So... what gets your goat?
The Jews did 9/11.
Welly's posts.
Although this was better than most because it was short.
I think people should be able to use goats as lawnmowers.
DLLs are overrated. Everyone static link and byte patch as needed. GO. GO. GO.
Np.Show Image(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1428/5164777494_a9c92be3ee_z.jpg)
I hate the fact that I can't even get a goat. They're classified as "livestock", so you can't have them in residential neighbourhoods. I think people should be able to use goats as lawnmowers.
i'm still hoping BASIC makes a comeback, since it was the only programming language i really, er, knew well. I miss line numbers.
but then again where i come from... you can keep a goat anywhere Oo
In my area you can have chickens in residential areas, but no roosters.
thats very green of you, a500. Goat-lawnmowers is a movement I can get behind.
Corporate IT projects. One big cluster****. Let's buy/build some ****, figure out that we can't use it, then customize the hell out of it until it's a broken piece of **** but handles mouse clicks the way we want.
Goat ****er.
One thing I hate is the how the cold weather gives me joint trouble in my fingers.
I hate how the cold weather has killed my video card. Stupid GTX280 started playing up on cold boots, giving the pink screen of death. I've got sick of waiting for it to warm up and work properly so I've had to remove it, now I'm down to a single video card. No SLI! They don't make video cards like they used to, I have an old MDA card somewhere that's still going strong. :D
See this thread. (http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1421792) Lead-free solder has lead to many hardware deaths (ie: Xbox 360), quick and dirty oven reflow can help.
I hate how the cold weather has killed my video card. Stupid GTX280 started playing up on cold boots, giving the pink screen of death. I've got sick of waiting for it to warm up and work properly so I've had to remove it, now I'm down to a single video card. No SLI! They don't make video cards like they used to, I have an old MDA card somewhere that's still going strong. :D
How odd. The same thing just started happening to me. On cold boot, the damn card isn't detected and I have to rip out the plug before the OS boots, then plug it back in (power button refuses to work at this point in the boot). On second boot it's detected. It's a major pain in the ass because the BIOS on this computer is the slowest I've ever seen - and now I have to always wait for it twice!
See this thread. (http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1421792) Lead-free solder has lead to many hardware deaths (ie: Xbox 360), quick and dirty oven reflow can help.
This news story
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3222753/Sick-protesters-torch-poppy.html
makes me feel like ranting, but of course every group contains people with wild opinions.
Why are they burning opium?
Rape them. That'll teach them to flaunt it.
Rape them. That'll teach them to flaunt it.
This news story
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3222753/Sick-protesters-torch-poppy.html
makes me feel like ranting, but of course every group contains people with wild opinions.
That has to be one of the most disgusting posts I've ever read on geekhack.
I scanned over some of your previous posts to see what kind of person would say such a thing. I was not impressed. I suggest you tone down your hostile bull****.
This is a nice site I don't want to see ****ed up by people like you.
I live in a tough neighborhood where that stuff is not allowed.
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I once knew a veteran of the first World War. I feel privileged - especially now that they're all gone.
And here's another important news story:
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/mum-of-five-given-blasphemy-death-sentence/story-e6frfku0-1225952413642
Well if Fox news said so it must be true >.>
Enough to know that their "fair and balanced" moto is highly ironic. (http://www.thedaonline.com/opinion/fox-news-is-a-propaganda-network-not-a-legitimate-news-channel-1.1772842)
All I'm saying is don't make Fox news the scapegoat. Everyone else is just as bad, if not worse.
i dont think everyone else is as bad -- fox news has far more employees and journalists who openly advocate for and give contributions to the republican party than any other channel has for the democrats (poor keith tried to and got his ass fired for it). Fox news bias is legendary and for good reason.
secondly, as zefrer said, even if others were as bad, that does not get fox news off the hook anyway.
But Fox has become the way that it is because the MAJORITY of news companies in the USA are liberally-biased... Imagine trying to fight that as a news channel, and having to become more and more biased yourself. That's why Fox News is the way it is today.
why do they call it ovaltine? the mug is round, the jar is round...
they should call it roundtine....
Welly, your nonsense arguments (http://www.human-brain.org/arguments.html) are impossible to argue against.
That's total bull****. Fox is no more biased than any other major news station. Liberals just always make them the scapegoat because Fox is conservatively-biased.It's certainly true that Liberals don't notice liberal bias, because they imagine their own views to be objective.
Most news organizations contribute money to both parties. Fox only donates to the Republicans. They're not even trying to be fair and balanced. Regardless of slant, at least the other networks are reporting news and not just opinions and FUD.
fox is no more biased than any other major news station.
I highly doubt your first opinion is true. I'd like to see some evidence of that. Seems like FUD to me.
Fox reports real news as well. If you actually watched it instead of trashing what you know nothing about you would know that.
Maybe if you watched anything other than Fox News, you wouldn't spout such bull****: check it (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/17/AR2010081704338.html). Public records are public.
Anything you say in Fox's defense from now on will be considered pure trollage and responded to accordingly.
now, what will make a good replacement stylus... :)
I think people should be able to use goats as lawnmowers.
A former colleague from a farming background had a brother who got rid of his sheep farm but not the sheep. He rented out the sheep as lawnmowers; or in other words his sheep farm now has a negative rent.
This news story
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3222753/Sick-protesters-torch-poppy.html
It appears that you know about as much about politics as a retarded kindergartener.
