Random Thoughts II - Page 1044

Pepsi · 25th September 2019, 09:29

If the movie, Orphan hadn’t come out long before this story, I’d have sworn it was based on it 😳

crocos · 27th September 2019, 10:59

Obligatory in air post from business class.
Next time I'm getting Premium Economy instead. Only real difference is lounge access before the flight and one less bag (which can be purchased).

StN · 27th September 2019, 13:03

^^ Yeah - Fun fact - login analysis will show you accessing the net from London as in-flight WiFi uses Inmarsat - so if you have travel savvy IT teams, they might wig out. Or not.

crocos · 27th September 2019, 13:27

Job doesn't start until Tuesday, at the moment only I have reset access to the phone

Melbourne is apparently congested today so it's down to single-runway landings at the moment. Gone from the flight being 10 min early to 20 min late. Oh well.

Ab · 27th September 2019, 14:56

I love reading The Guardian because it is so progressive and inspiring

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...after-35-years

Redneck · 27th September 2019, 15:15

Cyberbob · 4th October 2019, 21:24

https://myaccount.google.com/purchases

Just in case you're wondering how many online purchases google are actually aware of you making.

Pepsi · 4th October 2019, 22:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

https://myaccount.google.com/purchases

Just in case you're wondering how many online purchases google are actually aware of you making.

Oh wow, I had never looked at that before. I’m actually surprised at how much it has missed tbh

Know me. · 5th October 2019, 10:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

https://myaccount.google.com/purchases

Just in case you're wondering how many online purchases google are actually aware of you making.

https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

This is what you want to see, I cleaned up a lot of my online activities after seeing what was in here. The location data is particularly scary, especially if they decided to "be evil". If the data is combined between accounts and extrapolated the conclusions they can come to are staggering.

Lightspeed · 5th October 2019, 22:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

https://myaccount.google.com/purchases

Just in case you're wondering how many online purchases google are actually aware of you making.

Google can't track my purchases if I'm not buying anything. /smart guy meme

MadMax · 8th October 2019, 21:01

This cunt
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...o-run-for-help

Epically opportunistic photos but.

Ab · 14th October 2019, 19:52

In these more enlightened times I’m surprised some enterprising young activist hasn’t taken an axe to the Endeavour replica one dark night.

DrTiTus · 18th October 2019, 00:48

I just spent a week trying to get an older (2013? not that old) PC to boot Windows 10 after install. Linux worked fine (of course), and I have an "identical" (newer BIOS) machine that has no issue. BIOS wouldn't even list the hard drive, tho it showed on the SATA port which was new to me. I tried all sorts, including several failing BIOS upgrades, Acer technical support, grub commands to work around it and all sorts of bcdboot repair commands, 3rd party disk conversion tools and Linux dual boot hacks to try and make the friggin thing work properly.

Turns out the cause was that I chose the default UEFI option when I initially booted the Windows install USB stick (causing a GPT partition table to be made which the BIOS doesn't like - it's MBR now). BIOS still won't update, Acer tells me it's broken, but I no longer care as it works perfectly now. What a cunt of a time.

TLDR: UEFI is the devil on older machines. Don't choose the UEFI option even if it happens to be listed first and appears to be no different, unless you have good reason.

Cyberbob · 18th October 2019, 09:47

While it's a Bernie Sanders quote, I'm not posting it for the political side of things, just for the analogy. I've always had a hard time visualizing large numbers, and this analogy was amazing.

Quote:

I like to use the analogy of a staircase, with each step on the staircase representing $100,000 of net worth. That's several years of working wages saved up for tens of millions of Americans:

HALF of people in the united states are on the base of the very 1st step. Almost 200 million people who can't even get one step up in this system.
Those households at the 80th percentile, richer than 4/5 Americans, are on the 5th step. That's about five seconds of walking to get up there.
Those with more money than 90% of fellow Americans, millionaires who we consider our upper-middle class professional class and live more than comfortably, are on the 11th step. A few more seconds of walking up from that previous middle-class step. Most Americans won't even come close to accumulating this much over an entire lifetime of working.
A billionaire is ten thousand steps up the staircase. That's enough to walk up five Empire State buildings. That's almost three hours of walking non-stop. You think they care about the petty squabbles of anyone on those first few steps or so? From these heights they couldn't tell the difference even if they wanted to. And yet those who've maybe ascended or were born on the first few dozen steps think they identify with this group as a class.
And Jeff Bezos? He's so high up it only makes sense to describe his staircase in distance. His stairs take him up 133 miles. That's more than halfway to the space station. That's more than 24 consecutive Mt. Everest's stacked on top of each other. It would take walking, non-stop, no sleep, over two weeks to ascend that high, each single step worth more than five poverty-level families in America combined.

blynk · 6th November 2019, 22:06

Wow, only day 2 (or something) of the Grace Millane murder case.

