Anybody from an area of the world that has salt applied to their roads in the winter care to share stories about salt corroding their car's undercarriage?
Hasn't been a problem for me at all. I'm driving my wife's old Civic for commuting, it's a mid-90s model with some 220k miles on it. No problems with rust or corrosion on it, despite having been driven on wet salty roads each winter for a decade and a half.
But anyway, get a thousand start-ups trying a thousand different compensation mechanisms (that's what this is, after all, not doing anything about the underlying cause). Some fail spectacularly. Some don't really do anything cost-effectively. A small few are successful, and change the world.
I hear ya... but I gave in long ago. I've adapted to a righty world. I now do almost everything righty, since that's what most tools are designed for. I still write left-handed, but that's just about the only thing I haven't converted yet.
It was annoying for the first 5 or so years, but now I'm completely used to it.
Lefties are never going to be 100% supported; better to get used to doing things righty, it'll make for a lot less frustration.
Plus, your girlfriend/boyfriend/otherfriend will appreciate your ambidexterity, if you ever get the chance to make use of it.
Have you made an appointment for a clinical evaluation yet? You really need some counseling and/or meds.
And FYI, I post as myself only. I do not post as AC, nor do I have sockpuppet accounts, nor am I a sockpuppet of another account. Please stop attributing posts of others to me.
Have they ever looked at some of the costs associated with operating stateside bases? I wonder what the costs are to operate the bases in Hawaii compared to operating the ones in Florida? Not just facility costs, but associated costs with shipping stuff out there, pay, etc. Same with some bases in California. Granted, congresscritters will have a cow if the military shut down large bases in "their" state.
You have to consider the strategic value of these bases as well. Hawaii is important as a site for a naval base because of its location. Having a cheaper-to-run naval base on the coast of Florida will be worth squat if we ever get into it with China.
Yes, cost of operation is something to consider -- but the location-dependent utility of the base must also be considered.
Sure, just like sopssa closing the thread where apk dusted clone53421 on Opera being faster and more secure than Firefox is, with Firefox showing 3 errors in 1 week, where Opera had none in the "Germany warns against Firefox" article here, and when that 3rd error in 1 week showed up? That thread was closed 3-5 days early by you and your fellow mods because your crony in clone53421 (probably the handle/nick one of you use as an alternate to your moderator nick, or it's one of the "in crowd" or owners here is all, that's obvious enough) was losing, badly, to apk.
Oh, you poor deluded bastard. You have no idea of how this site works.
Go back to a forum where they want your company... if you can find one.
Yeah, I know. I read the Clone threads, some of your threads with him... some of the other ones on slashdot.
I also mosied (moseyed?) over to ars technica to read some highly amusing threads from 2002 with this moron. There were also some good ones on other sites. This guy makes Pudge seem positively normal.
Get flat copies of your keys, and keep them in your wallet.
I'm not a big fan of this. If I lose my wallet, then someone has access to my house along with a nice laminated card telling them where I live. I wouldn't want to tempt fate (or a prospective burglar).
Why does he have keys to his girlfriend's place? In case he wants to be there when she isn't? Creeeeeepy.
Use your imagination.
It's so she can lay in wait for him, (mostly) naked, with dimmed lights and romantic music playing, posed provocatively on her bed. All while trusting that only he (holder of the Sacred Keys of I-Gave-You-Unfettered-Access-Where's-My-Ring) can enter her abode and ravish her.
Having the girlfriend's housekeys can lead to all kinds of laying-in-wait-for-him goodness, very few of which involve a blunt object and a trip to the hospital.
Just don't lock anything. And leave your car key in your car's ignition.
I mean, it's still illegal to steal stuff, so no one's going to.
Seriously, though... when I had a mess of keys, I had the same problem. You've mentioned a couple issues that need to be addressed.
1. Emergency backup. One option is to make friends with your neighbors and give them a key if you trust them. Another is to have a backup key near your pad with a combination lock on it's case. You can also buy these for your car, you can attach them under the chassis. They also have ones you install behind a license plate -- you'll need some WD40 and a wrench to get at that one probably, but it's pretty secure.
