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TIL miniblinds with pull cords to raise and lower them are now illegal to sell in the United States
  • Am I misunderstanding what pull cords are, or why not have it so the two strings can separate easily? The two strings in my blinds "snap" together so that it's easy to raise/lower the blinds, but the strings separate very easily from each other if applying force in any other kind of way (would be impossible for a child to accidently hang themselves with it for example)

  • PDFs
  • I think they meant that the document can look significantly different based on the software reading it? Whereas a published PDF is going to look basically the same (embedded fonts, etc)

  • TIL it’s the right of women of all ages to go topless wherever men can in the states of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma, including all their cities.
  • Should, but laws outlawing toplessness are almost always upheld by the courts, unfortunately.

    "Protecting the public sensibilities from the public display of areas of the body traditionally viewed as erogenous zones — including female, but not male, breasts — is an important government objective."

  • IBM wins $44.9m in infringement lawsuit against Zynga
  • Nah, but they're both forms of intellectual property.

    In this case, it seems like they decided Zynga was infringing on patent US7072849B1. They managed to convince the court that Zynga's advertising methods were too similar to what was described in that patent. Which is bullshit, as software patents shouldn't exist, but oh well.

  • Be careful.
  • Well, yeah, because they initiated the code to verify it was you who called them. Better than them asking your "security questions" or such. It's a completely different situation if you got an incoming call who asks for that.

  • Removed
    Ban on junk food ads before 9pm to come into force next year
  • Not sure where they're from, and the laws are tricky (plus there's lots of loopholes - if the TV station is technically broadcast from another country, it doesn't need to follow our laws?), but it seems to be similar in Sweden. And yeah, it's usually found in normal stores as well as the alcohol monopoly... but I've never seen anyone buy it, nor is it even significantly cheaper.

    For example: 33cl Mariestads Alkoholfri: 12.90 kr. 33cl Mariestads 5,3%: 15.70 kr.

    Maybe some people drink beer for the taste, especially hipster beers, but I think otherwise the commercials don't help. I've also noticed they're especially common a small bit before the alcohol monopoly closes -- of course it's their intention that someone sees the "non-alcoholic" commercial at 6PM and will run to the monopoly before 7PM when it closes.

  • Meatspin
  • Back in my day, we walked for miles uphill in the snow to school, we rode the unprotected meatspin, broke all of our bones, and then we walked for miles uphill back home. Kids these days are so spoiled and pampered!!!

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