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Anytime I give out my mobile number to a business, or a company, I make a point of stressing (or asking) how they ensure that this will not be forwarded to third parties, and explaining that my preference is that it is not.
Likewise, whenever I give out my mobile privately to someone, I usually insist that they contact me before giving it to a third party.
Moreover, I loathe cold calls, and - in the past, have been cursed with a (characteristically persistent and unpleasant) stalker, so this is a topic on which I hold strong views.
Along with butterscotch, possibly my favourite ever sweet (candy for Our Transatlantic Cousins).
No, those are disgusting. I much prefer the boiled glucose sweets from Latvia or wherever. Nice flavors like pear, tangerine, strawberry, etc. Less sweet, more sour.
Was riding my bike home from work yesterday, and all of a sudden there was an audible pop from my knee. Five minutes later came the pain and swelling. Not the first time this happens (though the audio was new), so I went home and put an ice pack on it and didn't think much else about it, seeing as how doctors have been telling me for years that that's just the way the knee is now, and expressing their general reluctance to operate on it and instead telling me to "just flex and exercise it".
Well, the ice pack had no effect whatsoever, so I booked, and went to an MRI today, and it turns out there is very little healthy cartilage left in the knee. What there is in abundance, though, is fluids of all sorts that don't really belong there, pieces of detached cartilage swimming in said fluids and a whole lot of bare bone on bone action. Wonderful.
Got a doctor's appointment set up for Friday, but in the mean time does anyone know where I can buy parrots and eyepatches, for cheap if possible? Because from where I'm standing (pun intended), they might as well take the whole leg at this point, I'm getting too old for this s**t and I'll just do the second half of my life as a pirate.
Well, the ice pack had no effect whatsoever, so I booked, and went to an MRI today, and it turns out there is very little healthy cartilage left in the knee. What there is in abundance, though, is fluids of all sorts that don't really belong there, pieces of detached cartilage swimming in said fluids and a whole lot of bare bone on bone action. Wonderful.
Got a doctor's appointment set up for Friday, but in the mean time does anyone know where I can buy parrots and eyepatches, for cheap if possible? Because from where I'm standing (pun intended), they might as well take the whole leg at this point, I'm getting too old for this s**t and I'll just do the second half of my life as a pirate.
Looks like marble that. I'd go for a marble MacBook Pro. People could marble at it all day long.
My experience with Blender is limited to a brief, but I recall it have a massive learning curve compared to more expensive paid software but was resourceful once you mastered its high strung behavior.
My experience with Blender is limited to a brief, but I recall it have a massive learning curve compared to more expensive paid software but was resourceful once you mastered its high strung behavior.
What’s on my mind today? Hmm the fact that here in the UK Vodafone turned on the first 5G network, despite growing concerns about its health risks as it’s MUCH MUCH more powerful then anything we’ve had before, and naturally no one in control cares less, no doubt our government went to Eaton with the me board members..
Cnet did a good write up of Belgian and Switzerland governments raising concerns over it:
http://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/5g-phones-and-your-health-what-you-need-to-know/
It’s technology using much stronger radio waves with a shorter range, so they basically plan to put booster like cell boxes all over the place literally..
Seems to me 5G is purely being driven by profits. But it is tech I would like to see PROPERLY investigated and tested for health issues as soon as possible..
Cnet did a good write up of Belgian and Switzerland governments raising concerns over it:
http://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/5g-phones-and-your-health-what-you-need-to-know/
It’s technology using much stronger radio waves with a shorter range, so they basically plan to put booster like cell boxes all over the place literally..
Seems to me 5G is purely being driven by profits. But it is tech I would like to see PROPERLY investigated and tested for health issues as soon as possible..
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Yet the two biggest telcom providers in Switzerland - Swisscom and Sunrise - are falling over themselves boasting about putting into place 5G towers despite consumer and governmental concerns. Sunrise even got ads featuring Roger Federer to push this, and Samsung put out ads saying their S10 is 5G ready even though it won't be usable for at least another year.
Yet the two biggest telcom providers in Switzerland - Swisscom and Sunrise - are falling over themselves boasting about putting into place 5G towers despite consumer and governmental concerns. Sunrise even got ads featuring Roger Federer to push this, and Samsung put out ads saying their S10 is 5G ready even though it won't be usable for at least another year.
