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20:01
@FEichinger It's not saying that it is or should be a public service. It is trying to say "hey look this useful thing that you like is now going to cost you extra fees for things you currently take for granted, so here is a comparison to other things that are currently without said fees"
@AshleyNunn Yes, and taking the Internet for granted in the same way one takes public services for granted is not a good comparison to make, because the two are fundamentally different things.
user15026
@FEichinger yes, but not for the purposes of trying to explain this stuff to someone who doesn't have any background in it
It's saying if ISPs (the people who give you access to the Internet) ran public services, this is what they'd do.
It's not saying anything about what the internet itself is or isn't
user15026
@OrigamiRobot Precisely :)
@AshleyNunn Yes, exactly then. Because it is slanted in favour of a very wrong impression of the issue.
user15026
20:06
@FEichinger how so?
> Yes, and taking the Internet for granted in the same way one takes public services for granted is not a good comparison to make
user15026
@FEichinger why?
user15026
(Obviously I did not understand the first time so just repeating it is not helping)
The only point the comic is making is that ISPs are greedy and will milk every penny they possible can out of you.
Presenting this as though throttling your Internet access is on equal grounds with letting your house burn down is not okay. It furthers a perception of the Internet as a public service, without actually pushing for a change on the reasons why it isn't.
user15026
20:10
@FEichinger But that's not what it is saying what so ever
Why isn't the Internet a public service? Why shouldn't it be?
@StrixVaria A very well dressed lumberjack, thank you.
user15026
@StrixVaria That is a very good question
Do cable channels have to pay to be carried by a cable provider?
@Frank It is exactly the perception it promotes, regardless of whether it says so or not.
20:11
Or am I not understanding how cable TV works?
@Yuki Is it...the other way around?
@Yuki Channels and especially bigger networks actually have the strong arm there, purely because "people want to watch us" works well enough.
@StrixVaria Well, @FEichinger equated the Internet to functioning similar to cable subscriptions, so I'm trying to draw an analogy between the Internet, cable, and net neutrality.
Both cable channels and providers have income other than paying each other, so I don't remember which way the money flows between the two.
However, with cable and satellite, I do have to pay a surcharge to watch specific channels.
20:12
Channels get money through advertising, and providers get money from consumers' subscriptions.
But I know that there have been big advertising campaigns where some provider was going to stop showing some channel because they couldn't come to terms, and both sides blamed the other for being stubborn (at least in my area).
@Yuki That comparison was mostly drawn insofar as both are privatized, there are extra fees for the user, and there is largely no tax money (aside from the usual corporations-and-the-US stuff ...) involved with the subscriptions.
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Q: How is Clan War Map position determined?

AndyI have the fourth most trophies in my clan, but have been sinking on the map. Am down to about 18th from the top. Just seems odd.

