Random Thoughts II - Page 1008

blynk · 24th August 2016, 17:46

AB, whats up with the forum taking us to the wrong "Last Post"

As noted in the Science thread. I have noticed it has been doing it to all the threads.

Ab · 24th August 2016, 18:11

have you tried turning it off and then back on again?

might be a caching thing, can you try dumping your temp files and cookies and logging back in.

MadMax · 24th August 2016, 21:41

god i had one of those, 'your website is broken, fix it and i don't care that it works fine on my ipad' calls today. i should open an 0900 number to my cell phone for them to call me back on.

StN · 25th August 2016, 07:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

have you tried turning it off and then back on again?

might be a caching thing, can you try dumping your temp files and cookies and logging back in.

I thought it may be thread specific - had it for ages in the Politics area, yet others were fine.

blynk · 25th August 2016, 10:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

have you tried turning it off and then back on again?

might be a caching thing, can you try dumping your temp files and cookies and logging back in.

Yeah, I suppose I could do that.

Lightspeed · 25th August 2016, 14:59

LSD microdosing:
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/lsd-m...silicon-valley

crocos · 25th August 2016, 19:53

If I was a self-driving car and suffered brake failure... Well, I have certain morals, and I'm consistent in those morals.

http://moralmachine.mit.edu/results/-1371261295

(Except for the age one: The little girl was crossing against the lights, so fuck her)

MadMax · 25th August 2016, 20:04

pretty sure i'd take the option where the car was watching the road and would have seen them approaching the crossing or reduced speed in advance of the crossing therefore slow enough to drop down to a low gear or safely turn off the ignition or go for a gap in between or have the driver alerted or ...

crocos · 25th August 2016, 20:23

Yes granted, but you need to work within the model given, which doesn't allow those as an option. IF someone has to die because it was completely otherwise unavoidable, who would you choose?

pxpx · 25th August 2016, 22:38

Picked the ones where oncoming traffic wouldnt be in danger

madmaxii · 25th August 2016, 22:59

How the fuck could it determine that the man was homeless? And only two alternatives? Need I ask what a pile of crap this is?

Lightspeed · 25th August 2016, 23:52

I would assume the system would know the vital stats of pretty much everyone.

I lean heavily towards non-intervention.

blynk · 26th August 2016, 10:22

Its a bit bollocks when I can take the test again (which had different scenarios) and basically get a different result.

All my answers were along the lines of - Keep driving straight, with a couple of exceptions. None were to do with who was involved. More who was in the wrong.

fixed_truth · 26th August 2016, 12:24

Yeah I was pretty much the same, but then I wondered why being in the car made someone more to blame then a pedestrian?

leadinjector · 26th August 2016, 12:50

apparently i care a lot less about saving lives and a lot more about upholding the law than most people. i guess i am a traffic cop.

and my "social value preference" is as far to the left as you can go, lol. fuck yes id rather take out shitbags than normal people.

Lightspeed · 27th August 2016, 22:08

I discovered today that Judith Collins is a resident in my neighbourhood today. It was an unpleasant surprise to see her walking her dog down the road.

Ab · 28th August 2016, 01:25

Did you express your unhappiness to her in any way?

Lightspeed · 28th August 2016, 02:09

I couldn't get away fast enough. She has some kind of reverse gravity going on.

Cyberbob · 29th August 2016, 11:53

Did you run them over, as opposed to running over a large man and a young girl on the other side of the street?

FYI: I got maximum value for humans, babies, fit, and successful people. Large older criminal pets can die for all I care.

Upholding the law and choosing intervention were definitely secondary for me. It always came down to the casualties.

MadMax · 3rd September 2016, 18:48

From where can I get some stick on veneer type stuff? I'm thinking of applying some to a couple of MDF speaker boxes I've made

MadMax · 3rd September 2016, 18:56

DrTiTus · 5th September 2016, 17:51

I signed up to 3D Hubs, registered my printer and, to my surprise, got a real life order (a Daft Punk helmet).

It's a very useful interface in that the customer provides the model file(s) up front and it calculates volume automatically so that quotes are meaningful.

If anyone wants something printed, check me out:

https://www.3dhubs.com/wellington/hubs/snow

DrTiTus · 5th September 2016, 18:07

Are they 8" holes Max? Reusing old speakers, or using new drivers?

