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reminder that one of BuzzFeed's top political columnists got busted for plagiarizing from Yahoo Answers
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daft punk railroad posted:reminder that one of BuzzFeed's top political columnists got busted for plagiarizing from Yahoo Answers lol i had not heard that
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daft punk railroad posted:one of BuzzFeed's top political columnists world's second tallest dwarf
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Dec 15, 2014 21:09
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http://gawker.com/buzzfeed-editor-caught-lifting-text-from-yahoo-answers-1610312745 http://gawker.com/buzzfeed-has-fired-benny-johnson-for-widespread-plagiar-1611269882 other plagiarized sources include the US Senate's website and whatever the gently caress "CreativeGuerillaMarketing.com" is
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Sweevo posted:world's second tallest dwarf they had unironically good political coverage during the 2012 elections. or the 2008 ones. i can't remember for sure
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reading buzzfeed is like prospecting for gold in a canyon full of horse poo poo but you know the horses got into the gold factory that one time so welp
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Dec 15, 2014 21:20
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duTrieux. posted:reading buzzfeed is like prospecting for gold in a canyon full of horse poo poo but you know the horses got into the gold factory that one time so welp
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Dec 15, 2014 21:26
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daft punk railroad posted:http://gawker.com/buzzfeed-editor-caught-lifting-text-from-yahoo-answers-1610312745 I bet CreativeGuerillaMarketing.com turned him in for the publicity. That sounds like something they would do.
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Dec 15, 2014 21:28
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Sham bam bamina! posted:the gold factory it has to come from somewhere
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Trig Discipline posted:it has to come from somewhere jesus buried it along with the dinosaurs
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Sham bam bamina! posted:the gold factory 13 factories you wont believe dont exist!
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theflyingorc posted:13 factories you wont believe dont exist! pfff unil i see some proof i don't believe i won't believe they don't
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Dec 15, 2014 22:00
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Hope they paid for archives!
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Many of the press release's claims were unrealistic, from suggesting that Catholics would soon be able to take Holy Communion through their computer to claiming that conversion to Catholicism was an "upgrade". Despite these warning signs, several readers of the false press release contacted Microsoft to confirm the claims of the hoax, and on December 16, 1994, Microsoft formally debunked the claims.[3][6]
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There are Jewish orthodox religious restrictions which, by some interpretations, standard mobile telephones do not meet. To solve this issue, some rabbinical organizations have recommended that phones with text messaging capability not be used by children.[14] These restricted phones are known as kosher phones and have rabbinical approval for use in Israel and elsewhere by observant Orthodox Jews. Although these phones are intended to prevent immodesty, some vendors report good sales to adults who prefer the simplicity of the devices. Some phones are even approved for use by essential workers (such as health, security and public services) on the sabbath, even though use of any electrical device is generally prohibited.[15]
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OldAlias posted:There are Jewish orthodox religious restrictions which, by some interpretations, standard mobile telephones do not meet. To solve this issue, some rabbinical organizations have recommended that phones with text messaging capability not be used by children.[14] These restricted phones are known as kosher phones and have rabbinical approval for use in Israel and elsewhere by observant Orthodox Jews. Although these phones are intended to prevent immodesty, some vendors report good sales to adults who prefer the simplicity of the devices. Some phones are even approved for use by essential workers (such as health, security and public services) on the sabbath, even though use of any electrical device is generally prohibited.[15] this whole area of kosher and/or sabbath-compatible electronic products is actually really fascinating. to my understanding the big prohibitions are on "making fire" and on "doing work". electricity doesn't count as fire but an electric arc does, so everything is designed with special non-arcing contacts (eg light switches with mercury switches inside). and you're not allowed to "do work", which includes methods of operating a machine such as pushing a button...but shutting a machine off is allowed, so i saw once eg. a telephone where all of the buttons are constantly connected, and you stick a pencil in a hole for each digit which interrupts the connection and dials that number, and this is ok because you're technically disabling a feature of the machine instead of enabling it. these inventions to me seem to indicate that the inventors don't hold a very high opinion of y__h's omniscience there's a great anecdote in the feynman memoirs too where he gets called up by a bunch of rabbis asking the great jewish scientist "is electricity fire?" and he gets intrigued and starts talking about plasmas and charge and chemical reactions and oxidization and then they cut him off and explain no, no, we dont' care, we just want to know if we can use electricity on the sabbath
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sabbath observance stuff kinda makes me wish God was real so I could ask her if she's impressed with it or annoyed
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uncurable mlady posted:sabbath observance stuff kinda makes me wish God was real so I could ask her if she's impressed with it or annoyed God is real but doesn't talk to you because of your personality
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uncurable mlady posted:sabbath observance stuff kinda makes me wish God was real so I could ask her if she's impressed with it or annoyed I remember I once went to a site that had this on it. quote:SaturdayGuard – Automatically Closes Your Website During Shabbat And Holiday - and ONLY During Shabbat And Holiday. Pakled fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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submitted for your perusal, a ton of sperg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ton
