@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@momurda said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watched Solo last night. Had no idea Ron Howard was the director.
This was really good.

Ron Howard I think was the 2nd or 3rd director on the project. It apparently was a nightmare during production.

Still haven't seen it, it's on my list.

George Burns was right, show business is a horrible bitch goddess!
-- Bart Simpson

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got done trouble shooting a kitchen printer problem

Is it covered in grease and the floor so slippery you think you're on an ice skating rink? That's my experience.

@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Kitchen is off limits this morning because of an audit, which means no caffeine for me this morning.

They're raiding the fridge are they?

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Then outsources to India, pays 10x as much, but still claims he got a really good deal and couldn't afford that old IT guy always demanding things like "working equipment" and money for "licenses".

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying a forced 1809 install as the existing system can't patch.

I can't even force it with the upgrade assistant

Is it wrong I read that "thank you" in a passive aggressive and sarcastic tone? Seems fitting.

@DustinB3403 I'll try that next time instead of tourist blood I have been using

@scottalanmiller said in How far will bitcoin and other cryptos fall?:

@IRJ said in How far will bitcoin and other cryptos fall?:

@Harry-Lui said in How far will bitcoin and other cryptos fall?:

0 is the answer, eventually. Could be 1 year from now, 5 years from now, 20 years from now, etc.

That's a true statement. With the exception of precious metals, every currency will eventually be 0.

Precious metals are the same. Only precious because we randomly say so. It's so arbitrary to associate some metals as having crazy value. Almost identical to paper money. It's worth a lot, only because someone says so.

That runs contrary to the terrible logic of metal backed currencies though, such as claims that gold/silver/whatever has always had value to mankind/been precious which is #1 not true and #2 not universal, this lack of seeing gold as super precious, rare, and valuable was one of the ways the Spanish got over on the Natives of South America.

Nevertheless, metals do have value in that they have industrial use. It's extraordinarily primitive and backward to hoard it to put another currency in front if it, and ironically, that doesn't stop inflation or any other problems, both the arbitrary price change in the value of metals hurting the currency and over printing of currency which happens every time metal backed currency is in use. The reason is because there's far more value in the world than there are precious metals to back them unless you arbitrary pretend even more so that the metals are worth more than they really are. This didn't work for Spain when tons of gold flooded in and it sure doesn't work for rapidly expanding industrial economies of today.

Plus the weird idea that Steven Schiff kept pushing was "bitcoin will never be used because it's not backed by anything," which is like saying the US Dollar won't be used because of Nixon finally removing any metal backing it had. He promotes extremely pre-capitalist views of monetary policy. Under such a nightmare of gold backed dollar you'll have cars and milk either having the same value or having to create new micro-cent values to deal with the fact there's vastly far more value than metal. This in addition to any industrial purpose gold, silver, etc have will be basically removed and the available uses will be so expensive as to cause the average person to not be able to afford items with it, and interest rates will explode because nobody will want to loan due to the hugely retracting value vs currency.

If you want a monetary system fiat is the only way to go. How you manage it is a totally different story, there's no reason to suggest that Keynesian economics is linked with it, even though that's a leap often made to a crazy degree.

I just think about the mad over pricing of gold some years ago, if the currency were backed by gold at that time, the purchasing value of it would have gone up, until gold prices went down either the banking system would have to pretend it didn't happen which is extremely dangerous or they would have to retract value of everything in return.

As for bitcoin and other coins go, yeah people pump and dump and the instability basically makes it a casino, but that's not what most people I know, including myself use it for, it's used to near-instantly convert currency and/or purchase things, and very little time is spent as bitcoin. I never would keep any more stable hard currency as bitcoin. I think people in the west often lack the experience of dealing with two currencies at the same time, one stable and one unstable, the idea that one which is unstable is useless or a scam is missing its use, especially when it comes to dealing with states (governments) and grey/black markets. There's also black market currency values as well but that's not really relevant to bitcoin.

