something tells me the HIV/Hepatitis tests they run aren't nearly that fast
There are some HIV and Syphilis tests that are that fast... just not as reliable. The idea is that they are biased towards false positives, so if it shows negative, you can trust it, and if it is positive, you follow up with a traditional test to confirm.
(They administer such tests at some gay events, and people get to see their results literally within minutes)
Protecting the children is not the point of this. It's done to give the powers that be just another arrow in their quiver to crush the little man if he ever dares to fight against one of their corrupt construction projects, or if he ever dares to do his job too well researching who planted bombs against utility poles in the eighties. At least, that's what it is used for here in Luxembourg.
So uh, if I drive to NJ, rent a hotel room, gamble online and win, it's forfeit?
No, since you are physically in NJ. Just be sure to claim your win right away, rather than after your return from your trip in NJ...
More importantly, if I did the same thing through a proxy located in NJ
In that case, the casino "won't be able" to wire your money to your out-of-state bank account. But, if it is a big win, it'd be probably be worthwhile to drive over to NJ to pick up your winning in person... (or have it wired to a Western Union branch in NJ, if the gambling joint doesn't pay out winnings in cash at their head office)
The casino would still win out, because they'd get to keep the smaller wins for which it is not worthwhile to go there in person.
Of course there is. Upside down, with the speaker next to your mouth, and the mic next to your ear. But you'd still get excellent reception (even though the audio would be shit)
A couple of nuns who were nursing sisters had gone out to the countryside to minister to an outpatient. On the way back they were a few miles from the convent when they ran out of gas.
They were standing beside their car on the shoulder of the road when a truck approached. Seeing ladies of the cloth in distress, the driver stopped to offer his help. The nuns explained they needed some gas. The driver of the truck said he would gladly drain some from his tank, but he didn’t have a bucket or can.
One of the nuns dug out a clean bedpan and asked the driver if he could use it. He said, “yes,” and proceeded to drain a couple of quarts of gas into the pan. He waved goodbye to the nuns and left.
The nuns were carefully pouring the precious fluid into their gas tank when the highway patrol came by. The trooper stopped and watched for a minute before he said: “Sisters, I don’t think it will work but I sure do admire your faith!”
Looks to me like it's nothing more than the old trick of making a battery out of a lemon or other piece of acidic fruit.
Indeed. And in these batteries (and in most commercial batteries too...), the energy does not actually come from the electrolyte (the liquid) but from the electrodes, which are slowly "consumed" as the battery discharges.
The pee of a drinker still contains less energy than the alcohol used to generate it. The other part of the energy is needed to build up the beer belly after all. Or where you thinking that the drinker's body is generating this energy out of thin air?
So it'd better to use the ethanol directly for fuel... but that doesn't work either, a currently the machines needed to work the farms where the grain for the ethanol is grown consume more energy than is contained in the product, and this industry only works with the help of government subsidies (which only exist in this form in the US, but not in the UK)
Maybe each time they use a urinal instead of their coat pocket, it could give them a nickel.
Yes, it always has struck me as odd that in some places (Belgium...) you need to pay when you pee. But you leave something there, so they should be paying you, not the other way round...
two possibilities:
1. troll was not aware that Mark Shuttleworth is white and wrongly concluded from "South African" to "black"
2. troll is fully aware that Mark Shuttleworth is indeed white, but was hoping that his readers (or at least some of them) would make the above mistake, yielding an even more nourishing thread (for the troll...).
Either way, troll is playing on racist stereotypes, whether "legitimate" or not...
According to whois, ubuntusucks now belongs to canonical, and obviously they're not going to redirect it to their main page... (which would just give weight to the original message). And setting them up as a parking page would be boring and humorless.
But to their bug tracker, a pure stroke of genius!
I think this is a common plot worldwide, or do you know of any government that can launch a working website?
The difference is, that the US at least admits that it's not working, whereas other countries just pretend that everything is all fine and dandy, while silently wondering why so few people use it...
Initially the driverless cars will ferry passengers from the town's rail station to its shopping centre just over a mile away – currently a 20-minute uphill walk.
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the response was I that I was headed home
Makes sense. Indeed, which pub would allow you to bring your own beer?
Who really calculates an extra ten minutes for his trip to cover for any eventual breath test (plus queue)?
the cop wanting to know if I'd had anything to drink
... maybe he was just thirsty, and wanted you to share whatever you had with you...
where was I going
... so he was also looking for a new hangout?
something tells me the HIV/Hepatitis tests they run aren't nearly that fast
There are some HIV and Syphilis tests that are that fast... just not as reliable. The idea is that they are biased towards false positives, so if it shows negative, you can trust it, and if it is positive, you follow up with a traditional test to confirm.
