Caption is "OK, you want religion in schools. But that means all religions, right?"
Image is a library with a group of eight children dressed in black cassocks with peaked hoods sitting cross-legged around a pentagram drawn on the ground.
EDIT: The pentagram is partially obscured by one of the children but one can infer that this must be AI generated and botched (as per the comments in this thread).
And good news in Australia (despite the disingenuous headline).
News today: vote has been postponed.
I forgot to say all email. Not just PritonMail.
My admin friend told me that all email is now secure and encrypted by default.
Of course you have to trust whoever is hosting your email though. Don't trust Gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc
A controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan the private messages of citizens in a bid to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is a
#Robodebt will have at least created a generation of citizens who understand the level of government corruption. It was an actual conspiracy.
My favorite Chaser is from their TV show when they dressed as Bin Laden and bypassed security to get near George Bush.
Alt text: Picture of Sigourney Weaver with a cat in her arms on the movie set. Caption reads...
"Alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman, and then they all die except for the smart woman and her cat. Four stars."
Point taken. I did look it up because I expected half of it to be true.
In Australia we have two satire sites called Betoota Advocate and The Chaser which sometimes are about 80% factual (about conservatives).
This is just an Onion type satire site. He didn't mention any house-maid. Citing missing out on Sky TV as "hardship" though is still bizarre.
No this is just an Onion type site. He didn't mention any house-maid. Citing missing out on Sky TV as "hardship" though is still bizarre.
They sing in a higher pitch (more annoying to humans?) to compensate for urban noise.
Selfish people don't care about those factors. The existing graph has a better chance of swaying them.
She could have just denied it was her in the video. It is impossible to prove if someone denies it.
In Australia my friend identified a woman appearing clearly in a TV news bulletin being arrested at an anti-lockdown rally and complaining loudly. In fact it was official supplementary extended footage from the TV station uploaded to youtube: about 20 seconds of just her.
She is denying it was her though and is suing him for defamation. It has cost him over US$100 so far and the hearing day has not even arrived.
Considering the Palestinians lied about the initial numbers I doubt this figure.
First it was "at least 33 people, including 12 women and children, according to local health officials."
Then that changed to 9 children and 3 women.
Note also: The rescue unfolded under intense fire, and during the withdrawal, dozens of terrorists armed with anti-tank missiles and machine guns surged through the alleys toward the targets. As a result, uninvolved Gazan civilians were also killed in the densely populated area.
I suspect the ranting author failed to appreciate that Bluetooth is probably cheaper to implement for the audio because regular headphones require three wires while power supply only requires two. Ingenious really.
EDIT: Proper wired headphones would also require a soundcard in the dongle.
The guy was having a funny geeky bitch. He was laughing at himself. He doesn't expect Apple to change anything.
EDIT: I think you are right, that last paragraph of his is weirdly serious. Would have been pure comedy without it.
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A crazy experience — I lost my earbuds in a remote town in Chile, so tried buying a new pair at the airport before flying out. But the new wired, iPhone, lightning-cable headphones didn't work. Strange.
So I went back and swapped them for another pair, from a different brand. But those headphones didn't work either. We tried a third brand, which also didn't work.
By now the gift shop people and their manager and all the people in line behind me are super annoyed, until one of the girls says in Spanish, "You need to have bluetooth on." Oh yes, everyone else nods in agreement. Wired headphones for iPhones definitely need bluetooth.
What? That makes no sense. The entire point of wired headphones is to not need bluetooth.
So I turn Bluetooth on with the headphones plugged into the lightning port and sure enough my phone offers to "pair" my wired headphones. "See," they all say in Spanish, like I must be the dumbest person in the world.
With a little back and forth I realize that they don't even conceptually know what bluetooth is, while I have actually programmed for the bluetooth stack before. I was submitting low-level bugs to Ericsson back in the early 2000's! Yet somehow, I with my computer science degree, am wrong, and they, having no idea what bluetooth even is, are right.
My mind is boggled, I'm outnumbered, and my plane is boarding. I don't want wireless headphones. And especially not wired/wireless headphones or whatever the hell these things are. So I convince them, with my last ounce of sanity, to let me try one last thing, a full-proof solution:
I buy a normal wired, old-school pair of mini-stereo headphones and a lightning adapter. We plug it all in. It doesn't work.
