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(1 replies, posted in General Discussion)

A sort of free speech search engine purporting that it will not suppress specific news stories like other browsers, using the tagline "Same Search, Different Results"

https://freespoke.com/

And what about snogging?

A nice little snippet.

153

(3 replies, posted in General Discussion)

What a lot of union members don't realise is that for every week they are on strike they will need a pay rise of ~2% just to break even for their lost wage/salary for that week. The longer the strike action the more pressure on the union reps to get a high settlement that exceeds the break even percentage and shows a true gain in wage/salary over the coming 12 month period.

The obvious outcome post strike for industries like train and royal mail are that consumers will be faced with increased prices.

..and were at their wits end on how to get more out of their employers for a fair  wage.

A similar statement can be used by employers " how to get more out of their employees for a fair  wage (without working any harder). i.e. Productivity increase.

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(417 replies, posted in General Discussion)

From mail online - The top 20 worst dad jokes... as scientists claim listeners who hear groan-inducing puns are actually     GRATEFUL for the gags - but do you agree?

    1. Elevators terrify me... I'm taking steps to avoid them. 
    2. I got an e-mail saying 'At Google Earth, we can even read maps backwards', and I thought... 'That's just spam...'
    3. What do you call a man with no shins? Tony.
    4. Me and my friends put a band together, we named it 999 megabytes. Still don't have a gig though.
    5. I got into a fight with 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. The odds were against me.
    6. I had a dream the ocean was filled with orange soda. It was a Fanta Sea.
    7. Just got hospitalized due to a peekaboo accident. They put me in the ICU.
    8. In college I was so broke I couldn't afford the electricity bill. Those were the darkest days of my life.
    9. I went to the Doctor with hearing problems. He said 'Can you describe the symptoms?' I said: 'Homer's a fat dude and Marge has blue hair.'
  10. I said to my wife: 'When I die I'd like to die having sex.' She replied: 'At least it'll be quick.'
  11.  I've decided I want a pet termite. I'm going to call him Clint. Clint Eatswood.
  12. So many people these days are too judgmental. I can tell just by looking at them.
  13. How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh? 10-tickles.
  14.  'Dad, can you tell me what a solar eclipse is?' No sun.
  15.  I figured out why Teslas are so expensive. It's because they charge a lot.
  16. Guess who I bumped into on my way to get my glasses fixed? Everybody.
  17. My wife blocked me on Facebook because I post too many bird puns. Well, toucan play at that game.
  18. Did you hear about the new Origami Porn channel? It's paper view only.
  19. I was really angry when I ran into my friend Mark who stole my dictionary. I said, 'Mark, my words!'
  20. I used to make loads of money clearing leaves from gardens. I was raking it in.

saki could be:

mirror image of me before drink in Kas, Turkey.

or is it too easy?

156

(5 replies, posted in General Discussion)

In some instaces it may depend on how many fields are available on the computer, but in general there needs to be a limit.

What about those kids who are now adults and were named after all the players in football teams? Some would have 22 initials, one hell of an anagram.

Even knowing the answer I don't get a route to get fishcake from the clue that Joe posted.


21st greek letter = phi (fi)
askes for quiet = Sh
patty = cake

Joe

Greek at 21st asks for quiet before joining Patty

Not only are the roses flowering but the potatoes have got out of the plantpot and morphed into different varieties!

Even after pruning, one of our roses now has a flower. Campanula and other bulbs are growing like wildfire, two months earlier that normal. One white camelia is producing flowers again, two months earlier than normal, and elephant ears are in their third bloom this year. The garden this year has gone bonkers.

Interesting subject, and and for cat lovers here's a book about medieval cats.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Medieval-Cats- … 0712358188

From google:

A bar (also called a measure) is one small segment of music that holds a certain number of beats. It can be thought of as a container. The number of beats a bar holds is determined by the time signature of the song, most commonly 4/4 (also called ‘common time’).

When you look at the time signature, the top number tells you how many beats are in a single bar/measure and the bottom number tells you what kind of notes those beats are. For example, in 4/4 there are 4 quarter notes in a measure. In 6/8 there are 6 eighth notes in a measure.

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(417 replies, posted in General Discussion)

That must be after the discovery of Richard III's remains beneath a Leicester carpark in 2012.

William wrote:

On a side issue some events have in the rules that the winner has to agree to their photograph being published.

Why? If the competition is about what the person has produced, whether science, poetry, or whatever, why a photograph?

