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Pokemon Go: Bosnia players warned of minefields
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Pokemon Go: Bosnia players warned of minefields
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36841828Some nieces and nephews of mine have already been warned, well, they already know to basically stay away from anywhere that has grass that isn't an active park. Perhaps a bit over the top, but better than the alternative.
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I have a suspicion that a lot of people are going to ignore the dangers.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
I have a suspicion that a lot of people are going to ignore the dangers.
They should work with the company to make those areas not populate any pokemon etc.
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
I have a suspicion that a lot of people are going to ignore the dangers.
They should work with the company to make those areas not populate any pokemon etc.
I heard that there was a request for that but they declined to do so. Not sure how formal it was or just a media request not to encourage people to blow themselves up.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
I have a suspicion that a lot of people are going to ignore the dangers.
Oh, I don't suspect they will, I know they will. I already know I'm going to be that grumpy old man yelling get off my lawn, the older I get, the more jaded my view of humanity.
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I wonder what the legal fallout is going to be. In the US it is encouraging people to trespass that is going to wind up in a lawsuit. In Bosnia it is going to be encouraging children to blow themselves up. That a video game was released that rewards kids for playing in mind fields is unbelievable.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
I wonder what the legal fallout is going to be. In the US it is encouraging people to trespass that is going to wind up in a lawsuit. In Bosnia it is going to be encouraging children to blow themselves up. That a video game was released that rewards kids for playing in mind fields is unbelievable.
It's very difficult to sue the state in Bosnia, much more so than in the US, and even if you can, it's even more difficult to win.
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@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
I wonder what the legal fallout is going to be. In the US it is encouraging people to trespass that is going to wind up in a lawsuit. In Bosnia it is going to be encouraging children to blow themselves up. That a video game was released that rewards kids for playing in mind fields is unbelievable.
It's very difficult to sue the state in Bosnia, much more so than in the US, and even if you can, it's even more difficult to win.
It's not the state that you sue in that case, but the state suing the video game maker.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
I wonder what the legal fallout is going to be. In the US it is encouraging people to trespass that is going to wind up in a lawsuit. In Bosnia it is going to be encouraging children to blow themselves up. That a video game was released that rewards kids for playing in mind fields is unbelievable.
It's very difficult to sue the state in Bosnia, much more so than in the US, and even if you can, it's even more difficult to win.
It's not the state that you sue in that case, but the state suing the video game maker.
Oh, I see what you're saying, I completely mixed that up.The problem though too to consider with that is that neoliberal policies, even in the EU (being that they are in perspective member status), makes it easier for a company to sue a country, than a country to sue a company. It's pretty crazy.
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I am not one for witch hunts, but this really pissed me off. It looks like, from the reactions of the public, that she will definitely be getting what's coming to her for this. I hope the woman in the picture is strong enough to just brush it off.
Dani Mathers has already lost her job and been banned from all 800 LA Fitness's. It will be interesting to see if it just stops at that...
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@Adaministrator said in Non-IT News Thread:
I am not one for witch hunts, but this really pissed me off. It looks like, from the reactions of the public, that she will definitely be getting what's coming to her for this. I hope the woman in the picture is strong enough to just brush it off.
Dani Mathers has already lost her job and been banned from all 800 LA Fitness's. It will be interesting to see if it just stops at that...
I really don't understand how people keep making mistakes like this.
I mean, even if you feel some terrible way (body shamer, racist, whatever) don't post it online!
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@thanksajdotcom said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/21/part_2_of_elon_musk_master_plan/
This man is legit one of my heroes...
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@thanksajdotcom said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thanksajdotcom said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/21/part_2_of_elon_musk_master_plan/
This man is legit one of my heroes...
While climate change is legit, carbon dioxide is not, and why the half lie is so believable. We do need some sort of sustainable power capacity, but what we need first is a way to transfer power on a global scale without the unacceptably high losses we have today (~50% loss between the generation plant and a household.) Once we can transfer power between continents, solar suddenly makes sense.