In the absence of veneer, paint them black

Have you seen these designs?

http://www.billfitzmaurice.com/

I'm going to try the AutoTuba and if it is as good as he claims (it uses an 8" sub!), get serious with a pair of Titans

MadMax · 6th September 2016, 13:41

newish 6.5inch speakers recovered from a dead active sub that had two drivers.

i don't know the specs of the drivers but the sub was rated at 120watt so presuming 60watt each.

didn't follow any plan as i don't know anything about the drivers and haven't even done any resonance testing. just built a size to take the driver's diameter plus space for a port and tweeter if needed. the hole at the back is for the terminal plate.

the project was just an excuse to spend some time in my dad's garage

Ab · 6th September 2016, 16:55

Hot lesbian bitches are wet for your carbon fibre

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...X.2015.1017394

[Malks] Pixie · 6th September 2016, 18:32

It's funny but I can actually follow (not specifically agree with) her argument here.

Quote:

In other words, not all men are hegemons and some men fare much more successfully than others in the competitive economy of gender
performance that is established through hegemonic masculinity. In late modernity, which is characterized by a focus on material possessions,
psycho-sexual economies of hegemonic masculinity extend across material surfaces, which include and indeed are exemplified by carbon fibre surfaces.

Spoon1 · 6th September 2016, 19:26

What. The. Fuck.

Some people are just addicted to waffle.

Further down that page...

Horse-girl assemblages: towards a post-human cartography of girls' desire in an ex-mining valleys community

[Malks] Pixie · 6th September 2016, 20:17

Meh - "Because I don't understand it (based on the title) it's all waffle." Do you make the same iron clad critiques of particle physics papers?

Spoon1 · 7th September 2016, 02:55

You know what waffle means eh?

Lightspeed · 7th September 2016, 03:23

Can you fill me in? After a couple of reads of your posts I realised I could take it a number of ways.

As an aside you shouldn't be surprised to find a paper titled as such in a journal called: "Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education".

The abstract is quite compelling, although no doubt the content is disturbing. Research on girls aged 12-15 and how they negotiate complex gendered and sexual mores in a community where they experience ubiquitous feelings of fear, risk, vulnerability and violence... *shudder*

pxpx · 7th September 2016, 08:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ab

Hot lesbian bitches are wet for your carbon fibre

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...X.2015.1017394

A near endless supply of Open Discussion taglines.

[Malks] Pixie · 7th September 2016, 09:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spoon1

You know what waffle means eh?

Well, to make sure that we're operating from the same understanding I'll go to a dictionary. I'll also make the assumption that you're not talking about the tasty food (though I can't be certain of this of course).

noun
1.
BRITISH
lengthy but vague or trivial talk or writing.
"we've edited out some of the waffle"
synonyms: prattle, jabbering, verbiage, drivel, meaningless talk, nonsense, twaddle, gibberish, stuff and nonsense, bunkum, mumbo jumbo, padding, flannel, verbosity, prolixity; etc.

Now seeing as you didn't specifically identify if you thought the entire papers are waffle, the specific quote that I posted, or simply the headlines.

Having looked over the first paper that Ab posted, while it may not be everyone's cup of tea, it certainly doesn't meet the definition of waffle that I posted above.

In fact the quote that I posted is the exact opposite of waffle, in that it is specific, focused and clear.

But hey, it's a national pastime to bash on things that we haven't bothered to try and understand (unless it's science, in which case we just accept it without any critical thought).

StN · 7th September 2016, 18:33

I think Spoon was leaning towards the blue variant.

pxpx · 7th September 2016, 19:35

I think Pixie is asking us to try to understand women.

[Malks] Pixie · 7th September 2016, 20:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by pxpx

I think Pixie is asking us to try to understand women.

Do you even read? I'm asking you to understand men.

Ab · 7th September 2016, 21:26

dude needs to get woke about carbon fibre amirite

DrTiTus · 8th September 2016, 00:31

Even the term "soft science" is a result of hegemonic masculinity imposing its value system on waffle. By calling it "soft" we take away it's power and virility. Furthermore, the term "waffle" is regarded as "sweet" and not masculine. Beneath this seemingly innocent phrase lies a patriarchal suggestion: food and femininity go hand in hand - the all-to-familiar social construct of women belonging in the kitchen.

(Am I doing it right?)