2. Jingling mass of back-spasm inducing keys on a ring. To reduce jingling, get those plastic colored things that go over the head of the key. It'll help. To reduce the mess of keys, consider storing the infrequently used ones elsewhere. Like in a locked case in your glovebox, or somewhere at home.
What I did:
Installed new locks on my house, all part of a set. A single key lets me open any door, including activating the motorized garage door. If you rent, see if your landlord would go for it. It's not hard to install new locks, and a complete set might run $150-200 on the cheap end (my set was $180 four years ago). I have a lanyard with a house key dupe and my bike lock key on it. When I go for a ride or to run errands on it, I leave behind my other keys and grab the lanyard.
For emergency backup, I have a spare house-key in a combination-lock case hidden on my property, and the same for my car. Someone I implicitly trust, who is an emergency medical contact, also has a copy.
One other note... a fishing buddy of mine rigged a laptop strap with pockets that snap shut he sewed onto one side of the pad. Fashionable? Not remotely. But it allows him to keep his keys on him, jingle-free, when we're on a stream.
Frankly, I was more comfortable with the concept that the DOW could drop 1000 points in one afternoon due to some obscure overseas debt concerns than I am the idea that the DOW can drop 1000 points in one afternoon because of a fucking typo.
Well, the fat finger may have triggered the sell-off, but it probably would have happened anyway, albeit in a more controlled manner. Everyone's a little antsy with the Greece situation right now, and the market was eventually going to reflect the increased instability there.
Might be time to invest my money in something a little more solid, like canned food and ammunition.
Might I suggest sandwiches? As one expert so presciently said:
"Once again, the conservative, sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor.
Ah. So your point is that (1) I'm lying and (2) I'm powerless.
I happen to know that (1) is false -- I have not stated anything I believe to be false. Expressions of personal opinions are not lies, even if you disagree with them.
(2) I may be somewhat powerless, but I'm not absolutely powerless.
I have the power to compel you to respond to my posts.
Go ahead. See if you're man enough to withstand my powers of Troll Compulsion. Can you really hold back from responding to my posts? Or will you prove my power once and for all? ONCE AND FOR ALL!
See, here's the thing. You're an ineffective buttplug that spews crapfloods on the internet. I don't care what happened between you and Clone. When you write lengthy responses trying to "prove" something that I don't give a flying fuck about, all you do is make me more powerful. Soon I will be more powerful than you could ever hope to imagine. Mwua-ha-ha-ha.
In the meantime, you can continue wasting your time arguing with someone who thinks you're an idiot. I'm starting to enjoy it. At first I laughed at you. Then I pitied you for your poor mental health. But now it's full circle, and I'm laughing at you again. Because you don't even *realize* how foolish you look.
Nothing Clone or anyone else writes could ever do as much harm to your reputation as your posting style does today.
Why do you insist on putting part of your comment in the subject line of your posts? That's bad form.
Does it matter if I have a degree in psychiatry? I believe you are insane. Whether or not you consider my opinion to be valid is a different story. The reason I believe you are insane is because you keep repeating the same actions, somehow expecting the outcome to be different. Whether the general public would consider my assertion that you are insane to be fact is also different.
Without a license to practice psychiatry, and having performed a formal evaluation on the individuals being libeled by you thus, it constitutes libel
Maybe you need a lawyer, since you are not aware of what conditions are necessary to support a tortuous claim of libel.
There is no way I could be libeling you. One cannot libel an anonymous figure.
Since you state you are a moderator here, do a better job of it, and learn who is in the right and in the wrong, first, before you go defend the ones who started the troubles.
You mistake what I have the issue with. I don't care what happened between you and Clone. Really. Your stupid links aren't going to make me care. Nothing you can post will make me care. My intent was not to defend Clone. My intent has been, all along, to make you aware that you're annoying, and that it pisses me off, and to ask/tell you to stop. Really, you're like an immature eight-year-old. "Waaah waah waah he started it". Grow up. Get some help. Drink a beer, take a pill, or smoke some weed, if that's what it takes. Chill out dude.
I was hoping that you'd get the point, and shut the fuck up. Oh well, I guess you're either too wound up, or too obtuse, to understand that I really don't care about you or your arguments. I'm just sick of seeing them, which is why I posted.
