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There was that one bash.org quote where a script kiddie was given 127.0.0.1 as part of an “oh yeah I dare you” taunt after he said he could hack anyone, and he fell for it hook line and sinker. He was posting things like “Hahaha your K drive is being deleted! Now your H drive! [connection reset by peer]” and right after that the challenger was like “I don’t even have a K drive.”

(RIP bash.org though. I would have tried to link it otherwise)

Peroxide and then hypochlorite bleach. Not at the same time. There are products that contain them if you can’t get them neat. In fact I recommend those.

Try the peroxide first. Dilute as necessary. Wipe or spray on. Leave it on for a while to loosen anything and everything it can. After a while fill with hot (60-80C) water, but beware of thermal shock. Leave to stand until warm, not hot. Try to clean the glasses as best you can. This may be all you need.

If not, try the bleach. Same steps, but make sure you’re in a well ventilated area. I’ve found that while it stinks up the place, the mould just peels right off and into the hot bleach solution.

If the glasses smell of bleach afterwards, fill with warm water and leave for a day or two. Repeat as necessary. The bleach will dissipate eventually.

How about, I don’t know, not yanking the cord (or setting things up so the cord is yanked automatically) and pursuing the payment later?

But then that could mean that someone might - even temporarily - get something for nothing, and they can’t be seen to promote anything even remotely similar to that.

Perhaps this tiny company are so close to the knife edge that they can’t afford to allow it to happen. Must have constant revenue stream or else close up sho… wait, Micro-who?

I just imagined a horrible alternative universe where it’s illegal for brand names to become corrupted regardless of whatever else happens to data. Eventually humanity would start communicating only in brand names to ensure messages get through. *shudder*

Where’s “here”? I’m in the UK and only discovered that there had been a specific saying, in (Soviet) Russia, about (contemporaneous) China, very recently. Maybe it was a joke I wasn’t privy to or heard but was too young to appreciate at the time.

(As to how I discovered it recently: I had been looking for a name or “law” for the concept of constantly making vague or empty threats - it’s kind of like crying wolf, but not - and somehow ended up the Wikipedia article on “China’s final warning”.)

There used to be a joke in Russia called “China’s final warning” because of the hundreds of times China used to threaten a “final warning” to whoever it perceived (correctly or otherwise) as encroaching on its politics or territories, and then promptly did absolutely nothing.

The joke is in danger of defecting and getting a new name.

If dealing with a small bunch of nutters was so easy, the Troubles wouldn’t have been quite so troubling, now, would they?

This would just be the same thing but with a different bunch of nutters.

I have to wonder if the potential for accidentally falling out of a window goes any way into affecting the way he approaches certain debts.

There are devices that literally shake the bed to wake up a sleeper. Most often used by deaf or hard-of-hearing people for whom audio alarms are non-starters, but it could work for you if you’re actually sleeping through and not snoozing. There are a few that work on smells as well.

“Hurt me, daddy.”

“OK, now you’ve made it weird.”

“Aw yeah, that’s the stuff.”

Why do you think you wanted to run ELIZA on a Timex/Sinclair 2068?

Within reason.

You could try your luck and see how much you can get away with before someone notices, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

Nah, they’ll just make life more difficult for any employees who take bathroom breaks, if not find some “clearly unrelated” excuse to outright fire them.

If there was ever a time to replace this Drake format with the Geordi LaForge alternative, this was it.

The video’s suggestion of /dev/null makes that super easy.

Yes. It is an instrument used in the consumption of drugs.

Or do you mean musical instrument? TL;DR: It can be.

It comes down to how wide you want the definition of “musical instrument” to be. Is a drumstick a musical instrument? Is it what makes a drum designed to be played with sticks an instrument? What is such a drum without at least one stick?

“Well I could hit the drum with something else.” Sure, but does that make the “something else” the instrument?

What is a woodwind (musical) instrument without the player’s breath? A saxophone without a reed?

“I could smack it on something.”

Well, yes, that’s the crux of it.

In the loosest sense, anything that can be used to make a noise is a musical instrument. Take the popular joke of mayonnaise: if you put a straw in it and blow, I’m willing to bet some sort of noise can be had.

This then brings in the other argument: what counts as musical?

I strongly suspect that many of these things have already, uh, been tried.

As for those that clearly made it through at least one round of testing, a self-styled “Weird Explorer” has a YouTube series called “That’s not coffee” where he - and occasionally a friend or two - reviews some of them.

Not sure if there’s anyone on there who has tried roasting and grinding other sorts of beans for science though. The closest I can think of is the various creators making tofu alternatives from beans that aren’t soy, which kind of turns the whole thing on its head: Could you make a tofu from coffee beans? (I’m guessing not, but that’s another for-science idea.)

“They’re back! In POG form!”

But seriously, with the way web search seems to be going these days, webrings coming back might actually be useful.

What do you mean by “possible”? Most jurisdictions have a law against interfering with the dead / a corpse, and necromancy, while suddenly possible would therefore remain highly illegal.

Even if legalised, consider how often difficult decisions have to be made about whether to exhume a corpse to seek evidence of some sort. I can’t imagine it would be any easier to decide to have a corpse resurrected.

Habeas corpus takes on an entirely different bent, for sure.

There’s also the state of mind of someone who has been resurrected to take into account as well. There they were in oblivion or eternal rest or whatever it is that the dead experience and suddenly they’re dragged back to this mortal coil with thoughts, feelings and the knowledge they’ve been dead for a long time, and there’s living people who haven’t been through any of that throwing questions at them left, right and centre.

If it happened often enough, advocacy groups for the unwillingly resurrected would be set up. And more people would opt for cremation.

Not sure about “apple” there. Most of the cognates in other languages don’t have a leading “n”, and neither does the reconstructed root. It might be that it gained an “n” in some places before losing it again, but “apple” seems to be the original.

“Uncle” presumably has the same sort of development, i.e. gained and lost if it gained it at all. In the one language where the cognate has gained an “n”, that “n” came from the definite article which ends with an “n” there.

If anything, “uncle” lost an “av” / “aw” at the start long before English was even conceived. If that had happened later, we might have “wuncle” from “an awuncle” being abbreviated as “a wuncle”, but that would be losing, not gaining the “n”.