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aaryan42 wrote: Sounds like a good way to swindle research funds.
More likely just, "Science reporter doesn't really understand the paper, writes headline to catch attention."
You can never trust headline writers. Or blurb writers. They're all shifty. 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You can never trust headline writers.
+5 although that's not entirely fair.
Most newspapers are trustworthy sources, staffed by dedicated professionals
The problem is the 83 yotta Interweb "news" sites that are staffed with semi-literate cretins who don't know what the word "journalism" means, let alone "Physics", and probably "cat".
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Cats understand how to manipulate people in a way that we give them shelter and food; let them sit on us; let them in, then out, then in, then out again; let them wreck our furniture and won't even get mad... Ancient Egypt worshiped them. And now they have taken over the Internet.
Cats understand way more than just physics, they might be aliens with an intellect vastly superior than our own!
You think the Illuminati or lizards rule the world? Hell no, it's cats!
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You make a convincing argument there. Does tinfoil protect against cats?
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You learn something new every day.
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Cats are alien beings that telepathically send their observations back to their home world, Meow. When they stare at things longer, they're actually sending longer messages, along the lines of "humans keep proving what idiots they are."
Marc
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I finished watching a random Monty Python video just prior to reading this thread, so naturally I read all these comments in the various voices of the Python troupe. It was extraordinarily entertaining, what with all the non-sequiters and whatnot.
"That's not a cat license. That's a dog license with the word 'dog' crossed off and 'cat' written in crayon."
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Dog: man's best friend
Man: cat's best friend
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Because without some grasp of physics there's no way for cats to make the predictions they do. Duh.
Quote: Sounds like a good way to swindle research funds.
Only to someone who knows nothing about the field science and how and why research is done.
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It's not swindling at all. It shows that cats have a natural intuition about how things work. You don't think much of it because it's absolutely normal for us humans to have it. Not so much for animals though.
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As if two jumbo pythons in toilets in ten days were not enough:Quote: Now it has become a trend For reptile house human Gus is playing. But to do this was to see the Cavaliers. When a Facebook user named "Attanai Thaiyuanwong" share video clips. And the image of a huge money maker. Climbing wall near the door. The size must say that watching big advantage. DIY Roller deadliest heavy
YouTube Video: [^]. Thai "translated" by Google.
Reportage in Coconuts.co including clear photograph, and English translation of some of the dialog in the video: [^].
Varanus Salvator. While the venom of these critters would (usually) not be fatal to adult humans, the bite would almost certainly carry a whopping load of bad-ass bacteria.
The Thai word for this beast is one syllable, and is considered a very "impolite" word (I'll spare you further exegesis); the word is so "unlucky" that people instead substitute a phrase meaning "silver and gold." Very unlucky to even see one of these, and even more unlucky to kill one. Said with the wrong tone, in the wrong context, to a woman, the word could get something a man considers quite valuable cut off.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
modified 15-Jun-16 11:02am.
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That's just wong.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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If you remove the god-awful calibri from your system, visio stops working -- and putting the god-awful calibri back doesn't make it work again.
Thank Apollo for system restore.
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Why would you remove a standard font from your system?
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Because I'm sick of the ugly thing being the default font for everything ms.
I'll take copies of Arial and rename them to calibri.
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Not 100% sure on this but can't you just set that in your theme?
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You'd still have to change it individually for all the shapes.
And a "theme" isn't a professional tool, is it? It's a toy for kiddies to play with on their computers, and it includes things that you either can't or don't want to export to other computers.
Visio has templates, stencils, etc. -- all pro tools, which can be used in a professional document-management environment, and all getting more and more buggered up with every release.
When they release a stencil full of emojis, I'll start looking for other alternatives.
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You can change the default font, you know.  
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In Word, you can, by using templates only, but not other places, like visio.
Well, you can, I suppose, if you set the font for a file before adding anything, and then go to every shape you have and edit the font in them -- but not only is that amount of work not an option, but it stands a good chance of being reverted every time there's even a minor update.
Even saving templates with fonts set doesn't help; the default keeps changing to that ugly, horrible crapibri.
It used to be that you could export an ini file, and edit the font in there (but who needed to? It was already Arial). I spent over an hour, today, looking for that option, but it ain't there.
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Quick search found this: Changing the default font from Calibri back to Arial (or other font)[^]
don't know if this helps or not. Hope so.
I do think it is might sucky of MS not to have an easier way to do this, but I am not surprised.
Edit: the link I provided is shite. I don't call mucking with registry settings a viable solution. Sorry. You are on your own. 
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"Click to select the Put all settings in Windows registry check box"
Oh, for God's sake!
I was looking for "Put all settings in an ini file"! (I even extracted all strings from the exe, to search for it)
Mind, i shouldn't have missed it. It's tucked away at the bottom of the Advanced page, but it's not exactly hidden.
I've got no problem working with the registry; it's almost a daily thing, for me.
But let's hope it works, and I don't still have to edit hundreds of shapes.
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Ha! It worked! You're a bloody genius!
It wasn't where the article says it is, in the registry, but the article's for v.2002, and I'm using v.2016 (wishing that I was using 2002!)
I'll try it out a bit more hardcore when I'm at work, tomorrow.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: calibri
I read that Colibri at first, and was wondering what you removed...
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