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I walk past the local council and government offices every day on the dog walk, and the car park is jam-packed... except on a Friday - any Friday - when it's mostly empty by lunchtime.
..and I pay my taxes for this... it's a disgrace, I tell ya.
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A_Griffin wrote: I walk past the local council and government offices every day on the dog walk,
They probably look out the window and say "look at that man being able to walk his dog during the day, it's a disgrace"
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Yeah but I work at weekends and into the evenings - I'll bet my bottom dollar they don't.
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glennPattonWork wrote: cue the tune!
OK, since you asked for it![^] 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Thats the one, Harlod Pinter doing his thing! 
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The Register spake thus: [^]Quote: Microsoft has advised customers that offensive language on Skype, in an Outlook.com email, or in an Office 365 Word document is a potentially account-closing offense under its updated terms of use.
The tweaked services agreement, which comes into effect on May 1, 2018, now includes the following code-of-conduct item:
Quote: Microsoft told The Register it does not listen to Skype calls, which is good to know. But the Windows giant added that it may examine private files and conversations that potentially breach the code-of-conduct if the biz receives a complaint from someone, be it a Skype chat or an email, etc.
If I am now a virtual citizen of a corporate nanny-state, I demand free soy-milk !
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I can see the VPN business is going to get another boost (not that the naughty folk aren't already using them.) All these stupid ideas will do is scare even more honest folk into using encryption.
BTW: does routing through Antarctica contribute to the ice sheets melting? Them routers gotta be running red hot with every man and his dog using them.
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BillWoodruff wrote: But the Windows giant added that it may examine private files and conversations that potentially breach the code-of-conduct if the biz receives a complaint
I wonder how much they just snoop?
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Because it wasnt dead[^]
"Headless chicken survives for a WEEK since being decapitated and shows no sign of expiring" WTF?
If it really is decapitated then I am going for the 'some dinosaurs had a second brain in the pelvis and birds are related' angle.
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Mike the Headless Chicken[^] famously survived for eighteen months...
They are very dim creatures, even for birds. They are lucky they taste so good: they wouldn't have survived otherwise...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Nice story, but not very believable. A headless bird can't drink, so how long can it last without water? Certainly not 18 months.
Edit:
Quote: He fed it a mixture of milk and water via an eyedropper
There we have it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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BS. Unless it's a Zombie, how should it survive the shock and the blood loss and without being able to eat or drink? A cockroach keeps on going for a while after losing its head. It does not have much of a brain to begin with and the wound is also not fatal. But even this bug dies of starvation when it can't find food or eat it anymore.
Munchies_Matt wrote: If it really is decapitated then I am going for the 'some dinosaurs had a second brain in the pelvis and birds are related' angle.
Wrong branch of the evolutionary tree. Birds are descendants of the Theropods, like the T-Rex. They never were so big that they needed a sparate 'procesor' for the rear legs.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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How does a crocodile survive the 'shock and blood loss' when a leg gets torn off? It not only survives it, it regrows a new one.
As for eating and drinking, it is being fed by the vet. Didnt you read the article?
As for evolutionary tree, you are aware that species and occasionally moved from one branch to another? Not saying this happened here, but that the 'tree of life' is not some hard and fast determined by physical laws thing, it is a man made taxonomy.
Anyway, as I said IF it is decapitated I am going for the second brain because there is no other explanation.
modified 29-Mar-18 2:53am.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Anyway, as I said IF it is decapitated I am going for the second brain like some dinosaurs have.
Sauropod[^], often quite large and presumably equipped with a second 'brain' because the distance between the actual brain and the rear legs was far to great to control them directly.
Theropods[^] (here one of the largest we ever found), are presumably the ancestors of the birds. They were not so large that they needed any special nerve knots full of hard wired reflexes.
Munchies_Matt wrote: you are aware that species and occasionally moved from one branch to another
No, they don't. We move them around as we please when we bring our models and theories up to date. In this particular case we have two groups of animals with very distinctive features, so that we can be fairly sure that nobody will move one of the Sauropods over to the Theropods any time soon. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: We move them around
Who else is going to move them?
CodeWraith wrote: are presumably the ancestors of the birds
And the presumptions start already.... You are merely reinforcing what I said about the 'tree of life' being a man made construct and not a fix, immutable law.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: And the presumptions start already
Unless you know God's (or Darwin's) Q&A hotline, we will forever be stuck with what we puzzle together ourselves. Mistakes have happened and will happen, but over time the picture gets more accurate.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Of course.
However, how do you account for this chicken? Do you think it is decapitated? If so, how is it still functioning?
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Ok, assuming it survives the shock, does not bleed to death, gets no severe infection in the wound and it can be fed somehow, there may really be a chance that it can stay alive for a while.
Breathing and the heartbeat probably are hard wired reflexes that may not need control of the brain. So far so good. I also heard that beheaded chickens sometimes try to run or fly away, so fleeing may also work with hard wired reflexes that require little or no control from the brain once they have been triggered. A great survival mechanism. No need for long thinking. You are already on the way before you actually know what's going on.
So yes, it's not exactly a second brain, just some nerve connections that enable the bird to do some things without thinking. I would bet that chickens also don't really have to learn to walk for the same reason. Fot them it may be just a question of fine tuning these reflexes and not really learning anything at all.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: I also heard that beheaded chickens sometimes try to run or fly away
Very common I hear. Which means there is autonomous nervous response built in to the spinal chord.
Does this constitute a brain? And are some chickens sufficiently different whereby this 'spinal chord brain; is more developed?
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To add to what Munchies said: I don't know about yours, but the UK government is chock full of brainless people and they seem to survive and even breed!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Of course. Politicians, pointy haired managers - complete vegetables, all of them. Rarely one ascends up to monkey status in our eyes.
This is also the reason why they in turn think that we nerds are arrogant. Then again, it's not so common among them to have an IQ higher than 99.x % of the rest, so we are merely stating facts.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I noticed on one of the pictures what could be a vestigial beak - I'm thinking a really ugly mutant. Maybe damaged up a bit for the photos.
And, of course, we always have Gimp 2.
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Can we have anew Lounge rule: no links to the Daily Mail?
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Just thinking of Bob's little sister, and the purity of her sweet soul.
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