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Try mentioning the need for gun control on twitter. People you've never heard of will try to dismiss any argument you make and start making personal comments about you. You could even say that you have been surrounded by assholes. Doesn't make them the sane ones. Yeah, I pretty much assumed that Tw...

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somitomi wrote:It's entirely about what people are used to anyway.

FTFY

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The whole idea of de-arresting seems very wrong to me. Theoretically, a person could be arrested 50 times for domestic abuse, but if he is de-arrested before processing then none of those incidents would go on their criminal record. The flip side is people getting criminal records over nothing. A t...

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Vroomfundel wrote:Well, guess what, the UK did it

...sort of. Partly. Ish.

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orthogon wrote:Quite so. What those things are, is tarts.

What about a treacle tart with a lattice lid?

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In the UK you can certainly be "de-arrested". If that's not a thing in the US, it's a waste of police time let alone the civil liberty issue.

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LaserGuy wrote:(although from my reading, more collisions are actually caused by drivers swerving out of their lanes to avoid a moose rather than actually hitting a moose).

Given the previous sentence, that's probably not a bad thing

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To be fair, j_s didn't say smaller things can't kill you; just that all larger things can. Which, given the right circumstances, is almost certainly true.

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Sableagle wrote:They're building new housing estates upstream of me. I think I should be unhappy about this.

Nah. Planning regs these days force them to have pretty decent attenuation. May even improve things.

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In the US, pavement is the substance laid down on the ground (asphalt or concrete), not any particular kind of path thus covered. Technically, that's also the case in the UK, just not colloquially. Carriageway, cycleways, bridleways, and footways, if paved, are pavements. Does cause problems with p...

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Designers, can you either put an easy to find setting to disable all the standby lights on your devices or put in a light detector so they auto power the LED off in the dark? There's a handy switch on the wall that will turn the lights off on any device. (Though saying that, outlet switches aren't ...

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speising wrote:Eminem has proven that gravity affects light.

How I read that.

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What xkcd app? Whatever you're using is unofficial so it's down to the relevant author to deal with.

In any case, what's wrong with m.xkcd.com?

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(Bonus points, as we had every right to use blue passports whilst within the EU)

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I'm so happy PAYE is a thing over here.

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Have you ever heard the phrase 'blaming the victim'. In traffic collisions it is often the case that both parties have some culpability. Your comparison doesn't apply here. Wearing dark clothing on a road at night =/= wearing a miniskirt to a party Explain to me the difference between a dusty wind ...

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The BBC, and I presume most other news sites, have the video.

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I had in my head that "EU noise regulations prevent artificial noise being added to electric vehicles", but upon finally getting round to check if that's just Brexit propaganda, it turns out that the opposite is true - they have to make enough noise for pedestrian safety. (Not that the inc...

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or have traffic lights that give all red lights so pedestrians can cross without cars trying to turn right. Given low turning speeds, I'd be curious to see how many pedestrian collisions, particularly KSI's, actually happen in this scenario. In the UK we have strictly separated phasings - if a pede...

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35 is "around 40"

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orthogon wrote:imagine you're on the London Underground (map)

Sure, but that map is geographically nonsense anyway.

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Not that I wasn't already, but this Wintergatan talk is making me eager to give it a listen once I escape the clutches of this FFS mustard...

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gmalivuk wrote:It's Dances with Wolves but with aliens, yeah.

I recall it being referred to as "Dances with Smurfs" when it came out.

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I've never successfully grabbed this name anywhere else, but there's usually a character minimum greater than three.

heuristically_alone wrote:How long until we start seeing people on the fora with these usernames?

Given what we already have?

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riker1384 wrote:Personally I think putting yourself in a self-driving car is insane. You're putting yourself in a death-box that can kill you at the whim of its software.

Do you ever get in a taxi?

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Mutex wrote:I was wondering why we're having issues with static electricity

Oh! I got a static shock from someone earlier which hasn't happened in ages, but that puts some context to it.

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FWIW, I'm with flicky. But given our geographic proximity that should be no surprise.

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It will have to be regulated and standardised. Which, knowing how great governments are with technology, will not happen fast enough. So I wouldn't invest in any Mk.I hardware...

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Ninja'd, posting anyway. Problems I'm seeing in Aberdeen/Blackdog at the moment, which may confuse machine vision over humans. Out of date mapping is laziness - when accurate digital mapping becomes a necessity, more emphasis will be placed on ensuring it is updated. It's not like we don't have the ...

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Angua wrote:Trump endorses guns for teachers.

If enacted, I give it a week before that policy enables a school shooting.

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There's ten of us on the map, but many names I haven't seen in a very long time.

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Southern England generally means South-East England.

And for me, hailing from Southern England, pass, parse and farce all rhyme.

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I can't see how a diversion route from the M4 Eastbound would take you there. Motorway closed > forced to take exit > sat-nav re-routes down inappropriate road. Happens all the fucking time. We get a ton of complaints every time we close a road because suddenly there's a load of heavy traffic going...

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So far we're consistently one death behind... which one of them was secretly replaced by a robot?

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Interesting to see there's a recent study that didn't support the wet-grip evolutionary advantage idea.

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London Luton (LTN), too.

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Pfhorrest wrote:Something in viewtopic.php?p=4289998#p4289974 seems to be breaking formatting on this page.

It's what happens when you get [spoiler] and [quote] tags crossed

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Soupspoon wrote:whenever Reboot Season 11 is actually scheduled to start (Easterish?).

That's a big ish. Autumn.

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9th in line for which presidency, though?

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ChronosDragon wrote:i realized also a while ago that my image attachments, hosted on dropbox, have likely been holes in this thread's valiant history for a while now.

Mine, too. This thread has outlived dropbox sharing policy.

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