The Comms Room

Lucas Kauffman

22:00

@freiheit no but I will try to get my hands on them

problem is that currently I still have about 140 bottles of beer in the cellar :/

Scott Pack

You need my postal address?

@DennisKaarsemaker You mean terrible?

freiheit

@LucasKauffman pliny the younger is nigh-impossible to get. (gotta live near where it's made, or near one of their favorite accounts). pliny the elder isn't too hard to get...

MDMarra

What's wrong with people. Why is the first thought "can you tell me how" and not "where is the documentation"?

Scott Pack

I have a pretty strong negative opinion towards IPA. I do, however love me some stout.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@ScottPack it can be done right, but most people do it wrong. It also gives you headaches.

MDMarra

22:01

I am sorry, but can you give me an easier answer to understand? This is my first time trying to play with group policys — Mike 4 mins ago

freiheit

(elder is bottled, etc etc)

Scott Pack

@DennisKaarsemaker I've never had that problem with ale or lager.

Lucas Kauffman

@freiheit mmmm I'll swap some Orval, it's the second hardest beer to get in Belgium

freiheit

@ScottPack You probably stop drinking after the first six-pack...

Scott Pack

@freiheit I'm not sure my belly can contain that much to begin with.

freiheit

22:04

@LucasKauffman I could be convinced of that plan... How much does it cost to mail beer that far...

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@LucasKauffman the hardest being westvleteren?

Lucas Kauffman

@freiheit mmmm I'll swap some Orval, it's the second hardest beer to get in Belgium

@freiheit not sure

@DennisKaarsemaker yea

Dennis Kaarsemaker

I've had that once, it's .... something else

Lucas Kauffman

@DennisKaarsemaker I can get my hands on that, but it will cost me about 10 euro a bottle

Dennis Kaarsemaker

I paid 12,50

MDMarra

22:06

Are you guys excited about Miller Lite bringing back the classic can?!

Lucas Kauffman

@DennisKaarsemaker you should try a Rochefort 10, it's quite similar or the La Trappe quadruple

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@MDMarra STFU

@LucasKauffman I haven't had either yet, but will try them. There's a few good belgian beer bars in Amsterdam

freiheit

@LucasKauffman I've actually had Westlvreten 12 and, uhm, 8(?). But not Orval.

Lucas Kauffman

@DennisKaarsemaker La Trappe is dutch actually :p

MDMarra

Lucas Kauffman

22:07

@freiheit It's the only Dutch Trappiste

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@LucasKauffman ORLY?

MDMarra

A FINE PILSNER

Lucas Kauffman

La Trappe (bier)

La Trappe is een Nederlands biermerk en trappistenbier. Het bier wordt gebrouwen door de Bierbrouwerij De Koningshoeven van de abdij "Onze Lieve Vrouw van Koningshoeven" in Berkel-Enschot nabij Tilburg in Noord-Brabant. De brouwerij heette vroeger De Schaapskooi. De naam La Trappe is afkomstig van het Franse cisterciënzersklooster "La Trappe", waar in 1892 de orde der trappisten is gesticht. Geschiedenis De bewoners van het klooster leefden oorspronkelijk van de landbouw en veeteelt, maar omdat de originele inkomstenbronnen niet meer voldeden door de snelle groei van de congregatie, w...

@MDMarra I'd rather drink Heineken.

and I consider drinking urine less foul.

Scott Pack

@MDMarra You are simply a terrible person.

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@MDMarra I understand that Pilsners are, by nature, shitty beers, but try not to denigrate them too terribly.

Dennis Kaarsemaker

miller.mdmarra.local

Lucas Kauffman

22:10

@MDMarra You would not mock the gold nectar if you had had the privilege of tasting it!

MDMarra

You guys want to trade for some of this?

Lucas Kauffman

@ScottPack depends on the pilsner, Jupiler, Stella Artois, Bittburger are quite nice

MDMarra

It's an American classic

Scott Pack

@LucasKauffman Stella's not a bad cheap alternative to good beer.

