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US sailors rescued after five months adrift in Pacific
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do you know that amazon had a bug in their system
According to The Guardian, at approximately 7:00pm Friday night in London (1:00pm EST, 11:00am PST), Repricer Express--an automated service many third party Amazon sellers use to keep their prices competitive against each other--malfunctioned. Subsequently, it marked thousands of toys, clothes, cell phones, furniture and numerous other items for one penny, and many users dashed to cash out on the ultimate bargain sale.
Though the glitch only lasted for about an hour, many sellers were horrified to find Amazon users had ordered thousands of their products marked at a fraction of their cost.
According to Doherty, Amazon is not holding the sellers to forfeit such incredible losses to those who only paid one penny, and will not penalize them either. Amazon has since cancelled most of the orders. -
Catalans declare independence from Spain
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116That's huge! Wonder if Spain will let it go or enact control over the province.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116That's huge! Wonder if Spain will let it go or enact control over the province.
They tried to enact control this morning, that's why they declared independence now.
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@MarigabyFrias is currently 10 miles from the break away zone!
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@MarigabyFrias is currently 10 miles from the break away zone!
on which side?
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@MarigabyFrias is currently 10 miles from the break away zone!
on which side?
North
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
More like Puerto Rico. It is a fully self governing autonomous nation with its own language and culture.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
See that's getting bogged down in the state/country thing I was talking about. But at a country level.. yeah, I get it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
More like Puerto Rico. It is a fully self governing autonomous nation with its own language and culture.
That makes more sense.
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
See that's getting bogged down in the state/country thing I was talking about.
It's not bogged down at all. Catalonia is a separate nation that is under Spanish rule only by conquest. The people there are not Spanish, don't speak Spanish, and have their own international borders (with France primarily.)
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Quebec is also a good example.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116That's awesome. Now, how about Texas?
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
See that's getting bogged down in the state/country thing I was talking about.
It's not bogged down at all. Catalonia is a separate nation that is under Spanish rule only by conquest. The people there are not Spanish, don't speak Spanish, and have their own international borders (with France primarily.)
They also have one of the biggest port cities in Spain.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
See that's getting bogged down in the state/country thing I was talking about.
It's not bogged down at all. Catalonia is a separate nation that is under Spanish rule only by conquest. The people there are not Spanish, don't speak Spanish, and have their own international borders (with France primarily.)
They also have one of the biggest port cities in Spain.
Yup, number three. And they are the core of the overall Spanish economy (hence why Spain wants to keep them.)
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
More like Puerto Rico. It is a fully self governing autonomous nation with its own language and culture.
How long ago did Spain annex it?
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Catalans declare independence from Spain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41780116Would this be like Houston declaring itself independent? (and don't get bogged down in the state vs country thing).
I think it would be more akin to Texas declaring independence from the US.
More like Puerto Rico. It is a fully self governing autonomous nation with its own language and culture.
How long ago did Spain annex it?
It's a complicated history, but the important date was the seizure of the region by Franco in 1939.
