Re: Quote of the week!
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:53 am
“Jeff Bezos could personally pay each of Amazon’s 876,000 employees a one-time $105,000 bonus today and still be as wealthy as he was at the beginning of the pandemic.”
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“Jeff Bezos could personally pay each of Amazon’s 876,000 employees a one-time $105,000 bonus today and still be as wealthy as he was at the beginning of the pandemic.”
One of Scotland's leading pipers says he is groped, humiliated and photographed indecently by women on a regular basis while wearing a kilt.
A "Galactic Federation" of aliens has been in contact with the U.S. and Israel for years, but humanity isn't ready to know, according to former Israeli space security chief Haim Eshed.
Eshed, who was the head of Israel's space security program for nearly 30 years, told Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth that the cooperation between the U.S. and the Galactic Federation includes an underground base on Mars.
What of the Empire? Who's co-operating with them? China?Disembodied wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:14 pm... the cooperation between the U.S. and the Galactic Federation includes an underground base on Mars.
I'm told that Yedioth Ahronoth is the sort of newspaper our dearly beloved chum Donald the Troomp would read.Disembodied wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:14 pmA "Galactic Federation" of aliens has been in contact with the U.S. and Israel for years, but humanity isn't ready to know, according to former Israeli space security chief Haim Eshed.
Eshed, who was the head of Israel's space security program for nearly 30 years, told Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth that the cooperation between the U.S. and the Galactic Federation includes an underground base on Mars.
To be honest the least believable thing about this whole story is that Donald Trump could know about it and yet somehow not tweet about it.Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:53 pmI'm told that Yedioth Ahronoth is the sort of newspaper our dearly beloved chum Donald the Troomp would read.
"Would have read to him", surely?Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:53 pmI'm told that Yedioth Ahronoth is the sort of newspaper our dearly beloved chum Donald the Troomp would read.
A deeply fascinating argument by Cory Doctorow.When they write the history of this era, one of the strangest chapters will be devoted to Uber, a company that was never, ever going to be profitable, which existed solely to launder billions for the Saudi royals.
At least that's a start. They'll be out celebrating in Brentwood, Basildon, and Billericay! The OED next, perchance?The phrase "Essex girl", defined as a "contemptuous term", has been dropped from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary after a campaign.
Thanks, Big D - so all those words we're not allowed to use anymore will remain in the OED?
A photonic cat qubit, he explained, is one where you have an even state with, for example, 16, 18, or 20 photons, and another that has an odd state with, for instance, 17, 19, or 21 photons, creating superpositions of photon states. Thus it's like the cat in Schrödinger's experiment – alive and dead, or in this case even and odd – until it's observed.