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@thanksajdotcom said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thanksajdotcom said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/21/part_2_of_elon_musk_master_plan/
This man is legit one of my heroes...
I used to think he was kind of interesting until I found out he micromanages his employees and he's a general lunatic who ignores physics in favour of "disrupting" things. If they don't get over this single stage rocket nonsense they'll never go anywhere except low Earth orbit.
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@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
If they don't get over this single stage rocket nonsense they'll never go anywhere except low Earth orbit.
The Falcon Heavy is slated for launch later this year or early next I believe.
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@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thanksajdotcom said in Non-IT News Thread:
This man is legit one of my heroes...
I used to think he was kind of interesting until I found out he micromanages his employees and he's a general lunatic who ignores physics in favour of "disrupting" things.
From what I have read, he is basically an ass. But, he is right to disrupt. Even if all of his endeavors do not work out over all, he has succeeded in bringing a new open mindset to a few industries that were honestly stagnating.
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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
Falcon Heavy
Which only goes into low Earth orbit, my point is the ideas of going to the Moon or Mars with single stage are pretty much out of the question.
From what I have read, he is basically an ass. But, he is right to disrupt. Even if all of his endeavors do not work out over all, he has succeeded in bringing a new open mindset to a few industries that were honestly stagnating.
I'm not saying disrupting things is bad, but it is used as a term so vague and often ridiculous now that it's lost all meaning. Much of the time "disrupt" means to do something that's already been done, but put a fancy web front end on it or make it an iPhone app. Additionally, people often get so overly confident that they waste billions and billions of dollars trying to disrupt something literally impossible (uBeam is another great example), but when it comes to space travel with rocket fuel, 99% of all those problems were solved 60 years ago, they just want to ignore what's been done and start all over.
It's not disruption to start over and pretend you're a revolutionary or learning something new when I could have told you the Soviets or the Americans ran into the same problems and solved them even before colour TV was common. The single stage rocket for beyond-Earth orbit is a great example of this. They could say tons of money just by reading about what's already been done and take it seriously. The attitude with a lot of private space travel firms is that this cannot be done or the work done before is a joke and meaningless, and not even worth looking at.
If he really wants to disrupt, he needs to push for nuclear rocket engines. They work, they were built 50 years ago, but they aren't even seen as an option by anyone anymore because of "oh no, nuclear rockets in space, that's terrible, it's not like space itself is full of radiation." They go a hell of a lot faster than chemical rockets and last a lot longer, but rarely ever do I see people from NASA/ESA/Russia promote them as a viable option when they absolutely do exist, that's the crazy part, I'm not even talking about something theoretical, I'm talking about something the size of a refrigerator putting out the same energy as a hydroelectric dam. I'm talking the Moon in a day and Mars in a month, not a week and eight months instead.
Seriously, no really, this technology exists outside YouTube conspiracy videos, in fact I'm not sure any of them even know about it since it's actual science.
We could get to the Moon or Mars a lot faster, cheaper, and more efficiently, but nuclear energy is considered so boogyman that we literally ignore it as even an option. I see people online, in documentaries, etc always talking about "but chemical rockets don't go that fast!" but never mention nuclear rockets. It's not magic, it's not the Hutchinson Effect or something, it exists and it's ignored, and I imagine once someone like Musk discovers it, he'll bring it back and say "see what I invented" and get all the credit. And, believe it or not, I'm 100% fine with that since state owned space industries are too stupid to take advantage of a technology they were going to use before most people on this web site were even born.
Lest we forget all the ships and nuclear sub marines.... guess that was too dangerous to do too, oh wait.
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The problem that most folks see with Nuclear powered rockets... is what happens when one inevitably explodes on the launch pad?
Do we really want the lowest bid contractor building a nuclear reactor? lol.
I think that nuclear power is good and safe enough to use, but I'd recommend launching from the Dust Bowl rather than Cape Canaveral.
