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China military PR film mocked over 'Hollywood clips'
A Chinese military propaganda video simulating a bombing raid used clips from Hollywood blockbusters, including Transformers and The Rock, reports say.
The video shows nuclear-capable H-6 bombers carrying out a simulated attack on what appears to be a US military base on the Pacific island of Guam. The video was viewed nearly five million times on China's Sina Weibo microblogging platform.But many users mocked its apparent use of scenes from Hollywood movies. "It's fortunate that China has no issues with copyright," one joked. "Stealing from another American film? I just... haha" wrote another user, while a third said: "Don't use clips from these awful countries. People look down on us on Twitter and it drives me crazy." The two-minute video, called Gods of War - Attack!, was released by China's air force on Saturday. -
BBC News - Airbus looks to the future with hydrogen planes
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Ginsburg Supreme Court: Republicans secure vote for replacement
Republicans have secured the numbers needed to ensure that President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee will face a confirmation vote in the Senate.
Senator Mitt Romney of Utah has given the party the 51 backers needed to move forward with voting on Mr Trump's candidate to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday. Democrats argued there should be no confirmation in an election year. The move guarantees a bitter political battle going into November's vote. President Trump says he will announce his chosen nominee on Saturday. Supreme Court justices are nominated to the bench by the US president, but must be approved by the Senate. With the death of Justice Ginsburg, a liberal stalwart, Mr Trump has been given the chance to cement a rightward ideological tilt of the nine-member court by replacing her with a conservative. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Ginsburg Supreme Court: Republicans secure vote for replacement
Republicans have secured the numbers needed to ensure that President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee will face a confirmation vote in the Senate.
Senator Mitt Romney of Utah has given the party the 51 backers needed to move forward with voting on Mr Trump's candidate to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday. Democrats argued there should be no confirmation in an election year. The move guarantees a bitter political battle going into November's vote. President Trump says he will announce his chosen nominee on Saturday. Supreme Court justices are nominated to the bench by the US president, but must be approved by the Senate. With the death of Justice Ginsburg, a liberal stalwart, Mr Trump has been given the chance to cement a rightward ideological tilt of the nine-member court by replacing her with a conservative.Also from the article above:
"The historical precedent of election year nominations is that the Senate generally does not confirm an opposing party's nominee but does confirm a nominee of its own." -
@Pete-S said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Ginsburg Supreme Court: Republicans secure vote for replacement
Republicans have secured the numbers needed to ensure that President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee will face a confirmation vote in the Senate.
Senator Mitt Romney of Utah has given the party the 51 backers needed to move forward with voting on Mr Trump's candidate to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday. Democrats argued there should be no confirmation in an election year. The move guarantees a bitter political battle going into November's vote. President Trump says he will announce his chosen nominee on Saturday. Supreme Court justices are nominated to the bench by the US president, but must be approved by the Senate. With the death of Justice Ginsburg, a liberal stalwart, Mr Trump has been given the chance to cement a rightward ideological tilt of the nine-member court by replacing her with a conservative.Also from the article above:
"The historical precedent of election year nominations is that the Senate generally does not confirm an opposing party's nominee but does confirm a nominee of its own."Can we say - DUH - I can't believe the media isn't saying EXACTLY that
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
BBC News - Airbus looks to the future with hydrogen planes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54242176Oh, I've seen this one before!
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US election 2020: Trump attacks McCain widow after Biden endorsement
Donald Trump has launched a fresh attack on John McCain, after his widow announced her support for the president's Democratic rival Joe Biden.
Cindy McCain announced her support for Mr Biden in a tweet on Tuesday, saying he was the only candidate "who stands up for our values as a nation." Mr Trump tweeted that he was "never a fan" of the veteran Republican senator, who died in 2018. Mr McCain was one of the president's most outspoken Republican critics. Mr Trump, in turn, publicly questioned his heroism during the Vietnam War. -
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Breonna Taylor: Two officers shot during Louisville protests
Two policemen have been shot amid protests in the US over a decision not to charge any officers over the killing of Breonna Taylor.
Ms Taylor, 26, a black hospital worker, was shot six times as three officers raided her home on 13 March. A grand jury in the city of Louisville returned only one minor charge against one of the officers, for shots which hit a neighbouring apartment. The attorney general said the two other officers' actions had been justified. One had been hit by a shot fired by Ms Taylor's boyfriend, who later told police he thought it was an ex-boyfriend of Ms Taylor who had broken into the apartment. -
@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
BBC News - Airbus looks to the future with hydrogen planes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54242176Oh, I've seen this one before!
Technology has advanced so much since then... I mean look at Chernobyl... oh...
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Police seize 345,000 used condoms that were cleaned and sold as new
And I thought the guy who tested the rectal thermometers had a tough job!
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@Danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
Police seize 345,000 used condoms that were cleaned and sold as new
And I thought the guy who tested the rectal thermometers had a tough job!
OMG, imagine applying for that job!
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How is that possibly cheaper than making new ones?
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@Danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
Police seize 345,000 used condoms that were cleaned and sold as new
And I thought the guy who tested the rectal thermometers had a tough job!
So many inappropriate jokes to be made.
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@Danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
Police seize 345,000 used condoms that were cleaned and sold as new
And I thought the guy who tested the rectal thermometers had a tough job!
The company that was caught doing this is in a very sticky situation. It's going to be very hard for them to escape the charges. I read that the evidence against them weighs as much as a child.
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@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
Police seize 345,000 used condoms that were cleaned and sold as new
And I thought the guy who tested the rectal thermometers had a tough job!
The company that was caught doing this is in a very sticky situation. It's going to be very hard for them to escape the charges. I read that the evidence against them weighs as much as a child.
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Condom reconditioning is the new fastest growth market.
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Cardinal Becciu: Vatican official forced out in rare resignation
High-ranking Vatican official Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu has unexpectedly resigned but has revealed he was told to do so by Pope Francis.
He said he was suspected of giving Church money to his brothers, and denied any wrongdoing.
Cardinal Becciu was a close aide to the Pope and previously had a key job in the Vatican's Secretariat of State. He became involved in a controversial deal to invest in a luxury London building with Church funds. That investment has since been the subject of a financial investigation. Resignations at this level of the Vatican are extremely rare and the Holy See said little in its communique released late on Thursday. -
Donald Trump 'paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017' - NY Times
Donald Trump paid just $750 (£580) in federal income tax both in 2016, the year he ran for the US presidency, and in his first year in the White House, the New York Times says.
The newspaper - which says it obtained tax records for Mr Trump and his companies over two decades - also says that he paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years. The records reveal "chronic losses and years of tax avoidance", it says. Mr Trump called the report "fake news". "Actually I paid tax. And you'll see that as soon as my tax returns - it's under audit, they've been under audit for a long time," he told reporters after the story was published on Sunday. "The IRS [Internal Revenue Service] does not treat me well… they treat me very badly," he said. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Donald Trump 'paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017' - NY Times
Donald Trump paid just $750 (£580) in federal income tax both in 2016, the year he ran for the US presidency, and in his first year in the White House, the New York Times says.
The newspaper - which says it obtained tax records for Mr Trump and his companies over two decades - also says that he paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years. The records reveal "chronic losses and years of tax avoidance", it says. Mr Trump called the report "fake news". "Actually I paid tax. And you'll see that as soon as my tax returns - it's under audit, they've been under audit for a long time," he told reporters after the story was published on Sunday. "The IRS [Internal Revenue Service] does not treat me well… they treat me very badly," he said.And?