Please read these articles I kindly link to you below:
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/msnbc-confirms-liberal-media-bias/ (http://www.aim.org/aim-column/msnbc-confirms-liberal-media-bias/)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2008/07/24/medias-campaign-donations-tilt-100-1-favor-democrats (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2008/07/24/medias-campaign-donations-tilt-100-1-favor-democrats)
These are just two examples of the liberal media bias that is rampant in America.
About as amusing as listening to Ann Coulter.
I hate digital volume controls (that have steps between volume levels that are too big). You turn it up one notch and it's too loud, but down one notch and it's too quiet. Analogue controls were way better. You could fine-tune the exact level you want.
I hate DVD movies with the voice track way too low and the music & sound effects way too loud. You turn it up so that you can hear them talk, but then the music and sound effects blast your head off.
I hate on-screen TV displays - for volume, channel (non-set-up things). Separate LED display was better because it didn't block the screen. My TV has a volume display that covers almost 1/4 the damn screen. Any adjustment and you can't see what's going on. (and that's with "display off"!)
Edit: (wasn't finished this rant, either)
When you go to buy a TV, DVD player, camera, stereo, etc. - why in the hell don't the stores have the user manuals available to view? How can you make a decision about whether you like the features of a device if you have no idea how those features work? Do they expect people to choose a device based on how fancy the case looks? Sometimes, you can play with the device and figure out some features (if they have the damn thing on), but most of the time you just have to guess and hope it will work the way you want.
I have been having a harder time getting pages to load on this site. One second it's ok (not great) and then it hardly works, takes forever, or just goes to a page that says something like "website is too busy, try again later". It's has been slowly getting worse over the past six months for me.
Nice stylus.
Why not just get one of those keychain ones?
Same here, though I have suspected my being across the pond was a part of the problem, or at least exacerbating an existing problem. Or Firefox compatiblity?
Sometimes when I submit a comment there is a long delay, I wait patiently, but it eventually says: "you need to wait 30s between submissions" as if I submitted twice (I haven't.) If I reload the thread my comment is there.
But when it works normally there is no speed problem.
Geekhack has definitely been slow as hell for me lately too (I'm in the USA). Someone should let iMav know!
pogue is just boring to watch. What is he a geek with a journalism degree?
He graduated from Yale University in 1985, summa cum laude with Distinction in Music.[1] He spent ten years working in New York, for a time in the office of Music Theatre International and also intermittently as a Broadway musical conductor.
Now Walter is a bit boring.
My rant today is about excessive whining.
See above.
b) insufferable apple fan boy
give this man a beer! 100% spot on!
Only women drink tea in America.
And some foreigners.
I went to Texas once (not by choice) and I ordered tea with my lunch at a restaurant. The waiter was totally confused. He didn't know what I was trying to say. Eventually he got it... or so I thought... but then he brought me an iced tea. I said, "No, I wanted hot tea." He furrowed his brow in a vain attempt to understand, but still couldn't figure it out. I said, "You know - hot water and a tea bag?" He said, "No, we ain't got that. Just this."
It wasn't a cheap restaurant like a Denny's or something. It was an expensive restaurant.
When I was a kid growing up in the Texas hill country, iced tea was the only tea I knew of so I can somewhat understand this. Few folks were mad enough to drink hot tea in the Texas heat! Oh and in case you were wondering, we drank hot chocolate or cider in the winter. I know better now, but didn't then. Times, cultures, and knowledge of other cuisines change over time and improve with 100s of TV channels and easy Internet access, :wink:.
Then the southerners stick SUGAR in your iced tea (often a prepared syrup).
EGADS!
i just want to add that like clickclack i agree with every one of a500's rants so far. well done, rant-meister.
I didn't find Texas that hot. The whole week I was there, it was over 100°F (meaningless to me unless I convert it to °C) and they kept saying it was hot - but it didn't feel hot. When it gets that hot in Ontario, it feels hotter - because of humidity and the thinner ozone layer which causes the sun to burn your skin more.
(Why can't the ozone thinning be more over the US instead of Canada? US industries are the ones who originally thinned it!)
Texas is pretty big and some parts are more humid than others. It was fairly humid when I lived.
You want to hear my rant about the War of 1812? :wink:
(Oh yeah, you've already heard that one. :canada:)
Hey... that brings me to another rant: In American movies and TV, they always use Texas as a size comparison, like "It's HUGE. It's twice the size of Texas!" - as if everybody around the world automatically knows the size of Texas - or that Texas is so huge that twice the size should blow your mind.
related rant: people never appreciate enough just how ginormous new york state actually is.
Bah! I could fit New York state in my coat pocket and still have room for a cheese bagel.
Why can't the ozone thinning be more over the US instead of Canada? US industries are the ones who originally thinned it!
thats crazy talk
It will reach them eventually, it's the Earth equivalent of male pattern baldness. Though I suspect the U.S. will deploy a combover to disguise the effects.
It will reach them eventually, it's the Earth equivalent of male pattern baldness. Though I suspect the U.S. will deploy a combover to disguise the effects.
Only women drink tea in America.
And some foreigners.
omgs i miss good bagel and cream cheese!
i never want to be more than an hour from a good bagel at any time.
I have to substitute good bagels with frozen lenders.
omgs i miss good bagel and cream cheese!
Glad you enjoyed your stay in Texas, a_500. It feels nice when you're about 500 IQ points above the average citizen. Where where you at? It's pretty humid here in SA (around 90% most days in the summer). Since you were talking about green grass, you must have been near the coast or it was May or June. The grass is pretty brown from July to February-ish.
Hey, this is the rant thread, not the "I like cream cheese on my cinnamon raisin beagle bagel" thread. (I'm sure there's one of those threads around here somewhere)
5guys
5 guys my ass! I only see four people behind the counter and (at least) one of those is a chick. Lying bastards!