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@spugsley is a zombie! run!
I didn't sleep until 4:30 and then at 6:30 we had a tornado warning
@spugsley Huh. @OrigamiRobot was right. @spugsley is currently a zombie.
That sounds pretty horrible
OH NO SHE BIT @KevinvanderVelden
@KevinvanderVelden it's coffee time. And it will be coffee time until about 4:30 and then I will stop because I am going to sleep tonight if it fucking kills me
@OrigamiRobot Biting people does sound like something @spugsley would do
user15026
20:15
@spugsley yuck
@AshleyNunn I was so scared :(
user15026
@spugsley I am glad you are safe.
@spugsley I was too sleepy to be scared.
@AshleyNunn I did finally finish a photo today :3 which makes me happy
@OrigamiRobot apparently there was actually a tornado. It was a little one and it was by Northlake mall
My phone buzzed and I was like "Whelp, if a tornado happens here, I guess I'll get blown away. zzzzzzzzzzzz"
user15026
20:16
@spugsley yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
@OrigamiRobot Welcome to the midwest. :P
I'm actually really fucking productive when I can't sleep
I wrote a 2500 word short story, edited a photo, and started a Tumblr war
@spugsley I'd count the first two as achievements.
@spugsley If there's ever any actual danger between 1am and 7am, you better come to my apartment and get me because I am going back to sleep otherwise.
@OrigamiRobot omg I am not driving in a tornado
20:18
Most people don't
@Yuki it was a hilarious Tumblr war
Well then I guess I'm dying.
@spugsley Yeah, but Tumblr wars are started at the drop of a penny. And sometimes finish just as quickly.
@spugsley But was it a non-smut story?
In fact, I'm pretty sure some Tumblr wars started because someone literally dropped a penny.
20:19
@Yuki aah yes, the great penny war of 2013. Lasted a whole 5 minutes, veritable centuries in internet time!
When I was in Iraq, we had these concrete bunkers we were supposed to run to if an alarm went off. It was like 1am and I was walking back to my housing area after a shift, and the alarms started blaring. Stuff started blowing up. I ran to my buddy's room, opened the door, told him to get up. He listened to the sirens for a second, rolled over, said, "I gives a fuck," and went back to sleep. <_<
@Fluttershy Clearly, he did not "gives a f--k".
@OrigamiRobot not even a little.
in fact, it was horrible. Worst piece of no plot trash I've ever written and I DON'T GIVE A FUCK
@spugsley Not even a little what?
@OrigamiRobot not even a little non-smut
20:21
sigh
it's very popular
and it's only been posted for a few hours
I bet it was about Loki.
You need to stop writing things I'm not allowed to read.
@Fluttershy aww you know me so well :3
@OrigamiRobot I am going to work on legit stuff today eventually maybe
Possibly.
20:23
@spugsley were you rifting?
@Krazer I actually didn't Diablo at all yesterday :o but I have a feeling I'll make up for it tonight :D
@SaintWacko Yeah, there's some of those kicking around.
For an alpha version, the game is surprisingly robust.
@spugsley +100% Leg drop rates until next thurs~
@spugsley Double legendaries started tonight!
@Krazer WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WHEN WHAT
20:24
@spugsley D3 anniversary
when does it start?
@spugsley Already started.
Of course, judging from @spugsley's definition of skanky bathing suits, her definition of smut is probably "They totally kissed on the lips, lol"
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O_O I AM PLAYING NOWWWWWWWWWWW
@spugsley wait for me~
20:25
@OrigamiRobot haha. hahahaha. HAHAHAHAHA. just ask @AshleyNunn. She's read them
@Krazer when will you play?!?!
@Krazer AKA Double Forgotten Souls
I'll join when I get home! In a little over an hour.
@Frank yayayayayay I am gonna get some coffeeeeeee
@spugsley in 1 hour or so
@spugsley Prepare to not sleep again tonight! :P
20:26
@spugsley You don't sound like you need it.
@Krazer ok I'll wait :D
@Frank I do. I reallllllly want to sleep.
Valuation meeting time!
That's where they tell me how much money I have that I don't actually get until I'm done working.
@spugsley You have an hour. Power nap time!
@OrigamiRobot As in, quit?
@spugsley Ooo, I should probably patch.
@Frank Considering I'm 0% vested right now, no.
And I have no reason to quit anyway.
user15026
20:29
@spugsley OMG IT FINISHED? :D
