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Normal belt vacuum cleaners run the risk of frying components from the static electricity a belt generates. And they do generate a lot of static electricity. Back at school the Van Wossname Sphere was charged by the belt from an old vacuum cleaner and that packed nearly as much kick as an electric fence. OTOH Dyson® brand vacuum cleaners should- at least theoretically- be fine for cleaning electronics, since they us John Dyson®'s patented cyclonic® system instead of a belt.

Yeah, I mean ST and Farscape kind of sound similar if you give a short description but tonally and philosophically they're radically different from each other. Farscape was inspired by Blake's 7, an old British sci fi show about... a bunch of convicts on a space ship running away from a galactic authority. In B7 they happened to be running away from... the Federation, who were basically an evil version of Star Trek's Federation complete with a very similar logo to Starfleet. So the similar descriptions are because B7 and Farscape (and Firefly, also inspired by B7) are near literally Through a Glass Darkly versions of Trek.

It is getting a fair way towards being 'unclustered' now. There's only really two questions left- what happens with the rebel area in the north and the kurd/ sdf area in the north east- and while they're decently large and important questions that's a lot lot less than there was. The no fly zone was always, to coin a phrase, pie in the sky. The Turkish incident was a different scale and could be (and was) dealt with by soft options like sanctions- which saw Erdogan, posturing and strutting like a pearooster immediately after, calling Putin a great friend and apologising a year later. Putin doesn't want a fight with the US as he's neither suicidal nor stupid, but it's also absolutely clear that it isn't the 90s any longer. As much as Trump threatened to bomb Russians in Syria that was in response to Russia saying they'd sink US ships and shoot down US planes if attacked (in theory pretty obvious, but as I said a lot of people seem to think nobody would ever retaliate). Don't think anyone would want to find out if Putin would back down or not if it came right down to it, but I'm thanking Mattis for going option A and making sure we never found out anyway. (Personally, I think Putin absolutely would retaliate if Trump went option C or if Hillary tried an actual no fly zone as well)

And supposedly was going to directly attack the Russians in Syria in April as well, plus threatened to wipe North Korea out. None of those have actually happened though, it was all talk (and in the Venezuela case, talk as related from 'anonymous sources' too). So long as it remains just talk it's... just talk. Yep, and they were the only times he's had close to universal praise from the press too which is just as telling. Unsurprisingly the 2018 Douma attack wasn't a nerve gas/ chlorine mix as claimed (obvious to anyone with basic chemistry knowledge) plus 40% of the victims in the previous Khan Sheikhoun attack turned up to hospital before the attack took place- never once mentioned in the press so far as I have seen, but confirmed by the OPCW albeit buried in the appendix and not mentioned in the body of the report nor the summary. I dunno how Hillary would have handled Syria when it came right down to it and she had to actually do something rather than just appear tough, but most of the rosy projections for sweeping victory for the moderate western vetted head choppers after a no fly zone was imposed involve people making the assumption that Putin would simply back down if threatened hard enough. Which betrays an absolutely fundamental misunderstanding of Putin.

Yeah, Trump's considerably worse in terms of verbal compost and near Yeltsinesque capering than GWB was (neither Trump nor Bush got arrested drunk in their underwear outside the Kremlin though, the advantage of being teetotalers). Then again, if that was the worst thing about either man, or Yeltsin, nobody would really care and either would be a decent leader. But for all his many problems Trump hasn't started a war that killed and displaced millions and left the middle east even more destabilised- well, hasn't started one yet at least- and until he does he's better than Bush. And, of course, it was the people he had the good grace to surround himself with, Cheney, Rummy, Wolfy, who really pushed for that war. I'd far rather have had any number more faux pas than Iraq War 2003.