Lucas Kauffman

@MDMarra yea I know, you guys need to drink lite beer to be able to keep up.

MDMarra

22:12

Isn't Stella owned by Anheuser Busch?

Lucas Kauffman

@MDMarra yea

freiheit

@MDMarra Other way around. :)

MDMarra

@freiheit Nope

It's an InBev product

Lucas Kauffman

AB Inbev owns Stella

I'm living in Leuven

at the source of the beer!

MDMarra

Anheuser-Busch InBev

Anheuser-Busch InBev (, abbreviated as AB InBev) is a Belgian-Brazilian multinational beverage and brewing company headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. It is the world's largest brewer with nearly 25 percent global market share and the third largest fast-moving consumer goods company by firm value (as of March 2012). AB InBev has 14 brands that individually generate over 1 billion USD per year in revenue out of a portfolio of more than 200 brands (2010). This portfolio includes global brands Budweiser, Corona, Stella Artois, Beck's and Brahma, smaller multi-country brands like Alexander Ke...

Lucas Kauffman

22:13

we still even have one bar which has a direct beer pipeline to the brewery

MDMarra

Ever see ummm Beer Wars?

I think thats what its called

Scott Pack

All right kiddos. Time to move on. Gentlemen. @MDMarra.

MDMarra

byebye

freiheit

@MDMarra Right. AB-InBev was formed by a Belgian beer corp buying Anheuser Busch.

pauska

Stella on tap is pretty good

Lucas Kauffman

22:14

@ScottPack g'dnight

pauska

We (my company) is going to Prague this spring (yearly kick off thingy).. I'm looking forward to the headache on sunday that weekend

Lucas Kauffman

@freiheit correct most of them being of the original noble families owning the Stella brewery

freiheit

@LucasKauffman I played around with some shipping options (told it Antwerp since I figured most of belgium's the same cost) and holy shit it's not worth it to trade beer between belgium and california...

Lucas Kauffman

@freiheit how much is it?

freiheit

@LucasKauffman Well, I started out thinking "ok, 3 bottles in a flat rate box" and that was over $50... need to double-check the actual weight and figure just one bottle and see what that would work out to, but my at my weight guess $18.41's the cheapest price...

(for a $5, 500mL bottle)

Lucas Kauffman

22:18

@freiheit omai

pauska

in.reuters.com/article/2014/01/13/…

'murica

voretaq7

AMEERKAT! FUCK YEAH!

Mark Henderson

@pauska 'STRAYLA! IM STILL WAITING FOR THE PAGE TO LOAD

voretaq7

Ward

@freiheit We made a woman at a Ticketmaster booth cry a couple weeks ago. She tried to crouch down and hide behind the counter while she got herself under control.

Mark Henderson

22:25

@pauska Whattt.... ok so now the empire state building just made my bucket list

Anonymous

►

Anonymous

o.O

pauska

that one is fantastic

Mark Henderson

22:42

Anyone here use Weather Underground?

They had a large outage the other week for about 7 hours, which fucked up a bunch of batches that we have for clients that rely on their API

Since then I added a logging to our zabbix for getting a response from their API servers

It goes offline like 10 times a week

Thankfully at times that don't affect us, and usually for < 5 minutes, but sheesh

Wondering if that's normal for WUnderground, or a new thing recently

freiheit

22:59

Apparently right now a photographer from the local paper is taking pictures in our Data Center of a philosophy professors, because the article in the paper is about robotic ethics and somehow our data center is the perfect scene...

Mathias R. Jessen

@freiheit Do you offer Robot colo?