The accused is completely fucked.
Phone Logs, web searches, lies, she dies and he stops for a wank, previous tinder dates.

But why does he have name suppression? Or do murder accused normally do if it wasn't made public during the investigation.

BoyWonder · 6th November 2019, 22:54

I figured it was in place so they had a chance of selecting an unbiased jury in a case that everyone would know about. That has been done now so it logically would no longer serve any purpose.

This guy doesn't seem like he panicked after everything accidentally going wrong. He was running on adrenaline after doing what he decided to do in the heat of the moment.

Ab · 7th November 2019, 02:41

Maybe there’s another case.

blynk · 7th November 2019, 11:21

I was wondering that. Like after he is convicted, we will find out that he was charged or convicted for other crimes.

But maybe that's just tinfoil hat.

I think I found out his name when it happened, but I don't think I googled it.

Cyberbob · 7th November 2019, 12:38

I got out of jury duty recently, which would have aligned with being chosen this week for a high court case. Super glad I didn't get chosen for that one.

Cyberbob · 8th November 2019, 07:55

Every now and again I'll have NZGames Forums casually open in a professional setting, and I'll get a "hey.. is that NZGames?" sort of comment, outing themselves as an old school geek with excellent taste in gaming forums.

Last time it was Orpheus, and this week it was Sauce.

Hi guys

Ab · 8th November 2019, 12:26

StN · 8th November 2019, 15:30

OoKiE caught me this week.

xor · 8th November 2019, 19:14

Moved the whanau from Auckland to Queensland in July. Queensland = Bestland!

Ab · 12th November 2019, 12:58

Would it be fair to characterise the NZ news media these days as rape-murder porn?

Lightspeed · 12th November 2019, 14:11

Pretty much. Even RNZ thought I needed to receive an alert about the details of someone's death.

I suppose it beats stories about another community service that doesn't have the resources to meet its commitments.

Ab · 13th November 2019, 01:12

On the train in the morning I have my little catch-up-on-home news scan and for the past week or so it's seemed as if Stuff and NZH and Newshub et al have been spamming post after post after post with what I can only describe as ghoulish glee about the Millane case.

StN · 13th November 2019, 08:19

^ Yup - that, and the Amber-Rose Rush one happening at the same time in Dunners.

And a strange story about Goodnight Kiwi being resurrected as an on-demand bedtime story show, and Jeremy Welles and Hilary Barry reading a story called "I need a new bum" which has so far eluded me - although the comedy duo from the breakerupperers did do a fecalpheliac one about sheep shit.

Juju · 13th November 2019, 10:11

@here in company slack channels is the modern day version of reply all to an All Staff email.

Cyberbob · 13th November 2019, 10:21

Speaking of Slack, I've just started using Microsoft Teams this week. I'm not impressed so far.

I really miss the IRC style line by line chat.

StN · 13th November 2019, 10:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

Speaking of Slack, I've just started using Microsoft Teams this week. I'm not impressed so far.

I really miss the IRC style line by line chat.

Ahh Teams - we were an early O365 adopter, including Teams as soon as it was released - then discovered that the data being stored was not in the agreed upon Australia East DC, so we have asked for a please explain/tidy up. New instances now are apparently, so they line up with the Govt/DIA requirements.

StN · 13th November 2019, 10:29

After the news that Starship has had a couple of big Tesla batteries loaded into the nosecone to supply all the electrical systems, I am really, really disappointed that Scott Manley hasn't tweeted that Elon is using a Di-Lithium crystal configuration to power this thing.

DrTiTus · 13th November 2019, 12:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by xor

Moved the whanau from Auckland to Queensland in July. Queensland = Bestland!

Congrats on the escape from Auckalofa! Anywhere near the d3W.au collective, or have you set up your own chapter?

Ab · 13th November 2019, 18:04

Maclunkey

Lightspeed · 13th November 2019, 18:16

Only the tea bagging we deserve for the copyright laws we've passed.