William

Photo's add to the written piece. A magazine or newspaper without images would be boring as would just reading the script of a television program.

164

(3 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I would have thought that the term  ‘Bridezilla' was used in the context of wedding planning and possibly in the number of last minute changes requested.

165

(4 replies, posted in History & Geography)

Hopefully as housing got replaced things got better for them.

From what I remember of the 60's/70's lots of streets with terraced houses were demolished and the displaced people were moved into newly built tower blocks. This then started the associated troubles with many of these blocks. Even as a teenager I could imagine the anger and frustration felt by many of the residents. One minute you're in a house, you walk out into the street, go to the corner shop and back home. Now you're on the 10th floor of a block, you walk down the stairs because the lifts have broken down, God knows where the nearest shops are, you lug your bags up 10 flights of stairs. You unpack your shopping and realise you've forgotton to buy an item.

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(23 replies, posted in General Discussion)

William wrote:

If one person buys the supermarket's own label version of something rather than the branded version to save money, there we go.

But if two million people buy the supermarket's own label version of something rather than the branded version to save money, does that result in some of the people at the factory that makes the branded version losing their job?

Why are own label versions cheaper?

William

Normally the supermarkets make as much if not more profit on own brand/label items.

In some instances the company that makes the branded version also supplies the supermarkets with their own label products.

Joe

167

(23 replies, posted in General Discussion)

...they are bombarded with offers of credit, in the form of cards, bank loans, hire/purchase etc, that encourages them to continue spending money they do not have on things they do not need

This quote ends on an interesting comment, "on things they do not need". What things would they be? Are there different things for different generations? Are the following needed or not?

At least one overseas holiday (vacation) per year.
Upgrade to the latest 85" television.
Televisions for other rooms.
Phone contracts with unlimited data for the whole family.
Multiple TV streaming service subscriptions.
Audio streaming service subscriptions.
New pc, laptop or tablet.
New/new to you car.
A second car.
Same spend on Christmas presents as last year.
Lottery tickets and scratchcards.
Gambling.

168

(8 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Unless you've got one of those "breeze block" phones from the eighties, it should clipfasten to your existing phone.

Lots of reviews on youtube  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ … one+lenses

Joe

169

(8 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

They clip over the phone camera lens. Here's a bunch of variations on ebay.

Joe


https://i.postimg.cc/PNdwqQrt/lens.jpg

170

(9 replies, posted in General Discussion)

In the midst of this what are we but mere specks?

Many, many, many years ago I remember reading a novel about an astronaut who was to explore deep space. The story ended when his rocket broke free from the cover of a hard back book. The premise being that our sun and planets were nothing more than an atom. The sun being the nucleus and earth and our other planets were electrons. This was repeated with other planetary systems throughout the universe, and the atoms formed the molecules of the book cover. Mere specks on an electron?

Final proposal:

Instead of using the youtube widget do Insert > Document frame > Click on contents tab > internet page > enter video as

https://www.youtube.com/embed/sDGRag77bFs

Replace sDGRag77bFs with your video ID.

Drag the frame out to the size you want your video.

If this does not work for you then I would revert back to Alfreds comments about the most common reasons.

Joe

This website does not have SSL certificate, I wonder if this is part of the issue.

Also, no other changes were made to the webpages, so other objects are interfering with the navbar.

The https is a link and should not affect anything on the webplus site. After you mage the upload without the video did you not do another upload to see if the problem repeats?

Another possible solution may be the following which may or may not work:

Use the youtube widget without converting to html
Copy the following code

<script>

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
  $("iframe").each(function() {
    var $frame = $(this)
    $frame.attr('src', $frame.attr('src').replace('http:', 'https:'))
  });
});

</script>

On the page with the widget do Insert > HTML Fragment > Click on the page >Click "Paste to head" > Check the box "Include jquery script" > OK

As you can see in the code it replaces http in the iframe with https. Do an upload and see if it works.

Joe

How are you loading the link to the video into your site? If you are using the webplus youtube widgit it may be because the html in the code link is http instead of https. This can be changed by right click the video > Convert to > HTML fragment. Double click the fragment to open it and in line beginning

<iframe src="http:

place an s after http to give

<iframe src="https:

Joe

174

(0 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Interesting website showing reduction in internet access coupled to high profile events in a particular country.

https://netblocks.org

Joe

175

(5 replies, posted in WebPlus)

See the Install page in the attached file for simple instructions. Additional data can be found at https://nanogallery2.nanostudio.org/documentation.html

Joe