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goatse guy posted:It's a slow night at work so I'm watching the Blackhawks game online while I do my phone calls. I've got a soft spot for Toews because he played for UND. Dude is fuckin dreamy, too. Also, fighting is a super loving small part of hockey these days. Not to mention it's constant action, end to end, and just awesome. Plus mullets. And el jebus: that would be awesome. Hopefully you remember 
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You'd think Wisconsin would have a hockey team because it's so loving cold here all of the time, but we don't, so I don't watch hockey. The Admirals don't count. And neither do the Blackhawks, because Illinois sucks  Stayed home sick yesterday and today. Haven't called in sick in like two years at least, and I feel lovely about it anyway. On the plus side, I managed to blow through the entire season of the new Daredevil show on Netflix. 
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Apr 16, 2015 03:53
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Why the hell is the android awful app randomly freaking out and displaying a white page requiring me to close out the app and restart it?
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Apr 16, 2015 04:10
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Tide posted:Why the hell is the android awful app randomly freaking out and displaying a white page requiring me to close out the app and restart it? You have been neglectful of the proper rituals and chants appeasing the machine spirit. Probably.
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Apr 16, 2015 04:15
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T-Square posted:You'd think Wisconsin would have a hockey team because it's so loving cold here all of the time, but we don't, so I don't watch hockey. The Admirals don't count. And neither do the Blackhawks, because Illinois sucks Ha ha Wisconsin doesn't have a team yet Nashville does. Awesome.
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Apr 16, 2015 04:24
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QuarkMartial posted:Ha ha Wisconsin doesn't have a team yet Nashville does. Awesome. The only real place to put one would be wayyyy to close to Chicago. It'll never happen Plus Wisconsin sucks, so, you know. There's that too.
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Apr 16, 2015 04:29
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iwentdoodie posted:The only real place to put one would be wayyyy to close to Chicago. It'll never happen Yeah. T-Square, you can join me on the Wild cheering squad.  Sometimes I can't believe that North Dakota doesn't have a team because of the immense talent of their college hockey program, and then I remember that it's North Dakota.
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Apr 16, 2015 04:37
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goatse guy posted:Yeah. T-Square, you can join me on the Wild cheering squad. Pretty sure there's a clause is the rule book about that. "Team location: State must have more residents than a stadium holds." This Blackhawks game is loving killing me. So I'm drinking heavily and browsing CL as I watch.
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A local LEO acquaintance stopped by work today - he hadn't seen that video, but had heard about it and the consensus seemed to be that Officer Rockstar Games had done the right thing. I showed him the video and he loudly exclaimed "Holy poo poo..." and agreed that maneuver was a bit overzealous at best. Don't gently caress with the police kids; especially right now with the media scrutiny - he explained to me that they're all uptight right now because of Bad Press. Apparently it causes magdumps and Ramming Speed...
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Apr 16, 2015 06:03
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Don't gently caress with the police kids; especially right now with the media scrutiny - he explained to me that they're all uptight right now because of Bad Press. Apparently it causes magdumps and Ramming Speed... "Stop talking about us using excessive force, or we'll have to use excessive force!"
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Apr 16, 2015 06:09
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:A local LEO acquaintance stopped by work today - he hadn't seen that video, but had heard about it and the consensus seemed to be that Officer Rockstar Games had done the right thing. I showed him the video and he loudly exclaimed "Holy poo poo..." and agreed that maneuver was a bit overzealous at best. I agree that the ramming speed was over the top, but when you look at the laundry list of crimes that guy had just committed, and consider that he was not only carrying a high powered rifle, but firing it, I'm not sure this was any worse than just shooting him (he lived by the way, with only a couple days in the hospital), which is probably what would have ended up happening if they'd all gotten out of their cars and drawn down on him. If he'd pointed the gun anywhere remotely near the police at that point he'd probably be dead now, instead of in jail.
