whats today's rant?

[wellington1869]

So I came on to join in a rant and Lo! there was no rant available today. Now taking nominations for today's rant thread.

So... what gets your goat?

[keyboardlover]

Everyone come drink the water at Welly's latest troll hole!

[Mercen_505]

DLLs are overrated. Everyone static link and byte patch as needed. GO. GO. GO.

[mr_a500]

So... what gets your goat?

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.

[Brian8bit]

The Jews did 9/11.

[wellington1869]

The Jews did 9/11.

Hahahahahahahahaha!

Welly's posts.

Although this was better than most because it was short.

ripster's endless snarkiness...   I'm actually disappointed that i havent been the feature insult in a lego pictorial in a while

[wellington1869]

I think people should be able to use goats as lawnmowers.

thats very green of you, a500.   Goat-lawnmowers is a movement I can get behind.

[zefrer]

'Reality' shows. What's up with that ****, right? Right?!

[wellington1869]

how hard would it be for "the guv'ment" to allow us to have 'suburban livestock'? we have pets after all. same thing except we'd 'milk' these pets from time to time, or put them to work. or eat them. thats all. otherwise its the same thing.

[wellington1869]

DLLs are overrated. Everyone static link and byte patch as needed. GO. GO. GO.

i'm still hoping BASIC makes a comeback, since it was the only programming language i really, er, knew well.  I miss line numbers.

[wellington1869]

Np.

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LOL! nicely done. I'll sue you for waterboarding me though.

[wellington1869]

So we can have a pitbull, a python, a cheetah, a chimpanzee, as pets -- but we cant have a goat-lawnmower?!  

"wtf, big guv'ment?!"

[zefrer]

"Don't 'board me bro."

[kriminal]

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 agree with this... but then again where i come from... you can keep a goat anywhere Oo

[kriminal]

i'm still hoping BASIC makes a comeback, since it was the only programming language i really, er, knew well.  I miss line numbers.

i lol'ed... loudly..

[wellington1869]

but then again where i come from... you can keep a goat anywhere Oo

you're a lucky man, my friend.

[RickyJ]

In my area you can have chickens in residential areas, but no roosters.  Not sure about goats.

Although, there's a tourist attraction / marketplace about 30 minutes north of me that has goats living on the roof.

[wellington1869]

In my area you can have chickens in residential areas, but no roosters.

thats discrimination.

[itlnstln]

Fat kids.  **** the fat kids.  Eatin' all our food and ****.

[itlnstln]

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.

[instantkamera]

thats very green of you, a500.   Goat-lawnmowers is a movement I can get behind.

Goat ****er.

[wellington1869]

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.

omg thats so true. Its so typical.  And in the end they decide to double their budget so they can "just buy a mac". 3 years after that they realize macs are far too locked down for their needs and so they halve the budget and go back to PCs.

Never once realizing if they kept the mac budget and bought truly robust pc's (which would still be less cost than macs) and used the leftover cash to pay decent money to hire real IT folks, their problems would in fact mostly get solved.

But that involves a realistic budget, and thats what managers are inherently incapable of doing.

[wellington1869]

Goat ****er.

i was wondering when beastiality would come up

[microsoft windows]

One thing I hate is the how the cold weather gives me joint trouble in my fingers.

[Rajagra]

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.

[RickyJ]

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.

See this thread.  Lead-free solder has lead to many hardware deaths (ie: Xbox 360), quick and dirty oven reflow can help.

[Lanx]

i'm sucking up lots of solder for my cherry mod, hope it's lead free

[wellington1869]

I ripped my new jacket on the sidewalk today while walking past one of these scaffolding things and there was a giant nail sticking out of it, caught my jacket.  

nails in scaffolding things. really get my goat.

[zefrer]

See this thread.  Lead-free solder has lead to many hardware deaths (ie: Xbox 360), quick and dirty oven reflow can help.

For the hardcore option people have been running their graphics cards in their PCs without any heatsinks/cooling on it for the oven effect without the oven

[mr_a500]

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.

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!

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.

[microsoft windows]

My PC's work very reliably. I have never had these cold boot issues with them. And it's not like it's warm down here in my basement.

[zefrer]

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!

Sounds like another nvidia card where soldering has gone bad. Try baking it!

I'm with you on the bios, don't have to put up with it too much longer hopefully. Early next year the first UEFI motherboards should start showing up.

[mr_a500]

I know I should have been ranting more, but I've been busy. I hate being busy.

OK, let's see....

I hate the fact that I can't find decent waterproof shoes. What the hell? Why aren't all shoes waterproof? We live on a water world (but not in the movie, "Waterworld", thankfully) and water always goes to the ground. Our feet are on the ground when we walk (...usually). So then, why the hell aren't all (or most) shoes waterproof?!

Then there's the fact that all modern running shoes are ugly as hell. Why are they all made out of 10 million pieces of fake leather, all glued together? Are all the designers morons?? Can't they make a half decent looking running shoe? And make it waterproof, damn it!

