The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XLIII

Taking your shoes off at the office: Yay or nay?
Nay. Largely because I wear work boots with ceramic/steel toes and it’s more of a safety protocol.
 
I have now :thumbsup:
So, does it work? I don't have it myself because I don't use phones for social networking other than actual phonecalls, but it was recommended to me rather seriously recently.
 
So, does it work? I don't have it myself because I don't use phones for social networking other than actual phonecalls, but it was recommended to me rather seriously recently.
I looked it up, but it seems to just an adblocker for YouTube. Someone recently gifted me a YouTube Premium subscription, so I'm not interested in it
 
How much would you pay for a bottle of Whisky? This seems excessive:

Spoiler :

For those who appreciate the finer tipples in life, a bottle of the world’s “most sought-after Scotch whisky” sold for more than £2.1 million ($2.7 million) Saturday at Sotheby’s in London.

The Macallan 1926 is one of just 40 bottles drawn after ageing in sherry casks for 60 years, making it the oldest Macallan vintage ever produced, according to the auction house. Sotheby’s had expected it to raise between £750,000 and £1.2 million ($934,274 and $1.4 million), but were in for a shock when the prized bottle fetched a whooping £2,187,500 ($2,724,967), making it a “new record for any bottle of spirit or wine sold at auction,” the auction house told AFP news agency.

more at link

 
How much would you pay for a bottle of Whisky? This seems excessive:

I put it in the same box as this news:

Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says

The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%, with dire consequences for vulnerable communities and global efforts to tackle the climate emergency, a report says.

The most comprehensive study of global climate inequality ever undertaken shows that this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500) a year, accounted for 16% of all CO2 emissions in 2019 – enough to cause more than a million excess deaths due to heat, according to the report.​

We have chosen to set up the world so some people have vast access to its resources and some have none. This means those with access are profligate with them while and other suffer from severe lack.
 
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What's a solution?
 
How do you create a restore point in Windows11?
(don't link to some page, I can do that myself ^^)
Can it be done when you only have one disk without partitions?
 
Huh-huh, Beavis, this guy's asking whether he can ‘do it’ himself.

More seriously though, are restore points similar to backups? I don't have Windows11.
 
Yes, they are, but in Win11 it is difficult to set one up. I tried, using Cloud, and I am not sure if it worked.
By the way, does the red light on the PC always mean something terrible is going on? (because it does light up, from time to time, and I don't like it).
 
Demonic possession, yes. Have it exorcised.
 
Yes, they are, but in Win11 it is difficult to set one up. I tried, using Cloud, and I am not sure if it worked.
By the way, does the red light on the PC always mean something terrible is going on? (because it does light up, from time to time, and I don't like it).
My tower has 2 red lights, one is power and the other is HD activity.
 
In Windows 10, under recovery you can go to system properties and system protection to turn restore points on and off.
 
What happens when water cannon are used on burning tires filled with petrol?

Two things that tend to happen during riots are people fill tires with petrol and set light to them, and the government deploys water cannon. Water added to most liquid fuel fires can cause it too expand, almost like an explosion. Does using a water cannon in the vicinity of burning tires with petrol have the risk for an explosion?
 
I rather think that burning tires filled with petrol can explode without there needing to be any water cannon present at all.
 
I rather think that burning tires filled with petrol can explode without there needing to be any water cannon present at all.
Sure, and I think they definitely would explode if one threw a cup of water into them. I THINK the heat turns the water onto steam, the steam vaporises the petrol and makes it mix efficiently with the air, not dissimilar to a thermobaric weapon. The question is how they react to water cannons. It must happen all the time unless the police keep their water cannons away from them.
 
I am not sure whether your context is Dublin or Gaza.

Whether water from police water cannons would increase the risk or actuality of explosions from petrol filled
tyres can be considered by us theorethically, but is only likely to be properly resolved by controlled experimentation.

From my perspective in a democracy, the ethical, legal and moral risks comes from entirely those filling tyres with petrol.
I don't believe the local police should refrain from using water cannons even if the explosion risk increases.

Indeed there is an inner fascist argument that one can better deter or eliminate rioters using petrol filled tyres
as bombs, by maximising the risks to them by having the police or amy etc. use explosive or incendiary bullets.
 
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