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Journeyman Geek

00:08

@FalconMomot: might as well go with DDG then ;p

Olipro

@ewwhite that little shit is eating the beans with his hands, and your soul with his eyes

jscott

Anyone doing the Powershell Jumpstart tomorrow?

Matt Bear

@FalconMomot I can never get anything I'm looking for through bing...

Falcon Momot

00:45

who went through antivirus closing stuff?

it is truly a shit mine

Nathan C

01:06

Your payment has posted to your account.
Payment Amount
$1,000.00

I'm poor now :(

Mark Henderson

There are now five police cars and about 10 officers doing breath testing on the road outside my office. Don't know what it is about this part of the industrial park that they love so much

I think that they just come out here when they want to have a quiet day standing in the sun without conflict

Jacob

@MarkHenderson They can just breath test you?

Mark Henderson

@Jacob If you're driving a car, yes

Or a bike

Very commonplace, have been since the 80's

Jacob

@MarkHenderson Here they need some sort of cause, interesting

Nathan C

dat thunder

Mark Henderson

01:19

This is an organised one - not a random one - where they just make all the cars stop and test you one by one

It's a quick process, only takes about 15 seconds

I just timed them, they did 10 cars in 30 seconds with 3 people doing the testing

Jacob

@MarkHenderson At checkpoints here they will only test you if they have cause

Mark Henderson

@Jacob So... they what? Look in your eyes to see if you look crazy?

How does that work?

Jacob

@MarkHenderson AFAIK it's smell or quick verbal question

or open containers

Michael Hampton

s/IE Mobile/IE/

Mark Henderson

@Jacob "Hello sir. Are you off your face today? No you say? Ok then have a good day"

Jacob

01:30

@MarkHenderson I didn't write the laws, I just had to take a pointless test on them.

Mark Henderson

Hah they caught someone. A truck driver.

Jacob

@MarkHenderson how can you tell?

Matt Bear

man, that was wierd... rebooted a server and it lost its DNS settings

Mark Henderson

@Jacob Because he is sitting on the side of the road being talked to by a police officer

Usually a giveaway

Michael Hampton

Oh, truck drivers, the police always hassle them more than everyone else. Sober or not.

Mark Henderson

01:36

@MichaelHampton They get mandatory drug testing too

The problem with the drug tests is that they are so sensitive, if you smoked a joint 2 weeks ago it can still show up in the test, so they're often not enforcable and if your story sounds legit they will let you go

Jacob

@MarkHenderson Or eat poppy seed bagels

or cake

Nathan C

Mmm...cake

@MarkHenderson THC takes like a month to flush out

Mark Henderson

@NathanC Well there you go

@Jacob I don't know if they test for opiads, I don't think they're a common enough stimulant drug for truck drivers. They test for weed, speed, ice, cocaine I think

Hah they let the truck driver go

Maybe he wasn't drunk, maybe there was another issue

Michael Hampton

Yeah, they like to harass truck drivers.

The tickets are worth a lot more.

Jacob

@MichaelHampton Dude, the tickets for overweight trucks are crazy

cultofmac.com/232720/…

Mark Henderson

01:51

@Jacob I can sort of understand that - if you're overweight for the road, you damage the infrastructure, and if you're overweight for the vehicle you can't stop in time for emergencies

Jacob

►

Mark Henderson

I once got book $289 for doing a U-Turn

Nathan C

Holy jesus is it storming out

lightning flash every 5 seconds or so

Jacob

Unless I am blind

That MBair did better than the MBP score from cult of mac

The Video is the MBAir

ewwhite

This makes me cry...

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Q: Upgraded DL380 G2 To Windows Server 2008 and cannot locate network drivers - any advice?

I was able to successfully load Windows Server 2008 on an HP DL380 G2, which is not officially supported by HP. It seems to be working perfectly fine, except for the fact I cannot locate any network drivers that will work so I really cannot do anything with the server yet. The server includes 2...

