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America says that, mostly. (Although those soccer hooligans are scary, no doubt.)

@shane857 Same here but I couldn't help but laugh when Coventry equalised. I laughed even louder when they scored the "winner". It's just such a United thing to do these days. We were in total control until ETH decided to start using subs. And it's not the first time this season that he's made changes and everything's just gone to pot.

I honestly don't think he is a bad manager. Maybe to many politics off field. I think he substituted Garnacho not to risk injury.

He takes chances... sometimes pay off, sometimes not

The manual for the car we recently picked up comes in multiple volumes and eats up nearly three-quarters of the glove compartment.  At a guess, based on the size of the main manual, it's probably over 700 pages in total.

Interesting how the less-involving cars become to drive, the more documentation that is required to operate them is apparently necessary.

Pretty sure this is close to 700 pages. It feels like one of my old law textbooks. Not sure why they wrapped it in cellophane, though. To protect the secrets of the car until the new owner has to actually figure something out? It'll ONLY fit in the glove compartment. It won't fit anywhere else. Which is a good thing. I must have scraped enough tobacco out of the last one's glove box to make 20 cigarettes. There's now no room for the wife to mess this one up.

Nothing big,  but we had a small one when I was in high school.  I thought the kid behind me had kicked my desk enough to move it slightly,  but he said he didn't.  Evidently in some parts of the building all the desks had moved around.

For a very short while, I was following an earthquake tracker. There are several of those, with different front ends and perhaps sometimes different input data. I see the latest one was in New Jersey just short of two hours ago.

The site Earthquake Track says there have been:

• 122 earthquakes (M1.5 or more) in the past 24 hours
• 870 earthquakes in the past 7 days
• 3,495 earthquakes in the past 30 days
• 51,311 earthquakes in the past 365 days

Of course most are small, at great depth, at sea or in mostly uninhabited locations but the fact they're recording more than 100 shakes per day worldwide is rather impressive.

@x=usr(1536) I suppose you should kind of expect it in LA but not around here. I think it's still the biggest, or second biggest, known to hit the UK. We have had a few but that's the only one I've ever knowingly felt. There is a small fault line under the Menai Straits, which is the reason Anglesey's separated from the mainland. On that occasion, we were probably about 20 miles from the epicentre. Weird thing was me thinking it was a truck going past. We lived in a housing estate with fairly narrow streets. It was basically a square. No chance of a truck of any description making its way around there.

I think Nitrogen is N and sodium is Na.   

Still funny though.

Thankfully everybody Loves NaCHOs!

@Atarian7 Yeah, you're right. Didn't think it looked right. 😂

The women's team in Piteå, Sweden regularly play in snow during the late fall.

https://www.svt.se/sport/fotboll/pitea-5

I think they complained about it back then, too.  Vaguely remember hearing a lot of piss, moan, and excuses related to snow and thinking "but it seems so fun..."

Welcome to modern gaming!

Modern *Warfare

It applies to that too I'm sure.

that's really not far off from the posts I see in Flat Earth Society, a group wherein people ask how water can stay on a "ball" without falling off, and how planes can stay up in the air, and fly "upside down" meaning in Australia.

Love Riggs and Murtaugh. Did you know that Die Hard III was considered as a Lethal Weapon movie?

Joss Ackland was brilliant in that roll. He will be missed.

He also played the chancellor of Unseen University in one of the Discworld TV movies IIRC.

I wouldn't have described it as "fun" even though some people find some of my (very serious) posts funny. 😑

I'm surprised Al let the thread run on as long as it did.  

Terrible thread, started with literally no point, or had a point and op didn't want to out and say it because he knew it'd get shut down earlier. Really off-topic for a vintage gaming forum.

How long does it take to build one? I struggled to build a £20 Marvel one for my grandson a couple of weeks ago.

My personal favorite sets growing up were Castle, Space, Racing, and Aquanauts/Aquasharks/Aquaraiders.

Weird thing is that I never actually had any Lego growing up. Not strictly true. I had some but I think they were hand me downs or something as I don't remember ever being bought any. I used to have Meccano and Airfix kits.

People just don't think about the implications of minor theft. Worst part is, he probably won't think twice about it again in the future.

It seems that the main issue of the case was that he lied about it to his employers and tried to cover it up instead of just saying he'd made a mistake. If there was an employment Darwin award ...