@OrigamiRobot That's what I was asking. This is them telling you how much money you have, that you don't get until you are done working.
I was attempting to define, "done working"
@AshleyNunn hahahahaha yes
user15026
@spugsley woooo I know what I am rewarding myself with after a long day of stupifd
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(well, when I am done at 7)
user15026
@spugsley Yeah, let's just say @OrigamiRobot is wrong.
20:31
@AshleyNunn :D I'll link it to you when you get home.
user15026
@spugsley you are the bestest
@spugsley take a hour to 90m long nap~
@Krazer :D I think I will drink this delicious ice coffee, do some laundry, and eat some chicken and dumplings
then I won't have to move out of my chair for the rest of the night :D
user15026
Perfect plan :)
ALSO I AM DRIVING TWO HOURS AWAY TO SEE ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVEEEEEEEEEEE TOMORROW
AGGGHHHHHHHHHHH dying
user15026
20:42
So jelly
wait why are lovers going to die by tomorrow
and why are they going to be two hours away from spugsley
WHAT ARE YOU TWO UP TO?
@badp MOVIE. TOM HIDDLESTON. I'M GOING.
@spugsley Can I borrow a photo or two of yours? I want to see if I can make a tardis appear in some static images and maybe some video clips and if it looks good I might do it on fiverr.
You know, Bridge chat-flags keep me up-to-date with what's going on here.
20:46
Oh gods, what got flagged this time? ><
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
A risquè play on words that probably did go a little too far - but who am I to judge
@badp points to diamond
@KevinvanderVelden oh right! Well the flag came and went very quickly anyway
I'm not calibrated on this kinda stuff.
yup.
All I had time to do is look at the indicator that said The Bridge.
20:49
The second flag was here
... which is normal, of course, because 99% of chatflags come from here.
@hichris123 I guess we're a room with standards.
whereas others just post shit and roll with it :P
(cough sf cough)
Could we, like, not do the "hurr durr flags" dance every time something is flagged?
20:51
Get context, cast your vote, move on with your life.
@FEichinger but it's such a silly dance! We don't have enough silly dances =[
@GnomeSlice if you post them anywhere, give me credit and yes
@FEichinger The problem is that most people ignore the first part, which leads to subsequent ignoring of the last part.
This chat needs more butts.
@spugsley If they turn out well and I decide to go forward with it, I'll probably put one on the page as an example. Do you have a watermark I can use?
20:52
@3ventic citation needed
@3ventic WE WERE GETTING PAST BUTTS SO WELL. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO START THAT AGAIN?
Also:
BUTTS. BUTTS BUTTS BUTTS.
Also, you rock!
44 secs ago, by 3ventic
This chat needs more butts.
I might just get a new hobby: unstarring everything butts
user15026
@Fluttershy amen to that
20:53
@GnomeSlice no, I don't watermark. If it gets stolen, so be it.
@Fluttershy Yes, but I still like pointing it out. I mean, if we already started the dance we might as well finish it.
@spugsley Not even like a signature logo?
@GnomeSlice Nope. I really hate them on images so I don't use them on mine
@GnomeSlice Make her one for using her art :)
20:54
@GnomeSlice I know.
@Arperum I can barely even write my own name
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@GnomeSlice That's the spirit!
Also... is it illegal to just grab a picture of a tardis and use that?
there you go
@FEichinger wow really? Already with the butts
20:55
@spugsley Blame @3ventic. As always.
@GnomeSlice eeh probably not legal
@GnomeSlice It doesn't need to be a name, as long as it's unique.
Oh.
Well then forget the whole thing.
user15026
Yeah, no, pretty sure the TARDIS is a copyright thing
user15026
Which is why on etsy and so on they jsut say blue police box
user15026
20:58
and take out some of hte details
So... yes or no?
@AshleyNunn that's more like trademark then
@GnomeSlice Yes, but if it just looks like it, then no. The real thing is trademarked, normal blue police boxes are not.
user15026
@badp yeah, that's the word I meant
If you don't say TARDIS and like, remove the text on it you probably have a strong case for fair use
if they decide to do anything, which they probably won't
21:00
I wonder if they actually have a trademark on the likeness of the Tardis or just the name
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Q: making a command block with a command block