Now that I've reiterated it for the nth time, you should get it. But I fully expect you to make another ridiculous post where you try to defend your actions by linking to some post by some other anonymous figure I don't care about. Really, I don't care who wrote what or when they did it. I just want you to understand that, regardless of anyone else's behavior, your behavior is a shitty way to participate in an online community.
No less than your post was, and I said something I felt it was important to say.
Clone's the one who said he would get his "legal options" involved, so where are they??? Perhaps he won't try to do so because he libeled someone here first, and trolled them first also????
Let it go, man, let it go. Clone's not the one I see stalking users of slashdot and bringing in the off-topic tripe on every post. You're the one I see doing that. You did it to me because you didn't like what I had to say. You're obviously not mature enough to handle regular discussion.
"if you choose to continue to harass me I will be forced to pursue my legal options." - by clone53421 (1310749)
on Tuesday April 06, @08:59AM (#31746938) Journal
I've read several of the exchanges. It's clear to me you went there first.
I swear, I know eight-year-olds who are more mature than you. Let it go, man, let it go. I don't give a flying fuck about your argument with Clone. What I do give a fuck about is you threadshitting all over the place. I thought this time I'd respond to one of your posts since I'm sick of using my mod points on your crapfloods.
If you want decent precision with a minimum of effort, why not use a Dremel tool?
I'm not very good at precision work with files, etc, but the Dremel makes it much easier for me. Especially if I can work off a template or set up a jig.
Seriously. Your bullshit, even if true, has no place on slashdot where it is offtopic, crass, and a distraction to everyone who is a user of slashdot.
Get your shit together, man. Either fucking sic your lawyers on Clone, and let them deal with it, or shut the fuck up.
And if you really do have lawyers on retainer who are advising you, I'm sure they'd say the same thing (albeit in different words) as I'm going to say right now:
You're not doing yourself any favors by continuing your bullshit on slashdot. You don't help any case you could build on past actions, but you do potentially hurt any case you could build.
Seriously. Get the fuck off slashdot with your threadshitting. I'm sick of seeing your bullshit posts, true or not. Even if you're 100% in the right, you're doing nothing but pissing people off. You have nothing to gain by chasing this white whale of yours.
Do us all a favor. Do yourself a favor. Stop posting here.
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Hasn't been a problem for me at all. I'm driving my wife's old Civic for commuting, it's a mid-90s model with some 220k miles on it. No problems with rust or corrosion on it, despite having been driven on wet salty roads each winter for a decade and a half.
Isn't that how genetic algorithms start out?
But anyway, get a thousand start-ups trying a thousand different compensation mechanisms (that's what this is, after all, not doing anything about the underlying cause). Some fail spectacularly. Some don't really do anything cost-effectively. A small few are successful, and change the world.
Who knows. For $300k, no big deal. Worth a shot.
I hear ya... but I gave in long ago. I've adapted to a righty world. I now do almost everything righty, since that's what most tools are designed for. I still write left-handed, but that's just about the only thing I haven't converted yet.
It was annoying for the first 5 or so years, but now I'm completely used to it.
Lefties are never going to be 100% supported; better to get used to doing things righty, it'll make for a lot less frustration.
Plus, your girlfriend/boyfriend/otherfriend will appreciate your ambidexterity, if you ever get the chance to make use of it.
Still trolling, huh? Can't let it go?
Have you made an appointment for a clinical evaluation yet? You really need some counseling and/or meds.
And FYI, I post as myself only. I do not post as AC, nor do I have sockpuppet accounts, nor am I a sockpuppet of another account. Please stop attributing posts of others to me.
You have to consider the strategic value of these bases as well. Hawaii is important as a site for a naval base because of its location. Having a cheaper-to-run naval base on the coast of Florida will be worth squat if we ever get into it with China.
Yes, cost of operation is something to consider -- but the location-dependent utility of the base must also be considered.
Oh, you poor deluded bastard. You have no idea of how this site works.
Go back to a forum where they want your company... if you can find one.
Haven't been through "sensitivity training" recently, have you?
