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Yeah, one of my pet peeves is when setting off one sprinkler activates them all. Heck, if I was building a new home, I'd install a home sprinkler system, which can be very discreet (they hide behind a flat bit, which, while noticeable, still hides the sprinkler itself and melts a bit before the sprinkler would activate).

That said, I didn't know the bit about color.

From teh Interwebs in case you're thinking the octopus is being abused:

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A giant male octopus caught on cell phone video scaling his glass display tank at the Seattle Aquarium and reaching several tentacles over its open top has sparked Internet speculation that the massive mollusk was trying to mount an escape bid.

But aquarium officials say the octopus, named Ink, was not attempting a jailbreak in the video, which has gone viral on the Internet, but simply learning to embrace his new home with all eight arms.

"It was not an escape attempt," aquarium spokesman Tim Kuniholm said of the video, in which Ink inched his way up the cylindrical glass tank to squeals from onlookers. "It's a new exhibit and the animal was exploring his boundaries."

A Seattle aquarium employee later put Ink's arms back inside the case, and a so-called "evening cap" was fastened on top to help keep the curious fellow in place, Kuniholm said.

"Octopuses are very inquisitive by nature, and in this case ... Ink is an overachiever," he said.

Ink is one of two new giant Pacific octopuses on display at the aquarium. Found in Puget Sound, they are the world's largest species of octopuses, weighing on average about 90 pounds (41 kg) and measuring 20 feet (6.1 meters) across.

Kuniholm said the two male octopuses are kept in separate homes at the aquarium because the species is solitary by nature, with males and females coming together only to mate during their short 3-to-4-year lifespan.

In the next year, Ink will be released back into the wild as part of an ongoing education and conservation program for the species, the aquarium said.

(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Sandra Maler)

So the British dicked around and gave the Jews a new home that wasn't theirs to really give.

The Jews were attacked and won and won again and go tall the land.

Palestine people lost big time. I'd say they lost fair and square.

They could have had 1/2 but decided to lose it all.

@A10anis you'd have to be ignorant, blind or worse to not understand the plain facts.
Immigration is not the problem. That has been the conclusion of every study into it. Immigrants add to the economy we need more.
The real answer is that the U.K. was raped by the city and dickheads like David Cameron. Sun and Mirror reading drones are why they might actually get away with it. It is the conservatives closing schools and hospitals not immigrants. It is the conservatives that refuse to invest in new homes or jobs.
Furthermore Brand is a comedian ! Just because he is the only person making sense does not mean he needs to run for office, which would likely kill his perspective as an outsider. Take that point up with Jon Stewart.

@dannym3141 Bravo mate !

Bono's place in the big-boy's club-To make scheduled appearances to remind his ineffectual, 30-50 yr-old former fan base that the paradigm is here, it's fucked, and it's only going to get worse so let's all have a group sob for this species-threatening state-of-affairs.

Jolie can only adopt so many children from representative nations...AT which point, space entrepreneur Elon Musk will use his advanced vertical TOAL ships to ferry this collection of human DNA to their new homes on Mars.

Bonos' a tool.

The pups do not belong to me. They are the offspring of my sister's poodle. They will be going to new homes this week.

The mother of these three as a puppy herself- previously sifted:

http://videosift.com/video/Dotdude-You-mean-UNCLE-Dotdude

http://videosift.com/video/Whining-Puppy

@ Seltar - are you really that disengaged from or unaware of the common yet tragic events that occur that make your "Run, hide, call 911" statement completely inane? For a small sampling, go and have a look at the records of push-in or home invasion robberies for the greater Houston area over the past 4 years, especially on the west side. Nice new homes, expensive homes, deed restricted neighborhoods and prime targets for incredibly violent home invasion or driveway robberies. Where the fuck do you run and hide when the three dudes with guns, knives and bats decide to do target practice on you, your spouse or your kids? Am I supposed to use my own phone to call 911 or do I interrupt one of the mofo's that's busy punching my wife in the face to borrow his? If you are fortunate enough to live somewhere that crimes are few and the cops respond quickly, congratulations. If you don't, and believe that your response plan will keep you and yours free from harm, then congratulations on sticking to your moral standard, but for fuck sakes don't pretend for an instant that your run and hide idea is a solution or one that everyone should abide by. Wake up, take a look around the real world, even a little corner of it.

