Nath

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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

So I've just bought a PC. I haven't had a new computer for 12 years. The newest game I've played is Subnautica (and Below Zero). I've basically missed everything from the last 15 years.

I own a few games that I haven't been able to play until now (Fallout 4, Star Wars Squadrons, Witcher 3, few others). Thinking I probably have enough games in my backlog to play those and maybe look at new stuff next sale.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is it worse than actual smoking, though?

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not at all versed in the legalese, perhaps I'm using the wrong term (IP). We are in agreement that they can't do anything about your site having their prices listed.

What they probably can do something about is you taking that data from their API or website without authorisation. If it isn't called Intellectual Property, then let's call it "Woolies doesn't like that" law.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago

True, but we are speaking about what people want, not how they voted.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

That's going to be a tough one to call. Nokia Communicator had diary (calendar), web browsing and email features in the 90s. You could also tether off it, but it was dialup and most phones could do that.

That was pretty much the definition of a smart phone at the time.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

It may depend on your culture, but Blackberry and Windows Mobile phones were both fairly common in business circles years before iPhones.

The iPhone was an incremental advancement, not a major invention out of nowhere. The first iPhone was actually pretty crap compared to some models on the market. It wasn't until the 3G model that iPhones took off.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The whole start to Graceland by Paul Simon is pretty vivid:

The Mississippi Delta Was shining like a national guitar.
I am following the river down the highway through the cradle of the Civil War.
I'm going to Graceland, Graceland - Memphis, Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland

Poor boys and pilgrims with families and we are going to Graceland
My traveling companion is nine years old he is the child of my first marriage
But I've reason to believe we both will be received in Graceland

I have never been to Tennessee. But this intro really conjures up some vivid imagery of driving down a highway through some historic country, along a river in the company of a child - and being among many others going to the same place.

It's pure poetry.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 43 points 5 days ago (16 children)

I suspect that the majority of voters never wanted to leave in the first place. Results-wise, there was like 1.2% in it. And the leave voters were more likely to actually turn up. The problem is that too many "remainers" didn't actually vote.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

But, that's exactly what they've got. Presentation of prices. If you take it from their presentation, I can see their issue. If you send people into stores to gather those facts for yourself, they don't have a legal leg to stand on.

What I don't really understand is why they take issue in the first place. You're effectively advertising for them on your site.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago (6 children)

That's interesting, is their issue that you scraped their data? If so, then fair enough - that's technically their intellectual property.

If you have people going into stores and getting the prices, I don't believe they'd have a legal leg to stand on.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

I think this one was surpassed by X-Wing Alliance.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

I kiss my sons and will continue to do so for as long as they let me. I can't think of any other male friends/family that I kiss.

I don't think I'd have a problem with being kissed, but it simply isn't done. Hugs, yes. Kisses, no. I don't feel a need to kiss any of them, which is pretty hypocritical since I readily kiss most of my female friends/family.

Interesting question. I can't say I particularly wish that kissing my male friends/family was more socially normalised. But I'd probably embrace the societal change if it came along.

 

On the one hand, it makes it really hard to stay motivated with the teeny contribution I make to reducing emissions.
On the other, think of how much of a difference these 57 companies could make if they actually reached net-zero targets.

 

I'm sure this whole article comes as a shock to nobody, but it's nice to see it recognised like this.

 

Ok, so here's my newest phobia. Happily driving along a bridge I've crossed over a thousand times before, only tonight I'm suddenly in the dark waters below!

 

Try and get past the fact that this is sort-of about Facebook. Because it's more about the demise of news than it is about Facebook, specifically.

news organisations were never in the news business, Amanda Lotz, a professor of media studies at QUT, said.

"They were in the attention-attraction business.

"In another era, if you were an advertiser, a newspaper was a great place to be.

"But now there are just much better places to be."

The moment news moved online, and was "unbundled" from classifieds, sports results, movie listings, weather reports, celebrity gossip, and all the other reasons people bought newspapers or watched evening TV bulletins, the news business model was dead.

News by itself was never profitable, Professor Bruns said.

"Then advertising moved somewhere else.

"This was always going to happen via Facebook or other platforms."

It's a really fascinating read. We can all agree that independent journalism is valuable in our society, but ultimately, most of us don't so much seek news out as much as we encounter news as we go about our day.

I'm sure the TL;DR bot is about to entirely miss the nuance of the article. I recommend reading the whole thing.

 

I don't think this movement really got off the ground in WA, we never really had the lock-downs and remote working culture introduced through the pandemic that the Eastern states got. Still, this makes for fascinating reading.

 

I get that WA is financially far better off than 2017 projections.

What I don't really understand is why it is so unfair for WA to get back 70-75 cents per dollar its populace puts into GST.

 

I picked up a couple of pairs of jeans at the end of year sales.

I paid $20 for one pair, down from $110. Does anyone actually pay that $110? That sounds insane to me.

 

It sounds like he already has the world record, he just needs to prove it.

 

Imagine being the engineers in the middle of this. It's one thing that your incident is so bad it makes the news, it's another entirely when it is so bad the CEO resigns.

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