"Bluetooth on", they tell me.
NO! By all that is sacred my wired lightning adapter cannot require Bluetooth. "It does," they assure me.
So I turn my Bluetooth on and sure enough my phone offers to pair my new wired, lightning adapter with my phone.
Unbelievable.
I return it all, run to catch my plane, and spend half the flight wondering what planet I'm on. Until finally back home, I do some research and figure out what's going on:
A scourge of cheap "lightning" headphones and lightning accessories is flooding certain markets, unleashed by unscrupulous Chinese manufacturers who have discovered an unholy recipe:
True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make. So instead of conforming to the Apple standard, these companies have made headphones that receive audio via bluetooth — avoiding the Apple specification — while powering the bluetooth chip via a wired cable, thereby avoiding any need for a battery.
They have even made lightning adapters using the same recipe: plug-in power a fake lightning dongle that uses bluetooth to transmit the audio signal literally 1.5 inches from the phone to the other end of the adapter.
In these remote markets, these manufacturers have no qualms with slapping a Lightning / iPhone logo on the box while never mentioning bluetooth, knowing that Apple will never do anything.
From a moral or even engineering perspective, this strikes me as a kind of evil. These companies have made the cheapest iPhone earbuds known to humankind, while still charging $12 or $15 per set, pocketing the profits, while preying on the technical ignorance of people in remote towns.
Perhaps worst of all, there are now thousands or even millions of people in the world who simply believe that wired iPhone headphones use bluetooth (whatever that is), leaving them with an utterly incoherent understanding of the technologies involved.
I wish @Apple would devote an employee or two to cracking down on such a technological, psychological abomination as this. And I wish humanity would use its engineering prowess for good, and not opportunistic deception.
I expected more analysis from her in her printed statement justifying her comment.
She didn't even try to debunk the notion that reducing migration would ease housing pressure.
Misleading title. He did not win the appeal.
He won the opportunity to have an appeal hearing.
It is last week's news anyhow.
Aren't ads dispersed throughout the discussions? If not, then why not?
Am surprised to see Australia rates highly. 40% of students don't know it takes about a year for Earth to orbit the Sun.
I would guess that half the population doesn't understand compound interest.
I would also guess only 5% could describe the scientific method, 1% could describe the use of normal distributions.
I would guess that 20% of locally born Australians would not know how to use punctuation or grammar for clear expression.
Is this a worldwide trend? The rise of flerfers suggests it is.
Trump posted that he had an "enthusiastic" audience at the Libertarian Party convention.
FACTS — Round 1 voting was:
Story Daniels 1 vote
Denali the Cat 1 vote
Sean Ono Lennon 1 vote
Christian Weston 2 votes
Art Olivier 4 votes
Donald J. Trump 6 votes
Toad 16 votes
RFK Jr 19 votes
Charles Ballay 21 votes
Jacob Hornberger 59 votes
Joshua Smith 73 votes
Lars Mapstead 122 votes
Mike Ter Maat 141 votes
Chase Oliver 181
Michael Rectenwald 259 votes
Trump Republicans tried to take over the hall (assisted by the Secret Service confiscating noisemakers) and hijack the Libertarian convention. They lined up early then stole the front row seats marked reserved. It all backfired wonderfully.
Concrete and steel production are major sources of CO2 emissions, but a new solution from Cambridge could recycle both at the same time. Throwing old concrete into steel-processing furnaces not only purifies iron but produces “reactivated cement” as a byproduct. If done using renewable energy, the…
ALT TEXT: Cartoon of two women in the backyard looking at clothes drying on the traditional washing line. One of them jokes: "It dries the washing using the very latest technology — a combination of solar and wind power"
ALT TEXT: Knight is on his mobile phone while the lady is running from a fire breathing dragon and says: "fear not, my lady, I am signing another online petition"
Alt text: two dinosaurs stranded on a tiny island (ex mountain top) watching Noah's Ark go past in the rain. One says to the other: "Oh crap, that was TODAY?"
A Chinese military jet has detonated flares near an Australian Navy helicopter which was operating in international waters, forcing the pilot to take evasive action to avoid an accident.
