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You certainly can't put much stock in a lot of what kids say, as it's mostly driven by immature emotion and selfishness, but pretty much any school-age child has asked "Why do I need to learn this? How is this going to be applicable to my life in any way as an adult?" If it's obvious enough for nearly all children to have picked up on, then there is an agenda driving it. Call it a conspiracy, or whatever. The organized education system, at least in the West, is a sham.

9th circuit is a joke. Always has been.

Are zombies in any way like vampires? You can kill a vampire with a silver stake or bullet, so can one ward off zombies with a silver-threaded shirt? Might make them even more worth it at $70 per...

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro/

I'm pretty sure these are the ones that will run on standard POE voltage and don't require the proprietary POE switch (or injectors).

Gearing up for MangoCon... I'm going to be the pack-mule for the whole week. Good thing the conference is only about 45 minutes from our house; I think I will be making multiple trips back and forth with supplies and people. Park the Camaro. It's the soccer-mom van for me this week.

@scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

@art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

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@art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

@scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

What desktop environment is this machine using?

I don't understand the question

Gnome, Unity, etc

How can I tell? I have no idea where to find that.

Normally it says when you go to log in. Can you log in now? What does it look like? Generally they are easy to eyeball.

That would be Gnome 3.

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I need Vista like a need a bullet through my foot...

Click, click...

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I'll take the unlimited budget, please. Someone said it makes it too easy. I like easy. Almost feels like cheating? Perfect, I'll take all of that, too. Unlimited money, so that I can set my job up well enough to practically do itself... challenge accepted!!

So you can farm out your job?

If I can still get paid for it? Why not??

If cost isn't a factor our jobs can literally be picking up a phone and saying yes to everything. Why not?

Or, its broke, I called a tech and get back to browsing the net.

I was actually thinking more about automation than a person, but whatever fits. If I can get paid to do nothing, I'm all over that!

Infinite funding, infinite work force. Let's end world hunger.

Infinite work force doesn't mean there is enough space to grow that much food. Even if there was staff to work that much farm space.

Sadly, the truth is that there is already way more than enough food to feed the world with no trouble at all. It's government corruption and greed that perpetuate hunger, not remotely anything to do with a lack of food.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got handed an XP laptop with "crucial files that aren't backed up anywhere"... so this file copy better go super smooth or I'm boned.

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Weekend, finally. Has been a very long week. Or more like a couple of long weeks.

Just noticed that my heavily customized Pi image won't boot on a Pi 3. Could be a great opportunity to create a new one based on Ubuntu Mate.

Or, you could just say "screw it" and go find something fun to do for the weekend!

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTc3zcnIZOw)

Not sure if I saw someone post this here or not, but it's pretty funny... and then I find out that the guy is a friend of a close friend of mine. Priceless.

http://myfox8.com/2016/10/17/new-york-man-on-lsd-rescues-neighbors-dog-from-imaginary-house-fire/

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The Cubs are in the third inning of game 5 of the NLCS and up 1-0.

I don't know what any of that means.

Team tiny bears are having their third go at getting some runs on the board during the fifth game of the Not Losing Charlie Sheen season. Currently they are ahead by one as the other lot are zip.

...And my wife actually believed the "Not Losing Charlie Sheen" bit, until I convinced her it was National League Championship Series. It took a minute to convince her.

@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I tried this beer on Saturday at the beer festival... it was actually really good, only the scent of mango without the overly sweet taste.

Exotic hops? All I can picture is strippers playing basketball...

@scottalanmiller said in Weekend Plans:

Roommate is away this weekend. So likely going to be a quiet one for us.

You've got that all backwards. House to yourselves = let loose!

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Words of wisdom

Did that come with your blow-up doll?

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thanksajdotcom said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I can't be the first person going...

"Dink Dink. Dink dink dink dink dink dink..."

lol We just watched Spaceballs the other night.

@thanksajdotcom said in Solving the Holiday Christmas Puzzle:

@art_of_shred said in Solving the Holiday Christmas Puzzle:

Does each word begin with a capital letter? I see Mistletoe and it's 9 letters...

Mistletoe was the last letter. I also mistyped the letters like a doofus and put a "y" in instead of a v. A second y. It's Holly, Ivy and Mistletoe.

Yeah, that kind of breaks the whole thing when you transcribe the wrong letters.

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

From my wife just now:

"I am running out to do some errands
my shopping list is interesting:
Tequila
bath salts
Dog Christmas treats"

Is there another "Christmas" party I was previously unaware of?

Tequila + bath salts = you'll be craving dog treats?

Sounds about right. That or human flesh it's a toss up.

Maybe human flesh for the main course, dog treats for dessert!

I'm not sure I'd call a dog a treat.

"Clearly, you've never been to Singapore"

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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Just heard the tale of a friend's uncle (former nasa scientist) who, when applying to work at Northrop Grumman, encrypted his resume and nobody could open it.... He got the job.

That one sounds a little farfetched unless there was something else that got him the job in addition to the resume.

When he made a follow up call, he apparently got to talk to the right people. Plus, the contents of the resume, once decrypted by him, actually got him the job.

Encrypting something so it's not openable by someone else really shouldn't be all that hard. Seems like a red herring.

Exactly, this suggests to me that NG's hiring manager was an idiot or we are lacking the significant parts of the story.

No, encrypting a resume so that it autodecrypts based on the logged on username of the computer attempting to access it? That might get you hired. Just encrypting would get the resume dumped.

Exactly. If someone just sent me a file that could not be viewed, it would go straight to the bin.

Interview, in a nutshell:

boss- we're looking for a good unicorn hunter
me- I'm a spectacular unicorn hunter
boss- oh yeah? why do you say that?
me- do you see any unicorns running around these parts?
boss- wow. you're hired!