The top Euro clubs in the top leagues could do with at least a bit more regulation. In theory they're meant to live within their means and not overspend via being owned by [billionaire] but in practice that's not enforced and most of the top clubs are unsustainable without cash injections or leveraged up to the eyeballs. Won't take much misfortune to make them insolvent. Why ? The big team screwed up and is punished and the plucky underdog managed to work their way to the top! It's a different situation where football isn't so popular, and you also have to consider sponsorship and the like. You don't want to kill support somewhere like New York and you don't want sponsors not having access to that market; somewhere like the EPL though there's both committed fanatical fans of teams and almost always multiple teams for any large population centre as well. I'd use Australia as an example, if Perth got relegated a city of 2 million+ would have no team and the closest one would be thousands of km away in Adelaide, there are multiple other codes competing for attention (AFL and cricket especially) and it practically wouldn't be a national league any more. It's not like the EPL/ Championship where you could have a former European Cup winner like Notts Forest get promotion. (yes, the whole thing runs counter to how 'free market competition' is meant to work, but that's hardly a surprise since that's pretty much never how it does work)

Really though, Amazon at the moment is dreadful. Riddled with counterfeits, resold fake returns (especially computer components) that have never been checked and fly by night scam artists using the marketplace with no supervision. Garbage wages and conditions get garbage results from staff and they want more documentation that their scams are scams than they want to open a seller account in the first place. It's even worse than steam is, except for Amazon having a fantastic refund policy; which they wouldn't need so much of if the rest of its service- and its absolute core service- hadn't fallen off a cliff.

Did you have opinion pieces in respectable papers etc saying so or just in right wing National Enquirer/ Drudge Report type places though? Business Insider is not the best regarded, and Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies (ie no, he didn't commit treason, as anyone who doesn't have their head up Hillary's bum on the payroll of Shareblue could tell) but still, it is pretty mainstream and not pure outrage trolling like Vice etc. Perhaps the most troubling aspect of it is that the only thing Trump has done that has earned near universal praise is to chuck tomahawks at Syria, which is an utterly dreadful lesson to teach politicians.

Saying it makes think tankers heads explode with rage though, and that's such a colossal plus I cannot bring myself to care about it being 'impolite'. It's fact, and at some point it has to be stated as fact. And for all the outrage he is kind of right (facpov, of course) about most of the controversial stuff he has said; Germany is reliant on Russia for energy and won't not be for the forseeable future and that along with their military being... ill prepared gives Russia a huge advantage when dealing with them, the EU is a rival, the list of countries who have had the US interfere in their elections is longer than those invaded by Britain and included that moron Yeltsin's election in 1996 where US intervention was about as overt as you get short of an actual coup. Realistically there will be a European Army at some point, and that's fact. As soon as that happens the time is ticking on NATO, and it won't be the US pulling out. It just outrages some people to have it said out loud.

And people still vote for this douche waffle. Which douche waffle, Captain Orange or the Ankara Watermelon Seller? I'll say this for Trump, he's 100% correct about the EU being a rival of the US and anyone who doesn't accept that is naive.

6 is the one answer that can never be correct as if you have two consecutive 'none of the above are true' statements only the first one can ever be right* (since if right it consequently makes the second one wrong per its own postulation of none above being correct). So if any of answers 1-4 is correct then both 5 & 6 have to be wrong, if none of them are correct then 5 has to be correct, and since 5 is correct this makes 6 wrong. *so long as there is at least one statement above

You're an unlicensed anaesthesiologist using non specific doses on whoever you come across no matter their weight or susceptibility or whether or not they are taking incompatible medications and I bet the sleeping agent has not had any sort of rigorous scientific testing either- some anaesthetic toxicity and adverse reaction is to be expected. I for one appreciate Arkane putting this feature into their game as it widens awareness of this very real problem.

I can't imagine Juncker getting drunk and dancing in his underwear like Jelcyn though. Or maybe my mind refuses the image. Trump's obvious negotiation tactics- gotta play one side against another- and grandstanding are obvious, and about as subtle as a herd of elephant in a bottle store. After all what are they going to do, kick the US from NATO?

If it's the case I'd heard of previously his 'suicide attempt' involved driving his car into an oncoming vehicle on a motorway- killing its occupants but not himself. That's why he got the death sentence, not for a suicide attempt per se.

I'll be backing France as well, well done to Croatia getting to the final but I just plain don't like them as a team. "It's my last ever game, might as well go out doing something I've always wanted to..."

1st season was the worst, and time travel is inherently confusing hence it being 'slammed'. I haven't seen the 4th season but it's definitely worth watching up to then. I do prefer the movie, but that movie is one of my absolute favourites.

