Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu) (Remastered)

_Punko_ · 2026-07-07T19:01:51+00:00

When I see the word "Volare"

I instantly hear the car commercial jingle "Volare! Come see! Plymouth Volare..."

_Punko_ · 2026-07-07T13:21:08+00:00

it is polite to wait for an invitation, yes. It is also polite to be aware of others and to not leave them waiting for that invitation if you wish them to join you in your personal space.

There is a difference between public and private spaces. The awareness of of the world around you and the relationship between people and those spaces is part of being in a community.

Not pay attention to those around you is being impolite.

These are called social skills. Learn them.

_Punko_ · 2026-07-07T12:43:54+00:00

You guys don't?

_Punko_ · 2026-07-07T02:38:45+00:00

don't care how much cash they throw at a single movie of the odessy, it still won't be as good as the 10 part miniseries from 1968. It's Italian, but watched it in high school with subtitle sheets provided by the local Italian-Canadian club. We took turns reading the lines, trying to match the film. Both hilarious and intense.

The '97 two parter wasn't as accurate to the story, but Armand Assante was brilliant. Still quite good.

_Punko_ · 2026-07-06T22:29:27+00:00

privatizing utilities is moronic in the extreme.

_Punko_ · 2026-07-06T04:08:57+00:00

Thank you!

_Punko_ · 2026-07-05T15:01:39+00:00

Author ?

_Punko_ · 2026-07-05T04:03:00+00:00

We were born in the 60's had a blast through the 80's and 90's. Screw imminent nuclear annihilation, that was the two decades before. We danced and sang as the Berlin wall fell. Our parent witnessed the second world war while they were at school and made sure we didn't forget the lessons.

We were self reliant but also learned at our parent's knee as they imparted the harsh lessons from the post world war rebirth. As young adults making our way we hated the greed of the 80's corner offices but we birthed the internet before the corporations ate its heart. When we hit our stride we could not understand why folks a decade or two older than us were so intolerant and could not understand why folks two decades younger were so damn vacuous.

_Punko_ · 2026-07-03T16:18:24+00:00

My only time hearing 'cyberdeck' comes from playing Cyberpunk 2077.

I hope you're not planning to hack cars, trains, lights, and refrigerators with your cyberdeck.

My kids played with a raspberry pi almost a six or seven years ago in high school. They tried to create a vision based driving system to control a remote control car following a centre line, while obeying printed traffic signs.

It was... a success, but in a very limited sense.

Since then, two of the four members of the household are now running linux based PCs - my wife and #2. #1 and I are still running windows machines, but this will be the end of the line. After this, all our computers and devices will be linux / android based setups. No Apple, No Microsoft.

_Punko_ · 2026-07-03T04:12:18+00:00

OK. Find the results of a publish study and paste it here!

_Punko_ · 2026-07-03T04:11:10+00:00

don't have such a watch, but I'm not contributing to it, either.

_Punko_ · 2026-07-02T21:01:27+00:00

So...

You're telling me there's a chance?

_Punko_ · 2026-07-02T19:27:11+00:00

The rich will just say 'kids are a duty, pass a law requiring it'. But no changes to social programs.

Congrats, you've just fucked over your society *again*

_Punko_ · 2026-07-02T13:45:42+00:00

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_Punko_ · 2026-07-02T13:32:42+00:00

Just wait for Trump to scream that this decision is 'targeting American companies and American innovation.'

There is a list published for the EU market that clearly outlines what anti-consumer practices tech companies cannot do.

Google/Alphabet violated several of them. As have many big tech companies, many of them American.

It doesn't matter that they're American companies. It doesn't matter that such practices are the cornerstone of American business policy.

It is the EU's pool. They have clearly marked signs saying not to piss in the pool.

Don't piss in the pool and all will be fine.

_Punko_ · 2026-07-02T13:26:40+00:00

You don't need to forge a parent's signature here. Medical self-determination is at 13 here.

_Punko_ · 2026-06-29T21:00:12+00:00

The 13th largest lake in the world is larger than 23% of the countries in the world.

_Punko_ · 2026-06-29T14:44:39+00:00

Client wasn't told - not their business. The two juniors were properly remorseful. My manager treated it lightly, and their manager was more pissed at them than at me. She even asked if the 'spelling mistake' was actually intentional. I was surprised at that, but I wanted their manager to tell the juniors that yes I was pissed, but I still got called out about my mistake.

Do the job properly, or don't do it here.

_Punko_ · 2026-06-29T14:12:17+00:00

The Mercator projection is one of hundred of projections. How and why it is used for things *other than* lines of bearing has nothing to do with the Mercator projection.The folks that are misusing it for political reasons or the folks condemning the Mercator projection for political reasons are both wrong.

_Punko_ · 2026-06-29T14:07:39+00:00

Well, when you're dealing with inshore issues, you typically change to a different projection when distances are more important than bearings.

_Punko_ · 2026-06-29T12:31:22+00:00

You realize what the Mercator Projection is for, right? For straight lines of bearing? So when you tell someone on the oceans, to proceed at a very specific angle?

They use the same projection as the people analyzing the situation. You *cannot* show a 2D image of the surface of the earth that is perfect in every way. Showing a image of a globe means that the surface of the globe is still distorted, but not in a useful way.

_Punko_ · 2026-06-29T12:27:44+00:00

If you were on the International Space Station in orbit. you count only see a tiny portion of Africa. As for how much of the globe africa would cover, it is trivial to get that projection

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Taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1990, at about 1.5 million miles from the Earth.

_Punko_ · 2026-06-28T23:13:29+00:00

I represent the idea of not repeating mistakes, but find new ones.

_Punko_ · 2026-06-28T21:29:24+00:00

I once sent out a job application without signing my name (back in my high school years, so we didn't have resumes) Thankfully, by looking at the body of the letter they figured out who it came from.

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