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"The "fastest ever" broadband speeds have been achieved in a test in London, raising hopes of more efficient data transfer via existing infrastructure.

Alcatel-Lucent and BT said speeds of 1.4 terabits per second were achieved during their joint test - enough to send 44 uncompressed HD films a second."

Greenblatt’s provocative idea — that psychiatric woes can be solved by targeting the digestive system — is increasingly reinforced by cutting-edge science. For decades, researchers have known of the connection between the brain and the gut. Anxiety often causes nausea and diarrhea, and depression can change appetite. The connection may have been established, but scientists thought communication was one way: it traveled from the brain to the gut, and not the other way around.

Ignore Global Warming, Floods are caused by Gay Marriages.

He put up a list of requirements: the girl should be under 25, over 1.68 meters tall, less than 50 kilograms, and “sweet,” with at least a bachelor’s degree.

Some people have too much money.
http://www.odditycentral.com/news/chinese-rich-kid-offers-170000-to-rent-a-girlfriend-for-upcoming-spring-festival.html (http://www.odditycentral.com/news/chinese-rich-kid-offers-170000-to-rent-a-girlfriend-for-upcoming-spring-festival.html)

I suppose this comes into the category of "Wonderful".

'Fastest ever' broadband passes speed test

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2014-01-24, 14:41:18

Some people have too much money.
http://www.odditycentral.com/news/chinese-rich-kid-offers-170000-to-rent-a-girlfriend-for-upcoming-spring-festival.html (http://www.odditycentral.com/news/chinese-rich-kid-offers-170000-to-rent-a-girlfriend-for-upcoming-spring-festival.html)

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I think I've dated her!
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On Russian toilet design; in one venue I visited I saw another weird toilet system. Look at one of those pedestals, and imagine not a seat, but two foot holds on other side of the bowl; all this in a cubicle where the top of the cubical was about 1m above the height of the toilet. It was all very puzzling to me and somewhat of a relief when I had worked it through.

Usually (I mean in the 80's when I used to visit Russia more often) they just have holes in the floor. No walls, no barriers, just a sh*tty dark hall with a sh*tload of sh*tholes. Knowing Russian mentality, I assumed that central Moscow would have more civilised toilets, but no, the same sh*tty format even in the main railway station facing the West - and that I saw around the turn of the millennium last time.

When you enter that kind of hall of sh*t, you immediately get the impression that under the sh*tty floor is another hall as large, entirely consisting of pure sh*t. That's the right impression, btw. You also begin to wonder if the floor of the hall of sh*t will hold or maybe you fall and land into pure sh*t. Well, the floor never failed when I was visiting those places. Be brave! And don't fall through those holes.

Russian and myself as its representative grant you permission to use the word "govno"

North Carolina cops are searching for a guy who successfully passed a $200 bill bearing George W. Bush's portrait and a drawing of the White House complete with lawn signs reading "We like ice cream" and "USA deserves a tax cut." The phony Bush bill--a copy of which you'll find below--was presented to a cashier at a Food Lion in Roanoke Rapids on September 6 by an unidentified male who was seeking to pay for $150 in groceries. Remarkably, the cashier accepted the counterfeit note and gave the man $50 change

I thought a 10k must have a Bush on it?

Who hasn't been to Europe yet, beware the toilets - they don't accord to our mindset!
... Stuttgart, a minor need forced me to attend one of those biotoilets on the street. One-person cabin, very tidy, shiny and clean, packed with sensors, run by a computer.  You insert e2 in the slot, doors automatically open, lights up, you enter, the doors close.
I don't do claustrophoby, however, as I, for all my life, specialise in electronics and soft engeneering, it does make me a bit nervous. Well, I'm done, ready to go, but can't see any button to exit. Nor manuals. Am I an idiot? need instructions?
Trying to apply logic - how the Germans wrote the exec? Well, in again, up the lid, dump the water, lid down. Is any sensor stuck? Repeat the 'subroutine'; doors won't open.
Perhaps I should sit back again, then dump the water? At that again; doors won't open. Doh. Forgot something? Perhaps wash the hands?
Once more the procedure; hands to the tap, water flows, water off, in hope and upset looking at the door - nothing...
Great expectations to spend the night in the posh German dump-closet aren't cheering at all.
Yelling to my comrade who's waiting outdoors (lucky one!): "Zhenia, this bitch won't let me out!"
He's trying to bribe the WC - with another coin into the slot. The machine won't yield, doesn't react. The punches and kicks don't do anything either.
Zhenia shouts: "Hold on! Calling the police!"
Nothing to do - I repeat the process: wash the hands, use the 'dry-air'... The fan off, door open.

The mysterious case of the double toilet (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25848800)

Amusing article, and speaking of humour he writes:
"Russians like to complain and to criticise people in power. But they also love to laugh - and that includes the ability to laugh at themselves.".

I can vouch for that, having once been a fairly frequent visitor.

On Russian toilet design; in one venue I visited I saw another weird toilet system. Look at one of those pedestals, and imagine not a seat, but two foot holds on other side of the bowl; all this in a cubicle where the top of the cubical was about 1m above the height of the toilet. It was all very puzzling to me and somewhat of a relief when I had worked it through.

Just your typical every day conversation about food......