It feels nice when you're about 500 IQ points above the average citizen.
One guy is probably on a smoke break - and they probably allow shemales and lesbians to count as a "guy". (There's a grey area there.)
Thanks, but... I hate beer. (did my percentage just go down? :wink:) ...
... They're all different sizes! Why can't they just say how long or how big? Do they think people are too stupid to understand actual measurements??
Well, there's idiots all over the place. But there's hardly a place where most people are idiots.
so it only took me 40 minutes to understand how autoarchiving works in outlook.
why must they make it so hard?
here's some windows retardedness, a list:
No, I was talking about Turret's syndrome. That's a rare and annoying syndrome similar to Tourette's Syndrome, but your nipples become turrets capable of firing small gauge ballistics. (dangerous to use ammo that doesn't fit properly)
It's a 1950's military experiment gone wrong.
I have never - NEVER - wanted a document to be saved in the My Documents folder. I have a proper place on my D: drive for data. But sodding Windows keeps putting stuff there.
I finally got round to 'moving' My Documents to D:, but it's still not the directory I want to save anything to. Stop giving me 'help' I didn't ask for, Microsoft.[/IMG]
mklink /D Documents "d:\data\MyCrap"I have never - NEVER - wanted a document to be saved in the My Documents folder. I have a proper place on my D: drive for data. But sodding Windows keeps putting stuff there.
This issue is largely solved in Windows 7 as the new filesystem got rid of the much loathed "documents and settings" folder. The new filesystem structure is more similar to linux. My documents is now C:\Users\Username\Documents.
omg me too! I always make a D partition called Data and put everything of any importance in my own folder system there. I wouldnt trust 'my documents' as far as i could throw it.
omg me too! I always make a d partition called data and put everything of any importance in my own folder system there.
I used to do all that. Then hard disks got so cheap I just mirror.
omg me too! I always make a D partition called Data and put everything of any importance in my own folder system there. I wouldnt trust 'my documents' as far as i could throw it.
Now they just have to get rid of those silly drive letters ...
I probably already mentioned this somewhere before, but I once tried - on a fresh Windows install - to install all other programs on a separate drive. It was a complete disaster. I had to reinstall everything. Install programs might give the option to install somewhere else, but most of them completely **** up if they're not in the default Programs folder, on the same drive as Windows.
Drive letters... how primitive. Amiga has never had drive letters. My partitions and drives have names - and (unlike Linux) those names can be changed as easily as changing a filename.
See that finger she's pointing?
You know where to stick it.
Here's my rant for today:
Has anyone heard that song "Hey Soul Sister" by Train? I hate it with such a passion. I think it is by far the worst song I've ever heard in my 28 years on this Earth. When I hear it I feel like I want to run very far away, or do nearly anything I can to get away from it. Anyone else feel this way?
I hate ripster's avatar. As I've said before - it looks like a German transsexual in a LensCrafters commercial.
Do I put my keyboard photos in ...\Pictures\Keyboards or ...\Keyboards\Pictures. Maybe it's time to replace the hierarchical system with a tag-based system instead.
its interesting to see what ya'll are calling your folders
i'm sick and dying of some flu. As such i'm using a lighter to melt the abs plastic in my mod to "remold" it to form again. I'm sick and barely have any coordination why do i have to use a safety lighter! why can't there be a lighter without the safety, there's no kids in my house and even my dog is older than me in dog years.
(i could use my zippo, but then i'd have to refill it first)
and for that matter child safety bottles too, why can't i get the non safe version! when your sick you want to pop pills fast!
plus i'm sure those safety pill things mess up old ppl with arthritis (i'm sure they have old ppl bottles i guess).
Do I put my keyboard photos in ...\Pictures\Keyboards or ...\Keyboards\Pictures. Maybe it's time to replace the hierarchical system with a tag-based system instead.
Always consider the safety of the kids (even when there's no kids to consider about). This seems to be the trend these days.
Today's rant: hypocrisy:
Obama is meeting with NATO in Lisbon today (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/world/europe/20prexy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss) with plans for an American missle defense system in Europe. The SAME EXACT PLAN that Bush was heavily criticized for trying to set up before.
Today's rant: hypocrisy:
Obama is meeting with NATO in Lisbon today (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/world/europe/20prexy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss) with plans for an American missle defense system in Europe. The SAME EXACT PLAN that Bush was heavily criticized for trying to set up before.
today's rant: people who never criticize their own side...
I think Republicans that criticize President Obama are unpatriotic traitors to the flag.
Agreed :D
In America we have Wall Street running the country.
I would rather be a citizen than a subject. I don't really like the idea of pledging allegiance to anything, but I'd rather it be my nation, a constitution, or an ideal, than a person.
Here in the UK we don't have to pledge allegiance to anything.
But they are harmless and give us character.
It may be a vestige, but a it's a remnant of something that was once about brutal subjugation. Something that I'd rather we cut all ties with.
I hate PC architecture. Every time I boot, I wonder what's going to get ****ed up. It happens on every PC I've ever used. It might randomly miss the mouse on bootup - and I have to **** around finding a way to shut down and restart without mouse. It might boot with no sound card detected - or no graphics card - or no network card - or no USB. What a pile of crap!
On the Amiga, you never have these problems.
That worked real well for Russia.
In Soviet Russia King puts sword on Comrade's shoulder, Comrade cuts King's head off.
but thats exactly what i mean. if you can maintain a monarchy, it means the commies havent yet taken over.
