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https://www.kgw.com/article/news/lo...tank/283-0d311b00-cb64-44e2-8bce-7536640ac022

 

[nsaspook]

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020...-wearing-bikini-under-see-through-gown-a70324

“The men in the ward had nothing against the medic’s outfit,” the Newstula.ru website reported, citing an unnamed person who shared the photo.

 

[sysprog]

:( This is what I get. Hope it wasn't important.

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If you're referring to the video posted by @fresh_42 in post #538, it played for me -- it showed chickens wearing and being fitted with flourescent traffic vests in case they managed to get out of their low-security fenced-in allotted barnyard, and then chanced to wander onto the paved road -- it showed some low-speed car drivers duly avoiding hitting them -- it appeared to me to be a semi-rural edge-of-village low-traffic area somewhere in Europe.

 

[BillTre]

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020...-wearing-bikini-under-see-through-gown-a70324

“The men in the ward had nothing against the medic’s outfit,” the Newstula.ru website reported, citing an unnamed person who shared the photo.

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1. Her excuse is a good one. I personally find PPE traps a lot of body heat.
2. I used to work in a lab in an non-air-conditioned building that got hot during the summer.
   There was a gal there who did the same thing, but with a normal opaque white lab coat.

 

[sysprog]

1. Her excuse is a good one. I personally find PPE traps a lot of body heat.
2. I used to work in a lab in an non-air-conditioned building that got hot during the summer.
   There was a gal there who did the same thing, but with a normal opaque white lab coat.

That physique is enough of an excuse.

 

[epenguin]

a driver... clocked at 130mph on the M25 told police he was speeding to “avoid catching coronavirus”.

https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/police-cancel-speeding-fines-coronavirus/

 

[jack action]

Professional sports are a joke:

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/gaming/audi-suspends-daniel-abt-after-he-cheated-online-race

Audi suspends Daniel Abt after he cheated in an online race

With no real-life electric car racing likely to take place for at least the next couple of months, since mid-April Formula-E has been hosting official online races as part of its ‘Race at Home Challenge’.

[...]

These races are contested by proper Formula-E drivers – the very same blokes who’d be racing for real had the series not been put on hold – using the rFactor2 PC sim, and taken just as seriously as the real thing.

[...]

Then the truth emerged – Abt wasn’t driving. He had enlisted a professional sim-racer called Lorenz Hoerzing to race in his car, under his name. On Sunday Abt, who’s been a Formula-E driver since 2014, was disqualified, stripped of his points and ordered to pay a €10,000 euro fine to charity.

[...]

And now Abt has been full-on suspended by Audi Sport, meaning he could well lose his seat when real-life racing eventually resumes.

 

[berkeman]

Yeah, last weekend I saw that "MotoGP" racing was going to be on Xfinity mid-day Sunday, and got all excited. Heck, even if it was going to be a repeat, I was going to watch since I haven't had TV access to the races for years. I set up to record it, and just happened to be home the day and time that it was starting.

I clicked into the race, and after about 5 seconds I realized that it was the video game version of MotoGP, with little live windows of the racers sitting at home with their video game controls. I said bad words...

https://www.roadracingworld.com/wp-...05/lumzeenecvc_image_1588349912-1920x1080.png

 

[phinds]

I said bad words...

Wait ... what? YOU said bad words? I'm shocked. Shocked I say.

 

[nsaspook]

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/06/01/video-tesla-model-3-crashes-into-overturned-truck/

According to a roughly translated excerpt from CNA, the driver was expecting the car to brake without his input.

"The police said that the driver of the Tesla electric vehicle, Huang, claimed to have the vehicle assist system turned on, and the speed was fixed at 110 kilometers per hour," the article says. "He thought that the car itself would detect the obstacle and automatically brake, but he was surprised that the car did not slow down."

From this passage, it sounds like the driver was using either adaptive cruise control or some form of Tesla's Autopilot driving assistance technology, though it was not directly named or confirmed. This type of speculation sprouts from Tesla's previous issues with its Autopilot system, which is not autonomous nor self-driving. Autopilot remains a safety-focused driver assistance program that requires driver attention at all times. Self-driving cars do not exist yet.

