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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403 @RojoLoco
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      @rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      GF just sent me this email... their office has a truly stupid way of doing an office wide lottery pool...

      Hi everybody, we’re doing an office lottery pool for the Mega Millions tomorrow night. It’s over $500 million right now. If you’re interested (strictly volunteer) please stop by a store in the area you live and pick up 3 tickets and bring them in tomorrow. We’re doing 3 tickets @ $2 each=$6

      Once I gather all the tickets. I’ll make copies for everyone with a list of participates. If you place a ticket on my desk please make sure it has your name on the back of it, so there’s no confusion.

      I know I may have missed some people on my email, so please forgive me and tell your neighbor. It’s for anybody that would like to play. Thanks

      So let me get this straight.... I go buy the tickets, remand them to the office, and then I have to split my winnings with everyone? Our office will sometimes (maybe twice a year) take up a collection of about $2 each, and the only reason I buy into that is because I like the fact that the bosses say that if we hit the big prize, nobody has to work Monday (because the company will be no more).

      It's probably because they just now thought to buy a ticket.

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      • RojoLocoR
        RojoLoco @momurda
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        @momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        Why would anybody go to the kwikemart, buy lottery tickets with their own money, then put them in the company Mega Millions pool?

        Because they are amongst the incompetent morons that process mortgage loans that can't be bothered to do their jobs correctly, much less play the lottery correctly.

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403 @RojoLoco
          last edited by

          @rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          Why would anybody go to the kwikemart, buy lottery tickets with their own money, then put them in the company Mega Millions pool?

          Because they are amongst the incompetent morons that process mortgage loans that can't be bothered to do their jobs correctly, much less play the lottery correctly.

          In either case, a ticket needs to be purchased by someone. Be it with a collected pool of money or with 100 tickets individually brought in.

          This doesn't seem that odd. Just piss poorly planned.

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          • StrongBadS
            StrongBad @momurda
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            @momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            Why would anybody go to the kwikemart, buy lottery tickets with their own money, then put them in the company Mega Millions pool?

            Corporate minions are rarely bright.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              @dominica and @pchiodo are out scouting MC'19 locations.

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              • WrCombsW
                WrCombs
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                Just got a call for a site down, when I called back site was up, Everything was working. Must have been an windows update or something.. Looking into the issue one of the "terminals" had lost connection and caused the other 2 to go down. After the site did its fail safe (restart) everything was working properly.

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                • JaredBuschJ
                  JaredBusch
                  last edited by JaredBusch

                  Finally in Chicago. Took the L from midday to the loop (downtown). Walked across part of downtown to Union Station. Now on the Metra to Schaumburg for 30 more minutes.

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                  • EddieJenningsE
                    EddieJennings
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                    Concert done. Now for change window tasks. Yay for being on-call /sigh

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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                      Why is creating an offline account for Windows 10 so slow? Not only does it have way too many steps, three screens for something so simple it should be in one, but each screen takes strangely long to load - as if they are being loaded from a slow, remote web server. It's weird.

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                      • EddieJenningsE
                        EddieJennings @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        Why is creating an offline account for Windows 10 so slow? Not only does it have way too many steps, three screens for something so simple it should be in one, but each screen takes strangely long to load - as if they are being loaded from a slow, remote web server. It's weird.

                        Microsoft really wants you to use a Microsoft account. That's why creating an offline, local account is well hidden.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @EddieJennings
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                          @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          Why is creating an offline account for Windows 10 so slow? Not only does it have way too many steps, three screens for something so simple it should be in one, but each screen takes strangely long to load - as if they are being loaded from a slow, remote web server. It's weird.

                          Microsoft really wants you to use a Microsoft account. That's why creating an offline, local account is well hidden.

                          I get that, it's just a poor experience for the end users, but why is the Windows 10 installer so non-responsive.

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                          • EddieJenningsE
                            EddieJennings @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            Why is creating an offline account for Windows 10 so slow? Not only does it have way too many steps, three screens for something so simple it should be in one, but each screen takes strangely long to load - as if they are being loaded from a slow, remote web server. It's weird.

                            Microsoft really wants you to use a Microsoft account. That's why creating an offline, local account is well hidden.

                            I get that, it's just a poor experience for the end users, but why is the Windows 10 installer so non-responsive.

