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Excuse Me, Your Tie Is Unzipped

posted by hubie on Saturday January 07, @11:43PM   

owl writes:

https://hackaday.com/2023/01/05/excuse-me-your-tie-is-unzipped/

If you ask your typical handyperson what's the one thing you need to fix most things, the answer might very well be duct tape. But second place — and first place in some circles — would have to be zip ties. These little wonders are everywhere if you look for them. But they are a relatively recent invention and haven't always had the form they have today.

The original zip tie wasn't called a zip tie or even a cable tie. In 1958 they were called Ty-Raps and produced by a company called Thomas and Betts. Originally meant to improve aircraft wiring harnesses, they found their way into various electronic equipment and packaging uses. But they've also become helpful in very unusual places too. A policeman trying to round up rioters would have problems carrying more than a few conventional handcuffs. But flexible cuffs based on zip ties are lightweight and easy to carry. Colon surgeons sometimes use a modified form of zip tie during procedures.

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Original Submission

• Re:movin those goal posts again.... Re:movin those goal posts again.... (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 13, @08:58PM (4 children)

  by Tork (3914) on Friday January 13, @08:58PM (#1286753)

  That tweet was so heavily covered by the media you should have had no trouble bringing 'lying media' to light. The real issue here is you can't make your stated point. 🤡

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  Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩

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• Re:movin those goal posts again.... Re:movin those goal posts again.... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 14, @02:55AM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 14, @02:55AM (#1286792)

  My stated point was that despite four years of media outrage over Trumps incessant racist and sexist tweeting, you cannot provide a link to a single racist or sexist tweet.
  You then claim that one tweet that did not have Trump being racist or sexist - but was deleted because someone in the background of a video was - somehow proves that the media outrage was correct and Trump incessantly made racist and sexist tweets for four years.

  Point stands.

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  • grabbem by the pussy! grabbem by the pussy! (Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday January 14, @03:59AM (2 children)

    by Tork (3914) on Saturday January 14, @03:59AM (#1286799)

    Heh! You purposefully set conditions to be really narrow in the hopes you can quash anything anybody sends you. We all know why video has been ruled out by you. As for my choice of tweet, besides it being the big one at the time when we first debated this, it was deleted BECAUSE it made him look racist. This is why you have to prove that tweet didn't exist to make your point, just going "nuh uh deleted!" isn't helping you.
    
    If you were actually serious about proving your point you wouldn't be going "show me one tweet!" then bitching that you didn't get a thousand when the first one becomes too much for you to tackle.

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    • Re:grabbem by the pussy! Re:grabbem by the pussy! (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 14, @09:00AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 14, @09:00AM (#1286827)

      So you admit that more than four years of media hysteria was about one tweet.

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      • "...bleeding from her... whatever."! (Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday January 14, @05:31PM

        by Tork (3914) on Saturday January 14, @05:31PM (#1286854)

        Heh. What's the matter, was the media not mean enough to Trump this time?

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        Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩

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