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[steph]

Started fooling around in Powder Toy again. Took "cities" from the game's server and subjected them to all kinds of destruction and evilness. Here's one before and after an H-bomb. The crater looks surprisingly real.

Edit: this one was an airburst. I think I stepped up the size of the bomb too much though. At a certain point, you end up turning everything into a molten soup. Which isn't THAT different from how , say, an asteroid impact would play out , but still....

 

[Artlav]

Why is the fun of a game so proportional to the versatility of your ability to blow stuff up in it, hm?

 

[mojoey]

Because explosions are cool.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

working with ANSI escape codes, this system is absolutely incomprehensible

 

[Andy44]

 

[Urwumpe]

The benevolent Manchester City is transferring 75 million Euro foreign aid to Wolfsburg, Germany, collected by the television union of British workers.

Thank you. :rofl:

 

[Notebook]

Would this be BECTU?

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

Would this be BECTU?

N.

Yeah... or the De-Bruyne-Memorial-Fund. :lol:

 

[Notebook]

EDIT Deleted double post
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[Notebook]

Peculiar, I was in the ACTT(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Cinematograph_Television_and_Allied_Technicians). Close shop, joining compulsoryThey were moderately militant, mostly concerned with wages and conditions, some political stirrings. Last I heard they amalgamated with the BBC union. All irrelevant now, tele industry has been casualised to death.

 

[Urwumpe]

Peculiar, I was in the ACTT(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Cinematograph_Television_and_Allied_Technicians). Close shop, joining compulsoryThey were moderately militant, mostly concerned with wages and conditions, some political stirrings. Last I heard they amalgamated with the BBC union. All irrelevant now, tele industry has been casualised to death.

Well, there is still no true union for software developers in Germany. Quite many are in the service agent union VERDI, which I personally dislike, I don't want to be mistaken for a different kind of hair cutter. I have different wishes for a perfect working environment, and that is not just a good salary.

 

[Notebook]

There may be a yearning for more union power in the UK, Margaret Thatcher set about dismantling them in the 80's. Tony Blair wasn't really interested in them(no votes). Of course the present Tory government isn't a unions best friend.
The Labour Party is electing a new leader next month, and seems to be in a panic state. This man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn seems to be in the lead, and is causing great consternation...he could be a Socialist....Not wanted in the New Labour Party.
All academic, 5 years till the next general election, it'll have all changed by then.

 

[Urwumpe]

There may be a yearning for more union power in the UK, Margaret Thatcher set about dismantling them in the 80's. Tony Blair wasn't really interested in them(no votes). Of course the present Tory government isn't a unions best friend.

Asking the government if you should found a union is just as futile as asking your own boss. Of course the mighty and rich will fight them with all their legal and illegal might.

You have to do it yourself, if you want one.

 

[Notebook]

I think the union ethos has gone here, probably take a generation or two for it to come back, if it ever does. The classic unionised industries, coal, steel, shipbuilding, motor manufacture, general engineering have gone or much reduced. The UK is a service industry nation now(so I'm told), and a low-wage one at that.
You would think these conditions would encourage unionism, but its not happening here. I think the sense of community or camaraderie isn't there. We are encouraged to be individual and competitive.

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[Urwumpe]

I think the union ethos has gone here, probably take a generation or two for it to come back, if it ever does. The classic unionised industries, coal, steel, shipbuilding, motor manufacture, general engineering have gone or much reduced. The UK is a service industry nation now(so I'm told), and a low-wage one at that.
You would think these conditions would encourage unionism, but its not happening here. I think the sense of community or camaraderie isn't there. We are encouraged to be individual and competitive.

N.

Yes, same in Germany. Was the conservative moral turn-around, that Kohl wanted, which coincidences with this lack of loyalty towards your peers.

But I think, it is quickly changing here. Maybe no longer classic unions, but then, you already have rapid social groups forming beyond your workplace, that are doing that the classic unions here are more and more forgetting: That its about collective bargaining, not about channelling political power. Non-persons should stay out of politics, IMHO.

 

[Andy44]

This isn't the basement. It's Brighton Lounge. Here's a picture of a dog dressed like a clown.

 

[Urwumpe]

This isn't the basement. It's Brighton Lounge. Here's a picture of a dog dressed like a clown.

Capitalist! :rofl:

 

[Notebook]

Yes, far too serious. Dog doesn't look that happy either.

N.

 

[RisingFury]

This isn't the basement. It's Brighton Lounge. Here's a picture of a dog dressed like a clown.

No, it's a picture of a dog dressed like a sad clown. There's a difference :lol:

 

[jedidia]

No, it's a picture of a dog dressed like a sad clown.

There's other kinds of clowns?