In other news today...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
I'm actually surprised I'm saying this but if that's the new iPhone that camera bit looks a bit ugly. Not a word I usually associate with apple products.
At what point does a phone need 2/3 rear cameras anyway?
I know the iPhone 11 isn't the only phone with many rear cameras, so maybe number of cameras is just the new measure of unncessary smartphone oneupmanship.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
I don't think any of these are active posters.
Yes, these days. @foxyshadis most definitely used to be a semi-regular, but that was back in the Community Server days. (For all that had problems â mostly with attitude by one of its creators â it was a zillion times better than CS. CS was utter shit.)
It was ok as long as you considered Signature Guy a feature-not-a-bug. And didnât hit backspace.
Filed under: I agree with whatever @Quietust just said.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
I don't think any of these are active posters.
Yes, these days. @foxyshadis most definitely used to be a semi-regular, but that was back in the Community Server days. (For all that had problems â mostly with attitude by one of its creators â it was a zillion times better than CS. CS was utter shit.)
It was ok as long as you considered Signature Guy a feature-not-a-bug. And didnât hit backspace.
Filed under: I agree with whatever @Quietust just said.
Or used chrome and didn't want to hand format the html. Or were around when the tag cloud got big.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
I'm actually surprised I'm saying this but if that's the new iPhone that camera bit looks a bit ugly. Not a word I usually associate with apple products.
At what point does a phone need 2/3 rear cameras anyway?
I know the iPhone 11 isn't the only phone with many rear cameras, so maybe number of cameras is just the new measure of unncessary smartphone oneupmanship.
Do extra cameras actually do anything? Realistically any photo I've seen from any phone was obviously worst than a ÂŁ150 camera. It was the primary reason I actually forked out for a decent (afaik) camera and started buying the latest and greatest phone of two years ago second hand.
If I want photos I want a good one and that actually takes effort which pulling out a camera allows me to inflict on my victims.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Or were around when the tag cloud got big.
It needed attacking, that's for sure.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
I don't think any of these are active posters.
Yes, these days. @foxyshadis most definitely used to be a semi-regular, but that was back in the Community Server days. (For all that had problems â mostly with attitude by one of its creators â it was a zillion times better than CS. CS was utter shit.)
It was ok as long as you considered Signature Guy a feature-not-a-bug. And didnât hit backspace.
Filed under: I agree with whatever @Quietust just said.
Or used chrome and didn't want to hand format the html. Or were around when the tag cloud got big.
Or loaded a page where someone posted <img src="logout.aspx" />
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
It was ok as long as you considered Signature Guy a feature-not-a-bug.
Signature Guy didn't bother me. I just disabled signatures as soon as I learned that was a thing that it was possible to do.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
I don't think any of these are active posters.
Yes, these days. @foxyshadis most definitely used to be a semi-regular, but that was back in the Community Server days. (For all that had problems â mostly with attitude by one of its creators â it was a zillion times better than CS. CS was utter shit.)
It was ok as long as you considered Signature Guy a feature-not-a-bug. And didnât hit backspace.
Filed under: I agree with whatever @Quietust just said.
Or used chrome and didn't want to hand format the html. Or were around when the tag cloud got big.
Or loaded a page where someone posted <img src="logout.aspx" />
Yes, that was annoying.
Speaking of annoying, as enjoyable as this walk down memory lane may be, it's hardly today's news. Perhaps it should be elsewhere.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Do extra cameras actually do anything?
Allow a company to charge more for the phone?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
it's hardly today's news
Alright, let's quit clowning around:
Oops. I lied.
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a hula hoop measuring 17 feet and 1/4 inches in diameter
(otherwise known as 5.18 m)
If you want to see the video, maybe skip to 03:40 to see the actual record attempt.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
This is my shocked face.
When you can't even follow Chinese labor laws, that's pretty bad. "Don't work an employee more than 90 hours a week unless he's a prisoner or you're a Party member."
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@PleegWat
C-c-c-combo!Continue to get triple value!
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My hearing is shot to shit so I can't actually tell the difference between 128kbit and 320kbit encoding most of the time let alone cd Vs vinyl but it is nice to see it still on the go.
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@DogsB Welcome to German Autobahn, where some guy in a BMW would honk him to go faster.
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@DogsB This is the time where a directional EMP gun would be nice...
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@DogsB In NL nowadays they often don't even try to pursue. I believe it's because of potential bad PR when it goes badly wrong, but it may even be for liability reasons.
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@jinpa
Kinda burying the lede calling him an mit professor
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@DogsB that highway is pretty empty...
