like the rest of us have.

embarrassed about cardboard shirt

He came to us naked, and was handed a set of paper clothes to hide his nakedness.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Maybe it's comfortable.

Maybe.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Such laws are good. But somehow parliaments don't make enough of such laws, or they don't work well enough, since conflicts of interest etc. are rampant.

@Cerberus it is neither "success" nor "failure". These are just labels anyone can apply as they see fit.

Cardboard is not comfortable at all.

Who says your success is success? Only you do.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That is true, and it is a problem. But a different problem than corruption, I would say?

@Mitch yours is like '503 Internal Shirt Error'.

The flat surface chafes and the corrugated side is just uncomfortable

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 And a woman sprang from his limbs?

@Cerberus Yes, it's a different problem. My point was that the EU should become a REAL nation, like the US, or stop playing at it.

I am a success.

@RegDwigнt Naturally. That was what I was doing.

And by the way. Globalization has been around for as long as humanity has. Just so you know. We didn't invent the Silk Road.

We only limited it to selling drugs and murder.

Where success is a euphemism for getting along in a normal way

@Cerberus I'm not sure that's how it works. Except in the Cirque du Soleil.

The Silk Road was over rated

I'll have five pints of murder and a quart of drugs, thanks

@Mitch Yeah I gave it a 1/10 to balance it out a bit.

It was about as important for economic development then as it is today

@Mitch It wasn't really silk, for starters. Mostly dirt and sand.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Any my point was that centralisation on such a large scale might result in more corruption. And I am not in favour of no coöperation at all. So I don't know where I stand: somewhere in the middle. Of course I thought admitting Greece and Italy to the Eurozone was a mistake from the beginning. But our Minister of Finance was the only one against them, and he had to eventually give in to the rest of Europe, or be kicked out of the Zone.

what a waste of silk, using it to pave a road

Yellow Brick Silk.

@RegDwigнt Naturally. And I am not against globalisation, if done well.

Did someone order death with meds? The kitchens almost closed would an omelette do?

Made exclusively from tent caterpillars that shit bricks.

@Mitch is it a murder omelette?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Don't you think we are a bit like the Circque? Except that we are full of animals...

@Cerberus Yeah but not so many acrobats

We always put on a show in this room, don't we?

I sometimes put on pants.

Goodbye yellow brick silk Norma Jean candle. In the wind.

Eww.

It's a death omelette. The method is a secret ingedient

And one leg at a time. Except when the pants are on, I make gold records.

shhh... It's old age

I bet there are more people who've heard of Blue Oyster Club than those who've heard of TTIP.

@Mitch Oh. Nah, that's OK. I wanted murder and drugs

There's a show on? What channel?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Have you read about the burning battery of the Shield Tablet?

@Mitch channel No. 5.

People can get a new one to replace it. But:

> *I understand when I turn on my replacement tablet, my original tablet will be deactivated remotely and rendered unusable.

@Cerberus no

Nividia can remotely deactivate their products??

Murder and drugs are overrated. Well, for brunch maybe they're ok

That should never be possible. It sounds as bad as Amazon's Kindle.

I can remotely deactivate @Cerberus

Noooo.

@Cerberus hm.

you're safe... for now

By stopping believing in me?

phew

well, it's not really surprising

they can remotely install code

Clap your hands!

Or else I'll die.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That shouldn't be possible. It is already terrible that Google can do so. Remind me to turn that off; I keep forgetting that I should.

@Mitch can't you use the applause from somewhere else, that bound to be happening?

I'm disappointed. I hear very little clapping. Thanks guys.

@Cerberus Well, Google also has the device manager which lets you find and disable your device.

Also thank you Obama.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I have that disabled.

I need an IP address so I can disable my pacemaker remotely.

The point is, remote kill ability is not surprising on android devices.

I pulled this long cord out of my chest but it's still going

Wait... Wait...

@Mitch That's the wind-up cord.

Nope still going

it will draw back in as you wind down.

Kind of a mess thiugh

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 At least you can always root it and reënable it.

Why is Mitch still alive?

The Shield, too.

How can I clap less?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 the wind up cord spins it til it lands on cow and says moo. But I keep getting pig

@Cerberus you misspelled S.H.E.I.L.D.

@RegDwigнt oh I'm dead for sure, or almost. I'm just high functioning

> Using 2 as to in a domain name

@RegDwigнt Who?

That doesn't even make sense.

high-functioning dead person. lol.

@Cerberus you.

O, I.

I, Rene.

ea?

Io

Congrats, this just in: level of incomprehensibility reaching 7. I repeat: 7.