                            You have to choose: blue-screen loops during install, or slow creation of local users.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @EddieJennings
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                              @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              Why is creating an offline account for Windows 10 so slow? Not only does it have way too many steps, three screens for something so simple it should be in one, but each screen takes strangely long to load - as if they are being loaded from a slow, remote web server. It's weird.

                              Microsoft really wants you to use a Microsoft account. That's why creating an offline, local account is well hidden.

                              I get that, it's just a poor experience for the end users, but why is the Windows 10 installer so non-responsive.

                              You have to choose: blue-screen loops during install, or slow creation of local users.

                              Yeah, but all the OTHER things are so slow, too. You probably get punished more for not going local. It's just punishing, not directing.

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                              • EddieJenningsE
                                EddieJennings @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                Why is creating an offline account for Windows 10 so slow? Not only does it have way too many steps, three screens for something so simple it should be in one, but each screen takes strangely long to load - as if they are being loaded from a slow, remote web server. It's weird.

                                Microsoft really wants you to use a Microsoft account. That's why creating an offline, local account is well hidden.

                                I get that, it's just a poor experience for the end users, but why is the Windows 10 installer so non-responsive.

                                You have to choose: blue-screen loops during install, or slow creation of local users.

                                Yeah, but all the OTHER things are so slow, too. You probably get punished more for not going local. It's just punishing, not directing.

                                True. I don't have actual metrics to support my claim, but I've been generally underwhelmed by the performance of Windows 10.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @EddieJennings
                                  last edited by

                                  @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  Why is creating an offline account for Windows 10 so slow? Not only does it have way too many steps, three screens for something so simple it should be in one, but each screen takes strangely long to load - as if they are being loaded from a slow, remote web server. It's weird.

                                  Microsoft really wants you to use a Microsoft account. That's why creating an offline, local account is well hidden.

                                  I get that, it's just a poor experience for the end users, but why is the Windows 10 installer so non-responsive.

                                  You have to choose: blue-screen loops during install, or slow creation of local users.

                                  Yeah, but all the OTHER things are so slow, too. You probably get punished more for not going local. It's just punishing, not directing.

                                  True. I don't have actual metrics to support my claim, but I've been generally underwhelmed by the performance of Windows 10.

                                  If making things nicer was designed to encourage you to do certain things, that would seem to indicate that Microsoft wants to kill off Cortana, but holy cow that's annoying if you don't kill it with fire.

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                                  • ObsolesceO
                                    Obsolesce @EddieJennings
                                    last edited by

                                    @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    Why is creating an offline account for Windows 10 so slow? Not only does it have way too many steps, three screens for something so simple it should be in one, but each screen takes strangely long to load - as if they are being loaded from a slow, remote web server. It's weird.

                                    Microsoft really wants you to use a Microsoft account. That's why creating an offline, local account is well hidden.

                                    It's not hidden at all. Same as it always was. Open up computer management, right click local users and create new. I just did it the other day on 1803.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                                      @obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      Why is creating an offline account for Windows 10 so slow? Not only does it have way too many steps, three screens for something so simple it should be in one, but each screen takes strangely long to load - as if they are being loaded from a slow, remote web server. It's weird.

                                      Microsoft really wants you to use a Microsoft account. That's why creating an offline, local account is well hidden.

                                      It's not hidden at all. Same as it always was. Open up computer management, right click local users and create new. I just did it the other day on 1803.

                                      I think he's talking about "during install" where it is really weird and a bit confusing.

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                                      • EddieJenningsE
                                        EddieJennings @Obsolesce
                                        last edited by EddieJennings

                                        @obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        Why is creating an offline account for Windows 10 so slow? Not only does it have way too many steps, three screens for something so simple it should be in one, but each screen takes strangely long to load - as if they are being loaded from a slow, remote web server. It's weird.

                                        Microsoft really wants you to use a Microsoft account. That's why creating an offline, local account is well hidden.

                                        It's not hidden at all. Same as it always was. Open up computer management, right click local users and create new. I just did it the other day on 1803.

                                        It is during Windows installation. Perhaps hidden isn't the right term. "well obscured"

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                                        • jt1001001J
                                          jt1001001
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                                          Is it me or is the light way too bright today. I hate these new led replacements my company put in

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                                          • dbeatoD
                                            dbeato
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                                            Good morning all, good to be back in NJ 🙂 Shout to @JaredBusch and @Dashrender oh and yes @scottalanmiller @pchiodo it was an awesome time in Austin!

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