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@RaceProUK
No, no, that's how you declare your candidacy these days.#Zuckerburg2044
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@izzion Rubbish: it's not like the current President is a rich businessman looking for a change in ca- wait...
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
reportedly live streamed on Facebook.
It takes a special sort of criminal to not only commit a heinous crime such as that or the Chicago beating, but live stream it. "Please come arrest me. I'll even give you all the evidence you could possibly want to convict me."
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@HardwareGeek It's not clear what happened:
Uppsala District Court on Wednesday remanded two of the men, a 20-year-old Afghan national and an 18-year-old, also from Afghanistan, in custody on suspicion of rape.
The third man, a Swedish citizen aged 24 according to court documents seen by The Local, was detained on suspicion of failing to reveal rape.
Maybe it was the third guy who streamed it somehow? Also, it sounds like the police haven't gotten their hands on the video yet from FB, so they're probably going off of what viewers said about it.
Uppsala's deputy chief prosecutor Magnus Berggren told The Local on Tuesday that investigators have been able to get hold of certain still images and footage, but are still working to find the particular video sequence allegedly showing the rape.
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With the augmented reality headset costing $3000, this is perhaps not surprising
Insert "You don't say?" meme here.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
The Thank You Trump hashtag backfired – badly
Not "bigly"? And they wonder why nobody trusts the media anymore.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
And it's about time! Anyone who claims they can sell something to you and then retain control over what you do with it is running a scam. (See also: Apple iDevices)
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
And it's about time! Anyone who claims they can sell something to you and then retain control over what you do with it is running a scam. (See also: Apple iDevices)
Btw, the airlines which sells fanfare tickets impose similar restrictions on their tickets. (Not for resale, cannot transfer use right, cannot rearrange schedule for another day, etc.)
Will that law also affect this part?
On the other hand, regarding "tickets scalpers", I've heard once that in some concert in Japan, if there are someone who alert the tickets are being resold on auction sites with the seat number and row information, that ticket will be voided by the organizer. (Ticket holder for those seats will not be allowed to enter, no refund will be granted for those tickets)
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@cheong said in In other news today...:
the airlines which sells fanfare tickets
Edit: I suppose you mean these guys: http://www.fanfareairtravel.com/
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@cheong It's indeed a problem - on the one hand you have ticket scalpers, on the other you have regular people who might want to resell their tickets for various reasons.
I think a compromise might be that, while you can only buy and resell the tickets through Ticketmaster (or the like), the resale process should be made as easy as possible. I.e. you register with the site, state that you resold your ticket to Person B, give some identifying information and that's it.
In other news: We recently had a soccer club which cancelled the season ticket for someone because he missed to many games :)
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@cheong It's indeed a problem - on the one hand you have ticket scalpers, on the other you have regular people who might want to resell their tickets for various reasons.
I think a compromise might be that, while you can only buy and resell the tickets through Ticketmaster (or the like), the resale process should be made as easy as possible. I.e. you register with the site, state that you resold your ticket to Person B, give some identifying information and that's it.
In other news: We recently had a soccer club which cancelled the season ticket for someone because he missed to many games :)
The organizer of "Iron Maiden" already provided a way for resale.
"The company allows ticket-holders, for a fee, to resell at face value through the Ticketmaster website — something Albo attempted to do with his Iron Maiden tickets. But if the tickets do not sell there, the holder has no other option."
In other words, you're allowed and only allowed to resell the ticket on their site with handling fee, just that you're not allowed to appoint whom you're selling towards - quite sensible if the measure is to prevent the presence of ticket scalpers.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@cheong said in In other news today...:
the airlines which sells fanfare tickets
Edit: I suppose you mean these guys: http://www.fanfareairtravel.com/
Nope. There are airlines such as Cathay Pacific that occasionally provides a number of tickets from 50% down to 10% of the normal price, but with restrictions that I mentioned above, mostly released for sale during midnight. These are known as fanfare tickets.
While it's also true that I heard some travel agents will become ticket scalpers (afterall, if you're trying to buy a large number of ticket, you still only need one credit card number) and aim for these tickets.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
Would a cc company allow such a charge? I was under the impression that the authorization happens when you give them the card (and probably does a certain amount over for the tip) and then you capture the authorization when the tip is given for the proper amount.
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@dangeRuss said in In other news today...:
Would a cc company allow such a charge?
It might raise an anti-fraud flag, but the issuer can always check with the cardholder to validate the charge (I know mine does). Plus, the article implies the waitress got the money, so it must have gone through.
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@RaceProUK Indeed. When I got my credit card, I was called several times even for standard purchases. Those calls petered off after they built a profile of what I'm doing with the card. Now I only get calls very occasionally and only for stuff outside the profile.
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Actually not today, but just found this photo somewhere else on the 'net:
Um, guys... do you even know what The Wall was about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoPpw7DNzCY
Yeah, that, among other things. Probably not an analogy you want to draw.