mdlp0716I am trying to make a spaceship that can go up and down basically. when it goes up, i want the command block to have a command. that's where i ran into a problem; i couldn't find a way to move a command block while keeping the command it has in it. i know how to use command blocks to make blocks ...

"Registration of this mark shall give no right to the exclusive use of any of the words appearing on the device of a telephone box."
Just the name
So... I can just grab a screencap of it and use that?
> Class 28Games (other than ordinary playing cards); toys and playthings; and amusement contrivances and apparatus, all included in Class 28; but not including toy telephone boxes.
wat
Now that I have 30% damage reduction like the other melee classes, I should probably go for a tank build, huh.
user15026
21:03
@badp I suspect that is from the lawsuit from the LMPD
user15026
Who argued that BBC trademarking the TARDIS meant that the LMPD approved of the whole Doctor Who shindig and htey didn't want ot be connected like that
so can I use it or what
I don't understand any of this =[
user15026
(I just read the entire case file)
user15026
@GnomeSlice It's trademarked, so techincally, no
user15026
Not as the TARDIS as it stands
user15026
21:05
now a blue police box, that's okay(ish)
user15026
and I mean it is unlikely they will fight it, at worst you get a takedown/cease and desist
:/
bleugh
user15026
I mean this is the case for most recognizable images of this sort
user15026
like I made mushrooms/question box keychains using SMW sprites
user15026
that is technically in total violation of trademark law
21:07
@AshleyNunn Did you sell them?
user15026
because well I plan to sell them for cash moneys
user15026
its one of those things - is Nintendo going to find me and the rest of the world who sell this stuff and yell at us? Likely not, unless we are big and famous and making tens of thousands of money piles
user15026
I mean you can't claim the TARDIS is yours, then, or anything (which makes copyright and so on of the image/whatever a little hazy) but.
What if I call it a bumblebatch or something instead cc @spugsley
cootersplat
user15026
21:09
oh god
BAHAHAHAHA I can't even deal with his stupid name
user15026
even then, if it looks 100% like the tardis and has all the recognizeable bits, you risk it
Bendybang Cootersplat
that's his whole name
user15026
@spugsley and he looks like a damn potato
21:10
@AshleyNunn ALIEN POTATO BABYYYYY
someone told me he looks like a cucumber and I can see that too
Fannyknack Fumblethumb
user15026
@spugsley Cucumberpotato
I now want to make an indecent joke about cucumbers ...
Benedict Cucumbersnatch?
NSFW
Banderclack Brunkleclink
Crumblesack
user15026
@FEichinger Man, and it gets worse because English cucumbers here come pre-wrapped in plastic....
21:13
> Crumblesnatch Handlescratch
That's an unfortunate one.
It's all fully prepared for the target demographic, obviously.
May 5 at 19:09, by Origami Robot
This could be avoided if XKCD would just stop being so damn relevant.
@KevinvanderVelden Hahaha, but the alt text is kinda fuct.
Sorry for talking about flags, but... how in the world is that offensive?
21:15
Because we were making jokes about cucumbers being used as sex toys, I suppose.
ah, didn't read the transcript.
@FEichinger O.o Are more people watching DireDwarf streaming in here??? Or is his battle cry just contagious :D
@James Bridge butts go back much further.
... "butts go back" ...
I should really think about what I'm typing.
@FEichinger no, you really shouldn't, this is way more fun
21:20
@KevinvanderVelden Hush you.
Because of this butt business I keep getting pinged throughout the day when I'm at work. STOP PINGING ME WHEN I'M AT WORK.
@FEichinger I haven't done that in days
@spugsley But @Uni keeps doing it.
@FEichinger Yes but @Uni is your nemesis
21:24
huehuehue
@spugsley It's more like @Uni picked me for his nemesis and now I'm kinda stuck with him trying to do whatever all the time.
@FEichinger I know, it's adorable :3
Oh man these are awful
K
@GnomeSlice Pop Francis is a pretty cool Pop.
@GnomeSlice That looks like a far cry from the source material
21:28
@Fluttershy fuck
@GraceNote clap
toilets flushing upward would be bad
I hope you are enjoying the Special Yahoo Answers! Digest Digest hosted by Gnomeslice
user15026
....if you linked the page, so people could look at it, why are you basically giving us the whole thing here?
@badp You're one to talk, Euro Truck Driver.
@AshleyNunn because nobody clicked it.
Also I skipped most of them
user15026
@GnomeSlice .....
user15026
That logic.
user15026
21:31
It makes zero sense.
@GnomeSlice You certainly do like to grapple onto the old past
@AshleyNunn to be fair, it's probably true
@badp It's all I have.
user15026
You gave us the choice, people chose or not to take it, then you shove it at us anyhow
user15026
because we didn't want ot look at it
user15026
21:31
but you are now making us?
and/or you must be unaware of my super awesome special "weekly" column, the Quora Digest Digest.
Fine, one more
You can ask @KevinvanderVelden about the Quora Digest Digest, your favourite moment of the "week"
user15026
we get it. Yahoo Answers is the internet sinkhole.
21:33
May 7 at 9:21, by Kevin van der Velden
OH GODS NO NOT AGAIN
Yes yes again. As soon as I get good material
I got a Quora Digest the other day but it holds - at best - a honorable mention question.
CAN'T STOP THE ROCK
ONLY THE BEST QUESTIONS FOR THE QUORA DIGEST DIGEST
Apparently I can be diplomatic with customers even when I have a raging headache.
21:36
@GnomeSlice Your rock there is stopped at 611 MB
@badp Yeah but that only took like an hour.
Ish.
@badp Also do you know how to make Steam start respecting download times again without having to restart it
I see your internets improved
@GnomeSlice I haven't used that feature, sorry
And also be able to reorder them without making it start ignoring the times
It's a piece of shit
... I want to say something about my internet, but that'd just be mean
user15026
@KevinvanderVelden yeah, that's not playing fair
21:38
I'm happy with my internet. I'd just love a better uplink, but I can't get it.
and that's after trying Netherlands-grade internets.
user15026
I really don't mind my interenet
user15026
for most of my purposes it works well
My internet blows ass
@AshleyNunn I'm in a similar boat, but that's also because I haven't been trying to upload anything significant
user15026
@badp Yeah, I rarely upload anything
user15026
21:42
and rarely need to download large things quickly
user15026
I am okay with waiting
I mean I guess that 50 kB/s are... 4 GB/day? wait that can't be right
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Q: how do i log in to the minecraft exe