As one of the bank's financial analysts, he's required to be unquestionably trustworthy, guess he didn't consider that. Most expensive sandwich he ever gave to his partner. 

@dudeguy Is that what your media's been telling you? That no one else ever helps? The UK got dragged into both Afghanistan and Iraq because of the US. In this instance, it's unlikely that many outside of the immediate Hamas hierarchy knew what was going to happen until the day. Israeli intelligence has operatives and informants within the organisation but they were seemingly caught with their trousers around their ankles. There will be a war between the US and Iran at some point. Unfortunately, it looks like there needs to be. It's something that's been brewing ever since the US murdered the last democratically elected prime minister of Iran and installed a right-wing puppet dictatorship.

Hamas has been around for decades at this point. Palestine has had plenty of time to deal with them.

History has shown that it's not that easy to remove dictators. And Hamas, it seems, have done a decent enough job for the people of Gaza to not be too bothered by having them around. Kind of like how Germany saw the Nazis. They could have been the greatest Government Germany had ever known, had it not been for the megalomania, psychopathy and murder. Like Germany, the residents of the Gaza strip are now paying the price.

Try clearing your browser cache and such?

I'll give it a shot tomorrow.

Sounds good. I don't want to assume your tech background, but feel free to ask for help should you need it. I'll be happy to do what I can.

Watched the first new episode last night, much watch second one this evening. 

I may have to sign up again...I Love that show!!

replace about 10-15% of the sand in it, with dried, almost burnt, coffee grounds, and gain nearly 25% compression strength

As far as I know, no incidents as yet but the affected schools are being closed as a precaution. One of the issues with this concrete is that it's full of air and when it starts to crack or crumble, water can get in and start attacking the rebar. The island has five high schools. One is relatively modern, having been built in the 80s, so it's of brick construction. The other two schools are my old school and Llangefni, which I would have gone to if we hadn't moved in '78. Both schools are almost identical in design and are currently being examined. They were built in the 50s, which is around the time the concrete was mostly being used.

Full of bubbles, less reinforced than its counterpart, and unsealed is just a recipe for disaster. People will do anything to save a buck. 

Thank goodness nobody has been hurt.

Just spent a couple of hours on it. It's kind of like a cross between Skyrim and Mass Effect. In some respects, the combat is more enjoyable than in Skyrim and the interface seems to be slicker IMO. BUT there are some issues on my system with the audio. It also freezes for several seconds as it seems to be constantly loading content, which usually causes dialog to be mismatched with the NPC's mouth. Just checked the specs and everything apart from my CPU is at the recommended. When it doesn't freeze, it runs well with everything cranked up to Ultra, although I've noticed some graininess in the image. Possibly due to FSR.

See what other stuff is running in the background and make sure you have enough virtual memory allocated.

Gald you are enjoying it other than a couple small issues.

The graininess is actually down to a "cinematic" filter they have. It's deliberate. You can turn it off. I dialed the graphics all the way down. Still some freezing but it's not as bad. I'd already cut back my startup programs a couple of weeks ago.

@bent_pin Then why haven't they made him disappear? Got to have some kind of insurance in place.

Heh  😼

He's a furmidable opponent. Furtunately, he's friends in the press, and if his dead letter gets published, it would be catastrophic there will be now purrdons. Besides that, he's got a great purrsonality. Anyone who wants to challenge him should ask if that's the meowntain that they want to die on. For the meowment, there's not much to be done.

@Emehr Granddaughter's iPhone is really horrible when it comes to passwords. I remember the last time I had to do it. Must have taken me 15 - 20 minutes to enter a password it would accept. Had similar issues today. In the end, I said "fuck it" and used the WiFi password. At least she has it written down now.

You told Siri to "f*ck it" upon she answered you need at least one digit, capital letter and symbol plus that it was too short anyway?

@carlsson

Carlsson,  brother,  you crack me up!

Did you see that ludicrous display last night? 😁

Somehow I have a feeling both of these teams would do fairly well in international cups versus Swedish league teams, even the ones from the top flight Allsvenskan. This past week all four Swedish entries lost in their international matches against teams from the Faeroe Islands, Armenia, Switzerland (ok, somewhat tough) and Netherlands (very tough).