations.
https://www.release.org.uk/law/possession-intent-supply
Prosecutions for this offence may be based on circumstantial evidence, statements made by the defendant at the time of arrest and expert evidence.
Examples of relevant circumstantial evidence would include the possession of drug supply paraphernalia such as scales, bags, cling film and large sums of unexplained cash. The manner in which the drugs were wrapped could also be used as evidence of intent to supply
Horses mouth: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/drug-offences
An intention to supply may be proved by direct evidence in the form of admissions or witness testimony, for example, surveillance evidence.
Another method of proving an intention to supply is by inference. Evidence from which intent to supply may be inferred will include at least one or, more usually, a combination of the following factors:
- Possession of a quantity inconsistent with personal use.
- Possession of uncut drugs or drugs in an unusually pure state suggesting proximity to their manufacturer or importer.
- Possession of a variety of drugs may indicate sale rather than consumption.
- Evidence that the drug has been prepared for sale. If a drug has been cut into small portions and those portions are wrapped in foil or film, then there is a clear inference that sale is the object.
- Drug related equipment in the care and/or control of the suspect, such as weighing scales, cutting agents, bags or wraps of foil (provided their presence is not consistent with normal domestic use).
- Diaries or other documents containing information tending to confirm drug dealing, which are supportive of a future intent to supply, for example, records of customers' telephone numbers together with quantities or descriptions of drugs.
- Money found on the defendant was considered in R v Batt (1994) Crim. LR 592. It is not necessarily evidence of future supply. It may be evidence of supply in the past but on its own the money is not evidence of a future intent to supply.
- Evidence of large amounts of money in the possession of the defendant, or an extravagant life style which is only prima facie explicable if derived from drug dealing, is admissible in cases of possession with intent to supply if it is of probative significance to an issue in the case R v Morris (1995) 2 Cr. App. R. 69.
- Extravagant lifestyle, but only when that is of probative significance to an issue in the case. Evidence of this type is only likely to be admitted by the courts rarely but for a detailed overview refer to Archbold 27-71 to 27-76.
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Well I'm glad this is finally resolved.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/hitler-dead-on-earth-not-alive-in-space-science-finally-finds/
Recently, scientists verified the authenticity and identity of what have been purported, and are now confirmed, to be the teeth of Adolf Hitler. With that verification, the researchers were able to definitively state not only that he's dead, but that he died in Berlin, as long explained and recorded.
All I can think of is The Tick, where everyone believes The Terror is dead because "they found his teeth".
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Pissy-fight between the flight 370 experts who say the plane was piloted into the sea (in which case every search area tried was wrong) and those who think it flew until fuel exhaustion.
The headline's stupid though because in EITHER CASE the crash was clearly the fault of a rogue pilot. That's not what the debate is about.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/388790-sinkhole-develops-on-white-house-lawn
Hmmm. Someone's digging too deeply into a story?
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FAA approves Boeing's plan to equip the 777X with folding wingtips, so it can use standard airport gates. Niiice.