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July 4th, 2015, 17:20
After all these years of torment, Microsoft finally decided to pull the plug on Silverlight:
http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2…premium-media/
Probably pushed by Chrome abandoning java support.

What you don't need to know is that Windows (with or without bloatware) can actually be fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGKwx-BFO0E
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July 27th, 2015, 21:03
An region of Pluto is named after an HP Lovecraft creation, Cthulhu

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July 27th, 2015, 21:09
Love it.

I hope we do a drilling mission to Europa in my lifetime - there could be real ancient titans lurking in its watery depths.
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July 27th, 2015, 21:13
Hilary Clinton gets a namesake, too.
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July 28th, 2015, 01:16
just for you pibbur!

http://www.theguardian.com/environme…litz?CMP=fb_gu
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July 28th, 2015, 01:29
Still hanging on these boards…after so much happened. There was a magazine, yes it was about the relationship, yes you wont know because…you cant translate it…but its good because of Jooa. He is like…something else…
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August 1st, 2015, 20:34
Age of SWTOR players : http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=825957
Very interesting ! LOTS of OLDER players there !
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August 2nd, 2015, 00:40
Originally Posted by Hurls View Post
just for you pibbur!

http://www.theguardian.com/environme…litz?CMP=fb_gu
And GG is heading there now.

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August 3rd, 2015, 21:38
8 Largest Trans-Neptunian Objects

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August 3rd, 2015, 23:10
Also, in about an hour, I may attend a reading by Kim Stanley Robinson of a short story about discovery of life on another planet.
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August 4th, 2015, 21:30
A couple of games I've decided not to try, solely based on their names:
  • Orc attack flatulent behaviour
  • Gynophobia
  • Let's ruin it with babies
  • Soft in the head
  • Grass simulator

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August 5th, 2015, 16:05
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33735048

As much as I like to tease the Americans for their firearms policies, I must admit that if I caught a drone hovering over my sunbathing daughter in my back garden, anything to hand that could serve as a surface-to-air missile would be immediately launched.
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August 5th, 2015, 17:28
Originally Posted by Ripper View Post
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33735048

As much as I like to tease the Americans for their firearms policies, I must admit that if I caught a drone hovering over my sunbathing daughter in my back garden, anything to hand that could serve as a surface-to-air missile would be immediately launched.
I hope you realise that by posting the above you have told all the creeps in here that your daughter is sunbathing in your back garden where by increase the number of drones
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August 6th, 2015, 21:27
On a recent trip to Germany, I was informed that the German language already has a word to describe what we so awkwardly in English must refer to as "a song stuck in my head."

The German word is Ohrwurm . It translates literally as "earworm"
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/oct/23/news/cl-60449
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August 7th, 2015, 11:55
Yes, the Ohrwurm is a common German word.

Sometimes we Germans are a tiny bit jealous about how easily and clearly the English language is able to catch complex matters into one word.

In this case, it seems to be the opposite.
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August 7th, 2015, 22:25
Originally Posted by Thrasher View Post
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/oct/23/news/cl-60449
We know our duty. Start using it - you in US English, I in Norwegian ("øreorm", eller kanskje "øremakk"), HHR in Canada, GG in Sweden, let's forget Australia, and Alrek in Germany - oh, they already have it.

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August 7th, 2015, 22:36
We have two words for this:

Ohrwurm = earworm
or
Gassenhauer = streetsmasher

I think the closest English term is smash-hit.
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August 7th, 2015, 23:50
Streetsmasher is a far better term, and I think we should adopt it immediately.
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August 10th, 2015, 11:16
Norwegian football isn't doing to well these days. We're number 67 on the latest FIFA ranking (let's hope it just means we didn't pay'em enough).

But one of our football teams, Brann ("Fire"), which isn't doing to well either, despite being rooted in my home town, Bergen, is on the Mirror's 11 worst kits of the season: world football's most horrendous strips of 2015/16.

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August 10th, 2015, 11:18
Originally Posted by Ripper View Post
Streetsmasher is a far better term, and I think we should adopt it immediately.
Disagree. "Earthworm" is better because this is something mainly happening inside the skull.

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