It's not just unwanted sexual advances. Any unwanted behavior of a sexual nature can be grounds for a successful suit.
Ah, yes, the very highest quality keyboards -- apparently, they are operable hands-free. For the wanking sessions.
What if it's just a fetchbot getting a scalpel for a surgeon, a knife for a chef? Just imagine the tragedies this could prevent!
Buttercup: "Fetchbot, fetch me that pitcher"
Fetchbot:"As you wish"
Buttercup: "That's not a pitcher, that's a knife! And you're stabbing me with it! Aaaagh"
Yeah, I know. I read the Clone threads, some of your threads with him... some of the other ones on slashdot.
I also mosied (moseyed?) over to ars technica to read some highly amusing threads from 2002 with this moron. There were also some good ones on other sites. This guy makes Pudge seem positively normal.
Wait.. I thought you were just asking me what sex was like?
Something isn't adding up here...
Messy. Less fulfilling than expected. And the child processes are a hassle to maintain.
I've seen 'em. Eddie Bauer has them this season. Although it'd have to be a slightly loose interpretation of "business casual".
I'm not a big fan of this. If I lose my wallet, then someone has access to my house along with a nice laminated card telling them where I live. I wouldn't want to tempt fate (or a prospective burglar).
Use your imagination.
It's so she can lay in wait for him, (mostly) naked, with dimmed lights and romantic music playing, posed provocatively on her bed. All while trusting that only he (holder of the Sacred Keys of I-Gave-You-Unfettered-Access-Where's-My-Ring) can enter her abode and ravish her.
Having the girlfriend's housekeys can lead to all kinds of laying-in-wait-for-him goodness, very few of which involve a blunt object and a trip to the hospital.
The key to that lock is metaphysical.
Or a plasma cutter.
Depending on your burnt-flesh-stench preferences.
Just don't lock anything. And leave your car key in your car's ignition.
I mean, it's still illegal to steal stuff, so no one's going to.
Seriously, though... when I had a mess of keys, I had the same problem. You've mentioned a couple issues that need to be addressed.
1. Emergency backup. One option is to make friends with your neighbors and give them a key if you trust them. Another is to have a backup key near your pad with a combination lock on it's case. You can also buy these for your car, you can attach them under the chassis. They also have ones you install behind a license plate -- you'll need some WD40 and a wrench to get at that one probably, but it's pretty secure.
2. Jingling mass of back-spasm inducing keys on a ring. To reduce jingling, get those plastic colored things that go over the head of the key. It'll help. To reduce the mess of keys, consider storing the infrequently used ones elsewhere. Like in a locked case in your glovebox, or somewhere at home.
What I did:
Installed new locks on my house, all part of a set. A single key lets me open any door, including activating the motorized garage door. If you rent, see if your landlord would go for it. It's not hard to install new locks, and a complete set might run $150-200 on the cheap end (my set was $180 four years ago). I have a lanyard with a house key dupe and my bike lock key on it. When I go for a ride or to run errands on it, I leave behind my other keys and grab the lanyard.
For emergency backup, I have a spare house-key in a combination-lock case hidden on my property, and the same for my car. Someone I implicitly trust, who is an emergency medical contact, also has a copy.
One other note... a fishing buddy of mine rigged a laptop strap with pockets that snap shut he sewed onto one side of the pad. Fashionable? Not remotely. But it allows him to keep his keys on him, jingle-free, when we're on a stream.
Well, the fat finger may have triggered the sell-off, but it probably would have happened anyway, albeit in a more controlled manner. Everyone's a little antsy with the Greece situation right now, and the market was eventually going to reflect the increased instability there.
Might I suggest sandwiches? As one expert so presciently said:
What, write Space Invader clones in BASIC for the Commodore PET?
That's what I did, anyway.
Ah. So your point is that (1) I'm lying and (2) I'm powerless.
I happen to know that (1) is false -- I have not stated anything I believe to be false. Expressions of personal opinions are not lies, even if you disagree with them.
(2) I may be somewhat powerless, but I'm not absolutely powerless.
I have the power to compel you to respond to my posts.
