Non-IT News Thread
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You've got a Smoky the Bear problem here. Only YOU can prevent forest fires. The only person with the power to change this situation are the people who choose to misuse the words. When you misuse words, you make the government able to mislead you without lying. But the government can't make this happen, only the people choosing to play semantic games can do so. Stop those games, and the government, as well as marketers, become weak. Both prey on people wanting words to mean what they want, rather than what they do.
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The thing is that there are three major possibilities in the driving into a crowd case...
- Drunk, asleep, dead, dementia or other "accidental" killing. This happens.
- Hate or focused crime where someone is trying to hurt the people in question.
- Terrorism where the goal isn't to hurt the people involved but to scare those that were not involved.
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Example.....
Blowing up Westboro Baptist Church would likely be a normal crime, not terrorism, because chances are someone was trying to kill the people there NOT to scare other people.
Blowing up a random church is likely an act of terrorism hoping to scare churchgoers in general.
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The train station in Brussels that we used in 2012 was just bombed. No details yet. Evacuation underway.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
The train station in Brussels that we used in 2012 was just bombed. No details yet. Evacuation underway.
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This is well worth watching...
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
The train station in Brussels that we used in 2012 was just bombed. No details yet. Evacuation underway.
From the reports so far, sounds like the only dead person is the bomber. They evacuated before it went off.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
The train station in Brussels that we used in 2012 was just bombed. No details yet. Evacuation underway.
From the reports so far, sounds like the only dead person is the bomber. They evacuated before it went off.
That's good news at least, except for the damage to the train station.
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Holy crap! what the hell? So many attacks in a short time..
Perhaps I'm only just now listening, and there have always been this many.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Holy crap! what the hell? So many attacks in a short time..
Perhaps I'm only just now listening, and there have always been this many.
It's not just you. It seems there's been a real rash of it in the last week or two.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Holy crap! what the hell? So many attacks in a short time..
Perhaps I'm only just now listening, and there have always been this many.
Ramadan is nearly over.
ISIS has been calling for attacks during Ramadan the last few years.
and
https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/06/isis-calls-for-more-attacks-during-ramadan/530061/
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I thought it ended like two days ago.
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Karen Handel wins. :). Time for some sleep.
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Exploding cream dispenser kills French fitness blogger
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Exploding cream dispenser kills French fitness blogger
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40362094So many places I want to go with that one, none of them appropriate.
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https://arstechnica.com/?p=1122599
Viking toilet discovery
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Quantum entanglement communications gets a little closer...
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Camden flats: Hundreds of homes evacuated over fire risk fears
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China landslide leaves 100 missing in Sichuan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-40390642
