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  1. Eriol

    The Tech Random Crap Thread

    New Tech Report System Guide is out: https://techreport.com/review/32474/the-tech-report-system-guide-september-2017-edition
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    Canadian Politics

    Maybe. Still think it's whomever brought in 9-5. Fleming just didn't FIX it.
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    Canadian Politics

    Try "Midnight" being "The Middle of the Night" Hence my mini-rant above. How we got on the 9-5 bullshit I'd really like to know. It feels like a bet from the 1800s that got out of hand or something.
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    Canadian Politics

    I'm in a minority on this one. IMO change Alberta (and most other places) to be on the timezone closest to Solar Time (ie: Noon is when the sun is DIRECTLY south), and then ditch all the savings, etc, crap. There is variance from Solar Time, but with some MINOR political exceptions (Canada is...
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    [Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread

    So they're doing the first of the new games, with extra backstory taken from the 2nd? I swear I played through a few of those sequences (plane in the river for example).
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    Funny (political, religious) pictures

    In #4, is "a" the shortest word, or is "in"? I've heard disputes as to whether "a" and "I" are words, or something else. Also, it's "funny" how grammar-nazi this is, and yet question 30 has (at least) one missing word
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    Former President and Convicted Felon Trump Thread

    Transcript (and there's a video in the article too, though not autoplay) of Trump's Speech to the UN today: National Post article Not short. I'll give it to his speechwriter though, quite a lot in there to like IMO. Quite an amount to NOT like either. Proportions will vary per person! As...
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    The Tech Random Crap Thread

    EFF withdraws from W3C with comments: An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership
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    [Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

    Well you'll get HALF your wish, as it's coming back tomorrow too. https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ns-19_metric_e.html
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    [News] Bombings, Mass Attacks, Terrorism, etc - Catch all thread

    That's what I meant. National Post, Globe, etc, are pay paper-and-ink newspapers. And then there's the "urban-type" papers that are usually free. I was responding to what you were saying.
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    [Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

    Saw this article on Slashdot: Meet the CamperForce, Amazon's Nomadic Retiree Army Was kinda OK, until I read this section: OK, I have no idea about the 2nd amount, but $4,000/m IN PERPETUITY would be $48,000/year and a 19.2% rate of return. 19.2%!!! Even if it was a "you will have no money...
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    [News] Bombings, Mass Attacks, Terrorism, etc - Catch all thread

    Most of the "free" ones are the format that you quoted. Many of the "pay" ones are USUALLY better. Hardly universally, but it DOES happen.
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    The Dream Thread

    Already done: Link
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    [News] Bombings, Mass Attacks, Terrorism, etc - Catch all thread

    Update on this: Yahyah Farroukh: First pictures of Parsons Green attack suspect as two men questioned over Tube bombing I pulled out what I thought was the most important information about the suspects. Also, stupid trend in news articles these days for one paragraph per sentence, even when...
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    [Brazelton] Harry Dean Stanton, age 91

    He was TERRIFYING in Big Love.
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    Funny (political, religious) pictures

    Shouldn't that billboard be in.. croatian? Or at least NOT english? Otherwise, how will you know how to go there? Sure, it's not a LOT of english in the sign, but you'd have to have SOMETHING to read it.
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    Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again

    @Dirona has said before that someone had told her (maybe in school or something?) that until you're mature enough to walk into the pharmacy (or wherever) and buy condoms with your Mom along with you, you're not mature enough to have sex. Whatever you may think of the above statement...
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    [News] Bombings, Mass Attacks, Terrorism, etc - Catch all thread

    There's a number of threads out there, one per attack. Here's a thread we can keep them all in together, much like the Mass Shootings (that aren't terrorist-related, presumably) thread. Here's the thread for any attacks that are THOUGHT to be terrorism at the time they happened. Starting...
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    Canadian Politics

    Sad News: Liberal MP Arnold Chan dies after battle with cancer I don't know anything about this particular MP beyond what I read in the article, but it would suck to lose your sitting MP. My thoughts in particular though go out to his wife and kids. Dying at 50 is far too early. If we have...
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