bobby_bob

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by bobby_bob 5y ago
This is poor satire. "In an emergency" has always been allowed reason to leave home during the Victorian lockdowns. 1 - https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/how-we-live
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by bobby_bob 5y ago
Volume / Passenger Capacity With a lower limit and some way of subsidising a portion back for verifiable, occupational need.
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by bobby_bob 5y ago
The devils were introduced to the mainland (a National Park in NSW) intentionally in 2020.
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by bobby_bob 5y ago
It's now using natural gas: > ...drawing power from the plant’s 106-megawatt generator now fueled by natural gas.
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by bobby_bob 5y ago
There were some interesting profiles following the NotPetya attack on Maersk in 2017 where Maersk claimed to have 1,200 - 1,500 applications, 49,000 laptops, 6,200 servers. Maersk are entering into block-chain "distributed ledger techn
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
For example, Nestlé purchased "Vital Proteins" last year and are making their collagen products to their Nestlé Health Science portfolio. https://www.fooddive.com/news/nestle-to-acquire-majority-sta...
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
Looks like they applied on 30 Jan this year.[1] Currently: "Awaiting Examination". it appears that Amazon released the copy in November last year.[2] [1] - https://uspto.report/TM/90489397 [2] - https:/
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
If you're looking a 20 x 20 x 20 meters of gold (i.e. 8000 cubic meters, not a 20m3 cube) then that's more like 154,000 metric tons. Which Wolfram Alpha helpfully confirms is approximately equal to the mass of all gold ever mined.
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
Also fun, Australian company "GME Resources", trade on the ASX as GME, got to 40% up from its Monday opening price. I wonder if this is a clever-ish social media algorithm trading, shrewd fund managers or really just desperately m
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
The "generally understood" purpose of prison is for: retribution, incapacitation, deterrence and rehabilitation The US skews a more towards the retributive (i.e. "just punishment") than other jurisdictions. For example,
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
Likewise in Australia, there's some great collections which you are free to wander through at your leisure. Pretty much any publicly funded gallery has free admission.
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
There is considerable variation in how pardons are applied around the world. Many with simple checks and balances: - Require nomination or agreement by the AG. - Prohibit pardoning of political crimes or other self-interest. - Require appro
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
What bugged me was the complete lack of depth, one of the most interesting (and pertinent) topics surrounding the use of these devices are the legal implications. There is no state that allows you to bug someone else's conversation. In
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
MHRA give more details of the approval process on their site[1]: > This was done using a regulatory process known as a ‘rolling review’. A ‘rolling review’ can be used to complete the assessment of a promising medicine or vaccine during
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
Not really. It's explained in excruciating detail here in the Sovereign Grant Framework Agreement[0], it is a grant of £85.9 million from Treasury. However, this amount is proportional to the value of Government revenue received from
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
Or, make a small improvement to the existing toy themselves or (I imagine quite convincingly) claim they're copying from an earlier, expired patent. It seems expensive and unlikely to prevail in any case.
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
Deelie Bobbers by Parker Brothers [0]. They're smaller, 1" but there's no question that it's essentially the same thing. There's a patents US2984935A [1] and US3177611A [2] from 1959 and 62. So I suppose the questio
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by bobby_bob 6y ago
This was codified in my state's public transport fines. Pay on-the-spot (assuming you have a CC and funds) and it's $75, wait or contest it an it's $223. It was a system blatantly established to prevent people exercising thei
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by bobby_bob 7y ago
Miniature horses can actually be trained as service animals, "guide horses" for sight impaired are even protected by the same legislation as dogs in some places. In this context though, maybe it needs it's own seat.