Michael Hampton

02:02

That server doesn't belong in your datacenter. It belongs in a museum! — Michael Hampton 34 secs ago

ewwhite

Pentium III... sad

Michael Hampton

TomTom's old phone could run rings around that thing.

ewwhite

I needs the DevOps!!!

DevOps/Sr. Linux Engineer

Logicworks

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Do you enjoy engaging, important work with a wide array of technologies? Is problem solving a personal hobby and the…

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Michael Hampton

Ummmm....

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton You want in?

Michael Hampton

02:05

@ewwhite Sure. Right after I get the hole drilled in my head.

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton You can effect change throughout the organization!

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite I wouldn't get paid enough to refrain from calling your coworkers a bunch of fucking morons.

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton Awww, it's just culture.

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite Put a biohazard warning on that culture.

Those underlined things on that web site are links. Click on them. — Michael Hampton 16 secs ago

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton C'mon... you're a little tempted.

You can be all cloudy.

Michael Hampton

02:18

Oh yeah? I have a feeling that environment would make me curse almost as much as Linus Torvalds.

ewwhite

:(

WesleyDavid

@MichaelHampton Nice Indiana Jones reference.

Michael Hampton

There's nothing like being able to choose to work with people who aren't batshit crazy or dumb as rocks. I won't give it up easily.

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson head bonk

Jacob

@ewwhite Would he be working with you? (just curious.)

This has to be Server 2008, because R2 requires 64 bit. That means you're running Vista when Windows 7 and 8 are out! — Jacob 27 secs ago

ewwhite

02:35

@MichaelHampton :(

@Jacob yep

Michael Hampton

Oh I have absolutely no problem with you. Even if you do totally fuck up sometimes. It's all your coworkers, who only totally DON'T fuck up sometimes.

ewwhite

they try hard

we've been on hold with new HP servers because my coworker had to validate them before we could move forward..

he dragged his feet in the process.

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite If your coworker needs validation, he should go see a fucking therapist!

See what I mean? I don't think I'd be a good fit there.

ewwhite

You know what I mean... My boss made us put the mandated HP gear on hold until this coworker could vet the equipment.

Michael Hampton

Yeah, I know what you mean...Your coworker still needs a good therapist though.

ewwhite

02:44

throughout the process of this validation, nobody asked me anything... E.g. "What's the best way to build a RHEL image for an HP Gen8 server..."

instead, I got a "okay, HP Gen8 validation is done... we made an image for RHEL5 and RHEL6"

so it's strange that this kid did this work in a vacuum... and I think it's pretty clear that I know HP well...

Makes me sad.

Michael Hampton

@ewwhite You did check his work and tell him all of the ways he fucked it up, right?

Jacob

@MichaelHampton and @ewwhite Kicking some bad administrator ass.

ewwhite

@MichaelHampton No, he baked it all into some weirdo image.

Jacob

@MichaelHampton serverfault.com/questions/524250/…

The guy kinda has a point

ewwhite

so for the next few servers, I'm just going to skip whatever he made and build the stuff the right way.

Michael Hampton

02:46

Oh, I wasn't a total douche, just kind of an ass.

Jacob

@MichaelHampton Yeah, but you're kinda a mod now... People expect you to hold hands

Just bought tickets for the red2 premier

MDMarra

coming to you from Windows RT!

Jacob

@MDMarra How's the UI?

MDMarra

same as 8

im in desktop mode IE right now

Jacob

@MDMarra For chat on a mobile screen

huh ok

MDMarra

02:50

for this its just like using a tiny laptop

at least for web so far

Jacob

@MDMarra Also you can't really complain about @ewwhite being a "rich fuck" you light your cigars with 50$ bills.

Michael Hampton

@Jacob Anyone who wants me to hold hands had damn well better buy me dinner first.

MDMarra

work gave me this

I wouldn't buy a surface out of pocket

Jacob

@MDMarra So, read the entire statement :)

@MichaelHampton Blame Stack and Co?

Michael Hampton

@Jacob They gave me a diamond, sure, but it wasn't even a real diamond!

MDMarra

02:54

@Jacob I don't smoke cigars though

Jacob

@MichaelHampton They didn't give you anything, we voted you into office to kick ass.

