Non-IT News Thread
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Canadian company gets patent to build the world's first space elevator
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/canadian-company-patent-build-space-elevator-article-1.2330962
I read the article and found it lacking, so I dug the patent number up and read the patent. This is interesting.
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Rumor was that someone starting making one years ago. The news petered out though and people seem to have forgotten about it.
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Parts of California's Central Valley are sinking faster than ever before.
that will cause a problem.
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The Genesee Valley sank a lot while we were in high school there.
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@g.jacobse said:
Parts of California's Central Valley are sinking faster than ever before.
that will cause a problem.
See also: Florida. When you pump out all the groundwater, there is nothing left to hold up the surface. That's how you get sinkholes.
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Greece's Prime Minister has stepped down and new elections will be happening. His political party has split and a new party whose platform is to not meet Greece's financial obligations and to default intentionally is now running for government.
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damn we are in for a world of hurt!
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Are we? Could be good for us.
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Ashley Madison: Canadian Law Firms File $578 Million Lawsuit Against Extramarital Affair Site
Two firms filed the class-action lawsuit Thursday against Avid Dating Life and Avid Life Media after the data breach revealed about 39 million memberships earlier this week, The Guardian reports.
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Most unfaithful states per capita...
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Amazing that Alabama and Mississippi are so disparate here considering most Americans see them as a single place.
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Foo fighters RickRoll Westboro baptist church
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/foo-fighters-take-on-the-westboro-baptist-church-protesters/story-fn907478-1227495719327 -
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Ashley Madison: 2 Suicides Reported After Dating Site Hacking Controversy, Toronto Police Say
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Arrest made in Rochester NY Mass shooting (7 people shot, 3 of whom died). Person arrested was not the attacker, but defending self from drive by shooter(s).
http://www.twcnews.com/nys/rochester/news/2015/08/22/genesee-street-shooting-arrest.html
Which quickly implies self defense (and defense of others) worthless in NY as you'll still be arrested. ....
"Just stand there and die damn it"
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@DustinB3403 said:
Which quickly implies self defense (and defense of others) worthless in NY as you'll still be arrested.
It implies nothing of the sort. He wasn't arrested for shooting in self defense, he was arrested for illegally owning a firearm and carrying it! Just because you do one thing in self defense does not mean you should be exempt from other laws. Doesn't look like the police did anything wrong here.
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I know that SAM, and was going to follow up but got side tracked.
Yes he had the weapon illegally, yes he shouldn't have shot in public. Yet how is anyone supposed to defend them self when being fired at. Legally owning the weapon or not.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Yet how is anyone supposed to defend them self when being fired at. Legally owning the weapon or not.
You just..... fire. What's the problem? Why are you asking this question? You are allowed to defend yourself. And this is a great example, he did and he got in no trouble for it.
You seem to be implying that there is some lack of right of self defense here, but this case very clearly supports that self defense is obviously legal.
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@DustinB3403 said:
...yes he shouldn't have shot in public.
No one has suggested that actually. Had he had a legal weapon he could quite certainly have used it in public.
