[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 10 points 4 weeks ago

As a person in neither Georgia nor Georgia (nor the US at all), I agree that it seems like an easy mistake to make.

But for anyone in Georgia or a neighboring state, it seems like something that should be pretty well known. Especially if you work in marketing.

I'd normally expect these kinds of ads to be produced by the local party branch but this suggests that either the local Georgians don't know there's another Georgia, or the ads came straight out of the national HQ or Moscow.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 month ago

You can't really have effective copy protection on any disc that can be played in a basic CD player; they're just too simple.

So Sony's approach was to put an autorun installer for a 'music player' on the disk too. If installed, it attempted to lock your CD drive from being used by any other software and couldn't be easily uninstalled. And they pirated open-source software (yes, that's possible) to build it.

SMH My Head.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 month ago

Do you mean empathy? Apathy is more like indifference

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 month ago

The headline margin of error only applies at the centre (50%), and decreases towards the extremes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_of_error#Specific_margins_of_error

Wikipedia says that for a poll with 1013 participants and the same headline margin of error, a 2% result would be ±0.8%.

It's more likely that this is the crowd who deliberately gives the most absurd answer possible.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 10 points 3 months ago

Definitely; look at the railings in the stairs at the far left.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 11 points 5 months ago

I've certainly never heard of a chicken ranch, but plenty of chicken farms.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 9 points 7 months ago

'Changing gender' to become a queen implies a non-female initial gender.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 11 points 7 months ago

Sounds like it depends on your state. Most states let you drive a moped (petrol or electric) on a car license.

https://zootscooters.com.au/do-i-need-a-licence-for-a-scooter-or-moped-in-australia/

Generally they're limited to 50km/h and 50CC/4kW to be a moped, rather than a motorcycle.

If you're doing 60km/h you need proper brake lights and ABS.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 11 points 10 months ago

Yup. They use ceiling-mounted IR transmitters that are a bit like a big multi-directional TV remote control.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 10 points 11 months ago

That means no need to cool the hydrogen down, making it non-flammable and giving it a higher density than an ion-lithium battery.

Hot hydrogen burns just as well as cold hydrogen. Better, in fact.

How do you spot a greenwash vaporware startup? They promise the earth, use non-existent tech that, if it existed, would be better used in a dozen different places, and target it at residential customers with a subscription model, where the pricing is set before even the specifications.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 year ago

NZ and many other places are doing energy meter replacements (or just modem replacements in the existing meters) due to 2G/3G switch off.

I don't think anyone does cellular water meters, though. Cellular needs a decent amount of power which is too much to expect from either a ten year battery or trying to use the metering hardware as a generator.

Smart water and gas meters therefore generally use a short-range low power mesh radio system.

[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 year ago

Big difference between buying a small car and buying a tank that costs twice as much and burns twice the fuel.

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