You seem to like monarchies a lot. I reccomend moving to one. I'm serious, go live in one of those countries for 1-3 years. See what you think and report back.
You seem to like monarchies a lot. I reccomend moving to one. I'm serious, go live in one of those countries for 1-3 years. See what you think and report back.
Say Welly, I think there are monarchies closer to home...Show Image(http://www.debateitout.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/George-W-Bush.jpg)
At least in England the simpleton children don't have any power.
the only place in California where I had real coffee was a community-run cafe called "Red Rock" (Mountain Dew, IIRC)
bat**** crazy
You mean Mountain View, California, I think? My band's played there. Lousy acoustics; great coffee.
today's rant: so someone explain this to me: airline passengers are REFUSING body pat downs and scans? What, DO THEY *WANT* TO DIE IN A HIJACKING?You're more likely to be struck by lightning. Twice.
Took the words out of my mouth...
Had a pseudo-argument in IRC last night about this exact topic.
I sure feel safer!
um, how uninformed can you be? You do know, dont you, that they even stuffed a DOG with explosives?
If someone like you saw a dog going thru the TSA's scanner, you'd be "outraged", i'm sure. You'd mock it. Guess what, the plane would have blown up.
I'm ****ing grateful YOU are not in charge of our security.
The only reason they found out about the dog was because it died while sitting in its wire cage - cuz it was stuffed full of explosives by terrorists.
And guess what, if they DIDNT search everyone equally (whether children or old ladies), YOU'd be the FIRST to start SCREAMING about "profiling". You should be grateful they're searching everyone equally.
You're exactly the kind of person who is NOT helping in ANY way, with your contradictions and your fake 'outrages'. At least try to be consistent for gods sake.
um, how uninformed can you be? You do know, dont you, that they even stuffed a DOG with explosives?
It happened in the middle of a war zone, half-way around the world. I think it would have been on the news if a plane had been taken down by an exploding dog. There are also bomb-sniffing dogs and explosive sniffing machines all over airports, so sexually assaulting passengers is not necessary, nor effective.
If the guy is a suicide bomber, and really wants to get explosives past security, why not stuff THEMSELVES full of explosives? Or stuff their kid full of explosives. Are we going to subject ourselves to body cavity searches to prevent butt-plug bombers?
For those unfamiliar with Welly, he's a big baby/whiner. Off Topic is pretty much his soapbox to complain about how rotten the world is. He hardly ever posts in other parts of the forum. You can feed the troll, ignore, or post funny pics for the lulz. Personally, I liked the Pedo bear one :D
There is only one logical end to a Rant thread.Show Image(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_as-mO9PVic8/SMeawb_rznI/AAAAAAAAPMM/dFpot89y1bE/s800/Pizdaus_Pics0308_060.jpg)
If the guy is a suicide bomber, and really wants to get explosives past security, why not stuff THEMSELVES full of explosives? Or stuff their kid full of explosives. Are we going to subject ourselves to body cavity searches to prevent butt-plug bombers?
um, thats what the scans are for, Einstein.
Welly, if you're not a troll and other people are, why is it that you only spam the Off Topic part of the forum and don't actually discuss anything useful about keyboards, ever?
****in' logic! How does it work?
LOL, you don't even know what the new devices are for. The new scanners CAN'T detect things inside your body (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2010/1122/Video-TSA-chief-rules-out-body-cavity-searches). They can only detect objects you're carrying near the surface of your body. And since you can opt out of the scan and go for a pat-down instead, you could avoid them even if they could see explosives hidden in a body cavity.
You won't be happy until we live in a police state. Would you submit to body cavity searches? Would you accept new rules that prevent you from carrying any electronic devices in your carry-on? Rules that prevent you from carrying prescription drugs? From having any carry-on at all? Would you submit to being shackled while you fly?
If not, then the only difference for you is where you draw the line.
dude, have you even seen the new xray machines? They can tell how big your penis is. Thats whats got people in a huff. And yea, it'll definitely tell whats hidden inside your body.No they cannot see inside of you. The whole point of backscatter x-rays and what makes them different from regular x-rays (and the part they're using to claim that they're safe) is that they pass through clothing but bounce off of skin. If they could see through your skin, they would show your internal bits, instead of your naked body. And again, even if they DID show objects inside your body, they'd still be useless because you can opt for a pat-down instead.
Sawyer is a bladder cancer survivor who now wears a urostomy bag, which collects his urine from a stoma, or opening in his abdomen. An msnbc.com story on Saturday detailed Sawyer's Nov. 7 experience flying from Detroit Metropolitan Airport to Orlando, Fla., to attend a wedding. Sawyer said he was ‘humiliated’ after an enhanced pat-down procedure broke the seal on his urostomy bag and left him soaked in urine.
He said he tried to warn the security officer that “he would hit the bag and break the seal on my bag, but he ignored me. Sure enough, the seal was broken and urine started dribbling down my shirt and my leg and into my pants.”
its called off-topic for a reason, genius.
No they cannot see inside of you. The whole point of backscatter x-rays and what makes them different from regular x-rays (and the part they're using to claim that they're safe) is that they pass through clothing but bounce off of skin. If they could see through your skin, they would show your internal bits, instead of your naked body. And again, even if they DID show objects inside your body, they'd still be useless because you can opt for a pat-down instead.
You didn't answer my question. If they told you it'd be safer if you had no carry-on, or you were body-cavity searched, or flew shackled, would you do it?
if they cant see inside you then I fail to see what the complaint is about. And i'd urge the TSA to get something that can see inside you.
the answer is: if they had reasons to do it and made those reasons public (as they do now), then yes, i'd be for it. Why wouldnt I be? What, do I have a deathwish? No, I do not. Thats why i'd be for it.
