Working on a feature for blind people because my major competitor has released something which does that. This irritates me, I didn't even bother making my website friendly for blind people at all, now I have to do all this extra work. How many blind people listen to porn anyway? Son of ... there goes my week. At least I got someone else working on making layout changes.
I didn't see this coming
A pun and double entendre.
Where is everyone?
Your mom's house.
@JaredBusch I should've been included in your top 3 because I definitely am at the top of the list of "most irritating to other users." I've had at least three people say the reason they stopped using Spiceworks Community is because of me.
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Driving to one of the largest peddlers markets with my wife here in northern Germany. Weather doesn't look good...
Looks perfect to me, better than that blinding, hot, sunshine BS Americans try to sell so they can pretend their weather is more bearable.
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Driving to one of the largest peddlers markets with my wife here in northern Germany. Weather doesn't look good...
Looks perfect to me, better than that blinding, hot, sunshine BS Americans try to sell so they can pretend their weather is more bearable.
Yeah, I don't care about missing sunshine and whatever. At least there was no rain. We have a common saying here in Hamburg: There is no such thing like bad weather, just wrong clothes.
Oh, fischkopf winking emoji. Daenisch hat aehnliche spruch "der findes intet der hedder daarligt vejr kun daarligt paaklaedning"
Edit: Emojis not working again?
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Morning everyone, just drinking my coffee, and preparing to move my servers to the server rooms.
No longer working out keeping them on the roof, huh? 
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This just seems like an anti trust issue.
Americans still putting everything above ground so it can easily be knocked out by storms, drunk drivers, trees, etc? Explains why my power went out at least once a month like it was North Korea or something. I will say this, I have better utility reliance in Russia than anywhere I've ever lived in America.
I would agree it is definitely an antitrust issue, just as Microsoft threatened to delicense companies like Compaq if they installed Netscape.
@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
If I could just laugh about this... There are strange things going on over in Turkey:
- http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-erdogan-meet-cant-mend-fences/a-19390316
- http://www.dw.com/en/mps-threaten-to-block-military-cooperation-with-turkey/a-19389205
PS: MPs means "Member/s of the (German) Parliament"
They hate Kurds more than they hate ISIS, so they bomb Kurdish positions in Syria that are fighting ISIS, and at the same time Erdogan claims that "Kurdish independence [in a difference country] is more dangerous to Turkey than ISIS," meanwhile ISIS has killed hundreds and hundreds of people in Turkey. The biggest joke of all is the US doesn't call them out on this and in fact kisses their butts to an insane and disgusting degree.
Even now, every US president since Truman has promised to recognise the Armenian genocide, but suddenly when Turkey says "no," the US president bows. It's all disgusting, Turkey bullies ethnic minorities in other countries meanwhile claims they don't do this at all, and it's everyone else who is trying to kill Turks.
Merkel should tell Turkey to go to hell, why should Germany help a country which helps ISIS on a daily basis? Glad to see at least for once Germans aren't on the side of evil, am I right
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
US forces have been wearing the insignia of the Perg Mersha recently. The US seems to be changing its stance slowly in the last year. But if Trump wins the election, the US will likely be totally pawns again with no thinking of their own.
Do you mean the YPG? I saw nothing at all wrong with that, it's been done before, and it wasn't a big deal until Turkey stomped their feet and whined about it like a bunch of big ass babies, then the US suddenly says "oh no, they shouldn't have done that, it was wrong!" What the hell is going on with this? Turkey is such a dump, why does the US care so much?
You can sum it up with Erdogan's statement a few weeks ago that "The Kurds [in Syria] are a bigger threat to Turkey than ISIS," and how many YPG/SDF terrorist attacks have there been in Turkey? Zero, how many ISIS? A decent amount, and this statement comes after the ISIS attack on the air port there recently as well, which the Turkish media initially claimed was Kurdish terrorists. My brother who lives in Istanbul has told me apparently every single time there's an ISIS attack, they initially claim it's some Kurdish group, and when it turns out not to be, they back off and don't even talk about it anymore.
