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You don't have to. It's not about the force choke. It's about them knowing you could.I don't.after reviewing the comments made, I have decided to allow Vany, NH, and Woran to be able to use the force to choke out ONE person of their choice while at work. Only one. Choose wisely.I already know who Id force choke.
some days, you frighten me.
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....yeah. just...yeah.
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How I see Vany's technicians informing him of an issueThis is long, and more of my usual workplace b%$~@ing, but without the incredulous humor.
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User submitted another ticket this morning for the exact same issue, but this time specified in the ticket that she wanted someone to work on it that wasn't me.
Good for you. Now you get one of my technicians. MY technicians. You know...the ones that answer to me...
I see this going very well.
Aiymi says it's more like this.
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If you're feeling frustrated professionally, a week in the Feng Shui Hole will make you realize how good you have it.
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Internet Explorer FTW.
Dammit Gates, stop trying to steal my schtick!
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You don't have to. It's not about the force choke. It's about them knowing you could.I don't.after reviewing the comments made, I have decided to allow Vany, NH, and Woran to be able to use the force to choke out ONE person of their choice while at work. Only one. Choose wisely.I already know who Id force choke.
I think the issue here is too many choices...
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I think the issue here is too many choices...You don't have to. It's not about the force choke. It's about them knowing you could.I don't.after reviewing the comments made, I have decided to allow Vany, NH, and Woran to be able to use the force to choke out ONE person of their choice while at work. Only one. Choose wisely.I already know who Id force choke.
I prefer the phrase "Target-Rich Environment".
I prefer the phrase "Target-Rich Environment".I think the issue here is too many choices...You don't have to. It's not about the force choke. It's about them knowing you could.I don't.after reviewing the comments made, I have decided to allow Vany, NH, and Woran to be able to use the force to choke out ONE person of their choice while at work. Only one. Choose wisely.I already know who Id force choke.
My face is a target-rich environment!
... wait.
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I prefer the phrase "Target-Rich Environment".I think the issue here is too many choices...You don't have to. It's not about the force choke. It's about them knowing you could.I don't.after reviewing the comments made, I have decided to allow Vany, NH, and Woran to be able to use the force to choke out ONE person of their choice while at work. Only one. Choose wisely.I already know who Id force choke.My face is a target-rich environment!
... wait.
UWHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE!!!
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Yeah, it's been close to 20 years since I first installed Linux, and nothing much has changed.
Installation:
: We've fixed the installer! It runs seamlessly!
: You get an error message that it can't install the boot loader, and would you like to try a different location, and every single location you try fails. So you have to intentionally bork your machine by canceling out so it doesn't boot at all, then boot from a DVD, then download and run a repair tool that sees the borked boot loader and repairs it. That really doesn't fit into my definition of "seamless".
Disk Access:
: Linux will recognize your Windows partitions immediately; you won't have to do anything!
: Oh, except if you're doing dual boot you'll have to do some extra configuration. Oh, except if you're using RAID on your Windows side you'll need to install these tools and run these commands.
And even then it isn't working; my Windows RAID array is invisible to Linux and I am blocked.
Game Play:
: Steam Play is awesome! It'll run most Windows games on Linux without a hitch!
: Oh, except here's the tweak you need to perform to make your game actually run. And running the tweak doesn't actually work.
So yet again, the game won't run and I have no fix.
Conclusion: Another total waste of 5 hours of my life. If Linux can't at least install next to Windows and see the Windows drives, it's of no use to me. The gaming would be a plus, but I can at least understand why that doesn't work. Mounting drives shouldn't be such a chore.
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Yeah, it's been close to 20 years since I first installed Linux, and nothing much has changed.
Installation:
: We've fixed the installer! It runs seamlessly!
: You get an error message that it can't install the boot loader, and would you like to try a different location, and every single location you try fails. So you have to intentionally bork your machine by canceling out so it doesn't boot at all, then boot from a DVD, then download and run a repair tool that sees the borked boot loader and repairs it. That really doesn't fit into my definition of "seamless".Disk Access:
: Linux will recognize your Windows partitions immediately; you won't have to do anything!
: Oh, except if you're doing dual boot you'll have to do some extra configuration. Oh, except if you're using RAID on your Windows side you'll need to install these tools and run these commands.And even then it isn't working; my Windows RAID array is invisible to Linux and I am blocked.
Game Play:
: Steam Play is awesome! It'll run most Windows games on Linux without a hitch!
: Oh, except here's the tweak you need to perform to make your game actually run. And running the tweak doesn't actually work.So yet again, the game won't run and I have no fix.
