I actually called my kid while he was on the train to school. It was the best conversation we've had in weeks, he's been quite the surly teen lately. My post was serious. The sig is usually ironic or humorous... or obtuse, sorry about those.
I have a theory. When I posted, I had my sig quoting a funny line from one of TFAs that I'd read, which the mod probably hadn't, and it could be construed as disparaging WoW players. Unintended consequences. (Or it was just the typical humorless loser with mod point thing.) I could see redundant maybe, or off-topic if you really didn't get it... (I usually Google-check my sigs to be sure they get top-of-page, for when it *crickets*, or whooshes, as they so often do.) I get quite a few mod points, which I promote the kind of posts I aspire to, whether I agree or not. Troll is for egregiously foul language, ad-hominem attacks, or SPAM. I modded a really good Troll +1 funny a few days ago and when I looked again it was +5. We like our Trolls. I LMAO when I get modded troll though... losers.
It's a money issue for me. I never played it, but I supply the infrastructure. I'll never win but the kid's pretty happy with the single HD 4850 he's got now. I have the kid's old N64 and the Pod Racer cartridge. It's pretty robust, and possibly the only game I'll ever need. Besides planting my trees and perfecting my pizza recipe, I haven't got any noble aspirations myself. Balance or single-mindedness is a personal choice, I bow before Little Gray's achievement.
I meant standby. Hah, yeah, it was humor- didn't mean to sound like a poser; I am a bit of a noob, never got around to memory management with DOS or any of that.
I gave up attributing sources. It messes with the character limit and anyone who cares can google it. I'm not very clever but it amuses me to juxtapose an obtuse link to one of the recent topics. "Who is NEZ?"
They also own a big chunk of our fishing fleet, and the New Yorker Hotel, where Nicola Tesla spent his last years. I find this strangely disturbing. That paper of theirs is like FOX News; Pretty hard to stomach. They played a not insignificant role in the "Reagan Revolution" and the way the Ku Klux Kristians took over the Republican Party. My Uncle John used to brag about the millions that Moon was investing in getting the "Right People" elected. (John's a hard-core Moonie, and fan of Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh; A Fascist.)
Not all of our computers did that back then, youngster. As I recall, Win98 used to lock coming out of idle on a couple of my machines, so I disabled that at home. It did sort of cost a bit when I had four or five going all month.
Well, I heard that had something to do with redundancy to prevent dicks that couldn't resist cheating from bodging up the results. I had about a dozen nodes running at school myself, back in the day. Random noobs weren't playing games and websurfing in the Journalism class, so the IT guys didn't have to constantly re-image those units. I think we were up for a couple years there. I hardly think any Harm came of it, in fact, the de-fragging I did seemed to perk up some of them quite a bit.
Perhaps my information is faulty, all I know about it was from the news, and the film "Rules of Engagement". I've seen FLIR imagery of firefights in our Asian colonies, and the film showed a remarkable simulation of submachine gun bursts being directed into the windows and escape routes of the burning Branch Davidian residence, at least until the tank was able to knock down and seal up that end of the building.
My only up-close experience with CoS, (Scientology, a friend's dad started the Co[Satan]) has been talking to their recruiters on Hollywood Boulevard, and once when I tried talking to a rather well-configured female acolyte, or whoever the blue-uniformed busload groups are, by the "Celebrity Center" or whatever their HQ is called. The panic and fear was rather amusing. It appeared that she was afraid of my talking to her, like something she'd been warned about. I was blocked by four of their handlers while she was hustled safely away. After my experiences with Erhard Seminars Training, and a few weekends at various Unification Church indoctrination camps, (Good News! The Messiah has returned! True Father is a Korean businessman!) I have developed a feel for the finer points of cult practice. It is not dissimilar to miltary boot camp, and I thought it interesting that Mose Durst, and that woman (Kristina Seher) leading the chanting at Camp K, were both allegedly PhDs in Psychology. (According to their website I was misinformed about that, but the phenomena of conditioned response and brainwashing is amazing.) I believe it is of some importance to isolate the new inductees while their beliefs are installed. Forty years in the wilderness, anyone? I could be projecting my erroneous perceptions onto this situation, but I'm disposed to believe the allegations. YMMV.