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The Locator posted:I agree that the ramming speed was over the top, but when you look at the laundry list of crimes that guy had just committed, and consider that he was not only carrying a high powered rifle, but firing it, I'm not sure this was any worse than just shooting him (he lived by the way, with only a couple days in the hospital), which is probably what would have ended up happening if they'd all gotten out of their cars and drawn down on him. If he'd pointed the gun anywhere remotely near the police at that point he'd probably be dead now, instead of in jail. If he just waited till they were out of their cats and then ran he could've just gotten shot like they wanted him to. Game finally done. Liver is gasping. Bed time. Also my neighbor has some fuscking bush that has flowers on it that smell like fish guts 
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Pham Nuwen posted:drat, Half Price Books kicks rear end Goddamn, I never realized how big HPB got - just looked at their website. They started here in DFW, and I remember when they were still just in Texas. I've been to their HQ store many many times, but they closed the one closest to me a long time ago. Denton goons (and I know there's several of us) need to hit up Recycled Books - it's 4 or 5 stories of books, videos, CDs, records, etc in an old opera house, and it's an absolute must stop for anyone in Denton. They have a much more eclectic selection than Half Price Books, though HPB is also awesome. I've spent entire days in Recycled Books and dropped hundreds of dollars. That said, unless I'm just browsing, I usually head to Amazon and look for the cheapest used copies. Sometimes I wind up with books that are completely falling apart (but 1c + shipping), sometimes I wind up with books that are nearly pristine (also for 1c + shipping). I really need to get an actual bookshelf again, my book collection has been ever-expanding. With the most random poo poo (my latest purchase is "mix tape - the art of cassette culture" by Thurston Moore, the [former] singer of Sonic Youth). Elmnt80 posted:One of these days I need to sort through my grandfather's old collection of laser disks and get the good stuff out. There is a sealed copy of 2001 in there along with a bunch of random pornos that I could probably sell for a couple bucks. I think I just came. Too bad I don't have a laserdisc player, but that can't be TOO hard to track down on eBay... right?  MrChips posted:Truth. Any garage should have a TV, computer and fridge. In fact I'm garageposting right now, with a beer in hand and a ball game on the TV. At some point, I may or may not vaccum out my car too! I need to figure out how the hell to get networking into the garage. Cable is EASY - the cable TV service enters the house through one of the garage walls, so it'd just require a splitter (I've already had to splice in new cable in the attic directly above the garage due to rodent damage, so there's already a coupler in the attic). Getting ethernet out there would be a total oval office, since it's clear across the house from all the networking stuff, with high ceilings and a low roof in the den. Might be easier to just run cat5e along the outside of the house. There's no wifi signal out there, and I'd like to eventually add an IP-based sprinkler controller anyway. The Royal Nonesuch posted:A local LEO acquaintance stopped by work today - he hadn't seen that video, but had heard about it and the consensus seemed to be that Officer Rockstar Games had done the right thing. I showed him the video and he loudly exclaimed "Holy poo poo..." and agreed that maneuver was a bit overzealous at best. I did an out loud "HOLY gently caress" at that. Yeah, I know they need to get the guy, and that he's a danger to others, but isn't that what SWAT is for? Did they need to destroy private property (the wall, hitting the parked pickup), total a cruiser, and possibly maim or kill the guy (likely decently injured.. he got tossed like a rag doll)? What the hell ever happened to non-lethal force? I mean, it sounded like he was WOT, and I heard the 1->2 shift, so he was doing at least 40-50 mph.
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some texas redneck posted:What the hell ever happened to non-lethal force? Now they use it casually to force compliance from suspects, rather than "as a last resort to deadly force."
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some texas redneck posted:I did an out loud "HOLY gently caress" at that. Yeah, I know they need to get the guy, and that he's a danger to others, but isn't that what SWAT is for? Did they need to destroy private property (the wall, hitting the parked pickup), total a cruiser, and possibly maim or kill the guy (likely decently injured.. he got tossed like a rag doll)? What the hell ever happened to non-lethal force? I mean, it sounded like he was WOT, and I heard the 1->2 shift, so he was doing at least 40-50 mph. RE: SWAT. Marana is a pretty small town (about 40k population). I imagine that the police that you could see in that video was a sizable portion of the on-duty officers at that time. They have 85 sworn officers total. I seriously doubt that they have a SWAT team.