I remember a time when depending on what items you bought or services rendered, you paid either in a hard currency (typically USD, later also EUR, sometimes GBP) or just regular currency (like roubles or whatever). The services and items aren't the same anymore, but the double use is plenty useful. Perhaps bitcoin won't last into the future in the same way, but it or something else like it will continue to exist much like p2p or torrents in order to deal with both legal and illegal exchanges of money, and sometimes it's not illegal because of illict drugs or crime, but because of dictatorships, because of embargoes, and so on.

... I was kind of all over the place there.

tl;dr the rise and fall of the price doesn't matter with bitcoin so long as you are just using it as a way to quickly convert currency either to move money or buy items/services otherwise unavailable. If you sit on it, it's basically like playing slot machines.

@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

American schools are funny. My daughter once got detention (for talking during some silent reading thing) when we were living in New York, and I told her to just not go, what can they do? I mean it's American public schools in the 21st century, they're basically powerless babies. So she didn't, and then they gave her more, and I said don't go. Finally they called me to tell me that she was suspended for two days for skipping detention, and I said "so the worst punishment you could think of was to give her a vacation?"

When I was in school they'd beat the hell out of me, that still didn't make me really any more of a good student. I think I hated literally every damn minute of school aside from chasing skirt or eating lunch; not because I hate learning, I love it, I just hate the way schools are organised and make learning something worth hating.

University was different, since I was paying for it personally I cared more. If you think this means I'd make my daughter go to detention in a private school, such as an English-language private school in Moscow, think again, detention is a joke. If my kids do something bad enough, I'll hit punish them myself, almost forgot I was talking to a lot of people raised on Dr. Spock (who gave a lot of great, terrible advice leading to many deaths over the years and continues to, now he promotes veganism).

We now home school as of a couple of years ago, my kids know more than their peers probably because a lot of school today is just wasting time, especially schools based on American and UK learning methods (since America copied the UK with no child left behind), that is to say: nothing matters but maths and reading, and we'll do the bare minimum to teach them that so we all don't get in trouble, meanwhile we pretend to care about "STEM" careers yet do essentially nothing to help interest children in them. I know that's not an option thought for most people, though, and some kids need brutal, rigid structure.

I don't associate with really any other home schooling parents, aside from SAM I guess, because so many nut jobs and weirdos homeschool their kids, or "unschool" them, i.e. teach them basically nothing. I mean what could go wrong being taught by a crazed shell shocked father who studied nuclear science and programs for a living now?

My wife does most of the teaching, for reasons which may be apparent.

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

@scottalanmiller I have, unfortunately. Just like in Kentucky, the town of Versailles is always called Versales. People should know better.

Once when looking at a map of Connecticut with someone from Connecticut, I pointed out Versailles saying something like "Maybe if we go through Versai", and he said "What?", I repeated it pointing specifically at the name, and he said "Oh, it's pronounced Versales." I just said "Yeah, I don't think so."

I ran into a very similar problem in Kansas, there's several places pronounced strangely, like El Dorado, they pronounce "El Doraydo" and will constantly incorrect you if you pronounce it correctly. And there's an area of Wichita called Delano, as in Franklin Delano Roosevelt. You guessed it, how everyone else in the world says it is wrong, it's "Duh-layno"

Then again there's a lot about Kansas I don't understand, like how the highways have the most inexplicably short merging lanes where people slam on brakes, every time I've driven into Kansas from another state the first thing I've noticed is the long lines to exit because of merging lanes, on top of they put stop lights at the top of cloverleaf interchanges to make sure that you are able to defeat the entire purpose of them existing, not to mention the merge lines on those tend to be no more than a car length or two.

In addition to... people stop and begin to turn without being in turning lanes, or stop abruptly and turn into parking lots from roads as slow as humanly possible as though the street will explode if they go over 1mph. And instead of saying "You're welcome" they just say "Yeah" or "Uh-Huh". One weirder thing I noticed is a strange number of people, but by no means even a majority, but a small enough minority to where it stands out to me, when they say Good bye on the phone, and only the phone, they'll say "mmmm bye"... a lot of sex shops next door to churches. One way signs pointing two different directions when there's a median, this one is just needlessly stupid.

