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Ah, Japanese TV programs... gotta love 'em!
You gotta love Japanese television for their originality:
have you ever wondered what you could do with a tire and an olympic ski jump?
Check it out! :)
Web sites i use for getting articles for submissions
Maybe a list for submitters of sites used to collect stories
I use (and ever expanding):
BBC
theverge.com
neweurope.eu (different perspective)
politico.com
washingtonpost.com (has an article limit per month)
reddit
cbc (canadian news plus a sort of unbiased news site)
Aljazeera
Can't think anymore. Vodka.
Maybe should set up a news source area? To help get submissions?
My mealworm farm
My mealworm farm has produced it's first babies: little mealworms about less than a baby finger width in length (no i am not about to try to measure them.
Hopefully i will get a good 'crop' and the cycle will go on with an increased 'harvest' of beetles (i already have more than my turtle can eat).
It's kind of cool: if you get close to the beetle 'farm' (a plastic bin filled with oatmeal and a water source (something like a pickle jar cap with carrot/celery/potato slices in it)) you can hear something like the rice crispies 'snap crackle pop' sound.
It's like a constant clicking sound. Fascinating, Captain.
I've heard you shouldn't eat the mealworms you buy from the pet store, but the next generation should be fine: whatever... it will be this batch or the next that i will be sampling.
Kind of doubting my wife and daughter will try them, but maybe my son-in-law?
Or they will all try it if i feel the need to be mean and MAKE them try it, lol.
When "computers" were the people who sat at "calculators"
THIS is the kind of thing I find interesting:
For an interesting wikipedia article on the history of computers/hardware, the link below will lead you to as many links as you may want to follow.
I remember my dad talking about punching cards to Program the huge computer at Queens university. In high school, I was filling in the cards with a pencil.
My young (at the time) brother-in-law won a vic-20 and was typing his commands.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
My first personal computer was an Acorn Atom... I could only dream of the 64k that Bill Gates said was enough for anyone. I could never get the cassette tape to record my carefully typed and debugged programs.
Some BBC Election Stories
Bailed out banks still getting bailed out!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/07/taxpayers-are-still-bailing-out-wall-street-eight-years-later/
Banks still getting paid to bail out homeownders are not bailing out some homeowners?!?!?!
Velly intelesting!
Use this as a post if you want.
Oculus VR vs ZeniMax
Oculus VR made "factually inaccurate" statements in ZeniMax lawsuit, forensic analyst says
A recently-granted motion in the lawsuit between ZeniMax Media and Oculus VR suggests that the case could be about to get very interesting, and not in a way that's good for Oculus. The motion to "permit disclosure of any 'demonstrably inaccurate' representations made to court," as reported by Polygon, indicates that an independent expert investigating the case found sworn statements that are "factually incorrect," and that "critical log files" on one of John Carmack's hard drives were deleted prior to its collection as evidence.
I'm too lazy to give this one the research needed to produce a coherent submission, since I haven't been following the case.
script to stop windows ten updates
#NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
; #Warn ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
/*
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-info
This site contains latest version info etc.,
To be compared to CurrentBuild and UBR registry entries contained in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion
LastAutoAppUpdateSearchSuccessTime in:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate
LastScheduledRetryTime in above.
*/
;Parameters
;MS Win10 release info page https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-info
LatestUpdateURL := "https://winrelinfo.blob.core.windows.net/winrelinfo/en-US.html"
whr := ComObjCreate("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
whr.Open("GET", LatestUpdateURL, true)
whr.Send()
whr.WaitForResponse()
releaseinfo := whr.ResponseText
RegRead, ReleaseId, HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion, ReleaseId
RegRead, CurrentBuild, HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion, CurrentBuild
RegRead, UBR, HKLM, SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion, UBR
needle := "\s*" . ReleaseId . "\s*\s*\s*(" . CurrentBuild . "\." . UBR . ")\s*"
found := RegExMatch(releaseinfo, needle)
if (found) {
MsgBox % "Your version of Windows 10: " . ReleaseId . "`nOS Build: " . CurrentBuild . "." . UBR . "`nThis is the latest version."
}
Else {
MsgBox % "There may be updates available! Please turn on Windows Update Service!"
}
;UrlDownloadToFile, %LatestUpdateURL%, %A_ScriptDir%\release-info.html
;FileDelete, %A_ScriptDir%\release-info.html
;First, find CurrentBuild.UBR preceded by ReleaseId, if can't be found alert user!
;Second, check that UBR and CurrentBuild.xxx are the same!
; If same, alert user that they are up to date.
; If different, get KB# (or numbers, this could read the entried until it finds the UBR number) and give user a link so that they may read about the future update. Ask if user would like to update now, remind me later, or not right now
; If user decides to update, turn on windows update service.
; How do we know when to disable that pesky service? After the reboot? Perhaps add a script to the startup folder / registry that will disable windows update on the reboot.
===========================
No, I'm not the script writer. The guy who wrote it gave it to me. Here it is. And, I don't have a Win10 machine to test it on. No attribution - I guess he's AC.
Sasha Disses Barack on Snapchat
I'm taking away your Air Force One privileges.
President Obama ridiculed on Snapchat by daughter Sasha
The president also mentioned that his own iPhone was limited to receiving emails and browsing the internet, and would not take photos, play music or make calls. "My rule has been throughout my presidency, that I assume that someday, some time, somebody will read this email," he said. "So, I don't send any email that at some point won't be on the front page of the newspapers."
US election 2016: Indians' verdict on Donald Trump's Hindi
An uncanny mixture: God, alcohol and even cannabis
A Stray: Finding and filming the real Somali immigrant experience