See, that's the thing...air travel is not some necessity of life, and as such it doesn't need to be easy or convenient. It can be secured to the point of it being genuinely difficult to access.)
You'd visit a relative in hospice via teleconference?
Nah, I'd be on the plane too (if I felt the need to travel somewhere. See, that's the thing...air travel is not some necessity of life, and as such it doesn't need to be easy or convenient. It can be secured to the point of it being genuinely difficult to access.)
...Its not a big deal at all. I agree that flying is a privelege and not a right. The company and the govt have a responsibility to make it secure for others. If that means patting you down, deal with it.Why don't you feel that way about driving, which is many times more dangerous than flying? Terrorists use car-bombs much more often than bombing planes.
The point is that people don't want strangers looking at them naked and don't feel they ought to submit themselves or their family to a sexual assault just to fly.
Would you like your car searched every day?
Would you like a body cavity search before you go for a drive?
I think you really would be happier in a police state.
dude, you're the one who wants an Maybe you should consider moving to one and leave this one to people who value at least some measure of freedom.
Why don't you feel that way about driving, which is many times more dangerous than flying? Terrorists use car-bombs much more often than bombing planes.
Either an anarchist posing as a liberal, or a fascist posing as a liberal.
although extremely rare, plane crashes are scarier than car crashes.
that is all :)
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same in any country."
-- Hermann Goering, second in command of the Third Reich
Wellington, on the other hand, would submit himself to any restriction or humiliation if the government said it was necessary. He's said that he would accept body cavity searches, or being shackled during the flight would be reasonable, if the government said it would prevent a terrorist attack.
You can't outrun a car-bomb explosion any more than you can get off a plane mid-flight. Statistically, you're much more likely from a terrorist attack on the ground than one in the air. Yet we don't engage in these kinds of searches in other many other places that are at risk.
I don't oppose reasonable measures to secure airplanes. I oppose unreasonable, ineffective ones.
Wellington, on the other hand, would submit himself to any restriction or humiliation if the government said it was necessary. He's said that he would accept body cavity searches, or being shackled during the flight would be reasonable, if the government said it would prevent a terrorist attack.
And he seems to think his point of view is a liberal one.
That's right, I'm going the full Godwin.
Hey, you never answered my original question!
Do you ever discuss keyboards here anymore?
yes, in the hundreds of other threads going on on this forum right now. Why arent you over there?
Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you is like trying to argue with a dining room table; I have no interest.
You already accused me of being a fascist or an anarchist (not sure which), so you went both ad hominem and straw man long before me. You're either a troll, or mentally ill. I'm thinking borderline personality disorder.
You already accused me of being a fascist or an anarchist (not sure which), so you went both ad hominem and straw man long before me. You're either a troll, or mentally ill. I'm thinking borderline personality disorder.
KBL: why you should care this much about which threads I'm posting in today, is beyond me. Sounds a little stalker-ish, doesnt it? If you dont like this thread honestly go post in the ones you like. Its a free country. And GH has an off-topic section for our enjoyment.
Will that stop people who work daily 15 hour shifts assembling electronic devices from committing suicide (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37354853/ns/business-world_business) because they feel that their lives have no dignity or meaning?
that's why foxconn installed suicide nets, so they can catch the employees!
i too hate focus-stealing applications. with a passion.
KBL: admit it, 95% of your posts are about following me around asking me why I posted what I did. Admit it!
At least if you move to England you won't have to worry and complain about Crazy Americans anymore...
...you'll be too busy worrying and complaining about crazy English folks!
0: Departing from Zaragossa, Spain some years ago. The security people were a bit twitchy and very thorough. I don't know how attractive TSA may be, but this Spanish security guard was pretty hot - difficult to get too excited with someone pointing their SMG at you though. The day after I left, ETA lobbed a grenade onto the runway.
i'd say only about 20% if even that, the rest is pretty much in the keyboard section.
Oh...you're still here?
Sarah Palin today urged Barack Obama to stand by America's North Korean allies. Clearly this woman's refreshing stance on world views will help her bring about world peace if she becomes president.
Obama is already standing by America's North Korean allies so...what's your point?
I guess most Palin supporters have properly only ever heard of Alabama, Texas, and Vietnam, so the joke may just be lost on you.
Sarah Palin today urged Barack Obama to stand by America's North Korean allies. Clearly this woman's refreshing stance on world views will help her bring about world peace if she becomes president.
Obama is already standing by America's North Korean allies so...what's your point?
I hear crickets...
Sarah Palin today urged Barack Obama to stand by America's North Korean allies. Clearly this woman's refreshing stance on world views will help her bring about world peace if she becomes president.Perhaps the Vietnam War and the Korean War took place before her time, poor thing, and she got the history confused that she learned in school.
Connection errors and timeouts when refreshing geekhack. Anyone else getting these a lot at the minute?
A lot of database errors just now.
My rant today: The weather outside stinks.
Sorry about the availability and performance issues the last day or so. The good news is, I've cleared the database of ~3GB of attachments (stored in the filesystem now), which should help quite a bit with performance.
I spent much of the time during "Ghost In The Shell" wondering why only their lips move.
would you like the extended warranty on that, it's only another $100
lol. srsly.
Fighting the urge to take a zipcar out to the paramus mall tomorrow.
This is like the worst possible time to shop anyway. I visited a Target yesterday and it looked like downtown beirut in there.