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Please can the news stories be on the lighter side? Like this one:
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
And it's about time! Anyone who claims they can sell something to you and then retain control over what you do with it is running a scam. (See also: Apple iDevices)
Yeah, though I understand why they do this. Resellers are buying up the tickets and jacking up the prices. Which mainly tells you that the tickets are probably being sold too cheaply to begin with.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Yeah, though I understand why they do this. Resellers are buying up the tickets and jacking up the prices. Which mainly tells you that the tickets are probably being sold too cheaply to begin with.
IIRC didn't the article say that the proposed law specifically allows people to resell them at the same price?
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Yeah, though I understand why they do this. Resellers are buying up the tickets and jacking up the prices. Which mainly tells you that the tickets are probably being sold too cheaply to begin with.
IIRC didn't the article say that the proposed law specifically allows people to resell them at the same price?
No.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Rights to resell tickets; civil penalty. Prohibits any person that issues tickets for admission to any sporting event, theatrical production, lecture, motion picture screening, or any other event open to the public for which tickets are ordinarily sold from issuing the ticket solely through a delivery method that substantially prevents the ticket purchaser from lawfully reselling the ticket on the Internet ticketing platform of the ticket purchaser's choice. The measure also prohibits a person from being penalized, discriminated against, or denied admission to an event solely on the basis that the person resold a ticket, or purchased a resold ticket, on a specific Internet ticketing platform. A person violating these prohibitions is subject to a civil penalty of not less than $5,000 nor more than $15,000.Though it does seem to only apply to reselling on an internet ticket resale platform.
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Not so much the story - that certainly isn't anything to laugh at...
... but this paragraph..
Kaswayne Williams, 19, George Emmett, 18 and Sheneqwa Delpratt, 20, all now face lengthy jail terms after being found guilty of kidnap.
I must have missed the extended edition of The Penguin Book of Baby Names that was published around 1997.
Or maybe someone dropped the scrabble box.
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@PJH
Judging by the names, it looks like the American newspaper's practice of "only report the race of the perp(s) and victim(s) if it's whites committing violence against blacks" isn't an American exclusive.
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@izzion
What do you mean? I don't think they are Asian.
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@Luhmann
Not sure which one of us ed, but the two bolded names (of the perpetrators) from PJH's post are pretty likely to be ethnically black names.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Not sure which one of us ed, but the two bolded names (of the perpetrators) from PJH's post are pretty likely to be ethnically black names.
The first certainly is - I couldn't easily locate any pictures of the second.
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@izzion but they didn't hesitate to mention the race of the car they drove!
as she spoke to Emmett, of Lakeside Close, Sidcup, a black Ford Focus pulled up with Williams, of Peckham Park Road, Peckham, and Delpratt, New Paragon Walk, Walworth, inside
#BlackCarsMatter
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@anotherusername Black cars are the worst. When I'm driving, minding my own business, and some thug comes up and tailgates me, cuts me off, or otherwise acts like an aggressive menace who thinks he owns the road, about 90% of the time the car's painted black.
Not sure why, but it's been consistently true no matter where I've lived.
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@masonwheeler it's the Men in Black. Seems you haven't noticed the black helicopters yet though
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@masonwheeler I was just endangered by one of those the other night when I was on the way home. He tailgated me, sped past me in the right-turn lane as we approached a (green) traffic light, passed the car in front of us across a double-yellow line on a curve, and again took the right-turn lane at a (red) traffic light in order to continue straight and get ahead of the next car in front of us.
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And of course, the article focuses on the important parts:
The researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus, which suggests that it consumed food and excreted from the same orifice.
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@RaceProUK This was the norm until the Great Anus Explosion 400m years ago.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK This was the norm until the Great Anus Explosion 400m years ago.
Musta been one helluva laxative
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About 32,000 competitors took part in the Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run half-marathon on Sunday 2 October last year. A 10k event also took place.
Are you sure it wasn't actually a 9.9k event?
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
The researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus, which suggests that it consumed food and excreted from the same orifice.
The research team says that Saccorhytus is the most primitive example of a category of animals called "deuterostomes"
Uhh... Then how do you know it's a deuterostome?
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Two friends living in Newcastle and Birmingham met up in Malaga because it was cheaper to fly to SPAIN than getting the train to see each other
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4116836/Two-friends-living-Newcastle-Birmingham-met-Malaga-cheaper-fly-SPAIN-getting-train-other.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK
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@Jarry said in In other news today...:
Two-friends-living-Newcastle-Birmingham-met-Malaga-cheaper-fly-SPAIN-getting-train-other
You know, slugs are there to make URLs legible...
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@Maciejasjmj Makes total sense to me, that is literally most English Holidays in a Slug.
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Kind of reminds me of this
One could fly to Winnipeg from Toronto round trip, sign up for a plan there, and it would still save you quite a bit of money. Using the Rogers 10GB example, it's a difference of $55 a month x 24 months = $1,320, and of course you can keep the plan as long as you want.
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
@Maciejasjmj Makes total sense to me.
It looks like it's been written by you.
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@Maciejasjmj Honestly.
Most English Holidays are like that.
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@Maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
@Jarry said in In other news today...:
Two-friends-living-Newcastle-Birmingham-met-Malaga-cheaper-fly-SPAIN-getting-train-other
You know, slugs are there to make URLs legible...
The friends go. Go is to Malaga.
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