Pretty much what it says on the tin.  I propose this thread be dedicated for highly useful little 'hacks' that are little known and obscure, but relatively easy to pull off.

I'll get this party started, as usual. 

(10-26-2019, 04:05 AM)Over in Politics and Other Fun, classicdrogn Wrote: If the rating button did anything, I'd give that post full marks.

... How much you want to bet that no one will actually do anything about it?

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new...361765.cms

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/u...34736.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-ha...-un-2019-9

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Michael ‘Muck’ Thunders finally pried his eyes open, trying to ignore the pounding behind said eyes and between his ears; It at least slightly reminded him of what a hangover felt like, even if he could not remember the last time he had actually suffered from said condition.  Overhead, a very generic pattern of ceiling tile…
 
So no way of knowing if they were familiar or not.
 
“Ah.  Your awake.  Finally.”
 
Wait.  WHAT?  There was still pain as he swiveled his head to the side where the voice came from, as memories started to flood back.  Right.  Another rough ‘re-entry’ then.  Maybe even to somewhere familiar?  Certainly the voice seemed to be.  A green haired woman snapped into visual focus.  Green hair meant he wasn’t ‘home’; Patricia had Red Hair and…  and why couldn’t he remember who the other was?  She was important to him as well!  ‘WHY IS HER NAME ESCAPING ME???’ he found himself screaming at himself even as he kept his internal turmoil just that… Internal.
 
“Myria?  Myria.  Oh gods.  Myria Sterling, or Myria Janus?” he finally blurted out.
 
“Janus.  WAIT.  WHAT?  Who is Myria Sterling?”
 
“The Meltrandi wife of Maximilion ‘Genius’ Sterling…  Your Husband.  Even if I’m in the Macross continuity instead of the Robotech one,” Muck informed the woman he expected would be an ally even as unconsciousness claimed him once again.  He hoped it would return, but could not be sure as darkness washed over him…

So, it appearrs that a TD who was not in the chamber at the time of the vote, somehow managed to vote on at least five pieces of legislation.

Details lurk behind this elegant link here

What appearrs to have happened is that one TD has asked a colleague to vote on his behalf while he takes a phonecall - not an unusual thing at all and perfectly normal in the house. The standing rules of the house only require that a TD be 'present' in the house for their vote to be valid - they could be jerking to nude pictures of Marian Finucane in the gallery for all the rules care - so long as they're in the chamber their vote is valid.

Now what happens, is that this particular TD leaves the chamber entirely, and the colleague doesn't realise and pushes the TD's 'vote' button 5 times - while on the phone himself.

Oops. No malice is intended - only a good hard bollicking is in order.

This is now the biggest political crisis in the State. After the one TD that fell off a swing and sued a hotel for a stupd amount of money - and everyone called her a rediculous eejit for it. 

Compared to what's happening on both sides of ourselves I'm reassured by how positively pointless this actually is.

Of course, that's forgetting the homelessness crisis, the rental crisis, the mortage crisis, the climate crisis, the carbon-tax crisis and the complete unwillingness of the government to do anything about these. (Brexit is not on the list because, tbh, the Government are doing fairly alright on that one)

If any of you have content there, now it’s the time to make copies

https://arstechnica.com/information-tech...oo-groups/

Since the last one has reached 300 posts

I probably should have mentioned this earlier in the week, but Peg and I are heading down to Florida for a week tomorrow.  (If you actually look at the board calendar, then you know that, as it's been scheduled for some months now.)

Unlike our last few trips, we're actually going to our home timeshare resort, the Vistana Beach Club.  We haven't been back there in almost twenty years, since we usually trade our week on the resort network we're part of to go elsewhere.

And while we're there, we'll be visiting one of our favorite spots in Florida, the Morikami Museum and Gardens.  We have tickets for the lantern festival on Saturday, although we missed our very narrow window to actually buy lanterns.

Anyway, I'll be taking my tablet (and of course my phone) so I won't be out of touch.  But I will probably be a bit scarcer than usual.