Non-IT News Thread
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Bomb blast in Bangkok just minutes ago. At least a dozen dead.
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San Francisco just took a 4.0, woke everyone up this morning
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Harry Connick, Jr's 19 Year Old Daughter Arrested for Giving Alcohol to Minors
http://www.people.com/article/harry-connick-daughter-charged-after-house-party-minors-drinking
Am I the only one who reads this news and the first shock I get is "Why would someone successful like HCJr own or even visit a horrible place like New Canaan, CT?"
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Famous Batman Charity Impersonator Killed in Highway Accident Yesterday (he was struck, he was not driving.)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/batman-impersonator-charity-work-dies-roadway-33153605
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Canadian company gets patent to build the world's first space elevator
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/canadian-company-patent-build-space-elevator-article-1.2330962
I read the article and found it lacking, so I dug the patent number up and read the patent. This is interesting.
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Rumor was that someone starting making one years ago. The news petered out though and people seem to have forgotten about it.
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Parts of California's Central Valley are sinking faster than ever before.
that will cause a problem.
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The Genesee Valley sank a lot while we were in high school there.
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@g.jacobse said:
Parts of California's Central Valley are sinking faster than ever before.
that will cause a problem.
See also: Florida. When you pump out all the groundwater, there is nothing left to hold up the surface. That's how you get sinkholes.
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Greece's Prime Minister has stepped down and new elections will be happening. His political party has split and a new party whose platform is to not meet Greece's financial obligations and to default intentionally is now running for government.
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damn we are in for a world of hurt!
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Are we? Could be good for us.
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Ashley Madison: Canadian Law Firms File $578 Million Lawsuit Against Extramarital Affair Site
Two firms filed the class-action lawsuit Thursday against Avid Dating Life and Avid Life Media after the data breach revealed about 39 million memberships earlier this week, The Guardian reports.
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Most unfaithful states per capita...
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Amazing that Alabama and Mississippi are so disparate here considering most Americans see them as a single place.
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Foo fighters RickRoll Westboro baptist church
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/foo-fighters-take-on-the-westboro-baptist-church-protesters/story-fn907478-1227495719327 -
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Ashley Madison: 2 Suicides Reported After Dating Site Hacking Controversy, Toronto Police Say