Michael Hampton

@Jacob OK, then don't complain when I do some ass kicking! :P

Jacob

Jun 25 at 2:42, by MDMarra

Every time I get paid via Paypal, I don't light my next cigar with a $50. It works out.

MDMarra

oh, that

Jacob

@MichaelHampton I could care less, I'm just saying that the powers that be might.

@MDMarra :P, My memory is pretty amazing.

MDMarra

02:56

speaking of paypal, he was going to send me money

Michael Hampton

@Jacob Well, we'll see how many complaints I rack up.

ewwhite

WTF... I'm watching Catfish on MTV!!! And the guy turned out not to be fake!

MDMarra

old ep

youre behind

ewwhite

@MDMarra Go watch kentuckybidders.com !!

MDMarra

fake!

ewwhite

03:01

my client

MDMarra

03:14

noob

Jacob

03:32

@ewwhite @MDMarra mediaite.com/online/…

Joel E Salas

04:13

Anyone have a FOSS CRM they'd recommend?

Miles Erickson

I haven't tried it, but Zurmo seems awfully slick.

zurmo.org

Michael Hampton

Oh, it's gamified. Great. Just what a CRM needs.

Jacob

@MilesErickson They have a shiny Video

Miles Erickson

Well, I think it actually is a pretty good idea. CRM software needs to be fun to use, and salespeople are notoriously competitive. There are plenty of abhorrent products at the other end of the spectrum.

Michael Hampton

Achievement Unlocked: Lie to 1,000 customers.

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Miles Erickson

04:23

Including my personal favorite, ConnectWise.

@Jacob Which, thank God, actually discusses features of substance.

Jacob

@MilesErickson I considered setting up CRM for my dad's business, but I think that they wouldn't use it

Miles Erickson

@Jacob Aha!

@Jacob But would they not use it because they think it's fundamentally a bad idea, or would they not use it because the vast majority of CRM software is crap?

Jacob

@MilesErickson They wouldn't use it because they've operated for years without and wouldn't bother to learn or use it.

Mark Henderson

So, here's an idea. Naming your product after a common word is a dumb idea because it makes it impossible to google for. E.G. august.com - try gogogling for things like "august release date" etc

Also, dumb spellings. Xero - pronounced like Zero, only you have to spell it to everyone

Miles Erickson

Yup.

@DennisKaarsemaker Never trust a rooster. Unless it's on a bottle of Sriracha sauce.

Adrian

04:29

evenin' gents.

Miles Erickson

@ewwhite That's utterly bizarre. If I ever had the pleasure of working with you, I'd be asking you questions all day long in the hope that some of your 'fu would rub off on me.

Jacob

@MarkHenderson I have to pair my phone to my lock?

@MilesErickson Did he ever have you climb the turbine?

Miles Erickson

@Jacob So far, I think it's down to whether I feel like flying to Chicago at my own expense. :-P

Adrian

@Jacob companies don't tend to pick up CRM at the family business phase.

Jacob

@Adrian I know, but it's kinda large ish.

Not really large enough though

Adrian

04:33

@Jacob Where, exactly, in that sentence did I discuss whether they actually need it or not?

Mark Henderson

@Jacob Not entirely sure tbh. I don't think so - I think the lock looks for a bluetooth signature. I'm apparently < 10,000th in line so I'll hopefully find out more when I'm offered a device

Adrian

Needing it doesn't really enter into it. Reality doesn't frequently enter into family businesses.

Miles Erickson

@ewwhite Speaking of which, I'll be flying my own airplane to Oshkosh via a friend's wedding in Minnesota, leaving a week from today. If your turbine is still down two weeks from now, I'll have no choice but to visit.

Jacob

@MilesErickson Please do, what would it cost?

@MarkHenderson Lines are the pits :(

Mark Henderson

@Jacob They are an unavoidable part of life and one learns to deal with them.

Plus I've backed a fair amount of kickstarter projects, where the advertised wait time is 6 months but you always end up waiting 12+

Jacob

04:35

@MarkHenderson Or you learn to bypass them.

