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@art_of_shred I think the point is completely lost in there. Electric vehicles are the future and they will be much better for the environment. While today's technology may not be perfect that is how we humans progress - one step at a time. It sounds like you are arguing that we shouldn't bother and just continue our destructive ways. That is not progressing anything.

Nope, I'm all for advancing technology and I hope sometime in the near future we can have efficient electric cars. Today is not that day, and by arguing for current electric vehicles like they are actually more efficient and better for the environment than gassers is flat-out garbage.

They are actually more efficient and pollute less, even given coal fired electricity. Batteries can be recycled. The whole car can be recycled, same with petroleum fired ones.

I don't buy that for a second, but there's no point in arguing it.

@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@art_of_shred I think the point is completely lost in there. Electric vehicles are the future and they will be much better for the environment. While today's technology may not be perfect that is how we humans progress - one step at a time. It sounds like you are arguing that we shouldn't bother and just continue our destructive ways. That is not progressing anything.

Nope, I'm all for advancing technology and I hope sometime in the near future we can have efficient electric cars. Today is not that day, and by arguing for current electric vehicles like they are actually more efficient and better for the environment than gassers is flat-out garbage.

They are actually more efficient and pollute less, even given coal fired electricity. Batteries can be recycled. The whole car can be recycled, same with petroleum fired ones.

I don't buy that for a second, but there's no point in arguing it.

Don't take my word for it, that's F(@*#! cancerous. GO DO THE RESEARCH.

You can find studies that swear to either side of the debate. I have.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Taunting the Americans. Look how fast and cheap internet is in Europes slowest country.

What does that say at the bottom? For the best time anywhere around here, consult Sara?

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

New distortion pedal, hand made in Brazil:

Those are some mean chicken-heads!

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

New distortion pedal, hand made in Brazil:

Those are some mean chicken-heads!

And the brand name doesn't exactly ward off the notion that it was made by some former Nazi officer living in South America either... But maybe "Fuhrmann" is a Brazilian name, eh?

Yeah, I saw X-Men First Class...

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got muted by someone on SW, but not during a discussion. Very odd. I've never been muted when not saying anything before.

Some times you just rub people the wrong way, try switching hands...

But who, and where?

I'd suggest start randomly rubbing people with your other hand and see if they perk up.... to many grumpy people to know who specifically muted you...

Was it @Dominica who muted you? Are you in the dog house?

Ok, so we have it clearly established here that @DustinB3403 thinks of Dominica as a grumpy person. That is all.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I went to the local Spicecorps meeting last night... 3 attendees. But I did win the door prize... a 3 pack of Ubiquiti WAPs, complete w/ the latest FW and a thumb drive w/ Unifi controller software.

That's a win

It really is. Because the support contract on the free Meraki WAP expires in a couple of weeks. So the company can buy 1 from me.

For $1 dollar cheaper than retail and shipping I assume

Or a dollar more. He has a long-standing relationship and that has to count for something.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

10% of all SW posts are something like "how would you deal with this situation" and it is always someone asking something that sounds semi-reasonable until you dig into it and realize that every answer is the same: "find the person in charge, let them know of the issue, do your job as directed." Essentially every SMB IT "how do I deal with this" question I see comes down to the same issue of an IT employee not liking a situation or event, trying to take ownership of something they are not responsible for and trying to figure out how to deal with it when, the real issue is, they are overstepping their bounds and are not letting the chain of command make decisions.

This is just basic employment. What is it about SMB IT that makes people feel like the chain of command is no longer applicable?

I can't upvote this post enough. SO TRUE. I'm surprised you say only 10%, to be honest.

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Gut the interior, install roll cage, race seats + 6.0L LS engine + manual transmission. Just the right amount of sheer stupidity, danger and fun I want.

https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/rds/cto/5955040965.html

So you want to drop a GM drivetrain in it? Smart!

The irony is that I could not actually install a motor in it with MORE displacement than it has now lol

460ci / 7.54L is a freaking monstrous dinosaur and it only made I think ~300hp brand spanking new on leaded gasoline (super high octane)

I give you...

1970 Cadillac 500 c.i.d.
400 hp (298 kW) @ 4400 rpm
550 lb·ft (750 N·m) @ 3000 rpm

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

sick day....

trying to sleep more, but head is pounding...