(They administer such tests at some gay events, and people get to see their results literally within minutes)
Well, if a coke bottle fits up there, so can a raspberry pi...
hat seems rather difficult, and the usual 'solutions' seem to involve violating people's rights or privacy.
Just as if this witch-hunt against pictures wasn't invading people's privacy or violating their rights...
Protecting the children is not the point of this. It's done to give the powers that be just another arrow in their quiver to crush the little man if he ever dares to fight against one of their corrupt construction projects, or if he ever dares to do his job too well researching who planted bombs against utility poles in the eighties. At least, that's what it is used for here in Luxembourg.
So uh, if I drive to NJ, rent a hotel room, gamble online and win, it's forfeit?
No, since you are physically in NJ. Just be sure to claim your win right away, rather than after your return from your trip in NJ...
More importantly, if I did the same thing through a proxy located in NJ
In that case, the casino "won't be able" to wire your money to your out-of-state bank account. But, if it is a big win, it'd be probably be worthwhile to drive over to NJ to pick up your winning in person... (or have it wired to a Western Union branch in NJ, if the gambling joint doesn't pay out winnings in cash at their head office)
The casino would still win out, because they'd get to keep the smaller wins for which it is not worthwhile to go there in person.
A used last decade PC running Linux then would be a better bet for a cheap unit to run semi powerful stuff for cheap.
Depends on your requirements. The PC is somewhat bulky, the pi fits everywhere.
OK but lithium-air batteries that don't explode in the rain would be quite something.
Now they won't explode in the rain, they'll merely sneeze...
A curve can make glare worse by focusing the light
Indeed...
there is no wrong way to hold a phone.
Of course there is. Upside down, with the speaker next to your mouth, and the mic next to your ear. But you'd still get excellent reception (even though the audio would be shit)
Why would you put the phone horizontal? That would be rather uncomfortable.
Maybe, so that it bulges out more?
Monitors were actually better...
... and used to be round as well. But curved into the other direction (bulging out towards the reader, rather than in, away from him)
A couple of nuns who were nursing sisters had gone out to the countryside to minister to an outpatient. On the way back they were a few miles from the convent when they ran out of gas.
They were standing beside their car on the shoulder of the road when a truck approached. Seeing ladies of the cloth in distress, the driver stopped to offer his help. The nuns explained they needed some gas. The driver of the truck said he would gladly drain some from his tank, but he didn’t have a bucket or can.
One of the nuns dug out a clean bedpan and asked the driver if he could use it. He said, “yes,” and proceeded to drain a couple of quarts of gas into the pan. He waved goodbye to the nuns and left.
The nuns were carefully pouring the precious fluid into their gas tank when the highway patrol came by. The trooper stopped and watched for a minute before he said: “Sisters, I don’t think it will work but I sure do admire your faith!”
Looks to me like it's nothing more than the old trick of making a battery out of a lemon or other piece of acidic fruit.
Indeed. And in these batteries (and in most commercial batteries too...), the energy does not actually come from the electrolyte (the liquid) but from the electrodes, which are slowly "consumed" as the battery discharges.
So it'd better to use the ethanol directly for fuel... but that doesn't work either, a currently the machines needed to work the farms where the grain for the ethanol is grown consume more energy than is contained in the product, and this industry only works with the help of government subsidies (which only exist in this form in the US, but not in the UK)
Maybe each time they use a urinal instead of their coat pocket, it could give them a nickel.
Yes, it always has struck me as odd that in some places (Belgium...) you need to pay when you pee. But you leave something there, so they should be paying you, not the other way round...
... and design them so that they autonomously can get their fuel happily from the source!
two possibilities:
1. troll was not aware that Mark Shuttleworth is white and wrongly concluded from "South African" to "black"
2. troll is fully aware that Mark Shuttleworth is indeed white, but was hoping that his readers (or at least some of them) would make the above mistake, yielding an even more nourishing thread (for the troll...).
Either way, troll is playing on racist stereotypes, whether "legitimate" or not...
According to whois, ubuntusucks now belongs to canonical, and obviously they're not going to redirect it to their main page... (which would just give weight to the original message). And setting them up as a parking page would be boring and humorless.
But to their bug tracker, a pure stroke of genius!
The difference is, that the US at least admits that it's not working, whereas other countries just pretend that everything is all fine and dandy, while silently wondering why so few people use it...
(and same thing in the Luxembourgish city Esch-sur-Alzette, next to the French border...)
Paris has these too (autolib), but with special programming that prevents them to be driven to "interesting" areas such as the Bois de Boulogne...
Initially the driverless cars will ferry passengers from the town's rail station to its shopping centre just over a mile away – currently a 20-minute uphill walk.
Both ways?