Vodafone has Lewis Hamilton turn it on with s big red button, and then a rugby star show off some connected rugby shirt thing..
The push for 5G is purely being driven by sheer greed, but like Apple in some respects, only they usually test their stuff properly..
This is really untested unproven tech, the US army use the same wavelength in a weapon they’ve made. It’s apparently similar to microwave ovens. The US is screwed as Trump has put an ex Verizon lawyer in charge of the FCC, yeah I bet they will be impartial but apparently they have been trying to reduce laws and regs over 5G since taking the position, trying to push it through as fast as possible..
The industry is not running before walking, they’ve jumped into a Bugatti and are flooring it...!
They want all this wireless crap as it’s far cheaper to install then wires and cables, also means they don’t have to put fibre to the more countryside places again saving money.
That’s what I believe anyway from what I’ve read so far.
Mind you, some of the Nordic countries (Finland in particular, in my experience, but also Sweden) have a most interesting tradition of producing quite addictive liquorice sweets (candies).
As a gen Z-er, I normally love seemingly pointless tech gadgets that are of dubious efficacy, but I found the least impressive device I've ever seen:
It costs $300, and the best thing they could get a user to say in the video was, "It's like a tiny ice pack on your wrist." Talk about damned with faint praise.
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It costs $300, and the best thing they could get a user to say in the video was, "It's like a tiny ice pack on your wrist." Talk about damned with faint praise.
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So it does both hot and cold? phantasmic!
I wonder if this would help my wife when she claims that 75 degrees F (24C) is hot? She runs hot. But my guess is if you are hot, it might just make your wrist feel cold compared to the rest of you.Regarding temps in central Texas, the highs run 85-95 F (29-35C) daily this time of year. I have our auto temp control Set to 75 during the day, drop to 74 in early evening, 73 at night, and then 72 for an hour before we wake up. When the lows are 80 (26C) at night, the AC runs periodically all night long.
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Maybe if you stated how you computed that number.I guess there are no math majors on the group
Maybe if you stated how you computed that number.
Found a website that does the computation, but I wanted to verify
I’m not clear, you pulled 13 out of 32 cards and it gave you xxx unique combinations comparing which number to which- 13 to 32 or to 19? And for what purpose, is my real interest?Found a website that does the computation, but I wanted to verify
I’m not clear, you pulled 13 out of 32 cards and it gave you xxx unique combinations comparing which number to which- 13 to 32 or to 19? And for what purpose, is my real interest?
I have a pool of 32 cards. I draw 13. How many unique combinations of 13 cards can I draw?
For example,
- Combination 1: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
- Combination 2: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14
- Combination 3: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,15
Reason I am asking is that I was reading the rules for the new board game I bought.
I have the following decks:
- 1 deck of 13 "Event" cards, randomly selected from a pool of 32 cards. These cards often determine the flow of the game, that's why I am curious to see the number of possibilities.
- 5 decks of 8 cards for "Location encounters". 5 is the number of the "neighborhoods", each neighborhood has 3 locations.. These are not randomly selected but depend on the scenario. Each card has 3 location encounter (one for each location in the neighborhood) and the player can be on one location at a time. This means that for each neighborhood I can have 24 encounters, which means 120 unique encounters for all neighborhoods.
- There is a sixth deck for "street" locations with 12 cards I believe, but this depends on the scenario.
You're not wrong, though it's hard for me to say considering Blender was my first 3D-modeling program.
Funny-ish story: A few years ago, a person who made Blender tutorials for YouTube created a video titled "Why Blender is Broken" (or something), and it got mixed reception.
Casual users and beginners loved the criticisms and suggestions made, but when the creator went to Blender-con to talk about their video, heavier users really derided what the former praised. They claimed certain changes would be too hard or confusing to implement, and that they didn't want their software of choice to be considered a "toy" with Microsoft Word-inspired tabs and a more intuitive cursor.
Nothing happened for a while. The YouTuber made a video that kinda softened their previous criticisms. But when Blender 2.8's beta was released, and it included nearly everything mentioned in the original video. It's awesome, buttery smooth, and approachable for beginners.
Thanks! Were you planning on counting cards?
Ahahah...
I’d lose anyway
Thankfully this is a cooperative game so I can cheat and everyone is happy!!