Gfted1 Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 Today’s the day when Boeing’s Starliner takes to the skies. Probably | Ars Technica 2 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted May 19, 2022 Share Posted May 19, 2022 2 hours ago, Gfted1 said: Today’s the day when Boeing’s Starliner takes to the skies. Probably | Ars Technica Hmm, I wonder what Michael O'Leary would have to say? "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Huge Ancient Forest World Discovered 630 Feet Down Sinkhole In China (unilad.co.uk) 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted May 21, 2022 Author Share Posted May 21, 2022 Isn't Florida full of sinkholes? I seem to remember reading something about it just being a big sponge with a bit of vegetation on top “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 9 minutes ago, Gorth said: I seem to remember reading something about it just being a big sponge with a bit of vegetation on top You're describing the people, not the land. 5 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 2 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 How Cat Litter Could Fight Climate Change - ExtremeTech 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 I can see why Will left. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 1 killed and 31 others — including 13-year-old boy — wounded by gunfire over weekend in Chicago - Chicago Sun-Times (suntimes.com) Rookies. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Just because I like some supercuts with music... 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 One Teacher’s Brilliant Strategy to Stop Future School Shootings—and It’s Not About Guns This seems like a great idea. 2 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 5 minutes ago, Guard Dog said: One Teacher’s Brilliant Strategy to Stop Future School Shootings—and It’s Not About Guns This seems like a great idea. Too much work compared to giving SROs a support weapon. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted May 30, 2022 Author Share Posted May 30, 2022 Most famous drinking song ever to come out of London? “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Johnny Depp Amber Heard Trial Result: Depp Awarded $15 Million (gizmodo.com) "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Gfted1 said: Johnny Depp Amber Heard Trial Result: Depp Awarded $15 Million (gizmodo.com) Well that ought to pay for a few cocaine sessions. 1 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted June 2, 2022 Author Share Posted June 2, 2022 On 5/29/2022 at 1:41 AM, Guard Dog said: One Teacher’s Brilliant Strategy to Stop Future School Shootings—and It’s Not About Guns This seems like a great idea. The old English accountant who invented sports analytics after WWI was mocked for his teams playstyle at the beginning. Today, the most successful sports clubs, regardless of whether it's Football or NFL, use it. Don't underestimate the ability to see the patterns of this world... https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61648608.amp Charles Reep: The military accountant who brought data analysis to English game 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 World's Largest Four-Day Work Week Trial Begins in UK (gizmodo.com) "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 UFO at the Miami Air and Sea Show? - The Debrief 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 (edited) Hmm...interesting. I know sounds and sometimes dialogue are done in studio after filming etc, but I always thought the screams were at least dubbed by the actors themselves. Guess not, most of the time (at least in modern times). Makes sense to be sound effects in a manner of speaking, but still weird. Edited June 7, 2022 by LadyCrimson “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Rats wearing tiny backpacks with microphones are being trained to find earthquake survivors (upworthy.com) 2 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 4 hours ago, Raithe said: Rats wearing tiny backpacks with microphones are being trained to find earthquake survivors (upworthy.com) Great, I can look forward to rats crawling over me as I suffocate to death under rubble. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 NYC Cancer Trial Delivers ‘Unheard-of' Result: Complete Remission for Everyone Quote According to the NEJM paper and the Times report, all 12 patients had rectal cancer that had not spread beyond the local area, and their tumors all exhibited a mutation affecting the ability of cells to repair damage to DNA. After being treated with the drug, dostarlimab, all 12 are now in complete remission, with no surgery or chemotherapy, no severe side effects — and no trace of cancer whatsoever anywhere in their body. 1 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted June 10, 2022 Author Share Posted June 10, 2022 Welcome to the time machine... aka retro tech. When the compact disc was new and revolutionary (1982) 2 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 The rise of youth cage-fighting 'couldn't help but think o' the line from highlander. "the kurgans were an ancient people from the steppes of russia. for amusement they tossed children into pits with hungry dogs to fight for meat." back in the 70s our grandmother had to be convinced to let us join youth wrestling. am trying to imagine her reaction to cage fighting. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 2 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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