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modified 16-Sep-19 9:31am.
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Never put a cross rating on the spot! (7)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Sad to see. Hope they can keep going for the next racing in a weeks time.
American Magic capsize[^]
I’m not a sailing person but these are incredibly impressive boats when they’re racing.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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40 knots, man they were moving.
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Are those the boats that have cyclists on them to provide hydraulic pressure for steering?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The grinders on the cycle mechanism provide hydraulic pressure for the control of the sail trims. I don’t believe it is used for steering and am not sure about the blades. I think they have their own electric power.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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The cycles were Team NZ's innovation for the last America's Cup, which they won.
Since the winner essentially sets the rules for the next cup, Team NZ banned them for this one.
It would no longer be a strategic advantage - and would shift the sport from guys with shoulders to guys with legs.
I've popped up to Auckland and seen these boats practicing. They are amazingly quick, and you can see the forces involved when it goes wrong with the Patriot capsize.
There have been other capsizes - Team NZ has done 3, 2 in the prototype boat and one in the final boat, only minor damage compared to the what the Americans suffered - they've been able to pull the boat upright and keep on going.
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Then there was the time that Fruit of the loom took Hanes to court.
It was...a brief case.
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cheers
Chris Maunder
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That case almost split up the company because one group thought they shouldn't sue. there were several violent incidents between the factions.
This is of course remembered as the Boxer Rebellion.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Picking low-hanging-fruit of the loom was a Hanous crime 
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I try to avoid anything from these sphincters. With a VPN, it's far easier to use DuckDuckGo or StartPage (which forwards Only Do Evil's results anyway). If I use their search engine directly, it often wants me to go through several captchas to prove I'm not a bot. No wonder, because VPNs make it harder to assemble dossiers. There's far more that could be said. If Dante were still around, he'd add an extra circle in Hell for these pricks.
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I switched from Firefox some years ago and never regretted it. And I even installed Chrome on my iPad to replace the awful Safari. From what I have seen of Edge (when MS forces me to use it) it is not that wonderful.
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Chrome "just works" - it displays every page you throw at it, and it's "multi-device" support is excellent - you can send pages to other devices such as my phone or Surface for later.
It's stable, it's not ugly, you can mute all tabs except for those on a white list, ...
I've been using it for years and have no problem with it. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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So true. 
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I just switched to Ecosia[^] because of that article.
My "ned code urgntz" query was never this eco friendly 
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hey Alta Vista still exists. (sort of)
Alta Vista Web Search[^]
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Wow, I haven't seen that one since the 90's 
Yahoo lost pretty much all of its market share over here.
They were pretty big with search, mail and news in ye olden days.
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hmm, So Chrome worked its way to the top and now is the one that has the biggest target on its back. That is all articles like this are saying. Hey I want to take pot shots at the most used/biggest thing out there.
That being said there are other browsers. LOTS of other browsers. And this author only listed the big ones that everyone already knows about anyway. In the past 6 months I have tried out the following browsers
Chrome - Just works!
Opera - Works pretty Well
Old Edge - ummm you mean IE 12? It sort of worked.
IE11 - Needed for somethings avoid for all others.
New Edge - Actually pretty spiffy.
Brave - IT is a Brave new browser called Brave? It actually is worth checking out. I kind of like it.
FireFox - See Opera.
Sea Monkey - See Opera. only less so.
Tor Browser - HAHAHAHA Yes it works slowly. Not sure why you would unless you want to hide what you are searching for. Which would cut down on ads if you are willing to go that route all the time.
So all that being said. Who cares? Which one works for you use it.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: So Chrome worked its way to the top and now is the one that has the biggest target on its back. That is all articles like this are saying. Hey I want to take pot shots at the most used/biggest thing out there.
Exactly. It happened to IE, it happened to Firefox, now it's happening to Chrome. Welcome to the internet.
I'm old enough to remember when Firefox came out and people talked about it like it cured cancer. "Gah, IE is RUBBISH, use Firefox", that's all you read. Now it's "Gah, Firefox is RUBBISH, use Chrome" and so on. It also makes me laugh when I see these kids rubbish webforms, MVC is great, now MVC is rubbish and the next thing is great. I always tell them that in a few years time what they think is great now they will think it's rubbish. I guess one thing experience teaches you is that things don't "become rubbish", it's just that other things improve.
Meh.
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In the old days, when you complained to web site that their pages didn't display properly, the answer was plain: "Why don't you use IE6? It works perfectly with IE6!"
Nowadays, the answer is equally plain: "Why don't you use Chrome? It works perfectly with Chrome!"
I've had this answer from two different web sites, and from numerous friends and colleagues. When I reply "Yeah - just like with IE6!", those old enough to remember the browser wars turn to mumbling and their face gets a darker color. (The younger ones don't have a clue.)
I started using FF as an alternative to IE6. I keep on using FF as an alternative to Chrome.
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Be Brave.
I've got tears in my ears from lying on my back and crying over her.
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I hate that chrome doesn't have a drop down arrow in the address bar for recently used sites as all other browsers do and have had since creation.
I use SeaMonkey for general purpose browsing as it has integrated Thunderbird with RSS support too. I still use pop3.
I find QBO and WooCommerce render best in chrome so I begrudgingly use it for those tasks.
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Feel free to downvote if you consider this upvote driving. But if you like to play around with Mandelbrots, I've just updated my fractal browser so you can save and open fractals, among other items! If you are bored on a Saturday night, hope this alleviates your problem!
(It doesn't show as being updated, but it has a 1/16/21 update at the beginning of the article, unless CP hides revisions until after they've been reviewed.)
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