Irene descartes

@RegDwigнt Edith?

Is that you?

The lad Edith protest too much.

Now that is a pineapple.

Carved by a true pijnder.

I bet even Cerberus doesn't know that much Dutch.

there's only one word in Dutch

QED

So there is a Forbes article about how not to buy minifigures. And it doesn't mention just feeling the bags to see what figure is inside, which is what everybody does and which is super reliable.

does it talk about genetic engineering to breed bees with xray vision that have a different dance for each minfig?

OMG... are you... implying... that Forbes is shitty dumb shit?

By the way, what you hear now is the sound of Cerberus frantically thumbing through dictionaries upon dictionaries on a quest for "pijnder".

@MattE.Эллен That would definitely be the rightest way to do it.

@RegDwigнt I think it goes beyond implication here.

I thought so :D

I wonder if the bees can be trained for each new minifig series, or do they need to be bred anew? And instead of dancing, can they buzz their wings in an approximation of the sound? zzzzzzhot-zzzzzdogz zzzmanz

Also, special care needs to be taken that they are honestly reporting the bee girl, and not trying to steal that one.

you might need to breed tham in pairs for that, to syncronise the wing interleaving

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 lol

I read Forbes once. I am dumb. There you go

Where did this bee girl come from? She's really disrupting all the lab work we're doing. I'm just beeing honest

are most bee drones male or female?

ah. drones are male. workers are female

At least some species get it right.

Ba-dum-tsss.

That's not very accurate. Bees are black with yellow stripes

You're not very accurate.

Mitches are green with purple stripes.

You're not very accurate, OWLs are a type of exam taken by wizards and witches at hogwarts

I took said exam most very accurately. You weren't even around, slanderer and libeler.

They don't call me Belial, Lord of Lies

Oh but they do.

ah.

that's awkward

Stop turning your back on people, then they'll start saying things behind your front and not back.

toodle pip

Yeah good thinking.

I say things I front of your back

@tchrist

In case you change your mind

@MattE.Эллен I thought they were included that's why it seemed surprising.

whoa. I ping tchrist and the fake tchrist appears....

I am no fake tchrist.

That's just what a fake tchrist would say

A fake tchrist would say "I'm tchrist", which I can assure you the other has said or will say when the time comes.

Also, is it weird to use "double-faced" instead of "two-faced"? My friend corrected me when I used "double-faced" but I looked it up in a dictionary and seems to mean exactly what I was using it for.

I've never heard anyone say "double-faced" when they meant "two-faced" as in "deceitful"

My intuition is that most uses of "double-faced" will be for things with two literal faces.

n-grams shows that both phrases are roughly equally popular but when you drill into the results, you find a lot of literally-double-faced-objects in the double-face results.

So @Cerberus it seems that nVidia built the recall software into the latest software update. So it's not clear that they had a feature for remotely-deactivating the tablets, nor what the limits of that feature are. It appears that they made this feature so that they could avoid having to actually collect all the defective tablets. It's surprising and somewhat wasteful that they're not refurbishing them.

I finally got rid of my last platter-based HDD! I'm fully solid state now.

Replaced my 1TB backup drive with this beauty: uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/ssd/CT1000BX100SSD1

now i don't have ANY hard drives making dodgy beeping or scratching sounds

good riddance

Nice. One day I will replace my NAS's drives with SSD. But it's pretty damn quiet even with HDDs.

It's funny how French do more the distinction between camels and dromedaries

In English you just say always camel actually

> This exceeding trifling witling, considering ranting criticizing concerning adopting fitting wording being exhibiting transcending learning, was displaying, notwithstanding ridiculing, surpassing boasting swelling reasoning, respecting correcting erring writing, and touching detecting deceiving arguing during debating.

[ SmokeDetector ] Offensive body detected: "you" in spoken, quoted dialogue by Nate Wessel on english.stackexchange.com

@crl I don't "always" say camel. Sometimes I say other words. Like "sofa" or "Dominican" or "strawberry."

I forgot to say "to designate this animal" if you prefer

@crl it's funny how the English distinguish between hogs and pigs but it's all cochon to the French.

Have a good weekend everyone.

@Mitch we say "porc" also, there are other case like tortoise/turtle vs tortue

Oh well sorry porc and cochon are the same in French, I'm stupid

"porc" is used to designate the meat from pigs

or the way you're eating "manger comme un porc"

But we have many term for them: leporc.com/le-porc/lexique.html porcelet, verrat, goret...

Oh gotta star tchrist's new avatar

@crl ok how about 'drunk'? English has fifty different words for 100 different varieties of English drunkeness.