Edit: I don't understand how one can "lose" someone on a highway. It's not like there are many options for where to go, and the driver was clearly not doing anything more than speeding, so keeping in mind the rate of travel it should be rather simple to predict location at time and just cover the exits associated until he decides to calm down...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Paging @Groaner.
Yes, I have seen this video before.
No, that wasn't me.
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Now, I don't want to get into the whole insurance debate here. However, I honestly don't understand their proclaimed reasoning:
The Amazon-owned company told Business Insider that it is cutting benefits "to better meet the needs of our business and create a more equitable and efficient scheduling model."
What in the world does their scheduling model have to do with medical benefits?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
What in the world does their scheduling model have to do with medical benefits?
They're keeping to profit margin, obviously.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
The Amazon-owned company told Business Insider that it is cutting benefits "to better meet the needs of our business and create a more equitable and efficient scheduling model."
What in the world does their scheduling model have to do with medical benefits?
They can afford to buy one now?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
What in the world does their scheduling model have to do with medical benefits?
They're keeping to profit margin, obviously.
Well, that's the first part, with the "business needs" BS which actually means: "We want more money" just translated to business speak.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@jinpa
Kinda burying the lede calling him an mit professorWikipedia does not exactly say what his title is at MIT, so I assume he's not a professor. I had heard before that they gave him his own office to sleep in, even though he was not actually an employee.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
What kind of bullshit article is that?
First it says RMS claims they were â
absolutelyentirely willingâ to have sex. But then it talks about RMS himself only discussing what facts can be drawn from another article about the incident.
Saying âthe testimony doesnât claim any violence, so we canât conclude there was an assaultâ isnât the same as contradicting a testimony of assault with any first hand claims to the contrary.And the discussion about age of consent might seem in bad taste to some, considering the subject at hand (not that RMS is known for good taste), but the argument of âone day itâs statutory rape and the day after it isnât, which is kind of absurdâ does make sense.
I mean, who knows, maybe he did defend a rapist in an inappropriate way, but this article makes a terrible point in arguing that.
EDIT: fixed wrong quote.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
First it says RMS claims they were âabsolutely willingâ to have sex. But then it talks about RMS himself only discussing what facts can be drawn from another article about the incident.
Actually it says, "entirely willing". The original article is at https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794 . Stallman does say, "We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing."
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
What in the world does their scheduling model have to do with medical benefits?
Sounds like they want fewer part time workers:
"We are providing team members with resources to find alternative healthcare coverage options, or to explore full-time, healthcare-eligible positions starting at 30 hours per week.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Now, I don't want to get into the whole insurance debate here. However, I honestly don't understand their proclaimed reasoning:
The Amazon-owned company told Business Insider that it is cutting benefits "to better meet the needs of our business and create a more equitable and efficient scheduling model."
What in the world does their scheduling model have to do with medical benefits?
It doesn't. The real reason is that shockingly enough increasing everyone's wages to $15 an hour tends to require trimming the fat in other areas.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Now, I don't want to get into the whole insurance debate here. However, I honestly don't understand their proclaimed reasoning:
The Amazon-owned company told Business Insider that it is cutting benefits "to better meet the needs of our business and create a more equitable and efficient scheduling model."
What in the world does their scheduling model have to do with medical benefits?
It doesn't. The real reason is that shockingly enough increasing everyone's wages to $15 an hour tends to require trimming the fat in other areas.
It's only "required" if the intent is to ensure the bottom-line remains the same. But this isn't the Garage, so enough about that...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
It looks to me like the link is just a composite of one-sentence summaries (or maybe headlines) of hundreds of articles. It would take a few minutes of work to find the original article that it referred to.
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@boomzilla :tarantino: frantically takes notes
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@boomzilla I read that a "a black man who is a belt stop shop owner"
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@Tsaukpaetra A black man named Olga? Not saying it's impossible, not at all, but perhaps your error correction needs tweaking.
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@boomzilla She bought him shoes, though. Everything's okay then.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra A black man named Olga? Not saying it's impossible, not at all, but perhaps your error correction needs tweaking.
Olga and "she" happened much later.
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Hah.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
That picture right after a post mentioning Tarantino. Interesting juxtaposition.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Just to note for Left-Pondians, you mean it's legislation that Parliament is currently discussing, right?
Yes. It's tabled, not shelved, binned, kicked into the long grass, or knocked for six.
Usually it's mooted before it's tabled
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Filed Under: Bad Ideas
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This strikes me as extremely far fetched.