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July 20[edit]

Sony CMT-HPX7 disc player troubleshoot[edit]

Is there a website that deals with problems of Sony CMT-HPX7 especially with the disc player part? My one reads and skips and reads another one and skips that one. I am fed up with this jukebox. Please and thanks. Donmust90 (talk) 01:41, 20 July 2016 (UTC)Donmust90Donmust90 (talk) 01:41, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We do not offer technical advice. If the device is still within warranty, you may want to contact Sony directly. Otherwise, the disc player may be nearing the end of its operating life.--WaltCip (talk) 13:24, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Something to try is a CD cleaner. You put some alcohol solution on it and it cleans the device. You can probably buy one at a record store. Certainly no guarantee that it will fix the problem, but it's a cheap solution if it works. StuRat (talk) 14:12, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A solution in more ways than one. Two, to be precise. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 00:48, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Salut ! StuRat (talk) 04:17, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Na zdorovye! -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 08:13, 21 July 2016 (UTC) [reply]

Indian 4chan and reddit users being called "POO"[edit]

When identifiable Indian users (shown by their geolocation flag) post on 4chan or reddit, other users often follow up their posts with "POO" in all capitals. Multiple different users from all different counties do this and it is only ever targeted at Indians. What does it mean? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.252.137.230 (talk) 15:58, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It may refer to sanitation issues in India. See e.g. here [1] or here [2] for descriptions of how 4chan mocks India/ Indians with respect to fecal matter.

For information on sanitation in India, see e.g. Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_India.

(P.S. 4chan is widely known for being full of racists, bigots, misogynists as well as other sorts of generally ignorant and mean-spirited misanthropes. So do your self a favor and don't hang out there ;) SemanticMantis (talk) 16:49, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, D E S I G N A T E D (for "designated shitting streets") is another common phrase to see. clpo13_(talk) 16:51, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. 4chan is a bigoted Internet hellhole. Gamergate has made it worse by validating misogyny. --WaltCip (talk) 17:20, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How many people are known to have been hit by a ballpark's balls while outside of it?[edit]

Outside the exterior walls of any kind of ballpark except for (un)official ball catching areas like McCovey Cove. If you manage to get hit while trying to catch it that's not surprising.

What about cricket stadiums, golf courses and track and field tracks? (I don't think a field implement has gone further than "near the runners") Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 23:28, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm almost positive there is no complete record of everyone it by a sporting implement from the entire history of sport. Even just taking baseball, there are on any given day in the U.S. literally over a hundred professional baseball games. No one is cataloging every ball that hit someone outside the stadium over the course of 150 years of professional baseball. Major league stadiums, being larger, are less likely to have balls leave the stadium entirely, but even there it does happen. here is a pretty good article about famous instances of that happening in the Majors. The most recent such occurrence is when Nelson Cruz did so about a month ago: [3]. In smaller minor league baseball parks, many of which have no outfield bleachers, it happens much more frequently. Whether any such balls have ever struck a person is hard to answer, but I'd find it odd in all of the history of millions of games, it has never happened.--Jayron 32 00:15, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I concur that there's no way to know. If something really bad happened, like someone being killed, it would be a news item for a while, and it might be in public death records, so could be counted, with a lot of research. But someone merely being hit (or their vehicle being hit) probably would not get covered in the media. When major league parks were the size of today's high level minor league parks, there were lots of baseballs hit out of the park, fair and foul. Babe Ruth hit one in Detroit that went across the intersection of Cherry and Trumbull, about 575 feet on the fly. No indication anyone was hit, though that doesn't mean it didn't happen. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:42, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Every single one of them, they were known to/by someone. That's the answer to the question in the heading. Now, if the question had been " How many people are known to have been hit...", the answer would be different. Yeah, it's a slow day today.. Moriori (talk) 02:02, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The OP's question is was worded rather awkwardly. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:53, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The question reminded me of Miller v Jackson, known to generations of law students for Lord Denning's opening "In summertime village cricket is the delight of everyone...". Though I'm not sure anyone was actually hit by the cricket balls in question. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 11:13, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If they had, it could knock the de-lights out of them. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:32, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The earlier case of Bolton v Stone (1951) is also relevant. Our article also quotes a US case: "Rinaldo v. McGovern (1991) ruled that two golfers, one of whom hit a golf ball which struck the plaintiff's automobile, were not liable to the plaintiff. The court opined that golf is a game in which even the most skilled players cannot avoid hitting shots off target on some occasion, and a player would be liable for a mis-hit ball only if the player had 'aimed so inaccurately as to unreasonably increase the risk of harm.'" Alansplodge (talk) 16:33, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article and the ones linked from it seem to indicate that even grossly inaccurate golfers may escape liability in various US jurisdictions. Tevildo (talk) 19:29, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]