Randolf Richardson

@JourneymanGeek I'm an Atheist and that stuff doesn't bother me, but when I hear or read complaints from people about silly stuff like this I often wonder if there's a hidden agenda attached to it.

@JourneymanGeek Are they having a flame war? =O

@JourneymanGeek Those are usually fairly heavy.

It happens all the time though.

I don't care about a ten cent item being sold for two dollars, but a $1.00 item being sold for $25.00 just seems unfair.

I feel sorry for the average consumer with how high the prices are marked up for little things.

Motherboards usually come with cables. At least the decent quality ones do.

@JourneymanGeek I hope this makes you laugh: youtube.com/watch?v=NcoDV0dhWPA

@JourneymanGeek Well, there are a lot more decent managers than there are decent politicians.

@JourneymanGeek Some politicians are just dumb about this though. I guess that's why they got into politics -- not enough brains to do real work.

I think there is a lot more change afoot than people realize.

@JourneymanGeek There seem to be a lot of governments in that position.

You see, this is democracy's big failing (as much as I like living in a democratic society, I'm also aware of some of its deficiencies) -- followers pick leaders (and the masses tend to lack critical thinking skills, so they often vote for the best salesperson).

@JourneymanGeek Oh, so you don't have to look very far then. Ha ha ha.

@JourneymanGeek If you look closely enough, you'll probably spot at least one back-scratching/kick-back scheme in there somewhere.

@JourneymanGeek Occupy Wall Street. I actually think this is a really good thing.

@JourneymanGeek I guess the problem all of these systems, no matter how good they are, boils down to one thing: Politicians who should be shot because they're -explitive- idiots.

@JourneymanGeek Oh, well, that's different. I was thinking more along the lines of a North American type of city. Singapore has a more responsible government than we do here (e.g., everyone has to figure out all their finances on their own, yet in Singapore a portion of the wage goes to retirement, education, etc., no?).

@JourneymanGeek That sucks. What the hell kind of city doesn't have any organizations to help people? (I'm assuming you're in a major city, of course.)

@tombull89 I skipped University.

@JourneymanGeek Oh, in that case, just contact a local Salvation Army (or similar shop that's based on helping poor people) and donate your technical skills to help check, and attempt to make work, donated computer equipment. That should cure that itch for you.

@JourneymanGeek A lot of unhappily married (and divorced) men I know complain about this theme a lot. Many of them blame menopause.

@JourneymanGeek ...or, maybe the pressure from her control freaking is what caused you to fail? ;-P

@JourneymanGeek I didn't realize you were still in school. Heheh.

@JourneymanGeek Why not? Taking a holiday?

...and then there's the loads of cheap stuff that hasn't risen so much.

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, on average I'd agree with "tripled." I have seen some hard drive prices that increased more than 5 times.

@JourneymanGeek I can't help but wonder if some of the manufacturers are choosing to hold supply levels down until after Xmas so that they can capitalize on the higher December demands that are typical.

@JourneymanGeek The floods in Thailand seem to have cut supplies down drastically. I recall hearing from one of my suppliers that manufacturers are expecting to have supply levels restored sometime in January 2012.

So, anyway, because of this I pretty much lost interest in SuperUser.com for a while. It just got frustrating so I've been spending more time on Skeptics and other sites in the hopes that the problem would just sort itself out (it appears that it hasn't).

I already know what my password is though, anyway, but I'm wondering if the password got corrupted with the merge mishap that seemed to trigger all of this not so long ago.

I still can't get a password reminder sent to me.

@Sathya Well, I couldn't get signed up at all, so I just gave up for a while. And then I figured out just a few minutes ago that I can get signed up from the Skeptics web site (after my account stopped working on the main Skeptics site but not the meta site). A message describing the current problem is here: meta.skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/…

My accounts are still screwed up and I need some help to get logged in. =(

Hello folks.

@Boris_yo No. Who's Nick Fury?

@nhinkle I seem to be having some problems with Stack Exchange's OpenID system, which I'm beginning to suspect might be where the problem with logging in may have originated from.

@Sathya Yes. I'm unable to login through the Stack Exchange OpenID system.

@Sathya Good morning.

@studiohack That's an awesome idea (such software is of interest to me too).

@TomWijsman Children really are wonderful!

@RandolfRichardson I responded in the comments here: meta.superuser.com/questions/3725/…

@RandolfRichardson Oh, I see what's going on here (http://stackexchange.com/users/1024585/randolf-richardson) -- I'm not logged in (and I can't login).

@Tom Wijsman: I'm trying to follow your suggestion (at meta.superuser.com/questions/3725/… in the comments), and even when clicking on the "network profile" link (which takes me to the main Stack Exchange web site) doesn't lead me to anything that shows my list of logins. Am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks for your help so far.

Thanks for your help, @slhck -- especially for helping me to see that statistics do normally work.

@RandolfRichardson I just added a comment with a warning not to move my question over to meta.stackoverflow.com, just in case this causes another merge operation that might screw things up for me again: meta.superuser.com/questions/3692/…

@slhck Oh yay! Lucky me.

This is probably not good.

It's bad enough that there's an anecdote on the referenced web site promoting two anti-aging products for use in combination, but these two products change for different users (switched automatically I assume, most likely based on geography from cross-referencing the browsing user's IP address).

Ha ha! Third link referenced got busted for switching evidence within their claims (see comment about this discovery by @Sam I Am): skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/7011/…