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[Lavinda Past]

HOLIDAYS IN CAMBODIA...

The man standing next to Pol Pot in the picture below Is Scottish Marxist professor Malcolm Caldwell. Professor Caldwell was an enthusiastic defender of Pol Pot, the dictator of Cambodia. A few hours after the photo was taken, Caldwell was murdered.



According to Caldwell’travelling companions, Caldwell and Pol Pot had a disagreement during their meeting. Some of the things the scholar saw in Cambodia shocked him, as they were a far cry from the socialist Utopia he had expected, based on all the propaganda he’d swallowed while in his comfortable university job…

Professor Caldwell dared to confront Pol Pot, a man who was his hero, about this. His companions woke to the sound of gunshots, and found the professor dead in his room with a gunshot wound in his chest.

Pol Pot himself denied involvement. He claimed Caldwell had ended his own life for unknown reasons. He later changed his story and said actually one of Caldwell's travelling friends had been “a secret CIA agent” who had killed him “to make the Khmer Rouge look bad”....

 

[diegoalv]

I had recently read about this, new AI video LLMs. Truly, if you were making a commercial, why would you hire actors, camera operators, lighting people, catering, set designers etc. at big expense? Just write a good prompt(s) and voila. Market changing. I feel bad for those about to lose their jobs, maybe forever.


In AI, LLMs (Large Language Models) are a type of artificial intelligence that excels at understanding and generating human-like text. They are trained on massive datasets of text and learn to recognize patterns, grammar, and even reasoning abilities, enabling them to perform tasks like answering questions, summarizing text, and even writing code.

That’s our reality now—AI is definitely transforming the job market in big ways. It’s not just about robots or automation anymore; even software like soplayer is changing how we consume content, interact with tech, and even how some jobs function. It’s a little overwhelming at times, but also pretty exciting. I think the future is interesting—full of challenges, yes, but also full of opportunities if we stay adaptable and open-minded

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

When you are dead, you do not know that you're dead. It's only difficult and painful for others.
The same applies when your are stupid...

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I'm not going to post a link for once, I am going to use words wtf!

Back in the 60s they used to do drug experiments on lab-rats. They give a rat 2 bottles of water in its cage, one of them laced with heroin, the other one just water. The rats would obviously drink the one laced with heroin and then eventually die.

Someone came along years later, another scientist, and did the same experiment but this time the lab-rats were living in a cage that was furnished, rat play toys, lovely rat food etc, . The rats this time drank the water and avoided the heroin laced bottle.

Amazing /if true

 

[calumdown]

in a cafe this aft i asked a moroccan why they always let their coffee/tea cool down before drinking it.

the answer...

hot drinks give you dementia when you are older.

 

[Blue Mist]

And just like that (poof) it (he) was gone.

 

[NPBlue]

When you sail from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean through the Panama canal, you travel in an easterly direction.

 

[calumdown]

When you sail from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean through the Panama canal, you travel in an easterly direction.

is it not south-easterly?

 

[Bill Walker]

When you sail from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean through the Panama canal, you travel in an easterly direction.

South Easterly

 

[NPBlue]

South Easterly

It's south easterly, but it isn't west in any way, which you would expect when traveling from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.

 

[Bill Walker]

It's south easterly, but it isn't west in any way, which you would expect when traveling from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.

I've sailed through it, it's awesome, so is the Suez.

 

[mexico1970]

The nearest star to Earth, excluding the Sun, is Proxima Centauri, located approximately 4.24 light-years away. This distance translates to about 25.3 trillion miles

The Voyager probes have been scooting through space at 35,000 miles an hour for 49 years and have only made it to 25 billion miles.

It would take Voyager 77,000 years to reach our nearest star (If it was headed that way) at the speed it is traveling at was constant.

 

[Bill Walker]

The nearest star to Earth, excluding the Sun, is Proxima Centauri, located approximately 4.24 light-years away. This distance translates to about 25.3 trillion miles

The Voyager probes have been scooting through space at 35,000 miles an hour for 49 years and have only made it to 25 billion miles.

It would take Voyager 77,000 years to reach our nearest star (If it was headed that way) at the speed it is traveling at was constant.

Mind blowing how big the milky way galaxy is.
And then there's all the others.

 

[Blue Mist]

And just like that (poof) it (he) was gone.

Posted in memory of Katie Price and her crisps.



And Drone. R.I.P.
A good poster who just wanted a bit of artistic freedom.
Forever in our hearts.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

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Sadly some people like John Aldridge never manage to get past initial stages of development.

 

[halfmist]

All 4 competitions were won by Clubs associated with birds. Newcastle, Magpies, Crystal Palace, Eagles. Spurs, Cockerels and Liverpool, liverbirds or jailbirds, take your pick.

 

[Lavinda Past]

In 1997, P Diddy released a tribute song titled “I’ll Be Missing You” in respect for his late artist, Notorious BIG.

As is well known, the track heavily sampled the Police song “Every Breath You Take”.

However... As P Diddy failed to get permission to use the samples before releasing the song, Sting and his legal team took legal action against him.

The court found in Sting's favour giving him the option to either block release of the song, or to be paid royalties for life.

Sting chose royalties, meaning that he will receive $2k every day for the rest of his life.

The cruel twist in this tale is that Andy Summers, who actually wrote the distinctive guitar riff that the Diddy track leans on so heavily, doesn't get a penny from the settlement.... Sting gets the lot.

 

[Barcon]

In 1997, P Diddy released a tribute song titled “I’ll Be Missing You” in respect for his late artist, Notorious BIG.

As is well known, the track heavily sampled the Police song “Every Breath You Take”.

However... As P Diddy failed to get permission to use the samples before releasing the song, Sting and his legal team took legal action against him.

The court found in Sting's favour giving him the option to either block release of the song, or to be paid royalties for life.

Sting chose royalties, meaning that he will receive $2k every day for the rest of his life.

The cruel twist in this tale is that Andy Summers, who actually wrote the distinctive guitar riff that the Diddy track leans on so heavily, doesn't get a penny from the settlement.... Sting gets the lot.

 

[Blue Mist]

In 1997, P Diddy released a tribute song titled “I’ll Be Missing You” in respect for his late artist, Notorious BIG.

As is well known, the track heavily sampled the Police song “Every Breath You Take”.

However... As P Diddy failed to get permission to use the samples before releasing the song, Sting and his legal team took legal action against him.

The court found in Sting's favour giving him the option to either block release of the song, or to be paid royalties for life.

Sting chose royalties, meaning that he will receive $2k every day for the rest of his life.

The cruel twist in this tale is that Andy Summers, who actually wrote the distinctive guitar riff that the Diddy track leans on so heavily, doesn't get a penny from the settlement.... Sting gets the lot.

Why was Summers never given co- credit?

I suppose I could Google it but it's easier to ask you

 

[Lavinda Past]

Why was Summers never given co- credit?

I suppose I could Google it but it's easier to ask you

I believe that Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland have the same credits as Sting from the original song, but Sting challenged Diddy's right to use the sample as an individual.

It seems that either Summers or Copeland were not consulted by Sting before his action against Diddy, or neither were bothered about it.

No doubt they'll still be getting a significant amount from the rights of the original anyway, but let's face it, Sting probably needs the money.... (He’s a twat)