CCS · 8th September 2016, 00:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrTiTus

(Am I doing it right?)

Well you wouldn't want to make fun of waffle. That would be anti-intellectual.

[Malks] Pixie · 8th September 2016, 08:06

Ahahahaha that got a good guffaw from me DrTiTus. I could probably find you a paper that actually argues that :-)

[Though I would note that this paper isn't from a scientific research tradition and doesn't claim to be]

Spoon1 · 8th September 2016, 15:06

To be clear, some people love to use excessive verbiage as padding in their writing to A) make themselves appear more intelligent and/or B) disguise the fact that their point is actually simple.

As a side note, I read almost all of that Carbon Fibre article and it's just absolute twaddle.

24th August 2016, 21:41	#40283
MadMax Stuff	god i had one of those, 'your website is broken, fix it and i don't care that it works fine on my ipad' calls today. i should open an 0900 number to my cell phone for them to call me back on. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

25th August 2016, 20:04	#40288
MadMax Stuff	pretty sure i'd take the option where the car was watching the road and would have seen them approaching the crossing or reduced speed in advance of the crossing therefore slow enough to drop down to a low gear or safely turn off the ignition or go for a gap in between or have the driver alerted or ... __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 25th August 2016 at 20:05.

3rd September 2016, 18:48	#40300
MadMax Stuff	From where can I get some stick on veneer type stuff? I'm thinking of applying some to a couple of MDF speaker boxes I've made __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

3rd September 2016, 18:56	#40301
MadMax Stuff	POIDH __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

5th September 2016, 17:51	#40302
DrTiTus HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE	I signed up to 3D Hubs, registered my printer and, to my surprise, got a real life order (a Daft Punk helmet). It's a very useful interface in that the customer provides the model file(s) up front and it calculates volume automatically so that quotes are meaningful. If anyone wants something printed, check me out: https://www.3dhubs.com/wellington/hubs/snow __________________ Finger rolling rhythm, ride the horse one hand...

24th August 2016, 17:46	#40281
blynk	AB, whats up with the forum taking us to the wrong "Last Post" As noted in the Science thread. I have noticed it has been doing it to all the threads.

24th August 2016, 18:11	#40282
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	have you tried turning it off and then back on again? might be a caching thing, can you try dumping your temp files and cookies and logging back in.

25th August 2016, 14:59	#40286
Lightspeed	LSD microdosing: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/lsd-m...silicon-valley __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

25th August 2016, 19:53	#40287
crocos	If I was a self-driving car and suffered brake failure... Well, I have certain morals, and I'm consistent in those morals. http://moralmachine.mit.edu/results/-1371261295 (Except for the age one: The little girl was crossing against the lights, so fuck her) __________________ Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N وكل يوم كنت تعيش في العبودية

25th August 2016, 20:23	#40289
crocos	Yes granted, but you need to work within the model given, which doesn't allow those as an option. IF someone has to die because it was completely otherwise unavoidable, who would you choose? __________________ Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N وكل يوم كنت تعيش في العبودية

25th August 2016, 22:38	#40290
pxpx	Picked the ones where oncoming traffic wouldnt be in danger

25th August 2016, 22:59	#40291
madmaxii	How the fuck could it determine that the man was homeless? And only two alternatives? Need I ask what a pile of crap this is? __________________ Carpe Diem

25th August 2016, 23:52	#40292
Lightspeed	I would assume the system would know the vital stats of pretty much everyone. I lean heavily towards non-intervention. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

26th August 2016, 10:22	#40293
blynk	Its a bit bollocks when I can take the test again (which had different scenarios) and basically get a different result. All my answers were along the lines of - Keep driving straight, with a couple of exceptions. None were to do with who was involved. More who was in the wrong.

26th August 2016, 12:24	#40294
fixed_truth	Yeah I was pretty much the same, but then I wondered why being in the car made someone more to blame then a pedestrian? __________________ Protecting your peace is way more important than proving your point. Some people aren't open to cultivating their views. Just let them be wrong.

26th August 2016, 12:50	#40295
leadinjector	apparently i care a lot less about saving lives and a lot more about upholding the law than most people. i guess i am a traffic cop. and my "social value preference" is as far to the left as you can go, lol. fuck yes id rather take out shitbags than normal people.