I get this problem a lot. I wonder how many folks go to mostly ad-free sites as I do. Most of the.gov and.edu sites are probably not installing "Global Market Share" on their servers.
I have always thought that in a monarchy, in theory at least, "The People" could effect a temporary improvement in government with some constructive defenestration. "Democracy" has eliminated that as a viable option.
Remember how crappy CA cars ran for the first few years after emission controls were mandated? The technology has now caught up with the low-flow laws. I recently installed a new toilet with a three-inch flapper valve. I'll not rhapsodize endlessly on the efficiency it exhibits, but let's say it works as well as any 5-8 gallon flush from the old days.
In the 80s, I did some repair &c. on "distressed" properties for a Real Estate LLC in Oakland. If the tar is thick enough on the walls, paint won't adhere. (I tried to tell 'em, but they had to experience it) We used a lot of Trisodium Phosphate and gallows humor on that job, let me tell ya...
A few times more than I can remember, we'd roll a particularly egregious smoker's TV set out in the alley (after shorting the CRT anode to the chassis to discharge it) and pour ammonia, straight from the bottle, all over it. We'd let it soak for a while, then hose it off with water, then air blast it. Let it sit out in the sun for a day to dry, and then it'd be ready to repair. (Another thing EVERYBODY's set got was a Windex job on the screen, that alone improved the picture for a lot of smokers.) I remember a lot more people smoking in the sixties and seventies. I guess they died.
When I worked TV repair, we'd jack up the estimate on smoker's TVs to compensate for the nastiness factor. The electrical charge attracts the particles from the ambient air and the build-up in some environments can be dramatic -and fast. Failure was very often scum related, either by blocking cooling air, or providing an arc path for the High Voltage.
I think that any probe will turn up a few "rogue members" who will be chastised and relieved of their duties within the "Church". That should take care of the problem.
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God it hurts. I laughed so hard reading that I need to go lie down now.
Actually, I don't exactly disagree with you, and I'm far from pissed off, but your post is, in fact, flamebait.
I actually called my kid while he was on the train to school. It was the best conversation we've had in weeks, he's been quite the surly teen lately. My post was serious. The sig is usually ironic or humorous... or obtuse, sorry about those.
I have a theory. When I posted, I had my sig quoting a funny line from one of TFAs that I'd read, which the mod probably hadn't, and it could be construed as disparaging WoW players. Unintended consequences. (Or it was just the typical humorless loser with mod point thing.) I could see redundant maybe, or off-topic if you really didn't get it... (I usually Google-check my sigs to be sure they get top-of-page, for when it *crickets*, or whooshes, as they so often do.) I get quite a few mod points, which I promote the kind of posts I aspire to, whether I agree or not. Troll is for egregiously foul language, ad-hominem attacks, or SPAM. I modded a really good Troll +1 funny a few days ago and when I looked again it was +5. We like our Trolls. I LMAO when I get modded troll though... losers.
It's a money issue for me. I never played it, but I supply the infrastructure. I'll never win but the kid's pretty happy with the single HD 4850 he's got now.
I have the kid's old N64 and the Pod Racer cartridge. It's pretty robust, and possibly the only game I'll ever need. Besides planting my trees and perfecting my pizza recipe, I haven't got any noble aspirations myself. Balance or single-mindedness is a personal choice, I bow before Little Gray's achievement.
Something I can tell my kid that won't get a "meh". Cool.
I meant standby. Hah, yeah, it was humor- didn't mean to sound like a poser; I am a bit of a noob, never got around to memory management with DOS or any of that.
I gave up attributing sources. It messes with the character limit and anyone who cares can google it. I'm not very clever but it amuses me to juxtapose an obtuse link to one of the recent topics.
"Who is NEZ?"
we've learned so much in the last hundred years. We won't let them do that again. Right?
They're on to us.
They also own a big chunk of our fishing fleet, and the New Yorker Hotel, where Nicola Tesla spent his last years. I find this strangely disturbing.
That paper of theirs is like FOX News; Pretty hard to stomach. They played a not insignificant role in the "Reagan Revolution" and the way the Ku Klux Kristians took over the Republican Party. My Uncle John used to brag about the millions that Moon was investing in getting the "Right People" elected. (John's a hard-core Moonie, and fan of Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh; A Fascist.)