Except not really

Also looks neat, but my keypad on the door works well so not for me

Adrian

Hmm. I should be go through the questions and find all the ones that I did edits on. then flag those with a vote to close to see if the .SE system will drop me below 3k so that I can no longer to VtC queue review.

Miles Erickson

@Adrian This makes sense why?

Jacob

In other news: I just got permission to move into the Uni dorm a week early. Talk about eerie as hell.

Adrian

@MilesErickson a) I bet no one at .SE has ever QA'd that to check behavior and b) it'd get me out of responsibility for any part of the trainwreck that is the questions we get nowadays.

Mark Henderson

@Jacob Why is that eerie

Adrian

04:38

@MarkHenderson because it's empty?

Mark Henderson

@Adrian The real issue there is - why do you feel any resonsibility?

Adrian

@MarkHenderson I don't actually, but I feel guilty about not feeling responsible. In due time I expect that will mostly go away too.

Mark Henderson

@Adrian Hmm. I get the feeling that @Jacob lives hard and parties harder, with fast cars and loose women. Having an entire dorm sounds like time for a massive party

Jacob

@MarkHenderson What @Adrian said. Just the thought that it should have lots of people.

Michael Hampton

@Adrian Oh, don't feel like you have to be responsible. Or guilty about not feeling responsible. Just fucking kill them all.

Adrian

04:40

@MarkHenderson loose women are overrated

Jacob

@MarkHenderson Fast cars, yes. Women err no.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton ALL. THE. QUESTIONS. Kill them all. But only after they've put the lotion on.

Jacob

Though err how do I put this... People have offered such things before due to them knowing family income. Extremely weird.

Michael Hampton

If you wanted the moderators to do it all, you should have elected 20 of us, not 2.

Jacob

@MichaelHampton We can't elect anymore, otherwise we need @MDMarra , @ewwhite and @FalconMomot at the least.

Adrian

04:41

why the hell is only traceroute6 installed by default on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

Michael Hampton

It's Fucking Ubuntu, why do you think?

Miles Erickson

@Adrian Seriously? If that's true, I've never noticed.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton For months I thought the review queue would be a good idea. it's horrid.

Jacob

yesterday, by Michael Hampton

Ubuntu IS NOT A FUCKING SERVER

Sorry, just thought that was funny

Michael Hampton

@Adrian Don't use it then. Spend all your close votes on the new questions.

Adrian

04:43

@MichaelHampton But there's 100000+ questions and I only get 24 close votes per day.

Michael Hampton

@Adrian And I guarantee you can easily use them all on newly posted questions without trying too hard.

Jacob

I always found this hilarious:

Oct 21 '12 at 2:43, by Michael Hampton

One thing about RHEL vs. Ubuntu is documentation. RHEL's docs are copious and thorough. Ubuntu's have gems like:

Administering a Postfix server can be a very complicated task. At some point you may need to turn to the Ubuntu community for more experienced help.

Michael Hampton

After all, while it might seem like it, I really cannot be here 24x7 and do it all myself. :P

Jacob

@MichaelHampton You're fired for violating your contract.

Michael Hampton

@Jacob Fine, you weren't paying enough anyway!

Jacob

04:46

@MichaelHampton I'm a ~~poor~~ college student; what do you expect?

Adrian

@MichaelHampton True. Makes me wonder how far I can get before I get another message from the moderators telling me to start doing something or other.

There always seems to be something all y'all want me to stop doing.

Jacob

@Adrian STORY TIME!!!

Miles Erickson

@Adrian Sort of reminds me of how connectivity troubleshooting goes in Windows 7. "That's funny, the application isn't connecting. Hmm, can I telnet to port XXX?" ['telnet' is not recognized...]

Adrian

Iain bitches at us for not voting. I vote and get a nasty message about the way I vote. Screw that noise.

Mark Henderson

@Jacob Yeah but you have a rich daddy so we fully expect you to let us leech off you and will kick you out the moment you stop showering us in $100 notes

ON that note, we should really get ewwhite to shower us with $100 notes too

Michael Hampton

04:48

@Adrian Hmm.... that message was a form letter.

