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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: September 01, 2015, 03:39:53 pm »
Size marker actually doesn't get things small enough. This is as low as it goes. And this is as low as it needs to go. Ninja'd, but eh. Didn't type out all those sub/sup tags just to not post.
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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« on: September 01, 2015, 10:14:51 am »
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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [Talk about stuff I pretend to understand]
« on: August 31, 2015, 11:51:58 pm »
... I've been around when folks were going through detox for long-term alcoholism, grak. It means exactly what it means.
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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: August 31, 2015, 10:42:52 pm »
They're not inconsolable. It's in fact pretty easy to bridge them, overlap them, get them in synch with each other. Gets more difficult the more you try to include, but that doesn't make it impossible. Just difficult, and possibly undesirable with regard to certain subjects.
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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [Talk about stuff I pretend to understand]
« on: August 31, 2015, 10:08:33 pm »
To spell it out a bit better instead of lashing out a bit against basically spitting on the deaths of much of my family and suffering of much the rest: It's not worth the risk. It's an addictive substance that can very, very easily lead to abuse. You avoid it because it's entirely likely that "drinking socially" leads to ruining peoples lives, and it's pretty bloody likely you won't really be able to stop yourself. That happens, very, very often. Seen it happen far too many times.
Maybe if you're someone that can manage to not go over the line. I've met a few of those. I've seen a lot more that thought they were. They weren't. S'really just best not to touch the stuff.
E: For what it's worth, just like with most other self-destructive behavior, I support people's right to make the choice to drink. All I ask is that they only abuse themselves with it, and don't get anyone killed in the process. Disappointment on that angle looms often, but *shrugs*
Maybe if you're someone that can manage to not go over the line. I've met a few of those. I've seen a lot more that thought they were. They weren't. S'really just best not to touch the stuff.
E: For what it's worth, just like with most other self-destructive behavior, I support people's right to make the choice to drink. All I ask is that they only abuse themselves with it, and don't get anyone killed in the process. Disappointment on that angle looms often, but *shrugs*
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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [Talk about stuff I pretend to understand]
« on: August 31, 2015, 09:40:58 pm »
Yeah, I guess if, "Drinking killed about a third of my family, drove half the remainder to various degrees of insanity, and is the root cause for several people I know, including my mother, being abused" isn't a serious answer, there's not really any helping you. When the alcoholism kills you, please don't take anyone else along for the ride.
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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [Talk about stuff I pretend to understand]
« on: August 31, 2015, 09:06:37 pm »
... is there a question in there?
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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: August 31, 2015, 08:41:05 pm »
Rather doubt we'll see substantial new religious liberty laws passed... we've already got them, and they're more than enough, despite what some assholes claim. She can be taken as a martyr all the nitwits want, but they don't really have any legal traction, they don't have the theological traction -- the lady's job was not to consecrate a marriage before god, and conflating secular paperwork with sacred ritual is frankly blasphemous -- and they don't have the numbers to really do anything about it, so... whatever, really. Some people are delusional, sometimes even in notable numbers. They've got no room to push, and less to maneuver. We knock them down in court, as we have been, and continue to do so until demographics deals with the issue.
As for the clerk, it'll be interesting to see what happens tomorrow. I'd imagine voluntary resigning, m'self, in an attempt to skirt the incoming legal cases. Kinda' hope she gets hit with the legal penalties, though, preferably at least parole. Needs to be a message that when it comes to work like she was doing, if you take the job, you do the job, and if you can't, you quit. Before it becomes a problem.
As for the clerk, it'll be interesting to see what happens tomorrow. I'd imagine voluntary resigning, m'self, in an attempt to skirt the incoming legal cases. Kinda' hope she gets hit with the legal penalties, though, preferably at least parole. Needs to be a message that when it comes to work like she was doing, if you take the job, you do the job, and if you can't, you quit. Before it becomes a problem.
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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [Talk about stuff I pretend to understand]
« on: August 31, 2015, 08:09:19 pm »
For what it's worth, personal experience would say to avoid acer laptops like the plague, unless it was made somewhere around pre-'05 (in which case it won't be even remotely strong enough for what you're asking). Later part of college I went through two of the things in <3 years, one of them new, one of them used. Anything coming out of them that technically has the CPU power you're looking for is entirely too likely to be a piece of junk.
Acer in general just doesn't really make particularly good machines anymore, from what I've had the misfortune to see.
Are... are they really set on a laptop? You can't convince them to go for a desktop? Cost/power wise that's going to be rather significantly better. And if they are dead-set on a laptop, make damn good and certain they don't need a GPU for much.
... as for buying used ones safely, about the best advice I could give you is look for friends/family/etc. that are looking to offload a machine. That's about as safe as you can get. Otherwise don't be too surprised if you have to send something back, or trade it in fairly rapidly. Just find whatever it is that meets the bare minimum at the lowest price, so if things do go southward it's a relatively easy replacement.
Acer in general just doesn't really make particularly good machines anymore, from what I've had the misfortune to see.