Germany to start spying on US: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-considers-counterespionage-measures-against-united-states-a-953985.html

Talking about weird and wonderful I see that a woman of 25 think it was went to her local police station in South Carolina to report a crime. As they checked they then arrested her due to a warrant for not returning a VHS video hire when she was 18. She then had to spend a night in jail and is not very happy. Is this kind of daftness routine??

Kayla Michelle Finley may be wishing that services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime had been around a little earlier.
The South Carolina woman spent a night in jail last week for failing to return a video she rented -- in 2005.
It was a VHS tape. Of a Jennifer Lopez movie.
Finley, 27, was arrested Thursday in Pickens County, South Carolina, on a misdemeanor charge of failure to return the video.
The movie, "Monster-In-Law," starring Lopez and Jane Fonda as a feuding potential daughter- and mother-in-law, was rented from a video store, Dalton Videos, that is now out of business.

Researchers like Thompson think of the Cold Atom Lab as a doorway into the quantum world. Could the door swing both ways? If the temperature drops low enough, "we'll be able to assemble atomic wave packets as wide as a human hair—that is, big enough for the human eye to see." A creature of quantum physics will have entered the macroscopic world.

http://phys.org/news/2014-02-coldest-universe.html

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Researchers like Thompson think of the Cold Atom Lab as a doorway into the quantum world. Could the door swing both ways? If the temperature drops low enough, "we'll be able to assemble atomic wave packets as wide as a human hair—that is, big enough for the human eye to see." A creature of quantum physics will have entered the macroscopic world.

The term British Isles is controversial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute) in Ireland, where there are objections to its usage due to the association of the word British with Ireland. The Government of Ireland does not recognise or use the term* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles#cite_note-Written_Answers_-_Official_Terms-15) and its embassy in London discourages its use. As a result, "Britain and Ireland" is used as an alternative description,* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles#cite_note-postwarculture-14)* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles#cite_note-reformationBI-17)* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles#cite_note-18) and "Atlantic Archipelago" has had limited use among a minority in academia,* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles#cite_note-Acrossthemargins-19)* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles#cite_note-Archipelagicidentities-20)* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles#cite_note-EnglishIdentity-21)* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles#cite_note-BritishAtlantic-22) although British Isles is still commonly employed. Within them, they are also sometimes referred to as "these islands".

How politics "corrects" geography (not exactly "new news"):

I'm not an expert in Ireland's history, but from what I've so far learned, Ireland have mostly played, say, a secondary role in "global politics" - since the Ancient Greek seafarers got to know about the Isle.

For those, if any, who remember the ggg (http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=462991&page=5#comment15163541), it reached a rather fitting end on D&D.

Maybe, maybe not. But read the last post in D&D

For those, if any, who remember the ggg, it reached a rather fitting end on D&D.

Quote from: string on 2014-02-24, 19:44:07

For those, if any, who remember the ggg, it reached a rather fitting end on D&D.

If you think so, I can close it. That might then well be the last closed thread, assuming there won't be a last snide thread on the discussion forums.

Quote from: jax on 2014-02-25, 12:55:01

Quote from: string on 2014-02-24, 19:44:07

For those, if any, who remember the ggg, it reached a rather fitting end on D&D.

If you think so, I can close it. That might then well be the last closed thread, assuming there won't be a last snide thread on the discussion forums.

Eh! I thought all threads were going to be closed, if not NO - never say never! As for a final snide post ------ maybe not that but . . . . . .

There might be the internet version of eternal existence in the Internet Archives, or in any project of Frenzie's.

I have a counter-question -- what caused you to follow that topic in the first place, you pervert?

And they're not even kidding (http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/german-fried-chicken-tender-juicy-obama-fingers-hit-the-shelves-a-612684.html) :faint:

.....For Americans in Germany, though, there is a risk that the product might be seen as racially insensitive. Fried chicken has long been associated with African-Americans in the US -- naming strips of fried chicken after the first black president could cause some furrowing of brows.

Witting told SPIEGEL ONLINE the connection never even occurred to her. "It was supposed to be a homage to the American lifestyle and the new US president," she said.....

I laugh it off and move on.

It's all about being politically correct. If Obama can't laugh at that, he shouldn't be SmileyFaze's president. This one, too.
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Another off-beat news story
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/killer-elephant-halts-west-bengal-rampage-to-unearth-baby-girl-20140314-34qf1.html

The baby's mother, Lalita Mahato, said: "We worship Lord Ganesh [the elephant god] in our village. Still, I can't believe that the tusker saved my daughter after breaking down the door and smashing a wall. We watched amazed as it gently removed the debris that had fallen on her. It's a miracle.
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"It seems to have a heart, too," the father said.

What Does It Taste Like? Rattlesnake is light and chewy, with a delicate flavor that resembles chicken.
Health Benefits: Snake meat is extremely high in protein and also contains half the calories and one third the amount of fat compared to steak.

This is for posting reports on the strange things that happen on this planet.

I see.. as why Americans believes they count for anything?
The thread is not big enough to enclosure the amount of reports testifying it.

Can anybody else help with a translation?

The aim has been to try to find a residual marker for "inflation" - the idea that the cosmos experienced an exponential growth spurt in its first trillionth, of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second.

I gave up on his Margarine English some time ago...

Would you mind re-posting in a more comprehensible, say, Chinese?

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2014-03-16, 07:29:45

Would you mind re-posting in a more comprehensible, say, Chinese?