...so you're posting on ML?

If I'm sick enough to be home - you can bet your ass, if I'm awake I'd be on ML.

I'm home every day, but I don't get sick days, so it's all foreign to me. I think I slept in a little once when I was feeling really lousy.

LOL - true. But then again you're on call 24/7. Most SMB IT folks I know aren't.

Not entirely. I make it a point to see everything, 24/7, but only choose to do anything about it M-F/8-5.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

This basically sums up college.

And for those of you who might not get it, that should be "who's" and not "whose".

@ChrisL said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@BRRABill said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@ChrisL said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@Grey WE CAN'T ALL LIVE LIKE KINGS.

Like BB(q) KING.

Just a guy strumming on his meat guitar

Sounds like something completely different to me...

@Grey said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

I used my free pizza credit from Domino's tonight. They screwed up the order, but caught it during their quality check. As a result, I got two pizzas for free.

The good news is you got free pizza. The bad news is that it's Domino's.

The funny thing is that Bumblebee was a VW Beetle originally. Since the first Transformers movie was basically a paid ad for GM, I guess that wasn't going to fly.

This Sunday is the benefit for my friend (guitarist) Brennan. We're playing at the thing, but Brennan is not playing, our other guitarist is going to be in FL (so I'll be playing guitar and a drummer friend is filling in on drums) and today our singer just came down sick. I'm not sure how this is going to go down; hoping he will pull through and be in shape to sing come Sunday...

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

If the guy driving the quad was sober, what's the issue? Why is this newsworthy? lol

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If only...

@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@art_of_shred said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

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@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

I was Wegman's corporate guitarist a few decades ago and they treated me great and it was an awesome job. I've never met anyone else who felt that way. I worked for one of their biggest regions. I worked for corporate as a consultant for a year and a half and @andyw worked there too, also in IT. I was a consultant and it wasn't bad, I was able to name my price and work things out so that the job was okay - I literally worked with no one so it was just be making big bucks (2004 - 2005, $85/hr.) But the internal IT people, they were almost in tears every day. That job was so awful. In the department that @andyw was in, it was literally just people sitting around scrolling up and down on their computers because they had one policy that said that they could never stop working to do anything but "write code" and another policy that said that they were forbidden to do any proactive work that was not assigned and since the company was so disorganized that they could never assign work the whole department was caught in a limbo of being forbidden to talk or anything, while being forbidden to work. So they had to "look like they were working" but had to ensure that they created no actual work.

"corporate guitarist"???

Yup, salaried classical guitarist. It was an awesome job.

That ain't not bad.

It wasn't bad, it was one of those really awesome points in my life that I'm really proud of. I gave it up to move to Pittsburgh with NTG.

That's the depressing part. If I ever had an opportunity to be a salaried musician, you'd have to kill me to get me to stop. And I'd gladly kill and/or maim to keep such a position.

Carpal tunnel. I know it wasn't going to last for forever. I had a good run as a guitarist and trombonist and had medical issues that made both hard to keep going on. I kind of burned out, medically at least. I got to do some amazing stuff over a five year period in both instruments, some international work, studio work, and even got to work in music management and production with Greg Lake and ELP (and lots of local small time artists.) It was really cool, but it was time to move on.

That's when you stick a butter knife in your cramped, mangled fingers and play the blues...

So that's how slide originated? lol

I actually met an older guy that had polio as a kid, his fingers barely moved, and that's how he played slide. Ripped it, too.

Heck, you don't even need a left hand! You can duct tape a butter knife to a stump. And, it makes a pretty cool prosthesis.

Youtube Video

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How flat Earthers explain the extinction of the dinosaurs...

I love watching their videos. They have some interesting ones on Youtube. And by love I mean from a comedic "do people actually believe this" standpoint.

Even I don't go in for the flat earth and "The moon landings were faked" things, and I'm about as close as we come to being the tin-foil-hat wearing conspiracy theorist around here.

When I learned that there was a substantial movement pushing the "flat Earth" position, I gave it an honest look. It took about 2 minutes to "flatly" disprove the whole load of crap. You don't even have to be very scientific at all to realize that's a complete load of BS. lol

On the other hand, the notion of dinosaurs randomly flying through space is at least worth a good chuckle.