>> ^lucky760:

Aye aye aye, ant. How many times over the years are you going to think I live in Australia?!
I live in Orange County. (Irvine, to be exact.)
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Ah cool. Where do you live again? Downunder?
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Actually just about 30 feet away. Sold my house (finally) and am renting a neighbor's for a few months until our new home is built.
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Moved??! From where to where?
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Birthday dinner will have to wait this year. Just got done moving. Still busy unpacking for maybe another day or three.
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You're welcome. Did you do anything fun on your birthday yet?
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Thanks for the warm-hearted birthday wishes!
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Birthday! Where's the party?









Ugh, I thought that was Dag. You guys are confusing! Ahh, right next to Blizzard, the home of ant eaters, Spectrum 21, etc.

Aye aye aye, ant. How many times over the years are you going to think I live in Australia?!

I live in Orange County. (Irvine, to be exact.)

In reply to this comment by ant:
Ah cool. Where do you live again? Downunder?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Actually just about 30 feet away. Sold my house (finally) and am renting a neighbor's for a few months until our new home is built.

In reply to this comment by ant:
Moved??! From where to where?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Birthday dinner will have to wait this year. Just got done moving. Still busy unpacking for maybe another day or three.

In reply to this comment by ant:
You're welcome. Did you do anything fun on your birthday yet?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Thanks for the warm-hearted birthday wishes!

In reply to this comment by ant:
Birthday! Where's the party?

Ah cool. Where do you live again? Downunder?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Actually just about 30 feet away. Sold my house (finally) and am renting a neighbor's for a few months until our new home is built.

In reply to this comment by ant:
Moved??! From where to where?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Birthday dinner will have to wait this year. Just got done moving. Still busy unpacking for maybe another day or three.

In reply to this comment by ant:
You're welcome. Did you do anything fun on your birthday yet?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Thanks for the warm-hearted birthday wishes!

In reply to this comment by ant:
Birthday! Where's the party?

Actually just about 30 feet away. Sold my house (finally) and am renting a neighbor's for a few months until our new home is built.

In reply to this comment by ant:
Moved??! From where to where?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Birthday dinner will have to wait this year. Just got done moving. Still busy unpacking for maybe another day or three.

In reply to this comment by ant:
You're welcome. Did you do anything fun on your birthday yet?

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Thanks for the warm-hearted birthday wishes!

In reply to this comment by ant:
Birthday! Where's the party?

>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^spoco2:

Yeah, and the whole 'promote' a status thing, with the option of paying to promote being trialled also spells the end it would seem.
People are entrenched, to be sure, but if a cleaner, competitor comes along and provides a simple migration process ('enter your login details and we'll transfer all your photos/videos over to our FlubBrook service now'), people will jump ship if Facebook keeps becoming more and more and more of an advertising platform rather than a social network.

I think any competitor would genuinely struggle simply to overcome the inertia, i.e. everyone is on facebook because everyone is on facebook. Look at Google+. Their interface was cleaner, they had some neat ideas (I still think the "circles" concept is something facebook needs to steal), but no-one posted there because they weren't going to post the same thing twice. As a sidenote, I personally didn't like using google as a social network. Google already knows waaaay too much about me.


Don't underestimate the power of 'new and improved'... No-one thought people would move away from AOL at the time. People thought Myspace was the bee's knees. It seems like the way to build up a new social network is start specialised then grow out.

Myspace did with music, then grew out.
Facebook did so with one school, then many then anyone.
Google+ didn't do that, and it doesn't seem to be catching on yet.

If there's a competitor where they do something the others don't do really well, perhaps for a particular sub section of the market. Then that group of people will favour it... then slowly others who have to interact with the sub section will keep finding themselves being pointed there... then eventually THEY want to get in on this new action... then they use the new site's ability to auto post to Facebook so their old friends don't miss anything... then the old friends start wanting to use these new fangled things the new site has... until everyone has shifted over and Facebook becomes a wasteland that only receives auto posts from other sites.



Or, you could be right and it'll be here until we blast off from the rotting ball of Earth for our new home on another planet.

Isn't six weeks kind of early to separate a kitten from the mother? At least I assume it's been taken to a new home from "my new kitten"