Adrian

Not even blaming Michael either. .SE provides the algorithm, he probably gets some mealy-mouthed wording about being a possible sock-puppet and sends me a stock letter.

@MichaelHampton exactly

Miles Erickson

@MarkHenderson Kickstopper campaign!

Jacob

@MarkHenderson @MDMarra is leeching all of them from him. One conclusion then: Look like you have a murder to commit.

Michael Hampton

@Adrian Honestly I don't give a shit. And the system dealt with it automatically anyway.

Mark Henderson

@Jacob What goes aroudn comes around. @WesleyDavid murders my wife, so I murder @MDMarra, take his wife (before she's been ravaged by child birth) and collect @MDMarra's paycheques

No wait, @WesleyDavid is going to murder me. Fuck that does't work

Ok he can fake my death, and I'll take @MDMarra's wife

Adrian

04:50

@MichaelHampton again, not blaming you. The entire way that .SE operates annoys me. The whole faux Community thing.

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WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson Wait, who do you want me to murder?

Jacob

@MarkHenderson Wait, I thought @WesleyDavid wanted your wife so he had to murder you

Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid I don't know; I got confused and now my head hurts

Jacob

@MarkHenderson ProTip: This is 'MURICA and that plan could really screw you over.

Michael Hampton

@Adrian Leave the community team to us. :)

Miles Erickson

04:52

@WesleyDavid If you lick someone and then have to use deadly force to defend yourself, who's at fault?

Mark Henderson

@Jacob Whatever. I can grow a beard so I look like @MDMarra, nobody will ever know

Adrian

@MichaelHampton heh. the attitude that was displayed by the .SE staff during the election pretty much the final straw for me.

Mark Henderson

Immigration will always let me through

Michael Hampton

@Adrian Oh? What did I miss?

Mark Henderson

@Adrian What was their attitude?

Adrian

04:53

@MichaelHampton you didn't miss it. But I found it mightily offensive.

Jacob

@MarkHenderson Not what I meant, have you seen US lately? I look like a dump truck, and I'm not the worst out there.

Michael Hampton

@Adrian Well, if I didn't miss it, I seem to have forgotten it.

Adrian

@MichaelHampton more power to ya. I'm just a happy that I've got an awesome job that keeps me busy now.

WesleyDavid

@MilesErickson Depends on if you're in Florida or not. Apparently I can lick someone and antagonize them until I'm forced to shoot them to death if I'm a Floridian.

Michael Hampton

@Adrian We are too. :) And one way or another, we are going to end up with a "This question is a steaming pile of shit" close reason.

Jacob

04:54

@Adrian Working with RPi's in secret.

Miles Erickson

@WesleyDavid Doesn't Arizona have a similar law?

Mark Henderson

@Jacob Oh right. I dunno, our $AUD is slipping back below US$0.85 which is a bit rubbish

Jacob

@WesleyDavid Way too early for that.

@MilesErickson Virginia too

Miles Erickson

@MarkHenderson Believe me, we're trying really hard to devalue the US$. It's just that everyone else is racing to keep up.

WesleyDavid

@MilesErickson Probably - castle laws and stand your ground and all that. Everyone here pretty much respects everyone else though. The only places you have trouble with are the neighborhoods with all the gangbangers, drug runners, and mules.

Mark Henderson

04:56

@WesleyDavid So, where Walter White lives, then?

Jacob

@MilesErickson Quantitative Easing: It's to going to Ease the value outta every last dolla'.

Mark Henderson

Wait, is that Arizona or New Mexico?

Jacob

@WesleyDavid Don't go to such neighborhoods?

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson He lives in the good neighborhoods, he ain't no mule. =P

@MarkHenderson And that's NM.

Jacob

I'm really tired of seeing flaming piles of ass in the reopen queue

Miles Erickson

04:59

Zample?

We love zamples.

Mark Henderson

@Jacob What? There's ass in the re-open queue? quick! Rub your junk all over it!

