Non-IT News Thread
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Singer that @thanksajdotcom turned me on to years ago was murdered last night following her concert in Orlando.
Former Voice contestant Christina Grimmie shot dead in Orlando
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36506082So sad and so senseless!! She was an awesome person too!!!!
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This is the park that we are going to after MangoCon...
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@mlnews These kids were in an off-limits part of the park.
It's sad but their parents should've been watching them and making sure this couldn't happen.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Electric poo...
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160613-there-are-microbes-that-eat-and-poo-nothing-but-electricity
That is actually pretty cool.
They mentioned that radioactive material could be eaten away by these bacteria. But the question is, how could we get enough of the bacteria into these hazard zones, and confirm that they are eating enough of it, quickly enough? (on radioactive decay scales)
We don't want to be waiting around ~24,000 years for spent plutonium's' half-life.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Electric poo...
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160613-there-are-microbes-that-eat-and-poo-nothing-but-electricity
That's a shocking revelation!
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Electric poo...
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160613-there-are-microbes-that-eat-and-poo-nothing-but-electricity
That's a shocking revelation!
They must have had a surge of enthusiasm
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A two year old toddler has been taken by an alligator from the Grand Floridian Resort, Walt Disney's flagship property. The boy was dragged into the Seven Seas Lagoon, the water on which the Magic Kingdom, Polynesian and Contemporary Resorts also are situated.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
A two year old toddler has been taken by an alligator from the Grand Floridian Resort, Walt Disney's flagship property. The boy was dragged into the Seven Seas Lagoon, the water on which the Magic Kingdom, Polynesian and Contemporary Resorts also are situated.
Saw this post on 9gag.. through it was a joke. I guess it is not.
[Source]"The sad reality of it is it's been several hours, and we're not likely going to recover a live body," Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said.
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Seriously a two year old - I hope they aren't blaming the gator!
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Seriously a two year old - I hope they aren't blaming the gator!
And his parents let him wade into water that was off limits due to other safety concerns, too.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Seriously a two year old - I hope they aren't blaming the gator!
And his parents let him wade into water that was off limits due to other safety concerns, too.
Most of Florida qualifies as a "safety concern"... Letting a toddler run around anywhere in FL is stupid and negligent.
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@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Seriously a two year old - I hope they aren't blaming the gator!
And his parents let him wade into water that was off limits due to other safety concerns, too.
Most of Florida qualifies as a "safety concern"... Letting a toddler run around anywhere in FL is stupid and negligent.
Especially IN water at NIGHT. Either of those things being different would have significantly changed the odds of it happening AND the odds of him being saved. And this was in water that was considered unsafe for other reasons as well.
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I don't really know how to react to it. They were at a Disney resort on a man made lake. They were from Nebraska and it said no swimming but there was no sign that gave any warning of gators. The dad ran into the water to fight the alligator but couldn't rescue his son. He was standing right next to him when it happened. I think of it like, you go to look at your TV and your kid gets up on the coffee table and falls. You could say the parent is negligible but it happens to every parent. I feel really bad for them honestly. There is no comfort in what happened.
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I lived in Orlando for a few years in my 20s. Nobody ever went swimming in the many lakes and ponds around the city, because 'gators. It is why everybody has swimming pools.
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
I lived in Orlando for a few years in my 20s. Nobody ever went swimming in the many lakes and ponds around the city, because 'gators. It is why everybody has swimming pools.
Yeah but these people were from Nebraska. It's possible they didn't know. I don't think condemning them is really the answer here. What is worse than losing your child? I'm not even a parent and I know I'd never recover.
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
I lived in Orlando for a few years in my 20s. Nobody ever went swimming in the many lakes and ponds around the city, because 'gators. It is why everybody has swimming pools.
Yeah but these people were from Nebraska. It's possible they didn't know.
I live on the opposite corner of the continent in another country and even I know that Florida is dangerous
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@MattSpeller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
I lived in Orlando for a few years in my 20s. Nobody ever went swimming in the many lakes and ponds around the city, because 'gators. It is why everybody has swimming pools.
Yeah but these people were from Nebraska. It's possible they didn't know.
I live on the opposite corner of the continent in another country and even I know that Florida is dangerous
Yeah but that's because people eat bath salts. There is very general knowledge that I don't have in the IT field. You'd all expect me to know but I don't. You can't assume because you know there are alligators in Florida that everyone knows.
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
I lived in Orlando for a few years in my 20s. Nobody ever went swimming in the many lakes and ponds around the city, because 'gators. It is why everybody has swimming pools.
What is worse than losing your child?
Knowing you lost your child due to your own stupidity because you let a 2 year old run loose in central FL.
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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@MattSpeller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
I lived in Orlando for a few years in my 20s. Nobody ever went swimming in the many lakes and ponds around the city, because 'gators. It is why everybody has swimming pools.
Yeah but these people were from Nebraska. It's possible they didn't know.
I live on the opposite corner of the continent in another country and even I know that Florida is dangerous
Yeah but that's because people eat bath salts. There is very general knowledge that I don't have in the IT field. You'd all expect me to know but I don't. You can't assume because you know there are alligators in Florida that everyone knows.
The bath salt eating meth heads are only about 30% of the danger in FL. I routinely saw large poisonous snakes everywhere, especially while golfing and fishing. Nature is what is dangerous about FL, kinda like Australia.
