Keith Richards is still alive

Alive, preserved, potato, potato

Well, you can break out the black light and dip their tank, if you know what I mean
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Yeah, I found some interviews with the driver, marking the 15th anniversary etc. He seem pretty tormented by the fact that he killed two people. There’s a whole philosophical/political debate on whether he should have been punished, but I think that’s a bit too off topic even for me at this point.

Suffice it to say, it was a tragic event and it happened almost 30years ago. We can’t do much about it, other than learning.

I found sources stating that the platoon was wearing regulation lights. They had white light in front, red light in the rear, and were marching in three rows (sorry, don’t know the correct English military term, Danish is “geled”)

When I looked at the photo I discovered that the soldiers were wearing a reflective band around their right boot, as is regulation when moving in traffic in the dark.

So maybe my first point of “stfu it’s for your own sake and people got killed making these rules” don’t stand, at least not with my example. But then again, it doesn’t sound like we’re disagreeing on this one.

Driver said he wanted to make sure to get weather announcements as it was -12°C, so he was adjusting the radio and didn’t see them.

Apparently the driver was charged with negligent homicide, but I can’t find any verdict.

Sorry, I must have missed that in my pursuit of sharing a memory. I have now written an update.

At about 0620 on February 17th 1997, a platoon of 38 royal guard recruits, and additional NCO and a lieutenant, were marching along a public road when the driver of a Ford Transit van plowed through the platoon from behind. 20 were injured, of these two died.

I know it must have looked so stupid, and felt incredibly embarrassing. But somebody made a decision to not have you guys killed.

Update: I missed providing a context for the photo. It’s from the site of the accident. Taken on the day at an unknown time. The soldiers in the background are the ones who where lucky and didn’t get hit.

Looking closer at the photo now, I feel like editorializing a bit. As this happened a couple of years before I was up for the draft, the line up of the gear was all I could remember, when I went looking for the photo. It was seared into my memory, although it looked different in my head. I didn’t remember neither weaponry nor soldiers.

At the time of the accident, it will have been pitch black. Sunrise was at 0728 that day, looking at the light I’d say the photo was taken some time after 0800 at the earliest. That approx 20 soldiers were left to wander about a field, in a state of emotional distress, for +2 hours, instead of getting picked up, or at the very least rounded up, says all you need to know about how well prepared the Danish defense forces were back then. I feel bad for those guys. Half their platoon has been picked up by ambulances, and now they’re on their own.

Ha you had it easy. My first computer had a mechanical display. It was a wooden frame with 6 rods across. On each rod was 10 beads. There were no “characters” except the people around the fire in our cave!

Wut? No

Update in italics: immediately after posting my comment I see we agree, I just missed it because I had expected a separator between the two formats. I’m going to let my comment be, because it can serve as a reference for others.

1080p = 1920x1080 = “Full HD”
720p = 1280x720 = “HD Ready”, or at least according to wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution_standards “HD”

4K has to subtypes 4K UHD and DCI which is both 2160 lines, but UHD is 16:9= 3840 pixels wide, and DCI is slightly wider with 4096 pixel in a 256:135 format. But both are “4K”

You do know you can mute your mic, right? Unless you type and talk simultaneously

That sucked so hard. Taught highschool age kids. We ended up doing attendance manually. As in: join the day’s meeting, turn on your camera and show me that you’re out of bed, clothed, and ready to learn.

Doesn’t matter, we need to get rid of all these platforms. Pinging large groups of people shouldn’t be this easy. Maybe get rid of internal email as well.

Want to contact somebody? write a note and have it delivered. I’d bet it’d be more efficient, when you need to limit your messages.

Just imagine how much calmer your day would be, if you wouldn’t have to deal with “who ate my lunch?” or “there’s a car with the headlights on at a carpark on the other side of campus” with the same urgency as actual directed communication.

“I totally get why I need to have to versions of teams and outlook without any of them working”

Fuck Cisco webex and the executives it rode in on!