@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Could someone competent from ML please start a telco/ISP in Canada? Please?
Is it as hard to start a telco in Canada as it is in the US?
I honestly don't care, it just needs to be done. Our incumbents are so incompetent that it's a joke.
Why yes, that is the vein in my forehead pulsating like a big red wiggly worm
3h on the phone today with these asshats. November 2016 I placed a request AND I'M STILL TRYING TO GET IT COMPLETED!!!!!111111341!!!!!!!!
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@MattSpeller This a reference to Ishmael or Way of the Peaceful Warrior? I can't remember
@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I really dislike sales people...
Them: I'm giving you the best deal I can
Me: Ok then we're going with this other solution that does the exact same thing for 1/3 the price
Them: Well let me see what I can do15 Minutes later
Them: Ok here is the new price, you'll find it matches the competition's price exactly.
Me: Why didn't you give me this price to begin with?After having worked with several sales people, I hate them too.
As a former salesman, I hated myself as well
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Making a pine wood derby car with my son
#cheating
https://www.amazon.com/Molybdenum-Disulfide-Micron-Powder-Ounces/dp/B00ICXS2OS
@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
Pink Tap Water in Alberta
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39201090
Well, Mr. Mayor, since the pink water is so safe, we each brought you a jar full to prove it. Bottoms up.
Canada is a very progressive place
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller not at 50 feet tall they aren't.
bro do you even tree? lol
cheaper than ditches I assure you
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I get that they aren't supplying the content, but who are they marketing to?
Most of the world is not affected by US DRM laws.
Not true at all, we get your DRM'd junk here because there's no money in making one that suits our less restrictive laws
But the DRM doesn't affect you. Just rip and use, you own the content. DRM primarily relies on laws that take away your right to use or own what you buy. It's not technology, it's legalities and corruption that make it possible.
DRM does not affect us - just do things that you wouldn't need to do if DRM wasn't present?
How about the insanity of HDCP on HDMI?
@cakeis_not_alie said in AWS shock tests its data storage boxes:
@MattSpeller Forget my BBQ. Have you seen this: https://iosafe.com/products-server5-overview ?
Xeon-D capable of 8 cores and 128GB of RAM in a fireproof box with up to 8 3.5" hard drives. I have a nerd boner that can be seen from space.
holy crap
Holy crap - this patch tuesday is a nightmare
Here's one juicy sample
"The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an authenticated attacker on a guest operating system runs a specially crafted application that causes the Hyper-V host operating system to execute arbitrary code."
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS17-008
@thwr said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:
Some good burgers at Jim Block
I was suspicious of their claim "das hamburger origional"
Then I realized this was a restaurant specializing in hamburgers.... in Hamburg.
Plausible 
@RojoLoco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:
@MattSpeller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:
@NerdyDad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:
@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:
@NerdyDad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:
@scottalanmiller Give me a bit. Researching...{loading}
There is reference to the Buffalo Express newspaper having run an article on the hamburger before the Texas claim was even made. And the Texas claim was decades later and "oh I used to sell these" somewhere that no one can verify. The 1885 date in NY is verified as a public sale of the hamburger and predates the Wisconsin claim by six weeks. It's both the oldest verified claim AND the only one that makes sense given the name.
Now hold on. Germans have been known to have settled in Texas pre-Civil War era. This might be a stretch, but could have been developed and attributed to Hamburg as well. Its a stretch, but possible. Let me see what I can find out and get back to you.
Either I will concede publicly or come back with new evidence.
Bread and ground meat have both existed for a very long time. I suspect that we will never know and @RojoLoco and I will need to spend years on the road developing a theory while consuming vast quantities of burgers and lager
Besides TX. NY, and WI, we will need to visit the old country as well, to gather corroborating evidence from village elders.
nods
For science!
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got back to work and found that my boss got let go.
Should be an interesting day.
O.o... WTF?
That was my expression and comment.
Today is exit interviews with the boss and massive scramble to download her brain onto paper
Million projects half done and I am going to be busier than a one legged man at an ass kicking contest trying to get this shit completed
@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:
I'll have a smoky Apricot please
When I ran a call center for a used car dealership the first person to get a verbal complaint / abuse for frequent contact would get a steak & liquid lunch out with me.
Is it annoying? Hell Yes!
Does it work? Hell Yes!
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This is why we lost power the other day.
You need to get some replacement smoke and refill that... breaker?
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Bleh. Beer.
I have to say that making my own whisky has been rewarding. If you're into brown liquor I highly recommend it.