Michael Hampton

@Jacob That's hardly a flaming pile of ass. It's only a slightly smoldering bit of ass-charcoal. I've seen much worse.

Adrian

Ow. Ow. Ow.

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Q: Possible to build a RAID 1 with only one drive with LSI 9260-4i?

I have a LSI 9260-4i RAID card plus 1x 300GB Drive. My issue is I have to ship out the server for the 2nd drive to be installed onsite. Can I configure a RAID 1 with only 1 drive, and plug in the 2nd 300GB drive at a later date? I can not figure out exactly the proper way to accomplish this. ...

raid1 lsi megaraid

WesleyDavid

@Adrian Interesting. Sounds like an appliance manufacturer.

Okay, lurvelies. Bed time.

ZZzzz... -.-

Adrian

@WesleyDavid Is that profile picture you or are you doppelganger'ing other Comms Room people again?

Jacob

05:02

Can we Elect @FalconMomot as mod? He'll go through and deal with ALL THE GARBAGE

WesleyDavid

@Adrian (That's me as of three weeks ago)

Adrian

@WesleyDavid outstanding!

Jacob

@WesleyDavid You look like this person I know... in middle school.

@MilesErickson Nice rep HOAR :)

Adrian

@Jacob Says the guy with an avatar photo that does look like he's in elementary. =)

Jacob

@Adrian I was in elementary at the time.

Miles Erickson

05:05

@Jacob We close these crap questions, but we're supposed to be building long-tail content for the site. If someone can come and find that question with a definitive answer, maybe it won't get asked again in the future.

Adrian

@MilesErickson God bless you and your optimism, good sir. =)

Jacob

@Adrian I don't do photos, it's part of looking like a dump truck.

Miles Erickson

@Adrian Bless you, Father.

@Jacob Wait, you're older than that?

Jacob

So, @FalconMomot goes through every night and cleans out a tag. Tonight it has to be about A/V because the entire queue is like 2 years old

Adrian

@MilesErickson I sit next to one of the interns. He's awesome, but it's slightly disconcerning to realize that I have clothes older than he is.

Jacob

05:07

@MilesErickson I'm only going to Uni one year early. Not that great of a prodigy.

Miles Erickson

@Jacob 53 weeks early, you mean.

@Jacob I went two years early. It was great socially, for obvious reasons, but I probably could have gone to a better university if I'd had the patience to stick around high school and apply to better schools that didn't do early admissions.

Jacob

@MilesErickson Not entirely confirmed yet. Disability services sent housing an email and told them to let me in a week early.

@MilesErickson I didn't do early admit. I have a diploma

Miles Erickson

@Jacob On the other hand, no one seems to mind the degree that I have, and it's not even in our field, so whatever.

Jacob

@MilesErickson I've always heard a degree is a degree, but whats it in

Miles Erickson

@Jacob Community and Environmental Planning, baby!

Jacob

05:11

@MilesErickson So you technically dropped out of HS?

Miles Erickson

@Jacob But, everything in my life always seems to gravitate back towards IT. I went to work as a planner, and they figured out that I was a wizard at GIS.

@Jacob Technically. I think my high school gave me credit for my first year of college and set me a diploma -- they actually invited me to walk in my class's graduation and made a big deal about where I'd been -- but in reality no one cares whether you have a high school diploma once you have a couple of years of college credits, let alone a bachelor's degree.

Jacob

vbgov.com/map

@MilesErickson TANGENT Virginia Beach has a nifty GIS map.

Miles Erickson

@Jacob Oh, that's much prettier than the ESRI stuff that most local governments use.

Jacob

@MilesErickson (emphasis added) @Jacob I went two years early. It was great socially, for obvious reasons, but I probably could have gone to a better university if I'd had the patience to stick around high school and apply to better schools that didn't do early admissions.

Miles Erickson

@Jacob Right, so you win.

@Jacob Where are you ahem matriculating?

Jacob

05:15

@MilesErickson WVUTech.edu

They offered me monies that Virginia Tech didn't

Miles Erickson

@Jacob Plus, if I recall correctly, West Virginia wasn't a slave state. That's got to count for something.