Shane Madden

@MathiasR.Jessen Robolocation?

freiheit

@MathiasR.Jessen The only Robot in our data center looks sorta like this:

(except that screen looks way nicer than ours and some other subtle details... and, okay, fine, it's just a bigger black box than the other black boxes in the DC)

Mathias R. Jessen

@freiheit That's a robot alright

freiheit

@MathiasR.Jessen It's hard to imagine a less photogenic robot. :)

Mathias R. Jessen

23:06

I wonder whether you could say that it acts as a moral agent though :P

Anonymous

parkourcat

Dennis Kaarsemaker

@freiheit robot ethics, eh....

freiheit

@DennisKaarsemaker philosophy professor...

philosophy is the ivory tower on the ivory tower of academia...

Anonymous

laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/…

Anonymous

23:19

oscars nominations are out

Tanner

Somebody in Payroll just called me saying they can't get the bank website to come up. This is what they had bookmarked: wtb.ebanking-services.com

other subdomain of that address are phising attempts, luckily this one comes up blank

No idea how the hell the URL got replaced in her Favorites. Anyone run in to something like that before?

Michael Hampton

@Tanner She got phished, of course...

freiheit

@Tanner Possible she's been going through the phishing site to log into her bank acct for months?

Tanner

@freiheit History shows she went to the correct one last time.

Mathias R. Jessen

23:36

@Tanner about-threats.trendmicro.com/us/archive/grayware/TSPY_ZBOT.AYN

Mark Henderson

@Tanner Clever! Spyware that replaces the bookmarks for known safe sites to phishing sites

Because you will trust the bookmark that you made when you knew you were on a safe site

(fwiw I don't use bookmarks, but not for that reason)

Joel E Salas

@MarkHenderson Why not

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas Because it's faster for me to hit F6, type, autocomplete, enter than it is to take my hand off the keyboard, onto the mouse, move, click, read the fucking list, move, click

Joel E Salas

@MarkHenderson Don't most browsers auto-fill from your bookmarks anyway?

Mark Henderson

@JoelESalas No idea

I dont have any bookmarks

what the fuck

amazon.com/…

Are people really that retarded?

It's a fucking plug filled with glue

Scott Pack

23:46

@pauska If there's one thing we 'Merkins know it's that ultra violence is OK for children but a boob will scar them for life.

Joel E Salas

@MarkHenderson HAHAHAHA

pauska

@MarkHenderson people who are scared to death by any kind of radiaton.. yes

my girlfriend goes into periods like that when she's scared of just about anything

wireless radiation being a big one.. refuses to sleep in our bedroom if I have my cell there and so on

Mark Henderson

> I am sure anyone can argue with anyone's scientific data. Looking at certain aspects of data one can make things sound different from what they are- if they want to mislead. I am not here as an electromagnetic field expert; I am a consumer of a product. I can only speak to what I notice in my home. I notice about a 10 degree drop in temperature in my office (this with 2-3 monitors, servers, and other electronic gear that my IT husband runs 8 hours or more a day).

freiheit

@MarkHenderson "electrically sensitive" people are, yes.

pauska

it's not easy I tell you.. and seeing stuff like you linked now makes me want to stab the fuckersi n the face for taking advantage of mentally ill people...

freiheit

23:49

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity

Idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF) is a descriptive term for symptoms purportedly caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields. Other terms for IEI-EMF include electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), electrohypersensitivity, electro-sensitivity, and electrical sensitivity (ES). Although the thermal effects of electromagnetic fields on the body are established, self-described sufferers of electromagnetic hypersensitivity report responding to non-ionizing electromagnetic fields (or electromagnetic radiation) at intensities well below the limi...

Mark Henderson

@pauska So your girlfriend is mentally ill?

pauska

@MarkHenderson hypochondria is an mental illness

and some other stuff that I don't want to go into great detail on the indexed internet

freiheit

Local town turned down an offer for free downtown WiFi from the local ISP because too many electrosensitives showed up at the public meetings about it and bitched how terrible WiFi is.

Mark Henderson

@freiheit WiFi is terrible. You ever tried to use a wifi network with more than 15 people on it?

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freiheit

@MarkHenderson Like any conference I've ever been to? ;)

Joel E Salas

23:51

@freiheit Electrosensitives?? People who can feel EM?

freiheit

@JoelESalas read the wikipedia link

Shane Madden

Hah, that wiki article looks like an edit war.

