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by JWWhite
Sun Aug 26, 2018 6:10 am
Forum: Digital Realm
Topic: The Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency Thread
Replies: 553
Views: 236679

Re: The Bitcoin and cryptocurrency thread

Another Sign The Bitcoin Bubble Is Ending? China Launches An Unprecedented Crackdown On Cryptocurrencies… Those that sold their cryptocurrencies at the peak of the market made a tremendous amount of money, but those that hold on to the bitter end are going to be gravely disappointed. For a while th...
by JWWhite
Sun Aug 26, 2018 5:47 am
Forum: Science & Nature
Topic: Global Warming 2
Replies: 1125
Views: 64401

Re: Global Warming 2

Take a wild guess what country is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions the most? Canada? Britain? France? India? Germany? Japan?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... imate-acc/
by JWWhite
Thu Aug 23, 2018 3:36 pm
Forum: Motoring
Topic: Electric Vehicles (EV) Thread
Replies: 1764
Views: 345332

Re: Electric Cars

A push for a battery leap to eliminate "blood cobalt" The U.S. government is funding a push to reinvent lithium-ion batteries so they contain little or no cobalt, an increasingly expensive metal found largely in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where activists say workers often toil ...
by JWWhite
Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:35 am
Forum: Foo
Topic: News of the Weird - this just in!
Replies: 1695
Views: 116309

Re: News of the Weird - this just in!

Healthline, a California health info provider, is trying to ruin the term “vagina.” It’s not gender inclusive enough. The word they prefer? “Front hole.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08- ... front-hole
by JWWhite
Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:37 pm
Forum: Science & Nature
Topic: Cats and dogs: are they the superbug risk everyone has overlooked?
Replies: 7
Views: 809

Re: Cats and dogs: are they the superbug risk everyone has overlooked?

Woman In USA Killed By Puppy Bite. News outlet WTMJ-TV is reporting that the death of a woman in Wisconsin may be attributable to an infection that was transferred from a dog. Sharon Larson, who just obtained the puppy, was given a small nip, which caused a cut. She was rushed to the hospital short...
by JWWhite
Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:54 am
Forum: Foo
Topic: Insult Generator
Replies: 12
Views: 738

Re: Insult Generator

If I throw a stick, will you leave?
by JWWhite
Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:38 am
Forum: Foo
Topic: Quote of the Day
Replies: 35
Views: 2125

Re: Quote of the Day

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the resul...
by JWWhite
Sun Aug 19, 2018 10:41 am
Forum: Sports Fans
Topic: The rarest baseball play happened yesterday
Replies: 14
Views: 705

Re: The rarest baseball play happened yesterday

oakdale160 wrote: Sun Aug 19, 2018 10:32 am I dont understand you say with 2 outs the batter struck out--well that ends the innings.
I did not say that, it was taken from the article.
by JWWhite
Sun Aug 19, 2018 7:29 am
Forum: Sports Fans
Topic: The rarest baseball play happened yesterday
Replies: 14
Views: 705

Re: The rarest baseball play happened yesterday

Baseball can be pretty crazy sometimes. Minor league baseball is nuts, man. The Burlington Bees had already bled two runs to the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in the bottom of the ninth of Friday’s Class-A game, but they still had two outs and two strikes against batter Nic Pierre with the bases loaded...
by JWWhite
Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:00 pm
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: VIP - Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2018 - Top Secret DrumCorps
Replies: 18
Views: 894

VIP - Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2018 - Top Secret DrumCorps

VIP - Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2018 - Top Secret DrumCorps
by JWWhite
Sat Aug 18, 2018 3:01 pm
Forum: Foo
Topic: Best of the Rest of the World
Replies: 778
Views: 56160

Re: Best of the Rest of the World

It doesn't matter
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by JWWhite
Fri Aug 17, 2018 7:59 am
Forum: Science & Nature
Topic: How the internet is changing the way we grieve
Replies: 3
Views: 715

How the internet is changing the way we grieve

How the internet is changing the way we grieve People don’t die in the same way that they used to. In the past, a relative, friend, partner would pass away, and in time, all that would be left would be memories and a collection of photographs. These days the dead are now forever present online and ...
by JWWhite
Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:12 pm
Forum: Entertainment Zone
Topic: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, dies at 76
Replies: 7
Views: 454

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, dies at 76

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, dies at 76 Aretha Franklin died Thursday following a battle with cancer, her publicist confirmed to the Associated Press. The Queen of Soul was 76 years old. Franklin was born in Memphis, Tenn., in 1942, the daughter of a pastor and a civil rights activist. When ...
by JWWhite
Thu Aug 16, 2018 6:42 pm
Forum: Science & Nature
Topic: Global Warming 2
Replies: 1125
Views: 64401

Re: Global Warming 2

A new study finds that coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef is nothing new. Coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef has been happening for around 400 years, a study has revealed. Researchers from the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh have dated the phenomenon back four centuries by e...