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The Locator posted:I agree that the ramming speed was over the top, but when you look at the laundry list of crimes that guy had just committed, and consider that he was not only carrying a high powered rifle, but firing it, I'm not sure this was any worse than just shooting him (he lived by the way, with only a couple days in the hospital), which is probably what would have ended up happening if they'd all gotten out of their cars and drawn down on him. If he'd pointed the gun anywhere remotely near the police at that point he'd probably be dead now, instead of in jail. I agree completely - the stupid motherfucker evading & popping rounds into the air deserved to be rammed up against a wall with a P71 & is very lucky to be alive. Unfortunately, this isn't 1856 or whatever where you can do those things... everything is recorded, analyzed and monitored. When I watch these videos I see an astonishingly equal level of stupidity spread between the cops and the robbers. One performs extremely ignorant actions against the law, and the other performs extremely ignorant actions against other laws. Don't get me started on SWAT.
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Hockey is a dumb sport to give retarded meatheads in their brodozers something to talk about because they don't have any real opinions on anything else. But what do I know, I like F1.
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I didn't think it did either. There's no backwards compatibility beyond CAT5 to worry about, and it seems like B focuses on backwards comparability with POTS. We do have POTS - sort of - it's via fiber, but verizon abandoned all of the copper here almost 15 years ago - but it's on its own set of wiring (plain old 4 wire cable), and only in the master bedroom, kitchen, and [never used] living room. I'm actually planning on yanking the living room jack - that room is on the same wall as my desk - and punching a hole in my bedroom wall to pass it through, since I actually do use my fax modem now and then. I'll drop a single network jack in there to replace it. I got the impression "A" was the standard for residential, with B being commercial, but gently caress it, as long as there's no crosstalk and everything matches up... it looks like only a couple of pairs are swapped between A and B anyway. Speaking of, while in the attic, I noticed someone had repurposed some of my old CAT5 to tie into the phone line for the burglar alarm.. with a roll of electrical tape.  The alarm has been on GSM monitoring for over 10 years, for fucks sake! It still goes into apeshit mode if you unplug the phone cable from it (siren goes off and it sets a trouble code, and kills every phone jack in the house), despite having a GSM transmitter. It also goes into same apeshit mode when the power is out more than a couple of hours, since we have fiber phone service, and the battery backup for it dies after a few hours. And since the GSM transmitter is wired into the siren circuit, that means the cops show up for anything that even causes the siren to chirp.  I really want to rip the system out and redo it myself - I have a newer version of the same system (house has a DSC Power832, I have a Power1832 from my old apartment), except mine isn't installer locked, and I know the insides and outs of DSC Power series systems. And it would take about 5 minutes to wire up the GSM transmitter to it..</rant> I think I might go drop $30-50 on a cheap drill tomorrow. I'm sick of only being able to drill 2-3 holes every 24 hours, 
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some texas redneck posted:it seems like B focuses on backwards comparability with POTS. [...] Nah. Literally the only difference is that the orange and green pairs are switched. B: O/W O G/W B B/W G Br/W Br A: G/W G O/W B B/W O Br/W Br The electrons don't care about what color the jacketing on the pair is, as long as they're twisted correctly. America tends to use B, and I've been told that A is more popular in Europe. If you want to make a crossover cable (for 100mbps and down, mind you; GbE uses all 4 pairs) you do A on one side, B on the other. Those speeds only use the orange and green pair (one for transmit, one for receive) so you switch them for crossover. The POTS pair (blue) is the same between both standards.
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some texas redneck posted:I think I might go drop $30-50 on a cheap drill tomorrow. I'm sick of only being able to drill 2-3 holes every 24 hours, I'm using a $30 corded Bosch drill that has served me well for years. I'm sure it's got cheap-rear end plastic gears etc. inside, but so far it hasn't given me any trouble. It even has a nice and chunky keyed chuck, none of that keyless nonsense. The front grip has a built-in flashlight, which I basically never use. As far as gimmicks go, I guess it's OK. My only complaint is that the hammer drill function is basically useless, it just increases the noise level. And the switch between normal and hammertime was a bit loose. Nothing a fat blob of hot glue couldn't handle, though.
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Terminus Est posted:Hockey is soccer for idiots who live too far from the sun.