Conclusion: Another total waste of 5 hours of my life. If Linux can't at least install next to Windows and see the Windows drives, it's of no use to me. The gaming would be a plus, but I can at least understand why that doesn't work. Mounting drives shouldn't be such a chore.
And this is why I have never really gotten into Linux professionally. Say what you want about Microsoft - it's a complex entity - but the ugly truth of it all is that Microsoft has that stuff down better. And it's just plain easier to do. And it's easier for the users in a business...which is a scary-ass thought in and of itself.
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In fairness, the problem does sound really hard.This is a great description of why I went into math instead of physics.
EDIT: And all great mathematicians work naked. I thought you knew that!
they REALLY protected me.
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This is a great description of why I went into math instead of physics.
EDIT: And all great mathematicians work naked. I thought you knew that!
eye condoms really protected me here.
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I still remember the day I gave up on physics. I was in an upper division electromagnetism course and the professor was doing the usual atrocities: Converting all the functions to Taylor series without checking the conditions, splitting and/or combining the series without checking the conditions, until he finally ended up with 6 terms, all of which were infinite.
Then he said, quite literally, "And since all six of the terms are infinite we're going to cross off these four and use these other two."
Young NobodysHome: But how can you justify just crossing out infinities like that?
Professor: Because that way it matches the observations.
High-level physics was literally ignoring every prerequisite as "inconvenient", coming up with nonsensical, impossible answers, and then just dropping seemingly-random terms until the final result made sense.
It was... appalling.
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I still remember the day I gave up on physics. I was in an upper division electromagnetism course and the professor was doing the usual atrocities: Converting all the functions to Taylor series without checking the conditions, splitting and/or combining the series without checking the conditions, until he finally ended up with 6 terms, all of which were infinite.
Then he said, quite literally, "And since all six of the terms are infinite we're going to cross off these four and use these other two."
Young NobodysHome: But how can you justify just crossing out infinities like that?
Professor: Because that way it matches the observations.High-level physics was literally ignoring every prerequisite as "inconvenient", coming up with nonsensical, impossible answers, and then just dropping seemingly-random terms until the final result made sense.
It was... appalling.
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I don't think your question was political enough to merit spoilering, but
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And I suppose I should flag this as "political", though I'm thinking it's more "hatred of marketing people":
And it makes me think of one of my mother's friends in Berkeley: She owns a car that she drives "only once or twice a year", and that won't fit in her driveway. As a result of sitting there constantly abandoned, it's been broken into 10 times in the last year.
Her "solution"? She's looking to rent a garage, so she can spend even more money on a car she never drives.
My solution? If you're honestly intent on keeping the car, just leave the doors unlocked so thieves can get in. And her response is, "Oh, no! I couldn't possibly do that!"
Er... why not?
Reminds me of the woman who chastised me at the store for having the audacity to leave my cart with my shopping bags unattended in the store while I was going to another aisle.
"You should NEVER do that!"
"Er... why not?"
"Because someone might take your bags!"
"Er... so?"
"You might have something valuable in them!"
I swear. Apparently I put valuables in my shopping bags and forget about it. I should check them for diamonds.
Or maybe, just maybe, I should stop being afraid of the universe. But that's harder. Because marketers.
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** spoiler omitted **I don't think your question was political enough to merit spoilering
That's cause you don't live in the south ;P Around here that would be considered an extremely politicized question.
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I still remember the day I gave up on physics...
This would be a great opening line to a sci-fi novel. Or a keketar's monologue.
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I still remember the day I gave up on physics...This would be a great opening line to a sci-fi novel. Or a keketar's monologue.
I can actually see it as an opening line from Douglas Adams.
Or...well...thinking about it...a Harry Dresden story.
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~laughter~ Good for you, gran. People like that are really annoying.
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And I suppose I should flag this as "political", though I'm thinking it's more "hatred of marketing people":
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I'm with you, I haven't locked my car in years.
If someone needs my spare change and outdated CDs so much they can have them.
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If you're feeling frustrated professionally, a week in the Feng Shui Hole will make you realize how good you have it.
I'm happy when sometimes I can just say 'ef it'. And go unpack/re-arrange the stockpile. Taking out frustration by taking it out on poor boxes can be good.
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And this is why I have never really gotten into Linux professionally. Say what you want about Microsoft - it's a complex entity - but the ugly truth of it all is that Microsoft has that stuff down better. And it's just plain easier to do. And it's easier for the users in a business...which is a...Yeah, it's been close to 20 years since I first installed Linux, and nothing much has changed.
