Comment Re:Is Slashdot social media? (Score 0) 112
Yes,
Yes,
Some Australian juristrictions will imprison offenders as young as 10yo.
Sky News are the ones who suggested and are pushing this hare-brained idea, at Rupert Murdoch's behest.
Most *Australian* citizens would be against this approach.
Back in 2011 I proposed similar for a near-future SF story.. Contact lenses or corneal implants would optionally block out synchronized 1/50 of illuminated signage - to which advertising was limited by law.
Is this the cause of "The application requires macOS 10.15 or later." dependency?
So Facebook is declaring that page follows are the opposite of what I used to intend by them. Its own blog post does use that language: 'fans', 'favorite Pages'. I used to *follow* horrible groups and public figures to keep some idea of what derangement they were up to, but I could never bring myself to *like* them.
You can read the short blog post directly from Facebook - I don't know why
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/01/introducing-the-new-page-experience/
"It's quite possible that a negative leap second will be needed if the Earth's rotation rate increases further, but it's too early to say if this is likely to happen," physicist Peter Whibberley of the National Physics Laboratory in the U.K., told The Telegraph.
correction: I miscounted: There were 8 fatal attacks on humans by sharks in Australia in 2020. And the 'revived' victim had stopped breathing, but heart was still beating. Attack was 30mi offshore.
Most shark encounters would have been pleasant. Dozens, including injuries, that weren't though. Among them a 10yo child pulled overboard - cleaning fish catch can be risky.
"Five of the attacks were fatal." (internationally).
Huh?! - oh, that was 2019.
In 2020 we had 7 fatal shark attacks just in Australia. (And an 8th who was revived.)
User onyxruby is misstating the information in the links they provide.
Being 'cautioned' by police is not the same as being arrested.
2m bed length is standard in USA? No wonder you're all messed up. 2.4m here in
.. to the Moon!
OK, I logged in for the first time in years.. and stories are still scrambled. It's no longer April 1 where I am. Fail.
Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so. -- Josh Billings