DrTiTus · 16th November 2019, 13:11

Q: What makes whites whiter and colors brighter?
A: A private school

Don't skimp on a circumcision procedure and go somewhere cheap - those places just rip you off.

MadMax · 16th November 2019, 20:06

recent-australian-droughts-may-be-worst-800-years
sydneys-water-supply-falling-at-fastest-rate-on-record-due-to-drought
sydney-desalination-plant-to-double-in-size[from 15% to 30%]-as-dams-approach-critical-level

... but this isn't so bad compared to the drought in the 1940's, "... because at the moment there is only drought, but in the 40's they had a world war, a great depression and a drought.". Classic Australian outlook.

fixed_truth · 17th November 2019, 13:58

The boomers vs millennials is a bit overdone but this guy is such a boomer I had to check it wasn't satire

Damien Grant: Quit whinging Millennials, Boomers built your houses and endured actual nuclear war

Lightspeed · 18th November 2019, 08:54

Very orange sun this morning in Auckland, when it breaks through the clouds.

Ab · 18th November 2019, 14:24

On behalf of Australia, which is on fire: you're welcome

Ab · 18th November 2019, 14:25

In other news I have been pronouncing the word diaspora incorrectly for my entire life

8th October 2019, 21:01	#41731
MadMax Stuff	This cunt https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...o-run-for-help Epically opportunistic photos but. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

18th October 2019, 00:48	#41733
DrTiTus HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE	I just spent a week trying to get an older (2013? not that old) PC to boot Windows 10 after install. Linux worked fine (of course), and I have an "identical" (newer BIOS) machine that has no issue. BIOS wouldn't even list the hard drive, tho it showed on the SATA port which was new to me. I tried all sorts, including several failing BIOS upgrades, Acer technical support, grub commands to work around it and all sorts of bcdboot repair commands, 3rd party disk conversion tools and Linux dual boot hacks to try and make the friggin thing work properly. Turns out the cause was that I chose the default UEFI option when I initially booted the Windows install USB stick (causing a GPT partition table to be made which the BIOS doesn't like - it's MBR now). BIOS still won't update, Acer tells me it's broken, but I no longer care as it works perfectly now. What a cunt of a time. TLDR: UEFI is the devil on older machines. Don't choose the UEFI option even if it happens to be listed first and appears to be no different, unless you have good reason. __________________ Finger rolling rhythm, ride the horse one hand...

16th November 2019, 13:11	#41755
DrTiTus HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE	Q: What makes whites whiter and colors brighter? A: A private school Don't skimp on a circumcision procedure and go somewhere cheap - those places just rip you off. __________________ Finger rolling rhythm, ride the horse one hand...

16th November 2019, 20:06	#41756
MadMax Stuff	recent-australian-droughts-may-be-worst-800-years sydneys-water-supply-falling-at-fastest-rate-on-record-due-to-drought sydney-desalination-plant-to-double-in-size[from 15% to 30%]-as-dams-approach-critical-level ... but this isn't so bad compared to the drought in the 1940's, "... because at the moment there is only drought, but in the 40's they had a world war, a great depression and a drought.". Classic Australian outlook. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity.

25th September 2019, 09:29	#41721
Pepsi Konnichiwa, bitches	If the movie, Orphan hadn’t come out long before this story, I’d have sworn it was based on it 😳

27th September 2019, 10:59	#41722
crocos	Obligatory in air post from business class. Next time I'm getting Premium Economy instead. Only real difference is lounge access before the flight and one less bag (which can be purchased). __________________ Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N وكل يوم كنت تعيش في العبودية

27th September 2019, 13:03	#41723
StN I have detailed files	^^ Yeah - Fun fact - login analysis will show you accessing the net from London as in-flight WiFi uses Inmarsat - so if you have travel savvy IT teams, they might wig out. Or not.

27th September 2019, 13:27	#41724
crocos	Job doesn't start until Tuesday, at the moment only I have reset access to the phone Melbourne is apparently congested today so it's down to single-runway landings at the moment. Gone from the flight being 10 min early to 20 min late. Oh well. __________________ Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N وكل يوم كنت تعيش في العبودية Last edited by crocos : 27th September 2019 at 13:29.

27th September 2019, 14:56	#41725
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	I love reading The Guardian because it is so progressive and inspiring https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...after-35-years

4th October 2019, 21:24	#41727
Cyberbob	https://myaccount.google.com/purchases Just in case you're wondering how many online purchases google are actually aware of you making. __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ

14th October 2019, 19:52	#41732
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	In these more enlightened times I’m surprised some enterprising young activist hasn’t taken an axe to the Endeavour replica one dark night.

