Non-IT News Thread
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Windows 10: Microsoft's Operating System Can Disable Pirated Software or Games, Report Says
The latest addition to the European License Agreement terms of conditions states Microsoft has the power to disable counterfeit software and hardware, PC Authority reports.
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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 -
