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Scruff McGruff posted:This is pretty mild but I got this yesterday The north american emergency number costs money to call?
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Catberry posted:The north american emergency number costs money to call? Not to call it; they subsidize the cost of running the 911 centers via a surcharge on phone service in general.
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May 2, 2017 17:59
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jivjov posted:Not to call it; they subsidize the cost of running the 911 centers via a surcharge on phone service in general. Makes sense. gently caress the phone companies. Relentlessly for how they handled dial up internet during the 90s.
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May 2, 2017 18:11
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They pass it straight through to customers, doesn't bother the phone companies at all. I guess they get a good number of complaints about it.
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May 2, 2017 18:13
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MasterSlowPoke posted:They pass it straight through to customers, doesn't bother the phone companies at all. I guess they get a good number of complaints about it. i looked it up and the propsed whopping 450% hike for kalamazoo county EMS comes out to.... $2.30/mo. devastating
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May 2, 2017 18:22
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Jon Oliver did a nice segment on how behind 911 operators are with the times, notably how most of them don't even have a way to answer texts (which, you know, would be nice when you can't call). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-XlyB_QQYs
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May 2, 2017 19:11
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Scruff McGruff posted:Like, there's plenty of legitimate criticism for the proposal but this is the one you felt strongly enough about to post? I like it when cops are honest and just flat out say "I don't want our state to decriminalize marijuana because I like being able to conduct warrantless searches just by saying 'I smelled weed'."
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May 2, 2017 21:31
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seiferguy posted:Jon Oliver did a nice segment on how behind 911 operators are with the times, notably how most of them don't even have a way to answer texts (which, you know, would be nice when you can't call). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uesx85EHRTo
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May 3, 2017 01:02
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Me: My health insurance might go up by orders of magnitude. My brother: lol don't get health insurance. What's a car wreck cost, a few thousand? He's in the navy.
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May 5, 2017 15:59
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Zapf Dingbat posted:Me: My health insurance might go up by orders of magnitude. I would have guessed Marines.
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May 5, 2017 18:08
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Zapf Dingbat posted:Me: My health insurance might go up by orders of magnitude. Let's play "guess the rate" My top three guesses are CSSR BMSN CTT1
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May 5, 2017 19:00
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Crain posted:Yes. But colorizing photos has been a thing for a looooong time. I love the one of the Emir of Bukhara in his snazzy blue robe, although technically I guess that's more one of the first actual color photographs. 
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May 5, 2017 19:16
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GreyjoyBastard posted:I love the one of the Emir of Bukhara in his snazzy blue robe, although technically I guess that's more one of the first actual color photographs. That's an amazing photo, especially considering how it was taken. What most people may not know is that more than one photograph was taken during that trip.   The images were taken by taking three black & white exposures and slipping a red, yellow, or blue filter over the lens before each. The colors of each combined in typical RGB style to create a final color image.
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May 5, 2017 19:35
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That is some dapper loving apparel.
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May 5, 2017 19:49
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If I remember right, there was no way to actually make a color version out of the photos until computers were applied to the problem.
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May 5, 2017 20:09
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:If I remember right, there was no way to actually make a color version out of the photos until computers were applied to the problem.
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May 5, 2017 20:50
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I was gonna say if you just put the slides up to the light it should work fine.
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May 5, 2017 20:51
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VideoTapir posted:IIRC, they used projectors. Calibrating those would have driven me *insane*.
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May 5, 2017 20:51
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VideoTapir posted:IIRC, they used projectors. I find this stuff absolutely incredible. From the late-renaissance through victorian times it just constantly seemed that there was this huge gap between what we knew about the world and where the level of technology was at. Kind of like how so much of computing and codebreaking was figured out a century or two before we had anything we could use it for.
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May 5, 2017 22:11
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Well codebreaking has been a thing for ages, people used ciphers through to antiquity.
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May 5, 2017 22:18
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Someone on a friend's wall one-upped "taxation is theft" with "taxation is rape" and when called out on it by a victim of abuse double-downed on it...
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May 5, 2017 22:46
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I've got an agreement with some socialists and antifa in my area that if the Libertarians start putting up taxation is theft signs again, we're going to go crazy with wage/property is theft signs.
