Non-IT News Thread

[scottalanmiller]

@dbeato said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Virginia is for lovers means something very different if you actually live there.

That is messed up...

This is why I never, ever want to be in VA. Every time I deal with something there, this is exactly what I expect. I've had friends abducted and raped there, people abused and literally kept prisoners in chains, it's a sick, sick culture that happens there.

[scottalanmiller]

San Antonio and Houston getting snow!!

http://www.kens5.com/weather/snow-falls-in-sa-power-out-on-citys-north-side/497685358

[mlnews]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/bitcoin-surges-to-15000-a-25-percent-rise-in-48-hours/

[JaredBusch]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/do-it-elon-musk-just-dared-boeing-ceo-make-good-his-claims-reaching-mars-before-spacex-1650677

[JaredBusch]

http://www.adweek.com/digital/anheuser-busch-orders-40-electric-self-driving-semi-trucks-from-tesla/

[JaredBusch]

3 people dead, 1 injured in knife attack at Tokyo shrine

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20171208/p2g/00m/0dm/002000c

[mlnews]

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/12/elon-musk-says-teslas-ai-chips-will-be-the-best-in-the-world/

[mlnews]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/this-years-flu-season-is-upon-us-and-it-looks-bad-heres-what-you-should-know/

[mlnews]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/top-selling-handgun-safe-can-be-remotely-opened-in-seconds-no-pin-needed/

[black3dynamite]

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/netflix-fires-exec-company-didn-rape-claims-article-1.3694565

[mlnews]

Disney has bought the entertainment business from Fox.

[EddieJennings]

@mlnews Heard about that on WSB. As long as I hear my full fanfare for 20th Century Fox movies, I'm fine with it.

[dafyre]

@eddiejennings said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews Heard about that on WSB. As long as I hear my full fanfare for 20th Century Fox movies, I'm fine with it.

I see future movies with Scrat running around the Fox logo when the fanfare plays.

[mlnews]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/iss-astronauts-will-get-their-own-star-wars-premiere-in-space/

[scottalanmiller]

Amtrak train falls off of a bridge onto US I5

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42401707

[scottalanmiller]

[scottalanmiller]

[scottalanmiller]

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-42360542/washington-train-crash-we-could-feel-cars-crumpling

[scottalanmiller]

[scottalanmiller]

Sheriff said that train cars are out in the woods, too.