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Eva Kor: Auschwitz survivor of Mengele Nazi torture dies
Eva Kor survived the Holocaust and went on to call for forgiveness of Nazi perpetrators, giving tours of the death camp at Auschwitz.
She set up a small Holocaust museum in her adoptive home in the US and has died aged 85, during one of her annual trips to Poland.
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Southern California shaken by 6.4 magnitude earthquake
Southern California was hit by its strongest earthquake in two decades on Thursday.
The epicentre of the 6.4 magnitude tremor was near the city of Ridgecrest, which is about 150 miles (240 km) north-east of Los Angeles.
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Plane fire: Virgin Atlantic flight makes emergency landing
A Virgin Atlantic flight has made an emergency landing in Boston after a fire broke out on board.
The plane was travelling from New York to London on Thursday night when the fire started, forcing the crew to divert the flight.
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Toxic processionary caterpillar plague spreads across Europe
Germany and the Netherlands are battling many infestations of oak processionary caterpillars, whose tiny toxic hairs can trigger allergic reactions and skin irritation.
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Orfei Circus tigers maul trainer to death in southern Italy
Four tigers have mauled their trainer to death during a rehearsal at a circus in southern Italy.
One tiger set upon Ettore Weber, 61, on Thursday evening in Triggiano, near Bari, before the other three joined in. -
California's huge 6.4 earthquake yesterday just got dwarfed.... usgs posted a 7.1 this morning in the same area...
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci38457511/executive
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The United States won the Women's World Cup
The United States won the Women's World Cup for a record fourth time as they eventually overpowered the Netherlands in Lyon.
Megan Rapinoe's penalty and Rose Lavelle's fine run and finish gave the defending champions victory in the second half, after resilient first-half defending from the Dutch. -
Wrong Chicago family takes 'brother' off life support amid mistaken identity
A US hospital switched off life support for a patient after the wrong family gave its consent, a lawsuit alleges.
The man was taken to Mercy Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, in April, after being found lying unconscious beneath a car, naked with facial injuries. -
Alaska heatwave: Anchorage hits record temperature
The US state of Alaska, part of which lies inside the Arctic Circle, is sweltering under a heatwave, with record temperatures recorded in several areas, including its largest city.
Temperatures reached 90F (32C) in Anchorage on Thursday, shattering the city's previous record of 85F. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Alaska heatwave: Anchorage hits record temperature
The US state of Alaska, part of which lies inside the Arctic Circle, is sweltering under a heatwave, with record temperatures recorded in several areas, including its largest city.
Temperatures reached 90F (32C) in Anchorage on Thursday, shattering the city's previous record of 85F.Holy crap!
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
The United States won the Women's World Cup
The United States won the Women's World Cup for a record fourth time as they eventually overpowered the Netherlands in Lyon.
Megan Rapinoe's penalty and Rose Lavelle's fine run and finish gave the defending champions victory in the second half, after resilient first-half defending from the Dutch.We heard about that pretty quickly here in Spain.
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2019/07/08/netflixs-worst-nightmare-has-come-true/amp/
My guess is, Netflix isnt worried about Disney. Disney has a 100 year track record of having zero understanding of technology and zero ability to execute on technology. This is the company that used go.com instead of disney.com, remember? This is the company that gave tours of their "state of the art 1970s mainframe" in the 1990s, not realizing it was a huge joke and that no other company was running tech like that (seriously, Sperry Rand mainframes in the era of the Pentium.) It would be like a company running DOS 1 today, and giving tours about how high tech they are, not even being aware of things like Windows, Macs or smart phones.
This is the same company that said "customers don't want Internet in resorts." And when they finally gave in and allowed Internet said "they need Internet, but not wireless."
Disney+ has little possibility of even functioning. Sure, the people at the helm have changed, but this is a company that has maintained this tech adversity problem through generation after generation of management. When people pay for DIsney movies and the quality sucks or they aren't available or the service keeps crashing, they are going to prefer Netflix' lesser known content to Disney famous, but unavailable content.
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Or people will simply buy the movies and not worry about the renting version. They can buy on Walmart's Vudu streaming service, at least for now. I suppose the question is - Will Disney stop allowing people to buy movies from Vudu once their subscription service goes live?
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Or people will simply buy the movies and not worry about the renting version. They can buy on Walmart's Vudu streaming service, at least for now. I suppose the question is - Will Disney stop allowing people to buy movies from Vudu once their subscription service goes live?
If they do, I'll just buy the DVDs and put them on my Plex server.
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Or people will simply buy the movies and not worry about the renting version. They can buy on Walmart's Vudu streaming service, at least for now. I suppose the question is - Will Disney stop allowing people to buy movies from Vudu once their subscription service goes live?
If they do, I'll just buy the DVDs and put them on my Plex server.
If they keep offering those.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Or people will simply buy the movies and not worry about the renting version. They can buy on Walmart's Vudu streaming service, at least for now. I suppose the question is - Will Disney stop allowing people to buy movies from Vudu once their subscription service goes live?
If they do, I'll just buy the DVDs and put them on my Plex server.
If they keep offering those.
If they quit offering physical media and their streaming is crap, well, I got other things I can spend my money on.
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Or people will simply buy the movies and not worry about the renting version. They can buy on Walmart's Vudu streaming service, at least for now. I suppose the question is - Will Disney stop allowing people to buy movies from Vudu once their subscription service goes live?
If they do, I'll just buy the DVDs and put them on my Plex server.
If they keep offering those.
If they quit offering physical media and their streaming is crap, well, I got other things I can spend my money on.
That's already my position. I generally avoid movies made by Disney. I would love if their stuff didn't just disappear from Netflix, but just disappeared
I'm not saying that they've never made something good, just that I'd be fine giving it all up, forever.