It's profoundly racist and bizarre and I constantly see Turks online defend it or even say it's the other way around. A few weeks ago I saw a post on Reddit of some Turkish guy saying that all the Kurds live so much better than Turks, they're "wealthy" and all Turks live in slums. It was a really bizarre and backward statement, and if not for his other posts I'd assume he was just a troll. He's not the only one, you can find this constantly. There are Turks who aren't like this, unfortunately most don't seem to talk online about the issues at hand.
In addition to Armenian genocide denial which is official government policy, now there's a Turkish government sponsored web site (which I won't link to as to not help their rankings) which promotes not just denial, but claims the reverse is true, it was the mighty Ottoman Empire which was being haplessly attacked by Armenians, not the other way around and all the images of dead Armenians at the hands of Turks are actually dead Turks at the hands of Armenians, these Armenians just happen to look like Turks and wear Turkish military uniforms and clothing. The same thing is happening now with Kurds.
As I stated on that other thread which mentioned this:
Most IT people I've known would be dead, rarely ever do they think with logic. It's the only outcome of a thought process such as "I changed my grandma's video card, therefore I'm a computer expert now because she says I am." In other words, people who think they're smart, rarely ever are and will be the first to die because they think their decisions are informed and infallible. I can tell you having lived through an actual war myself, "smart" people tend to be those who move around a lot, know how to hide well, and don't take sides. I imagine a zombie situation wouldn't be that much different. Additionally because I did take sides in said war and had close calls, I can assure you I am not smart.
Additionally still being smart has no bearing on one's ability to properly dispose of human waste or find good drinking water. I learned how to do that in the military, I sure as hell didn't learn it in any of my Computer Science courses whilst I was studying for something completely unrelated I couldn't find a job in. On that thought, side note, most of the people on that Preppers show would die too, they're all really, really stupid, and the fact they'd go on the show is the #1 reason.
So, I don't really give much credence at all to this idea that IT people think logically and would be able to survive more. It's sort of like suggesting that IT people would automatically be better at football because there's logic and structure behind the rules and plays. This isn't just football or war, this is beyond the scope or horror of either, and yet they'll suddenly be kings? lol, no chance in hell.
Most IT people are incompetent morons who think too highly of themselves and think they are far more capable than they actually are. The people who are most likely to survive in a zombie apocalypse are the same who survive in regular wars, normal people with varying backgrounds who stay on the move, don't fight, and simply hide. This goes or IT people, doctors, any people to answer the OP.
If your plan is to fight, you're already dead.
(Side note: I think the only decent depiction "realistic" of zombies is in 28 Days Later, not that it's my favourite zombie movie at all, but let's be logical here, if a bullet to the head can kill something, other things like disease and starvation will too. Romero Zombies are effectively magic, and so it's fun to consider them, but if you want to plan this out for real it's a joke, it's like worrying about sea horses coming onto land and killing us. And people do really consider it to be real, I've seen some stupid preppers act like big babies arguing over it. I like that show because it's the only place you can see a grown man cry because a gun was too loud.)
@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@tonyshowoff said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
Speaking of Walking Dead and 28 Days Later, was I the only person who was like "f'kng seriously?!" when both of them started the same way, were the writers that unoriginal?
Do they really? I've only seen 28 Days Later, not the Walking Dead.
Yeah cop wakes up in hospital from coma and everyone's gone, it's exactly the same.
I stopped watching Walking Dead after the second episode of the second season. I got tired of everyone except "bad guys" looking beautiful all the time, something that really bothers me about American TV. It's off putting because also like that show Revolution, it's been years since everything fell apart and they still look like they just came from a spa weekend? Give me a break. I'm not saying people on TV should be regular ugly people like East Enders, but if you used what they do now with say... Seinfeld, imagine if Elaine looked like <insert modern beautiful woman> it'd throw everything off.