27th August 2016, 22:08	#40296
Lightspeed	I discovered today that Judith Collins is a resident in my neighbourhood today. It was an unpleasant surprise to see her walking her dog down the road. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

28th August 2016, 01:25	#40297
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Did you express your unhappiness to her in any way?

28th August 2016, 02:09	#40298
Lightspeed	I couldn't get away fast enough. She has some kind of reverse gravity going on. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

29th August 2016, 11:53	#40299
Cyberbob	Did you run them over, as opposed to running over a large man and a young girl on the other side of the street? FYI: I got maximum value for humans, babies, fit, and successful people. Large older criminal pets can die for all I care. Upholding the law and choosing intervention were definitely secondary for me. It always came down to the casualties. __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ Last edited by Cyberbob : 29th August 2016 at 11:56.

5th September 2016, 18:07	#40303
DrTiTus HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE	Are they 8" holes Max? Reusing old speakers, or using new drivers? In the absence of veneer, paint them black Have you seen these designs? http://www.billfitzmaurice.com/ I'm going to try the AutoTuba and if it is as good as he claims (it uses an 8" sub!), get serious with a pair of Titans __________________ Finger rolling rhythm, ride the horse one hand...

6th September 2016, 13:41	#40304
MadMax Stuff	newish 6.5inch speakers recovered from a dead active sub that had two drivers. i don't know the specs of the drivers but the sub was rated at 120watt so presuming 60watt each. didn't follow any plan as i don't know anything about the drivers and haven't even done any resonance testing. just built a size to take the driver's diameter plus space for a port and tweeter if needed. the hole at the back is for the terminal plate. the project was just an excuse to spend some time in my dad's garage __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 6th September 2016 at 13:44.

6th September 2016, 16:55	#40305
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Hot lesbian bitches are wet for your carbon fibre http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...X.2015.1017394

6th September 2016, 19:26	#40307
Spoon1 Mmm... Sacrilicious	What. The. Fuck. Some people are just addicted to waffle. Further down that page... Horse-girl assemblages: towards a post-human cartography of girls' desire in an ex-mining valleys community

6th September 2016, 20:17	#40308
[Malks] Pixie	Meh - "Because I don't understand it (based on the title) it's all waffle." Do you make the same iron clad critiques of particle physics papers? __________________ Civilised is as civilised does and civilised people walk among us.

7th September 2016, 02:55	#40309
Spoon1 Mmm... Sacrilicious	You know what waffle means eh?

7th September 2016, 03:23	#40310
Lightspeed	Can you fill me in? After a couple of reads of your posts I realised I could take it a number of ways. As an aside you shouldn't be surprised to find a paper titled as such in a journal called: "Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education". The abstract is quite compelling, although no doubt the content is disturbing. Research on girls aged 12-15 and how they negotiate complex gendered and sexual mores in a community where they experience ubiquitous feelings of fear, risk, vulnerability and violence... shudder __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

7th September 2016, 18:33	#40313
StN I have detailed files	I think Spoon was leaning towards the blue variant.

7th September 2016, 19:35	#40314
pxpx	I think Pixie is asking us to try to understand women.

7th September 2016, 21:26	#40316
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	dude needs to get woke about carbon fibre amirite

8th September 2016, 00:31	#40317
DrTiTus HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE	Even the term "soft science" is a result of hegemonic masculinity imposing its value system on waffle. By calling it "soft" we take away it's power and virility. Furthermore, the term "waffle" is regarded as "sweet" and not masculine. Beneath this seemingly innocent phrase lies a patriarchal suggestion: food and femininity go hand in hand - the all-to-familiar social construct of women belonging in the kitchen. (Am I doing it right?) __________________ Finger rolling rhythm, ride the horse one hand...

8th September 2016, 08:06	#40319
[Malks] Pixie	Ahahahaha that got a good guffaw from me DrTiTus. I could probably find you a paper that actually argues that :-) [Though I would note that this paper isn't from a scientific research tradition and doesn't claim to be] __________________ Civilised is as civilised does and civilised people walk among us. Last edited by [Malks] Pixie : 8th September 2016 at 08:08.

8th September 2016, 15:06	#40320
Spoon1 Mmm... Sacrilicious	To be clear, some people love to use excessive verbiage as padding in their writing to A) make themselves appear more intelligent and/or B) disguise the fact that their point is actually simple. As a side note, I read almost all of that Carbon Fibre article and it's just absolute twaddle.