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Dec 15, 2014 23:14
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Shabbat is D&D Rules Lawyering writ large 
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uncurable mlady posted:sabbath observance stuff kinda makes me wish God was real so I could ask her if she's impressed with it or annoyed
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Shabbat is D&D Rules Lawyering writ large they're making poo poo up just to get around
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not sure which is worse https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Sabbath
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[eedit | eedit soorce] that's not even a scottish accent, that's backwater norway or something
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Dec 15, 2014 23:21
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should redirect to "butler, iommi, osbourne, ward"
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Dec 16, 2014 00:22
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another jewish rules lawyering thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv problem: on the sabbath you are restricted in what you can transport into or out of your home solution: define "home" to mean entire neighborhood, carry on as usual
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Dec 16, 2014 01:29
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theflyingorc posted:God is real but doesn't talk to you because of your personality friendzoned again
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uncurable mlady posted:sabbath observance stuff kinda makes me wish God was real so I could ask her if she's impressed with it or annoyed probably depends on whether you ask old testament god or new testament god. old testament god seems to love nitpicky trivialities while new testament god seems to care more about your intentions there's probably some sort of connection to be drawn between the bizarrely precise readings of scripture and jews only following the old testament but i'm not going down there no siree
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i fuckin' love the weird ways that jews find to circumvent their GOD'S LAW, as if an all powerful being would be all "hahaha!! you got me, clever jews! you put a fence around the neighborhood si you could go out with your cane. that's real smart, drat"
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there's straight up a passage in the Torah where someone bests G_d on a verbal technicality and he's all like "ya got me"
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theflyingexecutive posted:there's straight up a passage in the Torah where someone bests G_d on a verbal technicality and he's all like "ya got me" yep. 802.11weed posted:i fuckin' love the weird ways that jews find to circumvent their GOD'S LAW, as if an all powerful being would be all "hahaha!! you got me, clever jews! you put a fence around the neighborhood si you could go out with your cane. that's real smart, drat" god explicitly loves that according to both torah and talmud.
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haveblue posted:another jewish rules lawyering thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv yeh this is why the jewish quarter in montreal is covered with wires strung between teh buildings. something about the wire connection meaning you can conduct business of some sort or other on the sabbath because it's all within one "structure" or whatever. another one i saw once was this pneumatic wheelchair. no electricity allowed on the sabbath, or at least no electric motors because the sparking commutators count as fire, so an inventor had made this thing with pneumatic motors and mechanical air valves controlled by a joystick and powered by a scuba tank on the back that worked just like an electric wheelchair so that disabled people could move themselves around on the sabbath. and i saw this and was thinking, like, what a stupid rear end in a top hat they must think Y__H is, if he won't turn a blind eye his rule about making fire and doing work just this once to let the poor crippled guy get himself to temple on the sabbath, yet he is fooled by this inestimably more complicated machine that serves the same purpose because it uses compressed air instead
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encouraging that kind of ingenuity is a good thing more religions should have a 'if you can fool god its cool' rule
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Sagebrush posted:yeh this is why the jewish quarter in montreal is covered with wires strung between teh buildings. something about the wire connection meaning you can conduct business of some sort or other on the sabbath because it's all within one "structure" or whatever. a compressed air wheelchair is also useful for people who live in places with inconsistent electrical supplies though??? that guy made a thing that's unironically useful for a lot of people outside of a religious context
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Nintendo Kid posted:a compressed air wheelchair is also useful for people who live in places with inconsistent electrical supplies though??? that guy made a thing that's unironically useful for a lot of people outside of a religious context not really. in that situation a battery powered wheelchair that you have to charge with an electric charger is no worse than an air powered wheelchair with a scuba tank that you have to refill with an electric pump. Plus a lot of third world countries have a sort of power delivery system where your house runs on car batteries, and a guy with a truck picks up the dead ones for charging and leaves you fresh ones on a regular basis. In any case that wasn't why the guy invented it.
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Sagebrush posted:not really. in that situation a battery powered wheelchair that you have to charge with an electric charger is no worse than an air powered wheelchair with a scuba tank that you have to refill with an electric pump. Plus a lot of third world countries have a sort of power delivery system where your house runs on car batteries, and a guy with a truck picks up the dead ones for charging and leaves you fresh ones on a regular basis. scuba tanks can be refilled with manual pump systems it doesnt matter why it was invented, its useful
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anywhere you need a manual air pump, you're probably unlikely to have the cash for a custom tooled pneumatic wheelchair
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Nintendo Kid posted:scuba tanks can be refilled with manual pump systems yeah if you had conan the barbarian working on it for a week maybe. 2200 litres of air at 3,000 psi is a tremendous amount of energy. and batteries can be charged intermittently with human-powered generators or solar panels or waterwheels or wind generators anyway.
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