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bobby_bob

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    Comment #28613688

    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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    Comment #28272100

    Volume / Passenger Capacity With a lower limit and some way of subsidising a portion back for verifiable, occupational need.

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    Comment #27311448

    The devils were introduced to the mainland (a National Park in NSW) intentionally in 2020.

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    Comment #26829155

    It's now using natural gas: > ...drawing power from the plant’s 106-megawatt generator now fueled by natural gas.

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    Comment #26563247

    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 …

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    Comment #26406421

    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-ac…

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    Comment #26339746

    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/…

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    Comment #26270101

    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 appro…

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    Comment #25938356

    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,…

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    Comment #25899329

    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")…

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    Comment #25868131

    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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    Comment #25846409

    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…

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    Comment #25512497

    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…

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    Comment #25285448

    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 …

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    Comment #24914455

    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 proporti…

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    Comment #24823184

    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…

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    Comment #24823105

    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 19…

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    Comment #24359858

    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 …

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    Comment #22124573

    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 th…