@thwr said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@gjacobse said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
Stepping back to some fundamental items:
Generating Power using combustion
** Makes noise and would draws attention.
** Requires Fuel of some kind. Petrol products 'expire' and are limited in supply.
** Requires Fuel storage - which can be a hazard and liability, and difficult to relocate.Generating Power using Solar
** Requires space for panels.
** Has to be 'banked' for poor solar exposure days (clouds, darkness)
** Has to be converted to run AC devicesYou can generate fuel to run a generator, but it is a process - needs time, resources, and space.
There are other ways of generating electricity, using steam power; either solar based or fuel based - fuel being petrol or biomass... again - needs space and generates some noise.
Keep in mind that solar panels (photovoltaic cells) will degrade over time, same is true for the batteries. They will degrade even faster. While solar panels are OK for like 20 or 30 years, you will need to replace the batteries every 5 to 10 years. Think about your UPS for example. There are technologies that let you store power in a mechanical way, like a flywheel generator, but this may be hard to find.
So something nuclear would be better, IMHO.
Slightly related, but did you ever notice how everyone seems to think libraries will vanish and everyone will forget how to read? It's really strange to me that this concept of collapse of civilisation always ends where everything goes extremely backward. That seems extremely unlikely now. Perhaps when the Western Roman Empire effectively fell apart, books weren't around really at all, most people couldn't read, and there weren't many examples of good engineering in regular people's every day lives, so it makes sense it'd all vanish. That now though seems so ridiculously unbelievable, I just completely lose interest when it's been 20 years since the war/attack/fallout/zombies/whatever and nobody's done anything or can do anything, they don't even know how to build simple crap anymore that cave people could build. What's more is in reality people also think that way. That's why I make physical copies of things like CD for the Third World, which teaches you how to do basic things like store water, plant food, etc.
I mean think about it, sure power is out, sure manufacturing has stopped, but come on, the only place I've ever seen anyone remember "dur, oh yeah libraries and things like wind power can be done by regular people" is in the TV show Jericho.
@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@tonyshowoff said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@scottalanmiller said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@gjacobse said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@thwr said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@gjacobse said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
Stepping back to some fundamental items:
Generating Power using combustion
** Makes noise and would draws attention.
** Requires Fuel of some kind. Petrol products 'expire' and are limited in supply.
** Requires Fuel storage - which can be a hazard and liability, and difficult to relocate.Generating Power using Solar
** Requires space for panels.
** Has to be 'banked' for poor solar exposure days (clouds, darkness)
** Has to be converted to run AC devicesYou can generate fuel to run a generator, but it is a process - needs time, resources, and space.
There are other ways of generating electricity, using steam power; either solar based or fuel based - fuel being petrol or biomass... again - needs space and generates some noise.
Keep in mind that solar panels (photovoltaic cells) will degrade over time, same is true for the batteries. They will degrade even faster. While solar panels are OK for like 20 or 30 years, you will need to replace the batteries every 5 to 10 years. Think about your UPS for example. There are technologies that let you store power in a mechanical way, like a flywheel generator, but this may be hard to find.
So something nuclear would be better, IMHO.
Nuclear is better until.... it goes nuclear...
Rather being the dark... They did it in the olden days..
And they died at age 30 even without zombies.
There are some anti-vaccination people determined to return to that.
I say more power to them, I don't need entitled people taking up the space I want. Let them die from SARS or Small Pox or anything else. Time and again there have been repeated studies that show and prove that vaccines don't cause autism etc.
Snopes has numerous posts about it, along with hundreds of other sites.
Listen folks, when you have to go to page 15 of google to read these kinds of thing, take a lot of salt with you!
Actually the small pox risk is created by the vaccers in this case, not the anti-vaccers. There are two distinct movements there that get lumped together. Or three.
There are people simply against vacs. These people are crazy. Polio, for example, heavily depends on vaccinations to protect people.