[I openly confess that I am utterly bewildered by the South. My first foray into that part of America involved a transit planning project for an agency where all of the drivers and mechanics were black, and all of the managers and planners were white. Growing up in a race-blind corner of America, I thought that kind of thing DIDN'T HAPPEN ANYMORE.]

Jacob

@MilesErickson I mean I like it, the dorm I'm staying in is newlyish renovated, and class size is tiny.

@MilesErickson More than you know.

pEtePRedaQUcUyABruretruSWUxEH5nUxUyUSwastan8CuyetrePu$ah9pa

Miles Erickson

[Around the same time, Seattle had an African-American mayor and Washington State had a Chinese-American governor. The state's population is more than 70% white. We don't think along racial lines, we don't hire along racial lines, we don't vote along racial lines, and we don't choose our friends along racial lines. We probably don't understand white privilege as well as we should, but we sure as hell aren't stuck in the 1800s.]

@Jacob You know, my favorite thing about "pEtePRedaQUcUyABruretruSWUxEH5nUxUyUSwastan8CuyetrePu$ah9pa" is that it's essentially impossible to type manually. But, there's a downside, as you've just demonstrated.

Jacob

@MilesErickson Whelp, gotta generate a new one.

@MilesErickson It's ok though we have 2 factor auth :)

Miles Erickson

@Jacob One down, one to go?

Jacob

05:24

@MilesErickson 330863

@MilesErickson Quick find the service in 5 plus racks of gear that I manage and log in in the next 60 seconds

Miles Erickson

@Jacob Whee, I'm in!

Jacob

I changed the password before I posted the OTP

Miles Erickson

@Jacob That's okay. @WesleyDavid gave me an account on his C&C server, so I can see everything you're typing.

Wait, I've said too much.

Mark Henderson

@MilesErickson WHoah I thought Gamespy shut down all their C&C '95 servers

Years ago

Jacob

@MilesErickson I've looked at the orientation weekend schedule and I've concluded that there are too many social events planned for that weekend :(

Miles Erickson

05:27

@MarkHenderson That's what she said.

Jacob

@MilesErickson I have a Mac, and everyone knows that Macs are immune to viruses/trojans/worms/any other bad things.

Mark Henderson

@Jacob This isn't a virus it's a trojan

And it was installed by @WesleyDavid on the console while you were sleeping. He then rubbed one out and wiped his hands on your cat before he left

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson I'm trying to get to bed and you people keep making me come back to defend my virtue!

Jacob

@MarkHenderson I don't have a cat.

WesleyDavid

@Jacob So who's cat did I lube up then?

Mark Henderson

05:30

@Jacob Ok ok you beat the truth out of me. He actually wiped them on your hair

WesleyDavid

I hate it when I lube up the wrong cat!

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Mark Henderson

@WesleyDavid I know, right! It's all ready to go!

What a waste of time

Miles Erickson

@Jacob I spent two years at the University of Southern California, where: (a) for some reason, they distributed LifeStyles on campus instead of the obvious co-branded alternative; and (b) they never took advantage of the marketing opportunity inherent in establishing a football rivalry with the University of South Carolina.

Mark Henderson

@MilesErickson There's a condom co-brand with a university?

WesleyDavid

@MarkHenderson SoCal's mascot is the Trojan.

Mark Henderson

05:32

@WesleyDavid Ah

WesleyDavid

@MilesErickson Trojans smother Cocks!

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Miles Erickson

@WesleyDavid Yeah, the headlines in the campus rags would have been legendary.

@MarkHenderson And the other USC's mascot is, well, what @WesleyDavid said.

Mark Henderson

@MilesErickson Legen... (wait for it.....).... DERY!

WesleyDavid

@MilesErickson Cocks tear through Trojans!

Journeyman Geek

@Jacob now you do.

Miles Erickson

05:36

OK. All this talk about football is grossing me out.

Journeyman Geek

american football

not to be confused with Proper football, or aussie rules

Jacob

Gotta head for bed, I have a doctors appointment @8:00. What idiot would schedule that. -_-

Miles Erickson

@Jacob Someone who doesn't want to wait for an hour at the doctor's office?