Christ, I always knew the UN was useless, but this (http://news.pinkpaper.com/NewsStory/4319/18/11/2010/countries-vote-to-accept-execution-of-gays.aspx) is absolutely disgraceful.
Christ, I always knew the UN was useless, but this (http://news.pinkpaper.com/NewsStory/4319/18/11/2010/countries-vote-to-accept-execution-of-gays.aspx) is absolutely disgraceful.
We're getting tired of turkey leftovers so had Pizza tonight.
We're getting tired of turkey leftovers so had Pizza tonight.
i usually make gravy with turkey drippings and heart/liver. didn't feel like it this year (turkey's juicy so no need for gravy) so i just poured the turkey drippings for the dog to eat in his bowl. He licked that bowl so clean it was like spit polished.
Men are not vultures
In December 2005, the Saudi king expressed his anger that the Bush administration had ignored his advice against going to war. According to a cable from the American Embassy in Riyadh, the king argued “that whereas in the past the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Saddam Hussein had agreed on the need to contain Iran, U.S. policy had now given Iraq to Iran as a ‘gift on a golden platter.’ ”
Yet if we had gone to war with Iran how would we justify it? By saying they had WMDs? Don't tell me you wouldn't have protested that as well bro :D
Today's rant: hypocrites suck ass.
obama's approach is the right one: carrots plus threats. We may yet go to war with iran, but it wont be on 'suspicion' of wmd and made-up evidence, bush-style. It'll be based on real evidence and wide-ass coalition including a dozen arab nations themselves fully behind it.
Give me proof that Bush lied about reasons to go to war with Iraq and made up evidence. I want real proof, not some editorial from a liberal newspaper.
Give me proof that Bush lied about reasons to go to war with Iraq and made up evidence. I want real proof, not some editorial from a liberal newspaper.
Oh yea? On what evidence? And who would be behind it besides Us, Saudi Arabia and Israel?
And more importantly, which countries would be against it and condemn it?
Today's rant: people who rant without getting their facts straight.
you miss the point bro. read the times article i linked, it mentions all the arab countries around iran that were pushing for war against iran. Its a very different thing when we go to war with those countries behind us, for how it appears to the folks in the middle east. Without them, it looks like arrogant american intervention (like iraq). With them it has credibility.
No proof yet. Come on guys. I know you all can do better than this.
I'm sure a lot of Iraq's neighbors were happy about the US invasion (Iran certainly was) but just got to have their cake and eat it by denouncing American imperialism in public.
Some things never change.
like we did with the moon landings ;)
dude, you're being like kbl, where when handed confessions from the very people who claimed evidence existed, who now say it didnt, you say thats not proof?
Ch is right, you're basically asking for proof that santa claus doesnt exist at this point.
Some people say the Jews have been stealing my teeth, but I know it's a fairy!
No. I am asking you to provide me with direct evidence and/or proof that George Bush lied/made up evidence/reasons about going to war in Iraq.
you miss the point bro. read the times article i linked, it mentions all the arab countries around iran that were pushing for war against iran. Its a very different thing when we go to war with those countries behind us, for how it appears to the folks in the middle east. Without them, it looks like arrogant american intervention (like iraq). With them it has credibility.
not only are these "leaks" not damaging, on the contrary, they make our side look pretty good.
like we did with the moon landings ;)
not only are these "leaks" not damaging, on the contrary, they make our side look pretty good.
You will find most people's rants are non-important and easy to ignore. The importance however of nodding your head to your wife to appear like you are listening is not to be underestimated.
The importance of nodding your head
No. I am asking you to provide me with direct evidence and/or proof that George Bush lied/made up evidence/reasons about going to war in Iraq.
And thus is the comic tragedy of MS - you wish their stuff wasn't ****, but it almost invariably is.
And thus is the comic tragedy of MS - you wish their stuff wasn't ****, but it almost always is.
You are literally the biggest whiner I have ever known.
You wouldn't last a day where I work - fortunately they don't tolerate that stuff :D
There's something ironic about this statement.
Mc Donalds?
Is it a gay strip club?
No its a software company. You obviously wouldn't last a day because you have the maturity and angst of a 15yr old.
Yes, clearly I'm so angry and generally emotionally compromised that I have nothing better to do than spend all day telling Wellington how much I hate him at every opportunity.
bonus rant: People who put "cheers" in their signature and thus sign off every single email with "Cheers". Its so annoying! So they'll write a serious or sad email, and forget they have that in their email, and still sign off automatically with "Cheers!". And besides -- if the "Cheers!" is automatically added, does it still have any emotive value? Doesnt it become robotic and lifeless? They dont mean to cheer me at all! And its value is cheapened cuz i know the sender has "Cheered" everyone they ever email, so there's nothing special about me at all!
Conan happy. Tastes blood..Show Image(http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/late-night-barbarian-20100510-121945.jpg)
Webwit does a good webwit impression. However the audience is not clapping at OCN. (http://www.overclock.net/keyboards/876189-mechanical-keyboard-under-40-a-2.html#post11499546) Instead, I hear the lamentation of women.
thanks and cheers is a lot better than idiots who use scripture as a signature.
qft
so get this, gang. I just had a beer. with a girl. for 2.5 hours.
apparently this is what happens when you stop buying keyboards.
ok, it was two beers. each.Might need to enhance that beer a bit...
rant: girls don't seem to get drunk on two beers any more.
That's why you add a little rohypnol.
rant: girls dont seem to get drunk on two beers anymore.
ok, it was two beers. each.
rant: girls dont seem to get drunk on two beers anymore.
