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The days of Internet Explorer are numbered as software giant Microsoft confirms it's killing off the web browser. It's thought Internet Explorer's reputation for being slow and clunky has finally convinced the company to put an end to its 20-year reign. Although its speed has been improved in recent years Microsoft said there were "negative perceptions that no longer reflect reality" and it will introduce a faster, rebranded browser which was codenamed Project Spartan. Some older versions of Windows 10 will have Internet Explorer built in but the company said it would slowly move users over to the new one. Microsoft marketing manager Chris Capossela said the new browser didn't have a name yet and research was going into what to call it. http://www.stuff.co....ternet-explorer "and it will introduce a faster, rebranded browser which was codenamed Project Spartan." I wonder if it's based on the same code...

Woof!

Got this in the flood-mail this morning, it may be of some help to those on a budget.

Mods, please remove if inappropriate - Nik from Laos Nok from Laos Nak from Laos Kossinble, whereabouts unknown

It is worth treating all snakes as poisonous, I've encountered several snakes and on research, discovered them to be very venomous. Whacking it on the head with a stout implement, removes the danger, and if it's big enough, the next step is curry.

As legal as you like nom nom

only 4?

Supermensch The Legend of Shep Gordon 2013 - very interesting biopic, well worth a watch. Shep Gordon managed and was friends with the most amazing array of stars, and turned out to be a good guy of the first water, well worth a watch.

I still don't want to get one but I understand the point of the thing now.

Isaan Hospitals are the hospital of choice, for everyone I know in the Glorious People's Republic, over the border.

But I am, especially the something... and I do, especially popular science culture... If you translate this through a Babel Fish the wordy bits are simplified to '42'

"Users have apparently said that using the Apple Watch means they tend to use their iPhone much less – probably because they can act on tasks and notifications right away without their phone. One user told TechCrunch that they almost stopped using their iPhone during the day as a result." To labour the point, I personally don't see why I would pay money for an apple watch, it would mean having to upgrade my phone from a 4 to a 6, upgrading my access from prepay, not always on internet, to a dollar high, make the phone company happy, internet always on, plan. but even though I don't want one for what it brings, now I get it, it's what it takes away from your daily experience that's important. And that's the appropriately coined phrase, 'Attention Suck', people can start behaving like people again. I'm not sure it'll stop insta-face-witters being glued to the phone, but for the rest of us we can get back to a world where we look and talk to each other...

In Auckland it got a bit windy, they're worried in Gisborne/Hawkes Bay - rivers rising 5.5m in 4 hours - 9 metre swells - that sort of thing.

batteries, capacitors ?

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Depends what the contract says.

"How the rise of the bicycle saw the fall of the village idiot" ​I like that, probably about the same time, fish realised they needed bicycles

a visually impressive map (http://earth.nullschool.net first noted by another esteemed board member) of the cyclone 'Pam' which is going to pass very close to NZ having just devastated parts of Vanuatu. http://earth.nullsch....27,-31.87,1476

I thought the origin of the term "Expatriate" was more of a description of a contract or clause in a contract, than a person. Ergo a western legal term, unlikely to be replicated in Abrabicanonlegalnonsense or Japanesearcanescrollypaper

Well the god-botherers think we have only two ancestors. Caucasian. I can only guess how that makes non Caucasians feel. Science thinks we came out of Africa and from a linear progression genetically. Now we've found Neanderthal DNA in modern man, we can understand that this progression was not purely linear. Currently, the best answer is that hominids (ape like creatures that demonstrate manly ancestor traits, but not actual apes, they're a bit different) were originally from Africa, but were several or many species. Think seagulls, many similar species. Some interbred, some did not, some travelled, some did not, then some interbred again and so on. Regarding racial variation, look at dogs, or cats, from an initial gene pool, many different forms and colours, indeed, temperaments and capabilities can be bred in a small number of generations. Imagine what fun you could have if you wanted to selectively breed humans..... But to the initial question posed: whilst mathematically, you can work out the likely number of ancestors, for a given number of people, and posit that at a certain point the number of ancestors is finite and therefore all the same people, what you have to take into account is that variation results in diversity. Diversity, results in not only different, but unsuccessful and unrecognisable. So if the rate of diversification is greater than the rate of procreation, the likelihood of being able to pin down certain group of ancestors for all of us, is low. Except in isolated instances, (e.g. Pitcairn Islanders, the progeny of the Mutiny on the Bounty survivors) humans tend to breed like rats and select mates on quite un-genetic grounds. This in my view tends to suggest a pool of ancestors that is wide and varied.

Do you mean, even if they object to being filmed, giving someone, a fully justified thrashing, wot they'd being itching for, all night?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11417218 South African doctors have performed the world's first successful penis transplant, three months after the ground-breaking operation. The 21-year-old patient had his penis amputated three years ago after a botched circumcision at a traditional initiation ceremony. In a nine-hour operation at the Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, he received his new penis from a deceased donor, whose family were praised by doctors. "We've proved that it can be done - we can give someone an organ that is just as good as the one that he had," said Professor Frank Graewe, head of plastic reconstructive surgery at Stellenbosch University. "It was a privilege to be part of this first successful penis transplant in the world." Doctors say the man, whose identity has not been disclosed, has made a full recovery since the operation on December 11 and had regained all his urinary and reproductive functions. In 2006, a Chinese man had a penis transplant but his doctors removed the organ after two weeks due to "a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife". ----------- now this is want I want to hear more about, could be a movie in this, 'Amityville Penis', 'A Penis on Elm Street', 'The Blair Penis Project'

Brave man