@Jacob In my experience, early a.m. appointments run on time. That's their best feature.

dawud

morning

Jacob

@MilesErickson This is a Neuro rehabilitation specialist, I promise you that her schedule isn't that full

@dawud Good Night!

dawud

05:40

@Jacob hey!

Mark Henderson

@MilesErickson Never get the first appointment of the day; you make the appt for 8am, the doctor turns up at 8.30, sits in their office until 8.55 and then calls you in

@Jacob If she's a specialist, she probably has a lot of "normal" doctoring stuff to do at hospitals etc as well. My wife's cousin is a neuro surgeon; she only does brain surgery once a week but she is full up doing consults for all kinds of normal doctoring

Jacob

@MarkHenderson Nah, shes a professor the rest of the time

Mark Henderson

@Jacob In that case she probably still has a lot of work. I don't know of any doctor who has any spare time

Even when they're at home they're on call. And if they're not on call, they're still on call for major emergencies

Jacob

@MarkHenderson Yeah, she usually has students with her and it's creepy because they're just a few years older than me. Not this time.

Journeyman Geek

chuckles

"she only does brain surgery once a week"

not something I ever expected to hear

Dennis Kaarsemaker

05:48

@MilesErickson mmm... cock sauce!

Mark Henderson

@JourneymanGeek It's too much to do more than one a week apparently

So she lines up 3 surgeries in a 12 hour period and just knocks them out

Exception being traumas like car accidents, being shot in the head, etc

WesleyDavid

A wild @ShaneMadden appears!

Shane Madden

@WesleyDavid Lies, all of it!

Jacob

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Miles Erickson

@MarkHenderson Based on what you've described, I'd say that your system is very different from ours.

Mark Henderson

05:53

@Jacob ... whoah

@MilesErickson How do you mean?

Iain

G'day

Miles Erickson

@MarkHenderson Our specialists don't do general consultations, and since most of them work for for-profit corporations, they'd get fired if they showed up late for work routinely.

Jacob

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Miles Erickson

@MarkHenderson On the other hand, our system is fundamentally broken. Perhaps yours isn't.

Mark Henderson

@MilesErickson Ahh. Most of the doctors here are self-employed and contract themselves out to the hospitals for general duties. They employ their own secretaries, rent their own office spaces, etc. Not sure what the exact deal is, but most public hospitals probably won't give you surgery time unless you give them service in return

Jacob

05:55

Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters

Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (CHKD), located in Norfolk, Virginia, is the only freestanding children's hospital in Virginia and the home to one of the nation's top pediatric residency programs. CHKD has a 212 room hospital and serves the medical and surgical needs of children throughout the greater Hampton Roads metro area, the Eastern Shore of Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. In 1896, a group of community-spirited women formed the Norfolk City Union of The King’s Daughters to provide medical care for indigent mothers and their children. They established a free...

Miles Erickson

@MarkHenderson I think things were more along those lines in the USA circa 1980, but these days everything has gone corporate.

Mark Henderson

So when you go to the public system for your RSI surgery, you might just have a neurosurgeon doing it

Jacob

Pretty sure it's NFP

Miles Erickson

@MarkHenderson Interesting. So far as I know, that doesn't happen in Murca.

Falcon Momot

@Jacob Only like half of that was me

Jacob

05:56

@FalconMomot My point stands :)

Miles Erickson

@MarkHenderson But, we don't really have a public system per se. There are public hospitals operated by local governments, and their quality varies wildly, but most medical care is delivered by organizations that would gladly take your house in exchange for a checkup or two.

Mark Henderson

@MilesErickson Our system isn't perfect, and we still have private insurance if you want to a) jump the queue and b) have your choice of doctor and c) get a tax break

Miles Erickson

@MarkHenderson A few years ago I was billed $1000 for a simple allergy skin test. It cost $400 after insurance. In most countries, I presume, the cash price would be lower than my post-insurance cost.

Mark Henderson

But so far I haven't had any major complaints about it

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