There was a 'scientific' study (almost certainly ghost written by Nestle themselves, taking a leaf out of cigarette 'science') that said formula was better than breast milk and iirc it was extensively marketed as such in the 80s. Doctors/ hospitals also regularly give new mothers 'free' formula (taking a leaf out of crack cocaine dealer methodology) but just enough so that when used natural lactation stops and they are, therefore, forced to buy formula milk from then on; and they also used the same tricks and marketed extensively in areas with unsafe water resulting in (and who would have thunk it) lots of babies getting sick from the bad water used in hydrating the formula. There's a reason Nestle is utterly loathed, and that summary doesn't cover the half of it.

b00bies? More like Devil's Dumplings. As the artiocle briefly says it's probably not the risk of impressionable kids being corrupted by a surreptitious glimpse of Charlies, Bristol Bits or Mammaries when a baby feeds that is the problem, but the secondary part of the resolution; to whit, not being allowed to falsely claim that formula is better than mother's milk- formula which makes a bunch of corps and dairying a lot of money. Nestlé being the best known perp, but others play the same tricks and the have to source their milk somewhere.

I dunno what she did wrong, nothing wrong with hating your customers. Gamers are useful trash to be exploited, after all You do have to dress it up in MBA language and be in management to actually say that though, it's bad PR if you make it obvious and mere devs are not far enough up the food chain to get away with it. One person hating Infinity War, one person loving it. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

I suspect the Russian footballers are in for some sort of bonus given how low they were ranked. They definitely made the most of their team which cannot be said for many others that have been knocked out or didn't even make it. No Russia v England makes me sad, the chance was there for maximised awkwardness. In terms of 'rewards' I'd be a lot more worried about the Saudi team ending up on a trip to Sana'a or Hodeidah after their performance. (The Russian coach would make a great dictator though, he looks like a cross between Belarus's Lukashenko and Yemen's Ali Saleh and was not exactly the most verbose interview in the world)

They already have brought back paid mods via the 'Creation Club'.

Nothing has been cancelled, they're just re-evaluating forthcoming projects- most of which have not even been formally announced anyway. It probably means no annual releases (for a while) but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

France will roll through Belgium like Louis Quatorze reborn. Hopes and prayers for England and Russia to win their quarters, the god of lulz demands it.

Funny thing is that much like the Prequels in general Jar Jar has largely been rehabilitated by the fans. TPM is not a good movie, but I've always thought that it really suffered perception wise from having The Matrix release just before it with the Matrix being 'cool' and TPM being so kitsch in comparison. She absolutely should go, but not for any rage inducing reasons. Her primary goal was to keep the franchise successful financially and instead it's declined notably in that respect. In particular having two directors with diametrically opposed views for TFA/ TLJ was abjectly moronic; complaints about 'forced diversity' and the like would have no weight if it was being run well otherwise.

Yeah, Best was not going to be recognised by the vast majority of people since he was playing a CGI character, and most people simply wouldn't recognise his name. I have a lot less sympathy for him than for Tran who has played a 'hated' character in the social media age or Jake Lloyd, who was a kid and does seem to have been effected quite badly by things (then again, child stardom is seldom a path to mental stability). In all cases the primary blame for the characters' failure as characters lies on the writer/ director, since it would be doubtful anyone could have made their characters successful without a rewrite or Fordesque disdain for bad writing (and of course none of them had Ford's clout). I've actually read two articles and in both it's clear Best was primarily disappointed with how Jar Jar was received and took it personally- rather than being the subject of personal abuse. The framing and undertone of the articles is one of those contextual things, there's been a fairly consistent attempt to frame dislike of TLJ as being neck beard misogyny because so many people loathed Rose and Holdo (and want to get rid of Kathleen Kennedy; a load of old bollocks since Lucas, Jar Jar and Anakin all got pilloried as much if not more), and as professional reviewers and entertainment writers largely loved it but it was highly divisive to fans. But, if the people who didn't like it were all bullying women haters stuck in the past that means they're wrong, their opinion can be disregarded and the entertainment writers were right all along. And at worst all the haters might just shut up in case they get accused of being bullies.