Yoru
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I thought I was the only one that missed flip phones. Was good design. Solved a lot of butt-related problems.
I hung on to my Razr3 until 2011. Then I drunkenly dropped it in a toilet and, because I was living on a remote rock in the middle of nowhere, people only sold either candybar bullshit phones or ludicrously overpriced smartphones. Smartphone screens are great for texting, but yeah, I really preferred the days when things were getting smaller instead of bigger. I have a S3 mini now, and I still think it's too big. Every fucking phone generation gets bigger. I HAVE ENOUGH SHIT CROWDING MY POCKETS, THANKS, MAKE THEM SMALLER. Cunts. |
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Lantyssa
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I went to a PayGo burner phone about three years ago. I got annoyed with its quality and that the key lock only prevented me from using it, not from it randomly dialing. So I got an old Razr off Amazon and stuck my sim in it. Works perfectly for my needs.
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murdoc
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Sometimes, I hate living here.  |
Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Yegolev
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What the shit....
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Salamok
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I HAVE ENOUGH SHIT CROWDING MY POCKETS, THANKS, MAKE THEM SMALLER. Cunts.
I'm currently okay with the size but why the fuck isn't my phone a total replacement for my car keys, house keys and wallet. Lets consolidate all the shit I have to carry into 1 device then work on making that device smaller or turn it into some useful wearable like a pair of sunglasses. |
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Pennilenko
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Sometimes, I hate living here. That's not current right? If it is then you are going to have a fucked winter if it is already snowing like that in September. |
"See? All of you are unique. And special. Like fucking snowflakes." -- Signe
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Ingmar
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Must be in Calgary.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Nebu
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Sometimes, I hate living here.
When you feel that way, just repeat after me: Quality health care, Quality Health care, Quality Health care. |
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Merusk
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When I heard the first snows fell in Canada I decided it was time to start looking for wood and get my chimney checked for the winter. It's going to be a long, ugly one with multiple polar vortexes I'm right in the way of.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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murdoc
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Must be in Calgary.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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ezrast
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I HAVE ENOUGH SHIT CROWDING MY POCKETS, THANKS, MAKE THEM SMALLER. Cunts.
I'm currently okay with the size but why the fuck isn't my phone a total replacement for my car keys, house keys and wallet. Lets consolidate all the shit I have to carry into 1 device then work on making that device smaller or turn it into some useful wearable like a pair of sunglasses. For your convenience, car_key.bin has been automatically uploaded to our Secure Cloud Environment. |
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Ironwood
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That Banshee finale was seriously shit.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Samwise
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I HAVE ENOUGH SHIT CROWDING MY POCKETS, THANKS, MAKE THEM SMALLER. Cunts.
I'm currently okay with the size but why the fuck isn't my phone a total replacement for my car keys, house keys and wallet. Lets consolidate all the shit I have to carry into 1 device then work on making that device smaller or turn it into some useful wearable like a pair of sunglasses. Last weekend I replaced the lock on my house with a keyless deadbolt (programmable keypad). It's pretty awesome. No more fishing my keys out of my pocket when I get home. I can give a temporary code to contractors or cleaning people I don't know and then change it after they're done. $90 Home Depot purchase and about half an hour of work (which was not nearly as tricky as I was afraid it was going to be). I'd recommend the upgrade to anyone who owns their place and can do that sort of thing. |
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Ingmar
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I don't want to have to keep my house keys charged so I can get into my house. YMMV. (A keycard is another matter of course, as is a keypad - I was referring to the 'replace everything with my phone' thing that was quoted.)
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Viin
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It comes with a regular key too, for the deadbolt. But it is nice to go for a walk without your keys and be able to unlock the door via the keypad.
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Selby
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But it is nice to go for a walk without your keys and be able to unlock the door via the keypad.
...until the power goes out\batteries go dead... |
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Viin
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Sure but there's a light that shows you battery status. We've had ours for 3 months and still going strong on first set.
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Ironwood
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Surely you have to take the key anyway, just in case ?
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Cyrrex
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It sounds like a nice idea, but I know how it would work in my household. Battery dies way too quickly, because fuck batteries, and then after a few times replacing them you give up entirely.
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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DraconianOne
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Someone I work with has just had a complete rant about the Facebook messenger needing a load of permissions so that it could spy on him and take over his phone and send all his data and details to Facebook to sell. I told him it was bollocks and he said it must be true because he just watched a video on the internet of some guy saying it was true. We're an IT company - this guy works on our customer helpdesk and fancies himself as a developer.  |
A point can be MOOT. MUTE is more along the lines of what you should be. - WayAbvPar
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Ironwood
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Just fire him now. It's easier that way.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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DraconianOne
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Just fire him now. It's easier that way.