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Also BADLY need new drill bits (these are hand me downs that are over 25 years old), but I'm sure a couple of them won't cost much. I have a 1.75" hole saw - tried to use it on a fresh battery, and got about half an inch down before the battery died. I have a slight aversion to Bosch ever since our Bosch dishwasher tried to burn down the house (caught on fire, after 2 recalls had been performed), also an aversion since our Bosch oven has required $500+ repairs every year since it was new, until they quit making parts (it now takes about an hour to warm up beyond lukewarm, and trips the breaker if you use the convection function). I really want to rip that piece of poo poo oven out and replace it with a plain old GE. A basic one that has no electronics beyond a clock/timer. The oven lights randomly work when they want, and what side lights up (two bulbs in each oven) depends on how you look at it. Cleaning mode doesn't work at all, anything over 300F doesn't work on the top oven, anything under 350 doesn't work on the bottom oven, and the cooling fans will run nonstop for days until you kill the power. The only upside to Bosch kitchen appliances is they're pretty and quiet (you can't hear the dishwasher running, unless it's on fire again - I've opened it many times not realizing it was running, and caught a face full of slightly above cool water in the face). e: goddamnit, my rear end has returned to firehose duty. I texted my boss at Jet's saying I probably wouldn't be in a few hours ago, I'm fully expecting a text saying "find a replacement" when he wakes up. Like I'll be awake at that hour.. or like I give a poo poo. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Apr 16, 2015 |
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some texas redneck posted:I have a 1.75" hole saw - tried to use it on a fresh battery, and got about half an inch down before the battery died. Hole cutters murder batteries as you've found out. And it's really really reallllllllllllly annoying if you don't have a spare battery or if your spare takes hours to charge.
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I haven't tried it, but I saw a cool trick for using larger-diameter hole cutters: get the hole started so that outer cut is just defined, then drill one or more smaller holes right on the edge of outer cut. That way the chips have somewhere to go, and the teeth won't get gunked up.
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Sounds like you need some non-poo poo power tools and batteries. We only use Milwaukee and Hilti at work.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Don't gently caress with the police kids; especially right now with the media scrutiny - he explained to me that they're all uptight right now because of Bad Press. Apparently it causes magdumps and Ramming Speed... Fucknag posted:"Stop talking about us using excessive force, or we'll have to use excessive force!" loving civilians. They call that excessive force? I'll SHOW them excessive force. It's like some kind of twisted one-upsmanship.
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They all just showed up. High as a kite. They smell like Cheech and Chong. I blazed up too this morning tho so gently caress it. Gonna be an easy day.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Sounds like you need some non-poo poo power tools and batteries. We only use Milwaukee and Hilti at work. Pro level tooling. I approve.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Sounds like you need some non-poo poo power tools and batteries. We only use Milwaukee and Hilti at work. I work for a company that sells/services/installs commercial and industrial laundry equipment and our install crews use Dewalt drills and impact drivers, and either Bosch or Hilti hammer drills. The sawzall is a Rigid, but it doesn't get abused like the other stuff does.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Sounds like you need some non-poo poo power tools and batteries. We only use Milwaukee and Hilti at work. Not many people are gonna spend that kind of coin on power tools for home. I beat the poo poo out of my Ryobi tools at home and they work just as good as DeWalt tools I used doing construction work, they just feel cheaper and aren't made to take a beating 8 hours a day.
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I buy Milwaukee or Makita for anything I'm going to beat up. My sawzall is actually about due for replacement... I bought it in like 2010 and have torn apart half of a house and probably five cars with it, not too surprised. I am really not nice to it, I usually stay 100% on the throttle and give it a quick jerk to unstick it if the blade jams, while it's trying to be a jackhammer. Still works great, but occasionally something slips inside and the motor spins even though the blade is jammed. ... actually I should look on ereplacementparts tonight and see if they carry whatever part is broken. I'm assuming it's some kind of torque limiting clutch or knurled metal shaft pressed into a plastic gear that I've absolutely rooted.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Don't gently caress with the police kids; especially right now with the media scrutiny - he explained to me that they're all uptight right now because of Bad Press. Apparently it causes magdumps and Ramming Speed... "How dare you criticize our performance as a public servant, now I'm gonna hit you with my car!"
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God drat I am full. The GC cooked a hundred people food for lunch -- pulled pork, BBQ chicken, baked beans, apple sauce, potato salad and coleslaw. They even gave us all a free hi-viz shirt. Hell yeah!
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