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May 5, 2017 23:02
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I can't tell if we're supposed to be laughing at or with this guy. https://www.facebook.com/NaturalCuresNotMedicine/videos/1790539311085772/
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May 6, 2017 05:39
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Sebadoh Gigante posted:I can't tell if we're supposed to be laughing at or with this guy. Based on the URL alone, I'm going with "at".
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May 6, 2017 05:40
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OwlFancier posted:Well codebreaking has been a thing for ages, people used ciphers through to antiquity. I'm about to show the exact level of detail I know about this: Wasn't it kind of rubbishy?
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May 6, 2017 10:21
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I've got an agreement with some socialists and antifa in my area that if the Libertarians start putting up taxation is theft signs again, we're going to go crazy with wage/property is theft signs. !
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May 6, 2017 11:53
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My mom has been going off the deep end for a while. I've been trying to figure out where she's been getting her information so I can try to show her how its bad. She finally sent me a link to one of the videos she gets her information from. Has anyone encountered this particular youtube user? It might be kind of useless to try to turn her form the dark side but I have to try. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO0S6j2Zsqo
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May 6, 2017 12:37
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Alterian posted:My mom has been going off the deep end for a while. I've been trying to figure out where she's been getting her information so I can try to show her how its bad. She finally sent me a link to one of the videos she gets her information from. Has anyone encountered this particular youtube user? It might be kind of useless to try to turn her form the dark side but I have to try. Well, after reading through antivaxxer comments I have to say that video is dumber. Though I'm laughing at the Guy Fawkes mask with glasses to appear intelligent. Good luck.
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May 6, 2017 17:35
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Zapf Dingbat posted:Me: My health insurance might go up by orders of magnitude.
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May 6, 2017 18:05
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I'm about to show the exact level of detail I know about this: Wasn't it kind of rubbishy? No. An early cipher was wrapping papyrus around a staff in a spiral and writing on that. Without a staff of the same diameter, it was nearly impossible to break the message.
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May 6, 2017 20:23
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Not an email, but I had to process a Bill O'Reilley book today at work, this gem was on the back: God boomers are such miserable bastards. I kinda wanna read this to see the rest of the self-owns.
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May 6, 2017 21:00
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Driving a manual car and writing letters like you're in school, now old school apparently. Also what does "dress up" mean? Like, you dress according to where you're going on holiday, so if you're going to Spain you wear your socks and sandals and your three quarter length khaki shorts like a sane person.
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May 6, 2017 21:24
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Yeah, let me just put on a suit because why would I want to be comfortable on my 8 hour flight?
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May 6, 2017 21:31
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Honey did you remember to leave room for the loving three piece suit in the suitcase? God forbid I don't look like a hitman on the plane.
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May 6, 2017 21:33
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OwlFancier posted:Driving a manual car and writing letters like you're in school, now old school apparently. We tend to laugh at tourists wearing socks and sandals in Spain, by the way. A lot.
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May 6, 2017 22:35
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Fat Samurai posted:We tend to laugh at tourists wearing socks and sandals in Spain, by the way. A lot. Then all is right with the world.
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May 6, 2017 23:00
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OwlFancier posted:Also what does "dress up" mean? Like, you dress according to where you're going on holiday, so if you're going to Spain you wear your socks and sandals and your three quarter length khaki shorts like a sane person. Nowadays it makes good sense to dress up like a respectable businessman rather than a hippy or some kind of religious minority to reduce the chance of security fingering your arsehole while demanding you detail your trip in full.
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May 6, 2017 23:03
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Coffee And Pie posted:Not an email, but I had to process a Bill O'Reilley book today at work, this gem was on the back: Old school, hipster, same diff. Edit: maybe I'm picturing this weird, but a guy in a full tracksuit on a plane says "low level mafioso" more than "snowflake" to me. KillerJunglist fucked around with this message at 23:05 on May 6, 2017 |
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May 6, 2017 23:02
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KillerJunglist posted:Edit: maybe I'm picturing this weird, but a guy in a full tracksuit on a plane says "low level mafioso" more than "snowflake" to me. Also signing off with CUL8R, and saying 'sign off' in the first place for closing comms, sounds more like a 50 year old Ham radio guy doing CW on 40m from his shack in the back yard than a Millennial snowflake.
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