What other things are there?
I saw your post and wasn't planning to respond but I'm done with this POS set of calipers. They use a single LR44. There is no power switch and they run 24/7. A battery will last maybe 6 months or so. I go to use them and they are dead. Peeves me right off. Ran out of button batteries tonight, so I fit it with some AAs and a couple of Si diodes.
Here we have a headline that reads:
Black hole 142 times heavier than the Sun discovered
and further along in the article we read
GW190521 weighs in at 142 times the mass of our Sun
https://alkhaleejtoday.co/international/5038560/Black-hole-142-times-heavier-than-the-Sun-discovered.html
Which is of course, plainly contradictory.
If it were 142 times heavier than our sun it would be 143 times the mass of our sun, not 142. This kind of thing seems to be popping up more and more lately.
What other things are there?
One of my latest gripes is how the poor silly Conspiracy Theorists are getting predated on by scammers selling "Faraday bags" to put their mobile phones in.
Their victims are already "away with the fairies", & pointing out that if the product really worked the mobile phone in the bag wouldn't work at all, so "why have a phone in the first place?", falls on deaf ears.
They think the scammers are their "friends", & believe the same nonsense they do!
If they really want to shield their phone into unusability, I have a bunch of empty 500g coffee cans I can supply free.
Just turn the bloody thing off?
Just turn the bloody thing off?
Did you read the article? Blaze is no noob, he knows what he's doing.
Vegemite. The original would keep forever, even after the jar had been opened.
Some years ago the Vegemite brand was sold off. (I don't know to who or what.)
Now I notice (two instances) that Vegemite no longer lasts forever. It goes off, in a rather disgusting manner. Something changed in the formulation.
Much like the brand 'Pyrex', that used to mean high quality silica glass with near zero coefficient of thermal expansion, so Pyrex cookware could take sudden heat/cold shock without shattering.
'Pyrex' brand was sold to an Asian knock-off mob, who now make ordinary garden grade glass cookware and label it 'Pyrex.' Leading to lots of injuries when big glass pots full of very hot food, spontaneously shatter when taken out of ovens.
Just turn the bloody thing off?
Did you read the article? Blaze is no noob, he knows what he's doing.
Many of the customers for such things think they have been injected with a microchip to either cause Covid, or to allow Bill Gates to control them, & somehow think that 5G is the method doing these dastardly deeds.
If, on the other hand, your problem is that you think your phone is spying on you to find out your secrets, put it in the toilet,(No, not "down" the toilet!), or the corner of your garage, or wrap it in sound insulating materals, as in your case, the radiation isn't the thing, it just needs to be prevented from seeing or hearing you.
If you don't want it to blab where you are going, leave it home.
Much like the brand 'Pyrex', that used to mean high quality silica glass with near zero coefficient of thermal expansion, so Pyrex cookware could take sudden heat/cold shock without shattering.
'Pyrex' brand was sold to an Asian knock-off mob, who now make ordinary garden grade glass cookware and label it 'Pyrex.' Leading to lots of injuries when big glass pots full of very hot food, spontaneously shatter when taken out of ovens.
Much like the brand 'Pyrex', that used to mean high quality silica glass with near zero coefficient of thermal expansion, so Pyrex cookware could take sudden heat/cold shock without shattering.
'Pyrex' brand was sold to an Asian knock-off mob, who now make ordinary garden grade glass cookware and label it 'Pyrex.' Leading to lots of injuries when big glass pots full of very hot food, spontaneously shatter when taken out of ovens.
That drives me nuts. Pyrex is still the colloquial term for borosilicate glass but it is also a brand that is slapped on junky soda-lime glass kitchenware. I know somebody that was very surprised to have a "Pyrex" pan shatter when it was hit by a drop of water.
Just turn the bloody thing off?
Did you read the article? Blaze is no noob, he knows what he's doing.
Many of the customers for such things think they have been injected with a microchip to either cause Covid, or to allow Bill Gates to control them, & somehow think that 5G is the method doing these dastardly deeds.
The wackos I don't care about. There are valid cases for screening off a radio; especially since they're pretty good at not turning off when you tell them to.If, on the other hand, your problem is that you think your phone is spying on you to find out your secrets, put it in the toilet,(No, not "down" the toilet!), or the corner of your garage, or wrap it in sound insulating materals, as in your case, the radiation isn't the thing, it just needs to be prevented from seeing or hearing you.
If you don't want it to blab where you are going, leave it home.
The problem is when you need to carry it but not want it to blab. Using it of course is out of the question, but logistics alone might dictate that you can't get to a deserted phone before you need it, after you've done your secret stuff.
I don't know. I agree your format sure seems like the logical way to handle it, so when I've seen the duplication it made me believe it had to be statutory because otherwise why on earth would anyone do it?!?
No LOGICAL person would do it. But bureaucrats and politicians, well....
EDIT: Places I've seen this include Canada (English and French) and Southern California (English and Spanish). I may have seen it overseas too but can't recall specifically. Canada is especially militant about it so frankly I could easily believe they would insist on full standalone duplication. Especially in Quebec.
I may have whinged about this before, but a pet peeve is when people, usually on political discussion forums, but also quite often on Sports & other sites say:- "You, I, or they are bias"!
Obviously, they mean "biased", but don't seem to understand the difference.
I had an argument with a person recently on line, where he steadfastly defended his use of the term in such a sentence.
He certainly is not the only person who does this---I've seen it many times recently.
It ruins any point they are trying to make, by demonstrating that they are an ignoramus!
I may have whinged about this before, but a pet peeve is when people, usually on political discussion forums, but also quite often on Sports & other sites say:- "You, I, or they are bias"!
Obviously, they mean "biased", but don't seem to understand the difference.
I had an argument with a person recently on line, where he steadfastly defended his use of the term in such a sentence.
He certainly is not the only person who does this---I've seen it many times recently.
It ruins any point they are trying to make, by demonstrating that they are an ignoramus!
Consider the possibility that they are propagandists - in which case the identification as bias would be accurate!
If people can choose their pronouns, why can't they change their adjectives?
Answer: because other people won't understand them.