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#2919411 27-May-2022 12:35

frankv:
Geektastic:

(I’ve corrected for the nasty Americanism of ‘homicide’. )

homicide: Middle English: from Old French, from Latin homicidium, from homo, homin- ‘man’.

Homicide has a wider meaning than murder, and includes manslaughter.

However it’s not generally used in countries that speak British English.

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#2919456 27-May-2022 14:56

Geektastic:

However it’s not generally used in countries that speak British English.

It is now. Just like every other Americanism that has polluted the well of our English.

Bro.

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#2919458 27-May-2022 14:58

Rikkitic:
Geektastic:

However it’s not generally used in countries that speak British English.

It is now. Just like every other Americanism that has polluted the well of our English.

Bro.

Gee. Like, thanks. I totally enjoyed reading that and literally died laughing.

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#2919549 27-May-2022 20:26

Tāngarākau homocide

RNZ's typos are becoming a bad joke. Or do they mean that the victim was gay?

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#2919641 28-May-2022 08:42

Geektastic: However it’s not generally used in countries that speak British English.

Once you get past the trial by newspaper in the UK you'll go to court charged under the Homicide Act 1957. They rushed that into law before you were born 😀

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#2919655 28-May-2022 09:38

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Geektastic: However it’s not generally used in countries that speak British English.

Once you get past the trial by newspaper in the UK you'll go to court charged under the Homicide Act 1957. They rushed that into law before you were born 😀

That may be so. However, in common usage it is murder or manslaughter depending upon whether there was premeditation, generally.

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#2919664 28-May-2022 10:48

Geektastic:

That may be so. However, in common usage it is murder or manslaughter depending upon whether there was premeditation, generally.

Is this true for all of modern Britain, or just the Queen, or just you and a few dying remnants?

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#2920462 30-May-2022 15:59

I think the "Briasbane dad" has more to worry than his QANTAS points: "A Brisbane dad is warning others what to look out for after a cyber criminal stole 288,000 of his hard-earned frequent flyer points, tried to go on a holiday in his name – and then took a further $13,500 from his bank account."

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#2920470 30-May-2022 16:18

This reporter is gonna get a real shock when she discovers her new landline is either already from "the internet" or about to go that way in the next year or two...

An ode to the landline: Why I had a landline installed in the year 2022

– If the apocalypse comes and the internet dies, and I lose my phone charger, I can still make phone calls and people (three people) can call me.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/300600977/an-ode-to-the-landline-why-i-had-a-landline-installed-in-the-year-2022

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#2920524 30-May-2022 16:50

NZ Herald, are you sure president forgetful is boarding this helicopter?

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#2920659 30-May-2022 22:48

Obviously, President Biden is walking backwards.

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#2920677 31-May-2022 07:02

Could be moonwalking (a la Michael Jackson) and about to swivel and mount the steps?

For this reason fact checkers will say this is ‘mostly true’.

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#2920995 31-May-2022 15:49

wellygary:

This reporter is gonna get a real shock when she discovers her new landline is either already from "the internet" or about to go that way in the next year or two...

An ode to the landline: Why I had a landline installed in the year 2022

– If the apocalypse comes and the internet dies, and I lose my phone charger, I can still make phone calls and people (three people) can call me.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/300600977/an-ode-to-the-landline-why-i-had-a-landline-installed-in-the-year-2022

Not to mention that, even if it were a good old POTS service to the nearest telephone exchange, you aren't going to be able to make calls once the exchange runs out of diesel for its emergency generator.

Bring back the hand-crank and the operator with the patch-panel.

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#2921010 31-May-2022 16:07

frankv:

wellygary:

This reporter is gonna get a real shock when she discovers her new landline is either already from "the internet" or about to go that way in the next year or two...

An ode to the landline: Why I had a landline installed in the year 2022

– If the apocalypse comes and the internet dies, and I lose my phone charger, I can still make phone calls and people (three people) can call me.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/300600977/an-ode-to-the-landline-why-i-had-a-landline-installed-in-the-year-2022

Not to mention that, even if it were a good old POTS service to the nearest telephone exchange, you aren't going to be able to make calls once the exchange runs out of diesel for its emergency generator.

Bring back the hand-crank and the operator with the patch-panel.

That's assuming it had a standby generator. Many smaller POTS exchanges only had batteries which were probably good for 24 to 48 hours. I can remember running an extension cable out the window from the power supply to a portable 230v generator on more than one occasion.

That operator and manual board still needed a local battery to work, eventually that would run flat. The hand crank was only for signalling.

What she really needs is a small UPS to run her ONT and modem. Then she will have pretty well the same redundancy as what she wants to get from her "landline".

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#2921110 31-May-2022 20:01

New Stuff logo... surprised they didn't write a feature on it 😉

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