"China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has first 5G base station"
Lol, Tibet is getting 5G while in the US they have to relabel 4G to pretend to be high-tech.
http://www.ecns.cn/news/sci-tech/2019-01-27/detail-ifzcykxs9529458.shtml
"China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has first 5G base station"
Lol, Tibet is getting 5G while in the US they have to relabel 4G to pretend to be high-tech.
http://www.ecns.cn/news/sci-tech/2019-01-27/detail-ifzcykxs9529458.shtml
"In navolging van de Tweede Kamer wil nu ook de gemeente Rotterdam af van de termen laag- en hoogopgeleid."
Vooruit dan maar: "beperkt opgeleid"?
Maar nee, het moet weer newspeak worden: "praktisch opgeleid". Alsof er geen verschil is tussen LBO-2 en HBO...
/cc @adam
"Stop Releasing Balloons Into the Sky"
After the war on straws, the war on plastic cups, now the war on balloons.
https://lifehacker.com/stop-releasing-balloons-into-the-sky-1831873033
"Hoogste militair VS benoemd tot commandeur Orde Oranje-Nassau"
"No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
@adam I'd say, fire the guy!
"Attackers knock Bremen AfD leader Frank Magnitz unconscious in street"
@adam I'm guessing "de kogel kwam van links"...?
"Earth Is Drifting Away From The Sun, And So Are All The Planets"
In other news: were going to need global warming to keep the planet livable for future generations
/cc @adam
PSA for everyone considering lighting off, or even watching, fireworks this new year: shame on you, appropriating Chinese culture!
Dear HP, WTF kind of progress bar is this?
First you fail to detect the paper orientation halfway through my scan job, then you sign me out seconds after I've manually configured the job, before I can even load my originals, then you sign me out halfway through the scan job, then after signing in again and setting everything up again, the "scanner is busy", and now after rebooting I get this?
These products cost a fortune, but some modicum of quality control is too much to ask, I guess...?
One reason why I love Android: I'd recently updated my Kobo e-reader (foolishly), and while I'm sitting at the playground, I found that it had decided I had to re-register. This being China, it can't reach the registration server...
I've been through this before, after I bought it a few years ago, you have to hack it in order to skip the registration.
Connect it to my phone with an OTG cable, open the device database using an sqlite manager, insert an empty user, reboot and we're in!
But what if your master bedroom doesn't actually have its own separate bathroom...
Has the term "master bedroom" already been deemed racist? #JustChecking
"North Korea's 'pink lady' replaced by younger presenters as state TV gets makeover"
The end of an era!
/cc @adam
"Alex Jones' Petition to Sit Next to Jim Acosta at White House Needs 43K Names by Dec. 17 - Sign Now!"
Feed the trolls
"Een Sinterklaas-viering van een kinderdagverblijf in Amsterdam-oost is niet helemaal verlopen zoals gepland. Sinterklaas kon niet meer komen. Hij was namelijk gedrogeerd."
"Baby It's Cold Outside pulled by radio station, citing #MeToo"
Isn't there anything these monsters won't destroy?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46413209
/cc @adam
"Washington Asks Allies to Drop Huawei
U.S. worried about potential Chinese meddling in 5G networks"
There is only one logical reason why the US would care about the "Chinese being able to spy" on other countries, and that is loosing the ability to spy themselves.
After all, so far there's been only speculation and accusation towards the Chinese, while we have actual proof the Americans are doing it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/washington-asks-allies-to-drop-huawei-1542965105
"Kinderen verdwenen na smokkel, OM eist gevangenisstraffen en werkstraffen"
@adam bizar lage straffen. Totdat die kinderen veilig zijn teruggevonden, zou ik uitgaan van het ergste, en de strafmaat daarop baseren...
"Boeing 737 Crash Caused By New Safety System Pilots Weren’t Told Existed"
@adam what do you think?
"The iPhone Is Apparently Allergic to Helium"
What does a canister of helium go for these days?
https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/279902-the-iphone-is-apparently-allergic-to-helium
@adam Nog eentje over "vrijheid van meningsuiting" in de EU:
"Man veroordeeld wegens groepsbelediging van Arabieren wegens hun ras"
De man maakte duidelijk dat hij het over "cultuur" had, maar volgens de rechter had hij het over "ras"...
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