I think I'll impulse buy Legos like a good American Consumer.
Keyboardlover is also on a 'distinguished road', so I wouldn't read into it too much.
12 minutes? Your response time is slipping, bro.
This is just an anthropological experiment.
You get another for that.
12 minutes? Your response time is slipping, bro.
You can see the last 5 comments but not the sender.
And if I ever find the ***got that gave me a downvote for "namecalling" I'm gonna be all over his sorry ass.
True...and 98% of it from two lamers.
Hahahahaha the little red button under kbl's avatar now says "kbl has a little shameless behaviour in the past"
Ahahahahaha!
You and MW?
Shouldn't you be in mass, sonny?
todays rant: I have negative reputation.
There are no consequences to the rep system other then the color of a dot. Like I said, I just enabled it for the amusement factor.
rant: people who put "trusted geekhacker" in the sig, which just makes them look really desperate to salvage their Gh reputation.
I did that when I was selling some stuff, to show that I had already sold stuff to people who were happy with the experience. You really need to get some brains though. And speaking of GH reputations, should I quote your threats to me again?
:D
you should put those in your sig, i'm quite proud of them :) I think that would have a better effect on your reputation than "trusted geekhacker".
:) and the man crush continues... :)
The one between you and ch_123? Or the unrequited one you have on me?
Edit: I just realized putting you in my sig means that I and other people will have to look at your name a lot, and especially in the keyboard section (which I and others [not you] use). I don't want to turn everyone's stomachs, so I'll just quote you when I feel like it.
Edit: I just realized putting you in my sig means that I and other people will have to look at your name a lot, and especially in the keyboard section (which I and others [not you] use). I don't want to turn everyone's stomachs, so I'll just quote you when I feel like it.
I can tell you two things:
1. I have no plans to pic-spam all your threads
and
2. I'm not afraid of ANYBODY, on the internet or in real life (and there is a difference). If the second part of your message was meant IN ANY WAY as a threat, it means absolutely nothing to me. Period.
Here was my response to you. If this is what you call a "sorry ass apology", you must be on drugs:
hahahaha, i see you skipped over your apology. Very selective memory you got there.
Did you mention that you friended me afterwards? Hahahahahahahahaha.
Can you quote where I said I would spam all your threads? I only did that once, in your one thread. And quite frankly, I did very funny way, and ONLY for the lulz.
thought you said you'd put it in the sig? chickened out?
Yep--- promises one thing, does another.
needs to take his fued with that idiot wellington somewhere else
"bok bok bokoooook"You make me ****ing laugh, welly. Gar. :rockon:
You make me ****ing laugh, welly. Gar. :rockon:
lol, iMav, thanx for the explanation, geekhack is an anomaly - that's why I keep coming back.
What - do they think he can pull the sun out of his ass or something??
Over 5,000 Geekhack... 04 December 2010 14:59 Well back in my day, I had to walk 500 miles in order to get to the nearest computer, which was an IBM 5150 hooked up to a 14.4k modem using Internet Explorer 2.0. And in order to buy a keyboard, I had to WALK overseas! Take that!
Weather reports suck.
Hot weather chicks make the reports more tolerable, especially the ones who aren't very bright.I recently learned that before Raquel Welch started acting in movies - she was in Fantastic Voyage before One Million Years B.C. launched her to stardom, I also learned - she did the weather for a San Diego television station.
Well, there are these girls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvm5e5tIs0s).
Well, there are these girls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvm5e5tIs0s).Ah, Mexico. A country with simpler tastes - one which, like Brazil, does not believe that it is politically incorrect for men to admire pretty girls!
ugly women who get more airtime than the pretty ones.
People who don't get colds.
And the Tea Party thought Republicans would bring down the National Debt??
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I hate non-stop bickering about US politics. "Sarah Palin blah blah blah... Republicans blah blah... Democrats blah blah... deficits blah... health care blah blah... terrorism blah.. security blah... taxes blah blah blah..."
Everybody around the world has to listen to this crap - on top of their own countries' political bickering.
You probably get more accurate coverage from other countries' news than our own. I know I do from the BBC.
You should write letters to your news companies to stop reporting on American politics. I honestly wish more countries would do this - it would almost certainly result in less misinformation about our politics being spread around the world.
Misinformation? There is certainly more accurate information about US politics outside the US than in mainstream US news. I bet elementary school children in Canada know more about US politics than the average American college student.
Certainly more than I know about Canada.
Speaking about the Weather.Show Image(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4948882439_5115303468_z.jpg)
I have yet to meet a single person from outside of this country who really understand US politics at all.
I've yet to meet an American who really understands US politics. :wink:
The one thing I know about Canadians is they tend to be unimaginative. The creative artistic ones like Justin Bieber all move to the US to become famous.
Meanwhile in Canada.Show Image(http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/sports/pics/5717_curling_820.jpg)
I assumed most Canadians were gay and that's why you have such an aggressive expansionist immigration policy?
New York's probably got more people than all of Canada too.
Meanwhile in Canada.
Ask Google. I did:On the other hand, California has more people than all of Canada: 36,961,664.
Population of NYC:
8,008,278
Population of Canada:
33,739,900
34M Canadians?Some of us are not fortunate enough to have been born in a gentle climate. And, of course, we are still much more fortunate than those people born in warm countries that are not wealthy like the United States; despite Mexico having Mayté Carranco, the average Canadian is so much luckier to be living here, with all the cold, than the average Mexican.
What do they DO up there?
34M Canadians?
What do they DO up there?