> EHS symptoms are a real and sometimes disabling problem for the affected persons

Next paragraph:

freiheit

also this: corp.sonic.net/ceo/2008/03/23/sebastopol-voids-wi-fi-contract

Shane Madden

> self-described sufferers of electromagnetic hypersensitivity are unable to distinguish between exposure to real and fake electromagnetic fields

pauska

the symptoms are real, they just can't prove that it has anything to do with the actual EMI

my guess is fear..

they built a new emergency network here in norway (police, firefighters etc)

freiheit

23:53

here's a great website: electrosensitivesociety.com

pauska

immediatly after the new transmitters were built there were massive complaints about headaches etc

Joel E Salas

Yes people are fucking retarded

no one can feel that shit

at best one in a million people

pauska

it's like cancer patients.. it's been proven that a lot of those who have 100% faith in getting better actually heals faster

freiheit

@JoelESalas I swear, when I go into the electrical room for this building, I totally can feel it.

Joel E Salas

I think there's always going to be malcontents that find something, anything to complain about to brighten up their lives of dirty carpet and lots of cats

pauska

23:55

@freiheit that's different.. I can feel that too

freiheit

(ok, I'm 99% sure I feel the various subsonic vibrations, not the electricity)

pauska

it's just the low-hz waves of high amperes

Anonymous

@ShaneMadden yes it's controversial

Anonymous

it's like homeopathy

Anonymous

always a fucktard trying to edit the article

Joel E Salas

23:55

@freiheit That's also a lot of fucking amps, not like 10mA

freiheit

@JoelESalas sometimes it's goats instead of cats...

Joel E Salas

@freiheit I don't know if I should click at work

Anonymous

@pauska placebo effect

Mark Henderson

amazon.com/Placebo-Tablets-tablets-Standard-Homeopathic/dp/…

freiheit

@JoelESalas it's safe. article in local paper about a goat hoarder wanting his goats back

Anonymous

23:56

looool

Mark Henderson

> I used to take as many as nine different pills a day for my various ailments, from my self-diagnosed Aspberger's, to my self-diagnosed irritable bowel syndrome. My doctor refused to diagnose my with any of the problems I was clearly having, so I finally changed doctors.

And boy was that a great move. Not only did my new doctor prescribe me these new Placebo pills, but he told me the automatically treat ALL of my problems. Apparently "placebo" is Latin for panacea!

I feel so much better, it's like I'm a new person, thanks to Placebos!

Anonymous

my sides

pauska

@PatoSáinz homeopathy actually helped me, abit they didn't just use the needles.. I have no idea what you call it in english, but they break up your joints etc

Mark Henderson

@pauska Chiropractors

Anonymous

@pauska chiropractors

Anonymous

23:58

that's not homeopathy

pauska

he did both

Shane Madden

@pauska Acupuncture?

pauska

yes

and chiro

MDMarra

@pauska Homeopathy is like "mix a little silver in with water and drink it and your cancer will go away"

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Anonymous

^

pauska

23:58

oh

Anonymous

because water has MEMORY

pauska

ah fuck

not homeopathy

osteopathy

Joel E Salas

@PatoSáinz The more you dilute it, the more powerful it gets!

Michael Hampton

What's the one where you're supposed to get more effect when you use less of something?

Mark Henderson

@pauska Congratulations you just re-gained your self-respect ;)

Anonymous

23:59

@MichaelHampton cocaine?

Joel E Salas

@MichaelHampton see above

freiheit

@pauska osteopathy is the real medical deal. chiropractic helps people a bit, but sometimes people claim it does way more than it can.

Anonymous

tolerance and adiction of course

Joel E Salas

All chiropractors do is relieve joint pressure

pauska

@freiheit it cured my back for sure

Anonymous

23:59

@JoelESalas sometimes chiropractors have actually left people crippled

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