Would that I could but unfortunately that's not my call to make. I think he has blackmail material on my boss or something because he's still employed after two years here despite being dangerously incompetent.  |
A point can be MOOT. MUTE is more along the lines of what you should be. - WayAbvPar
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Cyrrex
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Just fire him now. It's easier that way.
Would that I could but unfortunately that's not my call to make. I think he has blackmail material on my boss or something because he's still employed after two years here despite being dangerously incompetent. Dangerously incompetent. You said he was working a helpdesk. I thought that was part of the job description. |
"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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Yoru
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the y master, king of bourbon
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I HAVE ENOUGH SHIT CROWDING MY POCKETS, THANKS, MAKE THEM SMALLER. Cunts.
I'm currently okay with the size but why the fuck isn't my phone a total replacement for my car keys, house keys and wallet. Lets consolidate all the shit I have to carry into 1 device then work on making that device smaller or turn it into some useful wearable like a pair of sunglasses. Only if it's something that can't get easily stolen when I visit shitty countries filled with pickpockets. So, basically, I'm waiting for some iBoxers with a dickphone and buttkey. |
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DraconianOne
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Just fire him now. It's easier that way.
Would that I could but unfortunately that's not my call to make. I think he has blackmail material on my boss or something because he's still employed after two years here despite being dangerously incompetent. Dangerously incompetent. You said he was working a helpdesk. I thought that was part of the job description. Yeah - it's the "fancies himself as a developer" bit where that has an impact. Plus giving clients the wrong information or promising clients a quick change that ends up being two weeks of development done for free. I can feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about it.  |
A point can be MOOT. MUTE is more along the lines of what you should be. - WayAbvPar
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Ironwood
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Seriously. Fired. Get the chaps above told.
Life's too short for dickwads.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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DraconianOne
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Seriously. Fired. Get the chaps above told.
Life's too short for dickwads.
Couldn't agree more. My boss though - he's the director and owner of the company (we're small - only 8 people) and doesn't like confrontation. It took a child porn investigation for the last person to get fired from here (before my time I hasten to add). Shit - at this rate I'll be writing a Nerf style rant about this guy! |
A point can be MOOT. MUTE is more along the lines of what you should be. - WayAbvPar
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Cyrrex
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Shit - at this rate I'll be writing a Nerf style rant about this guy!
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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Ironwood
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If you're a small company, it's even MORE important to weed out assholes. Not less.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Yoru
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If you're a small company, it's even MORE important to weed out assholes. Not less.
God, yes, this. I spent a year as a lead dev frustrated because my boss was a bootlicking suck-up who revelled in having the largest department, regardless of whether those people were worth a shit. Spent hours dealing with a pair of slackjawed idiots who were puffed up on having a "senior" title despite writing some of the lowest quality code I've seen in my career. I ended up having to politely and quietly direct my decent employees to babysit/pooper-scoop their work. We even took in twenty-five (yes, 25) minimum-wage chairwarmers, fresh out of university with no experience or even relevant degrees, many of them attractive young college girls. (And no, this wasn't the first time this guy had hired attractive young women with no qualifications. He once hired in a twenty-year old girl as a mid-level programmer; her entire relevant experience was "took a course in HTML". Dude was a pathetic, sleazy nerd.) I was directed to make them useful. I set them free on some online programming courses and, a few weeks later, gave notice. In a small company, employee quality is your biggest concern. (Well, after "don't go out of business tomorrow".) |
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Merusk
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Seriously. Fired. Get the chaps above told.
Life's too short for dickwads.
Couldn't agree more. My boss though - he's the director and owner of the company (we're small - only 8 people) and doesn't like confrontation. It took a child porn investigation for the last person to get fired from here (before my time I hasten to add). Shit - at this rate I'll be writing a Nerf style rant about this guy! A small business owner afraid of confrontation? Fuck getting the helpdesk guy fired, you need to find a new job. What's he going to do when a client refuses to pay and checks start to bounce? |
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Ironwood
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Quite.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Lantyssa
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In a small company, employee quality is your biggest concern. (Well, after "don't go out of business tomorrow".)
No, it's still the biggest concern. Not for the top guys, but I'm honestly not sure how the hell we're still in business. |
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schild
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I'm completely fucking sick of 9/11. It destroyed fucking air travel forever and has allowed our government to become an awful robot driven by pure FUD. I *hope,* as a nation, we collectively forget. Fuck.
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murdoc
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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