And finally the belief that everyone in almost every state has: the weather changes so much if you just wait 5 minutes it'll be different, that's what makes our state unique even though almost every other damn state says that.

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

33 degress C & off to the beach!

Can’t upvote that enough

-9C and snowing a bit here. Love it.

Eeeeeewwww. Downvote for you

Aw not cool, hurting my rep. And as a street thug, my rep is all I have

@mlnews Before I read the text I also read "Salsa", the question is I think: is Salsa a good grade or a bad one? Also is the fact it is in red ink indicative of it being hot salsa? Perhaps there's a correlation there because orange/yellow salsa was not used?

@Obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Lol I did that on purpose on there before because of the tone someone gave me.

It really sucks when you find the same question you had and someone does say "I figured it out" and just leaves with no other information. My last account was banned for, among other things, replying to one of these people (there were no other answers so it wasn't a situation like yours) by saying "F--- you" not censored though. I did get at least a couple of up votes for that. This was a long time ago back when there wasn't a minimal limit nor weird auto-deleting things for comments.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Going through Linux flash cards while waiting for haircut

Linux is stupid, I only use AmigaOS

Multiuser? Pfft, what do I want to get syphilis?

@scotth said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@jmoore said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerB Photocopy machine, really?

You've never setup your copy machine as a DC? Well, you sir are an amateur! Amateur I say!

And cron daemon

Let's see if we can't get Exchange installed on a Rico.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

It only takes a second to find countless articles claiming white rice is good for you, for example..

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/is-white-rice-bad-for-you
https://www.practo.com/healthfeed/which-rice-is-best-for-losing-weight-3529/post
https://www.verywellfit.com/lifters-still-choose-white-rice-over-brown-3121319
https://fearlesseating.net/why-white-rice-is-good-for-you/
https://www.25doctors.com/is-white-rice-bad-for-you

I don't eat anything my ancient ancestors did not eat. As a result I am starving due to lack of megafauna to hunt.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Drinking:

Some red Argentinian wine. Yum

He says as he sips it from a Pringles can as he roams around a Wal-Mart parking lot on a mobility scooter.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

You BOTH had the suite jackets on, what's the world coming to? Besides CIO meetings anyway :face_screaming_in_fear:

Suit jackets and jeans?

The world may never know.

Well, we can wait for the police report if they showed up with no pants at all.

@WrCombs said in Couples Nest Security Hacked:

@tonyshowoff said in Couples Nest Security Hacked:

Crackers, not hackers bro.

Or whatever 1980s, early 90s jargon file stuff people tried to recapture from the media. I am a total green hat, I will be as black or white hat as you pay me to be and I've been paid well to do really mundane shit over the years and sometimes fun stuff.

HA I love it Green Hat cause Ill do what you pay me for

That's right, everything, everything you want -> mildly NSFW

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs I hope they lock her ass up

She's been in jail since, The kicker?

She already had her license suspended for 6 DUI's, 3 driving under suspensions, and unrelated, she was found guilty on charges of theft and shoplifting, and facing fraud charges.

Well I realise it's an unpopular thought these days but someone like that is totally un-reformable and clearly is incapable of properly interacting with the rest of society. In other words if I were "in charge" or what have you, I'd consider this situation a capital crime. I'd also not wait 30 years to carry out that punishment [America] and waste tax payers dollars and thus making capital punishment "expensive." It's actually really cheap if you actually do it.

She got the max - 18-20 years in prison. Parole eligible in 10 license suspended for 15.

So she'll be allowed to drive while in prison potentially?

yep : she's eligible for parole in 10 years though...
so if she gets parole, then she'll go 5 years without being able to drive, and have to pay a huge fine.

I'd be sure to go to her hearing in 10 years, if nothing else than to support your friend while he explains that she gets to keep her life and his father doesn't.