The Off Topic Topic

[Savonarola]

An engineer is criticizing someone for hard to understand jargon?

It wasn't hard to understand, merely tedious.

[jimmy olsen]

This is cool:



Any idea on the meaning?

[spoiler]5% of the world's population in blue, 5% of the world's population in red[/spoiler]

Link seems dead.

[Tonitrus]

I see it in your quote.

[LaCroix]

apparently there are rumors that NY biglaw is shifting from 160k starting to 190k. if it does, maybe third-tier "biglaw" will see a 5k bump.

(edit) or probably the rumors are bs http://abovethelaw.com/2014/10/ny-to-190k-not-so-fast-because-160k-salaries-are-no-longer-the-norm/

[Syt]

Google Deepdream vs. Spaghetti.



Creepypasta indeed.

[Syt]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/german-authorities-investigate-surveillance-leaks

The German domestic security service has urged the Federal Public Prosecutor to consider charges of treason as a result of two articles posted earlier this year by Netzpolitik.org, one of Germany's most influential digital rights blogs. The articles reported on leaked documents regarding the German government's mass surveillance plans. The German criminal code considers the leaking of state secrets to a foreign power, or to anyone else with the intention of damaging the Republic to be treason: the crime can be punished with up to five year's imprisonment.

Freedom of press in Germany is under threat. This is highly unusual and the charge of treason against journalists hasn't been used in about half a century. You can basically be charged with treason when you publish secrets you obtained from a whistle blower or so here, e.g. NYT publishing Edward Snowdon's documents could have been considered treason here. This is a very old law dating back to Bismarck and it was misused in the Weimar Republic to oppress the left-liberal press.
This is currently the top story in a lot of German newspapers and TV news shows.

The prosecution has decided to let the investigation rest. For now.

The CDU head of the "Digital Agenda" committee of parliament posted on social media, "If something is marked 'top secret' then that's also binding for journalists and journalist wannabes. [...] What freedom of press is invoked for these days ..."

[Monoriu]

What is going on with all these "any languish ...ians" threads?

[Duque de Bragança]

Languish meme of the day.

[Zanza]

Any Languish assholes?

Oh, wait, that's all of us, right?

[lustindarkness]

Any Languish assholes?

Oh, wait, that's all of us, right?

[Monoriu]

Any Languish assholes?

Oh, wait, that's all of us, right?

*raises hand enthusiastically*

[katmai]

All pretenders to the throne.


And Beeb isn't.

[Syt]

[Josquius]

It happened again. Some Spanish person doing the whole "mwa haha. You can't speak French? Brits are so stupid and ignorant. I bet you can't speak any language!" Thing.
Me: I speak Japanese
Them: I mean a real language. That doesn't count. Something they speak in Europe .

[Zanza]

I am just looking into a trip to Patagonia. One of the things I stumbled over was the possibility of a two-day trip to Antarctica via plane...