There there are "vaccination pacing people" who feel that vaccinations are good but how they are done is bad. Almost all doctors that I know are in this camp.
Then there are "chicken pox vaccinations are bad because chicken pox is what protects against small pox and acting like small pox is zero risk is bad" people. We don't vaccinate against small pox because chicken pox was so common that it protected naturally. Now we have started vaccinating against chicken pox, small pox is becoming a big risk because of the vaccinator push rather than because of the anti-vaccination group. This is basically a group of people that want a level of vaccination against small pox that you can't give with a needle but only with a full on chicken pox infection.
You're thinking of cow pox, not chicken pox, they won't protect you from anything except chicken pox, though it can result in shingles. So the vaccination is better. Plus smallpox was effectively wiped out anyway.
@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@scottalanmiller The general consensus that I've seen (and I don't listen to many of these people) is that all vaccines cause horrible conditions.
Now your third part sounds logical, and I'd need proof to verify it.
But a "cause" and the "Well you risk getting X if you vac against Y does exist, but Y is so many times worse than X, so you really should get the vac for Y."
like being vaccinated against chickenpox, it's a tiny issue compared to the black plague. I'd take CP over BP any day.
You can cure plague with antibiotics, assuming we're talking about traditional plague and not pneumonic plague because if that ever outbreaks out again, unless you've got the genes to prevent it (my wife does, I don't) then you're screwed.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/travel-tips-and-articles/school-of-life-why-travel-is-the-best-teacher
My kids definitely learn more traveling than at school, school is a waste of time, by the way they're homeschooled so I lied a bit, they learn more in homeschool as well. I'm just using this as an opportunity to crap on schools.
This reminds me anyway, I'm not sure if anyone mentioned it. Vaccines are one thing, but without antibiotics it'll be a lot worse. Sure, antibiotics have been overused recently, but imagine a world without them at all.
@thwr said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@gjacobse said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@thwr said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@gjacobse said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
Stepping back to some fundamental items:
Generating Power using combustion
** Makes noise and would draws attention.
** Requires Fuel of some kind. Petrol products 'expire' and are limited in supply.
** Requires Fuel storage - which can be a hazard and liability, and difficult to relocate.Generating Power using Solar
** Requires space for panels.
** Has to be 'banked' for poor solar exposure days (clouds, darkness)
** Has to be converted to run AC devicesYou can generate fuel to run a generator, but it is a process - needs time, resources, and space.
There are other ways of generating electricity, using steam power; either solar based or fuel based - fuel being petrol or biomass... again - needs space and generates some noise.
Keep in mind that solar panels (photovoltaic cells) will degrade over time, same is true for the batteries. They will degrade even faster. While solar panels are OK for like 20 or 30 years, you will need to replace the batteries every 5 to 10 years. Think about your UPS for example. There are technologies that let you store power in a mechanical way, like a flywheel generator, but this may be hard to find.
So something nuclear would be better, IMHO.
Nuclear is better until.... it goes nuclear...
Rather being the dark... They did it in the olden days..
But hey, if things go south you can read in the dark - without any light
I went to school for nuclear science, specifically for making nuclear weapons, and I can assure you that you can indeed read by the light of Uranium, if you have enough. Edit: I should clarify, that's only in specific instances, most of the time it only works under UV light.
@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
With a strong enough flash-light I can see the bones in my hand.
So needing a nuclear bomb to go off to see my bones seems unreasonable....
Of course, it's the same principle, and it won't work through the thick of your arm that well, and we're talking with your arm up to your face, and your eyes closed. And seeing it fairly well too, not just a redish outline. Try that with a flash light.
@DustinB3403 said in Walking Dead Plot Holes - How would IT folk survive:
@tonyshowoff My point is that no one should ever be so close to an explosion like that to see the bones in their body, through the roof of their house etc.
I agree, I advise to stay far away 
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classful_network#Introduction_of_address_classes
Classes? CIDR is the only way to fly... or route I guess.