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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.
Damn. Toilet paper out in the EEUU / USA I hear. No issues here.
Wha? Where - store had plenty earlier this week...
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.
Damn. Toilet paper out in the EEUU / USA I hear. No issues here.
If we're having another shortage of **** paper, it hasn't hit my area yet.
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@gjacobse said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.
Damn. Toilet paper out in the EEUU / USA I hear. No issues here.
Wha? Where - store had plenty earlier this week...
Essex, UK
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.
Damn. Toilet paper out in the EEUU / USA I hear. No issues here.
If we're having another shortage of **** paper, it hasn't hit my area yet.
Same here... Maybe time to take out a hit on the SAMs stock... (you wouldn't s** me would-ya?)
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@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
@gjacobse said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@stuartjordan said in Non-IT News Thread:
Just managed to put some fuel in the car, the petrol stations are all run out. Last garage in my town has only an hour left of fuel. Idiot panic buyers causing carnage in the uk.
Damn. Toilet paper out in the EEUU / USA I hear. No issues here.
Wha? Where - store had plenty earlier this week...
Essex, UK
Sorry - Was meant as a reply to @scottalanmiller and the TP statement.
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Apparently, there is.
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La Palma volcano: Family's anguish as lava destroys 'miracle house'
A house that miraculously survived an erupting volcano on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands for days has now been consumed by lava.
The retired Danish couple who owned the house, Inge Bergedorf and Ranier Cocq, told Spanish media on Tuesday it had been swallowed by the flow. "Everything is destroyed," Mr Cocq told the El Mundo newspaper. The property became known as the "miracle house" after escaping lava flowing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano. The lava has flattened hundreds of homes and forced the evacuation of more than 6,000 people since it started pouring from the volcano on 19 September. On Tuesday night the lava reached the Atlantic Ocean, on the west coast of the island, raising fears of explosions and the release of toxic gases. -
This is just super cool...
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The secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest leaks of financial documents
Some 35 current and former leaders and more than 300 public officials are featured in the files from offshore companies, dubbed the Pandora Papers.
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@hobbit666 said in Non-IT News Thread:
The secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest leaks of financial documents
Some 35 current and former leaders and more than 300 public officials are featured in the files from offshore companies, dubbed the Pandora Papers.
Interesting - nothing real shaddy from my POV... just showing how the law continues to make the rich richer...
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@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting - nothing real shaddy from my POV... just showing how the law continues to make the rich richer...
Yeah just a load of dodgy deals lol
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@hobbit666 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Interesting - nothing real shaddy from my POV... just showing how the law continues to make the rich richer...
Yeah just a load of dodgy deals lol
this is a discussion we've had here before - ages ago. Is it dodgy to use the law's loopholes to your fullest advantages?
Last I recall - it was considered a corporate requirement in the US to use these, because you're financial responsibilities is to the shareholders, not the tax payers.
and really - why would it be any different for private citizens?
What's dodgy is that the government continues to not close these loopholes.
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Squid Game subtitles 'change meaning' of Netflix show
Squid Game's "botched" subtitles have changed the show's meaning for English-speaking viewers, some Korean-speaking fans say.
The Korean-language drama is about an alternative world where people in debt compete in deadly games. But fluent Korean speaker Youngmi Mayer claims the closed-caption subtitles in English are "so bad" that the original meaning is often lost. Netflix hasn't yet responded to Newsbeat's request for a comment. The series has proved hugely popular since its release last month and is on track to beat Bridgerton to become Netflix's biggest original series. The plot sees a group of people tempted into a survival game where they have the chance to walk away with 45.6 billion Korean won (£29m) if they win a series of six games. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Squid Game subtitles 'change meaning' of Netflix show
Squid Game's "botched" subtitles have changed the show's meaning for English-speaking viewers, some Korean-speaking fans say.
The Korean-language drama is about an alternative world where people in debt compete in deadly games. But fluent Korean speaker Youngmi Mayer claims the closed-caption subtitles in English are "so bad" that the original meaning is often lost. Netflix hasn't yet responded to Newsbeat's request for a comment. The series has proved hugely popular since its release last month and is on track to beat Bridgerton to become Netflix's biggest original series. The plot sees a group of people tempted into a survival game where they have the chance to walk away with 45.6 billion Korean won (£29m) if they win a series of six games.Read that on the train this morning. It was the auto generated closed captions. Not the subtitles.
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Record number of China planes enter Taiwan air defence zone
Taiwan has urged Beijing to stop "irresponsible provocative actions" after a record number of Chinese warplanes entered its air defence zone.
Monday's incursion marks the fourth straight day of incursions by Chinese aircraft, with almost 150 aircraft sent into Taiwan's defence zone in total. Some analysts say the flights could be seen as a warning to Taiwan's president ahead of the island's national day. Beijing views Taiwan as a breakaway province. However, democratic Taiwan sees itself as a sovereign state. Taiwan has been reporting for more than a year that China's air force has been repeatedly flying nearby. -
'Chief dragon' is UK's oldest meat-eating dinosaur
More than half a century after first being unearthed from a Welsh quarry, four small fossil fragments have finally been assigned to a new species of dinosaur.
Researchers from London's Natural History Museum say Pendraig milnerae is the oldest meat-eating dinosaur ever discovered in the UK. It existed over 200 million years ago, their analysis suggests. The name Pendraig means "chief dragon" in Middle Welsh. The animal was very likely the apex, or top, predator in its environment. That said, it wasn't exactly a giant. Think of something chicken-sized with a very long tail. "It was a typical theropod; so, a meat-eating dinosaur that walked around on two legs, like T. rex or Velociraptor that you'll know from the movies, but much earlier in time," explained the NHM's Dr Stephan Spiekman. -
Stink bug discovery raises fears of threat to crops
A stink bug that can spoil crops and infest homes has been trapped in Surrey as part of a monitoring study.
The brown marmorated stink bug is native to Asia, but has spread to parts of Europe and the US, where it can destroy fruit crops. A lone stink bug was caught at RHS Garden Wisley this summer within weeks of the setting up of a pheromone trap. The adult may be a stowaway brought in on imported goods or part of an undiscovered local population. Dr Glen Powell, head of plant health at RHS Garden Wisley, said the stink bug may become commonplace in gardens and in homes within a decade. "This isn't a sudden invasion but potentially a gradual population build-up and spread, exacerbated by our warming world," he said. -
'Dragon Quest' music composer Koichi Sugiyama dies at 90
Japanese composer Koichi Sugiyama, best known for creating the music for the "Dragon Quest" video game series, died on Sept. 30 of septic shock. He was 90.
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China's Moon mission returned youngest ever lavas
The rock samples brought back from the Moon in December by China's Chang'e-5 mission were really young.
It's all relative, of course, but the analysis shows the basalt material - the solidified remnants of a lava flow - to be just two billion years old. Compare this with the samples returned by the Apollo astronaut missions. They were all over three billion years of age. The findings are reported in the journal Science. China's robotic Chang'e-5 mission was sent to a site on the lunar nearside called Oceanus Procellarum. It was carefully chosen to add to the sum of knowledge gained from previous sample returns - the last of which was conducted by a Soviet probe in 1976.
