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No problem. Watch Looney Tunes, Wile E. is on meth anyway.berkeman said:I'll never be able to watch a Disney cartoon again...![]()
Probably because *** (censored, due to political sarcasm) ...berkeman said:Well, this is a new approach...
https://abc7news.com/weather/police...ls-to-hold-off-until-after-heat-wave/5408228/
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/national-news/loud-fart-gives-away-suspect-s-hiding-spot-leads-to-arrestLoud fart gives away suspect's hiding spot, leads to arrest
berkeman said:
The traveler, a resident of Jacksonville, Texas, told TSA officials he was an active military personnel member traveling home from Kuwait, and he wanted to keep the missile launcher as a souvenir.
Yes, but let your dog choose which one!Borg said:I wonder if I should buy a lottery ticket.![]()
The android Kannon, based on the Buddhist deity of mercy, preaches sermons at Kodaiji temple in Kyoto, and its human colleagues predict that with artificial intelligence it could one day acquire unlimited wisdom.
A case of karma police!berkeman said:You have to love these stories...
https://www.kron4.com/news/national/man-impersonating-officer-pulls-over-van-full-of-cops/
Littering is always bad...Littering by throwing a used diaper out of the car window right in front of a police officer is asking for a ticket...especially when diaper hits said police officer’s .
I think the name of the town helps explain it.berkeman said:You have to love these stories...
https://www.kron4.com/news/national/man-impersonating-officer-pulls-over-van-full-of-cops/
I hate to see young people haven't paid any attention in their basic physics classes!nsaspook said:Hurry hurry its on fire!
Political events can take a serious toll on mental health, a doctor has warned in the journal BMJ Case Reports, after treating a man with a brief episode of acute psychosis, triggered by the 2016 Referendum on Brexit—the process of the UK leaving the European Union (EU).
This is why I refuse to watch The Trump Show on the nightly news.fresh_42 said:Acute psychotic illness triggered by Brexit Referendum
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-10-acute-psychotic-illness-triggered-brexit.html
To me, nothing captures our news and social media ecosystem quite like this photo:
Reporter Valiery Portlock and impersonator even Worsluckberkeman said:You have to love these stories...
https://www.kron4.com/news/national/man-impersonating-officer-pulls-over-van-full-of-cops/
Although the "fine print" says "Updated Jan 10, 2019; Posted Dec 02, 2014", I can't see that anything new has been added in the last 5 years.fresh_42 said:I have looked for an alternative read for EU readers. I found
https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2014/12/beaverton_mans_federal_lawsuit.html
He's almost 90 and still doing research? Wow!OmCheeto said:Although the "fine print" says "Updated Jan 10, 2019; Posted Dec 02, 2014", I can't see that anything new has been added in the last 5 years.
Updates from my listed article:
"The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), which makes the traffic control policies for the United States and other countries, notified Järlström that he’s right: drivers often get caught in a no man’s land when trying to make a turn and they end up running red lights."
The following is pretty funny:
"Järlström forged ahead and got a big victory several years ago when Professor Alexei Maradudin — one of the engineers who wrote the original formula used to determine the duration of yellow lights — told ITE his 1959 equation was never meant to regulate vehicles making turns."
So, it took someone born in Sweden, now living half way around the world, to fix a 60 year old engineering problem.
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ps. Professor Alexei Maradudin was born on Dec 11, 1931, and would have been about 28, when this "yellow light" formula, was formulated.
He's currently @ University of California, Irvine
Research Professor, Physics & Astronomy
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Yes, but https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/beaverton-man-wins-battle-to-change-yellow-lights/ is invisible in the EU, which is why I looked for an alternative.OmCheeto said:Although the "fine print" says "Updated Jan 10, 2019; Posted Dec 02, 2014", I can't see that anything new has been added in the last 5 years.
Is that the right to be forgotten?fresh_42 said:Yes, but https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/beaverton-man-wins-battle-to-change-yellow-lights/ is invisible in the EU, which is why I looked for an alternative.