The day I speak with anyone that at least have a language of their own.

We do have our own language.

Or these days, perhaps a language is a dialect with economic muscle. ;)

The Austrian economy seemed to be doing okay when I visited Vienna. :P (It wasn't chock-full of homeless people like Paris or Detroit.)

The Austrian economy seemed to be doing okay when I visited Vienna. :P (It wasn't chock-full of homeless people like Paris or Detroit.)

Detroit police are scooping up homeless people downtown and dumping them in remote locations, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan said in a complaint filed Thursday with the U.S. Department of Justice that alleges "illegal and abusive tactics."

The ACLU said police are forcing individuals who appear homeless into police vehicles, transporting them out of town and dropping them off miles away, sometimes outside city limits. The tactic violates constitutional rights to due process and to be free from unreasonable search and seizure, as a well as a consent decree with the Justice Department, the ACLU said in the complaint.

There you go yet again ex-Detroit escapee with you daft frenzie on Putin. If he was there the problems would be less in the great land of the free and home of the brave. As often been said the powers that be ignore the constitution when it suits and stuff the ordinary people. How disgraceful to treat people like that. Neither the mayor nor governor sound the right people. How sad they act in Detroit like a police State. Can the city get any worse?

You are always at your own appreciated best with such replies jimbro when you aren't up to a sensible answer. A neat way of avoiding an issue when spending so much time indoors.

It's an unfolding tragedy.

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2014-03-25, 09:13:43

It's an unfolding tragedy.

It seems to me as a lesson about the rest of the entire country.

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2014-03-25, 09:13:43

It's an unfolding tragedy.

It seems to me as a lesson about the rest of the entire country.

Officials from the “troika” of the European Commission, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank are beginning their penultimate quarterly review of Portugal’s €78bn rescue programme, which is due to end in May after three years of punishing austerity.

Quote from: Belfrager on 2014-03-25, 23:02:28

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2014-03-25, 09:13:43

It's an unfolding tragedy.

It seems to me as a lesson about the rest of the entire country.

Are you aiming to be rj when you grow up?

Belfrager shows signs of remaining an eternal child.

:devil: A nice place for a room with a view for Mr. Howie. :D

That's in descending order of attractiveness, isn't it?

For the attractiveness of descending, I would pick another mountain chain, Huashan.

The weirdeful is who built this thing.

For the attractiveness of descending, I would pick another mountain chain, Huashan.

I have an overwhelming fear of heights, so you can imagine... .
Please don't post anything like that again.

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The weirdeful is who built this thing.

Absolutely! The guy in the video is a baby by comparison.

Now I am sure there must be perfectly good tao directions going from home to the local restaurant and back, but somehow the route has to be exhausting and death-defying to be a proper path worth walking.

IN a case of going back to the future, the city’s Commonwealth Games in 2018 looks set for a name change to the Gold Coast Empire Games.

The Bulletin learned late last night that Buckingham Palace, British and Australian Government figures are negotiating a move back to using the “Empire’’ description.

The last Empire Games to be held in Australia was in 1962 in Perth, when it was called the British Empire and Commonwealth Games.

The final Empire Games was held in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1966. This was followed by Edinburgh in 1970 when the name was shortened to Commonwealth Games.

The shift back to the “Empire’’ follows Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s decision to bring back knights and dames in the nation’s honours.

Insiders last night told the Bulletin correct protocol for an official announcement would be observed, meaning during a royal visit.

“With the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge coming down under with Prince George in the next few weeks, you can work out for yourself what might happen,’’ said a source.

I was thinking back to Detroit in reviewing this thread and many moons ago I realised that jimbro who had lived for some time in the city and had been brought up there had sad reflections of what had become of it. 

SANTIAGO, Chile — A shallow and powerful magnitude 8.2 earthquake rocked Chile's northern coast Tuesday, sparking fires, churning up high waves, causing landslides and cutting power for thousands of people.

A pilot flying a Boeing 747 was forced to issue a “mayday” call and make an emergency landing after overheating cows were mistaken for a fire.

The jet was reportedly over the Irish Sea when an alarm started sounding to warn the cockpit of an apparently catastrophic fire in the hold, where almost 400 cows were being transported.

Pilots sent out a distress signal and received permission to come down at Heathrow Airport, London.

Yet when technicians inspected the cows’ deck they found no evidence of flames or even smoke.

Cows emit large quantities of methane and maintain body temperatures slightly higher than that of a human – the combination of which may have explained the sounding of an alarm.

Some cows might be travelling in the first class section...

An-225.

Erdogan's statement is the first explicit attempt to address the killings of Armenians during World War I

Erdogan made the statement on Wednesday, on the eve of the 99th anniversary of the start of mass deportations of Armenians.


"The incidents of the First World War are our shared pain," Erdogan said.(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fmritems%2FImages%2F2014%2F4%2F23%2F20144231330449734_20.jpg&hash=b0922cc28082a7449a114e0b2b724050" rel="cached" data-hash="b0922cc28082a7449a114e0b2b724050" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2014/4/23/20144231330449734_20.jpg)

Erdogan said the killing and mass deportation of Armenians between 1915 and 1916 had inhumane consequences.

Schwartzberg is a genius at what he does.

Somebody has put it to music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HPyl2tOaKxM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HPyl2tOaKxM)

Each to his own stretch of wisdom JoshL......!

