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New Home · 07-11-2018 09:34PM

Had they spelt it "cheque" in the first place, there would have never been any misunderstanding.

feargale · 07-11-2018 09:42PM

IvyTheTerrific wrote: »

There is a rare mental illness called the Cotard delusion (or informally as Walking Dead Syndrome) in which the sufferer thinks they are dead.
It can happen due to some sort of brain damage such as an accident or a stroke.
There are successful drug treatments now, but people in the past with the syndrome have died of starvation through thinking that they don't need to eat because they are dead...

Did they try haunting people or places?

Big Nasty · 07-11-2018 09:42PM

New Home wrote: »

Had they spelt it "cheque" in the first place, there would have never been any misunderstanding.

Ya don't say!?! :eek:

New Home · 07-11-2018 09:45PM

Big Nasty wrote: »

Ya don't say!?! :eek:

I know, it's positively shocking.

(I actually managed to skip that line when I read the post in the first place...)

KevRossi · 08-11-2018 12:16AM

If you lay the Burj Khalifa flat, it wouldn't fit into the Vatican City.

At 828m it is taller than the highest point in 51 countries worldwide.

The total floor area is about 75% of the size of the Vatican City; an independent nation.

standardg60 · 08-11-2018 12:42AM

b318isp wrote: »

You'd probably guess that volcanic lava is heated by pressure, but you may be surprised to know that it is substantially heated by two other major mechanisms:

1. Continuous cooling of the earth's core and mantle since the earth was formed about 4.6 billion years ago
2. Radioactive decay from naturally occurring materials such as plutonium and uranium

I found it hard to think that there would be a substantial affect from billions of years of cooling, nor enough radioactive material to cause heating. However, the vast majority of the thermal energy within the earth is from these means, with a tiny amount from the sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_energy
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/how-lava-formed

Think of it this way..cooling=contraction=pressure=heat.

gozunda · 08-11-2018 01:58AM

KevRossi wrote: »

If you lay the Burj Khalifa flat, it wouldn't fit into the Vatican City.

At 828m it is taller than the highest point in 51 countries worldwide.

The total floor area is about 75% of the size of the Vatican City; an independent nation.

Burj Khalifa flat or otherwise and the Vatican City... -unlikley bedfellows

blastman · 08-11-2018 10:56AM

There are probably other airports that have this or similar, but the set-down area for departing passengers in Gdansk airport in Poland is officially labelled as "Kiss And Fly"

b318isp · 08-11-2018 11:17AM

standardg60 wrote: »

Think of it this way..cooling=contraction=pressure=heat.

Not in this case, it's convection from the core/mantle - where it is still ~4000degC.

Jude13 · 08-11-2018 11:25AM

blastman wrote: »

There are probably other airports that have this or similar, but the set-down area for departing passengers in Gdansk airport in Poland is officially labelled as "Kiss And Fly"

Same for french airports

Grayson · 09-11-2018 01:49PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Nebuchadnezzar II 634 BC - 562 BC had boanthropy - the psychological disorder where you believe you are a cow or ox.

I was in babylon as a kid. There's a part of the city that was built during a big expansion. Every brick is embossed with Nebuchadnezzars name (I can't remember which one, I think it was the third).

Also, the entrance to Babylon is a giant gate. Weirdly, the top half is in berlin. Here's an article about it

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/magazine/2017/11-12/history-babylon-ishtar-gate-quest/

The base of it is still in Babylon.

Grayson · 09-11-2018 01:56PM

Actually, it was the second
https://www.bible-history.com/archaeology/babylon/nebuchadnezzar-brick.html

It being the 80's when I was there, and people being a lot less aware of conservation, my parents may have nicked a brick.

Deebles McBeebles · 09-11-2018 03:25PM

In Britain in the last century, it was quite acceptable for a gentleman to lose his virginity to one of London's many whore dogs. Dickens and Prince Albert both boasted of their experience.

DJIMI TRARORE · 09-11-2018 03:29PM

Deebles McBeebles wrote:

In Britain in the last century, it was quite acceptable for a gentleman to lose his virginity to one of London's many whore dogs. Dickens and Prince Albert both boasted of their experience.

WTF,whore dogs that's a new one

Realt Dearg Sec · 09-11-2018 03:57PM

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

In Britain in the last century, it was quite acceptable for a gentleman to lose his virginity to one of London's many whore dogs. Dickens and Prince Albert both boasted of their experience.

The dog feels nothing. It's made of string.

Deebles McBeebles · 09-11-2018 04:11PM

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

The dog feels nothing. It's made of string.

The fox feels nothing

Conchir · 09-11-2018 05:59PM

Many people feel Christmas is too commercial these days, what with all the ads and shops staying open all hours right up to the day. However, it's not exactly a new phenomenon, at least in the US. Macy's department store in New York stayed open until midnight on Christmas Eve in 1867.