Are... are they really set on a laptop? You can't convince them to go for a desktop? Cost/power wise that's going to be rather significantly better. And if they are dead-set on a laptop, make damn good and certain they don't need a GPU for much.
... as for buying used ones safely, about the best advice I could give you is look for friends/family/etc. that are looking to offload a machine. That's about as safe as you can get. Otherwise don't be too surprised if you have to send something back, or trade it in fairly rapidly. Just find whatever it is that meets the bare minimum at the lowest price, so if things do go southward it's a relatively easy replacement.
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General Discussion / Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« on: August 31, 2015, 05:32:37 pm »
More or less as per rol, yeah. Trying to get a couple of mostly feral kittens to accept human contact without freaking out and attacking or fleeing. Is working. Little hedonists prioritize plying fingers (and food) over survival instinct :V
At least once they figure out the fingers aren't a prelude to being eaten/punted/thrown-into-the-distance, anyway.
At least once they figure out the fingers aren't a prelude to being eaten/punted/thrown-into-the-distance, anyway.
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General Discussion / Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« on: August 31, 2015, 04:47:56 pm »
Kitten hand conversion seems to have gone into effect~
Still one more to assimilate into the wonders of fingers, but it's already running off less as its sibling gets turned into a leg thumping puddle of petted. Hopefully something won't eat these ones :V
Still one more to assimilate into the wonders of fingers, but it's already running off less as its sibling gets turned into a leg thumping puddle of petted. Hopefully something won't eat these ones :V
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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« on: August 31, 2015, 09:08:01 am »
Spending per student has increased since, for what it's worth. Roughly on par with the national rate of increase (though still notably below it as a raw amount). I'd pretty strongly posit that if it wasn't for his bullshit, we'd be getting a lot better results from it :V
Seriously, a fair amount of the results stability has been due to eroding standards and shifts from teaching the students to teaching the tests, which was largely brought on by the changes he presided over. Teachers haven't been kvetching just to kvetch, y'know? And a lot of that money has been functionally bleeding out to administrative costs, again, which were at least partially forced to increase due to the foundation jeb laid. Teachers have been losing hours they would have been able to spend on students to dealing with the crap he heralded ever since, for, hey, very little gain. He didn't get stable results, he lucked out to be in office during a pretty good period for the state (pre-housing bubble), and then be out as what he did steadily caused problems since. Buggered everything up, screwed off, and let everyone else deal with the consequences.
Seriously, a fair amount of the results stability has been due to eroding standards and shifts from teaching the students to teaching the tests, which was largely brought on by the changes he presided over. Teachers haven't been kvetching just to kvetch, y'know? And a lot of that money has been functionally bleeding out to administrative costs, again, which were at least partially forced to increase due to the foundation jeb laid. Teachers have been losing hours they would have been able to spend on students to dealing with the crap he heralded ever since, for, hey, very little gain. He didn't get stable results, he lucked out to be in office during a pretty good period for the state (pre-housing bubble), and then be out as what he did steadily caused problems since. Buggered everything up, screwed off, and let everyone else deal with the consequences.
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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« on: August 31, 2015, 08:42:50 am »
@Sheb: Yeah, the first is largely untrue -- just checked around a little bit looking for anything good the bugger did. The specific thing bush touted was hispanic graduation rates, which are largely unchanged from when he came in office and now, and as near as I could tell did not increase meaningfully (if at all) during his time in office.* The student's ranking -- if you're talking compared to the rest of the nation, it does look like we saw a meaningful increase in comparative ranking... for forth grade reading. Which was largely due to the housing bubble letting the state afford something along the lines of extra support staff. Roughly everything else was either largely unchanged, or only marginally bettered -- and you can damn sure believe much of the betterment there doesn't have a damn thing to do with the students actually knowing and retaining the material, since the results of the stuff bush pushed for was absolutely toxic for that.
*Though it's fairly equitable to compare then and now, since students and teachers are still getting screwed over by the initiatives he presided over.
E: And it's kinda' amusing the full survey that article links to has been removed, heh. Suspected copyright infringement :V
*Though it's fairly equitable to compare then and now, since students and teachers are still getting screwed over by the initiatives he presided over.
E: And it's kinda' amusing the full survey that article links to has been removed, heh. Suspected copyright infringement :V
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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread- Voting Trump/Wallace in '168
« on: August 31, 2015, 08:26:24 am »
... they did not.
Be kinda' interested where you picked that up, actually? Everything on the ground, from pretty much everything teachers do, to student learning retention, to college rigor, etc, so on, so forth, went into a decline when that bastard started screwing with things. There was probably some number mangling to make his impact not look like a complete disaster on the surface of things, but no, improved florida schools did not, and largely have not since.
Be kinda' interested where you picked that up, actually? Everything on the ground, from pretty much everything teachers do, to student learning retention, to college rigor, etc, so on, so forth, went into a decline when that bastard started screwing with things. There was probably some number mangling to make his impact not look like a complete disaster on the surface of things, but no, improved florida schools did not, and largely have not since.