According to BBC Humberside, Boco Haram claims that the 2 hundred kidnapped girls have converted to Islam. The Bocos want releasing of their guys in exchange to releasing the girls.

The United States spent more than $3 million on eight patrol boats for the Afghan police, according to an internal audit released Thursday.

That sentence is surprising for a few reasons:

1. Afghanistan is landlocked.

Perhaps even more bizarrely, the United States had provided boats to Uzbekistan to patrol the same river years earlier.

Anyone has an idea about what these craters appearing in Siberia are supposed to be?

They are making preparations for hell to break loose.

Anyone has an idea about what these craters appearing in Siberia are supposed to be?

Miniature black holes unleashed by naive scientists.

Anyone has an idea about what these craters appearing in Siberia are supposed to be?

Anyone has an idea about what these craters appearing in Siberia are supposed to be?

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They're assholes - planet earth farted.
Seriously, they're supposed to be caused by permafrost dirt slowly thawing and releasing methane trapped within, which forms bubbles which slowly rise to the surface. Big bubbles.

Quote from: Macallan on 2014-08-09, 16:59:19

They're assholes - planet earth farted.
Seriously, they're supposed to be caused by permafrost dirt slowly thawing and releasing methane trapped within, which forms bubbles which slowly rise to the surface. Big bubbles.

I see... a very solid explanation and also very common, it happens all the time.
A few tonnes of Kompensan will solve the problem, it's not elegant mother earth to fart.

Just spoiled my day mentioning East Enders. Groan.

The October issue of Scientific American has an erratum."The generic name of vioxx is not celecoxib. It is rofecoxib.

Anyway, Glasgow is more of an indigenous city than Londonstanand

Wonderful.
The October issue of Scientific American has an erratum."The generic name of vioxx is not celecoxib. It is rofecoxib.
I thought you should know.

Vampire deer in Afghanistan is still alive!

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/10012/20141101/vampire-fanged-deer-discovered-in-afghanistan.htm

Twenty-five years wall-free!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11219265/How-Berlin-has-changed-since-the-wall-fell.html

1. Who decided that the Earth should always be shown with the north pole at the top?

2. Assuming an infinite number of big bangs "out there," does that mean that there are an infinite number of TT92s?

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2014-11-26, 13:53:51

1. Who decided that the Earth should always be shown with the north pole at the top?

2. Assuming an infinite number of big bangs "out there," does that mean that there are an infinite number of TT92s?

1. Someone in the northern hemisphere.
2. Is.

Maps used to have east on top (thus to orient, to face the east, where the sun is rising). If they had kept that tradition, maybe we'd found the East Pole by now.

Speaking of Soviet, the article speaks of Soviet countries, but there was only one, the Soviet Union, and the article didn't refer to the former Soviet republics of Russia and Ukraine. The other countries were Socialist Republics, or, in the case of East Germany, Democratic Republics.
[emphasis added]

Quote from: tt92 on 2014-11-26, 18:58:44

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2014-11-26, 13:53:51

1. Who decided that the Earth should always be shown with the north pole at the top?

2. Assuming an infinite number of big bangs "out there," does that mean that there are an infinite number of TT92s?

1. Someone in the northern hemisphere.
2. Is.

#1 Probably true.
#2 Does "Is" mean Islamic State?
#3 Do you live in the southern hemisphere?
#4 Are you in any way related to that Jimbro3738 person?

Maps used to have east on top (thus to orient, to face the east, where the sun is rising). If they had kept that tradition, maybe we'd found the East Pole by now.

#4 Of course not. He is not a real person. He is a committee.

A committee singing Waltzing Matilda?

This comes close:

[video]http://youtu.be/lLOE3fBZcUU?t=1m37s[/video]

This isn't weird or wacky or wonderful, but it is interesting.
I think.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-30/olive-python-makes-meal-of-wallaby-in-nt/5992170 (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-30/olive-python-makes-meal-of-wallaby-in-nt/5992170)

[...] or the illicit burning of the giant Gävle goat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat).

Quote from: Wikipedia

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2000 Burnt down a couple of days before New Year's Eve. The Natural Science Club's goat got tossed in the Gävle river.

2001 Goat set on fire on 23 December by Lawrence Jones, a 51-year-old visitor from Cleveland, Ohio, who spent 18 days in jail and was subsequently convicted and ordered to pay 100,000 Swedish kronor in damages. The court confiscated Jones's cigarette lighter with the argument that he clearly was not able to handle it. Jones stated in court that he was no "goat burner", and believed that he was taking part in a completely legal goat-burning tradition. After Jones was released from jail he went straight back to the US without paying his fine. As of 2006 it was still unpaid. The Natural Science Club's goat was also burnt down.

2002 A 22 year old from Stockholm tried to set the Southern Merchants' goat on fire, but failed, the goat receiving only minor damage. On Lucia the goat was guarded by Swedish radio and TV personality Gert Fylking.

2003 Burnt down on 12 December.

2004 Burnt 21 December, only three days before Christmas Eve. The fire brigade quickly arrived on the scene, but the goat could not be saved. No new goat was built.

2005 Burnt by unknown vandals reportedly dressed as Santa and the gingerbread man, by shooting a flaming arrow at the goat at 21:00 on 3 December. Reconstructed on 5 December. The hunt for the arsonist responsible for the goat-burning in 2005 was featured on the weekly Swedish live broadcast TV3's "Most Wanted" ("Efterlyst") on 8 December.

