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#3352975 12-Mar-2025 09:21

Acrobat Reader seems to be unable to print A3 sized document on A3 sized paper.

Maybe I should have just simplified that to "Acrobat Reader".

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#3352976 12-Mar-2025 09:26

The design of the human hearing system.

Went to see Slipknot last night at Spark Arena.

Am largely deaf today.

Not enjoying the ringing in my ears/brain.

Surely we could've been designed better than that? I mean, nature knew we were going to invent heavy metal, right?

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#3353073 12-Mar-2025 09:36

Handsomedan:

The design of the human hearing system.

Went to see Slipknot last night at Spark Arena.

Am largely deaf today.

Not enjoying the ringing in my ears/brain.

Surely we could've been designed better than that? I mean, nature knew we were going to invent heavy metal, right?

You would have thought nature would have something for this.

I mean, look at how nature knew where to put human ears way before glasses were invented!

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#3353074 12-Mar-2025 09:38

elpenguino:

Handsomedan:

The design of the human hearing system.

Went to see Slipknot last night at Spark Arena.

Am largely deaf today.

Not enjoying the ringing in my ears/brain.

Surely we could've been designed better than that? I mean, nature knew we were going to invent heavy metal, right?

You would have thought nature would have something for this.

I mean, look at how nature knew where to put human ears way before glasses were invented!

EXACTLY!

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#3353075 12-Mar-2025 09:44

A Wellington parking ticket. I would have arrived a few minutes before 5 pm, and only 2 hours were available at that time, which would have required moving the car at 7 pm. Waiting the few minutes until 5 pm allows 3 hours and takes it to the 8 pm limit. At 6:30, I remembered that I had forgotten and checked my car. It had no ticket, so I paid $6.75 for the remaining time.

The annoyance is that someone removed the ticket from under the wiper, and the $6.75 I paid. (Annoyed about the $70 fine too, but that's entirely my fault.)

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#3353076 12-Mar-2025 09:48

Shadowfoot:

A Wellington parking ticket. I would have arrived a few minutes before 5 pm, and only 2 hours were available at that time, which would have required moving the car at 7 pm. Waiting the few minutes until 5 pm allows 3 hours and takes it to the 8 pm limit. At 6:30, I remembered that I had forgotten and checked my car. It had no ticket, so I paid $6.75 for the remaining time.

The annoyance is that someone removed the ticket from under the wiper, and the $6.75 I paid. (Annoyed about the $70 fine too, but that's entirely my fault.)

I think all the spaces have sensors now, so big brother knows your actual arrival time, not your paying time.

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#3353077 12-Mar-2025 09:52

Youtube comments on music videos "Who's watching in (insert year here)"

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#3353088 12-Mar-2025 11:17

freitasm:

It works for me. I think you either entered a typo, have a DNS problem or your machine has been hijacked.

Not working (when clicking the "Report email spam" link) on my phone over 4G, or my work machine. Firefox gives "PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR", and Safari gives a generic "can't open page" message.

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#3353094 12-Mar-2025 11:52

Ah. Not the page itself, the link off it.

Got it. I've sent a query to the DIA.

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#3353095 12-Mar-2025 12:10

elpenguino:

I think all the spaces have sensors now, so big brother knows your actual arrival time, not your paying time.

AFAIK the sensors are gone. You pay by plate. Sometime between 5 and 6.30 someone checked the Reg and found no payment at all = $70 fine.

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#3353097 12-Mar-2025 12:14

Bung:

elpenguino:

I think all the spaces have sensors now, so big brother knows your actual arrival time, not your paying time.

AFAIK the sensors are gone. You pay by plate. Sometime between 5 and 6.30 someone checked the Reg and found no payment at all = $70 fine.

Ahh. Thought I had seen a circular thing in the parking place, must be wrong.

I have learned the fine for overstaying is a lot less than not getting a ticket in the first place 🤣

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#3353098 12-Mar-2025 12:32

The new UK ETA visa for people who didn’t previously need one. We’re going in June this year so did it yesterday for my wife (NZ citizen – I don’t need it as I’m a UK citizen). Easy enough to do via the app and says it will take up to 3 working days to be processed but it came back approved instantly. It was before working hours over there so obviously nobody looked at it and it was automatic so it’s purely a revenue gathering scheme. I guess it gets investigated if you say yes to any of the questions on criminal convictions or diseases etc, although presumably the criminal stuff can all be checked from the name anyway regardless of your answer and it felt very quick for all this to have been verified.

Anyway, it was only $21 and painless to do but obviously it’s been brought in as a revenue raiser.

Similarly with the USA one – we’re in transit there on one way of the journey so still had to do it even though not officially entering the country (it was more like $36 each). It also came back approved pretty much immediately. They must get thousands of these per minute so guess it’s just automatic unless you say yes to anything (and then it’s all checked again anyway when you get to the desk in person).

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#3353222 12-Mar-2025 14:22

Even NZ has an electronic declaration now, although it's free. I did mine, then got to the airport and was told "nope, it's not showing up, go over there and do a paper one".

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#3353226 12-Mar-2025 15:03

The NZ declaration is a customs form, not an "authorisation to travel" as the ETA documents.

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#3353233 12-Mar-2025 15:36

jamesrt:

Acrobat Reader seems to be unable to print A3 sized document on A3 sized paper.

Maybe I should have just simplified that to "Acrobat Reader".

Apple Pages seems to be unable to print in colour. I had to export to PDF and print that.

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