Useless Conversation

[Ironwood]

Coriolanus with Loki was fucking awesome.

[Salamok]

Teachers that want subnetting math by hand with the binary diagrams all filled out can go fuck themselves.

Doesn't it just double with every decrement?

255.255.255.0 = 256 addresses, 255.255.254.0 = 512, 255.255.253.0 = 1024, etc...

People keep showing up here. We need to hang a sign on the Atlanta metro that says, "No thanks! We're full, you Yankee devils."

For heaven's sake, we're now #11 on North American Metro population. We're going to pass Boston soon.

Feel free to send them all to Austin, I am not above ruining a perfectly awesome city for my own financial gain.

[Chimpy]

Finally made it home.

Weird things about my flight from O'Hare to Champaign:

1. It was actually my original flight delayed 3.5 hours for a mechanical problem
2. I was #6 on the standby list and actually made it, the flight scheduled to leave next (last flight of the day) had 13 passengers on the standby list so I would have probably had to rent a 1 way car to get home if I had not made it.
3. The real Patch Adams was #2 on said standby list.
4. The guy I sat next to who I talked to for the whole (short) flight and I discovered that we A) grew up in the same small town, B) lived in the same house at different times, and C) both had the same bedroom in said house (his Dad is the person my mom bought the house from).

So if I had gotten into Chicago on time, I would still have gotten home at the same time (though my checked bag would have made it)  

[Numtini]

Mass announced the first licenses for pot dispensaries. One's a quarter mile from our house.

Suddenly I have a strong desire to see the doctor. I'm just certain I need some medicine.

[Sky]

Cuomo finally relented a couple weeks ago in NY and is allowing (very) limited medical marijuana prescription. Hopefully nothing too stupid happens in Colorado and they make a ton of cash so we can fast track things here.

I do like the irony of the conservative opposition saying Cuomo should stop worrying about the topic and focus on the state's economy and decreasing population. If only there were an abundant cash crop to tax that isn't available in most other states that would make our state attractive to outsiders.

[Yegolev]

All this stuff is inevitable once everyone sees how much money Colorado makes.

[Signe]

Don't jinx it by being too hopeful.  Ugh.  What am I saying?  This is f13.  There is no hope here.

[Pennilenko]

All this stuff is inevitable once everyone sees how much money Colorado makes.

This is the truth. The only thing that stopped pot from being legal is that there was more money in keeping it illegal. Now that Colorado had the guts to give it a shot, everyone else will see the money hats that pot can make in taxes.

[Sky]

AND you can still pour all that anti-drug money into law enforcement, where you can combat goddamned meth and actually help some people out.

Thank god for meth? 

[Paelos]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/07/meth-states_n_4057372.html

If that infographic is true, then states in the mid-west should be legalizing pot to combat meth, because wow.

[HaemishM]

I didn't realize Mississippi had passed a law requiring a prescription for pseudo. Interesting how just that one little law seems to kill the number of meth labs dead.

[Ingmar]

We require IDs for it, that doesn't seem to stop much.

[Rasix]

We're too close to Mexico to even bother.   Lots of meth here.  Lots of meth crime.

[WayAbvPar]

But what about all those true patriot heroes doing volunteer border patrols? And the laws that allow cops to pull over anyone who is a shade less white than Tom Petty? You mean those aren't working to stop crime???

Stop, the room is spinning.

[ghost]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/07/meth-states_n_4057372.html

If that infographic is true, then states in the mid-west should be legalizing pot to combat meth, because wow.

They should have legalized pot years ago, for a lot of reasons. 

[ezrast]

Today is "roll out the new service desk system that we haven't really been trained to use" day here in the support department.

[Cyrrex]

I just have to share this with someone, because this is too stupid for me to wrap my head around.

So, I just installed a fancy little SSD about a week ago.  I wanted to continue using my former HD as a second drive for a bunch of media shit.  Naturally, I don't want nor need any of those dumb old Windows related folders (including Program Files, etc.).  It is taking up about 40 gigs for no purpose at all.  It appears, however, that there is no easy or straightforward way to remove these folders.  Keeping in my that I do not want to format the disk because of the current couple hundred gigs of stuff already sitting on it.  All ordinary methods of trying to delete the Windows and Program files do not seem to work at all, no matter what I do with the permissions...it is a circle jerk of "Trusted Installer needs permission..." to "PC/User needs permission from Administrator..." and then "Administrator needs permission from PC/User" until you give up.  Doesn't seem to matter which combination of permissions, or whether or not you have enable the viewing and editing of all files, etc. and so on.  Obviously, these files are not designed to be easily removed, but come the fuck on already.

But then I see a certain bit of advice on the Intrawebs, and it inspires me to try something (what I saw their was slightly more complicated then what I am about to describe).  If on the same drive you create a Windows.old folder, and then drag and drop all your crusty old Windows and Program files into that folder...you can then go into Disk Cleanup and remove them all (it looks for old Windows installations to remove!).  It takes about 30 seconds.  Not a single cock-block or hurdle.  Done.

Mind = Blown

There are still a couple files I can't seem to get rid of, but they are tiny, so no biggie.