[mr_a500]

More ranting: (I haven't even started yet)

Why can people force their music on me and I can't do anything to stop it?! I don't see why some punk can drive by repeatedly with massive subwoofers, thumping my entire house - but I have no way to retaliate. Police do absolutely nothing. I can't block the sound, so I have to stop it at its source. If I do that, I will be the one arrested - for threatening the punk, fighting him, blowing up his car, etc.

Sound is a physical wave, so forcing a physical wave on someone against their will is a form of physical attack.

Ironically, I later found that one such "punk" that repeatedly attacked me with thumping bass actually was a young off-duty police officer. No wonder they don't care.

[mr_a500]

I hate all the excessive night lighting - ugly orange sodium vapour street lamps, unnecessary giant flood lights over parking lots and buildings, house lights, garden lights, park lights. The lights are everywhere and you can't escape it.

It's impossible to see "real night" anymore. The only way to see it is to go about 100 km from the nearest town, then get off the road and hike through the woods for a few km. When I went to northern Ontario, I saw the "real night" that I remembered used to be in southern Ontario - and it blew my mind. The stars were so bright, it was like being in a weird science fiction movie. (...without flesh-eating aliens, which I hate)

If people insist on using lights, they should use lights that are the same colour as daylight - 6500K. The ugly orange glow from sodium vapour lamps makes me sick. A night walk with dingy orange lights everywhere is like walking through hell.

[wellington1869]

a500, i find your rants insightful and accurate. I'm with you man. Down with orange lights! Down with flesh eating aliens! Damn the sound waves!
And you're absolutely right about 'bits of random leather glued together to make running shoes' these days. My theory is that they're basically using scrap leather leftover on the factory floor to try to save money! And the result is ugly as sin. And not waterproof!

(The only decent shoes i've ever seen are at harry's shoes on 83rd/broadway. But thats a long way from canada. Damn harry's shoes!)

[Rajagra]

See this thread.  Lead-free solder has lead to many hardware deaths (ie: Xbox 360), quick and dirty oven reflow can help.

Awesome, I have nothing to lose so I'll try that.

So we have RoHS to thank for this unnecessary damage to equipment - and hence to the environment!

That reminds me of another annoyance. People who forbid existing products or practices before there are working replacements for the things they want stopped.

(Not just lawmakers, this applies to stupid managers in the workplace.)

[Brian8bit]

I'm ****ing sick to the back teeth of people fighting over operating systems. It doesn't matter what you use, you're still a ****.

[Rajagra]

Foul language gets on my tits. :smile:

[quadibloc]

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.

[wellington1869]

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.

I hope the cops are tracking them, as they should.

[keyboardlover]

Why are they burning opium?

Some people ask why...I ask why not?

[mr_a500]

I'd rather shake a veteran's hand. If you hug him, he might just think you're gay.

I once knew a veteran of the first World War. I feel privileged - especially now that they're all gone.

One thing that he constantly ranted about was the fact that income tax was meant to be temporary, its sole purpose to fund the war. Even 75 years later, he was still ranting about it.

(...his rants were inspiration to me. Someday I hope to be ranting at his level.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Canada

[wellington1869]

rant: here's something that gets my goat: gorgeous coworkers at work.
need i say more?
first of all, they're all out of my league, of course. second, they know it, i know it. third, they flaunt it and flirt like crazy anyway, just cuz they like the attention. And I mean come on, i'm only human. I dont need this torture all day at work while i'm trying to do my job and eek out a measly living for myself.
But it gets worse. Once you get to know them, most of them turn out to be airheads. so you dont even respect them much, but  you still want them badly. (lol). Which just makes it worse cuz if you have a conscience then you feel like a hypocrit on top of everything. Its just a giant mishmash of guilt, resentment, rejection, titillation, temptation, and desire, all rolled into one, that you have to endure 8 hours a day every day while you're trying just do your job. I mean come on.

I swear, just give me a plain looking girl with half a brian and half a conscience and I wouldnt ask for anything more.  I'm so past ogling the pretty young things. Nothing but trouble.

[Brian8bit]

Rape them. That'll teach them to flaunt it.

[wellington1869]

Rape them. That'll teach them to flaunt it.

good god. i'm not an islamist.

[mr_a500]

Rape them. That'll teach them to flaunt it.

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.

[RickyJ]

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's horrendously disgusting.  They should be deported.

[Brian8bit]

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.

Cry me a river.

[RickyJ]

I live in a tough neighborhood where that stuff is not allowed.

Taken an hour ago.  Remember to hug a Vet today!

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Star power!!

I once knew a veteran of the first World War. I feel privileged - especially now that they're all gone.

I wish I was old enough to really talk to my great grandfather before he passed away.  He ran away from home here in Canada to go to the UK at the start of WWI, lied about his age to get into the RAF like so many others.  He was the first pilot to fly a mail plane to India after the war. :canada: