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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3383784 times)

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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31830 on: January 20, 2014, 05:33:53 pm »

Make your desktop a picture of a bunch of knots.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31831 on: January 20, 2014, 05:37:33 pm »

Have Cyriak running. All the time.
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« Reply #31832 on: January 20, 2014, 05:39:59 pm »

Or load up a jump scare video.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31833 on: January 20, 2014, 05:40:57 pm »

Make your desktop a picture of a bunch of knots.
"lolololol server not found"
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31834 on: January 20, 2014, 05:44:21 pm »

Make your desktop a picture of a bunch of knots.
"lolololol server not found"
All things decay; entropy should be expected. When I posted that I knew one day the link would stop working. Perhaps the file became corrupted and was cleared, or the server reverted to a backup that lacked it. Perhaps the contemplative and long-suffering server, slowly turning the options over in its electronic mind, decided that today was a good day to die. I knew one day that link would stop working and I was okay with that.

I just didn't expect it to be today.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31835 on: January 20, 2014, 05:46:33 pm »

Make your desktop a picture of a bunch of knots.
"lolololol server not found"
All things decay; entropy should be expected. When I posted that I knew one day the link would stop working. Perhaps the file became corrupted and was cleared, or the server reverted to a backup that lacked it. Perhaps the contemplative and long-suffering server, slowly turning the options over in its electronic mind, decided that today was a good day to die. I knew one day that link would stop working and I was okay with that.

I just didn't expect it to be today.

Except it's still there, I can see it fine.

Perhaps Sirus' truck stop's wifi won't let him see it?
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31836 on: January 20, 2014, 05:47:14 pm »

Make your desktop a picture of a bunch of knots.
"lolololol server not found"
All things decay; entropy should be expected. When I posted that I knew one day the link would stop working. Perhaps the file became corrupted and was cleared, or the server reverted to a backup that lacked it. Perhaps the contemplative and long-suffering server, slowly turning the options over in its electronic mind, decided that today was a good day to die. I knew one day that link would stop working and I was okay with that.

I just didn't expect it to be today.
No, that was the message I was getting with blocked websites. Which are somehow no longer blocked. I dunno, it works now O_o
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« Reply #31837 on: January 20, 2014, 05:54:23 pm »

Springtime has come again!  :P

$5 for a days' slow internet sucks. It's a hotel right? A few years back was a heyday when everyone started offering free wifi, and now the hotels are realizing they can squeeze an extra $10 out of a good chunk of their guests every day. It's the ongoing itemization of fees which turns a $150 plane ticket into a $200 one. They want to offer the cheapest rate on comparison websites - so why not create an industry standard and/or law that requires full disclosure of costs when advertising an offer?

Plus when the TSA squeezes my balls I feel like I should tip. Maybe a tenner if I get off? No idea what the social expectations are with that one.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31838 on: January 20, 2014, 05:59:51 pm »

Make your desktop a picture of a bunch of knots.

Have a cyanide synthesis diagram as your background.
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« Reply #31839 on: January 20, 2014, 06:00:15 pm »

Truck stop. And now I'm coming to the conclusion that they aren't blocking things, the network just sucks. Every once in a while a website that previously failed to load will load. And then it will fail again.

To be fair, usually $5 at a truck stop gets you unlimited (though often kinda slow) internet with, as far as I can usually tell, no restrictions on websites or content. This one is an exception.
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« Reply #31840 on: January 20, 2014, 06:26:15 pm »

Original convo in the Morrowind thread on Other Games, but I figured it was more relevantly posted here.

I hate how some children do those screams. It's because they don't realize that there are certain screams you save for when you are dying. If you do that scream and everyone looks at you and you are not dying, everyone will be very mad at you.

And you will definitely not get the candies. If you do the death-scream and your parent gives you the candies to shut you up, everyone will be very mad at the parent too.

We are very lucky to live in a civilized society where people will only be very mad and not do anything more.
Yeah, screaming kids makes me hates this whole "don't murder kids" taboo we have going on.
Right, so I realized I need to explain this better.

1: When someone does a death scream, as a human, my response is as follows, in this order:
A: Oh no! There is someone dying suddenly nearby!
B: They are dying because of some terrible threat! I need to make sure I know where this threat is so I will not also die!
C: I need to help anyone around me not die to this thing, especially the child who is currently dying!

This is a combination of two extremely powerful psychological/physiological reactions to the sound. A child in danger, and a life-threatening event. That shit puts a human being on 110% Fight Or Flight instantly.

Of course, what really happens is that you never get more of an outward physical reaction than a hunch of the shoulders and a grimace. This is because as soon as your body has flushed itself with adrenaline and you've momentarily gone bonkers, your civilized brain steps in and goes, "Look, it's just a shitty kid. There are no velociraptors or whatever. You can see him right there. You know there's nothing dangerous around here." So while internally your body is trying to recover from fight-or-flight stimulation, externally it's socially unacceptable for you to do anything more than glare at the kid. And if you glare too hard the mom gets bitchy.

So there's this intense emotion you feel, which is entirely pro-human, and then you instantly find that it's some brat punking everyone because he isn't able to assert his desires and get whatever he wants - and that, just as instinctively as you responded to it, the kid instinctively knows that this is the way he can get Absolute Utmost Attention. And he thinks this is the way to assert himself and get what he wants.

In general, what a kid wants is not what's good for him, in decreasing correlation to his emotional maturity and in general to his age. He needs to learn how to behave in civilized society, how to take care of himself when he's older, how to speak well and intelligently to attract allies and a mate. He needs to learn all these things, and part of learning them is accepting direction from the parent. A hugely important part of success in life is moderating your desires, accepting that you cannot have everything that you want at all times. The parent generally needs to help the child understand that.  For these reasons, it is inevitable that a kid will want X, the parent has decided that X is not what he should have, and denies the child. Denial of the child's desires is therefore not something that needs to happen constantly, it's not like we're in a boot camp or something, but it's going to happen eventually - and it is good and necessary that it happens.

If the kid does this stuff regularly, he's not being raised right. His parents, too permissive, aren't preparing him for the various disappointments of the real adult world. The adult form of his shitty larval stage is gonna be just as shitty. That adult represents a weak link, a possible free-rider, a possible criminal or outcast. Resources spent on him hope to be worthwhile despite his shittiness, to raise him up to the level of a normal person, to try our hardest to polish the common mudstone of his personality until it shines.

If you don't react this way to a death-scream, consider this: when you encounter danger, you personally, is your initial reaction to stand still or to escape to safety? I'm sure you've had a moment when a car stopped just short of you, or someone was about to run into you, whatever. Most people freeze. Most people halt and think about what's going on. Most people would get killed by that velociraptor (or injured cougar, or man-eating tiger, or hurtling trailer). I'm stuck actually feeling dem empathies for the person who lets out the death scream. To find that they're just manipulating me for their own petty power struggles over a pack of pretzels?

I'm not gonna kill that kid, but maybe I'm not gonna go out of my way to pull his ass out of a fire either.

Of course, the immediate problem when saving people is that you don't know if they're shitty or not. So even that would never come up.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Too Sexy For This Thread Edition
« Reply #31841 on: January 21, 2014, 12:30:21 am »

Okay, I don't get it.



I am resigning myself. I am... asking for help. I love finding things out myself so much, but this I just can't even start to begin to think why this could be.

How is it that both f(x) and g(x) are valid at 13 and 14 and not f(g(x))? There is no other instruction that would indicate such a thing.

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« Reply #31842 on: January 21, 2014, 12:33:40 am »

f(g(13)) = f(15) -> 15 not in domain of f

f(g(14)) = f(16) -> 16 not in domain of f
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« Reply #31843 on: January 21, 2014, 12:44:35 am »

thanks

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« Reply #31844 on: January 21, 2014, 02:07:21 am »

That's the last math class I took, and almost bombed, like five years ago. Just barely passed and got the credits. No way am I gonna be able to do that unless I relearn it :/
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