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The News Thread v. Your Penises Are Too Large And It's All Our Fault

BecomingJulie said:
RIP Stanislav Petrov, the Man Who Saved the World.

If it were not for his ability to keep a cool head in a crisis, it's quite probable that none of us would be here today.

Seems he passed away awhile back, but the news has only broken recently.
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Is that the guy that held back on pushing the button when he got a false missile warning? rip xxx
 
^ Yeah that one. Apparently he died in May, but we only just found out.
 
CFC said:
^ Yeah that one. Apparently he died in May, but we only just found out.
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Like we didn't find out what he did in the first place for the best part of a decade isn't it? The Cold War may be over but the cloak and dagger bullshit continues. Disgusting treatment of a man who should have been given a Nobel :(
 
True true. I don't think the Soviets liked him because his behaviour implied people still had free will and wouldn't all behave like mindless automatons when push came to shove.
 
Reminding someone who is in a position of power over you of their own fallibility rarely goes well.

It's a travesty. At the very least, he should have died with the world's cleanest oven .....
 
It's probably another one of those clickbait DM stories that they made up and paid someone to pose for photos :\
 
If you're building patterns with 4-order spin symmetry (i.e., patterns that look the same when given a quarter turn) then it's actually pretty hard not to wind up with at least one swastika in there somewhere. That's just mathematics.

If it helps, think of it as an Indian good luck symbol -- at least, when it's not rotated 45 degrees and in a white circle on a red background.
 
^ Precisely. There are many similar such stories of "outrage" when somebody buys a pair of shoes/boots/footwear of some kind only to find the sole is covered in swastikas and/or leaves trails of swastikas when walking in them. It's basic geometry and worth remembering that many countries - including the sweatshop ones that make cheap (and mostly all) footwear - mostly don't have the same cultural connotations that we do here in the West when it comes to swastikaral symbolsim. As noted, many such patterns have existed all over the world for thousands of years with a variety of meanings most of which are positive. The variation included on those slippers is mostly seen as a positive variation although it's all fairly arbitrary when it comes down to it.
 
Uber London loses licence to operate


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41358640

Taxi-hailing app Uber is set to lose its London licence at the end of the month after a ruling from regulators at Transport for London (TfL).
However, the US tech firm has said it plans to appeal against the ruling.

That has made it unclear whether Uber will stop being available to its 3.5 million customers in London.

Uber also has more than 40,000 drivers in London, who now face an anxious wait to find out the fate of the company's licence.
 
I know an Uber driver, he was having marital problems.

So one day, he just left home - with no indication...
 
BecomingJulie said:
Why is England awash with swastikas? (BBC, 2014)
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Have heard of a few instances of this but interesting to see further examples :)

Another instance - albeit less currently culturally concerning - instance of the same symbol being used for "spiritual" oriental matters and also (sort of) "Fascistic" occidental matters is the yin/yang symbol. The latter (arguably) even predates the former... but even if it doesn't does the latter's use of it negate the former's despite most people likely being unaware of it?

Some Roman "yin/yangs," yesterday...

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I've precious little sympathy for the bosses of Uber. They are basically trying to get away with not doing a job properly, by pretending that they are not running a cab firm (which would require inconveniences such as licencing and proper employee care packages) but merely providing information about job prospects to self-employed drivers-for-hire (who don't have to pay themselves Minimum Wage, but neither do they have any right of redress if the amount offered is inconsistent with this).

Sorry, guys. You haven't invented a new way of doing business. People have been giving one another lifts ever since vehicles capable of carrying more than one person were invented. Once you get past a certain scale, this kind of operation is no longer akin to a notice board in a Junior Common Room where lifts are offered and solicited informally and users are expected to make their own arrangements each time, but a full-on minicab company with dispatchers and drivers and subject to business rules and regulations, for the benefit of both those whose wages you are paying and of those who pay your wages. We already decided what was fair back in the days of horses; the advent of vehicles with engines did not make a difference to what was fair or not, and neither will using a mobile phone app as the primary means of communication between passengers, base and drivers.

If you want to make money as a cab firm, then you should be subject to the same rules as anybody else who wants to make money as a private hire cab firm. That means drivers with a certain familiarity with the local topography and not deemed to pose a risk to the public, vehicles that are roadworthy and adequately insured, fare tables on prominent display, accurate meters, bathroom and refreshment facilities for drivers, fair contracts of employment, physical offices where bookings can be made in person and cash payments made, and so forth -- in other words, what distinguishes running a minicab business from just a few people sharing lifts for fuel money. Now it's more serious than Going down M5 as far as Bridgwater on afternoon of next Sun, 8th October, tel (int) xxxx or ( ext) 07xxx xxxxxx if interested, then it's only fair for you to be expected to take it that seriously. If you were running Hackney cabs, then (in most local authorities' areas) you would be subject to stiffer licensing regulations precisely because your drivers were not under the control of a central dispatch office who might direct you to a pick-up in Oakwood or Darley Abbey straight after making a drop-off in Chester Green, but are responsible themselves for route planning and collecting passengers.

What I'm saying is, fancy-pants, shiny, smart-arse mobile phone app or not, the operational expenditure involved in playing by the same fucking rules as every other cunt is non-negotiable. Workers' and customers' rights -- rights that we had to fight for, many years ago -- are protected by the Law of the Land. As an employed woman who sometimes has occasion to use the services of Hackney and/or private hire cabs, I fully support those rights and find it shameful that the likes of Uber believe that they can simply disregard them for the sake of their own selfish convenience.
 
^ This.

I was going to say all that but Julie just beat me to the post. Honest, guv ;)
 
For fucks sake America, sort your shit out and stop allowing every fucking nutter and his mate to buy guns!!! Just fuckin grow up...
 
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