Not all of our computers did that back then, youngster. As I recall, Win98 used to lock coming out of idle on a couple of my machines, so I disabled that at home. It did sort of cost a bit when I had four or five going all month.
Well, I heard that had something to do with redundancy to prevent dicks that couldn't resist cheating from bodging up the results.
I had about a dozen nodes running at school myself, back in the day. Random noobs weren't playing games and websurfing in the Journalism class, so the IT guys didn't have to constantly re-image those units. I think we were up for a couple years there. I hardly think any Harm came of it, in fact, the de-fragging I did seemed to perk up some of them quite a bit.
Microsoft kinda brings up the car analogy here; Like CalTrans, the highways will probably handle last year's traffic volume within the decade.
Perhaps my information is faulty, all I know about it was from the news, and the film "Rules of Engagement". I've seen FLIR imagery of firefights in our Asian colonies, and the film showed a remarkable simulation of submachine gun bursts being directed into the windows and escape routes of the burning Branch Davidian residence, at least until the tank was able to knock down and seal up that end of the building.
My only up-close experience with CoS, (Scientology, a friend's dad started the Co[Satan]) has been talking to their recruiters on Hollywood Boulevard, and once when I tried talking to a rather well-configured female acolyte, or whoever the blue-uniformed busload groups are, by the "Celebrity Center" or whatever their HQ is called. The panic and fear was rather amusing. It appeared that she was afraid of my talking to her, like something she'd been warned about. I was blocked by four of their handlers while she was hustled safely away. After my experiences with Erhard Seminars Training, and a few weekends at various Unification Church indoctrination camps, (Good News! The Messiah has returned! True Father is a Korean businessman!) I have developed a feel for the finer points of cult practice. It is not dissimilar to miltary boot camp, and I thought it interesting that Mose Durst, and that woman (Kristina Seher) leading the chanting at Camp K, were both allegedly PhDs in Psychology. (According to their website I was misinformed about that, but the phenomena of conditioned response and brainwashing is amazing.) I believe it is of some importance to isolate the new inductees while their beliefs are installed. Forty years in the wilderness, anyone? I could be projecting my erroneous perceptions onto this situation, but I'm disposed to believe the allegations. YMMV.
I get this problem a lot. I wonder how many folks go to mostly ad-free sites as I do. Most of the .gov and .edu sites are probably not installing "Global Market Share" on their servers.
Difficult to predict, but it's worth thinking about. I hope I'm wrong.
Nope, this is the end. Sorry about that.
I have always thought that in a monarchy, in theory at least, "The People" could effect a temporary improvement in government with some constructive defenestration. "Democracy" has eliminated that as a viable option.
Remember how crappy CA cars ran for the first few years after emission controls were mandated? The technology has now caught up with the low-flow laws. I recently installed a new toilet with a three-inch flapper valve. I'll not rhapsodize endlessly on the efficiency it exhibits, but let's say it works as well as any 5-8 gallon flush from the old days.
In the 80s, I did some repair &c. on "distressed" properties for a Real Estate LLC in Oakland. If the tar is thick enough on the walls, paint won't adhere. (I tried to tell 'em, but they had to experience it) We used a lot of Trisodium Phosphate and gallows humor on that job, let me tell ya...
A few times more than I can remember, we'd roll a particularly egregious smoker's TV set out in the alley (after shorting the CRT anode to the chassis to discharge it) and pour ammonia, straight from the bottle, all over it. We'd let it soak for a while, then hose it off with water, then air blast it. Let it sit out in the sun for a day to dry, and then it'd be ready to repair. (Another thing EVERYBODY's set got was a Windex job on the screen, that alone improved the picture for a lot of smokers.) I remember a lot more people smoking in the sixties and seventies. I guess they died.
When I worked TV repair, we'd jack up the estimate on smoker's TVs to compensate for the nastiness factor. The electrical charge attracts the particles from the ambient air and the build-up in some environments can be dramatic -and fast. Failure was very often scum related, either by blocking cooling air, or providing an arc path for the High Voltage.
OMG ROFLMAO I love how the technicians used their fingers to shove loose wires under the nose cone. Was anyone killed?
I think that any probe will turn up a few "rogue members" who will be chastised and relieved of their duties within the "Church". That should take care of the problem.