2006 On the night of 15 December at 03:00, someone tried to set fire to the goat by dousing the right front leg in petrol (gasoline). The red ribbon on that leg was slightly burned and fell off. The lower part of the right leg was scorched, but the rest of the goat failed to light. The leg was repaired that morning. The Natural Science Club's goat was burned at about 00:40 on 20 December; the vandals were not seen and got away. On the night of 25 December, a drunken man managed to climb up on the goat. Before the police arrived on the scene the man climbed down and disappeared. He did not try to set fire to the goat. The Southern Merchants' goat survived New Year's Eve and was taken down on 2 January. It is now stored in a secret location.

2007 The Natural Science Club's goat was toppled on 13 December and was burned on the night of 24 December. The Southern Merchants' goat survived.

2008 10,000 people turned out for the inauguration of one of the goats. No back-up goat was built to replace the main goat should the worst happen, nor was the goat treated with flame repellent (Anna Östman, spokesperson of the Goat-committee said the repellent made it look ugly in the previous years, like a brown terrier). On 16 December the Natural Science Club's Goat was vandalised and later removed. On 26 December there was an attempt to burn down the Southern Merchants' Goat but patriotic passers-by managed to extinguish the fire. The following day the goat finally succumbed to the flames ignited by an unknown assailant at 03:50 CET.

2009 A person attempted to set the Southern Merchants' goat on fire the night of 7 December. An unsuccessful attempt was made to throw the Natural Science Club's goat into the river the weekend of 11 December. The culprit then tried, again without success, to set the goat on fire. Someone stole the Natural Science Club's goat utilizing a truck the night of 14 December. On the night of 23 December before 04:00 the South Merchant goat was set on fire and was burned to the frame, even though it had a thick layer of snow on its back. The goat had two online webcams which were put out of service by a DoS attack, instigated by computer hackers just before the burning.

2010 On the night of 2 December, arsonists made an unsuccessful attempt to burn the Natural Science Club's goat. On 17 December, a Swedish news site reported that one of the guards tasked with protecting the Southern Merchants' goat had been offered payment to leave his post so that the goat could be stolen via helicopter and transported to Stockholm. Both goats survived and were dismantled and returned to storage in early January 2011.

2011 The inauguration of the goat took place on 27 November. The fire-fighters of Gävle sprayed the goat with water to create a coating of ice in the hope of protecting it from arson. The goat was burnt down in the early morning of 2 December.

2012 The inauguration of the goat took place on 2 December. It was burnt just ten days later in the hours before midnight of 12 December, one day before Lucia.

2013 As in 2006 and 2007, the straw used to build the goat has been soaked in anti-flammable liquid to prevent it from burning in the event of an arson attack. The inauguration ceremony took place on 1 December. On 21 December the goat was burned down.

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For the first time since 2006, the Christmas goat erected in the Swedish city of Gävle has made it to the end of its festive run

It’s a classic Christmas tale of good triumphing over evil. Every year since 1966, the giant straw Yule goat of Gävle has faced arsonists and vandals intent on its destruction.

In 27 of those years it has succumbed — mostly to fire, once to a Volvo driven at full tilt, knocking the 42-foot straw statue clean over.

But not this year. For the first time since 2006 [2010 according to Wikipedia], the Swedish city’s goat has survived to the end of its festive run. This morning the sculpture was dismantled ahead of New Year celebrations considered too riotous to give the animal a sporting chance of survival. “It’s almost suicidal for the goat to be up and running on New Year’s Eve,” said the goat’s spokesperson, Johan Adolfsson.

It was New Year’s Eve 1966 when the first ever Gävle goat got a taste of its future; burnt to the ground at the hands of a vandal from a nearby municipality. The straw statue was the brainwave of Stig Gavlen, a local advertising consultant who thought a giant version of the traditional Swedish yule time goat would be a good way to draw crowds to Gävle , a small port city on the Scandinavian country’s east coast.

Since then, attempts on the goat’s life have become as much of a Christmas tradition in Gävle as carols and mince pies are elsewhere.  Where you stand on the goat’s fate, says Adolfsson, is a testament of character.

“It’s a classic drama between the good citizens who love the goat and the bad guys, the arsonists, who want to get it torched,” he says.

If you put a pair of shoes together on the floor, it looks like two shoes.
If you put two pairs of shoes together on the floor, it looks like more than four shoes.
This is a fact of life for which there is no rational explanation.

SALT LAKE CITY — One pill makes you smarter. One pill makes you thin. One pill makes you happy. Another keeps you energized. And so what if tests conducted by scientists in New York and Canada have found that the substances behind these miracle enhancements may contain nothing more than powdered rice or houseplants. If enough people believe they’ll be healthier, well, it’s a nice racket.

Nice, to the tune of $13 billion a year in sales.

German is popular in e.g. Denmark, Russia, and South-Korea.

Ya, the Russian have a special fondness for Germans from the good old days. And the Germans who made that trip east rued the decision that took them there, and an estimated 30,000,000 dead on both sides.

Her reign was called Russia's golden age. She was born in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, .... Russia was revitalized under her reign, growing larger and stronger than ever and becoming recognized as one of the great powers of Europe.

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Yes very entertaining and the carrot is special to me. The reason being that it was not always that colour and most people are not aware it was recoloured back in the late 17th century to celebrate the success of King William 3rd the Prince of Orange (they got it as near orange as could).

The idea that vaccines cause autism has been found to be totally false by doctors and scientists, in the same way almost all sane observers agree global warming is manmade. But thanks to anti-vaccine misinformation spread by some celebrities like McCarthy, Miyam Bialik, and Donald Trump, doctors say preventable diseases like measles are making a comeback across America, and children are dying from them. From mid-2007 through the end of 2014, there were 6,274 U.S. deaths that could have been prevented by vaccines, as documented by CDC reports.

Now just imagine jimbro waking up and finding Trump as President and McCain as Vice-President . I will keep an upstairs room for you.

And Bob Newhart thinks he "invented" sit-down stand-up!  :)  (That "first" should go to Totie Fields… Yes, I know that's not accurate; but you know me!)

If only the rest of the world could get on the way the Scots do, by taking in each others' laundry! :)

Now just see what you have missed in that too cumfy armchair.....  :)

with no hope of recovery

“With software,” Stallman still frequently observes, “either the users control the program, or the program controls the users.”

Bang (http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/georgia-amateur-divers-find-long-lost-nuclear-warhead/)

The GNU Manifesto turns 30

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“With software,” Stallman still frequently observes, “either the users control the program, or the program controls the users.”

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty

The first complete free-software operating system became available in 1991, with the publication by Linus Torvalds of the Linux kernel. The “kernel” of a computing system controls its most basic functions, like memory management and the scheduling of tasks. A GNU kernel called the Hurd had long been in development, but had never achieved a stable release. The developer Jeb Boniakowski told me: “Meanwhile, some kid in Finland … reads a book on operating systems and looks at GNU and he says ‘Shit, all these guys are missing is a kernel.’ And so he hacks out Linux. Which was an absolute pile of garbage, clumsily written and using a grossly outdated design. But it worked. It did stuff. It was free in both senses of the word.”

I think I would prefer here than a country where mass numbers are gunned down annually

Bang (http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/georgia-amateur-divers-find-long-lost-nuclear-warhead/)

By the way, the World is going to end this week.

Scientists conducting a mindbending experiment at the Large Hadron Collider next week hope to connect with a parallel universe outside of our own. (http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/565315/Scientists-at-Large-Hadron-Collider-hope-to-make-contact-with-PARALLEL-UNIVERSE-in-days)

On Sunday, the High Court of Justice imposed limitations on the separation of men and women at this week's Sukkot festivities in Jerusalem's Mea She'arim neighborhood and said it would not permit such separation at all next year.

The court was responding to a petition by Jerusalem city councilwoman Rachel Azaria against the stringent separation of the sexes at the simchat beit hashoeva, a traditional celebration that takes place nightly in the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox ) neighborhood throughout the week-long Sukkot holiday.

For this week, the court ruled, the iron railings separating the streets into men's areas and women's areas could remain, but the burlap curtains used as barriers in certain parts of the neighborhood had to go immediately, as did the Haredi "ushers" who enforced the gender separation.

Ah, the half-sisters of Chelsea?

Chelsea Clinton Shows Off Beautiful Baby Charlotte On NYC Stroll As Grandma Hillary Announces Candidacy For Prez! (http://radaronline.com/photos/chelsea-clinton-baby-photos-first-daughter-husband-charlotte-mezvinsky-new-york-city/photo/1036443/)

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As my sainted mother used to say, "That's a face that only a mother could love."
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As my sainted mother used to say, "That's a face that only a mother could love."
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Whose? The dog? the daughter? the son-in-law? the innocent bystander?

I like the livery of an Icelandair plane, and like to imagine it as camouflage, except for the distinctly un-auroraish orange colour.

According to Terry Pratchett there are no innocent bystanders :right:

Quote from: Macallan on 2015-04-21, 05:34:35

According to Terry Pratchett there are no innocent bystanders :right:

Pratchett's innocent following his death.

Anyone can make a mistake.

Just imagine your grand kids in the Hitler Youth.

Quote from: tt92 on 2015-04-23, 21:11:21

Anyone can make a mistake.

I voted for Thomas Dewey. Sadly, Tom was defeated by Roosevelt. Had Dewey won, we might have lost WWII. Think of how that might have turned out.

ºººººhmmmm...this might make a nice thread...anybody?..anybody?ººººº

How can someone live as long as you have, and remain so clueless?

I think the title of this thread is a brilliant informal one to describe the land of the would-be free and so-called brave!

Yoiu are talking a load of cobblers and unlike you having been a wee sish in a wee bowl my lifetime has been something else. As for headshrinkers you are more in need than I dear boy! Anyway your place is the land of nutjobs and have more of a problem than most places and that is why the head shrinking service is soooooo big in the ex-colonies. Heavens apart from head banger polce a solider a day kills himself keeping up the numbers of the mentals!  On a lesser not I got rejected twice?  You lot get miffed bvery easily having been brought up to think you are wonderfully the greatest , etc, etc. When you find out you aren't the head shrinkers start warming their hands!