I guess so. Those things happen if a bunch of jobless bureaucrats make laws about things they have as much knowledge of as da Vinci had of an A380. Similar damage is currently done in several countries by abandoning net neutrality. We have reached a stage at which technological developments outrun political personal of ancient Athens.WWGD said:Is that the right to be forgotten?
I hear google gets tons ( hundreds of thousands) of requests over the last frw years for them to remove info about themselves( the people).fresh_42 said:I guess so. Those things happen if a bunch of jobless bureaucrats make laws about things they have as much knowledge of as da Vinci had of an A380. Similar damage is currently done in several countries by abandoning net neutrality. We have reached a stage at which technological developments outrun political personal of ancient Athens.
I can imagine. But this doesn't mean that I understand it. It's like those people drinking diet coke or eating fat reduced cheese. Either you don't drink or eat it at all, and there may be reasons for it, or you accept that coke has sugar and cheese has fat. If you don't want to tell the world who you are, then just ... ... shut up.WWGD said:I hear google gets tons ( hundreds of thousands) of requests over the last frw years for them to remove info about themselves( the people).
This isn't the right to be forgotten, it's the right to privacy. You need to offer an opt-out for all the data collection done for "behavioural advertising", since it turns out to be personally identifying even when anonymised. A few US sites seem to implement this by saying "your custom is important to us... go away".fresh_42 said:If you don't want to tell the world who you are, then just ... ... shut up.
Then it's the cookie annoyance, not much better. I don't think it makes a lot of sense to ask for acceptance each time you want to read something. I hate this extra click.Ibix said:This isn't the right to be forgotten, it's the right to privacy.
I like being able to turn off tracking cookies. However, I have to say I don't see why they didn't just require browsers to set "do not track" as default on machines intended for/downloading from the EU and add legal consequences to companies that don't respect it.fresh_42 said:Then it's the cookie annoyance, not much better. I don't think it makes a lot of sense to ask for acceptance each time you want to read something. I hate this extra click.
Your agency in Oregon has a stuck-up problem, ( or had one )OmCheeto said:So, it took someone born in Sweden, now living half way around the world, to fix a 60 year old engineering problem
I don't understand why you have to get the acceptance of someone who chooses to save a piece of information (the cookie) on his/her computer. The website can send as many cookies as it wants, it cannot force anyone to save it, the browser does.fresh_42 said:Then it's the cookie annoyance, not much better. I don't think it makes a lot of sense to ask for acceptance each time you want to read something. I hate this extra click.
This is exactly what usually happens, only that the little pop-up isn't so little and covers the entire page, and in some cases, site owners preferred to code the one liner "if EU then BLOCK" instead. The website asks you to accept cookies. It's annoying. I have to clean the cookie stack anyway from time to time, even if I would always choose the "no" option, because I'm not surfing exclusively on EU sites and even then, I often want to read the site regardless of the cookies. It's annoying. And it is senseless. It's like shopping a load of "normal" food and plus a fat-free yoghurt on top and pretending it is healthy. Ridiculous. If you don't want to get wet, don't go swimming! Nobody is forced to surf on the internet. Buy a newspaper instead!jack action said:So how come a browser let me choose if I accept or not that some website can send me notifications or can geolocalize me, but cannot do the same thing with cookies? I would love to see a little pop-up saying 'This site wants to save a cookie on your computer, accept it?
Hear, hear!fresh_42 said:It's like shopping a load of "normal" food and plus a fat-free yoghurt on top and pretending it is healthy. [insert]+1[/]insert]Ridiculous. If you don't want to get wet, don't go swimming![insert]+2[/insert] Nobody is forced to surf on the internet.[insert]+3[/insert] Buy a newspaper instead!
Not really, because the management of the decision you took is left to the website owner. If it was done at the browser level, once you accept or not a cookie from a given URL, the decision is stored in your browser, easy peasy, you will never be asked again.fresh_42 said:This is exactly what usually happens