I think he was rescued?

Taken to a vet?

@Cerberus argh! there's always an exception! Never be ... what's the word... dogmatic? unswerving?

@Mitch Heh, well, the to in my example depends on too, not on dedicated, so the spirit of your point still stands.

In so far as spirits can.

OMG, and English is supposed to be easy.

@Cerberus Still, I don't like to watch that on a loop, tyvm.

What about the horse?

I didn't have the option with the snake. With the horse I can just refrain from watching the video.

but do you hate it?

Worse, I'm not interested. I didn't watch.

ok, only 15 seconds

perhaps not very interesting

Stephen Dillane as portrayed by Stannis Baratheon [sic, not the other way around] is only 60 seconds, and amusing in an ironic way.

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It has been a while since I have heard that noise (deleting sound), I guess I was out-of-trouble for a very long time.

@Robusto Oh, I have GIFs off.

Go to about:config

Then image.animation_mode

Set to "none".

@Cerberus I can't. I develop on all my machines and I have to have all that stuff working.

Otherwise I forget I turned them off and wonder, "Hey, now why doesn't that damn gif show up?" And I spend time debugging.

@Robusto That happens to me.

I open the page in Chrome when I want to see animated GIFs, though.

@Robusto did you see the comment Gilles left on your Q on U&L? If you show your config files, he should be able to help. I would also take pretty much anything he says on shells and their workings as gospel, he really knows that stuff.

How’s he do at Three Card Monty?

@tchrist You could probably take him.

The Monty-Hall Problem?

@Cerberus Three Card Monty and the Monty Hall problem are related. TCM is the same as a shell game but with three playing cards instead of three shells and a coin; the dealer turns them over and moves them around a lot and you try to pick the one special card. To make this identical to the MHP, the dealer turns over one card that is not the special card.

Hi there, are there any moderators here right now?

@LuizBerti moderators of ELU or of anywhere? @terdon is a moderator of some other room, but he doesn't look active here at the moment.

ELU

I'm having a problem, one of the moderators, more specifically english.stackexchange.com/users/94567/nicole commented on an old question of mine flagging it as a duplicate. Another 4 mods rushed into the boat and tagged it as a duplicate too. Except the question they marked mine as a duplicate of was asked months after I asked mine.

I told that to @Nicole the moderator which started this mess and she basically deleted her comment and did absolutely nothing about it.

Now I have to deal with her irresponsible and neglecting behaviour, which basically consists on hunting year old questions to annoy without checking things properly, and that of the other 4 mods who jumped in on it too

this is the question btw english.stackexchange.com/questions/194948/…

What pisses me off the most is her childish behaviour that basically deleted her comment without rectifying her wrong doings and denying her responsibility for this mess

@LuizBerti Nicole doesn't seem to be a moderator, she was just one of five people who voted to close.

people who can close are not mods but rather people with enough rep (meaning people who have been here long enough to have judgement about the problem).

@Mitch Right, that is how we "tested" the probabilities of the MHP.

@Cerberus In the Monty Hall show, the game is set up like three card monty but without all the moving around. you just have a random door out of three for the car. then the MHP starts when Monty opens one goat door.

@LuizBerti It does seem weird that an older question is closed as a duplicate of a newer question, but note that people are omniscient or remember or se absolutely everything on the site. And what ever minor differences between yours and the other question, the other one got a lot more traffic, answers, and upvotes, so the people who closed yours thought the newer one was better to be the primary source.

Also, yours most likely won't be deleted, it's just not considered the main source for that idea.

@Mitch I know it is with doors.

But that seemed impractical for our experiment.

My uncle, by the way, suddenly doubted whether you could prove that A was more probable than B through an experiment.

Which I found strange, since that is commonly accepted, and he is normally very smart.

@Cerberus I can see how someone might think that experiment might be irrelevant.

Really?

if you set up the experiment right, well, you've probably done enough already to figure it out.

also, I'm sure your uncle could kick your ass

If you do it a hundred times, and you use 52 cards instead of 3, and the quiz master turns all but 2 cards up before the second round?

Could he? How?

@Cerberus That's not an experiment (a thought experiment is not an experiment, it's thought)

What isn't?

mixed up references

We were going to do actually do it.

I'm sure there are websites that do it for you.

We were in a tiny cottage in the middle of nowhere, no Internet.

I'm going to create a website that does it but intentially sets the random number generator to only look random and swing the other way.

Besides, do we trust websites?

See!!

@Cerberus Arm wrestling.

Oh.

@Cerberus websites scare me now because I feel like they are all scaming me to put in a password which they just don't bother encrypting. How do I know they're not saving it unencrypted? Or just mining for passwords?

all the security questions? they're mining for more personal information.

Indeed, how do you know?

I just answer security questions by nonsense.

Like all the geneology sites. They all know our mothers' maiden names now.

Or by a different password if I care about the site.

Nobody can create all the unique passwords necessary and remember them

So do you think you could beat your uncle at arm wrestling?

Who says they have to be unique?

I use tiers.

Unique passwords for a handful of sites that I care about.

A second tier for sites that have access to my payment data.

A third tier for all the rest.

So Amazon and Ebay have the same password (I think).

That's a good strategy but what about when they make you change your password for one of them every 3 months?

They don't.

Then I will probably stop using the site.

Or use random passwords and store them in Lastpass.

Bad passwords, just to fuck with them.

Actually, my SE password is rather impolite. But their demands annoyed me, I couldn't use my tier-2 password on it.

What does happen, though, is that one of my tier-2 websites gets hacked. Then I have to change all my tier-2 passwords for sites where I have used the same name/e-mail.

@LuizBerti None of the users who voted to close your question were moderators. What you can do is edit it and explain why the suggested duplicate does not work for you. Then it can get reopened.

Although, having seen both, I agree that it's not a dupe. I've voted to reopen. Note however, that I very much doubt you'll get anything better than hope.