lillianI just got the minecraft exe. and I cant well figure out how to log in does anyone else know? I already tries looking up and down and clicked every were and I feel like im missing something

turns out it is
huh, that's more than I thought
I guess I'm just not patient enough!
@Frank Yeah, I'm having tons of fun with it. All sorts of little robots flitting around
21:51
Litterbox moved. Hopefully the cat remembers where I put it.
Welp, I'm gonna go to bed
Cya bridge!
user15026
@Frank I'd show her a few times.
@AshleyNunn Showed her twice. Will continue to show her through today.
user15026
@Frank When I moved here, I forgot to make sure to show my cat where the box was.
user15026
He elected to use my laundry basket, when it was full of clothes.
21:54
@AshleyNunn Whoops.
user15026
Yeah, that's a lesson I won't forget.
AMERICA
I suggest you start at 52:20, but there's probably gold from beginning to end
Grace didn't get back to me about the 15 clips things. I suppose she didn't because I got all 15 right, so there was nothing to add.
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Q: What games does Shadowplay work on?

badpDoes Shadowplay, a videogame specific tool for the recording of gameplay, work on "arbitrary games" or does it only support the relatively few games supported by GeForce Experience? I suppose that, given a desktop GPU, you could record the desktop, and that would include any given game, so long ...

It is the only plausible explanation.
user15026
22:03
@badp 15 clips thing?
8 hours ago, by Grace Note
A friend of mine has ISSUED A CHALLENGE. Consisting of 15 segments of 12 seconds of video game songs. One of them sounds like something I very much think I recognize and it's driving me nuts.
user15026
ah
@badp You got the one right.
I don't know about 7 though
...what's the URL for that?
22:08
Hax
Thanks
You're welcome!
@Chippies plsno
@GnomeSlice I should start over
22:12
@Chippies nopls
Okay, time to stop playing Factorio and go work on my boat
Time for S3 Ep17: The Klingon hardass arrives
OH SNAP BIG REVEAL
Also underwear commercials are dumb
22:28
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Q: Do gathering skills Stack?

Memor-XI'm playing Story Mode, in it Myself and Raquna have the Mine skill and i am wondering if the effects stack since or if it's only beneficial to have 1 character specialize in a gathering skill. NOTE: i do not want to know if/when characters leave the party as if the skills do not stack i can ass...

@Alex Ok, enough chatting and deleting.
Next one gets flagged.
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user15026
I'd play.
user15026
I don't have patience for this today.
Also, just found a 1000% Thorns Sanguinary Bracers with @Krazer and @Spugs
user15026
22:30
Do you want to participate in chat, @Alex? Or just irritate people?
user15026
@ktash I feel like you might appreciate today's TeeFury tees.
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Q: Where are the Woodflies?

Memor-Xin the Quest Subduing the Woodflies i need to kill woodflies at a Take Spot. i would have assumed that i would get into a set encounter however i've checked the ones in A3 and B7 and neither have i faced woodflies. The only place on Emerald Grove / B2 that i have yet to explore is behind the doo...

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Q: Is there a way to expand my inventory?

Memor-XWhen exploding, before i move down to the next floor i tend to run into the problem of having my inventory full, this is a bit of a pain when i use up a number of spots for healing items to be better prepared for exploring. I am wondering if there is a way to expand my inventory?

@GraceNote as in you didn't identify it either?
7 and 10 are the only ones I heard before
I do not know it, no.
22:44
Darn.
I'm positive I've heard it before.
I can confirm for you later after the challenge is over.
@FEichinger That would be a waste of time :D
@GraceNote After thinking about it I might have it
but I'm just as certain about it as I was about my previous guess
and apparently just as wrong, it's not Doom or Quake. But it's close.
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Q: Why does my killer fish only have 1hp?

YamikuronueIn Tales of Symphonia: New Dawn, when Lailah resurrects my Killer Fish in battle, I notice he always seems to have 1hp immediately after. Once or twice I've seen the res go off for 700+ hp, but the fish only gains 1 from that. Is there some reason this is happening so I can prevent it? It sucks h...

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Q: How to make StarCraft/Brood War work on Windows 8

SethI am trying to get starcraft to work on windows 8. I have tried running it in compatibility mode but I haven't got it to work. It continually crashes. Is the only way to do it is by making a VM?


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