Psychiatry has in fact never recruited as many UK trained doctors as it needs to fill its posts and in seeking to reverse this phenomenon we seek to overturn a historical precedent.  Improving the situation requires action on many fronts.  It particularly concerns me that we may be recruiting the wrong mix of students to medical school, as current science focused selection criteria favours technical knowledge over a candidate’s potential to flourish into the practitioner of holistic medicine that psychiatric practice requires and may preclude those who will eventually wish to take the path required by psychiatric practice.  A central message of “Who wants to be a psychiatrist?” is that we can all become involved in this debate and every day should regard ourselves as “walking, talking adverts for psychiatry”.

Although the Battle of New Orleans had no influence on the terms of the Treaty of Ghent, the defeat at New Orleans did compel Britain to abide by the treaty. This was crucial because uncovered British war records show that in October 1814, Maj. Gen. Pakenham had been given secret orders to continue fighting in the area regardless of the capture of New Orleans or any peace deal; he was told, "If you hear of a peace treaty, pay no attention, continue to fight.
(source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Orleans#Battle_of_January_8))

Clocked Theresa May wi a coapy ay George Orwell's 1984 in hur haunbag. Been telt to haud ma wheesht aboot it bein a Tory stra'ajay paper.

Jings! Nearly screwed up ma sweerin in. When Ah hud finished readin it oot, the wummin said it was aw right fur me tae take it in Scots, but thit Ah hud tae dae it in Inglish furst. Cheeky cow!

Turns oot thon Ronnie Cowan is a right geek. He declar't in Klingon while daein the Vulcan salute.

An Ah wus pure howlin when Hannah Bardell hud to retake the oath cause she referred tae the Queen as Auld Betty Windsor.

This site contains news items which are often ridiculous, generally fictitious, entirely ill-informed and simultaneously biased in favour of the status quo and against the Scottish National Party, the Scottish Government and Scottish Independence in particular. Any similarity with other national broadcasters is entirely unfortunate.

Is the form of my "dealing with a 5 and 7 year old great nephews" correct?

"terrorists"...

For any lurking Grammar Nazis, a question: Is the form of my "dealing with a 5 and 7 year old great nephews" correct?
Show your work, please!

If it were legal, I'd keep 'em in cages a lot of the time. (Separate cages, of course…)

Maybe those great nephews of yours already belongs to the generation that, in despair, will try to nuke the world. For humanitarian reasons of course.

King william 3rd was never a queer and was Jacobite propaganda

His wife whom he constantly wrote to during campaigns and his strong Protestant Faith. Nice attempt there at a skirt but you kind of demean your grey cells trying such childish pursuits!

Typical Yank thinking there boy.

King william 3rd was never a queer and was Jacobite propaganda - the same mob who used to toast the mole who caused his horse to stumble and led to his death. Indeed an experienced UK historian back in 1988 (celebration of the Glorious Revolution), found that the origin of this pathetic tale came from a palace servant who was pulled up for his inefficiency and went into a huff. In fact when the Kind found out about the story he was angry and wanted to know why the damn rubbish had been concocted so he found out personally. William had 2 great actual loves. His wife whom he constantly wrote to during campaigns and his strong Protestant Faith. Nice attempt there at a skirt but you kind of demean your grey cells trying such childish pursuits!

The title of this thread is perhaps nearer being positive than you realise and you are reflecting it  - well you are a Yank!  :P :hat:

Nice attempt there at a skirt

When I see something like that in the vastness of the multiverse […]

I am a believer, however, so I do my best.

Send me your partial differential equations… I promise, I'll try to understand them. But don't hold your breath!  :)  Math isn't my strong suit; logic is

Rj Oakdale.

You and I know the same amount  about string theory; i.e., damned near nothing.

Perhaps… But I read Motl's blog (http://motls.blogspot.com/2015/06/string-theory-and-fun-response-to-barry.html#more) fairly often, and I know how to follow links. (The current post should interest you.)

The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful

a man married an invisbile fairy

“The wedding event did not utilize electrical lighting, but instead using oncor and sentir lamp (oil-powered lighting),” said Bramantyo, the artist who created the wedding between Bagus Kodok and Peri Roro Setyowati as quoted by Kompas (8 Oct 2014).

Bramantnyo explained that the wedding was framed as a ‘happening art’, which was collaborated with Javanese tradition.

David Cameron ate a hotdog with a knife and fork!

Quote from: Jimbro3738 on 2015-06-22, 16:07:07

David Cameron ate a hotdog with a knife and fork!

People that uses the fork at their right hand while eating with open mouth now pretends to give others good manners lessons...
I wonder what the good Lord is waiting for to strike them with a thousand lighting bolts.

“With very thin cylinders and very slow velocities you get singing telephone lines, an absolutely pure frequency or tone,” says Sheila Widnall, an aeronautics and astronautics professor at MIT. “But when the cylinder gets very big and wind gets very high, you get a range of frequencies. You won’t be able to get as much energy out of it as you want to because the oscillation is fundamentally turbulent.”

Widnall also questions the company’s claim that its turbines will be silent. “The oscillating frequencies that shake the cylinder will make noise,” she says. “It will sound like a freight train coming through your wind farm.”

Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez leapt to the defence of Edinson Cavani on Wednesday as footage appeared to show a Chilean player attempting to provoke the star by inserting a finger into his anus.
Cavani was sent off midway through the second half after receiving a second yellow card for flicking a hand into the face of Chile defender Gonzalo Jara.

You are the silliest, most bigoted, small-minded poster here.  Always looking for an opportunity to belittle somebody.