[Sky]

sudo rm -rf

[Paelos]

They should have legalized pot years ago, for a lot of reasons. 

I really want them to for selfish reasons, even though I don't smoke pot. So many of the UGA players get suspended every freaking year on pot busts. We lost at least 3 starters for 2-3 games every season. 

[Chimpy]

They should have legalized pot years ago, for a lot of reasons. 

I really want them to for selfish reasons, even though I don't smoke pot. So many of the UGA players get suspended every freaking year on pot busts. We lost at least 3 starters for 2-3 games every season. 

It being legal does not mean that there won't be team rules about its use.

[Paelos]

Teams don't restrict people from drinking unless they are underage or get a DUI.

I don't think the rules would be any different for legalized pot.

[Typhon]

I don't speak German, but today I really wish I did.  I want to create a single word that means, "to coerce into a better state by the painful removal of counter-productive social convention".  The analogy here would be removing lubrication from a grinding stone.  The stone can't do it's work while the lubrication is in place, but the surface to be ground probably isn't looking forward to the grinding.

There is a person at work that, completely diplomatically, puts people into situations where they have to stop dancing around issues.  Gears grind.  People get snippy.  Shit gets sorted out.  In the end most folks are happier except those benefiting from the fucked-uppedness, but it's painful while it's happening.  I laugh throughout the process.

I want a special name for that, in honor of his super-power. 

German-speaking folks, is making up words like Fahrvergnügen difficult?  If not, can anyone help me out?

[Signe]

I don't think you can just make up words.  There's rules for that, I'm sure.  At least some sort of degree.  Because if that were a real job then it would be mine and everything would be named Thingy.  

Also, Kevin Bacon really does look like Skeletor.  How did that happen?   

[Samwise]

German as a language is very friendly to portmanteau words, where you take a bunch of normal words and just string them all together.  English portmanteaus tend to max out at two words, like "cockbiscuit".

[ghost]

Haemish is German?

[HaemishM]

Sprechen ze FUCK YOU. 

[Sky]

If you live in Upstate NY.

4 inches is not a lot of snow.

7 inches is not a lot of snow.

A FOOT is not a lot of snow.

Shut the fuck up and move someplace that doesn't get snow. Or buy a vehicle that handles well in snow, and learn to drive it in various road conditions. And shut the fuck up for good measure anyway. I'm getting tired of people melting down because we might get a couple more inches of snow. While I drive a nice 4WD truck now (so much fun driving in the morning, I wish I had a longer commute in snow), I've driven things like a VW Rabbit (AMAZING in snow, the car I got really good at winter driving in) and a Dodge Neon (my mother's old car). Snow might be cresting the hood, but it's still quite safe and driveable.

We live in such like actual literal dramatic times.

[Paelos]

In Colorado they got 18 inches, and nobody bats an eyelash. In Georgia we got 2, it froze, and we started eating each other.

It's all about expectations gap.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Driving in the snow in a metro area that typically gets snow (like say, Chicago and it's vast suburbs) would be a hell of a lot easier if the snow plow drivers were aware of where and how many road lanes there are.  Because plowing a 3 lane road into 1 1/2 lanes tends to slow traffic down.

Plus, I need to start taking my laptop home at night.  If I had done so last night, I would have turned right around when I saw the main road off my street was backed up past the light a block west of me, and I had to turn east.  Bonus points for the idiots in FWD cars who think that gunning it up a hill is going to do anything for them.

[HaemishM]

Shut the fuck up and move someplace that doesn't get snow. Or buy a vehicle that handles well in snow, and learn to drive it in various road conditions. And shut the fuck up for good measure anyway. I'm getting tired of people melting down because we might get a couple more inches of snow.

Yeah, a lot of the South's problems with snow would be alleviated if we could learn to drive worth two fucks. Of course, since these idiots don't know how to drive in CLEAR, beautiful weather, the idea they might learn to drive in shitty conditions is laughable. And asking the municipalities to foot the bill to help these fucktards who decide driving 60 on a fucking ice rink because they didn't want to be late to work ain't happening either.

[Trippy]

In Colorado they got 18 inches, and nobody bats an eyelash. In Georgia we got 2, it froze, and we started eating each other.

It's all about expectations gap.

It's also about having equipment that can clear the snow. Chicago, for example, has an impressive amount of such machinery. I flew in to Chicago once after a huge snow storm and all the major roads were totally clear. Walking around, though, like through an outdoor shopping mall to get some food, meant wading through knee deep snow in some places.

[Hawkbit]

Pics from right now, 4th and Pine for the Seahawks welcome home parade which starts in an hour.  That short building in the first pic is the #1 most selling Starbucks in the world.  It's so fraking loud with the cheering and chanting, stereos blaring.  Work productivity, nil.

[WayAbvPar]

Really wish I could make it down there. From what it sounds like the only way into the city right now is via helicopter.

[Hawkbit]

It was a bad commute.  I should have stayed home.  Expecting a half million people!?  It seems like it.

[Yegolev]

Really wish I could make it down there. From what it sounds like the only way into the city right now is via helicopter.

I bet you could ride on Lynch's back.