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More oddities spotted in the news
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada  (08-16-2023, 05:56 AM)robkelk Wrote: Study shows bots are better at solving CAPTCHAs tthan humans are Interestingly, that doesn't really require a study to figure out:
Microsoft's AI recommends visiting the food bank on an empty stomach
The page has since been pulled. No tl;dr on the story - you need to read the entire article for the complete effect.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
It's on a news site, so it's news, right?
 The Register: Want tech cred? Learn how to email like a pro The article refers to Network Working Group Request For Comments: 1855 quite a lot.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
Kleenex pulling out of Canadian consumer market
Quite a few brands have been disappearing from Canadian store shelves since the start of the pandemic, but I believe this is the first one that's had to worry about its brand name becoming a generic term. And that makes me wonder whether they can defend their trademark in Canada if they aren't using it for facial tissues.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
Burning Man rained out. Participants told to shelter in place and conserve their food, fuel, and potable water.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
The Register: Microsoft kills off free WordPad, will ditch it from Windows
Wait, WordPad was still a thing?
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada 
RE: More oddities spotted in the news
09-04-2023, 08:31 AM (This post was last modified: 09-04-2023, 08:31 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
Did anyone actually use it for anything?
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold.... 
I still use it when I need to type something up. It does the job and its free; why would I use anything else?
“I really hope I’m behind this convoluted mess; at least that way I’ll be able to get revenge by doing this to myself. I won’t even have to feel bad because it’ll be all my fault.” - Harry Potter, The Master of Death by Ryuugi.
Pasting screenshots into old style Word docs, mostly. Also, a bit of HTML/XML editing when more isn't needed.
Though I use Notepad++ more often now since it can handle multiple files. Kilroy
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada 
Imagine a Stealth Fighter being so hard to find.....
----- Lambo' driver caught at 217kph on N17 ... At that speed you'd almost be better off just dropping the hammer and seeing what she'll do - you're going to prison anyway. I've been to 260. Late at night on an empty road mind.
Oh sweet meteor of death
Fall upon us. Deliver us in fire To Peace everlasting. 
"Wow, this is really an impressive new fighter. Even the way that it crashes!" -Isamu Dyson in Macross Plus
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noli esse culus (09-22-2023, 04:00 PM)Dartz Wrote: Imagine a Stealth Fighter being so hard to find..... .... Well. That's 'forget having a car, or a driving license', at minimum.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
Apparently, the title of "Florida Man" is hotly contested.
The Florida Man Games are on and only the wildest and beefiest gator-loving dudes will win
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
RE: More oddities spotted in the news
11-02-2023, 01:53 PM (This post was last modified: 11-02-2023, 01:54 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
Somehow we all missed this when it happened earlier this week.
Philadelphia Magazine: Hall Is Suing Oates, and We Can’t Go For That
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
Wow,,, This is getting to be so commonplace that the only place it still gets coverage is in the sports news.
Paris mayor quitting Elon Musk's 'global sewer' platform X before 2024 Olympics So, what odds are being given on the "X" platform becoming an ex-platform any time soon?
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
Waiting now for Musk to threaten to sue the city of Paris to force them to use X-Twitter.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I'd call this a meta story, but it's about Alphabet instead.
Canadian federal government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act tl;dr: Alphabet has agreed to pay what they proposed a year ago to pay for Canadian news.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown Forever neighbours, never neighbors Government of Canada: How to immigrate to Canada
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold.... |
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