Installation:
: We've fixed the installer! It runs seamlessly!
: You get an error message that it can't install the boot loader, and would you like to try a different location, and every single location you try fails. So you have to intentionally bork your machine by canceling out so it doesn't boot at all, then boot from a DVD, then download and run a repair tool that sees the borked boot loader and repairs it. That really doesn't fit into my definition of "seamless".Disk Access:
: Linux will recognize your Windows partitions immediately; you won't have to do anything!
: Oh, except if you're doing dual boot you'll have to do some extra configuration. Oh, except if you're using RAID on your Windows side you'll need to install these tools and run these commands.And even then it isn't working; my Windows RAID array is invisible to Linux and I am blocked.
Game Play:
: Steam Play is awesome! It'll run most Windows games on Linux without a hitch!
: Oh, except here's the tweak you need to perform to make your game actually run. And running the tweak doesn't actually work.So yet again, the game won't run and I have no fix.
Conclusion: Another total waste of 5 hours of my life. If Linux can't at least install next to Windows and see the Windows drives, it's of no use to me. The gaming would be a plus, but I can at least understand why that doesn't work. Mounting drives shouldn't be such a chore.
...I've been working for a company that is entirely linux based. Servers. User enviroment. Everything.
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I still remember the day I gave up on physics. I was in an upper division electromagnetism course and the professor was doing the usual atrocities: Converting all the functions to Taylor series without checking the conditions, splitting and/or combining the series without checking the conditions, until he finally ended up with 6 terms, all of which were infinite.
Then he said, quite literally, "And since all six of the terms are infinite we're going to cross off these four and use these other two."
Young NobodysHome: But how can you justify just crossing out infinities like that?
Professor: Because that way it matches the observations.High-level physics was literally ignoring every prerequisite as "inconvenient", coming up with nonsensical, impossible answers, and then just dropping seemingly-random terms until the final result made sense.
It was... appalling.
but why give up applied evil for regular evil? I dont get it.
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And I suppose I should flag this as "political", though I'm thinking it's more "hatred of marketing people":
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marketing is it's own, strange, sick little world. Even people in marketing hate it. Similar to politics that way.
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That's cause you don't live in the south ;P Around here that would be considered an extremely politicized question.** spoiler omitted **I don't think your question was political enough to merit spoilering
I have no idea how you, or even worse, Scint, tolerate that level of willful ignorance.
I still remember the day I gave up on physics...This would be a great opening line to a sci-fi novel. Or a keketar's monologue.I can actually see it as an opening line from Douglas Adams.
Or...well...thinking about it...a Harry Dresden story.
I liked Dresden, then it got preachy. No, literally, way too many openly religious analogue characters who somehow all got along and fought the bad guys, who were in turn analogues for modern problems.
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I have no idea how you, or even worse, Scint, tolerate that level of willful ignorance.That's cause you don't live in the south ;P Around here that would be considered an extremely politicized question.** spoiler omitted **I don't think your question was political enough to merit spoilering
That is because you haven't heard the amount of shade I have prepared to load into the metaphorical trebuchet every time he even tangentially mentions the South.
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I liked Dresden, then it got preachy. No, literally, way too many openly religious analogue characters who somehow all got along and fought the bad guys, who were in turn analogues for modern problems.I still remember the day I gave up on physics...This would be a great opening line to a sci-fi novel. Or a keketar's monologue.I can actually see it as an opening line from Douglas Adams.
Or...well...thinking about it...a Harry Dresden story.
Starting to wonder if we read the same books.
And they show up to fight the Order of the Blackened Denarius Nickelheads, and I really don't see how they're meant to serve as analogues for anything. Nicodemus (and the others) wants power. That's, if anything, an old problem we've never managed to fix.
Hrm. So as it turns out, finding pretty much any sort of bishounen of African descent is exceptionally difficult, unless you accept real-life examples, when it becomes not very difficult.
That is a... strange hole in Internet art.
(I keep getting either real life people - which is not something I want to use for our fun time gaming - or images of Black Butler - mind, even when I’m looking for “African” or “African American,” and, as bishounen as Sabastian can appear, and as nearly-perfect as Black Butler’s clothing styles can be, that is not the aesthetic in any regard of someone from Lar’tya.)
Yes, Freehold, I’m talking to you. (Also anyone else that happens to have good examples!) It needs to be safe for work, though, so I’m presuming that drops the majority of examples you folk can call up in short notice. Ahem.