(Immigration has allowed me to have a larger range of females to choose from.)
i just noticed that all my positive reps come from posts in which i use cursewords or insults.
lol. so thats the secret.
I'm still in the ****ing red.
Funny...we don't get enough snow.
If career prospects weren't so bleak I'd move way further north than I am now.
How do you get neutral rep? I was wondering what the gray things were.
I think my positive rep just added +1 to a negative count, and in some count-range (maybe 'zero' count?) it shows up as purple (neutral) ranking.
I can't downvote you on here anymore, so I just mentally downvoted you for saying that.
Hehe...I said "mental"
doucher
d'oh
I like you
I don't think anybody here's ever given me positive reputation yet.
i believe [Canadians] eat snow, ice fish, and stare at each other.
Hehe...I said "mental"
i believe they eat snow, ice fish, and stare at each other.
My whine for today is "Why is everybody at OCN doing cutesy Santa hats on their avatars?".Show Image(http://www.overclock.net/customavatars/avatar109663_16.gif)Show Image(http://www.overclock.net/customavatars/avatar86269_18.gif)Show Image(http://wizbangpop.com/images/2009/12/Bin-Laden-Santa-Claus--34807-thumb.jpg)
beatles suck. last year when beatles rock band was released i was at a dinner with my fiancee's co-workers friends from work. Now these ppl were just downright nerdy. Who actually talks about ST vs SW at a birthday party? Anyway they were like we got rockband beatles! we need ppl to play! (not us, no thank you).
They found out we played guitar hero, but i'm not playing a whole game of beatles music, no way.
ItlnStln goes out with a Ukranian. They can be real Nutcrackers.
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The AmigaOS, while great to be sure, is a little outdated. Maybe it's time to move to something a little newer.
Your momma too.
You want to hear a rant?
Try this 8½ hour long rant about the Obama/Republican tax deal: Sen. Bernie Sanders 8 ½ hour speech (http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/12/10/HP/R/41779/Sen+Sanders+Held+a+Tax+Cut+Filibuster.aspx).
He's 69. Could a young whippersnapper like Obama handle an 8½ hour long speech. I doubt it. Kids these days. Get off my lawn!
Don't waste 153 seconds of your life watching that crap, folks. If I knew any yo momma jokes (beyond the lamers they gave me above), I'd be doing some cuttin' instakam ...
****S! ****s everywhere!
Today's rant is OCN is deader than a doornail today.
I was hoping Webwit was gonna get everybody wound up.
i saw a documentary concerning a british case.
So in the US we address the judge as "your honor", no big deal it's an honor that some kind holds your life in his hands.
But in the UK they go "my lord" talk about servitude.
You UK ppl think you have freedom? you give money to a fake royal family and call judges "my lord", wtf!
I also hate stuff. Mrawrrrrr.Growrer mumblegrumbletrollgrog****grrrrr...
The "fake" royal family in the UK is no less oppressive than the fake "royal family" celeb ****shots in Hollywood. People worship OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods, and Paris Hilton like they're gods ... and keep giving them money (buy into their movies, books, music, events/awards, and all the other paparazzi ****) ... worship the gods at the Altar every day (TVs are usually set up as the dominating/central prominent theme of a room) ...
If you ask me, that's more oppressive than a monarchy. It's a self-perpetuating machine which makes people dedicate their effort to installing/maintaing a bunch of bimbo ****s in supersocietal positions. For what? A few hours of passive entertainment to replace a few hours of active entertainment? I don't get it.
Celebrities are celebrated. Baaaah, baaaah.
I love stuff.
Growrer mumblegrumbletrollgrog****grrrrr...
1 quadrillion? Is that the real figure? How much of that is going to things that can be accounted for?
But in the UK they go "my lord" talk about servitude.
You UK ppl think you have freedom? you give money to a fake royal family and call judges "my lord", wtf!
can anyone tell me why we can't pay this off now?because the rich owns this country
because the rich owns this country
Keep telling yourself that. In the mean time, rich people and companies lobby. Much more effective than voting.
The 17th amendment was supported, in large part, by special interests and lobbyists.
Because senators are elected by state-wide popular vote, campaign money is the biggest swayer of these elections. If senators were appointed by the state legislatures (as the constitution originally intended), the lobbyists would have very little influence.
Today's rant is OCN is deader than a doornail today.
I was hoping Webwit was gonna get everybody wound up.
because the rich owns this country
It's because you're stupid
I use my awesome voodoo skull keys to ward off the viruses. :D
Uh oh. The Geekhack virus is being spread by Skull Keys.
... 100% resistant to 99.99%...
c'mon, you can do better than that!
also, i recommend the PBS series Commanding Heights (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/) :)
C'mon, bro. PBS is socialist and un-American. He ain't gonna watch that ****. It is the reason, however, I donate a lot of my time (and money) to their auction every year. Socialist TV, FTW.
Don't Stop Believing dude. Most critics think this is the 2nd Golden Age of TV but it's all on Cable.
Got my Star Trek TOS Collector's DVD Edition - what more do I need?Our politics may be different, but when it comes to your tastes in television, they seem to be very similar to mine.
Wall Street and Banks run capitalist systems. Get over it and stop whining.
What? People are paid more for making bigger profits, in a world where ethical behaviour is costly, and they still behave in an unethical fashion. How does THAT happen?
unethical behavior without fear of consequences
i've heard our current system is based on game theory...Thatcher and Reagan were proponents of just this.
...which gives an "unfair advantage" to psychopathsThatcher had a rather worrying look about her
85% of the profits
I refuse to click on that video because that puke-green bulgy thing scares me.