Non-IT News Thread
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It's the lazy, selfish, arrogant, do-gooder, self centered, hands off, ironically overprotective asshat parents that cause most of the issues today. They are the real reason that society is degrading.
There is so much help and information available but because of ^ reasons (and probably more), they don't/won't take any of it on board IF they even go looking.
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I think I'll stop here.
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Has this been posted yet?
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-update.page
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
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@coliver said:
"digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years"Have they field-tested that?
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@coliver said:
Has this been posted yet?
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-update.page
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
I saw that on my Google Now yesterday. That's really cool. Now celebrity naked pictures will last forever.
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Man caught trying to smuggle 40 turtles in his pants.
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Good-bye expensive drone.
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If this is this dumb, do we really want him back?
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@coliver That's just great... "oh now i'm 20 feet in the air, no way are we at risk here.... "
"OH S**T Jetski!"
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@scottalanmiller I don't understand why people want to go to N Korea to begin with...
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@scottalanmiller I don't understand why people want to go to N Korea to begin with...
Religious reasons mostly I imagine....
Or maybe they want to see that Unicorn that North Korea keeps talking about.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@scottalanmiller I don't understand why people want to go to N Korea to begin with...
They seem to all be nutters of one kind of another. I get the desire to see a place that no one else has seen, but they really never seem to be there to learn about it but to cause problems.
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Belgium's main Zaventem airport has been hit with two bomb blasts this morning, more bombs have been found already in a sweep of the airport. The Maelbeek Metro Station has also had a bomb explosion. Rail, metro and flights into the city are all halted or diverted. Belgium is now on its highest level of alert.
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Irish island seeking American Trump refugees.
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Brussels Police says fifteen dead, fifty five wounded in Metro Station blast.
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BBC Journalism Humour, we hope...
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@mlnews said:
BBC Journalism Humour, we hope...
Hey, the BBC, where Merican's have to go in order to find out what's happening in our back yard!
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@travisdh1 said:
Hey, the BBC, where Merican's have to go in order to find out what's happening in our back yard!
Yup, BBC and Al Jazeera have the best US news coverage that I've seen.
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Pretty much get my US news from BBC and CBC, I don't watch local news any more. Drives my wife nuts that I insisted on putting an antenna up just to get the Canadian TV stations to watch their national news every night.
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Toronto Mayer Rob Ford, most famous internationally only for being reelected despite smoking crack and public drunkedness and generally being ridiculous and out of control and generally embarrassing Toronto for years, has died at 46 of cancer today.
