The above pops up since yesterday.  Does it mean that we have no choice but to endure all those endless ads from now on?

Is YouTube Premium free or needs to pay?

Few weeks back I heard on RNZ the Justice Dept was having difficulties finding enough jurors for upcoming trials. And then yesterday I received a notice of Jury Duty.

I have been on two juries over the years and been a witness in a rather nasty Supreme Court case so I am not unfamiliar with the experience, but on this occasion I will be joining the large numbers of folk who say thanks but no thanks, simply because of the physical challenges involved.

But it occurs to me, this would be a good job for robots, for Artificial Intelligences. They could take the emotion out, wouldn't get tired, and would be an excellent foil for all those overpriced lawyers who pride themselves on strategies that win cases for miscreants, who deserve but escape their comeuppance...

And obviously, each side is blaming the other. 
No doubt the hospital jumped in the way of any weapons being used.


https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-eas...ital-blast



"Israelis and Palestinians are blaming each other for the devastating explosion at the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza that local authorities say has killed at least 500 people.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza immediately blamed Israel who were conducting daily airstrikes in the Palestinian enclave, in response to the October 7 Hamas massacre of at least 1400 Israelis.

Soon after though, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) denied responsibility in widely shared social media posts, saying they do not target hospitals.

Later, in an interview with CNN, IDF spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus said: ÔÇ£We did not strike that, and that the intelligence that we have suggests that it was a failed rocket launch by the Islamic Jihad, and I want to add, categorically, that we do not intentionally strike any sensitive facilities, any sensitive facilities, and definitely not hospitals."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the ÔÇ£barbaric terrorists in GazaÔÇØ for ÔÇ£attackingÔÇØ the hospital. ÔÇ£Whoever brutally murdered our children is also murdering their children,ÔÇØ he said. "


YES, they are aren't they, & that would be HUMANS wouldn't it, murdering each other's children because we're too stupid to learn from the past & try to work towards peace. HOW exactly can he say that, yet still apparently not comprehend that both sides are as bad as each other is mind boggling.


"The Israeli claims the attack was a misfired rocket from Islamic Jihad were rejected by the group, who had an association with Hamas but were not one and the same.

In a comment reported by the New York Times, Islamic Jihad spokesperson Daoud Shehab denied the Israeli claim that their errant rocket had caused the deadly hospital explosion."

VLC updated this week and now crashes whenever it tries to play a video. Anyone else had this issue? Any suggestions? Have tried to reinstall.

The Leakey foundation. We really are strange,weird creatures. Perhaps eventually we might evolve into being more peaceful & cooperative, & leave violence & war far behind us.




https://leakeyfoundation.org/the-roots-o...ggression/

"Who we think we are matters. For those who believe we are a naturally competitive species, the frequent reports of violence on the nightly news and the Internet are a reflection of our competitive nature. But this essential image of humans as aggressive beings is not correct.

Humans are more often at peace than at war;┬áwe cooperate more than we conflict. In fact, there is mounting evidence that cooperation may be acentral facet in explaining our success as a species.On the other hand, this does not mean we are egalitarian, nonviolent pacifists. Human nature is neither simple nor linear. Our core adaptation is one of cooperation, but we can and do competeÔÇöa lotÔÇöand often use aggression to do so.

Humans can be aggressive and violent and peaceful and cooperative all at the same time; arguing for a natural state of cooperation or a natural state of conflict is missing the boat. But humans sometimes are both aggressive and violent. Why do we see aggression flare up in so many contexts?
One simple answer is that we are highly social and complicated beingsÔÇöwe spend most of our time around other people. Our big brains, imaginative minds, and super complex social lives often cause interpersonal conflict, confusion, and resentment, to which we sometimes (but not always) respond with aggression and violence. We have to negotiate potentially hundreds of social interactions each day. ┬áMost of the time this goes well; sometimes it does not. Because the diversity of individual needs and desires do not always gel with social, political, and economic realities, interpersonal conflicts emerge. Across human history, though, more often than not people have found a way to get along (even if it is more a consequence of social pressure than personal desire).

It is very difficult to train humans to fight and kill one another. To do so, we have to tap our immense ability to cooperate with one another, our strong sense of morality and doing good, and combine that with our potential for engaging in aggression and violence.  In war, cooperation and conflict are not in opposition, they are reflections of human potentials combined, and  manipulated, for political ends.  These same patterns could just as likely be harnessed for peace. In anything, our history has shown our ability to go to war, but it also demonstrates an equally or potentially more resilient ability to wage peace.

Albert Einstein once asked us to us to see what is, as opposed to what we already believe to be true.  Cooperation and conflict are not opposites, and neither are aggression and peace. We can get a lot farther in our quest to understand being human if we discard these dualisms."

I'm running a reunion event for a group of old friends on the weekend. The venue has HDMI connection into their projection screen and sound systems. I have a file of photos which I will use as a slideshow and a file of ripped CD tracks for music. My question is whether both the photo and music can be output and run simultaneously from my laptop (through a single HDMI connection)?

The music is a purpose selected playlist of music from our era (late 70s +/-) so Spotify isn't an option as most of the album tracks would be difficult to find if not impossible. I have about 1,000 CD albums on a HD to choose from.

Perhaps their deity is trying to tell the Taliban something.

This is the third quake in a week, a 6.3  & 90% of those killed in the earlier ones were women & children. People are having to sleep in tents, & the weather is becoming colder.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67114332

Aside from the many stipends for electoral staff, we can only hope the mischieve of electoral folly is over for at least three years.

I have my extra email setup on my Outlook 2019 many years ago  and it's working fine.

I want to set up my xtramail on my Android phone.  Setting up should be easy and straight forward, but I would like clarify the following before I go ahead:

1.  In my Outlook 2019, I have ticked the option to leave a copy at the server, can I do this on the Android phone?
2.  When an email is opened from my phone, will I still get a copy of the email send to my Outlook 2019? 
3.  Or, to make things simpler, is there a way to set up Outlook 2019 to forward any new email Automatically to my gmail account on my Android phone?  I have my gmail account set up on my phone.

Thanks.

Somehow, Kiwi voters have managed to piss off both the McBishop & Liz Gunn. They're not happy campers with the voters.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...fTEHbzj3yI

"Leaders of some of the minor parties that failed to win any parliamentary seats in the election have reacted emotionally over the results, including New Zealand Loyal's Liz Gunn and Freedoms NZ's Brian Tamaki.