Go ahead. See if you're man enough to withstand my powers of Troll Compulsion. Can you really hold back from responding to my posts? Or will you prove my power once and for all? ONCE AND FOR ALL!
See, here's the thing. You're an ineffective buttplug that spews crapfloods on the internet. I don't care what happened between you and Clone. When you write lengthy responses trying to "prove" something that I don't give a flying fuck about, all you do is make me more powerful. Soon I will be more powerful than you could ever hope to imagine. Mwua-ha-ha-ha.
In the meantime, you can continue wasting your time arguing with someone who thinks you're an idiot. I'm starting to enjoy it. At first I laughed at you. Then I pitied you for your poor mental health. But now it's full circle, and I'm laughing at you again. Because you don't even *realize* how foolish you look.
Nothing Clone or anyone else writes could ever do as much harm to your reputation as your posting style does today.
Does it matter if I have a degree in psychiatry? I believe you are insane. Whether or not you consider my opinion to be valid is a different story. The reason I believe you are insane is because you keep repeating the same actions, somehow expecting the outcome to be different. Whether the general public would consider my assertion that you are insane to be fact is also different.
Maybe you need a lawyer, since you are not aware of what conditions are necessary to support a tortuous claim of libel.
There is no way I could be libeling you. One cannot libel an anonymous figure.
You mistake what I have the issue with. I don't care what happened between you and Clone. Really. Your stupid links aren't going to make me care. Nothing you can post will make me care. My intent was not to defend Clone. My intent has been, all along, to make you aware that you're annoying, and that it pisses me off, and to ask/tell you to stop. Really, you're like an immature eight-year-old. "Waaah waah waah he started it". Grow up. Get some help. Drink a beer, take a pill, or smoke some weed, if that's what it takes. Chill out dude.
I was hoping that you'd get the point, and shut the fuck up. Oh well, I guess you're either too wound up, or too obtuse, to understand that I really don't care about you or your arguments. I'm just sick of seeing them, which is why I posted.
Now that I've reiterated it for the nth time, you should get it. But I fully expect you to make another ridiculous post where you try to defend your actions by linking to some post by some other anonymous figure I don't care about. Really, I don't care who wrote what or when they did it. I just want you to understand that, regardless of anyone else's behavior, your behavior is a shitty way to participate in an online community.
What's your point?
That you have an axe to grind?
I couldn't care less about your argument with Clone. I really don't give two shits about who did what first. I don't care who started it.
You're not getting anything accomplished here. So why bother?
Irrelevant.
Irrelevant. I'm a member of the community here.
Yes.
No less than your post was, and I said something I felt it was important to say.
Let it go, man, let it go. Clone's not the one I see stalking users of slashdot and bringing in the off-topic tripe on every post. You're the one I see doing that. You did it to me because you didn't like what I had to say. You're obviously not mature enough to handle regular discussion.
I've read several of the exchanges. It's clear to me you went there first.
I swear, I know eight-year-olds who are more mature than you. Let it go, man, let it go. I don't give a flying fuck about your argument with Clone. What I do give a fuck about is you threadshitting all over the place. I thought this time I'd respond to one of your posts since I'm sick of using my mod points on your crapfloods.
If you want decent precision with a minimum of effort, why not use a Dremel tool?
I'm not very good at precision work with files, etc, but the Dremel makes it much easier for me. Especially if I can work off a template or set up a jig.
APK,
Fuck off.
Seriously. Your bullshit, even if true, has no place on slashdot where it is offtopic, crass, and a distraction to everyone who is a user of slashdot.
Get your shit together, man. Either fucking sic your lawyers on Clone, and let them deal with it, or shut the fuck up.
And if you really do have lawyers on retainer who are advising you, I'm sure they'd say the same thing (albeit in different words) as I'm going to say right now:
You're not doing yourself any favors by continuing your bullshit on slashdot. You don't help any case you could build on past actions, but you do potentially hurt any case you could build.
Seriously. Get the fuck off slashdot with your threadshitting. I'm sick of seeing your bullshit posts, true or not. Even if you're 100% in the right, you're doing nothing but pissing people off. You have nothing to gain by chasing this white whale of yours.
Do us all a favor. Do yourself a favor. Stop posting here.