6th November 2019, 22:06	#41735
blynk	Wow, only day 2 (or something) of the Grace Millane murder case. The accused is completely fucked. Phone Logs, web searches, lies, she dies and he stops for a wank, previous tinder dates. But why does he have name suppression? Or do murder accused normally do if it wasn't made public during the investigation.

6th November 2019, 22:54	#41736
BoyWonder	I figured it was in place so they had a chance of selecting an unbiased jury in a case that everyone would know about. That has been done now so it logically would no longer serve any purpose. This guy doesn't seem like he panicked after everything accidentally going wrong. He was running on adrenaline after doing what he decided to do in the heat of the moment.

7th November 2019, 02:41	#41737
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Maybe there’s another case.

27th September 2019, 15:15	#41726
Redneck

7th November 2019, 11:21	#41738
blynk	I was wondering that. Like after he is convicted, we will find out that he was charged or convicted for other crimes. But maybe that's just tinfoil hat. I think I found out his name when it happened, but I don't think I googled it.

7th November 2019, 12:38	#41739
Cyberbob	I got out of jury duty recently, which would have aligned with being chosen this week for a high court case. Super glad I didn't get chosen for that one. __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ

8th November 2019, 07:55	#41740
Cyberbob	Every now and again I'll have NZGames Forums casually open in a professional setting, and I'll get a "hey.. is that NZGames?" sort of comment, outing themselves as an old school geek with excellent taste in gaming forums. Last time it was Orpheus, and this week it was Sauce. Hi guys __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ

8th November 2019, 12:26	#41741
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel

8th November 2019, 15:30	#41742
StN I have detailed files	OoKiE caught me this week.

8th November 2019, 19:14	#41743
xor	Moved the whanau from Auckland to Queensland in July. Queensland = Bestland!

12th November 2019, 12:58	#41744
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Would it be fair to characterise the NZ news media these days as rape-murder porn?

12th November 2019, 14:11	#41745
Lightspeed	Pretty much. Even RNZ thought I needed to receive an alert about the details of someone's death. I suppose it beats stories about another community service that doesn't have the resources to meet its commitments. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

13th November 2019, 01:12	#41746
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	On the train in the morning I have my little catch-up-on-home news scan and for the past week or so it's seemed as if Stuff and NZH and Newshub et al have been spamming post after post after post with what I can only describe as ghoulish glee about the Millane case.

13th November 2019, 08:19	#41747
StN I have detailed files	^ Yup - that, and the Amber-Rose Rush one happening at the same time in Dunners. And a strange story about Goodnight Kiwi being resurrected as an on-demand bedtime story show, and Jeremy Welles and Hilary Barry reading a story called "I need a new bum" which has so far eluded me - although the comedy duo from the breakerupperers did do a fecalpheliac one about sheep shit.

13th November 2019, 10:11	#41748
Juju get to da choppa	@here in company slack channels is the modern day version of reply all to an All Staff email.

13th November 2019, 10:21	#41749
Cyberbob	Speaking of Slack, I've just started using Microsoft Teams this week. I'm not impressed so far. I really miss the IRC style line by line chat. __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ

13th November 2019, 10:29	#41751
StN I have detailed files	After the news that Starship has had a couple of big Tesla batteries loaded into the nosecone to supply all the electrical systems, I am really, really disappointed that Scott Manley hasn't tweeted that Elon is using a Di-Lithium crystal configuration to power this thing.

13th November 2019, 18:04	#41753
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Maclunkey

13th November 2019, 18:16	#41754
Lightspeed	Only the tea bagging we deserve for the copyright laws we've passed. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

17th November 2019, 13:58	#41757
fixed_truth	The boomers vs millennials is a bit overdone but this guy is such a boomer I had to check it wasn't satire Damien Grant: Quit whinging Millennials, Boomers built your houses and endured actual nuclear war __________________ 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.

18th November 2019, 08:54	#41758
Lightspeed	Very orange sun this morning in Auckland, when it breaks through the clouds. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

18th November 2019, 14:24	#41759
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	On behalf of Australia, which is on fire: you're welcome

18th November 2019, 14:25	#41760
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	In other news I have been pronouncing the word diaspora incorrectly for my entire life