You are the silliest, most bigoted, small-minded poster here.  Always looking for an opportunity to belittle somebody. Beyond those failings, you're a congenial lad.

Relax.

Zubr-class hovercraft

Nice war rig. Is it commanded by a ship captain or by an aircraft pilot?

Well, in case you wonder what's so sensational about the photo above, try to look up the Russian Republic of Mordovia.
You'll find out that it is a landlocked republic which doesn't even have a bigger river.

Invasion: Zubr-class hovercraft, deploying marines during Zapad-09 in Mordovia during Russia's rehearsals for occupying part of the Baltic states

Well, in case you wonder what's so sensational about the photo above, try to look up the Russian Republic of Mordovia.
You'll find out that it is a landlocked republic which doesn't even have a bigger river. :D

Nice aircraft.

Not really an aircraft, even if it kinda looks like one.

Quote from: Macallan on 2015-07-05, 15:50:25

Not really an aircraft, even if it kinda looks like one.

The Ekranoplan flies with ground effect a few meters above both water or land.

They stopped it because it scared the camels at the big Mongolia's plains. Stupid camels.

Is Manson still alive? the one that killed Sharon Tate?
I was talking with friends about an interview I saw with him many years ago, already in prison. Not a stupid guy.

Quote from: Belfrager on 2015-07-28, 22:51:01

Is Manson still alive? the one that killed Sharon Tate?
I was talking with friends about an interview I saw with him many years ago, already in prison. Not a stupid guy.

He may not be stupid--- but you still don't want him and his followers as house-guests.

Zippo, or at least, true Zippo worked with gasoline

and puts your cigarettes with bad taste and a green filter.

Use a Ronson or, for something a little bit more flashy, a Dupont.

Wonder if you've ever spent some days in the wilderness.

In the wilderness I make fire with silex stone German boy. Two sticks of wood, when I feel bored.

From NewScientist.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28103-darwins-fast-evolving-finches-use-a-natural-insect-repellent/ (https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28103-darwins-fast-evolving-finches-use-a-natural-insect-repellent/)

Hendry thinks that even now, an estimated 2 to 5 million years since their arrival...

Quote from: tt92 on 2015-09-08, 18:05:10

From NewScientist.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28103-darwins-fast-evolving-finches-use-a-natural-insect-repellent/ (https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28103-darwins-fast-evolving-finches-use-a-natural-insect-repellent/)

From that piece...

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Hendry thinks that even now, an estimated 2 to 5 million years since their arrival...

How could that be since the earth is only 6,000 years old?

What's strange about it?

The hip hop band is facing charges for unlawful entrance to private property, for having built something there and for not cleaning up after themselves.

But that owned by Russia thing doesn't really sound like a coincidence, does it?

If queerdom is banned why are there queer clubs as recently shown in places like St Petersburg and other cities?

Not a proper answer I am afraid as you cannot go into publicly advertises prostitution clubs BUT you can go into queer clubs in Russia which is a statement of fact.

Not a proper answer I am afraid as you cannot go into publicly advertises prostitution clubs BUT you can go into queer clubs in Russia which is a statement of fact.

You are drifting as well Frenzie and my point that there ARE legal queer clubs there is valid.

They are not allowed to push their direction amongst the young and that is illegal but I note that the fact that Islam is a massive religion globally and in the face on queers a sidestep is done.

I have to sigh a wee bit there ersi. When you see these clubs in cities and people going in and out of them they exist! They exist because the city council and government have allowed them!

This is how it works in countries where governments rule in accordance with law. Not so in Russia.

In Russia, lots of things you see, such as sales of vodka and jewellery on the street, the entire CD and DVD industry, gay clubs and whorehouses (usually labelled "салон массажа") where you see business going on as if it were okay. They are all illegal, but police only jumps on them when the bureaucrats think that enough time has passed from the previous campaign against those activitities.

I've never been in Russia but have travelled in some Eastern European countries - hence my assumption.
It's hard to beleave that in Russia you can't purchase legally a bottle of Vodka, jewellery or a CD/DVD (to name just some famous classics like Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov or Mussorgsky). Sales on streets is another matter. I assume that those sellers have neither a license/authorization nor do they pay taxes.

As for brothels, AFAIK they are prohibited in other places like Poland as well. However there is less excitement therefore and you can visit even so many brothels operating illegal.
BTW, Wikipedia tells me that organized prostitution (whorehouses) are illegal in Estonia too.

I don't know whether they are legal. But I hope they are supposed to be weird, or wacky, or wonderful. :left:

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CNN has photographs of funky bus stops in the former Eastern Bloc: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/17/travel/gallery/soviet-bus-shelters/index.html

Random weirdness: But wonder why the logo poster is all caps except for the "side" in "OUTside"?

Am I missing something?

Or is it like if you're responding to someone that sounded far behind you only to turn around mid-statement and they're standing right behind you?  
":left: WE'RE GOING TO THE OUT! :right::eek: side one."

Quote from: ensbb3

Random weirdness: But wonder why the logo poster is all caps except for the "side" in "OUTside"?

Am I missing something?

Or is it like if you're responding to someone that sounded far behind you only to turn around mid-statement and they're standing right behind you?  
":left: WE'RE GOING TO THE OUT! :right::eek: side one."

I think it must be because OUT is a magic word in PROUD Circles, so emphasise it "side" had to be demoted.