(I can’t find any NSFW, even, though I haven’t looked in specific, and haven’t gone that far down the Internet picture hole, as I just kind of stopped once I got to Sponge Bob bishounen for unfathomable reasons.)
Lar’tya, for the curious, is like a cross between Hawaii (the land and some cultural elements; some of the people), Caribbean (much of the people and other cultural elements; heavily borrows clothing and aesthetics), Mediterranean (economic inspiration and cultural elements, some of the people), in that order, all filtered through a strict four-tier caste system, and strongly religiously and culturally Matriarchal.
(These are not bad people, and are, in fact, the strongest allies of the “main” nation of Aldis, and are even more conomically prosperous, being a nexus of trade across the main ocean of the setting.)
The character is one of the sons of the royal Lar caste, and has a twin sister. He is bishounen, she is a bit heartier-looking (because she spends more time outdoors doing stuff with people; he is a socialite and in-door type). <Insert more info here that you probably don’t care about.>
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...I've been working for a company that is entirely linux based. Servers. User enviroment. Everything.
Its awesome!
For corporate use, it's awesome. I built a Linux file server on an obsolete machine and not only did it last nearly 10 years maintenance-free, but it outperformed all the Windows file servers by a factor of 10.
But the moment you start trying to run games that use graphics and graphics cards, or set up a dual boot with Windows, you run into a world of hurt.
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Ah, well. Looks like I'm going to get arrested soon. The OK sign that I've been using for nearly 50 years is now a hate symbol.
I'll be a hateful old man. Livin' the dream!
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I'll be a hateful old man. Livin' the dream!
Hey! You can’t steal my dream!
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Yeah, I heard about that one a while back. It's a gesture I use frequently as well. I'm hoping people maintain the sense to okay yeah I can't finish that sentence.
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Yeah, I heard about that one a while back. It's a gesture I use frequently as well. I'm hoping people maintain the sense to okay yeah I can't finish that sentence.
Yeah, the article has a nice, "Therefore 'particular care must be taken not to jump to conclusions about the intent behind someone who has used the gesture'."
But living near Berkeley, where taking offense is an art form considered the highest form of piety, this is NOT going to go well.
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“Nazis: they are the worst, no for real”
- all people everywhere who’ve had legit things ruined since Nazism was invented
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Time to think up some new gestures!
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“Nazis: they are the worst, no for real”
- all people everywhere who’ve had legit things ruined since Nazism was invented
Nothing about our current reality disturbs and frustrates me more than the fact that this statement is considered no longer universally accepted.
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Time to think up some new gestures!
I know one that might be appropriate for these clowns. It even uses two less fingers.
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Nothing about our current reality disturbs and frustrates me more than the fact that this statement is considered no longer universally accepted.“Nazis: they are the worst, no for real”
- all people everywhere who’ve had legit things ruined since Nazism was invented
Someone actually tried to argue this point with me the other day in YouTube. It was morbidly fascinating.
They brought up the legitimate point that the USSR communists slaughtered more people than the Nazis, but failed to realize that the Communists in this instance were suffering from a corruption of ideology, rather than holding an ideology that is inherently evil.
Whether you agree with the political and philosophical leanings of communism is irrelevant - as a philosophy, it’s stated goal is equality and justice (even if the practical implemented reality falls far short to date).
Nazism, on the other hand, is evil, because it explicitly calls for the purging and eradication of entire people groups for the social and financial benefit of an elite few.
To be sure, Nazism is not, in fact, unique - it was simply one of the most successful of its own kind of similar pogroms found in human history. But arguing that it isn’t evil, “because other people killed more people” is fundamentally flawed.
A man who has been confused by insanity or substance abuse and crashes his car into a bus isn’t inherently evil, no matter how many he kills (though he can be).
A man who deliberately plots the murder of his neighbor to steal his stuff is deeply evil even if he only kills one person.
(Note: Nazis did not stop at just one person.)
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NobodysHome's Tirade of the Morning:
Er... no.
Trains are not ambush predators. They do not hide in bushes and pop out in the middle of the night on unsuspecting pedestrians.
Trains follow train tracks. Sensible human beings stay off the tracks. When I was a kid, my brother's friend lost his leg to a train because he was playing on the tracks.
I was reading an eyewitness account from two deaths last week, and the witness was saying, "We were standing there, having lunch on the train tracks, and we heard a train coming, so we moved to the other track, but we didn't know that a train was coming from the other direction."
FFS. This is *NOT* AmTrak's problem.
I am callous. If you get hit by a train, I'm not blaming the train for the problem, except under extremely extenuating circumstances (broken gate with poor visibility and a speeding train comes to mind).