 

[sysprog]

I think that Tesla, Inc. is culpable for the misunderstanding. From https://www.tesla.com/autopilot:

Autopilot enables your car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically within its lane.​

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Current Autopilot features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.​

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and:

It seems to that something like this would be less dangerously irresponsible:

 

[jack action]

A convicted murderer who momentarily died says his life sentence has been served

An Iowa inmate serving a life sentence says he should be a free man after he became ill, momentarily died, and had to be revived at the hospital.

 

[Tom.G]

A convicted murderer who momentarily died says his life sentence has been served

Yeah, I read about that at the time (8 months ago) and can't fault his logic. Any follow-up on whether he got away with it?

 

[strangerep]

“The men in the ward had nothing against the medic’s outfit,”[...]

Yes -- that's why the gentleman in the background has his hands folded in a strategic position over his lap.

 

[sysprog]

Yeah, I read about that at the time (8 months ago) and can't fault his logic. Any follow-up on whether he got away with it?

The Appellate Court affirmed the decision to dismiss $-$
From https://cases.justia.com/iowa/court-of-appeals/2019-18-1824.pdf?ts=1573067396:

As such, the district court did not err in dismissing Schreiber’s PCR application because “no conceivable state of facts” support Schreiber’s claim. See Allison, 914 N.W.2d at 892. Schreiber is either alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is dead,³ in which case this appeal is moot.

³ Given Schreiber appears to have signed his name on the PCR application and his motion for reconsideration—both filed after his “death”—we find this possibility unlikely.​

 

[nsaspook]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/doj-indicts-founder-anti-money-174452828.html

DOJ Indicts Founder of Anti-Money Laundering Bitcoin Project for Money Laundering

 

[berkeman]

Uh-oh. Well, I guess "sharing is caring"...

https://abc7news.com/health/live-newsom-gives-covid-19-at-bay-area-motel/6284720/

 

[nsaspook]

Spoiler

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Teenager spends INR 1.6 million on PUBG in-app purchases

News article: https://indianexpress.com/article/t...khagar-pubg-16-lakh-in-app-purchases-6489572/

In a bizarre incident, a teenage boy from Punjab spent a whopping Rs 16 lakh on popular battle royale game PUBG making in-app purchases. The 17-year-old spent money from his parents’ account to buy in-game cosmetic items, artillery, passes for tournaments, and virtual ammunition...

The parents were unaware of the situation as the boy told his parents that he was using the smartphone for studying online during the lockdown... Making online transactions became easier for the boy as the bank details and card details were saved on the smartphone only. Most of the in-game transactions were made in a month’s period.

The boy’s parents revealed that they learned about the transactions upon receiving bank details. The boy would delete messages of transactions from their smartphones and often shuffled money between two accounts to avoid zeroing down the balance. The teenager also ended up emptying his mother’s provident fund and his own bank account.

 

[Tom.G]

A true learning experience... for the parents!

 

[Borg]

Celebrities and their baby names.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/08/sport/usain-bolt-baby-name-intl-scli-spt/index.html

 

[Ibix]

Not sure if this belongs here or in the cute animals thread:
https://news.sky.com/video/cat-help...-the-dean-of-canterbury-isnt-looking-12023114

 

[strangerep]

Celebrities and their baby names.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/08/sport/usain-bolt-baby-name-intl-scli-spt/index.html

"Olympia Lightning Bolt". So,... no pressure on the innocent little child then. Stay away from Maccas.

 

[BillTre]

Shocking!

 

[fresh_42]

 

[fresh_42]

No joke: Someone blackmailed the Deutsche Bank. He demanded 1,000,000 €. And he added his true bank account data at the same institute for the transfer.

Maybe it's even funnier that he got away with a monetary fine. Next blackmail will be on € 1,004,500.

 

[jack action]

Helicopter removes ‘Into the Wild’ bus that lured Alaska travelers to their deaths

There were 15 bus-related search and rescue operations by the state between 2009 and 2017, according to Feige’s department.

In April, a Brazilian tourist was evacuated from the bus by helicopter. And last year, a newlywed woman from Belarus died after being swept away while trying to cross the Teklanika River on her way to the bus.

Another hiker drowned in 2010.

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[fresh_42]

Welcome to the EU, Tom!