Google Quietly Removes "Don't Be Evil" Preface From Code of Conduct

By sheerest coincidence, Chrome on my Android phone kept insisting this was a dangerous, untrusted site.

Old thread is here.

Welcome to another installment of "Okay, what's it from?"

Zippo has 14 digital models available for download on this page. I only recognize half of them. What are the others from, if anything?

* HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyessy)
* cartoon submarine (Yellow Submarine)
* incom for DAZ Aiko3 (is this generic?)
* ayashii kikai (?)
* time machine (obviously something based on Wells's book, but which adaptation?)
* ultra eyes (?)
* monolith (2001: A Space Odyessy)
* Shotaro's controller (Tetsujin 28-go, a.k.a. "Gigantor")
* memekurage (Is this just a jellyfish, or is it from something?)
* pitch fork (generic devil)
* ufo (is this generic?)
* ray gun (looks generic to me)
* iron rod (generic oni's club)
* screw type (?) EDIT: Mamorien has IDed this one.

The official Senate page, s.2393: CLASSICS Act, doesn't have very much information at this point.

The Register's story has much more information: US Congress mulls extending copyright yet again – to 144 years.

Folks, please make this an election issue. Let your Congresscritters know what you think of extending copyright yet again to benefit a very few big businesses and nobody else.

...my logjam on the Ep 3 fight clears up.  I might have chapter 2 ready to release by the end of the month at this rate!

Huh.  You guys have been busy in here since I last poked my head in.

But yeah, apparently there was a film made called, naturally enough, Strategic Air Command back in 1955 starring Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson... and they filmed actual B-36 Peacemakers during start-up, take-off, and flight.  And to top it all off, some beautiful person has restored the original footage to HD quality.



Just in case anyone needed a bit of inspiration. 

This is a general heads-up:  Google shut down support for ReCaptcha v1 about six weeks ago, something I didn't know about until last night.  This caused a problem because when I started up this incarnation of the board, all MyBB supported was v1 and that's what I activated for use in registrations, new passwords and other such functionality.  And when it went away, it bit a couple users in the butt.

Anyway, I finally found out what happened last night, and have made the necessary changes to make things work again.  The important thing for folks to know is that I've switched from an always-visible reCaptcha to one that works invisibly in the background unless you meet some criteria for "suspiciousness", in which case you'll get the "I'm a human" checkbox and possibly the picture puzzle confirmation thingie.

If anyone has any future problems with the reCaptchas, let me know at either my eclipse address or through the board admin address.

The Order of Canada is the closest thing Canada has to a knighthood.

Folks here might recognize a few names: Howard Shore, Alan Doyle, and Daniel Lanois have all been inducted into the Order. Here's the full list.

Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter Returning for ‘Bill and Ted Face the Music’

Apparently, the story is going to run something like: Bill and Ted have reached middle age without fulfilling the destiny Rufus promised them, and they have yet to write the song which transforms the world into the paradise of the future ... and now they're running out of time.  Or something.

ETA: This explains why the annual Bill-and-Ted live show at Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights last year made a fuss about being the "last" such show.

As a bit of background. When the US was launching the Space Shuttle on its first flights, the Soviet Union was busy ossifiying and the New Wave was breaking across Europe's music scene, the Roman Catholic Church decided that it wasn't too happy with its influence on Irish society beginning to wane. The Magdalene laundries were still humming along, but there were some signs of reality breaking through A year before The Kerry Babies, and despite the Government opposing the motion, The Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constituion was passed by the good Catholic People of Ireland.

Effectively, it enshrined the prohibition on abortion into the Constitution.

It has somehow resited attempts to repeal it ever since, despite the best effort of everyone. Unfortunately with Brexit now a thing, the usual workaround may soon no longer be possible.

The next attempt comes in just over a fortnight.

And it's already gotten far more vicious than the usual.

There's no escaping the fact that one side in particular is getting funding from abroad. It's getting a lot of support from certain parts of the world were interfering in foreign referendums is the done thing.  Or as one Twitterbot so eloquently put it, "If they repeal the Eighth, what's to Stop them going after the Second?"

Right up until Google and Youtube shut that down. Even before that, the malign influence of foreign funding the campaign was visible across the intrnet in advertising spaces....   The Ad campaign has been utterly massive on a level that I haven't evber seen.

Needless to say, one side and one side alone has been screaming about it being unfair that they can't tap their massive base in that far foreign land. One is so utterly divorced from the reality of what's happening in the State that it still feels like it has a right to interfere in it becoming anything more than what their granpappy remembers it being.

... or maybe I'm just being bitter about how many canvassers have accents that're very distinctly west of fucking Garraun Point, who think they have a god given right to interfere.


Anyway. Some Choice headlines have already been generated:
Sex Slavery will be Normalised
Graphic posters outside Maternity hospital of aboiirted fetuses
Posters being faked.



But at least I wont have to look at dead babies on Reddit anymore.