Professor Moriarty · 09-11-2018 06:10PM

Conchir wrote: »

Many people feel Christmas is too commercial these days, what with all the ads and shops staying open all hours right up to the day. However, it's not exactly a new phenomenon, at least in the US. Macy's department store in New York stayed open until midnight on Christmas Eve in 1867.

Yeah but they weren't blasting out Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody on the 6th of November.

Capt'n Midnight · 09-11-2018 09:10PM

We used the same evoting machines as the Dutch, the Nedap ES3B.

When Dutch researchers got their hands on one they found out the password for the maintenance mode on their ones was GEHEIM.

Which is Dutch (and German) for SECRET

New Home · 09-11-2018 09:12PM

At least it wasn't password1...

I can't remember if if was the Dutch or someone else, but our voting machines were scrapped also because someone managed to turn one into a videogame (or something to that effect, anyway).

Capt'n Midnight · 09-11-2018 09:28PM

New Home wrote: »

At least it wasn't password1...

I can't remember if if was the Dutch or someone else, but our voting machines were scrapped also because someone managed to turn one into a videogame (or something to that effect, anyway).

These things only have 16KB of RAM so they weren't powerful enough for video.

The Dutch researchers claimed that the Nedap
"was just another computer, and that it could just as easily be programmed to play chess, or to lie about the election results."

The guy selling the machines responded
"And with regard to the claim that our machine can play chess: I would like to see that demonstrated”

Picture
https://frank.geekheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/580px-P1010892.jpg

Full document
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evt07/tech/full_papers/gonggrijp/gonggrijp.pdf

New Home · 09-11-2018 09:32PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

These things only have 16KB of RAM so they weren't powerful enough for video.

The Dutch researchers claimed that the Nedap
"was just another computer, and that it could just as easily be programmed to play chess, or to lie about the election results."

The guy selling the machines responded
"And with regard to the claim that our machine can play chess: I would like to see that demonstrated”

Picture
https://frank.geekheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/580px-P1010892.jpg

Full document
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evt07/tech/full_papers/gonggrijp/gonggrijp.pdf

Might have just been snake, or something.

Conall Cernach · 09-11-2018 09:42PM

blastman wrote: »

There are probably other airports that have this or similar, but the set-down area for departing passengers in Gdansk airport in Poland is officially labelled as "Kiss And Fly"

In Switzerland the park and ride area is called the "Kiss and ride". Cue me taking "hilarious" pics of the gf standing beside the sign.

Water John · 09-11-2018 09:44PM

Park and Ride, is that where people go dogging?

Capt'n Midnight · 09-11-2018 10:00PM

New Home wrote: »

At least it wasn't password1...

In a 2015 review of the WINVote voting machine running Windows XP they found ..

WiFi password "abcde"
Administrator password "admin"

Not that it mattered because WiFi used WEP which is so trivial to crack it was replaced by WPA a decade earlier.

Loads of ports were open so they could gain drive access with the "admin" password. Then the Access database password was cracked in 10 seconds. And all the databases used it.

KevRossi · 09-11-2018 10:44PM

The longest theoretical line of sight (furthest you can see standing on the ground) on the planet is not from Mt Everest, but from but from Dankova, Kyrgyzstan (5.971 m.) to Hindu Tagh, China (6.436 m.) a total distance of 538km (334 mi).

The longest confirmed line of sight photograph (ground to ground on earth) has distance of 443km. from Pic de Finestrelles (Pyrenees) to Pic Gaspard (Alps).

Here's the photo:

This is what it looks like on a map:

FWIW a 1.8m tall person can see about 5 Km on perfectly level ground, or standing beside the sea.

Capt'n Midnight · 09-11-2018 10:51PM

^^

The longest unamplified Wi-Fi link is a 304 km link achieved by CISAR (Italian Center for Radio Activities)

SuperS54 · 09-11-2018 11:55PM

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

WTF,whore dogs that's a new one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpxwI-A1-pU

runawaybishop · 09-11-2018 11:58PM

SuperS54 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpxwI-A1-pU

Should rename thread ' Things I wish I didn't know'.

mzungu · 10-11-2018 12:06AM

The density of the pigeon population in Barcelona is among the highest in Europe, and this has led to a series of negative consequences, particularly in relation to the coexistence of pigeons and people and the preservation of public space and private property.

Until now, that has meant capturing and slaughtering the birds, but Barcelona City Council has decided to start to control the population using bird feed impregnated with nicarbazin, a preparation that stops the egg yolk forming and produces infertility which is reversible once nicarbazin stops being administered. Initially this measure will be applied in the districts of Sant Martí, Gràcia and L’Eixample.

To ensure the feed is distributed correctly, dispensers will be used that reduce the possibility of affecting other species of birds. Approximately 40 of these dispensers will be installed in the first stage.

This system costs more than capturing the birds but it is estimated in the long run that reducing fertility will achieve a bigger reduction in the population, 20% in the first year and up to 70 or 80% in subsequent years, which will pay back the investment.

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